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"body": "\n\nShoujo anime is famous for its big eyes and magical transforming heroines.\n\nSailor Moon is probably the most famous of these.\n\n\n\nWhen was the first time a magical girl magically transformed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first 'magical girl' anime was _Sally The Witch_ , who transformed with a\nwand into another costume - This was a simple animation though and performed\nin the same cut as the rest of the scene. Sally The Witch came out in 1966 and\nwas in black and white.\n\n\n\n[Apologies for low-quality gif]\n\n* * *\n\nIf however, that feels like a bit of a cop out answer, the anime _Cutey Honey_\nwhich was released in 1973 was much more focused on the transformation scene\nand featured many of the tropes of this type of this scene which have lasted\nto this very day - magical jewelery, activation words (\"HONEY FLASH\"), nudity\nwhilst transforming, floating around the screen while transforming, etc.\n\nSurprisingly though, Cutey Honey was not a shoujo, it was a male-targetted\nshow and the characters were thought at the time to be superheroes rather than\nmagical girls. However, Cutey Honey was a significant influence on\ntransformation scenes from then on and looking back at the show, it's\nsurprising to think that they are not actually magical girls. They even have\nthe catchphrase _\"Stars in the heavens! Flowers on the Earth! Love to the\npeople! Warrior of Love, I am Cutey Honey!\"_\n\n (partial\nsequence sped up)\n\nCutie Honey is a much bigger deal in Japan than it is in the US. This is\nprimarily due to it not being available in North America and other English-\nspeaking countries until Discotek released it in 2013.\n\n[Some of Cutey Honey's\ntransformations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRC1pHI6c0)\n\n* * *\n\nAs it was _back in the day_ , there weren't such a high volume of series\nairing at one time. Inbetween Sally the Witch and Cutey Honey, there was only\none other magical girl anime - _Himitsu no Akko-chan_ , who transformed\nsimilarly to Sally the Witch, albeit with a mirror instead of a wand.\n\nAnd if you're interested in transforming robots too, check out [this\nquestion.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4357/what-is-the-first-\ntransforming-morping-mobile-suit-robot-in-anime)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nToei does consider Cutie Honey a magical girl although it was a shounen series\nand although her transforming powers aren't technically \"magical.\" Despite\nbeing a shonen series Honey's influence on later, more traditional magical\ngirls was immediate, as it was followed by Majokko Megu-chan in 1974 which was\nsort of an amalgam of the traditional Sally/Chappy \"witch comes to earth\"\nstoryline and the ecchi humor of Honey.\n\nThere were several other magical girl series between Akko-chan and Cutie\nHoney, by the way. Toei (which also produced Sally and Akko) made another four\nbetween 1970-73 (Mahou no Mako-chan, Sarutobi Ecchan, Mahou Tsukai Chappy, and\nMiracle Shoujo Limit-chan, which was on the air contemporaneously with Cutie\nHoney but premiered a few days earlier). Although Chappy was the only \"witch\"\namong those four (Ecchan's only magical power is the ability to jump high,\nMako-chan had a magical pendant a la Akko, and Limit-chan was, like Honey, a\ncyborg), all of them are classified as magical girls by Toei. Many also\nconsider Osamu Tezuka's Marvelous Melmo a magical girl series. Melmo and Limit\nalso had transforming abilities - Melmo transformed into older and younger\nversions of herself by eating candy, and Limit had a sort of magical compass\nwhich in addition to allowing her to transform by saying \"Change face!\" gave\nher \"miracle powers\" such as the ability to run fast.\n\nAs for the first magical girl series to include \"stock\" henshin sequences a la\nSailor Moon, I believe that was Mahou no Princess Minky Momo in 1982 (also a\nnude henshin, although only seem from behind). I don't think Honey included\nany stock transformations.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMr. Satan was a professional martial artist. Surely, he was also a buffoon,\nbut from what we've seen he is definitely very strong and skilled by the\nstandards of someone who was never trained by someone like Kami or Kaioshin.\nIn _Dragon Ball_ series, he would probably be a decent opponent for Goku or\nTien.\n\nHe also wasn't completely stupid - you don't become champion, millionaire and\nworld star by not knowing what are doing.\n\nIn the real world, it takes a mixture of raw talent, hard work, and passion to\nachieve such level, and we have no reason to assume that it's any different in\n_Dragon Ball_ universe.\n\nNow, to finally get to the point:\n\n * How come that he never came across stories about people like Master Roshi?\n * How come he didn't watch 21st, 22nd and 23rd Tournaments, where flying, Kamehamehas, disappearing and other strange techniques were common?\n * How come he had no idea about Tien (who won 22nd Tournament)?\n\nSatan must have been a young boy or teenager, and if he had the passion for\nmartial arts, people like Tournament Winners should be like Gods to him. And\nyet, after these Tournaments, Mr. Satan doesn't recognize Goku, Piccolo or the\nother Z-Fighters.\n\nMind that I'm not questioning why he kept on insisting that everything that\nhappened during Cell Games was a \"trick\" - he wouldn't want to admit that he\nwas outclassed - but why was he actually and genuinely surprised.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMr. Satan wasn't stupid. He just took credit for everything the Z fighters did\nlike Cell, Buu, etc.. His fame was gained mostly by winning martial art\ntournaments after Goku and co. stopped entering them after he was a world\nlegend. Although, after taking credit for the defeat of Cell, he became a\nworld savior.\n\nAnd to answer the question, he has seen abilities like this, although he just\nthought of them as magic tricks. This is explained in the fight with Cell.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer to your question lies in the fact that there was a large time gap\nbetween the **23rd** and **24th World Martial Arts Tournament.**\n\nAlso, keeping in mind the fact that no one other than **King Furry** in\n**DBZ** remembers the **King Piccolo Saga** , it's safe to say that everyone\nhas forgotten about the **previous tournaments**. This can also be said due to\nthe fact that **Tambourine** had taken the records of the previous tournaments\nand the participants, thus there being no written history of them left.\n\nTherefore, it can be concluded that even if Mr. Satan might have witnessed the\ntournaments, he has forgotten about them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe operation of the phone microwave in Steins;Gate is confusing me. I\nfinished episode 9, and I don't fully understand how it works; except that it\nallows texts to be sent in the past, 1 second on timer = 1 hour in reality,\nand that messages can only be sent during 12pm-6pm.\n\nCan someone explain the rest of the microwaves' operation?\n\n1) the bananas turning green, and why the first green batch wouldn't\ntransport?\n\n2) why did Mayuri's chicken tenders burn? can food be cooked like normal, or\nis their microwave permanently modified?\n\n3) why a phone is hooked up to the microwave, what is the significance in\nconnecting it, and why is it no longer needed in future episodes?\n\n4) in reference to question 3, what type of connection was the phone connected\nby? USB?\n\n5) why does the timer always seem to be set to 120?\n\n6) what do the orange numerals above the timer numerals mean?\n\n7) how is data sent? how are objects sent?\n\n8) what is the cause of the electrical discharge? and why does it appear at\ndifferent intervals?\n\n9) is there significance behind the rotation of the microwave table? does\nclockwise move time forward, and vice versa?\n\n10) how is a modern day text message able to be routed to a 90s pager?\n\n11) what is the large flat radio device sitting on top of the microwave, and\nwhat is its purpose?\n\n12) what the heck is a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)? the landlord wears clothing\nwith CRT related phrases on them\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI will leave out anything that is related to further in the anime.\n\n1- they went green because they entered the blackhole that was created, but\nwere spat out again in the same place as no \"space/time coordinates were sent\n(ie a phonenumber)\n\n3- as far I can tell it is always needed up until Okabe does something\n\"different\".\n\n4- it is in a dock stand probably hard wired manually into the circuitry on\nthe microwave\n\n5- lazy animation\n\n6- date time\n\n8- PLOT\n\nQuite easily, as long as they know the phonenumber as pagers worked alot like\ntexts do these days.\n\n12 - Cathode ray tubes is what Old Televisions used to create images, I wont\ngo into any detail so google this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTaeko (as a child) complains about not having a nice handbag and refuses to go\nout to dinner with the rest of the family. When she realises that they are\nwilling to go without her, she bursts out the door after them - regretting the\ntantrum she just had.\n\nOnce she leaves the front door, her father hits her for seeing her come out\nthe house with no shoes.\n\nShe recalls that this was the first time, and the only time, that her father\nhad hit her.\n\nI realise that she was being bratty, but what was so bad about leaving the\nhouse without shoes on (compared to having a selfish tantrum about handbags)?\nIs it a cultural thing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is an impactful yet controversial scene that baffles even the Japanese\nviewers. In chapter 22 of the original, semi-autobiographical manga that the\nGhibli film is based on, the author speculates that Taeko's father physically\npunished Taeko because she was not acting in line with his principle of\nraising a dignified (read of higher class) daughter. This is because in post-\nwar Japan, including the time of Taeko's childhood in 1966, barefootedness\n(outside of house) was commonly associated with poverty. (Cf. the classic\nmanga _[Barefoot Gen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen)_ by\nHiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa that is also a testimony to the living\nconditions of the impoverished people.) Whether Taeko was acting selfish or\nbratty probably was of no concern to her father.\n\n> 原作コミック（岡本蛍・作 刀根夕子・画）の２２話「ワガママ」には\n>\n> 「ひょっとして父は・・・タエ子のワガママにいまさら腹を立てたのではなかったかもしれないはだしで飛び出すというそのみっともなさ\n> あさましさに激怒したのではなかったろうか ワガママでもいい 凛々しく育ってほしい・・・それが父の美学だったのかもしれない」\n\nQuoted from\n<http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q13117211068>.\n\nOn a side note,\n[はだし教育](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AF%E3%81%A0%E3%81%97%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2)\n(hadashi kyouiku, _Barefoot Education_ ) is generally well-received these\ndays, so I don't think that children leaving the house without shoes on would\nincur that kind of penalty anymore.\n\nInspired by a post-viewing [reflection\narticle](http://blog.goo.ne.jp/ludic/e/578592a611a351a750302fb470625c1d) (in\nJapanese, a good read), I think the scene of Taeko running out of the house in\nbarefoot prompted the recall of the original [inferiority\nfeeling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex) by the father and\nwas treated as an attack on his [feeling of\nsuperiority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_complex) that was his\ndefense mechanism. It is all based on assumptions really, but could it be that\nthe father was once poor and worked his way up to the middle-upper class? Was\nhis sumptuous lifestyle (e.g. buying the then rare and expensive pineapple and\nnot finish eating it) an overcompensation for his earlier days? The relevant\nparts in the Wikipedia articles (emphasis by me):\n\n> Superiority complex is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person's\n> feelings of superiority counter or conceal his or her feelings of\n> inferiority. [...] [I]f we inquire into a superiority complex and study its\n> continuity, we can always find a more or less **hidden inferiority [feeling]\n> complex**.\n\n> [Inferiority complex] is often subconscious, and is thought to drive\n> afflicted individuals to **overcompensate** , resulting either in\n> **spectacular achievement or extreme asocial behavior.** [...] A secondary\n> inferiority feeling relates to an adult's experience of being unable to\n> reach a subconscious, fictional final goal of subjective security and\n> success to compensate for the inferiority feelings. The perceived distance\n> from that goal would lead to a negative/depressed feeling that could then\n> **prompt the recall of the original inferiority feeling** ; this composite\n> of inferiority feelings could be experienced as **overwhelming**.\n\nThe inner workings of human beings are really complex, as this example in the\nfilm has shown, with many viewers, myself included, still begging for an\nexplanation of the motives behind the father's action. There may never be a\ndefinitive answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was just reading asks on Attack On Titan and came upon this one [What was\nEren's vision about?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13548/what-\nwas-erens-vision-about?rq=1)\n\nWhere someone says in one of the answers that Eren lost three years of his\nmemory due to his father experimenting on him? Can anyone tell me what volume\nof the manga this is from because I am all caught up and I don't remember\nthis. I thought the timeline went like this (from the beginning of the\nmanga/anime:\n\n 1. Dr.Jaeger says he's going into town to do some check ups\n 2. The wall is broken\n 3. The news reaches Dr.Jaeger (not sure how long this took)\n 4. He kills the real royal family\n 5. He goes after Eren (although I'm not sure how he found him??)\n 6. Injects Eren (like we saw in his flashbacks), Eren eats him and he dies.\n\nI'm also not sure how old Eren was when he ate his Dad? I think maybe he was\n12 or quite young. So in all this I don't remember his Dad doing any\nexperiments on him or if was mentioned/explained/hinted anywhere?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the manga and from the anime I don't remember Eren losing 3 years of his\nmemory. From your timeline I think your pretty accurate, except that I would\nswitch 3 and 4 around, as I think that Eren's dad went deeper into the wall to\nkill the real royal family.[Chapter 1, page 44] He killed the royal family by\nturning into a titan. Therefore I think it was only after he turned back to a\nhuman that he headed back to his home when the news of wall Maria fallen reach\nDr. Jaeger.[[Chapter 62, page 19-24]][1] He probably then starts looking for\nEren in every camp (where the survivors of wall Maria stay) there is to find\nEren. As the royal family is looking for him, he needs to disappear. To do so\nand still fulfill his goal he injects a drug into Eren who eats his dad and\ngains Titan powers alongside the \"coordinate\".[Chapter 3, page 21 ] [[Chapter\n10, page 32-35]][2]\n\nEdit: The only part I don't quite get is when Eren says to his dad \"You've\nbeen acting weird ever since mom died\"[Chapter 3, page 21]. It's the only time\nwhere it looks like Eren has seen his dad after the fall of wall Maria and\nbefore he turned into a titan, so that might be an indicator of a 3 year void\nin Eren's memory, even though this would be just speculation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found this image a little while ago.\n\n\n\nIt appears to be fan depictions of the magical girls who end up becoming\nwitches who are fought in the series. I know that:\n\n * The 2nd one is [Elly](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Elly) due to the the apperance of the screens on her left and the doll thing which is like Elly's Minions\n\n * The 3rd is supposed to be [Nagisa](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Nagisa_Momoe) looking more like [Charlotte](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Charlotte)\n\n * The 5th one is [Elsa Maria](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Elsa_Maria) due to the appearance of the Sun above her head\n\nHowever I don't know which witches the first and fourth girls are supposed to\nbe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 4th girl looks a lot like [Gertrud](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Gertrud).\nI'm not sure about the first one, however, as [there are no witch that is\nassociated with those weapons or her colors of the witches in the\nanime,](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Madoka_Magica_Characters) which I assume\nthe fanart is based on. There are also [no witches from the manga spin-off\nthat might look like her.](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Oriko_Magica_Characters)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAdding to what\n[Frosteeze](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/293/frosteeze) said (I still\ncan't add comments), the most left girl might be [Gisela](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Gisela) as shown from given link (<http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Madoka_Magica_Characters>). I think it might have to do with the\ncrest behind each girl.\n\n\n\nThe wiki page on Gisela mentions that she's the silver witch, and the first\ngirl clearly has a silver color theme. The wiki also speculates that the\nmagical girl who became her was a bosozoku. The bokuto and nail bat that the\nfirst girl is carrying are associated with bosozoku. Whether or not this is\ntrue, the artist of the picture might have believed it and included it in the\npicture.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthe crests in the background are giving it away from left to right:\n\n * 1: Gisela \n\n\n * 2: Elly \n\n\n * 3: Charlotte \n\n\n * 4: Gertrud \n\n\n * 5: Elsa Maria \n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo here is the cover page from **Lessa the Crimson Knight**.\n\n\n\n_I don't think_ I've ever seen this character, maybe it in the future, but not\nonce. Anyone know if he's from the first manga \"Lessa\", and I just missed him,\nor if I just forgot.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat is\n\n> Lessa, from the second season.\n\nand (SPOILER ALERT!)\n\n> he put on a red wig to disguise himself. He explains about it in the second\n> season.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri, despite being Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald's\nfiancée, is shown not to particular like him, criticizing him about his\nstrategy for not facing the other Masters face to face and hiding in the\nshadows while Lancer does all the work. However during the series it's shown\nshe has developed feelings for Lancer.\n\nLancer however possesses a curse known as the Mystic Face which takes the form\nof a beauty spot on his face and causes any woman who looks at his face to\ninstantly fall in love with him. During their first encounter at the port\nSaber was shown to be immune because of the High Magic Resistance those of the\nSaber Class obtain and pointed that out to Lancer (which lead to Lancer's\nidentity).\n\nSo I am wondering, did Sola-Ui truly love Lancer? or did she fall in love with\nhim only because of Lancer's curse?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKayneth himself tells us that even the lowest class of Magi (anyone with magic\ncircuits and some training in using them at the simplest levels) are\nfunctionally immune to Lancer's enchanting beauty mark. All they have to do is\ncycle their prana and it will wipe out the effects of the curse. In the anime\nin particular you actually see Iri start to come under the effect of the\ncurse, only to immediately break it as soon as she suspects something\nunnatural is afoot. This happens in the novel, as well.\n\nSola-Ui herself is from a respected magus family, and while not the heir to\nthe crest she was not ignorant of such basic techniques (by Kayneth's\nremarks). Her marriage to Kayneth is specifically an attempt to combine two\nhigh quality magi in hopes they will have similarly gifted children, which is\nitself an attempt to counter the degradation in the quality of magecraft and\nmagi in the modern age.\n\nHowever, the curse breaking only triggers if the affected person actually does\nthe prana cycling, and so anyone unwilling (or unable) to do so will be\nsubjected to the effects of the curse normally. I don't recall the novel ever\ngiving us any of Sola-Ui's motivations direct from herself, but it is heavily\nimplied that she intentionally allowed herself to be subjected to the curse.\nIn the anime there is a sequence where she looks upon Lancer, we get a close-\nup of his beauty mark (the embodiment of the curse), and then a shot of an\nobviously entranced Sola-Ui, and a reaction shot of Kayneth suggesting he has\nnoticed something happening. Kayneth also notices this in the novel,\nspecifically telling the reader (through his internal monologue) that any\nmagus should be immune as long as they try to resist, and then wrestling with\nthe implications of whether Sola-Ui just intentionally let herself come under\nits influence.\n\nSo the answer to your question depends heavily on what one interprets that\nchoice to mean.\n\nGiven that the novel was written by Urobuchi, who is well-known as a writer of\ntragic or at best bitter-sweet stories, would suggest that the correct\ninterpretation of Sola-Ui's motivations here are lust and escape from an\narranged future she does not desire. Romantic relationships in Fate/Zero, as\nwith Urobuchi's other works, are inherently all flawed and tragic. As you\nsaid, she was not particularly interested in Kayneth, and certainly not in\nlove with him (and even Kayneth himself acknowledges this, but hopes that with\ntime she will come to love him in earnest). Lancer, on the other hand, was\nvery attractive, mysterious, and possessing a romantic legend.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of episode 3, as _Mikatan_ brings a Christmas tree into Ito's\nroom, this conversation happens:\n\n> **Ito:** Wh-What is that?\n>\n> **Mikatan:** Isn't it obvious? It's Yakushimaru Ritsuko. Oh, I mean, a\n> Christmas tree.\n\n\n\nWho is Yakushimaru Ritsuko supposed to be a reference to? Does the real person\nhas anything to do with the context here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second season, episode 6 it is said\n\n> by Aoi, who is trying to persuade her mother to let her climb Fuji-san\n\nthat ‘Fuji-san is a mountain that even beginners can climb.’\n\nThat got me wondering. The mountain is over 3700 m high and to the best of my\nmap-reading knowledge, the valleys surrounding it can’t be too far away from\nsea level. That means it’s a climb of — let’s be cautious — 3000–m. To a\nheight that can likely cause altitude sickness to untrained persons (and let’s\nbe honest: The girls are pretty untrained, considering which peaks they have\nclimbed so far). All these factors scream out to me that Fuji-san will be\nanything _but_ an easy climb.