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"body": "\n\nHow does the Grail choose the participants?\n\n * We know that the Grail tries to pick people who have some sort of strong desire (when Kotomine asks Tohsaka at the beginning of Fate/Zero).\n * Do you need to descend from a mage bloodline? Did the murderer guy (the one who got Caster in Fate/Zero) have magical blood?\n * It seems like you don't need to be aware of the existence of the Holy Grail war (Shirou and the murderer guy were both pretty clueless).\n * You do seem to need an heroic relic... or do you? When Kotomine was surprisingly chosen in Fate/Zero, did he have one already? What if you lose the relic before the summoning occurs? (In Fate/Zero the participants were already making preparations for **years** before the summoning).\n * The Matou were disappointed that Kariya left behind their magical teachings, so they decided to adopt Sakura to prepare her for the next war. When Kariya returns and chooses to fight, he successfully becomes a master. This suggests that there is a way to opt out/in from the war (?)\n\nSo how does the Grail pick participants exactly?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe exact way in which the Grail picks Masters is not well-understood, as far\nas I'm aware. It's a fuzzy process even to the participants themselves.\n\nTo try to address your specific questions:\n\n> Do you need to descend from a mage bloodline? Did the murderer guy (the one\n> who got Caster in Fate/Zero) have magical blood?\n\nI'm not sure whether you strictly need to descend from a mage bloodline (this\nis probably addressed in side materials I haven't read), but Ryuunosuke did\nhave a mage somewhere in his ancestry, and as such, he had a small number of\nMagic Circuits (this is mentioned in the light novel, but not the anime). The\nmagic tome he had on hand when he murdered that one family right before\nsummoning Caster was apparently something he found in a storehouse belonging\nto someone in his family.\n\n> It seems like you don't need to be aware of the existence of the Holy Grail\n> war (Shirou and the murderer guy were both pretty clueless).\n\nThis is true.\n\n> You do seem to need an heroic relic... or do you? When Kotomine was\n> surprisingly chosen in Fate/Zero, did he have one already? What if you lose\n> the relic before the summoning occurs?\n\nYou don't need a relic to be granted Command Spells by the Grail. Having a\nrelic helps with the _summoning_ further down the line, but even then, you\ndon't strictly need a relic. If you don't have a relic, the Grail just gives\nyou a Servant who is \"compatible\" with you or \"similar to\" you in some sense.\n\n> The Matou were disappointed that Kariya left behind their magical teachings,\n> so they decided to adopt Sakura to prepare her for the next war. When Kariya\n> returns and chooses to fight, he successfully becomes a master. This\n> suggests that there is a way to opt out/in from the war (?)\n\nKariya had no guarantee that he would be selected as a Master during the\nfourth war. He was essentially gambling, hoping that by undergoing the worm\ntreatment, he would be picked by the Grail.\n\nPractically, I get the impression that there are usually few enough mages in\nthe Fuyuki area that most mages in town during a Grail War end up becoming\nMasters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have read from an anime magazine that Milly Ashford, the school president,\nwas described as the daughter of the owner of the school which is obvious\nbecause the name is Ashford Academy. However, she was also described as the\ngirl who always pairs up Lelouch and Shirley as couple, despite she herself\nhaving feelings for Lelouch. Is there any proof of that? I watched the R1 and\nR2 anime 5 years ago and I cannot remember a part that could prove it. Or am I\nmissing something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has never been show if she has or ever had feelings for Lelouch. However\nshe is very caring as demonstrated in _Episode 9 - Refrain_ when talking to\nKallen about her parents.\n\nThe [Wikia](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Milly#Character_Outline) does says\nshe cares deeply for him\n\n> Milly cares deeply about Lelouch, but realizes the need to restore her\n> family's status by marrying a noble. She is aware of Lelouch's identity as a\n> former prince of Britannia, since her family were close supporters of his\n> mother, Empress Marianne. This relationship however, would lead to the\n> family's nobility status being stripped.\n\n\"this relationship\" refers to supporting Marianne who was a commoner at birth\nand already looked down upon by members of the royal family (though it was\nmore jealousy that she became a wife despite being a commoner).\n\nI remember reading somewhere (though I don't remember where so don't hold me\nto it) that Milly spent time with Lelouch and Nunnally as children before\nMarianne's death which is why despite knowing they are royalty, she can be\nvery forward with them, making her probably the closest person _alive_ to them\nto date.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only part in the anime that I remember was her \"Cupid Day\" where she said\nthat when a girl and guy exchange hats, they will officially start becoming\ngirlfriend and boyfriend. And throughout the day, she had everyone chase\nLelouch's hat to give it to her. At first, I thought it was for fun, teasing\nLelouch like usual but...\n\nWhen Shirley and Lelouch appear to have exchanged hats, Milly removes her hat\nand says, \"I'm disappointed this all ended so predictably. I guess you win.\"\nThe maid (I forgot her name) says behind her, \"Although I think you were a\nlittle serious about it.\" This shocks Milly and looks back, but the maid is\ngone. She then smiles and says, \"Yeah, maybe I was. Just a little.\"\n\nI questioned it so I went to search if it meant that she liked him for real,\nand I stumbled upon people saying yes. And then I saw your question, and\nhere's my take on it. XD (I'm not yet finished with this anime though)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Milly was in love with Lelouch. It was hinted actually especially in\npicture dramas. Although in the anime it was only shown during the Cupid Day.\nRemember, prior to that event she and the psychotic Nina had an argument of\nsome sort about Milly herself not being true to herself or something. That was\nwhy during the start of the Cupid day episode she was in the shower(she was\nsooo hawt in that scene being nude and all, LOL) and looks like absorbing the\npsycho Nina's rant about her. Then after that she announced her graduation\nevent. And when the event was about to start, when she was about to command\nthe students by bringing Lelouch to her, she actually closed her eyes for a\nmoment and then opened it with determination. And also her comments after the\nevent and Sayoko's statemnt. LOL. I soo love ninja Sayoko. So yeah, the\nplayful Milly was actually in love with our beloved demon emperor.\n\nToo bad it wasn't clearly established in the anime. I love her and I kinda\nship her with Lelouch. If it weren't for the official release of the anime\nmags, CLAMP and the side materials you wouldn't know about it since it was not\nestablished clearly in the anime not to mention she wasn't given enough screen\ntime. You should be really keen to details to notice it in the first place.\nAnd also by re-watching it.\n\nP.S. The sound episode of code geass entitled \"Meeting Milly\" was hilarious,\nheartwarming and kinda nostalgic. It was about the first meeting of Lelouch,\nMilly and of course Nunnally. If you would listen to it after watching the\nentire series it was like Milly was reminiscing it after Lelouch's death.\nReally sad. Milly was kinda tragic you know. She was the character where she\nsecretly love the main guy but never got the chance to express it. Not to\nmention that she constantly paired him up with a friend, Shirley. You should\nread the fanfic \"Until\". Its a Oneshot and it showed Milly's thoughts and\nfeelings about Lelouch. The crossdressing picture drama was hilarious too. Too\nfunny and it was refreshing to see despite the darkness of the plotline of\nCode Geass.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has been stated clearly that Alluak Zoldyck has the same amount of power of\na normal child, which in the Hunter x Hunter universe means that he/she is\nvery weak.\n\n\n\nHowever, all other children in the [Zoldyck\nfamily](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Zoldyck_Family) have received\ntraining since a very early age as well as possessing a set of talents that\nunique to the family, such as resistance to poison, strength and resistance to\npain, even before learning nen.\n\nUntil they found out about Alluka's wish granting ability, there was nothing\nto suggest he/she was different from the other siblings. Therefore, it could\nbe assumed that he/she should have received the same training as his/her\nsiblings before that.\n\nSo why does she only have the power of a normal child?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou are correct in that, until Alluka evidenced dangerous powers, there is no\nclear reason why Alluka would not have received any Zoldyck assassin training\nfrom a very young age. However, a statement that Alluka has the physical\nstrength of a normal child does _not_ tell us whether or not Alluka received\nany special training prior to entering solitary confinement.\n\nKillua's brother Milluki, who we do know has undergone the standard training,\ndoes not demonstrate having any special amount of physical strength (he easily\ntired of whipping Killua due to exertion in [chapter\n42](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Milluki_Zoldyck) of volume 5). He also\ndoes not display any Nen abilities. It could well be that he only has the\nphysical strength of an average overweight teenage boy his age and his\nassassin training was solely in areas other than physical prowess.\n\nKillua's mother Kikyo, who has undergone the standard training, also does not\nshow examples of physical strength. Physically, we only know that 1) she can\nrun at high speeds and 2) she was able to hold Killua by the arm in order to\ntry to keep him from leaving, but since she willingly decided to let him go,\nwe do not know if she is necessarily physically stronger than him or not (i.e.\nif she had wanted to make him to stay, could she have kept him pinned there by\nphysical force, or could he have wrested away on his own strength? [same\n[chapter](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Kikyo_Zoldyck)]).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen an anime character is going to do something cool - or do something with\nfierce determination (Thank you @Ross Ridge), animators put in a sparkle on\ntheir eye usually accompanied by a metallic 'shiing' sound.\n\nIt seems like a reflection of sorts, but where did it come from originally? I\nhaven't seen this in other media before.\n\n  \n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[The shining in the eye\ntrope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwinkleInTheEye), as you\ncall it, has been around for decades; I even remember seeing it in some black-\nand-white anime. It is a way for the animators and mangaka's to show the\ncharacter's intent, and it has many spin-offs like the glowing glasses, which\nusually means the wearer of the glasses has a malicious intent.\n\nIt has a lot to do with the common saying of _[a gleam in your\neye](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-english/a-gleam-\nin-your-eye)_. I am sure you have been told this or something like it at least\nonce in your life. Japan has a similar saying, quite possibly adopted from\nwatching US movies and cartoons.\n\nSorry, the explanation isn't as interesting as \"why the Japanese think people\nare talking behind their back when they sneeze.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n<https://youtu.be/EnolBmSotZo?t=58>\n\nThis isn't just some \"cool\" thing, (as I probably thought as a very young kid\ngrowing up). This is an actual spiritual orrence that happens in life. I'm not\nsure of ALL of the reasons why or what this is associated with but I do\nunderstand vaguely that its a spiritual occurrence that one sees. No different\nthan seeing the blush or anger in one's face or feeling the magic of another\nwhen one falls in love. And not everyone understands that kind of sparkle\n(inner spirit feeling) or tingling. They see it as just a \"talking\" in-\ngeneral. Then when they see it in art, they think,...\"Hmmm, that's a cool way\nto express it.\",...when really,...that really is the way it looks. Depending\non the person you encounter it goes into levels. Though, in asia, they\nencounter the same kind of spirits they are familiar with. Some regions or\ncountries may not experience that the same way. Ultimately, it is in other\nentertainment. It was in X-men the animated series when Sabretooth got what I\ncall \"The Flash\" in his eyes upon talking to Wolverine before they fought. It\nwas also a memory flashback when Sabretooth saw his father about to strike him\nand Sabretooth reacted upon fighting back. That was when Lady Death (Yuriko\nOyama's) father Kenji Oyama launched Talos as the exterminator for the\nsurviving members of the Weapon X project. When Talos raised his axe to strike\nWolverine, Sabretooth flashed back a mental memory to see his father Jebediah\ngetting ready to strike him down. You can see the flash in his eyes. (X-Men\nThe animated series Reference: S3/Ep19 (6/11/95). In Bible, although it was\ntalking about physically, I think it also had a spiritual meaning, Ref: (1\nJohn 2:16; )1 John 4:1 (proof other spirits exist and spiritual things you\ncannot see because of the veil over your eyes. Which is also in marriage as\none gets ready to kiss the bride.) Matthew 6:22-24 (Eyes are window to the\nsoul.)\n\nBecause of different people, spirits, and regions some people don't know about\nthe other and some things do divide rightfully so because it generates nothing\nbut conflict. Especially with your enemy. But from my own studies, from all\ndifferent sources and people these are the main reason of what I have found of\nthe properties that its existence belongs to:\n\nAmusement / Delight (Though twinkle and sparkle is different) The lust of the\neye The connection Prey vs Predator Pride / Determination Higher Level (than\nthou) Engage / 1st Encounter or Battle Encounter (Varies in variation. There\nare different spirit qualities) Hour of Trial The cool / (some ignorant people\ndo it from monkey see / monkey do; copycats unknowing) Memory Lust (dark /\nWant) Love (Varies) The Spark (Varies) A thought of: (Curiosity / spark /\nwant, etc.) A Mark (supernatural). A person or witch's delight\n\nThere may be more but that's not only what I've found, but what I've\nexperienced.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J4eKk.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Tokyo Ravens, why is it that some of the shikigamis (especially those used\nby the Onmyou Agency) are looking like wanzer from Front Mission? What is it\nderived from? Is there any improvement in Onmyouji between the time of the Abe\nno Senmei and the current time in Tokyo Ravens that caused this? Is there any\nexplanation for this anywhere in the novel or anime?\n\nEDIT: The following link refers to the Shikigami I call \"looking like wanzer\".\n<http://tokyo-ravens.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat do we know about Shirou's biological parents/grandparents/etc.? Do we\neven know anything at all?\n\nThis is relevant to e.g. understanding why Shirou can perform magecraft\ndespite presumably having had non-mage parents. (Also, it's just kind of weird\nthat he seems to never say anything about them. He was certainly old enough to\nremember them when they died in the fire at the end of the fourth grail war.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe identity of Shirou's biological family was never revealed in the game, the\nanime or the manga of Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night. The only thing you know\nabout them is that they died because of the end of the 4th Holy Grail War.\n\nAs for the reason why Shirou can perform magecraft, It is caused by the sheath\nof Excalibur : Avalon, which have been implanted in Shirou's body by\nKiritsugu. Even though it is not clearly explained.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo answer your first question,\n\n# What do we know about Shirou's biological parents/grandparents/etc.? Do we\neven know anything at all?\n\nI would like to say that there has been no information released regarding it\nin the anime/manga/visual novel/games/wikia site. However, there is this piece\nof information on the [wikia\nsite](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shirou_Emiya).\n\n> Ten years before the start of Fate/stay night, Shirou was an ordinary boy\n> living with his parents in Shinto. The great fire caused by the contents of\n> the Holy Grail spilling out at the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War killed\n> both his parents and left him mortally wounded within the blaze.\n\nTherefore, we do know that his biological parents died during the Fourth Holy\nGrail War.\n\nTo answer your second question,\n\n# Understanding why Shirou can perform magecraft despite presumably having had\nnon-mage parents.\n\nAgain, the [wikia site](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shirou_Emiya) states\nthat\n\n> Shirou persistently asked Kiritsugu to teach him Magecraft. Kiritsugu\n> eventually complied even though he disapproved of Shirou's desire to learn\n> his craft.\n\nThat is why Shirou Emiya can perform magecraft.\n\nTo answer your third question,\n\n# He seems to never say anything about his parents.\n\nAll I can say that there is no definitive answer to this question owing to the\nfact that there is no reference to this in any of the aforementioned media.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs revealed during Epic of Remnant within Fate/Grand Order (An alternate\ntimeline), Pseudo-Servant Sengo Muramasa uses the body of Shirou Emiya as they\nare compatible. Muramasa later states that there is a possibility of Shirou\nbeing his descendant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched Deadman Wonderland about two months ago, when I started I watched\nthe first episode on Adult Swim. I saw the Red Man kill Ganta's classmates and\nother episode Shiro was passed out in dark basement with this older gentle\nman.\n\nAs soon Shiro wake up it wasn’t her, she was a different person and she grabs\nthis outfit that look like the Red Man’s clothes. Later on of the season it\nwas Ganta’s flashback he had a figure look like Red Man also.\n\nWho is the red man? Aceman ? Shiro?\n\n \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the contrary to what Zeor mentioned, I believe that the Ace Man action\nfigure did have some influence on the Wretched Egg and Shiro.\n\n**Spoilers**\n\n> At 1 minute into Episode 8 of the anime, we see that Shiro dropped down from\n> the ceiling and attacked Azuma Genkaku, and then went on to point out her\n> special move, which is identified to be Ace Man's special move: _Ultra Chaos\n> Endorphin Screw, Hadouken-Style Alpha-Wave Version Kick_. Then she said,\n> \"Ace Man is here.\" \n> \n> When Shiro and Ginta were younger and were living together, Shiro would\n> impersonate Ace Man (as seen in Episode 7 at 10:45). In that scene, Shiro\n> also dropped down onto a dog and said, \"Ace Man is on the scene.\"\n\nIn this sense, we can see that it's not simply coincidence that the Wretched\nEgg looked like Ace Man. The outfit most likely derives from Shiro's\npersonality and her attachment to impersonating Ace Man for Ganta.\n\n**Conclusion**\n\nAce Man is the action TV hero Ganta looked up to. Shiro is the Red Man, AKA\nWretched Egg, or more precisely, the Wretched Egg is a split personality of\nShiro's. The outfit of the Wretched Egg is derived from Shiro's personality\nwhere Shiro impersonates Ace Man to act as Ganta's hero.\n\nSo yes, Ace Man did have direct correlation to Shiro and the Wretched Egg.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that Shiro is not the Red Man. I have many reasons why. In one of\nthe episodes where Shiro was fighting the old man, you can see the man has\nbranch of sin like the Red Man, and which you can see he gets the blood from\nhis chest. If you look closely, you can see an empty hole there, the hole is\nthe shape of a crystal but the crystal is missing.\n\nI have a theory: you don't see a crystal because he's the Red Man. In an\nepisode before them fighting, you can hear the person in control of all of\nthat say that the Red Man was their secret weapon and they weren't ready to\nuse him. In the end of the episode, you can see a little bit of the Red Man.\nThe old man has been there for years, you can tell. He is as good as the Red\nMan. He has no crystal because he put it inside of Ganta. I will be posting\npictures for evidence.\n\nI have another theory: at the same time I think that Shiro is the Red Man. I\nthink she did all that and got him to Deadman Wonderland so he could be her\nace man, so she could be his hero. In the flashback, you see she breaks\nGanta's ace man toy, so I think she did all that so she could make up for it\nby saving him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Shiro is The Red Man, because all times The Red Man has appeared Shiro\nwasn't there. When Gunta arrives to Deadman Wonderland Shiro was waiting for\nhim. When that robot tried to identify her it said UNKNOWN. Also, when she was\nin the tower, it exploded just like the classroom. At the final attack of\nepisode 12 you see Gunta and Shiro with the same markings like they're\nconnected somehow. And when Shiro loses it her grin is similar to the Red\nMan's. Finally, at the end of episode 12 you hear Shiro singing the same song\nshe song when Gunta arrives and he said that's the song he heard before his\nfriends got murdered.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre the endings shown in the anime series and shown in _The End of Evangelion_\ndifferent/alternate or are they same but in different places?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe endings are actually the same. The series ending shows how humans perceive\nthe human instrumentality in their minds (their loneliness erasing and all\ntheir minds merging). The movie ending shows the events that happen in the\noutside world (the physical events).\n\nReally, the movies were result of pressure from fans. :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst the history of the endings.\n\nGainax studio went through a huge financial crisis near the ending of\nevangelion. They decided to end the series anyway, and went for a low-budget\nending (the episodes 24-25).\n\n> The television series takes a very avant-garde approach and focuses on a\n> first-person psychological account of the instrumentality process from the\n> perspective of its main characters (primarily Shinji Ikari).\n> [ref](http://www.nervarchives.com/analysis.altendings.php)\n\nThe fanbase reaction was brutal. From death threats to graffiti, hatemail and\nthe likes. Anno's take on that:\n\n> [On Evangelion's last two episodes , which upset many\n> fans...](http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20020606012703/http://masterwork.animemedia.com/Evangelion/anno.html)\n> ANNO: I have no problem with them. If there's a problem, it's all with you\n> guys. **Too bad.** \n> (emphasis given because of verbal cue given by Anno himself during the\n> interview\n\nLater they decided to do the feature animation \"The end of evangelion\",\nretelling the ending.\n\nYou have to take in mind that Anno's style of storytelling is very fluid. He\nwould only work on a new episode when the previous was finished:\n\n> **Toshio Okada:** _But--the last scenes were never fixed. When I talked to\n> Mr. Anno a month ago, he said he couldn't decide the ending until the time\n> came._ [ref](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Statements_by_Evangelion_Staff)\n\nAnno comments on the development of the series:\n\n> **Hideaki Anno** : “The development of Evangelion gives me the feeling of a\n> ‘Live’ concert. Whatever the story or the development of the characters, I\n> made them without a plan. During the production, whether listening to\n> various opinions or analysing my own state of mind, I kept questioning\n> myself. I got the concepts from this personal stocktaking [self-assessment].\n> At first I had intended to make a simple work featuring robots.\n>\n> But even when the main scene became a high school, it did not differ\n> compared to other productions in the same style. At this point, I did not\n> really think of creating a character with two faces, two identities: one\n> shown at school, and the other inside the organization he belongs to [Nerv].\n> The impression of ‘Live’ concert that gives me the birth of Eva, was the\n> team joining me in developing it, in the manner of an improvisation: someone\n> plays the guitar and, in response, the drums and bass are added. The\n> performance ended with the TV broadcasting ending. We only started working\n> on the next script once the previous one was done.\n> [ref](http://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/1996-newtype-anno-interview)\n\nSo they made the film with the new ending, re-telling the story from another\nperspective. Some classify the first ending as the personal instrumentality\ninside Shinji's mind, the other as the external instrumentality.\n\nAnno, in the best \"death of the author fashion\", said (and I am sorry I\ncouldn't find the source) that the \"true\" ending lies with the viewer. When he\nstarted to make the new movies ([the rebuild of\nevangelion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebuild_of_Evangelion)), he is simply\ntelling another evangelion story. Like folklore, the true story is nowhere to\nbe found, all of them are true, depending only on the viewer's impression.\n\n> **Hideaki Anno:** ”Eva\" is a story that repeats. \n> It is a story where the main character witnesses many horrors with his own\n> eyes, but still tries to stand up again. \n> It is a story of will; a story of moving forward, if only just a little. \n> It is a story of fear, where someone who must face indefinite solitude\n> fears reaching out to others, but still wants to try. \n> We hope that you look forward to the 4 new retellings of this\n> story.[ref](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-02-20/hideaki-anno-\n> releases-statement-about-new-evangelion-movies)\n\n* * *\n\nSo the truth is that the real ending is all / any of them. The interpretation\nof what you saw on the screen is **intentionally left open.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey are different.\n\nIn the original series, Shinji ultimately accepts human instrumentality and\njoins the rest of the human race in the pool of LCL, surrendering his fear,\nand by doing so also sacrificing his individuality and personhood, to become\npart of a singular superorganism.\n\nIn EoE, he rejects human instrumentality, unable to let go of his fear of\nbecoming one with everyone else. He ends up on a beach, alone except for an\nunconscious Asuka beside him. Everyone else is gone. Earth is devastated. The\nchances of rebuilding civilation are slim but not non-existent. At a loss for\nwhat to do, Shinji walks over to Asuka and chokes her. She wakes up and\nexpresses her disgust. Credits roll.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have to go with cantthinkofacoolname... they are the same ending. In both,\nShinji rejects instrumentality. The film elaborates and shows how it looks in\nthe real world, and in the anime, it was how it worked in Shinji's mind.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI personally like the same ending theory. I feel like while Shinji was in\ninstrumentality he worked through his issue through ep. 26's sequences as\ninstrumentality intends to do, but since Rei is a clone of Shinji's mother and\ninstrumentality happened with him as the center point inside the Eva his\nmother fused with, he was pulled out of it by Rei/Lillith enough to understand\nwhat instrumentality was and rejected it after having experienced it. Choosing\nto instead endure the pain of attempting to find the connections he's looking\nfor properly, rather than being a single being to have those connections\neffortlessly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhich manga chapters are covered by both season of _Kamisama Hajimemashita_\nanime?