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"body": "\n\nRepeatedly I see that people in animes drink milk, often after bathing.\nFemales tend to say that it helps to grow their chest. Is that true? But also\nmale characters sometimes drink it, like _Kurozuma Watarufrom_.\n\n\n\nImage from\n[thedreamingotaku](http://www.thedreamingotaku.com/2012/11/chuunibyou-demo-\nkoi-ga-shitai-episode-5.html). _Sanae Dekomori_ from **Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga\nShitai** in episode 5.\n\nWhat is the meaning behind the drinking milk trope, what do people gain from\nit and why is it shown so often in anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's probably no one answer for why they drink milk _in general_ , but as\nfar as the bathing, it's considered a traditional drink in [Japanese public\nbath houses](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sent%C5%8D) after a soak:\n\n> There is usually a refreshment cooler here where customers can self-serve\n> and pay the attendant. Milk drinks are traditional favorites and sometimes\n> there is ice cream.\n\nMost places don't know how the tradition started but [it's been around for a\nlong time](http://www.gjsentinel.com/blogs/west_meets_east/entry/japanese-\nbaths-and-hot-springs) and some people say that milk drinks (not just plain\nmilk but also milk+coffee) [taste particularly good after a hot\nbath](https://www.tsunagujapan.com/japans-bathing-culture-sento/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn episode 14 - _YE$_ , at 6:21 in this episode, we see the crew being\ndebriefed by Aramaki. The chief remarks that she is wearing \"some get-up\",\ninquiring whether she is searching for a specific kind of attention. She\nreplies, somewhat... despairingly(?), with \"...; I just... _don't have a\nchoice_.\"\n\nThe scene prior to this ended with her being ejected from a building through a\nwindow and landing on a pile of trash. She is noticeably soiled by \"garbage-\ntype fluids\" and, presumably, needs to get cleaned up.\n\nIt is not explicit, but it seems that only a few hours, at most, have passed\nbetween the incident and the debriefing.\n\nAside from being her usual hot-gun-toting-super-hacker-ninja self, I have\nmissed the implication as to why this particular outfit is \"mandatory\". Is\nthere a specific clue I missed or was it just to imply that she may have had\nother, personal, obligations for which she was still dressed? Her outfit was\ndefinitely extreme for being at \"the office\", even for her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n(Upon review I've determined that the source provided is insufficient to\nsupport my answer. I'm currently investigating sources to come up with a more\nappropriate answer.)\n\nHer body is a mass production \"pleasure model\" so that she blends into (I\nassume 'shady') environments in the city. That's why she wears sexy clothes so\noften, to fit her cover.\n\n_Source: Masamune Shirow via Joseph Christopher Schaub_\n\n<http://schaublog.com/Writing/KusanagisBody.pdf> (pg.94) [last retrieved\n10/24/17]\n\n> For his part, Shirow provides a very practical explanation for Kusanagi's\n> body in the author's notes which accompany his manga. He writes:\n>\n\n>> Major Kusanagi is deliberately designed to look like a mass-production\nmodel so she won't be too conspicuous. In reality, her electrical and\nmechanical system is made of ultra-sophisticated materials unobtainable on the\ncivilian market. If she appeared too expensive, she might be suddenly waylaid\non a dark street some night, hacked up, and hauled off to be sold. (1995: 103)\n\n>\n> His mention of Kusanagi's body as 'a mass-production model' no doubt\n> provides the seeds for Oshii's foregrounding of her commodity status in the\n> film, but the critique is certainly amped up a notch by Oshii.\n\nI've also included the author's citation:\n\n> For all references to Shirow's version of Ghost in the Shell, the source I\n> follow is the graphic novel. Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell, trans.\n> Frederik Schodt and Toren Smith, (Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 1995)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWherever there is internet and controversial plot twists, there shall be rage,\nangst and trolling.\n\nTrying to sift through the comment threads in /r/anime and other places is\nreally a pain, and somewhere I end up bouncing on the language barrier.\n\nDoing what they did to the title character so early surely was controversial,\nand it seems it was not an event planned from the beginning of the series.\n\nWhat has Seo Kouji stated regarding\n\n> Akitsuki Fuuka's death\n\nand how were those statements received? What were the repercussions in\nspecialized media?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI used to think that incest was only in hentai/eroge, but gradually, I have\nrun into more mainstream content which seems to hint at brother-sister,\nmother-son relationships, or the tension of such attraction.\n\nWhat is the origin of this theme?\n\nWhy is it so prevalent in Japanese manga and anime compared to Western comics?\n\nIt seems strange for a taboo to be popping up everywhere, so I am curious as\nto the origin.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst, it needs to be said that incest in popular culture is prevalent in many\nother culture. It isn't unique to anime or manga works. Although it is true\nthat compared to Western comics it is less prevalent, incest do exist in\nWestern pop-culture songs, movies, literature, etc.\n\nWith that, we should focus on what it is in Japanese culture that makes incest\na seemingly prevalent trope in anime and manga. There's also different types\nof incest relationships.\n\nIncest is a taboo in Japan. What is incest to them, however, may be a little\nbit different than ours. Incest marriages between cousins are occasional as\nthey are not considered incestuous until recently. This may explain why incest\nrelationships like in _Elfen Lied_ is a recurring trope.\n\nAnother thing is that historically, marriages between nephews and nieces have\nbeen approved. Even now in some rural areas, fathers marry their daughters\nwhen the mother dies. They are forced to do this as they follow old feudal\nlaws. Sometimes when both parents died, the brother ends up having sex with\nthe sister in order to end confusion.\n\nThere's also the common trope of brothers and sisters sleeping or bathing\ntogether in anime and manga. This is easily explained as such things are still\nprevalent in Japanese society. This doesn't necessarily lead to incest,\nhowever, but there are certainly hints towards it.\n\nThe first manga that involves incest is _Cream Lemon_ , released in the 1980s.\nSo this isn't something new. It is also noted that incest is in mangas for the\n_Shoujo_ demographics, which is mainly for females. In other words, people\nmight like incestuous anime and manga for the emotional relationship and not\nthe physical relationships.\n\nThe combination of Japanese history and the demographic's tastes may help\nexplain why incest is a popular trope in anime and manga. I could go on and\non, but it may take too long to explain, so if anyone would like to read more,\nI have provided sources for others.\n\nSources:\n\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest_in_popular_culture> \n<http://www.mangatherapy.com/post/1467868478/incest-in-anime-manga> \n<http://psychohistory.com/articles/the-universality-of-incest/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan you name some titles that features \"true\" incest between biological\nsiblings? Incest is definitely a taboo at least in modern Japan. There are\nonly a few love stories about incest between biological siblings, and most\nJapanese otaku do not like them.\n\nHowever, a sibling-in-law is a notable exception. The Japanese law allows the\nmarriage of two siblings-in-law as long as they are not related by blood. For\nexample, at least legally speaking, a biological son of A and B can marry an\nadopted daughter of A and B. This is prohibited in many other parts of the\nworld, and it is strongly frowned upon in reality also in Japan. But in\nfiction, this works as an ideal setting for a Japanese-style romantic comedy,\nwhere the author has to depict an almost never-ending unanswered/secret love\nand provide many \"service cuts\".\n\nOne of the early works that successfully took advantage of this fact is\n_Marmalade Boy_ , where an adolescent girl is suddenly forced to live with a\nnew handsome brother(-in-law), who she eventually falls in love with. People\nenjoyed this legally-valid-but-ethically-forbidden love. It has become a\npopular story trope, and many works including _Da Capo_ , _Sister Princess_ ,\n_Kissxsis_ , _ImoCho_ and _Eromanga Sensei_ use similar settings.\n\n**EDIT:** Perhaps it's worth taking a look at [the Amazon reviews of the last\nvolume of _OreImo_](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00I0LKNQW/), which is\nundoubtedly one of the most famous light novels in the \"little sister\" genre.\nYou can see many readers were disappointed and turned off when the\nrelationship between the protagonist and his (biological) little sister turned\nout to be \"(romantic) love\" at this point. It shows true unambiguous incest is\nunacceptable even to many fans of this genre.\n\nReference:\n\n * [TV Tropes -- Little Sister Heroine](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LittleSisterHeroine)\n\n> Despite the name, Little Sister Heroine attempts to mitigate the obvious\n> incestuous fallout; they're usually either a step sister, adopted or, more\n> rarely, technically a cousin or distant relation.\n\n * [TV Tropes -- Not Blood Siblings](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotBloodSiblings)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHimura Kenshin, the Battousai, used a\n[_sakabatou_](http://kenshin.wikia.com/wiki/Sakabat%C5%8D). He did this to\nprevent himself from killing people anymore. My question is, if that is his\ngoal, then why didn't he settle with a\n[_bokutou_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokken) (wooden sword) instead? A\n_bokutou_ would definitely be duller than a _sakabatou_ , which is made of\nsteel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBut I'm pretty sure a bokuto would break if he was fighting against a person\nwith a sharp blade. It's better to use a metal sword so it doesn't break.\nYeah, metal's just stronger than wood.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are several reasons he would go the awful length to get his Sakabato\nforged by a master swordmaker, with metal:\n\n1) **Weight** : there are no material at the time that could have the same\ndensity as metal. For a swordsman, the weight of the blade is very important.\nFor Kenshin, since all of his attacks are blunt attacks, it is vital.\n\n2) **Resilience** : enemies can break wood and bamboo swords. The medieval\njousters carried twenty plus jousting lances to tournaments, because they\nwould break every time they delivered a solid blow, and most of the times when\nthey missed or scraped.\n\n3) **The edge** : the Sakabato does have an edge, on the back side of the\nblade. Himura uses it to cut everything from pottery to cannonballs. His only\nexception is people.\n\n\n\n4) **His self-image** : even though his passive servant act, Kenshin is still\na japanese swordsman. The fact he has a sheathed sword by his side still\ndemands some respect from his opponents (and the most wary ones are the ones\nthat did not fall for his timid demeanor). Also whatever shred of pride he\nhave (arguably some) would demand he carried a real sword (even though several\ncharacters in that universe do not consider the sakabato a real sword).\n\nHis use of a Sakabato is **foremost a physical expression of his vow** (in the\nmanga several times his Sakabato is inspected by officers or other swordsman,\nonly to be met with disdain), and in a second moment for the convenience of\nnot having to twist the blade everytime he wants to deliver a non-lethal blow.\nSeveral other anime has this scene in a swordfight where the winner delivers a\notherwise fatal blow and follows up with \"don't worry, I used the backside of\nthe blade\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Sakabatō holds a deep meaning, as a blade that is not meant to kill. This\nis the philosophy that Kenshin wants to be true. Although it is symbolic it is\nalso practical. A wooden sword would just get cut in half against a skilled\nopponent.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA strange epidemic comes and it starts to kill everyone, but the survivors\ngains \"super powers\". A boy's sister gets infected with the disease and\nsurvives, but her newly gained \"power\" makes her less human. To save his\nsister, the boy later injects the illness into himself and gains the power to\ntake another person's power away. There is also a side character who survived\nthe disease, and he becomes sort of immortal because nothing can hurt him, but\nhe cannot sleep or eat. The sister's previous mutation looks like a cat.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it could be [**Absorb;\nAbility**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/12132/Absorb;_Ability)\n\n> Japan wields the power of a new form of influenza so lethal that only one\n> person out of a million can survive an infection. Kazuma, a man able to\n> withstand the infection of the unknown virus, \"Cherubim\", has obtained the\n> power to save his twin sister from facing the influenza! While Kazuma saves\n> other people's suffering by using his new power, he will also encounter many\n> surprising and painful things... A serious and comedic story of new\n> abilities begins!!\n\nThis could be the cat-like mutation you are referring to:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the very end of episode 12, as if a teaser of season 2 (which apparently is\nnot happening), a general (or daimyo) is shown behind her armies.\n\n\n\nThe light novels' storyline goes further than the anime, so who is she?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is\n\n> Shingen Takeda\n\nbased on the emblems. That is the emblem of the [Takeda\nClan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeda_clan).\n\n\n\nAlso I read the novel and that is how she is depicted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have read all the way up to chapter 8 in the manga series called \"Absorb:\nAbility\", but I cannot find the 9th chapter anywhere on the internet. Does\nanyone know where I can read this manga? It does not have to be in English.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor some reason, English scanlation stopped after chapter 8.\n\nBut if you want to read raw manga you should buy the book.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're probably going to have a pretty hard time getting a hold of this\nlegally. As far as I know, there's no legal digital distribution of the manga,\nso you'll need a print copy. While you may be able to find pirated copies\nonline, we won't help you do so here as per our site policy.\n\n_Absorb; Ability_ was never especially popular in Japan. There are 2 volumes,\neach with 6 chapters, so you'd only need the second volume. The series ended\nin 2008, and the volumes have long been out of print. There's no licensed\nEnglish release (confirmed by [Baka\nUpdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=13103)), and given the\nlength and popularity licensed releases in other languages are also very\nunlikely. So you'll have to get your hands on the out-of-print originals,\nwhich means looking to the pre-owned market. This is unfortunately not easy,\nespecially if you don't live in Japan.\n\nThere are a couple online Japanese stores carrying it right now.\n[Amazon.co.jp](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%96%E3%82%A2%E3%83%93-ID%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-ZERO-\nSUM%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E3%82%88%E3%81%AD%E3%82%84%E3%81%BE-%E3%81%9B%E3%81%A4%E3%81%93/dp/4758053316/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1)\nhas it, and there are some available used copies for very cheap. It's also on\n[Suruga-ya](http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/503004106001). Both of\nthese stores will only ship domestically in Japan though. You can use a proxy\nor forwarding service you're familiar with to get around that if you're\nwilling to pay somewhat more.\n\nUnfortunately I couldn't find anywhere that would ship internationally without\na proxy or forwarding service, so if you aren't going that route your best bet\nis to check [ebay](http://ebay.com) regularly and hope it appears, which is\nhonestly not very likely. Relatively obscure series like this tend to require\njumping through some hoops to get your hands on.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen various lists of manga genres in English, but in my experience they\nhaven't lined up to the writing that I have read in Japanese book stores.\n\nNote, so that the question is not too broad, I limit the scope of this\nquestion to the genres you would find in the labeling scheme of a book store\nin Japan. Obviously subgenres on to infinity can be defined.\n\nBasically, at a Japanese bookstore (like Kinokuniya), what would the aisles be\nnamed?\n\nI ask, because I imagine the perception of genre to the English speaking otaku\nmay be different than what is considered in Japan.\n\n * For instance I see yaoi sections marked as BL \n * There appears to be a section for young girls, but I can't read the kanji\n * Perhaps scifi? But again I can't read the kanji.\n * Is giant robot considered a genre in Japan, is that something you'd see an aisle for in a bookstore? \n\nWhat would be the idioms be in Japan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is said that the Hobi Hobi no Mi grants eternal youth to the user, besides\nallowing them to turn people into toys and wiping their existence out of\nanyone else's mind.\n\nSo that being said, it is implied that Sugar is much older than she really is,\nand that the Hobi Hobi no Mi only makes her look young. But I have tried\nlooking at the chapters she is in but there is no mention of how old she is.\n\nIs there something out there that tells us how old Sugar is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this [wiki page](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sugar) her age is\nmentioned. Due to Hobi Hobi no Mi she has two age which are\n**10(biologically)** and **22(legally)**. So she looks like 10 year old but\nshe is actually 22 years old.\n\n> Sugar ate the Hobi Hobi no Mi at age **10** , ceasing to age since then.\n>\n> It is said that the user stops aging once the fruit has been eaten, as she\n> remains a 10-years old despite being chronologically **22**. This also\n> happens with her victims, as Kyros, who was a toy during **10** years, when\n> reverting to normal did not show any biological signs of aging\n\n \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the fight between Neji and Naruto, Naruto comes out of earth to finish\nhis final blow on Neji. So does he possess earth element as his chakra nature?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, in that particular fight, he just (dug a hole and) hid underground to\nsurprise Neji. No part of that used Earth chakra or Earth jutsu. I don't think\nhe even knew any Earth jutsu. He eventually got access to all chakra types due\nto the Six Paths mode, but still, he was never seen doing any specific Earth\njutsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOnly thing i would add is upon review of this scene, they make a point to show\nNaruto stomping a hole in the ground as he's running towards Neji for the last\ntime. He shouldn't be able to do this, as the other person who uses this trick\n(Kakashi) uses Earth chakra to do so. Think this may be an instance of plot\narmor unfortunately.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo,because when he fight with kaguya he use all it chakra of tailed beast(1-9)\nhe used sage art:cho biju rasen shuriken(sage art:giant super tailed beast\nrasen shuriken).so he used up all biju chakra(magnet,blue\nflame,water,magma/lava,(im not sure about kokuo maybe fire and water),acid,(i\ndont know about chomei),ink,wind)so is not revealed naruto using earth\nchakra/earth style jutsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe tunneling scene was not an example of earth style, however, the question\nitself shows a misunderstanding of nature manipulation in general. People\ndon't \"have\" a chakra nature. People have an easier time learning to change\nchakra to specific natures.\n\nMost people have one specific elemental nature that they can grasp very\nquickly (relative to other natures), and usually have at least one more\nelement that they can learn faster than the rest. There is nothing preventing\nsomebody from learning to manipulate chakra to every single type of nature,\nother than time and talent.\n\nFor example, if Naruto had wanted to, he could have learned lightning, fire,\nor any other elemental manipulation when he first learned of the concept. Wind\nwas simply the most practical for him to learn, as it was the nature he is\ninnately suited to use.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBroly is shown to have a tail as a baby.\n\n\n\nBut the tail is not there when he is an adult or kid, which means that he has\nthe potential to become Super Saiyan 4. The only time he has a tail is when he\nwas cloned, as shown in _Bio-Broly_. The time span in which Broly does not\nhave a tail is: _Broly — The Legendary Super Saiyan_ and _Broly — Second\nComing_.\n\nDo we know if Broly was able to transform into Super Saiyan 4 in _Dragon Ball\nZ_?\n\nThe only time he turned to Super Saiyan 4 is in _Dragon Ball Heroes_ , which\nis a game and not canon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, Super Saiyan 4 was never a canon - all of the Dragon Ball GT episodes are\nfiller and Akira Toriyama, the manga author, had never made SSJ4 and the next\nofficial transformation or rather power up is \"Super Saiyan God\" - achievable\nby 5? (I don't remember) Saiyan powering up one Saiyan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBroly wasn't a canon character and Super Saiyan 4 isn't a canon\ntransformation, so the idea of Broly being a canon Super Saiyan 4 is kind of\nmadness.\n\nBroly is a character from the movies, in which there is no hint that he or\nanyone else can become a Super Saiyan 4, and SS4 is from GT and there was no\nmention of Broly in GT. If he went SS4 in some game, then in the canon of that\ngame he is able to, but otherwise I would say no, there is no reason to think\nBroly could be a SS4, as even his normal Super Saiyan form is in fact pretty\nweird and not particularly similar to the main characters' Super Saiyan\ntransformations.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo Broly was not able to transform into Super Saiyan 4 in Dragon Ball Z.\nActually no character was able to achieve Super Saiyan 4 in Dragon Ball Z as\nSuper Saiyan 4 was introduced in Dragon Ball GT.\n\nI will not go into details of what is canon and what is filler as the other\nanswers have explained it well.\n\nHowever, Broly had a Legendary Super Saiyan form - the only Super Saiyan\ntransformation that Goku has not been able to achieve in the series, canon or\notherwise. How strong the Legendary form is in comparison to Super Saiyan,\nSuper Saiyan 2 etc. is open to interpretation. Still one can say quite surely\nsay that Legendary Super Saiyan form was considerably weaker than Super Saiyan\n4.\n\nSo, no Broly never achieved Super Saiyan 4 and he never got as strong as Super\nSaiyan 4 either.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo because there is no Super Saiyan 4 it is not canon to DBZ however in DBGT\nVegeta turned into SSJ4 with the help of a machine build by his wife Bulma so\npossible that he can since his a saiyan only based on a series GT not DBZ.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOrochimaru has pale white skin and purple skin around his eyes. His eyes are\nalso similar to that of snakes. Does it signify that he belongs to a\nparticular clan? Or is he one of a kind?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is never any mention of this in the story so far. The thing that was\nconfirmed was he is an orphan and his parents death influenced him greatly. He\nalso tried to forget their deaths and probably them in general since it was\ntoo painful, so he probably dropped usage of his clan name for that purpose.\nHe is considered to be a prodigy, however no mention of any blood limits were\nmentioned (though not all prodigies need blood limits, ex: Yellow Flash or\nHiruzen)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_In support of @Quikstryke answer, allow me to elaborate more on this topic._\n\n### How Orochimaru gained snake-like characteristics\n\nFrom [Orochimaru](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Orochimaru) article on Naruto\nWiki:\n\n> Orochimaru was an orphan who became a pupil of Hiruzen Sarutobi alongside\n> Jiraiya and Tsunade. Compared to the more laid back Jiraiya, Orochimaru\n> stood out as a genius — his talents, knowledge, and determination were\n> considered by Hiruzen to be that of a prodigy seen once in a generation.\n> According to Tsunade, Orochimaru had a twisted personality even as a child.\n> His sadistic attitude was presumably due to the death of his parents. At\n> some point after losing them, Orochimaru found a white snake near his\n> parents' grave, with Hiruzen's explanation of it representing fortune and\n> rebirth inspiring Orochimaru to study\n> [kinjutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kinjutsu) and obtain knowledge of\n> all techniques. Jiraiya theorised that Orochimaru went down this path in an\n> attempt to forget his painful memories.\n\nFrom the link above, we learn that Orochimaru did not get his snake like eyes\nfrom childbirth, but through his research on the white snake that he found\nnear his parents grave. He spent his life researching about immortality and\nrebirth.\n\nFrom\n[Orochimaru](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orochimaru_%28Naruto%29#cite_note-18)\narticle on Wikipedia:\n\n> Through his experimentations he has also been able to add some snake-like\n> characteristics to his own body\n\n### Orchimaru's Snake Techniques\n\nBelow is the list of [Orochimaru's snake related\ntechniques](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Orochimaru#Snake_Techniques).\n\n> Orochimaru's trademark trait is his affinity with snakes, in addition to\n> impacting the appearance and composition of his true form, and granting him\n> the ability to extend his limbs to abnormal lengths and to take on snake-\n> like traits in battle, caused him to learn a number of snake-related\n> abilities, including learning Sage Mode. His snake-related techniques have\n> been referred to as Power of the White Snake. One such ability is being able\n> to summon giant snakes to fight alongside him in battle, made possible by\n> the summoning contract tattooed on his arm. This allows him to summon snakes\n> within his vicinity, as opposed to having to place his hand on a surface.