\n\nAm I wrong and is the anime right and if so, why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is more about real-life mountain climbing than it is Yama no Susume, so\nit's only really marginally on-topic here. But it turns out that the series\nitself does a good job of addressing it, and is relatively realistic.\n\nBut to address your question, altitude is only one factor in climbing, and far\nfrom the most important. Mt. Fuji is an extremely popular tourist destination\n(one of the most climbed mountains in the world), and as such the trails are\nwell-paved and developed, with many rest stops. The trail isn't particularly\nsteep, and there's no difficult rock-climbing sections; it's basically a hike\nto the top. In more technical language, the routes to the summit are [YDS\nclass 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Decimal_System), which involve\nlittle to no technical skill. Endurance (the climb can take over 6 hours) and\naltitude sickness are really the _only_ major hindrances in climbing Mt. Fuji\n(other than under-preparedness). Some climbers bring oxygen canisters to\ncombat the altitude sickness, though experienced climbers usually only use\nthese on much higher peaks (in excess of 8 km high). So yes, a beginner in\ndecent shape could do it, though not all will make it to the top.\n\nThat isn't to say that it's a cake-walk though. Indeed, the anime shows that\nthis is not a trivial climb. Aoi was somewhat exaggerating her preparedness\nfor it, as we see later:\n\n> During the climb, Aoi develops altitude sickness after reaching the 8th\n> station on the path. Despite trying to go farther, her exhaustion worsens,\n> and she eventually gives up. Kaede stays with her, while Hinata and Kokona\n> make it to the summit before sunrise.\n\nBoth in real life and in the show, Mt. Fuji is the kind of mountain a beginner\ncan climb without special techniques or equipment, but it isn't completely\ntrivial and does require some endurance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn 2008 a friend and I climbed Mt. Fuji. We were both in our mid-20's and in\nreasonable shape. We started from the bottom at a shrine and made it to the\nfifth station by the end of day 1 and summited by the afternoon of day 2. At\nthe summit, we got caught in a lightning storm and had to descend on the\nopposite side of the mountain, which took us about another day (including\nspending the night at another fifth station).\n\nPersonally, I laugh whenever people say that climbing Mt. Fuji is easy. Yes,\nit's more of a hike than a climb, but the route is not paved, the altitude got\nto us both, and you really must have more than your average suburban endurance\nto make it up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSanji appeared in the starting of the Dressrosa arc and fought with Doflamingo\nfor a short span.\n\nHowever, I haven't seen him in any of the ongoing Dressrosa fights (I mean he\nshould have been there to defeat the executives or family of Doflamingo).\n\nOr have I missed something in between?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRight now **Sanji** is amidst the fight with the Big Mom Pirates along with\nNami, Chopper, Brook, and Kinemon's son Momonosuke. Then they were heading to\nwhere the Trafalgar's nakama were supposed to meet at **Zou**. Big Mom's\npirates were after Caesar which was alsp with them. He was requested by\n**Franky** not to allow those Big Mom Pirates close to Dressrosa or else the\nTontattas' efforts will be wasted (it doesn't seems to be logical enough to me\nthough) and Sanji was granted the permission to annihilate Big Mom Pirates as\nLuffy has already challenged her. Here is the\n[link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVicPkzh_ys) showing Sanji group\nleaving for Zou.\n\nI guess in the background the fight is still going on.\n\n**Edits and Updates:** This answer has heavy spoilers. Otakus who don't read\nmanga are advised not to read the spoiler...\n\n> The manga has completed the Dressrosa arc! And then in Chapter 795, it\n> appears that Sanji and his team has left the Big Mom Pirates, as shown:\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5xTc1.jpg)\n> And from the background of the manga it appears **they have already reached\n> Zou.** They escaped from Big Mom Pirates maybe because they (Big Mom\n> Pirates) would’ve proved too much for Sanji and others. (It's an assumption.\n> Nothing is specified canonically). \n> \n> Then in Chapter 801 the raise in the Bounty of the Straw Hat crew specified\n> that **Sanji was wanted alive!** : [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Am87K.jpg)\n> which may imply Sanji is an important personnel that the government needs! \n> \n> Now the latest Chapter 806 says Sanji is not present at Zou but in some\n> trouble! Here: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WmqKn.jpg)\n> Since Oda-Sensei is known for his cliff-hangers, this last page determines\n> that Sanji was somehow overpowered and taken **ALIVE.** The [Jack\n> Pirate](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Jack) is strongly suspected to have\n> taken Sanji! He might have taken Sanji for some personal gains from the\n> Marines or to become a Shichibukai (like how [Trafalgar Law\n> did](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Trafalgar_D._Water_Law#Personality) as\n> mentioned in 6th line of 7th paragraph) since Doflamingo is no more a\n> Shichibukai and a seat is vacant! These are just my **HYPOTHESIS** and where\n> Sanji might currently be can only be declared by Oda-Sensei in the next few\n> upcoming chapters!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe **SANJI** was beaten by jack's men or some sort of strong guys and bring\nhim to marijois since there's a rumor that sanji is a son of one of those\ngorosei. wanted list says sanji should be taken only alive and in chapter 806\nthink nami's tears and sorry is meant for sanji's loss.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 507 the Straw Hat crew meets Rayleigh for the first time. It was\nthen that Robin asked whether Roger was able to understand the ancient\nlanguage used on the poneglyphs, because at Skypiea she had come across a\nponeglyph with a passage written on it, supposedly signed by Roger. Yet\nRayleigh said that they were merely pirates and that Roger could not match the\nintellect of those of Ohara. So then in the end, who did write the passage?\n\n> I have come here, and will lead this passage to the very end. - Pirate Gol\n> D. Roger\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n5qQF.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1T8B6.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ElPsa.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that we finally know. Oda revealed in chapter 818 that...\n\n> ...it was most likely Lord Kouzuki Oden that wrote down that passage. The\n> Poneglyph were created by the Kouzuki clan and it was confirmed that Lord\n> Oden was able to read the language and write on the stones. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vG27v.png) \n> Later it was revealed that he himself had travelled with the former Pirate\n> King, Roger. So chances are that he travelled along with Roger to Skypiea\n> and wrote that additional paragraph. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hBSzK.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is finally confirmed in the last page of Chapter 966\n\n> Kozuki Oden is the one that read the poneglyph and write a note on the bell\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FSLsP.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Plastic Memories adapted from a manga/light novel? If so, how many\nvolumes/chapters have been released so far?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Plastic Memories (プラスティック・メモリーズ Purasutikku Memorīzu?) is a Japanese anime\n> television series produced by Doga Kobo and directed by Yoshiyuki Fujiwara.\n> The story was conceived by Naotaka Hayashi, who also wrote the screenplay,\n> with original character design by Okiura. The series premiered in Japan on\n> April 4, 2015 - [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Memories)\n\nThe anime premiered in 4/4/2015 with no manga adaptation as its an original\nanime only story with original anime only character designs.\n\nThere is a manga **spin-off** that's planned for 6/2015.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not like I like tsunderes or anything, I'm just interested in anime\nhistory okay?!\n\nI just happened to be on the site, so don't get the wrong idea!\n\nGeez, j-just tell me who the first tsundere was already, Baka!\n\n\n\n**EDIT:** For clarification, I'm looking for the first known character that\nexpresses tsundere qualities, rather than the first character that was\n_labelled_ tsundere.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\" _Tsundere_ \" is a rather new term which came into popularity [in\n2005](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%84%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC#.E6.A6.82.E8.A6.81),\nand an early account of its use was [in\n2002](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%84%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC#.E5.BD.93.E5.88.9D).\n\nThus, to apply the term to any character created before 2002 or so, a\n_tsundere_ would be categorized as such retroactively. In this case, the\ncharacter was not techincally _tsundere_ when it was created, since the\nmangaka/director/whoever did not consciously have the concept of _tsundere_ in\nmind at that time (we could say that the character became _tsundere_\nafterward, since _tsundere_ wasn't a thing at the time that the character\n\"lived and breathed\").\n\nThe character type has existed for a long time, but Japanese fans might\ndisagree on who is the earliest character to whom the label could be applied\nto. It is likely that the term would not be bothered to be applied to\ncharacters from obscure series or to supporting characters from early anime\nworks simply because those characters are not famous, even if they would fit\nthe definition. So it is very debatable to declare which character is the\nearliest _tsundere_ , unless Japanese fans settle upon a generally-agreed list\nof which older characters count as _tsundere_.\n\nTo assess this based on English-language sources would be to rely on the\nopinions of otaku from non-Japanese worldviews/cultures to delineate which\ncharacters are retroactively _tsundere_ and which are not. This is\nproblematic, because 1) _tsundere_ is originally a Japanese concept and\nthereby should be mainly fleshed out by people within Japanese culture, who\nare [not yet generally resolved on a standard\ndefinition](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%84%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC#.E6.A6.82.E8.A6.81)\nof _tsundere_ (from the Japanese Wikipedia:\n「現在ではインターネットスラングを起源とするとされ、そのため定義も多様で、確定していない。」 [\"Since the origin [of the\nword] is internet slang, there are a variety of definitions, so [the meaning]\nis not firmly determined.\"]), and 2) the further back in anime history we go,\nthe less anime was exported to non-Japanese audiences, which means that the\nselection of early characters that global fans have been exposed to is likely\nfar more limited than the number of characters that long-time Japanese anime\nfans are familiar with. This means that the earliest character that an\ninternational fan can recall might not be as old the earliest character a\nJapanese fan could be aware of. So it seems ambitious/pretentious to assume\nthat a character well-known internationally actually happens to be the\nearliest _tsundere_ , since another character which never became known or\npopular outside of Japan in the 70s (for example) might be an earlier\n_tsundere_ than any renowned character.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPipiko as known as \"Pipi\" was the first Tsundere in an anime show called\n\"Triton of the Sea (Umi no Toriton) in 1972\" was published by Osamu Tezuka.\nShe was found in Northern sea in a cool place. She wanted to become the queen\nof the Northen sea because she was the last mermaid (Actually she still a\nbadass Tsundere mermaid! xD ).\n\nShe's not very polite to a heroic young boy named \"Triton\". Triton saved her\nfrom a sea monster, but suddenly, she hated him. Why, is because after he\nstrong saved them, all the other seal friends cheered him to become the part\nof the Northen sea. Proteus told Pipi that she was the Triton of all the sea\nand she has to stick with Triton, but she doesn't care about becoming a Triton\nalthough she hated Triton for obeying his order. Pipi has a trick planned to\nget rid of him. She called Bach (His a friend of Pipi) and said that she will\nuse an island illusion to trick Triton. She called Triton and together to find\nthe island. Pipi's plan works tried to get rid of him.\n\nPipi was kidnapped by Minotus. Triton said to her we have to get out of this\nplace, but she wasn't listening to him. Proteus told them that they have to\nget out of this place before Minotus exterminate us. Pipi and Triton moved to\nan Island full of Dolphins and yep, she such a hater of Triton. She declaims\nto escape from him to go back her home. Triton shouted at her not to go back\nthere and it's dangerous!\n\nNext day, She missed her family and all of her seal friends. She hated sleep\nunder the palm trees and sand. Triton said \"Is anything you wanted me to do?\"\n\nPipi stubborn him for a while and show her anger expression. A second later,\nshe answers, \"I felt uncomfortable to sleep here and THERE'S NOTHING TO DO IN\nTHIS PLACE, IT'S TOO BORING!\" she let a hmpt sound turning her head and ignore\nhim. Triton decides to make a house for her. He destroys all the palm trees\nwith his deadly sword. Pipi screams and told him not to used his deadly\nweapons. \"IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME, HUH!!!\"\n\nTriton used another way to get rid of the palm trees out. He calls all his\ndolphins to pull the palm trees out.\n\nA few minutes later, Pipi was abused by Iru and Karu. Fin protecting her from\nthem to stop abusing her. Pipi threw a rock at them unfortunately, she was\npunished by Triton! She hated Triton and the other and manage to swim back to\nwhere she's belonging. Triton finds her although she's getting in deep\ntrouble.\n\nOnce, He found her. She struggles with him and she told him she wanted to let\ngo of him. Triton against the sea monster and stabbed in the stomach. Triton\nand Pipi now returned to the island where they finished building a house for\nher.\n\nNext morning, Pipi call Triton and she wants to play a racing game. Triton was\nsick of her and said no thanks. She started to play rude thing to him.\n\nPipi: \"Oh, because you're human, but you don't have a tail hahaha!\"\n\nTriton splashed on Pipi with an annoying anger expression. She shouts back at\nhim and said \"BAKA!!!!\"\n\nLucas the white dolphin came to her and asked that Triton has gone to help the\nhuman to defeat Doriate. Pipi was happy for him to leave (She hated him 93%).\n\nOn episode 10 \"Come back Pipi\", Triton saw Pipi sitting on the rocky pool. She\nwas annoyed him and pull out a raspberry at him. She was such a Tsundere to\nhim and he disliked her. Pipi told all her information about her old friend\nfrom the Northern sea. Triton laughs at her with a grinning face. She then\nswims away from him not to talk to him anymore.\n\nPipi upset about him and along came a little yellow fish came by her. Pipi is\nonly nice to the sea creature instead of a human. She helps the little fish to\nfind her way back to her home. They play tag and having fun together and\nunfortunately, they were almost trapped by the Poseidon's guards. The guards\ndidn't know they were at. Pipi and the little fish hide from them and didn't\nmake it for her home. They go back to the island where Pipi new home was. She\nthanks the little fish and suddenly, Triton shows off his angry expression. He\nshouted at her. \"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, PIPI!!!\".\n\nPipi doesn't want to say about she's leaving the dolphins island and turned\nher head without looking at him.\n\nTriton was even cross at her to waited for her answer. He walked up and\nshouted at her. \nShe told him she was trying to leave this place and go back where she\nbelonging. He smack her and yells at her not to go back their even he told her\n10000000000 times!!!! He asked her she has to stick with him and he even told\nher she's the Triton. Pipi don't want to be a stupity Triton.\n\nShe cries all day night in her hut. All of her fellows sang to her to cheer\nher up, but she still hated Triton. She wants him to leave this place.\n\nPipi found unusual huge pink shell ties from fin's back. Fin told her to be\ncareful because this shell is belonging to Triton's family. She told her to\nlisten to the sound effects of the shells. It was his family sounds. she\nthought for a moment. They told her the truth is she is the Triton. Pipi threw\na shell toward far away from the island and she does not hesitate for that\nTriton.\n\nAfter that, Triton came back from defeating Doriate. He told her she was a\nTriton. He told her that her family and mermaid groups were all dead by\nPoseidon and the Triton left was the onliest community who survived. She told\nTriton a liar and having enough of that talks. Triton let her hesitate about\nwhat she had done from the beginning past.\n\nAlmost to the last episode of Umi no Triton, She is now better o know\neverything about Triton's rules.\n\nWell, that all I've got to tell you about Pipiko. She is the first Tsundere\nanime mermaid in the anime series.\n\nHere's the picture of her [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P1Ucy.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn deference to the previous poster, imo is more Tsun than Dere.\n\nIt legit sounds like she just hates him outright.\n\nI usually mark the first actual Tsundere as Akane Tendo. Again, not created\nwith the archetype in mind because it didn't exist yet.\n\nBut even in the first opening, Don't Make Me Wild Like You, she lays out both\nher grievances and her affections for him, and how she's just not ready to\nface up to all of it yet, so let's just try to be friends for now.\n\nIn the show, she is the stereotypical tsundere - teasing and tormenting Ranma,\ncalling him a pervert and a crossdresser, forcing him into awkward situations\n- but at the same time, she's the first to show up with a kettle of hot water\nwhen he needs it, the first to carry him home when he can't walk, the first to\nget jealous when another female is even remotely friendly towards him.\n\nThe fact that he, himself is not much better than her in that regard only\naggravates her only tsundere tendencies into such extreme levels that she\nliterally sits on par with any modern tsundere who was intended to be one. In\nfact most of the typical tsundere qualities, if not all of them, are found in\nAkane Tendo - from the hair flips (when her was still long) - to the pouting -\nthe teasing of the main character - needing to be saved by him but never\nimmediately grateful -the fated romance between the two - even lesser used\ntropes like the tsundere being inexplicably attractive to every other male in\nthe show except the main character (who still likes her anyways).\n\nSo, in summation, everyone has a different answer that fits their idealized\nconcept of the tsundere concept, and no one else quite gets it right. The best\nway for you to determine the original tsundere is to watch classic anime\nyourself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe term is relatively new so it's hard to tell what character does or does\nnot count.\n\nHowever, the oldest character I know of that fits the definition, is 1813's\nMr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. If you've read it then you very well know\nhe fits the character type.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn around 2010, I remember watching an anime that was sort of based in the\nfuture after some type of explosion happened.\n\nI think there was a green-haired girl robot thing named Sophie, and she stayed\nwith a man named Ryo, who lost his daughter in the explosion.\n\nIt ended with the robot girl going into outer space to save everyone.\n\nWhat is this anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've found this pretty cute image on the web, and I'm curious as to why the\ngirl turned into a child, and what happens next. I've tried a reverse image\nsearch, but it didn't yield any satisfactory results. Does anyone here\nrecognize this image? Could you please tell me where it comes from?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe was grounded and held underground deep inside the walls, but what about\nit? Did they manage to extract any information from her? If no then why?\nGetting by without saying a word is too good for her!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 4 of _Tesagure! Bukatsumono Spin-off Purupurun Sharumu to Asobou_ ,\nat around 14:16 into the episode, when they are talking about making a new\nschool song, Aoi interjects with an obscure reference \"Comaneci!\".\n\n\n\nA quick search on the Internet point to [Nadia\nComăneci](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Com%C4%83neci), who is the first\nfemale gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic\nevent, among other achievements. However, I can't tell how it connects to the\ncontext here.\n\nBelow is the translated dialogue leading to the reference above:\n\n> **Yua** : Actually, starting this year, Tosei High School is going to have a\n> new school song, and they're inviting people to submit lyrics, so I thought\n> we would participate, too.\n>\n> **Koharu** : Write the lyrics for a school song?\n>\n> **Hina** : If the lyrics are used, they'll become a piece of school history.\n>\n> **Aoi** : Comaneci!\n>\n> **Yua** : All right! But before we actually think of lyrics, let's think\n> about a \"new school song.\"\n\nCan anyone explain this reference and how it connects to the context of the\nepisode here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter [Clash of the Titans\narc](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_arc) (from\nchapter 35 to chapter 50), it was confirmed that Reiner and Bertolt survived.\nSince they were previously planning to go back to their village with Eren, now\nthat Eren has been rescued, will they really go back without Eren? Or will\nthey come back for him?