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"body": "\n\nIn the Impel Down Arc, it was said that Shiryu (also known as Shiryu of the\nRain) is on par with Magellan in terms of strength. How did they put Shiryu in\nhis cage if he is on equal strength with the Chief Warden Magellan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [One Piece Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Shiliew):\n\n> His strength is also said to be equal to the Chief Warden Magellan. However,\n> since Magellan's work hours are limited by his diarrhea, Shiliew was\n> considered more dangerous. Despite this, Magellan was still able to suppress\n> Shiliew and place him in a cell in Level 6.\n\nSo you are right about their strength. But I could imagine that they trapped\nhim, or Magellan asked an Admiral for support.\n\nAbout their strength: I believe Shiryu has no chance against Magellan, because\nof his Venom-Venom Fruit. He just has to hit him a few times, or maybe just\nonce to poison him and that would be Shiryu's end.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEmbyro self proclaimed to be thousands of years old. But he is shown in a\nflashback as a scientist in the 22nd century, and the destruction of old earth\nhappened only 534 years ago.\n\nHow can he be that old?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the scene on the roof of the hospital, in episode 21, Kaori starts\nmimicking playing a violin (around minute 10):\n\n\n\nI tried to find out what music she was playing, but [ANN's page on the\nanime](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16108) does\nnot list the music (at least yet).\n\n**What music is this, and who is its author?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it is Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is \"Saint-Saëns, Camille Introduction + Rondo Capriccioso\". It was also\nused in Episode 4, when Kousei and Kaori perform together for the first time.\n\nI believe the segment we hear here begins around the time that Kaori starts\nplaying the violin again after stopping for Kousei. If you remember, she\nencouraged him to start again. We hear a lot of Kaori's and Kousei's thoughts\nduring this time, where she wants to join him in the journey to being a\nmusician. To struggle together no matter how dark the road ahead is. She is\nmost likely trying to bring back Kousei's memory of the struggle they faced\ntogether on that stage, and encourage him again to continue.\n\n[Here](https://youtu.be/Q0ajM7aL-Vc?t=3m56s) is a version of it on YouTube.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Mur Mur reads manga sometimes. What are these manga?\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo me the first one looks like a manga magazine. So it includes more than one\nmanga. And the magazine is called \"Shushu\". I assume it is a fictional\nmagazine since I can't seem to find information about it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's a fictional manga magazine featuring a few different chapters from\ndifferent series. The word シュシュ in japanese means an elastic band of some\nsort.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that [_Project Tsuki-no-\nMe_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Eye_of_the_Moon_Plan) was supposed to be\n\"Madara's\" Sharingan's reflection on the Moon itself, as Tobi declared during\nthe _Five Kage Summit_. However, when he got his hands on the Nine-Tails\nChakra from Lords Kinkaku and Ginkaku, the moon turned into a red one — it\nlooks just like a regular full moon, but in red colour. So, is that the first\nstage of _Project Tsuki-no-me_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTsuki no me, is essentially a permanent dream state, the user's body is kept\nalive by a certain mechanism- spoiler avoided. But the \"spirit\" is tricked\ninto a \"happy\" dream.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Sharingan has the ability to hypnotize someone just by making eye-contact\nwith them.\n\nFrom the [Sharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan) article:\n\n> The Sharingan's final commonly-used ability is capable of inducing a unique\n> brand of hypnosis that involves suggesting actions and thoughts to the\n> opponent through genjutsu cast by simple eye contact between both parties\n\nObito was even able to control Kurama, commonly known as the Nine-Tails (九尾,\nKyūbi), so you can imagine what Madara's Sharingan hypnosis is capable of.\n\nAgain, from the [Sharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan) article:\n\n> [...] only Madara and Obito Uchiha have achieved this feat. It has been\n> stated by Madara Uchiha that the beasts were slaves to those with the\n> blessed eyes. When this was used against Manda and the Nine-Tails, their\n> eyes took on the tomoe pattern of the users' Sharingan while under hypnotic\n> influence\n\nIn order to hypnotize everyone, Madara needs everyone to look into his eyes.\nTherefore, he utilizes the moon as a reflector for his eyes so that he can\napply Sharingan hypnosis on everyone who looks at the moon. The red moon is\nthe start of his Sharingan reflection.\n\nYou might also want read this answer about Infinite Tsukuyomi: [Why is\neveryone affected by Infinite\nTsukuyomi?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20151/why-everyones-\naffected-by-infinite-tsukuyomi)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Brotherhood, during a transmutation, what happens if too much is given as a\npart of the equivalent exchange? In the series, the brothers lose something\neach for trying to give too little during the human transmutation attempt to\nbring back their mom... So what would happen if they give too much? Anything\nat all?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't believe that you even can pay too much. The law of equivalent exchange\nwould dictate that if you put in a quantity X of dirt and transmuted it to\ngold, you should get the exact equivalent amount of gold out, no less.\n\nIn terms of paying more (as Ed and Al did) there is a fairly good explanation\nin episode 26 \"Reunion\". (Spoilers ahead)\n\n> Ed, Ling and Envy are inside of Gluttony. Ed explains that a failed\n> transmutation (which I assume would include paying too much, if such a thing\n> is even possible) \"ricochets back onto the one that performed it\", whatever\n> that means. To me it sounds like it just doesn't work. Though in this case\n> it sounds like less of \"paying to much\" and more of \"trying to do something\n> that just plain doesn't work.\"\n>\n> Ed also gives a very good explanation of what human transmutation really is\n> in that same episode. He states that human transmutation (as they wanted to\n> do to bring back their mom) just isn't a thing. Human transmutation really\n> involves transmuting live humans, not bringing back the dead.\n>\n> Later in the same episode, Envy explains that to open the Portal (which is\n> really what Ed and Al did, they didn't actually transmute a human), they\n> have to pay a toll. In the case of Ed and Al they paid with their\n> bodies/body parts. In exchange the got to open the Portal and received the\n> knowledge and power that came with it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no such thing as \"giving too much\" here. [@Becuzz's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/20031/274) touches on this, but I\nwant to expand on it as well as talk about the human transmutation.\n\n## Giving \"too much\"\n\nAlchemy (in the _FMA_ canon) is basically chemistry. I will assume anyone\nreading this has not taken much (or any) chemistry in their life, so I'll try\nto keep it relatively simple.\n\nImagine you have a lighter filled with benzene. When you light it, and it\nstarts burning, a chemical reaction is taking place, transforming benzene\n(C6H6) and oxygen (O2), into carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). You can\nrepresent this as an equation showing the \"amounts\" of each compound required.\n\n\n\nWhat happens if you put in 25 of O2 instead of 15? Simple: the 10 remaining O2\nwill not be used.\n\nTransmutation, while more complex scientifically, obeys the same principle. If\nwe're transmuting a block of lead into gold, we will get an equivalent amount\nof gold as the lead that we transmuted. Giving \"too much\" lead will result in\neither excess gold (if there is enough transmutation energy), or leftover lead\n(if it is not transmuted). The amount of gold will _always_ be chemically\nequivalent to the amount of lead consumed in the reaction.\n\n**TL;DR:** The chemical amount consumed in the reaction will always equal the\nchemical amount of the product created.\n\n## Human transmutation\n\n> In the series, the brothers lose something each for trying to give too\n> little during the human transmutation attempt to bring back their mom\n\nThis isn't exactly correct. I get what you're trying to say, but it's not\nquite accurate.\n\nThe brothers gave exactly what they needed to get their mother back, right\ndown to the soul data from their own blood. The reason they didn't succeed is\nbecause they could not provide _her_ human life to go inside the body they\ncreated (which was actually a pretty good attempt for pre-teen prodigy\nknowledge of human anatomy). Add to that, of course, that God does not permit\nresurrection of this human life, and you've got a recipe for disaster.\n\nThe reason they lose their bodies proper is because they had to pay a toll to\ngo inside the Gate (yes, against their will, as punishment). In the eyes of\nthe beings overseeing this transmutation, the exchange was equivalent:\n\n * The materials (carbon, water, etc.) given were consumed and created the blackened beast.\n * Edward lost his leg and saw some knowledge within the Gate.\n * Alphonse lost his body and saw a lot of knowledge within the Gate.\n * Edward lost his arm and brought back Alphonse's soul from beyond the Gate.\n\nIn the end, neither too much nor too little was given, and the transmutation\nobeyed equivalent exchange.\n\n## Related reading\n\n * [When Edward and Alphonse try to transmute their mother, how come they didn't gain anything?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8679/274)\n * [If the \"Truth\" didn't exist, would that mean that feats such as Human Transmutation would work?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8699/274)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter his curse was lifted, the reason for his exile from his village no\nlonger existed. His relationship with San also showed no signs of developing\nfurther.\n\nBut he decided to remain in Irontown.\n\nSince he is a prince of his people (and the last one to boot), wouldn't it be\nmore logical for him to return home?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason why is cause his curse wasn't lifted. It's still there just it is\nnot progressing faster as it did before\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTake this with a grain of salt because I’m just taking a wild guess. In the\nbeginning of the movie, one of Ashitaka’s village higher ups said something\nabout their tribe being driven out 500 years ago by the Shogunate, so they\nprobably wanted nothing to do with them anymore. The Emishi tribe seems like a\ntribe that takes pride and really value own culture it is likely they don’t\nwant involvement from any outside parties/influences. Ashitaka took the\ndesicion to journey outside of the tribe’s area and cut his hair as a symbol\nto cut his lineage and involvement with the tribe, so that’s probably the\nreason why they seemed so sad and lost all hope, it wasn’t because they didn’t\nthink he’d make it, but rather even if he did make it alive, he can’t go back\nanymore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is what director Miyasaki says:\n\n> Ashitaka is at a loss as he comes into the outside world, that is, town,\n> from his village. At this point, he is hiding his face to show that he is a\n> non-person. Actually, at the moment he cut his topknot off, he was no longer\n> human. Cutting one's topknot in a village has that meaning. So, it looks\n> like Ashitaka leaves (the village) of his own will, but actually, the\n> village forces him to leave, I think. Ashitaka, as such a boy, cannot\n> negotiate well when he goes to the market. The Northeast area, where\n> Ashitaka's village was, used to produce gold. So Ashitaka just offered a\n> gold grain instead of money, not knowing the value of it.\n\nAnd...\n\n> * How about going back to the Emishi's village?\n>\n\n>\n> M: He can't go back. Even if he could go back, what would be there? There\n> might be some time lag, but eventually, the world of what Eboshi has been\n> doing at Tatara Ba will come rushing in. So if Ashitaka says \"I will go\n> home\" since his curse was cured, that will be no solution. And it will be a\n> big problem if he brings San back.\n>\n> * Kaya, who saw Ashitaka off, loved Ashitaka, didn't she?\n>\n\n>\n> M: Yes of course. She calls him \"Anisama (older brother)\", but it just means\n> that he is an older boy in her clan.\n>\n> * So they are not real brother and sister.\n>\n\n>\n> M: If they were, that wouldn't be interesting at all. There used to be a lot\n> of marriage among blood relations in Japan. I thought of Kaya as a girl who\n> is determined to do so (marry Ashitaka). But Ashitaka chose San. It's not\n> strange at all to live with San, who lives with such a brutal fate. That's\n> life.\n\nSource:[Miyazaki on Mononoke-\nhime](http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/m_on_mh.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was wondering why would the school keep a cursed class open for more than 20\nyears when people are dying.\n\nI think they Misaki mentioned in the anime that the school tried to change the\nclass name to \"3-C\" or something similar, but was there a reason why they just\ndidn't remove the class entirely so they go \"3-1\",\"3-2\",\"3-4\",\"3-5\",...etc.\n\nIs there a canon explanation of why the school is just ignoring the deaths an\nleaving it to the simple \"ignore one student\" strategy? Moreover why do\nstudents openly join a cursed class instead of moving to another class?\nanother school? another city?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do not think there is a canon expanation, but there are several factors to\ntake into account to explain the fact that class 3-3 is still open:\n\n 1. **The society believes the curse to be a superstition.** There is no scientific proof of the curse existing (even the members of the class have a hard time believing it with people BEING MURDERED in front of hem), and the very curse has effects to hide its occurence ( _modifying memories and written records_ ).\n 2. **Schools in Japan have to meet demand.** The school board for their town might have determined that there must be three third year classes because of the population size in the neighborhood. Removing one class would mean transfering kids to schools further away, and would make the school administration seem lazy (almost a sin in Japanese culture). Remember kids walk to shcool in Japan, so they usually attend school near their homes. [For further reading into the japanese school system, click here.](http://www.ncee.org/programs-affiliates/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/top-performing-countries/japan-overview/japan-system-and-school-organization/)\n\n> These boards are responsible for making recommendations on teacher\n> appointments to the prefectural board of education, choosing textbooks from\n> the MEXT-approved list, conducting in-service teacher and staff professional\n> development, and overseeing the day-to-day operations of primary and lower\n> secondary schools.\n> 3. **The curse might be self-sustaining.** A curse that can change written\n> material, delete people's memories could very well act every time someone in\n> charge thinks of closing the class and modify their heart about it. You\n> might even think of it as having some sinister intelligence.\n>\nFrom our outsider perspecive, watching the story from a [3-rd person\nomniscient narrator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narration#Third-\nperson.2C_omniscient), it is easy to reach those logical conclusions, but to\nthe limited awareness of the characters (specially the stakeholders that are\nunaffected by the curse, or only receive the news after a time, already\nfiltered down) it is almost impossible.\n\nAlso there is no evidence that making the school have only 2 classes wouldn't\nmake the curse move to class 3-2 instead. Who said it was bound to the\n**THIRD** class of the third year and not the last one in the rooster.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Gon transformed against Pitou, his Nen increased a lot. Why didn't we see\nany reaction of people feeling it like The King, the other Royal Guards, or\nNetero (if they were still alive) ? In the Election Arc, we saw everybody\nfeeling Alluka's power, as it was very big. I could say the same with the\nKing's birth, because he was born with Nen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are multiple factors to it:\n\n1) Distance: Gon and Pitou were a substantial distance away from the main\ncombat areas.\n\n2) The varying use of In and En by the users. During combat scenario this is\nvery crucial vs the election which was a more friendly environment. Most of\nthem were in their own active battles concentrating on either sneaking or\nfighting.\n\n3) I believe they tend to pick up the largest active source of nen. When the\nking was born, Pitou was on the look out and used her nen (En) to channel it\nout in a defensive grid surrounding the nest. Everyone was so afraid to get\nnear the nest that they wouldn't have been close enough to feel his nen in his\npassive state. Pitou could also have potentially masked or partially masked\nGon's nen in their fight since she was fleeing away from him towards the\nothers.\n\n4) Gon in an enhancer, they fight by concentrating their nen into their own\nbodies, along with everything else on the list this would contribute to why\nthey couldn't feel it since he tends to concentrate his nen more inwards.\n\nAnd I maybe be wrong about this last one (been a while) but I thought Killua\nwho was closest did feel the difference.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGon never used Nen against Pitou. He uses On (怨, Malice)\n<http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/On>, which is fueled by hate and\nvengeance.\n\n'On', used in the 'Last Mission' movie, does not alert other Nen users when\nemitted in great volume.\n\nGon felt used and lied to by Pitou since she revealed that Kite was dead and\nunable to be revived. He summoned this malice and hate to mature and kill\nPitou.\n\nGon's aura after and during this transformation is a combination of\nyellowish/orange and black, exactly the same as his eyes when he fought Jed in\nthe 'Last Mission'.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched the two first episodes of Fafner Exodus, but it was very confusing,\nas the story is ongoing. Not much intro.\n\nThere were a prequel series, and a movie. What should I know from this prequel\nmaterial in order to understand Fafner Exodus?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere was a prequel series, an OVA and a movie, and they do all need to be\nwatched (and in that order) to understand Exodus.\n\nFafner's plot is pretty complicated. You may even need to watch the original\nseries twice to understand it (the first half was done by a different writer\nand isn't as good, but makes more sense on a second watch).\n\nIt's a good series (and Exodus is brilliant so far), but it does require a\nfair bit of time investment, and the plot isn't for everyone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can watch the prequel if only:\n\n 1. You want to see a first generation fight Festum.\n 2. You want to know why Mark Sein & Mark Nicht are so unique; after all, Mark Sein was born from Mark Nicht.\n 3. You want know the identity of Miwa's father. \n\nIf you think these things are not important you don't have to watch it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAside from the _Eclipse Celestial Spirits_ arc, what other episodes of Fairy\nTail season 2 are anime-exclusive?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll Fairy Tail episodes are listed\n[here](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Episodes). The background of the air\ndate indicates what type of episode it is, with yellow indicating anime-\nexclusive episodes.\n\nAt the time of writing (The day after [Pi-\nday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day) 2015), the following episodes were\nanime-exclusive in Fairy Tail season 2:\n\n * All episodes of the **Eclipse Celestial Spirits arc** (204 to 226). Excluding episodes 219, 220, 222 and 226, which were Omake episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Akame ga Kill, there is a guitar song played in ep 21 Budou vs Mine and I\ncan't seem to find it or any info about it. Does anyone know anything?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt called \"Adramelech\" just like Budou's Imperial Arm.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XaXRR.jpg)\n\nI've noticed that in _some_ Anime, the teachers are very short/little, I mean\nthey look like elementary school kids. The anime I'm talking about are:\n\n * _Strike the Blood_\n * _Noucome_\n * _Toaru Majutsu no Index_\n\nI've heard same is the case with _Doki Doki School Hours_ and _Pani Poni Dash_\nbut haven't watched them so can't say for sure. My question is, **_why is it\nso?_** Is it to appeal to a larger audience, specifically lolicons? Or is\nthere some other reason, because from where I stand, I haven't seen how their\nbeing small has had a role in moving the story forward in any way.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2N1AE.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VSJon.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk, wall of text, so take your time to read.\n\nFirst, these shows are aimed at teens. Since our society delegates the act of\nteaching children mostly to women (changing, but still), we have that the\nteacher is the grown female outside the teenager family circle that said\nteenager have the longest contact with.\n\nIn anime/manga this romantic/sexual tension is explored in several titles,\nlike [Onegai Sensei](http://myanimelist.net/anime/195/Onegai%E2%98%86Teacher),\n[KissXsis](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5042/Kiss_x_Sis), and others.\n\nSo we can infer that several teenager boys have the [hots for the\nteacher](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TeacherStudentRomance).\nTeenage girls ALSO have the hots for the male teacher, but I will restrain the\nanswer to the boys' universe.\n\nOne sub-genre of anime characters regarding teachers is the [Sensei-\nchan](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SenseiChan?from=Main.Sensei-\nchan):\n\n> A common Japanese media character type, the female high school teacher who\n> is fairly young, attractive, even cute, and on friendly terms with her\n> students.