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"body": "\n\nI watched the Bleach anime first, and I heard that the continuation is only in\nthe manga. So if it's possible, I'd like to know which chapter corresponds to\nthe end of the anime to start reading. I don't want to dig through and reread\nthe chapters which overlap with the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJiraiya stated that Tsunade's _oppai_ size was **106cm**.\n\nFrom [Tsunade article](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsunade):\n\n> Despite being known as flat-chested in her childhood, she now has a rather\n> large bust; **106 centimetres** in circumference, according to Jiraiya.\n\nFrom [Jiraiya article](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya):\n\n> when caught spying on Tsunade in his younger years, she proceeded to break\n> both of his arms, six of his ribs, and ruptured a number of organs as\n> punishment.\n\nConsidering the amount of fear and respect Jiraiya then developed towards her,\n**how did he know the measurement of the adult Tsunade?**\n\nSource: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7Fni193Jk>\n\n(I'm really sorry about the quality of the video)\n\nBelow is the image from the corresponding scene in the manga (chapter 406,\npage 9):\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJiraiya was a very powerful ninja, and particularly proficient in stealth\nmissions. He was almost the sole source of all information on Akatsuki, and\nwas able to enter Amegakure and defeat several of Pain's bodies.\n\nJiraiya feared Tsunade after she beat him particularly badly once, but if the\nmission was important enough he showed himself to be ready to risk death.\n\nI believe that with careful planning and execution, Jiraiya could have and\nwould have done this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy best guest is he use his [Cloak of Invisibility\nTechnique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Cloak_of_Invisibility_Technique) a.k.a\nCloaking Technique. (Synonymous to Naruto's kage bunshin). I just can't\nremember on what episode of manga the 3rd Hokage mentioned about Jiraiya using\nit (I think during a flashback of their training).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the time he was training Naruto, Jiraiya was seen fooling around with\ngirls. It could be from the experience with girls that he had gathered for\ndecades, that he was able to measure a girl's breast size based on looking\nonly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe Jiraiya transformed into Tsunade using a transformation technique and\nfound the size using traditional measures by measuring himself(!).\n\nHe may have used [Sexy\nTechnique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sexy_Technique).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the real reason why Jiraiya knows Tsunade's measurements probably\nhas to do with him being somewhat of a lady's man in his own words. Which can\nbe confirmed as there's an occasion when he's surrounded by women, thus\nmeaning that he is such an experienced lover that he is capable of guessing a\nwoman's measurement by looking at them. Plus he spent a lot of time spying on\nTsunade in hot springs!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main character was a boy who could see spirits, which he eventually got\nused to seeing them around him. Apparently, his grandmother used to teach him\nhow to exorcise spirits, but his memory was wiped at some point after that.\n\nAnyhow, their family was supposedly responsible for protecting these cracks in\nthe ground which led to the spirit world, and after his grandma died, he had\nto protect it instead. Oh, but because he didn't remember any spells, the\nprotectors of the other cracks into the spirit world (at other places) came to\nhis house to hold a meeting of some sort.\n\nIn the manga, there's also a pair of siblings who used weasels to fight or\nsomething..., or maybe those were their spirit animals... I don't quite\nremember.\n\nDoes anyone know the name of this manga? I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone\ndoes :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is [Totsugami](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=42667) [(MAL-\nlink)](http://myanimelist.net/manga/23843/Totsugami):\n\n> Narukami Tasuku isn't just an average high schooler. He can see ghosts and\n> demons, even though he doesn't want to. One day he was involved in an\n> incident and found out that his family were totsugamimori, ones who protect\n> the totsugamizuka. He is the only one remaining in his family and now, as a\n> heir of totsugamimori, he was dragged into that world...\n\n\n\nThe siblings fighting with _spirit_ weasels are: [Takaomi\nKozuka](http://myanimelist.net/character/73449/Takaomi_Kozuka) and his family.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched this series ages ago and I can't seem to be able to find the episode\nwhere Hattori and Gin are hospitalized.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it is [**Episode 67**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1bor42rkjo)\n(Season 2).\n\n[**This**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Lto6aV70A) is a clip from the\nepisode.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have recently started reading and watching Naruto. I was wondering in what\naspect does the clones made by different techniques differ? They all have the\nsame potential and capabilities.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nClone Techniques (分身術, Bunshinjutsu) are techniques that create a copy of the\nuser or objects used by them. Each techniques differ from each other either by\nthe usage of chakra or chakra type. I'm going to save you the trouble of\ncomparing each article on clone jutsu by explaining them here.\n\n 1. The [**Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_Technique) is the most basic cloning technique:\n\n> It is a ninjutsu that creates an **intangible copy** of one's own body,\n> without any substance. Since the **clone itself doesn't have the ability to\n> attack** , and thus can only be used to confuse the enemy, it is mainly used\n> in combination with other ninjutsu.\n\n 2. The [**Shadow Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique) is an advanced form of the Clone Jutsu and is one of Naruto's frequently used moves:\n\n> Similar to the basic Clone Technique, this technique creates copies of the\n> user. However, these clones are **corporeal** instead of illusions. The\n> user's chakra is **evenly distributed among every clone** , giving each\n> clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. The clones are\n> **capable** of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but\n> will usually disperse after hit by a strong enough force. A characteristic\n> that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any experience the\n> clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are\n> dispersed. Because they are clones of the original, any chakra that the\n> clone possesses will return to the original after being dispelled. Shadow\n> clones **can't be distinguished from the original** with **Sharingan** ,\n> **Byakugan** , **Rinnegan** or **Rinne Sharingan**.\n\nThere are cloning techniques based on the chakra natures.\n\n 3. The [**Water Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Clone_Technique) uses water as a source for making the clone:\n\n> The Water Clone Technique is similar to the Shadow Clone Technique except it\n> **creates clones out of water** that have **one-tenth of the original\n> person's power**. The range of the clone is **limited** however, as it can\n> not travel very far from the original body without losing control.\n\n 4. Similarly,the [**Rock Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_Clone_Technique) uses rocks as the base for the cloning jutsu:\n\n> A clone that is **created of rock** , after it has been expelled from the\n> user's mouth. Unlike other clones, ones generated by this method do not\n> disappear when struck with sufficient force, but rather break apart.\n\n 5. The [**Earth Release Shadow Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Release_Shadow_Clone) uses mud as the source:\n\n> This technique creates a shadow clone **made of mud of the user**. Since its\n> made of mud, it can continue to **reform** and **mould itself back to its\n> original shape**. Once reverted to mud, the clone can serve as a powerful\n> restraint that is capable of completely halting the opponents movements.\n\n 6. Next is the [**Wood Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wood_Clone_Technique). It is a highly efficient technique and is a [Kekkei Genkai](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kekkei_Genkai):\n\n> A clone that is created by using chakra to **alter the user's own cells into\n> vegetation**. They have the ability to travel far from the user and are able\n> to communicate with the original. By directly touching the wood clone with\n> his hand, the user can absorb the information it gathered and change the\n> shape of the clone.\n\nOther types of cloning jutsu include:\n\n 7. The [**Beast Human Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Beast_Human_Clone)\n\n> Beast Human Clone is a modified and mixed version of the Transformation\n> Technique and clone technique, which is **unique to the Inuzuka clan**. It\n> allows a canine-user to **transform their animal companion into a perfect\n> copy of themselves**. Like any transformation, the technique can be broken\n> by identifying and attacking the animal, thus dispelling the transformation.\n\n 8. The [**Crow Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Crow_Clone_Technique)\n\n> A technique that produces a clone by projecting one's own chakra towards\n> dozens of \"crows\". Because it uses crows as a medium, **it requires less\n> chakra** than the normal Shadow Clone Technique, while still being **able to\n> perform techniques**. The dozens of crows come together to form the body of\n> a clone.\n\n 9. The [**Haze Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Haze_Clone_Technique) and [**Insect Clone Technique**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Insect_Clone_Technique).\n\nWhat differentiates all these clone jutsu are the chakra consumed for the\ntechnique and the chakra release required for the execution. Most of these\nclones can be distinguished from the original by looking at the imperfections\nand chakra levels. Dojutsu such as Sharingan and Byakugan can distinguish\ncertain types of clones, but it seems that the Kage Bunshin (Shadow Clones)\ncannot be distinguished. Although it has been stated that the Wood clone\ncannot be distinguished from the original,\n\n> Unlike other clone techniques, the wood clone doesn't disappear when hit and\n> takes the damage to a certain degree. This according to Madara Uchiha makes\n> it the perfect clone technique that only he with his dōjutsu, was able to\n> see through.\n\nThis jutsu doesn't require specific chakra release and is dependent on the\nuser's skill with the technique and the chakra levels. Combined with the\nability to fight, use/mould chakra, relay information to the original and\navoid detection of being a clone, the Kage Bunshin makes itself as an ideal\nCloning technique.\n\nThen comes Taju KageBunshin no Jutsu, or multiple shadow clone technique. The\ndifference b/w a simple Shadow Clone and Taju KageBunshin no Jutsu is just the\nnumbers. Many hundreds to even thousands of shadow clones are possible with\nmultiple shadow clone technique.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome points that differentiate [Shadow Clone\nTechnique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique) from other\nClone Techniques are:\n\n 1. Clones are corporeal instead of illusions.\n 2. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. \n 3. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after hit by a strong enough force. \n 4. The clones can also disperse on their own or be dispelled by the user of the technique.\n 5. Shadow clones also seem to be able to think for themselves and feel the original's pain to some extent.\n 6. Since chakra is equally distributed to all the Shadow clones, [Multiple Shadow Clone Technique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Multiple_Shadow_Clone_Technique) can be dangerous to the person performing it, hence a forbidden technique.\n\nAnd the most important characteristic of the Shadow Clone Technique is\n\n 7. Any experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are dispersed.\n\nDue to the 7th characteristic, Shadow Clone Technique can be used in different\nplaces like training (like what Naruto did with Kakashi to learn Rasen\nShuriken), or spying where user can learn faster and gain vital information.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMidousuji always says \"Gross!\", but why does he do so?\n\nFor example, a scene where he says \"Gross\".\n\n> You pedal so hard. Just how high is your cadence? _Gross_.\n>\n> \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe seems disgusted by everybody that competes with fighting spirit, or with\nbeliefs of friendship, for the team goals, self awareness, etc. It seems (as\nhis point of view) that he rides a bike for the pure joy of win and all the\nother thoughts are superfluous to him.\n\nIn some of the later episodes, he shows empathy for the second climber of the\nHakone Academy (Manami), because of this reason and Onoda in the image you\nshowed is trying to reach his team to help them in the future obstacle (the\nnext climbing zone), and he seems to enjoy himself, smiling at full throttle,\nbecause riding is fun, and that's gross!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Akito the Exiled episode 2, there is a female scientist talking with a\nperson in a lab tank and she mentioned about \"BBT event\". It seems it was\nabout the four 11s being synced in battle. But still, what does it mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe scientist says \"BRS\", not \"BBT\" (this is around 54:12 into the episode).\n\nOdds are that the \"BR\" stand for \"Brain Raid\" (which is a thing that is\nmentioned earlier by the same person, around 46:37). [Japanese Wikipedia\nclaims](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%A1%E5%9B%BD%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AD%E3%83%88#.E4.B8.BB.E8.A6.81.E4.BA.BA.E7.89.A9)\nthat the \"S\" stands for \"System\", though I don't know where it gets that from.\n\n[The official website](http://www.geass.jp/akito/kmf_alexander.html) describes\n\"Brain Raid mode\" (ブレインレイド状態) as a feature of the Alexander (the mech that\nAkito pilots):\n\n> ブレインレイドの状態に突入すると、頭部のマスクが展開する。 \n> ブレインレイドとは、アレクサンダのパイロットの精神が拡張する機能。 \n> 拡張された精神はType-02の各パイロットの精神を浸食、各機を子機として自在に操ることができる。\n>\n> When the Alexander enters Brain Raid mode, its face mask deploys. During a\n> Brain Raid, the pilot's mind \"extends\", allowing it to subsume the minds of\n> other Type-02 pilots, allowing their mechs to be controlled as extensions of\n> the main unit.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe seems to be able see and talk with dead people, which can be a coincidence\nas he is mentally unstable.\n\nOther than that, he shines in battle and yells \"die\" while fighting, and this\nbehavior seems to spread to other Japanese as well. However, the EU commander\nisn't affected by this at all.\n\nSo what exactly is his Geass?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsually, I see that all anime and manga are licensed! But sometimes I see that\nsome anime or manga are not licensed. Why is that so?\n\nTherefore, I am asking what is the difference between licensed and unlicensed\nanime and manga? And what does that mean for the producers, television\nstations, websites (and other who \"buy\" and publish the anime/ manga) and for\nthe anime/ manga fans?\n\nAlso how does the process for licensing an anime work?\n\nCould you this explain this through an example like these?\n\n * _One Piece_ (licensed anime)\n * _Free!: Eternal Summer_ (unlicensed anime)\n * _Death Note_ (licensed manga)\n * _Hetalia_ (unlicensed manga)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n(Preface: this answer mostly uses examples of licensing in North America / the\nUSA because that's what I'm most familiar with. Keep in mind that a show that\nisn't licensed in North America may still be licensed in other regions of the\nworld, such as Australia, Europe, China, and so forth.)\n\n> Therefore, I am asking what is the difference between licensed and\n> unlicensed anime and manga?\n\n\"Licensing\" here refers to the process by which a party that is not the\noriginal creator/distributor of a piece of content acquires rights to\ndistribute that content, usually with the limitation that they may only\ndistribute the content in a certain country or part of the world.\n\nSince Funimation has licensed _One Piece_ (I believe in North America only),\nthey are authorized to legally distribute _One Piece_ to consumers in the\nregion for which they have licensed it. (I'm not sure who, exactly, the\nlicensor for _One Piece_ is, though I suspect it's the original manga\npublisher, Shueisha.)\n\n_Free! Eternal Summer_ is not a good example of an unlicensed anime, because\nit has in fact been licensed for streaming in North America by Crunchyroll,\nthough I'm not sure if it has been licensed for home video.\n\nConsider instead an earlier Kyoto Animation show: _Hyouka_. As far as I know,\nnobody has licensed _Hyouka_ anywhere for any purpose (and this makes me very\nsad). This means that if you want to consume _Hyouka_ through legitimate\nroutes, your only option is to purchase the Japanese BDs/DVDs, or find someone\nwho DVRed it in Japan, or something like that.\n\n> Usually, I see that all anime and manga are licensed! But sometimes I see\n> that some anime or manga are not licensed. Why is that so?\n\nIf an anime or manga is unlicensed, it is because no company has bothered to\npurchase a license to distribute the product in the region where you live.\n\nNote that while the majority of new TV anime produced these days are licensed\n(at least for streaming in the US), the fraction of manga that are licensed\nrelative to the total amount produced is still very small (though this has\nbeen slowly changing with the advent of manga \"streaming\" services like\nCrunchyroll Manga). If you usually only run into licensed manga, that just\nmeans you're mostly only consuming manga through legitimate, licensed\nproviders outside Japan.\n\n> And what does that mean for the producers, television stations, websites\n> (and other who \"buy\" and publish the anime/ manga) and for the anime/ manga\n> fans?\n\nIf an anime or manga has not been licensed in your region, it means that there\nis probably no legal way to consume a version of the product that has been\nadapted for consumers in your region (i.e. by subtitling, dubbing, localizing,\n4Kids-ifying, etc.). Of course, this has never stopped anime watchers.\n\n> Also how does the process for licensing an anime work?\n\nThis is a complicated topic, and is worth a whole question on its own. (And\nalso, I don't really know the answer beyond vague generalities.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only place we've seen them together is during the war. Long before Ace\ndied, Flamingo disapeared (after talking to Moria).\n\nSo, how did he get the Mera Mera no mi? Is it a real one or just an artificial\none made with Smile?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of now we don't know how he got hold of the mera mera no me. (My guess is\nthat we'll never really know.)\n\nBut it's definitely the real deal. Artificial fruits are zoan types and the\nmera mera no mi is logia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoflamingo was there for the death of Ace, as were all the warlords. The\nsituation with Moria happened afterwards.\n\nFrom what we've seen with Smiley and the axolotl fruit, it seems that when a\nDevil Fruit eater dies, it takes over another fruit, somewhere in the world,\nand with Smiley that fruit happened to be very nearby. So it is possible that\nDoflamingo had an apple in his pocket which became the Mera Mera no Mi after\nAce's death.\n\nBut there are many possibilities, the current owner of the Mera Mera is Sabo,\nwhich he gained possession of by defeating Diamanté and the others. He was\ndefinitely nowhere near Ace, it is also easily possible that Doflamingo did\nthe same as Sabo did and just took it from whomever found it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe used that technique to escape from the sealing . But later on he is unable\nto use some techniques. What happen during the sealing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe technique used by Lord Mū was the [Fission\nTechnique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Fission_Technique).\n\n> This technique allows Mū to literally **split his own body into two\n> identical yet entirely independent duplicates** of himself.\n\nThough it might seem to be as same as the Clone Technique ,\n\n> the ability is instead a **physical separation** and so does not require\n> hand seals to activate, making it faster in comparison as a result. This\n> also means that even if one is incapacitated, the other remains **completely\n> unaffected** and as neither can truly be regarded as the original, the\n> duplicates **cannot** be dispelled like normal clones.\n\nAs a result of being split into to two entities ,\n\n> However, while split, Mū's power is **halved** and as such he is **unable to\n> use more complex techniques** like his Dust Release kekkei tōta.\n\nLater on :\n\n> Unable to remove the seal so he could reunite with his other half, Mū was\n> made to begin summoning \"that\" reincarnation. Due to his weakened state, it\n> took longer for Mū to complete the summoning.\n\n\" _that_ \" here refers to Madara Uchiha.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs it there any particular reason why the main characters of Amagi Brilliant\nPark are named after rap singers?\n\nTo be precise:\n\n * Kanie Seiya (可児江 **西** 也) is named after [Kanye West](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West)\n\n(西 means west)\n\n * Latifa Fleuranza after [Queen Latifah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Latifah)\n * Sento Isuzu (千斗{せんと} いすず) after [50 Cent](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent).\n\n(Sento is homophone with Cent セント。 いすず can be rendered as **五十** 鈴 in kanji\nwhere 五十 means 50)\n\nSo, I guess there is a reason for this and I was wondering what it may be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy guess is that the author enjoys punny/goofy name schemes. The part-time\nworkers hired by Kanie are named Eiko Adachi, Biino Bandou, and Shiina\nChuujou-- A, B, and C. (More obvious in Japanese where their family names\nwould be written first.)\n\nAnd senshin is right-- Kurisu Takaya is a near-direct transliteration of\n\"Chris Tucker\". (Fun fact, a similar gag is used in Steins;Gate for the\ncharacter Kurisu Makise; she often gets called \"Christina\"/Kurisu-tina.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm watching One Piece anime ep. 492. There were Capture Levels for each\nanimal shown on the screen subtitled, but the Capture Level of Hungri-la Birds\nwas missing.\n\nWhat is the Capture Level of Hungri-la Birds?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [**Toriko wiki**](http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Hungry-la_Bird)\nits Capture Level is 3.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI left the title ambiguous as my question is slightly spoiler-ish.\n\n> Who is this girl who killed Nura Rikuo's father, Nura Rihan? \n> \n> \n\nDid they actually say who she was? Or am I right that they never flat out said\nit?\n\n> Hagoromo Gitsune was still sealed, so it couldn't have been her. But I know\n> it has something to do with Hagoromo Gitsune's curse.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is...\n\n> young **Yamabuki Otome** (Hagoromo Gitsune's host). \n> \n> \n\nwho is actually...\n\n> Rihan first wife. [Abe no Seimei and Sanmoto Gorōzaemon brought her back to\n> life in her younger\n> form](http://nurarihyonnomago.wikia.com/wiki/Yamabuki_Otome#8_Years_Ago) to\n> become Hagoromo Gitsune's host.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA running gag in One Piece is that Usopp's lies eventually turn out to be true\n(with some minor modifications such as his age). For instance, he discovered\ngiant goldfish, pirates came (though they don't find out), and the existence\nof an island of dwarves. I fully expect every significant lie he says from the\nbeginning of the story to come true in some (likely absurd) way at some point\nin the story.\n\nI want to know the lies which are yet to come true. Currently, I am only aware\nthat he lied about a medicine that can cure any disease. His claims to be\ncaptain could potentially count, but he has been acknowledged by the title\n\"Captain Usopp\".\n\nWhat other lies are left that have not yet come true?