\n\nAlternatively, if I am to pick up the story where the anime left off, what\nchapter should I begin reading?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Kamisama Hajimemashita anime has a first season which consists of 13\nepisodes; after that is the second season which consists of 12 episodes to be\nfollowed by OVA entitled \"Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kako-hen,\" which consists of\n4 episodes. If you are curious about the events after the last episode of the\nOVA, then you start to read the manga in Chapter 101 up to 149.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are still things to clarify so far. \nRight now, he may be paramecia or logia.\n\n**Logia** because of how flexible he can be and surviving after being cut by\nLaw. \n**Paramecia** because he may be just like Magellan who produces poison out of\nhis body but cannot transform his body to be entirely made of poison. Both of\nthem just produce the material out of their bodies. He survived Law's cutting\nmaybe because of his very thin and flexible body that he could hide it in his\nvery thick mucus.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany are using the argument that Trebol hid within a piece of his body to\nevade Usopp's attack and that Luffy missed him because of how skinny he is.\nTrebol's height never changed. Even after losing his outer layer he was still\njust as tall. So for him to hide within his body like that would mean he'd\nhave to be a contortionist with mad skills. And the angle and way he was\nlooking through the hole Luffy made would suggest he could move his neck and\nbody in a way that would snap a normal human spine.\n\nIn the anime, after Usopp's attack, Trebol reforms himself entirely. You can\nsee his hand reform as it is grabbing his staff.\n\nTrebol's devil fruit type is a mystery so far. Oda will have to confirm which\nhe truly is. If he reforms himself after the explosion then we will have our\nanswer. I still believe he is a Logia user.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe second DVD of the first movie _Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End_ ,\nand also one of the disc in Complete Bluray Box Set feature [a quiz\nsession](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMJnAoKDKSw&t=2m18s) between the\nvoice actors for _Youko_ (Inoue Marina), _Shimon_ (Kakihara Tetsuya) and\n_Kamina_ (Konishi Katsuyuki) about various details in the anime.\n\nIn the first quiz of the show, it is mentioned that one of the special\nfeatures in _Gurren Lagann_ is the names of the characters: [シモン]{Shimon}\ncomes up [下]｛Shimo｝ (down), [カミナ]{Kamina} comes up [上]{Kami} (up), and the\nanswer to the quiz reveals that [リーロン]{Leeron} comes from [論理]{Ronri} (logic).\n\nHow about other characters in Gurren Lagann? What are their names derived\nfrom, and how do they relate to the characters?\n\nFeel free to explain the relation between the names and the characters already\nmentioned above.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's clear now that **_Rinnegan_** boasts the most powerful **dojutsu** out of\nthe 3 dojutsu (not including _Tenseigan_ here).\n\nThere are few occurrence where we got to saw **_Rinne Sharingan_** in action.\nSo, where does it put the power of _Rinne-Sharingan_?\n\nThe current power level is laid out as such:\n\n_Sharingan 1st < Sharingan 2nd < Sharingan 3rd < Byakugan < Mangekyo Sharingan\n< Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan < One eye Rinnegan < Both eyes Rinnegan_\n\nWhere does the **_Rinne Sharingan_** lie?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDue to the Infinite Tsukuyomi, it should be ahead of everything except the\nRinnegan. It should be above them as well but Kaguya didn't show enough of it\nto be a 100% sure.\n\nNote: I wouldn't necessarily put the Sharingan above the Byakugan, especially\nthe incomplete versions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 16, what appears to be a Japanese translation of [\"Dona\nDona\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Donna) plays twice -- once where\nNanami has a dream where she, like the calf in the song, is sent away to her\ndeath, and once right after Utena removes the cowbell.\n\nI know that there are translations of this song (which seems to originally\nhave been in Yiddish) -- there's a recording of Joan Baez singing it in\nEnglish on YouTube, and Wikipedia lists a bunch of other languages.\n\nGiven that I doubt Japan has a particularly large Jewish presence compared to\nthe other countries indicated by the languages listed on Wikipedia, I'm\nwondering about the Japanese translation: who did the translation, and when\ndid a translated version of the song first appear? Did a translation exist\nbefore Utena?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom an internet search for `dona dona japanese translation`, which I ran\nafter it occurred to me that there might be a quick answer out there, I found\n[this blog](https://ejtranslations.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/revolutionary-\ngirl-utena-dona-dona/) that mentioned a 1966 translation by **Yasui Kazumi**.\nAn MIT's [Jewish A Capella](http://techiya.mit.edu/repertoire/) site also\ngives the same translator.\n\nJust to further double-check things, I ended up on the Japanese Wikipedia page\nfor both\n[Yasui](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E4%BA%95%E3%81%8B%E3%81%9A%E3%81%BF#.E8.A8.B3.E8.A9.9E.EF.BC.88.E3.81.BF.E3.83.8A.E3.81.BF.E3.82.AB.E3.82.BA.E3.81.BF.E5.90.8D.E7.BE.A9.E3.82.92.E5.90.AB.E3.82.80.EF.BC.89)\nand [the\nsong](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A). My\nJapanese knowledge is somewhat lacking, but I can read katakana and hiragana,\nand they also list the same year and translator, although the Wikipedia page\nlists an earlier instance of the song being performed in Japan (which may not\nhave been in Japanese).\n\nSo the song translation definitely appeared before the anime (which, if I'm\nnot mistaken, was in the 1990's), and it wasn't anime-specific.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomewhat belatedly, from the research I did for the blog post you mention,\nthis is what I understand the sequence of events to be:\n\n * Song is written in Yiddish, fails to gain mainstream popularity even when the songwriter produces an English version, sinks into obscurity.\n\n * Teddi Schwartz and Arthur Kevess dig it up in the 1950s and translate it into English; this version gains moderate popularity in the United States.\n\n * In the 1960s, Joan Baez and some other mainstream popular artists record versions. It becomes _very_ popular in the United States, and translated versions start popping up in other countries, including Japan.\n\n * The original Japanese translation, as you note, is by the Peanuts and may have played a role in popularizing the song there, but their version becomes pretty thoroughly overshadowed by the 1966 Yasui Kazumi translation, which passes into the general cultural consciousness. For some reason it remains one of those bits of common knowledge/things you can reference and expect pretty much everyone to understand in Japan even when that's no longer the case in its home country. (At least, I grew up listening to folk music and had not actually heard the song before Utena.)\n\n * Some thirty years later, when planning the cow episode, one of the creators of Utena remarks that it seems like a \"Dona Dona\" kind of situation. (This is from a translated interview that I don't remember where I found, sorry.) Everyone else goes \"hey, that's a good idea, actually,\" and they decide to use the song (with the well-known 1966 translation) in the show. (They probably didn't sit down and go \"Hmm, which translation should we use? Or should we do our own?\" and eventually settle on that one; as far as I understand, that's just _the_ version of the song that most people will automatically think of when you mention it.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remembered watching a battle scene from the 2009 anime titled Fullmetal\nAlchemist and was puzzled by how Edward Elric managed to throw volley of\npunches at Father, a homunculus or the dwarf in the flask whom had earlier\nabsorbed an entity and gained the power of God.\n\nIs it because the power of God cannot be controlled and led to Father's\ndefeat, or because the absorbed homunculus or souls are revolting inside\nFather thereby restricting Father's focus on a battle? How did Elric win this\nseemingly impossible fight? What happens to Father after vanishing into thin\nair? Did he return to the flask?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEdward might have defeated Father but Father was in a highly weakened state\nand not be able to fight back allowed Edward to beat the homunculus. However\nit was kind of an unfair fight and if Father still retained some power left,\nhe would of annihilated Edward with breaking an sweat. Edward is a good\nfighter and alchemist but Father has the freakin power of God itself and even\nbefore than, he was already the most powerful alchemist of all time alongside\nHohenheim of course. Edward only managed to win with Father's power\nhandicapped and the army providing backup. In a one on one fight, Father would\nhave undoubtedly won\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that because the truth had ed's hand and al gave his soul to return\nsomething that truth had already claimed as his then when ed got it back he\nliterally had the \"hand of god\" And because of this it trumped the small\namount of it'self that father had managed to contain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy didn't L check Yagami Light's handwriting and try to match that to the\nhandwriting in the Death Note when he had the notebook?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nL had foreseen that the handwriting could be faked. Actually, handwriting\ncomes up later in the story:\n\n> One of Near's subordinates created a fake Death Note containing the names\n> Mikami had written. Mikami didn't notice this since the fake book had \"his\"\n> writings in it. L, being someone on a greater level than Near, would have\n> thought that Kira might have faked his own handwriting so that just in case\n> the Death Note falls into the SPK's hands, his handwriting won't be used as\n> evidence. Therefore, he didn't even bother trying to check Yagami's\n> handwriting.\n\nAlso, handwritings are not that distinguishable from one and another. It is\nvery likely for some people to have the same or similar handwriting.\n\nAs a side note, we can try to do a similar experiment by showing someone we\nknow our handwriting using our non-dominant hand. I practiced this before and\nthe person didn't notice that it was me writing it, despite knowing my usual\nhandwriting.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn addition to [what Sakurai\nsaid](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20584/death-note-handwriting-\ncheck/20674#20674), there were also times in the show where L thought that\nLight could have been manipulated by Kira, so it would have been in Light's\nhandwriting anyway. He already practically knew that he was involved with Kira\nin someway or another, but at that time in the show, he theorized that Kira\nhad cut ties with him, so it did not matter if it was his handwriting or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter handing over the Death Note to Rem in the plan to free Misa out Light\nsays (chapter 54):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/awxBw.png)\n\nIn other words, he **tore the pages** out and checked there's **none of the\nfingerprints or his handwriting** , so it's no surprise that L didn't check\nout the handwriting since there weren't any other names written beside\nHiguchi's.\n\nAll though it didn't mentioned in the anime, **it's unthinkable that Light\nwould missing do such an obvious thing.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's about a boy with a supernatural power. He discovered his power when he\nwas attacked by a black monster. As he threw a can towards the black monster,\nhis power was activated, and a circle figure formed in front of him, which\naccelerated the can as it passed through and killed the monster. He also met a\ngirl with a wooden katana who had the same power as him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song I'm referring to is often called the \"Underwater quest BGM\", as it is\nfirst played when Asuna is buffing the party in the Extra Edition. The next\ntime it is played is in SAO II episode 2 near the ending.\n\nWhich album was the soundtrack placed in? Last time I checked, it wasn't in\nVolume 1 nor 2 of SAO II's OST.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat song's real name is 'Moon and shadow' and is the 19th song of disc 4 of\n'Sword Art Online Music Collection' (ソードアート・オンライン ミュージックコレクション) which was\nreleased on 2016.01.27 (Catalog Number SVWC-70116~9).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched the 11 episodes and wonder if I missed the point where they\nexplained how Karen's little sister, Touka's spirit became fused with Karen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not too well versed in the laws of Amestris or its political climate, but\nthe law only prohibits material transmutation to gold, besides human\ntransmutation. I suppose transmutation to silver or other highly valued\nmaterials are still allowed, such as petrol, which is sometimes more valuable\nthan gold in the real world. This leads me to believe that the only reason why\nit only prohibits gold is because the currency is backed by it.\n\nWhich leads me to the question, why couldn't they just use [fiat\ncurrency](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money) instead? Why is gold so\nimportant to the Amestris economy when other precious metals and resources are\nallowed to be transmuted?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nQuite simply put, this is a world in which almost anything can be made by\nputting thought and understanding into it aka alchemy. Alchemy was essentially\nfounded when Amestris was founded, and only existed in Xerxes prior to that.\nTherefore modern alchemy has been around for approximately 400 years by the\ntime the manga/show began.\n\nThe technology at this time was also much less advanced than ours. It would\nhave been difficult to produce bank notes or other such fiat currency that\nwould be difficult to reproduce. An alchemist could even produce all of the\nnecessary components in his own home, and it would be much more difficult\nenforcing the ban on many specific components.\n\nOn the other hand, gold is large and heavy. It is also very rare, [with only a\ntiny fraction of the gold on earth available in the\ncrust](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust).\nSuddenly having a large supply coming through without any regulations down the\nsupply line would be downright suspicious. Manufacturing gold in amounts large\nenough to disrupt the economy would surely take notice, and thanks to its\nweight, would surely be much easier to trace.\n\nOf course, this is all assuming that Amestris was designed to withstand the\ntest of time. Really, the homunculi only needed a (relatively) short-term\nsolution that would keep the populace happy until it was time to murder\neveryone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first opening of K-ON!, the following appears at 35 seconds.\n\n\n\nWhich episode is that picture with Ritsu in the green clothing from? And what\nis the time mark in the episode?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany of the scenes from the K-On openings don't ever happen in the anime or\nmanga. They're things that we can imagine might have happened off camera\nsometime. I'm fairly certain this scene of Ritsu is one of those.\n\nFor example, this image of Mio wearing Nodoka's glasses never happens:\n\n\n\nAnd Azusa never licks the whisk like this:\n\n\n\nClannad does the same thing--the opening contains scenes that look like\nthey're repeated from somewhere in the series, but actually aren't, like this\none:\n\n\n\nAnd this one:\n\n\n\nIt's obviously difficult to present hard proof for this, especially hard proof\nthat that specific scene with Ritsu never appears, but I'm 99% certain that\nthose two scenes I mentioned with Mio and Azusa never appeared anywhere. I'm\nabout 85% certain the scene with Ritsu never happened in the anime, and about\n75% certain it was never in the manga. However, there might have been a\nsimilar or related scene; Azusa did make a cake, so we can imagine she might\nhave licked the whisk while doing that, and this might be a similar case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode of Ping Pong the Animation, around 9 minutes in, Peco\ncalled Smile a poster child for B type blood. What does this mean, exactly?\nWhat significance does this have? How does this relate to his personality?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHas there been an official credible reference that there are real life\ncounterparts to the characters in shirobako?\n\nI heard from a friend today that there are real life counterparts to the cast\njust like there are real life counterparts to the studios in the anime. My\nfriend said that he knows that at least the director and the mohawk production\nassistant had real life counterparts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOh boy, this is going to be a big answer eventually. There's a lot more than I\nhave here so far, but I need to go back and rewatch some of the episodes to\nre-find some of the references. I'll continue to update this answer every so\noften as I rewatch the show.\n\nI don't know that there is an \"official credible reference\" (in fact, I\nsuspect that there is not and never will be such a thing because of how\nJapanese media tends to pussyfoot around references to real-life\npeople/media/etc.), but some of the references to real-life people are\nincredibly transparent if you know who they're referencing.\n\nMiyamori and her four friends don't have real-life counterparts, but many of\nthe other characters most definitely do. Here are some of the ones I'm aware\nof.\n\n* * *\n\nSo, first off, Shirobako director Kinoshita Seiichi looks a lot like real-life\ndirector [Mizushima\nSeiji](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=3891) (and\ntheir given names are eerily similar). I'm told that the director of Shirobako\n(coincidentally named Mizushima Tsutomu) is buddies with Mizushima Seiji,\nhence his appearing in the show as the director.\n\n\n\nThe three Exodus lead voice actors - Nakaharu Mei (Akane), Kayana Mui\n(Alpine), and Itou Suzuka (Aya) - are voiced by real-life voice actors\n[Nakahara\nMai](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=438), [Kayano\nAi](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=91009), and\n[Itou\nShizuka](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=17353).\n\n\n\nAnd, of course, veteran director Kanno Mitsuaki, the man behind Avangelion, is\nnone other than the master, [Anno\nHideaki](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=15).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a pretty old question, but let me answer. The OP might not need this\ninformation anymore, but people who come by this website will.\n\nI have two links.\n\nFirst, [the character references to real life](http://kotaku.com/the-anime-\nversion-of-real-life-anime-creators-1697430522). This article is in English,\nand shows the counterparts in real life to the characters in Shirobako. It is\njust a quick overview.\n\nThe second one is in Japanese, but there are a lot of screenshots and images,\nso you can probably view it. [Here it\nis](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2141700241478852401). This covers all,\nliterally all the references in the anime Shirobako. It starts off pretty\nbasic with the buildings and staff and all that, and then it gets really\ndetailed, like the coke bottle in the corner of the car, the Madoka Magica\ndoll on top of Miyamori's table, the car/bike brand names, the food brand\nnames and so on. There are 30 pages to that article.\n\nI didn't know the small red thing on the table was a reference to Coke Cherry.\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EBw4M.png)\n\nHooray for Shirobako for inserting so many references! [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YcjxX.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy son is into manga and anime. When I look for 'kid-friendly' sources for him\nto read and watch, I make sure that they filter out the mature stuffs.\nCurrently, he has the Crunchy Roll app, and it seems to be pretty kid-friendly\nand filtered. If I am wrong, please let me know.\n\nHe asked me to check out an app called \"Manga Rock\", but from the first page,\nthe results were not the kind of stuff I want him to read due to the heavily\nmature content. (If you know what I mean...)\n\nAny recommendations for a manga app that I can feel comfortable with?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCrunchyRoll also has a manga app for\n[Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crunchyroll.crmanga)\nand [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/manga-by-\ncrunchyroll/id617048063?mt=8). You can also view their manga selection on\ntheir main site.\n\nYou can set a filter to block mature content in your profile settings.\nUnfortunately, you can't password protect this from change, so if your son\nfound that the filter was on, he could potentially turn it off.\n\nAccess to manga is exclusively for paying members.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the 2014 Fate Stay Night anime, Saber was under the control of Caster and\nwas posed like this:\n\n\n\nWas there any actual reason for this or was it merely fanservice? How was this\nexplained in the original Visual Novel?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLogia types seem overpowered. Excluding the fact that they are practically\ninvincible to anyone who is not a Haki user (if they can reflexively turn into\ntheir element), they have many more advantages:\n\n 1. Think about how outrageously powerful some of the Logia types could be if they were creative. Almost every other strong character in One Piece (Devil Fruit user or not) is strong because they were either creative as hell, had sheer strength and technique (Zoro), are Haki users with some sort of fighting ability or a combination of all three (of which Luffy is a perfect example). My point is, they all had to be creative or strong and skillful, with Haki to boot (sometimes). Let's be honest, most of the Logia types are so powerful because of their Fruits, I am not denying that their own, personal skill didn't attribute to some of their strength, but let's be real; you've got people like Enel, Kizara, Sakazuki and Ace. Pre-timeskip Ussop would be a formidable opponent with any of these Devil Fruits. It takes a lot of Logia types no physical training, and very little creativity to be a dangerous person to face. If these guys had creativity and didn't completely rely on their Devil Fruits' sheer power, very few people in the OP universe could beat them. Sakazuki could make his opponent's entire stepping ground a field of lava, he could simply make lava \"minions\" like mannequins made out of lava that could smash into his opponents. I'm sure there are more things he can do, I just made that off the top of my head. Anyways, there seems to be so much they could potentially do, that could wreck their opponent, but they are too comfortable in their abilities to even fathom needing more variety to beat someone.\n\n 2. A Logia can produce limitless amount of their element, this screams overpowered. Someone as formidable as Hawkeye Mihawk could be rendered useless to Ace if he simply chose to send an island-sized fire ball, after all Logias can produce an endless amount of their element. Even if Hawkeye is very fast, Ace could simply use the fire ball if he neared him or if he moved out of sight, and nuke the entire area with it. I doubt even Hawkeye is fast enough to get out of the destruction the attack would cause. Or take another hypothetical situation, Enel verses Shanks. Shanks is one of the strongest characters in One Piece, but if Enel uses his supercharged mantra plus his ability to travel at the speed of sound, he would own Shanks within moments.\n\n 3. This is a bit of a combo of my two points above, if they can control and manipulate their element in any fashion and use it limitlessly, couldn't they just create a repetitively powerful attack? Okay, some of them would need time for these attacks, but what about the extremely powerful ones that don't? Enel can easily send 200,000 volts into someone. I realize this won't immobilize some of the heavy hitters, but it would slow them the fuck down after he hit them with it for a second time. Kizara could just lock someone in a light cage and shrink it until they combusted inside, Ace could lock someone in a fire sphere and shrink, I am going off on what I read on Logias, that they can manipulate their element in any way, so they don't have to touch it to control it. Why hasn't anyone done this?\n\nI would bring up other situations that a Logia could have dominated in a split\nsecond if they had simply thought of said tactic, but that would take too\nlong. I know some Logia types are more restricted verses others, and don't\nfollow the exact definition, but still most aren't. Logia types could easily\ndestroy islands and kill strong people in moments, it is ridiculous\nconsidering Paramecia types and Zoans being on-par with them, some but not\nmany. If we follow the Logia's definition, Logias should be dominating\neveryone, only challenged by other Logia types. It is the only way (that I\nknow of) in which a weakling or complete idiot can become one of the most\ndangerous people in OP, maybe the idiot would die, but think about how easily\nhe could decimate a town. And the weakling is worse, they could strategize\nwith power and beat the shit out of anything. I know even the extremely\npowerful Logias can easily lose, but a lot of that is up to circumstance and\nthey still have a better chance at winning unless they are fresh newbies.\n\nSeriously, everyone else has to work their ass off to just compete with\nLogias, and they use almost non of the creative end of their powers and just\nrely on its sheer destructive nature, and I think Oda knows this. Oda probably\nknows almost no Logia uses their abilities to its fullest, not even a tenth of\nits potential, and is still extremely strong. It might be a long running joke.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou are correct, **devil fruit users are inherently overpowered over regular\nhumans** and within the devil fruit powers their is indeed a power ranking,\nwith Logia users being on top in most cases, unless they fight their natural\nenemy (Luffy vs Enel). So in a world where not much experienced or strong\nfighters are available, like East Blue, every devil fruit user will become a\nruler and would seem like the most bad-ass person around (Eg: Buggy).\n\nConsidering Logia users, I don't understand how you didn't mention Smoker.\nSmoker is the only Logia user we have seen that completely relied on sheer\ndevil fruit powers. Pre-timeskip he lacked in every other field of combat.\nEnel and Ace had physical power and creativeness, while the government\nadmirals had Haki to boot.\n\nSo, while I completely agree with you in the four Blues or on Sky islands, I\ncompletely disagree with you on this in the New World. **In the New World,\nhaving Logia powers means nothing.** First of all, your examples are not\nconsistent with your statement and basically answer your own question. You say\nthat Logia powers are overpowered regardless of training, which is not true.\nConsidering your example of Ace vs Hawkeye. Ace will never be able to throw a\nfireball that big, just by eating the fire fruit. He would have to train first\nto make this happen. He would need to train his power and speed. If he doesn't\ncreate the ball fast enough, Hawkeye would just cut Ace in two in no time.\nAlso, even if Ace would have been able to conjure such a fireball, Hawkeye\nwould just cut the ball to pieces and move on. Remember how Fujitora threw a\nmeteor on Law and Doflamingo? They just cut it, like it was nothing. So\n**unless you are well trained, you will not survive the new world** ,\nregardless of what powers you might have.