\n>\n> On the other hand, she is still unmarried, and very conscious about it, as\n> well as about the lack of respect she gets.\n\nThen we get another genre of anime characters, the [Token Mini\nMoe](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenMiniMoe):\n\n> The Token Mini Moe is a young or young-looking member of a cast designed to\n> appeal to one of two predominant demographics. The first is those who simply\n> find the character absolutely adorable and/or endearing and feel protective\n> towards him or her. The character allows this sort of fan to act as and live\n> out the role as an idealized older brother or sister (or parent) cheering\n> their little sister on and helping her achieve whatever goals the setting\n> deems important. The second are the Lolicons/Shotacons, who take an erotic\n> or romantic interest in the character. Needless to say, these two groups are\n> often at each other's throats over the character.\n\nWhen the two ( _ **Sensei-chan**_ and _**Token Mini-Moe**_ ) overlap, you get\nthe kind of teacher you are asking about.\n\nSo it is a character designed to fill two roles at the same time. Depending on\nthe needs, the Loli Teacher can appeal more to the _**Moe**_ side or the\n_**Lolicon**_ side\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to watch One Piece, but the anime has a lot of filler content not in\nthe manga. I'd rather not watch the filler content and only watch the episodes\nwhich are directly related to the plot. To be clear, I'm defining a filler\nepisode as one which is not based on any story in the manga or based on extra\nmanga chapters which have nothing to do with the overarching story.\n\nWhich episodes are filler?\n\n* * *\n\nThis question is taken from [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3018/6166). I was curious about\nthis myself after completing the One Piece manga, but to keep uniformity\nbetween similar questions, I took the same wording as\n[Logan-M](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/logan-m) had used in his\nquestion about Bleach filler.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere seems to be alot less filler in One Piece than in Naruto or Bleach. That\nbeing said, there have been 12 filler arcs:\n\n * Warship Island Arc (episodes 54-61)\n * Post Alabasta Arc (131-135)\n * Goat Island (136-138)\n * Ruluka Island (139-143)\n * G-8 (196-206)\n * Ocean's Dream (220-224)\n * Foxy Returns (225-226)\n * Lovely Land (326-335)\n * Spa Island (382-384)\n * Little East Blue (426-429)\n * Z's Ambition (575-578)\n * Ceasar Retrieval (626-628)\n\nEpisodes 50, 99, 102, 213, 280-283, 291, 292, 303, 317, 318, 336, 406, 407,\n492, 499, 506, 542, 590 are also listed as filler on the\n[wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Filler_Episodes).\n\nThere are additional episodes that are part of main arc that spend time on\n(sometimes non-canon) details that aren't significant in the manga. As this is\nsubject to opinion and doesn't take an entire episode, I don't have a simple\nlist for this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[One piece fillers](http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/one-piece)\n\n^ pretty much tells what what to skip and what to watch:\n\n[code]\n\n canon - Watch\n filler - don't\n \n[/code]\n\nand if you're wondering, there are about 96 filler episodes.. (14% of the\nseries)\n\n[code]\n\n screenshot ->\n \n[/code]\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI understand where Ding Dong Dell's and Al Mamoon's Animal Themes from from\ngiven their rulers are a Cat and a Cow but Hamelin's past and current Emperors\naren't pigs and everyone only started to wear those pig suits when\n\n> Marcassin was Brokenhearted and lost his Belief\n\nSo where does the Pig Theme for Hamelin come from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the short Me Me Me, the male character seems to be mentally tormented by a\nfemale character. There are various hints in the short about the relationship\nof the two. Is there anything official describing the relationship between the\ntwo characters?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe lyrics and parts of the video indicate that the guy and girl were in a\nrelationship, but have since separated.\n\nSpecifically the first 9 translated lines of the song indicate a happy\nrelationship and the 2:55 mark of the video where the breakup is presumably\nshown.\n\n> All the time, all the time \n> We were together, weren’t we? \n> All the time, all the time \n> I was thinking about you\n>\n> You were that way too \n> You were the same \n> There were only two feelings \n> And going ahead, and going ahead \n> You felt like you were living too \n> \\- translated by\n> [newvegabond](http://newvagabond.tumblr.com/post/107924032107/me-me-me-\n> translation-by-newvagabond)\n\n\n\nAs for the circumstances between the two, a quick analysis (speculation by me)\nof the video and the lyrics indicate that he forced his ideals on the girl in\nthe beginning of the relationship. This is indicated by the next 20 lines of\nthe song and the first half of the video where every thing is happy.\n\nAfter that things go down hill.\n\nI'm assuming he realizes that she isn't the girl he made her out to be, and so\nhe unilaterally ends the relationship. At this point, the song seems to tell\nof how the girl still loves the guy, but hates the girl she had pretended to\nbe.\n\nThe last part of the song -\n\n> I waited for you nonetheless \n> I loved you nonetheless\n>\n> Eternal love \n> Within my cry for help \n> Eternal love \n> Certainly \n> Won’t be \n> Anywhere anymore\n\nGoodbye\n\n\n\nThe song indicates she still loves him, but if the love isn't there anymore,\nshe has to be gone. The image below shows her being swallowed up, and that's\nthe last we see of her.\n\nWith that said, a quick wrap up of the short - the guy is bed ridden due to\nguilt. He dreams of his ex-girlfriend. He is haunted by his guilt, in the form\nof the masked succubus. The succubus shows him the break up scene and\ncontinuously attacks him. He tries to fight back but its all in vain. She's\nalready dead.\n\n * thanks krazer for pointing me to the translated lyrics\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI like to think that the blue haired girl from the \"GIRL\" video is actually\nthe redheaded one from the first, showing her life and point of view before\nthis \"prince\" came, once she sees herself and what she has become she freaks\nout and in the first ME!Me!Me! video we see her and what she became and the\nblue hair girl is actually her, in the transition.\n\nJust a lame, no founded speculation but I like it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it would be tougher to prove that there _wasn't_ some sort of\nrelationship between the two.\n\nIn _Me! Me! Me!_ , there's a lot of hints and inferences that these two were\nromantically involved. Around 3:30 in [the\nvideo](https://vimeo.com/116865171), you're shown flashbacks of various events\nthat the two participated with each other - a lunch date, a trip to the\naquarium, the beach, among others.\n\nThere's nothing official about their relationship, but the implications are\nvery much there.\n\nA year or so later, with [_Girl_](http://animatorexpo.com/girl/), we're shown\na scene with the same couple.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FjOwl.png)\n\nI'm...really not sure what significant role they play in _Girl_ , but that's\nwhere things _really_ go off the deep end there...\n\nThere's nothing official about their relationship, but it's tough to deny\ntheir implicit relationship. Even if the creators don't outright say anything\nabout it, their interactions leave little room for doubt.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been wondering where the **\"Lyrical\"** part of _Magical Girl **Lyrical**\nNanoha_ comes from. To the best of my knowledge, none of the Magic the\ncharacters use seem to be remotely music based, and even when the writers\ntried to step away from the \"Magical Girl\" aspect, they still kept the\n_Lyrical_ part in _Magical Record **Lyrical** Nanoha Force_.\n\nIs there some meaning to the word _Lyrical_ that I've missed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike a lot of this stuff, its probably just english that sounds cool - also\nNanoha does use it in her activation key (which is barely ever used).\n\nAs for where it originally came from, Nanoha itself is a spinoff from Triangle\nHeart, a VN series about the rest of the Takamachi family, who are badass\nbodyguards - you can see the original prototype here:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_RBghAfiW8>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBy default, every C-rank Border member wears a white uniform. But Kuga wears\nblack. Is there some reason behind this distinction?\n\n\n\nThe uniform is patched with the Tamakoma branch's insignia, so it should be a\nnew one.\n\nAt first I thought it was because of the black trigger, but he is not listed\nas an S-rank, and its a key plot point that he keeps his black trigger \"apart\"\nfrom his Border assignments (so far).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the battle, there is a moment when the Arashiyama team stops to rethink\ntheir strategy in an alley. Both Jun and Ai are severely impaired (Jun\ncarrying gravity bullets, and Ai with a severed leg).\n\nWe know that when they deactivate their triggers, the Trion bodies vanish, and\nwhen the trigger is activated, it is rebuilt wholly.\n\nSo why didn't they just pop in and out of their triggers to remove those\nimpairments?\n\nWe know for a fact that repeated trigger activations in the same day have an\nimpact upon the users Trion reserves:\n\nOsamu couldn't summon even a blade when he changed a second time in the same\nday, during episode 4. But it is stressed everywhere that Osamu's Trion\npotential is crappy, and they are Rank-A agents.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe possibility of a trap, and the training they received.\n\nThink about it, when is the best time to attack?\n\nWhen the enemy can't defend.\n\nThey had no idea if they were being watched, and since it takes only a split\nsecond for someone with chameleon to hold a trion blade to their throat, it\nwould make no sense to risk turning human.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nI can figure the rest of this image out, but I just don't know what\nanime/manga the sword and the dog are from. Can someone help me out?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe dog is a smaller version of\n[Sadaharu](http://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Sadaharu) from Gintama\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g3qpol.jpg)\n\nFrom\n<http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/088/b/4/_Gintama_Fanart_1__by_Chinchi_Commissions.jpg>\n\nThe colour of the dog is of course Pikachu.\n\nThe sword is the Shikai form of Zangetsu, Ichigo's sword from Bleach.\n\n\n\nFrom <http://de.bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Datei:Zangetsu.png>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the sword is\n[Dragonslayer](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonslayer), Guts' sword from\nBerserk.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nHair: Soul Eater\n\nDog: Gintama (with Pikachu's colour)\n\nSword: Bleach\n\nBackground: Totoro\n\nBody: Full Metal Alchemist\n\nScarf: Fairy Tail\n\nHat: One Piece\n\nPendant: Yu-Gi-Oh!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor the record, here are the rest of the references:\n\n * The color of the dog references Pikachu from Pokemon.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbyUS.png)\n\n * The guy's hair references Death the Kid from Soul Eater\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dFBsY.png)\n\n * The guy's face references Goku from Dragon Ball\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jJvZw.jpg)\n\n * The whiskers belong to Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kmedQ.png)\n\n * The hat belongs to Luffy from One Piece\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ldnyG.png)\n\n * The scarf belongs to Natsu from Fairy Tail\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JX2kW.png)\n\n * The necklace belongs to Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qZseF.jpg)\n\n * The prosthetic arm, the torn shirt and the robe are references to Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Akare.jpg)\n\n * The apple is probably a reference (?) to Ryuk from Death Note.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sK3mI.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the recruitment arc, there are 3 idiots that resemble closely the school\nbullies in the beginning of the series.\n\n[Wikipedia lists them as the 3 new\nidiots](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Trigger_characters#Other_agents):\n\n> ## New 3 Idiots (新３バカ?)\n>\n> Voiced by: Ryosuke Kanemoto (Kōda), Ryohei Arai (Saotome), Yusuke Handa\n> (Hinoe) A Trio of C-Class agents who were seemingly made to believe that\n> Arashiyama Unit has no real strength. They're frequently trying to show off,\n> but get constantly beaten up. According to Replica, they seem like idiots.\n> The credits give them the surnames: Kōda (甲田), Saotome (早乙女), and Hinoe (丙)\n> in the anime.\n\nand right below lists the old 3\nidiots[link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Trigger_characters#Other_agents):\n\n> ## 3 Idiots (３バカ?)\n>\n> Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (No. 1), Kōta Nemoto (No. 2) and Hiroaki Miura (No.\n> 3) A trio of bullies from Osamu and Yūma's classroom. They bully Osamu and\n> Yūma at first, but start fearing them after they find out Osamu is a Border\n> agent and after Yūma scares them away.\n\nTheir seyuu are different, but the characters seem the same ones.\n\nAre they the same?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDue to the fact that actual names of the characters are different I do not\nbelieve they are the same. They are very similar groups, and this could be on\npurpose to provide some sort of comedic similarities. They are merely taking\nthe spot of the \"3 idiots\" from the school because of the frequency that the\nscenes are going to be in the Border setting and not the school setting.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[As ʞɹɐzǝɹ mentioned](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20116/are-\nthe-3-idiots-in-the-recruitment-arc-the-same-ones-in-the-beginning-of-the-\nse/27461#comment27008_20116), they are not the same three idiots.\n\n * The [first set](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qfxkp.jpg) of three idiots had no idea that Osamu was in border. On top of this they are not in border either. You can check this in episode 01 where they run from the neighbors rather than trying to fight using triggers (normal/training).\n * The [second set](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gmZqP.jpg) of three idiots basically replace the first set since the first set is never mentioned again. The second set of three idiots become part of border as class C agents—trainees. You can tell by the white/orange uniforms.\n\nWhile all six of them are idiots, they still play different roles. The first\nthree being Osamu's bullies, the second three acting as superiors of Osamu.\n\nYou can check their personalities and appearances via episode 01 for the first\nset and episode 17 for the second set.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Okabe goes back to the 'beta world line' (Steins Gate) he learns that\n\n> He can save Kurisu. In order to do that he needs to make it look like she is\n> laying in a pool of blood being unconscious. At the time same her death\n> would normally take place.\n\nCould Okabe have done the same with Mayuri in the alpha world line? I noticed\nher watch stops and then breaks every time she is about to die. Could Okabe\nhave saved Mayuri in the alpha line by breaking her watch?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think it was possible. All the world lines which contained Mayuri's\ndeath, the alpha line were all closely tied together like a thread. Hence,\nthey all converged to the same event, that is, Mayuri's death and SERN's\ndystopia. Even if Okabe were to stop watch from breaking, there would be some\nother event which will break it.\n\nOtherwise, if he breaks it himself, a common event in all attractor field,I\nthink Mayuri is sure to die, this means the only way to escape is to escape\nfrom world lines 0.00% to 0.99%.\n\nAlso, in beta world line, there is only one. That is Steins;Gate world line in\nwhich Kurisu doesn't die and WW III doesn't occur.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Disclaimer** \nNeedless to say, this answer contains spoilers. Therefore, I have chosen not\nto spoiler it.\n\n* * *\n\nNo, Okabe could not have saved Mayuri, as he found out by himself the hard\nway.\n\nMayuri was meant to die in the alpha world line; her death is what is called a\n\" _convergence point_ \". No matter how Okabe manipulates the alpha world line,\ncreating a new timeline in the process, every timeline belonging to the alpha\nworld line would eventually \"converge\" to make that one event happen without\nfail: Mayuri's death.\n\nAnd Okabe _did_ try to save Mayuri countless times. If breaking her watch were\nenough to save her, then the convergence point would have been the event where\nher watch breaks. Thus, in at least one timeline, Mayuri's watch would've\nbroken without Mayuri dying.\n\n### Edit (after playing the VN):\n\nPockety (the watch) actually never broke in the VN, or if it did, it was\nconsidered so minor it was never mentioned even once.\n\nIt is likely that the scene where it breaks was added for the anime to stylize\nMayuri's death, in order to imply her death without actually depicting it.\nRemember that Mayuri died in several — at times gruesome — ways, such as\ngetting shot in the head, or getting crushed by a subway train. The anime team\nlikely didn't want to make the show too gory, as it would not have fit with\nthe rest of the series very well. The theory isn't too far-fetched, since\nwatches symbolize time, and time symbolizes life. Since Mayuri carries Pockety\n(a memento of her late grandmother's) at all times, it may as well signify her\nown life; its breaking meaning her death.\n\nAdditionally, despite carrying its own name (Pockety), the watch was never\nimportant in the VN in the first place. I figure the anime team wanted to give\nit meaning in some form, which I'll admit is a nice touch on their part.\n\nIn any case, the watch breaking was never meant to be important at all.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for Makise Kurisu's case. Okabe could save her by making her lie in a pool\nof blood, because that was the only thing he ever established. When he first\nsaw her, he never actually bothered to check if she was dead in the first\nplace, so convergence might not have been her death, but her lying in a pool\nof blood instead.\n\nThis was of course a gamble. There was no guarantee it would've worked, since\nthey didn't know which event was the actual convergence point: Makise's death,\nor her lying in a pool of blood (or both). The fact that she survived was\nmerely a lucky shot that could've gone wrong.\n\nIn retrospect, Christina could've died of a heart attack after getting tased\nby Okabe. Mayuri died of heart attacks quite often too, when nothing else was\nkilling her. Although Mayuri's death was never specified in those instances\nwhere she simply \" _collapsed, breathing heavily, clutching her chest_ \", and\nturned out to be dead, I'll just assume it was a heart attack.\n\nOkabe simply got damn lucky with his assistant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough in the anime it was not possible because it was a fixed point on the\nworld line. Yet I do think it is possible to save Mayuri and Kursiu without\nleaving the alpha line. I will explain why but first you need to know about\nthe world lines. The Alpha line is the line that Okabe and his friends first\nstarted on but every time they sent a Dmail (I watched the dub i'm sorry.)\nthey were sent to a branch of that line. As they sent more and more Dmails\nthey grew feather away from the Alpha timeline. Supposedly to save Mayuri they\nneeded to move to the beta line because her death was a fixed point on the\nAlpha world line. I do not believe that this is necessarily true. Okay, listen\ncarefully, this is where you might lose me.\n\nIn one of the episodes it shows the world line with an event. If the world\nline has the event that we will call point A then what happens of you use the\nDmail to not necessarily push you off of the Alpha line but pushed you far\nenough away from the Alpha that the fixed point changes. For example what if\nOkabe had sent a text to someone so that they called the police to show up\njust moments before Moeka breaks into his apartment. The police would deal\nwith the ringers because they are a threat to society and Mayuri could not get\nshot. I'm not 100% sure that Mayuri would not be killed by some other event\nwithin Okabe's house but this would be there best bet.\n\nIf anyone sees anything wrong with my theory please let me know so that we can\ntalk about it. Nothing is perfect but I would like to hear others thoughts on\nthis idea because personally I believe that the whole 1% thing kind of bugs\nme. I always wondered how saving Kurisu didn't push them off the Alpha line in\nthe first place.\n\nOne more quick thing I want to say. This whole show is a loop. Every thing\nthat happens in the end would have just led to him falling into the same path.\nFor example. If Kurisu actually died before he sent his first Dmail then she\nwould have been dead in the Alpha timeline. This proves that in the first\nepisode that Kurisu was never actually dead but just faked by the future\nOkabe. Another example is when Kurisu goes back in time to save Okabe from\nfalling onto the R world line. When Kurisu and Okabe kiss in the anime he says\nthat it was not his first kiss. He said that happened when he was younger. I\nbelieve that this implies that when Kurisu goes back in time to save him from\nfalling on to the R timeline that he had encountered that before he even met\nher and the original story began.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not possible to save Mayuri in the alpha world line. Actually, if the\npolice came and stopped the rounders - Mayuri would simply have a heart\nattack. In the VN, if there is no actual way to die - the world just killed\nMayuri by giving her a heart attack. It's a fixed point in the Alpha world\nline, Okabe had to go back to the Beta line to save Mayuri, but that would\ncause Kurisu's death, and there the manipulations start.