\n>\n> If need be, Orochimaru can morph into a giant snake, despite being slightly\n> smaller in size to his larger ones. His signature summon was Manda, a\n> colossal snake which was described as the largest in the world, with immense\n> fighting capabilities. With Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, Orochimaru can\n> instantly call forth snakes from his sleeves and mouth to attack his\n> opponents in large numbers with venomous bites. A stronger variation of this\n> technique was the Many Hidden Shadow Snake Hands, in which the summoned\n> snakes grow noticeably in both numbers and size.\n>\n> Another usage of snakes comes in the form of his signature weapon, the Sword\n> of Kusanagi, the Kusanagi of Japanese legend. The sword, kept within the\n> mouth of a snake within his own throat, is able to extend to great lengths\n> to attack enemies that are very far away, can be controlled remotely by\n> Orochimaru, and can return to him by turning in a snake. Although he is\n> capable of wielding the sword normally with great proficiency, it's not\n> uncommon for him to use it without ever removing it from his mouth. The\n> sword is stated to be able to cut through almost anything, and despite\n> failing to penetrate four-tailed Naruto's chakra shroud, did push him back\n> an incredible length. In the anime, he is also capable of having numerous\n> Kusanagi-like blades sprout from the mouths of the snakes he summons.\n>\n> He is also able to summon use one of his larger snakes around its target,\n> trapping it in its stomach. Following this, Orochimaru can speed up the\n> digestion process on the target. His strongest technique is the Eight\n> Branches Technique, which allows him to transform into an eight-headed,\n> eight-tailed giant serpent bigger than the already colossal Manda, another\n> reference to the Japanese myth. This was described as the ultimate snake-\n> related technique, which turned the user into an immensely powerful \"Dragon\n> God\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's no evidence he was born with the snake like markings, but since we see\nhim as six years old in team Hiruzen, it's safe to say he was. A six year old\ncan not experiment on himself darlings xD and I doubt his parents or any other\nexternal force experimented on him. sure the purple markings could have been\ntattoo'd on when he was younger (which is unlikely since they grow with him),\nbut they couldn't have given him snake like eyes. Also, as we see, Sasuke's\nnatural affinity was hawks, yet he summoned snakes. Thus, one can have an\naffinity and choose something different. It was still a choice, even if it was\na guided one ;)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 7 of Yuri Kuma Arashi, I noticed that [_Liberty Leading the\nPeople_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People) was hanging\non the wall in Tsubaki Kureha's living room:\n\n\n\nHere's an image of the full painting:\n\n\n\nI get [the symbolism of the painting\nitself](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People#Symbolism),\nbut what's the symbolism it has in the anime? Or is it just a known painting\non the wall?\n\n* * *\n\n**EDIT:**\n\n[ʞɹɐzǝɹ pointed out in a comment\nbelow](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19502/is-there-a-meaning-\nbehind-the-painting-in-tsubaki-kurehas-living-room#comment26118_195027) that\nthe painting across from that one is [Henri Rousseau's _The\nDream_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_%28Rousseau_painting%29):\n\n\n\nHere's the full painting:\n\n\n\n**So I extend my previous question to this painting too:** \nDo the paintings have any special symbolism in the anime itself, or are they\njust paintings on the wall?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany times when I see images of Hatsune Miku, she is shown holding a leek or\nspring onion.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8Eby.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S5CuN.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9n5Zl.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4tM9n.jpg)\n\nApart from headphones and microphones, other popular and well known Vocaloids,\nsuch as Rin, Len, Kaito and Luca, don't seem to have any strange items like\nvegetables.\n\nSo why is Miku shown with a leek? And if there aren't any other Vocaloids with\nstrange items, why is she the only one?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHatsune Miku holding a leek comes from a parody video of the Leekspin meme.\nThe Leekspin meme is a video of Orihime from _Bleach_ spinning a leek in one\nof the episodes with the Finnish folk song _Ievan Polkka_ playing in the\nbackground.\n\nOn another note, the vegetable she is holding is actually a \"negi\" or green\nonion. However, the English dub for Bleach called it a leek.\n\nSources:\n\n * The Hatsune Miku parody video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbA9BhCTko>\n * Leekspin meme: <http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leekspin-loituma-girl>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Apart from headphones and microphones, other popular and well known\n> Vocaloids, such as Rin, Len, Kaito and Luca, don't seem to have any strange\n> items like vegetables.\n\nActually, many vocaloid (and other voice software) have items associated with\nthem\n\n  \n\n * GUMI (a Megloid) has a carrot for her item\n\n * Teto Kasane (an UTAUloid) has bread\n\n * Luka is often associated with fish, or because of her hair, octopuses.\n\n[There are more listed here](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/vocaloid-character-\nitems)\n\nMost of these originated from fans rather than the original creators, and are\nnot official - even though there is a casual acceptance of the character\nitems. For example Leek shaped glowsticks are occasionally given out at Miku\nconcerts. Character items frequently feature in artists videos also\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason Miku usually has a leek with her most of the time when you see her,\nis because since she is a vocaloid, someone (I guess) wanted to make her sing\nIevan Polkka, a Finnish song, and that's what got her popular at first.\n\n*Luka \n\nAnd as one of the answers already stated this, these vegetable pairings with\nVocaloids came from the fans themselves, so it's not exactly official.\n\nActually, many Vocaloids (even UTAUs) have been associated with vegetables.\nHere are some examples:\n\nMegurine Luka - Fish or Tuna Kagamine Rin - Orange(s) Kagamine Len - Banana(s)\nKAITO - Ice cream MEIKO - Sake (A traditional Japanese alcohol)\n\nGUMI - Carrot(s) Camui/Kamui Gakupo - Eggplant\n\n(UTAU)\n\nKasane Teto - (French) Bread or a Baguette Namine Ritsu - Chocolate Crisps\n\n* * *\n\nSo Luka is paired with fish because she has a chibi head character who has\nhair like an octopus.\n\nRin has an orange for her fruit because her neckerchief resembles an orange\npeel.\n\nLen was paired with a banana mostly because of his hair color and that piece\nof his hair sticking upwards resembles a banana, just a bit.\n\nKAITO with ice cream because fans notice the scarf he wears and in his new V3\nupdate, boots. People thought he seemed to wear winter-special clothes and\nsince his hair is blue it easily resembles snow/ice and relating things, they\ndecided his food was going to be Ice cream.\n\nMEIKO with sake because she seemed to look older and mature so I guess they\nthought it'd be fun if they made her drunk (?) Not quite sure about this one.\n\nGUMI with carrots because of her color scheme mostly, since she has green hair\nand orange official clothes so it reminds people of carrots.\n\nGakupo with Eggplant because he has purple hair and a stronger/deeper voice so\nI think it reminded them of an eggplant\n\nNow, the UTAUs were officially paired with random foods because they were\nsorta supposed to be a parody April fool's joke. (?)\n\nHere is a picture of them with the foods too: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ON7A6.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not talking about the Gaiden one, but the one before it: _Beneath Cherry\nBlossoms in Full Moon_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo it definitely takes place sooner. Because:\n\n 1. Huang is still alive who died before the end of the first season.\n 2. Mao is still there and in his cat body.\n 3. The inspector doesn't know about Hei's identity. She finds out about it in the OVA but they forget it again because of that potion. But it is hinted in the last episode hat she did have an idea who the black reaper was even though she hadn't seen his face. It could have been that her memories of the events that happened in the OVA returned.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeveral characters in the Naruto universe share their bodies with other\nentities, most of them are true allies. They share the Power both have, even\nif one has the upper hand controlling the body.\n\nMy question is, why doesn't this happen with Kyuubi and Naruto?\n\nSeveral times Kyuubi saves Naruto with his red chakra out of hairy situations.\nNaruto is aware of it and sometimes they talk to each other. \nKyuubi is an evil Daemon, sure, but due to the fact tat he would die if Naruto\ndied; and Naruto, as a Ninja, has a dangerous live; it would be in Kyuubi's\nadvantage to help out, given that his Chakra is way stronger than Naruto's.\n\nWhy don't they team up?\n\nEDIT: Question regarding **Naruto Vanilla** not **Shipuuden** or anything\nelse.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany animes have filler episodes and arcs. So this question has two parts:\n\n 1. Which anime has the most number of filler episodes? \n 2. What is the length of the longest filler arc?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPercentage wise [bleach](/questions/tagged/bleach \"show questions tagged\n'bleach'\") has the most fillers, since it has a total of:\n\n * 366 episodes\n\n * 160 filler episodes\n\nwhich means **43.4%** of the anime are fillers.\n\n[naruto](/questions/tagged/naruto \"show questions tagged 'naruto'\") and\n[naruto-shippuuden](/questions/tagged/naruto-shippuuden \"show questions tagged\n'naruto-shippuuden'\") combined have\n\n * 640 episodes\n * 238 filler (1st season 89, 2nd season 149)\n\nwhich means **37.2%** of the anime are fillers.\n\n[one-piece](/questions/tagged/one-piece \"show questions tagged 'one-piece'\")\nhas\n\n * 682 episodes\n * 97 filler episodes\n\nwhich means only 14.2% of the anime are fillers.\n\nBut if you were to look at the sheer number of filler episodes,\n[naruto](/questions/tagged/naruto \"show questions tagged 'naruto'\") has more\nfillers with 214 filler episodes.\n\nAnd I believe the longest filler arc would be in [rurouni-\nkenshin](/questions/tagged/rurouni-kenshin \"show questions tagged 'rurouni-\nkenshin'\") where the last 35 episodes were fillers.\n\nSource: Own experience, Google, [Filler Guide\n(webarchive)](https://web.archive.org/web/20170606145453/http://www.fillerguide.com/filler-\nlists)\n\n**EDIT**\n\n> \"why in your estimation, none of the longer-running series beat out Bleach\n> and Naruto under the definition of \"filler\" that others already provided\n> above\" \\- seijitsu\n\nTaking a few of your given long running samples such as [sazae-\nsan](/questions/tagged/sazae-san \"show questions tagged 'sazae-san'\") and\n[nintama-rantarou](/questions/tagged/nintama-rantarou \"show questions tagged\n'nintama-rantarou'\") makes the question quite simple to answer.\n\nIn the case of Nintama Rantarou non to barely non fillers have been aired.\nThis does not mean it did not have fillers, because they certainly had. They\nwere extras which as far as I know where only available on dvd. Furthermore\nthey did not have a plot/story to follow, which makes the only deviation the\nmoment the story would not be based on the manga, which in almost all episodes\nis the case. Also with the episode length given in this series 3 episodes\nwould be the equivalent of 1 episode in naruto and the likes, which in this\nway easily out does this particular one.\n\nIn the case of Sazae-san, Sazae-san actually **Did not have ANY filler\nepisodes**. Long running does not mean it needs fillers, there are several\nwhich never got a filler, even though they had a particularly long run time.\nHere follow a few\n\n * GE 999\n * Hoka Hoka Kazoku\n * gundam First\n * Sazae san\n * Kochi kame\n * Lupin III\n * the Super Robot Saga shows [ Maziger z Getta Robo and Grendizer]\n * Ninja Hitori kun\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed:\n\n 1. Private citizens with small pistols\n 2. Private citizens with hand-cranked machine guns\n 3. Soldiers of the old order with guns killing Sano's friends\n 4. Soldiers of the new order storming Yutaro's mansion after the rebels camped in it\n 5. Revolutionary soldiers practising stabbing motions with special sticks, while the teenage Kenshin practises swordsmanship in Trust and Betrayal\n\nSeems like the opposing factions could acquire guns in the Kenshin universe;\nit seemed to come from totally unregulated trade with foreigners, or the same\narmy which is in #2, #3 and maybe #4. Is this historically accurate? Where did\nthey all get their guns from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRemember, Rurouni Kenshin is set during the late 19th Century. This is just\nafter the American Civil War, during the British Victorian Era: the height of\nthe British Empire, and a time when the Western powers were very interested in\nthe riches of the Far East.\n\nThe Western powers were mostly laissez-faire capitalists who would allow their\npeople to trade anything with anyone; read about the [British opium trade in\nChina](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China#Growth_of_the_opium_trade)\nto get an idea of how trade worked at the time. Western traders would trade\nwhatever they could for Eastern gold, silver, tea, and silk; that included\nguns, which were plentiful and relatively inexpensive in the West--the\nJapanese Meiji Era began just a few years after the American Civil War ended,\nand there were guns everywhere in America. The factories of Britain, France,\nand Germany were also constantly spitting out rifles, revolvers, and cannons.\nIn this period, the European powers would still have a major war among\nthemselves every few years (the [Franco-Prussian\nWar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War) broke out during the\nsame timeframe that Kenshin takes place), so they all wanted to build up\nstores of arms in preparation for the next struggle.\n\nGiven that guns were everywhere in the West, that they were highly desired in\nJapan, and that Western traders desired Eastern riches, it makes sense that\nthe Western traders would trade guns to the Japanese. Although we don't see it\nin Rurouni Kenshin (to my knowledge; I only watched the anime up to the end of\nthe Kyouto Arc), I always assumed these factions got their guns by trading\ngoods like silk and tea to Westerners, or by buying them from Japanese\nmerchants who had traded for them with Westerners. This did happen\nhistorically, as [the article on Firearms of\nJapan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_of_Japan#Boshin_War) linked by\n@nhahtdh tells us.\n\nAs for the regulatory side, things in general were much less regulated back\nthen. The Western governments of this era had little power to regulate trade,\ndue to corruption and cronyism. Even if they were able to regulate trade, they\ndidn't have any incentive to do so; Western governments wanted their merchants\nto trade in Japan and bring the riches back home. The Japanese government had\nno power to regulate trade on its end either; it had seen what happened when\nthe Chinese tried to stop the opium trade, and knew it could do almost nothing\nto regulate foreign trade until its military was modernized.\n\nFrom what I can remember, the guns in Rurouni Kenshin are historically\naccurate to the period; the Gatling gun [was very new at the time, having been\ninvented during the American Civil\nWar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatling_gun). Revolvers, like the famous\nColt, were also common in the West. According to the article @nhahtdh linked\non [Firearms of Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_of_Japan),\nfirearms from before the Tokugawa period were matchlocks based on the\nPortuguese [arquebus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arquebus). Many of these\nwere destroyed during the Tokugawa period, but some remained, and after the\narrival of Perry, they were converted to\n[flintlocks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintlock) as part of the\nmodernization effort (see also [the fourth paragraph,\nhere](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arquebus#History)).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually the Gatling Gun to me seems to be a fusion of the Maxim's exterior\nwith the Gatling Gun's mechanism. I say this because all known examples of\nGatling guns shows multiple barrels in a circle that rotates and loads with\nthe cranking of the shaft. For the whole story on the Gatling gun visit:\n<http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a22451/history-gatling-gun/>.\n\nImage of a known Maxim gun <http://www.deactivated-\nguns.co.uk/images/uploads/1a1a44max/1a1a44max-034853_3.jpg>. go rewatch\nepisode 11 at about 11:38 then look at the maxim. the 2 guns are similar\nexcept the crank and the missing water cooling system\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, for the most part. The animators were very discreet to make sure the guns\nthat were prevalent were accurate to what Japan had, made or were attainable\nat the time. The series was set 10 years after the Boshin War ending or early\n1878. At the time the US and other nations were supplying new firearms to the\nMeiji's Imperial military. By 1868, Japan adopted the \"Snider-Enfield\"\nbreechloader as it's standard service rifle which remained in service til\n1880. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Od0hW.jpg)\n\nAccurately seen and depicted in the anime specifically in episode 22. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWIqT.jpg)\n\nIn Episode 6, Gohei attempts to kill kenshin with a Colt Walker revolver.\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GV4SO.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CKzQg.jpg)\n\nThe most infamous gun was Kanryu's \"Gatling Gun\" thou Many gatlings were made,\nduring the Boshin war the Shogunate managed to get 2. Kanryu's gatling gun\ndoesn't appear like any other, namely the gun only has One visible barrel.\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RYZMN.jpg)\nThis is erronenous as the weapon more closely resemble Hiram Maxim's machine\ngun, which wasn't invented til 1884. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/N8u0X.jpg)\nThis is a more accurate representation of a gatling, the Colt 1874. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ieP9Z.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlease I would like to know if it is possible or stated in any official\nresource.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the Old Kai used his [Unlock\nAbility](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Kai%27s_Unlock_Ability) to\nreleased Gohan ultimate form, he actually released his full potential. \n**Meaning** , this is the best that Gohan could get at this time been.\n\nAlthough it's only my opinion and not an official resource, Gohan could not\ntransform into super saiyan not only because it's a weaker form, also it's\nbecause a new individual form entirely. \nAnd that's why he didn't transform into a super saiyan when he reached this\nlevel at the first place.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid Nami undergo a breast operation by Chopper? ;-)\n\n\n\nAll joking aside!\n\n**How could an 18 year old girl's breasts grow so large within 2 years?**\nAfter the time skip, Luffy became 19 and Nami turned 20. I know that in the\nworld of One Piece, everything is possible, **but why did the producers change\nher breasts?**\n\nThis cannot be a coincidence:\n\n\n\nFrom [a comment on\nFacebook](http://new1.fjcdn.com/comments/Holy+just+imagine+how+large+nami+s+breasts+would+be+_f36ad77dc2549159bea1387dc2459b48.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI doubt there is a legitimate plot based reason for this, and it's more to do\nwith giving more fanservice to the audience and perhaps the animators refining\nthe character design over time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOda answered this question himself in [Volume 36, chapter\n342](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_36#Chapter_342.2C_Page_126).\n**Nami's breast grew so much, because she was still young and in her growth\nphase.** Especially with the two years timeskip, they had plenty of time to\ngrow!\n\n> **Reader** : Good day, Oda-sensei. You know, that Nami-chan is so\n> gorgeous!!! That beauty, that figure! I'm already swooning ♡ By the way,\n> when you compare her to the Nami-chan in Volume 1, haven't her breasts grown\n> somewhat? by Saori-chan\n>\n> **Oda** : Yep. I get this a lot. But when you consider that **she's only 18,\n> she's still in her growth phase**. She's got more room to grow! I'll give it\n> my best!! (←?) And Robin's only 28! I'll give it my best!! (←?)\n\nAfter I ended up reading more of the SBS answers, more measurements were\nrevealed. So as we are all curious as to the question _how much_ they have\ngrown, I will additionally post those in the answer, **Nami's sizes!**\n\nIn [Volume 6, chapter\n49](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_6#Chapter_49.2C_Page_104) Nami's\n[Bust/Waist/Hip (BWH)\nmeasurements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust/waist/hip_measurements) are\nrevealed to be **86/57/86**.\n\n> **Reader** : When the question came up about Nami's measurements, you\n> promised to tell us sometime. So when are you going to tell us?!!\n>\n> **Oda** : Hehe. I have made a friend that comes in quite handy for this. His\n> eye is quite accurate. It's the \"weird chef\", who can tell a girl's\n> measurements with just one look, Sanji-san!!\n>\n> **Sanji** : Shitty guy! I'm not \"weird\"!! It's \"love\", I'm a \"cook who\n> loves\"!! Oh but, you called me. I get it, leave it to me. Nami-san's cute,\n> isn't she. She also has style to match. Now, let's take a look... **B 86! W\n> 57! H 86!** No doubt about it!! But she's so cuuuuute. She's definitely a\n> thief. But I still like her!!\n\nLater in [Volume 37, chapter\n353](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_37#Chapter_353.2C_Page_146),\nwhich was still before the timeskip, it was revealed that her bust size had\ngrown to 95, making her new BWH measurements **95/55/85**.\n\n> **Reader** : Hi, Oda-sensei! In Volume 36 you were saying that Nami's\n> breasts had grown in size from years ago, so what are her 3 sizes now? I'd\n> bet that every man in the country is dying to know this, so don't hold out\n> on us!\n>\n>  \n> Nami: Height 169 B 95 W 55 H 85. Robin: Height 188 B 99 W 59 H 89\n\nLater, in [Volume 42, chapter\n406](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_42#Chapter_406.2C_Page_146),\nwhich was again before the timeskip, Oda confirmed that Nami's and Robin's\nbreasts were **I cups**.\n\n> **Reader** : I am \"Sogeking-ko\", a proponent of all healthy young boys\n> everywhere! Healthy young boys of this country!! Remember the question in\n> the SBS of Volume 41, asking about Nami-san's cup size?! According to my\n> rotoscopic vision, Nami-san's under bust size is 65. So her regular bust\n> size of 95 would make her an I cup!!! (donnn) That's HUGE!!! I'm a D cup...\n> Boys... can you accept this answer??\n>\n> **Oda** : Well, I must say I received a lot of answers to this question from\n> my female readers. Thank you for your detailed and in-depth explanations.\n> But you know, the boys aren't gonna read any of these complicated, difficult\n> answers, so I'm just gonna report on the most common result! **Nami and\n> Robin are I cups. Wow.**\n\nFinally, in [Volume 69, chapter\n686](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_69#Chapter_686.2C_Page_166),\nafter the timeskip, her new size were revealed to be **98/58/88, J cup**. It\nseems like she had grown a bit more. I wonder when her growth phase will end.\n\n> **Reader** : About the mystery of Nami-san's New World bust size from volume\n> 66, I would like to provide my opinion as an employee at LADIES' INNER.\n> Nami-san's bust size is most likely a \"J Cup\". There is a possibility that\n> she may have even grown bigger than this. ...If my calculations are correct,\n> her band measurement is 63cm, and her bust is 98cm. If we were to use these\n> measurements, she would end up being a \"K\"; however, right now in Japan,\n> there is no such thing as a \"K\" cup. She'd have to order from overseas. Oui,\n> in other words, non-standardized!!! Well, personally, I'd say that Nami-san\n> is a \"Nami Cup\". (Boiing)\n>\n> P.N. Shimizu Chageburo's secret fan\n>\n> (Translator's Note- LADIES' INNER is a Japanese female underwear chain\n> store.)\n>\n> **Oda** : Alright. Boys, the day has finally come. This fire that readers\n> started on volume 66. Thank you all for submitting these countless letters.\n> Sanji-kun! Has your nosebleed stopped yet!? Now, give them the presentation!\n>\n> **Sanji** : Yeah... sorry about last time. So it's Nami-san and Robin-chan's\n> current 3 sizes, right? They did in fact grow in size, but don't be\n> tricked!! In these 2 years, what really improved is their \"sexiness\"!\n>\n> **Nami- B: 98 (J Cup), W: 58, H: 88**\n>\n> Robin- B: 100 (J Cup), W: 60, H: 90\n\n* * *\n\nDisclaimer: I am no expert on women's sizes and measurements, so if I had made\na wrong interpretation somewhere, please forgive me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor body size her breasts are far too large to have not been enhanced. They\nget so large due to maturity, but usually only going up a cup and a half to\ntwo cups in size, and a lot of this is also determined by body mass. With her\nbody size and figure she would have not naturally grown breasts that large\nwithout outside aid.\n\nGranted I am speaking from a real life perspective, and with a toon you can do\nall sorts of illogical body proportions. I think this is mainly to attract\nmale readers who for the most part don't care unless it has boobs and a tight\nbutt. XD\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been playing Dangan Ronpa 2 and one of the Monokuma theaters that act as\nshort intervals was done in Morse code.\n\nWhat does it mean?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTyping it out and using a tool to translate it reveals the message:\n\n> **BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR KUMATINE**\n\nMysterious.\n\nThis is in fact a reference to [_A Christmas\nStory_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story), in which the\nprotagonist Ralphie gets his decoder ring and feverishly tries to decode the\nradio's message. The message turns out to be \"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine\"\n- a very disappointing advertisement, rather than the 'spy' message he was\nhoping to obtain.