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember one during the Thriller Bark arc. Where he tries to wake Luffy,\nZoro and Sanji up by yelling that there is a beautiful lady swordsman with a\nton of meat.\n\nI think that one would be good to see if it comes true.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm using [the YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXx3FoHnVQ)\n(note: already taken down) OP provided in one of the comments to answer this\nquestion.\n\nBasically, the lies that haven't come true according to this video are:\n\n * (Conqueror's) Haki\n * Having 8000 followers\n * Medicine that cures all diseases\n * Brave warrior of the sea\n * King Usopp from hell\n * Beating ten giant shadows\n * Assisting in bringing down a bombman\n * Descendant of Noland\n * Being born on Sniper Island\n\nPersonally, I believe three of them have been verified in recent chapters\nthough.\n\n> \\- Haki could be considered as truth as he indeed unlocked (Observation)\n> Haki and he will most likely not discover Conqueror's Haki. \n> \\- Law's DF could be considered the medicine that cures all diseases as he\n> could cure fatal diseases such as lead poisoning and could even cure the\n> terminal illness called death. \\- Assisting in bringing down a bombman is\n> probably referring to the fact that he sniped Sugar the second time,\n> bringing down the giant toys that were aiding.\n\n* * *\n\nFor completeness, here are the lies that have been confirmed according to the\nsame video:\n\n * Pirates came to Syrup village (Black Cat Pirates)\n * Saved a whale from North Blue (Laboon)\n * Fought a huge goldfish with poop as large as islands (The goldfish at Little Garden killed by Brogy and Dorry. The same goldfish had pooped the island called Nanimonai)\n * \"Honestly, I know I'm a man among men, but you can't fall in love with me, girl. Not my fault if you get burned.\" (Basically what Sanji told the Okama)\n * A big condor, flying through the skies (The big condors Chopper met during the time-skip. Usopp rode one during the reunion)\n * Abominable snowman (Rock and Scotch, the Yeti Cool brothers)\n * A beautiful female swordmaster who brought a lot of meat (Rebecca buying Luffy three bentos at the Colosseum)\n * A huge mole inside the mansion (Miss Merry Christmas from Baroque Works)\n * During the Syrup Village arc, they pretend to chase \"Cerberus\", while chasing a regular dog (Usopp met a real Cerberus at Thriller Bark)\n * They also pretend to capture a dragon (The Straw Hat Pirates actually capture (eat) a dragon on Punk Hazard)\n * Country of dwarves (Tontatta country)\n * Legendary hero Usoland (God Usopp)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm searching for an anime which was released between 2013 and 2014. I am not\nso sure, but it seemed to be a new anime.\n\nThe plot of this anime is about a girl who has always been bullied at school.\nOne day, when she goes to the schools toilet, she see a message on the WC\ndoor. The message comes from a boy/man/person who \"is a god\" (he calls himself\na god). In the message, he tells the girl that he can stop the bullying and\nmake her life better. All he wants from her is that she believes/trusts him\nlike a god (because gods need trust/belief from humans to exist).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCode seems to be obtained after your geass upgrades to full power and you kill\na code bearer. What happens to your geass after you obtain the code? Do you\nlose your geass? Is code an extra power? What is the difference between these\ntwo?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA geass is a supernatural power, like Lelouch's ability to command people to\ndo things, or Charles's ability to rewrite people's memories. A code is a, uh,\ndifferent supernatural doohickey that 1.) makes you immortal; and 2.) allows\nyou to grant geasses to other people.\n\n> What happens to your geass after you obtain the code? Do you lose your\n> geass?\n\nYes, you lose your geass.\n\nRecall that C.C.'s geass was the power to make people love her. Once the nun\npassed her code on to C.C., she lost her geass - if she still had the power to\nmake people love her, surely she would not have been tormented and treated as\na witch by the people of her time. Similarly, V.V., another code-bearer, shows\nno signs of having a geass.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the Code is obtained, the one who obtains it seems to lose their Geass\nPowers. We see this happen with C.C in her flashbacks as beforehand she had\nthe Geass Power to make everyone love her. In the scene where we last see with\nher Geass her Geass is now uncontrollable before the Nun admits she tricked\nC.C, from then on we see C.C's Geass Sigals on her forehead instead of in her\neyes.\n\nWe can assume the same thing happened with Charles. At the end of the first\nseason he uses his Geass to manipulate Lelouch's memories but he didn't have\nV.V's Code yet as later on in the second season when Cornelia infiltrate's the\nOrder's Base she throws a knife at V.V seemingly killing him until he gets up\nand takes the blade out of his head. However at the Sword of Akasha after\nCharles \"comes back to life\" he doesn't once uses his Geass on Lelouch.\n\nWe also know that the Code doesn't have to be given/received willingly. The\nNun who gave C.C the Geass powers forced her to take the code (though we are\nunsure how) and in the second season as C.C is about to reach the Twilight\nGate V.V is seen wounded saying Charles \"stole\" his code\n\nIn terms of what the Code Bearer gains, from observations we see:\n\n * Ability to create contracts with others to bestow Geass\n * Immunity to Geass\n * Immortality\n\nThere is another power we only see once in the first season and used by C.C at\nthe Battle of Narita where C.C feeds Suzaku \"shock images\" to immobilize him.\nHowever I am unsure if this is a power related to the Code or a natural power\nC.C has as neither V.V nor Charles demonstrates such a power.\n\nAlso, the Twilight Gates can be accessed by anyone who has Geass or the Code\nas Charles is seen at the Sword of Akasha without V.V with him at the\nbeginning of the second season (where he first shows Suzaku the Sword of\nAkasha saying it's a weapon to slay God)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCodes serve as the connection to The World of C, and have enough \"power\"\nthemselves to enact physical changes to the world ala Regeneration and their\nsoul returning to their bodies. Geass is a manifestation of the users soul\nplus \"power\", the bridge between it and their codes getting larger as more\n\"power\" is transferred. Once it grows large enough it can \"suck\" the code\nthrough the link. This is probably accidental, with the original owners not\nwanting to die otherwise why would they seek immortality. The codes can do\nmore than the automatic abilities looking at C.2's telepathy(?) but this\nknowledge was lost with their original bearers and has to be rediscovered on\ntheir own (thus why V.V can't).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA code and a geass are two different things.\n\nA code grants immortality and eternal youth and allows the person to give\ngeass powers to others.\n\nA geass is a power which differs from person to person. It's said that it is\nthe expression of the utmost inner desire of the person with the geass.\nExamples are mind control, mind reading, altering memories, forcing people to\nlove you, etc. when a geass user uses his geass a lot it grows \"stronger\",\nwhich means that after a while he can no longer turn it off and it will be\nactive at all times. if it gets even stronger it will affect the second eye of\nthe user and from then on he can take the code from a code bearer, rendering\nthe former code bearer mortal.\n\nThere's a lot of disinformation about this online, but the anime is actually\nvery clear on this:\n\n 1. When you get a code, you lose your geass. This was shown to be the case for C.C., Charles, V.V. and the nun from C.C.'s backstory (those last 2 never displayed any geass, and since they have the code it means their geass must have been constantly active in both eyes, and yet we don't see their geass, therefore it's gone). There are no exceptions for this in the lore. And Charles even explicitly says \"I've gained a new power IN PLACE OF geass\". \n\n 2. Transferring the code does NOT kill the former code bearer, it merely makes them mortal again. The nun was lying in a pool of blood because she committed suicide after regaining her mortality. V.V. was still alive for quite a while when Charles had his code. \n\n 3. Killing the former code bearer is NOT a requirement to get the code. C.C. herself had been severely injured by the nun (to force a dilemma on her \"accept my code and live, or refuse and die\") and was lying on the floor bleeding, she was in no shape to kill the nun. V.V. wasn't killed by Charles, he eventually succumbed to his injuries sustained in battle with Cornelia and Lelouch.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPure curiosity.\n\nWhy do some series carry a dot [.] at the end of their titles? Is there a\nmeaning to it or is it convention?\n\nEx: [Ore, Twintail ni\nNarimasu.](http://myanimelist.net/anime/24705/Ore_Twintails_ni_Narimasu.),\n[Kobato.](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5678/Kobato.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe punctuation symbol **。** is called a\n[句点](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation#Full_stop) ( _kuten_\n). Although it often functions like the English period (a.k.a. full stop), it\nis **not identical** , and is [used as the punctuation mark for a question\nsentence far more often than the ?\nsymbol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation#Question_mark) is\n(the question mark is called 疑問符 [ _gimonfu_ ] or はてな [ _hatena_ ].\n[Historically, Japanese did not have the question\nmark](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%96%91%E5%95%8F%E7%AC%A6#.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E8.AA.9E),\nso although it exists in Japan now, it is not used in Japanese academic\nwriting). In horizontal writing, the _kuten_ is placed in the same position as\na period would be in English: at the bottom right of the preceding character.\nIn vertical writing, it is placed immediately below and to the right of the\npreceding character.\n\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation#Full_stop)\nexplains that\n\n> Starting in the 1980s, advertising copy writers began incorporating full\n> stops in titles and other advertising. In the 1990s, the group Morning\n> Musume (モーニング娘。) began using a full stop in its name, starting a fad for\n> this usage.\n\nOther cases include\n\n * バクマン。 ( _Bakuman_ ) manga by Ooba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi\n * いいひと。 ( _Ii Hito_ ) manga by Takahashi Shin\n * 野ブタ。をプロデュース ( _Nobuta wo Produce_ ) live-action TV drama\n\nAs you can see, \"Bakuman\" is not a full sentence by itself, and \"Nobuta. Wo\nProduce\" intentionally slices a single phrase into two fragments by the\nplacement of the _kuten_ (Nobuta is the nickname of a main character that the\nprotagonist decides to \"produce,\" meaning to make-over _Pygmalion_ -style.\nGrammatically, you cannot make \"Wo Produce\" into its own sentence), so these\nare both examples of a _kuten_ that should not be interpreted as a period for\nending a sentence. The _kuten_ can be utilized as a sentence ender, but it is\noften **used for style without any grammatical meaning**. Similarly, some\nseries titles make use of other **Japanese typographic symbols** for style\nsuch as ,\n[＊](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typographic_symbols#Other_special_marks),\n[☆](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_\\(glyph\\)#Five_points),\n[♪](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_note), and\n[♯](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_\\(music\\)) (for example, うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪\n[ _Uta no Prince-sama_ ] and おジャ魔女どれみ♯ [ _Oja Majo DoReMi Sharp_ ] and the\nchoice of a star to be read as the letter A in\n[ST☆RISH](http://utanoprincesama.wikia.com/wiki/ST%E2%98%86RISH), an idol\ngroup in the former).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nMy daughter bought this at a garage sale, but we do not know who she is. I do\nnot know many anime series and I have not found a match using Google image\nsearch. Can someone give me the name and the series that she is from? Thanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is [Yuna\nKagurazaka](http://myanimelist.net/character/5488/Yuna_Kagurazaka) from\n[Galaxy Fraulein Yuna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Fraulein_Yuna),\nwhich is a series of video games that also spawned two OVA releases.\n\n\n\nYou can find the same figurine in different angles\n[here](http://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/1998/galaxy_fraulein_yuna).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> _Kage Bunshin no Jutsu_ (影分身の術) literally translates into _Shadow Clone\n> Technique_.\n\nIs the word \" _kage_ \" used to suggest that this technique was developed by a\n[**Ho-kage**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tobirama_Senju#Ninjutsu)? Or does\nthe jutsu have an actual connection to shadow?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe word \"Kage\" means \"shadow\".\n\nThat's why they call it the \"Shadow Clone Technique\" in the English dub (or at\nleast the early ones).\n\nThe suffix \"kage\" in \"Hokage\" also means \"shadow\" (\"Hokage\" = \"Fire Shadow\", I\nbelieve).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou said the answer yourself in the comments: the \"kage\" part means the shadow\nclones...well, have a shadow. Regular clones lack substance and do not carry\nchakra, whereas shadow clones are basically copies of the person. Shadow\nclones carry and use their own bit of chakra that they receive from the\noriginal, so there is actual substance to them. The ninja way of summing this\nappears to be to say that \"illusions do not cast shadows, but objects with\nsubstance do.\"\n\nGenerally it seems as though from a naming standpoint, a prefix to _bunshin_\ngives the clones some physical substance, whether is be water (水分身) or paper\n(紙分身) or something else. In my personal opinion shadows are merely quasi-\nphysical in the sense that they are a **lack** of light in the midst of a more\nbrightly lit surface, so it feels better if _kage bunshin_ and regular\n_bunshin_ were switched around. But hey, I guess adding the word \"shadow\"\nmakes it sound cooler so it has to be the stronger spell.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recognize Lancelot and Mordred as knights from Arthur's legends. There is\nalso a cat named Arthur.\n\nWhat about other names like Schneizel, Cornelia and title characters Lelouch\nand Nunally Lamperouge? Are there other works they have drawn references from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is only a partial answer as I don't actually think the names of\ncharacters came from anything else, just chosen names.\n\nHowever, in the case of Britannian Terminology a lot of it comes from legends.\n\n**_Arthurian legends_**\n\n * The Elite group Suzaku joins, the **Knights of the Round** , is based on the [Knights of the Round Table](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Knights_of_the_Round_Table). I'm quite sure each of their Knightmares is named after the member Knights.\n\n * Lloyd Asplund's Irregular Special Research Division, **Camelot** , is named after the [Castle/Kingdom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot) Arthur would rule.\n\n * The Britannian Capital **Pendragon** is the [family name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendragon) of the monarchy that rules Camelot. ie **Uther Pendragon** and **Arthur Pendragon**.\n\n**_Norse mythology_**\n\n * The **Ragnarok System** is named after the foretold end/resetting of the world, [Ragnarok](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k).\n\n * Luciano Bradley's **Valkyrie Squadron** are named after the [Valkyries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie), who, just like the squadron, are all women.\n\n**_Greek_**\n\n * The Sky Fortress Damocles is possibly named after [Damocles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles) in the Greek Anecdote _the Sword of Damocles_. Much like the sword, the fortress would be hanging over the planet as an imminent and ever-present peril with its payload of F.L.E.I.J.A. Warheads, had it reached orbit. (Funny enough, the Fortress and the F.L.E.I.J.A. firing switch sort of resemble swords)\n\n**_Other_**\n\n * On the Wikia under [Trivia](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_of_Akasha#Trivia) for the **Sword of Akasha** it mentions the Nasuverse uses of Akasha. On Wikipedia this matches to [the Akashic records](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records); however, this is a theosophy meaning and there are other meanings for [Akasha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akasha).\n\n* * *\n\nAs a note, under the trivia of Kyoshiro Tohdoh's first Knightmare in The Black\nKnights, [Zangetsu](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Zangetsu#Trivia), it says\n\n> Zangetsu is also the name of main character Ichigo Kurosaki's Zanpakutō in\n> the hit anime series Bleach. Ichigo Kurosaki's English voice actor is Johnny\n> Young Bosch, the same English voice actor as Lelouch Lamperouge. Also,\n> Tohdoh's Zangetsu's color scheme is black and red, the same as Ichigo\n> Kurosaki's.\n\nIt should be noted that Bleach first airing predates the start of Code Geass,\nso it is possible the choice to cast Johnny Young Bosch as Lelouch in the\nEnglish dub stemmed from his role as Ichigo, wielder of Zangetsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember very little detail of this movie that randomly aired on TV about a\ndecade ago. Here is what I do remember:\n\n * Dark overtones reminiscent of future noir style. The animation, similarly, is reminiscent of _Ghost in the Shell_ or _Ergo Proxy_. The story paces slowly as further details about the monster are given. It was possibly produced in the late '90s to early 2000s, a few years before I watched it.\n\n * The focus of the movie is a rather generic monster: it walks on all fours, is adept at swimming, has olive skin, and a large tail. Also, at some point, it is discovered that it's pregnant. \n\n * One of the main characters is a salty old detective who limps around. I think he has a cane which he hastily abandons in a chase scene (see next bullet).\n\n * There is a climactic point in which the detective is limping through a multilevel construction site whilst being pursued by the monster. There are large exosuits visible in the background (possibly used for construction).\n\n * In this same scene, the construction site undergoes some sort of emergency shutdown, during which the monster's large tail is cut off by a closing door. \n\n * I'm not certain but I believe the monster dies in the end.\n\nI'm sorry I don't remember any more details.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is an arc in the Patlabor manga storyline. Most likely, you are talking\nabout the [**Patlabor The Movie 3\n(2002)**](http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=510). It has also been\nadapted in the original late '80s OVA.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read the first few chapters of the Ikoku Meiro no Croisee manga. In these\nchapters, we hear a little about Yune's mother, and a little about her older\nsister, but I don't remember anything being mentioned about her father. Do we\never hear anything about him?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNeji, Hinata, Shino, Kiba, Sasuke, Choji, Shikamaru and Ino all have their\nclans' Kekkai Genkai, e.g. Shikamaru possesses shadow jutsu, Ino has mind\ncontrolling jutsu.\n\nThe Uzumaki clan is said to have sealing techniques. Then why doesn't Naruto\npossess any of the techniques? At least, he should have some of his father's\nabilities (excluding Rasengan, as Jiraiya and Kakashi were able to do it), but\nfrom the beginning, it is shown that he didn't possess any clan-specific\ntechnique. Why so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think this is probably because Naruto is genetically 1/2 Uzumaki and 1/2\nanother clan (Namikaze). Unlike the other Uzumaki clan members we have seen\n(Kushina, Karin, Nagato, Mito), Naruto does not have their trademark straight\nred hair. Instead, he inherits his father's spiky blonde hair. I think this\nprobably results in inheriting only a portion of the Uzumaki genetic\ncharacteristics (e.g., compatibility as Kurama's jinchukiri), but losing\nothers (e.g., chakra chains, fuinjutsu).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo expand on my comment, as per [nhahtdh's\nrequest](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19111/why-doesnt-naruto-\npossess-any-of-his-clans-specific-jutsu?noredirect=1#comment26938_19111):\n\nBecause clan specific jutsu **have to be taught** , even though you may have\nan affinity toward them or less difficulty in learning them.\n\nUnlike [_Kekkei Genkai_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kekkei_Genkai), which\nare techniques (usually) unique to a clan **passed down genetically** , clan\nspecific jutsu - or [_Hiden_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hiden) \\- are\n**passed down through teaching/orally**.\n\n**Examples of _Kekkei Genkai_** include, but are not limited to, the\nSharingan, the Byakugan, the Shikotsumyaku (Kimimaro's bone ability), Ice\nRelease techniques (used by Haku) and Wood Release techniques. \n**Examples of _Hiden_** include, but are not limited to, the Nara clan's\nShadow techniques, the Aburame clan's Insect techniques, the Hyuuga clan's\nfighting style (Gentle Fist) and the Uzumaki clan's Sealing techniques.\n\nHowever, it is also noteworthy to point out that Naruto possesses many of the\n[general \"abilities\" of the Uzumaki\nclan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki_Clan#Abilities), such as an\nincredibly strong life force, great recuperative powers and over the average\nlongevity. He possesses these because, not unlike _Kekkei Genkai_ , they are\npassed down genetically. On the other hand, he does not posess the clan's\nspecific jutsu, due to the simple fact that **there was no Uzumaki around to\nteach them to him.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto does seem to have the innate ability to manipulate the seal on Kurama\nhowever, with not indication that he received training on this. So he does\nhave some skill in the art.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime it was shown that Deidara was so fixated on killing Orochimaru by\nhimself, he also recklessly attacked Sasuke for killing(!) Orochimaru...\n\n> It was shown that Deidara joined Akatsuki only after Orochimaru left, So\n> what could be the reason for his desire to kill Orochimaru by himself? Is it\n> said anywhere in story?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMore information about Deidara can be found on [this\nlink](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Deidara):\n\n> When Deidara's exploits caught the attention of the Akatsuki, Itachi Uchiha,\n> Kisame Hoshigaki, and Sasori were sent to recruit him. Deidara refused at\n> first but accepts a challenge from Itachi on the condition that the Akatsuki\n> let him be if he won. However, Deidara was easily defeated by Itachi's\n> Sharingan and begrudgingly joined the organisation. -> Chapter 359.\n>\n> His ego crushed since then because he admitted to himself that the Sharingan\n> was a work of art, Deidara carried a murderous loathing for Itachi and the\n> Sharingan for the rest of his life. Acknowledging that Itachi was a more\n> powerful opponent, Deidara took steps during his time with the Akatsuki to\n> get revenge on Itachi, such as training his left eye to counter genjutsu,\n> and devising the means to create C4.\n\nNow since Itachi easily defeated Orochimaru, Deidara wanted to defeat him as\nwell to show off and prove to Itachi that he is strong. You can say, Itachi\ndefeated Orochimaru, then he MUST defeat him as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that it was Light's plan to make Misa look suspicious again so that Rem\nwould kill L. But why did she think that Misa was going to be executed?\n\nWas it because her lifespan was shortened again?\n\nI thought that only a Death Note can shorten the lifespan of a person, and\neven though she did the Shinigami eye deal again, was her lifespan too\nshortened?\n\nOr can your lifespan get shortened by other people, because of their actions?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe police suspected Misa of being Kira, and she was about to be exposed. Rem\nrealized that Light had purposely set Misa up to get caught _so that the only\nway to save her_ would be to kill L, otherwise, Misa would get the death\npenalty for being Kira. If a Shinigami helps a human by extending their life\nlike this, the Shinigami dies. Even knowing this, Rem sacrificed herself in\norder to save Misa by killing L and making it so Misa would no longer be a\nsuspect.