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe death of Mayuri **causes** the time machine invention by Okabe, and that\nresults to the arrival of Suzuha, which will influence the future very much.\n\nYou can't cancel the reason without changing the result that happened. once\nyou save Mayuri, the worldline must have changed greatly.\n\nIf you really want to save her in the same worldline, you must find another\nstrong reason to make sure the invention complete at that time. it might be\nharder than just go back to the original worldline.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Berserk manga, the very first scene is a sex scene involving Guts and one\nof the Apostles. Although that scene was what got me into reading the manga,\nnow I'm not sure I find much sense to it. From what I now, Guts hates the\nApostles. If he knew that woman was an Apostle, why would he have sex with\nher? Why not just kill her before she turned to her \"Apostle form\"?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe theme of episode 10 of _Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love_ is Yumoto\ncatching a cold for his first time.\n\nWhen his cold is confirmed, he is exhilarating that it is the first cold in\nhis life.\n\nWhy is he so happy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been searching since I first heard it before the time-skip. I believe it\nwas also played before the news coo delivers the paper to chopper in bird\nisland. I quit searching and now heard it again in the last chapter. So I'd\nlike to know what soundtrack is being played.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we know, we can avoid Sharingan-based genjutsu just by avoiding eye\ncontact. Can't we avoid Infinite Tsukuyomi just by not looking at the moon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Infinite Tsukuyomi uses the moon to reflect the user's Rinne-Sharingan.\nSharingan based genjutsu can be avoided by avoiding eye contact , yes. But not\nall. However the working of the Infinite Tsukuyomi differs from that of normal\nSharingan genjutsu. The user's eye is reflected on the moon's surface. And\nthen the moon _shines_ or _illuminates_.\n\nFrom [Infinite Tsukuyomi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Tsukuyomi)\nwiki article :\n\n> This technique can also be reflected off the moon, upon the technique's\n> activation, the light from the moon's eye illuminates the entire planet,\n> turning it bright as day and making it impossible to escape. All living\n> things are bathed in **its penetrating light and immediately placed under\n> the genjutsu**.\n\nRemember the part where Sasuke puts up the Susanoo to protect the team from\nthe light produced by the Infinite Tsukuyomi moon? That was because the\nInfinite Tsukuyomi activates when the light falls upon the individual. The\nSusanoo blocked the incoming light rays and prevented the genjutsu. The moment\nthe light penetrates the body, the person falls under the genjutsu. So, in\norder to avoid the Infinite Tsukuyomi, the person has to avoid the light given\noff by the moon. That is why the others couldn't escape it. Not looking at the\nmoon doesn't help because it's the light that induces the genjutsu and not the\nmoon's surface.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo avoid infinite the infinite Tsukuyomi, create a very deep underground\nbunker and do not turn the lights on. Stay in the dark for a while until\neverything is settled, then you can come out of the bunker, it will take years\nto prepare.\n\nAnother way to avoid the infinite Tsukuyomi is to hide under a Susanoo but the\nsusanoo user must have the Rinnegan to completely avoid it\n\nThese are the only ways to avoid the infinite Tsukuyomi. If you don’t follow\nthese, then you’ll\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I was wondering how the will of D. is passed on. We have seen three cases\nwhere the will of D. was shown to be passed on and they were all from\ngeneration to generation by birth. Luffy got it from Dragon, Dragon got it\nfrom Garp and Ace got it from Roger (and Rouge?). In each case the will was\npassed on along with the last name. Now this made me wonder. Is it merely in a\nname? Or is there more to it?\n\nAce would probably be the best example. He chose to go through life using his\nmother's name _Portgas D._ Now what if Ace's mother would not have been a\ncarrier, would Ace have not have had the will of D because of his name? Or\nwhat if Ace's mother married some other guy who didn't have the will of D,\nwould she be unable to pass it on, because children are given their fathers\nname? This sounds pretty sexist to me, so it made me wonder whether just\nhaving the right surname is enough for someone to have the will of D or if\nthere is some other way to become a D or to pass on the will of D?\n\nIf there isn't, the will of D will probably die out pretty soon...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that the Day of Severance had to have happened some time after Kureha\nwas born. Indeed, it must have occurred sometime after Ginko and Kureha became\nfriends (i.e. after they met on the snowy battlefield past the Door to\nFriendship), since they could not have become friends in the first place had\nSeverance already occurred.\n\nWe also know that the Day of Severance happened before episode 1 of the show,\nbecause, of course, that's how the narrative begins in the first place. I'm\npretty sure that Severance was also before Ginko and Lulu met.\n\nCan we pinpoint when the Day of Severance happened any more accurately\n(relative to other events in the story)? In particular, it's not clear to me\nwhether the Day of Severance was before or after the day on which Reia sent\nGinko back across the Door to Friendship.\n\n(Or maybe I've got this all wrong? In episode 11, the way Kureha's classmates\nharass her about her friendship with bear-Ginko [during a flashback] seems to\nsuggest that the Day of Severance had already happened - so does that mean\nthat the Day of Severance even precedes the day on which Kureha went across\nthe Door to Friendship to fetch Kureha from the snowy battlefield?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYuki and Inaho are orphans by the time Aldnoah.Zero opens. Do we know what\nhappened to their parents? Or are we just to assume they died in the mess\nsurrounding Heaven's Fall?\n\nSome have speculated that Saazbaum could somehow have been Inaho's father\n(given that Saazbaum and Orlane descended to Earth right around the time of\nInaho's birth). Is that plausible?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nyes, his parents died in the first mars-earth war. and my best guess is that\nthe authors killed off the parents to make his sister look for \"motherly-like\"\nand that they had a good bond, and so when she was in trouble, saving her\n(which is at episode 1) would be better.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVolume 3 of the Aldnoah.Zero Blu-rays came with a collection of four short\nnarratives about Inaho and Yuki's life well prior to the events of episode 1.\n\nIn the second of them, 「春の遠足」 \"A Trip in Spring\", we learn that Inaho, Yuki,\nand their mother had been on a train to somewhere when Heaven's Fall occurred.\nTheir mother was killed immediately, probably because a meteor landed near\ntheir location (though the story is mostly told from Yuki's point of view, and\nshe, being five-ish years old at the time, obviously doesn't have the best\nrecollection of events). Somehow or the other, Inaho and Yuki both survive,\nand she, carrying Inaho, follows the crowd of evacuating people, eventually\nending up in an underground shelter afterwards.\n\nTheir father, a military man, was deployed at the time; a short while after\nHeaven's Fall, while Inaho and Yuki are still living in the shelter, Yuki\nreceives a letter from the government indicating that they have been deemed\nwar orphans. The implication being, of course, that their father, too, is\ndead.\n\nThe Saazbaum hypothesis is clearly implausible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't understand this image:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jixzx.jpg)\n\nIf you look at her headgear, you'll see that it's polished and has that clean\nshine. But what's up with her breasts? They appear to be _shining_ or they\nlook polished, just like her helmet. I don't watch One Piece. So I don't know\nif she has shiny breasts, or if she polishes them. Can someone please\nenlighten me?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis picture shows Rebecca fighting in the [Corrida\nColosseum](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Corrida_Colosseum) in\n[Dressrosa](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dressrosa) at the Mera Mera no Mi\nTournament.\n\nI the One Piece Wiki abpout [Rebecca](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rebecca)\nit's said:\n\n> She is a fair-skinned, slender, curvaceous and very well endowed young girl\n\nSo we can assume that Rebecca has a very smooth skin. Since fighting is very\nsweat-inducing, we can say that her body is covered in sweat.\n\nSweat + smooth skin = shiny skin in the right viewing angle\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently got to the episode in the anime where Ichigo fought with Grimmjow\nin Hueco Mundo after Inoue healed them both.\n\nHowever, even though the episode ends at the scene where it looked like Ichigo\nwas about to beat Grimmjow, in the next episode, they were back in \"the real\nworld\" and the events in Hueco Mundo haven't been mentioned for a couple of\nepisodes now.\n\nIs it just me or is this a weird transition in the storyline? Or is there a\nhigher purpose in such transition and it will somehow make sense later?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt that point in the anime they reached the manga storyline so they had to put\nin several fillers. <http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/bleach> here is the\ncomplete list of fillers so you can skip them and just go back to the\nstoryline.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a similar\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4940/what-are-the-anime-\ncensorship-laws-in-japan) to ask. What are the anime censorship laws in the\nUnited States? There appears to be major culture difference between United\nStates and Japan and I am not sure if that implies a difference between their\nrespective anime censorship laws.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe FCC, the government body responsible for broadcasting media, does not have\nany specific laws against animation that comes from Japan, otherwise known as\nanime. [Because the 1st amendment protects the Freedom of\nExpression,](http://censorship.laws.com/censorship/censorship-laws) [the\ncensorship laws that are in place and enforced by the FCC in the U.S are\nconcerned with obscenity, indecency, and\nprofanity.](http://www.fcc.gov/guides/obscenity-indecency-and-profanity) The\nshort summary of the law is that, for media to be prohibited to be aired on\ntelevision from 6 a.m to 10 p.m, it must:\n\n * Not be acceptable to the average person.\n * Depict anything that violates other existing laws, such as child pornography.\n * Lack any artistic, scientific, political, or literary values.\n * Contain greatly offensive language or otherwise known as profanity.\n\nThis is arguably vague, but usually if it meets some of the criteria above, it\nwould be permitted. For example, a satirical anime on U.S politics would\nprobably not be acceptable to the average person and can be offensive.\nHowever, if it contains a good amount of political value in the work and does\nnot violate any other existing laws, it would be permitted. [Even lolicon\nmaterial is permitted as it meets some of the criteria above, although it is a\nmurky territory and can land you in legal trouble\nnonetheless.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_cartoon_pornography_depicting_minors#United_States)\n\nNote that this is also the criteria used in courts for media in general, also\nknown as the [Miller Test.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test)\n\nCensorship are also in place for libel and slander, but it would be extremely\ndifficult for anyone creating anime to be prosecuted for such things as it\nwould have to lack any artistic, scientific, political, etc. values.\n\nThe censorship that you see in anime imported from Japan and translated into\nEnglish are self-imposed. Different studios handles it differently. For\nexample, the infamous 4Kids Corporation would blatantly westernize the anime\nit imports, replacing Japanese food with American food, removing highly\nemotional scenes, and much more. There are also [non-governmental ratings made\nby independent organizations such as the\nMPAA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system)\nand [government imposed ratings such as the TV Parental\nGuideline](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Parental_Guidelines). Theaters and\nTV stations would follow these ratings to show what is and what is not\nappropriate to show in what timeslot, in addition to the FCC rules described\nearlier. Keep in mind that these ratings have no legal weight. A TV-MA rated\ncontent can be shown at any time of the day and no one would be prosecuted for\nit. People would probably think less of your network and so TV stations follow\nthese ratings to keep their audience, but it is not illegal to ignore the\nratings.\n\nIn summary, as long as it passes the Miller Test, it should be legal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first time we see a bullet hit Kirito's light-saber the bullet melts. Next\nepisode we see this happen again although this time the sword cuts the bullet\nin 2 half's. How is this possible?\n\n**Episode 5**\n\n\n\n**Episode 6**\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be possible that the light-saber isn't a full cylinder, but more\nsword-like.\n\nIt's kinda hard to explain, but I'll try anyway:\n\n\n\nIf you take a look at this sword I found on Google images (I literally just\ngoogled for \"sword\"), you can see that the front of it is wider. The edges of\nthe sword are thin and sharp, so it can properly cut.\n\nTherefore, my theory is that Kirito blocked the bullet with the wider side in\nPicture 1, whereas he cut the bullet with the edge of the sword in Picture 2.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Lordmau5's theory](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/20190/1398) is quite\ninteresting, but it doesn't quite match the visual appearance of the sword as\ndescribed in the light novel.\n\n> I stared at it for a while, and found that the sword itself didn’t have any\n> direction as the entire circular section was just like a long and thin\n> cylinder.\n\n* From Sword Art Online Volume 5 - Chapter 6, after Kirito bought the sword and activated it for a test run.\n\nThe corresponding scene in the light novel (also in Volume 5 - Chapter 6)\ndoesn't say anything about the bullets melting:\n\n> The enemy’s rifle’s muzzle suddenly let out an orange spark.\n>\n> During this time, the blade of the light saber blocked the lines of the\n> first and second bullets with pinpoint accuracy.\n>\n> *BA-BAM!!* The surface of the light saber let out two bright orange sparks.\n> The moment I noticed this, my right arm immediately pointed the photon sword\n> onto the third and fourth bullet lines at a lightning quick speed. Then, the\n> sound of the bullets being deflected off the intense energy could be heard\n> again.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> 5...and that’s the 6th one! After deflecting all the bullets that could have\n> hit me successfully, I kicked the ground hard with all I’ve got to cover the\n> remaining distance between us.\n\nThe next scene (where his opponent ran out of ammo and had to change magazine)\nstarts right after the text cited above. Therefore, the scene in episode 5 of\nSAO II is most likely something added in the anime to explain how the bullets\nare neutralized and to impress viewers, since the viewer can't see how Kirito\nneutralize the bullets if the scene is animated at real world speed.\n\nThe bullet being cut in half in episode 6 is actually described in Volume 5 -\nChapter 7, though:\n\n> From the Hecate’s large muzzle break came orange flames. On the other side,\n> the blue white lightning cut through the dusk darkness.\n>\n> Shining like shooting stars, two small lights split to the left and right,\n> flying far away.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> _It was cut apart._\n>\n> At the moment the bullet fell to the ground, Kirito’s lightsaber slashed\n> upwards, and cut the 50-caliber bullet that was supposed to be a fatal hit.\n> The two shooting stars that Sinon saw, were fragments of the bullet that\n> were cut by the high concentration energy blade, and flew pass either side\n> of Kirito behind him.\n\nNote that it doesn't say anything about the bullet being _cleanly_ split in\nhalf as shown in the anime.\n\nI couldn't find any explanation on how the sword works in the light novel,\nthough, and with so little information, we can only guess why the light saber\nwould deflect bullet in one scene, and cut the bullet in half in another.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe most likely case is that because in the first situation Kirito's blade was\nstanding still it melted while in the second it was in motion causing it to\ncut in half\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTheory: the saber is actually a sword but it is re-textured. It looks like a\ncylinder because it generates a light through the whole sword.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne could argue the shape of the bullet/it’s velocity could have an effect on\nhow the bullet would react when coming in contact with the photon blade. From\nmy understanding, 9mm slugs have a rounded head, and fire much slower from a\nhand gun/smg than a .50 caliber round from a sniper rifle. The 9 mm bullet is\ndesigned to mushroom on impact for fragmentation. The .50 caliber bullet as\nfar as I know is meant to punch a whole clean through without the\nfragmentation. So if you think about the way the bullet reacts to hitting its\ntarget, it makes sense that the 9mm bullet would be batted off, and the .50\ncal would be sliced in two because it would be pushing/cutting past the\n“blade” and the 9 mm would develop wider surface area as it mushroomed on\nimpact. The heat from the photonsaber probably kept it from breaking into a\nton of tiny metallic shrapnel bullets on impact as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe learn in the final episodes of Mourestu Pirates that\n\n> Marika's father Gonzaemon is alive, and goes by the name of Steel Beard, an\n> imperial pirate captain of the Parabellum\n\nBut we also learn that Ririka, Kane and Misa also knew this secret, because\n\n> Ririka is in the Parabellum crew, Kane switched places with his twin\n> brother, and Misa nonchalantly scolds Kane for the switch.\n\nWe can infer that the rest of the crew of the bentenmaru also knew, leaving\nMarika as the only one in the dark.\n\nIs it so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm on episode 18 of _Cowboy Bebop_ , and I noticed vocal background music\nsung by a male singer that seemed rather classical in style at the beginning,\nwhen there is a montage of Faye at a horserace.\n\nWhat is the title of this piece? Is it something classical music, or is it an\noriginal soundtrack-specific composition? The Wikia for the episode doesn't\nseem to give me anything.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [lyrics](http://www.elyrics.net/read/c/cowboy-bebop-lyrics/adieu-\nlyrics.html) are clearly from the song\n[**Adieu**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8X31TTB5E) (lyric: Brian Richy,\nsinger: Emily Bindiger):\n\n> Been a fool, been a clown \n> Lost my way from up and down \n> And I know, yes, I know \n> And I see in your eyes that you really weren't surprised at me \n> At all \n> Not at all \n> And I know by your smile \n> It's you \n>\n\nHowever the singer in episode 18 is male and I haven't managed to find who he\nis yet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo we have all seen Zoro boast.\n\n> Over the 9 mountains and 8 seas... Throughout the world itself... There is\n> nothing I cannot cut.\n\nNow it made me wonder, which mountains and what seas was he referring to?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of Zoro's attacks are named after Buddhism like 36/72/108 Pondo Hou\n\n[One Piece Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Roronoa_Zoro/Misc.):\n\n> the 36/72/108 Pondo Hou, is a reference to the 36 passions of Buddhism\n\nSo most likely Zoro is referring to the Buddhist legend of\n[Sumeru](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumeru) the central world-mountain in\nBuddhist cosmology.\n\nI'm not an Buddhism expert but in the Wikipedia article about\n[Sumeru](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumeru) you see a list of 9 mountains\nand 8 seas, so since Zoro likes Buddhism and Hindu references in his attacks,\nit's most like Oda made a reference to this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMintri's answer is right, but for the sake of having an in-universe/joke\nanswer:\n\n8 Seas:\n\n 1. North Blue\n 2. South Blue\n 3. East Blue\n 4. West Blue\n 5. Paradise (Grand line, 1st half)\n 6. New World (Grand line, 2nd half)\n 7. Left Calm Belt\n 8. Right Calm Belt\n\n9 Mountains:\n\n 1. [Reverse Mountain](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Reverse_Mountain)\n 2. [Drum Rockies](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Drum_Rockies)\n 3. [Marijois' Mountain Range](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mariejois#Location)\n 4. [Mt Colubo](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mt._Colubo)\n 5. [Punk Hazard's Mountain Range](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Punk_Hazard)\n\nWith the remaining 4 yet to be seen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that in the anime, the God only brought sorrow but not peace to\npeople, and showed no mercy to those on earth.\n\nIs Junketsu no Maria anti-Christian or something? Is it trying to depict\nChristian god as a brutal god?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm trying to find the title for this pic because I'm interested in watching\nit. If only I knew what it's called...\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe series forgets even to introduce the strikers team members (we reach the\nsummer vacation episode and you have to pick up their names on the go), and\nsadly there is no intro on the metaphysicals.\n\nSo, what are the metaphysicals (aside from being huge mithical monsters) and\nwhere do they come from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the strong points of A Bridge to the Starry Skies - Hoshizora e Kakaru\nHashi is the location. The countryside town, with all that pure air, water and\ngreenery really sets the mood and works as a contrast with the Tokyo grown\nprotagonist.