\n\n> \"Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch! \"\n\nKuma is Japanese for Bear (Mono kuma - Mono Bear), which is where that part of\nthe message comes from.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI finished the anime and I still wonder what Kurisu said to Okabe in the first\nepisode.\n\nShe pulls Okabe out of the conference and says \"Back there, you were going to\ntell me something, weren't you?\" and Okabe responds \"Back there?\". Kurisu says\n\"About fifteen minutes ago\" and Okabe says \"I don't have the slightest idea\".\n\nI guess it has something to do with\n\n> time travel and World Line travel in episodes 23 and 24, but unfortunately I\n> didn't watch those episodes that carefully.\n\nHowever, what did Okabe intend to say to Kurisu, and where, and when?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAround 9 minutes into episode 24 (try watching from 08:30), Okabe from the\nfuture (episode 24 Okabe) bumped into Kurisu on the stairs in the radio hall\nbuilding. He was going to say he would save her, but got interrupted by an\nannouncement over the PA system and ran off.\n\nIn episode 1, Kurisu dragged Okabe (episode 1 Okabe) from the lecture, asking\nwhat he was going to tell her \"about 15 minutes ago\". He didn't know as he was\nepisode 1 Okabe and the one she met was episode 24 Okabe.\n\nIf you don't understand how that works... Well, that's time travel for you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, if you watch episode 23 when Okabe finds out he kills Kurisu, he screams\nlike a baby just lost its pacifier. Then if you re-watch episode 1, at the\nbeginning just as he's talking to Mayuri about the metal Upa being lost, he\nhears a scream then goes to check where Kurisu is lying there dead. This is\nthe exact same scream as the one in episode 23.\n\nSo, this is the universe where Okabe fails to save her. He mutters as he sees\nher face again saying \"I'm just here to see...\" This is where he gets cut off\nfrom the voice about Kurisu's father's lecture. So, this is just the Okabe\nfrom the future (or present depending on how you look at it) talking to the\npast or present Kurisu but having a discontinued talk.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn anime, strands of hair often disappear or stop short in front of the eyes.\nI've seen this often enough that maybe there's a reason or at least an origin\nof the pattern.\n\nWhy do the artists do this?\n\n(Or do these anime characters actually have bangs?)\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince emotions are best expressed through the eyes, they are usually made\nvisible even if the character has bangs or wear glasses. There are exceptions,\nwhen the author wants to give the character a mysterious aura, or to hide the\ncharacter's emotion momentarily. However, the eyes are usually shown\nregardless when it is necessary to clearly portray the determination of the\ncharacter.\n\nBeing able to see the eyes of a character is important - but why put the hair\nthere in the first place? This is to distinguish characters from each other.\nDisallowing hair in front of the face limits the amount of hairstyles that can\nbe used. Also, the characters generally face the camera, meaning that they\nneed to be distinguishable from the front too.\n\n\n\nGenerally, if the hair isn't completely obstructing the eye or eyebrows, it\nwould be fine to leave out the detail on the eye, but it's become the norm in\nanime so animators probably don't think twice about doing it. It also saves\nhaving to worry about the eye looking odd when partially hidden.\n\n[In a forum post\nhere](http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=19397), one user\nsuggests an alternative way of drawing such cases, in which the hair gradually\nbecomes translucent as it nears the eyes, so the characters expressions can be\nseen more naturally.\n\n\n\n 1. No Transparency\n 2. Transparency\n 3. Gradual Translucency\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently rewatched the series and noticed that in episode 10, Shiba Tatsuya\nwas wearing a course 1 uniform in the ball. I'm thus confused whether this is\na formal wear, or to prevent discrimination from occurring in the ball, or\nperhaps a mistake by the studio.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nValid points are stated in this\n[video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfv5a9QFu8).\n\n> In Western countries, anime is thought of as Eastern animation. In Eastern\n> countries, all animation are thought of as anime.\n\nSo this question kind of leads to what is an anime? Does having a published\nmanga a requirement to become an anime? Let's settle this once and for all, is\n_Avatar: the Last Airbender_ an anime or not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Anime_ basically translates to _animation_ , so the Japanese don't really\nhave a distinction. Claymation for example could qualify as 'anime' in the\nEast.\n\n\n\nFrom a Western perspective, 'anime' is a looser term, generally meaning\nanimations from Japan, but sometimes it's applied to Western shows with the\nanime 'look', like RWBY or Avatar.\n\nThere's no strict guideline on what qualifies as anime and what doesn't, and\narguments arise frequently online by people with different opinions on this.\n\nIt's safest to say Avatar is **anime-styled**.\n\nIn regards to the 'manga' of Avatar, it seems to be commonly referred to as a\ncomic rather than a manga. But the format of this should have no bearing on\nthe animated production.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere really isn't much point in arguing about whether Avatar or whatever is\nan anime or not.\n\nReally, all you're doing is looking at the definition of the word anime, and\nthere is no authority on that.\n\nDepending who you ask, it's a style of animation, probably including shows\nsuch as Avatar and RWBY but not the Simpsons, or it just means cartoons from\nJapan, in which case Avatar is definitely excluded.\n\nBecause of this ambiguity, there isn't a simple, accepted answer to your\nquestion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe other answers are being unnecessarily noncommittal. The meaning of the\nword _anime_ has different connotations in the West and in Japan. No, _Avatar_\nis not an anime, speaking in English.\n\nIn the West - more specifically, in English - _animation_ is a general term\nthat means all animated media, yes including claymation and cartoons. In\nJapanese, _anime_ is a borrowed word derived from _animation_ , and it means\nthe same thing as the original word.\n\nAfter Japanese animated works crossed over to Western audiences, the word\n_anime_ was then borrowed back to refer to animated works from that country,\nespecially those with the style we would naturally describe as \"anime\".\n\n_Avatar_ is a show created in the west that was heavily influenced by asian\nculture and anime. It was designed and created in the West. It was not created\nin Japan, and it does not have the style that English-speakers would call\n\"anime\" -- it has influences, but would never be identified as anime if placed\nnext to a show like _Baccano!_ or _Sailor Moon_. The show's style is distinct\nfrom other western cartoons because of the Asian influence, but the incredible\nvariety in animation style among Western cartoons is also a distinct flavor of\nAmerican-designed animation. And _animation_ includes everything already.\n_Avatar_ doesn't match any criteria - I use that word loosely, since it's more\na mass understanding than a checklist - to be called anime.\n\nSaying that there's ambiguity in what is and is not anime is like saying that\nthere is no style that an English-speaker would recognize specifically as\n\"anime\" at all, which is untrue. And I don't want to read any mentions of\n_Avatar_ being animated in Korea, because no-one will ever call _Family Guy_\nand most other American cartoon TV shows \"anime.\"\n\n\\--Edit because I forgot to address the manga part--\n\nAlso no, the comics are not _manga_ , speaking in English, for the same\nreasons as above. There are plenty of anime that don't have manga, so it's not\nany kind of requirement, to begin with.\n\nLike _anime_ , the word _manga_ was borrowed by Western audiences to refer\nspecifically to Japanese comics. In Japanese, the word _manga_ is equivalent\nto the English _comic_. So someone speaking Japanese would call _The Promise_\n\"manga\" because that's the Japanese word for such works, like _Calvin &\nHobbes_ or _X-Men_. As with _Family Guy_ , there are no English speakers who\nwould describe _X-Men_ with the Japanese word unless they were speaking\nJapanese.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**The term comes from Japanese, and in that language, yes: Avatar is anime.**\nAs used in Japanese, the term simply refers to animation, and does not\ndistinguish it by nation of origin. **But as a loanword in other languages,\nhowever, Avatar usually doesn't qualify**. Most languages other than Japanese\nhave borrowed the term _anime_ to refer specifically to animation of Japanese\norigin.\n\nAnime-as-loanword is a somewhat fuzzy term, but generally refers specifically\nto the animation's _origin_ , and not necessarily where it is _produced_.\n**Much of what we would call anime is actually produced outside of Japan** :\nit originates there, but the production is outsourced to studios in other\ncountries. _Kaleido Star_ is an example of this: its origin is Japanese, but\nmuch of the work was done as a collaboration between Japanese studio GONZO and\nKorean studio G&G Animation.\n\n**Likewise, a surprising amount of animation that we wouldn't call anime\noriginates outside Japan, but the animation work is outsourced to a Japanese\ncompany**. _ThunderCats_ is an example in both its incarnations: few people\noutside of Japan would call it anime, but the animation work _was_ done there\n(the 1980s TV series was done by Pacific Animation, while the recent series\nwas done by Studio 4C).\n\n**_Avatar: The Last Airbender_ represents a third category: it is neither of\nJapanese origin nor production, but is so heavily influenced by anime tropes\nthat it can be difficult to tell the difference without researching the show's\ncredits**. The creators are American. The animation work on the original\nseries was outsourced to a number of Korean companies. A few episodes of its\nsequel series, _The Legend of Korra_ actually were animated in Japan (by\nStudio Pierrot), but most of the animation work on this series was done by a\nKorean company: Studio Mir. But despite the franchise's origin and production,\nthe influence of anime on it is extremely strong, as its own creators admit.\nAnime's influence can be seen in virtually every aspect of the franchise, from\nits visual styling to its world-building to its character depictions.\n\n**Whether this makes it count as anime, or at least as \"close enough\", is a\nsubject of debate among some fans**. In the strictest sense, it doesn't\nqualify unless you're speaking Japanese. But if it's indistinguishable from\nanime without closely examining the credits, then perhaps there isn't much\nsense in insisting on the distinction. So, at least, say the people who would\ninclude it. There are also fans who agree that it's \"not technically anime,\"\nbut consider it close enough that it should be included in anime fandom anyway\n(\"honorary anime\" is a term you hear from this camp sometimes).\n\n**Even in Japan there is some debate, in a case of what can only be described\nas linguistic ping-pong**. It's common knowledge that the term _anime_ was\nborrowed (in abbreviated form) from English, to mean animation. English then\nre-imported the term, referring specifically to anime of Japanese origin. And\nalthough it has yet to really hit the mainstream, some Japanese fans have\ntaken to re- _re_ -importing the term, this time in the unabbreviated form\n_animation_ , to refer to animation of _non_ -Japanese origin.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have recently started watching Code Geass, and I find the soundtrack\nabsolutely amazing! There is one song in particular that I would like to find\nthe name of.\n\nIt starts playing at about 20:14 in the episode \"Geass vs Geass\" where\n[Lelouch goes to hug Shirley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=091vibikAOE). I\nthink it may be called \"Lelouch of the Rebellion\", but I am not sure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is\n[_Masquerade_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLvfKm_eYfo&t=27m49s), which is\nTrack 13 on the first OST according to the metadata on my iPhone/iPod.\n\n> **Masquerade** \n> _Vocals: Hitomi \n> Lyrics: Kuroishi Hitomi \n> Composition: Kuroishi Hitomi_\n\nWhile I can't time the song perfectly to where I believe [it starts in the\nepisode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fTprZ-2sBc&t=20m14s), one point that\nmakes me believe they are the same song is at\n[0:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLvfKm_eYfo&t=28m41s) of the song which\nmatches the song at\n[20:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fTprZ-2sBc&t=20m54s) of the episode\n(in the link)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only place I could find it is\n[here](https://www.bilibili.com/video/av384332/). Could find it neither on\niTunes nor youtube. ¯\\\\_(ツ)_/¯\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm watching [Death Parade](http://myanimelist.net/anime/28223/Death_Parade)\nright now and I just heard about [Death\nBilliards](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14353/Death_Billiards), which seems to\nbe a predecessor work for Death Parade. A one-shot of sorts, or so it seems.\nI'd like to know without spoiling the rest of D.P. how the two works are\nrelated, and if it's recommended to watch D.B. before D.P.\n\n_Update:_ After seeing Death Billiards, I'd say it's best to watch it after\nepisode 2 of Death Parade, but before episode 7. D.B. is pretty much like the\nfirst episode of D.P., but with different bar customers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDeath Billiards was an OVA, and indeed a 'once-off' type of show. It's very\nsimilar to the current series and you could probably drop it in as a longer\nepisode.\n\nSome of the surprises will have already been revealed in Death Parade, but it\nshould still be entertaining as it's mostly focusing on the billiards, rather\nthan what goes on behind the bar.\n\nIt's the same location and such, just billiards instead of darts or another\ngame. It's not necessary viewing for Death Parade either as there aren't any\nplot points that haven't been covered by the first few episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt probably makes the most sense to watch _Death Billiards_ before _Death\nParade_ because it is a pilot episode and the TV series makes a passing\nreference to the bar customers from the movie. Chronologically speaking, the\nstory of _Death Billiards_ takes place sometime after episode 5 and before\nepisode 10 of _Death Parade_.\n\n> If you take note of the roulette board in _Death Billiards_ , it actually\n> featured _Chavvot_. This roulette board was only switched in from the\n> beginning of episode 5 of _Death Parade_ at Nona's request. In the first\n> four episodes of _Death Parade_ (and in episode 6 at Ginti's bar), the\n> roulette board only had a generic symbol on it. \n> \n> The old woman who died and arrived at Quindecim in episode 10 of _Death\n> Parade_ was revealed to be the wife of the old man in _Death Billiards_ , as\n> shown on her set of cards and in her flashback. Also, during a flashback of\n> the old man in _Death Billiards_ , it was hinted that he passed away before\n> his wife. Therefore, _Death Billiards_ should occur before episode 10 of\n> _Death Parade_.\n\n@nhahtdh made a good argument that we could further restrict the occurrence of\nthe events in _Death Billiards_ to that before episode 8\n\n> if we take Chiyuki's mentality into consideration. She couldn't have been as\n> relaxed as was shown at the end of _Death Billiards_ if she had just sat\n> through the trial of the two killers in episodes 8 and 9.\n\nIf you want to watch _Death Billiards_ in between the _Death Parade_ episodes,\nyou should watch it after episode 6 and before episode 7 (or 8, the next best\nchoice) because the only billiards game in _Death Parade_ is played in episode\n7, which lasted only about 90 seconds and commenced without any explanation to\nthe rules of the game, so it would be a nice continuity to finish the movie\nfirst and then jump back to watch episode 7.\n\n* * *\n\n**TL;DR:** Watch _Death Billiards_ either before episode 1 or in-between\nepisodes 6 and 7 of _Death Parade_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Namek exploded, what happened to the Namekian Dragon Balls?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn **chapter 327** , the Namekians were sent to Earth by using Porunga's third\nand last wish. As mentioned by Grand Elder, it seemed that at that time the\nDragon Balls had followed him to Earth.\n\nThen **in chapter 329** , after being on Earth for a year, the Namekians\nwished to be sent to New Namek together with their Dragon Balls.\n\nSo basically the Dragon Balls moved about together with the Namekians from\nNamek to Earth to New Namek.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mnvac.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PV9mI.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am following the anime through EpisodeCalendar and there is no episode 12.5.\nIs this episode a filler or part of the original story? (That is, would I miss\nany part of the story if I skipped this episode?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDurarara episode 12.5, \"[Justice Is Slow But\nSure](http://durarara.wikia.com/wiki/Durarara!!_Episode_12.5)\" isn't a recap\nepisode. It and [episode\n25](http://durarara.wikia.com/wiki/Durarara!!_Episode_25) are DVD only\nepisodes that actually have some semblence of plot to them (as much plot as\nyou get with Durarara). It's not related to any of the main plotlines, though,\nespecially the:\n\n> overarching yellow scarves/dollars that's part of the later half of the\n> first season.\n\nSo it's kind of a side story. You can treat them as OVAs.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[The\nOST](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Toaru_Kagaku_no_Railgun_S_Original_Soundtrack_2)\nin question can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75dFt2STxIk).\nI'm looking for where it was played in the anime.\n\nThe title says \"Saijaku VS Saikyou (最弱 VS 最強),\" which translates to \"Weakest\nvs Strongest,\" but I don't seem to hear it in Touma vs Accelerator's battle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt plays when Accelerator is fighting Touma(In Saijaku vs Saikyou E14).\nForward to around **4 minute 30 second** mark and you'll see it's not very\nemphatic but yeah gives the fight some taste.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthis song was featured on the Railgun S OST but it first appeared in \"a\ncertain magical index\", episode 14 which was actually titled the same as the\nsong, \"strongest vs weakest\", viewable here\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NV2fR2cdRQ> but since your post does request\nwhen it appears in relevance to the Railgun series that would be episode 4\nwhen Touma is fighting Misaka under the bridge at night. here's a clip of it\ndirectly from funimation's official channel\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lEtG-CJ9IY> in the Railgun S series it was\nswapped for the soundtrack from OST volume 2 #16 \"Ketsui to kakugo\" in the\nTouma vs Accelerator fight which took place in episode 15.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 421, we see Natsu tickle Lucy's feet. Nothing out of the ordinary,\nyet he gets called a creep/sicko perv. So is tickling someone's feet\nconsidered a pervert act in Japan?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI thought she was just embarrassed because lately he's asked her to join a\nbath and blown fire between her legs so maybe she assumed he was trying to\nstart being perverted and stopped him (even though this time I doubt he meant\nit as a perverted way at all but he HAS _been_ a pervert so can you blame\nher?).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLucy calls the guys perverts a lot. It's sort of her thing.\n\nShe calls Natsu a pervert in part because there seems to be a running gag of\nhim coming into her personal space unannounced and unwelcome.\n\nIt goes along with the running gag of Gray always taking his clothes off...\nand getting called a pervert.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've heard from a lot of people that season 2 of the Gunslinger Girl anime\nadaptation is significantly more upbeat and brighter than the original, and\nloses the feeling of dark, morbid 'beauty', yet apparently, the second season\nfollows the manga a lot closer.\n\nDoes the corresponding parts of the manga also have a more cheerful feel? (I\nonly watched the anime, didn't read the manga)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSimple answer is **no**. I think so, because\n\n> Many _gitai_ (girls) died: Henrietta, Rico, Triela, Angelica, Beatrice,\n> Silvia, ...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to point out that Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- style and colour\nscheme is a lot different from Gunslinger Girl. However it does still have\nit's darkness to it and it does follow the manga comics closer. Although I\nfeel like it basically a remake of Gunslinger Girl but with a slightly\nbrighter feeling to it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid the whole village get burned down? How about the girl? The whole thing\nseems quite incomplete to me. Can someone explain the ending?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's an open-ended finale. After the credits, there are still 30 seconds that\nyou might have missed. All this is conjecture: the village burned but as fire\npass away (purification) the survivors rebuilt it and the villagers' life goes\non. The only Shiki whose status we're not sure about (for romantic reasons)\nare Sunako, the little girl of the mansion, and the head monk; either they\nburnt in the church or survived.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs others have said there were a few seconds after the ending credits and it\nwas more of an open ending I personally take solace in how it ended being that\nI myself could not find a better way to end it that supported the themes and\nmessages it seemed to convey. The point is that nothing is truly good and\nnothing is truly evil. Both the humans and vampires committed immoral acts\ntowards one another with self preservation in mind All that exists is\nperspective there were a few other anime I enjoyed that made me feel the same\nway over the years. Shiki being recently added to that list. But boy was that\na sad anime the truth is blunt and unyielding.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSunako and the monk got away. And probably began spreading their disease from\nthere. They will most likely stick to low level feeding rather than the full\nvillage conversion. Since that turned out really bad.\n\nThe vampires were clearly aggressors as they preyed on the villagers. We start\nout really hating the vampires. In addition to that, we also hate the\nvillagers too for being so docile and complacent. They had numerous warnings\nthat they were being attacked by vampires, but no one took it seriously.\nEventually the doctor and the monk figured it out but the doctor quickly\nturned into a blood feud.\n\nBy the end of the season, we no longer feel sorry for the villagers as they\nhave now banded together and have turned the tide of the war. Instead, we feel\nsorry for the vampires since only a small handful of them actually attempted\nto fight back. The vampire faction were simply not prepared for a united\nfront. Ninety percent of the vampires were simply running away with white\nflags over their heads. And the villagers pretty much demolished them.\n\nThe writers wants us to feel sorry for the vampires especially how sad music\nkept playing whenever one of them died. The story was pretty tragic.\n\nThere was definitely a better way to settle this. But that would make an\nuninteresting story. Like authorities could be called in. Police, soldiers,\nand helicopters could gun the vampires down and then strap their immortal\nbodies to a stretcher. And then send them to some underground military clinic\nto run experiments on them. lol. Help find a cure and also produce new\nvampires without the bloodsucking and daylight phobia drawbacks. lol\n\nAnyways. Watching the villagers go vigilante was definitely an interesting\nturn. Just bodies everywhere.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was interesting to say the least but as many people have said it seems\nincomplete\n\nThe ending of shiki was an open ending where the viewer has to imagine for\nhim/her self what happened\n\nIn the end it does show that the monk survived and had a briefcase (with the\ngirl inside) driving down what we can only assume is the national road spoken\nof in the anime\n\nThis kind of ending also allows a continuation of it Mabey a shiki2 or season\n2 Mabey from the vampires perspective who knows\n\nBut since it was ended in 2010 8 years ago its unlikely of animators to make\nanother season (as sad as that may be)\n\nOne real question is how did the boy get back when he was tied up for the\nvampire (Mabey it was explained and I missed it but if not I'd like to know)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI apologize in advance for the lack of details. This is an anime movie which\nI've watched a long time ago on TV, and I've only seen the ending. I remember\na scene in which there was a man and woman talking, and one of them betrayed\nthe other and shot them.\n\nThe animation style resembles something from the Lensman era, so I'm thinking\n'80s or early '90s. I distinctively remember it due to the fact that it was\none of the first animations, if not movies in general, that had important non-\nvillain characters dying.\n\nAnyway, the one detail I distinctively remember is that every time a person\ndied, it was depicted as a white bird flying away, as if the person's soul was\ngoing to heaven.\n\nAt the end, there was a guy lying down, leaning on a rock, apparently dying,\npossibly regretting something he had done, or a choice he made. He was looking\nat the sky, and then you see a white bird flying away, implying he had died.\nThe bird then joined a whole bunch of other white birds, implying something\nabout his choice having caused a lot of people to die, or something to that\nextent. It was all very symbolic, but I was young, and started watching it\nnear the end, so I could only just barely follow.\n\nI also think it was possibly sci-fi, but not 100% sure.