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan anybody give me a complete reference to all anime whose titles, artists\nand/or lines were referenced in the Bakuman series? It would also be great if\nyou could let me know when they were mentioned. External sources will be\nappreciated too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * To Love Ru (A discussion between the protagonists and fellow mangakas about this ecchi manga and how it was targeted at boys) \n * Death Note (Mentioned while talking about successful manga)\n * Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto\n * One Piece by Eiichiro Oda\n * Bleach by Tite Kubo\n * Slam Dunk: A manga about basketball (brought up when the protagonists are talking about their favourite manga)\n * Ashita no Joe: A manga about boxing (brought up when the protagonists are talking about their inspiration/their favourite manga),\n * Hunter x Hunter\n * Dragon Ball Z (Name is brought up from time to time)\n\nThey may have referenced a few other anime but these are the ones that came up\nthe most.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Manga Bakuman has references to several other works from time to time\n\n * One Piece\n * Bleach\n * Naruto\n * DragonBall\n * Touch\n * To Love ru \n * Enigma\n * Sakigake Otokojuku\n * Kimi ni Todoke\n * Death Note\n * Gintama\n * Fist of the North Star\n * Star of the Giants\n * Ai and Makoto \n * Doraemon\n * Slam Dunk\n * Hunter X Hunter\n * Ashita no Joe\n\nThere are some missing in the list I will add those once I find out\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * Ashita no Joe\n * One Piece\n * Bleach\n * Naruto\n * Dragon Ball\n * Gintama\n * Beet the Vandel Buster \n * Star of the Giants\n * Death Note\n * The Qualifications of a Man (Ikki Kajiwara)\n * Father's Soul / Soul of the Father (Kaizuka Hiroshi)\n * KochiKame\n * Hikaru no Go\n * Kamen Rider\n * Fist of the North Star\n * Hunter X Hunter\n * Flower Angel TenTen\n * Beelzebub\n * Yoroshiku Mechadock\n * To Love Ru\n * Nura: The Rise of the Yokai Clan / Nurarihyon\n * Sakigake!! Otokojuku\n * Dr. Slump\n * Gatchaman (1972)\n * Doraemon\n * Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo\n * Dai's Big Adventure (Dragon Quest)\n * Rurouni Kenshin\n * Touch\n * Ai to Makoto\n * Kimi n Todoke\n * Boys Over Flowers\n * Nodame Cantabile\n * Ichigo 100%\n * Anedoki\n * Hatsukoi Limited\n * Kikaider (Shotaro Ishinomori)\n * Secret Squad Goranger\n * Transforming Ninja Arashi\n * Robot Cop\n * Lupin the 3rd\n * Phoenix (Osamu Tezuka)\n * The Rose of Versailles\n * Glass Mask\n * Barefoot Gen\n * Demonic Detective Neuro Nougami\n * Toriko\n * Yu-Gi-Oh!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhere can I find English translated Clockwork Planet light novels? Are there\nonline shops which sell translated copies?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _Clockwork Planet_ (『クロックワーク・プラネット』) light novels have not been licensed\nfor English translation and distribution so far.\n\nYen Press has licensed _No Game No Life_ , another light novel series by the\nsame author, Kamiya Yuu; volume 1 was released in April 2015 and volume 2 will\nbe released in July 2015. The highest chance of _Clockwork Planet_ light\nnovels being translated is currently through Yen Press, but Yen Press [has\nnot](http://www.yenpress.com/2014/09/we-have-a-few-announcements-to-make/)\nlicensed the series [so far](http://www.yenpress.com/2015/01/new-licenses-for-\nthe-new-year/). You can make a request to express your interest by sending a\nmessage through their [contact\nform](https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/contact-us/) or by posting a comment\nin response to their new licenses\n[announcement](http://www.yenpress.com/2015/01/new-licenses-for-the-new-\nyear/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently watched _Ghost in the Shell: Arise − Alternative Architecture_\nepisode 3 and was dismayed to find that the episode was pretty much a repeat\nof part of the _Ghost in the Shell: Arise − Border_ 1 movie. I’d rather not\nre-watch the same content, so I was wondering\n\n * Which episodes of the TV series _GITS − AA_ are covered by the _GITS − Border_ movies?\n * Are there any differences between the repeated stories (IE. extra scenes/new content/changed plot)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Ghost in the Shell Arise - Alternative Architecture, is all of the borders\n> (1,2,3,4), but adapted with a TV broadcast in mind, it splits up the hour\n> long episodes into TV-length episodes (30 or 45 minutes). It also included 2\n> new episodes (for a total of 8 episode), meant to bridge the gap between\n> Arise and GITS:The New Movie. Also it seems that Funimation has Licenses the\n> series.\n\nThis is an excerpt from\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/ghostintheshell/comments/31s0l9/what_is_arise_alternative_architecture/cq6p4fu).\nI enjoyed GITS, but it has been hold for me from sometime. Also from the\nsubreddit\n\n> Also, I have seen episodes 1 and 2 of Alternative Architecture, so far it's\n> the same as Arise, it just starts off with border:4 and they added a new\n> opening and replaced some of the music though the border with either silence\n> or different music. (For example, when Kusanagi and Batou are taking Emma to\n> unit 501, their is no background music, this scene is also intercut with\n> Boma and Paz following the man who they captured.) Their is some editing\n> differences, but the main point is the last 2 episodes and the new opening.\n> As a side note, the new opening is in a different aspect ratio than 16:9, (I\n> believe 2.35:1), I also believe that they remixed the opening song for the\n> new film with Arise's opening\n\n[link to\nreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/ghostintheshell/comments/31s0l9/what_is_arise_alternative_architecture/cqde5b4)\n\nSo it is more in line with the comment posted earlier.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't heard about the “GITS: Arise − Border” movies you are talking about\n(I assume this is what the american licensee decided to call the Arise\nmovies), but the storylines of _Arise_ and _Arise: Alternative Architecture_\noverlap. If you already watched the longer _Arise_ movies earlier, then you\ncan skip the episodes 3-8 of _AA_ which are basically the 4 movies split up\ninto two part episodes. I did not do an extensive scene-by-scene or frame-by-\nframe comparison for all the episodes, but I watched them all in the order\nthey aired and didn't notice any new scenes being added in _AA_.\n\nI started comparing both versions of _Ghost Pain_ yesterday in a video editor\n(kdenlive, one of the free editors that supports to show individual frames in\nthe timeline) and got to about 13 minutes playtime until I gave up due to lack\nof skills to compare both efficiently and provide a usable result. What I\nfound so far is that **scenes have been re-arranged and shortened for _AA_** :\nsome scenes have been left out, while some stills appear longer on screen. The\nfirst scene in _AA_ for example with the major at the airport in _Ghost Pain_\nwas originally further in the episode/movie, scenes including dialog with\nAramaki (at the cemetery) and Kurutsu (in her office) have been shortened.\n\nComparing runtimes of the movies and _AA_ episodes it's `58m` vs. `2*24m`, so\nyou're likely to watch an abridged version of the movies, where roughly 10\nminutes of content had to be cut to meet the length required for the\ntelevision broadcast edition. My guess is that the focus for creating new\ncontent was on the episodes _Ghost Stands Alone_ (1, 2), _Pyrophoric Cult_ (9,\n10) and _the new movie_ (see below).\n\nIf you haven't watched any of this, you probably want to watch in this order:\n**Ghost Stands Alone** (AA), **Ghost Pain** (Arise), **Ghost Whispers**\n(Arise), **Ghost Tears** (Arise), **Ghost Stands Alone** (Arise), **Pyrophoric\nCult** (AA), **New Movie**.\n\n# Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Ghost in the Shell\n\n[22.06.2013 till 06.09.2014](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=9658), each episode is about 60 minutes long:\n\n 1. **Ghost Pain**\n 2. **Ghost Whispers**\n 3. **Ghost Tears**\n 4. **Ghost Stands Alone**\n\n# Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Alternative Architecture\n\n[05.04.2015 till 14.06.2015](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=11023), each episode is about 25 minutes long:\n\n 1. **Ghost Stands Alone, Part 1**\n 2. **Ghost Stands Alone, Part 2**\n 3. _Ghost Pain, Part 1_\n 4. _Ghost Pain, Part 2_\n 5. _Ghost Whispers, Part 1_\n 6. _Ghost Whispers, Part 2_\n 7. _Ghost Tears, Part 1_\n 8. _Ghost Tears, Part 2_\n 9. **Pyrophoric Cult, Part 1**\n 10. **Pyrophoric Cult, Part 2**\n\n# Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Gekijouban\n\n[This](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=10824) is the\n**_new movie_** with a new story set in the Arise universe\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just finished watching the first season of _Nanatsu no Taizai_ ( _Seven\nDeadly Sins_ ). I would like to continue by reading the manga but I am unsure\nwhich chapter to start from.\n\nAlso, I read online that there is a lot missing in the anime compared to the\nmanga. Is that true?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read the manga first and started watching the anime halfway through, **but\nthe final episode coincides with chapter 100** , as far as I can remember.\n\nAs far as the manga goes, it has 3 arcs. The first arc ends with chapter 123.\nIt ends kind of abruptly. So if you want to read the manga, starting from\nafter the anime series ends, you have to start with the chapter **\"Power of\nLove\"**. I am sure it's above 101, it could be 102 or 103. So starting at 101\nwould be your best bet.\n\nThe anime almost covers what the manga does. Obviously, the manga might feel\nmuch granular and in-depth, but the anime gets most of the important point\nthough. **Try reading from chapter 101**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou should read it from the 102nd chapter. Also, there is no need to read all\nthe chapters from the beginning, because the anime had missed a lot of parts\nfrom the manga.\n\nWhile in general case manga has more to show than its anime, in this case, the\nleftover part in the anime is not that important and you can miss it without\nregrets.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll I have is this talisman thing:\n\n\n\nCan anyone tell me what anime this is from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm on chapter 57 on _Attack on Titan_ , and a \"coordinate ability\" keeps\ngetting mentioned -- here by Hanji, but also earlier by either Bertholdt or\nReiner (who apparently didn't want it to fall into the wrong hands). But what\nexactly is this coordinate ability?\n\nI skipped a lot of the chapters up to 34 because they were just rehashings of\nthe stuff in the anime, and I skimmed over a lot of the Survey Corps action in\nthe woods, since it was getting too repetitious for me, so it's possible I\nmight just have missed something.\n\n**Edit (taken from my comment in the answers):** As an explanation to other\nreaders, I was confused about this since at least in English, \"coordinate\" is\npretty ambiguous without any further qualification. (It could be something\ngeographical.) From the way Reiner and Bertholdt were talking about it, it\nsounded a bit like it could simply be a piece of crucial information that Eren\nmight have in his lost memory.\n\n\n\nMoreover, because of how Hanji was describing it merely as a \"coordinate\nability\", it still wasn't clear to me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTitans can have different types of abilities, like shifting back to human form\n(aka [Titan Shifters](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_Shifter)),\nor putting armor on themselves (eg: [Armored\nTitan](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Reiner_Braun),\n[Annie](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Reiner_Braun) hiding the back\nof her neck, ...). The third ability that was shown, was that of the\nCoordinate.\n\nThe Coordinate ability is basically the ability to control Titans. If the\nability is controlled properly it can command all Titans to do whatever you\nwant them to do.\n\n> This is how humans were able to built the walls as sturdy and as big as they\n> are right now.\n\nAs far as the story goes, it does not seem to work on Titan Shifters and there\nis supposed to be only one Titan with the Coordinate ability.\n\n> Although the [Beast\n> Titan](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Beast_Titan) was shown to have\n> a similar ability.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthe coordinate is the ability to control other titans (abnormals) but Eren\nnever had that power. He only got it when touching the mother of Zeke, his\nfather's first wife(the smiling titan) who was of the royal family.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Lucy is forced into her 'Nyu' personality, she is reduced to a basic\nlevel of intelligence, with a diminished vocabulary and no access to her\nvectors. As the chapters progress, we see her begin to learn - specifically\nnew words, like 'Kouta' and 'Yes'.\n\nEarly in the story, we learn that Diclonius children gain access to their\nvectors and begin to kill humans at around the age of 3. Given that Nyu is in\na childlike state, and that she's learning much like a normal Diclonius child\nwould, does that mean that she too would begin to murder humans after around 3\nyears?\n\nOr would the fact that she isn't _actually_ a child mean those consequences\nwouldn't occur?\n\nI've already finished the story, so no need to worry about spoilers.\n\n* * *\n\nSide note: If I remember rightly, at some point in the later chapters (just\nbefore Kaede house is attacked), a particular event occurs where Nyu regains\nmost of her intelligence, and can string together proper sentences. I can't\nremember exactly what happens, since it's been a while since I've read it, but\nfor the question's sake, let's just assume that never happened, and Nyu stayed\nas she originally was.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFyi: The snapshots are **nsfw** , so they are put spoiler tags.\n\n* * *\n\n**Kaede has been able to use her vectors in Nyu-mode and is also able of\nspeaking properly.** During the 6 months timeskip of chapter 72, Nyu was able\nto learn speech and in chapter 87 she unlocked her vectors in Nyu-mode. See\nbelow for more details. It hadn't been three years, but you were right in\nthinking that she would be able to grow her second personality the same way\nshe did her first. I guess she could learn faster at this stage, as her brain\nwas fully grown by now, compared to when she was still a child. Kaede was also\nalways seen as the more intelligent Diclonius, because she was able to reach a\nhigh age without being found out. And if it wasn't for her friend, she would\nhave never been caught, despite being a child.\n\nWhen Kaede was taken hostage by Chief Kakuzawa in chapter 86, he claimed that\nshe had a split personality and that her Nyu-side could not use her vectors,\njust as you claimed.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cgDW0.png)\n\nThis argument was countered in the next chapter though. In chapter 87, we can\nsee Chief Kakuzawa push Nyu to her limits, claiming that she has no place to\ngo to and that they should create a new world together filled with real\ndemons. Getting fed up with his story, she snapped and Nyu became able to\nrelease her full power, despite staying in Nyu-form. Chief Kakuzawa (and thus\nLynn Okamoto himself) confirmed that she hadn't changed back to Lucy-form,\ndespite releasing really powerful vectors.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/50rAX.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRyuuko uses Seki Tekko, the glove with a wristband to pierce her skin and draw\nblood that Senketsu needs to transform and give her power. That glove was\ngiven to Ryuuko by Aikuro Mikisugi (the teach in pilot shades) in episode 2.\n\n\n\n\nIt is colored red and is exactly what Ryuuko needs to make use of Senketsu\neffectively. Was it just lying around in the teacher's closet for punishing\nbad students and just happened to fit, or did Mikisugi make it specifically\nfor Ryuuko? Where does this glove come from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis glove is originally a part of Senketsu. If you look carefully at the\nflashback scene in episode 3 where Mikisugi goes to the burned down Matoi\nhouse, in the basement where he finds Senketsu, you can see that the glove is\nin the left sleeve:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the actual name of character c2 in the anime code geass? I would also\nlike to know the name of v2 if that is possible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Answered here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13158/2808).\n\nIt is unknown by design. C2's name is obscured when she tells it to Lelouch in\nthe cave (first sesason, episode 5 to 8 -ish).\n\nNowhere it is written, and given the producers inclination to secrecy, it\nwon't be revealed.\n\nIt is speculated that the name begins with the letter C, but that is all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the opening song matsutarou sings along with Reika. They're both dressed in\ntraditional kimono.\n\n\n\nMatsutarou has these weird pink things on the side of his head though. The\nonly thing I can think of is that he's impersonating someone and it's possibly\nan imitation of that singer's hair? That doesn't really explain why it is pink\nthough.\n\nDoes anyone know what the pink strands are?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Mononobe Yuu fights Hecatoncher, Yggdrasil tells him he needs to give up\nmore memories because he has an \"Incomplete Marduk\".\n\nIn mithology, [Marduk is the Babylonian\ngod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marduk) that fought Tiamat.\n\nAlso [wikipedia erroneously names Yuu's cannon as\nMarduk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlimited_Fafnir). The cannon's name is\nBabel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Juuou Mujin no Fafnir_ , Yuu contracts with the oldest Dragon Yggdrasil.\nThis allows him to get blueprints for weapons from an ancient lost\ncivilization. If you look carefully, all of the weapons are names of\nMesopotamian myth, especially with Babylon. If you know Babel, it was\nattributed to the Mesopotamian god Marduk (not Babel, but associated with a\nsimilar structure [Etemenanki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etemenanki)).\n\nSo essentially, **Marduk** is a **huge weapon** and **Babel** is its **main\ncannon** which stops Leviathan. As [nhahtdh pointed out in the\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21176/what-is-a-\nmarduk/21323#comment28667_21176), Megiddo and Noah are the other cannons. So\nto complete the whole weapon Marduk, he needs to give up more memories. In\nessence, you can think of Marduk as a huge battleship and Babel as one of its\ncannons.\n\nFor Tower of Babel allusions: [Tower of Babel -\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [_Juuou Mujin no\nFafnir_](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8A%83%E7%9A%87%E7%84%A1%E5%B0%BD%E3%81%AE%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%95%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB#.E9.81.BA.E5.A4.B1.E5.85.B5.E5.99.A8.EF.BC.88.E3.83.AD.E3.82.B9.E3.83.88.E3.82.A6.E3.82.A8.E3.83.9D.E3.83.B3.EF.BC.89)\narticle on Japanese Wikipedia (I find the Japanese articles on recent anime\nrather detailed, compared to the equivalent article in English):\n\n> **Marduk**\n>\n> As the trump card in the fight against Dragon, it's an anti-Dragon weapon\n> used by Mononobe Yuu from time to time. Among the weapon blueprints obtained\n> from Yggdrasil, its main armament is impossible to be reproduced by the\n> current scientific technology [..] Being technology of previous civilization\n> once existed in the far past, none of those blueprints still remains in the\n> modern time.\n>\n> Although the original Marduk is huge weapon consists of many types of\n> batteries1, it's not possible to completely materialize the whole weapon\n> with the power of D. However, it can be used in battle by materializing the\n> only the minimal necessary part of the battery.\n>\n> To date, the batteries featured so far are the special cannon Megiddo\n> (Boundary-Scorching Blue Flame) which annihilated Hecatoncheir, the main\n> cannon Babel (Sky-Blocking Tower) which annihilated Leviathan, the twin gun\n> Noah (Equinox-Lasting Ark) which annihilated Hresvelgr. [...] It's currently\n> not known whether these three cannon makes up the whole of Marduk or not.\n\n1 Meaning [a fortified emplacement for heavy\nguns](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/battery).\nTranslated from 砲台.\n\nTranslated from [article version dated\n2015-05-03](http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E9%8A%83%E7%9A%87%E7%84%A1%E5%B0%BD%E3%81%AE%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%95%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB&oldid=55421454).\nSome text removed due to conflict with knowledge from other source, or not\nrelated to the question being asked.\n\nAs stated in the Wikipedia article, Marduk is the name of the whole weapon,\nwhich Yuu only materialize parts of during the fights against Dragons.\nMegiddo, Babel and Noah are the names of the cannons on Marduk.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of Yuu's classmates are shown to have dragon \"partners\"/\"suitors\" (to\navoid a more heavy term), and the plot runs around avoiding having the dragon\nmeet the designated girl.\n\nI am talking about when a dragon comes for a girl and her Ryuumon glows.\n\nExamples are Iris and Leviathan, Tear and Basilisk, the girl Mitsuki killed\n(she turned into a dragon in the backstory).\n\nBut the school has dozens of D girls. Are there that much dragon beasts\nrampaging around?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nProbably not, as I cannot imagine that Yggdrasil is in the same realm as\nmankind, I would imagine there are multiple or perhaps even an infinite amount\nof realms. That would also explain the sudden appearance of the Dragons.\n\nUnfortunately I have no real evidence of this being the case. My comment is\nbased on mere assumptions after watching the aired episodes of the anime\nseries.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBelow is the color cover for chapter 31 of [**Youkai Shoujo -\nMonsuga**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/70775/Youkai_Shoujo_-_Monster_Girl).\n\n\n\nThe characters here are very clearly cosplaying as characters from other\nworks; which characters are they cosplaying as?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, I do not recognize the child in what appears to be a\n[kiwi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi) costume, but here's a list of all\nthe other characters.\n\nFrom front to back (closest to farthest):\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/File:Anime_mutsu.png) \n[**Mutsu**](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Mutsu) from [**Kantai\nCollection**](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Kancolle_Wiki)\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/File:Mami_Tomoe_Original_Design.jpg) \n[**Tomoe Mami**](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Mami) from [**Puella Magi Madoka\nMagica**](https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica)\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://love-\nlive.wikia.com/wiki/File:Yazawa_Nico_Official_Profile_3.png) \n[**Yazawa Nico**](http://love-live.wikia.com/wiki/Yazawa_Nico) from [**Love\nLive!