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI disagree with your idea that they're overpowered, but I do agree that\nthey're very powerful. Remember, One Piece is not a game, it's a story, and\nthere's no need for balance, so if there were a few characters who were\nunbeatably strong, they're not necessarily over powered, just unbeatable. I\ndon't think logia users are unbeatable at all though.\n\nIt's repeatedly stated and shown that Logia are the rarest and most powerful\ndevil fruit. Smoker, Aokiji, Crocodile and Kizaru all effortlessly crushed\nLuffy the first time they met, while simply ignoring his attacks. If you took\na random villager from anywhere in One Piece, almost certainly the best way to\ngive them a lot of power very quickly is by feeding them a logia fruit. Coby's\ntransformation took everyone by surprise, but if he had skipped all the hard\ntraining and missed his growth spurt and just eaten a logia, other than\nlucking out with elemental weaknesses, Luffy, the Strawhats and everyone else\non Water 7 would have been powerless against him.\n\nMost logias also come with amazing offensive capabilities, as well as almost\ncomplete invulnerability to anything other than haki and maybe an elemental\nweakness. In particular, Enel and the Admirals have very destructive fruits,\nthat aren't complicated or hard to use.\n\nHowever, they aren't as invincible as you make them out to be. I disagree with\nboth of your examples, I think Mihawk would defeat Ace and Shanks would defeat\nEnel. I don't think logias work quite how you think, rather than controlling\nthe element, the logia becomes the element, and can then fire it off\nsometimes. I don't think any character has been shown to control their element\nafter it's left their body, so I don't think Ace or Kizaru can do the kind of\nattacks you say they can.\n\nBut even if they could, again it's not that simple. If Ace hits you with a\nfireball, your burnt but there's no guarantee that you're defeated. Many One\nPiece characters are very tough, and some have such good haki and reflexes\nthat they're almost impossible to hit. Ace tried to kill Whitebeard many times\nand never left a scratch on him. If Ace were to hit Mihawk with a big\nFireball, and Mihawk ran through the fire and gave him a haki-imbued slash, I\nsuspect Ace would be in much worse condition.\n\nIn theory logias can produce an infinite amout of their element, but not\nnecessarily all at once. I doubt Ace could flip out and burn a whole\nisland/the world on a whim, in the same way Law claims that having a room up\nfor too long exhausts him, I suspect logias work the same way. Enel wanted to\ndestroy Skypiea, but rather than just point his finger and blast it away, he\nhad to use his maxim to do complicated things with storm clouds.\n\nAnd for your final point, Enel and Kizaru can travel at very high speeds,\nprobably much faster than any character relying on their legs to travel like\nShanks or Mihawk. But they can't necessarily think and react at those speeds,\nif Enel turns to lightning and shoots over to hit you, but you predict it with\nyour haki and dodge, I don't think he could change course and hit you. As\nwell, the transition from human to light/lightning form is not instantaneous,\nwith Kizaru having repeatedly been stopped once he started trying to beam\nhimself somewhere.\n\nSo in answer to your question, I think yes, logia fruits are very powerful,\nbut no they aren't everything. You can't just eat a logia and wait around to\nbe made a yonko/admiral.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, at first it looks like it's overpower and we think nothing can stop him.\nBut remember, how powerful a devil fruit's power can be is based on how\npowerful the person who ate it is.\n\nYou may think Luffy's powers are great because he is rubber so you can punch\nanyone as hard as you can without worrying you will hurt your arms, but\nremember he cant even beat Sabo or Ace at first, simply because two of them\nare stronger than he is.\n\nAnother example is when Smoker easily caught Luffy in Logue Town or in the\nMarineford War arc, which is because he too is stronger than Luffy. But in the\nPunk Hazard Arc, Smoker loses twice when he fights Law and Vergo, because he\nis far weaker than Law who has the Paramecia power and Vergo who hasn't eaten\nany devil fruit.\n\nI know there are some characters who relied on his devil fruit so much like\nEnel and Caribou, but according to Pekoms, anyone that thinks they're superior\njust because they eat logia fruit can't survive on New World.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst and foremost, the Logia devil fruits are not the rarest anymore. The\nMythical Zoan are. (Only two mythical Zoan confirmed, Marco's Devil fruit and\nSengoku's Hito Hito no Mi: Model Daibutsu, versus 11 Logia Devil Fruits\nconfirmed).\n\nSecond, there's a reason why Oda added Haki and Rokushiki. Everybody can learn\nBusoshoku and Kenbushoku Haki to the point that all Vice-Admirals can use both\nColors, and any person that trains hard can learn Rokushiki (a good amount of\nVice-Admirals complement their fighting styles with Rokushiki techniques, hell\neven Coby can use Soru and Rankyaku).\n\nA Logia devil fruit user has to train a lot in order to properly harness his\npower (remember that Luffy had a lot of problems with controlling his body\nafter he ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi) and to reflexively turn into the respective\nelement (although Kenbushoku Haki may help in this regard), and then train and\nimprove both his Busoshoku Haki in order to be able to defend against Haki\nusers and his Kenbushoku in order to be able to predict incoming attacks. This\ntakes a lot of training time. At the same time, a regular rank-and-file marine\ncan train himself to become the next Garp in terms of raw power and strength\nof Haki.\n\nAlso, your statement holds true if we're talking about the Paradise part of\nthe Grand Line, because in the New World, Haki is common knowledge. (Hell,\neven Haoshoku Haki is way more common in the New World than in Paradise:\nDolflamingo, Don Chinjao, Big Mom and Charlotte Katakuri, all have it so far.)\n\nSo, in summary, Logia Devil Fruits' seemingly overpowered-ness is balanced by\nthe common knowledge of Haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBeing attacked by the local military made the race just that much more\nexciting.\n\nThe racing culture seemed very counter-culture or anti-authority as well, so\nholding the race somewhere they were forbidden from just jived that much more\nwith their ideals.\n\nAnyhow, there was a nearby refugee moon where they were basing out of (if I\nrecall correctly) so it wasn't too hard to pull off logistically... especially\nconsidering some of the race organizers literally had magic on their side.\n\nBut to answer your question, I don't think there was any single, specific,\nreason.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the two-year time skip, Zoro and Robin came back lighter skinned. I\nwould have thought nothing of it, but after searching for \"fishman racism\" on\nGoogle, I ran into [an article on Oda's racism towards \"ethnic\"\npeople](http://ittoryu-iai.tumblr.com/post/29321899821/racial-issues-in-one-\npiece). One Piece is my favorite anime and I watch it a lot, so I don't take\nany \"white washing\" argument lightly. I don't even want to think of Oda as\nhaving racial bias, but I won't ignore the facts.\n\nThe article discusses different aspects of One Piece that can lead one to\nbelieve that the show has some racist undertones, but I won't go into detail\nabout the article. The story about racism in One Piece mentions that Oda did\ntell the animators to change certain things concerned with the two-year time\nskip, and two of the dark-skinned characters came back way lighter. Is Oda\nracist? I don't know but I can't say he isn't, as the article had valid and\nreasonable points to prove that he at least has a racial bias.\n\nThen after reading the article above, I am sitting around thinking about it\nfrom time to time. So was it actually white washed or did these changes happen\nfor some other reason?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, Zoro did spend those two years in a dark island/gloomy castle, so he\nprobably didn't see much sun. Robin also spent her time in the mountains, I\nbelieve, which were hardly places to get sun tans (compared to her old job in\na desert).\n\nI don't think the skin pigment changes had anything to do with racism, as\nthese kinds of changes were more associated with tans and less with race.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japan, being white is a sign of being rich and wealthy since the working\nclass is out in the fields so they would obviously have a darker skin tone.\nIt's been like this for thousands of years. Oda is appealing to the wealthier\nclass. There is a huge prejudice. You don't see many anime characters that\nhave a darker skin shade anymore because Japan's definition of beauty is being\nwhite. There are African American characters yes but not the in between. And\ndon't even get me started on the over-sexualization in One Piece and the\nRIDICULOUS reasons Oda gave for drawing Robin and Nami the way they're drawn\nin the timeskip. Also, go compare the straw hats timeskip to pre timeskip.\nIt's like Luffy went from being 16 to 14 lol.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOda does use race and culture in a lot of places and some of them may seem\noffensive to a group or race. One example would be underneath the Corrida\nColosseum the Officer Tower has moon and stars which resembles the Turks.\nEarlier Ottoman's did have the control over of the Mediterranean Sea and the\nBlack Sea markets. Ottoman's also had the biggest slave trade in that time and\nlots of slaves worked at the docks.\n\n> Is Oda racist?\n\nThis may seem offensive to some Turks cause it's clearly the bad guys which\nremsebles to Turks but does that make Oda a racist?\n\nIt's hard to imagine someone who doesn't have any racial bias. But if you look\nat Fishman Island arc you'd notice that Oda tried to explain the whole racism\nthing as stupid.\n\n> So was it actually white washed or did these changes happen for some other\n> reason?\n\nNilone4's answered it effectively. In simple One Piece is an anime/manga\nseries which needs to generate money by making what people want to see.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EExwX.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pyxgy.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe navigation devices in the One Piece universe are:\n\n * The **compass** for the Eastblue, Southblue, Westblue, Northblue\n * The **Log-Pose** for the Grand Line\n * The **New-World Log-Pose** for the New World\n\nOther navigation instruments (in exceptional cases) are:\n\n * The **Eternal-Pose** for Grandline (always points at the same island)\n * The **South Birds** on Jaya whose bills always point south.\n * The **Kame-Pose** who always points to Mecha\n\nAll of these navigation instruments have limitations and disadvantages. The\ncompass, for example, does not work for the Grandline and New World. The Log-\nPose can follow only one magnetic wave and takes time to record the next\nmagnetic wave. And the Eternal-Pose works for only one island.\n\nAs you can see, navigation in the One Piece universe is very complicated. And\nthis is the point where my question is. Besides the Eleven Supernovas, all\nother pirates, marines and other ships are free to travel through the whole\nGrandline and Blues, and to go on any island they want.\n\nIn [episode 392](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkPwJEasyKI), Shakuyak\nexplains how hard it is to travel through the Grand Line for the Eleven\nSupernovas as they tried to get to the Sabaody Archipel. However, the Marines\nand other pirates commute easily between every island. Do they have an extra\nexpensive Eternal-Pose for every island?\n\n**So why is navigation so easy for the Marines and other pirates whereas it is\nso hard for the Straw Hat crew (as example)?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNavigating is as easy as the goodness of your maps and directional devices. So\nin general I would suspect navigating to be **as difficult for the Strawhats\nas for any other pirate crew**. Pirates usually have the same amount of\nresources to start with. If anything it should be easier for the Strawhats\nbecause Nami has been looking at maps since she was just a child. Although\nthis advantage was never really mentioned in the series and I don't think she\nwas actually able to exploited that knowledge (yet?).\n\nNow you are correct in saying that it is **much easier for the Marines** to\nnavigate through the world and this makes a lot of sense. The Marines and the\nWorld Government have been around for more than 800 years, since the Void\nCentury. Therefore they were able to draw maps of the entire world and would\nhave been able to create many eternal poses for all available islands.\n\nBooks with **maps** are available in local stores or libraries as we can see\nhow Nami's room at Arlong's park was filled with these books. Pirates would be\nable to obtain these books, but with the WG having much greater funds, I would\nassume every ship to have such maps available to navigate through the seas.\nThe fact that the Marines travel by map can be seen in chapter 321 when Aokiji\ntakes his map to check the location the Strawhats are about to travel to.\n\n\n\nWhile on the grandline, the Marines use **eternal poses** to navigate. This\ncan be seen in chapter 128 when Smoker asks for an eternal pose to Alabasta.\nAll they really need to do is contact Headquarters and they will send them an\neternal pose, presumably by air similar to the newspaper birds.\n\n\n\nWith the number of smart scientist the WG would have had over the years, it\nwouldn't surprise me if the WG would have similar devices for New World. I\ndon't recall there being any mention of such a device just yet though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, part of it is the fact that the Marines won't run into pirate\nresistance, as they don't get messed up by pirates, not even the strong ones\nlike the Supernovas or the Four Emperors. No one else would think of messing\nwith the Marines if pirates won't (probably).\n\nI'm sure they have many more means of transportation, be it a vessel or\nnavigation instruments, they likely have other technology for easy travel. So\nI would say yes, they do have other means of travel and even more efficient\nforms of navigation.\n\nThere is also the fact that they know how certain parts of the sea are, and\nuse said knowledge to their benefit and their enemies' disadvantage when\ntraveling.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was rewatching the first season of Oregairu the other day, and something\ncaught my eye on the list of contacts on Hachiman's phone (which we see in\nepisode 5, after Yui adds herself as a contact).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oRXuh.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vSVmd.jpg)\n\nThe list here is:\n\n * Komachi\n * Grandpa's\n * Home\n * Soubu High School\n * Takatsu Dentistry\n * Dad\n * Barbershop\n * **Hanazawa Hanako** (花沢華子)\n * Mom\n * ✨✨Yui✨✨\n\nSo we have Hachiman's relatives; places he goes (school, dentist, barber); and\nnow Yui. But who is Hanazawa Hanako? That's a girl's name - but why would\nHachiman have a girl's number in his phone?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHikigaya asked for a girl's phone number in middle school, as mentioned in his\nflashback at 6:30 - 7:00 in episode 4. The number probably belongs to her,\nthough he left her anonymous in his story in the anime (I haven't read the\nearly volumes of the LN's). There's no Hanazawa Hanako in Volumes 7-10. For\nnow, she remains in the back-burner of possible characters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe gave Shanks a brutal scar, years before he found the Yami fruit. This\ninstantly makes me think he is strong as hell, with or without a Devil Fruit.\n\nHe almost broke Ace's neck during their battle. Breaking someone's neck just\nby chopping, especially when it was a quick jab-like chop, which didn't have\nmuch effort put into it, makes me believe he is pretty strong.\n\nSo why does he act like a coward when he is in battle? With his Devil Fruit\nabilities plus his personal talents, he should be a little more secure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only thing we really know about Blackbeard from before he ate the Dark\nfruit is that he cut Shanks and killed Thatch. The problem is that we don't\nknow how these fights went down. The fight with Shanks was over 12 years ago,\nso we don't know the extent of Shanks' power at that time. After reading\n[wayzz](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/8540/wayzz)'s comment, I reread\nthe conversation between Whitebeard and Shanks, and it gives a pretty good\nidea of Blackbeard's power. If any, you should read **chapter 434** again, to\nget a grasp of his power.\n\nIt was mentioned by Hawkeye and later by Whitebeard that, Shanks and Hawkeye\nused to fight many times. Despite fighting many times, there was never a clear\nwinner, so we can deduce that Shanks' strength must have been similar to that\nof Hawkeye's. Now getting back to the fight between Blackbeard and Shanks,\n**Shanks** mentioned that he **wasn't being careless** and despite that, BB\ncould give him the scar on his left eye. He mentions that\n\n> Shanks: Blackbeard was waiting patiently for an opportunity... He didn't\n> take the position of captain, nor did he become renown (by taking the\n> position of division commander). He hid himself behind a large shadow called\n> Whitebeard!\n\nSo being in the Whitebeard Pirates for many years, being able to scar Shanks\nin a real fight, being able to take down the fourth (Thatch) and second (Ace)\ndivision commander of the Whitebeard Pirates makes him a worthy opponent.\nDon't forget that two of the Yonkou got nervous about Ace fighting him. Both\nWhitebeard and Shanks wanted to stop Ace from pursuing him, because they felt\nlike this was not going to end well, and it didn't. So it is safe to say that\nhe didn't become the new Yonkou based just on his Devil Fruit powers alone.\n\n**I think Blackbeard's seemingly cowardly appearance might have something to\ndo with his Dark fruit.** The Dark fruit increases the amount of pain received\nby Blackbeard. So he might not be scared of losing the fight, but he might be\nscared of the pain that follows a single blow. His Dark fruit absorbs the\npunch even more than a regular person would, making it hurt much more. It\nhasn't been confirmed, but this might be the reason why he seems scared.\nUnless if you were talking about the Marineford Arc. At that time, I think he\nwas honestly worried about losing, or at least getting his crew hurt or\ncaptured, because he would have never been able to fight both the Marine\nAdmirals and one of the Yonkou at full strength. At that time, he chose wisely\nto retreat. This would give him more time to really master his newly absorbed\nDevil Fruit powers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've recently binge watched all of the original _Naruto_ series and have\nstarted on _Naruto Shippuden_ (around episode 20 as of now). Recently, I heard\nthat the movie _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ came out. From what I have heard,\nthe movie has spoilers about the end of the manga (like chapter 700), but I'm\ncurrently not reading the manga (though I plan on starting).\n\nIf I were to watch the movie, when does the movie take place within _Naruto\nShippuden_ , if at all? I saw somewhere saying that it took place at around\nepisode 399-400, but I also heard that a series following Shippuden is coming,\nso I don't know if I should watch Shippuden, _then_ the upcoming series, and\n**then** the movie.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Last: Naruto the Movie takes place two years after the events of the\nFourth Shinobi World War, ie two years after Chapter 699. The last chapter of\nthe manga, Chapter 700, shows events taking place over 10 years after the\nFourth Shinobi World War. So the timeline of **The Last** falls in between\nchapters 699 and 700. Chronologically, the movie takes place after the\nShippuden series.\n\nAs for your original question, the current episodes of Naruto:Shippuden series\nare fillers. So they are not based on the manga and is made specially for the\nanime. But removing the filler arc, it is currently at Chapter 662 of Birth of\nthe Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki arc.\n\nFor more Naruto related stuff, check out the [wikia\nsite](http://naruto.wikia.com).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've noticed that in Fairy Tail everyone has a different type of magic. But\nwould it be possible to possess more than one type of magic? For example:\nNatsu being able to use Fire Dragon Slayer Magic and and also being able to\nuse Magic like Gray's Ice-Make spells? Or are there rules for his Dragon\nSlayer Magic not allowing him to use different kinds of Magic?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, they can. The best example is [Makarov\nDreyar](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Makarov_Dreyar), Fairy Tail's 3rd and\n6th master. He can master many different types of magics:\n\n> * Fairy Law\n> * Fire Magic\n> * Ice Magic\n> * Light Magic\n> * Maximum Defense Seal\n> * Requip\n> * Titan\n> * Wind Magic\n> * Dispelling Magic\n> * Telepathy\n>\n\nAnother example is Ultear. She originally learned Time magic and later learned\nIce magic to kill her mother. **Magic isn't something you are born with, it is\nsomething you can learn.** So you can learn multiple magics, but with anything\nin life, if you stick to only one skill and train it with everything you got,\nyou will become more profound in it, than if you divide your time between\ndifferent skills.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have noticed that traveling between and within the oceans in the One Piece\nworld isn't easy. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FGCI1.jpg)\n\nHowever, the Marines and some advanced pirate crews/alliances commute daily\nbetween the oceans. To be more specific, here are a few examples to\ndemonstrate what I mean:\n\n 1. The Marines travels between every oceans they want. By using Seastone on their ships, they can easily travel through the Calm Belt and switch between the Grand Line/New World and all Blues. Because the Marines is a member of the World Government, they can also pass the Red Line via Mary Joa.\n\nHowever, the Seastone technique (Episode 410) is a new invention from Dr.\nVegapunk. How did the Marines travel through the Calm Belt so easy before\nthat? Another example in [episode\n502-503](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiFOvnqltYw): How did a World\nGovernment ship travel from the Grand Line to East Blue 10 years ago when\nSeastone technique hadn't been invented?\n\n 2. In [Luffy's past](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhK3BRBsF34), Shanks was in the East Blue, then in the [Battle of Marine Ford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD-4E3Zg_Qs), he was again in Grand Line, etc.\n\nSame for Whitebeard. One time, Whitebead was in the Grand Line,\n[then](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_v1KGYYf6Y) in the East Blue, and then\nagain in the Grand Line, etc.\n\nHow do Shanks and Whitebeard manage to travel between the Grand Line and the\nBlues on daily basis? **Do Whitebead, Shanks and other Pirates also use\nSeastone like the Marines?**\n\n 3. And what about Monkey D. Dragon? [One time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfNIwcfa_M), Dragon was in the East Blue. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ZCploiduQ), he was again in the Grand Line.\n\nSo I hope you see what my question is. I'm especially curious about the daily\nswitching between the Grand Line/New World and Blues. As I know, the only way\nto enter the Grand Line is via the Reverse Mountain, which isn't the most\nharmless way as you can see in [episode 61](http://onepiece-\ntube.com/folge/61). Does that mean that every time Whitebeard and Shanks want\nto go to the Grand Line, they have to pass this small river with their\ngigantic ships?\n\nApart from getting to the Grand Line, how do they leave the Grand Line/New\nWorld? According to the\n[maps](http://www.opwiki.de/images/Karte_der_Grandline.jpg), there is no way\nto get out. How did [Krieg](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Krieg) leave the\nGrand Line?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> _\"anata wa soko ni imasu ka\"_ (Are you there?)\n\n... seems like this \"magic spell\" works over the radio, which the Festums have\nto decode and hack into.\n\nI have always wondered if this could be a kind of hypnosis. If so, the Festums\nare more human like than I think.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe short answer is no, its not hypnosis - its essentially the Festums trying\nto find/communicate with humans. The long answer is, it has a double meaning\nin the show.\n\nFirst of all, the most direct reason that particular phrase and voice is used\nis that Festums originally found out about humanity by encountering a voyager\nlike probe - on the probe was a recording of a woman asking this question\n(where it was meant to be 'Is there anyone out there?' question). The Festums\ndid not understand humanity at all and just echoed that exact recording back\nwhen trying to find humans to \"save\". You can see a framed copy of this record\nhanging up in the UN leader's office in a few scenes in Exodus.\n\nSecond, it's important to understand that Festums, at least in the first\nseason, did not understand humanity at all. (In the movie, they learned a\nlittle... which made the situation for humanity even worse, not better).\nFestums do not exist in the same way that humans do. They do not understand\nthe concept of existence as humans do. They perceive the human's state of\nexistence as an irregularity that needs to be saved from. As they understand\nso little, the question becomes very literal - they are asking \"Do you exist?\"\n- and if someone answers, the Festums become fully aware of the existence of\nthe human that answered and try to \"save\" them by assimilating them.\n\nThis question really is the core of the show's setting. These two races are so\nalien to each other that this strange roundabout question is the only way they\ncould initially even communicate, and both sides think the other is in a\nhorrific, incomprehensible situation. Humans see assimilation to non-existence\nas basically death, and Festums see human's existence as something they need\nto be saved from. Most of the main cast want to establish meaningful\ncommunication with the Festums, but at this point, it is unclear if it is even\npossible, at least without fundamentally changing the nature of the Festums or\nhumans.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe question is simple - should one read the manga, watch the OVAs, play the\ngames (personally, I don't have access to these) of Triangle Heart before\ndiving into the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn my opinion, there's nothing from _Triangle Heart_ that would apply to\nNanoha, except for the backgrounds of some characters.\n\n_Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ is based on the spin-off of _Triangle Heart 3_\ncalled [**_Triangle Heart 3 ~Lyrical Omochabako~_**](https://vndb.org/v2500) (\n_Triangle Heart 3 ~Lyrical Toy Box~_ ).\n\nSeveral things are carried over, such as:\n\n * [Kyouya](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Kyouya_Takamachi) and [Miyuki Takamachi's](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Miyuki) back-stories as bodyguards for Fiasse Crystela.\n\n * [Shinobu Tsukimura](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Shinobu_Tsukimura) returns, and in the A's manga, it is hinted that her family are vampires through a shout out to _Triangle Heart_ when [Suzuka](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Suzuka_Tsukimura) (who didn't appear in _Triangle Heart_ ) shows her inhuman strength in the dodgeball match with Fate.\n\nHowever, there are changes in _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ which deviates\nfrom _Triangle Heart_ 's continuity, most notably:\n\n * Nanoha's father [Shirō](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Takamachi) is still alive. However, he was in the ICU for some time, which led to Nanoha's insecurity at the beginning of the series\n\n * Shinobu and Kyouya are dating, making Shinobu the canon romance. (In comparison, I believe Fiasse was considered canon in _Triangle Heart_ ).