\n\nAnyway, while I realize it's a long-shot, I would like to know if anyone has a\nclue what movie it was, so maybe I can watch it again from the start, and\nactually get it this time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are some similarities with\n[**Windaria**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windaria)\n\n> The mountainous kingdom of Paro and the coastal city-state of Itha had been\n> at peace for over a century. They would have remained that way but for the\n> ambitions of Paro's power-hungry king. Paro invaded Itha, despite the love\n> between Jill, Paro's prince, and Ahanas, Itha's princess. Caught between\n> duty and emotion, the star-crossed lovers were forced to fight a war to its\n> bitter conclusion. Isu was a simple farmer from the neutral village of Saki,\n> but he saved Itha from being destroyed by a spy from Paro, and found himself\n> hungering for wealth and glory that the Ithan monarchy could provide. Agents\n> from Paro made him an offer to fulfill his wishes, and he left his wife\n> Marin behind in what would turn into a battlefield between the two kingdoms.\n\n * As stated on its [TVTropes page](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Windaria):\n\n> In this story, the soul takes the form of a bird of red light, and flies off\n> to a mysterious airship over the ocean.\n\nHence, there is the connection between bird and death, but the color of the\nbirds doesn't match.\n\n * The [final scene](http://youtu.be/4XVY5tm_qqI?t=1h26m50s) is similar to what you described. The main character felt that he had betrayed his own town by abandoning his fiancée. He regretted what he had done and decided to come back, but what he saw was only desolation. Eventually, he met his fiancée, but after a brief talk, he realized that she was only her ghost, who then took the form of a bird and flew away.\n\n * [This](http://youtu.be/4XVY5tm_qqI?t=1h16m20s) can be the scene with a man and a woman talking: she killed him and then committed suicide.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Battle of Fairy Tail, no one mentions the S-Class wizard, Gildartz,\nwhen suggesting who is the strongest. Why does no one remember him? Do they\nassume that he would be on a mission that would take too long, and would take\nperfect timing for him to show up?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe is mentioned. In chapter 119, Mystogan mentioned him to be the strongest of\nFairy Tail and I quote:\n\n> Mystogan: I have little interest in such things, but I would propose\n> Gildartz. \n> Laxus: Eh, he's no use... He ain't coming back.\n\nPresumably, Laxus knew Gildartz was undertaking the 100 year job involving\nAcnologia and had assumed him to have died, since no one else has ever come\nback from that mission alive.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IRiR8.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you ask about the anime specifically, there is a different reason as to why\nhe is never mentioned.\n\nThis is because it was never expected to reach the point when Gildarts would\nshow up, so instead of mentioning a character who wouldn't appear in the\nanime, they left him out completely.\n\nThe anime ended up lasting longer, and his character is still introduced as\nnormally intended - the only change is that there is no mention of him before\nthat point.\n\n> In the manga, Gildarts is mentioned several times as being the strongest\n> Mage within Fairy Tail before his actual appearance. However, there had been\n> no indications or mentions of him in the anime prior to Episode 74. This was\n> because the anime was initially supposed to stop before his appearance.\n\n[Source:](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Gildarts_Clive#Trivia) First bullet\nin the 'trivia' section. This is the answer to a question asked at a\nconvention, I think, although I can't remember which one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember reading a manga a few years ago about that features a boy who\ndresses as a girl and his twin sister.\n\nThe backstory of the two was that the boy did not go to school and dressed as\na girl at home to impostor his twin sister to escape their father's abuse, as\nhe does not usually abuse his sister or abuse him when she is around. One time\nhowever, the father ends up abusing the twin sister (he was drunk or\nsomething), kissing her hair, saying it reminds him of their mother. Later the\ntwin sister goes to their actual mother (who is divorced with him) for help\nbut the mother brushes her daughter off, telling her to solve her own\nproblems. So when it happens again (or something like that), she shaves her\nhead completely.\n\nSince then, even after her hair grew out, the twin sister does not let anyone\ntouch her hair - not even her brother - with the exception of her female best\nfriend (that if I remember correctly she has some romantic feelings for?).\n\nAnother detail I recall is that the father was a photographer and obsessed\nover taking pictures of a bird he has, but at some point the bird dies but I\ndon't remember why.\n\nThe story is set after all of these have taken place, and is told in the\nperspective of another boy who goes to the same school as the two of them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm quite sure it is [**Hanayashiki no\nJuunintachi**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=28423).\n\nSynopsis from mangaupdates:\n\n> Sakura Aki is a penniless high schooler who likes to cook and does other\n> \"unmanly\" things. His grandfather and father are disciplinary on gender\n> roles and beat up Aki everytime he does a thing that women would usually do,\n> like cleaning. When his father leaves him absolutely broke, and with his\n> grandfather realizing Aki's \"unmanly\" flaws, he sends him to live at one of\n> the dorms at an all girls' school that he runs, a school where distinguished\n> young ladies of the country attend, the Hanayashiki - Flower Estate-, to\n> teach him a lesson.\n\nSakura Aki is the name of the boy who went to the same school as the two girls\n- the twin sister (Ayame) and her best friend (Renge).\n\n* * *\n\nThe background story about the twin brother (Kakitsubata) and sister (Ayame)\nis told in **chapter 8 and 9** from the point of view of the twin sister.\nActually, it's mostly about how Ayame developed androphobia and personality\ndisorder due to unhappy family, and also how she and Renge became close\nfriends. Your description in the question matches the content of these 2\nchapters quite well, so I will just put up some images to show the\nsimilarities.\n\nThis page from chapter 8 shows Ayame in the past with shoulder-length hair,\nand a picture of the blue bird, which their father was obsessed with. Their\nfather also kept a bird of the same species in a cage in his room.\n\n\n\nAnother page from chapter 9 shows Ayame cutting her hair off to \"solve the\nproblem\", since her hair was grabbed by her father during the previous\nincident where she was about to be punched. She later shaved her hair clean\nand wore a wig to class instead.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have read the first chapter of this manga in 2014. There was only 1 chapter\nof the manga when I read.\n\nThe main heroine considered herself an average girl, and she had a female\nfriend whom she considered a very beautiful girl and the perfect heroine.\nHowever, when the MC met her, she saw that her friend was being sucked into a\nportal.\n\nWhen they woke up, it seemed that the summoner was supposed to summon the\nGoddess of Creation (I think). In the confusion, the beautiful girl was\nmistaken as the Goddess (since the MC was average), but the MC found out that\nshe herself was actually the Goddess. So the MC's plan was just to support her\nfriend to play as the Goddess, while the MC herself made miracle behind her\nback...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are Parasites in Parasyte, and they are called Humans, they are\nParasites for Earth, I think a Parasyte told Shinichi and Migi this in one of\nthe earlier episodes, I never saw the Parasytes as Parasites, honestly... I\neven felt sad when they died cause they did not do anything wrong, its like a\nlion getting shot because he ate a deer :/ Humans can make these choices for\nother creatures, and then say they are the most humane thing on the planet,\nand claim everything on earth is equal, yet eat animals, its hypocritical and\nthe series (IMO) is trying to show Humans are Parasites.\n\nP.S. \"Can any of the different kinds of alien parasytes\" Did you watch the\nAnime even? They are from earth... The end they say \"we are all born here\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nParasytes might not be parasites as they are defined in our world, because\nthey are (from space or not) alien creatures. They did not evolve here and\ndon't share our roots and typical mechanics. @Mindwin made good points about\nthis and why our current definition don't include them - although I think we\nwould adapt it so that they mach it. The human bodys may be brain dead but\nthey still have traits of life ([See\nWikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#Biology)):\n\nHomeostasis: still sweating and so on \nOrganization: still made of living cells \nMetabolism: Still need nutrients - human flesh or regular food \nGrowth: We can't be sure here but there is no reason why a child's body should\nstop growing after be infected by a Parasyste (maybe the Parasyte could stop\ngrowth by not mimic the thyroid but still the human body is able to grow). At\nleast we know, that the human body will grow old and die. (see [Mr.\nB](http://kiseijuu.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._B)) \nAdaptation: Hard to prove but I think we can agree that they e.g. grew scarf-\nskin. \nResponse to stimuli: Of course the nerves are still working, autonomic nervous\nsystem is at least partly independent of the brain. \nReproduction: Not reiko and A had a child but their human bodies. It would be\npossible to maintain human population if there were so many Parasytes that\nthey ate all of us and than started to make human babys themself\n\nBut I want to stress another point most people are missing and which (imho) is\none of the most important in the entire story (It is not pointed out as such\nbut I do care about it more than about others):\n\nHumankind is an organism itself!\n\nYou say that human are parasites to earth - a single Human is not, Human kind\nmight be. Reiko says that a single human is weak compared with Parasytes but\nthat Human have another consciousness and when Parasyte attack it, they will\nlose. If we understand human kind as an organism, Parasytes are parasites to\nit. The organism \"humankind\" grew too much and now Parasytes appear, consuming\nsome of it's ressources like a tapeworm and slowing it's grow without killing\nit. After beeing overrun by the Parasy/ites, humankind's immune system started\nto gather forces against them and became mostly immune to them. If there would\nbe a new wave of parasytes, we could easily detect them and know what wapons\nkill them - they would be ways less effective but still some of them will\nallways stay in the organism. It is a perfect match to an upscaled infection.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 7, when they play against Seiho, it shows that the way the Seiho\nplayers run is different from the common way (specifically, the way they swing\ntheir arms).\n\nDoes this running technique exist in real life?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know this running technique, but I can tell you how important it is to\nswing your arms properly while running.\n\nHave a Look here -> [LiveScience Arm\nSwinging](http://www.livescience.com/46844-natural-arm-swing-saves-runners-\nenergy.html).\n\n> The scientists found that swinging the arms reduced energy costs by 3\n> percent compared with holding the hands behind the back, 9 percent compared\n> with holding the arms across the chest, and 13 percent compared with holding\n> the hands on top of the head.\n\nIf you have a look at professional runners, you will recognize how focused\nthey move their arms. I can't tell if this special arm swinging is working,\nbut there are surely different techniques to reduce your energy cost by\nswinging your arms.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that although there are definitely ways of running that minimize\nenergy usage, a basketball team would most likely not implement these,\nespecially on e at the high school level. This is because almost everything in\nbasketball, from the way you dribble, to how you step into your shot, is\ninfluenced by the way you run, so the players would essentially have to re-\nlearn how to play the game.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's an older manga and it is completed. \nCan't remember the name but it kind of reminded me of Ao no Exorcist the only\nmajor difference though is that there were no exorcists. \nI believe it begins with a kid and his brother, the brother became a cop to\ncatch their parents' killer?\n\nThe one brother does his own kind of investigation into some murders and\neventually intersects with his cop brother and I believe the cop bro dies\nwhile the other brother gains a portion of the killers powers. \nBecause of the powers he gains the ability to see demons and other\nsupernatural phenomenon. \nThe surviving brother eventually becomes a cop and investigates all sorts of\nsupernatural stuff. \nOne case had something to do with a magical pelt that when worn allows the\nperson to become a werewolf. \nAnother case had something to do with goblins tearing things apart because\nthey weren't being paid their due. \nIn order for the Goblins to be useful or helpful had to leave out some kind of\ncandy or they would destroy stuff.\n\nSome additional info, it is set in Europe and his power had something to do\nwith a spear. I think it was the Spear of Longinus.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFound it through here... Figures I post something and then find a tagline and\nremember it was mostly based on Irish mythology. The manga is called\n[AR∀GO](http://myanimelist.net/manga/17518/AR%E2%88%80GO). The spear was\nBrionac not the Spear of Longinus. Here is the summary for it:\n\n> The story centers around two twins, Arago and Yuan, whose parents were\n> slaughtered by monsters. Years later, the vengeful Arago crosses paths with\n> Yuan, who has since become a police officer, just as blood begins to flow\n> again in the streets of London.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't watched the anime (know very vaguely), but I have studied a couple\nof text you mentioned. Let's see...\n\nMetamorphosis: Supremely weird and rather unnerving. It's a story of a man who\none day wakes up to find that he has turned into a human-size cockroach. The\nstory focuses on the transformation of one's humanity (hence, metamorphosis)\nin a surreal situation.\n\nThe Stranger: A work focuses on absurdity of life. We follow a man who is\ncompletely apathetic to everything, because there is no purpose to anything.\nHe is not immoral, but due to his amoral, society condemns him anyway out of\nfear.\n\nNietzsche in general: I've read his 'Genealogy of Morality', figure it's not\ntoo different. He argues that there is a difference between the world 'bad'\nand 'evil', despite the fact that both words are the opposite of goodness.\nBasically, there's the evil of someone being immoral, and there is also the\nbadness of someone being in your opposition. A lot of talks about masters and\nslaves here.\n\nHope this helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's a partial answer pertaining to episodes 21-24.\n\nRecall that the Japanese title of the anime is \"Kiseijuu - Sei no Kakuritsu\",\nor loosely, \"Parasyte - the probability of _sei_ \". The title is written in\nJapanese with _sei_ in katakana, which is a non-semantic syllabary, rather\nthan in kanji. This makes it unclear what the intended meaning of the word\n_sei_ is, because there are at least 30 different kanji (based on [a quick\nlook\nhere](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Japanese_kanji_by_reading/%E3%82%B5))\nthat can be read _sei_ (and hence around the same number of distinct meanings\nfor the word), and it is not possible to infer from context which one is\nintended.\n\nThis ties into the titles of episodes 21-23, which are all pronounced \"Sei to\nSei\" in Japanese, but using different characters for each distinct _sei_.\nSpecifically, episode 21 has 性 \"sex\" and 聖 \"holy\"; episode 22 has 静\n\"quietness\" and 醒 \"wakefulness\"; and episode 23 has 生 \"life\" and 誓 \"vowing\" (生\n\"life\" is the same _sei_ as in \"kiseijuu\", incidentally).\n\nThese three titles constitute a sort of wordplay, in my opinion. This sort of\nhomophone-based wordplay is fairly common in Japanese, since Japanese is a\nvery homophone-rich language, owing mostly to heavy borrowing from Chinese.\n\nI strongly suspect that it is only coincidental that the Japanese translation\nof the English book \"Sex and Spirit\" by Clifford Bishop has the same title as\nepisode 21 of the anime (judging from the synopses of the book available,\nanyway). Given that the book is [only a penny on\nAmazon](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316096067), the interested\nreader might like to pick up a copy of it and see if there is, in fact, any\nthematic relationship with Parasyte.\n\nThis being the case, I do not believe that the titles of episodes 21-23\nreference literary works, other than coincidentally. And, of course, there's\nno literary reference in the episode 24 title 寄生獣 _kiseijuu_ \"Parasyte\" -\nunless you count a title drop as a literary reference, I guess.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the anime was in the 90's. Artwork looked similar to YuYu Hakusho.\nAction/Martial Arts anime. One thing that I remembered most about the opening\ntheme was that there was a part where the wind blew past him and he disappered\ninto the with like a ninja.\n\nThe main character is a funny guys who plays around too much. He is a great\nfighter, moves like the wind, and in the beginning of the anime he protects\nthis girls from a group of thugs. He also had a friend who helped him and the\ngirl escape from a bad guy.\n\nHis friend uses feathers as weapons. From what I can remember he had red,\nblue, and black feathers that he used. Some feathers that he threw could turn\naround like boomerangs. Eventually as the main character escapes with the girl\n(I think), his friend fights till then end and gets killed.\n\nThe killer has this ability where he can copy other people's face by pressing\nthe people he kill face's into the ground, pours some liquid into the ground,\nputs his face into the mold he created with the dead person's face and he can\ncopy their face.\n\nAfter killing the main character's friend he goes after the main character\nwith a fake face posing as the main character's friend. That's all that I can\nremember.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe girl has green hair. There's some kind of musical instrument in the anime,\nlike a flute or something. She lives in a farm and takes care of these animals\nwhich are then used for war as mounts.\n\nI started watching this anime a long time ago but stopped midway, so now I\nwant to finish the rest of it. If someone here can help me, I'll be very\ngrateful :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime is [**Kemono no Souja\nErin**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5420/Kemono_no_Souja_Erin).\n\n\n\nDescription from MAL:\n\n> Erin is a young girl who lives with her mother in a village which raises\n> war-lizards, called Touda. We see her daily life, which changes as she grows\n> up. Meanwhile, there is growing tension between the two provinces of the\n> country she lives in.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**More details:**\n\n * The main character preferred fighting unarmed, or with very short weapons, feeling that any long weapon could be countered by getting in close\n\n * This fighting style is unique to his clan, whose name begins with an M (yes, I'm 100% sure of that)\n\n * The main character's final fight was with another good-guy, whose skill was on par with his own\n\n * This other good-guy carried both a katana and a wakizashi (slightly shorter sword), and in one case used one of them as a throwing weapon\n\n * The \"other good guy\" wore a blue kimono\n\n * The genre is both historically inspired, but slightly \"shonen-ized\".\n\nI think these details combined are unique to this particular anime.\n\nLooking for the name, but also an opportunity to re-watch. Any helpful links\nare also appreciated!\n\nI'll keep adding details as I remember them, until someone correctly names it!\n\n**Update**\n\nAs Dario guessed, it was _Shura no Toki_. I highly recommend this one because\nof its similarity to certain historical characters and events.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt sounds like it could be [Samurai\nChamploo](http://myanimelist.net/anime/205/Samurai_Champloo)\n\n\n\n * One of the main characters is called Mugen, which matches your description, of a name starting with M.\n * The other good guy (Jin) wears a blue kimono, and uses a katana and wakizashi.\n * They have a duel in the end too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, it is [**Mutsu Enmei Ryuu Gaiden: Shura no\nToki**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/340/Mutsu_Enmei_Ryuu_Gaiden:_Shura_no_Toki)\n\n> Legends tell of an invincible martial art known as Mutsu Enmei-Ryu, an\n> unarmed style that allows the user to defeat any number of armed opponents\n> using incredible speed and strength. This is the story of three generations\n> of those who bear the name Mutsu, and their encounters and battles with the\n> strongest fighters of their era.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen the expression \"best girl\" being used several times, and I find it\nquite self-explanatory. However, some people seem to define it in slightly\ndifferent ways. Here are some different definitions from\n[one](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1rxldu/how_would_you_define_what_a_best_girl_is_in_anime/)\nor\n[two](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/226ubl/what_does_best_girl_mean_im_really_behind_the/)\nreddit threads:\n\n> It's when I get a boner in my heart.\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> Best Girl = Mai Waifu\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> I'm not sure if everyone thinks about it like I do, but with 'best girl' I\n> just mean it's my favourite girl from a show.\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> As far as I can tell, it just means you post a hundred pictures of a pretty\n> anime girl you're in love with. And its creepy without context. Unless its\n> being done ironically, then its only a little creepy.\n\n**I was wondering if there's some sort of \"official\" definition for the\nexpression \"best girl\". \nBeside that, where did the expression** (or meme, I'm not sure it is\nconsidered a meme) **originate from?** \nIs this an expression that is used in Japan too, or is it a Western thing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n'Best Girl' is usually used to refer to someone's favourite character in a\nseries.\n\nFor example, Toshinou Kyouko is _best girl_ in Yuru Yuri.\n\nGenerally, _best girl_ is used to refer to a female character, but\noccasionally people include male characters. Take _Shinji Ikari_ from\nEvangellion or _Kaiki_ from the monogatari series.\n\nThe term comes from fans choosing their favourite choice in harem / female-\ndominated shows. It's hard to pinpoint when or why the term came about, but\nusing some keywords in Google Trends, 'best girl anime' seems to become\npopular around 2007\n\n\n\n_Best Girl_ is generally **your** favourite character. Your favourite pairing\nof characters (example: Main Character and Shy Dark-Haired secondary\ncharacter) is usually referred to as an OTP, or One True Pairing.\n\na _Waifu_ is a character with whom your love _transcends_ a series. Waifu-\nhavers proclaim that this character is their favourite out of all shows ever.\n[Simplistic explanation, I'm sure someone will be able to expand on it]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I first sat down to investigate \"best girl\", I was pretty sure that this\nwas a fairly old lexical item - not pre-internet, by any means, but probably\nc. 2003-04. Alas, I had fallen victim to internet time dilation yet again.\n\nHaving looked into it, I now claim that the idea of \"best girl\" as we now\nconceive of it only started to come into being quite a bit more recently - I\nwould generously estimate c. 2010, or maybe a little bit earlier.\n\nOf course, the idea of a \"girl\" being the \"best\" is as old as time. What we're\nreally interested in is the idea of \"best girl\" as a distinct lexical item; as\npart of a particular grammatically-unusual construction, in which \"best girl\"\nis not accompanied by the definite article, often in a clipped utterance; as\nsomething that can be snowcloned (as it has been, to give us \"worst girl\" and\n\"best boy\"); as something so argot-y that it provokes confusion from people\nnot familiar with the jargon of the internet anime subculture. In other words\nwe're talking about things that are archetypically like \"Ritsu is best girl\".\n\nI decided to take a look through the [/a/ archiver](https://archive.moe/a/) \\-\nit only has posts from Feb 2008 forward (and I think its coverage is a bit\nspotty for 2008), but that seems to be good enough for our purposes. Why?\nWell, look at the search results for [\"is best\ngirl\"](https://archive.moe/a/search/text/%22is%20best%20girl%22/order/asc/) \\-\nthere are about a hundred results between Feb 2008 and Jul 2010 (and thus\nalmost certainly very few _before_ Feb 2008), but a further 37,000 between Jul\n2010 and now (Feb 2015). Some of that is certainly attributable to an increase\nin users on /a/ ([see the bottom graph here for an idea of how much growth\nwe're talking about](https://archive.moe/a/statistics/activity/) \\- roughly a\nfactor of three from trough to peak), but I think that far more of it has to\ndo with the \"meme\" of \"best girl\" taking hold. (Implicit here is my claim that\nthe idea of \"best girl\" as we now conceive of it is directly correlated to the\nusage of \"best girl\" without a definite article.)\n\nAnother good proxy for the memeticization of \"best girl\" is the growing use of\n[\"best girl thread\" on\n/a/](https://archive.moe/a/search/text/%22best%20girl%20thread%22/order/asc/).\nHere, we see 25 posts from Feb 2008 to Apr 2011, and then a further 2800 from\nApr 2011 to now (Feb 2015). Here, I think we can identify a fairly discrete\nchangeover around mid-2011, when the phrase \"best girl thread\" began to\nsharply rise in popularity.\n\n> Beside that, where did the expression (or meme, I'm not sure it is\n> considered a meme) originate from?\n\nI am fairly confident that we can't pinpoint a specific origin for the term -\nas I mentioned above, the idea of a \"girl\" being the \"best\" is obvious and\nneeds no explanation. The transition from discussion of \"girls who are the\nbest\" to discussion of \"best girls\" as a crystallized notion was almost surely\nslow and gradual.\n\nI should add: while I don't think we can pinpoint an _origin_ for the term,\nI'm pretty sure that it was _popularized_ on /a/ before spreading to the wider\ninternet in the past two years or so. As the classic Human Centipede-inspired\ngraphic suggests, a large fraction of anime-related memetic content (that\nisn't ganked directly from Japan) does come from 4chan.