\n\nAlso see: [What was the intent for making Rem sacrifice herself for\nMisa?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7524/what-was-the-intent-for-\nmaking-rem-sacrifice-herself-for-misa)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBasically, **L told her** what would happen, when she would be caught. Light\nmade it pretty obvious that Misa was the new _Killer_ , letting all evidence\npoint in her direction. He made her kill people the instant she left the\nmansion. Especially since Misa was the original suspect for being the second\n_killer_. If it wasn't for the fake rule, Misa would have been arrested or at\nleast thoroughly investigated and L had doubts about that rule from the\nbeginning anyway.\n\n> **L:** \n> If the murderer by notebook is recognized, at the very least, if we cannot\n> get the capital punishment, we would have them write their own name in the\n> book. That's how it is. **_chapter 57_**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/veP4X.png)\n\nRem, being pretty sharp herself, came to the same conclusion. She knew L would\nfigure it out, she knew it would mean the end for Misa. Though, she had made a\npromise to protect her till the end, so she knew she had to kill L to prevent\nMisa from dying early.\n\n> **Rem:** \n> The one who is killing the convicts right now is Misa. There is no doubt\n> about that. Since the notebook has been revealed, no matter what happens\n> from this point on, the one who will be caught as Kira will be Misa. That\n> wont change... \n> Yagami Light is confident that I will save Misa's life... The only way to\n> save Misa in a situation like that would be for me to write Ryuuzaki's true\n> name in the notebook... \n> And in that situation if I were to kill Ryuuzaki then I would have clearly\n> meddled with Misa's lifespan and die. **_chapter 57_**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mAcJl.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is for me the weakest play from any character in the series. I've\nsearched through the internet to see if someone had the same thought that I\ndid but haven't found any mention to it.\n\nRem wants to protect Misa\n\nRem needs to be alive to protect Misa\n\nThen, Rem can't protect Misa if she's dead\n\nWith this simple point in mind, what she did was only the last resource she\nhad, a resource that she should of have taken after discarding other ways of\naction. If she's dead nothing stops Light from killing Misa on his own (which\nwas his initial plan).\n\nWhy didn't she talk to L and negotiate? Give him two options:\n\nOption 1 (what she partially did): I kill you, Watari and the whole task force\nand you'll never catch Kira nor Misa, failing in every aspect of your\ninvestigation.\n\nOption 2 (what she could have done before going for Option 1): I tell him that\nI can see who's the first Kira, and that the second Kira is Misa. But that as\na Shinigami who's involved with Misa, I will not let anything happen to her,\nso I can either kill them all, or give them, in exchange for Misa's\ninnocence), the name for the first Kira. If they refuse this deal, then they\nwill have none (and go to Option 1).\n\nThere's a chance L would of rejected this deal, for an ideal about finding\nthrough himself who's Kira or an ideal of justice where he wouldn't want Misa\nto have immunity. But in the face of death, there was a chance where he could\nsee that one of the two options had a better outcome than the other.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nto save miss I think. because if watari told L the information he had, then\nboth Light and Misa would be executed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm watching episode 15 of Osamu Tezuka's [_In the Beginning: The Bible\nStories_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning:_The_Bible_Stories)\nout of curiosity. In both this episode and episode 23, we see what appears to\nbe the stone inscriptions of the ten commandments, in something that looks\nlike Hebrew. (Click for bigger image.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iwXLu.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0GWsr.png)\n\nI was wondering if these are actually reasonably \"correct\" Hebrew\ninscriptions, given that I've seen placeholder texts in animated books that\nhad nothing to do with the actual in-universe meaning of the books (e.g. RPG-\nrelated material in alchemy books in the 2003 FMA).\n\nI would assume that this _is_ correct, but I had extremely little success\ntrying to cross-check with either text in Hebrew [here](http://www.mechon-\nmamre.org/p/pt/pt0220.htm) or [here](http://www.mechon-\nmamre.org/p/pt/pt0505.htm), particularly since I don't know Hebrew.\n\nMight anyone know the answer to this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey are ask real words (in the top picture, it's kind of hard to read the\nsecond one). I don't really know how to prove it though. The big, bold words\nmean vertical, no, no, and trapped in that order going down. The rest is\nreligious about g-d. Sorry if that doesn't answer the question fully.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe left hand picture, is the exact original Hebrew text from the ten\ncommandments in the bible, but only the first two or three words from each\ncommandment. It is very usual to depict only the first few words on Hebrew\ndrawings of the Tablets.\n\n[code]\n\n \"I am the L-d your G-d\n You shall not have another god over me\n You shall not carry G-d's name [in vain]\n Remember the day of [Shabbath...the rest is off the photo edge]\"\n \n[/code]\n\nThe right hand picture is complete gibberish.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the name of the song or the artist that sings in the final battle of\nepisode 4 of _Tokyo Ghoul √A_ , when Kaneki is battling Shachi?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song used is track 10: **Wanderers** (vocal by Luschka) from disc 2 of the\n[Tokyo Ghoul Original Soundtrack](http://vgmdb.net/album/50263).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI notice, for example, that [the\n_Akagi_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Akagi) and\n[the _Kaga_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga) both\nbegan construction in 1920, and they're portrayed as being more senior than\n[the\n_Fubuki_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Fubuki_\\(1927\\)),\n[the _Mutsuki_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Mutsuki), and\n[the\n_Yuudachi_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Y%C5%ABdachi_\\(1936\\)),\nall of which only began construction later on.\n\nIs this a reasonably consistent pattern among the other fleet girls? Or is it\nmore or less arbitrary which girls are portrayed as being senior to others?\n(Or is it not arbitrary, but based on something else entirely, like ship\nclass?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA few points that rule out ship age as a deciding factor:\n\n * The _Nagato_ and the _Mutsu_ are the secretary ships of the fleet and hold highest seniority, yet the construction of the four _Kongou_ -class battleships had all been completed at least five years beforehand. The _Kongou_ -class were all originally battle cruisers, which is a possible reason for their lower seniority assuming it's based on ship class, as the _Nagato_ -class were dreadnoughts, and the _Nagato_ often served as flagship IRL.\n * The _Ashigara_ and the other three _Myoukou_ -class heavy cruisers are depicted as teachers. However, every single _Mutsuki_ -class destroyer was completed around 4-5 years before them, and they're _Ashigara_ 's students in the show.\n * The _Ooyodo_ light cruiser was completed in 1943, well after most other ships in the fleet, but works with _Nagato_ and _Mutsu_ , which is likely because she was originally intended as a command vessel for submarine operations and briefly served as flagship of the Combined Fleet before being sunk.\n * The _Shimakaze_ was also older than the _Mutsu_.\n\nGiven the other references to real-life attributes of the various ships and\ntheir histories (e.g. the _Sendai_ fought all of her battles at night, hence\nher character's obsession therewith), I would guess fleet seniority is handled\nbased on ship roles in the actual Combined Fleet, which would roughly follow\nship class just because of the different capabilities/stats of each.\n\nThe information of the ships are referenced from Wikipedia\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, at least, it seems that the girls are much more conscious about\nshowing skin or cleavage than in other anime set in modern times (except for\nthe beach episode).\n\nEspecially when you take into account the target audience, it is rather odd.\n\nDo the light novel or other official sources delve deeper into this cultural\nelement of the fictional world of Mahouka?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn addition to nhahtdh's answer, I would also like to add that **Volume 8 -\nChapter 2** of the light novel also talked about temperature dropping (a mini\nice age) in 2030 AD, and the temperature only went back to normal recently.\nThen, the light novel went on to attribute the drop in temperature to the\nchanges in the fashion/dress code.\n\n> —Beginning from around Common Era 2030, the earth underwent a radical drop\n> in temperature; the world’s overall food supply deteriorated on a massive\n> scale.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Looking at that vivid greenery and sparkling ocean, makes the world’s\n> temperature drop seem like an event in a fictional story.\n>\n> Nevertheless, that event is an unequivocal fact.\n>\n> Before we were born, the world’s climate began getting warmer but, we can\n> look at the traces of the temperature dropping all around us.\n>\n> For example, the dress code.\n>\n> **Not exposing bare skin, this manner in which we dress is nothing but a\n> trace of the deep impression the era of the temperature dropping left on the\n> world.**\n>\n> Well, I have no interest in dressing to expose my shoulders or breast area —\n> and in the first place, it would not be a flattering style on me, yet—, it’s\n> not compulsory to have a skirt so long the hem drags, and I like clothes.\n> However in private places, there are no rules over the manner of dressing so\n> it’s not like it really hinders us.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**_This centers around Noto Mamiko, but you can answer the question from a\ngeneral/industry stand point if you want._**\n\nSpecifically since 2013, I'm noticing **[Noto\nMamiko](http://myanimelist.net/people/40/Mamiko_Noto)** is pretty much a bit-\ncharacter voice actress. She's not even \"the MC's best friend\" or anything.\n\nI can think of 1 main character role in 2013 - Satellizer el Bridget in\nFreezing Vibration. That's it. Even last year, her biggest role was probably\nNishiki in Donten ni Warau, not even a main character!\n\nIn severe cases she is in the show for literally 1-2 episodes.\n\nWhy would this GREAT VA, who has played some very memorable main character\nroles, now be playing barely supporting characters?\n\nDid she get married? Start TV acting? Any reasonable suggestion for this\natrocity?\n\n_Is it me or is **[Hayami\nSaori](http://myanimelist.net/people/869/Saori_Hayami)** stealing her roles?_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNear the end of episode 5 of Kantai Collection, Kaga said that a fleet of two\naircraft carriers ([\n_Kaga_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Kaga) and\n[_Zuikaku_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Zuikaku)),\ntwo torpedo cruisers ([\n_Kitakami_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Kitakami) and\n[_Ooi_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_%C5%8Ci)), one\nbattleship ([\n_Kongo_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Kong%C5%8D)) and one\ndestroyer ([\n_Fubuki_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Fubuki_%281927%29))\nwas originally an impossible fleet, so they go along with assigning Fubuki - a\ndestroyer - to be the flagship of the fleet.\n\nWhy is such a fleet an impossible one in the first place?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you're willing to impose a certain level of realism on the show, then such\na fleet would indeed be absurd by WWII-era naval warfare standards.\n\nIn WWII, the biggest source of firepower for a navy was large ships, primarily\nbattleships and aircraft carriers. Such ships required a huge amount of\nresources to operate - _Kaga_ , _Zuikaku_ , and _Kongou_ each had well over a\nthousand personnel on-board. They could be used effectively in a variety of\nsituations, from naval combat, to blockades, to bombarding enemy troops\nanywhere near water.\n\nBut, such large ships had a fatal weakness, which had been known since the\n19th century: torpedoes. A battleship could easily sink weak enemy boats from\na long distance away. For example, _Kongou_ 's [356 mm\nguns](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_14_inch/45_naval_gun) had a maximum\nrange of 35 km (the effective range was somewhat lower, but still quite far).\nHowever, if the enemy forces had a large number of [small\nboats](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_boat), each armed with torpedoes,\nit would be difficult for the battleship to take down all of these with its\nrelatively slow weaponry. Certainly, it could hit some of them, but with\nenough numbers it wouldn't be able to take them all down effectively. Aircraft\ncarriers fare a bit better in this respect, but they too had to worry about\nany sort of armored torpedo-carrying vessel or submarine, and enemy fire could\nprevent aircraft from launching or landing, which would basically cripple\ntheir offensive capabilities.\n\nWith enough ships, the enemy forces could easily advance to within the\neffective range of torpedo fire (which depended on the model of torpedo, but\nwas around 4-8 km for [one common\ntorpedo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo) used by the U.S. Navy).\nIt would not take long to deal heavy damage to the large ship, possibly even\nsinking it. Small enemy vessels (such as cruisers) could also quickly approach\nto get in range of their own guns, at which point the main advantage of\nbattleships and aircraft carriers (long range) is lost. If this seems like a\npoor strategy, keep in mind that torpedo boats could be very small (at some\npoints even converted merchant/fishing vessels were used for this purpose),\nand operated by only a few people, yet a small number of them would pose a\nserious threat to much larger battleships and aircraft carriers. Thus, the big\nships need some way to deal with smaller ships approaching them too quickly\nfor the large ship to deal with.\n\nThis is the reason destroyers were invented. Destroyers were relatively\nheavily armored (given their small size), highly mobile small ships which were\nprimarily used for short-range tactical combat and to escort larger ships.\nWhile torpedo-boats and other swarms of small ships could out-maneuver large\nships with enough numbers, they weren't a threat if you could intercept them\nbefore they got in firing range and take them out. A destroyer like _Fubuki_\nwould generally only be used in combat against other naval forces. Their\n[medium-caliber\nguns](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12.7_cm/50_Type_3_naval_gun) could still\neasily outrange (maximum range of over 18 km) torpedoes, and would be a threat\nto approaching cruisers as well. A destroyer only required around 200\npersonnel, and more than just destroying enemy torpedo boats, they were\ngenerally pretty versatile: they could be used for holding tactical positions,\nreconnaissance, torpedoing enemy ships, attacking enemy submarines\n(essentially just underwater torpedo boats), and anti-air attacks, depending\non the needs of the mission and the available equipment. Even in the worst\ncase scenerio that the destroyer sinks, this still buys time for the (much\nmore important) large ships to escape, fight back, or wait for reinforcements.\n\nGenerally, any larger ship during WWII would be escorted by at least one\ndestroyer. Especially important ships might get more than one destroyer\nescort. So, for a fleet of 2 aircraft carriers, one battleship, and 2 light\ncruisers ( _Kitakami_ and _Ooi_ are described as torpedo cruisers, but this is\njust a type of light cruiser armed primarily with torpedoes), we'd expect at\nleast 5 or so destroyers, and possibly even more. For a real-life example, the\nJapanese fleet at the [Battle of the Eastern\nSolomons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Eastern_Solomons) had the\nfollowing numbers, which were reasonably typical for a battle of this size:\n\n * 3 carriers\n * 1 seaplane tender (essentially a light carrier)\n * 2 battleships\n * 16 cruisers\n * 25 destroyers (more than the above 22 ships combined in raw number)\n * Several smaller/non-combat boats\n\nA fleet of 2 carriers, 1 battleship, 2 cruisers, and 1 destroyer is rather\nabsurd in comparison; it's putting far too many resources in the large ships,\nand not enough into protecting them. A swarm of small ships would pose big\nproblems for a fleet like this. While such a fleet would have excellent\noffensive capability given the number of ships, they wouldn't have especially\ngood defensive capabilities, and would be an attractive target for enemy\nattacks (basically a glass cannon).\n\nIn addition, the flagship was the most important ship in any operation. The\ncommanding officer of the operation was on the flagship, and crippling or\nsinking the flagship would not only damage enemy morale, but also their\ncommunications and strategy. Making a ship that was designed to be relatively\nexpendable, like a destroyer, would be a bad idea. The enemy forces would\nlikely all target the destroyer, and the fleet would be in serious trouble if\nit sank, usually forced to retreat.\n\nTypically, the flagship was one of the largest ships in any given operation,\nbeing difficult to sink, well-defended, and powerful enough to boost the\nmorale of other ships in the operation. A small ship being the flagship would\nprobably have problems with respect as well as being an easy target. While\nthere were a couple cases where a destroyer was used as the flagship for an\noperation, these were generally only in cases that the whole fleet consisted\nof only destroyers, or when the original flagship was too heavily damaged to\ncontinue (such as in the [Battle of\nGuadalcanal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal)).\n\n* * *\n\nWith all that said, none of this really applies very well to the Kancolle\nuniverse, at least in the game. Destroyers had a predominantly tactical,\ndefensive role, but the game's battle system doesn't do much to emulate this.\nIn game, most of the advantages of destroyers (evasion and speed) aren't\nparticularly unique to them; one can replace destroyers with larger ships\nwithout much loss. This _will_ incur larger ammunition and fuel costs, but it\nisn't necessarily a bad strategy or one that the enemy forces will have any\nway to exploit.\n\nIndeed, once one progresses far enough in the game, even _more_ unbalanced\nfleets become commonplace. Later missions require more and more firepower,\nwhich is increasingly hard to meet with weaker ships like destroyers and\ncruisers. The game is also generous enough with resources that the fuel and\nammunition consumption become relatively unimportant. Since the number of\nships you can bring to a battle is limited (as are your enemy's, preventing\nany kind of swarming strategy), it's often better for high-level missions to\nonly deploy battleships and carriers. If you're well prepared, it's relatively\nrare that such large ships will take any serious damage, and with some\nstrategy there's essentially no risk of them sinking. If anything, the single\ndestroyer would be the weak link defensively, and unlike in the real world,\nwhere losing a single destroyer in an otherwise good battle would be seen as a\nbig victory, in the game you can't afford to throw away experienced destroyers\nregularly.\n\nMaking the destroyer your flagship would offer it some protection, since in-\ngame flagships can't be sunk, but if it reaches a heavily damaged level (which\nis quite plausible) you'll be forced to retreat. There are other benefits for\nthe flagship, such as increased leveling and a chance to have attacks hit\nother ships instead. There are strategic benefits to both large and small\nships being flagship, but in any case it's not crazy to make a weak ship like\na destroyer the fleet's flagship.\n\nI suspect there's no good in-universe reason to consider this strategy crazy\nor impossible, at least based on what we know now about battles in the\nKancolle universe. In the game, it wouldn't really be at all, given the right\ncircumstances. The anime hasn't presented us with any explanation, and it has\nan original story (since the game has almost no story), so we can't really\nfind any answer there. But in the context of actual WWII-era naval battles, it\nwould indeed be a crazy, illogical decision to make a fleet like this, and\nthere are no historical examples of such a fleet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just checked the service record of each of those 6 named ships. And the end\nconclusion is that this was a double pun (sorta). They were deemed \"impossible\nships some ways or another\". And they never served with each other...sorta?.\nWhich makes the squadron utterly impossible.\n\n## IJN Ooi and IJN Kitakami\n\n> On 12 January 1942, Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Matome Ugaki inspected Ōi,\n> and expressed strong disapproval of the Navy's plans for the use of the\n> newly remodeled torpedo cruisers and urged a revision to the Navy's tactics.\n> While the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff debated the issue, Ōi was\n> assigned to escorting transports between Hiroshima and Mako, Pescadores\n> Islands from the end of January through mid-April [1941].\n\n* * *\n\nThe end result of which both becoming troop carriers and occasional attachment\nto patrols based around the Malaccas'. Rather uneventful career until Ooi was\ntorpedoed off HK in 44. Kitakami survived and also was converted for Kaiten\nsuicide operation which was also a botch.\n\n## IJN Zuikaku and IJN Kaga\n\nI think they wanted to use Taihou instead of Zuikaku. Zuikaku was never an\narmored carrier (outside of Pearl Harbor 1941 which both, Zuikaku and Kaga,\nhad participated with and hit different airfields from each other).\n\nZuikaku was remodeled (in-game) into an armored carrier, [Taihou, the only\narmored carrier of her class] blew up when exhaust gases...\n\nKaga was a part of an experimental program with Akagi, as the losing bet.\n\n> As a result, Akagi and Kaga were given different exhaust systems to evaluate\n> in real-world conditions. Kaga's funnel gases were collected in a pair of\n> long horizontal ducts which discharged at the rear of each side of the\n> flight deck, in spite of predictions by a number of prominent naval\n> architects that they would not keep the hot gases away from the flight deck.\n> The predictions proved to be correct, not least because Kaga was slower than\n> the Akagi which allowed the gases to rise and interfere with landing\n> operations. Another drawback was that the heat of the gases made the crew's\n> quarters located on the side of the ship by the funnels almost\n> uninhabitable.\n\nThat and the impractical idea, that should she find herself in a duel with\nships, she was equipped with ten 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type guns. On her second\nremodel she was modernized with more and better guns. This was before the\nrealization that carriers were not meant at all for any gun duels.\n\n* * *\n\nKaga was part of the 1st CV Div 1 and later the CV Div 2 from 1935 onward.\nSunk 1942 Midway.\n\nZuikaku was part of CV Div 5 after returning from Pearl Harbor 1941. Served in\nBattle of Coral Sea in 1942 with Shoukaku around the same time Midway was\nhappening.\n\n* * *\n\n## IJN Kongou\n\nNow this one was tough.\n\nUnder the 1922-1930 Washington Treaty, Japan was limited to certain\ntonnage/armaments limits and certain amounts of capital ships. Kongou exceeded\nboth of those limits after her remodel from Nov 1929-March 1931 and was a full\nbattleship. She should not exist according to the treaty that Japan wasn't due\nto renounce until 1934.\n\n* * *\n\nMet Zuikaku probably for Operation J as Kongou was mentioned to have escorted\n5 fast carriers for capture of Java island (Feb-March 1942), which Zuikaku and\nShoukaku later fought Battle of Coral Sea for Operation Mo (April 1942) in the\nsame general area.\n\nEscorted Hiryuu, Akagi, and Soryuu in Easter Sunday Raid, Ceylon April 1942,\nNo Kaga.\n\nKongou met Zuikaku again June 1944 along with IJN Taihou. But then again like\nPearl. This was a throw together of all mobile surface fleets. As taking the\nMariana Isles would give US land based bombing range of Japanese home islands.\nZuikaku and Taihou lost with all hands after being torpedoe'd by subs after\nbattle.