**](http://love-live.wikia.com/wiki/Love_Live!)\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/File:Kurisu_profile.png) \n[**Makise Kurisu**](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Kurisu_Makise) from\n[**Steins;Gate**](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Steins;Gate_%28visual_novel%29)\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sakura_Kasugano_%28CFE%29.png) \n[**Kasugano Sakura**](http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura) from\n[**Street\nFighter**](http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/Street_Fighter_series)\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_3r_000.png) \nUnknown [**kiwi**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi) child...\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://terraformars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Terraformar.jpg) \nA [**Terraformar**](http://terraformars.wikia.com/wiki/Terraformar) from\n[**Terra Formars**](http://terraformars.wikia.com/wiki/Terra_Formars_TV)\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://residentevil.wikia.com/File:Ada5.jpg) \n[**Ada Wong**](http://residentevil.wikia.com/Ada) from [**Resident\nEvil**](http://residentevil.wikia.com/Resident_Evil_series)\n\n* * *\n\n[](http://blazblue.wikia.com/wiki/File:Azrael_%28Chronophantasma,_Character_Select_Artwork%29.png) \n[**Azrael**](http://blazblue.wikia.com/wiki/Azrael) from\n[**BlazBlue**](http://blazblue.wikia.com/wiki/BlazBlue_%28series%29)\n\n* * *\n\nOn screen in the background: \n**Kappa** as him-/herself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe child in bird (kiwi) costume looks like [Diao He Liao (Karyou\nTen)](http://myanimelist.net/character/65407/Diao_He_Liao) from _Kingdom_.\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSometime ago I found the following picture on 9gag or some similar website: it\nis from an anime (probably broadcast in the 80s or early 90s). It seemed\nfamiliar, but I didn't manage to recall the title of the show. (I'm not even\nsure if I actually used to watch it).\n\n\n\nThe quality of the picture is not very good, and my attempts to identify the\npicture using reverse image search failed.\n\n**Edit:** Most probably the anime is among the ones listed\n[here](http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Tv_%28syndication%29#Cartoni)\n(unfortunately the page is in Italian) but I didn't manage to recognize the\ncorrect one (and moreover I don't know if the list is complete).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the first launch of the Lancelot, the development team says that they\nhaven't been able to install an ejection mechanism in it. Even though the\nLancelot gets new upgrades as the story progresses, no mention about the\nejection mechanism gets made. Did they finally install it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's assumed so since the page for the [Lancelot\nConquista](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Lancelot_Conquista), the upgraded\nversion of the original Lancelot, lists it as one of its design features while\nthe [Lancelot](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Lancelot) does not list it. So\none could assume that before it was officially ordained as the _Conquista_ the\nCockpit Ejection System was added in.\n\nWhen the Lancelot was equipped with the Float System in _Stage 20 - Battle for\nKyushu_ it was designated as the **Z-01/A** (the Lancelot is designated\noriginally as **Z-01** while the Conquista is **Z-01/D** ). C.C's Lancelot\nFrontier (which is more or less another Lancelot) is listed as having the\nCockpit Ejection System and it too is designated as the **Z-01/A** 1 so to\nnarrow down the time we could assume that it was between Stage 20 the Ejection\nSystem was installed and the ordination of the _Conquista_\n\nWe know that the [Lancelot\nAlbion](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Lancelot_Albion) had to have had one\ninstalled regardless for the successful completion of the Zero Requiem\n\n> As Suzaku needed someway to escape from his exploding Knightmare when he\n> faked his death to later assume the role as Zero\n\nAlso on the [Cockpit Ejection\nSystem](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Cockpit_Ejection_System) does say this\n\n> All production-model and most prototype Knightmare Frames are equipped with\n> this system. **The only Knightmare confirmed to lack a cockpit ejection\n> system is the Z-01 Lancelot.** This flaw is later addressed in the Lancelot\n> Frontier, which except for its color is otherwise identical to the\n> Lancelot's. It is unknown whether Suzaku's final machine, the Lancelot\n> Albion, had an ejection system.\n\nthough the last sentence seems contradictory since the Lancelot Albion's page\nsays\n\n> In the last episode, it is hinted that a cockpit ejection system might have\n> been built into it.\n\n* * *\n\n1 - the designantions are shared between Knightmares when massproduced. the\nGlasgow's designation is RPI-11 which is shared by the Knightpolice (who are\nretired Glasgow's) so the Z-01/A being shared between the Lancelot and\nLancelot Frontier could be an indication that the Frontier's specs are what\nwas planned for possible Mass Production of the Lancelot before the inception\nof the _RPI-212 Vincent_ which later led to the Mass Production Model\n_RPI-212B Vincent Ward_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis week, I was talking to friends and congratulating them for having Golden\nWeek, but it turns out that despite it being Golden Week, they have to work\ntheir asses off even more than usual, just because it is Golden Week. So it\nmade me wonder what kind of holiday it is and why some (eg: Manga writers) can\ntake a break, while others cannot. What is celebrated on Golden Week and by\nwhom?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlright! This is one question I have asked before and I will give the\nperspective for manga artists and such.\n\n * Golden Week is a week at the end of April and beginning of May. This week has a series of many national holidays strung together.\n\n * April 29, May 1 (Mayday), 3 (Memorial Day), 5 (Children's Day) are all holidays. In the previous decade it made no sense for the factory workers to start and stop the plant every alternate day and so the week was announced as Golden Week and observed as holiday.\n\n * However the normal offices usually keep the days which are not holidays as working days.\n\n * For manga writers, this is not a real holiday as deadlines do not take into account this Golden Week.\n\n * Also during this period all the leisure activities spike up. The film industry gets huge revenues during this period and makes major releases during this period (I am from India, people do the same for big festivals here too :D). So manga being a top entertainment source, I assume the mangaka have to work hard to keep deadlines in this week.\n\n * So for budding mangakas, this is a crucial time as most new mangas and a whole bunch of releases happen at the same time. \n\n**Some fun facts:**\n\n * It seems that this time of the year is very pleasant and along summer. So people use this as their vacation period and travel a lot.\n\n * Even though offices observe working days in between the Golden Week, employees usually use their PTO (aka vacation days) and take the whole week off.\n\n * Golden Week is another holiday observed in China, but it's completely different and started in 2000.\n\nSOURCE: Baku-man for giving insight into mangaka's life, my brain for storing\nsome of the info, and google :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga was about a boy who could control time. He could even reverse death.\nWhen he uses his power, he enters a different dimension and time is\nrepresented by films and he could cut out parts of the film, which in turn\nchanges the past. He was a normal boy until a group of kids that had esp came\nto find him. Among those kids, there was a girl whose power could her escape\nfrom her body, sort of like a soul, and the girl also ends up naked when she\nuses her power. There's also another boy with the same power as the mc but\nhe's the bad guy and is from where the group of kids escaped from. The place\nwhere they escaped from is dubbed \"the greenhouse\" and kids with esp are there\nwhere they take medications to get stronger. There's also this battle with\npeople from the greenhouse and one of the enemies is a girl with a giant\nlollipop I think. I also believe the mc was dubbed Zero by the greenhouse.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's the [Psycho\nBusters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Busters):\n\n\n\nI could find this specific information from the\n[wiki](https://psychobuster.wikia.com/wiki/Psycho_Buster_Wiki) of this manga:\n\"Angered by ... ruthless murder ... power awakens and time begins to rewind.\"\nwhich refers to bringing back the death.\n\nAlso there is mention for the Greenhouse you said and the group with some\nboys.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe story is about a girl and a boy meeting after their parents went on a\nvacation. When their parents came back they exchanged partners and the two\nbecame siblings. Please help. I wont be able to sleep well until I remember\nthe anime. ;(\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n『ママレード·ボーイ』 (Marmalade Boy) is a 76-episode TV anime which also has 1\ntheatrical film (the film is a prequel). It is adapted from an 8-volume manga,\nand there is a currently-running manga sequel titled 『ママレード·ボーイ\nlittle』(Marmalade Boy - little -) which continues the story when the original\nprotagonists (Miki and Yuu) are in their 30s.\n\nNeither Miki nor Yuu change their family registry (戸籍, _koseki_ ), so although\ntheir parents divorce and remarry, they do not change their family or their\nnames, and neither is adopted by a non-biological parent. Technically,\naccording to Japanese law, they are not siblings.\n\nActually, the animated film shows that Yuu \"met\" Miki before their four\nparents arranged for them to meet in episode 1 of the TV series. He observed\nher and started to like her before he found out that their parents would swap\nspouses and all six people would live under one roof. Although they live\ntogether in one large house, because Yuu already liked Miki as a romantic\ninterest from beforehand, he did not come to think of her as a sibling. When\nMiki met Yuu, she was immediately physically attracted to him but hoped he\nwould help her break up their parents, so her initial feeling toward him was\nnot that of a sibling either. (This is markedly different from the situation\nof their younger siblings in the sequel, in which Yuu's younger sister grows\nup in the same house with Miki's younger brother and thinks of him as a\nsibling even though they are not legally related nor do they share a\nbloodline.) When the parents returned from their vacations in Hawaii, they got\nMiki and Yuu's consent before proceeding with the divorce and re-marriage, so\nwhen they moved into the large house together, the four parents were not yet\nmarried in their new pairings (Japanese law requires a waiting period between\na divorce and a subsequent marriage, so at the time of the move-in date, the\nfour of them were all single). It is not clear in what way the parents\nexpected their children to relate to one another, other than as being one big\nhappy \"family.\"\n\nSpoiler for the end of the anime series and for 『ママレード·ボーイ little』:\n\n> When Miki and Yuu divulge to their parents that they love each other\n> romantically, their parents are not at all bothered; it is clear that they\n> did not assume their children ought to consider one another as siblings.\n> Miki and Yuu marry in 『ママレード·ボーイ little』 and intend to birth biological\n> children, so they never end up functioning as siblings.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 11 of **Tokyo Ravens** , what was Natsume hiding in her closet?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was never shown in the whole series, but we can make some intelligent\nguesses. Here are the list of things Natsume hides:\n\n 1. She is a girl. No one except Harutora knows she is a girl.\n 2. She is the controller behind Hokuto.\n 3. She is obsessively in love with Harutora.\n\nSo based on these things, it could be\n\n 1. **Girl clothes, cosmetics, girly things, etc.**\n 2. **Clothes and kit that Hokuto uses.**\n 3. **A whole collection of things related to Harutora, maybe during his time with Hokuto. Pictures, memorabilia etc..**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, Harutora, Touji and even Suzuka know she's a girl. So I don't think\nshe's too worried about that sorta things like cosmetics or clothes being out\nat this point.\n\nShe also traipses around with that ribbon Harutora won and even has a tiger\nstatuette on display, so I don't really think she's shy of the memorabilia all\nthat much and I honestly don't think she's the sorta girl to build a shrine\nfor her crush or something.\n\nSo taking an educated guess, I think it's her porn collection, seeing as\nHarutora's was subtly mentioned before this particular scene to be in his\ncloset.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPossibly a late 90's/early 2000's anime. Memory is really fuzzy, but it had\nthis female character who was a time traveller/or from space/another\ndimension.\n\nThere was a villain who was able to shape shift. There was one scene where the\nbad guy changed into (either by accident or deliberate) the main character and\ntried to rape the main character's love interest by locking himself and her in\na closet at the gym. When the bad guy tried to touch her, electricity was\ndischarged from his hand which caused him to flee.\n\nLast scene I remember was the main character furiously riding his bike to face\noff against the bad guy. The bad guy was in a mansion(?) and he apparently was\nstealing the life force/identity of several victims by squeezing their face\nwith his palm.\n\nWatched the whole thing in Japanese. No subtitles. Wonderful anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be [**DNA²**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%C2%B2) you are talking\nabout\n\n\n\nThe girl in question seems to be Tomoko and as soon as the villain Ryuji\ntouches her, he changes to her I guess. I don't remember if the last line of\nsucking others life force. But the description brought back the scene from\nDNA². Check out _episode 10_ of the series and tell if it is the one you want.\nHope this helps :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 6, Io asks everyone the following question:\n\n> Was the Sakaki you dropped in this pool a Gold Sakaki, or a Silver Sakaki?\n\nWhat is this in reference to?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is in reference to one of [Aesop's\nFables](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables), [\"The Honest\nWoodman.\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honest_Woodman)\n\n> The Greek version of the story tells of a woodcutter who accidentally\n> dropped his axe into a river and, because this was his only means of\n> livelihood, sat down and wept. Taking pity on him, the god Hermes (also\n> known as Mercury) dived into the water and returned with a golden axe. \"Was\n> this what you had lost?\", Hermes asked, but the woodcutter said it was not,\n> and returned the same answer when a silver axe was brought to the surface.\n> Only when his own tool is produced does he claim it. Impressed by his\n> honesty, the god allows him to keep all three. Hearing of the man's good\n> fortune, an envious neighbor threw his own axe into the river and wailed for\n> its return. When Hermes appeared and offered him a golden axe, the man\n> greedily claimed it but was denied both that and the return of his own axe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember a scene from an anime which I can't identify. (I don't remember\nwhether it was a film or a series.) It was in the style of _The Girl Who Leapt\nThrough Time_. I watched it about 3-10 years ago but it could be much older.\n\nWhat I remember: A poor girl works in a public bath and is forced to wash a\nspecial guest who the other girls working there don't want to wash. The guest\nis coated in mud. The girl gets help (maybe animals?) / a special soap. She\nuses the soap on the customer and the mud vanishes. As a thank-you she gets a\nreward. I think I could see gold coins in this scene.\n\nI already went through the list of anime I remember watching but it was none\nof them. As this scene regularly comes to my mind, it annoys me not to know\nwhere it's from.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is presumably the scene from _Spirited Away_ where Sen has to clean the\nriver spirit. ([here's a crappy camrip on\nYoutube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bnjTr1Bfm0))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the start of the manga, Rukawa was already a legend and contender for \"No.\n1 High School Ace\", but he enrolled at the extremely weak Shohoku, which at\nthe time only had Akagi as a strong player.\n\nWhy did he join such a weak team, when he could have had his pick of great\nschools? One might initially think that he would risk being overshadowed in a\nstrong team, for example by Sendoh if he were to join Ryonan. However, we know\nlater in the story that he had very lofty ambitions - of even entering the NBA\n- and with such a goal, it wouldn't matter if he were the ace of a single team\nor not, since he had to outperform all the other aces.\n\nDid Rukawa give any indication why he picked Shohoku in particular? Was it\nsimply because, as a teenager, he made bad choices? Was there something\nspecial about Shohoku that I missed? Did the ambition come later, as the\ncharacter evolved? Or did it make some sense from Rukawa's perspective?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA picture is worth a thousand words...\n\nThis is from page 12, chapter 150.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nwell for me.. it was already stated on the latter part of the episodes.. when\nShohoku faced Ryonan for the battle for the 2nd place.. coach Taoka remembered\nwhen he first invited Rukawa to their team he refuse because he wants to\nattend shohoku high and the simple reason why is that .... IT's NEAR...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile I was watching Phi-Brain Episode 2, I tried solving the puzzles on my\nown. But on that sliding block game, I couldn't figure out how Gammon solved\nthat puzzle **without moving the red car until the path was cleared**. Here's\nhow it looks like: \n \n\n\nThe black car on the farthest left and the white car near the exit are 3\nblocks long which can be confirmed from this picture below. \n \n\n\nSo when you plot it out, the puzzle would look like this: \n \n\n\nI'm kinda wondering how and I don't think it's possible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI ended up writing a descriptive model for it in\n[IDP](https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/software/idp), letting the solvability\nprover from our univeristy prove whether a solution can be found. The fastest\nsolution it could come up with was one finishing the game in **48 steps** (see\nbelow). Therefore the problem is indeed solvable. My first answer though,\nsaying Gammon cheated, was indeed incorrect. It was only **after** he had\nsolved the puzzle, that the system was sabotaged and made Kaito _cheat_ to\nsave their lives.\n\nI numbered the cars from top to bottom and left to right as in the following\npicture.\n\n\n\nThe solution is written in the form `Move(t,cid,d)` with `t` being the step\nnumber in the solution, `cid` being the car identifier and `d` being the\ndistance the car travels during that time step. `d` is positive when driving\nup or to the right and `d` is negative when driving down or to the left.\n\n[code]\n\n Move = {\n 1,9,1; 2,4,2; 3,2,1; 4,1,-1; 5,6,-3;\n 6,7,1; 7,9,1; 8,3,3; 9,7,-2; 10,6,1;\n 11,1,1; 12,2,-1; 13,5,3; 14,2,1; 15,1,-1;\n 16,6,-1; 17,7,2; 18,8,2; 19,10,-4; 20,8,-2;\n 21,7,-1; 22,6,1; 23,1,1; 24,2,-1; 25,5,-3;\n 26,2,2; 27,1,-1; 28,6,-1; 29,7,1; 30,3,-3;\n 31,7,-1; 32,6,1; 33,1,1; 34,2,-2; 35,4,-2;\n 36,9,-4; 37,4,2; 38,2,1; 39,1,-1; 40,6,-1;\n 41,7,1; 42,3,3; 43,7,-1; 44,6,3; 45,1,1;\n 46,2,-1; 47,5,4;\n }\n \n[/code]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is Hyuuga Hinata's family name after she married Naruto? Is it still\nHyuuga, or has it changed to Uzumaki? And what about their children? Are their\nsurnames Uzumaki or Hyuuga?\n\nPlease also post the proof of them being called with their family name and not\njust quoting their name in Wikia, as the Wikia page currently doesn't have the\nproof of them being called with their family name (by 29-04-2015 4:20 PM GMT+7\ntime).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm gonna have to say that Hinata's surname will remain as it is. Because, if\nwe take the case of two other couples, who were from different clans and had\noffsprings, we can see that wives' surname remains as it is. Examples are:\n\n 1. Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki\n 2. Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yūhi\n\nIn both cases, even after their marriage, their surnames were kept the same.\nSo this leads me to believe that Hinata will retain her surname as Hyuuga.\n\nTaking the same examples for the case of the offsprings,\n\n 1. Naruto\n 2. Mirai Sarutobi\n\nMirai's case, she retains her father's surname. While Naruto's official\nsurname is Uzumaki. But the Uzumaki surname was given to him because it was a\nmeans to protect him and his identity (from enemies). I think there was a\nchapter which discussed that incident. Therefore, his original surname was\nNamikaze.\n\nFrom these examples, I think its safe to say that the child recieves the\nsurname of the male parent. Which means the names will be Boruto Uzumaki and\nHimawari Uzumaki.\n\n* * *\n\n**Update:** (credits to @AyaseEri)\n\nAs for physical evidence, the 8th official guidebook, [**Zai no\nSho**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Zai_no_Sho) (released Aug 7th 2015)\nconfirms that Boruto and Himawari have their surname as Uzumaki:\n\n> Boruto Uzumaki (page 26)\n>\n> Himawari Uzumaki (page 31)\n\nBut it seems my logic with the wife's surname being preserved is faulty. As in\nZai no Sho, Hinata's surname is not Hyuga, but **Uzumaki** (page 31).\nTherefore, her official name after marriage has become Hinata Uzumaki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKurenai changed her name after her and Asuma married. I believe you can find\nthe info in Retsu no Sho like Ero Sennin said. Pg 32, if I recall.\n\nFurther expanding on this, Sakura takes Sasuke's name. I do not recall,\nhowever, if Temari ever got a last name from marrying Shikamaru. And I believe\nthe case with Sai is unique due to Sai being male with no name. Would he then\ntake the Yamanaka name?