\n\n> Is this an expression that is used in Japan too, or is it a Western thing?\n\nI'm by no means a 2ch memelord, but I don't know of any direct equivalent in\nJapan. Even if there is one, English \"best girl\" is assuredly an independent\ninvention, and isn't inspired by the Japanese equivalent.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBest girl is also an old 50's term used to describe your girlfriend. AE\" Gee\nwiz Bob I was gonna ask Betty to be my best girl\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I finally got around to seeing what the fuss was all about with _Attack on\nTitan_ anime series, by marathoning it in two days, and I am glad I did. Do\nnote that I just finish watching the anime series only, so if it's answered in\nthe manga, please indicate spoilers.\n\nThe thing that stood out for me though was the complete absence of Eren's\nfather after the first two episodes, and the fact that no one seemed in the\nleast bit concerned. We know he was (probably) not dead, because in the second\nepisode, he was seen riding back home concerned about whether his wife, Eren\nand Mikasa were safe. In Eren's memories, he also seemed to be aware of what\nwas going to happen (or saw it as inevitable), so it seemed unlikely that he\nhad been killed, particularly with no mention of it.\n\nHowever, aside from some recurrences of Eren's dream/memory, there was no sign\nof his father at all, and nobody seemed to care. Eren and Mikasa didn't\nmention or even recognised the absence. And the various soldiers, generals,\netc. didn't seem interested either, even though Eren made it clear that his\nfather had something hidden in his basement, possibly related to his ability.\nI would have thought that _someone_ would have interrogated him further on\nwhat his father was doing or what could be in the basement. All we seem to\nknow is that he had been traveling somewhere for a week or so.\n\nIs there an explanation as to where Dr. Jaeger was during the 5+ years? Is it\njust an oversight that Eren's father is so glossed over by the series? Seems\nkind of weird when he's potentially a crucial character in the same vein as\nAnnie's father.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe whereabouts of Dr. Jaeger are revealed in chapter 62. To give you an idea\nhow far ahead that is, the latest episode (25) plays out during chapter 33, so\nyou are basically halfway through.\n\n> **Eren has eaten his own father**. This event happened somewhere during the\n> time-skip of the second chapter, so Dr. Jaeger has basically been dead for\n> most of the series. \n> \n> \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat happened to Eren's dad is revealed in volume 62 of the manga. In the\nanime, though, Eren's dad is glossed over, but that's because he isn't Eren's\nmain priority. Learning how to kill Titans is.\n\nI would think he doesn't really want to think about his dad because there is a\npossibility that he may be dead! Having to deal with the pain of his mother\ndying is a lot for a little boy to deal with.\n\nThere are instances though when he is thinking about the basement that he asks\nhimself why his dad just disappeared. So, the watcher is lead to believe that\nhe is either dead or gone somewhere.\n\nOf course, if you read the manga, you know what really happens.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnmarked spoilers because otherwise this whole A would be a yellow rectangle.\n\n* * *\n\n> Dr. Jaeger is dead, he was eaten by Eren during his first titan\n> transformation. \n> \n> As of his remains, it should be somewhere, a pile of half-digested bones\n> because titans (do not have digestive organs) vomit the remains of humans\n> they eat (gross, sorry). \n> \n> But do not feel sorry for the doctor , because he probably wanted to be\n> eaten, in order to pass the progenitor titan powers to Eren. \n> \n> just to finish the yellow block, progenitor titan power is passed by\n> drinking the spinal fluid of the former holder, killing him in the process.\n> You can also eat the person with the spinal fluid to the same effect.\n\nActually Dr. Jaeger is not THAT crucial by himself in person as much as being\na plot device on Eren's background.\n\nHis role was giving Eren titan powers and putting whatever is inside the\nbasement near wall maria there. Now that it is done, another scholar character\ncan pick up from where he left.\n\nYou could also argue that since he probably knows too much about Titans, he\nwould be a dealbreaker character if he was still alive, so taking his secrets\nto the grave (aside what is in the basement) protects the mysteries of the\nseries. The same thing happened when they threw the king under the bus.\n\n> But there are still the wallist priests, I doubt they do not have a\n> compendium of all the truth hidden somewhere. It was shown they are very\n> good at taking their secrets to the grave, so it is not unthinkable they\n> have the complete faq/walkthrough to their universe.\n\nHe (Dr. Jaeger) can come back through the basement content's (not back to\nlife, but back to the story, in some flashback fashion).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 9 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, during Madoka's conversation with\nKyuubei, we see that she has a ton of chairs in her room:\n\n\n\nAt first I thought this was just the usual Shaft weirdness. But I stumbled on\n[a blog post](http://kevo.dasaku.net/?p=2108) that attempted to explain all\nthe symbolism behind the imagery in this scene. According to the author of the\nblog, the empty chairs represent fallen Magical Girls. While the author's\ninterpretation is plausible, I also found it somewhat tenuous--the only\nevidence the author gives is the scene in Mami's apartment earlier on, when\nMadoka sees Mami's furniture and bursts into tears. I don't have a very clear\nmemory of the scene, but I don't remember it focusing specifically on the\nfurniture--it could just as well have been the empty apartment.\n\nIs there any other evidence in the show that supports this blogger's reading?\nAnd is there evidence that supports another meaning for the scores of empty\nchairs in Madoka's room?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThose chairs are a direct reference to\n[Bokurano](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1690/Bokurano), understanding which\nactually adds depth to the scene (if you've seen Bokurano).\n\nBokurano **huge** spoilers:\n\n> Childs sitting on the chairs are actually giving up their lives for the\n> privilege of fighting a defence of Earth. Note that chairs appear before the\n> big reveal about souls and zombies in Madoka.\n\n \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to augment the earlier answer by explaining more Bokurano plot\nand dropping even more massive spoilers:\n\n> Bokurano features a small white-colored mascot type character representing\n> an alien race beyond human comprehension. This alien involves the main\n> characters - mere schoolchildren - in a series of battles in which those\n> chosen by the alien fight monstrous creatures in order to save ordinary\n> people. Halfway through the series, in a shocking twist, it is revealed that\n> these 'evil' and 'monstrous' enemies (robots) are in fact piloted by people\n> in the same situation as the main characters, that the aliens have\n> engineered the battles and the threat themselves, and it's all ultimately\n> part of a scheme seeking to use humanity as an energy source. Towards the\n> end of the series, this mascot character can be observed pressuring a quiet\n> little girl into making an 11th-hour \"contract\" to give up her life for the\n> sake of her universe, even though she has seen friends die in this same\n> fight and is quite clear that there is no way out of this contract besides\n> her death.\n\nMadoka is in many ways an homage to Bokurano, and besides being clever\nforeshadowing for the few who had watched the series, the chairs are there to\nacknowledge the fact and pay respect to this earlier series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis video explains how Pokeballs work in the best way I've seen:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvCZNEsld54>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed that in all of the typography (except for the episode titles), the\nanime Bakemonogatari exclusively uses kanji and katakana, instead of the usual\ncombination of kanji and hiragana. For example,\n\n> 「貴方をみる」\n\nwould be\n\n> 「貴方ヲミル」\n\nIn my experience, katakana is usually only used to sound out words from other\nlanguages, so this just seems weird.\n\nIs this purely a stylistic choice by Shaft, or is there some deeper meaning?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI strongly suspect the use of katakana here is just to give an archaic flavor\nto the typography. Historically (pre-WW2 or thereabouts), [katakana was\nactually used in many contexts where hiragana is used\ntoday](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14849) \\- not just for loanwords\n(note, though, that even today, [katakana has other\nuses](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/1930)). In the same vein, the\nshow's typography exclusively uses [pre-simplification\n_kyuujitai_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABjitai) kanji rather than\ntheir modern _shinjitai_ counterparts.\n\nFormal pre-war documents were frequently written in the \"Monogatari style\", so\nto speak - look, for example, at the 1890 [Imperial Rescript on\nEducation](http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E3%83%8B%E9%96%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AB%E5%8B%85%E8%AA%9E#.E6.9C.AC.E6.96.87),\nwhich uses exactly the same style: _kyuujitai_ and katakana.\n\nI don't think there is any deeper meaning to the use of katakana, in and of\nitself. Maybe there is something to be said about the archaic-flavor thing\nviewed as a whole, though. (Personally, I suspect the thing to be said is just\n\"Shinbo thought it looked cool this way\".)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is about an anti-bully high school boy who goes on a website to talk to his\nonline girlfriend. When he talks to her, he completely changes his personality\nand becomes completely sweet. The two decide to meet up in real life. There\nand then, they find out that they are in the same class, and that they do not\nget along at all unless they communicate through text messages, so they are in\na cafe looking extremely angry towards each other, but talking very sweet\nthrough their phones.\n\nThe manga follows the two as they begin dating and the progress of their\nrelationship. The manga also follows another couple where the guy accidentally\nbuy a date from another (I think it was a middle school) girl instead of his\ndream girl.\n\nI have been trying to find this manga for a while now. Any help would be\nappreciated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[**Mel Kano**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=4694) maybe? I\nhaven't read it, but your description is pretty close to what I know of it.\n\n> Shinjou Shouryuu is a healthy 17-year-old high-school boy. Many of his\n> kouhai wonder why such a great guy doesn't have a girlfriend. Ask him and\n> he'll tell you that between school, work, and saving his kouhais from\n> bullies doesn't leave him much time to go on dates. So he instead goes\n> online to \"F.I.L. GATES\". There in the chat room his alter-ego, Kakeru, is\n> infatuated with the girl called Hal. Hal sends a message reminding him that\n> Sunday will be the six month anniversary of when they first met (online) and\n> that she wants to meet him in person! And let's just say it's not your\n> typical first date.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Ladybug PV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlwV3scCgAM). The anime is\nprobably [Miraculous\nLadybug](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_Ladybug), but can anyone\nidentify the title of the song used in this PV?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou are right. The anime is indeed [Miraculous\nLadybug](http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Miraculous_Ladybug). Now, there's a little\nissue with the title and the lyrics of the song.\n\nAccording to the [Ladybug PV wiki\nsite](http://miraculousladybug.wikia.com/wiki/Ladybug_PV),\n\n> The song that plays with it is a test song titled [**Ladybug PV\n> Song**](http://miraculousladybug.wikia.com/wiki/Ladybug_PV_Song) without\n> true lyrics, having **English-like gibberish** , [lyrics can be found\n> here](http://miraculousladybug.wikia.com/wiki/Ladybug_PV_Song).\n\nThen they also state what Gao already said in the comment.\n\n> The song in the video is titled **Ladybug** by **Noam Kaniel** and you can\n> find the [lyrics to it here](http://playnewsongs.ru/pesni/noam-\n> kaniel_miraculous-ladybug-promo-video-song).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn SAC episode 18, we see Kusanagi stop Yu from physically attacking the\nChinese foreign minister, but after her short exchange with Batou (who is\nstanding nearby), Yu turns to smile and creates an explosion via some sort of\ndetonation device in the bouquet he's carrying. From a bird's eye shot, we\nthen see a somewhat large explosion.\n\nYet after that, we learn that the Chinese minister returned safely to China,\nand it looks like Kusanagi, Yu, and Batou are still alive.\n\nWhat's with this explosion then, and why is no one (or at least the major,\nnon-background characters) hurt? Somehow, the fact that Kusanagi is a cyborg\ndoesn't quite seem to explain things, since this still doesn't deal with the\nother characters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the very next scene, major Kusanagi explains:\n\n> The risks, of course, are considerable, but we couldn't find a better\n> solution than to further edit Yu's memories with a successful assassination\n> attempt.\n\nSo what we see after the moment major attached a cyberbrain-disabling device\nto the back of his neck, is only a fake memory.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Nanatsu no Taizai_ , the main characters are associated with one of the 7\ndeadly sins, and to each sin is associated with a certain animal:\n\n 1. Wrath - dragon\n 2. Envy - snake\n 3. Greed - fox\n 4. Sloth - grizzly\n 5. Lust - goat\n 6. Gluttony - boar\n 7. Pride - lion\n\nIs there some reference in this association? Does it correspond to some\ntradition or is it just made up in this manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis was the biggest question I had for Gorou Miyazaki's debut animated film\n_Tales from Earthsea_. Was the motivation for Arren's murder of his father\never revealed in the anime or in the original _Earthsea_ series by Ursula K.\nLe Guin? Or was it just a projection of the inner feelings the director had\ntoward his father?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGorou Miyazaki had denied that Arren's murder of his father was a reflection\nof his own feelings; rather, it was more or less the feeling of the young\nJapanese generation:\n\n> On Earthsea, Goro denied that Arren’s oblique patricide reflected the\n> director’s own feelings in an interview at the Venice Film Festival. “I do\n> not have much relationship with my father; because of that, I have never\n> felt like killing him. I decided to start with the son murdering the father\n> because I understand that’s more or less the feeling of the young Japanese\n> generation. When I worked in the Ghibli museum, most of the staff there were\n> young people with common problems. I wondered about why that was and tried\n> to come up with reasons, which are reflected in the film. I purposely didn’t\n> explain why Arren stabbed his father because I wanted the audience to think\n> about it, and reach a broader idea of why these problems exist.”\n\nSource: [\"Tales from Earthsea and family feuds\", _UK Manga Entertainment\nWebsite_](https://web.archive.org/web/20161208202501/http://www.mangauk.com/post.php?p=family-\nfeud)\n\nHowever, as Gorou purposely didn't explain the why, it proved to be a\nchallenge for many viewers to figure that out for themselves. For what it's\nworth, Ursula K. Le Guin thought the murder was committed without much reason:\n\n> The moral sense of the books becomes confused in the film. For example:\n> Arren's murder of his father in the film is unmotivated, arbitrary: the\n> explanation of it as committed by a dark shadow or alter-ego comes late, and\n> is not convincing. Why is the boy split in two? We have no clue. The idea is\n> taken from A Wizard of Earthsea, but in that book we know how Ged came to\n> have a shadow following him, and we know why, and in the end, we know who\n> that shadow is. The darkness within us can't be done away with by swinging a\n> magic sword.\n\nSource: [\"Ursula K. Le Guin: Gedo Senki, a First Response\",\n_ursulakleguin.com_](https://www.ursulakleguin.com/adaptation-tales-of-\nearthsea)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the title says, I'm interested to know where the story for Ronja the\nRobber's Daughter came from, and if it has a source, I want to read it.\n\nIs it based on a manga/light novel? Or is it an anime-original story?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's from a children's fantasy book called [Ronja\nRövardotter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronia_the_Robber%27s_Daughter) (\n_Ronia the Robber's Daughter_ ) by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, first\npublished in 1981.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis \"Reluctant Demon King (魔王 Maou) Heiress\" trope seems to be a subversion\nof the classic **\"Hero vs Demons\"** fantasy genre. The demon king is gone, and\nthe heir to the throne and/or the owner of Maou's power is a female, and she\nhas almost no interest in doing evil things to humanity. Instead, she wants to\nmingle with humans, helps humanity prosper and is mostly in love with the\nshounen main hero.\n\nThere are several anime/manga and assorted media where the heroine is:\n\n 1. Of a benevolent demeanor (not evil).\n 2. Heiress of, or the demon king herself.\n 3. Romantically involved with the MC.\n 4. On the run from her duties as heiress/king (see #2)\n 5. Strongly disinterested in pursuing the path of former demon kings.\n\nAs examples, we have:\n\n 1. [Maoyuu](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14833/Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha)\n 2. [Yu-shibu](http://myanimelist.net/anime/18677/Yuusha_ni_Narenakatta_Ore_wa_Shibushibu_Shuushoku_wo_Ketsui_Shimashita.)\n 3. [Shinmai Maou no Testament](http://myanimelist.net/anime/23233/Shinmai_Maou_no_Testament).\n\nWhere did this trend start from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn several episodes, sanity is discussed by the characters. There is even a\nsunscreen to protect sanity from UV rays.\n\nWhat is the purpose of sanity in the anime? Why is it a recurring theme?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Haiyore Nyaruko-san** is based on Lovecraft's mythos, which includes the\nconcept of Eldritch abomination. It has been said that when one gazes at or\neven think about such abominations, they will slowly lose their sanity as they\nare beyond comprehension. Many of the characters in his works regularly\nsuccumbs to insanity, slowly but surely. It is a common theme that these\ncharacters are vulnerable and fragile, keeping up with his other theme of\nhumanity being insignificant when compared to the grand scheme of the\nuniverse.\n\nIt's a recurring theme in the anime because it is based on a work that has the\nloss of sanity as a recurring theme.\n\nIt should also be noted that **Nyaruko** is a satire of the mythos. Many of\nthe tropes and themes in the anime are greatly exaggerated because of this.\nThey are hyperbolic to achieve a comedic effect.\n\nAs for the Sanity points, it may refer to the many board games that has a\nLovecraftian theme. Board games such as **Betrayal at House on the Hill**\nwould be just one example, as it uses sanity checks as part of its gameplay.\n\n### Source\n\n * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror>\n * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyaruko:_Crawling_with_Love>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs noted above, Sanity points are a major mechanic in the Cthulhu mythos\nroleplaying game, Call of Cthluhu. This is even referenced directly in the\nfirst episode of the show, when Nyaruko says \"I could show you that form, but\nyou'd lose sanity\" and the image shifts to a character sheet with Sanity\nPoints and dice displayed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi!_ , in the scene where the girls draw lots from the\nlottery box, the lottery box is shown with some characters crossed out:\n\n\n\nSearching for **めだちた** leads me to the dictionary entry for\n[【目{め}立{だ}ちたがり屋{や}】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/270074/m0u/), which\nmeans \"attention seeker\". However, it feels a bit out of whack here.\n\nWhat is the significance of this box? And why are the words crossed out?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe this is the same box that was used earlier in the series for drawing\nlots. It's a running joke that Kyouko kept on pulling out the box, crossing\nout what she originally wrote on it, and writing something new.\n\nThe first time, in Episode 1 of Series I, everyone put in things that Akari\ncould do to try and stand out more as a main character, which is probably what\n\"めだちた girl\" refers to. The manga translation that I read translates the word\nas \"star wannabe girl\". Yui thinks that it sounds pretty horrible when she\nsees it, so it seems like that out of whack feeling was intentional; it was\nsupposed to be Kyouko--intentionally, since she's always messing with Akari,\nor possibly unintentionally--using a term with the negative connotation that\nAkari was trying to draw attention to herself.\n\n\n\nAnother time, which seems to have only happened in the manga, Kyouko filled\nthe box with conversational topics like \"Club activities\" and \"I'm hungry\" and\npenalties like \"Say 'Shazam!' at the end of your sentences\" and \"Talk\nerotically\". (Akari had to say \"Shazam!\", while Chinatsu had to talk\nerotically.) There were other instances across the manga and anime where\nKyouko pulled out the box and wrote something new on it; being Kyouko, it\nwouldn't be too surprising if everything she wrote was some kind of pun on the\noriginal \"めだちた girl\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt nhahtdh's request, here is a brief explanation of a Japanese pun that is\nhappening here. It probably doesn't make much sense if you don't know\nJapanese, but oh well.\n\nFirst, note that the box reads _medachi-ta_ -girl, with the _medachi-ta_\ncrossed out and replaced with _kumi-ta_.\n\nThis is a pun on the suffix -がる _-garu_ (the one you attach to the -たい _-tai_\nform to express that someone else wants to do such-and-such), which sounds\nvery much like ガール _gaaru_ \"girl\". So, what we effectively have here is 目立ちたがる\n_medachi-ta-garu_ \"to want to stand out\" being crossed out and replaced with\n組みたがる _kumi-ta-garu_ \"to want to join together\".\n\nPerhaps the notion is that rather than being \"girls who want to stand out\",\nthey are \"girls who want to join together\". I haven't gotten that far in Yuru\nYuri, though, so I dunno what exactly the joke is; see [Torisuda's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/19889/1908) for more information on\nthat.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of episode 8 of Koufuku Graffiti, there's been at least one shot per\nepisode in which Ryou's downstairs neighbor is briefly shown (usually standing\non her balcony folding clothes or something).\n\n\n\nIs she ever going to be introduced as a character, or is she more just a\nrunning joke?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned by\n[krazer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/63/%ca%9e%c9%b9%c9%90z%c7%9d%c9%b9)\nin the comment, she is Yuki Uchiki. She is finally introduced in episode 10\n_Chewy, Melty._ (Japanese title: _Hamohamo, Michichi._ ) when Kirin\neavesdropped on her phone conversation and accidentally fell (and safely\nlanded) on her veranda.\n\nIn the anime, episode 10 happened around January (as the next episode happened\nin February, and the previous episode happened on New Year's Eve). At this\ntime, Yuki was a graduating undergraduate student, while Ryou and Kirin were\npreparing for their high school entrance exam in March. According to [her wiki\npage](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E5%86%85%E6%9C%A8%E3%83%A6%E3%82%AD) on\nnicovideo, she is going to work as a librarian at the same high school where\nRyou and Kirin goes to.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter watching the final episode of Angel Beats, I saw that, after the\ncredits,\n\n> both Otonashi and Angel found each other again after being \"reincarnated\".\n\nBut is that all that happened when everyone passed on? Did they just lose\ntheir memory and get reincarnated as a human with a similar look?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's no information about the next life of these present on the afterlife,\nbut, if you think on the series there's some moments they talk about\nreincarnation.\n\nAs you can read on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto#Afterlife):\n\n> In old Japanese legends, it is often claimed that the dead go to a place\n> called yomi (黄泉), a gloomy underground realm with a river separating the\n> living from the dead mentioned in the legend of Izanami and Izanagi. This\n> yomi is very close to the Greek Hades; however, later myths include notions\n> of resurrection and even Elysium-like descriptions such as in the legend of\n> Okuninushi and Susanoo.\n\nBecause of this, there's a generally accepted theory about reincarnation. They\nthink on this, but, not on reincarnation on a person, because they can\nreincarnate as any other thing (Remember these chapter talking about\nreincarnating in a barnacle? (I don't remember now).\n\nAt the end, you can think who Otonashi and Tenshii (Yuzuru) have a lot of luck\nand got reincarnated on persons, in the same time and place, and they meet\nagain. There's only a ideal situation, not the default form of this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## In the _Angel Beats!_ universe\n\nThe anime didn't tell us much about what happened to the people who passed on,\nexcept for the ambiguous scene at the end. There is a chance that the [visual\nnovel](https://angelbeats.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Beats!_\\(visual_novel\\)) will\nexplore this topic a bit, if they ever release anything past the first volume.\nFor now, we can only refer to side materials, such as the third [drama\nCD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Beats!#Broadcast_and_distribution)\nreleased with the sixth limited edition BD/DVD volume. In the drama CD,\neveryone reincarnated as a human being with a similar look (except one guy),\nbut not with a similar personality (except a few). They all met in the\nAfterlife World for the second time after dying again, and they were able to\nrecognize each other and remember their previous lives.