\n\n> Shibuya? Is it something to eat? - Ui, ep 7\n\nIs it a real place? Or was it inspired in some real world location? Bonus\npoints for google maps link.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've never seen Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, but I was able to find [a blogpost\nby somebody who seems to have found the model-\nlocation](http://tsurebashi.blog123.fc2.com/blog-entry-85.html) for the\ncountryside part of the show: [Hida-Takayama,\nGifu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takayama,_Gifu).\n\nIf you want to explore the area, here's [a Street View from just outside the\nHida-Ichinomiya station](https://goo.gl/maps/2s83N) (the one whose signboard\nis shown below), and here's [a Street View from on the red\nbridge](https://goo.gl/maps/kYrfi) (also shown below).\n\nHere's a couple of the comparison shots from that blogpost:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor the dedicated anime pilgrim, [anime-tourism.com](http://anime-\ntourism.com/cgi-bin/map.cgi) may be of particular interest - it includes a\nlist of locations for quite a few anime, including Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi.\nAnd not only do you get the locations, you get [a map with pins for all the\nsites you should\nvisit](https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?msa=0&mid=z60v_I865QYs.k62viAf4v5Gg)!\nThe pins are, in order:\n\n * Hida-Ichinomiya Station\n * Miyanaka School, old building (now demolished)\n * Kanzaemon Inn\n * Bridge on the way to school\n * Bus stop\n * Hida-Ichinomiya Minashi shrine\n * Liquor store (?)\n * Bagpipe Cafe\n * Nakabashi / central bridge\n * In front of the pickler's\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember watching it in the early 2000s. The style was unique. It barely had\nany dialogue (the girl doesn't speak at all since she is little), only\nnarration since I think it was a kid show. I think her grandma/parents who\nraised her in the cabin passed away, so she lived by herself and was really\nyoung. She would go outside with a hat on and find stuff like water, and\nexplored many areas in the forest. I remember a scene where something was\nshaken and a snake appeared. And the narration told us that she was afraid of\nsnakes so she stood very still until it moved away. I think later on, in the\nnext episode or so, she met new friends and they were all little girls. I also\nthink it was an OVA? I really want to see it again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis sounds a lot like [Binchou-\ntan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binch%C5%8D-tan_%28manga%29), though it\nlooks like a children's show, there's some pretty heavy moments in the show.\n\n\n\nShe lives in a cabin out in the forest by herself. It's hinted at that she\nused to live in the cabin with her grandparents and they've died (she visits a\ntree like it's a grave). She also wears a piece of charcoal on her head,\nthat's sort of a play on words with her name (binchou=charcoal). I think in\nthe very first episode, she encounters the snake. Although she does speak, a\nlot of the anime is narrated by a woman. Every once in a while, a bunch of her\nfriends (all girls, sometimes animals) come to visit her, but for the most\npart, she is completely alone.\n\nIt's about 12 episodes long at about 12 minutes per episode and was adapted\nfrom a 4-koma manga.\n\nMore info:\n\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/750/Binchou-tan)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5314)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of the music playing from 20.00 to the end of the episode in\nTokyo Ghoul √A episode 9?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat song's name is [Das zweite Kapitel (disc #1, track\n#26)](http://vgmdb.net/album/50263).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just now finished Ergo Proxy and have few questions regarding it. Please\nHelp\n\n1) Who loved Monard Proxy initially? Proxy One or Ergo Proxy?\n\n2) Who created Romdo? Proxy One or Ergo Proxy?\n\n3) Why did Proxy One create Ergo Proxy in the first Place? And why did Ergo\nProxy had his memory locked away? Was it according to some plan of Proxy One?\n\n4) Which one was imperfect Proxy? Since the creator of Romdo is Considered\nimperfect?\n\n5) why did the creator of Romdo fled it? whichever proxy it was?\n\nthanks a lot :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk so after thinking over this and reading some other stuff I believe the\nanswers might be:\n\n 1. At first Proxy One loved Monad and Monad loved him back. Then Ergo was created, and as he was basically a Proxy One clone, he also loved Monad and Monad loved both as they were regarded as one.\n 2. Romdo was created by Proxy One, Romdo was most likely created before Ergo Proxy. (You could argue about it being also created [or co-created] by Ergo as the series discusses about identity and about Proxy and Ergo having the same persona, being one and the same, despite of them having 2 separate bodies. Proxy One regarded Ergo as a part of him and in turn he was a part of Ergo, he regarded both of them together as Proxy One and each separate body as a part of One, not a copy; Ergo struggled to define himself as a different entity.)\n 3. This is a very complicated topic, some argue Proxy One created Ergo so that Ergo could live the life Proxy One longed for without any knowledge of the Proxy Project. I believe it was to kill Monad. Proxy One loved Monad. Proxy One was the agent of death. He was destined to kill Monad. But he loved her. So he created a copy of himself who was appointed to carry his Proxy duty and kill Monad. But the copy, Ergo, also loved Monad, and Monad loved both Ergo and Proxy One. So Ergo decided to wipe his memory to avoid his destiny of killing Monad, and Monad helped him using the Amnesia autoreiv. Probably Proxy One left Mosk after he created Ergo, so he wouldn't witness Monad's death, but the plan failed as Ergo wiped his memory, then came Romdo's attack, Monad's kidnaping, and Vincent's migration to Romdo. When Proxy One came back, he found Ergo had failed his duty, and thus the story begins.\n 4. All proxies were imperfect as they were created by humans. The creator of Romdo was considered imperfect but it was never intended to be perfect. Proxies were created so they could create humans, but humans were imperfect from the start. So imperfect humans created imperfect Proxies to create more imperfect humans. What's the point on that? Why create more imperfect Humans to live on Earth if the original imperfect humans destroyed it in the first place? I don't know, ask Proxy One ;)\n 5. Proxy One fled from Romdo as he wanted to live with Monad whom he loved. He had issues with the overall raison d'etre of the Proxy Project which also conflicted with his proxy duties so he fled.\n\nThis are my interpretations, feel free to discuss/change/dismiss/adapt them to\nwhat the story meant to you. Although this questions about the events where\nthe catalyst that led to the animated story, they are left unanswered and left\nto the viewers interpretation as their answers depend of the viewers\nunderstanding of the themes discussed (theology, identity, perfection,\npurpose, etc.)\n\nHope it helps :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet's say, Bob has a death note. He gives up ownership, so that another one\nwith shinigami eyes can tell him his lifespan. Bob is a genius, so he can\ncalculate his death date. He writes his own name in it.\n\nBob Hyrule, Bradykardie, 2.3.2034.\n\nHe set his death date, by killing himself with a disease. Now he makes the\nshinigami eye deal. Will he die earlier?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell it was after all a Shinigami's book so probably not but lets go the\nlogical way. If you set your death date at 22 days after this day then you die\n22 days later. Then you make the Shinigami eye deal. Your current lifespan is\n22 day because you set it at that day so then after making the deal you lose\nhalf so that means 11 day out and your left with only 11 days to live. So\njudging by this logic I think that you can not make the eye deal with out\nlosing half your lifespan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is pretty obvious that _Nadia_ and _Castle in the Sky_ shared a lot of\ntheir basic premise: both of them feature a girl who owns a mysterious glowing\nblue pendant, meets a boy who is interested in flying machines, and is chased\nboth by a small pirate band and a sizeable military power. Other similarities\nare pretty obvious once one has seen both.\n\nWas that level of similarity in _Nadia_ due to a conscious or inconscious\ninfluence from _Castle in the Sky_? Did it come from a common origin?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Toshio Okada's (co-founder of GAINAX) [1996 interview with\nAnimerica](http://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/1996-animerica-conscience-\notaking#page-24-1):\n\n> _ANIMERICA_ : Wasn’t **NADIA** ’s story originally by Hayao Miyazaki? Is\n> that the real reason it seems to show so much of his influence?\n>\n> _Okada_ : Yeah. The original story was going to be called “Around the World\n> in 80 Days by Sea”. That was Mr. Miyazaki’s plan, fifteen years ago. And the\n> Toho people held onto it, and showed it to Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and told him,\n> “ _You_ make it.” [...] **NADIA** was a very hard experience. At first,\n> Sadamoto was supposed to be the director. But after two episodes, he said\n> “Okay, that’s enough for me!” and went back to character design and\n> animation direction, and Anno took over.\n\nSo _Nadia_ 's original story was by Miyazaki, and it seems very likely that\nthat original idea was part of _Castle in the Sky_. That is claimed at least\nby [nausicaa.net](http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nonmiyazaki/#nadia), but\nthat claim is not sourced (and all google results for \"Around the World in 80\nDays by Sea\" is ultimately sourced from one of these two pages). However, the\ntiming certainly makes it plausible - _Around the World in 80 Days by Sea_\nwould have been first written ca 1981, while _Castle in the Sky_ was\noriginally released in 1986.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that Light didn't want to kill his father in cold blood, but after his\nfather, Soichiro Yagami, died, he could've just killed them. And then, Near\naccused L #2 of being Kira.\n\nNear only found out that Light was Kira because of the information Aizawa gave\nhim. He could've just killed the Task Force and went incognito. I know he\nwanted to kill of Near and Mello, but I'm sure that he could've found a way to\nkill them off later.\n\nWhy didn't Light just kill the Task Force then?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs long as there was a Task Force, there was a line of communication with\nNear. And thus (more) opportunities to find out the true identities of Near\nand Mello. The Task Force was still a valuable asset.\n\nIt was much better to try and convince Near that he wasn't Kira. And Light is\n(over)confident enough to believe he can pull that off. Near is much harder to\nfool than other people. But to Light, that probably makes it an exciting\nchallenge.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo add to [Vixen's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/20239/2516),\nLight didn't kill the Task Force before Near was even in the picture because\nthey posed him no threat. Initially, he only killed criminals, and later he\nstarted killing everyone opposing his utopia. However, they were working for\nhim then, so there was no need to kill them.\n\nAlso, keep in mind that he couldn't hide those deaths from the world. It would\nseem rather strange that the entire Task Force died and he was the only\nsurvivor. He would have to made them all die in such a way that he would seem\ninnocent, but it would still seem odd to any onlooker. So, maybe he didn't\nwant to risk exposure even more.\n\nOn a side note, it might have been his conscience if he still had any left. He\npartly killed his own father to convince everyone that he was innocent. He\npurposely made his father do the eye-trade so that his father could prove his\ninnocence by telling everyone he had a showing lifespan, meaning he could not\nhave been the Killer. Killing everyone else after that ordeal would make his\nfather lose his lifespan in vain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched it around 2009 but I can still remember lots of details.\n\n * It involved a young boy, an older guy (a knight I think) and a girl going on a quest to find these stones/gems/whatever. \n * The girl had a small pet... puffball thing, and a raven. \n * There was a witch, sorceress something-or-other, and at one point the raven pecked her. Making her bleed was her only weakness, and so she died from that. \n * There was an episode where they met a giant guarding a bridge, and he told them a riddle: \"Tell me the truth, and I will kill you with my sword, tell me a lie and I will kill you with my bare hands\". The boy said \"you will kill me with your hands\", which caused a paradox thing (If that was true, he would kill him with his sword, but then it would be a lie, so he would... yeah, you get the idea.) \n\nThat's all I can remember.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a question about a lucky bastard fever episode in _Crayon Shin-chan_ ,\nI was wondering if you could help me find what episode this is from.\n\nIt was about that bird man bad guy and Lollipop was at her house and some\nprofessor guy was there too, but then he left and then he came back from the\nhouse side of the house. Lollipop did not know how he did it but later it\nturned out that the other professor was the main bad guy in trying to find a\nweakness on the action bastered suite.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\"Ange\", apart from the obvious reference to the main character, also means\n\"angel\" in French and implies the connection between Ange and Vilkiss, which\nhas an angel sculpture on its head. This connection also extends to the full\ntitle _Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons_ , which foreshadows the end of\nAnge's journey, as seen in the last few episodes.\n\nHowever, \"Cross\" doesn't quite make sense in the title. According to the\npreview at the end of episode 24, subtitle by CrunchyRoll:\n\n> What the hell did \"Cross\" in _Cross Ange_ mean, anyway?\n>\n> Ange is always cross, I guess?\n>\n> It's a pun?!\n\n1 _Cross_ in this context means **\" angry or annoyed\"**, according to [Oxford\nLearner's\nDictionary](http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cross_3).\n\nWhile it somewhat makes sense, this seems to be a liberal translation to match\nthe fact it is a pun in Japanese.\n\nWhat is the original explanation in Japanese? Is there any other official\nexplanation of what \"Cross\" mean in the title?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe original explanation in Japanese in the preview cited in the question is\n\n> 「アンジュが苦労｛くろう｝する」ってことでしょう？\n\nwhich roughly translates to\n\n> Ange has been through many hardships, I guess?\n\nIn Japanese, the pun is on Cross - クロス (kurosu) and 苦労｛くろう｝する ( **kuro** u\n**su** ru).\n\nAs of the time of writing, this is the most official explanation on the\nmeaning of \"Cross\" in _Cross Ange_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Angel's Crusade: Balade of Angels and Dragons.\n\nThe 2 initial answers explained but didn't provide the specific term needed: A\n\"Crusade\". In sum up, the [Crusades](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades)\nwere battles in the name of the Christian Cross.\n\nAlthough I recognize that after seeing the Crucifixion explanation, it sounds\nlike a more plausible reason for the 'Cross' term, Crusade cannot be discarded\nat all. It can be possible: Supported in the initial concept, Cross and\nCrusade relate to a Holy War in the name of beliefs and religions. Ange had to\nfight around dimensions against The Tuner (a \"god\") and Aura (New Earth's\ngod). She also discovered the truth and started a new belief (a new religion)\nwhere all are accepted. In the end, Crusade translates as \"several fights\nbecause of beliefs or religions\", which happened plenty along the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, I think Crusade can be a good explanation, but following the previous 2\nexplanations and taking into account the \"hardships\", it can be closer of an\nanalogy with Christ and his Crucifixion.\n\nRemember Christ's story. Son of God, prophet that came to Earth to teach\nhumans on the Grace of God. But then humans went against him and punished him,\nmade him go through several hardships and then the crucifixion. Ange wasn't an\nexplicit prophet, but she was kind of \"programmed\" as one, -say with\nbiogenetics or so, and started to live the hardships similar as Christ lived\nthem. She also did miracles (like with Sylvia, and \"walking again\"). The\nanalogy works except in the point that Ange wasn't an explicit but rather an\nimplicit prophet.\n\nProphet because you can see in the last chapter where everything gets\nexplained:\n\nFirst the Prophecies which are inside the songs. By the way, \"El Ragna\" is a\nreference to Ragnarok. Quoted from HorribleSubs:\n\n> The returning El Ragna. The time flows. Through the hour glass. \n> The flames of countless lives. Fall through and become stars. They fly\n> beautifully. \n> And fade away in the cradle of life and death. \n> The wind goes, El Ragna, with roaring wings. \n> The light of the beginning. The light of the end.\n\nAll the elements of the prophecy happen in the last chapter. The world is\ndying, and \"The light of the beginning\" and \"The light of the end\" fight.\n\nAlso added from Ange, being a prophet, -a Messiah like Christ (Also quoted\nfrom HorribleSubs):\n\n> \"I won't let myself be controlled by anyone!\" \n> \"Humans are: Anti-authoritarian, aggressive, rebellious misfits\" \n> \"I understand now why Normas were born!\" \n> \"Human genes will not be controlled by the likes of you\" \n> \"Why are Normas all women?\" \n> \"So they can bear children to those they love, and so reject your world!\" \n> \"Mother handed down the song and the ring to me.\" \n> \"So I could destroy this rotten world, made by a rotten creator.\"\n\nThen it comes another part of Fukuda's mock on the otaku-waifu culture, then\n(also quoted from HorribleSubs):\n\n> \"It's ten million years too soon for you to even try to hold me!\"\n\nAnd the Prophet/Messiah wins.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBack in **Episode 11** of the Berserk anime, Casca and Guts fell from a high\ncliff into a river. Later, Guts found Casca suffering from high fever, so he\ndecided to warm her body. While undressing her, he saw something (as I saw)\nlike **blood flowing down** (I couldn't understand from where), then he said:\n\n> Now I understand. Must be hard, being a woman\n\n**What did Guts mean when he said that?**\n\nI don't think she was having periods, but then what else could it be specific\nonly to a woman.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis panel hints that she was having menstrual cramps before the battle\nstarted. She is complaining about them happening while clutching her abdomen.\n\nThe entire chapter (and the next several chapters) are full of references\nabout her health and discussion about a woman's place on the battlefield. She\nwas clearly menstruating.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow come after chapter 1.5 there is no mention of Kim-Soon-Lee and the\noperation to catch the Murim killer? Is this due to it being a bonus/filler\nchapter or has it not yet been covered?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVers was colonized in 1980 according to the [official\ntimeline](http://fabelyn.tumblr.com/post/93525769376/aldnoah-\nhistory-1969-2014-timeline-translation). Since Rayregalia cut ties with Earth\nshortly after, lets assume the scientific development was split, save for the\noccasional espionage or exchange.\n\nThere is much Mecha, space and aldnoah technology on screen, but what about\nthe other fields? They should be really advanced in physics (having firsthand\nopportunity to build those special mecha), but in some ways it seems they have\nregressed. Like in social sciences.\n\nHow is Vers' knowledge, compared to our own?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nAs we can see [Nakuru\nNarumi](http://myanimelist.net/character/41379/Nakuru_Narumi) has dark skin\ncompared to other characters. So why she has dark skin tone ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe actually does not have dark skin tone. It is fashion called\n[Ganguro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro).\n\nAs MAL Describe her character as:\n\n> The cat-eared [ganguro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro) student that\n> is spying Konoe and Kinjirō.\n\nBelow is the defination of ganguro as described by Wikipedia.\n\n> Ganguro (ガングロ?) is an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women\n> that started in the mid-1990s, distinguished by a dark tan and contrasting\n> make-up liberally applied by fashionistas.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched an anime show a while back on Crackle, but I can't remember the\nname. It's not there anymore but I really enjoyed it.\n\nIt started out with a teenage prince and his servant running through the woods\nbeing chased by zombie like creatures. They came across a house where a\nbeautiful woman lived and asked for shelter. They both fell in love with her.\nThen, they found out that she was an immortal, and a group of assassins were\nafter her blood. She turned the prince into an immortal as well. When he woke\nup 1000 years in the future, he couldn't remember anything, but he went on a\nsearch for her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have recently started watching _Dragon Ball Z_ (Remastered Edition)* after a\nlong break. There is this scene in S01E21 ( _Counting Down_ ) in which Master\nRoshi and others summon the dragon to wish Goku back. Just before they can\nwish him back, Oolong (the pig) says:\n\n> Excuse me, Mr. Dragon could be possibly destroy the Saiyans that are on the\n> way to Earth right about now.\n\nto which the dragon replies:\n\n> Your wish cannot be granted because the guardian of Earth created me. I\n> cannot grant a wish which exceeds his power.\n\nNow, this has put me into dilemma. If the dragons' power was only limited to\nEarth, why was everyone around the universe after these Dragon Balls?\n\nHere are few questions that bug me:\n\n * When the dragon says \"wish which exceeds his power\", does he mean that he can only use his powers on/for the Earthlings?\n * If yes, how could they wish Goku back, because technically, he is not born on Earth?\n * If not, why did destroying the Saiyans exceed the dragon's power?