\n\n * [Noel K. Ehrlichkeit](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Noel_K._Ehrlichkeit), Shinobu's maid is mechanical in _Triangle Heart_ , but in _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ , she appears to be human.\n\n * Nanoha herself doesn't have magic in the main _Triangle Heart_ series, but she is given magic in Lyrical Toy Box (which explains the title _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ ). (In my opinion, Lyrical Toy Box is a spin-off from _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ rather than the general _Triangle Heart_ series).\n\nOther characters from Triangle Hearts are used as basis for original\ncharacters in _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ :\n\n * In _Triangle Heart_ , [Chrono Harlaown](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Chrono) is an antagonist. However, the prototype for his Enforcer uniform is a throw back to his \"evil\" black outfit with spikes from the game.\n\n * Alisa Lowell is used as a basis for [Arisa Bunnings](http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Kinomoto)\n\n * The shape-shifting fox-girl Kuon becomes the \"ferret\" boy [Yuuno Scrya](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Yuuno_Scrya)\n\n * Raising Heart's Crystal is changed from a heart to a sphere. It is also shorter in _Triangle Heart_ and more reminiscent of [Sakura Kinomoto's](http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Kinomoto) [Sealing Wand's Star Form](http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Sealing_Wand#Star_form)\n\n\n\n * In _Triangle Heart_ , [Lindy Harlaown](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Lindy) is not a member of the Time Space Administration Bureau, but instead a fairy from the Dream World. She, however, retains much of her design, including her fairy wings, which appear in _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ when she flies.\n\n\n\nThe main point is that a lot of the minor characters' back-stories are tweaked\nfor _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ , while most of the main characters except\nfor Nanoha are all original and do not relate back to _Triangle Heart_ (Lindy\nand Chrono retain their appearances, but they are still different).\n\nAs noted above, the only real change that affects a main character is that\nNanoha's father isn't dead, since his time in the ICU created the Nanoha we\nsee at the start of the series (before meeting Yuuno and using magic).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn \"World of Ice\" (ep. 9), there is music that starts off with something that\nsounds like a harpsichord, after Himari enters a hidden door in the library\n(around 6:11). Strings (mostly playing pizzicato, I think) and a clarinet come\nin later. Normally I'd assume that this might be something original created\nfrom the anime -- for instance, I've heard stuff that could pass as classical\nmusic in the _Monogatari_ Series.\n\nHowever, I've noticed pieces that were clearly not original being used in this\nseries, such as the beginning of Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 331 (when Himari is\nstill in the normal section of the library), or the famous\n[theme](https://youtu.be/-ENf4VEhI40?t=45s) from Dvořák's 9th symphony (in\n\"Because I love him\"). Thus, it seems plausible that this is not original\nmusic.\n\nWhat is the music playing here? I tried to look up the soundtrack or the\nepisode on the fan-made wiki, but neither gave a full listing. Is this\noriginal music, and _if not_ , where is this music from?\n\n**Update:** If I'm not mistaken, the same track appears in the first half of\nep. 21 (\"The Door of Fate We Choose\"). This would suggest to me that it's more\nlikely to be original music, but I'm not even completely sure right now if\nit's the same music.\n\n**Update 2:** I tried to search Musipedia, which largely is a classical music\nidentification site, for the beginning of this section of the soundtrack and\ncame up with no results that seemed correct. I also listened to this section\nof \"World of Ice\" a second time and it struck me as less \"Baroque\" and\n\"classical\" than I initially thought. Original music seems more likely, but\nI'm still having trouble obtaining the title of this music. (It's definitely\nnothing listed on this [Tumblr](http://seizon-senryaku-\nshimashouka.tumblr.com/).)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI finally managed to dig up the track that I wanted after I listened to a\nnumber of _Penguindrum_ -related uploads on SoundCloud; it was\n[listed](https://soundcloud.com/meteord-1/karei-sora-no-ana-bunshitsu) as\n\"Karei. Sora No Ana Bunshitsu\". From some more searching, [it\nappears](https://web.archive.org/web/20160405210844/http://japansmusicworld.blogspot.com/2011/12/mawaru.html)\nthat this can be found on the bonus CD of [vol.\n3](http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005FTUX4Y/himarinnet-22/) of the\nBlu-Ray. **This all indicates that this was probably an original\ncomposition.**\n\nI'm unfortunately still having trouble figuring out what the original Japanese\nname of this track is; English websites so-far have only given romaji\ntranscriptions of the title, and searches for \"そらのあなぶんしつ\" thus far have not\nyielded any particularly promising results. (It does not help that I don't\nreally know Japanese.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've begun rewatching Fate, and there is something unclear to me about the\nServant's behavior during the war:\n\nDoes the Holy Grail grant **only one** wish? Because if that is the case, what\ngoes through a Servant's mind when they participate in the war? If they use a\nbit of logic:\n\n * I kill all other Servants\n * Me and my Master win\n * Holy Grail appears\n * ... Who gets their wish granted? Me? My Master?\n\nOf course, we know that in truth, masters will use a command seal to kill\ntheir own servant at the end, so they can actually summon the Holy Grail. So\nMasters already have a plan. But what about Servants? Do they all plan to\nbetray their Masters at the end or what?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo expand on [@Septian Primadewa's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20696/what-do-servants-\nexpect-will-happen-at-the-end-of-the-holy-grail-war#comment27968_20696)\n\n> The winning pair is supposed to be able to claim the Holy Grail and utilize\n> it to grant a wish for each of them. **Its true purpose is to actually\n> utilize the seven Servants returning to the root as a way to form a hole\n> directly to it.**\n\nSource - [Holy Grail\nWar](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Holy_Grail_War#Fuyuki) *emphasis mine\n\nHowever the catch is in the last sentence of that quote. Most serious Magi are\nlike Tokiomi Tohsaka and don't see the Holy Grail as a Wish Granter but a way\nto the Root as such they will keep one Command Spell until the end and use it\non their Servant and force them to die as was Tokiomi's plan with Gilgamesh\nand why he plotted so much to regain his lost Command Spell\n\nThe Einzbern's would follow suit using all 7 Servants as they don't care for\nthe Wish, they want the [Third Magic, Heaven's\nFeel](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Magic). much to the same as Zouken\nMakiri/Matou who sought the same magic because the materialization of the soul\nwould allow him to continue to live but stop the rotting of his Soul.\n\nFor some Servants being summoned to the War is their wish, such as Diarmuid Ua\nDuibhne who wanted to faithfully serve a Lord which he was able to through\nKayneth El-Melloi Archibald. Likewise with Masters as with Waver Velvet in a\nway, he didn't necessarily have a wish but winning the Grail War would show\nhis worth as a Magus (seeing the Holy Grail War as the ultimate test of Magi)\n\nOf course there hasn't been an incident where a Wish has been granted as all\nprevious wars did not end with a victor. So there is no actual proof in\nuniverse that they are granted Wishes from the grail so the wish could be just\nto lure other Magi to the War and summon Servants so they can all be\nsacrificed for those seeking the Root or the Third Magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime series currently has 6 seasons. How much of the manga was adapted\ninto these 6 seasons? Are there any differences in the plot between the anime\nand the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of 4th season, the anime covers the manga up through [chapter\n51](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=416029#msg13918177), which is the\nfinal chapter of volume 12 of the Japanese _tankouban_ (graphic novels).\n\nA difference occurs in [chapter\n36](http://forums.mangafox.me/threads/487372-Some-questions-about-this-\nManga?p=12512848&viewfull=1#post12512848), which is in volume 9.\n\nTo date, the manga series has been collected into [19\nvolumes](http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_search?sha=8&jan=&pat=b2&text=%89%C4%96%DA%97F%90l%92%A0)\nbut it is still ongoing in [LaLa](http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/natsume/)\nmagazine. There are also a spin-off 4-panel gag manga web comic titled\n[『ニャンコ先生が行く！』](http://www.hanayumeonline.com/magazine/magazine08.html)(Nyanko-\nsensei ga Iku!) which can be read online for free on the official website,\nfree online [novels](http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/novels/), 1 published\n[novel](http://www.s-book.net/plsql/slib_detail?isbn=9784592197492), and 3\ndrama CDs (which were _furoku_ freebies only available with the purchase of\nspecific issues of LaLa).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%8F%E7%9B%AE%E5%8F%8B%E4%BA%BA%E5%B8%B3#%E5%90%84%E8%A9%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)\nand [Natsume's Book of Friends\nWiki](https://natsumeyuujinchou.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Episodes), **_the\n6-seasons of Natsume's Book of Friends_ covers up to chapter 79 (volume 20)**,\nbut the progression is not really linear, a few chapters are skipped (chapters\n71 and 77; _specials 5, 8, and 14_ ), and some episodes are **anime\noriginal**.\n\nThe full list:\n\n * Season 1 \n * Episode 1: Ch. 1 (Vol. 1)\n * Episode 2: Ch. 2 (Vol. 1)\n * Episode 3: Vol. 1 (Vol. 1)\n * Episode 4: Ch. 5 (Vol. 2)\n * Episode 5: **anime original**\n * Episode 6: Ch. 4 (Vol. 1)\n * Episode 7: _Special 1 (Vol. 4)_\n * Episode 8: Ch. 10 (Vol. 3)\n * Episode 9: Ch. 7 (Vol. 2)\n * Episode 10: Ch. 8 (Vol. 2)\n * Episode 11: _Special 3 (Vol. 4)_\n * Episode 12: Ch. 6 (Vol. 2)\n * Episode 13: _Special 4 (Vol. 5), some part is anime original_\n * Season 2 \n * Episode 1: Ch. 9 (Vol. 3)\n * Episode 2: Ch. 13 (Vol. 4)\n * Episode 3: Ch. 14 (Vol. 4)\n * Episode 4: Ch. 12 (Vol. 3)\n * Episode 5: _Special 6 (Vol. 6), some part is anime original_\n * Episode 6-7: Ch. 17-18 (Vol. 5)\n * Episode 8: Ch. 16 (Vol. 5)\n * Episode 9: Ch. 15 (Vol. 4)\n * Episode 10: Ch. 19 (Vol. 5)\n * Episode 11: Ch. 11 (Vol. 3)\n * Episode 12-13: Ch. 20-22 (Vol. 6)\n * Season 3 \n * Episode 1: Ch. 48 (Vol. 12)\n * Episode 2: **anime original**\n * Episode 3: Ch. 37-38 (Vol. 10)\n * Episode 4: _Special 2 (Vol. 4)_\n * Episode 5: Ch. 42-43 (Vol. 11)\n * Episode 6-7: Ch. 23-26 (Vol. 7)\n * Episode 8: **anime original**\n * Episode 9: Ch. 27 (Vol. 8)\n * Episode 10-11: Ch. 28-29 (Vol. 8)\n * Episode 12: Ch. 30-31 (Vol. 8)\n * Episode 13: _Special 7 (Vol. 7)_\n * Season 4 \n * Episode 1-2: Ch. 34-36 (Vol. 9)\n * Episode 3: Ch. 32-33 (Vol. 9)\n * Episode 4: Ch. 47 (Vol. 12)\n * Episode 5: _Special 9 (Vol. 9)_\n * Episode 6-7: Ch. 49-51 (Vol. 12)\n * Episode 8: **anime original**\n * Episode 9-10: Ch. 39-41 (Vol. 10)\n * Episode 11-13: Ch. 44-46 (Vol. 11)\n * Season 5 \n * Episode 1: Ch. 57-59 (Vol. 14)\n * Episode 2: Ch. 56 (Vol. 14)\n * Episode 3-4: Ch. 52-54 (Vol. 13)\n * Episode 5: Ch. 64-65 (Vol. 16)\n * Episode 6: Ch. 55 (Vol. 14)\n * Special ep. 1: **anime original**\n * Episode 7: Ch. 66-67 (Vol. 16)\n * Episode 8: _Special 15 (Vol. 17)_\n * Episode 9: Ch. 63 (Vol. 15)\n * Episode 10: _Special 13 (Vol. 15)_\n * Episode 11: _Special 12 (Vol. 14)_\n * Special ep. 2: **anime original**\n * Special ep. 3: Ch. 70 (Vol. 17)\n * Season 6 \n * Episode 1: Ch. 78 (Vol. 20)\n * Episode 2: Ch. 75 (Vol. 19)\n * Episode 3: Ch. 74 (Vol. 19)\n * Episode 4-5: Ch. 60-62 (Vol. 15)\n * Episode 6: _Special 10-11 (Vol. 13)_\n * Episode 7: Ch. 76 (Vol. 19)\n * Episode 8: Ch. 68-69 (Vol. 17)\n * Episode 9: Ch. 79 (Vol. 20)\n * Episode 10-11: Ch. 72-73 (Vol. 18)\n * Special ep. 1: **anime original**\n * Special ep. 2: _Special 16 (Vol. 18)_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn One Piece, Shanks doesn't have any Devil Fruit power.\n\nAlso, he lost an arm while saving Luffy.\n\nWhat makes him a Yonko ?\n\nFor Example\n\n> Whitebeard had a powerful Devil Fruit. But even without that, his physical\n> strength was tremendous.\n\nCan anyone please explain what made Shanks a Yonko?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been reading this manga from it's beginning. I think we can all agree\nthat we haven't seen enough of Shanks powers. But, let's see some examples of\nhim demonstrating his powers:\n\nWhen we first saw him with Luffy (in the first episode) and we see little of\nhis fighting skills, mostly just his spirit, which he demonstrates against\n[Higuma](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Higuma) and then to the Sea King\nwhere, he demonstrates [his\nHaki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Haoshoku_Haki).\n\nThen after 10 years, with only one arm left, he is been visited by\n[Mihawk](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mihawk) on an island. We all know\nMihawk is the best swordsman in the OP world. A guy won't just cozy up to any\nordinary pirate after all for a drink, in celebration of Luffy's first bounty.\n\nAfter which we learn that they've had regular matches with one another, which\nmeans in terms of powers he has to be very strong to be a match for Mihawk.\nAlso then he demonstrates that he can take a blow from the\n[Yonko](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kaido). And when he entered the\nWhitebeard's ship his haki not only knocked out a lot of [Whitebeard's\ncrew](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Whitebeard_Pirates), but also damaged the\nship. Also this caused\n[Whitebeard](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Whitebeard)'s scar to ache and\nhave [Marco](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Marco) and\n[Jozu](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Jozu) commend about his spirit.\n\nAlso before the Summmit War Arc he was fighting another Yonko,\n[Kaido](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kaido), which According to Law, he is\n\"the strongest creature in the world\" and an ally of [Donquixote\nDoflamingo](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Donquixote_Doflamingo).\n\nAfter that events, we saw him in Summit War Arc where he stopped\n[Akainu](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Akainu) with [Armament\nhaki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Busoshoku_Haki). And then he asked\nBlackbeard which until then he didn't fear anyone to fight (Whitebeard, was an\nexception) and he said that it's not time yet for them to fight. He understood\non that moment he isn't ready to fight Shanks, which it means a lot, since he\nstopped the war, even Sengoku respects.\n\nWhile Shanks hasn't been in a lot of fights and Oda haven't show us yet\nShank's skills, from the above mentioned facts, I think we can all agree that\nhe deserves to be amongst the Yonko.\n\nAlso It's not just him that's strong, his crew members are too, [Ben\nBeckman](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Benn_Beckman) was able to make Kizaru\nstop for a moment during the Summit War Arc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe is considered a Yonko for the following reasons:\n\n * Can use all three types of Haki\n * Was the rival of the [**Greatest Swordsman in the World**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dracule_Mihawk)\n * Has a deadly crew\n * Can break a **ship** with his wave of Haki\n * Has the guts to mock the strongest man by making members of his (supposedly the strongest) crew faint.\n * Challenged Mihawk (the strongest swordsman) and Newgate (the strongest man alive) even **without an arm**\n * Challenged everyone after the war: the three Admirals, the Fleet Admiral, overshadowed old school player Garp, Blackbeard (who had the strongest Logia and strongest Paramecia), but yet no one stepped forward!\n * Convinced Marines to end the war with no further casualties single-handedly\n * Was able to stop Kaido before time and head to stop the war (probably made Kaido, the strongest Beast, retreat) during the Marineford arc, as stated on the [wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Shanks#Marineford_Arc).\n * Was considered to be one of the few people capable of defeating Blackbeard by the Gorosei\n * Has yet to demonstrate his full powers, yet dreaded as the dangerous Yonko.\n\nIf you still think he is not capable of being called as Yonko just because he\nhas no Devil Fruit or doesn't shown his might like what Whitebeard does, then\nwhat would you say about Kaido and Big Mom? I think he is the strongest non-\nDevil Fruit user of the series!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know the season and the episode number in which the following scene\noccurs.\n\nGintoki speaks with some people (maybe with Kaguya-chan and megane-kun). I\ndon't remember the topic of speech but he gives this as a supporting example:\nThere is a very shy and cute school girl. After the summer holiday, she\nbecomes very arrogant and slutty with a lot of make up on her face. Gintoki\nsays that something must have happened in the summer. While Gintoki gives this\nexample, we watch before & after images of the girl on the screen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is from [**Episode 136**](http://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_136)\n(season 1), an episode of Hasegawa looking for a 1LDK room.\n\nThe scene is about Gintoki giving a nonsense analogy to Hasegawa explaining\nthat a good room has already been \"done\" by the time you meet, just like girl\nxD.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5gEoC.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/78uE9.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nO1Jc.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4KXiE.jpg)\n\nTo be exact, the scene starts at minute 17:20. Happy rewatching ^^\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike the title says, where did Mr. Kishimoto got the idea of the character\npersonality, backstory, name etc.?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Sasuke\nUchiha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasuke_Uchiha#Creation_and_conception)\narticle on Wikipedia, Sasuke's name comes from Sarutobi Sasuke, a fictional\nninja featured in Japanese children's stories. Kishimoto also once said that\nSasuke's character was influenced by Hiei from YuYu Hakusho.\n\n",
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The guy sacrificed himself and somehow saved the girl.\n>\n> The girl ended up in a very big facility that wanted to destroy both the\n> infected robot-like creatures and the humans who could control the virus'\n> power. The girl knew how to drive, so she was assigned as a driver to a\n> team. She was in the place where they kept the customized tanks and/or big\n> vehicles. She did not know that the guy in her team who saved her was still\n> alive and was held prisoner in the same facility somewhere. He was\n> unconscious. When he woke up, he had lost his memories, and he also became\n> like the infected robot-like humans. He had a headache, and he wandered in\n> the facility trying to find an exit.\n>\n> As the guards chased him, he found a room in which there was a bike\n> protected by a barrier, and there was a control panel. When he touched the\n> control panel, numbers started appearing and the barrier went down. As he\n> touched the bike, it modified itself and changed from black to red. He\n> rammed through the wall and ended up where the girl was. As he drove off,\n> the guy's and the girl's eyes met and his head started to hurt again. The\n> girl remembers but the guy could not, and as he was driving away quickly, a\n> song started to play, with lyrics like \"It hurts to remember you\", or maybe\n> \"I can't remember you.\"\n>\n> The girl was sent on a mission as a driver with a team to clean up a small\n> area. The team wasn't able to do it, though. The infected superpower humans\n> showed up and killed everyone. They were about to kill the girl when she was\n> saved by another guy (say, \"Guy #2\") who was also infected, but he was not\n> like the others. He also had superpowers and wanted to kill the evil humans.\n>\n> Guy #2 saved the girl and also got hurt; he was bleeding from a shoulder. I\n> don't remember if he killed the evil guys, or if he just evaded them. They\n> were near a church, so the girl helped him walk and he said, \"Let's go\n> inside, we need to hide.\", so they went into the church's basement. Guy #2\n> said that in the corner, there was a pile of broken pieces of wood. If they\n> moved them, they would be able to find an old hose which they could get\n> water from.\n>\n> The girl asked him how he knew so much about the place. He answered that he\n> grew up in the church, as he was an orphan. This started a flashback for Guy\n> #2:\n>\n\n>> As an orphan, he lived there with many children, and there was an old\npriest who took care of the children. Guy #2 helped in the church's chores and\ncleaned the church. He wore a big thick black belt on his stomach before he\nwent to the town with the priest to collect charity.\n\n>>\n\n>> The first house they arrived at was that of a rich woman. When she came to\nthe door, the priest asked if she would be kind enough to give charity for the\norphans in the church. The woman told him that they had already asked last\nweek, before her son came out and said that they should give \"the Father\" some\nmoney and they should have some tea. The woman remarked that her son had a\nheart of gold, and invited the priest inside.\n\n>>\n\n>> The boy said that he wanted to play a game with Guy #2, which consisted of\ntaking him to a back alley and removing his belt before beating him ( because\nhe was an orphan) and telling him that he should die since no one loved him. A\nfat man pulling a wooden cart of bakery goods was passing by when he saw this.\nHe yelled at the kids to stop it, and the kids ran away. The fat man came\ncloser and Guy #2 started to cry. He said, \"Please don't beat me, too. The\nkids have beaten me up so much that I can't bear any more.\" The fat man said\nhe would not beat him and wiped his tears. The fat man then asked where he\nwanted to go and took him there. He gave Guy #2 some bread as a gift, and even\nthough he was very happy, he didn't eat it, but took it to the orphanage for\nthe kids instead.\n\n>>\n\n>> A few days later, the fat man met him again and gave Guy #2 some more bread\nand he left happily. Then the fat man was pulling his cart and crossing a\nstone bridge over water. Suddenly, someone started to push his cart from the\nside to the edge of the bridge and he started pushing from the other side to\nstop himself and his cart from falling.\n\n>>\n\n>> The ones who were pushing the cart were the blonde son and his friends,\nbecause he had saved Guy #2 from getting beat up and they were taking revenge\non him. The fat man and his cart went over the edge. As Guy #2 came back to\nthank him, he saw what had happened. Seeing the badly injured fat man, Guy #2\nsaid that he knew who had done it, and he named the blonde kid and his\nfriends. They were very rich and trusted, so a crime like this could not be\nput on them without any evidence.\n\n>>\n\n>> They asked the fat man what happened and who did it. He replies that he did\nnot see who did it, as he was pushing from one side and they from the other.\nSo, they told Guy #2 that he would have to swear on the Bible and say that the\nthe blonde kid and his friends did it, and he agreed. Later, the blonde kid\ncame to Guy #2 and asked him to tell everyone and swear on the Bible that it\nwas him who pushed the fat man over the bridge, because the kid's family gave\nthe church money the most, and if he didn't say it, they would stop giving\nmoney to the church and the orphan kids would all die of hunger.\n\n>>\n\n>> This made Guy #2 very sad and depressed. He then took the blame on himself\nand said he did it because he wanted to steal the bread he had. Some time\nlater, he found out that his older sister, who was an doctor or something, was\nattacked by the town's people while returning home. They beat her up so bad\nthat she was covered in blood, and left her in the middle of the road.\n\n>\n> That's all he said about his backstory, and they both slept in the church's\n> basement. After waking up, there was a loud noise outside, so they went out\n> to take a look, and there was a large robot coming towards them. The hatch\n> opened and it was the person in charge of the facility, along with a\n> scientist who was Guy #2's sister, who was somehow still alive.\n\nDoes anyone know what this anime is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn **Chūnibyō Demo Koi ga Shitai!** the crew always yell\n\n> *anishment this world\n\nduring their \"transformations\".\n\nWhat are they saying? **B** anishment or **V** anishment?\n\n* * *\n\nThere are several sources over the western web (just google it - [I just\ndid](https://www.google.com.br/search?q=vanishment%20or%20banishment%20this%20world)),\nand there is nothing conclusive, so if you can point to some canon or other\neastern sources, appreciated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's _probably_ \"vanishment\", though I think the evidence is a bit too sparse\nto be 100% sure.\n\nThe season 2 ED does explicitly say \"Van!shment Th!s World\" in Latin script\n(which is also the [title of the ED song](http://vgmdb.net/album/42764)) :\n\n\n\nFor reasons that are not entirely clear to me, people on the Japanese internet\nmostly appear to think that the word in question (バニッシュメント _banisshumento_ )\nis from English \"vanishment\" rather than \"banishment\" (see e.g.\n[one](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q14120902704),\n[two](http://dic.pixiv.net/history/view/723017 \"this revision is from before\nseason 2 aired\"), [three](http://toki24827.blog49.fc2.com/blog-\nentry-504.html)). Perhaps this points to greater awareness of English\n\"vanishment\" than \"banishment\" among speakers of Japanese? If this is in fact\nthe case, it suggests that Rikka's catchphrase would have been intended to use\nthe word \"vanishment\". Then again, perhaps the ambiguity was intended?\n\nThough, to muddy the waters a bit, the B-side on the season 2 OP album is\ntitled [\"PunIshment this worLd-VOICE-\nEpisode.Φ\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/42763).\n\nWhile we're at it, apparently Japanese [sometimes transliterates \"varnish\" as\nバニッシュ\n_banisshu_](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1216526397),\nso I suppose it's not _entirely_ impossible that Rikka is actually saying\n\"varnishment this world\". Crazier still, the most recent Kuroko no Basuke\nopening (S3 OP3) displays the phrase [\"Burnishing\nDrive\"](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8JaK8.jpg) for a move that everyone would\nthink was called \"Vanishing Drive\" (バニシングドライブ _banishingu doraibu_ ). With\nJapan, all things are possible.\n\n(Incidentally: I've only read snippets of the light novel, but as far as I'm\naware, this particular catch phrase is anime-original, so that's a no-go for\ngetting clarification.)