\n\n## In the Keyverse\n\n**SPOILERS ahead for the following\nseries:[charlotte](/questions/tagged/charlotte \"show questions tagged\n'charlotte'\"), [clannad](/questions/tagged/clannad \"show questions tagged\n'clannad'\"), [little-busters](/questions/tagged/little-busters \"show questions\ntagged 'little-busters'\") and [one](/questions/tagged/one \"show questions\ntagged 'one'\").**\n\nThere are recurring themes and concepts that connect together the worlds of\n_Angel Beats!_ , _Charlotte_ , _Clannad_ , _Little Busters!_ and\n_[One](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One:_Kagayaku_Kisetsu_e)_. Note that\n_One_ is generally considered to be part of the Keyverse because\n\n> Much of the staff that created the game later became the founding members of\n> the visual novel brand Key.\n\nIn _Clannad_ , there is the [Illusionary\nWorld](https://clannad.fandom.com/wiki/Illusionary_World):\n\n> This world is later revealed to have been created by Ushio, who died\n> regretting having left her father alone. She, therefore, became the girl in\n> this world with the hopes of meeting her father again and collecting enough\n> light orbs to make a miracle possible. . . .\n>\n> In theory, the Illusionary World is the after-life; when a person dies they\n> are still connected to the real world, yet they are free to create their own\n> world.\n\nIn _Little Busters!_ , there is the [Artificial\nWorld](https://littlebusters.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Busters!#Story):\n\n> The story's main part takes place in what seems to be a normal high school,\n> but in fact all took place in the school term previous to Little Busters!,\n> and Riki and Rin are reliving it in an artificial world created by Kyousuke.\n> They, and the other main characters, were involved in a bus accident during\n> a school excursion, and only the two of them will survive. Kyousuke created\n> the artificial world to make them strong enough to deal with what will\n> happen when they awaken in the real world. The world loops, but though they\n> forget what happens, Riki and Rin do grow stronger, and Kyousuke hopes that\n> they will eventually be strong enough to leave the world. They do manage to\n> survive and get away from the crash site before Riki collapses due to his\n> chronic illness, narcolepsy. Riki vows to fight against his narcoleptic\n> condition, which was the reason why he was only able to save Rin and merely\n> get away from the explosion before collapsing.\n\nIn _One_ , there is the [Eternal\nWorld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One:_Kagayaku_Kisetsu_e#Story):\n\n> The Eternal World is a place similar to the afterlife where a person's\n> \"other self\" awaits. Anyone can access it, though it is only accessible once\n> one has lost his or her grounding in the real world. It may be necessary to\n> form a pledge with someone in the real world as a guide to the Eternal\n> World, but one's memories surrounding the pledge become vague. A grace\n> period can be granted between when the pledge is made and when someone goes\n> to the Eternal World. Once the process has started, nothing can prevent\n> someone from going to the Eternal World, and returning to the real world is\n> difficult. Someone about to leave to the Eternal World starts to be\n> forgotten approximately one week before going, and the amount of time before\n> someone forgets differs based on how much someone thinks about the person\n> leaving. However, he or she is remembered the moment that person returns. If\n> a strong emotional bond is established in the real world before leaving, a\n> person in the Eternal World can be returned after approximately one year.\n\nIn _Charlotte_ , there is [The World that is No Longer\nHere](https://charlotte.fandom.com/wiki/The_World_that_is_No_Longer_Here),\nwhich is a world where people with superhuman abilities exist, and regrets\nensue. Otosaka forms a pledge with Tomori to loot the abilities of everyone in\nthe world in exchange for her love, but eventually loses memories of the world\nwith ability users.\n\nThen recall that the main setting of _Angel Beats!_ is the [Afterlife\nWorld](https://angelbeats.fandom.com/wiki/Afterlife):\n\n> Despite the numerous enigmas that surround the world, it serves as a sort of\n> second life for teenagers whose lives were filled with despair and pain.\n> They are brought there after they have died and, alongside others, try to\n> live there with fulfilled existences to make up for their pain. After, they\n> disappear as their happiness has been granted. . . .\n>\n> Or, it could be simply said that time does not exist in the Afterlife and\n> teenagers who died with regrets can go there, regardless what time of death\n> or time period said person is.\n\nIn summary, all these worlds are for people who have regrets and lost memories\nsurrounding the regrets.\n\nSo what happens in the Keyverse when a person \"passed on\" from one of these\nworlds? They return to the real world, and in the case of Tomoya in _Clannad_\n, [he returned to a past point in time after collecting enough light orbs to\ngrant his wish](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/258/8486).\n\nBased on the recurring themes and concepts in the Keyverse, this is the\nsequence of events that unfold after Kanade and Otonashi passed on from the\nAfterlife World:\n\n 1. They had established a strong emotional bond before leaving to the Afterlife World, which ensured their eventual return to the real world. [ _One_ ]\n 2. They had been helping people achieve happiness by fulfilling their goals, so the [light orbs](https://clannad.fandom.com/wiki/Light_orbs) that appear in the [OP](https://i.stack.imgur.com/j5fet.jpg) and in [episode 13](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KL9BL.jpg) granted their wishes and brought them back to a time before the point of no return so they could meet each other and be together. [ _Clannad_ ]\n 3. Since coming to the Afterlife World, Otonashi and Kanade had grown stronger and opened up their heart more, so they would be in better shape when they return to the real world to overcome their tragedies (abdominal injury and heart failure) and change the outcome of the adversities favorably for them. [ _Little Busters!_ ]\n 4. They were able to recognize each other thanks to a song of a certain musician, which they somehow retain the memories of. [ _Charlotte_ ]\n\nInterestingly, Otonashi Yuzuru (音無 結弦) means \"no sound\" and \"fastened\nstrings\", respectively, while Hatsune (初音), the name of Otonashi's little\nsister, means \"first sound\", like the first sound of a heartbeat of a person\nlong thought to be dead, and Kanade (かなで/奏) means \"to play an instrument\".\nPlaying the [Meaningful\nName](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeaningfulName) trope,\nKanade plays out the tunes of her romantic encounter with an Otonashi whose\nlove strings had been fastened.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that My Neighbor Totoro was released at least twice (possible three\ntimes because of some sort of airplane release) in the United States. I'm\npretty sure that at there was at least a cast change between the two major US\nreleases, but are there any other changes? Was anything censored or was any\nanimation or lines changed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [the Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro#Release), Tokuma\nCommunications did a release in 1993, which was released on video by 20th\nCentury Fox and dubbed again by Streamline as a special release for airlines.\nThe Wikipedia article claims that Miyazaki would not allow any sort of\nediting, modification, or censorship, due to his disappointment with _Warriors\nof the Wind_ , the heavily edited version of _Nausica a of the Valley of the\nWind_ that was released in the US. The article offers no source, but [this\nsite](http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/faq.html#warrior) supports the\nidea that Miyazaki hated _Warriors of the Wind_.\n\nFox's rights expired in 2004, and Disney acquired the license, creating a new\ndub. The Ghibli fan site from the link above makes the following claim about\nthe Disney / Ghibli relationship:\n\n> No. This will not happen [editing of or changes to the Ghibli films]. Disney\n> can not cut even one second from the films, according to the contract.\n> Ghibli has officially stated that \"With Disney's commitment to maintain the\n> quality of the original titles, there will be no changes to music and\n> sequences in foreign language versions.\" According to Mr. Suzuki, the\n> producer of Ghibli, other companies such as Fox and Time-Warner contacted\n> Tokuma, but Disney was the only company willing to agree to this condition,\n> and that was the main reason why Tokuma chose Disney as a partner.\n\nThe [FAQ on _My Neighbor\nTotoro_](http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/faq.html#dub) also claims\nthat nothing was cut from the Disney release, but does state that the songs\nwere translated into English and dubbed by an American singer, as with other\nGhibli releases by Disney.\n\nIt's been a long time since I watched the Disney dub, and an even longer time\nsince I watched the Carl Macek dub, but I'm pretty sure Disney did a new\ntranslation and wrote a new dub script. The Disney DVD also includes Japanese\naudio with English subtitles. I never watched Totoro subbed, but I have\nwatched other Disney releases subbed and compared them with the dub\ntranslations, and the degree of fidelity is always very high.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Fairy Tail Wiki](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Jobs), there\nare different types of jobs with different levels of difficulty. From my\nunderstanding, any guild member can apply for the job and gets permission\naccording to their level. There are some exceptions where the client ask for\nspecific candidate(s), like in the case of [Warrod\nSequen](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Warrod_Sequen). Marijane seems to be\ninvolved in job processing.\n\nSo I want to know the details on how the jobs are processed - from the moment\nthe client submits the job to when the client rewards for job completion. If\nthere are any other processes that are not mention below, feel free to add\nthem to the list.\n\n 1. Are jobs submitted to every guild as advertisement or only to a specific Guild?\n 2. Is every job accepted by guild? And who is responsible for this?\n 3. Who is responsible for assigning the ranks of the jobs and giving permission to guild members to take the job if requested?\n 4. How does the payment work after the jobs are completed?\n 5. What happens when the mission fails?\n\nIf different guilds have different processes, then please use Fairy Tail guild\nas example.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay after doing some research I will try to answer this to the best of my\nability. For a disclaimer after a few hours of searching I couldn't find a\nsource that explain the job system in detail.\n\n**1\\. Are jobs submitted to every guild as advertisement or only to a specific\nGuild?**\n\nAs we already know that there is a job board in every guild hall that has a\nlisting of jobs that are currently available to mages to complete for\ncompensation. We can assume very important jobs that need attending to\nimmediately are most likely posted through every\n[guild](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Guilds) with the idea that enough\nmages will look at it and someone will accept the job. For smaller jobs with\nsmaller rewards they are most likely categorized by locale. A mage is not\ngoing to travel all the way across\n[Fiore](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fiore) for a small reward. These\n[jobs](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Jobs) are most likely posted only in\nthe guild closest to the area of request. Another good assumption is that\nevery S-Class, SS-Class, 10 Year, and 100 Year jobs are all posted to every\nguild hall. The reason being that there are not that many S-Class mages so\nthey would need to be posted throughout every guild hall so the few S-Class\nmages have a chance to see them.\n\n**2\\. Is every job accepted by guild? And who is responsible for this?**\n\nWe can assume that not every job is accepted and completed. This is why there\nare 10 year and a 100 year jobs. As for how jobs are accepted it is a safe bet\nthat the guild will contact either the Mage Council or the patron about the\nacceptance of the job. For an example if Natsu accepts a job he tells Mirajane\nand she contacts either of the two about the job being accepted. Once the job\nhas been accepted if there are any other guilds that have the job posted they\nmost likely are contacted to remove the job and keep it removed unless the job\ndoes not get competed.\n\n**3.Who is responsible for assigning the ranks of the jobs and giving\npermission to guild members to take the job if requested?**\n\nAs is known there are multiple tier levels for a\n[mage](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Mage). They are as follows: Guild\nMaster, S-Class Mage, Mage. As we have seen in the anime there was a special\narea in the Fairy Tail guild hall that was only accessible for the S-Class\nmages. This is most likely a first check system in place so that regular mages\nare not allowed to accept S-Class jobs. It is also very likely that the Magic\nCouncil has detailed lists on every Mage in a legal guild and knows exactly\nhow many S-Class mages there are in every guild. Once an S-Class or above job\nis accepted they probably have to approve it before sending the acceptance to\nthe patron. Communication could possibly be handled by use of\n[Lacrima](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Lacrima).\n\nAs stated in the wiki the [Magic\nCouncil](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Council): \" are responsible for\nthe events caused by Mages.\" This means that all of the events or jobs that\ncan have mage involvement are constructed by the Magic Council. It would make\nsense for them to rank the jobs because most of the Council are very powerful\nmages and should be able to gauge how easily a job can be completed.\n\n**4\\. How does the payment work after the jobs are completed?**\n\nLike with most job it doesn't make sense not to assume that after the job has\nbeen completed and verified the patron will send the payment to the guild. The\nguild will them distribute the payment to the mage.\n\n**5\\. What happens when the mission fails?**\n\nWe see this happen with [Gildarts\nClive](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Gildarts_Clive), he undergoes a 100\nyear job and is unable to complete the job. Like I mentioned earlier if the\njob is not completed it will go back on the board until the next mage accepts\nit.\n\nOnce again this is not a 100% for sure correct answer to this particular\nquestion. I merely put an answer together from research based on the different\nwiki's and situations from the anime. If I find an actual explanation as to\nhow this works I will modify my answer accordingly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThroughout the series, the more scholar-inclined Parasytes (Reiko Tamura and\nMigi) state that the Parasytes cannot reproduce (and they do not know their\nown origin).\n\nIs there any canon reference or proof that this is indeed true?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe fact that it was mentioned in the show means that it is canon reference.\nSo in fact, no, parasytes cannot reproduce. At least technically so...\n\nIf you remember, Tamura Reiko did in fact reproduce via the human body and\ngave birth to human offspring. However, what about parasytes? Well, no,\nparasytes cannot reproduce, however, there isn't anything against them\nsplitting into multiple organisms.\n\nThe below answer is contradictory to the show, see the [answer\nbelow](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/19830/3034) by Mindwin.\n\n> For example, Tamura Reiko can split into two separate parasytes. So let's\n> consider that if a parasyte split into two separate parasytes and both latch\n> onto two separate organisms, or parts of the same organism. Both would\n> cultivate and grow from the nutrients, and both would have different\n> experiences, and thus develop different personalities. In this sense,\n> parasytes can multiply like cells via cell division and in the process\n> creating successful offspring. Sources? None for this, it's hypothetical,\n> however highly possible and an interesting concept.\n>\n> What supports this idea though? Both the fact that Tamura Reiko split into\n> two separate parasytes with two separate personalities, and the fact that\n> the parasytes can indeed grow - as seen when a parasyte infects a human and\n> takes over that human or part of that human's body.\n>\n> The parasytes are made up of cells which is explained by Dr. Yui. In this\n> sense, this supports my hypothesis since cells can perform cell division,\n> which ultimately is a form of reproduction. So we can't necessarily rule out\n> the fact that parasytes have the ability to divide.\n\nIn case you're wondering, reproduction is covered in episode 15. Tamura Reiko\nsplitting into two happens in episode 17. Dr. Yui explains the neuron idea in\nepisode 10.\n\n**Short Answer:** No, parasytes cannot reproduce, and there is nothing that\nsupports that they can reproduce via sex organs.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have to disagree with @FatalSleep on one point:\n\nIt seems Parasytes cannot grow new cells. Since they are alien in origin, and\nthe series cover only a couple years (Shinichi high school life), we have no\ninfo on the lifespan of parasyte cells. But we have info proving that\nparasytes cannot grow new cells:\n\n * Migi's 30% lost inside Shinichi.\n\nIf Migi could grow new cells (and we can believe he can have a precise enough\ncell count, or he would not get to this 30% figure), he would not be too\nconcerned with the retrieval of those cells. Also the fact he has to sleep for\n4 hours out of every 24-ish is caused by being not whole anymore.\n\nAnd indeed, it is shown several times (his invading of Shinichi's dreams for\nexample) that he is very concerned about this loss of cells. Since there was\nmore than an year between the current anime episode and the heart wound, if he\ncould perform cell division like animal cells he would have done it.\n\n * Reiko's burrowing split fighting technique\n\nReiko would also have split into several copies during these years if she was\nable to grow new cells (and given her personality, she would act like Agent\nSmith in Matrix II `if \"Me, me, me... Me too!\"` If she could make clones of\nherself. But when she splits in two during her fight with the other parasytes,\nit is shown that her intellect is greatly diminished.\n\nA parasyte brain power is dependant on his cell count. When Migi splits in\nseveral smaller versions to show the ability to Shinichi, he clearly says so\nthat each smaller portion is dumber, and if he did not give straight orders to\nrejoin after a few moments, that portion would be lost forever, just like the\n30% inside shinichi. Also there is the fact that a split strand of hair is\nonly able to panic while it writhes without nutrients.\n\nParasyte cells can diferentiate back and forth from stem to specialized cells.\nThe degree of fine control the Parasyte has and this fact may be a pointer to\na infinite lifespan to the parasyte cells (contrary to animal cells that have\nfinite lifespan).\n\nSo from the facts above, it is very unlikely that parasyte cells undergo\nmithosis. This leads to an incapacity for assexual reproduction, aside the\nincapacity to sexual reproduction exposed by @FatalSleep's answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe lunar hypergate that was destroyed 15 years ago during Heaven's Fall was\nsaid to strand the Vers Knights on the Earth Orbit.\n\nIt is improbable that there are no unmanned ships ferrying supplies to the\nVers homeworld (Mars) and parting from the Vers foundries to the frontline\n(Earth orbit).\n\nBut given the scale of space technology, it is not unthinkable that some\npeople (commoners) would not travel several months to get from Earth orbit to\nVers (Mars).\n\nThat the nobles of Vers think themselves as stranded on the orbit because they\nwould not submit themselves to this arduous trip, OK.\n\nBut do people still travel to and from Vers after Heaven's Fall? Is there some\nreference from the canon material?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe found out right at the beginning of episode 1 (around 0:22) that Asseylum\nherself left Vers just two months before the start of the show, at which point\nshe is in Earth orbit (in Cruhteo's castle). Also, in episode 21, we see that\nKlancain (Cruhteo Jr.) has come from Vers to meet Slaine.\n\nSo transit from Earth-vicinity to Mars without the Hypergate surely must be\n_possible_ , but this of course says nothing about how prevalent it is.\n\nI suppose this also does tells us one more thing - the fastest mode of transit\nfrom Mars to Earth orbit must take somewhere under two months, which is\nconsiderably faster than all currently proposed ways of getting people to\nMars.\n\n* * *\n\nIf we want to look to marginally-less-canonical material: the second volume of\nthe BDs came with a short manga titled \"Aldnoah.Zero Extra Episode 01\", which\nportrays Slaine's life right after the passing of his father, including his\nbeing taken in by Cruhteo.\n\nHere, we learn that the Orbital Knights (or at least Cruhteo) and their\nretinue come to Vers every so often on business.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m3mls.jpg)\n>\n> Top left panel: Asseylum asks Cruhteo, \"You had come to Vers?\"; bottom right\n> panel: Cruhteo replies, \"I had a minor matter to attend to.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat happened to Goku in those 100 years after he left the Earth (by which Pan\nwas already an old woman)? Did Goku die or not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot can be said about the last episode.\n\nYou could argue that Goku went to train with Shenlon, you could argue that he\noffered his own life for that last wish, you could argue that it was all an\nillusion, seeing Pan holding his shirt after he had supposedly left, you could\nargue that he became one with the Dragon Balls/Shenlon, you could argue that\nhe'd become immortal.\n\nThis list goes on and it will remain to your own imagination what you believe\nhas happened to Goku, as it was never thoroughly explained in the anime. I\nguess if anything, we could agree that Goku had surpassed human existence and\nentered a state different from being alive or dead as we know them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGoku was dead to begin with at the end of _DB GT_ , and when asked if they\nshould revive him back, he didn't let them do that. Instead, he feared that\nthere are more dangerous and strong fighters in the world, and he needed to\npractice and therefore went with Shenron to practice and live a peaceful life\nfor sometimes.\n\nHe did mention he will come back when the time is right, and since then there\nwere rumours that a new season will come. But at the moment, there isn't any\nand _GT_ weren't part of the original _Dragon Ball_ series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf _Dragon Ball Super_ ends after the Tournament of Power, and if Universe 7\nwins, Goku would have asked Super Shenron to reconstruct the destroyed\nuniverse and erase the memory of all the people of Universe 7 from meeting\nBeerus for the first time at the end of the tournament. Then they would have\nlived a normal life. And after this, _Dragon Ball GT_ is started.\n\nAt the end of _Dragon Ball GT_ , Shenron glows his eyes and due to this, Goku\nis revived and Shenron asks Goku to come with him. And Goku says yes to\nShenron, which was an unexpected behaviour shown by him. After Shenron revived\nGoku, he must have given his memory back and I think Shenron made him immortal\nand given him a god soul because of his good deeds. And due to this, in the\nfarewell tour, Goku was able to go to hell to meet Piccolo.\n\nAnd in the ending of _Dragon Ball GT_ , Goku meets Goku junior and disappears.\nAnd at last, Goku was seen by Pan in World Martial Arts tournament after 100\nyears. He was checking if the earth's protection was in good hands. And at\nlast, Goku fly with his power pole \"until we meet again\".\n\nI think Goku was not dead, he was trained by other gods and at last made him\nan immortal saiyan god.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Dragon Ball GT_ is an alternate timeline.\n\nAfter _Super_ or maybe later in the series, they might reintroduce Super\nSaiyan 4 as the \"Lost Form\" or the \"Forgotten Form\" or something like that.\n\nMy other theory is that maybe the people who created _Dragon Ball_ will create\na story where GT Goku and DBS Goku will eventually meet up... when the time is\nright.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that when GOKU went with shenron and meet his old friends for farewell\nhe know that his time has come to say goodbye .And when goku said to shenron\nthat he was feeling very tired than ever before it's because he was dying and\ndisappears .Also the reason pan saw goku's dress in the end because he was\ndead And Vegeta therefore said pan to take care of them\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlease help me find this anime movie that I watched in the 1980s: The story is\nabout a boy who travels with his parents on a holiday to some kind of island,\nthen he gets lost, and has to become brave to survive as he fights these\nmonsters/dinosaurs, and kills them with a long spear (half metal half wooden).\nHe also finds a girl whom he protects/teams up with. In the end, his parents\nfind him again, as a transformed brave boy, and they leave all together with\nthe girl he falls in love with.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it might be **[Shounen Kenya](http://www.anime-\nplanet.com/anime/shounen-kenya)**\n\n> This cartoon, based on a popular manga (Japanese-style comic), centers on an\n> 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is\n> Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a\n> beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins, a sort of Young Indy Jones\n> meets Tarzan.\n\n * The main character has 1/2 wooden 1/2 steel spear.\n * He traveled with his parent to a place with dinosaurs.\n * He rescue a native girl. \n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know which websites out there provide legal streaming services for\ndubbed anime. Among the series I'd like to watch are Death Note and Fullmetal\nAlchemist, but I'd really like to be able to see whole seasons.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, so I watched all of the Akame Ga Kill anime. My question is should I\nstart reading Akame Ga Kiru (the manga) from the beginning or continue from\nwhere they split? I saw on another post that they split around approximately\nchapter 48. I understand that the overall plot is similar up until that point,\nbut if there are additional characters or skipped over mini-archs then I want\nto go back and read it all. If the anime is completely accurate until chapter\n48 then I will just start there.