\n * Everyone around the universe was searching for Dragon Balls because they could fulfill anyone's wish. Does it mean that it is not mandatory to be an Earthling, but it's compulsory to be on Earth to have your wish granted by the dragons?\n * If yes, why didn't they ever wish to destroy the enemies after they had landed on Earth and within the effect of the dragons' power?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou misunderstood Shenlong's words. Shenlong was created by the guardian of\nthe Earth, [Kami](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Kami), in chapter 165.\nTherefore, Shenlong could not have greater powers than his creator. Shenlong's\npowers are not limited to the Earth nor are they limited to Earthlings. That's\nnot how it works and it is not what he meant by that. **They are disallowed\nfrom killing others, creating love, or anything that Kami wouldn't have been\nable to do with his own power.**\n\n\n\nAlthough the above statement is still rather vague. I mean, does this imply\nthat they could wish for weak Earthlings to die, because Kami has the powers\nto do so? Or could Kami himself grant immortality, since his powers should be\ngreater than or equal to those of Shenlong's? Those _rules_ aren't ever\nexplained in detail in the manga as far as I know, and it is never explained\nwhether Shenlong can't kill anyone or only those stronger than Kami, but it is\nclear that Shenlong couldn't kill Nappa, Vegeta or any other villain Earth has\nencountered, because neither Kami nor Dende were that strong to begin with.\n\n## [Dragon Ball wiki\npage](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_%28object%29#History)\n\nYou can read more about the Dragon Balls' or Shenlong's powers on the wiki\npage.\n\n> The Earth Dragon Balls are about 7.5 cm (approximately 3 in) in diameter,\n> and they summon a dragon named Shenron. They were created by **Kami** , and\n> later re-created by **Dende**. Shenron can grant a wish within its powers as\n> long as it **does not kill** , create love, repeat a wish he previously\n> granted, **surpasses its creator's power** , and a few more restrictions.\n> Legitimate wishes include eternal youth, immortality, bringing back a\n> scorched forest or even an annihilated planet. Also, it is possible to\n> return a person to life, although only if they meet certain criteria, like\n> dying of unnatural causes or within the time-frame of a year (half a century\n> according to the Ocean Dub), and each individual can only be brought back\n> once. The Eternal Dragon will grant the first wish uttered after it was\n> called, by whomever is present.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I remember, Goku was sent to destroy Earth. But for the whole time,\nhe did the opposite to that . The 2 Saiyans that you are mentioning about, are\n**Vegeta** and **Nappa**. Both come to find Goku and destroy him along with\nEarth.\n\nShenron couldn't grant this wish because he said that he can't use his powers\nto kill or forcibly against anyone stronger than his creator.\n\nLater on, Dende becomes the guardian, and recreates the Dragonballs because\nthe old ones disappeared when the combined Piccolo/Kami died. After he\nrecreates them, some time passes and he improves them, allowing three wishes\nto be granted instead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know bits of it but I still have no luck in finding it!\n\nIt starts off with a girl who works at a flower shop. She sees a boy and he\nimmediately makes her his lover. (I think he was a demon).\n\nIn one of the chapters, the boy is going back to his home so he can finish his\nwork. He takes her to his private beach house, where he makes love to the girl\nand she allows it. The next day, they get dressed and he notices how much he\nchanged her. When they get to the airport, he gives her his earring he always\nwears and tells her that he will come back for her, then he kisses her and\nleaves.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCould it be [**Kiss/Hug**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=12453)?\n\nThe girls works in a flower shop that belongs to the family. The scene you're\ndescribing resembles one of the last few chapters where he has to go to\nEngland for some work he does.\n\n**Synopsis**\n\n> Ryuu, a super-business-like transfer student from England with black hair\n> and blue eyes just arrived! During the night of the Tanabata festival, Ryuu\n> and Yukino became attracted to each other at first sight. He then declares,\n> \"You will be mine!\" This brought confusion to Yukino, who has zero\n> experience in love. But could she actually be falling in love?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime was from the 1970's or the very early 1980's. I really don't have\nmuch to go on, I'm afraid, but it was Sci-Fi, and I'm pretty sure it had\nrobots in it as well as humanoid characters. They were on a journey/quest,\nand, this may be the best clue, there was a disturbing scene (remember, I was\nyoung!) where a large guy with a beard or mustache was gunning down teddy\nbears (or cute bears of some kind) in a room with what looked like an M60\nmachine gun.\n\nThis has been driving me NUTS! Please, if anyone can help, I would really\nappreciate it. :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's **[Space Firebird\n2772](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2793/Hi_no_Tori_2772:_Ai_no_CosmoZone)**\n(1980). That scene made a big impression on me as a kid too! Great movie,\nworth re-watching as an adult.\n\nThe scene is around 15 minutes into the movie:\n\n \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom a quick scan through translated volumes of Absolute Duo on Baka Tsuki, it\nseems that the anime adapted up to Volume 5 - Chapter 2 (or a few more\nchapters ahead). However, looking at the illustrations, it seems that some\ncontent are not adapted in the anime.\n\nWhat are the chapters missing from the anime adaptation? Within the adapted\ncontent, does the anime adaptation have any major deviation from the source\nmaterial?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do not remember if this character is from a manga or anime. However, I think\nhe was a side-character who told his story to the main character, or at least\na character of some importance.\n\nHis story goes somewhat like this: He is fascinated by fighting and trains in\nthe sword techniques. One night, he witnesses a man killing someone with\nsword. Upon closer inspection, it is revealed that the facial expression of\nthe slain man has a calm feeling to it. The character deduces that the killing\nmust have been so swift that the slain man had no time to notice it.\n\nYears after the man has been practicing his sword techniques, he encounters\nthe man whom he has admired since that night. The character succeeds in\ndecapitating the killer almost effortlessly. However, he then realizes that he\nhas been mistaking about the facial expression that night, and that there was\nno such sword technique.\n\nHe then returns to his hometown to learn that the girl who mas madly in love\nwith him has died while waiting for his return. The man regrets his life.\n\nI'm thinking of something along lines of _Samurai Champaloo_ or _Rurouni\nKenshin_. However, there was no mentions on the characters lists for those\ndescriptions. It could be an entirely different show. It could also be from\n_Blood and Steel_ , _Vagabond_ or other samurai/sword-themed show.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat you saw was an episode of Rurouni Kenshin\n\nSpecifically, [63: \"The Legend of the\nFireflies\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rurouni_Kenshin_episodes_%28season_3%29)\n\n\n\nThe episode is a perfect match to your description.\n\nIn that episode, Kenshin, the protagonist, encountered an old man who told him\nthe exact story that you laid out in your post.\n\nThe man was already a hobbyist in swordsmanship, and participated in\ncompetitions with a wooden sword.\n\nHe saw a robber who killed some people with a technique as \"fast as lightning,\nnever eve realizing that it was over for them\"\n\nHe killed a person, and left his love interest behind because she disapproved\nof the killing.\n\nHe killed more people, and eventually cut down the robber with ease.\n\nWhen the robber died, the man saw the exact same expression on the robber's\nface, and he realized that he had surpassed him long ago and that the\ntechnique was just imagined, and not even real.\n\nWhen he got back to his home town, he learned that his love interest was dead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I have read One Piece, Sanji has not met any woman yet that he did\nnot get attracted to (except okamas, old women and young girls). My question\nis, were all middle-aged women in the series supposed to be beautiful? Or does\neveryone look beautiful to Sanji?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are women Sanji has met who he hasn't been attracted to, like Kokoro,\nLola and Shakuyaku. I believe he's more into young women and young girls, and\nalthough he does respect older women, he doesn't swoon over them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis song is common in many episodes and even appears several times in one\nepisode. It's kind of a sad music with male vocals and instrumentals such as\nsome kind of flute or something similar. It's from episode 48 titled \"Bonds\"\nof Naruto Shippuden and starts close to 3:10.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit's this song here\n\n[Naruto Shippuden OST 1 - Track 28 - Shippuu Kumikyoku ( Hurricane Suite\n)](https://youtu.be/P5Hp42y7gVA)\n\nthe singing starts at 0:40\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am a great fan of Dragon Ball, and I have watched almost every series and\nmovies of Dragon Ball. However, I'm not sure if there is any other series\nafter Dragon Ball GT.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Dragon Ball GT came [**Dragon Ball Z\nKai**](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z_Kai).\n\nDragon Ball Z Kai is a high-definition remastered and recut of Dragon Ball Z,\ndone for its 20th Anniversary. The series' plot focuses more on the manga\nstyle. The total episode count for the series is 167, comprising of :\n\n 1. Saiyan Saga (26 Episodes)\n 2. Frieza Saga (26 Episodes)\n 3. Androids Saga (25 Episodes)\n 4. Cell Saga (21 Episodes)\n 5. Majin Buu Saga (35 Episodes)\n 6. Evil Buu Saga\n\nFor more details on the episode list, click\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragon_Ball_Z_Kai_episodes).\n\nRelated : [Will I miss anything by watching Dragon Ball Z Kai instead of the\nother series?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3010/will-i-miss-\nanything-by-watching-dragon-ball-z-kai-instead-of-the-other-series?rq=1)\n\n* * *\n\n**EDIT:**\n\nA new _Dragon Ball_ series has been announced, titled: [**Dragon Ball\nSuper**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Super)\n\nFrom [Dragon Ball Wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Super):\n\n> The plot framework and character designs were created by original author\n> Akira Toriyama. The series will be developed by Toei, in a similar process\n> to the Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT animes. The beginning\n> of the series plot takes place after the Majin Buu Saga, potentially putting\n> it in either the 10 year gap towards the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament,\n> or afterwards.\n\n \n\n> Dragon Ball Super is set to begin airing in Japan on Fuji TV, July 5th,\n> 2015.\n>\n> source: <http://www.dragonballinsider.com/2015/05/03/dragon-ball-super-\n> start-date-of-july-5-2015/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFollowing the storyline, after [Dragon Ball\nGT](http://myanimelist.net/anime/225/Dragon_Ball_GT), there was [Dragon Ball\nGT: A Hero's\nLegacy](http://myanimelist.net/anime/987/Dragon_Ball_GT:_Goku_Gaiden!_Yuuki_no_Akashi_wa_Suushinchuu).\n\nThe story ends with the TV special mentioned above.\n\nMeanwhile, the same series were remastered/revised ([Dragon Ball\nKai](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6033/Dragon_Ball_Kai), [Dragon Ball Kai\n(2014)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/22777/Dragon_Ball_Kai_%282014%29)), also\ntwo new movies [Dragon Ball Z: Battle of\nGods](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14837/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_14:_Kami_to_Kami)\nand [Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection\n‘F’](http://myanimelist.net/anime/25389/Dragon_Ball_Z_Movie_15:_Fukkatsu_no_F)\n(this movies takes place on Frieza Saga).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no anime series of Dragon Ball after Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball Kai\nhas no independent story but is basically the story of Dragon Ball Z itself.\n\nInstead of an anime series, the movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods was\nreleased which is in official continuity with Dragon Ball Z and therefore,\nbefore the events of Dragon Ball GT.\n\nThis year (2015) the sequel to Battle of Gods - Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection\n'F' will be released.\n\n**Update**\n\nA new anime series Dragon Ball Super is going to be aired from July 2015\nonwards. It's story will pick up after the events of Resurrection 'F'.\n\nSince the story of Dragon Ball Z has taken a significant turn by introducing\nthe Super Saiyan God ability and other plot events, the fate of Dragon Ball GT\nis left hanging in the balance. At this minute, there is no official word\nabout whether it will still exist in the continuity of the Dragon Ball\nUniverse or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have seen many _Dragon Ball_ series like _Dragon Ball_ , _Dragon Ball Z_ ,\n_Dragon Ball GT_. One thing remains same is that Saiyans never look aged. The\nlast episode of _Dragon Ball GT_ shows **Pan** as a grandma, but **Goku** was\nlooking as young as he was in _Dragon Ball Z_. Why don't Saiyans age?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo my knowledge, they do age, just very slowly in adulthood. This is a genetic\ntrait, I assume, to reach longer duration of physical demands. They are\ndesigned to be fighters, and longevity of a lifespan is only practical. Vegeta\nconfirmed this towards the end of DBZ: \"So they can fight longer\".\n\nFrom a quick Google search:\n\n> According to the Daizenshuu, Saiyan's lifespan is about the same as an\n> average Human (70 to 90 years, with exceptions, of course), but keep in\n> their peak longer. Unlike Humans, Saiyans remain in their youth and prime\n> much longer. As explained by Vegeta near the end of Dragon Ball Z, they stay\n> young longer because they live for and are built for battle\n\nFrom [Saiyan](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Saiyan) article on Dragon Ball\nwiki. (Visit the link for more examples, and a more definitive explanation).\n\nSomething else to consider: they stay in their prime longer because they are\nfull Saiyans, whereas Pan is only quarter Saiyan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just have to add something else: Goku shrunk back to being a little kid\nduring DB GT, right? And if I remember right, he never got the chance to grow\nback right away but grew up naturally. \nMight add as to why he looked the same as he was in DBZ when Pan found him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found the following [picture](http://9gag.com/gag/am0oOe2) which collect a\nbunch of characters from many anime: I was curious about the two characters\nthat I put in the red square (just below Ichigo). Which anime are they from?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe character on the left is [Wataru\nIkusabe](http://myanimelist.net/character/8280/Wataru_Ikusabe) from [_Mashin\nEiyuuden Wataru_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/3837/Mashin_Eiyuuden_Wataru).\n\n\n\nThe character on the right is [Daiichi\nHaruka](http://myanimelist.net/character/28122/Daiichi_Haruka) from [_Madou\nKing Granzort_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2818/Madou_King_Granzort).\n\n\n\nThey are grouped together because both series are directed by Shuji Iuchi. In\nfact, there is a crossover of _Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru_ in the first episode of\n_Madou King Granzort_ :\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat determines if someone going to Heaven (reincarnate) or Hell (void)?\n\nIn episode 6, Harada was sent to void despite him repenting his attempt to\nkill Mayu. Yet, in episode 2, both Chisato and Shigeru was reincarnated,\ndespite Chisato lying to Shigeru about her identity. Yes, Shigeru knows about\nher identity, but still she is lying to him.\n\nSo, what exactly determines the sentence?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been wondering the same myself for some time, and have come to the\nconclusion that there isn't really a rule as to how to judge the various\nguests. Every arbiter judges as he or she pleases.\n\nGinti, for instance, cast Harada into the void because he was about to betray\nMayu, pushing her to her death. Ginti didn't care that Harada had a change of\nheart and _tried_ to save her; he would've pushed her in cold blood anyways,\nhad she not decided to jump on her own.\n\nDecim, on the other hand, focused more on the actual result, rather than what\n_might_ have happened. If we look back to episode 1: Takashi (the husband) was\nsent for reincarnation, despite him betraying his wife (he eventually played\nto win, after all). Takashi even tried to attack his own wife, only to be\nstopped by Decim.\n\nLater on, Decim's (in)actions drastically change his style of judgement. In\nepisode 4, Decim doesn't even try to stop Misaki (the TV show hostess) as she\nrepeatedly smashes Yousuke's (the NEET) skull into the screen, probably\nbecause the game was still in progress then.\n\nFinally, we have Tatsumi (the fallen detective) and Shimada (the boy whose\nsister was raped) during episodes 8 and 9. Like before, Decim stops Shimada\nfrom attacking Tatsumi after the game's end. Only **_this time_** , he\nprovides Shimada with an opportunity to _torture_ Tatsumi. Had Decim performed\nhis judgement the same way he did in episode 1, Shimada would probably _not_\nhave been cast into the void.\n\nAs for episode 3 (not 2), Mai (aka Chisato) didn't exactly _lie_ to Shigeru;\nnot intentionally, at least. At first she didn't remember who she was and as\nthe game progressed, she remembered Shigeru, Chisato, and Mai. Only, she\n_believed_ she was Chisato, and it wasn't until after the game had ended, that\nshe remembered who she _really_ was. As soon as she remembered, she tried to\ntell Shigeru the truth, but he interrupted her, saying he already knew.\n\n* * *\n\nIn the end, there is no real determining factor to the judgements. Every\narbiter judges as he or she pleases, and their judgement can change\ndramatically over time, as seen with the stark contrast between episode 1 and\nepisode 9.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I was little, I used to own this film on VHS:\n\n\n\nI'm pretty sure that the version I had was called **The Talisman**.\n\nI'm trying to find it again, preferably a digital version so that I can burn\nit to disk, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's also coming up with\ndifferent names when I search for it: **The Talisman** , **The World of The\nTalisman** , and **Birth**.\n\nThe version I owned was an American dub, and I'd love to find it again, as it\nis a film my brother and I used to always watch, so it has a lot of nostalgia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, let's learn the different names and versions of the [English\ndubs of\n_Birth_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_%28anime%29#English_dubs).\n\n> Two English dubs of _Birth_ exist. The first was licensed in 1987 by Harmony\n> Gold and released by Streamline Pictures in North America and the United\n> Kingdom under the title _The World of the Talisman_. [...] The OVA was later\n> retitled yet again to _Planet Busters_.\n\nWhile the names are different, the content and dub of both versions are\nentirely the same.[[source]](http://www.anime-\ngames.co.uk/VHS/anime/talisman.php)\n\n> The second dub by ADV Films, released on DVD on July 13, 2004, is much more\n> faithful to the original Japanese version.\n\nThe ADV release is titled _Birth: A War of Two Worlds!_ , and there's a good\n[review](https://web.archive.org/web/20140315044219/http://www.mania.com/birth_article_76256.html)\nof the DVD.\n\nYou have two choices:\n\n 1. Get the [VHS](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00004U5K5) and digitize it yourself, or bring it to a Walgreens store (for example) and [ask them to do it for you](http://photo.walgreens.com/walgreens/storepage/storePageId=DVD+Transfer). This is the only option if you want to reminisce about the Harmony Gold's version which you owned.\n 2. Get the [DVD](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00029NMIQ) directly, but remember that the content and dub of the ADV release are different from what you used to watch.\n\nI also recommend a read of this [well-written\npost](https://washiblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/birth-classic-1984-ova-\nyoshinori-kanada/) on the OVA and the animators behind it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have seen so far that Jewelry Bonney can alter someone's age by touching\nthem. So I'm just wondering how could you fight against that kind of power\nwith Haki. Could Armament Haki defend the user from her power when she touches\nhim?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, I guess you have to do it, like Zoro fought against Ain: Don't get\ntouched.\n\nThe rest is guessing, because as far as I know, there hasn't been shown any\nother way to fight powers like hers so far.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere has been no proof of this yet, so I'm basing myself on Sugar's power and\nspeculation. She has a similar power, where she can alter a person's body by\ntouching them. We have seen Sugar turn a lot of Haki users into toys, so it is\nsafe to say that Jewelry Bonny could also turn Haki users into babies.\n\nBut could they transform a Haki coated body? Well, Haki allows a user to touch\nthe real person underneath, bypassing the Devil Fruit's power, so I would\nspeculate that Haki would prevent someone from turning them into toys or\nbabies, because the power would not be able to reach the victim.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read this Korean manhwa about 2 years ago. I am bad at names, which is why I\ndon't remember the title of the book, nor the names of any of the characters.\nThis is not a popular series, and may not even have an anime. The manhwa is\ncomplete.\n\nIt has street fights. There are no superpowers whatsoever, as they are all\nhumans. It's all about a guy becoming the top fighter in the school completely\nby accident.