\n\nSunk Nov 16 1944 after being torpedoed while en route to Kure with remnants of\n1st fleet. (Note the were in separate divisions commanded by a different rear\nadmirals)\n\n* * *\n\n## IJN Fubuki\n\n11th Destroy Div stationed around Hainan 1941, very active during Malaysia and\nIndonesia operations between Dec 1941 and her sinking on 11 Oct 1942. May have\nmet any of the above ships for one operation or the other...Truly the mystery\nas why she would be included.\n\nHowever she had been the black-sheep for the longest time for a friendly fire\non Feb 29 1942 that saw a spread of torpedoes sinking 1 minesweeper and 3\ntroop ships, which was later attributed, post war, to the Mogami. Maybe that?\nI'm not sure how Japanese language can use the word impossible. But no doubt\nthe captain refuted that some way or the other.\n\n>> Call me cheap for using Wikipedia, but cross referencing this took around 2\nand a half hours. With some conflicting sources that I had to double check via\nanother source. No, I did not try to outdo the current upvoted. I just wanted\nto dig a bit deeper, see if there was any other reason why. I play this game,\nand the history does interest me. Whew, I lied when I said it would take 48,\nnow that's 150 min wasted. BTW in KanColle game a fleet can only have 6 ships.\nAnd there's no objectionable reason why this couldn't happen, it wouldn't be\nvery good but with some tweaking, maybe a powerful glass cannon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the final episode of _School Days_ anime, Sekai said that she was pregnant.\nHer behavior seemed like she was telling the truth.\n\nHowever, when Kotonoha offered Sekai to consult at the hospital, she refused\nto go. This made Kotonoha suspect that Sekai was lying. And when Kotonoha\nstabbed and dissected Sekai, Kotonoha confirmed her suspicion.\n\nBut even before her death, Sekai stated clearly that she was pregnant, though\nshe didn't have to lie to Kotonoha anymore as Makoto was already dead.\n\nSo was Sekai really pregnant or not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not definite, and you'll hear differing opinions based on who's talking\nabout it:\n\n**She was pregnant:**\n\n * She had morning sickness\n * Kotonaha's attempt at searching inside Sekai is of course fruitless, as the baby would not have had enough time to develop. Maybe after several weeks something would be visible. Also it's a very crude way of doing it, so it's not surprising she wouldnt see anything, not being a trained professional\n * She didn't want to go to the hospital understandably, it would be a frightening and stressful experience.\n * She had no motive, she was clearly worried by the experience.\n\n**She was not pregnant:**\n\n * Morning sickness started occuring too early\n * [There have been several instances of fake pregnancies,](http://www.webmd.com/baby/guide/false-pregnancy-pseudocyesis) where the body emulates all the symptoms of pregnancy (sickness, missed periods, etc) because of stress / belief that they are pregnant\n * She was scared that her lie would be revealed if she went to the doctor\n * Her motive could have been that a baby would tie Makoto strongly to her.\n\n[Sekai Fandom page](http://overflow.fandom.com/wiki/Sekai_Saionji)\n\nI doubt you'll find a conclusive answer, as many posts out there have already\nmade up their mind. But one thing I think we can gather is at least **she\nthought she was pregnant** , regardless of if she was or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Sword Art Online, why did Akihiko Kayaba make the game so as to make death\npermanent? Don't get me wrong, I know that in episode 1 he claims that he\nwould like to \"control this world's fate\". However, in episode 17, when he\nsays that he \"wanted to make a world free of laws and restrictions\", then why\nmake it so that people must die in real life as well? Wouldn't that make a\nreal death contrary to his goals? And if he \"forgot\" somewhere in the middle\nof the game (as he claims in episode 14), what is the point in continuing\nfurther? Has he no regard for human life?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs Kayaba says (I doesn't remember when), \"There's no difference between IRL\nand SAO.\" If you die, it happens on both ends. I think it was to induce\npsychological effect.\n\nIn Volume 1 - Chapter 24 of the light novel, during the scene where Kirito and\nKayaba had a talk before they returned to reality:\n\n> “…What about those who died? Both of us are already dead, yet we continue to\n> exist here. Doesn’t that mean you can return the other four thousand dead to\n> the original world as well?” \n> \n> Kayaba’s expression didn’t change. He closed the window, put his hands into\n> his pockets, and then said: \n> \n> “Life can’t be recovered so easily. Their consciousness will never return.\n> The dead will disappear — this fact remains true in every world. I created\n> this place only because I wanted to talk with you two — one last time.”\n\nThe difference is \"a world free of laws and restrictions\". You can change or\nremove some restrictions. For example, in real life, you cannot fight\ncontinuously for 20 hours, nor can you jump more than 20 meters. You can\nchange some laws or some restrictions, but there are some basic things that\nyou cannot change. Or, at least, you need some time to gradually get used to\nit.\n\nAnother example are Asuna's words. She told Kirito about male and female\ngenitals. They weren't present in early version, but because of psychological\neffect, they were added in later version during Beta testing phase, but\nwithout any hair (because lack of effect, I think).\n\nYou can read this in Volume 1 - Chapter 16.5 (this special is in the web\nversion only):\n\n> There is a somewhat interesting story concerning all of this (I apologize\n> for digressing, but)... When SAO was under development, the Argas company\n> had an internal closed alpha test phase during which time they reasoned that\n> since players would have no use for genitals, it would not be necessary to\n> objectify it. \n> \n> However, in reality they found that most of the male testers would\n> experience a certain amount of severe anxiety. Even so, while there was no\n> problem when playing for several hours. When they conducted consecutive\n> tests over a 48 hour period, they found that most of the male testers who\n> attended this trial period were unable to stand not having their genitals\n> and gave up. So it was from the Beta testing phase that the genital parts\n> were implemented out of a sense of necessity. It seems that this was also\n> part of the reason why SAO players were not allowed to change their\n> characters' genders. \n> \n> However, even if you had your genital parts, the question that I had prior\n> to the official start of the game (meaning, before the incident) was whether\n> or not there would be anxiety over the lack of proper function. I myself had\n> agonized repeatedly on multiple occasions over the inability to release my\n> pent up energy, but now I saw that if the ethics code or whatever was\n> disabled, then functionality, probably even ejaculation was possible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, this question raises way to many personal opinions and speculations.\nIt's never explained why perma-death was enabled in Sword Art Online. We'll\nalso never find out since Kayaba Akihiko died.\n\nFirst, I'd like to note that the perma-death was neither a law nor\nrestriction, it was a rule, and thus Kayaba Akihiko did not go against any\nrules he set for SAO. Obviously, a game will have rules, so you'll have things\nlike: death, no flying, max health, etc. What Kayaba Akihiko was referring to\nwas a world without the laws and restrictions placed by the society in real\nlife. That's my speculation, but that's all it could truly point to.\nNaturally, there are no laws or restrictions regarding death in SAO or IRL,\nbut rather it's a fundamental rule.\n\nFrom [Kayaba Akihito](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Kayaba_Akihiko)'s\nentry on Sword Art Online Wikia:\n\n> Kayaba Akihiko had little to no empathy, with no regard for human life\n> (including his own)\n>\n> Akihiko seemed to be very sincere and thoughtful, as shown when he told\n> Kirito of his dream about creating a floating castle as the basis for\n> creating Sword Art Online.\n>\n> In spite of this, Akihiko had a level of honor and fairness. [...]\n\nIf you look at those three lines, we can also take something else from this.\nAt the end of Sword Art Online Asuna dies, right? Wrong. Kayaba Akihiko made\nthe promise to Kirito to prevent Asuna from committing suicide before the\nmatch was over (episode 13). He made this promise because he is both sincere\nand fair. Therefore, while Asuna did indeed die in the game, she didn't die in\nreal life because of the promise Kayaba Akihiko made with Kirito. This is also\nwhy, as promised at the beginning of the series, all 6147 players were\nreturned to the real world after Kirito completed SAO. Quoted from the anime:\n(Kayaba Akihiko) \"Moments ago, all 6147 remaining players were successfully\nlogged out.\"\n\nGetting back to the point, everything Kayaba Akihiko did was not contrary to\nthe goals he set and had in mind through out Sword Art Online. Everything fell\ninto place and he didn't violate any of his rules. He fulfilled his dream and\nsimply brought others into it, the idea was that Kayaba Akihiko wanted to\nreplace the real world with virtual reality for himself. This is shown in the\nanime episode 14 at 18:41, when Kayaba Akihiko said, \"I wanted to leave the\nEarth behind and go to that castle. For a long, long time that was my only\ndesire.\" Naturally, since he made the game available to everyone, the rules he\nbelieved in and set for himself would have to be followed everyone else as\nwell.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo a few years ago, I saw an anime where everyone had special glasses that\nbasically superimposed a virtual world onto the real world (so, erm, Google\nGlass but better). I don't remember it very well, but I think there was a very\nlarge round red object related—does anyone have any idea what anime this is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOdds are you're thinking of **Dennou Coil**.\n\nThe large round red thing is a Searchmaton / Satchii. These creepy little\nbuggers:\n\n\n\n> Dennō Coil (電脳コイル Dennō Koiru?, lit. Electric Brain Coil or Computer Coil),\n> Coil—A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television\n> series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality (AR)\n> technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in\n> the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging\n> city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use\n> AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city,\n> using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to\n> manipulate the digital landscape.\n\n[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is said that Senju shinobi received physical strength from the Six Path of\nSage. The first Hokage's wife was from Uzumaki clan. Are these the reasons why\nTsunade had monstrous strength and was able to use sealing techniques?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would say partly yes and mostly through training. She developed [Chakra\nEnhanced Strength](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra_Enhanced_Strength)\nwhich allows her to increase the strength of her attack tremendously. It's\nproven that through training even Sakura is able to show such strength in her\nattack.\n\n> It should be noted that unlike Sakura, Tsunade herself already possesses\n> incredible raw strength, capable of crushing stones in a single hand with\n> nothing but pure muscle power. This strength is later increased to monstrous\n> levels, when Tsunade uses this technique, allowing her to perform feats like\n> lifting and swinging Gamabunta's tantō, creating giant craters and fissures\n> in an area by simply striking it with either her heel or finger, destroying\n> Madara Uchiha Susanoo's ribcage and its sword, and sending opponents flying\n> with a flick of her finger with relative ease.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend_ , Kasumigaoka always calls\nTomoya \"Mr. Ethical\" (倫理{りんり}君{くん}).\n\nWhere did this come from? Is it explained at some point in the original source\nmaterial?\n\nFeel free to spoil it for me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere is an excerpt from the\n[Saekano](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saekano:_How_to_Raise_a_Boring_Girlfriend#Main_characters)\nwiki-page in the description for Utaha:\n\n> She used to call Tomoya Tomoya-kun (倫也君) but now she calls him Rinri-kun\n> (倫理君). She began to call him by the nickname Rinri-kun when he flatly\n> rejected her suggestion that he read the last volume of Koisuru Metronome\n> before it is published.\n\n\"Rinri-kun\" being \"Mr. Ethical.\"\n\nIn other words, Tomoya is called Mr. Ethical by Utaha due to his ethical\nbehavior, in this case, with how he decided to wait until the release of the\nlast book — just as every other fan/reader has to wait — in order to enjoy the\nnovel. It'd be unfair for him to get first dibs on reading it before everyone\nelse.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the DBZ episode [**Meal\nTime**](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Meal_Time), why didn't Dabura even\ntry to turn Majin Buu into stone? I'm not saying or implying it would have\nworked, but it seemed more likely to work than anything else he did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode _Meal Time_ , Dabura actually did try to turn Buu into stone by\nusing his spit. But when he did, Buu dodged the attack, then turned him into a\ncookie and ate him.\n\nIf Buu was hit by the stone spit from Dabura, he would be able to regenerate\nafter breaking like Piccolo did.\n\n> In desperation, Dabura tries to turn Buu to stone with his spit. Buu dodges\n> and turns him into a huge cookie with his Chocolate Beam, eating him\n> afterwards.\n\nThis is found on [the same page](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Meal_Time)\nthat you posted in the question.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for a manga about a girl who has the ability to see every person\nas two people; one normal and one that shows what the person is actually\nthinking. The second has a large ' **C** '(the kind you see with eye tests) on\nthem (around the stomach area) (I do not know how to explain this) She has a\npair of glasses to see normally and keep her power hidden. I remember her\ngoing to school and talking to a teacher as for the setting.\n\nI hope this is enough information\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm quite sure it is [**Shiryoku\nKensa**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=97903).\n\nSynopsis from mangaupdates:\n\n> Based on the 40mP million-view hit Vocaloid song Shiryoku Kensa, Miyashita\n> Megumi, also known as \"Gumi\", was one of the only survivors in a plane crash\n> thirteen years ago. **Since then, she has been able to see two copies of\n> every person and one of them always has a \"C\" on them.** Thirteen years\n> later, she now wears glasses, yet her left eye remains a puzzle. And then,\n> her friend goes \"missing\".\n\nHer physician told her to keep her glasses on to prevent her left eye (the C\neye) from seeing the true self of people, so that she could live a normal\nlife. And she had been keeping her glasses on since then until her friend\nstopped going to school one day, when she decided to use the power of her left\neye to investigate.\n\nBelow is a page from chapter 1 showing her C eye's power activated after she\nremoved her glasses. As shown in the page, she could see 2 copies of the same\nperson when they are lying, and the copy with the C is the person's true\nthought.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've just watched episode 20 of Hunter X Hunter, in which it is revealed that:\n\n> During the final phase of the Hunter Exam, Killua kills Bodoro as soon as\n> the fight between Bodoro and Leorio starts.\n\nWhy would Killua act in this way?\n\n> He knows that both interfering in other fights and killing other applicants\n> is against the rules.\n\nSo I don't understand why he did what he did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe did it _because_ it was against the rules. He became disqualified on\npurpose.\n\nKillua has been influenced by his family since the moment he was born, being\ntaught to believe that he could do nothing other than kill. If Illumi told him\nhe wasn't worthy of a friend and shouldn't be a hunter just yet, Killua would\npurposely fail the exam.\n\n> Illumi had basically told him he would end up wanting to kill Gon if he\n> stayed with him.\n>\n> In the movie, Phantom Rogue, Killua can't even move when faced with the\n> prospect of fighting even a doll of his brother. It just shows how much\n> influence Illumi has over Killua.\n\nIt's been shown multiple times that during the earlier years of hxh, Killua\nhad little to no hesitation about killing and, although it's said he's sick of\nkilling, I think he stopped killing later on more because Gon said so, rather\nthan he thought it was morally wrong. Therefore, exiting the final exam in\nsuch a dramatic way is not so shocking by his standards.\n\nKillua's got a huge amount of bloodlust underneath the exterior, as it becomes\napparent when he goes into 'assassination mode'. Killing would be a way of\nventing anger and frustration.\n\nI guess a part of Killua would want to cut off all chances of becoming a\nhunter as soon as possible because that is what his brother would have wanted.\nIf he continued to fight in the tournament, a person might randomly forfeit to\nlet him win. Unlikely, but still possible.\n\nAnd finally, a tinsy, winsy part of him might have wanted to help Leorio.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 8 of Great Teacher Onizuka, who is this \"Kenshiro\" that Onizuka is\nparodying?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOnizuka is making a reference to Kenshiro from \"[Fist of the North\nStar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star)\". In the English\ntranslation of the manga, this was added as a note.\n\nKenshiro's fiancée is called\n[Yuria](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fist_of_the_North_Star_characters#Yuria).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn One Piece's episode 406. Whats the name of the music that starts playing on\nthe 2:30 mark after the opening?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis song is called Master Usopp from Baron Omatsuri and The Secret Island\nOST.\n\nEpisode link:[Episode 406](http://www.crunchyroll.com/one-\npiece/episode-406-feudal-era-side-story-boss-luffy-appears-again-658643)\n\nMusic link:[Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_tqDMPQY-o)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShinji, Rei and other pilots wear these headsets:\n\n\n\nBut why don't Asuka and Mari wear those headsets?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey wear them in a different place, and both of them also \"accessorize\" them:\n\nAsuka wears red ones that double as hair clips:\n\n\n\nAnd Mari wears white ones as part of her hair band:\n\n\n\nBoth of them are seen pretty much wearing them all the time.\n\nAlso, the [Interface Headset wiki\npage](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Interface_Headset) says:\n\n> The headsets used by Asuka Langley Soryu, and by Asuka Shikinami Langley for\n> her Eva-03 test, are both more similar to hair clips in form than the\n> default model. Mari Makinami Illustrious also wears a unique model\n> incorporated into a hairband. For both Asuka and Mari, the headset lies\n> against different parts of the brain than the standard model, but whether\n> this has any functional implications isn't known.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this episode Pinocchio was in a village. In this village was a boy. That\nboy said to his friends and other boys that they should steal and destroy all\ntoys of their village that they can find.\n\n_There was one scene where this boy took a wood toy giraffe and broke its neck\nand stole it. The child/ girl who was the owner of the toy giraffe was looking\nwhile this boy doing that. After that she started to cry._\n\nIn the evening all boys gathered to one place and dropped all toys into a\nhole. Then they took torches and start circling (the torches) around the hole\nwith the toys and their bodies. In this scene came Pinocchio and told them to\nimmediately stop doing that. Pinocchio said that if they wouldn't stop, then\ngod would punish them. But all children continued with that.\n\nSuddenly the toys shoot lights/ laser and spread the light (from the hole)\neverywhere. All objects and animals (earth, trees, cats etc.) who got shot by\nthis laser came to life, and started moving and talking.\n\n**What episode was that happening?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's **Episode 33** of the [1972\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio:_The_Series).\n\n[This](http://youtu.be/-A0d8M3SfYs?t=7m1s) is the scene with the giraffe toy\nand [this](http://youtu.be/58ir_9oRdsk?t=45s) is the scene of the hole and the\ntorches.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, the girl was sitting on some boxes of wood as the boy with fire\npowers passed by. The boy noticed the girl and adored her singing, and he\napproached the girl. When the girl finished singing, she started talking to\nthe boy.\n\nHowever, suddenly, evil men in black suits came, and they had some powers.\nThey wanted to take the girl away, but since the boy was of a certain clan,\nwith his awesome fire powers, he ejected fire from his finger, frightened the\nmen, drove them away, and saved the girl.\n\nIt was aired around the same time when _Kekkaishi_ , _Slam Dunk_ and _Japanese\nClassic Horror_ was shown on Animax India in 2010.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf anyone is looking for the same anime, I just got the name of it from\nGoogle. It was [**Kaze no\nStigma**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaze_no_Stigma). However, the story\nremains incomplete as the author of the light novel series died in June, 2009.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOreki Houtarou is the main protagonist in Hyouka. At first, he is very lazy,\nthen after he meets Chitanda, he starts solving mysteries and becomes a little\nactive. He takes a course in humanities in second year. But I am curious what\nis his real purpose in life?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe full title of the PS3 game is _Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch_.\nGoogle Translate\n[fails](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AE%E5%9B%BD) when\nI try to use the kanji, and the closest I can get is by writing the whole\nphrase in hiragana, which Google [translates\nto](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E3%81%AB%20%E3%81%AE%20%E3%81%8F%E3%81%AB):\n\n> The country of the\n\nHowever, the title would become _The country of the Wrath of the White Witch_\n, which doesn't seem to make sense. Of course, this is dependent on a Google\nmachine translation, so it might not even be reliable.\n\nSo I am wondering, what does _Ni no Kuni_ mean given the context of the game?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the Ni no Kuni [article on\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni_no_Kuni), it literally means Second\nCountry or Country of Two.\n\nSo the final title is either:\n\n 1. The Country of Two: The Wrath of the White Witch\n 2. Second Country: The Wrath of the White Witch\n\nDespite the difference in wording, they generally mean the same thing, which\nin essence is a country with two sides to it, e.g. two faces, dimensions, etc.\nThis makes sense since the premise of the game is to travel between Oliver's\nworld – world 1 and the parallel world – world 2 – world of magic (which is\nmagically linked to Oliver's world) in order for Oliver to find a way to save\nhis mother.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Ending animation sequence of Jintai, the song _Yume no Naka no Watashi\nno Yume (My Dream Within a Dream)_ plays with the following lyrics in romaji:\n\n> Wasuretai tte kimochi \n> Sore mo uso ja nai kokoro\n\nOn [Anime\nLyrics](http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/jintai/yumenakawatashiyume.htm) it is\ntranslated so:\n\n> The feeling of wanting to forget \n> It, too, is an emotion that is not a lie\n\nBut in the subs I have, it is translated like this:\n\n> What is it? \n> There you sit on my lap, little squirrel \n> The chestnut is like your flag, you child of the forest, seeking courage\n>\n> When the sounds of March are all around, even the humans will know\n>\n> Day in, day out, I sow the seeds for the future \n> Eventually they bloom to flowers, and all feast on what it brought to fruit \n> My dream fulfills that of the others at the same time \n> Isn't it nice to make your wishes then?