\n\nAnyone know the answer to this? (Please no spoilers from anywhere after the\nanime splits off)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime splits off at chapter 39 right after the Mine vs Seryu fight.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have [made a comparison of the anime and manga of _Akame ga KILL!_ and\nincluded suggestion on where to pick up the manga if you know the series by\nwatching the anime](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15124/what-\nakame-ga-kill-manga-should-i-read-if-i-want-to-continue-the-story-line-\nof/15129#15129).\n\nBasically, if you don't want to read too much overlapping content, **start\nreading from chapter 39**. The previous chapter (chapter 38) covers the fight\nbetween Mine and Seryu, which corresponds to episode 19.\n\nThere are many differences between the anime and manga from that point on. The\nWild Hunt arc (from chapter 44 to chapter 48) in the manga introduces several\nnew characters, some of which play important roles in the overall storyline\nbeyond their arc.\n\nSince the anime skips this arc, the fates of several characters were changed:\n\n> * Run was severely injured in chapter 48 after he defeated Champ, who was\n> the perpetrator behind the massacre of Run's students back in his village.\n> Before Run died, Kurome stabbed him with Yatsufusa and made him her puppet.\n> He was alive and well at the end of the anime, though.\n> * Bols' wife and daughter was brutally murdered by Wild Hunt for their\n> amusement in chapter 46. They stayed alive at the end of the anime and were\n> seen distributing ration.\n> * In the manga, Suzuka - one of the Four Rakshasa Demons - actually\n> survived from Tatsumi's attempt to crush her by destroying the whole\n> building. She is assumed dead in the anime.\n>\n\nTherefore, although you might encounter some similar scenes in some of the\nchapters, it is best if you read from chapter 39 to understand the context in\nlater chapters.\n\nApart from the main chapters, there are several [extra\nchapters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Akame_ga_Kill!_chapters) which\nare not adapted in the anime:\n\n * **Volume 5** \\- (Unnamed Special Chapter)\n * **Volume 8** \\- Extra Chapter (33.5) \"Kill the Reminiscences\" (追憶を斬る Tsuioku o Kiru)\n * Extra Chapter (7.5). \"Kill the Blackness\" (暗黒を斬る Ankoku o Kiru)\n * Extra Chapter (6.5). \"Kill the Mad Swordman\" (剣鬼を斬る Kenki o Kiru)\n\nAnd if you are interested, you might want to read [_Akame ga KILL!\nZero_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=102282), which tells the\nbackground story of several characters in the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTowards the end of season 2, episode 21 of Log Horizon, as Minori and the rest\nof the gang are walking home after getting some wyvern skins, they run into\nNyanta, who \"happens\" to be flying by on a griffon. In the next scene,\neverybody is back in Akiba.\n\nBut how did they get back? Don't griffons only have a capacity of 2 riders?\nDid Nyanta make multiple trips, maybe?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter looking through the skill lists on the Log Horizon Wikia I could not\nfind another skill that would allow them to fast travel back to Akihabara but\naccording to the Adventurers abilities page they can use Call of Home to\nreturn ref([Adventurer Abilities](http://log-\nhorizon.wikia.com/wiki/Adventurer)). So it would make sense that they either\nused Call of Home or just traveled back on foot with a time lapse that wasn't\nnoted. ref([Skills](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Skills))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor me, it is quite unclear what Kagetane really wants to achieve in the end.\nWhat does he gain from fighting Rentaro or the whole system?\n\nDo the light novels shed any light regarding this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm just wondering if the voice actor of Franky is the same as the one of Mr.\n2 Bon Clay. They sound the same.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japanese, both Franky and Mr. 2 Bon Clay are voiced by [Kazuki\nYao](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuki_Yao).[[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_One_Piece_characters#Franky)[[2]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_One_Piece_characters#Bon_Clay)\n\nIn both the 4kids English dub and Funimation English dub, they are voiced by\ndifferent people.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf there's even a name for it?\n\nI saw [this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6556/why-does-the-\ndrawing-style-in-manga-or-anime-often-change-when-a-character-is-di) question\nthat explains **why** but I'd love to know if there's a name for it. The\nlinked question mentions _superdeformed_ but I figured there's a Japanese\nname, if there's anything.\n\nThey do it in many anime (and manga) and it's used with the character is\nembarrassed, sometimes it's when they're tired, annoyed, or confused.\n\nIt reminds me of chibi but it's even simpler than that and doesn't really make\nthem look like kid-versions.\n\nFrom [Fullmetal Alchemist:\nBrotherhood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood):\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn all the artist references and sources I've used for drawing manga, I've\nnever come across a standard name for the style. I've sometimes seen it\nreferred to as deformation, with super-deformation chibi style at the end of\nthe spectrum.\n\nMore often I've seen it referred to simply as exaggeration, as it's\nexaggerating the facial features and body language to emphasize the depicted\nemotions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe so-called \"simple background\" is essentially a montage of a particular\nmental landscape. Sometimes referred to as \"kouka haike\" (効果背景, lit. effect\nbackground) or \"kouka back\" (効果バック, lit. effect back), referring to a simple\neffect background.\n\nThe particular lines in the scene are likely some variant of \"taresen\" (たれ線)\nmeaning \"dripping lines\". Sometimes it is also generically referred to as\n\"tatesen\" (縦線), or \"vertical lines\".\n\nThey both refer to the depiction of parallel vertical lines (sometimes\nsquiggly or uneven to represent a distressed state) in a background or on a\nparticular character's face. The lines typically of a dark blue or purple hue\n(they can vary by artist and context) is indexed to express how a particular\ncharacter or scene feels depressed, sad, disgusted, or anguished, amongst\nother negative feelings.\n\nThe term is likely derived from 垂れる, referring to how the emotions of the\nscene or character are \"dripping\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fOdE2.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UJqRi.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that the moon boosts waterbenders and the sun and the comet boost\nfirebenders.\n\nAre there other things that boost earthbenders and airbenders?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSuch powers are not been mentioned in the Comics or in Avatar or Korra Series.\nThat said, the powers from the Sun and the moon can be seen in the negative\nsense. Because Night leaves the Firebenders vulnerable a lot (the reason why\nGeneral Iroh asked Admiral Zhao to wait until daybreak for attack again at\nNorthern Tribe in Episode 19) as WaterBenders becomes virtually unstoppable\nunder moon. Similarly, WaterBenders lose a lot of their power to Sun and they\nbecome vulnerable (that's why Admiral Zhao continued the attack only in Day).\nThe powers are more like in Cycle, one is bound to overpower another. Earth\nand Air on the other hand are elements that have no relation with any natural\nphenomenon in Avatar World, thereby, making them virtually impossible to be\nboosted unless by Physical and Mental Training. Besides, Air seems to be the\nonly element that is present everywhere, whether a wooden cage, a metal cage,\na ship to hold Criminals, or any other ordinary or extraordinary place. This\nmakes Air as a gift to be virtually available everywhere for any Airbender.\nEven the Fire has its limits (remember the way Pa'li was caged before being\nfreed) on availability.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnlike water and fire, air and earth have different properties, thus different\nobjects or attributes can boost or decrease their bending.\n\nAirbending relies on feeling the air current, and airbenders use the flow as a\nbooster to their bending. This can be done by an [airbender\nstaff](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Airbender_staff) or similar items. This is\nwhy most airbenders can't fly without a staff.\n\n> Airbender staff is a wooden stave used primarily by airbenders to augment\n> their bending. The versatile instruments were a major part of Air Nomad\n> culture and used in the execution of several complex airbending techniques.\n> Staffs were constructed to unfold into fan-like gliders which enabled\n> airbenders to fly while manipulating the air currents around them.\n\nAs for earthbending, earthbenders can boost their bending by boosting their\n[seismic senses](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Seismic_sense). Basically,\nequipping items like hammers, maces or not wearing shoes enable them to boost\ntheir bending in a degree.\n\n> Earthbenders have been known to use hammers and fans to augment their\n> bending, and it has been stated that the Chinese great sword dadao, a heavy\n> war sword, or literally \"big knife\", would also be best-suited for a strong\n> earthbender.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf a Firebender gets boosted by the comet and Aang is also a Firebender,\nshouldn't his Firebender abilities also be stronger with the sun?\n\nAnd of course the same with the moon and his waterbender abilities.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the [wiki](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Sozin's_Comet) suggests Aang also\neffected.\n\n> An Avatar-level firebender can produce fire whips, the most being five at\n> once. They are capable of reaching across long distances, displayed when\n> Aang used the technique hundreds of feet above Ozai. This may have been a\n> result of his firebending being augmented by Sozin's Comet or because he was\n> in the Avatar State at the time, or possibly a combination of both. Each\n> fire whip is also very wide and moves in a similar fashion to squid or\n> octopus tentacles. They have enough destructive power to demolish large rock\n> formations.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWho is supposed to be the highest-power character in the _Dragon Ball_ series?\nIs it Lord Beerus, Gogeta SS4, or somebody else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe most powerful character in the _Dragon Ball_ universe, currently, is\n[Whis, Beerus' assistant](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Whis).\n\n\n\nThis is stated in [an interview with Akira\nToriyama](http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/battle-gods-animanga-akira-\ntoriyama/), the creator of _Dragon Ball_ :\n\n> I suppose if Beerus’ strength is a 10, [Super Saiyan] God would be right\n> about 6. [...] Incidentally, I guess Whis would be about a 15.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn an interview with Akira Toriyama, he states that Whis is the most powerful\ncharacter.\n\nTo be honest, in my opinion, Goku is the strongest due to the fact that his\npower has no limits. He has seven super saiyan forms, and currently, it is\nSUPER SAIYAN GOD 2 (-sweatdrops- Seriously?). He also has plot shields, and\nthe trope DeathIsCheap.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was wondering what was the meaning of the tile Usagi drop: literally it\nmeans \"Bunny drop\", but how is it related to the story? Is there some\nreference to somethings or is there some pun involved?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[As senshin has mentioned in his\ncomment](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1471602274),\nthe author has never commented on the origin of the name. Thus, there are only\nfans' interpretation...\n\nAccording to Japanese fans (on Japanese Yahoo! Answers:\n[1](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1471602274),\n[2](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1472097984)), the\none that seems to make sense is:\n\n> Usagi Drop → Usagi's drop → rabbit's (falling) teardrop\n\nThe first link explains more in detail that in the last volume of the manga,\n\n> Daikichi confessed to Rin why he took her over. \n> \n> Rin: Daikichi... you haven't met me before, but why you... \n> Daikichi: Your face... your crying face when you parted with grandpa...\n> somehow... \n> \n> The next panel shows Rin's crying face. Thus, _Usagi = Rin_. \n> The conclusion is, the title is about **Daikichi's determination to take\n> Rin over when he saw her crying face**.\n\nAlso, the anime's OP show a teardrop just before the title appears.\n\nThe second link explains it in short, that the title is a wordplay.\n\n> \"Usagi\" means _lonely_ , and \"Drop\" means _teardrop_. \n> Combining the words, the title means **Rin, a lonely crybaby**. \n> \\--- \n> Further reading: in Japan, there's a popular term \"lonely rabbit\" because\n> it's believed that \"a rabbit can die if it's left alone\". Extending that,\n> there's also \"rabbit-type girl\" which is described as \"a girl who often\n> feels lonely\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe this question is similar to\n\n 1. 'Where is the sniper?' in this 2008 video '[CIA Entrance Exam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HL-jUsIiN8&lc=UgzWh9DFWaUvgHv0j9l4AaABAg)'\n\nThe answer is\n\n> 'You are the sniper.' You're seeing the POV of the sniper, but you're led to\n> believe that from your POV, you'll see the sniper somewhere else.\n\n 2. ['Where/What/Who are the rabbits in Deceit?'](https://www.reddit.com/r/PlayDeceit/comments/rmpt40/is_asking_wherewhatwho_are_the_rabbits_in_deceit/) for the game [Deceit](https://deceit.fandom.com/wiki/Deceit_Wiki). Deceit features a lot of rabbits (oh rabbit / bunny like bunny drop) in the logo or posters or whatever, but you don't really see rabbits running around. So where are the rabbits in the deceit?\n\n> The rabbits are the innocent who run away from the infected who are like\n> lions or whatever.\n\n 3. Consider [this image](https://www.reddit.com/r/NinoNakano/comments/uwe2qa/theres_a_missing_card_for_the_royal_flush_wheres/) of [Nino Nakano](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/67368/what-is-this-metal-object-that-nino-is-rubbing-against-her-face-in-gotoubun-no-h) from [The Quintessential Quintuplets](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/49006/why-do-anime-mothers-often-get-the-short-end-of-the-stick/67494#67494)\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/82esn.png)\n\nWe see 4 out of 5 cards needed for a royal straight flush. Where is the Ace of\nDiamonds?\n\n> It's not the diamonds on Nino's socks. Nino _is_ the [ace of\n> diamonds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Diamond).\n\n# Finally\n\nSo here, I haven't seen Bunny Drop / Usagi Drop, but after reading the plot\npreview, I immediately thought that the 'Bunny' is\n\n> Rin, which is the same as Aki Tanaka♦'s answer.\n\n# What is this trope?\n\nI think it's like [Maybe The Real Treasure Was the Friends We Made Along the\nWay](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maybe-the-real-treasure-was-the-friends-\nwe-made-along-the-way) or [the real treasure is the friends we made along the\nway](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_real_treasure_is_the_friends_we_made_along_the_way).\nOn tv tropes:\n\n 1. [Worthless Treasure Twist](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorthlessTreasureTwist)\n\n 2. [It's the Journey That Counts](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsTheJourneyThatCounts)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n **Unmarked Spoilers.**\n\n* * *\n\nThere are several fights in the second half of the anime between Teigu users\nwho both walk away alive after the battle. The rule that was established,\n\n> namely, that if two Teigu users fight each other, one of them is guaranteed\n> to die,\n\nseems to create many plot holes. (The list is of examples and is not supposed\nto be exhaustive.)\n\n 1. Wave and Tatsumi fight (actually Wave beats Tatsumi)\n 2. Leone and Run in the royal palace.\n 3. Bols vs Leone and Akame\n 4. Kurome vs Leone and Mine\n\nIs this the case, or is there some reason given in the anime that explains\nthis apparent contradiction?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're being too literal. You're hearing \"when two Teigu users fight, one of\nthem dies\" and assuming that this is an infallible statement of an inviolable\nrule of the universe. That's silly. If you consider the actual context of when\nthis statement is made, or just be less literal about it, you'd realize the\nstatement is merely saying \"these things can be pretty lethal when used to\nthat end, and similarly for the people who possess them\". In even shorter\nterms: \"they're powerful, dude!\"\n\nConsider some similar examples:\n\n\"Two men enter, only one man leaves!\" ... and then the other one leaves a\nlittle later and less happy.\n\n\"There can be only one.\" ... unless we simply resolve to leave each other\nalone. Also, are we aliens, or what, because there's probably lots of us if\nso.\n\n\"One ring to rule them all.\" ... but utterly fail to have any usable power\nover the majority of those it was supposed to rule.\n\n\"The greatest sword ever forged.\" ... because we have totally measured all\nswords across all history and agreed upon an uncontroversial and objective\nmeasurement of greatness for said swords. Also we clearly defined what a sword\nis ahead of time, so this is not an ambiguous statement.\n\n\"You pay for the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!\"\n\nNone of these things are literally true and inviolable and any violation of\nthem in a story is not a plot hole. Indeed, their violation in stories is\nusually _the entire point_. It demonstrates how the characters are not\ninfallible, and the heroes and top-tier villains need to demonstrate how\namazing they are by overcoming them. They are either statements of potent\nintent (Sauron wanted the ring to rule them all, but Dwarves didn't care and\nElves were too savvy and resistant), or statements to underscore the gravity\nof the situation (the Thunderdome is serious business, so best get amped).\n\nNow, constant violation of the statement _can_ take the edge off of something.\nIf you routinely find yourself needing far more than the edge of your seat,\nyou will become inured to statements to the contrary. You may have expected\nTeigu fights to be routinely deadly and brutal, but if you see several things\nto the contrary you will start taking the matter less seriously. This would be\na flaw in story structure (or the reader/viewer just being jaded), but not a\nplot hole.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI heard SAO was published online before being published in paper (not sure if\nonly the first volume or more). Now, the question is where was it published,\nwhich site?\n\nI understand that the webnovel version of SAO is likely no longer available\nthere. I'm more interested in the site. I tried googling it but I've got no\nanswer, so I'm asking it here.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou will not be able to (legally) find the web novel version anymore as the\nauthor has pulled it out after agreeing to publish it with ASCII Media Works.\nAs for the website it was published in, it would be on SAO's author Reki\nKawahara's[ website.](http://wordgear.x0.com/novel/)\n\nKeep in mind that he used the pseudonym \"Fumio Kunori\" when he was writing\nthis particular web novel series.\n\nSource:\n\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online#Light_novels>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn [Avatar Kyoshi's page](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Kyoshi) on Avatar Wiki,\nit is stated that\n\n> Avatar Kyoshi used a pair of fans to enhance her bending.\n\nAlso from the [Earthbending page](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Earthbending),\n\n> Earthbenders have been known to use hammers and fans to augment their\n> bending.\n\nHow can a pair of fans be used to augment earthbending?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey don't, but Avatar Kyoshi was an Avatar and therefore did not just\nEarthbend. She is shown using the fans to enhance her Airbending. This is seen\nwhen she [creates Kyoshi\nIsland](http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/4/4c/Kyoshi_and_Chin.png/revision/latest?cb=20140215112601)\nand when she [defeats the Earth King's\nguards](http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/4/46/Kyoshi_defeats_Earth_King%27s_guards.png/revision/latest?cb=20130627161500).\n\nThe fans themselves are merely instruments that were used by Kyoshi herself,\nand later adopted by the Kyoshi warriors. As Suki says when she is teaching\nSokka to use them, \"Think of the fan as an extension of your arm.\" She also\nmentions that \"Our technique is about using our opponents force against them\"\nwhich is similar to the principles around Airbending.\n\nWhen Kyoshi is show using her bending, she is shown doing so with her fans.\nThey were her weapon of choice, and considering she is the one who taught the\nfirst Kyoshi warriors, they are the ones likely to know her reason best. She\nalso was teaching the women these techniques because they were being\nmistreated by men. The principles of using ones strength against them taught\nby Airbending is a good principle to teach to people who may be smaller than\ntheir attacker.\n\nThere is no real evidence to support it \"enhanced\" her Earthbending in any way\nother than the fact she was shown Earthbending with the fans in hand. The\ncited source for the claim is the episode in which she creates Kyoshi Island,\nand while she is shown using the fans, she also enters the Avatar state to be\nable to do the high level bending needed to perform the task. The stances she\ntakes are that of a regular Earthbender/Lavabender, and the fans only really\ncome into play when she uses them for her Airbending.\n\nBasically, there is no evidence to support this, though also no evidence to\nthe contrary. It is merely a claim about her use of the fans as a weapon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is also said that Kyoshi had a problem with bending small amounts of\nearth.\"She struggled with precision. She lacked the ability to bend small\namounts of earth\" This was taken from the fandom about her. Her fans help her\nfocus and control her power. Like Zuko and his dual swords helped him learn to\ncontrol with firebending.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime series of Konjiki no Gash Bell has 150 episodes. I watched up to\nepisode 26. As far as I saw, in most of the episodes, the main plot does not\nadvance. Watching all those 150 episodes will be very time-consuming if that's\ngoing to be the case for the rest of the series.\n\nPlease give me a list of the essential episodes so that I could skip over the\nnon-essential ones.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [this page](http://sjump-forum.livejournal.com/33717.html), there\nare 121 canon episodes.\n\n> Filler episodes for Zatch Bell/Gash bell:\n>\n> * 31-35\n> * 89-100\n> * 139-150\n>\n\n>\n> Once you reach the end of episode 138, read volume 22, chapter 212 to\n> continue the story properly.\n>\n> 139-150 have parts in them that are canon, but they are not completely\n> canon, they are mostly filler and the manga is better.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime is colorful. It has voice and music. It contains tens of thousands of\nframes. It requires advanced computer software and high level of technology.\n\nOn the other hand, manga is nothing but a drawing with pen and pencil.\n\nI would expect manga to be produced faster than anime under these conditions.\nHowever, it appears to be not the case. In most long running series, anime\neventually catches up to the manga.\n\nIs it because the mangakas are lazy, or is there another reason behind this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMangas are usually written by one person, called the mangaka. The mangaka has\nto come up with creative ideas, original scenery, character expressions and\ndialogues while making sure that the story flow is coherent and planning ahead\nto pick up the story in the next chapter and see if he/she can take it from\nthere. The mangaka first has to draw everything in frames of various sizes\n(some of which are very difficult to fill due to abnormal proportions [to\ncreate effects]), outlines everything and then fills in the ink. Sometimes the\nmangaka even has to come up with a color cover page/chapter.\n\nAnime production houses employ many individuals who don't have to work around\nthe clock all the time (shifts reduce workloads on individual employees). They\nalready have most of the original artwork from the manga, and they simply have\nto digitize it and add vibrant colors (not that it isn't difficult). Most\nvoice recordings are done prior to the final graphical rendering. The mangaka\nis more likely to be pressurized when trying to meet the next week deadline\nthan anime production houses, because a shortage of ideas is a disaster for\nthe manga but easy to deal with in the anime (just adding a filler often makes\nit up, regardless of the quality of the content). This means that the mangaka\nprefers to spend a little more time on the story to think and draw more\ncarefully.\n\nThe list goes on and on, but for the sake simplicity, I've decided to end it\nhere. Just a side note that most mangakas work an average of about 18 hours a\nday (almost no days off), which can't really be characterized as lazy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA 20-page manga chapter takes a week to produce. And based on the dialogue at\nthe beginning of Shirobako episode 10, given that the script and the\nstoryboard are already complete, 5 weeks is considered a very tight schedule\nto produce a single anime episode, and 2 months (8 weeks?) is normal. That's\nnot faster than manga. The reason a long running anime can air an episode\nevery week is because they have bigger staff, and the whole process is in a\npipeline so they don't wait until the current episode is over to start on the\nnext episode. For example, the animators work on the next episode while the\nbackground artists work on the parts the animators just finished.\n\nAnime adaptations catching up to their source material has more to do with the\ndensity of the source material as it's produced. For instance, it might take\njust 4 minutes to read a chapter of BLEACH as it uses large panels that eat up\nthe page count, but the anime has to cover 20+ minutes so they'll adapt 5\nchapters. This may be attributed to style, laziness, or the profit the\ncreators get from dragging out a series, if you must.