\n\nAs for Naruto's birth name; while I don't doubt that his surname was chosen as\nUzumaki to prevent people from coming after him, I have doubts that his birth\nsurname would've been Namikaze as the Uzumaki clan is a prestigious clan in\nKonoha, therefore an explanation as to how/why Hinata bore the Uzumaki name\nrather than the Hyuuga name. (That and personal preference by Hinata.)\n\nIn feudal Japan (estimated time Naruto takes place, apart from certain\nadvances in technology, such as fridges and headsets), clan names were an\nimportant thing and if you were a male marrying into a prestigious clan,\nunless you yourself came from an equal or greater clan, you bore that clan's\nsurname instead of your wife bearing yours. And Minato wasn't from a\nprestigious clan himself, though he personally was prestigious enough to\nretain his own name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've recently started watching anime. I've watched Code Geass R1 and R2 and\nnow I've just started Steins;Gate. I was surprised to see that in both series'\nending credits the word \"Wish\" appears between the Japanese characters in a\nsimilar font, since it's the only one or one of the few words in English.\n\nThis is a screenshot from Code Geass R2's credits showing what I mean\n\n\n\nDoes it have any special meaning?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe section of the credits you're looking at there is 仕上 _shiage_ \"finishing\",\nwhich is the task of finishing the coloring of a scene.\n[Wish](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=4062) is a\nstudio that does subcontracting for this kind of work.\n\nTheir name is in English because why not. See also: J.C.Staff, Production\nI.G., Sunrise, Studio Feel, ufotable, and so forth.\n\nThe other eight names in that section are the names of people (not studios); I\nsuspect they're employees for Wish. (At least one of them, [Katou\nRie](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=28036), is, it\nseems.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure about _Steins;Gate_ , however, from the screenshot above,\n**Wish** refers to [an animation\ncompany](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=4062).\n\nIn the screenshot above, the company is credited for Finish Animation (仕上\n_shiage_ ), and the people on the list are [[伊藤 良樹]{Itou\nYoshiki}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=11320),\n[[加藤 里恵]{Katou\nRie}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=28036), [[熊田\n真子]{Kumada\nMasako}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=79248),\n[[加藤 明美]{Katou\nAkemi}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=75061),\n[[斎藤 知津江]{Saitou\nChizue}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=18914),\n[[江草 大樹]{Egusa\nDaiki}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=57678),\n[[角野 江美]{Kadono\nEmi}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=55063), [[三上\n幸恵]{Mikami\nYukie}](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=84577).\n\n**Wish** is not a particularly big animation company. From the list on ANN,\nthey are mostly in charge of Finish Animation, In-Between Animation, 2nd Key\nAnimation, Digital Paint, etc. So far, they have only produced a single anime\ntitle _Elite Jack!! (OAV)_ in 2014.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk, so this was a mecha anime. It was a series. The main story is that there\nwas a boy who, along with his robots (I think they belong to him, also I think\nsome of them were created by his grandpa ) are trying to win some kind of\nrobot world championship. I just remember some scenes, which I am describing\nbelow\n\n 1. There is one scene where the boy's grandpa says that he left a sticker inside every robot he created, then one of the robots exclaims \"huh! So that sticker is inside me also ?\"\n\n 2. In one of the fights, one of the opponent's robots has a cobweb inside, due to which it cant function properly.\n\n 3. Then there is one scene where they go to train, and one of the robots was cutting wood, but the way he was cutting was curious, that he simply tapped the wood and it was cut perfectly (sides were smooth)\n\n 4. The main female character goes to another team, where she is assigned to work on only a limb of the robot. She quits saying that her team is the best( the main character's team ) and that she is returning to it\n\nPlease help me find this anime. Really important part of my childhood.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOK I think I am pretty sure the anime you are looking for is\n[**Daigunder**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigunder)\n\n\n\n**POINT 1:** The main character is Akira Akebono and his grandfather, Hajime\nAkebono, is a famous research scientist who created the robots. He is like Ash\nKetchum except with robots instead of pokemon. The robot which says ,\"I have\nthe sticker inside me too?\" is Daigunder units' human like AI robot called\nRyugu, flaming robot warrior.\n\n**POINT 2:** Coming to the cobweb thing, there is an episode where the robot\nmalfunctions and tries to harm Ryugu even after the battle is over. Akira\njumps in (like Ash saving Pikachu or hugging it to death ) and tries to\nprotect Ryugu. I think they get disqualified for a that tourney. But Akira\ngains Ryugu's trust.\n\n**POINT 3:** And the robot cutting wood must be Bulion, the blue thrasher. Its\njust a small scene in training. I don't clearly remember which episode.\n\n**POINT 4:** The girl in question is Haruka, she at first thinks Akira is a\ndumb kid (as he really is). But eventually joins this team as a manager.She\ngets a job at her dream company I guess but instead, joins this team.\n\ncheck this out for a list of episodes. But all you points come up within 4 to\n5 episodes of the series. Hope this helps :D\n[https://www.google.com/search?q=daigunder+episode&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=daigunder+episodes](https://www.google.com/search?q=daigunder+episode&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=daigunder+episodes)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems like there were expectations for a full second season of Buddy\nComplex, e.g. [from\nhere](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-30/buddy-complex-anime-to-\nbe-continued) in March 2014:\n\n> ... the official Twitter account and website for the anime\n> [confirmed](https://twitter.com/buddycomplex/status/450292920180932608) that\n> the series will still [continue](http://news.buddy-complex.jp/app-\n> def/S-102/news/?p=532).\n\nBut then, only three months later, [a two-episode finale was announced\ninstead](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-06-01/new-2-part-buddy-\ncomplex-sequel-anime-to-air-this-fall/.75100), seemingly to the\n[surprise](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2850981)\n(a reaction of confusion common in other forums as well, which I share) of\nmany. The finale was released in September 2014. The finale announcement\narticle also concludes with the same note that \"the story will still continue\"\nbut this seems to be more copy-pasted from the first announcement than an\nactual announcement (it links back to the same old Twitter post).\n\nWhy did Buddy Complex not get a full second season? Was a second season\nscheduled and then reduced to two episodes because of poor sales or anything\nlike that? Is another season still planned? I don't know Japanese and so\nsearching for sources was difficult. I'm looking primarily for official news\nand announcements, interviews, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe official\n[tweet](https://twitter.com/buddycomplex/status/450292920180932608) you link\nto simply says: \"Regarding _Buddy Complex_ TOKYO MX, that everyone [kindly]\nwatched episode 13, thank you very much! That is to say... To be\ncontinued！This work will continue! Please wait for the follow-up. Later on,\n[we'll] release BD privileged information! #buddycom\" (「【バディ・コンプレックス】TOKYO\nMXにて第13話をご覧頂きました皆様、ありがとうございました！という事で・・・To be\ncontinued！本作品はまだ続きます！続報をお待ち下さいませ。この後BD特典情報を公開します！ #buddycom」)\n\nThere is **no mention or implication** within the text that indicates any\nparticular set **length of running time** , nor even the **media type** of the\npromised follow-up. 「作品」 ( _sakuhin_ ) is a non-specific word for a work of\nsome sort, such as a production, a piece of art, a piece of work, handiwork,\neven someone's opus.\n\nThus, the 2014/10/27 post on the official [website](http://www.buddy-\ncomplex.jp/news.php) announcing the\n[完結編](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9#Blu-\nray) ( _kanketsuhen_ , the last program of a series), which was released\nNovember 21st, 2014 and comprised of a two-parter 前編 ( _zenpen_ , first part)\nand 後編 ( _kouhen_ , second [after] part), does not in any way conflict with\nthe original Twitter announcement. This means that, no, **a second season of\nTV anime was not scheduled and then cancelled**. 「完結編」 ( _kanketsuhen_ ), by\nits very meaning, is the last program of a series; to title a release that way\nis to **explicitly state that there are no plans for ever produce a following\nwork** such as a second TV anime season.\n\nTherefore, it does not seem that proficient readers of Japanese would have\nmisunderstood the tweet to promise a season's worth of upcoming anime. Someone\nwho reported on the tweet in English for an English-language source seems to\nhave jumped to a conclusion regarding in what sense the 「作品」 ( _sakuhin_ )\nwould continue.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the very beginning of the Evangelion anime, when Shinji is waiting for\nMisato, he notices Rei standing across the street. She then disappears after\nhe turns away and looks at the spot again.\n\n\n\nWhat's with her appearance here? Surely this can't be the \"real\" Rei, given\nthat later, I think we see Rei in bandages when Gendo Ikari goads Shinji into\npiloting the EVA? I'm assuming that this could be some sort of foreshadowing\n(?), but even so it doesn't make sense for Rei to literally appear before\nShinji, unless this is some sort of illusion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a mind boggling theory for this. If you are an avid reader of EVA\nGeeks you would enjoy it very much. So here is my small take on it.\n\nRei appears with the same uniform in the _End of Evangelion_ standing on a sea\nof LCL. Here is the scene:\n\n\n\nShinji, when he first sees Rei at Nerv, recognizes her and makes a connection\nto the girl in the school uniform. So he is **not hallucinating** when he sees\nthe image of Rei.\n\nAt this point there are a few theories:\n\n 1. The Rei which is seen could be **Eva Unit 01** which is trying to contact his mind.\n\n 2. Another theory is that Shinji has mental visions of Rei in episodes 16 and 20 which could be Rei herself contacting Shinji telepathically.\n\n 3. A nice theory would be that Rei has the DNA of **Yui Ikari and Lilith**. So essentially, it's **two mothers** watching over their sons: namely, Yui looking after her son Shinji in the first episode and Lilith, who is the mother of Lilin, or all mankind, looking after her sons / daughters (let's not go on that path) in the End of Evangelion (picture above).\n\n**Mind blowing theory:** I swear this is one of the mind blowing theories I\nhave read about Evangelion. But it gives reason to your question.\n\nIn episode 23 Ritsuko shows Rei's room. If you notice the wall it has the\nwords \"Top, Bottom, Strangeness\". This presumably is put there to show Rei's\npowers or nature. In quantum physics these three represent a sub atomic\nparticle called the quark. The six types of quarks are: up, down, charm,\nstrange, top, and bottom. As you can see, three of the quarks are listed in\nRei's room. The way it is related is that quarks defy classical physics. They\ncan be at two places at once. In End of Evangelion, Rei is seen everywhere. At\nthe sub-atomic level the particles do not follow the laws of physics, so much\nthat they can create effect without cause, or they can reach their destination\nbefore starting their journey. So this could give you reason why she could be\nat two places at once or show up as an image at the beginning and at the end.\n\nP.S.: I did not come up with connecting the quark theory, but I did realise\nthe writing on the wall meant that Rei had a connection to quarks or just that\nshe likes quantum mechanics a lot (like me :D). But EVA Geeks had this\nconnection posted and credits to them for this mind boggling theory.\n\nSource at EVA Geeks: [Theory and Analysis: Rei's Ghostly Appearances and\nQuantum\nMechanics](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Theory_and_Analysis:Rei%27s_Ghostly_Appearances_and_Quantum_Mechanics).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am trying to find the name / info on the French rap song played at 21:30 of\n\"The Irregular at Magic High School\" episode 17.\n\nDoes anyone know anything about it? Is there a database that holds the music\ncredits of anime?\n\nI have googled everywhere and even shazam'd the song on my iPhone but did not\nfind anything .\n\nAny insight will be great\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe name of this song is **[Metaphore\n2](https://youtu.be/8y9M6EEw7jE?t=2h8m55s)**.\n\nIt's found on the The Irregular at Magic High School [Original Soundtrack\n2](http://vgmdb.net/album/46292) as song #20.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter seeing the first episode of Tokyo Ghoul √A, I noticed a major difference\nin the anime. Are there any more differences between manga and anime (both\nseasons)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> [Pierrot] changed the chronology of some of the events in the manga. For\n> instance, Kaneki doesn't meet Tsukiyama (Gourmet) until after the Hinami\n> incident with Amon and Kado (senior) (the doves) killing her parents. I\n> believe they changed the order of these events to make Kaneki's presence in\n> these fights more comprehensible. For example, Kaneki is less involved and a\n> little helpless in the church scene against Tsukiyama, even in the manga.\n> This is a result of his starvation causing his weakened state, despite his\n> amount of training \"actually\" being greater than when he fought Amon (based\n> on the manga). But in the fight against Amon, both manga and probably TV,\n> Kaneki is much more active and displays more tactical fighting. So it makes\n> sense to put the Tsukiyama conflict part before in the television as a\n> result of Kaneki being more passive and weaker in these instances as opposed\n> to when he fights Amon, it highlights the benefits of his training and\n> emphasizes his increasing strength. So to an extent this is interesting that\n> [the studio] changed the chronology of these events it makes sense in an\n> appreciable way. The censoring is ridiculous though, on an emotional level,\n> your missing out on a lot of the show.\n\nSource:\n[reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2d5h3p/tokyo_ghoul_manga_vs_the_anime_so_far_what_are/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRoot A (season 2) is a [completely different\nstoryline](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2iyfwt/tokyo_ghoul_second_season_will_have_animeoriginal/)\nthat diverged from the manga and shows Kaneki if he had joined Aogiri instead\nof going off on his own. Though it does have some big spoilers, Read a bit\nabout why they made this decision on [This\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18391/why-did-tokyo-\nghoul-%E2%88%9Aa-completely-deviate-from-the-manga). Almost the entirety of\nRoot A is different, but some scenes (mostly fights) are recreated and are\nvery similar overall. The storylines mostly merge at the last \"arc\" which\noccurs in the last 2-3 episodes of the series. This is the 2nd raid by CCG,\nConsidering the first being the one against Aogiri (I will not say more as its\nSpoilers) and events play out differently but with overall identical results\nin the end. That is to say that major events that affected the results of the\nRaid occurred in both, though not necessarily in the same way. This was done\npresumably to leave the option to return to canon material in Tokyo Ghoul RE\nfor season 3 if they chose to do it, but it could just be that it was\nsupposedly the original story-line before Ishida changed it to what the Manga\nused, as noted in the first link, and he kept them through both versions.\n\nSeason 1 was very similar overall, with only moderate changes such as the\nchronology as better described by Thellimist in that answer, and a few other\nbits and pieces about how events occurred, primarily regarding Hinami and her\nParents and how those events started up, and they did heavily censor Jasons\nTorture to Kaneki. He was down there for 10 days ( Read about it Half way down\nthe page in the aogiri arc Summary of Jason on the wiki\n[here](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Yakumo_Oomori)\n\nOverall, Season 1 is very similar, while season 2 only has bits and pieces\nthat are similar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne thing I did not get at all is how the Yotsuba kept the siblings' very\nexistence hidden right under the noses of the other families and the public.\n\nI would expect all of Japan to be constantly buzzing about the Ten Clans'\nheirs, like the world gossips about the succession line of the British crown.\n\nSome thoughts to consider about the Shiba siblings:\n\n 1. Their mother's wedding could not have been in secret. Even if it was a discreet event, it would be easy to find out that she married.\n 2. In their childhood, they were part of the Yotsuba family, who could not have erased their existence from public records.\n 3. Tatsuya's connection to FTL was never hidden. His shared surname with the company's CEO should have drawn some suspicion.\n 4. Who is the heir apparent to the Yotsuba at the time the siblings attended high school? The Yotsuba, a member of the Ten Clans, would have needed someone to fill the gap in order to keep their image.\n\nI don't know if this was left unexplained in the light novels, but it is\ncompletely handwaved in the anime.\n\nJuumonji Katsuto even seems suspicious of Tatsuya when he asks him if he has\nsome connection to the Ten Clans (right before suggesting betrothal into one\nof them).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo an extent, this is also handwaved in the light novels as well - the\n_specifics_ of how the siblings were/are protected are not disclosed. However,\nthere are many references to the Yotsuba family's incredible power and\ninfluence, which allows us to infer - to a certain level - what's going on.\n\n* * *\n\nWhile the Japanese public may well have been interested in the heirs of the\n\"10 families\", the Yotsuba are a special case. More so than the other clans,\n(such as the Ichijou, Saegusa and Juumonji) the Yotsuba are an inherently\nsecretive family, even before considering Tatsuya and Miyuki's special case:\n\n> \"Because the Yotsuba Family, who maintain a systematic policy of secrecy,\n> would never invite a large number of outsiders as guests... the siblings had\n> brought themselves to the mountain village that was not recorded on any\n> map...\"\n>\n> _Volume 8 - Reminiscence, Chapter 1_\n\nAnd\n\n> [...] not even Miyuki knew the number for the direct line. 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Actions which could lead to the discovery that Miyuki-san is a Yotsuba\n> Head successor are prohibited.\"\n>\n> _Volume 8 - Reminiscence, Chapter 9_\n\nIn addition, the military assists the Yotsuba in keeping Tatsuya's existence\nunder wraps, as his power as a strategic-class magician is important for them\nto guard as well:\n\n> \"It is most likely some of them will link this with the annihilation of the\n> fleet the Great Asian Alliance dispatched three years ago. It would be a\n> very undesirable outcome for us to have Tatsuya-san's identity to come out.\"\n>\n> \"I fully agree.\"\n>\n> Seeing Kazama's nod, Maya gave a broad smile indistinguishable between real\n> and fake... Maya's negotiation with Kazama was steered to obtain the most\n> satisfactory result for the Yotsuba.\n>\n> _Volume 8 - Reminiscence, Chapter 15_\n\nWorking in collaboration with the military by extension means working with the\n_\"Electron Sorceress\"_ [Fujibayashi Kyouko](http://mahouka-koukou-no-\nrettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Fujibayashi_Kyouko) , who can manipulate electronic\ninformation to an unfathomable degree, creating an almost watertight seal\naround the siblings information.\n\n* * *\n\nThis leaves a situation where even Kokonoe Yakumo, a renowned information\nbroker, cannot uncover any of their background information:\n\n> Tatsuya squinted his eyes. \"Our situation as well?\"\n>\n> Yakumo laughed heartily. \"I've inquired into it, but wasn't able to unearth\n> any noteworthy secrets. The intelligence manipulation surrounding the two of\n> you is truly invincible. Or should I say, worthy of its high reputation.\"\n>\n> _Volume 2 - Enrollment II, Chapter 9_\n\nThe same is true for the information network available to the Kitayama family:\n\n> In response, Tatsuya received it with a magnanimous look.\n>\n> “Who the devil are you? With Kitayama’s…… The information network from the\n> “Corporate Alliance” couldn’t even find your Personal Data!”\n>\n> _Volume 12 - Double Seven, Chapter 2_\n\n* * *\n\nWhen it comes down to it though, the people that have the power, influence or\nluck to uncover the truth about the two would be too scared to both continue\ntheir investigation or disclose the information to anyone else after hearing\nthe name 'Yotsuba':\n\n> The Yotsuba name had even more impact than the Saegusa name. The political\n> utility of the Saegusa name was higher, but the Yotsuba name incited much\n> more fear in people with influence.\n>\n> _Volume 12 - Double Seven, Chapter 6_\n\nThis fear is also shown when Erika stumbles across Tatsuya's secret\naccidentally, and warns her brother against investigating him too much:\n\n> “I see…… I understand. Then let’s proceed along these lines.”\n>\n> ……Fortunately, she was able to convince her brother without dropping the\n> name “Yotsuba”.\n>\n> _Volume 11 - Visitor III, Chapter 15_\n\nEven those _not_ in the higher echelons of magicians should be rightfully wary\nof the Yotsuba family - after all, this is the clan that previously took down\n[**_an entire nation_**](http://mahouka-koukou-no-\nrettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Dahan) in under 2 years! Furthermore, at present,\nthey're quoted as being _even stronger_ than then:\n\n> [...it] was utterly incredible that they could have forgotten such a harsh\n> reminder in the last 20 to 30 years. Not to say the might of the Yotsuba\n> Family – “might” that hinted at influence but was more along the lines of\n> violence – was far greater now than it was in the past.\n>\n> _Volume 11 - Visitor III, Chapter 15_\n\n* * *\n\nFor the points you raised:\n\n 1. This isn't covered in the light novels, so I can't reference anything in particular, but given the other information, it's safe to assume that anything the Yotsuba wanted to keep secret (like children from a marriage) could be kept secret.