\n>\n> **I want to forget the little nuts \n> That's what I really feel like**\n>\n> What's wrong today? \n> You wave your chestnut like a flag, little squirrel \n> Soon you will run to the forest again, your refuge \n> What's wrong today? \n> Here you sit on my lap \n> Why don't you rest?\n\nThe animation sequence itself contains many objects that come directly from\nthe story. Most of them I recognized, but where do these _little nuts_ come\nfrom in the subtitle translation? Was it a mistranslation or some subtle\nreference to the events of the story? I wonder if the differences are because\nof some double-meaning words or some hidden context that one of the\ntranslators (or both) didn't get.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don´t know what genre this anime would fit best, but whatever. The anime I´m\nsearching for is about a guy who leaves his village with 2 friends, another\nguy and a girl. They get separated and he searches for them. After a while the\nguy ends up in a town without money and decides to sleep on the street.\n\n * A young lady drives by in a carriage and offers him to stay with her family in their mansion. The whole family seems pretty nice at first. \n * While staying with them the mansion gets attacked by a group of people trying to kill the family. \n * The guy protects them. during the fight the girl of the family runs to some kind of shack. Inside the shack are the 2 missing friends of the guy. \n * They´ve been tortured, it turns out the family captures and tortures people they think are worthless and the group attacking them are the good ones. \n * The guy confronts the girl why she did it and she said they were worthless and it was her right to kill them. \n * She also said that the female friend of the guy had more beautiful hair than her and that she couldn´t allow her to live, that she had to be punished. \n * They kill the evil girl and the guy joins the group in their quest to change the situation in the town.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSounds like [**Akame ga\nKill!**](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15919)\n\n\n\nSynopsis from ANN:\n\n> Tatsumi is a self-acknowledge country bumpkin who is nonetheless a well\n> trained fighter. He and two companions leave their remote village to head to\n> the Imperial City to find a way to relieve their friends and family from\n> ruinous taxation imposed by the authorities. Yet the Imperial City is filled\n> with unimaginable amounts of corruption and evil from supernatural sources.\n> Tatsumi is immediately swindled after reaching the City and nearly loses\n> everything soon after, but finds himself allied with an unlikely group of\n> assassins.\n\nYour description matches the plot summary from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akame_ga_Kill!#Plot) quite well\n(emphasis mine):\n\n> **Tatsumi is a fighter who, accompanied by his two childhood friends, sets\n> off to the Capital** in search of a way to make money to assist his poverty-\n> stricken village. **After being separated from his friends** , Tatsumi not\n> only fails to enlist in the army, but is swindled out of all his money. **He\n> is then taken in by a noble family who offer him help, but intend to torture\n> and kill him, just like they did with his friends and dozens of other\n> people.** Tatsumi is rescued by a group of assassins known as Night Raid,\n> and is invited to join their ranks.\n\nI haven't seen the series myself, but this seems to match most of your points,\nparticularly Episode 1 of the anime.\n\n> Tatsumi heads for the capital despite warnings about the area's dark nature\n> as he needs to raise money for his village. Shortly after arriving, Tatsumi\n> is robbed by a woman and has to sleep in the streets. However, **he is\n> invited to the manor of a young rich girl named Aria, who takes pity on him.\n> As he waits for his best friends, Sayo and Ieyasu, to arrive in the capital,\n> Tatsumi learns of an assassin group named Night Raid** , whose members are\n> wanted for numerous murders. **One night, the group appears and starts\n> killing Aria's guards and her parents**. Tatsumi faces off against Night\n> Raid member Akame, but their duel is interrupted by Leone, the same woman\n> who robbed him; she reveals to Tatsumi that **Aria and her parents has\n> tortured several people from the countryside, including Ieyasu and Sayo** ,\n> the latter already being dead. Tatsumi kills Aria just before Ieyasu dies\n> and Leone, impressed with Tatsumi's ability to kill mercilessly, invites him\n> to join Night Raid.\n\nSource: [Wikipedia - Akame ga Kill! Episode\nList](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Akame_ga_Kill!_episodes#Episode_list)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just finished the _Akagi_ anime. It seems safe to conclude that Akagi\nprobably survives the match with Wachizu, but since there are two more rounds\nthat aren't covered by the last episode of the anime, I'm wondering how they\ngo.\n\nAs thus: which chapter of the manga does the _Akagi_ anime end on? Is it safe\nto assume that up to that chapter, everything covered in the manga will have\nbeen more or less covered in the anime (given that in some anime adaptations,\nlike FMA, this isn't true)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor questions like these [**Manga\nUpdates**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=10132) is king.\n\n> **Anime Adaption:**\n>\n> **Starts** at Volume 1, Chapter 1\n>\n> **Ends** at Volume 13, Chapter 109\n>\n> **Skips** Volume 6 Chapter 51 _to_ Volume 7 Chapter 56\n\nThe series currently has _28 Volumes_ and is still _ongoing_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just remember reading it along time ago. I think it was something like, she\nwakes up one day and goes to school, where she realizes some people smell\nfunny. I think later some dude tells her she can smell when the people around\nher are sexually aroused. I know it sounds really weird for me to be searching\nfor this... It's not that I want to read it thatt much, but I just remembered\nreading it and it's bothering me since I can't seem to find it...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure it's [**Para\nParu**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=4542) :)\n\nIt is a shoujo manga about a girl who wakes up one day finding herself being\nable to smell certain scents from the people around her. She also hears a\nstrange voice inside her head. Later with the help of a friend, she finds out\nthat an alien got inside and is now living in her head, and it is the one\nresponsible for giving her the enhanced ability of smell. The certain scents\nare explained and analysed to be associated to sexual arousal and physical\nattraction, as well as dishonesty and nervousness, etc.\n\nThere are other people in the same school who receive similar abilities in\ntaste, touch and hearing. The manga is ongoing and touches on sensitive and\nmature matters such as rape and pregnancy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched an anime a while ago, but I can't seem to remember its title. Can\nsomeone help me?\n\n * The anime's main character is a black-haired, gloomy-looking girl\n\n * The anime is about the girl liking a popular boy at her school\n\n * Everyone, except for the popular boy and 2 other people, runs away when they see the girl\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer probably is Kimi ni Todoke\n\n\n\n> Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and\n> sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior. This is due to her\n> resemblance to the ghost girl from \"The Ring,\" which has led her peers to\n> give her the nickname Sadako. Longing to make friends and live a normal\n> life, she is naturally drawn to Kazehaya Shouta, the most popular guy in\n> class, whose \"100% refreshing\" personality earns him great admiration from\n> Sawako. So when Kazehaya starts talking to her, maybe there is hope for the\n> friendships Sawako has always longed for. Maybe... there is even a little\n> hope for some romance in her future.\n\nThe protagonist is Sawako \"Sadako\" Kuronuma\n\n\n\nand the good-looking guy is Shouta Kazehaya\n\n\n\n * [Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimi_ni_Todoke)\n * [MAL](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6045/Kimi_ni_Todoke/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Acnologia a human or a Dragon? In Fairy Tail, it is shown that he was a\nDragon Slayer who had transformed into a Dragon. But, who was he before\nbecoming a Dragon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe was definitely a human. Not sure if you're reading the manga or watching\njust the anime, but its pretty evident he was a human who was taught dragon\nslayer magic. They said as he killed more dragons he started transforming into\none. Dragneel and the other dragons prevented this from happening to the\ncurrent generation dragon slayers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs [Quikstryke's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/19238/1398) said,\nAcnologia was one of the first Dragon slayers. The more he fought with dragon\nmagic, the more he became dragon-like.\n\nIn a recent manga chapter, it is revealed that\n\n> Igneel and the other dragons were \"alive/dead\" inside the dragon slayers,\n> and as the dragon slayers matured, the dragons inside them prevented the\n> dragon magic from consuming them and turning them into dragons like\n> Acnologia's case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI tried Google searches for a list of parodies that appear in G.T.O without\nany luck. I'm also not even sure if this is a parody, other than the fact that\nit would be super random if it wasn't.\n\nWho is the Mohican character that Onizuka is parodying in the picture?\n_(Appearing in episode 17)_\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis type of hairstyle and dress usually references the unnamed punks that get\nkilled in Hokuto no Ken (1984).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs it possible for Lucy to meet Aquarius again, or did she die/get sacrificed?\n\nSo is there only one key for each of the 13 gates? Or are there multiple keys?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAquarius did not die, because when Lucy broke her Gold Key, she only became\nunable to leave the Spirit World and travel to Mage's World.\n\nFrom [Aquarius](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Aquarius)'s article on Fairy\nTail Wiki:\n\n> Aquarius adds that breaking the key won't kill her, but will merely **make\n> her unable to leave the Spirit World**.\n\nAnd yes, there is only one Gold Key to each Zodiac Spirit. You can see all of\nthem in [this part of the\nWiki](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Celestial_Spirit_Gate_Keys).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know what song plays at about [5:20 in episode\n5](http://www.crunchyroll.com/parasyte-the-maxim-/episode-5-the-\nstranger-662591)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat sound track is called Migi's Theme. It was kind of difficult to find the\nname as there don't seem to be too many hits on the Parasyte OSTs, but here is\na [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nigNVWoqHHU) link to it as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have finished this anime a time ago, but the last episode ended with a\ncliffhanger and I'm still wondering what is going to happen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Anime News Network, Kamisama Hajimemashita [gets second anime\nseason](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-08-01/kamisama-kiss-\nkamisama-hajimemashita-manga-gets-2nd-anime-season/.77194), and it is\ncurrently airing this season (Winter 2014/2015) in Japan.\n\nFor further confirmation, the [manga entry of Kamisama\nHajimemashita](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=10642)\nshows [Kamisama Hajimemashita\n(TV2)](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16255) being\nthe sequel of [Kamisama Kiss\n(TV)](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=14441)1 (which\nhappens to be the second result [of the\nsearch](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/search?q=Kamisama%20Hajimemashita)).\n\n1 _Kamisama Kiss_ is the official localized English title of _Kamisama\nHajimemashita_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime features several classical tracks by composers such as Rachmaninoff\nor Beethoven.\n\nWho are the performers behind the performance attributed to Kaori and Arima in\nthe anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a CD release (ESCL-4302) with all the non-original tracks featured in\nthe anime. You can find more info about it on\n[VGMDB](http://vgmdb.net/album/47707).\n\nAs you can see there, the violinist is Yuna Shinohara (篠原悠那) and the pianists\nare Tomoki Sakata (阪田知樹) and Eriko Kawachi (河地恵理子).\n\nVGMDB also provides scans of the booklet, here is the page showing this\ninformation (red rectangle): \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime it is said that if you try to remove the helmet it would destroy\nthe brain - so what if you pull it off quick enough that it doesn't have a\nchance to?\n\nCertainly, it's not impossible; and on that note, why did they not just use an\nEMP on the device to begin with, frying the circuits so there is no way for\nthe battery to power the microwave transmitter?\n\nIs there some law of physics I am missing here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can think of two reasons:\n\n 1. Plot. \n 2. They wouldn't want to risk someone's life for an experiment with EMP, who knows what kinds of backups does the NerveGear has, and EMP can be guarded against.\n\nAs for yanking, a computer would have a much faster reaction time than you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was mentioned that the machine intercepted their nervous system so they\ncan't walk around when telling their brains to walk in the VR world (Why\nthey're usually in bed when playing).\n\nI would think the removal process involved restoring those neural connections.\nYanking or disrupting this process probably resulted in permanent\nparalysis/neurological issues.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have to assume that some people at least **tried**.\n\nFor your initial examples, there simply isn't any canon information to help\nus. I am quite certain that there would be a huge political backlash which\nwould attract attention, and the families of the trapped players would also be\nseeking out help. However the entire story was told from the point of the\nplayers, and there was no announcement that anyone made it out alive\notherwise. That means details of various failed experiments simply added to\nthe near 4k dead by the end of the experiment.\n\nHowever I believe that it was entirely possible to release all of the players,\nbut then a very delusional man named\n[Sugou](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sugou_Nobuyuki) came along.\n\nThe biggest thing that I want to stress is that the brain-frying function of\nthe NerveGear was understood very little. While it was explained to everyone\nwithin SAO, we have no idea how much information was given on the outside.\n\nExcept we know that the company who developed SAO,\n[Argus](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Argus), went bankrupt due to the\nSAO incident. Their assets were acquired by [RECT Progress\nInc.](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/RECT_Progress_Inc.), who formed a\nFulldive division headed by Sugou to overlook the SAO servers and assets\nincluding the [Cardinal\nSystem](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Cardinal_System). Furthermore, we\ncan tell that they have the direct source code to the system based off the\nmodifications that they have been able to make. This includes upgrading the\nsystem to improve on things that it couldn't do before, and also modifying the\nLogout function to redirect 300 users to their own server.\n\nHere we're dealing with a team of people that has access to the full server\nsoftware, the hardware that it runs on, and the connection that goes out from\nit. On top of that, this team has full documentation on the NerveGear (they\ndid co-develop the NerveGear's successor), and they have shown to be able to\nmodify the existing SAO game. This means that this team, with time and\npatience, could have done any of the following:\n\n * Restore the logout button\n * Forcibly log everyone out\n * Modify the \"death\" script to no longer instruct the NerveGear to fry the brain\n * Disable the NerveGear remotely\n\nHowever this didn't happen. Instead, 300 unlucky people were transferred from\nthe hands of one madman to another.\n\nNow remember that this one small division of people were responsible for the\nlives of many thousands of people, and they had nefarious plans. It was in\ntheir interest to keep the players inside the game in order to avoid any\nattention to their true goals. They were so good about keeping secrets that\nthey were able to design an entire game world around the very place they did\nthe experiments in, and not one person in the company found out. Remember that\nthis was such a commercial success that Sugou was to inherit the company,\nhowever nobody else in the company figured out what was going on.\n\nWhat's even worse about this secrecy is that this treasure-trove of\ninformation is kept from the public. The \"experts\" in the field are the exact\nsame people who want to keep everybody in the game. Now if you wanted to free\nyour relative from a death game, would you put your trust in Joe Schmoe who\nhas a theory but no solid evidence? Or would you trust the kind team of\ndedicated individuals who are experts in this area and tell you that nothing\ncan be done?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched the anime in full. I understand that canon stops at ep 62. What\nare the other animated contents that cover the canon story **to the fullest**?\n\nReferring Wikipedia, there were two OVAs. Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal\nseems canon without controversy. Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection was declared non-\ncanon by the author, but I guess it was sourced from canon.\n\nSo my best guess is, I must watch Trust & Betrayal and then Reflection to get\nthe canon story. Is my guess correct or did I miss something?\n\n* * *\n\nWhat parts of the manga have been not-animated? Are there upcoming projects\nthat cover the canon story?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched SAO on Crunchyroll, where the subtitles for episode 2 have Kirito\nsaying:\n\n> I made it higher than anyone else during the beta test. The reason I knew\n> the bosses skills is because I fought monsters with katana skills on floors\n> far above us.\n\nAt the time, I just accepted this as \"Kirito is just that good,\" which was\nborn out by his skills and abilities later on in the series. After all,\n_someone_ had to be the best.\n\nHowever, [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/13233/2139) claims\nhe lied during that speech, and I've since checked the dubbed version, where\nhe says\n\n> During the beta, I made it to floors that were higher than any of the other\n> testers. That's a fact. I knew about the boss 'cause I fought tons of\n> monsters with way more sword skills on higher floors.\n\nThe implication of word choice and tone in the dub does sound like the kind of\nexaggerated bragging that gamers do when they're claiming preposterous things,\nbut the subs don't convey that to me at all.\n\nIs there any information showing whether he was _actually_ lying? Was he just\na good beta tester (possibly in the lead group), or was he really\nsignificantly above everyone else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe was a Beta Tester. Klein identified Kirito as one in the first episode\nbefore Kayaba trapped all the players. The [Sword Art Online\nWiki](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Klein#Aincrad_Arc) also confirms\nthis:\n\n> Early in the official version of the game, he noticed and identified Kirito\n> as a beta tester, and asked to be taught the basics of fighting.\n\nHowever, what Kirito was lying about was **how far he got** during the Beta\ntesting phase. In fact, he only got to the 10th floor during the Beta, which\nwas about as far any of the Beta Players got:\n\n> One of the lucky 1000 players accepted into the closed-beta, Kirito logged\n> hundreds of hours of playtime. He, along with the other top players, were\n> able to reach the 10th Floor before the beta had ended.\n\nSource: [Kirito: Sword Art Online Closed\nBeta](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Kirito#Sword_Art_Online_Closed_Beta)\n\nAlso, the article on [Beta\nTester](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Beta_Tester) says\n\n> The beta period lasted until the August 31, 2022 and the beta testers\n> managed to reach the 10th Floor by the end of the beta.\n\nIn both instances, it says that they _reached_ the 10th floor, not cleared it.\n\n* * *\n\nHowever, as cited in my question that you link to, during the scene, Kirito\nclaimed that (emphasis mine):\n\n> **Kirito:** **I** made it to floors **not even the other Beta players**\n> could reach.\n\nWhat he claimed contradicts with the information from the Wiki, so I think\nKirito is lying about his progress.\n\nAlso Kirito seemed to be out of character when he acted stuck up and looked\ndown at the other Beta Players as he compared himself to them and accepted the\nterm Beater. So while Kirito is one of the top Beta Players, I believe he was\nlying about his own progress during this scene1.\n\n1 This is based on watching the anime. I have not read the light novels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can think that's a lie, but not totally.\n\n> I made it higher than anyone else during the beta test. The reason I knew\n> the bosses skills is because I fought monsters with katana skills on floors\n> far above us.\n\nThere are two possible interpretations of his claim:\n\n 1. _Kirito made it to higher floors than anyone else._\n\nThis is incorrect, because you cannot go to higher floor without defeating the\nboss first. And, after you defeat it, everyone else can go to the next floor\nthrough the teleport door.\n\n 2. _Kirito have more experience than others._\n\nThis is probably correct, because from Light Novel Volume 1 - Chapter 2:\n\n> The two months of beta testing were like a dream. At school I thought\n> endlessly of my skill set, equipment, and items. I ran all the way home as\n> soon as school ended and dived till dawn. The beta test ended in the blink\n> of an eye. On the day my character was reset, I felt a sense of loss as if\n> half of my actual self had been cut away.\n\nBecause of this, you can assume that Kirito had spent a lot of time on the\ngame, maybe more than others. Maybe he compiled more floor map information\nthan other players... maybe, he knew more mobs, but he couldn't know mobs or\nbosses from upper floors. All information which Kirito knew was also available\nfor other beta players if they tried to view it (maybe, but unique quests were\nunlikely to be made public).\n\nThere's no info about boss defeat in beta, but there probably wasn't any boss\ndefeated by Kirito only (but that's my opinion).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that he lied in that scene because he wanted to get all the hate\ntowards him. He must've did that to make betas not receive so much hate. But,\nhe could have meant he leveled up wayyyy higher then other betas. Though I\nstill think he did that to make the betas receive less hate and not to brag.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Kirito did lie. Before Klein tried to log out, he said that he reached\ntill floor 8 in 2 months. About the term \"beater\" in the extra edition of SAO,\nthe guy said that he accepted his fate just to keep other beta testers from\nbeing hated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk, I have an idea. This was the beta, right? So wouldn't there be bugs? What\nif he wasn't lying about advancing past other beta testers? What if he found a\nglitch a way to pass floors with nothing stopping him?\n\nAlso what if he fought the bosses, but merely got them low and claimed he beat\nthem. But just before killing the boss he would leave, but not without reward.\nBecause that reward would be knowing how to fight and beat the bosses. The\nboss would live to continue keeping the gate closed for other testers. So\nperhaps he did go to other floors farther above. And since it's the beta, the\nbosses may be easier to fight. They may have the same abilities in the alpha\nbut their attack damage and maybe attack speed had increased. Or maybe more HP\nand less damage but maybe the room itself worked against you. Like hidden\ntraps for the boss to push or somehow get you into.\n\nSo, in conclusion, I believe that he _did_ make it way higher than other beta\ntesters but in a way that made it impossible for them to progress without\nfinding that glitch. Being able to advance levels just before killing the\nboss. Maybe even acquiring new items. I don't believe that you'd get a\nplethora of items at the start of the game. But seeing as he said previously\nthat he was imagining item builds means that he may have more items then just\nbeginner items.