\n\nI believe it takes place at an all boys high school, but there is a girl whom\neveryone mistakes for a guy attending the school for some reason. There are\ntechnically no rules against girls going to that school, though.\n\nThe main character is a complete wuss, with brown hair. In the first fight\n(maybe, not too sure), he pretends to be tough, then a group of people try to\nbeat him up. However, he accidentally beats them all up instead. After that\nfight, I think pretty much all fights from that point on are 1 on 1, as people\ntry to take him down and fail by sheer bad luck.\n\nEven with all the fights going on, the parents are never involved, though I\nbelieve the principle is, and he literally beats up any kids that get into\nfights.\n\nThere's also a less popular remake where he can fight, but he keeps losing to\neveryone he tries to fight with. Basically, a complete flip of the series.\n\nFeel free to make pot shot guesses, I will look up all answers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEdit: The series is [Transfer Student Storm\nBringer](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=63461).\n\nThe girl in this series has pink hair, and the guy has brown hair.\n\n* * *\n\nMaybe you are looking for [**Angel\nDensetsu**](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/AngelDensetsu).\n\nIn the manga, the main character becomes the top fighter of his school due to\nluck/accident. As a result, many people from other schools come to challenge\nhim to test his abilities, but he wins by luck as always.\n\nHe is totally a complete wuss with no experience in fighting, and he is just\nugly.\n\n* * *\n\nIf the manga above is not what you are looking for, try taking a look at the\nmanga listed below. They also have the same trait as _Angel Densetsu_ where\nthe protagonists are just wusses and win by luck.\n\n * [Ocha ni Gosu](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=15446)\n * [Gorio](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=665)\n * [Legend of the Strongest Man, Kurosawa](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=22320)\n * [Bari Haken](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=26484)\n * [Transfer Student Storm Bringer](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=63461) (The girl in this series has pink hair, and the guy has brown hair)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe series I was looking for is [Transfer Student Storm\nBringer](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=63461). This is the only\nKorean manhwa among the series listed in [the answer\nabove](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/20347/1398).\n\n> Ju Ingong (which literally translates to Main character) has been terrifying\n> all his schoolmates in every school he has been so far. He has one extremely\n> scary face type and whoever lays his eyes on him thinks he is a BAMF (bad\n> ass). Although… is he really?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe you are looking for Ultimate Legend: Kang Hae Hyo. He did not become\na top fighter by accident. He was technically a beast in fighting until he got\nhit by a bus or truck (i can't fully recall which one was it). His lost memory\nstarted to re-surface as the fighting went on.\n\nThis manhwa also ticks the box on the girl you are looking for since the story\ninvolves a chick that was mistaken for a guy. She also led a gang where her\ngang members took her for a guy but for unknown reason she left the gang and\nonly saw them again when she enrolled on a same school his former gang members\nwere schooling at.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShape corrosion is the term used in Black Bullet to define how much of the\nhost body the Gastrea virus has taken hold. If it gets over 50%, the human\nturns into a Gastrea monster.\n\nIt is specially important for the Initiators, because they are infected at\nbirth, and there is always a risk they turn into Gastrea in the middle of an\noperation. If an initiator is injected with more virus (by monsters, for\nexample), shape corrosion can increase in a very short time.\n\nDuring the series we learn that\n\n> Aijara Enju's Shape Corrosion is well over 40%, putting her almost on the\n> death row, should the virus spread more.\n\nThere is special medicine all initiators have to take regularly to halt the\nspread of shape corrosion, but is there any method mentioned in the black\nbullet manga or anime of reverting this index?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat did Migi do in the last episode? I remember him saying something about\nwalking on a different path so he would sleep for a long time and that he\npossibly won't wake up anymore. He could've stayed in Shinichi's hand as he\nnormally did and continue to coexist with humans like Uda and Jaw. But why\nwould he do that? Was it for his own good?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last episode, Migi shut off all external interference to his thoughts,\nso he wouldn't talk, hear, or sense anything. Instead, he would only focus on\nthe information he had collected up until that point, and this \"hibernation\"\nwould allow him to contemplate it without being disturbed. Migi said that\nthere was a possibility that he would awaken from this state one day, but that\nhe might be dormant for the remainder of his and Shinichi's lifetime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring his stay in Gotou's collective, Migi was put under hibernation, but\nwith a constant and pleasant flux of information sent by Gotou through\nParasyte telepathy.\n\nHowever, you are mistaken. Migi did not go anywhere. He remained as Shinichi's\nright arm. Since the beginning of the series, Migi can delegate control of his\nmuscle structure to Shinichi through the nerve connections of the arm stub. So\nMigi was to be forever as Shinichi's right arm/hand, hibernating.\n\nThis connection is telepathic too. Since Parasytes have empathic telepathy\n(they can convey feelings) and it is shown that Migi can enter Shinichi's\ndreams, it means Migi and Shinichi share some thought bond, probably through\nthe nerve connections (Shinichi mentions there are Migi cells in his brain\nsince the chest wound).\n\nThis could explain why\n\n> Migi temporarily awakens when Murano falls from the roof, extending the arm\n> and lifting Murano back to the roof. Then he tells Shinichi \"you can do the\n> work of holding her now\" before going back to hibernating.\n\nKeep in mind that the conversation above happened telepathically.\n\nMigi tells Shinichi that it was so pleasant staying in the _Gogou's\ninformation highway_ that he would not mind remaining part of Gotou's\ncollective hibernating forever.\n\nAfter he was reunited with Shinichi, he had a ton of issues in mind. This\nshould be a good point to stress that Migi was a scholar type of Parasyte,\nsimilar to Tamura Reiko. So to him, understanding the information was more\nimportant than merely subsisting.\n\nSeveral of the issues that Migi wanted to solve:\n\n * Reiko's signal when she died protecting the baby. Migi was bedazzled at this brand new kind of signal. We can think it was maternal instinct, the will to put another's life above one's own (which is unthinkable to Parasyte mindset).\n * Gotou's information torrent. You can think like Migi downloaded several Terabytes of data from Gotou while hibernating. He wanted to process that information.\n * Give Shinichi a normal life. By the end of the series, Migi is no longer of that Parasyte mindset, just like Reiko. The fact that he was willing to die in order to allow Shinichi to escape Gotou proves that he too was placing another's life before his own.\n * Lay low. Since every Parasyte that knew Shinichi/Migi was dead, and all the others were deadly scared of humans in general after the mayor's office carnage (going so far as to change their diets or to stop killing in an obvious way), there was little probability another hostile Parasyte would attack Shinichi. Meditating would turn off his signal, making Shinichi just a normal human, and giving them both peace of mind.\n * Meditate on [the question](http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Ultimate_Question) (the one with the answer 42). Without any imminent threat, having learned almost everything, and with his nutrition granted by Shinichi's body, life for Migi was bound to be Boring with a capital B. So he turned to the higher thought processes to make up for the lack of more physical endeavors to pursue.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga, Kaede (\"Lucy/Nyu\")\n\n> lost her Lucy consciousness (\"bad side\" or \"little Kaede\" side) and kept the\n> Nyu consciousness.\n\nDid she ever recover her Lucy or \"real\" side?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore Lucy's body completely melted away and was about to be shot in the\nhead, she went berserk. So it is safe to say that she indeed _recovered_ her\nevil side. Although on the other hand, we could see her DNA protect Kouta\nunconsciously, so the memories she made after becoming \"Lucy\" were real, and\ndespite recovering her true self, she could not forget about those happy\nmemories she had with Kouta and the others.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm quite interested in Zoro's personality, especially when he boasts to\nothers about his powers. Can someone list out all or some of Zoro's lines so\nfar in the manga?\n\nI can only remember two:\n\n 1. In Dressrosa arc:\n\n> During his fight with Pica, he said \"Only if your Haki is stronger than\n> mine\".\n\n 2. In Punk Hazard arc:\n\n> When he and Tashigi are fighting with Monet, I can't remember exactly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't have an exhaustive list of Zoro's quotes, so until someone comes up\nwith such a list, I'll give you the ones I could find googling this problem.\nKeep in mind that these are translations and he might have said it differently\nin Japanese. Have fun reading.\n\nHis most recent one liner on Dressrosa is:\n\n> [Over the 9 mountains and 8 seas... Throughout the world itself... There is\n> nothing I cannot cut.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/20202/6166)\n\nThe quote you were looking for when fighting Monet is:\n\n> You've underestimated me, snow woman. When you thought you couldn't beat me,\n> you should have run. Of course, there are things that I don't wanna cut.\n> But... let me ask you something. Have you ever seen a fierce animal you were\n> sure would never bite? Because I haven't.\n\nYou can find 29 quotes on [less-real](http://www.less-\nreal.com/quotes/search/Roronoa%20Zoro). They don't say when he said them\nthough.\n\n> * If I die here, then I'm a man that could only make it this far.\n> * You need to accept the fact that you're not the best and have all the\n> will to strive to be better than anyone you face.\n> * Bring on the hardship. It's preferred in a path of carnage.\n> * Either in belief or doubt, if I lean to one of these sides, my reaction\n> time will be dulled if my heart thinks the opposite of what I choose.\n> * I don't care what the society says. I've regretted doing anything. I\n> will survive and do what I want to.\n> * You want to kill me? You couldn't even kill my boredom!\n> * You sure can talk the talk, but you're not quite ready to walk the walk.\n> Time's up, it's my turn.\n> * When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove\n> back. It's not like somebody's gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.\n> * So, are you stupid enough to fall for such a stupid trap that such\n> stupid people set up?\n> * I'm a pirate hunter.\n> * A wound that'd make an ordinary man unconscious... I won't lose to it. A\n> wound that would kill an ordinary person... I won't lose to it! To face one\n> who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes... I can't allow myself to be ordinary!\n> * There should be a limit to how similar a couple looks like.\n> * When I decided to follow my dream, I had already discarded my life.\n> * If you kill yourself, I'll kill you.\n> * Well, how about this. My \"luck\" versus this thing's \"curse\". Wanna see\n> what's stronger..? If I lose, then I'm just that much of a man anyways...\n> * There is someone that I must meet again. And until that day...not even\n> Death itself can take my life away!\n> * I don't know. I'm not sure why myself. But if I were to take even one\n> step back, I believe that all those important oaths, promises and many other\n> deals 'til now, will all go to waste and I'll never be able to return before\n> you, ever again.\n> * So what if you're a girl.\n> * If I can't even protect my captain's dream, then whatever ambition I\n> have is nothing but talk...\n> * When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever\n> happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done! Don't blame\n> others!!\n> * You'll never understand...your swords will never be as heavy as mine!\n> * If you do anything that would cause me to abandon my ambitions... You\n> will end your own life on my sword!\n> * Fine! I'd rather be a pirate than die here!\n> * I am always serious.\n> * I do things my own way! So don't give me any lip about it!\n> * I'm going to be the world's greatest swordsman! All I have left is my\n> destiny! My name may be infamous...but it's gonna shake the world!!!\n> * If you die, I'll kill you!\n> * Bring on the hardship. It's preferred in a path of carnage.\n>\n\nMore quotes can be read on [animequotes](http://animequotes.net/one-piece-\nquotes/).\n\n> * There is someone that I must meet again. And until that day… not even\n> Death himself can take my life away!\n> * Well, how about this. My “luck” versus this thing’s “curse”… wanna see\n> what’s stronger…? If I lose, then I’m just that much of a man anyways…\n>\n\nThere is also [wikiquote](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/One_Piece), which has a\ncompilation of quotes, phrases, dialogues from One Piece. You could search for\nZoro in the page for more dialogue from him, but I'll stick to his single\nquotes here.\n\n> * I will... I will never... LOSE AGAIN! Until I defeat him [Mihawk] and\n> become the world's greatest swordsman, I'll never be defeated by anyone!\n> * This is the burden of a captain, you can't doubt yourself. In times like\n> these if you lose your confidence, then who can we have faith in?\n> * When the world shoves you around, you've just gotta stand up and shove\n> back. It isn't like you can do anything just by giving excuses. If I die,\n> then I am just a man who can only make it this far.\n> * I'll get strong, stronger than she[Kuina] ever was, you hear me! Strong\n> enough that my name reaches up to the heavens! I am going to be the world's\n> greatest swordsman. I promised her... I promised.. I did...\n>\n\nI tried to weed out the doubles, but forgive me if I put the same quote more\nthan once.\n\n* * *\n\nYou can read more one liners of One Piece on\n[reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1jieba/best_one_liner_in_one_piece/),\nbut they aren't all Zoro's.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is of coarse a hypothetical question cause I do know that he needed to\nmake the old ones reappear in order to do the thing with Cell. But this is\nonly part of the question if Dende created new balls would the seven Dragons\nappear? I think not because there should be no negative energy in the new\nballs but im curious.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt would take longer, but **they would appear eventually**. Humans would keep\non wishing for stuff, adding to the negative energy stored in the balls. So I\nguess they could renew the balls from time to time, preventing the negative\nenergy from building up, but where would the energy go and what would happen\nto the balls? The negative energy is still around, so I think even if the\nballs would be renewed over and over again, the cumulative negative energy\nwould eventually make the seven dragons appear. I think it was Earth's destiny\nfor it to happen. We should all be happy that at that exact time, Goku was\ncoincidentally strong enough to defeat them. Imagine what would have happened\nif he was still only a boy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think there is an \" **official** \" answer to this question as\ntechnically GT is anime-based only (Toriyama did not make the whole story\nhimself), but a fair guess would be that it is irrelevant - the seven dragons\nwould appear as long as enough wishes were asked of from Shenron. According to\nthe anime, the only important factor (other than the content of the wish\nitself) that influenced and kept the dragons from appearing was the time lapse\nbetween successive wishes, which was dramatically reduced after Bulma invented\nthe dragon radar.\n\nOf course, there are all sorts of fan-based speculations as to why the dragon\nballs weren't simply kept in the hyperbolic time chamber after every wish\n(since it is quite possible to catch the balls after a wish before they are\ndispersed, as was once done by Goku) so that the negative energy would\ndissipate, but they are just _theories_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPica uses the Stone Stone fruit, which in recent episodes, shows him\n\n> turning into a giant stone colossus.\n\nBut, what happens to his human body when he uses his fruit in this way?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, in the most recent episode you saw\n\n> Ruffy destroying the head of the big stone giant Pica created, while Zorro\n> states, that the stone body is just a hull and that Pica can recreate it.\n> Only seconds later you see Pica coming out of the stone body itself, so I\n> guess it is not wrong to say: He hides somwhere insided the stone body he\n> created.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI could only find a one line synopsis of the manga on Wikipedia's entry on\n[From Up On Poppy Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokurikozaka_kara):\n\n> The main character, Umi Komatsuzaki, is a high school girl who has to grow\n> up quickly when her father goes missing.\n\nI would like a more comprehensive list of differences than this:\n\n> The manga is set in the late 1960s in Yokohama, Japan; the Ghibli film is\n> set in 1963.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[As mentioned by OP\nhimself](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20380/what-are-the-\ndifferences-between-studio-ghiblis-film-adaptation-and-the-\norigina#comment27541_20380), the Blu-Ray version has some extras\n[[1]](http://collider.com/from-up-on-poppy-hill-blu-ray-\nreview/)[[2]](http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/61530/from-up-on-poppy-hill/),\nincluding Goro Miyazaki, the director, talks about the differences between the\nmanga and the movie.\n\n> Director Goro Miyazaki on Yokohama – (15 mins) Miyazaki talks about making\n> _From Up on Poppy Hill_ a period film and the differences between the manga\n> and the animated film adaptation.\n>\n> Director Goro Miyazaki on Yokohama (18 min.; HD): _From Up on Poppy Hill_ 's\n> director speaks about shifting the original manga's setting to 1963\n> Yokohama, striking a balance between authenticity and properly cinematic\n> visuals, the history and geography of Yokohama, and even a few notes about\n> ideas that didn't make it into the finished film. This is a conversation\n> that would benefit from some tightening in the editing room but is still\n> well worth taking the time to watch.\n\nBut for the starter, [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B3%E5%9D%82%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89#.E5.8E.9F.E4.BD.9C.E3.81.8B.E3.82.89.E3.81.AE.E4.B8.BB.E3.81.AA.E5.A4.89.E6.9B.B4.E7.82.B9)\nlists some of the major differences:\n\n> The movie followed the original manga's theme and setting for main\n> characters, but the plot and story presentation were greatly modified,\n> making it an original work.\n>\n> * The introduction of \"Quartier Latin\", the high school's newspaper club's\n> clubhouse as the original material in the movie. Shun and Shirou were trying\n> hard to protect their clubhouse which had been planned to be demolished.\n> Umi, trying to tell the goodness of the clubhouse to the students, proposed\n> a clean-up and become close to Shun through it. The movie's storyline was\n> largely constructed around this \"building conservation\" act.\n> * The timeline in the movie is around May-June 1963. To prevent extending\n> the school year, Shun was placed in 3rd year from the beginning, Umi's 2nd\n> year, and Sora's 1st year.\n> * The school uniform was changed from blazer to sailor suit.\n> * The main character's surname was changed from Komatsuzaki to Matsuzaki.\n> * The lodger Kitami Hokuto's name was changed to Miki Hokuto, the gender\n> from man to woman, and the profession from veterinarian to doctor.\n> * The main character's mother Nijie Komatsuzaki's name was changed to\n> Ryoko Matsuzaki, the profession from cameraman to college's associate\n> professor (English literature).\n> * The setting about mahjong gambling was cut.\n> * Regarding the suspicion about the birth, it's revealed that the photo of\n> father that Umi shown is the same as the photo that Shun had.\n> * Umi's grandfather, Shimatarou is no longer alive, and many characters in\n> the manga didn't appear.\n>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Japanese theatrical poster of _From Up on Poppy Hill_ designed and\nillustrated by Hayao Miyazaki, there is one flag before the [two-letter\nsignal](http://www.sleewee.com/misc-signal-flags.php) (UW):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lznT.jpg)\n\nThe flag looks like that which represents the number 1 in the [International\nCode of Signals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Signals).\nHowever, looking up in the [_International Code of Signals (Revised 2003\nUnited States Edition)_](http://www.marinedocs.co.uk/wp-\ncontent/uploads/2017/06/International-Code-of-Signals.pdf), I could not find\nthe signal `1 UW`, but only `UW 1` (p. 89), meaning \"Thank you very much for\nyour cooperation. I wish you a pleasant voyage\".\n\nIf it's not a numeral pennant, then is the flag what I think it is, the\n[national flag of Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Japan)? What\nare the signal flags as a whole supposed to mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first set of two flag is Uniform Whiskey which means have a pleasant\nvoyage. The pennant and the uniform Whiskey the tug puts up just means message\nreceived and replying to your message.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis poster is based on the rough \"storyboard\" sketches drawn for use as a\nvisual aid while the animators were discussing the plot prior to any actual\nanimation being done. So the vague top flag is just a quick representation of\nthe red-and-white-striped pennant the tugboat raises. However, the top flag\ndoes look like the Japanese flag as it would be seen by someone looking up at\nit from directly below (with perspective distortion) so using this sketch on\nthe official poster might indeed have some of the implied double meanings\nmentioned in this thread. Ref: The storyboards are included in the 2-dvd USA\nversion of this movie.