\n\n* * *\n\nFor the benefit of the reader who may be confused about why this is confusing,\nJapanese did not historically have a \"v\" sound, so borrowings of words from\nEnglish that do have a \"v\" typically had the \"v\" replaced with a \"b\". This\ncauses a bit of confusion in this case, since \"banishment\" could be from\nEnglish \"banishment\" _or_ from English \"vanishment\" with the \"v\" changed to a\n\"b\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently finished all three seasons of Hajime no Ippo and I wanted to know\nwhere the last season left off in the manga. Also, I wanted to know if the\nanime follows the manga storyline or if there are things changed, so as to\nknow if I have to start the manga from chapter 1 or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Rising_ ends with a [four-episode\narc](http://ippo.wikia.com/wiki/Hajime_no_Ippo%3A_Rising#After_the_War_Arc)\nfocused on Kamogawa and Nekota in their younger years. Though the anime places\nthis arc after Takamura's victory against David Eagle, it\n[originally](http://ippo.wikia.com/wiki/After_the_War_Arc) came after\nTakamura's first match against Bryan Hawk in the manga, so you'd want to pick\nup from the end of Takamura's fight against Eagle, which ends on\n**Chapter/Fight 556** in the manga.\n\n[Most](http://www.dynamiteglove.org/node/843)\n[people](http://www.reddit.com/r/hajimenoippo/comments/2amgtl/difference_between_the_anime_and_manga/)\nseem to agree that while the anime made some cuts for the sake of time,\nimportant scenes have been retained, and that cut scenes generally would have\nadded depth of background, humor, or added characterization that the series\nhad no time for or that would have disturbed the flow of the plot. According\nto the first link, a fight between Hayami and Kobashi that originally took\nplace in Chapter 290 of the manga was cut, but it was relatively short and\nlikely had little bearing on the main plot.\n\nI haven't actually watched it, so I can't say for certain, but from what I've\nread, the anime should be a pretty faithful adaptation of the manga. If you\nreally wanted to, you could start from Chapter 1 anyway to pick up the minor\ndetails that were cut. You may end up enjoying the series more, or it might\nnot make much of a difference.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThroughout all of Fullmetal Alchemist Manga, King Bradley chopped his way\nthrough everything, from stone to arms to automail.\n\nHow did it get to be so sharp? What did the King use to sharpen his sword?\n\nAn aside: the sharpness of his sword seemed to transfer to any bladed weapon\nhe used. Was it a side effect of his homunculus-ness?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey're so sharp because he takes care of them. The true power behind his\nswords are his swordsmanship, superhuman strength and incredible speed.\nEverything King Bradley uses to fight with is really just ordinary weapons.\nThere is a scene in the brotherhood series (I'm aware you mentioned the manga\nbut your overall question is generic) where he even picks up two dagger and\nstarts to fight the old man with no problem.\n\nWith the right amount of precision and strength it is possible to slice\nthrough some really dense materials (Including metals) with a really well made\nsharp sword. Keep in mind that it is still just an Anime/Manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAdding to TonyBilby's answer: In the manga you get a short flashback into\nWrath's \"creation\" or \"selection\". There are quite a lot of candidates to\nbecome wrath, training day and night and only the best one is chosen to become\nKing Bradley. At the said point in the story he is 60 years old, in which he\nsummed up a little bit of experience, compared to Ed's ~5(?) years of\ntraining.\n\nSo my conclusion is the same: Superhuman strength, incredible speed and\npossibly the best swordsmanship in the country.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot of it boils down to superhuman strength **and** speed, so he's going to\nhit his target with a lot of force behind each strike. There are a few other\nthings to consider:\n\n * Weapon: the sword he uses, [a spadroon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spadroon), isn't that strong a sword in terms of durability. However, he likely goes through these things like popcorn and is routinely replacing older/damaged swords with new, sharpened blades (he breaks them several times in the series).\n * Training: knowing all about body mechanics, timing, etc.; is something any competent martial artist possesses. There are plenty of articles and YouTube videos just on the topic of how a boxer generates so much more force than an \"average Joe\" when throwing a punch (chambering, stance, multi-joint-acceleration, muscle memory, etc.). The same applies to swordsmanship.\n * \"Ultimate eye\": he possesses a magical ability to hone in on his opponent's weak spot. Whether this is the opponent's vital points/organs, or if it also includes instantaneous weaknesses (weak points in armor, a bad stance or being off-balance, etc.) it could explain certain feats of skill/strength (i.e. chopping off Captain Buccaneer's automail arm so easily, or even damaging the treads on a tank, or the blades not breaking when striking Greed's/Ling's armored arms, or chopping through thousands of pounds of rock pillars): he just hits with absurd strength and accuracy (though, IRL, a spadroon isn't doing that kind of damage to caterpillar treads without snapping in half).\n\n# Summary\n\nSuperhuman abilities provide a reasonable-enough explanation, but it takes an\naweful lot of\n[handwavium/unobtainium](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handwavium) to explain\nhow those fragile swords can withstand even 1% of the force thrown at them\nwithout dulling and/or shattering with each strike.\n\n# TL;DR\n\nHe's a superhuman with mithril blades.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter blowing up the Moon, making it lose more than half of its mass, what did\nKoro-sensei do to prevent it from crashing onto the Earth? Given the loss of\nmass, the Moon would have lost the centrifugal force that kept it from\ncrashing onto the Earth. So, there must be something that he done to prevent\nit, because if not, the World Leaders would've noticed and said something\nabout the Moon getting closer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there any anime with an overweight female protagonist?\n\nA friend of mine told me that there is none. Is she right?\n\nI just need one simple yes/no answer and, if affirmative, one example.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile \"overweight\" can be subjective, [**Real\nDrive**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Drive) generated\n[some](http://animehomec.blogspot.com/2008/05/real-drive-hooray-for-chubby-\ngirls.html) [buzz](https://ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/thick-with-\ncyberpunk-real-drive/) for chubby female characters.\n\nThe character in question is Minamo Aoi.\n\n\n\nSample of another female characters in the anime:\n\n\n\nPictures from\n[animecharactersdatabase](http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/source.php?id=1503)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have seen this anime on a VHS somewhere in the middle 90s. I've only watched\na few minutes into it (probably just an opening), and the few details that I\nremember are:\n\n 1. A spaceship, not too big, probably a single-pilot fighter, with a streamlined design and a small forward-swept winglet protruding from its underside (like a hook of a [trencher machine](https://texascreek.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/trencher.jpg)); the ship probably had a greenish tint (though it could be a VHS color artifact);\n 2. The pilot was a long-haired girl; her design was probably typical for that era (at least, I can't remember anything particular about her, except for the serious face expression); she was beautiful, that's for sure;\n 3. There also was another ship (no winglet) with a female pilot, but I'm not completely sure about that;\n 4. I don't remember anything important happening during those minutes (no dogfights etc.)\n 5. I don't remember anything \"European\" or \"Victorian\" in the design of ships and pilots (as opposed to popular space operas of the 80s); even if there was any, it was subtle;\n 6. I don't remember any other characters, ships, or locations from those few minutes;\n 7. Overall, it seems like it was a serious title, not a comedy.\n\nI am definitely not an expert in the retro-space-opera department, so it could\neasily be something totally mainstream. Since it was on a bootleg VHS, it\ncould be an OVA, a full-length movie, or a TV episode.\n\nUPD. The winglet was small, compared to the craft dimensions (see the trencher\nmachine proportions). Overall, the craft design was rather streamlined. It\ndidn't look like a \"many pieces held together\" thing (in terms of the game\nFTL: more of the Stealth cruiser than Engi or Lanius one).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA bit of stab in the dark, but I think you might be referring to something by\n[Leiji Matsumoto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiji_Matsumoto). Beautiful\nlong-haired women are a dime a dozen in his works, and there are at least few\nship designs with something like a winglet on the underside.\n\nThe Spacewolf fighter from the various Captain Harlock TV shows and movies\nusually has a winglet on the underside. The version on the left below, from\nArcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX, is noticeably swept forward. The enemy\nMazone fighters, always piloted by women with long hair, also can have\nsomething like a underside winglet, like the example below on the right.\n\n[](http://www.cornponeflicks.org/harlock/pirateships.html#SPACEWOLF)\n[](http://www.cornponeflicks.org/harlock/mazoneships.html#MFIGHTERS)\n\nApparently the fighters in Space Battleship Yamato sometimes had a bottom\nmounted winglet:\n\n[](http://yamato.wikia.com/wiki/Type-\nZero_Space_Model_52_Cosmo_Zero)\n\nIt's a bit of a stretch, but but if you didn't realize how big it is, The\nQueen Emeraldas, kinda sorta fits your description. It has a long\n\"streamlined\" shape and the gondola can sorta look like a forward swept\nwinglet depending on how it gets drawn. Despite its size I believe it's\nusually shown a being piloted by one long-haired woman.\n\n[](http://www.cornponeflicks.org/harlock/pirateships.html)\n\n(Click on any of the above images will take you to a page with more images of\nsimilar craft.)\n\nUnfortunately I'm can't suggest any specific titles or episodes. I'm not that\nfamiliar with these works, having only a watched a few Captain Harlock\nepisodes recently and a handful other shows in French as long, long ago as a\nkid. Hopefully this will at least help narrow it down.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 10, during Eren's flashback, Eren's father gave him a key and told\nhim to embrace the power of Titan transformation if he wanted to protect\nMikasa and Armin. His father said that the key is for the basement under their\nhome in Wall Maria where all the secrets would be revealed. I wonder if it's\nalready been revealed in the manga. If it has been revealed, can anybody\nexplain it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis has not been revealed yet in the manga but there have been further clues\nthan are available in the anime. Please note that this contains major\nspoilers.\n\nSome Titans can turn back into humans.\n\n> This ability can be obtained by eating a human with that ability. Some other\n> titan powers can be transfered in this way. Some lineages of humans have\n> special powers and most of humanity is from a single related lineage. Most\n> of the memories of this family were erased by the \"true royal family\". One\n> Titan has the ability to hold the memories of some past Titans including the\n> Titan who built the walls and erased the memories. This ability can only be\n> unlocked if a member of the true royal family has that Titan power. As this\n> was said by a member of the true royal family trying to convince his family\n> member to eat the current holder of that power (who wasn't a member of that\n> family) this information is somewhat suspect. At one point in time, Eren's\n> father had this ability (though possibly could not unlock it). In addition,\n> the member of the royal family demonstated the ability to inject himself\n> with a syringe which turned him into a specific titan of his choosing.\n> Eren's father showed familiarity with this family and that ability. In the\n> basement, Eren's father has left some information either about the syringes,\n> unlocking the Titan memory, what he learned via the Titan memory, why he\n> betrayed the true royal family, or simply what we have already learned about\n> Titans and the royal family but what Eren wouldn't have known at the time\n> the key was given to him.\n\nIt is also possible (with the way this amazing manga preceeds) that the\nbasement pertains to some secret that hasn't even been hinted to us yet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis has been revealed now in the manga. Please note that this contains major\nspoilers.\n\n> The basement key... does not open the basement. The basement contains a\n> modest office that looks ordinary. The key opens a hidden drawer in the desk\n> which... is empty. But the drawer has a hidden compartment which contains\n> three books. A book contains a photo of a family. On the back of the photo\n> is a note indicating that this is a photo, not a drawing, and that is proves\n> humanity is alive beyond the walls. The books give Eren's father's life\n> story and how that relates to their current situation. That is being\n> revealled in current chapters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUpdating @kaine's answer... The latest manga (Issue 86) has given further info\nregarding the key. Major spoilers follow.\n\n> The book Eren finds in the drawer opened by the key expands the universe in\n> which the characters live on, saying that not only humanity has not been\n> confined (and on brinks of extinction) but that the ones inside said wall\n> are somewhat _exiled_ from the \"main\", dystopic society. Eren's father\n> himself was exiled after plotting against the rulers of said society\n> alongside with his _original_ wife, after his _original_ son betrayed the\n> couple.\n\nIf you _do_ know _what_ the beast titan is, then the following spoiler (also\nmajor, so please be careful) will be an upsetting twist of events.\n\n> It has also been revealed that he is the son who betrayed Grisha Yaeger and,\n> conclusively, Eren's halfbrother.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI came across a few clips of this a few days ago, but I didn't attempt a\nreverse search because it was in .webm form, which I haven't had much luck\nreverse searching through Google.\n\nThe animation seemed to feature two main characters: a girl with short hair\nwearing cat ears, and a glassed girl wearing a dragon suit who appeared to be\nthe enemy. The latter might have also worn braids. The dragon suit led me to\nbelieve that the first girl was supposed to represent a tiger, what with\nvarious elements of Japanese mythology representing them as rivals.\n\nThe tiger-girl may have had some sort of transformation sequence before the\nfight.\n\nThe dragon-girl could control ice, which put their fight heavily in her favor,\nsince she and the tiger-girl were fighting in an area that was frozen over and\ncovered in snow and icicles.\n\nThroughout the scene, the tiger-girl attempted (mostly in vain) to land blows\non her opponent while dodging the icicles her opponent broke off from the\nsurroundings and shot at her.\n\nAt one point, the tiger-girl managed to dodge a volley of icicles and take\nadvantage of an opening in the dragon-girl's defense to leap into the air and\ntry to claw at her, which was shown through silhouette. Time slowed down for a\nmoment as she flew through the air, and then it returned to normal as another\nwave of icicles seemingly impaled her in midair from all directions, kind of\nlike this:\n\n\n\nThe camera then changed angles out of silhouette to show that the tiger-girl\nhadn't been stabbed - she was only trapped and tangled in the interlocking\nicicles as she attempted to break free.\n\nThat's about all I could remember. The animation looked very smooth and\npolished. At one point, something shattered, sending beautifully animated ice\nshards flying. Both characters were super-deformed/chibi.\n\nI used \"animation\" and not \"anime\" in describing it, because I am not sure if\nit was just some independent video or an actual series. I tried searching\nvarious combinations of relevant keywords on Google, like \"3d\", \"icicles\",\n\"chibi\", etc., but most of what I got was mediocre DeviantArt and drawing\ntutorials.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe premise for the **Teekyuu** anime says it's about 4 girls in the tennis\nclub, and during some of the episodes of the first season they actually play\nsome tennis, but it seems after that nothing revolves around tennis or the\nclub. It could have been about any 4 girls in any school who were friends.\n\nDoes the source material (manga) have more to do with sports and tennis? The\nmanga doesn't look like it's 4-koma and seems kind of a weird to adapt it as 2\nminute long episodes as an anime.\n\n",
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Because they're so short, they're pretty\ncomprehensive of what happens.\n\nThis will be a reasonably loose attempt at collation - the actual times they\nplay an entire game is much less.\n\n**Season 1 (5/12):**\n\n * Teaching Yuri how to play tennis is harder than herding cats. **YES**\n * Takamiya Nasuna has returned to play tennis, but first they have to harvest the court. **YES**\n * Bando Marimo means well, but she has a soul of an old man… a perverted old man\n * Kanae has invited the club to her house... things get awkward from here.\n * All jokes aside, Nasuno decides to get serious and play at her full strength! **YES**\n * The girls enjoy a day at the pool by themselves.\n * The club needs new members! **YES**\n * Nasuno wants to create something \"special\" for her father's birthday.\n * Marimo gets a... job?\n * The showers at school are broken so the club visit the public baths.\n * Let’s go to a festival!\n * The club is finally back to practicing but when they lose their only ball… **YES**\n\n**Season 2 (4/12):**\n\n * The four members of tennis club are asked to help with a bean throwing event by Kanae's cousin, who works at a nursery school. Concerned the children are frightened of her, Marimo receives advice from the principal, but... \n * Kondo-san from the newspaper clubs asks to interview the tennis club. Can the excited upperclassmen properly show off the activities of the tennis club?! **YES**\n * At Nasuno's suggestion, the four girls go on an overnight trip together. However, as expected, there's something strange about the method of transportation and lodging arranged by Nasuno...\n * After finishing practice on their overnight trip and recharging themselves in the bath, the four girls hold a hot springs table tennis tournament. How will the gradually escalating battle end? **YES**\n * On the final day of their trip, the tourist spot the manager told the girls about turns out to be a silver mine! And what event occurs on the bus on their way home...?\n * When Nasuno suddenly declares she wants a pet, she and the other members head to the pet store where they find unbelievable animals!\n * The day of the sports festival has arrived. Having entered a club relay race, the members come together to try to win, but...\n * When Kanae becomes upset over her short stature, Nasuno takes her to a ranch. Will milking a cow make her taller!?\n * One day, the four girls take on the base ball club with their right to use the tennis court on the line. Certain character appears to fill their roster, turning it into a white hot battle! **YES**\n * At the bottom of the first inning with bases loaded and two outs, batter Kanae breaks out a certain pose! And finally, the conclusion! **YES**\n * One night, a mysterious flying object crash lands at Marimo's house. From the dazzlingly bright light appears an alien who calls himself \"Tomalin!\"\n * Kanae and Yuri go to an udon restaurant with coupons they received from Kondo-san. However, there's nothing ordinary about this udon restaurant!\n\n**Season 3 (3/12):**\n\n * Nasuno-senpai takes everyone skiing. On what kind of course did the four skiing beginners end up?!\n * When it starts pouring rain, everyone seeks shelter at Kanae's house. On their way home, Kanae is struck by a bolt of lightning and uses her superpower \"Kana Kana Wave\"...\n * Nasuno is saved from a group of seemingly terrifying hooligans by a high school student named Yota. However, another group of assassins appears!\n * At the suggestion of a long-haired Nasuno and short-haired Kanae, Yuri accompanies them to a salon. What NEW hairstyles does she see during her trip?!\n * The group heads to the shrine for their first visit of the New Year. After drinking some amazake, Yuri runs out of control and things turn dire!?\n * Nasuno's bakery is 300 million yen in debt?! The girls try coming up with a new menu for the reconstruction of the store, but...\n * A story of Yuri as a third year middle school student. After making it into Kameido High School, Yuri tries to join the tennis team, but... **YES**\n * When Kanae's strings break the gang heads to a tennis supply store. The store stocks nothing but unusual strings. Which strings will Kanae choose? **YES**\n * Yuri encounters the lingering spirit of her uncle at his funeral. Somehow her uncle takes control of her body, and...\n * While Marimo is playing games at home, she is suddenly sucked into the game world through her TV. Will Marimo make it safely back to her own world?\n * The national tennis tournament has begun! What secret strategy does Kanae use against the formidable Usagikame High?! **YES**\n * The fearsome final exams are approaching. The girls gather at Kanae's house to study.\n\nThere is 7 seasons of this and also 11 tankobans - so I think I will stop\nbefore I waste my entire evening - but I think it's clear that **the majority\n( > 50% ) of time is spent on non-tennis-related items.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fate/Zero, Irisviel was created to be the Grail vessel. In Fate UBW, I\nthink Illya was one as well. (I think it's also the case in Fate/stay night in\ngeneral, but I'm not sure).\n\nWhat **_is_** a Grail vessel? Is it _required_ to summon the Holy Grail?\nBecause if that's the case, what if there is no Grail vessel in the war?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Einzberns hire Kiritsugu. Some random mage hunter guy.\n\nAs far as I'm concerned, the Einzberns pretend to use the Grail to restore the\nThird Magic thing.\n\nBut, if Kiritsugu uses the Grail for his wish (the world peace thing), won't\nthe Grail vanish?\n\nSo the question is, what were the Einzberns planning to do once Kiritsugu won\nthe war? Don't they need the Grail to get the Third Magic thing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis spoils Fate/Stay Night, especially the Heaven's Feel route.\n\n> There are actually two Grails. The Greater Grail that was created by the\n> three mage families, the one that facilitates the war and is the one that\n> would be used to \"perform\" the Third Magic. The Lesser one is the one that\n> manifests at end of the war and does the wish magic. Most of the power that\n> gets accumulated from heroic spirits goes to Greater Grail, while Lesser\n> Grail gets only a small fraction for doing actual wish. Simply said, the\n> whole \"unlimited wish\" from Lesser Grail is a plain lie.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn both Stay/Night and UBW, Illya is a Grail vessel.\n\n... and she's also a master.\n\nWhy did the Einzbern make her a master? If she wins the war, she will\n**become** the Lesser Grail because she is the vessel itself, won't she? And\nif she becomes the Lesser Grail, then there will be literally nobody present\nto take possession of the Holy Grail (since all other competitors would be\ndead / defeated).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the plan of the Einzbern's for the 5th Holy Grail War was to obtain\nthe [Third Magic](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Magic) on the spot, and\nnot try and relay on a third party to secure it or the Greater Grail (as they\ndid last time, which failed).\n\nMy evidence for this is shown in the Heaven's Feel Route, at the very end of\nthe True Ending, Ilya is shown wearing the [Dress of\nHeaven](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Magic#Dress_of_Heaven):\n\n> The Mystic Code of the Einzbern family, the Dress of Heaven, is the heart\n> that controls the Great Grail that is capable of materializing the soul for\n> several seconds. This allows for the transferal of a soul into another\n> container, such as when Illya places Shirou's soul into a doll in a bad\n> ending.\n\nThis is what Ilya uses to materialize Shirou's soul at the end of the Heaven's\nFeel Route using an incomplete form of the Third Magic, which is later found\nby Rider and placed in a puppet made by Touko Aozaki. It stems to reason that\nsince the Dress of Heaven is transmuted from the ether that forms Leysritt,\nIlya had the Dress of Heaven since the beginning of the war (thus having it in\nall 3 routes).\n\nAlso, Ilya is the strongest Master the Einzbern's could send out. The number\nof Magic Circuits she has overwhelms that of a typical magus. She has an\nunlimited supply of mana to supply to Beserker and she also possesses the\nMystic Eyes of Binding. After she starts to break down from absorbing\nServants, Kinoko Nasu has said in an FAQ that Leysritt and Sella would then\naid her:\n\n> **Q: What is Illya’s capacity as a Grail? Hypothetically, if the Einzbern\n> won the War, Illya absorbed the other 6 Servants besides Berserker, and had\n> some shred of human will left, could she still don the Dress of Heaven and\n> initiate the Grail ritual?**\n>\n> A: That’s what Liz and Sella are for. Ilya can only take up to 4 - I would\n> think that absorbing a fifth Servant wouldn’t allow her to function as a\n> human any longer.\n\nSource: [Illyasviel von Einzbern - Citation\n6](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Ilya#cite_note-CM2-5)\n\nNow I don't know in what context they mean by \"obtained\" when referring to\nMagic in the Nasuverse so I can't think as to what would happen after, but I\nwould assume Sella would play some role in it given that she was to help Ilya\nwear the Dress of Heaven after Leysritt is sacrificed.\n\nThe only other plan the Einzbern's may have had was to either materialize the\nsoul of or extract the current modern time user of the Third Magic, [Justeaze\nLizrich von\nEinzbern](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Justeaze_Lizrich_von_Einzbern) from\nthe Greater Grail.\n\n> There is no information on the original practitioners of the Third Magic. If\n> it can be considered to have any user in modern times, it would be Justeaze\n> Lizrich von Einzbern, who is the core of the Great Grail. Illyasviel von\n> Einzbern also makes use of it in one of the routes of Fate/stay night,\n> although it is an incomplete usage.\n\nSource: [Third Magic -\nHistory](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Magic#History)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first VN/season deals with the fruit of Grisaia, the sins (or sorrow) of\nthe girls.\n\n[Is the Fruit of Grisaia an actual\nfruit?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3139/is-the-fruit-of-\ngrisaia-an-actual-fruit)\n\nNow, what is _Labyrinth_ in the title of the second game supposed to mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow many seasons are there in the _Diabolik Lovers_ anime series? Some\nwebsites say that there's a season two, and some say that there's only one\nseason.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs stated in [the\nlink](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-02-09/diabolik-lovers-\ngets-2nd-anime-season-stage-play/.84238) that @nhahtdh provided above:\n\n> The official Twitter account for the anime of Rejet's Diabolik Lovers video\n> games for women announced on Monday that a second season of the anime has\n> been green-lit.\n\nThe [mentioned\nTweet](https://twitter.com/anime_dialover/status/564740026479558656) is as\nfollows (emphasis added):\n\n> **【お知らせ】アニメ「DIABOLIK LOVERS」第２期の制作が決定！ 逆巻兄弟はもちろん、無神兄弟も登場！** 続報をお楽しみに☆\n>\n> みなさま、応援よろしくお願い致します！！\n\nThe bolded text above roughly translates as:\n\n> [Announcement] The second season of the Diabolik Lovers anime has been set!\n> The Sakamaki brothers, of course, and the Mukami brothers as well, will make\n> an appearance.