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe he made this statement to try and remove the hate towards other Beta\ntesters and direct it at himself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe he did actually get higher than the other beta testers. In the anime\nwhen Kirito claims that he made it to higher floors than any other beta tester\nit shows a map of Aincrad flying by in the background. As the map pans by you\ncan count the floor levels highlighted in red. If you count the floors it ends\nup at the 29th floor. This appears that if he was saying he went to higher\nfloors than any other beta tester he wound up on the 29th floor without\npassing it. Although this does not confirm if he really did end up on the 29th\nfloor or not, I think it can be assumed that he is claiming he went to the\n29th floor.\n\nThis also maybe just a cool background that the anime chose to show to\nrepresent the idea that he has made it to high levels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the fight between Adolf Reinhart and the cockroaches, why did the\ncockroaches use their kneeling friends to step on as they threw the rocks?\nDoes doing this increases the attack power? If yes, did humans do the same\nthing during the age where we fought one another using similar weapons?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs much as I would like to buy the CDs for some of my favourite soundtracks, I\ndon't have a CD drive on my laptop and also I would be ripping the music off\nthe cd anyway.\n\nAre there any legal sites where I can download soundtracks for shows I like,\nrather than purchasing the physical media?\n\nIn particular, I'm looking for the 'Your lie in April' OST, but I would like\nto know in general where I could go for this sort of thing\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAmazon Japan has the Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso soundtrack available for\ndownload: [\"Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso ORIGINAL SONG &\nSOUNDTRACK\"](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%9B%9B%E6%9C%88%E3%81%AF%E5%90%9B%E3%81%AE%E5%98%98-ORIGINAL-\nSONG-SOUNDTRACK-\nTV%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9/dp/B00PB88GH0/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1423671231&sr=1-2&keywords=%E5%9B%9B%E6%9C%88%E3%81%AF%E5%90%9B%E3%81%AE%E5%98%98).\nIt's an MP3 download (so not lossless, unfortunately). The whole OST is 3000\nJPY (~25 USD), or you can buy individual songs (but this quickly becomes more\nexpensive than just buying the album).\n\nThe OST does not appear to be available (losslessly) on any of the sites\nlinked in [mivilar's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19288/where-can-i-purchase-\nanime-soundtracks-for-download#comment24793_19288), but the Ongakuchou\n(consisting of the classical pieces from the show) is, at mora: [\"Shigatsu wa\nKimi no Uso - Boku to Kimi no\nOngakuchou\"](http://mora.jp/package/43000001/4988010065508/). I've never used\nmora, but it appears they have a FLAC version of the album available for 3200\nJPY, as well as [a 320kbps AAC\nversion](http://mora.jp/package/43000001/4988010065706/) available for 2100\nJPY.\n\nAmazon Japan has a setting somewhere for translating the UI (but not product\ndescriptions and so forth) into English, but I'm not seeing anything similar\non mora, so you may want to find a buddy who knows Japanese and/or bumble your\nway through Google Translate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 11 we learn that Hare's void is Bandage, a healing void. Throughout\nthe next couple of episodes she heals Funell, a bridge, and Shu. Why doesn't\nHare repair Ayase's legs so she can walk again?\n\nDid the writers just not think of this or is there another reason?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't find a non-subjective answer to this question. The\n[wiki](http://guiltycrown.wikia.com/wiki/Hare_Menjou#Void) says:\n\n> Hare's Void is called Lover's Bandages. Through her Void, she is able to\n> repair any object or heal any person. When used, the Void wraps itself\n> around the target and begins to glow and reverse any and all damages. The\n> process takes time depending on both the object or person being healed and\n> the extend of the damages.\n\nMy hypothesis is that the extent of the damage done to Ayase's legs is beyond\nHare's ability to heal/repair. Due to this, Ayase cannot be healed.\n\nOn top of this, technically Ayase's legs aren't \"damaged\". What I mean by this\nis that they're fully healed in the sense that they don't produce pain.\nHowever, when they were healing, she wasn't able to have surgery or proper\ntreatment (or it wasn't possible to treat) to allow her to walk. Thus her legs\nhealed improperly, and thus Hare cannot heal her as there isn't actually\nanything for Hare to heal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo we all know, that everyone in Death Note has a lifespan and one day,\nthey'll die when their lifespan runs out. But doesn't that mean, that the\nvictims who get killed by a serial killer are destined to being killed by him?\nOr are their deaths destined the moment a serial killer decides to kill them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's their regular lifespan which is when they are going to die for\nwhatever reason like serial killer, or bus accident (this reflects in their\nlifespan). BUT they can be killed before their time using the deathnote, which\nthen sends the the difference in lifespan to the shinigami to extend their\nlife.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe people can be killed before their lifespan ends using Death Note. The\nlifespan of a person is decided by fate and doesn't keep on changing, like\nwhen a serial killer decides to kill that person, his lifespan changes. No,\nthe lifespan is already decided, so if the lifespan is already short the\nserial killer succeeds; if it isn't, the serial killer fails. Also, if a\nShinigami writes someone's name which in turn increases the lifespan of\nothers, that Shinigami dies. Humans don't have this problem while using Death\nNote.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nI'm on the first season of _Durarara!!_ (Coalgirls Subs), and on the Message\nBoard Saika often posts random words like _Love, Peace, Cut, etc._ \\- All of\nwhich are subbed except for this repeated character.\n\nInitially I thought that Saika might be spamming with `DESU DESU` or something\nsimilar (I don't know why I thought that), but googling this didn't return any\nresults.\n\nSo my question is, _**What is this word, Saika is constantly spamming the\nboard with?**_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[母{はは} (haha)](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8D#Japanese) is the Kanji\nfor 'mother'.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAaroneiro and Szayel Appollo go to hell in an episode meant to promote The\nHell Verse movie. Logically, they should split into individual souls and the\nevil souls go to hell and the rest are reincarnated judged on what they did\nbefore death.\n\nIs this a canon depiction the fate of such beings? If so, how can it be\nexplained? Why is the conhollowfied form judged for its sins?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know Japanese script, but Light would be spelled \"Tsuki\" which means\n\"moon\". So which of \"Tsuki\" or \"Raito\" can kill him? Would \"Light\" in English\nwork?\n\nIt seems the death note is a stickler for spelling, as shown here: [What did\nLight write before killing Shibuimaru\nTakuo?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6185/what-did-light-write-\nbefore-killing-shibuimaru-takuo?rq=1)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRemember that the Death Note is _very_ specific about using the **original\nspelling** for a name.\n\n> So which of \"Tsuki\" or \"Raito\" can kill him?\n\nThe only one that matters, 月 or \"tsuki\". Early in the manga he makes a point\nabout the pronunciation for this very reason.\n\n> Would \"Light\" in English work?\n\n**no**. The original spelling is required.\n\nThe following will work:\n\n * 夜神月\n\nThe following will not work:\n\n * 夜神\n * 月\n * ヤガミライト\n * Yagami Raito\n * Yagami Light\n * Light\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeems a Death Note would need your name exactly as printed on your birth\ncertificate, so if I wanted to kill someone with one, for example \"Kaitelynn\nWoods\", it would not work if i wrote it as \"Kaitlyn Woods\" even if I had her\nface in mind and everything else was in order. So for Light you'd need the\nkanji symbols, and you'd also need to spell his first name as Tsuki as it\nshows on his birth certificate.\n\nAlso, trying multiple times is a no no, as if you misspell a name on accident\nmore than 3 times, the person you were trying to kill can no longer be killed\nwith that Death Note. Ofc it only works if it's accidental, you can't protect\nsomeone with this method, it's only a rule to keep you from just guessing till\nyou get it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile I was looking for a cute image to post in the chat room, I came across\nthis image\n\n\n\nI remember in _Season 2 Episode 8 - Chinatsu Unrivalled_ (I think), Toshinō\nKyōko gets everyone to help her with her doujin work by doing some shading.\nFrom what I remember, they place the darker sheet on top of the outlined\ndoujin pages.\n\nSo what exactly is this sheet? What is it used for? Is it something doujin\nartists use to supplement what a professional would use, or is it used by\nprofessional mangakas as well?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat's called [**screentone**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screentone). The\nidea is that it's borderline impossible to get a uniform gray that will be\nreproduced well by a printer if you shade the gray in by hand. Keep in mind\nthat \"gray\" on a standard printer is actually just \"small black dots with some\nwhite space\" - which is not what a human with a pencil or an ink brush will\nproduce.\n\nScreentones, in their most basic form, are preprinted sheets of various shades\nof gray that can be cut and pasted onto a black-and-white drawing to impart\nsome \"color\". As you can see, they are printer-friendly, since they consist of\nblack dots on a white backdrop. Also, aside from the fact that they print\nbetter, it's just easier to cut-and-paste screentones than to draw stuff in by\nhand.\n\n[](http://webshop.sekaido.co.jp/product/details.php?pid=20054&cat=1102010101)\n\nMore elaborate screentones exist for other kinds of non-uniform textures, such\nas:\n\n * plaid (screentones are why the \"[Unmoving Plaid](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnmovingPlaid)\" thing happens) \n[](http://webshop.sekaido.co.jp/product/details.php?pid=20746&cat=11020203)\n\n * gradients \n[](http://webshop.sekaido.co.jp/product/details.php?pid=35130&cat=1102010303)\n\n * floral patterns \n[](http://webshop.sekaido.co.jp/product/details.php?pid=21317&cat=11020507)\n\n * kablooies (this is a technical term) \n[](http://webshop.sekaido.co.jp/product/details.php?pid=20996&cat=11020306)\n\nI would assume that professional manga artists and amateurs both use\nscreentones for any serious work they do, though I imagine pros probably have\naccess to (and make use of) a wider variety of screentones, being\nprofessionals and all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Natsume's Book of Friends_ , some of the human-looking Youkai wear masks,\nor at least obscure their sight. For example:\n\n * Tsubame\n\n\n\n * Hotaru\n\n\n\n * Hiiragi\n\n\n\n * Tsuyukami\n\n\n\n * Sasago\n\n\n\nI am wondering if there is a reason for this as none of these Youkai seemed to\nbe affected by their obscured vision. For Tsubame and Hotaru, they are both\nshown to be able to show their full face. And for Kiiragi, after she was\nattacked, we can see one of her eyes though her broken mask and there seemed\nto be nothing wrong with it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom this [article on Japanese masks and their\nmeanings](http://www.buzzle.com/articles/japanese-masks-and-meanings.html):\n\n> In ancient times, masks were used to portray creatures and characters during\n> plays and rituals.\n\nIt seems that that carried over into manga and anime to represent youkai when\nin human form, much like the common depiction of a ghost wearing a triangle-\nshaped bandage on the head.\n\nNoh plays in particular seem to be a common style source for masks worn by\nhuman-form youkai characters. Many of the fox, cat and other masks shown at\nfestivals derive from Noh mask style and have been used to represent their\nrespective creatures.\n\nI've seen manga and anime that uses masks depicted in the more traditional\nstyle as portrayed in that article (particularly the Hannya and Oni masks),\nmasks that are styled after Noh masks, and simple cloth coverings over the\nface.\n\nI expect that in Natsume's Book of Friends, it's simply a stylistic choice by\nYuki Midorikaw more than anything else to depict youkai in that manner.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched the [One Piece\nmovie](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece_Film:_Z) about Zephyr ( Z )\nsensei. In it they explain that someone killed his family and cut his arm off,\nlater becoming a warlord. I searched online, but could not find another movie\nor episode where they reveal which warlord it was? Although I suspect\nDoflamingo or Mihawk because only they have cutting related skills.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou haven't missed it, it's just not been revealed yet. We know it's not\nDoflamingo or Mihawk, because that person became a Warlord during the\nTimeskip, so it's not Hancock or Kuma either.\n\nThe three possibilities are Law, Buggy, and the unrevealed third new Warlord.\nIt's almost certainly not Buggy, as he wouldn't really be able to challenge\nsomeone like Z, so it's either Law or the new Warlord, but Law's obsessed with\ngetting back at Doflamingo and almost everything he does is to that end,\nleaving the most likely man as the mysterious, yet unrevealed, seventh\nWarlord.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth the VN and the anime stress that Michiru is a fake blonde.\n\nMakina and Yumiko have natural hair colors...\n\nBut what about Amane and Sachi? I don't think there are too many natural\nredheads in the native japanese population of the Kyoto region (where Amane's\nparents are from), but I am almost sure no human is born with pink hair.\n\nIs this just a case of \"[anime\nhair](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeHair)\", and we are\nsupposed to overlook these two hair colors (MST3k style), or is there\nsomething else abou these characters?\n\nWhat about hair color as a recurring element(as @senshin pointed) in other\nshows?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn general blonde hair is thought to be foreign in Japan, Most foreign\ncharacters/exchange students usually have stereotypically bright blue eyes and\nblonde hair.\n\nYoung people who dye their hair blonde are generally attempts to be\n'cool'/rebelious, and are often delinquents. For this reason it is somewhat\nmeaningful that a character has dyed their hair blonde, as it is a thing that\nhappens occasionally in Japan, whereas other colours are not so\ndaring/meaningful.\n\nSee [Why are many anime characters\nblond?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4962/why-are-many-anime-\ncharacters-blond/18580#18580)\n\nAs for the more 'obscure' shades of hair, pink and other hair colours were\noriginally introduced into anime as an easy way to distinguish characters\nwithout adding much more detail.\n\nI haven't watched le fruit de la grisaia, but I imagine that it's probably a\nresult of these two occurrences. I have seen Clannad however , and I can\nconfirm Sunohara's hair is dyed blonde as an attempt to be cool (however\nmisguided that attempt may be :P)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is really several questions. I do not read the manga so I'm certain this\nis likely covered there.\n\nFirst, is Zangetsu fully restored after Ichigo's powers are restored? Does he\nlook different? Both the Shikai and the Bankai appear different in the anime.\nDid this transformation result in any physical changes to Zangetsu's\nappearance? Of course, I mean within Ichigo's inner realm.\n\nIn the same vein, did Ichigo retain or regain any of his Hollow powers, or\nwere they completely absorbed when he merged with his inner Hollow as revealed\nin episode 309?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you're talking about before the Fullbring arc, Ichigo still has Zangetsu up\nuntil the point where he uses Mugetsu to incapacitate Aizen enough for Urahara\nto seal him. It's at that point that he loses his powers.\n\n** **MANGA SPOILERS AHEAD****\n\nIf you're talking about the Fullbring arc, that's a completely and wildly\ndifferent side of the story that has no bearing on the past or the future of\nthe general story. Manga filler.\n\nIf you're talking about after the Fullbring arc, then no. Squad Zero restore's\nIchigo's powers to a completely different Zanpakutou. It's explained that\nZangetsu is a \"fake\" Zanpakutou that resembles Yhwach that stems from Ichigo's\nties to the Quincy bloodline.\n\nHighly suggest you catch up on the manga. You're not that far behind, and it's\ncoming to an end now.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell did you know that his fullbring fused with his soulreaper powers I mean\nit's been stated multiple times in the fullbring arc and that was The main\npurpose for him achieving fullbring so that it can fuse with his soul reaper\npowers. I know ginjo said that he took all of ichigo fullbring and soul reaper\npower well that is not true because his was soul reaper was restored by rukia\nPLUS 30% of his fullbring fused with soul reaper powers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a manga I remember I read and liked, but I can't remember the name! It\nis about a girl who takes over a house as some kind of landlord and the boy\nstarts to like her right away. There is also a girl who dresses like a\nprostitute in the house. They all throw a party in this boy's room to\ncelebrate the girl who is the landlord, but he gets angry because he is\nstudying. There is also an ecchi scene where this landlord is repairing the\nbathroom and he comes in and yeah, so on... does anyone know the name of this\nmanga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nSounds like [Maison Ikkoku](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1453/Maison_Ikkoku):\n\n> The story takes place in Maison Ikkoku, a worn and aging boarding house\n> where Godai Yuusaku, a 20 year old college applicant, lives. Though honest\n> and good-natured, he is weak willed and often taken advantage of by the\n> offbeat and mischievous tenants who live with him. As he is about to move\n> out, he is stopped at the door by the young and beautiful Otonashi Kyouko,\n> who announces she will be taking over as landlord. Godai immediately falls\n> in love with her and decides to stay.\n\nI personally never read the manga, but in the anime the residents always throw\nparties in Godai's room, especially when he's trying to study.\n\nMore info:\n\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Ikkoku)\n * [ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=376)\n * [Wikia](http://maisonikkoku.wikia.com/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is a martial art themed manga about a boy fighting in a tournament. One of\nthe character fought using only legs.\n\nIf I recall correctly, the main character turned into girl if he got splash\nwith water, though I'm not sure how he turned back into a boy.\n\nThere is a vivid image of a panda back in my head but really not sure if it is\nrelated.\n\nI believe this manga came out during Dragon Ball era.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's [**Ranma 1/2**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranma_%C2%BD)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pCFfA.jpg)\n\n> On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai\n> Province of China, Ranma Saotome and his father Genma fall into the cursed\n> springs at Jusenkyo (呪泉郷). When someone falls into a cursed spring, they\n> take the physical form of whatever drowned there hundreds or thousands of\n> years ago whenever they come into contact with cold water. The curse will\n> revert when exposed to hot water until their next cold water exposure. Genma\n> falls into the spring of a drowned panda while Ranma falls into the spring\n> of a drowned girl.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 34, Kasuga was asked to read aloud a page from a book in class. The\ntranslation I'm reading gives the lines as:\n\n> The sun climbed above the abyss and Urehi walked crouched under the bridge.\n> Beyond the railroad fence, that endlessly extended into the vast horizon...\n\nLater, on the same page:\n\n> Believing nothing. Getting angry over one's own belief. Never knowing how to\n> reject the lust. Accusing one's own lust...\n\n(This might not be a very good translation of the original Japanese, since\nthere are other quality issues with the translation I'm reading. I'm also not\nsure if the two parts go together.)\n\nIn case I'm not parsing the text correctly, here's an image of the page:\n\n\n\nIs this from an actual book or poem, and if so, what is this text? I've tried\nsearching the content in the first two bubbles, but Google hasn't given me\nanything useful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAmong the descendants of the Sage of Six Paths only the Uchiha clan seems to\nbe alive. Where is the Senju clan (except Tsunade)? Were they eradicated\nduring the wars? Or are they still alive?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has not been revealed. The list of Senju clan members shown in the series\nare very few and almost all of them are dead (with the exception of Tsunade):\n\nHere's the list of Senju clan members who are known:\n\n * Nawaki\n * Butsuma Senju\n * Hashirama Senju\n * Itama Senju\n * Kawarama Senju\n * Tobirama Senju\n * Tōka Senju\n * Tsunade\n\nFrom [Senju clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Senju) article:\n\n> It is **unknown** if the Senju clan still exists as an independent clan\n> since it neither became one of the four noble clans of Konohagakure nor is\n> there are any **known** people with the last name \"Senju\" — with the Fifth\n> Hokage, Tsunade, being the only possible exception. Their legacy however,\n> lives on strongly in the hearts of the people of Konoha.\n\nFrom [Clan Guide](http://www.leafninja.com/clans.php) article:\n\n> Senju (Thousand Arms) of the Forest were one of the founding clans of\n> Konoha. Under Senju Hashirama, they allied with other clans including the\n> Uchiha, to found the Fire Country's ninja village. It is **unknown** if\n> Senju retains a clan structure in the current Konoha. Tsunade is the only\n> known living descendant of founding clan of Konoha.\n\nApart from the Senju and Uchiha, the Uzumaki clan also has roots leading to\nthe Sage Of Six Paths.\n\nFrom [Uzumaki clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki) article:\n\n> Descendents from Asura Ōtsutsuki, being originated from the Senju clan,\n\nTherefore, the **Uzumaki** clan is _also_ one of the surviving descendents of\nthe Sage of Six Paths, along with the Uchiha clan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember looking through a manga years ago - the book was in Japanese, but I\nreally loved the artwork. I would like to find this book again and see if\nthere is an English version available. The problem is that I haven't been able\nto find it again and I don't know what it is called.\n\nThe book seemed to be about a girl on a bit of a destruction spree with\ntelekinetic powers. Most of the book seems to be set around some flats (tower\nblock) and a playground, which she finally destroys with her powers. I\nremember there was a man talking to her near the end, possibly trying to\ncapture her. I may be wrong about this, but there may also have been some old\npeople who lived there - I remember an old woman who may have been some\nrelation to the girl.\n\nThe original book that I saw had a light blue cover with a picture of the girl\non the front with loads of debris behind her. I think it was 80's or early\n90's when I first saw the book.\n\nAny help would be much appreciated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYour description reminds me of a manga called\n[Domu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domu:_A_Child%27s_Dream), which featured a\ntelekinetic girl with other powers as the protagonist.