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime actually take months and months to create. That's why the\nseasons(spring,winter,fall,and summer)come in handy.Every week they edit it\nand maybe voice acting. So anime actually takes longer to create then manga\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEssentially mangaka are just inefficient.\n\nThis was especially highlighted to me when reading some Chinese comics, where\na fast one releases two chapters nearly every day. In color.\n\nYou could step in and remove the inefficiencies, but the root cause is that a\nlot of mangaka reach a point where their story is going nowhere and they reach\nthat point relatively fast.\n\nWhen that happens, either the mangaka has enough clout to go on hiatus or he\nhasn't and someone steps in to tell him how to continue the story. Usually by\nturning it into something formulaic, copying the formula of another ongoing\npopular work.\n\nA solution would be for manga to copy anime and favor adaptations instead of\noriginal works, since if the story is already there, all the inefficiencies\ncould be fixed.\n\nBut I guess the way things are everything is still profitable, so no one sees\nthe need to fix the supposed problem.\n\nI'm guessing that the manga industry will be steamrolled by the manhua\nindustry (the Chinese comics) in the next two decades, simply because they\nrelease new things faster. So while you wait for the next chapter of your\nfavorite manga, you can read a couple of thousand chapters of a bunch of\nmanhua to pass the time waiting.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis isn't a question about a specific anime. However, I wonder why filler\nepisodes exist.\n\nAt first, I thought it was to allow the manga to advance a bit more when the\nanime was catching up. However, in Naruto (for example), the manga has\nfinished and the anime still has fillers.\n\nFor other series like One Piece, the anime is relatively close to the manga\nand there are no fillers (Thanks God!)\n\nWhat's the purpose of filler episodes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFiller episodes aren't supposed to be bad at their fundamental purposes. \nThey are supposed to mainly close opened gaps and holes in the plot of the\nmain series.\n\nThey could be also be used to divert the main story into a different one. \nFor example, in Naruto, there are many \"side-stories\" that couldn't be\nconnected to the canon (like the stories from the video games/movies, but not\nall of them though).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Monkey: Journey to the West_ by Wu Cheng'en in the 16th century is regarded\nas one of the 4 great classical novels of China (at least according to\nWikipedia). I have read that Son Goku ( _Dragon Ball_ ) is directly inspired\nby Sun Wukong as _Dragon Ball_ was originally supposed to mirror _Journey to\nthe West_ (and of course deviated from this). While I don't know if that is\ntrue, I know Oda lists the _Dragon Ball_ series as a major inspiration.\n\nIs Monkey D. Luffy the man aiming to become the King of the Pirates named\nafter Sun Wukong: the Monkey King?\n\nUpdate: I apparently overlooked that Sun Wukong (Chinese) is referred to as\nSon Goku (Japanese).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think so. The novel is called _Journey to the West_ , and _Monkey_ is\nthe name of a translation into English that became popular that shifted more\nof the focus onto the Monkey King, Sun Wukong.\n\nIt is possible, but Goku was literally given the Japanese name of the Monkey\nKing and had the ability to change into a Giant Ape and the magical staff of\nthe Monkey King, whereas for Luffy it is just his family name, that he shares\nwith Garp and Dragon.\n\nI don't think he is named after this story, there are many stories in the Far\nEast about a handful of animals such as monkeys, dragons and tigers, often the\nmonkeys in the stories will have similar traits, like being playful and\nstrong.\n\nMany characters in _One Piece_ have animal themes, notably the original\nShichibukai and Admirals, and they all act/appear in a way that suits their\nanimal to some extent, Mihawk hunting Krieg in his first appearance,\nDoflamingo being flamboyant.\n\nI think Luffy was just given the name Monkey to highlight his monkeyish\ncharacteristics.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe so. Luffy's primary attack involves manipulating the size of his\narms, similar to the staff of Sun Wukong. They're both useless in water. Also,\nthe Pirate King thing is very much like Sun Wukong's \"Equal to the heavens\"\nschtick.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is one Monkey King in _One Piece_ , not Luffy. He is the leader of\n[Coffee Monkeys](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Coffee_Monkeys) and he\nappears in episode 395.\n\n]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was surprised when I saw, watching PomPoko with my family, that the\ncharacters had really, REALLY large _ahem_ ... well see for yourself:\n\n\n\nI mean, that can't be natural can it? I'm pretty sure last time I saw a racoon\nit didn't have that part so huge.\n\nIs it perhaps some other body part? You can see their tails in the below\npicture as they use the flesh for parachutes, so I'm sure it's not that. It\n**does** seem to be coming from their nether regions though.\n\nWhat is up with these racoons?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe racoons in this film aren't the usual ones the West would know of. They\nare in fact _Tanuki_ and are better know as _Racoon Dogs_ in English.\n\n\n\nStill, you can see from the picture above that they aren't as heavily endowed\nas the ones in the Ghibli film. This is because the film takes the concept\nfrom Japanese folklore.\n\nIn Japanese folklore, the Tanuki are shape-shifters, much like the _kitsune_\nfox. They're generally tricksters, but they have positive connotations in\nJapan despite their fearsome nature in older times. The humongous scrotum only\ncame about in the Edo period in Ukiyo-e drawings - the precursor to several\nother drawn art forms, and eventually, to manga.\n\n \n\nSome drawings of tanuki flyfishing and pulling a ballsack-boat to shore.\n\nI recommend reading [Tofugu's article on\ntanuki](http://www.tofugu.com/2015/01/30/tanuki-the-magical-canine-with-\ngigantic-magic-tanuki-balls/) if you want to learn more about these creatures.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of Dragon Ball, when Goku and Chi Chi were questing to find the\nBansho Fan to put out the fire trapping the Ox King, it seems as if they could\nhave used the Dragon Balls to do it quickly. More than one year had passed\nsince their previous usage and, as far as I could tell, the balls were not\nscattered after wishing Krillin and the others back to life (they remained on\nthe ground at the Kame House after the wish).\n\nSo, it seems like they could have quickly made a wish to stop the flames and\nrestore the castle. Why did they not do so? I did not read the manga, I only\nwatched the anime. Was there a specific reason that either I missed, or that\nwas perhaps stated in the manga, or was it simply a plot device to fill the\nlast few episodes of the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYour assumption about the dragon balls was wrong. They did indeed scatter in\nchapter 156, right after Shenlon brought everyone back to life. Also seeing\nthe mini saga about the wedding-dress was anime filler to begin with, one\ncould argue that it would be pretty lame to fill it with the gang just using\nthe dragon balls.\n\nApart from that, it should be noted that getting the dragon balls wasn't as\neasy as it sounds at that time. Bulma did have the dragon radar, but she would\nnot have been able to retrieve them all on her own as we had seen earlier in\nthe series. And Goku couldn't help her either as he had promised to train at\nthe sanctuary with God for three years. He was stuck there all the way to the\ntournament.\n\nSo when the fire actually happened, it would take Goku less time to get the\nfan, than to collect all dragon balls. So trying to get the fan first, would\nbe the best choice of action. If he would fail, they could collect the dragon\nballs as a backup plan anyway.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of Dragon Ball, when the Ox King was trapped, Goku flew into the\nfire on the Nimbus and had an extended conversation with the Ox King. Goku's\nprevious demonstrations of strength also implied that he would have no problem\nlifting and holding on to the Ox King.\n\nI did not read the manga, I only watched the anime. Is any specific reason\ngiven or implied why Goku could not have grabbed the Ox King at that time and\ncarried him (either on the cloud or hanging onto him if Ox King could not fit\nor ride) out of the flames to buy himself and Chi Chi extra time to find a way\nto extinguish the flames?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was most probably because Ox King did not have a pure heart, and so would\nnot have been able to ride the Nimbus. Evidence for this is seen during the\nfirst meeting of Goku and Ox King, when rumors that Ox King murdered those who\napproached his castle for treasures (out of greed, of course) was confirmed by\nhim when he admits his wrongdoings in front of Master Roshi.\n\nAnyways, it is filler content and not part of the original manga, so no\n\"official\" explanation exists.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat are the main differences between anime in the 90s and in 2000s in terms\nof technology used (like on twos, on threes, etc)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a fairly tough question to answer, as most changes did not just apply\nto Anime, but to how movies, series and even advertisements as a whole, and\nthe way they got made.\n\nIt is however an interesting time period you picked, considering the economic\nslump of the 90's, which they only started to recover from in 92\n\n> _A slump in advertising revenue, dwindling birthrates, and the popularity of\n> alternative forms of entertainment like video games and cell phones have led\n> to sluggish prime time ratings and a decline in the number of anime since\n> the peak in 2006... ...The Japanese anime industry is at a turning point._\n> \\- [Nippon, 2013](http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00043/)\n\n## Rise of 3D animation and CGI\n\nAll though [3D\nanimation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_animation#3D_animation_software_in_the_1990s)\nwas already existent around the 1940's. It had a 'said' _breakout_ year in\n1991. As more and more studios started to adapt the technology, we can slowly\nsee it replace older, more [Traditional\nAnimation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation) techniques\nthroughout the 90's and during the beginning of the millenia.\n\nDue to these changes, there where also significant advances in the field. Such\nas the 2000 breakthrough in capturing the reflectance field over the human\nface, being the final breakthrough to making digital look-a-likes of actors,\nOr the 2001 Motion capture, photorealism, and uncanny valley.\n\nThe later of which was applied on the 2001 Japanese-American [Final Fantasy:\nThe Spirits\nWithin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within),\nwhich was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and remains\nthe most expensive video game-inspired film of all time.\n\nBesides obtaining a _first_ in Photorealistic computer animation, Japan can\nalso claim the title for being the _first_ in using [cel-shaded\nanimation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading), with\n[Appleseed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed_\\(film\\)).\n\n> _\"innovative use of out-of-the-box animation software to create Hollywood-\n> style effects at a tiny fraction of Hollywood budgets.\"_ \n> **_Mark Schilling, The Japanese times & \n> Toshio Suzuki president Studio Ghibli_**\n\n## Death of traditional animation\n\n[Traditional Animation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation),\nalso known as hand drawn animations, or cel animation.\n\nDuring the 90's as more and more studios started to adapt digitalized\nanimation, the art of traditional animation started to slowly die out. Some\nstudios dived straight into the deep, leaving traditional animation behind\nalmost immediately, while others started by mixing the digital and traditional\nways.\n\nThis would continue till [FujiFilm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujifilm),\none of the major cel production companies, announced they would stop cel\nproduction, leading to a industry panic, hastening the switch to digital\nprocesses\n\nAround the early 2000s most studios left behind traditional animation for the\nmore modern, digital animation.\n\nThere was however 1 exception to this, [Sazae-\nsan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san). But even though it was the\n[sole survivor](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-08-29/sazae-san-is-\nlast-tv-anime-using-cels-not-computers), they also gave in to the modern age\nin 2013. When even they said [goodbye to cel\nanimation](http://www.japanator.com/sazae-san-says-goodbye-to-traditional-\nanimation-29800.phtml).\n\n> _\"It's the culture of Japan. We want to continue making the paints even if\n> that cuts into our profits.\"_ **_Taiyō Shikisai head Shigeji Kitamura_**\n\n<http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00043/>\n\nbegin 90's turning point facial animation Historically speaking, the first\nSIGGRAPH tutorials on State of the art in Facial Animation in 1989 and 1990\nproved to be a turning point in the field by bringing together and\nconsolidating multiple research elements and sparked interest among a number\nof researchers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember Captain Ginyu exclaiming that Goku had a power level of 180,000 in\nthe Ginyu Force arc, but I don't recall a higher scouter being shown/read\naloud in any other episode/movie of DBZ (I'm not including Frieza's 1 million\nbluff).\n\nDoes anyone have more information on this from a credible source? If official\ndata is available, I would also want to know the power levels of a regular\nSuper Saiyan, SS2 and SS3 as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure how credible you consider the Dragon Ball Wiki, but they have\ncompiled a list of power levels of most characters mentioned throughout the\nseries, including GT.\n\nThe highest power levels in that list would be the old Supreme Kai's at at\nmost 120 billion, while the next largest power level would be Gogeta SSJ4 at\n25 billion.\n\nSee [here](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_power_levels) for a more\nexhaustive list.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Otonashi's flashback in episode 9, he was on his way to take the [National\nCenter Test for University\nAdmissions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_Test_for_University_Admissions),\nheld annually during a weekend in mid-January over a period of two days, when\nthe train he boarded crashed. He took out his mobile phone to check the time\nand then realized that he was late for the test. Thus, we can conclude that\nJanuary 15 was a Sunday and Otonashi left the real world on January 21 (Day\n7).\n\n\n\nDespite being a school-themed anime, there seemed to be little indication of\ntime and the seasons in the Afterlife World when compared to the real world in\nthe flashback episode, where we knew the exact dates (and even the days) of\nthe incidents that were happening. Can we tell the date (or the time of the\nyear) each episode occurred on from the activities the students were doing (or\nany other hint)? And can we possibly determine the duration of Otonashi's stay\nin the Afterlife World up till the last episode?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Sunday Without God_ , Ai's father takes his name from a story about a toy\nthat continues to move for eternity after its spring breaks.\n\nIs there an actual story on Hampnie Hambart that was pulled as a reference\ninto the anime? Or is this simply character background information?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll I remember is watching an anime early in the morning on Sci-Fi channel.\n\nI remember a scene of a young boy with a gun in a futuristic setting. He was\nwatching a large conveyor belt with old androids and/or humans being dumped\ninto a machine which turns them into supplement pills that everyone takes\ninstead of eating.\n\nIt could have been a movie or an OVA, I'm not sure. Also, I am not sure when\nit aired on Sci-Fi, but it had to be anywhere from 2000-2006 and it was in\nEnglish.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGalaxy Express 999 Adieu.\n\nThe conveyor belt is bright purple and covered with rows of bodies of non-\nrobotic people, going towards a bright white light. The boy with the gun,\nTetsuro, stands watching the process with 3 of his traveling party, as the\nbodies are processed. They are dropped through what looks like lines of\nelectricity and a white orb is extracted which is contained in a tiny pill\nthat is essentially robot food. It is referred to as the flame of life. – This\nlink is bad quality but is on the scene. <https://youtu.be/RI-b9_o3nSk?t=5523>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one of the final episodes, Chez notices Isaac is immortal when he's trying\nto save him from falling off the train. Isaac also got shot, and beaten down.\n\nHowever, he didn't drink the \"sake\" he and Miria stole from the mob, did he?\n\nHow did he and Miria became immortals?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSame way as Gandors and Martellos.\n\n> Box with elixir of immortality went from what's-his-name brewer to Dallas\n> Genoard, who then left it at Gandors' place. On Scilard's orders, Dallas\n> recovered the box, but then he was robbed by Isaac & Miria, who took the box\n> with them to Firo's inauguration party, where **all present** drank the\n> elixir.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit differs very slightly between the anime and novels, but the answer is, they\ndrank it during Firo's promotion party. (though when and how the elixir got\nthere is the main difference between the versions).\n\nIn the anime, there's 1 party, where as in the novels, there's 2. (the night\nSzilard shows up is basically an impromptu after-party after Issac and Miria\nsteal the box from Dallas and finding out it's liquor and decide give it to\nthe Martillos for treating them the night before during Firo's promotion\n(which is where the real elixir was drunk)).\n\nIn the novel Firo was actually the one who stole the Elixir, and the box\neveryone was chasing around all book long was just normal alcohol Firo had\ntraded out with the elixir while Barnes was unconscious.\n\nNovel Firo is kind of a jerk, and basically decided to \"test\" Barnes. If he\nwas nice and respectful for being saved, Firo would give the liquor back, if\nhe was a dismissive jerk, Firo would keep it. Now it does make some sense, as\nthe Begger/Mugger who attacked Firo actually happened that morning (Novel Firo\nbeats the tar out of him without a scratch) and he was fuming over someone\nattacking him after he'd tried to do a good deed for them, and decided to test\nBarnes because of it, see if he was also an ungrateful asshole.\n\nSince he thought the stuff Barnes had and was so protective of was some\nextremely high dollar imported liquor, where as the stuff he was originally\nbringing to the party was a bit on the cheap-side.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for a comedy anime for children with a professor/inventor who has\nan polar bear as friend. The polar bear can walk on two legs and can perfectly\nspeak and talk with humans, and he is also very crazy and stupid (similar to\nSpongebob or Goofy). The anime and the episodes have a _crazy made-for-\nchildren_ **plot [1]** , similar to [_Dr.\nSlump_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Slump) or [_Chiisana Obake Acchi,\nKocchi,\nSocchi_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/310/Chiisana_Obake_Acchi_Kocchi_Socchi).\nThe drawing style is also similar to those animes.\n\n[1] The \"regular\" plot among the episodes is: the professor always invents\nstrange/crazy and funny inventions, and his crazy and stupid polar bear friend\nalways destroys them (similar to \"Dexter's Laboratory\", where Dexter always\ncomes up with some invention just to be destroyed by his stupid sister). Then\nthe professor gets angry as always.\n\nOther characters in this anime are a nice young blond woman, an nasty old\nbrown-haired woman with glasses.\n\nAnother detail which maybe helpful is that I watched this anime in the late\n'90s in Germany.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSounds a lot like\n[**Cubitus**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowser_\\(TV_series\\)) (a.k.a.\n**Wowser** ). It features an inventor who has a huge white dog (some people\nmistake him for a polar bear).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember the girl being a quiet 6-7 year old who was clingy and highly\nreliant on the guy.\n\nthe girl looked exactly like the guy's ex who either died or left him years\nago which is why the guy was so attached to the little kid.\n\nIt wasn't a comedy manga by any means, it was more like a slice of life or\npsychological themed story.\n\nAs far as I had read, there wasn't anything sexual or physical between the guy\nand the little girl (wasn't a loli manga) but the two were really close and\nthe guy didn't want to get into a new relationship because he kept thinking\nabout her.\n\nHe was raising the little girl as his own child.\n\nThe girl kept wanting to look older and more mature so she used to steal make\nup and high heels to get the guy's attention\n\nThat's pretty much all I remember and the manga was a chaptered one so no one-\nshots\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCould it be [My Girl](http://myanimelist.net/manga/6164/My_Girl)?\n\n\n\nThe guy had a girlfriend who had to travel abroad and she ended up having a\nkid but didn't tell him, deciding to dump him instead (so as to not burden him\nwith a child). Then she died and the guy ended up taking care of the kid. The\nlittle girl is in kindergarten I think, so maybe 5 years old? I can't remember\nif it was specifically mentioned that the girl looked exactly like her mother,\nbut they're drawn very similarly, and because he is still kind-of in love with\nhis late ex-girlfriend, he decides to take care of the little girl.\n\nThere's a total of 44 chapters across 5 volumes. Later in the story, there's a\nsort-of love interest for the guy, and some drama between the 3 of them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWaking up in the hospital after an accident, the boy finds that his eyes\nbecome able to see certain people's shadows. Later, it is revealed that those\npeople are murderers, and he gets scouted and recruited by a team of 3 girls\nto hunt those murderers.\n\nSome examples of murderers:\n\n * A woman with a giant eyeball shadow replacing her face. She takes eyeballs off her victims.\n\n * A man with a scythe-shaped shadow replacing his head. He was shown eating ramen next to his victims' corpses.\n\nThe manga doesn't have an anime, I believe, since it is quite recent. I am\nquite certain that it was released after 2013. Not a lot of chapters are out.\nThe premise does sound quite a lot like _Shinrei Tantei Yakumo_ or\n_Tsukihime_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's definitely\n[**Deathtopia**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=110116).\n\nHere is the picture of the main character on the color page of chapter 1.\n\n\n\nThis is a scene near the end of chapter 1 of the guy who eventually murder\neveryone in his family and eats ramen while sitting on the couch, as revealed\nin chapter 2 and 3. At this point in time, the main character had yet to see\nthe true shape of the shadow, and he only managed to made out the scythe-\nshaped shadow in chapter 2.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l0zJw.png\n\"Chapter 1 - Page 57\")\n\nThe three girls who scouted him at the end of chapter 1:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EbfD2.png\n\"Chapter 1 - Page 59\")\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the song Muse performs on the rooftop of A-rise's school?\n\nIt was to qualify for the idol tournament, I think, and they wore blue\ndresses.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song they perform in season 2 episode 3 on top of A-RISE's school is\n[\"Yume no Tobira\"](http://love-live.wikia.com/wiki/Yume_no_Tobira).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI loved the sound of the song that sounds like English (I can't understand the\nwords but I know most of it are not _nihongo_ ) that is usually being played\non dramatic scenes in Tokyo Ghoul RA. Can someone tell me its title and its\nsinger?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat I usually do in cases like this is look the show up on AnimeNewsNetwork,\nwhere it lists all the insert songs used in the show:\n\n<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16318>\n\nI don't have enough reputation to post more links yet, but it looks like it\nmight be the songs \"On My Own\" or \"Glassy Sky\" (both on Youtube). They're both\nsong by Katherine Liner, BTW.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlright, so this is driving me crazy but I recently read the first issue of\n[Kagamigami](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=119149) that came out\nin Shonen Jump (I'm a few weeks behind). I remember reading another manga that\nfelt almost the exact same as Kagamigami. In the manga I read, the crime takes\nplace in a tunnel, not in front of stairs like in the recent issue. The evil\nShikigami also wasn't called the \"Ripper\" I believe, and the main character\ndidn't have a detailed discussion with the culprit like she does in this one.\n\nThe premise is almost the exact same: girl with power to trace objects becomes\ndetective. The Shikigami that the boy uses are almost the exact same as the\nmanga I remember reading. Besides re-downloading every issue of Shonen Jump,\ndoes anyone have an idea of what this might have been?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI suspect you may have read **Shikigami Twilight Days** (式神トワイライトデイズ),\npublished in 2014 vol. 28, which is the one-shot predecessor to Kagamigami.\n\n* * *\n\nIn case you're interested, I found this by using [this nifty Shounen Jump\ndatabase](http://www.ktr.to/Comic/jump.html) and [searching for the author\n(Iwashiro Toshiaki /\n岩代俊明)](http://www.ktr.to/Comic/yomikiri.cgi?start=1300&end=&order=0&keyword=%B4%E4%C2%E5%BD%D3%CC%C0&andor=0&example=)\nin the oneshots (読み切り) section at the bottom.\n\n[Kagamigami's dic.pixiv\npage](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AC%E3%83%9F)\nverifies that Shikigami Twilight Days was the one-shot version of Kagamigami.\n\n",
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