\n\nNo airing date nor other details have been announced as of **April 14, 2015**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Scenario:**\n\nA streaming site has streaming rights to an anime and then a different company\npicks up the title for DVD/Bluray viewing.\n\n**Question:**\n\nDoes the second company have to re-subtitle the show even though that work has\nbeen done already by the streaming company?\n\nBecause I assume the subtitles _belong_ to the company who made them - Do\ncompanies sell them on maybe?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of it may depend on the region/country which the original translation was\ncreated and where the second company's region is. In the U.S., translations\nare derivative works, which are copyrighted separately themselves but cannot\nbe produced without the consent of the original work's copyright holder.\n\nAnd because the reason for doing the translation and distribution (be it\nstreaming or physical media) is to localize for a region's consumers, there's\nusually no reason to need a new translation but it ultimately depends on the\noriginal copyright holder. Sometimes, simulcast streams have translations that\nwere done under a heavier time constraint, even if the scripts are shared to\nthe translators before the original airing of episodes. There's less\nsupervision in some of these cases and the original copyright holder (e.g. the\nJapanese Studio) may not have the same control they'll have if they work\ndirectly with an editor or a script director for the licensor (e.g. the\nstreaming company or distributor). At the same time, the original license\nholder may ask that another translation be used instead of the licensor\ncreating their own new translation, though I'm not sure how often that ends up\nhappening.\n\nI don't have any numbers or citations to give you an idea of how many streamed\ntranslations end up being re-used by other distributors, but they would either\npay a licensing fee to the translation's copyright holder (be it the streaming\ncompany or a translation service), or they could just buy it. The original\ncopyright holder, though, would most definitely have some say about this when\nthe license to distribute is hashed out. If the original copyright holder is\nOK with reusing another translation, then that's probably what usually ends up\nhappening. Otherwise, the studio may demand a new translation with more direct\ninput.\n\nNote that translations, even on physical media getting reused isn't uncommon,\nespecially with distributors for different regions but the same language\n(U.K., U.S., Australia, etc). Also note that some studios get new translations\nmade for the _same_ property on newer releases (e.g. ADV's Neon Genesis\nEvangelion's perfect collection vs platinum collection).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fate/Zero, we see that the Matou don't really have a proper candidate to\nparticipate in the war. So Zouken adopted Sakura. Then Kariya comes up and\nparticipates. In exchange for winning the grail, Zouken will release Sakura\nfrom her fate as a mage (?).\n\nThen Kariya loses. Therefore Zouken still needs Sakura, does he not? Zouken\nwill continue training her to participate in the next war.\n\nBut, in Fate Stay/Night and UBW, this is the situation:\n\n * Sakura is a normal girl with no apparent knowledge of magic.\n * Shinji Matou is the master fighting for the Matou family.\n\nThen, my question is:\n\n * Where was Shinji Matou during Fate/Zero? Why did Zouken need Sakura if he had Shinji?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Where was Shinji Matou during Fate/Zero?\n\nWell, he was five years old at the time. I guess that during Fate/Zero, he was\nhanging around the Matou residence or something.\n\n> Why did Zouken need Sakura if he had Shinji?\n\nHeaven's Feel spoilers (I think?):\n\n> Shinji is a non-mage, like his father (Byakuya), and thus essentially\n> useless to Zouken. This, again, was the whole point behind having Sakura\n> adopted in from the Tohsaka family - Kariya was unwilling to cooperate, and\n> Byakuya was a non-mage (and so would all his offspring be). \n> \n> But, you say, Shinji is a Master in the fifth war! How can that be? Well,\n> it turns out that Rider's actual master is Sakura. Basically, Shinji\n> torments Sakura until she surrenders provisional control of Rider to Shinji\n> by means of a magical book that behaves like a Command Spell. \n> \n> So anyway, Shinji, like Kariya, did not really factor into Zouken's plans.\n> With both of them, it would have been nice if they won the war, but Zouken's\n> ultimate plans revolved around Sakura. During Fate/Zero, his plan was for\n> Sakura's offspring to win the fifth war; but when the fifth war came around\n> fifty-ish years early, his goal was to have Sakura herself win the war on\n> his behalf. This obviously doesn't work out well for Zouken in Fate or UBW,\n> but he comes pretty close to getting what he wants in Heaven's Feel.\n\nThis whole confusion you're having is one of the big reasons why watching\nFate/Zero before Heaven's Feel makes for a somewhat subpar experience -\nknowing in advance that Zouken has all these sinister plans, you can't help\nbut wonder what he's been up to in the first two routes and what the whole\ndeal with Sakura and Shinji is and so forth.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> _Where was Shinji Matou during Fate/Zero?_\n\nShinji was overseas at the time. He is only mentioned by his father Byakuya in\nthe original Novel.\n\n> He was briefly mentioned by Byakuya in the original Fate/Zero novel, his\n> only child was sent overseas in the name of studying.\n\nSource: [Shinji Matou - Other\nAppearances](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shinji_Matou#Other_Appearances)\n\n> _Why did Zouken need Sakura if he had Shinji?_\n\nThe original reason Zouken adopted Sakura was because Shinji was inferior as a\nmagus due to their declining bloodline and wasn't fit to be an heir. Shinji\nstated in the Fate Route that this was because the Matou didn't properly adopt\nto the land, as they were foreigners to Japan, unlike the Tohsaka.\n\nFurthermore, since having two heirs would weaken the inheritance (magic) that\nis to be passed down, and raising both as magi is always believed to cause\nconflict between the siblings down the track (as was the case with the Aozaki\nfamily), the Tohsaka's, like any other magus family, can only choose one heir.\n\nBecause the Tohsaka's and Matou's were ancient allies back from when the 3\nfamilies were tutored by Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, Tokiomi Tohsaka put\nSakura up for adoption to the Matou.\n\n> Like most magi, her father chose only one daughter to carry on his family's\n> tradition as he believed raising an additional child would introduce\n> competition. Zouken Matou, an ancient ally of the Tohsaka House, offered to\n> adopt Sakura with the intention of training her as the successor of the\n> Matou's magecraft as his own heir, Shinji, was incapable of sorcery.\n\nSource: [Sakura Matou -\nBackground](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Matou#Background)\n\nThe reason why Rin was chosen over Sakura was because Rin's Elemental Affinity\nwas all five, while Sakura's was Imaginary Numbers. However, it was during her\n\"training\" which forcefully changed her Elemental Affinity to Water (Matou\nstandard) that Zouken saw her potential as a Master.\n\nAs for Shinji Matou being a Master, he was a fake Master. From the beginning,\nSakura was the Matou's Master. The book Shinji is shown to hold when he\ncommanded Rider was the [Book of the False\nAttendant](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Command_Spells#Special_Command_Spells),\nwhich was created from one of Sakura's Command Spells. Because the book cut\nRider's Prana supply from Sakura but didn't change the source to Shinji, Rider\nneeded other ways to gain Parana to stay manifested, thus the set up for\n[Blood Fort Andromeda](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Fort_Andromeda).\nSakura made the book for Shinji to use, as she did not want to fight in the\nWar because\n\n 1. She _could_ hurt Shirou (at that time, she was not aware that he had become a Master)\n 2. She _would_ hurt Rin (despite being told by Zouken to think of her former family as dead, she still recognized Rin as her sister)\n\nSakura was only forced to fight in the war in the Heaven's Feel Route when\nShinji splashed something on Sakura during the Blood Fort's activation,\ncausing the worms inside Sakura to go crazy. This forced her to fight in the\nwar and put an end to it, lest she be consumed by the worms.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe (NSFW, be warned) [broadcast\nopening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuwMqYS4AIA) for the Tsubasa Cat arc\nof Bakemonogatari ( **\"Sugar Sweet Nightmare\"** ) features various artistic\nnudes with what appear to be rail tracks stretching out along the model's\nbody, such as in this SFW sample:\n\n\n\nThe 'stations' here actually appear to correspond to various stations mostly\nin the Kansai area; for instance, 天見 ([Amami\nStation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amami_Station)) is a station on the Koya\nLine in Osaka, and 川西\n([Kawanishi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi,_Hy%C5%8Dgo)) is a small\ncity in the same broad area. On the other hand, a bit of digging doesn't turn\nup any rail lines that run between the two.\n\n**Does anyone know if there's any meaning to the specific choice of rail\nstations used in this opening and their layout, or was it essentially just a\nmishmash of random location names?**\n\n",
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Between Ebisu and Gotanda, there's a waterworks bureau in\nMeguro \n3 Represents [Tokyo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Station) on Yamanote\nLine (accessible from Ochanomizu by transfering to Chuo Line) \n4 Represents [Higashi-Mukojima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashi-\nMuk%C5%8Djima_Station) on Tobu Skytree Line and\n[Ryogoku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dgoku_Station) on Chuo-Sobu\nLine. Both have Tokyo Gas near them. \n5 Tokyo Tower is not anywhere near the Chuo-Sobu Line \n* Uses [traditional kanji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABjitai)\n\n* * *\n\n# Conclusion\n\nThe railway lines are real, though they don't seem to mean anything. However,\nthe **bolded** places on the body seem to mean something:\n\n * Waterworks bureau near bladder\n * Hamarikyu Gardens near womb\n * Tokyo Gas near large intestine\n * Tokyo Tower & Shiba Park are... _recreation places_\n\n* * *\n\nReference: [a more SFW, redrawn OP by NEXIS on\nYouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBieOMHvTag)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 425, Natsu is seen riding a boar. How come his motion sickness had\nnot kicked in?\n\n> \n\nHe should've built an immunity to Wendy's anti-motion-sickness spell, so why\nisn't he getting a motion sickness here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe same as Happy applies. The boar is not a transportation vehicle, it's a\nliving creature.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNatsu gets motion sickness when he is riding a vehicle but he does not get\nmotion sickness riding animals.(Well Natsu is an animal XD)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been watching the UBW series. When Caster abducts Shirou to take his\nCommand Seals so she can use Saber against Berserker, Archer comes in and\nsaves him - then fights Caster.\n\nAt some point during the fight, Caster sees Shirou unprotected, so she fires\nat him (at which point Archer saves him again).\n\n\n\nWhy did Caster shoot Shirou, if she hadn't retrieved his Command Seals yet?\n\nIt's not like Shirou was any sort of threat. Surely dealing with Archer first\nwould be a better idea, then retrieve the Command Seals off Shirou (since he's\nno match against Caster) to be able to fight Berserker using Saber.\n\nCaster was definitely aiming to kill - other than the fact that her attacks\nliterally blow up the ground, she was also smiling (as in, \"gotcha!\"), and\nthen was surprised to see Shirou still alive.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis answer is based purely on speculation.\n\nHowever, I believe that there is one reason for Caster to do that, and one\nreason why that is probably not a big deal to her.\n\n * First, Archer was called there in order to save Shirou from Caster. Targeting Shirou would force Archer to move in order to protect him. That kind of tactic is also shown in Episode 15 when\n\n> Near the end of the fight, Gilgamesh targeted Ilya to force Berserker to\n> backtrack and protect her.\n\n * Second, even if Shirou had been hit, she would probably still have been able to extract his Command Seals. (Note that she only makes one magical shot on Shirou's location)\n\nThe scene happens a bit differently in the VN. In it, the relative locations\nof Shirou, Caster and Archer are less clear - the only clear things are that\nShirou is in the line of fire, and Archer has to backtrack from the temple's\nexit to reach Shirou. In particular, it is hard to tell whether Caster\nspecifically targeted Shirou or if she was just shooting at the area.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJiraiya, Naruto, Hashirama and Kabuto were able to enter into Sage Mode. One\nwho enters Sage Mode possesses more abilities than a normal ninja. Why did the\nUchihas never try to learn Sage Mode? Is it because of the Sage of Six Paths\ndividing his power among his sons?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Sage Mode](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Mode) requires a large chakra\npool. Most Uchihas can't learn it because of it.\n\n> According to Fukasaku, only those who already possess \"extreme chakra\n> levels\" can utilise natural energy to invoke senjutsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## The Uchiha never tried learning Sage Mode, because, they never wanted it in\nthe first place.\n\nYeah, the Uchiha don't have a large chakra pool. But that couldn't be the only\nreason.\n\nThe first quality that comes into mind when taking the Uchiha clan for\nanalysis, is **pride**.\n\nThe Uchiha's pride stems from their battle skills, dexterity, intelligence and\nmost importantly, their prized Sharingan. The joy of the clan members when a\nSharingan develops in someone, is boundless. They keep the Sharingan in _very_\nhigh regard and consider it as the ultimate weapon.\n\nDue to the amount of consideration and importance the Uchiha gives to the\nSharingan, it is highly likely that they felt there was no need for any\nexternal enhancement jutsu, such as Sage Mode.\n\nAnother (incomplete) reason could be the Sage of Six Paths. He was the only\nother person Indra Otsutsuki despised (other than Asura). And the Sage Mode\nbeing something that stemmed out from the Rikudo Sennin, that hatred\nindirectly and unknowingly influenced Indra's descendants.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll of the people whom you mentioned (Naruto, Jiraiya, and Kabuto) were taught\nSenjutsu even though they were eager or not. Not sure about Hashirama because\nit was never mentioned in the anime or manga, but Orochimaru wanted to learn\nit and failed. You see, whether it is the giant snake, the great elder frog,\nor some guy from the Hidden Woods, where Hashirama must have learnt Senjutsu,\nshould decide to teach you the Senjutsu. Some Uchihas would have tried and\nfailed or gotten rejected.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOther than the good theories everybody else have already listed, my guess is:\nexcept Madara, Uchiha clan only focus on abilities and knowledge that came\nfrom their doujustu rather than look outside of their clan's specialties. This\nlimit was something that made Madara, then later Obito, Itachi, and Sasuke\nstronger and different from their clan history later on.\n\nOther than that, the whole length of _Shippuden_ has been the creator wanking\nout powers for the Uchiha whole way 700 chapters through. Did he really need\nto give them _another_ power they really don't need?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSuppose Sage mode is about balancing out your inner chakra with natural\nchakra, doubling your body's total chakra. In that case, I think it logically\nstands to reason that Fukasaku meant that those with higher chakra reserves\nhave less of a \"sweet spot\" when it comes to fine-tuning that balance. Ranking\nthem with numbers let's say ninja like naruto and hashirama have a rank of 10\nin terms of large amounts of chakra and ninja like Kakashi and Sasuke have\nchakra reserves in terms of 4 or 5. Naruto and Hashirama have more chakra to\ngain before turning into a toad giving them the ability to train more\nefficiently where as trying to gain the same amounts kakashi and Sasuke would\nend up toads. This means that rather than being completely useless at it it\nwould take them more time to learn to sense the nature chakra because they\nwould require far more breaks to protect themselves from toad petrification. I\nthink it may be like others have said that rather it just wasn't on their\nradar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of the series, we see Shanks carrying the Gomu Gomu no Mi\nfruit around like a treasure. Was he expected to eat this fruit? Or did he\njust sell it?\n\n\n\nIt's obvious he didn't want Luffy to eat it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think Shanks ever planned to eat the Gomu Gomu no Mi. I think he\nprobably gave it to one of his crew members or sold it for some sake. With\nShanks being one of the most powerful men in the world, I think if he ever\nwanted a Devil Fruit, he would have been able to get one pretty easily. If he\nwanted the Gomu Gomu no Mi specifically, then it would be a different story.\nHowever, I just can't think of any reason why he could have wanted that one\nDevil Fruit. There are more powerful fruits to go after which would suit him\nbetter, I think.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't believe he was looking for that specific Devil Fruit, nor do I believe\nhe intended to eat it himself. I believe he simply came across this Devil\nFruit by pure chance or by taking it from another pirate crew who he happened\nto fight, and intended to sell it; if another member of his crew wanted to eat\nit, they probably would've done so before Shanks even arrived at Fuschia\nVillage.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe didn't wanted to eat it, that's for sure because if he wanted to do so he\nwould've done it for himself or for one of his nakama. Secondly he is a Pirate\nand the fact that he was safe-guarding the fruit was to secure the fruit until\nhe sells it. It would've been probably for selling but you can't say this for\nsure on any grounds and only Oda would've answered it the best!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he wanted to eat it because he knew what the fruit is capable of\notherwise he could not kept the devil fruit with him. That's what i think\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Luffy ate the fruit, Shanks was even quoted as saying that Not Being Able\nto Swim is a pirate's biggest weakness [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yU9Pe.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VZS8N.jpg)\n\nBased on Shank's reaction it's reasonable to assume that he wouldn't have\neaten or let his crew eat the devil fruit.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI sincerely think Shanks had the gum gum no mi for his personal consumption.\nAs we know, Shanks knew everything about the fruit and its ability of gum. Now\nwe all know that gum can be modified into anything as we see the straw hat's\ngears.\n\nSo imagine someone like Shanks with tremendous Haki ability having to be able\nto use the gum gum power. For all you know, he could have already been the\nking of the pirates by now with that ability. And if you think it over, Shanks\nleft the previous Kings straw hat with Luffy probably because he knew that\nwith that determination, ability, and haki (as he was friends with Garp),\nLuffy would actually have the potential to be the pirate king.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the genre of this manga is action, ecchi, and supernatural.\n\nThe main girl has multiple personalities, and every time she changes her\npersonality, her body changes, too.\n\nI remember in the first chapter, as she was being chased by some people, she\nended up transforming (or like I said, changed her personality) and killed\nthem.\n\nWell, that's all that I can remember. Please help me find this manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis sounds a lot like [**Gun x\nClover**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=77394). It is an action\nand ecchi manga, according to mangaupdates, and I think the female\nprotagonist's power can be considered supernatural.\n\nThis is a page from the first chapter, showing _Futaba_ \\- the 2nd personality\nof the female protagonist. The girl has multiple personalities (7 in total),\nand whenever she changes her personality, her body features (and even her\noutfit) also change to match the personality.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/191fH.png)\n\nThis is another page from the first chapter, showing _Mitsuba_ \\- the 3rd\npersonality of the girl. As you can see, her hair turns white as the 3rd\npersonality takes control, and she becomes violent and capable of killing\npeople. This is right after the scene where _Futaba_ got caught by mercenary\nand was about to be defiled, when the 3rd personality _Mitsuba_ surfaced to\nprotect herself and killed off all the small fries.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ywIjs.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched this anime way back when I was small, so I don't remember the\ndetails. I'm not sure, but I think it was an anime movie. It was aired on\nAnimax India.\n\nI think the name of the anime was a girl's name. Somewhere in the middle of\nthe movie, some guy explains how the spiral is somewhat of a universal symbol,\nand how the earth is somewhat shaped like a spiral. The girl has a monster\nhelping her, and there's this guy who helps her with her powers at first, but\nhe turns out to be the villain in the end.\n\nThe story takes place in a modern city. The only identifiable thing that I\nremember is the spiral. I think she gets it on her forehead, along with her\npowers to control a huge robot like creature.\n\nThat's all I can remember. It would be great if anyone knows this anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCould it be _[**Earth Maiden Arjuna**](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=107)_ (2001)? I have never seen it, but it seems\nto deal with Earth, so there could be a \"universe\" theme. There is a modern\nsetting. There is a female protagonist, and the title is based on the her\nname, Ariyoshi Juna. She has a magatama on her forehead which I think could be\nmistaken for a spiral.\n\n\n\nShe also has a superhero form, if that is familiar.\n\n\n\nSynopsis from AnimeNfo:\n\n> When Ariyoshi Juna has a bad accident, her spirit turns to light and rises\n> up out of her body into the night sky where she gets a glimpse of Earth a\n> few months in the future. What she sees is the Earth on the brink of total\n> destruction, ruled by the merciless demon forces called the Raajas. Then\n> Chris Hawken hands Juna a power stone and tells her to use it to save the\n> Earth. The power stone gives her the ability to call up an aura suit, that\n> activates and enhances a person's dormant special powers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the final scene of Angel Beats!, we see what we know is Otonashi pass by\nKanade. Kanade is humming Iwasawa's last song 'My Song', which she wrote in\nthe afterlife.\n\nHow did both Otonashi and Kanade remember this song? If they disappeared in\nthe afterlife, their souls/spirits would have passed on, so how do they\nremember it?\n\nI assumed that when they are 'reborn' in their next life, they would have no\nmemory of the afterlife or previous life. I guess this isn't the case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHave you ever had a tune stuck in your head but you have no idea where it came\nfrom? The tune just came to you like you have known that little tune for your\nwhole life? I think that's what the author was going for.\n\nI also think the song itself could be etched into their soul, because they may\nnot remember anything but maybe their soul remembers the strong feelings?\n\nThese are just the ideas I made up when I saw the ending...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere could be a few explanations but I don't think it goes that deep. The\nidea for the anime did imply that their souls kind of ended up in that world\ntemporarily and then, they left eventually. It's the same soul of the same\nperson. There's no telling how do our memories actually act.\n\nThere is a hell lot of stuff up there in your subconscious but you are not\naware of it. You only remember what is in your conscious part of brain. The\nrest of subconscious is vast and still there but only in a dormant form. You\ndon't really know what it is. It is depicted in dreams and some abnormalities.\n\nIt's quite possible that the memories keep accumulating in one's subconscious\nas he goes through life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI agree with the fact that it might not be as deep as having the song etched\nin their soul but it could be that one of them heard something that triggered\nthat memory of the song and not where it came from and when otunashi heard it\nit triggered an aha moment along with the memory of kinade and that's why they\nboth remember that song.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode, a girl with pink hair, half naked (or completely naked),\nwith supernatural power makes limbs explode. In the first episode or the\nsecond one, she's embraced (?) by someone. If I remember correctly, she's\nmentally like a child, or really lacks communication abilities.\n\nAny help would be much appreciated!\n\nP.S. Sorry for the terrible description, it's just that I have vague memory\nabout it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think you are talking about [**Elfen\nLied**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfen_Lied). It's really crazy,\nespecially the first episode.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just watched the first episode of the new Gintama 2015 season. At the\nbeginning, when Gintoki was hit by a chair, he screamed _Psycho-Pass!_\n\nI know Psycho-Pass is another anime (I watched it) - but what was the meaning\nbehind that reference in Gintama? I was wondering if both animes had the same\nstudio or something, but that doesn't seem to be the case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter an hour of extensive googling, I think I might have stumbled upon an\nanswer.\n\nGintoki screaming **Psycho Pass!** when hit by the chair,\n\n\n\nis a reference to a scene from the Psycho-Pass series, where Kasei gets hit on\nthe face with a book, thrown by Makishima.\n\n Gintama\nis well known for using gags and references regarding other animes. Most\nreferences are made when the situation is similar to that of the other animes.\nThis Psycho-Pass reference is a new one.\n\nI also believe it could be a word which was misheard by the viewers. Found\nthis on [Yorozuya Soul\nForums](https://forums.yorozuyasoul.com/index.php?topic=3001.45). The author\nhas a good point.\n\n> Gin had shouted a lot of random words before, when he gets hit or blown\n> away, maybe it's just a random thing, I personally think that maybe he\n> actually said \" **psychopath** \" but the translator though he said Psycho-\n> Pass, since they are both pronounce the same way (Psycho-Pass is a pun), at\n> least that's my assumption, I could be wrong, it's not like I'm fluent in\n> Japanese(YET!)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone recognise the voice of the ancient dragon called Scissor Runner?\nI'm pretty sure I've heard it before but I can't seem to find any information\non that matter, except for one person saying it is Kamikawa Takaya, but in\ncomparison they sound very different to me.\n\nI continued searching and this is what I additionally came up with:\n\nI know only some french words but as far as I understand it, [the person here\nasks the same question like\nme](http://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/1-98-656415-1-0-1-0-je-recherche-le-nom-d-\nun-seiyuu.htm) and someone suggests Ikeda Shuuichi.