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be the former \"affirmative yes\" flag?[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xwPwK.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe all know that the dragons apparently disappeared in the year X777. At the\nsame time, Lucy's mother, Layla Heartfilia, died at the age of 29. I don't\nknow the cause of her death, it's just that I know she passed away at the same\nyear.\n\nLayla Heartfilia seemed to be a powerful Celestial mage given that she had\nthree Golden keys (Aquarius, Capricorn, and Cancer; these three are pretty\npowerful too) and she probably had more than that (Silver keys or something).\n\nIt hasn't been mentioned whether Layla died the same day the dragons\ndisappeared, just that it's the same year, or has it? So I was wondering,\ncould she have had some sort of connection with the disappearance of the\ndragons?\n\nYes, the truth about the disappearance of the dragons has been revealed and\nall, but I still think that there's still something behind this.\n\n> Too bad the dragons can't reveal anything anymore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the title says, why is Tokyo Ghoul's second season called √A?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**√A (\"root A\")** is a reference to and pun on the [Aogiri\nTree](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Aogiri_Tree) organization, which is the\nfocus of the second season. \"A\" is simply the first letter of the\norganization, and the [root](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root) is a\npun on [tree root](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root) (since it's the Aogiri\n_Tree_ ).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main character is **not** reincarnated in a different world. Rather, he is\nreborn so far in the future that his legend is but a myth now. Every time he\nis born, he is born with silver hair (although he fixes it later). Due to the\nreligious influence \"kill all silver haired babies, reincarnation of the\ndemon\", he was killed right after birth **26** times. On the 27th time, he was\nsaved by his poor parents who refused to let his son be killed.\n\nHe attends a magic school. Normally, people don't even know they are magicians\nuntil 15, but he, a little kid, starts learning intermediate class summoning\nin his 1st year of school (although it's still nothing for him).\n\nAt first sight, he may be a kid, but when angered, the blood thirst that is\nreleased freezes everyone through pure fear. The cool and awesome, yet\nmerciless main character is the best part of this ~~light~~ novel. The writing\nstyle brings out the best of the hero's character.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe you mean the fiction [**Forgotten\nConqueror**](http://www.royalroadl.com/fiction/1439), which is published on\nRoyal Road.\n\nHere a piece of the novel from chapter 2.\n\n> Twenty-seven.\n>\n> That was the number of times he had been thrown back into this world, only\n> to be promptly dispatched and returned to the empty void to wallow in his\n> own regret at how powerless he was when it truly mattered, and his sorrow.\n>\n> Memories that the Entity otherwise known as Rhultal did not want to remember\n> yet could never forget flashes through his mind.\n>\n> Broken and bleeding parents even before he had yet come of age. His life\n> growing up in the hands of those who would step on him and use him for their\n> own purposes. Watching those he love and cherished in agony and mercilessly\n> slaughtered. His hatred that sought out power. his lack of control allowing\n> the darkness to slowly overpower him, his pain at what he had become when\n> that was all over, and the people who allied with the monsters and brought\n> him to his death.\n>\n> Yet for some reason he did not die. His body may have lost all functions and\n> the body has rotted with the passage of time, but his spirit can recall\n> everything he’s done, and the knowledge of his past remains solely his\n> without dispersing into the ether. unable to move on, eventually his spirit\n> would merge into a being for the cycle of life, but upon birth, for reasons\n> unbeknownst to him, he would most definitely be culled upon the sweet air of\n> freedom; excruciating pain, followed by death.\n>\n> Over and over this event has already occurred twenty-six times, and this was\n> the twenty-seventh. He had already understood that this was his own private\n> hell for everything he has done.\n>\n> Bracing himself for the inevitable fate that follows, the thing that was\n> once known as Rhultal falls silent relinquishing his will and anticipation\n> at the prospect of finally being whole. He silently waits for the hands of\n> death to drive him back. He heard shouting and yelling, and at some point it\n> felt like the hands of death were upon him. For what felt like eons, he\n> waited with abated breath. Yet death did not follow. Instead, what he felt\n> were two wavering hands full of warmth, grasping holding onto him. The\n> entity remained in silence, unwilling to make a sound. After an eternity,\n> the hands holding him start shaking, and he felt the atmosphere change. A\n> soft cry could be heard. Suddenly, the arms were clinging on to him as if\n> clinging onto its dear life, and a loud wailing noise erupts.\n>\n> Surprised at this turn of event and the possibility of life, the entity\n> opens his mouth and starts crying with all the strength that his tiny body\n> could muster.\n>\n> As if in accordance to his cry, the wailing stopped and a sound of sobbing\n> delight could be heard.\n>\n> Confused yet elated, he sought to use this chance to once again walk upon\n> Lovis.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Momokyun Sword episode 3, around 12:50, Enki is in the process of\n\"torturing\" her prisoner Karin, in a very special way:\n\nBeginning by running her hands up her thighs, telling Karin \"私 は 天国 見せて 上げる\" -\nI'll show you heaven.\n\nThen Onihime tells her to stop:\n\n\n\nAnd Enki promptly stops and apologise, but she is looking straight at the\ncamera angle - probably turning 180° and facing onihime based on their\npositioning on the shot above.\n\n\n\nBut who is this \"a lot of people\" Onihime mention? It couldn't be anyone from\nthe Earth or Celestial realm, because they are really mad at the oni anyway by\ndefault.\n\nIt seemed to me that she was breaking the 4th wall. Is it so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes Nyu have Vectors? And if not, why?\n\nI notice that when Lucy's mind switches to Nyu (looks like), there are no\nVectors anymore, aren't there? And most of all, is Nyu a Diclonius?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJiggly Jiggly Heaven is the series that the animation team in Shirobako worked\non previously that was notorious for a disastrous episode. Specifically, the\nninth episode.\n\n\n\nIt became an internet sensation (in the Shirobako universe), but for all the\nwrong reasons.\n\n\n\nI know the show likes to throw in references to other production studios and\nworks - Is there any particular work that is being referenced here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the _Elfen Lied_ special episode 10.5, there was a scene where Nana is\nstanding next to a wall where bearing this graffiti:\n\n\n\nI don't know if is important or not, but the writing is so noticeable that I\nwould like to know: what's written there?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis does not look like Japanese (kanji, hiragana, or katakana). The closest\nyou could get to Japanese would be by flipping the final ‘letter’ on the top\nline horizontally to get 「ツ」( _tsu_ ) or a「レ」 ( _re_ ) plus a 「\"」( _tenten_ )\nand reading the final 2 ‘letters’ on the bottom line as「水」( _mizu_ ), but 1)\nsince the rest of the lettering does not match anything in Japanese, that\nwould be illogical to do, 2) the chance of mixing katakana with kanji is low,\nand 3) “re” is never paired with a “tenten.”\n\nIf we take it to be the alphabet, you can come up with a backwards “N”+“USH,”\nOR possibly “WASH,” OR you could interpret the final letter as an “L.”\nHowever, none of those explain the two vertical dashes on the right side. The\nbottom line could be either “PARNZIK” OR “PNRNZIK.”\n\n**The artist would not expect the Japanese audience to be able to decipher the\nlettering of the graffiti** in this scene. Students in Japanese schools learn\nto read and write English letters in a certain, standardized, clean form, and\nget tripped up if they see the letters in an unconventional form. In general,\nthey do not develop individual handwriting for writing in English. Thus, this\ngraffiti was not meant to convey any particular message to the viewer and is\nnot necessary for understanding the plot.\n\nAs an aside, in real life, many examples of graffiti are not written in\nletters/spellings that allow outsiders to read them. It may be that this is\nwhat the artist was going for, either 1) for realism or 2) for the ability to\navoid coming up with an actual message for background art.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've made my comment into an answer.\n\nActually, the graffiti has been there at the beach all along since episode 1.\nAs people have pointed out, the yellow part could be a stylized \"wash\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xp4Fd.png)\n\nIf you rotate the image 180 degrees, it now reads like \"Asian\" (and the\nsignature-like part \"RMdVd\").\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cjobG.png)\n\nNow, no racism or anything, just making an observation. There is a term in\nUrban Dictionary (I know, it's written by random people) that is exactly this:\n[Asian\nWash](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asian%20wash)[(ed)](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Asian%20Washed),\nwhich means\n\n> Some one of non-asian decent who is highly confused and believes they were\n> born into the wrong race and are truly asian. They obssess over the people,\n> food, and language.\n\nI won't even try to claim that it defines those (Asian) humans/Diclonii who\nwants to live as (Asian) Diclonii/humans. It might just be what is written in\nthe graffiti, which could be anything, right?\n\nLikewise, I won't try to claim that the symbol on Kouta's shirt defines who he\nis. But it is the [baka\nsymbol](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%E2%91%A8), right?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7dfko.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched an anime recently, but I have forgotten its title.\n\nIt is a sci-fi anime that resembles _Black Bullet_ and _Attack on Titan_ , in\nthe sense that humankind is confined within some boundary due to threats\noutside that boundary.\n\nA part of the story I remember is about this male character bringing back some\nseeds from outside the boundary. He would water one of the seeds daily in a\npot he kept in his office (if I recall correctly), while the other seed was\nimplanted into the wrist of a female character (his daughter, if I am not\nwrong).\n\nDoes anyone have any idea which anime this is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCould it be [**Darker Than\nBlack**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2025/Darker_than_Black:_Kuro_no_Keiyakusha)?\n\n\n\n> In Tokyo, an impenetrable field known as \"Hell's Gate\" appeared ten years\n> ago. At the same time, psychics who wield paranormal powers at the cost of\n> their conscience also emerged. Hei is one of the most powerful of these\n> psychic agents, and along with his blind associate, Yin, works for one of\n> the many rival agencies vying to unlock the mysteries of Hell's Gate.\n\nA man takes a seed from Hells Gate and plants it in his daughters wrist as\nwell as a pot in his office. This is in episode three.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe this manga is relatively old, probably from the '90s. I don't recall\nthere being an anime adaptation of it.\n\nAt the beginning of the story, a man found the partially destroyed head of an\nandroid with the brain still intact. He used parts from other androids he had\nfound to reconstruct her. Her first limbs were delicate and were decorated\nwith flower designs, I think. If I remember correctly, they were destroyed\nwhen she took on a powerful android. The man used this android's parts to\ncreate strong, sturdy limbs for the android girl.\n\nThe girl was cheerful and very expressive despite being an android. She was\nprobably in her \"teens,\" had shoulder-length black hair and was drawn with\nlarge, emotive eyes. The man was older, and I think he was a scientist or\nresearcher, as well as a fighter. The other androids that appeared were drawn\nin great detail, and I think there was some detailed gore.\n\nThe last thing I remember is that they were in a bar, and there was a giant\nandroid head/snake-like thing that was attacking them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPerhaps you're looking for [_Battle Angel\nAlita/Gunnm_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita)\n\n\n\n\n\n> The series is set in the post-apocalyptic future and focuses on Alita, a\n> cyborg who has lost all memories and is found in a garbage heap by a\n> cybernetics doctor who rebuilds and takes care of her. She discovers that\n> there is one thing she remembers, the legendary cyborg martial art Panzer\n> Kunst, which leads to her becoming a Hunter Warrior or bounty hunter. The\n> story traces Alita's attempts to rediscover her past and the characters\n> whose lives she impacts on her journey.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA friend of mine recently recommended me an anime. He told me the name, but I\nforgot to note it down, and now I don't remember it.\n\nIt's about people who are trapped in a fictional MMO and can't get back to the\nreal world. When he told me that, I asked if he was talking about _Sword Arts\nOnline_ , but he told me that wasn't it. Unlike SAO, people who die in that\nMMO revive some time later, so death is not permanent.\n\nHe said I'd be particularly interested in the protagonist, since he's smart,\nanalytical, quite the strategist, and wears glasses.\n\nHe also told me the anime was more about society than about the actual game.\n\nFinally, I remember him telling me that the anime is still ongoing, but that\nwas a few weeks ago, so it might have ended recently, or not.\n\nWhat's the name of the anime he told me about?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do believe you're talking about [**Log\nHorizon**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Horizon). Some relevant plot\npoints that matches your description:\n\n * The setting is an MMO world called _Elder Tales_. All the players currently logged on cannot log out.\n * The main character wears glasses, is smart, and is considered one of the best strategists in the game's community.\n * There is no perma-death, but there is a penalty for it, which will be revealed later in the series.\n * The first season has heavy emphasis on the politics and economy of the game world. It shows how the players and the NPC interacts, how the NPC interacts with other NPCs, etc.\n\nFor more info, you can check out its [Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Horizon) or look through its own\n[Wikia site](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Log_Horizon_Wiki).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn special episode 10.5 of Elfen Lied anime, there was a scene where Lucy was\ntogether with a girl in a school. Who was that girl? A friend? And why did she\nwant to protect her? I thought Lucy hated all humans and wanted to kill them!\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is [Aiko Takada](http://elfen-lied.wikia.com/wiki/Aiko_Takada).\n\nFive years after murdering Kouta's family, Lucy (or Kaede as her original name\nwas) went around killing and infecting humans. Aiko Takada was responsible for\ninadvertently stopping Kaede from going on another rampage when she was\naccidentally hit by a soccer ball.\n\nAiko is the second girl after [the unnamed Orphanage Girl](http://elfen-\nlied.wikia.com/wiki/Orphanage_Girl) who befriended Kaede. In the anime, when\nKaede revealed her horns to Aiko, Aiko found them cool, like how Kouta did\nback then. She is also a pivotal point in Kaede's/Lucy's life as\n\n> Kurama shot Aiko by mistake when she tried to protect Kaede. Kaede then\n> agreed to go with Kurama to the Diclonius Research Institute because he\n> promised that Aiko could be saved. Later in the facility, he reported to her\n> that Aiko died, leading to Kaede/Lucy hating Kurama for breaking his words\n> and planning to kill all his loved ones while leaving him alive like what he\n> did to her with Aiko (as Kaede/Lucy considers Aiko a loved one of hers).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the series, whenever Kate tries to use her Seifuku Jikan on smokers,\nthe attack fails to conquer the target.\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are several other moments when smoke and smokers are shown to have an\neffect on the Zvezda team:\n\n\n\nOne theory is that what the enemies are smoking is quite not tobacco...\n\nwhat is going on?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeveral anime series (I would say half of them) do a [Title\nDrop](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleDrop) on the last\nepisode: the final episode's title is the same as the series'.\n\nAround when did it become so commonplace, and what are the reasons for the\nshowmakers to do so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis trope's origins don't lie in anime. An early example of a title drop in\nfilm is [1929's \"All Quiet on the Western\nFront\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront),\nor even earlier in the Sherlock Holmes novel \"A Study in Scarlet\" (1887).\nGenerally title drops are done near the end of a work in order to give the\ndesired effect of new understanding of the title with the context of the\nstory.\n\nThe first known japanese animation ever created was in 1907's 13 second long\n\"Katsudo Shashin\", so the trope pre-dates anime history.\n\nBy the time anime was being televised (1960s), this trope was a staple feature\nin many media formats, so it's not a surprise that it transferred itself into\nanime also.\n\nBear in mind that many anime are adaptions from light novels, manga and other\nformats, so the title drops may be transferred from there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember watching an anime with my friend about 9 years ago, while I wasn't\ntaking any shows seriously. The show also has a Manga, which my friend also\nhad. Here are some general details about the world that I can remember:\n\n * There are people in the world with special powers manifested in an Aura.\n * Every person has a unique Aura with its own special capabilities.\n * Every person with an Aura can do certain basic things:\n\n * They can cross their arms in front of them and create a shield made of Aura. This technique is called Guarding, I believe.\n * They can do short-distance teleportation. If I remember correctly, this is a semi-advanced technique. \n * They can hold up their right-hand index finger and middle finger (like a peace sign or a V or what-have-you), and put this in front of their eyes to see through the space between their fingers. This allows them to see other peoples' Auras, if they have any. I do remember that in the Anime, there were many colors of Aura, but I am not certain if their colors represented anything meaningful. \n * The people who had an Aura were taken (not necessarily by force) to a special school to foster their growth and development.\n * There is tension between people with Auras and gangs and other organizations of humans without Auras. \n * Auras slightly reflected a person's nature. \n\nThose are some of the details about the world in general, and of how much of\ntheir magic system that I can remember. I do not remember any character names\neither, but I can give details about them as much as I can remember:\n\n * The main character was a male, and in the beginning of the show he learns that he has an Aura, which he has not identified. \n\n * He had a childhood friend, a girl, and they liked each other. During their childhood, she was revealed to have an Aura, so she was brought to the school I mentioned earlier, and was taken from his life. Her Aura was Water, and she uses her Water Aura to heal people by making little water clones of herself that wash away peoples' injuries. For a good portion of the show, she is the MC's main love interest. \n\n * Not long in the show, the main character meets another girl through an interesting event: A mother holding her baby while standing on a balcony accidentally drops her baby (somehow) while the MC just walked by. He turns around in response to her scream for help and reaches his hand out to the falling baby, which magically floats in the air for about a second, just enough time for this girl character to teleport into the air and catch the baby. This girl had red hair and her Aura was called \"Burning Rose\" and later on in the show becomes the MC's love interest. \n\n * The main character is not unaware of this world at all, as he has an older brother who has the Aura of Metal. His older brother is also famous in the world for some of his powers. One of those that I remember is that he can cocoon himself in metal (and possibly regenerate). \n\nThose are some of the main protagonists of the show. Aside from them, there\nare some students at the school I can recall, as well as some other\ncharacters:\n\n * There was a girl who wore glasses, and while I am not too certain about this, I believe her Aura was Wind. Her special power utilized a special crystal ball, and she used Divination with that ball to test the compatibility of two Auras. If I recall correctly, generally a really good rating from her divination is about 80% compatibility. One thing I distinctly remember is that she performed this Divination on the MC and the Burning Rose girl, and their Auras turned out to be 100% Compatible. \n\n * There was another student, a male who wore glasses, and his Aura was Strings. I remember him because the class was having practice matches, and this particular student believed he was superior to the Burning Rose girl, so he challenged her to a duel. His strategy was to bind her with strings and attack her after she was subdued. Naturally, she burned away the bindings and defeated him.