\n\nMost of it took place in an apartment complex, but there were some scenes at a\nplayground just outside the complex\n\n\n\nI believe it was written by the same guy who wrote\n[Akira](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28manga%29)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the other timeline where Shinobu destroys the world, Araragi was killed by\nTsubasa. Why didn't she help him in that timeline? In both timelines, he\ndidn't find her so what was the difference?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This answer to another\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/21830/7579) presents a case that\nShinobu slipped into Koyomi's shadow about five minutes into Tsubasa Cat Part\n4, when Koyomi went to look for her at the Mister Donuts where Mayoi saw her.\n\nIf we accept that, everything else falls into place. In the alternate\ntimeline, with no Mayoi, Koyomi has no idea that Shinobu was at that Mister\nDonuts. He's panicked by her sudden disappearance and overburdened by the\nreturn of Black Hanekawa, so he forgets her love of donuts and never even\nthinks to check the donut shop. Then, as in the main timeline, Black Hanekawa\nfinds him and offers to help look for Shinobu. Black Hanekawa attacks him when\nhe refuses Tsubasa's love, but unlike the main timeline, Shinobu is not in his\nshadow, and he is killed. Shinobu later finds out and goes on a rampage,\nturning everyone into zombies.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the reasons Kousei uses to rationalize never making a move on Kaori\n(and the real reason being his indecisiveness, in my opition) is that she is\nWatari's girl/romantic interest.\n\nWatari and Kaori are never shown as a couple, or even having anything between\nthem beyond friendship, when they are together onscreen. Kaori doesn't seem to\neven give Watari the time of the day.\n\nIn episode 17, he tells Kousei \"For the woman I love, I would drink even muddy\nwater\", while trying to usher him into visiting Kaori. His attempt at pushing\nKousei into going there seems a perfectly fine wingman behavior, so I am quite\nconfused.\n\nSo, there are a couple unknowns here:\n\nIn the fist episode, it is clearly stated that Watari has an interest in Kaori\n(and it is what starts the whole \"Friend A\" Kousei's self-demeaning thought\ntrain). Did they move forward?\n\nIs Watari really wingmanning Kousei when he tells him to go visit her?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [**Eight Tails**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gy%C5%ABki) article:\n\n> The lower left part of its horns was **permanently sliced off** in a battle\n> with A, and the right horns were **destroyed** by its own point-blank Tailed\n> Beast Ball when fighting the Ten-Tails.\n>\n> Instead of hind-legs, its lower half consists of its eight tails, which\n> resemble the cephalopod arms of an octopus. **These tails will grow back in\n> the event they are sliced off.**\n\nIf the tails are able to **grow back** , then why can't the horns too? Since\nGyūki is made of chakra, how was it possible to _permanently slice off_ a part\nof its horns?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOrochimaru had cultivated the cells of the Eight-Tails' horn, which grew into\nthe piece that was cut off by Killer A. That horn had some of the Eight-Tails\nchakra. The Eight-Tails cannot grow the horn because it is made of chakra and\nthe chakra comprising the horn was in a cultivated horn of the Eight-Tails. It\ncan't just grow it back and create chakra out of nowhere. That violates the\nLaw of Conservation of Energy. It's just common sense. You can't get something\nout of nothing. The Eight-Tails' tails regrow because the original tails\ndecayed when cut off from the main body and released the chakra which\nreaccumulated in the main body so the tails could grow back. The horn did not\ngrow back because the chakra released from the horn which was cut off from the\nmain body and later decayed had reaccumulated in the horn cultured by\nOrochimaru. My source is Naruto Shippuden Season 14 Episode 318 \"A Hole in the\nHeart: The Other Jinchuriki\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I've always noticed this for years watching anime, I always look at anime\ncharacters and they seem to have to kind of milky/blurry texture on their\nskin/clothes. It's not to noticeable to some people, but hopefully you can see\nwhat I mean with these pictures.\n\n**(Click the pictures and zoom in for a better idea of what I mean.)**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hI3BT.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1GCAn.jpg)\n\nI copy and pasted the pics in Photoshop and used the eye drop tool on\ndifferent areas of the skin and clothes. The color codes jump around\neverywhere so they can't be solid.\n\nCould it be that these frames were scanned in at a certain DPI? Maybe\nsomething as a result of an editing software like After Effects? Or maybe it's\nthe texture of the paper?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis happens if you encode a video with a lossy codec. In each frame the solid\ncolors are actually drawn solid. But at the moment where they get converted\ninto a video, a lossy compression is used. Lossy data compression discards\nsome data from each frame so it becomes small (within the meaning of computer\nmemory) enough to be stored on for example a DVD or so it is possible to\nstream them over the internet.\n\n> Compression artifacts occur in many common media such as DVDs, common\n> computer file formats such as JPEG, MP3, or MPEG files, and some\n> alternatives to the compact disc, such as Sony's MiniDisc format.\n> Uncompressed media (such as on Laserdiscs, Audio CDs, and WAV files) or\n> losslessly compressed media (such as FLAC or PNG) do not suffer from\n> compression artifacts.\n\nIf you look close to the image you can see some kind of a square pattern (two\nare highlighted with circles), also called artifacts, that appears if you use\nlossy compression.\n\n\n\nA other effect that occurs is that the color is changing. Here is a example\nwhere the left image is a lossless png file and the right image a very high\ncompressed jpg image:\n\n\n\nThe image to the left needs 168 KByte on the disc while the right only needs 2\nKByte. If you want to know the reason why these artifacts are appearing, read\nthe articles I provide below.\n\nInformation and image from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_artifact) and more\ninformation from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo as you already know this happens due to loss of image data due to\ncompression. This effect gets more noticeable, the lower target quality/size\nis for the video.\n\nTo get better screenshots, in case you don't need a particular frame of a\nscene, you should always go for the keyframes. In lossy video compression\nalgos, keyframes are inserted now and then in the video stream and they\ncontain an initial representation of a new scene, from which the fragments\nstart moving around, so that any static fragments may not take up valuable\ndata bits in the stream. After these fragments start moving, the image gets\nblurry, you start seeing artifacts, etc. Some players and most video editing\napps show you when you've paused at a keyframe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs opposed to being worn as a pendant or something?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn page 3 of chapter 9, Sakamoto is walking while holding two rods in his\nhands. What is he trying to accomplish doing that?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSakamoto is holding the L-shaped [dowsing\nrods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing), which are used to\n\n> locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and\n> many other objects and materials.\n\n\n\nThe rods enable Sakamoto to:\n\n * _physically_ locate the trap set up by Acchan and his gang\n * _spiritually_ locate \"points which require adjustment\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto, by the end of Shippuden (ignoring the epilogue), neither Naruto nor\nSasuke had ever passed the chunin exams. Given that the chunin exams seem to\nbe held sporadically (two years between the ones in Naruto Part 1 and the ones\nbeing shown in the anime currently), it seems possible that other genin would\nend up in this situation. Is it possible for those genin to go directly to\nbeing jonin, or do they have to wait for possibly dozens of years (depending\non how sporadically the chunin exams are held) to become a chunin first?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, it's [not exactly known how a Chunin becomes\nJonin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14990/how-does-one-become-a-\njounin).\n\nFrom [Jonin](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%8Dnin) article on Naruto wiki:\n\n> The villagers may send their **recommendations** for a jōnin appointment.\n> The Kage reads said recommendations and may consider **appointing an\n> individual a jōnin if his or her qualities are recognised as adequate by\n> enough people and himself**.\n\nand\n\n> However, there was mention of a Jōnin Exam in the anime's Kurama Clan Arc.\n\nBut we don't know what the requirements for this exam are.\n\nIt also seems that the article/series doesn't mention anything about the\ngeneral requirements for becoming a Jonin.\n\nFrom the Jonin article, it is safe to assume that becoming a Jonin is matter\nof experience, reputation and most importantly, skill.\n\nSo, is it possible for a Genin to become Jonin? Yes. Provided:\n\n * They are highly talented.\n * They are respected and well-known in his/her village.\n * They have high level of experience.\n * They have unique skill set.\n\nBut whether to become a Jonin also depends on personal beliefs of the person.\nAs we can see from the [Genin](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Genin) article:\n\n> Kosuke Maruboshi, who is called the Eternal Genin (万年下忍, Mannen Genin) has\n> the skills of a **jōnin-level** shinobi, but is officially a genin — a rank\n> he had consciously decided to remain at, due to personal reasons. He shares\n> the epithet with Might Duy, who in his twenty years as a genin mastered the\n> Eight Gates.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the **Road to Ninja** movie, Naruto tried to get a recommendation from\nIruka for promotion to Jōnin, but was refused. Iruka said that Naruto had to\nbecome a Chūnin before he could become a Jōnin.\n\n> Iruka: so, what did you want to talk about?\n>\n> Naruto: Um, Iruka-sensei, uh, listen, you think you can submit a Jonin\n> application for me?\n>\n> Iruka: What?\n>\n> Naruto: It's just that all of my other classmates are going to have their\n> parents fill out applications for them, and, well, I, uh...\n>\n> Iruka: Nope, sorry. I won't.\n>\n> Naruto: But why not?\n>\n> Iruka: **Because that step is supposed to come after you become a chunin.**\n> Sure you saved us from Pain, and everyone calls you the \"Hero of the Hidden\n> Leaf\", but **I can't give you special treatment.** I mean, even your Dad\n> worked his way up through the ranks - from Genin, to Chunin, to Jonin, to\n> become Hokage. Then he went on to became a Hero.\n>\n> Naruto: hmm, to become just a face carved into a rock.\n\n**Update** : In the Naruto Shippuden anime, **Episode 413 - Hopes Entrusted to\nthe Future** shows that it is possible for a Genin to be promoted to Jōnin\nunder special circumstances.\n\nLee, Tenten, and Negi did not complete the original requirements of the second\nChūnin Exam. They returned with 2 \"Heaven\" scrolls instead of \"Heaven\" and\n\"Earth\" scrolls:\n\n> Lee: [places two heaven scrolls on the table] Please accept these.\n>\n> Proctor: Two \"Heaven\" scrolls are not acceptable!\n>\n> Lee: Oh, but that's--! [slaps table]\n>\n> Proctor: No, no, no!\n>\n> Lee: I can't reveal any details, but there were extraordinary circumstances\n> that prevented us from collecting scrolls! Please ask Lord Kazekage!\n>\n> Proctor: It doesn't matter what circumstances there were. No means no!\n\nGaara later rescinded that requirement when he cancelled the Third exam after\nhe and Fū were attacked in an attempt to steal their tailed beasts:\n\n> Temari: Cancel the Third exam?\n>\n> Gaara: I'm sorry. I can't go into details, but this is a domestic matter\n> within the Sand.\n>\n> Shikamaru: Then how do we determine who passed the Chunin Exams?\n>\n> Gaara: We've prepared detailed reports about each team's performance in the\n> Second Exam. **I'd like the respective villages to use them to decide\n> whether their participants should be promoted to chunin.**\n>\n> [later, when addressing the exam participants...]\n>\n> Gaara: Therefore, I deem the Third Exam unnecessary... Furthermore, I am\n> rescinding part of the requirements for the Second Exam... For each of you\n> standing here right now, a detailed report of your performance will be sent\n> to your respective villages. **Your Kage will make the final decision on\n> your promotion.**\n\nBased on that report, Lady Tsunade \"double-promotes\" Negi to Jōnin:\n\n> Tsunade: I've gone over your Second Exam reports. And... Hinata, Shino,\n> Kiba, Choji, Ino, and Sakura... You six passed with flying colors and are\n> promoted to chunin!\n>\n> [cheers]\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Tsunade: [looking at Tenten, Negi, and Lee] Finally, although they did not\n> collect two scrolls, they performed admirably... and are more than qualified\n> for promotion. Lee and Tenten, you are now chunin.\n>\n> Lee: Lady Tsunade! Team Guy is one for all, all for one! How can Neji not be\n> included...?!\n>\n> Tsunade: Just let me finish! **Neji Hyuga is given a special double\n> promotion to jonin!** The Kazekage himself noted, \"In particular, Neji's\n> performance was most impressive and due consideration has been given in this\n> report.\" He's already proven himself to be more than capable as a chunin.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, it is quite possible, but very unlikely. In the anime, during the arc of\nthe second Naruto Shippuden Chunin Exams, it was revealed that Neji was\ndirectly granted the Jonin rank from Genin. However, this came under\nextraordinary circumstances, in which he led Tenten, Lee, Matsuri of\nSunagakure, and two Genin of Takigakure to fight Hōichi of Sunagakure, who had\ncaptured Gaara and Fū, the Jinchūriki of the Seven-Tails.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the fourth great ninja war, Kakashi gives Naruto a giant stack of books\nto study and say that when he finishes those book then he can become a Jonin.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fb3MR.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nyes, this was the case with shikamaru, who was promoted immediately to jonin\nafter his fight against temari, even though he forfeited the fight because he\nran out of chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes.\n\nRank in the shinobi world is traditionally appointed by superiors based on\nskill, maturity and leadership ability. Prior to Tobirama's creation of the\nninja academy, novices were given to a an experienced shinobi to train and\ns/he decided when they were ready to start taking missions (i.e. equivalent to\ngenin) and all further rank was earned in the field.\n\nField promotion to chūnin, tokubetsu jōnin and even jōnin was still common\nduring the third shinobi war.\n\nIn peacetime, field promotions became harder to attain, as there were fewer\nopportunities for shinobi to prove themselves in combat. The villages\ntherefore created their own evaluations/exams for genin who had ben in the\nfield for a while to assess whether they were ready for promotion.\n\nSome time after the third great shinobi war, the joint chūnin exams were\ninstituted to promote inter-village cooperation as well as to provide a\nspectacle to entertain the lords, attract customers and showcase the skills of\nthe young ninja.\n\nBy the opening of the Naruto manga, most genin only attain chūnin rank through\nthe semi-annual joint chūnin exams. Field promotion to chūnin is rare, though\ntheoretically possible.\n\nIn contrast, promotion to tokubetsu jōnin and jōnin was still by appointment\nrather than examination (although the Kurama filler arc mentions a jōnin exam,\nthis is not reflected in the manga canon) and can theoretically be given to\nany shinobi, even genin.\n\nFrom what we see in the manga, promotion from genin straight to jōnin rarely\nhappens in reality, though.\n\nIt isn't completely impossible, however, as there is mention of independent\nninja and small clans joining a village and their ninja being assigned various\nranks based on their skills and/or reputations.\n\nIn theory, the whole 4th shinobi war should have lead to many field\npromotions, but this didn't seem to happen, looking at the vrious flashbacks\nand stuff in Boruto, so yeah ...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[San-Juan Wolf](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sanjuan_Wolf) is a giant who\nwas a prisoner in Impel Down, until Blackbeard freed him.\n\n\n\nBut how does a man so huge, who is almost big as the Marine Headquarters, get\nput in the Level 6 of Impel Down? Also, when Blackbeard came, how does he get\nout?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [Teiko basketball\nclub](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Teik%C5%8D_Junior_High) in _Kuroko\nno Basket_ is described as an incredibly strong team with over 100 members\nthat won the championship three times in a row.\n\nHowever, only 6 in the main roster and 2 of their senpai(s) are actually shown\nand mentioned in the whole anime. The other 92+ players were never mentioned\nand are literally useless. They also affected the basketball in middle school,\nwhere they themselves got more and more bored and their enemies gave up before\neven playing.\n\nSo I'm wondering why would 92+ players even join the basketball club when they\nobviously have no chance to play in a real match?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe second/third string in Teiko play matches against weaker schools. In one\nof the OVAs (Tip Off) Kise (when he first joined) and Kuroko help the second\nstring in an exibition match.\n\nAlso, first years and even second years would not usually make first string\nright away in a bigger school, but they still need training so that they can\npossibly join later.\n\nThey could just have joined to play/practise basketball. Remember that it's a\n**club** not just a team. I doubt that anyone would even attempt to join if\nthey had to make first string. It's pretty clear playing in matches is a\nprivilge for most people, not an expected outcome.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf it's anything like when I was in school (which isn't too long ago):\n\n * There may be age-limited leagues.\n\nWhen I was in my first year, there were leagues that only allowed first year\nplayers to compete.\n\n * There may be multi-tiered leagues\n\nMuch like soccer, there could be an A-league, B-league, C-league, etc.\nGenerally our school would put one team in each league - according with skill\nof course.\n\n * Players join for the fun of it, rather than the competition\n\nI had a short stint at playing volleyball and really enjoyed it - I didn't\nwant to play it competitively though, and that's the attitude a good few\nothers might have too\n\n * There's still the opportunity to get in the lead team with enough time and effort.\n\nIf there's no _real_ games to be played by the other players, there's still\nthe opportunity to get on the team that plays. Anime sports rosters don't\nchange that much, but if a coach sees one player who is really good but isn't\nplaying - they'll probably bring them onto the team.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This answer on\nYahoo!](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110417182121AAgkRcz)\nsays he became a Jounin at the age of 13, which makes him the youngest Jounin.\n\n> I have heard a lot of chatter on the subject, but I've never seen the answer\n> stated outright (or with any proof). The youngest I've seen reference to was\n> Kakashi. He was a chunin at 6, a jonin at 10, and joined ANBU Black Ops at\n> 13.\n>\n> Itachi, on the other hand, became a chunin at 10 and became a Captain of\n> ANBU Black Ops at 13. He's still pretty amazing, but Kakashi was younger.\n>\n> Sources:\n>\n> * <http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake>\n> * <http://www.absoluteanime.com/naruto/itachi.htm>\n>\n\nIs it true that he is the youngest Jounin? What is his real age when he became\na Jounin?\n\n[The magic number starts from at the age of\n5](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKakashi became a Genin at the age of 5 and Chunin at 6.\n\nObito became a Genin at the age of 9 and Chunin at the age of 11.\n\nIt was around the time when Obito became Chunin that Kakashi was promoted to\nJonin.\n\nObito then \"died\" at the age of **13** , which was almost two years after his\npromotion to Chunin.\n\nFrom [this thread on\nnarutoforums](http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=855357) (emphasis\nmine):\n\n> It is impossible for both Kakashi and Obito to have been 13 during the\n> Kakashi Gaiden, because there is at least a confirmed **4 year age\n> difference** between Kakashi and Obito when they were confirmed to both be\n> Genin teammates during the Chuunin Exams. They entered the academy the same\n> time, and they all graduated the academy together as teammates. Kakashi was\n> at least 4 years younger than both of his teammates at all times. There is\n> **no** possible way that Kakashi was a 13 year old Jonin during the Kakashi\n> Gaiden.\n>\n> At this idea that he was 13 isn't even supported in the databooks, either.\n> It's time we all got our facts straight. If Obito died at 13, then Kakashi\n> was most likely **9** during the Kakashi Gaiden. It is impossible for these\n> two teammates to have ever been the same age.\n>\n> **Kakashi was 13 during the Kyuubi attack on Konoha**. There is a 4 year\n> difference between the events of the Kakashi Gaiden and the events of the\n> night Naruto was born.\n\nAlso, from the [talk page of Obito\nUchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Obito_Uchiha) on Naruto wiki\n\n> Obito-Kakashi timeline is based on the anime mostly and pre-chapter 599\n> manga/databook stuff. Kakashi graduated the academy as 5 years old, Rin and\n> Obito as 9. Obito is 3 years 7 months older from Kakashi. They all took the\n> same Chunin Exam, with Kakashi having managed to become a Chunin in it at\n> the age of 6, while Obito age 10 failed. Obito trainer hard, took the next\n> exams and became a Chunin at 11. Obito got crushed by boulders as 13 years\n> old, that means Kakashi was 9-10 at the latest in the Gaiden. Kakashi is now\n> 31 so Obito died as 34.\n\nAs for the youngest Jonin part, no one really knows how many official Jonin\nare there. If I remember correctly, Itachi wasn't officially declared as a\nJonin. He got into the Anbu after he became a Chunin. So Kakashi **might** be\nthe youngest Jonin. There is no definitive answer.\n\n* * *\n\nEdit (courtesy of [@Merrice\nHenderson](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/38125/merrice-henderson)):\n\nThere is evidence that Kakashi made Jonin the same year that Obito and Rin\nmade Chunin. This is an exert from Obito's wikia page:\n\n> Eager for Rin's attention, Obito trained relentlessly, eventually rising to\n> the rank of chūnin himself. His excitement was short-lived as Kakashi soon\n> afterwards became a jōnin, once again earning Rin's praise and Obito's\n> resentment.\"\n\nSo, Obito was confirmed 11 when he became Chunin. If we go based on the theory\nthat Kakashi is 4 years younger (which I am more inclined to believe), then he\nwas 7 when he made Jonin. That would effectively make him the youngest Jonin\nof all time. If Kakashi was the same age as Obito and Rin, there are a few\nyears that need to be accounted for, like:\n\n * \"Who was he teamed with after graduation while Obito and Rin were still in the academy?\"\n\n * \"What happened to Kakashi's other teammates, or was he on hiatus for that time?\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter some web digging, I found the exact chapter which mentions about\nKakashi's Jounin promotion. It is in [the manga chapter\n239](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Day_of_Departure!!_\\(volume\\)).\n\nBelow are some relevant pages from the manga chapters:\n\n \n\nWith this new finding, can we say that Kakashi became a Jounin at the age of\n9, given the fact that he was [4 years\nyounger](http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=855357) than Obito, and\nObito was 13 in [Kakashi Gaiden](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Obito_Uchiha).\nThus, we can confirm that this [website](http://www.narutohq.com/hatake-\nkakashi.php) and the Yahoo answer which say that Kakashi became a Jounin at\nthe age of 13 are wrong.\n\nAbout the youngest Jounin, it is still a mystery.