\n\n 2. Their _existence_ isn't erased, but all the data relating to them has been heavily modified, to the point where only the bare essentials are available, and there's nothing that could link them to the Yotsuba:\n\n> \"After all, I can’t attend high school without Personal Data.”\n>\n> Tatsuya’s answer made perfect sense. However, Benio felt that this was the\n> rub.\n>\n> “Please don’t underestimate adults. It is true that your PD has the lowest\n> level of information, interlaced with extra information that complicated the\n> picture and a few negative reviews, so it wasn't overly perfect.\"\n>\n> _Volume 12 - Double Seven, Chapter 2_\n\n 3. When involved with FLT, Tatsuya goes by the alias 'Silver', and not his family name 'Shiba', which would help against identification from most staff or customers. In addition, while FLT is \"owned\" by Tatsuya's father, it's actually under Yotsuba jurisdiction, meaning they would have a careful eye on the situation, especially Tatsuya's colleagues who would be more likely to accidentally uncover sensitive information.\n\n> Like FLT, this hotel was one of the dummy corporations that was controlled\n> by the Yotsuba Family in the background.\n>\n> _Volume 10 - Visitor II, Chapter 9_\n\n 4. At the time the siblings are entering high school, there is currently no selected Yotsuba heir. If you recall back to episode 9 of the anime, Tatsuya chastises Aoki for calling Miyuki the next head, even though there has been no announcement regarding that position. Given Yotsuba Maya is also regarded as one of the world's most powerful magicians, I doubt anyone would be pressuring her too much for a decision. Additionally, as referenced earlier in the answer (quote 3), it seems they want to keep Miyuki's position a secret to outsiders for the time being.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to add on a few explicit details.\n\n1) Yotsuba Miya (Tatsuya's mother) is officially dead after 20 years of\nhospitalization, having never bore any children.\n\nThis is evidenced by Angie Sirius's thoughts in the Visitor Arc, where she\nclaims the only person capable of alters the structure of the mind is dead,\nand never had any children.\n\n2)Tatsurou (Tatsuya's father) and Miya most likely married in secret, after\nwhich Miya took on the Shiba last name. The children, having the Shiba last\nname, was basically a part of a nondescript family.\n\n3)Tatsurou used a business name as the CEO of FLT. The Light Novel never\nexplains whether or not Tatsurou's personal name can be found out. Assuming it\ncan (This is unclear in the novels; Tatsuya's Personal Data does include who\nhis father is, but I'd guess, for various reasons, that it does not show a CEO\nof FLT as his father), Shiba could be a common last name (though it would be\nsuspiscious.)\n\nEven if Tatsuya can be traced to be the son of a CEO of FLT, that doesn't say\nvery much about him. FLT is not officially affiliated with the Yotsubas, and\neven if it was, it does not mean that the CEO is a Yotsuba, or has any\nrelations to the Yotsuba.\n\n4) There is none. The Yotsubas do not reveal this information, and no one can\nforce them to. In fact, the only known member of the Yotsuba group is Miya and\nHayama.\n\nI would like to add on that despite these measures, Retsu Kudou still know\nabout Tatsuya and Miyuki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> **If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that\n> person will be free from being killed by the Death Note.**\n\nWhat does that rule mean? I think I'm misunderstanding it, and I'd like to\nknow, what the rule **really** means.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Wiki\n\nThe rules related to misspelling are:\n\n * [Rule IX](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_IX)\n\n> 2. The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is\n> misspelled four times.\n\n * [Rule XXXV](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXXV)\n\n> 1. If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a name four times, that\n> person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. However, if they\n> intentionally misspell the name four times, the Death Note owner will die.\n> 2. The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not\n> be free of death by a Death Note.\n\nSo if we put all these rules together, that means that if you misspell a\nperson's name four times on accident, **that person is free from being killed\nfrom the Death Note forever**. However, this does not mean you could make a\nperson untouchable from the Death Note on purpose. The second rule from XXXV\nprevents this from happening. If someone purposely misspells someone else's\nname four times, he will kill himself and the _victim_ will remain as is.\n\n## Manga\n\nThe manga seems to contradict this though. We have seen Light misspelling the\nname of a criminal more than four times, yet that person still ended up death.\nSo if the rules are correct, it must be that one of the first four names Light\nwrote down was the real name of the criminal. Although I do find this a bit of\na stretch, so I'm not really sure what is going on here. Ohba did make Light\nwrite down the criminal's name more than four times, but on the other hand,\nthere was two occasions where he mentioned misspelling (rules IX and XXXV), so\nI'm not completely sure what to believe here.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis bugged the crap outta me! I checked the Japanese wiki page, and what the\nrule actually says is \"4度名前を書き間違えると...\" which is to say, \"on the condition the\nname is written incorrectly [make a mistake in writing] four times...\" The\nverbal construction is often used in terms of messing up or omitting strokes\nwhen writing kanji. Since Yagami Light is the numba one student, he of course\nmakes no mistakes in writing any of the kanji. So you can try as many times as\nyou like, as long as you remember to cross your t(s) and dot your i(s).\nPenmanship matters, folks. :)\n\nAddendum: or maybe Ryuk was just messing with people, or trying to get\nDeathNote-owners to be extra careful when writing down names.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn EtoTama ep 4, around 11:40, Rabbit introduces herself as a Production Pro,\nor \"P.P.\". Boar then goes and gently pushes the 4th curtain aside (note: it is\njust episode 4 and there is no longer a 4th wall standing in that series) and\nsays:\n\n> I wonder if she realizes that abbreviation sounds like it's meant to censor\n> a word we can't say on air.\n\n\n\nWhat word is Boar talking about?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n「P」 is [a common Japanese name\nsuffix](http://genbunomiko.tripod.com/terms.txt), so there is arguably a play-\non-words going on here too. You can add it to any person's name (first name or\nlast name, male or female, though it is more often used for females). It is a\ncute and informal suffix for a friend.\n\nFor example, the 「P」 suffix is used in _Sailor Moon_. Usagi calls Minako\n「みなP」(Mina-P), and Chibi-usa calls her cat-face robot「ルナＰ」(Luna-P). The\nmangaka's editor [小佐野文雄](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Fumio_Osano)\n(Osano Fumio), goes by the nickname \"Osa-P\" in real life. The jewelry store in\nthe series, 「ジュエリＯＳＡ＊Ｐ」, is named after him.\n\nTo give yourself a nickname suffix, and to double a 「P」suffix into two back-\nto-back Ps is likely to portray Usa's character as ultra-cute and cutsey (「うさ」\nUsa, short for rabbit, 「兎」 _usagi_ \\+ 「P」+「P」). Japanese\n[onomatopoeia](http://www.tofugu.com/guides-old/japanese-onomatopoeia-guide/)\n(擬態語, _gitaigo_ ; 擬音語, _giongo_ , and 擬態語, _gitaigo_ ) often (though not\nalways) repeats one or two syllables next to each other, and is considered to\nhave a cute sound.\n\nBoar's Fourth Wall comment indicates that Usa only has the 「P」suffix, in mind,\nbut that the audience knows that [「ビーッ」 ( _piiii_ ) is the sound effect (擬音語)\nof a high-pitched computer error\nsound](http://thejadednetwork.com/sfx/browse/pi-/), such as a censor bleep for\ntelevision broadcast.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf a person's parents didn't name him/her, does this make him/her immune to\nDeath Note? What would a Shinigami contractor see looking at this specific\nperson?\n\nBy the way, nicknames don't count as real names according to [this\npost](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/12977/what-name-will-\nshinigami-eyes-show-above-the-head-of-a-person-who-changed-their).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> **How to Use: IX**\n>\n> 1. The Death Note will not affect those under 780 days old.\n>\n\n>\n> **How to Use: XXX**\n>\n> 2. The names you will see with the eye power of a god of death are the\n> names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if\n> that person isn't registered in the family registration.\n>\n\nThe name to be written in the Death Note to kill a person isn't relevant until\nthe person turns 780 days old. Moreover, even if a person changes his name\nand/or uses aliases multiple times during his life, there's only one name\nwhich can kill the person, and it is known to the Shinigami (as well as a\nhuman who has the Shinigami eyes).\n\nFrom this, it appears that for each person, the name which can kill him is\ndecided at a certain point in his life, and then it is never changed. Since\nthe person has to be \"killable\" on the 781st day of his life, this\n\"christening\" (for the purpose of the Death Note) happens before that day.\n\nFurther to avoid confusion, this christening is presumably done by the\nShinigami King or automatically handled by the Death Note system somehow. Of\ncourse, who would go through the trouble of choosing a unique name for every\nperson? Thus, for simplicity, the person's official name is chosen for this\npurpose.\n\nMost people are given some official name by the time they are 780 days old, so\nthis won't cause a problem. For the rare cases where a person doesn't have a\nname by that day, the Shinigami King or the Death Note system presumably picks\nsome random name on the 780th day (to satisfy the rule IX/1).\n\nWith this arrangement, the Shinigami and humans having the Shinigami eyes know\nthe name required to kill the person. Humans who own the Death Note but do not\nhave the Shinigami eyes cannot kill the person using the Death Note because\nthey don't know the name required to kill him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObviously the name that kills you is the one that whoever, disregarding their\nrelationship to you, be it blood relation, friend of family or mere\nacquaintance, gives to you before the time period of immunity to Death Note\nwears off. If for whatever reason it may be and absolutely no living being\nnames you in said safe period, the second that said safe period runs out the\nDeath Note's king of gods of death shall pick a name of his choosing and then\nassign it to you, this shall then be from that moment on and until the day of\nyour death the name that will cause your destruction at the hands of the\nperson writing said name into any Death Note that has come into their\npossession by whatever means that led them to it/them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of episode 22 of _Ginga e Kickoff!_ , we see that Reika, after a\ndevastating game, has come down with a fever and is being cared for by her\nparents at home indefinitely.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nGDpj.jpg)\n\nWatching episode 23, we barely hear anything about her, except that she has\ngone off to her family's villa.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I13v5.jpg)\n\nDoes Reika return later in the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, She does come back in Episode 26 . They go to her villa to train I think.\n\nHere is the plot for that episode. Hope this helps\n\n<http://gingaekickoff.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_26>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor example, in [Hello Kitty](http://evakitty.evaair.com/en/Stories.aspx), the\n\"Love Apples\" section has:\n\n> She is five apples tall and weighs three apples.\n\nIn Kagerou Project, where [Marry's\nweight](http://kagerouproject.wikia.com/wiki/Marry_Kozakura) is:\n\n> 130 apples.\n\nJapanese Vocaloid Kaai Yuki has her height measured in apples.\n\n> Height: \"As tall as 10 big apples\"\n\nWhy do some characters have their weight measured in apples? Did the trend of\nmeasuring weight in apples start with Hello Kitty? Or is the trend not as\ncommon as I think it is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor the sake of the topic, I won't go into full detail to the symbol of the\napple in human culture as a whole. I will only focus on one point, and that's\nthe fact that the apple symbolizes Knowledge (due to the bible, with the\nforbidden fruit and all).\n\nYou can easily find a lot of pictures of apples being associated with books or\npencils, being used as a graphic for schools (mostly kindergarten, or primary\nschool), and because of that, you can loosely associate them with children.\n\nNow for the two examples mentioned in the question:\n\n * **In Hello Kitty's case** , it is a show aimed for children; so it makes sense for them to use Apples as an alternative over using actual units of measurement, you could say that they did it for the \"Cute\" factor.\n * **In Mekaku City Actor's case** , Marry Kozakura is a somewhat child-like character (and Kawai too); so you can use THAT as a reason for using apples to state her weight. Or simply, it's rude to state a lady's weight; so the creators did it like this as a \"joke\", and the reason they chose Apples instead of other fruits is the same as in **Hello Kitty** , for the \"Cute\" factor.\n\nanother factor could be that, an apple's weight and size is common knowledge;\nbut that's just secondary at this point.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLooking through the Wikipedia article of [Koufuku\nGraffiti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourmet_Girl_Graffiti), I noticed that\nShiina's and Tsuyuko's last names are missing. It is also missing on the\n[corresponding Japanese Wikipedia\narticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B8%E8%85%B9%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3).\nSince Japanese Wikipedia is usually very detailed about terminology and\ncharacter names, the last name being missing suggest that it is not yet\nrevealed at the moment.\n\nWhat are Shiina's and Tsuyuko's last names? Has it been revealed in the manga?\nIs there any official reason why their last names are kept secret?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 214, just after Knuckle and Shoot left Gon and Killua to go to NGL,\nthere is a scene where Gon cried, saying that he didn't realise that being\nweak was so painful.\n\n\n\nAt the bottom of this page, Killua also cried, although I don't think the\nreason is explained clearly.\n\n> The next page explains that Killua intended to leave Gon after he spent 30\n> days protecting him.\n\nWas the reason he cried because he knew that he would be leaving Gon, or\nbecause he empathised with Gon, or because he too felt that being weak was\npainful? If so, why would it effect him so deeply?\n\n(Could it be a mixture of the two - he felt that he was too weak and that was\nthe reason he would have to leave Gon?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**TL;DR version**\n\nKillua cries because he remembers that his own weakness of fighting with the\naim of running away will cause him to leave his best friend, Gon, to die.\n\n**Detailed version**\n\nKillua was born into the famous Zoldyck family of assassins. His family has\nalready decided that he would be an assassin, and put him through harsh\ntraining for that purpose, right from childhood.\n\nAfter meeting Gon during the Hunter exam, Killua decided that he wanted to be\nGon's friend and lead a normal life, not be an assassin. As they spent time\ntogether during the later arcs, Gon's friendship became the most important\nthing for Killua. It was also his source of hope for escaping from the life\nhis family had pre-decided for him.\n\nShortly before this incident in the question, Biscuit points out that Killua's\nweakness is he fights with the aim of running away, and further notes that it\nwould cause Killua to leave Gon to die some day. This wasn't a mean taunt by\nan enemy, but an assessment of his weakness by his Nen teacher, and he\nprobably realized that it was true.\n\nIt would have been immensely painful for him to realize that his weakness\nwould cause him to leave Gon to die, Gon being his best friend, the person who\nchanged his life and gave him hope of leading a normal life. For that reason,\nhe decided to protect Gon for 30 days, and then leave him forever.\n\nWhen Gon says that \"being weak is so painful\", it resonates perfectly with\nKillua's own feelings, and so he cries too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for a manga I read about 4-5 months ago. I can't remember the\nnames of the characters. These are what I can remember:\n\n * It is about a school which only accepts students who can see an island in the sky.\n * On the first day, everyone was given a word which turned out to be some kind of power. The main character got the word which allowed him to change his appearance to that of other people.\n * Most of the student were killed in the first day by some kind of monster, and there were monsters appearing everyday (except for rainy days).\n * There was one student who got the word which made him immortal. Another one got the word which gave him the ability to steal anything (heart, brain, etc.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the fight with Miki when she transformed into the the Demon Lord, Sill\nprotected Rance by putting herself in front of him, taking the brunt of Miki's\nattack. She was permanently frozen after that.\n\nIt was mentioned that the reason Rance does not risk pregnancy during his\nsexual escapades is because Sill used a magic spell on him to kill all of his\nsperm, if I remember correctly. After she was frozen, she wouldn't be able to\ndo this anymore. So how did Rance avoid impregnating anyone after Sill is\nfrozen? Can he use the spell himself?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe couldn't, even before Sill was frozen Rance had a son.\n\nAfter Sill was frozen, he got a daughter and at least 2 other women are\npregnant with his child.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOriginally, Rance had no contraception spell on him, nor did he use any other\nform of contraception. He was basically saved by luck and convenience for a\nlong time.\n\nUsing the [personal timeline for Rance](http://alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/Rance)\non the Alicesoft wikia, we have the following pregnancy related events for\nRance:\n\n * GI1013 15 years old\n\n * Taught how to interact with girls from the female warrior and learn how to prevent getting a girl pregnant though he mostly ignored these lessons. He was also trained in basic survival techniques and swordsmanship.\n * GI1015 (= LP0000) 17 years old\n\n * One of his victims, a girl in a wealthy family, had an abortion, causing Rance to begin taking birth control into consideration.\n * LP0001 18 years old\n\n * While working as a body guard for a slave trader, he purchased a slave, Sill, from a slave trader.\n * LP0002 19 years old\n\n * Bounded the devil Ferris into his service. With her, he later conceives his first child, Dark Rance.\n * LP0004 21 years old\n\n * Helped Dark Rance rescue Ferris.\n\nThis last event is worth saying more about, in particular. Rance was not aware\nthat Ferris had gotten pregnant and had a child before Dark Rance showed up,\nnor did he know that there were severe consequences for Ferris as a result.\nThis is when Rance actually took pregnancy completely seriously, leading him\nto have Sill place a contraception spell on him.\n\nFor the sake of clarity, it may be worth noting that Devil children grow up\nmuch faster than human ones. Dark Rance was somewhere around the equivalent of\nan 8 year old when he shows up to Rance, despite having been conceived at most\ntwo years ago.\n\nAt this point we can note he has one child, and impregnated at least one other\nwoman (who ended up having an abortion). He's not done yet, of course.\n\n * LP0005 22 years old\n\n * Hotspring trip to JAPAN. Had a chance meeting with Oda Nobunaga, became fast friends, and become the hidden ruler of the Oda House.\n * Rangi was born.\n\n[Yamamoto Rangi](http://alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/Yamamoto_Rangi) is the son of\nYamamoto Isoroku and Rance. As the alicesoft wikia link notes, it is not\nclearly stated what allowed Isoroku to become impregnated, as Sill and the\ncontraception spell are still active during the time period Isoroku would have\nhad sex with Rance. In Isoroku's own route, Rance specifically orders Sill to\nremove the contraception spell so that Isoroku may bear his son (she joined\nhim specifically under the condition that he would give her a son to continue\nher family line). However, this is a side route and not the \"canonical\" route\nthat subsequent games would use. Nevertheless, Rangi is referenced in\nsubsequent materials, leading to the various conjectures on the wikia about\nhow Rance managed to get her pregnant. I'll note that Rance also has a son\nwith Isoroku, under the same pretenses, in the What-If game Kichikuou Rance\n(Savage King Rance).\n\nBut Rance is still not done, especially since after his JAPAN trip Sill has\nbeen encased in ice and the contraception spell is no longer in effect.\n\n * LP0006 23 years old \n * Incident at Kalar forest. Resulting Rance being cursed by Pastel Kalar.\n * Reset Kalar was born.\n\nThe curse is because Rance raped Pastel Kalar. Pastel soon after gave birth to\nReset Kalar. Reset is also born to Rance and Pastel in Kichikuou Rance, though\nin that game the sex was consensual and for the sole purpose of procreation.\nSeriously. Kalars also age much faster than humans.\n\nThis is the most recent child Rance has had so far. It is unclear if he will\nhave more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter reading the manga Berserk for a second time I noticed a particular scene\nthat when I first read it I didn't give even the slightest attention, this\nscene is from the chapter \"The Golden Age (3)\".\n\nThe scene starts when Guts had to kill Gambino (which would leave him strongly\nmarked in the future), and he begins to escape from his former comrades\nbecause they didn't really know what had happened. The persecution happens on\nhorseback and when Guts reaches a cliff is hit by an arrow, making him fall...\nand here is when one of my favorite scenes occurs in berserk... after the life\nof Guts went to hell Kentaro Miura shows us Guts watching the vastness of a\nbeautiful starry heaven, after that Guts kept fighting for survive...