\n\nWhile my personal theory, after comparing several voices, is: it's the same\nvoice as Laxus. Konishi Katsuyuki.\n\nUnfortunately still all of them are mere guesses.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough not officially confirmed, the rumour on MAL is that it's [Takaya\nKamikawa](http://myanimelist.net/people/5993/Takaya_Kamikawa).\n\nHe's mostly known from the voice of Anti-Spiral in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI also think it's Katsuyuki Konishi (i.e. Laxus). I've always been very adept\nat recognizing voices and the first moment Scissor Runner spoke, I knew it was\nhim.\n\nThere is absolutely no way it's Takaya Kamikawa. Anime crews always \"recycle\"\ntheir voice actors - when they need a bit part or 1-2 episode character (like\nScissor Runner) voiced, they use someone who's already been in the series.\n\nScissor Runner and Levia, for example, are Laxus and Bickslow; Atlas Flame is\nByro, Byro Cracy and Jose Porla; Motherglare has 13 other roles (including\nAlzack); Rock Dragon has 9 other roles (including Droy); while Zirconis is\nalso Arcadios and Capricorn.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is the title **Punchline**? How does it relate to the series itself?\n\nAccording to dictionary.com,\n[_punchline_](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/punch+line) means\n\n> the climactic phrase or sentence in a joke, speech, advertisement, or\n> humorous story that produces the desired effect.\n\nSo do we have to wait until the end of the series to understand the meaning of\nthe title?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe title [**Punchline**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchline_%28anime%29)\nin Japanese パンチライン contains the terminology [パンチラ]{Panchira}, which means\n_\"the instant of miracle granted by the god of chance when the panty becomes\npartially visible\"_ according to [Nico Nico\nPedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A9), or\nsimply _panty-shot_ according to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchira).\n\nThis is inline with the theme of the show, where the main protagonist has to\navoid all those moments when the girls inadvertently expose their panties, or\nhe will become excited and somehow cause an asteroid to collide with the\nEarth.\n\nThe relation between the title and the term _panchira_ is prominently\ndisplayed in the OP of the series, and also in [the lyrics of the OP\n「しょこたん♥でんぱ組」](http://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/lyrics/shokotan-daisuki-\ndenpagumi/punch-line/#Japanese):\n\n> パンパンチラ パンパンチラ パンパンチラ パンパンチライン \n> パンパンチラ パンパンチラ パンパンチラ パンパンチライン\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Why not look at my panty line? \n> 女の子に恥かかせないでね\n\nThe line before last in the lyrics also gives rise to another interpretation\nof the title: _Punchline_ = _Panty Line_ , since the sound of _panty_ and\n_punch_ in Japanese is very close （[パンテーィ]{Panti–} vs. [パンチ]{Panchi}）.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeveral months back, there was a meme circulating where anime characters had\npregnancy tests photoshopped onto a picture of them.\n\nSome examples:\n\n   \n\nThe two hands and device look fairly well drawn, so I presume it was cut out\nfrom another show. I haven't been able to find out what **the show that\noriginally had the pregnancy test** was. Does anyone know?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nClosest I could get to an answer.\n\nAccording to [knowyourmeme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pregnancy-\nannouncement):\n\n> According to archived discussions[[1]](http://imgbako.com/256387646.htm)\n> [[2]](http://kmlg.jp/logview/kmlg.jp/archive/may_b/284333605.htm/index.htm)\n> from the Japanese imageboard site Futaba Channel (2chan), the photoshop meme\n> originally began as a minor fad sometime in the summer of 2014, but it\n> didn’t take off until the blank template image was posted on\n> Twitter[[4]](https://twitter.com/Gorxxx_/status/522386028594618369) by\n> @Gorxxx_[[3]](https://twitter.com/Gorxxx_/) on October 15th, 2014.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is probably from the original ending of Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka\nWakaranai Ken (Season 1 Episode 13), which aired in 2014.\n\nA clip of the scene can be seen here:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5CFBRL1R0>\n\nScreenshots: \n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Kick-Heart_ is notable as the first anime to be crowdfunded via\n[Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/production-ig/masaaki-\nyuasas-kick-heart).\n\nThe base goal of the Kickstarter was to reach $150,000, with additional\nstretch goals for more money.\n\nOn their campaign page, they tell potential backers how they intended to use\nthe funds raised:\n\n> * Increase the quality of animation\n> * Increase the overall duration of the animation\n> * Help offset the current production costs\n> * Manufacturing costs for backers rewards (Blu-ray, printed materials,\n> etc.)\n> * Digital distribution costs for backers downloading the film\n> * Festival submission fees\n>\n\nDo they mention the breakdown of expenses anywhere? I couldn't find it on\ntheir Kickstarter page. Generally speaking, it's not uncommon for crowdfunded\nprojects to show where your money goes. Was it perhaps revealed in a backer-\nonly update (which I wouldn't have access to)?\n\nI just thought it was odd that the amount was so high compared to latter\nKickstarters like Santa Company for $50,000, which was also a longer\nanimation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> In the [Berserk](http://berserk.wikia.com/) manga, after the carnage at\n> Eclipse, the protagonist [Guts](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Guts)\n> repeatedly came to be called as the Black Swordsman by everyone, other than\n> his new friends-cum-comrades. I've read the manga but I couldn't figure out\n> the possible reason for it.\n\nHowever, I do have some following clues but cannot account them as the primary\nreason for such.\n\n> 1\\. In the first and the last episode (scene before the ending) of the\n> [Berserk anime](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Berserk_%28Anime%29), Guts\n> skin color was neither white nor dark (like of\n> [Casca](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Casca)) but something different. \n> \n> 2\\. The color of Guts's outfit excluding the armor was almost black. After\n> the addition of [Berserker\n> Armor](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Berserker_Armor), everything he wore\n> was black.\n\nAs you can see, these reasons are not very convincing. Therefore, I ask the\nquestion again:\n\n**Why was Guts called the Black Swordsman?**\n\n**Note** : No racial discrimination or apartheid is intended in **1.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGuts was known as the \" _Swordsman clad in black_ \", which was eventually\nshortened to \" _Black Swordsman_ \".\n\n _Guts\nbefore he got his Berserk Armor._\n\n _Guts\nwith his Berserk Armor._\n\nHis armor was always black, but the most relevant item was his black cape,\nwhich always covered his whole body in black when he wasn't fighting.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf anyone has Netflix in here, I have a question about the difference in\nFunimation subtitles vs closed captioning, which I'm guessing is provided by\nNetflix.\n\nNot that I really even use Netflix for anime, but I have tried a few series\nand noticed Funimation titles have both, a **Subtitles** as well as a **Closed\nCaption** option, with different translations on both... not just the audible\nsounds and what not. Subtitles always being coded in yellow and CC being\nencoded in white.\n\nCan anyone shed some light on this? Im guessing the yellow encoded subs are\nfrom the DVD localization, and then the white CC are a resub, relicensed\nthrough Netflix??\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAround 17 seconds into episode 3 of _Re-Kan!_ , there is this weird window (as\nin GUI element) from Windows Vista or Windows 7 on the wall of the classroom.\n\n\n\nAnother screenshot at around 07:22 in episode 1, showing the window in the\nlower right corner.\n\n\n\nLooking through all 3 episodes which are aired so far, the charts and the\nweird window are consistently animated. While the animation is consistent, the\nchoice of article to place on the wall is still weird. The window element\nlooks completely out of place.\n\nIs this an animation mistake?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's a screenshot from LMTOOLS by Flexera Software. As it's a tool for working\nwith a software licencing management server, I think you're right and it's out\nplace on the wall of an average Japanese highschool. It hard to see such a\nspecialized tool being the subject of instruction, and the screenshot alone\nstuck to a wall wouldn't serve any purpose.\n\nI'm guessing the screenshot was grabbed from the Internet somewhere. Like this\none I found on as part of a [FAQ entry on using the\ntool](https://www.aldec.com/en/support/resources/documentation/faq/1280):\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the [Berserk](http://berserk.wikia.com/) manga, given the enormous amount\nof chapters dealing with [Guts'](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Guts) over-\nsized sword, the [Dragonslayer](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonslayer), I\ndidn't try finding a pic that clearly shows the sword hanging slantingly along\nhis dorsum. Neither did I notice the following issue before completing all the\navailable episodes.\n\nI'm intrigued by how exactly Guts was always able to wield Dragonslayer\nwithout at first having any difficulty from the hooks holding it, unhinges it\nto be more precise to say. If we assume having his arm fully stretched upward\nand trying to displace Dragonslayer from its stationary position, then _prima\nfacie_ the distance between his grip (not of sword's) and shoulders cannot be\n_greater than or equal to_ the length of the blade of the Dragonslayer.\n\nIt is this impracticability that made me to request here, a picture of Guts\nalong with the Dragonslayer featuring his dorsum without any cape, so as to\nunderstand the truth. While a picture will speak the answer by itself, a\ncontext around it or without the picture itself may help too.\n\nEdit: On a side note, these pictures of Guts somewhat shows the hinge which\nholds off Guts' sword. But I can't fathom how then he could use the sword\ninstantly when the sword needs to be unhooked every time to slay the enemy.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BMYSY.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PSiwo.png)\n\n(Click image to enlarge it)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo if I am understanding the question correctly, you are wondering why he has\nno issues with unhinging the sword from his back and getting it into battle\nposition.\n\nLet me instantly break the bad news, in real life this would not have been\npossible. And it falls under the [BFS\ntrope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BFS).\n\nEven so people tend to want to investigate how 'impossible' it would be to\nwield such a weapon. And which real life weapon would be most comparable to\nthis. They came to the following numbers:\n\n * Guts is roughly [1.90 meters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berserk_characters#Characteristics) high\n * The Dragon slayer is roughly the same [height](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berserk_characters#Equipment) (the size is a bit variable through out the series)\n * The blade most likely weights about 220 pounds or 99.8KG. Although on the [wiki](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonslayer#Trivia), it has been stated that it should be around 400 pounds, and some reddit user calculated it to be around [625 pounds](https://www.reddit.com/r/Berserk/comments/2c6prz/to_put_into_perspective_how_crazy_gutss_sword_is) or 283.5KG\n\nSo coming back to your question, to displace the sword, assuming that Guts and\nthe blade are equal in height and the blade weighs 220 pounds. Trying to pull\nit with a stretched arm length of 0.95m (it is said that the length of\nfingertip to fingertip is roughly your body length)\n\n(not sure how to do the maths from here, but feel free to edit it in)\n\nAnd to round up the post, the closest resembling sword to that of Guts', would\nbe a two handed [ceremonial sword](http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html)\nwhich only resembles the blade in length [(199cm /\n78.3inch)](http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html) and weighing much less\n[(5.42KG / 11.9 pounds)](http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLooking at the images given, I can't imagine his sword to be any less than 180\nkg, even if it was high-carbon steel it should weigh more than that. Also,\nsince he doesn't unsheathe basically any of his swords and just keeps it hung\non a couple of loops by the crossguard (if I remember correctly), he doesn't\nneed extreme reach to use it but only about a foot or two to get the thicker\nbase of the blade free.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe sword is not held by hinges, but with a hook at the top that goes into a\nring on the sword near the handle, and a long leather belt that has a cranny\nat the end of the tip of the sword.\n\nI actually have a detailed/movable figurine of Gatsu with the dragon slayer\nand I can remove the sword.\n\nIt shows in great details how the sword is holding onto his back. The hook is\nmore like a pin actually and makes it very easy to remove the sword.\n\nAlso the author does not always draw the whole thing. Like in the picture on\nthe right, we do not see the leather belt that hold the tip of the sword. yet\nthe sword is shown being slightly tilted. I am guessing the author was being a\nbit lazy/pressed by time.\n\nIf it was real/human-sized, the way is it made makes it actually quite easy to\ntake out, but not to put it back since you need to put the hook between the\nshoulder blades in the loop and then move/lift the sword until the tip is in\nits cradle at the end of the leather belt.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo one could swing this sword in real life but even the Mountain from GoT is\nnot as strong as the fictional Gatsu. Perhaps no human could ever get that\nstrong, but there are other things to show he's somehow superhumanly strong\neven if it's all \"natural\" in the manga/anime. As a skinny (relatively) 15\nyear old he's still swinging around a sword with speed that is clearly many\ntimes heavier than the heaviest swords used in real history.\n\nHe's also been able to stabilize the mast of a big ol' ship. His strength is\ncomparable to Hulk levels despite being much much much skinnier than a\nsuperhero character like the Hulk. In a world that is gritty and realistic\nEXCEPT the supernatural demons of course, his strength not being explained by\nanything supernatural has always been the one \"catch\", but I guess that's kind\nof a cool, special thing about it. Just by genetic miracle, sheer will, or\nsome other explanation, he is, without supernatural ability--many times\nstronger than the strongest men who have ever lived. It's kind of cool because\nusually characters in fiction with that much strength need a supernatural or\nsci fi \"boost\".\n\nBut yes, it's impossibly large for a human in real life to swing--really to\npick up for most of us. When you factor in momentum and leverage/pendulum\nstuff and all that nonsense. One's forearm can get tired just waving a crow\nbar around in the air for a while and the metal of the Dragon Slayer is likely\nno less dense.\n\nIt's non-magic magic. :) :P Gatsu rules!\n\nAlso, I forget when and why he changes it up or how often he goes back and\nforth, but clearly Miura would sometimes just have the \"clip\" at the top and\nother times have the clip and the belt at the bottom. I'm not sure if there\nwas a rhyme or reason for why it would switch sometimes but most other design\nelements are pretty consistent with his gear.\n\nIn the Sword of the Berserk video game which the story he wrote and sort of\ndirected, he just has the clip as well--no belt at the bottom.\n\nDeath to the God Hand\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of the first episode, we see Haru end up (very briefly) at\nthis shrine in Enoshima, in front of which people are singing some song to\nsome actions. Is there any \"meaning\" to what these people are doing in from of\nthe shrine (particularly in the real world, and out of Tsuritama-specific\ncontext)?\n\n\n\nFor what it's worth, later, we see Haru and Yuki's classmates sing the same\nsong after Yuki gets shot by Haru's water gun, so at the very least, I'd\nassume that the song itself might simply be something meaningless outside of\nthis anime-universe, but I don't know enough Japanese culture to come to\nconclusions I trust.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[In this video](https://youtu.be/NNTMMrEbet4?t=1m17s), which shows a\nperformance of Kagura/Bugaku (traditional Japanese dance) at Setsubun event,\npeople seem to do the same thing: chanting \"Haino\" and raising their hands. So\nthe scene in the question could be some kind of\n[Kagura](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagura).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Kakashi's new technique _Lightning Release: Purple Electricity_ as powerful\nas his signature technique, the _Lightning Cutter_?\n\nOn [Naruto Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake), it is written\nthat after losing his Sharingan, Kakashi can't use Lightning Cutter\n**properly**. What does this mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKakashi can't use the Lightning Cutter because it creates tunnel vision\nwithout the Sharingan, leaving him open for counter-attacks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell if you recall from the fillers where Kakashi first used Raikari, he got\nhis eye scared because he couldn't handle the speed of his body. When you use\nraikari it speeds your movement due to the Lighting Chakra and if you don't\nhave sharingan to go with you(for seeing your opponents attacks from a longer\nrange) or a lightining shield(like the raikage's have) you are in for open\nattacks. That's why Kakashi couldn't use the Raikari without the sharingan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor example, Guy Sensei and Rock Lee can use the Eight Gates technique. If the\nlast gate is opened, you die.\n\nThere is a lot of emphasis in the series that shows that one must train very\nhard to perfect a jutsu, technique, etc.\n\nBut how do you train and perfect something that you can only do once... and\nthen just die?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's like jumping off a building.\n\nYou can jump from the first, second or third floor and survive. The method to\nreach all the floors remains the same _(Climbing by stairs... or you may call\nthis training.)_.\n\nHowever, after a certain number of floors, you will come to a realization that\nafter you jump through this floor (let's just say the 20th -- _you need not\npractice climbing 20 floors for this -- the experience of climbing one floor\nis just fine)_ , you will _become extinct_.\n\nYou don't need the experience nor practice to reach the 20th floor but you\nwill surely _become extinct_ if you jump from there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know the manga's name?\n\n\n\nThanks in advance n_n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Note: This is a bit too long for a comment, but I'm not really sure about my\nanswer. If something is egregiously wrong, I'll delete this._\n\nI ran some reverse image searches and noticed that the GIF appeared to be\ncreated from [this image set](http://rinkizaki.tumblr.com/post/49946474834):\n\n\n\nThe Tumblr source links to a now-deleted Pixiv entry by the user [ましき ＋\nまこる](http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=35560856).\nGiven the lack of series-specific tags on both the first Tumblr source I found\nand [this one](http://kanzentai.tumblr.com/post/50309661333) \\-- they simply\nstate \"Pixiv\" and some generic description tags -- I'm inclined to suspect\nthat this might be original work (or at least some sort of doujinshi).\nHowever, I can't read the Japanese of the caption of the _second_ source, and\nso I may be missing something from there. Moreover, since the original Pixiv\nimage appears to have been removed, it's hard to say.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe characters may possibly (IF I am making sense of the reverse image search\nresults) be Mirai Kuriyama and Hiroomi Nase from Beyond The Boundry, but the\nwork is apparently original.\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Boundary>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn several anime shows, when a character is staring at another, the character\nactually says \"stare\" (sometimes with the \"stare\" in written form too not\nunlike manga - not the subtitles).\n\nFrom the context and the animation, the stare is obvious, so why go the extra\nmile and literally shout \"stare\"??\n\nThis is not about the lightning display when two characters stare into each\nother. It is about saying or shouting stare when staring.\n\n* * *\n\nI understand that in manga you have to put those things in written form, so\nthis question is restricted to anime media.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japanese, there is actually an onomatopoeia/mimetic for the act of staring:\nじー _jii_ (or something similar to that - mimetics don't generally have\nstrictly prescribed spellings as far as I'm aware). To the English speaker,\nthis seems bizarre, because staring is not an action that produces sound, so\nwhy would there be an onomatopoeia for it? Nonetheless, [for whatever\nreason](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/5318/3437), Japanese is a\nlanguage rich in mimetics, and often has mimetics for concepts that lack\nequivalent onomatopoeia in English.\n\nSo to the Japanese audience, it isn't terribly weird that there would be a\n\"sound effect\" accompanying someone staring at someone else. Now, I don't know\nthat it's necessarily often the case that \"the character actually says\n'stare'\" - certainly the character's _voice actor_ will say _jii_ , but I\ndon't think that this corresponds to the character themself saying _jii_. I\nthink the idea is more that using _jii_ there as sort of a \"sound effect\" just\nemphasizes the fact that someone is staring at someone else.\n\nAnyway, this causes a problem for subtitlers - clearly something is being\nspoken, but this particular utterance is something that simply does not and\ncannot occur in English. I don't know what a good solution to this is, and I\nguess that nobody else does, either, and this is how we end up with subtitles\nthat make it look like the character is literally saying the word \"stare\".\nWhich looks really stupid in English, but is there a better way to go about\nit? Not that I'm aware of.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for a particular episode from a magical girl anime, but I don't\nknow the name of that anime. In the episode I'm looking for, the heroine finds\na baby, and in order to communicate with it, she uses her powers to turn\nherself into a baby. However, because babies can't speak very well, she can't\npronounce the magical words to change back. Does anyone know which anime this\ncould refer to, and which episode? Thanks in advance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know a manga (which has an anime too) where **a girl turned herself as a\nbaby** , but **had difficulty to change back due to the \"baby language\"** ,\nbut the purpose was not for talking with another baby but for being a\nreplacement until the actual baby is back.\n\nThe manga is [Hime-chan no Ribbon](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2037/Hime-\nchan_no_Ribbon), in the books, this event happened in a bonus chapter of the\nvolume 9.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn season 1 episode 13 \"Me, Her, and Another\" (the last episode), Kaoru learns\nshe is pregnant.\n\nHowever, the second season makes no reference to this (supposedly huge) factor\nin their relationship.\n\nIs there any hint where the two seasons are chronologically (from the manga,\nfor example)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe second season interleaves with the events in the first season.\n\nOn the title card roughly in the middle of each episode, it shows the episode\nnumber and where it relates to the first season in parentheses below it.\n\n * Episode 1 is 7.5 \n * Episode 2 is 9.5 \n * Episode 3 is 8.5 \n * Episode 4 is 11.5\n * Episode 5 is 12.5\n\nScreenshot from Episode 3:\n\n\n\nScreenshot from Episode 4:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[MAL's page on _The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-\nchan_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/26351/Nagato_Yuki-chan_no_Shoushitsu)\nlists it as a spin-off for both [_The Melancholy of Haruhi\nSuzumiya_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/849/Suzumiya_Haruhi_no_Yuuutsu) and\n[_The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya\n(2009)_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/4382/Suzumiya_Haruhi_no_Yuuutsu_%282009%29).\n\nHow exactly does the new series relate to the others? \nWhere does it fall into the timeline? \nOr is it completely independent aside from using the same characters - in\nwhich case, can it be watched without previously having watched any of the\nolder series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe show's existence is in itself a spoiler for _The Disappearance of Haruhi\nSuzumiya,_ so anyone who hasn't seen the movie/read the book yet has been\nwarned.\n\n_Yuki-chan_ is a spinoff anime based on a\n[manga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disappearance_of_Nagato_Yuki-chan)\nthat began in 2009. The series is written by the original author of the\n_Haruhi_ series, Nagaru Tanigawa, and takes place in the alternate universe\ncreated during the events of _Disappearance,_ in which the members of the SOS\nBrigade are simply normal humans, and the SOS Brigade doesn't even exist.\n\nThe spin-off focuses more on the day-to-day interactions between the\ncharacters than the original series, and follows the titular Yuki-chan as she\nattempts to pursue Kyon, on whom she has a crush. As the series progresses,\nYuki-chan develops a friendship with Kyon as she attempts to confess to him,\nwhich leads me to believe that the series is non-canon, as the [following\nconversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVA0GFOqZQ) takes place in\n_Disappearance_ shortly after Kyon finds himself in the alternate universe\n(around 3:17 in the link):\n\n> \"Nagato, tell me ... do you know ... who I am?\"\n>\n> \"I do. [...] I know that you're a student in class 5. I see you every now\n> and then. But I don't know any more than that.\"\n\nThe spin-off can't take place before the events of _Disappearance_ because\n_Disappearance_ Yuki only knows Kyon from when he helped her get a library\ncard, and it can't take place afterward because\n\n> Nagato had actually used her powers to rewrite the world and take away all\n> supernatural elements surrounding Haruhi, not just create an alternate\n> universe, and she reverts the change at the end of the story, erasing\n> _Disappearance_ Yuki and the rest of the _Disappearance_ SOS Brigade from\n> existence.\n\nThe series is thus probably non-canon, and doesn't fit into any specific place\nin the timeline.\n\nIts plot is basically separated from that of the original series, so it can be\nwatched independently with almost full plot comprehension. However, enjoyment\nof the characters and their actions might requires familiarity with the source\nmaterial because the much of the show's appeal stems from [gap\nmoe](http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/01/17/gap-moe-alluring-discordance/), in\nwhich a perceived difference or contradiction in a person's behavior or action\n(i.e. \"gap\") is found to be cute or attractive. _Yuki-chan_ lets viewers see\nthe normally stoic Nagato express her feelings as a normal, shy girl, and\nwithout this contrast the show turns into another \"cute girls doing cute\nthings\" anime - not that there's anything wrong with those.