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Kakashi was **10 years** old when he became a jonin because there was\na couple of evidence for example one is when Minato is talking Obito the story\nof how Kakashi's dad died. Minato specifically said \"Five years ago\".Then in\nother chapter or on the anime there is one episode mostly about Obito, but in\none scene he tells his grandma he is **five years old** , that means Kakashi\nshould be around his age. Mostly because they look the same age. Then later on\nKakashi's dad kills himself. Just leaving Kakashi being five or maybe six\nyears old. So if you don't know your math five plus five is ten. Also I don't\nthink Obito and Rin are about 4 years older than Kakashi because they were in\nthe same class in the beginning and they did not look any older. Also if they\nwere older, when it should the flash backs when they were in the Academy, they\nwould of looked really similar to what they looked like in Kakashi Gaiden.\n\nEpisodes 119 and 120 are the episodes of Team Minato (Minato, Kakashi, Obito,\nand Rin) going to destroy Kannabi Bridge. In episode 119 Minato tells the\nstory about why Kakashi was the way he was. In episode 415 Obito tells his\ngrandma he is 5 years old. Later on in that same episode he goes with Rin to a\nYouth Ninjutsu Competition. There Kakashi, Obito, and Rin look exactly the\nsame age. But if I'm wrong and Obito and Rin are about 4 years older than\nKakashi, why was Kakashi not one year old. But sorry I'm putting to much of my\nopinions. On episode 119, around 13 minutes and 24 seconds Minato says “Five\nyears ago” when he is going to tell the story about Kakashi, so you can check\nthat out on the link below. Also, on Obito's wiki page it says he is exactly\nKakashi's age in Naruto Shippuden.\n\nSources:\n\n * [Episode 119](http://www.crunchyroll.com/naruto-shippuden/episode-119-kakashi-chronicles-a-boys-life-on-the-battlefield-part-1-530552)\n * [Episode 415](http://www.crunchyroll.com/naruto-shippuden/episode-415-the-two-mangekyo-677361)\n * [Obito Uchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Obito_Uchiha)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nItachi was never a jōnin. He entered ANBU as a chūnin. ANBU is chūnin and\nabove, not just jōnin. While Itachi was an S-rank nuke-nin, and of jōnin level\nability, he was never officially made a jōnin. Imagine how that would look in\nthe clan massacre cover up. \"Oh, look, that ninja the leaf village just\npromoted to jōnin butchered his entire family bar one and defected! Their\nhighest level ninja aren't even loyal!\" Yeah. Danzō Shimura may be an asshole,\nbut he isn't that stupid.\n\nKakashi entered the academy with Rin and Obito but graduated at 5, meaning he\nwas obviously moved class. He became Minato's apprentice and would likely have\ntaken the chūnin exams (which he passed at 6) with a team who had lost a\nmember. (Team rotation). It does not mention the specific age that Kakashi\nbecame a jōnin but he does say that \"by Naruto's age\" he was already a jōnin,\nmeaning he was definitely younger than 13.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKakashi became Jounin at the age of 13, but if Kakashi is 4 years younger than\nboth Obito and Rin, how could Obito attacked Konoha at the age of 15?! Also,\nObito didn't attack Konoha after almost dying, there was a 2 year gap.\n\nSo, long story short, Kakashi and Obito are of same age.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSPOILERS BELOW.\n\nKakashi was in anbu for the span of 10 years (in the anime) This was after Rin\ndied when he was fourteen (he was promoted to jounin at 13 like the person\nabove said the same year Obito died), a year after Obito's death. Minato\nwanted to keep Kakashi closer to him after Rin died.\n\nIn the Anbu filler side stories,four years pass when he meets Tenzo and he's\nalready Captain of Team Ro by then. This puts him at 18. Four years because\nHiruzen BSs the reason Yamato be transferred out of Root by saying,\"the kyubi\nJinchuriki is already 4 years old and we'll need the wood release user to\ncontrol the kyubi if we need it\" and since Kakashi made anbu the same year\nMinato died and Naruto was born four years had passed since then putting him\nat 17 or 18 when he made Captain. So far all together it adds up to 6 years.\nItachi joins anbu at 10 (In the anime idk about the manga but the anime sub\nhas a passing comment from Yamato about 10 years being the youngest anbu ever)\nand was made captain of his own team by 13. This is another 3 years. 6+3=9.\n\nHe stays one more year (That's 10 years in Anbu) until he's forcibly demoted\nbecause his friends are concerned for his mental health. The first batch of\nstudents Kakashi (he should be 24) fails for not grasping teamwork.\n\nThe second year (he should be 25- Neji Ten Ten and Lee graduate this year\nsince they graduated one year ahead of Team Seven and train under Gai)he fails\nanother team.\n\nRight around the time a third set of his students: Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto\ngraduate he's 26 which adds up to The Naruto Wikia page and the three year\ntimeskip into Shippuden when wikia says he starts off as 29\n\nPlease correct me if I'm wrong ahaha or if my math went stupid somewhere. I\nwas trying to figure this out too by braindumping\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHer spectre was captured and used to lure her right? What happened in the end?\nDoes she get her spectre back? Or do I just keep watching to find out? What\nexactly does capturing a spectre do?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am a big fan of the **One Piece** manga. I just started watching the anime\n(completed 3 seasons).\n\nI was wondering: What powers did the Pirate King Gol D. Roger possess?\n\nIs there any chapter/episode which reveals his powers? Or is there any theory\nabout it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere has not been any information about the Gol D Roger power. Though there\nare some episode where part of Gol D. Roger are connected but information\nabout him is very low. Main information about him are about family member,\nsome crew, cause of death, very few information about his treasure One Piece\nbut information of power has not been revealed. There are some more\ninformation about him in this [wiki\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gol_D._Roger).\n\nAs the story is progressing lots of thing are untold or unknown which may be\nrevealed in future.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a theory which says that Gol D. Roger ate an Akuma no Mi, which made\nhim capable of speaking/understanding any language. It would explain why he\ncould understand the Poneglyphs, and why he was the most wanted man (before\nDragon), because in terms of strength/power, he was Whitebeard's rival.\nHowever, this is just a theory (I think).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit is very plausible he is have a Weather Controlling Fruit. In battle with\nShiki the Golden Lion, Roger can win because of the storm destroyed majority\nof Shiki fleet. and we know Weather controlling fruit exist when Monkey\nD.Dragon saving Luffy from execution in Logue Town. so its a high possibilty\nDragon found Roger DF after he died, hence He (Dragon) is named as the World\nGovernment's greatest enemy, and is the most dangerous and most wanted man in\nthe world because World Government knows Roger`s power (probably from Garp)\nand what it can do.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been looking for a Japanese manga for a while. I can't seem to remember\nthe title.\n\nIt's about a girl and her father who traveled to places via a magical door.\n\nOne of the stories is about a girl who didn't like vegetables and went to a\nworld without vegetables through the magic door.\n\nAnother story is about a girl who was not satisfied with her appearance and\nobtained a knife which can change her face and body. However, she overused it\nand her face became scary.\n\nPlease please please let me know. Really appreciate your help. Thanks :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSounds like [**Another Door - Isekai\nKaikitan**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=34444).\n\n> It's about a girl and her father who traveled to places via a magical door.\n\nYes, the girl and her father were on a journey to learn more about human\nbehaviour. They approached humans in trouble, and offered them the \"Door\"\nwhich would lead them to the world they wanted or their ideal world where\ntheir troubles would be resolved. What lied beyond the door was different for\neach person.\n\n> 1) One of the stories is about a girl who didn't like vegetables and went to\n> a world without vegetables through the magic door.\n>\n> 2) Another story is about a girl who was not satisfied with her appearance\n> and obtained a knife which can change her face and body. However, she\n> overused it and her face became scary.\n\nYes, I remember this two stories were indeed in the manga, since I've read the\nmanga multiple times (one of my relatives had a copy). I also cross-checked\nwith my sibling, and she remembered it too. Below is the more detailed version\nof the two stories you remembered:\n\n> 1) What lied beyond the door was a world without vegetables where people\n> only ate sweets. Eventually, her body weakened, because people from 'this'\n> world needed more than sweets to keep their health. In the end, she realized\n> how important vegetables were for her body, and she went back to 'this'\n> world. \n> \n> 2) What lied behind the door was an operation room to make her beautiful.\n> The girl stole the knife and operated herself, thus didn't need to open the\n> door anymore. As she became more and more beautiful, she entered the\n> entertainment world. In the end, in a photo shoot (I forgot the exact\n> context, but her image would be taken with camera), when she tried to smile,\n> her mouth tore in both side, making her look like [Kuchisake Onna/Slit-\n> Mouthed Woman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchisake-onna).\n\nAccording to the link I gave above, no chapter was ever scanlated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of the anime we're lead to believe that Daikichi's\ngrandfather and this Masako woman are Rin's parents.\n\nDuring the anime they confirm that Masako is Rin's mother, but they leave the\nfather's identity up in the air. If Daikichi's grandfather was Rin's father,\nhe would have had to taken part in her conception at 73 years old - not\nimpossible, but it's still a stretch.\n\nIs Daikichi's grandfather _really_ Rin's father? **Is this revealed in the\nmanga?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter watching the Series, I believe so, as no other figure appears, nor is\nmentioned. I think it is safe to assume this is the case, as no other\ninformation is available.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first and second seasons of SAO, Kirito seemed to be interested in more\nthan one girl at the same time. At the end they are all friends and such, but\nthey are all jealous of him and he likes them back and all.\n\nSome would argue Asuna is the real girlfriend, but:\n\n * In the cave with Sinon (SAO II, ep.11, 20:30), Sinon asks \"Is there someone you don't want seeing this?\" Kirito shyly answers no.\n\n * While introducing Asuna to Sinon, Kirito only said that Rika and Asuna were his friends. Asuna looked okay, a bit like she was thinking \"Yeah I'm just his friend.\"\n\nThese two occasions got me wondering: is he playing them all at the same time\nor something?\n\nWhat I'm asking for is something like a timeline, which shows when Kirito\nlikes whom.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn volume 1, Kirito and Asuna is the clear cut pairing to any reader, as there\nare no mentions of other girls in Kirito's life except mentioning that he has\na sister, without going into detail about her. As nhahtdh explains in [his\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/19403/17758), it is very clear that\nAsuna is the main heroine of the story, and that Kirito is committed to her.\n\nSo why are there so many other girls involved with Kirito?\n\nStarting in volume 2, Silica, Lisbeth, Yui, and Sachi, were all side\ncharacters introduced to give readers the same feelings that the author, Reki\nKawahara, felt when he played MMOs. As with most MMO players, he was never\npart of one of the top groups, and had great respect for players that could\nclear the hardest content or had the best items. This sense of awe that was\ninstilled in him in games is the same feeling that he wanted to portray by\nshowing some weaker characters and their struggles and then having a hero show\nup and really show them how _badass_ someone end-game could be.\n\nKawahara notes at the end of the volume 2:\n\n> I have previously also played some online games. But no matter in what game,\n> I have never been part of a high-ranking group. I merely envied those\n> eternally strong players with the best equipment and reputation, one after\n> another easily defeating monsters, and afterwards feeling that they were \"So\n> skilled! So strong!\" (haha) Therefore, I wanted to write about not only the\n> volume one's protagonists Kirito and Asuna and their type of top players,\n> but wanted even more to write something about the stories of ordinary mid-\n> level players; and this second volume's four short stories, have precisely\n> this kind of content. Regardless of which story, they are basically about\n> Kirito debuting and causing a big stir; and feeling that he is \"So skilled!\n> So strong!\" like Scilica and Lizbet felt, is precisely what I have felt\n> every year since becoming an MMO player. Really, and once would be enough, I\n> really want to know what it feels like to show off to others a weapon of\n> which there are only three copies in the entire server.\n\nKawahara created many side stories which introduced these different female\ncharacters, all of which had their own backstories and troubles to be solved.\n\nHowever, despite creating these girls and their problems, he always has one\nsolution to their problems: Kirito. Since Kirito is the main protagonist of\nthe story, Kirito was always the hero which would show up to fill this role of\nlegendary MMO player. Kirito is the game's hero and all of the focus and glory\nshines on him and his perspective.\n\nAdditional comments on this matter by Kawahara in volume 2 Author Notes:\n\n> Besides that, there's one more thing that I must apologize to everyone\n> about. Even though the four female characters in this book are all different\n> female players, their male counterpart, as discussed earlier, was always\n> Kirito-san. Even though there is no way for me to explain myself to everyone\n> properly on this point, I painfully excuse myself, and ask that everyone\n> please use the \"even though the criminal and victim change every time, the\n> detective is always the same person\" mindset you have when reading detective\n> novel series... you can't do it right? Sorry, sorry.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince the release of _Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale_ (the recent movie\naddition to the series) it is safe to say the Kirito and Asuna are in a proper\nrelationship,\n\n> perhaps even engaged (I'm not sure of the significance of giving a ring)in\n> Japanese culture.\n\nHe maintains his friendship with the other females in the series as per usual.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nReferring to when Sinon asked Kirito \" Is there someone you don't want seeing\nthis?\" and then Kirito replying \"no\" when they were in the cave during Bullet\nOf Bullets 3. He probably said \"no\" because he didn't what her to feel\nembarrassed because she was on top of him sexually(unintentionally). And he\nprobably referred Asuna as \"a friend\" because of the same reason.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga is about a high school boy who learned boxing from reading a book.\nLater on in the manga, he started fighting gangs and earned the nickname \"Gang\nDestroyer\" or something like that. He lived with his father, mother, and\nsister, and they had no idea that he was the Gang Destroyer.\n\nPlease help me figure out the name of this manga T_T\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is probably\n[**Holyland**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1629). It's manga\nabout boy who was bullied and learned the [one-two\ncombo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-two_combo) (a jab then a cross) from\nboxing book to get revenge. This drew attention of underworld, which got him\ninto new fights and forced him to get better at fighting.\n\nIt is shown in earlier chapters that his only move is the one-two combo. Even\nhis stance and his footwork were that of an amateur. However, he managed to\ndefeat thugs with his only move and earned him the nickname Thug Hunter/Gang\nHunter among the street gangs and drew their attention.\n\nThe background story on how he learned the one-two combo, and even the fact\nthat he learned it from a book, was only revealed in chapter 12 to chapter 14.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime \"Kill la Kill\", Aikuro Mikisugi hates and avoids the expression\n\"Dōtonbori robo\" and requests everyone using that phrase to say \"DTR\" instead.\nDoes this phrase have some hidden meaning that explains his behavior, or is it\nexplained otherwise in canon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDotonbori is a street within the redlight district of Osaka that sees the\nhighest number of prostitutes working on it. He is probably embarrassed or\ndoesn't want DTR to be associated with Dotonbori, considering their (DTR)\npreference to be nude could be taken the wrong way by the average person.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched through _Death Note_ once, and I never remember hearing L's name,\neven after he died.\n\nWhat was L's real name, or did he never have one (it was never said)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to both the [Death Note Character list on\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_characters) and the\n[L character page on the Death Note\nWikia](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L_%28character%29), his full name is\n**L Lawliet**. He does have several aliases that sound more like real names\nbut L seems to be his actual name.\n\nFrom the [L Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_%28Death_Note%29):\n\n> Tsugumi Ohba, the writer of the series [...] For L's name, he wanted to use\n> a single letter with a lot of significance; he considered \"I\" and \"J\", but\n> eventually chose \"L\" after careful consideration.\n\nThe Wiki page also points out that his name is written in Latin characters as\n\"L\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nL's real name is _L Lawliet_\n\n> Alias: L \n> Letter: L \n> Real Name: L Lawliet \n> Relation: The famous detective L. He was found by Wammy as a child and\n> brought to the orphanage. The goal of the orphanage is to train a worthy\n> successor to his title.(†)\n>\n> Source: [Wammy's House - Characters related to Wammy's\n> House](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Wammy%27s_House#Characters_related_to_Wammy.27s_House)\n\nAlso, [Wikia](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L) lists his name as エル ( _Eru_\n), so most likely that is how you would spell L in his name (over using the\nEnglish letter L)\n\nThere is also a scene in the movie _Death Note 2: The Last Name_ where we see\nL's real name written in the Death Note\n\n> which he shows to Light that he wrote in himself to become immune to Rem's\n> use of the Death Note and trap Light.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that L's real name is Lind Lawliet. As we know, when L puts Lind L\nTailor in his place in his PSA, the L follows Lind. (Lind L).\n\nAfterwards we discover that L's last name is Lawliet. So we have L Lawliet. I\nbelieve that if we simply reverse it (L Lawliet) take both names and put them\nin their proper place and you get Lind Lawliet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are Death Note cards that state the characters' full and true names. And\nL's card says \"L Lawliet.\" So that is his true name. The letter \"L\" and\nLawliet as his last name. The cards are, as far as copyright goes, completely\nunder the suit of the same owners as the anime and manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've never actually read the manga, only the fanfic of another manga it\ninspired. The author couldn't remember the name of the manga but here's what\nthey had to say about it.\n\n\"It had a group of teenagers who planned a suicide pact online, became\nfriends, got distracted by alcohol and general shenanigans, and ended up not\ngoing through with the suicide anymore... main female lead was out with one of\nthe guys and she was thinking 'maybe in different circumstances, we would have\nbeen out on a date instead of out planning to die'.\"\n\nI took out some stuff where the ellipsis are, since it was a side comment.\nThey did mention the ending was kind of tragic though. I'd be really grateful\nif someone knows of it. Thanks in advance!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt might be [Durarara](http://durarara.wikia.com/) manga. There's a suicide\npact website and [Izaya Orihara](http://durarara.wikia.com/wiki/Izaya_Orihara)\ngets someone to sign up to it but it was all a joke to him. He gets them drunk\nand high but they never went through with the pact.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSounds like the first story of **Kanojo ga Tonda Hi**. \nThis is the description of first story from [MAL Page of Kanojo ga Tonda\nHi](http://myanimelist.net/manga/16136/Kanojo_ga_Tonda_Hi):\n\n> “Recruiting those who want to finish it and die, but feel sad doing it\n> alone…” Fed up with everything, Mie posted a notice on an Internet Bulletin\n> Board and found suicide-partners. Four boys and girls were gathered together\n> because of their ties to death. And then…?!\n\nThe continuation from that description is just like the description you have:\n\n> ...became friends, got distracted by alcohol and general shenanigans, and\n> ended up not going through with the suicide anymore... main female lead was\n> out with one of the guys...\n\nI'm not really sure about her thoughts, but indeed she thought of something\nalong the line \"If only I met him earlier\" or like that, and she did fall in\nlove with him. And about...\n\n> ...They did mention the ending was kind of tragic though\n\nmaybe it's about:\n\n> Just like you have said, the suicide plan was nulled. But in the end, one\n> day, the three of them got the news that the other girl (the one who's not\n> the main chara) was dead, from committing suicide.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nIs there anyone who can tell me which soundtrack this is? I couldn't find it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's called [**Resort Island**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bfT-NBWMM)\nfrom One Piece Movie 6 OST.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to watch Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, but I'm not sure where\nto start.\n\nWhat is the watching order of the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst Season: [Love, Chunibyo & Other\nDelusions!](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=14448)\n\nSecond Season: [Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! -Heart\nThrob-](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15622)\n\nSide Story [Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Ren\nLite](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15781) (ONA)\n\nStart with season 1.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough I never noticed in the main story of the anime, there are scenes in\nsome of the openings where Zoro, Nami and Robin are shown wearing eyeglasses:\n\n * [Zoro in opening 11](http://youtu.be/tIPp1Zhg2gU?t=33s)\n * [Robin in opening 13](http://youtu.be/ntoB59VttFU?t=55s)\n * [Nami in opening 16](http://youtu.be/3wSvrBxzX4o?t=26s)\n\nIs the fact that they all have bad eyesight canon? Or is it just some filler\nthat the author probably wanted to mix into the series?\n\n",
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"title": "Do Zoro, Nami and Robin suffer from bad eyesight?",
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"body": "\n\nConsidering they don't wear glasses normally or even while reading, it's fair\nto say that their eyesight is just fine. They simply like to wear those\nglasses from time to time for the sake of appearance. Even Sanji wore glasses\nfor a moment in One Piece Film Z, for that same reason.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell. Guys. I recall Nami wore glasses in Sky Island arc and she was working\non the map of the island at that time or something. Therefore I think Nami has\nand ocasionally wears glasses for her work. For Robin, I think she might also\nhave them because reading so many books.. but I am not sure about her. For\nZoro and Sanji, I have a feeling they were more for appearance - like in Film\nZ, Zoro had glasses and other clothes and Brook commented something like how\ndid he like the way Brook dressed him up xD ok I know it sounds strange but I\nhope you get what I mean.\n\n",
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