\n\n\n\nSomehow it made me remember a scene from the manga Vagabond, chapter \"Heaven\nand Earth\", which is when Miyamoto Musashi (Shinmen Takezo) is fightning with\nInshun (which was his worst enemy so far), and just when Inshun was going to\nattack Musashi recalls an advice that Takuan had given him long ago, and he\nstart thinking \"Beneath the vastness of These starry heavens... Inshun and I,\nboth, are insignificant...\", which made Inshun feel threatened.\n\n\n\nI think this scene has a deeper meaning, and that is more or less the same\nline as the scene of Vagabond, which I think it's: \"When we realize how\ninsignificant we are is when we can bring out our true potential\".\n\nWhat do you think?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo my knowledge, there is no official interpretation of the symbolism behind\nthis scene. Your interpretation is a good one and might be exactly what the\nauthor intended.\n\n* * *\n\nMy interpretation is different. I see the sky as a symbol for limitless\nopportunity. The sky goes on forever and there are countless stars, just as\nhuman potential for growth is limitless and there is no limit to the number of\npaths we can take in life.\n\nI took this interpretation because in the same scene, **Guts asks the same\nquestion twice in a row: \"Where should I go?\"**. The repetition indicates the\nimportance of the phrase.\n\nIn other words, the sky represents the endless destinations and possibilities\nthat exist in human life, like bright stars against a black nothingness.\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 5 of Oregairu S2, Hachiman enlists Zaimokuza's aid in getting Iroha\nelected president. Zaimokuza then goes on to give Hachiman an earful about how\nhe doesn't want to be the fall guy for the scheme and how Hachiman had better\ntake responsibility, and all of that.\n\nBut what role did Zaimokuza even have in the scheme? It looked to me like\nHachiman did all the work in setting up the Twitter accounts and pulling the\nbait-and-switch.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't really remember how the anime showed it, but in the light novel\nHachiman and Zaimokuza both split up the Twitter accounts between them. Then\nthe night before the day that Hachiman shows the printouts to Irohasu, he had\nactually called Zaimokuza to change the accounts' display name and images to\n\"Isshiki Iroha Grassroots Account\". Understandably Zaimokuza was not very\nenthusiastic about it, and only agreed after he was convinced that he wouldn't\nbe blamed for it.\n\nThat phone call is right in the beginning of chapter 8 of volume 8. So yeah\nthe 'switch' part wasn't done by Hachiman himself. He did take the printouts\nlater though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPuella Magi Madoka Magica's Homura Akemi and Fate/Zero's Kiritsugu Emiya were\nboth written by Gen Urobuchi, although Kiritsugu was created by Type Moon's\nKinoko Nasu. There are numerous similarities between them:\n\n * Both are magic users with control over time.\n * Both augment their magical powers with modern weaponry.\n * Both are very taciturn, but deeply loving towards certain people (Homura towards Madoka and Kiritsugu towards Iri and Illya).\n * Both are mentally damaged by the horrors of war (Homura's experiences in the time loops and Kiritsugu's experiences in various war zones over the years).\n * Both characters are pivotal to the events of the story, but for most of the series the viewers, and even the main heroine herself, have no idea what they are thinking.\n * Both have something of a gap in ideals with the main heroine (Homura's actions during the movie go against Madoka's wishes, while Kiritsugu and Saber clash so much from the very beginning that Kiritsugu assigns her to work with Iri).\n * Both have great hair :)\n\n\n\n\nWas this just an archetype of Urobuchi's writing, the way Stephen King spent\nthree decades writing about common household objects trying to kill people? Or\nis there an interview or any evidence which suggests this was intentional? As\na related question, how much of Kiritsugu's overlap with Homura was Nasu's\ndoing, and how much was Urobuchi's?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Aeka story, we see that Aeka is stuck in an incredibly bleak situation\nwhere she's being bullied at school by Kyouka Nanjou. She gets out of this\nsituation by the end of her story with the protagonist's help, but it's rough\ngoing.\n\n\n\nAfter the Aeka story, I became obsessed and raced through the Mizuki and\nNekoko stories in three days, so maybe I missed the finer points. Was it ever\nmentioned what happened to Aeka in these stories? Was she still able to escape\nfrom her situation without Kouhei's help?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI had forgotten that I took notes as I was playing the game. I shoved them off\nin a corner of my Dropbox and forgot about them, but they contained the answer\nto this question.\n\nIn both the Mizuki and Nekoko stories, Aeka attempts to commit suicide by\njumping off the roof. She survives, but is hospitalized. She leaves behind a\nnote accusing her tormentor, Kyouka Nanjou, which seems to lead to Nanjou's\nexpulsion.\n\n\n\nIn the Mizuki story, after Mizuki leaves school, Kouhei becomes the student\ncouncil president. Because of what he saw happening to Aeka while they were\nclassmates, he makes bullying his signature issue and tries to end the culture\nof silence where bystanders protect the bullies for fear of being targeted.\n\n\n\nAs far as I can tell from my notes, the Nekoko story says nothing further\nabout Aeka's fate.\n\n\n\nIn the bad ending, where you don't complete anyone's story, the narration\nstates that Aeka just disappeared all of a sudden from school. Interestingly,\nyou can get this bad ending even after Aeka has already attempted suicide and\njumped off the roof. So she attempted suicide, was hospitalized, and then just\ndisappeared all of a sudden from school.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the battle against the Kyuubi, Minato split the Kyuubi's chakra into\ntwo halves, sealed the Yin-half into himself and the Yang-half into the\nnewborn Naruto. He then _dies_ shortly afterwards due to use of the Shiki\nFujin technique, and was sealed into the Shinigami's stomach along with the\nYin-Kyuubi.\n\n17 years later, he was released from the Shinigami's stomach, and he was seen\nusing the Kyuubi Chakra mode right away. It took Naruto nearly 17 years to\nachieve the same Kyuubi Chakra mode after going through a lot of trouble, so\nhow was Minato able to use it almost instantly?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have another explanation of this case. As you know the Yin-Yan are two equal\nparts of the 9 tail's chakra so they can be tought as being one. Therefore\nlearning the use of the one means learing the use of the other despite being\nsealed in different jinjuriki and even different dimensions maybe. (Compare\nwith Obito-Kakashi's sharingan-both from one source-->mangekyou awaikened\nhere=mangekyou awaikened there :D, you get the point)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBy the Time Minato was released, Naruto had already made peace with the\nKyuubi's other and the half that was inside Minato felt the same emotions and\ndecided to help Minato...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read some of the reasoning on why Minato had kyuubi chakra mode straightaway\nand one of them stated the yin half combined feelings with the yang half. I\nagree with this because Minato felt Naruto's chakra when he was reanimated.\nThis could be kyubi sensing his other half, triggering Minato to sense Naruto\nas jinchuriki of the same beast, but just a yang half of it. This is only a\ntheory though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found one post on this site that might be about the same anime that I'm\nlooking for. It's not answered and already closed.\n\nFrom that question, <https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19036/help-\nidentify-this-mecha-anime>:\n\n> It was about a boy who gets involved in some kind of (military? government?)\n> mech program. There are already some other people there piloting mecha. The\n> boy forms some kind of connection with a mecha that is smaller than the\n> rest, and also somewhat feminine-looking. At least, it seemed to have high\n> heels on its feet.\n\nNot sure but I think I watched it the late 1990s.\n\nNow, what I remember is that, that boy also gets another, big yellow robot.\nOnce, when his fraction is under attack and he gets cornered in a corridor, he\nsteps back and surprisingly appears in that yellow robot, it turns on and he\nstarts fighting.\n\nThe small robot isn't usual. It's not just standing there and waiting for that\nboy to drive it. Boy and small robot, they have some kind of spiritual\nconnection. Boy can call him and the robot somehow teleports to him. He also\ncan combine that small and big yellow robot.\n\nAnd I also remember that scene when that boy is stack in a big spaceship,\nwhich is about to explode and he calls that small robot but it's not\nteleporting.\n\nI think these shows are the same; does anybody know it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think this might be **Ninja Senshi Tobikage** (Ninja Robot)p?\n\n\n\nThis might be the feminine robot or the one which has the capability to\nconnect with the mind of the protoganist (Joe maya). As for the yellow robot ,\nit maybe Golden lion \n\njust a small figurine version to show the size difference and that they can\ncombine together to form another robot form.IT was aired first in late\n1980(1986 to be precise). But many people including me watched it in the late\n90's .\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage_ manga, page 3\n\n\n\nWho is the guy with blue hair sitting next to Boruto?\n\nIs it a new character or did I miss something from Naruto?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe character sitting next to Boruto is **Mitsuki**. He is a Konohagakure\nshinobi who originated from an unknown village and also the team-mate of\nBoruto and Sarada.\n\n\n\nAccording to [Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mitsuki):\n\n> Born as Orochimaru's son, Mitsuki immigrated to Konohagakure, where he was\n> then enrolled into the Konoha Academy. Most of Mitsuki's background is left\n> as a complete mystery to the point where even his own team-mates don't know\n> who his parents are.\n\nExtract from [_Boruto: Naruto the\nmovie_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mitsuki#Epilogue) summary:\n\n> Boruto questions Mitsuki about his parentage, to which the latter says he is\n> the son of Orochimaru. This shocks Sarada and she asks if Orochimaru is his\n> mother or father while Boruto asks who Orochimaru is, and Mitsuki replies it\n> doesn't matter, much to Boruto and Sarada's confusion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode of _Bakmonogatari_ , Araragi revealed to Senjogahara that\nhe was once a vampire and that he retained the regeneration ability after\nbeing cured.\n\nIn Episode 3 _Mayoi Maimai - Part 1_ , Araragi is looking at Hachikuji after\nshe comes back. His eyes go red and he says something about normally being\nable to read names at his current distance but with Hachikuji he can't. This\nleads him to ask Senjogahara about characters appearing in Hachikuji name.\n\nI am wondering what powers Araragi still has after being cured of his\nvampirism?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Potentially incomplete answer. I have only watched the anime and read\n\"Tsubasa Song\", and I suspect that there would be more information in the\nlight novels. Some referencing from the [Wikia\nentry](http://bakemonogatari.wikia.com/wiki/Koyomi_Araragi) for Araragi, since\nI needed something to jog my memory.]\n\nThrough-out the series, we see a couple different traits that were presumably\nacquired as a result of having become a vampire:\n\n * Firstly, Araragi has various **healing powers**. For instance, even after being attacked by staplers in the beginning of _Bakemonogatari_ , it seems that his mouth was able to heal very quickly. Moreover, in _Nekomonogatari Black_ , he heals Hanekawa's wound with some of his blood.\n\n * In the Hachikuji arc, Araragi reads Hachikuji's name off of her bag. I don't remember the scene very well, but Senjougahara is unable to see the name. Araragi is not aware -- at that point in time -- that Senjougahara is unable to see Hachikuji. Rather (per a discussion on [TV Tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/Bakemonogatari) that I read -- see \"one dialogue, two conversations\" -- and my memory of the scene), he assumes that he was able to read the name because of some **enhanced vampiric vision**.\n\n * In Nisemonogatari, we see Araragi being hesitant to spar with his sisters. This is because he doesn't want to harm them because of the **super-human strength** he has acquired.\n\n * Later, Araragi removes some of the poison that has been making Karen feverish. However, it's not clear if this is just a vampire ability or a result of the fact that given that the fever is supernaturally generated, he can remove some of it. _Without more information, I would assume that it's probably the latter._\n\nMost definitely at least during the events of _Bakemonogatari_ in the in-\nuniverse chronology, if not after it, Araragi has a conversation with Meme\nOshino (or possibly with Shinobu -- I don't remember which).\n\n> He is told that he has the option of becoming entirely human again, provided\n> that he does not feed Shinobu his blood. Moreover, in\n> [\"Tsukimonogatari\"](http://bakemonogatari.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukimonogatari),\n> we see that Araragi is slowly becoming a vampire -- he can't see his\n> reflection anymore, and Shinobu closes the blinds in his room to prevent him\n> from contacting sunlight.\n\nThe above suggests that the exact abilities Araragi has _are dependent on how\nmuch blood Shinobu has been allowed to suck from him_ \\-- we see, for\ninstance, in \"Suruga Monkey\", that Araragi preemptively lets Shinobu suck\nblood from him to ensure that he won't straight-out die from being attacked by\nKanbaru. Furthermore, Araragi's exact abilities eventually change.\n\nBut in any case, _normally speaking_ (i.e. when he hasn't let Shinobu suck a\nlot of his blood), Araragi's abilities seem to essentially be slight\nimprovements of normal human physical abilities (of sight, strength, healing),\nand nothing more than that. For instance, unlike Shinobu:\n\n> Araragi is incapable of time-travelling alone -- it's Shinobu who creates a\n> portal to the past in \"Mayoi Jiangshi\" -- and we never see him travel at\n> really high speeds when he is \"normal\" (whereas Shinobu presumably did when\n> she escaped with a man to Antarctica).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the R season of the classic anime of _Sailor Moon_ , Chibi-usa had a\nflashback memory of her surprise birthday party in the 30th century Crystal\nTokyo, in which Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus\nwere present (Wiseman made use of the piece of memory of the span of time\nduring which the secret about the surprise was being kept from her in order to\nturn Chibi-usa into Black Lady). Chibi-usa also had a faint memory of the same\nfour sailor soldiers fleeing with her while Crystal Tokyo was being attacked,\nbut in this memory, the four people are darkened silhouettes. I can understand\nthat, due to the trauma of the attack and worry about her mom, Chibi-usa might\nnot remember clearly who helped her escape. After these events, she time-\ntraveled to the 20th century where she met Sailors Moon, Mercury, Mars,\nJupiter, and Venus in their solider forms (as well as met them in their\ncivilian forms).\n\n_If Chibi-usa had the clear memory of the birthday party, why didn't she\nimmediately recognize those same four sailor soldiers when she \"re-met\" them\nin the 20th century?_ Didn't the party scene indicate that they were her\nfriends and she knew their names?\n\nIs this a plot hole?\n\n(The manga does not feature the birthday party memory, so I am looking for\nanswers regarding an in-universe explanation for the classic anime canon.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI asked [a fan](http://kimiski.deviantart.com) who is not part of this SE\ncommunity this question and she responded:\n\n> . . . you found loop holes in the anime. The whole thing in _R_ where Chibi-\n> Usa didn't know Sailor Moon was her mom, or the four senshi were her\n> friends, the same as in the future was in my opinion, a horrible decision on\n> the anime creators side. In the manga she knew before she even went back\n> into the past that Sailor Moon/Usagi Tsukino and her mother was one in the\n> same. In the anime all she knows is stories of a senshi called Sailor Moon\n> in the past that her dad told her. The fact that the inner senshi of the\n> past and future look exactly the same, have the same names, etc, is\n> completely side stepped by the anime's production. Like really? Are we\n> supposed to believe she's so stupid she couldn't put those two things\n> together? But alas, they try anyway.\n\nHer interpretation is that in the 90s anime, Chibi-usa did know the names and\nappearances of Sailors Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus in the 30th century\nbefore she time-traveled to the 20th century, and that failing to recognize\nthem in the past is a plot hole.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is my hypothesis and you can pick it apart all you want. My theory is\nthat:\n\n 1. Chibiusa did know who Sailor Moon was and who the Sailor scouts were, but perhaps because Chibiusa traveled in time, perhaps the shock of time travel partially wiped her memory (since she did recognize Usagi/Serena as the holder of the silver crystal). Or,\n\n 2. Chibiusa knows the identity of Sailor Moon and Sailor Senshi and is pretending not to for one reason or another.\n\nOn the question of whether Chibiusa knows that Usagi is Sailor Moon, check\nepisode 65 about a dispute over love between Minako and Makoto. In that\nepisode, after the fight is over, Chibiusa pops up in the background like\nshe'd been there the whole time, so if she didn't know before episode 65, she\nknows now. (or at least is putting 2 and 2 together)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the series, it is shown Yuu learns how to use antigravity, and Mitsuki can\nmake antimatter.\n\nSince the anime ends just after they defeat Basilisk, did any of them learned\nto use catastrophe?\n\nDoes it happen to the other dragons they kill in the Light Novel?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Sannoh](http://slamdunk.wikia.com/wiki/Sannoh_Industry_Affiliated_High_School),\nthe defending national champions, are a team of [buzz cut\nhair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_cut). Here are their starters:\n\n\n\nEven their substitute (Mikio) has the same haircut:\n\n\n\nThis gives the team a very distinctive appearance and no doubt makes them look\nintimidating.\n\n * Was it ever explained in the manga (or other media) why they all have this haircut?\n * Were they based on some real-life team or players that had this haircut?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAldnoah Drives seem to understand language (as seen when Asseylum ordered\nCastle Crutheo's Drive to sleep) and recognize people (as seen when Emperor\nVers was granted activation powers at the first contact with Aldnoah in Mars).\n\nDo Aldnoah Drives have any kind of intellect?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy friend sends me this video of an anime featuring what seems to be Nazi (?)\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJsRswmAiWo>\n\nNeither of us knows what anime it was from. Does anyone know?\n\nBelow is a SFW screenshot, as requested:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI did a reverse image search on one of the frames in the video. It's an hentai\nanime from 1986 called [**Cream\nLemon**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_Lemon). I haven't watched it and I\nam not going to, but if you want to know more about check [its Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_Lemon).\n\n[This](http://animeraw.com/archives/5090) is what the reverse image search\nturned up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs noted on [How are the themes and songs picked for a particular\nseries?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3744/how-are-the-themes-\nand-songs-picked-for-a-particular-series), some anime openings are created for\ntheir show; thus, the song and anime theme usually coincide and work together.\n\nSince these songs are widely promoted in Japanese society (and consumed\nlargely by young ones that regard them highly as they grow), I guess these\nthemes heavily influence Japan's music scene too.\n\nAt least the influence of early video game music is easy to note. The wide\nspread of anisons has to have had an influence in musicians.\n\nSure, the trace of influence might start with the society itself as in\nSociety/Home → Author Experience → Piece of Work → Anime+Anison, and then\nfeeds back to Society.\n\n## The background of the question\n\nI think that there's a lot more of songs that talk about peers understanding\n(in love, hurting, etc) in Japan than in Western music. The motivation for\nthis question is to prove or disprove, since I'm making the assumption that\nthese anisons lyrics/themes have influenced current Japanese song writers.\n\nI do believe that Japanese writers express the need of Japan's society to\ncommunicate their problems to others and to understand other people struggles.\n\nBut there has been any study or documentary talking about this?\n\nEven a formal investigation about this theme bias I see in the lyrics of\nJapan's music bands works. And sure, this might be just my imagination, is\nreally uncommon that theme on western songs?\n\n* * *\n\nAn example of these kind of [differences between japanese music and western\nmusic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtPx6WdNM30) is noted by Marty Friedman\n(former Megadeath guitarist). But what he talks about is the music\ncomposition, not the topics on jpop/jrock lyrics.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, I couldn't find a documentary specifically on the subject you\nrequested, purely because I do not think that one currently exists. I did,\nhowever, find a number of articles that conducted largely unofficial research\non such a topic. In general, has anime music affected the Japanese music\nindustry?\n\n**Yes.**\n\nHow?\n\nI think the most significant effect is the broader audience. Due to anime's\nrapidly growing international fanbase, and with more and more shows being\ndubbed in languages other than Japanese and English, the music of anime is\nbeing broadcast across the globe. Anime allows the artists of this music to\ntake their songs to the international stage. I think the effect of this\n_globalization_ if you will can be see across many different anime.