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's my theory but it contains spoilers of \"The Disappearance of Suzumiya\nHaruhi\" so proceed with caution.\n\n> Perhaps \"Disappearance of Nagato Yuki\" is a parallel universe to the main\n> series. Here's why: remember how Nagato gave Kyon a choice between the\n> changed world and the original world? It was only because of that choice\n> that allowed Kyon to fix everything to what it was again. However, what if\n> that choice wasn't given to him? What if Nagato decided not to give Kyon the\n> choice of reverting everything back to the original world? This TV series is\n> the result.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that it's not canon and it's more of a what-if spin off where they go\nfor what if the guy went for that girl instead or what if this event didn't\nhappen. I've seen that in a lot of animes, sometimes it's in one ova episode\nand sometimes it's in 3 or more. I can put a few down like Rumbling Hearts and\nthe Clannad series.\n\nThe reason I think this is cause in disappearance of Haruhi, Haruhi wasn't\nacting like her usually crazy self and was way more calm because of the change\nbut in Yuki Haruhi is a little more crazy than even the original show. So I\nthink it's more of a what-if thing. Forget the name of the category but\nthere's a name for it. All I remember there the word red in the name. Also,\nYuki herself is completely different too and we also forgot about Ryoko she\nwas the same in the movie a crazy killer and kills Kyon (kind of). But in the\ndisappearance of Yuki she's more like a normal girl who likes people and is\nKyon's friend.\n\nwell everythin is completely different to the movie like how characters are\nand their friendships that wasn't in the movie kyon remembered and was\nterrified of Ryoko and Ryoko still acted like in the show with no empathy yet\nin this one she has empathy and is friends with kyon thats what gave me my\ntheory\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 10, inside General Yan's room there is a world map. The thing I got\nconfused with is that, the story takes place in Tokyo but what the hack is\nwith this map? Why doesn't it have the original world map?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is not a world map. It's a map of Japan (tilted about 45° clockwise).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think im impatient. Im really inlove with Nisekoi, and I badly need to know\nwhen would it be release - the second season i mean. Last year December I\nfound out that they will realease it on April this year and yet, I still don't\nknow if it already is airing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 2nd season of _Nisekoi_ have already started airing since April 10, 2015.\n[In Japan, it is shown through the Tokyo MX, BS11, and MBS\nnetworks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisekoi). You can find a legal stream\nwith English subtitles through\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/nisekoi).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnimax Asia suddenly stopped airing new episodes of Naruto Shippuden in India\nas of January 30th 2014. As I am a Naruto fan, I was upset to see it\ncancelled. What was the reason it stopped airing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis answer is based on my opinion and backed up with a few facts. So I can't\nsay I'm sure that this is the reason.\n\nFirstly, it's Animax India and not Animax Asia. It's different from the Animax\nin different Asian countries but is probably similar to the Animax in\nSingapore and Pakistan. This is what I understand from the articles on Animax\nAsia and Animax India on Wikipedia. I believe it is the shows that air on the\nchannel that make all this difference.\n\nSecondly, I believe that this must be a common practice on Animax India. I\nthink so because InuYasha met the same fate. The sequel of the series,\nInuYasha the Final Act was completely aired a few times but I have never seen\nthem air the series InuYasha completely (that is, from when I have been\nviewing the channel, probably November of 2009).\n\nThirdly, I guess you would know why was Animax delisted by DTH connections\n(excluding DEN, Siti Digital and the likes) in India. It was because Animax\ncouldn't pay carriage fees. Why? The most probable reason is the low\nviewership. You say Naruto is 'world famous'. Yes, agreed. But how many people\ndo you personally know who watch/like anime, let alone Naruto. Not more that\n10, or at most 15, I guess? That's the point. In comparison to the size of the\ncountry, the number of viewers is insufficient, if not negligible. So, airing\nany anime here in India is not practical, or I would say, profitable.\n\nThe first point tells you that Animax India is a different entity, the second\none tells you that Naruto is not the only case and the third one gives you the\n(most probable) reason why Animax India discontinued airing new episodes of\nNaruto Shippuden. To summarize, Animax will air new episodes of Naruto\nShippuden if there are enough viewers, which is not the case. Sad, but true.\nThen again, it's my opinion backed up with some facts. So, I can't be that\nsure.\n\nP.S.: You are lucky to be able to even watch those limited episodes on Animax.\nI don't even get Animax here on Dish TV.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have Tata Sky at my place right now, but there is no Animax channel in any\nof the packs which they are currently offering. So which DTH operators are\ncurrently telecasting Animax in India?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to update this answer that Tata Sky has taken up Animax back into its\nKids channel package at a cost of 65 Rupees a month.\n\nI think this is a very useful information for all Anime fans in India. I do\nhope this information will give some boost to the Anime scene in India.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the fight between Jiraiya and Pain, why didn't Fukasaku and Shima's sound\ngenjutsu affect Nagato?\n\nI asked because:\n\n * The Six Paths of Pain were dead and were only being controlled by Nagato wirelessly through the chakra rods.\n * Shared vision and hearing with Nagato were demonstrated during fights and talks.\n * I didn't see the genjutsu released, so the other Paths should never have been able to retaliate if Nagato was still in it.\n\n(Or maybe it did, but I just missed a sequence)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Nagato's awareness is divided between the Pains, so unless they were\nall affected by sound genjutsu, he would not be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm watching _Terror in Resonance_ , the airport episode. Sphinx goes through\na lot of trouble to find the hidden bomb - even risking their own identities.\nTheir intention is to keep everyone away from harm.\n\nWhy don't they just upload a new video literally saying \" _we're gonna blow up\nthe airport_ \"?\n\nAt this point, Sphinx has gained so much media influence that it would\ninstantly go viral (just like with their previous videos). The airport (and\nanyone else) would most certainly take such video seriously and evacuate.\n\nThis way, there would be no casualties, which is what they want. The bomb\nwould still detonate and cause several structural damages, but that would not\nbe anything new or surprising considering Sphinx literally blew up a\nskyscraper in the first episode anyway.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf they did that, the real bomber (it's been too long, was it Five?) could\neasily detonate the bomb then and there to maximize casualties. Sphinx wanted\nto be discrete, since they didn't have control of the situation as they did\nwith the skyscraper.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that the Nightmares the Magical Girls fight as a substitute for the\nWraiths and/or Witches are born from people's nightmares (as shown when Hitomi\nreturns to normal but is asleep and she was about to go to bed when the her\nNightmare first appeared).\n\nHowever, given the world in which they appear in is a fake one inside Homura's\nSoul Gem. I am wondering who came up with the idea of fighting Nightmares\n(Homura or the Incubators) and why a new kind of enemy rather than the\nWraiths? (in order to keep the illusion of reality)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no canon answer to this question. The Nightmares' form and function\nappear derivative of the Wraiths (Wraith-lite if you will). Both are\nmanifestations of the negative energies produced by humanity's dark emotions;\nthe Wraiths' original generation from \"curses\" is now moderated to the much\nmore benign \"nightmares\".\n\nAs to whose mind they came from (Homura's or the Incubators'), there is no way\nto know based on the information in the movie. The question at heart goes to\nthe underlying basis of the \"world\" inside Homura's soul gem, which we are\nnever told. While most of it is likely generated directly from her\nsubconscious, there are other elements influencing it, such as the other\nmagical girls who are external persons who became trapped in the barrier, and\nKyubei and his comrades who are manipulating the barrier.\n\nBoth Homura and Kyubei were familiar with the workings of the real city, and\nwith the real Wraiths, so the idea could have come from either of them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan you identify this anime?\n\nThis anime might have been a short movie that was an extra on another dvd set.\n\nIt was about a guy who starts seeing these bug-like things attached to peoples\nbacks. I think he has the urge to eat one which makes him realize that the\n'bugs' are the regrets or bad memories of those people. When he eats them the\npeople become happier. After trying to help people by eating their invisible\n'bugs' he notices they might have been better off keeping those memories.\n\nI know that's not much to go on, but any help would be great!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis sounds like an episode of [Boogiepop\nPhantom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_Phantom).\n\nDifferent episodes focused on different characters, each having a special\nability... that was usually not as beneficial as it seemed. Their stories\nintertwined and showed the events from the different viewpoints of these\ncharacters. The guy who could eat bad memories was one of these episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNote: this topic was somewhat addressed in [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5926/what-happen-at-the-\nend-of-the-third-madoka-magica-movie?rq=1), but remained unclear to me after\nreading the answers to it.\n\nAt the end of Rebellion, after Homura has rebelled and created the Homuverse\nwhere everyone can have their desires for love and friendship fulfilled, after\nthe end credits, we see Homura in a field, holding her new soul gem and\ndancing around a mangy, scruffy, miserable-looking Kyuubei.\n\n  \n\nAs the movie ends, the camera closes in on Kyuubei's face, and we see its eyes\nseem to be ringed with the same black field as the witches' curses.\n\n \n\nWhat exactly is going on here? It seems clear that Homura is torturing Kyuubei\nfor its many crimes, but what exactly is she doing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYu Yu Hakusho is one of my favorite shows. But unfortunately I don't know the\nname of the creator of this series. Can anyone help me?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe original manga was written by Yoshihiro Togashi. He's also the author of\nHunter x Hunter, among other less well-known series.\n\nI read an interview in the US Shounen Jump where he talked about how Yu Yu\nHakusho began with his idea for a series that would start with the protagonist\ndying, and how later portions were informed by his love of horror movies such\nas _Dawn of the Dead_.\n\nHe's married to Naoko Takeuchi, the author of the Sailor Moon manga.\n\n[Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Togashihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Togashi).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey supposedly share the same universe, but is there any element from one\nseries referenced in the other?\n\nIsao Komori is from the same region where Aku no Hana happens (and is the\nbirthplace of both series' creator). Is it the only link, or is there anything\nelse?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to buy the manga/magazine of full volume of KamiNomi, but don't know\nwhere to find it.\n\nI live in the the Philippines. Anyone knows where I can buy one?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga series has not been licensed in English unfortunately.\n\nYou can stream the anime via [CrunchyRoll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-\nworld-god-only-knows) or buy the DVD/BluRay through\n[RightStuf](http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/facetedSearch/?search=The%20World%20God%20Only%20Knows#/?s=The%20World%20God%20Only%20Knows)\n(although you may need to enquire about shipping estimates/availabilty)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is a known fact that Yukihira Soma is the son of one of the world's most\nfamous chefs, Yukihira Joichiro, but why is it that the students from Tōtsuki\nCulinary Academy don't know about Soma?\n\nIt's even stranger that Nakiri, who is known as the God's Tongue for her\nextreme tasting skills, admires Joichiro but fails to realize that Yukihira\nSoma is the son of Yukihira Joichiro. She had seen Soma's application form, so\nit must have given her a hint already. One of the few people (or maybe the\nonly one) who seems to know about this fact is the headmaster.\n\nWhy is that? Are they trying to hide the fact that Soma is the son of\nJoichiro, probably for some unknown reason?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have not read the entire manga, but I read that Soma's father was formerly\nknown as **Saiba Jōichirō**. It is not the same last name as Yukihira Soma, so\nthis may be a reason why people don't know that they are father and son.\n\nSource: [Jōichirō\nYukihira](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%8Dichir%C5%8D_Yukihira)\non Shokugeki no Souma wiki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA few possible reasons:\n\n 1. Joichiro ran a small shop for years, and faded away from public eye, and especially the younger generation may no longer know about him. The older generation may not care, or they just want to know what is going to happen.\n 2. People share names - they may just think it's a coincidence, especially as Soma is a bit troublesome\n 3. It's fiction - not knowing the relation makes the manga much more interesting.\n 4. As @YLombardi said, Joichiro previously used the last name \"Saiba\", which may confuse people. This would contribute to 1st option, as well.\n\nWe won't really know, unless the author clarifies, but I think it's the 3rd\noption, with the author explaining it with one (or both) of the two.\n\nBTW, the last name is Yukihira, not Soma.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[OFF TOPIC]I think everything goes as headmaster Senzaemon plan. He uses Souma\nto help Erina free from his father's curse. Erina confessed already, even\nthough she is well talented in cooking, that she never feels any slight of\nhappiness towards her cooking, however not until they become close friends\nwith Souma which was shown in the latest chapters. It seems like everything\nshe do is just to obey his father. Headmaster Senzaemon is just trying to let\nErina feel the true essence of cooking, and breaks the fear Erina has towards\nhis father, and he uses Souma for it. Although it was not directly implied by\nthe Author but it seems like Erina's father, Azami Nakiri knew it already when\nSouma confess that Saibi Jouichirou is his dad. Honestly, I dont know whats\nthe big deal about this plan. But anyway Nakiri Erina later on knew as well\nthat Souma is Saiba's son.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHis father went to the school, but never graduated. It has never been clearly\nstated why that's the case, though it's implied it's related to him meeting\nSoma's mother; from this one might guess that \"Yukihira\" is his mother's last\nname. The failure to graduate may have hampered his renown, and lessened\nTootsuki's desire to associate with him. Recall that the academy is set up as\nvery punishing and almost militaristic, regarding those who fail to graduate\nas decidedly incapable of being a truly great chef. It runs counter to this\nbelief to give a failure any recognition, and may actively encourage the\ninstitution to bury or at least ignore the connection.\n\nFurthermore, Joichiro's professional career was characterized by constantly\nchanging locations, and eventually hiding himself away in a local diner.\nThat's not conducive to maintaining a strong presence in the culture; a few\nelites will know him, but before they can pass on the stories he simply moves\naway, leaving children no opportunity to learn except by happenstance (aka,\nErina).\n\nHis change of last name was probably only known to a few people closest to\nhim. Even Dojima took a long time to connect Soma to Jouichiro, mostly doing\nso by chance. As for why that monk seemed to know him by the Yukihira last\nname, and the timeline suggesting he also knew him before the name change,\nthere are a few possible explanations, with my personal preference listed\nfirst:\n\n * The author hadn't thought of this problem ahead of time. It only occurred to them later that a cook with his skills and connections should be well-known. This was at odds with the intent for Soma to be a darkhorse commoner, as the story was very early characterized as \"local nobody struggles against the elites to becomes a big somebody, proving that passion and hard work are the keys to success\". Ergo once the problem became inescapable, the author pulled the ol' \"name change\" maneuver, and intentionally drew as little attention as possible to the possible discrepancies with the early story. This is a common writing technique for serialized media. Manga, comics, anime, TV series, cartoons, etc. all tend to employ it of necessity.\n * Essentially nobody knew that Yukihira Joichiro was the same person as Saiba Joichiro until just before the story started, when someone was able to find him and talk him into working for him around the world. Possibly this person was a long time confidant, and so did know these two people were the same, or maybe they just applied enough resources to find out what happened to Joichiro. Afterwards, now that he was back in the limelight he could now be recognized by former admirers, such as the monk, or word could otherwise slowly spread through patrons that connected the two together. Either way the monk can connect the two identities together, but the spread of information would have been too slow and localized to propagate all the way back to high school age students in Japan. Never mind the internet; we rarely even see academy students using smart phones or computers if they're not related to cooking something right then and there, and possibly with such elite and affluent customers even the internet is slow to pass the information along. Plus, as has been mentioned, lots of people have the last names Saiba and Yukihira, so there'd be little more than coincidence to connect Soma to Joichiro. It would actually be more unrealistic for people to assume a familial relation, even if they were aware of Joichiro's name change.\n\nAs a relevant sidenote, the headmaster of the academy (at the time the story\nstarts), is later revealed to have been plotting something benevolent and that\nJouichiro/Soma were integral to this plot. It was in the best interest of his\nplot that Soma be a complete unknown to the students, so he would have\nincentive to hide the Saiba/Yukihira connection.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, the truth is, I haven't been reading manga lately, and the first thing\nthat I remember is Zettai Karen Children. Following that, Haibane Renmei, and\nAria, etc.\n\nProblem is, I can't find anyone selling them anymore. Where can I buy or watch\nthem?\n\nI'd like legal resources as an answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome legal and popular anime streaming sites are:\n\n * [**Crunchyroll**](https://www.crunchyroll.com)\n * [**Manga Entertainment**](http://www.manga.com/)\n * [**Funimation**](http://www.funimation.com/watch)\n * [**Daisuki**](https://www.daisuki.net)\n * [**The Anime Network**](http://www.theanimenetwork.com)\n\nThe anime you're looking for, _Zettai Karen Children_ , can be found on [The\nAnime Network](http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Psychic-Squad/Info), and\nthe spin-off series _The Unlimited - Hyōbu Kyōsuke_ can be found on\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-unlimited-hyobu-kyosuke).\n\nAs for the manga(s), [**Amazon**](http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Comics-Graphic-\nNovels-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=4367) is a good place to start.\n\nHere's a [list of legal anime streaming/download\nsites](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/wiki/legal_streams_/_downloads).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAround 1-3 years ago, I found an interesting manga in my local library, but I\ndidn't bring my library card with me. The following week, I returned to borrow\nit to read, but of course it was gone :/\n\nThings I remember is:\n\n * The manga was based in a game world or VR.\n * They were not trapped like SAO, rather it was a really good VR.\n * There was a boy and girl, and they were brother and sister.\n * The brother complained about his sister's lewd or ecchi outfit, and it was a running gag where he challenged people who hit on her.\n\nThe story content included:\n\n * Finding a phoenix down to save someone\n * A cute hippo-like pet, which could be grown into a mount. (One of the side/main characters had one of these, and he was kinda an arsehole)\n * There was a race and people was swimming in it\n\nIt has been translated into English, because it's in my local library and I\nlive in the UK.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe you are looking for [**_.hack//Legend of the\nTwilight_**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//Legend_of_the_Twilight).\n\n * It's about a game called _The World_.\n * People can freely log out, including the main characters.\n * The main characters are a boy named Shugo and his twin sister Rena.\n * Rena's outfit is quite revealing.\n * There are hippo-like creatures, called _Piikey_. Hotaru, one of the female side characters, has one as a pet. Komiyan the Third, one of the male side character, uses one as a mount. Both main characters find Komiyan annoying.\n * The Phoenix Down (aka Phoenix Feather) is used to save the life of Hotaru's Piikey.\n * One of the GMs (Game Masters) loves to organize events. One of those, I faintly remember being a race involving swimming.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Hellsalem's Lot_ , the current name of formerly New York City, immediately\nstrikes me as a reference to\n[Jerusalem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem), since they sound\nextremely close.\n\nIn fact, in Japanese, they only differ by one _mora_ :\n\n> [**ヘルサレム**\n> ズ・ロット](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%80%E7%95%8C%E6%88%A6%E7%B7%9A#.E7.94.A8.E8.AA.9E)\n> (Hellsalem's Lot) vs.\n> [**エルサレム**](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0)\n> (Jerusalem).\n\nIs _Hellsalem's Lot_ a reference to Jerusalem? If that is the case, what are\nthe aspects in _Hellsalem's Lot_ that make reference to Jerusalem?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## [_Kekkai\nSensen_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Blockade_Battlefront)'s Intended\nAssociation: Evil Living Among Humans\n\n**Both the fictional town 'Salem's Lot and the real city of Salem,\nMassachusetts are associated\nwith[witchcraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials) and evil\nliving among regular humans.** This fits the ethos of _Kekkai Sensen_ 's\n「ヘルサレムズ・ロット」, which is the [mystically transmogrified](http://kekkai-\nsensen.wikia.com/wiki/Volume_7) version of New York City after a gateway\nbetween Earth and the Beyond opened, so that extra-dimensional creatures and\nhumans dwell in the same [paranormal melting\npot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Blockade_Battlefront).\n\n## Origin of the Phrase _'Salem's Lot_\n\n[Jerusalem's Lot,\nMaine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem%27s_Lot,_Maine) is a fictional\ntown created by Stephen King which he has used as the setting for a number of\nhis novels, novellas, and short stories. Within his worldbuilding, the town is\nnicknamed _'Salem's Lot_ (including the apostrophe) and _the Lot_.\n\nThe town called 'Salem's Lot first appeared in his 1975 novel [_'Salem's\nLot_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Salem%27s_Lot), but has reappeared as\nrecently as in his 2014 novel\n[_Revival_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_\\(novel\\)).\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, the description of the fictional town is:\n\n> The town that would become Jerusalem's Lot was founded in 1710 by a preacher\n> named James Boon, the leader of a cult of schismatic Puritans. The cult\n> became **notorious in the region for its open embrace of witchcraft and for\n> its amoral sexual practices** , including inbreeding. Jerusalem's Lot became\n> an incorporated town in 1765, but was abandoned in 1789 after Boon and his\n> followers mysteriously vanished [...]\n>\n> When Jerusalem's Lot was incorporated in 1765, Maine was still part of the\n> Massachusetts Bay Colony. **The town got its name from** a myth about one of\n> the earliest residents, Charles Belknap Tanner, who raised pigs; **one of\n> these pigs was named Jerusalem**. One day, **Jerusalem escaped from her\n> confines into a nearby forest, and became aggressive and wild**. Tanner\n> began warning young children who trespassed on his property to \"Keep 'ee out\n> o' Jerusalem's wood lot,\" lest the pig devour them. Eventually, the phrase\n> \"Jerusalem's Lot\" was adopted as the town name.\n>\n> [...] Jerusalem's Lot has been identified as **a residence for great and\n> mysterious evil, particularly vampires**.\n\n**Other Derivative Uses**\n\nThe fictional town is also mentioned in Alan Moore's 2002-2003 comic book\nseries _The New Traveller's Almanac_ , in the 2002 Eminem song _Lose Yourself_\n, and in the 1993 Nirvana song _Serve the Servants_.\n\n## Katakana and Pronunciation\n\n_Kekkai Sensen_ 's 「ヘルサレムズ・ロット」 ( _Herusaremuzu Rotto_ ) sounds similar to\nboth the fictional town 'Salem's Lot\n([「セイラムズ・ロット」](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%AA%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E7%94%BA#.E3.81.82.E3.82.89.E3.81.99.E3.81.98)\n[ _Seiramuzu Rotto_ ]) and the Japanese word for \"Jerusalem\" (「エルサレム」 [\n_Erusaremu_ ]).\n\nThe Japanese title for the novel _'Salem's Lot_ is\n[『呪われた町』](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%AA%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E7%94%BA)\n( _Norowareta Machi_ , meaning \"cursed town\"). In the Japanese translation,\nthe name of the town is katakana-ized as\n[「セイラムズ・ロット」](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%AA%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E7%94%BA#.E3.81.82.E3.82.89.E3.81.99.E3.81.98)\n( _Seiramuzu Rotto_ ), using the **spelling of[Salem,\nMassachusetts](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0_\\(%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B5%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E5%B7%9E\\))\n(「セイラム」= _Seiramu_ ), infamous for [witch\ntrials](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials), not the Japanese\nspelling of Jerusalem** (「エルサレム」= _Erusaremu_ ). The place name Salem (perhaps\nironically) is a [hellenized form of the Hebrew word for\n\"peace\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_Massachusetts#History)\n([שָׁלוֹם](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom) = _shalom_ ).\n\nIn Hebrew, the pronunciation for \"Jerusalem\" is\n_[Yerushalayim](http://www.dictionary.co.il/israel_jerusalem.htm)_ :\n\n\n\n## Conclusion\n\n**「ヘルサレムズ・ロット」 is not a reference to the city of Jerusalem, but rather to a\nfictional town known for housing monsters and named after a pig.**\n\n",
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