\n\n * I do remember one of the antagonists of the show: a male scientist who was on an R&D team developing technology dealing with Auras. Primarily, they could give an Aura to someone who was not born with one, and could also change peoples' Auras. Additionally, there was a machine they developed that specifically nullified any Auras that dealt with non-organics; this seems to have been meant to defeat the Burning Rose girl, who was one of their test subjects, and the MC's older brother, whose Aura is Metal. The Scientist gave himself an Aura of Plants, so that he could take advantage of the Machine's configuration. \n\n * I believe the main antagonist of the show was another teenage male, whose relation to the MC I cannot recall. Either way, he was another test subject of the aforementioned Scientists, who gave him an interesting Aura of Gravity, with side-effects. One such effect that develops later in the show is an automatic gravity that pulled in others' life energy. This particular power killed someone very close to him while he was unaware of it. He realizes what he is doing when he brings flowers to her funeral, and when a Scientist explains it to him the Scientist points out that the flowers he brought are now dead. He reacts by grabbing the Scientist by the shoulder, where he absorbs some of the Scientist's life energy and understands what he has done. \n\nI believe that is everything I can remember about it. Sorry about the long\npost!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're probably looking for [_Psychic\nAcademy_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_Academy)\n\n\n\n> Psychic Academy follows the life of Ai Shiomi, a boy with psychic powers,\n> also known as \"aura power\" in modern day Japan. This ability has emerged in\n> the world, but not all people have it. Aura power itself allows certain\n> elements such as fire, water, ice, wind, lightning, earth, and light to be\n> used by those who have the ability. Which type of power they can use depends\n> on their aura and what they are taught.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs it possible for a Senju to awaken a Rinnegan? Suppose that a Senju got an\nEMS from an Uchiha and implanted it, would he also awaken the Rinnegan just\nlike an Uchiha did, given that the ratio of Uchiha and Senju DNA is different\nthan if an Uchiha awakens it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnswer given by @Ero Sɘnnin in the comments.\n\nNot every Uchiha is able to awaken the Rinnegan. Nor can any common Senju.\n\nIt is not the Uchiha:Senju DNA ratio that governs the Rinnegan's existence. It\nis the Asura and Indra chakra mixing.\n\nAlso, I think the chakra ratio doesn't matter as we see in Madara's case.\nAlthough more chakra can maybe speedup the process of Rinnegan formation.\n\nRelated: [What if Hashirama had implanted Madara's cells into his\nbody?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21537/what-if-hashirama-had-\nimplanted-madaras-cells-into-his-body)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is never stated that random Uchiha or Senju awaken the Rinnegan via the\nreincarnation process, but rather, the Indra and Ashura reincarnates.\n\nI highly doubt the portion of chakra you have between the two matters, as\nMadara is 100% of an Uchiha and merely **biting** a Senju still got him a\nRinnegan, but awakened it when he was very old. It is not the amount of\nchakra, but rather, the fact that you possess Indra and Ashuras chakra.\n\nIt is safe to assume, as Alfro said, if you have more chakra of a Senju, the\nprocess will speed up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched this anime 10 years ago or more, and I missed the ending. During my\nchildhood, this is one of my favorites.\n\nThe anime started with a little boy and his little sister riding a train at\nmidnight to search for their lost parents. They met a girl in the train who\nrode the train to unlock the mystery of the train, and she also revealed that\nthe train only appeared at midnight. The siblings told her they were in search\nof their parents who were scientist and was lost during the blast a year ago.\n\nTheir journey began when the train sent them into another dimension or world,\nwhere they met a man who possessed a gun with bullets of different type of\neffect (like fire, ice, water, air, etc.). Eventually, the man joined them in\ntheir search for the children's parent and sent them home too.\n\nI guess that's a lot. Hope someone knows. Thank you :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime is [**Final Fantasy:\nUnlimited**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_Unlimited). It was my\nfavorite back then.\n\nSynopsis from\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1157/Final_Fantasy:_Unlimited)\n\n> Ai and Yu, after reading their parent's research and after their parents'\n> disappearance, they decided to go on search for them. They ride a strange\n> train to the Inner World in search of their parents and meets up with Lisa\n> in the train and together they begin their journey within the Inner World.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI stumbled across a really interesting anime which starts out with two young\nmen exploring the ruins floating in the sky, looking for relics of the ancient\nheroes. They stumbled across a girl who passed out and, when she woke up,\nrefused to tell them who she was.\n\nThey brought her back to the village, only to be explained that she couldn't\nsee the lead character's friend or any of the villagers as they were\n\"spirits\", and the lead character was only able to see them because, having\ngrown up there, he has become accustomed to their \"presence\".\n\nThe girl ended up attracting a monster, which broke through the barrier\nprotecting the village, forcing the villagers to defend themselves.\n\nThat's as much as I can remember, unfortunately. Hopefully this is enough\ninformation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n Sounds\nlike **Tales of Zestiria: Doushi no Yoake**.\n\nIt had an OVA produced by Ufotable and aired last December 2014 in order to\npromote the original game.\n\n> The story focuses on Sorey who goes on a quest to restore peace on their\n> homeland. The woman you might be referring to is **Alisha** , the brown-\n> haired girl from the picture, whom **Sorey** , the dark brown-haired guy,\n> and **Mikleo** , the white-haired one, met when they were exploring these\n> said ruins. They brought her to Sorey's land, which was inhabited by these\n> spirits, where only Sorey could actually see them.\n\nSource: [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Zestiria)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy do we usually see only one person using a type of magic? Look at Cana's\nmagic for example. Out of everything shown via the Anime, no one else has used\nit on their own. Same with Reedus, Makarov, Evergreen, Bickslow, Gildarts,\nJura, Erza (Knight), and many other people.\n\nI can understand why limited number of people use the rare/lost magic (Dragon\nSlayer and other lost types), but what about the more modern magics?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 222 of the Anime, Lucy want to learn transformation magic from\nMirajane (and some others join in).\n\nSo it is possible but really hard and requires a large effort than mastering\nhis own type of magic. Besides it was too complicated for her.\n\nIt is like talent. Additionally not all types of magic are accessible to\neveryone because of missing prerequisites, such as dragon slayer and god\nslayer magic, which requires an dragon teaching an infant from the beginning\nor a lacrima crystal implant.\n\nThere are also magic wilders like Rufus Lore who creates new spells based on\nthose he memorizes. Although one might argue that it's his magic which allows\nhim doing so.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1, the music starts at around 37:31 or so according to my\ntimestamps, during the fight between Shirou and Lancer inside the main house,\nright after Shirou blocks the lance and gets cut, and a second before Lancer\nsays 'Hoh'.\n\nI searched entire OST, but seemed to have missed it anyway.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's likely to be [\"Face to Face\"](https://soundcloud.com/friiki-\nalonofenyorim/original-5-face-to-face-fate-stay-night-ubw-ost-2015), the 5th\nsong from the OST.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> The Bechdel test asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who\n> talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that\n> the two women must be named is sometimes added. -\n> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test>\n\nI'd like to know if this series passes the test and what was the scene that\nmakes the series pass test.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, while [bechdeltest.com](http://bechdeltest.com/) exists as a\ndatabase for movies that pass and do not pass the test, at the moment no\nequivalent can be found for anime/manga.\n\nThe manga passes the test in the second chapter: the main character meets an\nold woman lying outside who tells her she has sprained her legs, so she helps\nthe woman to the woman's home, where she is invited to stay for the night, as\nthe main character was left homeless in the first chapter.\n\nThat's as far as I read, so there may be more passing conversations.\n\nKeep in mind that while the Bechdel test has been used as an indicator of\ngender bias or feminist litmus test in works of fiction, it doesn't really\nprove much aside from the presence of female characters. Plenty of works with\nstrong female characters fail the Bechdel test, and because the Bechdel test\ndoesn't take into account the length, complexity, or subject of the\nconversation, works with one-dimensional female characters can pass easily as\nlong as two women speak to each other about shoes or cooking or how they don't\nunderstand math or politics or something.\n\n_Fifty Shades of Gray_ passes the test, but has been blasted for glorifying\nabusive relationships. The movie _12 Angry Men_ , widely regarded as one of\nthe best films of all time, fails because it focuses on a 1950s-era jury, on\nwhich women did not serve. The entire _Lord of the Rings_ series fails the\ntest because none of the female characters ever get the chance to talk to each\nother, and _Pacific Rim_ also failed because the female lead was the only\nnotable woman in the movie.\n\nPacific Rim's failure to pass the Bechdel test inspired a similar test named\nafter that character, the Mako Mori test, which is passed when the film has:\n\n 1. at least one female character;\n 2. who gets her own narrative arc;\n 3. that does not revolve around supporting a man's story.\n\nRegardless of what you intend to gain from these tests, the best way to judge\na work is to experience it for yourself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed that when introducing Shino to Asuna and Lisbeth, Kirito mentioned\nthem as his _nakama_. Why is that? Why is it that Kirito didn't introduce\nAsuna as his girlfriend? Is this what is normally done by a Japanese couple?\nOr did they broke up?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure about the cultural reasoning behind it, but I can at least say,\nfrom a story point of view, they have not broken up, since\n\n> Later in the story, Asuna and Kirito walk to Asuna's house so Kirito can\n> properly greet Asuna's parents, which is not something you would do when\n> you've broken up :P\n\nThat's about as non-spoilery I can get, but I hope it helps as an answer...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no reason to think so. When Kirito introduced Shino to Asuna and Liz\nat the Dicey Cafe, the three of them were preparing to bring Shino back to her\nhometown, where she encountered the gunman she shot and killed as a young\nchild, so that she could accept the consequences of her actions and overcome\nher guilt of having killed a man. One typically doesn't revisit the scene of a\nchildhood trauma with just anyone, so Kirito, whom Shino already knew and\ntrusted through GGO, called Asuna and Liz his _nakama_ to tell Shino that he\ntrusted them -- therefore she should too. It was more important to convey that\nAsuna and Liz were trustworthy rather than the fact that Asuna was his\ngirlfriend.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one episode, Shino was laying on Kirito's lap as he was staring at her\nbutt. In this scene she asks if there's anyone out there that wouldn't want to\nsee them like that. Kirito doesn't respond except with a nervous smile.\n\nHe also picked up Shino from her school as if he were her boyfriend. He didn't\nintroduce Asuna as his girlfriend when Shino met her, he flirts with Shino in\nfront of Asuna, and he treats Asuna as if she's not special, like he would a\ngirlfriend. This makes it look like Kirito has moved on and Asuna is the one\nholding on to this relationship.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou guys are overthinking. Don't expect an anime to reach its full romance\nright off the bat. Asuna loves Kirito, as she states that Kirito gave her a\nhome to come to. And Kirito lives for Asuna, in the SAO arc remember how he\npoured his heart out to Asuna, saying that she is everything to him, that he\nlives for Asuna, and that they both will protect one another.\n\nI really don't mind season 3 and 4,\n\n> people saying Asuna won't be main character\n\nshe is already a main character, but the LN tell stories from Kirito's\nperspective, and he seems to be a trouble-sponge. In GGO Kirito said that he\ncan't afford to die, he now has a reason to live, Asuna. If they were to\nfinalize Kirito's and Asuna's wedding, the anime wouldn't have much drama\nanymore. I feel like their weeding should be saved for the last, and final\nepisodes.\n\nAnd I don't mind the new volumes, I just hope they still bring up their\nrelationship in at least flashbacks or them missing one another, as those 2\nare meant to be together.\n\n> I heard something happens to Kirito after he comes back from UWO (season 3)\n> and that Asuna goea to rescue her prince inside UWO (season 4).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou guys are over thinking it. Remember when asuna was trapped in the game,\nhow kirito went crazy trying to get her back. How in the all the show their\nfriends call them lovebirds, cause of how they acted in public, or how spoiler\nif you haven't watch all of it. How when Yugi died and they were sitting on\nthe grass kirito said to asuna \"I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow,\nbut what I do know is that want to be with you\" might not be what he really\nsaid, but it's close, also shino called them lovebirds to.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI mean if you watch the Excalibur episode towards the end it looks like krito\nhas feelings for sinon as she says when you draw it think of me and if you\nlook at asuna's face she looks disappointed and sad so they had to have broke\nup and I'm also looking forward to the Kirito x sinon\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn both ALO and GGO it seems that Kirito shars feelings for sinon as much as\nshe does him not to mention what happened in the cave but it seemed like they\nhad a connection and in the Excalibur episode when sinon says when you draw\nthis think of me Asuna her face would turn in disappointment as Kirito said\nokay when I draw this I will think of you I'm also looking forward to them\ndating\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan anyone identify an anime from a single episode:\n\nI saw this about 5 years ago at a convention, but it looks to have been\nproduced in the 90's.\n\nPeople wearing robotic armor compete in some kind of fight. It looks like it\njust takes place outdoors, not in an arena of any kind.\n\nThe robotic suits are brightly colored, this is not an overly serious anime.\n\nThere is an old scientist type guy who built the suits for at least the main\ncharacter's team. There is a guy who fights first, and when he is knocked\nbackward he lands on a girl's lunch (a girl he apparently likes).\n\nHe notices tears in her eyes and thinks \"she really cares for me! she's crying\nbecause I was knocked down!\", but then we get the real picture, and she is\nthinking \"oh no, my poor lunch!\". Throughout the episode she is sulking\nbecause of her broken lunch. She keeps saying things like \"my lunch... _snif_\n\" etc.\n\nAfter the guy's fight an energetic girl is up next, presumably fighting the\nsame person the guy was (he lost, I think). They do a cheer and say \"We'll\nbeat 'em with Dell Power!\".\n\nThe whole time I thought the anime was called \"Dell Power\", but when I looked\nthat up I found nothing at all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't watched the anime personally, however I came across this anime\nbefore and the synopsis fits your discription. I believe the anime you are\nlooking for is: [Delpower X Bakuhatsu Miracle\nGenki!](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2058/Delpower_X_Bakuhatsu_Miracle_Genki!)\n\n**Synopsis**\n\n> Manami is your typical schoolgirl, despite the odd machines her grandfather\n> is always building. One day, though, an odd evil robot comes to attack\n> Minami's school, and commits the ultimate offense of threatening her\n> friends... and ruining her lunch. Now, she will stop at nothing to return\n> order to the world in her grandpa's newest creation: the mecha Del Power X.\n\n[ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3362) also\ndescribes the loss of her bento:\n\n> Hanegi Manami is a junior high school girl with unusual relatives, to say\n> the least. Her grandfather's passion is building unusual things and has just\n> had his latest concoction delivered to their doorstep. The mecha known as\n> Del Power X. With a driver seat specially designed for Manami, its powers\n> are rivaled by no other. Unfortunately, her grandfather's rival Von Getsueru\n> and a plethora of other people are determined to prove that fact wrong,\n> regardless of who is in the pilot`s seat, Manami must fight for love, pride,\n> and above all else, the loss of her precious bento.\n\nBoth describe the \"old man\" as the grandfather who builds stuff, and also made\nthe mecha in question and the girl being upset about her lost lunch. The\nobvious reference is, of course, \"Delpower\" probably because it is homophonic\nto \"Dell power\" which would be an understandable association.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga [Mudazumo Naki\nKaikaku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudazumo_Naki_Kaikaku), the protagonist\nJunichiro Koizumi is able to use \"goumoupai\", the ability to turn any mahjong\ntile into a white/haku tile simply by _gripping it with immense strength_ ,\nusually leaving the tile dented.\n\nSure, the manga frequently goes overboard with the abilities of each\ncharacter, but this one seems like it might actually be possible in real life.\nI'd assume that the [material the tile is made out\nof](http://www.sloperama.com/majexchange/id.html) would be a giant factor, but\napparently Koizumi can even do it with _depleted uranium tiles_.\n\nHow much grip force would be needed to scrape/dent a mahjong tile so that it\nturns white? Would it be possible for a human (for any material)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe average human hand cannot produce enough grip force to do such a thing. In\n[this study on grip strength](http://www.bleng.com/rfv-22.aspx), the maximum\nkey grip (holding an object like you would a key) force listed is 42 pounds.\n\nWood will probably be the softest material a typical modern mahjong tile is\nmade of, from the link in your post. Looking at the [compression strength\nproperties of\nwood](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12299/12299-h/12299-h.htm#I_04), the\nsoftest wood listed compresses at 193 pounds per square inch. Keep in mind\nthat hardwoods like maple (456 psi) or oak (778 psi) would actually be used\nrather than softwoods.\n\nPlastics take things to an entirely new level. [This\nchart](http://www.matweb.com/reference/compressivestrength.aspx) shows the\ncompressive properties of some common polymer plastics. Note that the values\nare given in MPa, or megapascals. 1 megapascal = 145.037738 pound-force/square\ninch (PSI).\n\nAs for materials such as pulverized bone, the only references I could find\ninvolved using the materials as partial replacement for concrete. I'd say it's\nsafe to infer that the compressive strength for the compound used in making\nmahjong tiles would be at least as strong as hardwoods.\n\nKeep in mind these figures only talk about the compression strength of the\nmaterial. Just compressing the tile alone would not be enough to remove the\nengraving and paint of the characters on the tile face. Some shear force would\nalso need to be applied as well. I don't think it's necessary to go there at\nthis point, though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that both men (e.g. Mendoza) and women (e.g. Ema) can be Makai\nPriests. And, of course, men can be Makai Knights (Leon, Alfonso, Germán,\n...).\n\nBut can women be Makai Knights? In episode 24 of Garo: Honoo no Kokuin,\n\n> Jiruba says that Germán's child with Ximena is going to inherit Zoro. This\n> prompts Leon to ask Jiruba if that means that the child is a boy.\n\nThis seems to suggest that women cannot be Makai Knights. Is this in fact the\ncase? Supporting information from the tokusatsu series would be very welcome\nhere.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTaken from [Garo wikia](http://garo.wikia.com/wiki/Makai_Knight)\n\n> The Order required self-sufficient/independent warriors that's highly adept\n> in martial arts (stronger than their priests and greater combat strength\n> against Horrors), strong mental and emotional discipline (to handle their\n> emotions, manage against potential dark energies, and see through\n> illusions), and mastery over Soul Metal (due to its dangerous nature);\n> creating a full-fledged Makai Knight is a lifetime of training. Because\n> males are physically stronger than females, the order decided to exclude\n> women from ever becoming a knight.\n\nI'm not sure about other armors, but in Golden Knight's case, one day in every\nmonth, the knight won't be able to fight as Zaruba is taking the knight's\nwhole day. Also, women has to face menstruation every month, and that\n[menstruation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cycle) didn't last just\none day and disappear tomorrow. A female Makai Knight would be unavailable for\nmore than one day a month, which is a totally bad idea. Thus, while\ntechnically they might be able to become one, it is undesirable.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is implied that there have been and in fact are female makai knights within\nthe Garo many universes, although it is very unlikely that we will ever meet\nany of them or get any names except perchance possibly maybe in an anime or\nmore likely in a novel where it can be self contained. Sad but true\n\n",
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