\n\nFor example, consider the music artist _Linked Horizon_. Before 2013, Linked\nHorizon produced a number of smaller projects, including a song for a Nintendo\n3DS game. However, it wasn't until 2013, when the band composed the opening to\nAttack on Titan, that they truly took off in popularity. Their song rocketed\nto the top of the leaderboards and was and is a fan favorite across the world.\nThis would not have been possible without anime.\n\nIn addition, there are examples of people changing their whole music tastes\nand playlists due to their newly found interest in Japanese music from\nwatching anime. You can read\n[here](https://m.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/45gknf/how_has_watching_anime_affected_your_taste_in/)\nabout anime watchers in the US and their changing tastes in music.\n\nIt conclusion, the largest effect anime has had on the Japanese music industry\nis its internationalization. Anime has helped to significantly broaden the\naudience of Japanese music.\n\n[Here's](https://www.quora.com/How-much-influence-anime-shows-have-in-\npromoting-Japanese-music-to-international-audience) a very good article about\nanime's affect on Japanese music.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm kinda wondering what the opening theme song of Arakawa Under the Bridge,\n**_Venus and Jesus_** lyrics mean.\n\nOn the third stanza,\n\n> _A neighbor of Venus \n> Why? During that interval that we don't know \n> Jesus lives across the hall \n> I'm hearing something bad _\n\nIt mentions the name, _Jesus_. What does that stanza imply? Does it have\nsomething to do with the Christian religion?\n\n> _A neighbor of Venus_\n\nMaybe, Earth?\n\n> _Why? During that interval that we don't know_\n\nInterval we don't know? Maybe, before the concept of time existed?\n\nThere are also other lines that I don't quite understand.\n\nLyrics taken from [**Lyrics Translate**](http://lyricstranslate.com/en/venus-\njesus-venus-and-jesus.html).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA neighbor of Venus\n\nWhy? During that interval that we don't know\n\nJesus lives across the hall\n\nI'm hearing something bad\n\nSo this stanza is not translated very accurately, especially the last bit with\n\"I'm hearing something bad\". The official Japanese lyric is \"kiite, yaba-i no\"\nThe use of the word \"Yabai\" connotes a young teen gossiping about something,\nor asking for advice (yabai is like \"OMG that is SO bad. In the context, it\ndoes not mean actually bad). With that being said, it almost sounds like the\nsinger is knocking on the doors of different gods, such as Venus and Jesus,\nasking them for advice on something a teen (and Nino) would have trouble with,\nsuch as love.\n\nVenus, (he) is living next to me\n\nWhy is (he), while I didn't even notice\n\nJesus (he) is living across me\n\nOMG this is SO bad.\n\nThat's the way I heard it as a Japanese native speaker, but I may have\ninterpreted wrong. I may be a little biased because this song to me is tied to\nthe anime/the manga (which are really awesome, especially the manga) so it\nleans to make sense along with the show, although this was originally a normal\nsong, not made as an OP. I hope that helped!\n\nLazyKaiju\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Earth Dragon Balls were only capable of reviving one person at a time and\nthat too, only once. Then how did they revive Vegeta and all the Namekians on\nplanet Namek when the dragon was asked to revive everyone killed by Frieza?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUm... they weren't limited to only 1 person at a time.\n\nIt was the Namekian Dragon Balls that were limited to 1 at a time. The Earth\nDragon Balls had no such restriction. In fact, they were used before to revive\nmultiple people that Piccolo killed at the end of the Piccolo saga\n\nFurther reading : [Dragon\nBall](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_%28object%29)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for an anime I would love to draw or watch again and here are the\ndetails\n\n * Good graphics all around\n\n * Very, VERY few episodes, about 20-40\n\n * Includes superpowers (a girl shapeshifting , a guy learning everybody else's abilities , etc).\n\n * Protagonist is a guy that learns the abilities of his foes, there is one more guy with this power who is supposedly stronger but I think he loses in the end.\n\n * It's about a destroyed city or a war is going on and they are living in some kind of church.\n\n * The girl comes with the Protagonist in the start, she wears purple, very short top and skirt, it reveals her belly and she has big breasts, blue hair \n\n * A woman that doesn't talk is an enemy, and she uses aromas as a special ability, and also uses a board to write (so to speak she is talking like that).\n\nI think that's it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI guarantee you, you're thinking of\n\"[Needless](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needless)\".\n\nSome details:\n\n> Very, VERY few episodes , about 20-40 episodes\n\nNeedless has 24 episodes.\n\n> Includes superpowers (a girl shapeshifting , a guy learning everybody else's\n> abilities , etc).\n\nFrom Wikipedia: \"The Black Spot eventually becomes populated by outcasts, some\nof whom, as a result of the contamination, gain various powers called\n\"fragments\". Those in possession of such fragments come to be known as\n\"Needless\".\n\n> Protagonist is a guy that learns the abilities of his foes, there is one\n> more guy with this power who is supposedly stronger but I think he loses in\n> the end.\n\nFrom Wikipedia, the main character is \"Adam Blade\": \"Adam Blade is a destroyer\npriest who lives in the church in Sector 533. He has a metal collar engraved\nwith the characters '079.AB.' affixed to his neck. He has inhuman strength and\nendurance as well as accelerated healing, plus a skeletal structure attached\nwith a special metal called Orichalcum. It was revealed that he is a clone of\nthe strongest Needless, 'The Second Christ'. His only flaw is his attraction\nto cute, young girls. His fragment 'Zero' allows him to learn the attacks of\nhis enemies, after being hit by it or seeing it, also being able to combine\nother abilities learned as well. His special move is 'Death Verdict', the\nfinal pronouncement when taking an enemy's life.\"\n\n> Its about a destroyed city or a war is going on and they are living in some\n> kind of church\n\nFrom Wikipedia: \"This anime is set in the year 2130 (the beginning date\nremains unclear), 50 years after World War III. The war has left a crater\nwhere Tokyo once stood, a place now filled with contaminated rubble.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nHere's the subject of my question. The last screen of the second season of\nSilver Spoon show this text. One of the sentences is really disturbing.\nTranslated, it says:\n\n> Visiting the places and facilities used as models can be dangerous and may\n> result in contracting diseases from the animals.\n\nWhy did they put a such worrying message at the end of this innocent anime\nthat shows the passion of people for farming?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you read the message **translated more literally** , it is not quite so\nscary-sounding:\n\n>\n> 「劇中に登場する個人名･団体名などはすべて架空のものですが、酪農については、食と命に関わるテーマとして事実に基づいて表現を心がけています。モデルとなった場所や施設を訪問する行為は、動物の疫病を引き起こす等の原因ともなりえる危険な行為です。」\n>\n> \"All personal names and organizations that appear in this program are\n> fictional, however, regarding dairy farms, [we are] committed to\n> representing themes about food and life based on reality. Visiting the\n> location or facilities used as models is a dangerous act which may result in\n> contracting an epidemic [from] animals, among other things.\"\n\nThis is **a simple legal disclaimer** for the animation company to cover\nthemselves from anyone suing as a result of visiting the location and somehow\ncatching a disease or any other number of \"other\" things they might do while\nthere.\n\n**The model** of _Silver Spoon_ 's fictional 大蝦夷農業高等学校 ( _Ooezo Nougyou Koutou\nGakkou_ = Ooezo Agricultural High School) is the real-life **Hokkaido\nUniversity**. This is clear because:\n\n 1. 「蝦夷」( _ezo_ , more frequently written in _katakana_ as 「エゾ」) is the traditional word for \"Hokkaido\". For example, エゾモモンガ [ _ezo momonga_ ] is the flying squirrel native to Hokkaido and エゾシカ [ _ezo shika_ ] is the deer native to Hokkaido.\n 2. Hokkaido University was founded under its prior name of 札幌農学校 ( _Sapporo Nougakkou_ = Sapporo Agricultural School), and\n 3. The _Silver Spoon_ ending theme shows the characters walking along the [ポプラ並木](https://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/about/facilities/gardens-and-parks/poplar-avenue-both-old-and-new/) ( _Popura Namiki_ = Poplar Avenue) which is Hokkaido University's most famous attraction.\n\nHokkaido University is one of the top-ranked national universities of Japan\nand is **one of the main tourist attractions of Hokkaido** prefecture. Now the\nuniversity includes many other majors, but the major in Agricultural Science\nis still a main feature of the university, and large portions of the campus\nare covered in farm fields, including cows, sheep, horses, dogs, and plants.\nThe fact that the campus contains lots of farmland and is home to livestock is\nnot a deterrent; rather, **[tourism is\nencouraged](https://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/about/visitors-access-maps/sapporo-\ncampus-map/)**. Not only do countless Japanese tourists, foreign tourists, and\nJapanese school groups visit the campus every year for sightseeing, the campus\nopens its doors to the public throughout the year with 北大際 ( _HokuDaiSai_ ,\nthe four-day annual school festival), エルムの森 ( _Erumu no Mori_ = Elm Forest)\ncafe (designed more for tourists than for students since students frequent the\ncheaper cafeterias), and public lectures. In order to view the Poplar Avenue\nand the [bust of Inazo Nitobe](http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Ehashi-\nsculp/Museum/4hokudai/232/232.html) statue next to it, it is [impossible not\nto walk past one of the farm\nareas](http://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/maps/?p=sapporo) of campus. Children (and\nadults!) enjoy watching the sheep grazing just to the right of Poplar Avenue.\n\n_Silver Spoon_ is **not discouraging fans from making a pilgrimage** to\nHokkaido University and is **not warning that fans will _likely_ contract a\ndisease** from the animals.\n\nSince I lived in the international student dorm of Hokkaido University, I\nwalked through a farm plot every day to get to class. Each time that I flew to\nthe U.S. and went through Immigration, I needed to declare that, yes, \"[I am\nbringing soil or have been on a\nfarm/ranch/pasture](http://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/sample-declaration-\nform)\" since it is [illegal to bring foreign\nsoil](https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/955/%7E/importing-soil-\ninto-the-united-states) into the country, but when I handed in my Declaration\nForm and mentioned that I was an international student at an agricultural\nuniversity, I was simply waved on by with no concern by the officials. Walking\nthrough the farm areas of campus and seeing the livestock in close proximity\nis not considered dangerous.\n\nTwo asides:\n\n 1. When Sapporo Agricultural School was founded as a three-year college in the early Meiji era, the students entered at around age 14. Although it was a college and they were hired by the government into prestigious official positions directly after graduating, the age at which they undertook their college education parallels the age of high school students nowadays, so _Silver Spoon_ matches the real history in terms of ages of students.\n\n 2. It is not permitted for anyone (students or tourists) to walk along Poplar Avenue in the present day. We can go look at it and walk a very short stretch of it, but most of it has been fenced off after a typhoon felled some of the trees; poplars are, apparently, not very wind-resistant, so it is no longer considered safe for people to walk alongside or under the trees (just in case of a strong gust of wind!). There are many Japanese who would love to be able to experience walking the Avenue like the early students of Sapporo Agricultural School got to, and the characters in _Silver Spoon_ get to do.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm searching for the music of an anime.\n\nThe anime is \"Kyoukai no Rinne\".\n\nThe background music comes from episode 1 from 12:15 to 12:32.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's Track 02 _Ningen... Mitai na ~Rinne no Theme_ from the [Kyoukai no RINNE\noriginal sound track](http://vgmdb.net/album/53352).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm sure you've heard the news about the new _Dragon Ball_ series _Dragon Ball\nSuper_ , made by Akira Toriyama.\n\nI've read about it and the release date is in June or July (can't remember).\nWe're talking about manga, right or brand new episodes?\n\nIf it's just the manga, is it already known when we can expect brand new\n_Dragon Ball_ episodes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**_Dragonball Super_** will be animated rather than a manga version and\nreleased on J _uly 5th, 2015_ in Japan\n\nSource: <http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/rumor-dragon-ball-super-go-\nlong-100-episodes/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nToei Animation have announced that they will indeed make a manga for the\nupcoming Dragon Ball anime series, \"Dragon Ball Super\", with the Dragon Ball\ncreator, and author Akira Toriyama and the Dragon Ball: Heroes Victory Mission\nauthor, Toyotoro. Now we see if they can deliver for us that we really want to\nsee, that Dragon Ball GT did not deliver to the Dragon Ball fans. We may see\nthe other 12 gods that Beerus mentioned in the Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods\nfilm, Uub, Gohan's coming back to training, a first ever Female Super Saiyan,\nnew villains, and a lot more that we wanted to experience it, and fun epic\nadventures too. Just like the original Dragon Ball, and Dragon Ball Z.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I watch the anime I get excited by Koro-Sensei's new student, Itona. He\nhas many similarities with koro-sensei. So, my question is: why do they look\ndifferent? Koro-sensei is like an octopus and Itona is like a human.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nItona isn't a relation of Koro-sensei.\n\n> He is the son of Horibe Electronics Factory's former president. After his\n> father's company went bankrupt, Itona was abandoned by him which became a\n> source of bullying towards him as well. One night, he was found by Shiro who\n> told him that in his eye lies a tenacity for power and that he would help\n> him achieve that power in order to grasp victory.\n\nSee more: <http://ansatsukyoshitsu.wikia.com/wiki/Itona_Horibe>\n\nI presume the similarities lie in the tentacles. Itona's powers are\nmanufactured by scientists, wheras Koro-sensei is an octopus alien.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs @Toshinou Kyouko explained, Itona and Korosensei aren't actually related.\n\nKoro-sensei was...\n\n> ... originally the subject of human experimentation. His powers are the\n> result of the experiments that were run on his own body.\n\nItona is considered being Koro-sensei's brother because...\n\n> ... he received his tentacles from the same scientists who experimented on\n> Koro-sensei. His powers are inherited from Koro-sensei.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for why they don't look alike:\n\n> Itona had his tentacles implanted into him. Those tentacles were most likely\n> originally part of Koro-sensei's body after the latter turned into the\n> octopus we now know and \"love\". Unlike Koro-sensei, his body didn't actually\n> change.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKoro-sensei and Itona are not blood related at all, it's the tentacles that\nmake them both fall in the same category \"family\".\n\nThis brother relationship was first mentioned by the official guardian, as to\nmake Itona confused about his relationship with Koro-sensei. He intended to\nkill Koro-sensei with the help of an enraged Itona, but as obviously failed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKoro sensei was actually human once , he was formerly the reaper before his\napprentice turned him in and stole his name, he was then experimented on by\nshiro and grew the tentacles after escaping the facility and killing his best\nfriend and destroying the facility.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom _Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage_ , Chapter 2, Page 14.\n\nI'm guessing one of them is Gaara. If so, who is he married to? Even when\nlooking at the picture at the end of the chapter, I can't recall ever seeing\nthat woman.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMitsuki is Orochimaru's son. This was revealed in [Naruto Exhibition Official\nGuidebook \"Michi\"](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Michi).1 Any other parentage\nis not known.\n\n* * *\n\n[1] Look at this [question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/21316/11643).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has been revealed in _Boruto: Naruto the Movie_ that, Mitsuki is\nOrochimaru's son.\n\nExtract from the movie summary:\n\n> Boruto questions Mitsuki about his parentage, to which the latter says he is\n> the son of Orochimaru. This shocks Sarada and she asks if Orochimaru is his\n> mother or father while Boruto asks who Orochimaru is, and Mitsuki replies it\n> doesn't matter, much to Boruto and Sarada's confusion.\n>\n> source: [Mitsuki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mitsuki#Epilogue)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEveryone who has watched Naruto knows that Naruto isn't good at clone jutsu.\nHowever, there's a part which confuses me: how did he elude those 2 guys\nchasing him after he steals that forbidden scroll in the first episode?\n\nIn the anime, from 1:40 to 1:50, it showed the same wall where Naruto passed\nby and followed by 2 guys. Then, 1-2 secs later Naruto was revealed hiding\nbehind the wallpaper. How did he do that? He couldn't have used a\ntransformation jutsu; if he did he could just stay in the transform jutsu. He\nshouldn't be faster than Chuunin or Jounin, but from 1:41-1:45 it showed them\nchasing him at the same speed (Although, if they have higher speed than\nNaruto, they would have caught him).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, he was vandalizing around the town when the two guys were\nchasing him. He steals the scroll later on. And it wasn't the transformation\njutsu either. Just a simple trick with the wall paper. Now don't ask me where\ndid he get that wall paper.\n\nAs for speed, even if he is a rookie, he is still a ninja and the other two\ndidn't seem to be exceptionally skilled either. If it's someone like Kakashi,\nclearly he didn't have a chance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI figured the ninja didn't want to hurt him by physically detaining him, a\nchuunin should have more stamina than a normal genin, not that Naruto is\nnormal mind you. They were probably waiting for him to tire out to bring him\nin with the least injury.\n\nThe bunshin part is what confuses me. You could play the devil's advocate and\nsay he turned a corner, created a bunshin, and hid. The issue is he can't\ncreate stable bunshins.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe user controls the reflection of light around their body using chakra,\ncausing their form, shadow, and even breathing to become invisible to the\nunaided eye. Because they perfectly blend in with their surroundings, the user\ncan sneak up behind an enemy without being noticed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently rewatched the epic battle between Netero and Meruem in the 2011\nanime. I noticed that most of the time, Netero \"floated\" in front of his\nsummoned Kannon. (I am lazy now to include snapshots, but believe me, he was\nnot just \"jumping\").\n\nIIRC, in the final battle in [_The Last\nMission_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter:_The_Last_Mission)\nmovie, Netero stood in front of his Kannon by standing on one of Kannon's\npalms, which was a very clever and reasonable way to keep a high position.\n\nThis leads me to question: **How did Netero manage to levitate during his\nfight with Meruem?**\n\nSo far (both in the manga and the anime), no Nen user was shown levitating,\njust flying at best (and using wings in those cases). Of course, the answer to\nmy question can be \"By using Nen\", but frankly, it would be a very inefficient\nway to use it (c'mon, just reserve one of Kannon's palms to lift you, and\nleave the other 99 for \"ant swatting\").\n\n**ADDENDUM:** The scene that made me think about all this is [in episode 126\nat 6:17](http://www.crunchyroll.com/hunter-x-hunter/episode-126-zero-x-and-x-\nrose-646097?ssid=110275)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, the anime actually explains the method to levitate during the Greed\nIsland Arc. The treasure hunter was demonstrating his skills to qualify for\nthe 15-man squad by showing off his ability to temporarily levitate by pushing\nNen from his feet and using it like a pillar of sorts to keep afloat.\n\nThe boys outflew him literally on their first try. It's not a stretch to say\nthat Netero knew how to do this technique already and was liberally using it\nin his fight with Meruem... He just slowly retracted his Nen as he fell and\nslowly decelerated to ground level.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe he was using the method explained in the greed island arc because that\nextra palm that he would have sat on was needed in the fight, and since Netero\nknew that death was a possibility in the fight he wasn't going to try and\nconserve any nen. He was going all out!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy did Aleister create the Science Side? Do we actually know?\n\nFrom\n[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ACertainMagicalIndexAcademyCityLeadership):\n\n> **Reality Warper** : He is capable of omnipresence and other tricks.\n> Confirmed when it is revealed at the end of New Testament volume 11 that he\n> possesses something called the Archetype Controller, which can basically\n> create or destroy Jungian archetypes, which would be like the equivalent of\n> controlling tropes, in a way. It is revealed that, using this power, he\n> literally created the entire concept of a \"Science side\", and made Academy\n> City and its espers part of the archetype of \"mankind’s worship of science\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of revelations from New Testament 19, yes we now know.\n\n> Aleister's first daughter died after caching Typhoid fever. It wasn't\n> anyone's fault, it was just a stroke of ill fortune. So, Aleister decided to\n> _destroy all misfortune_ \\- that is, destroy all magic and religion. That\n> would remove all forms of coincidence from the world, and no one would ever\n> be unfortunate again. (Though, as Touma points out, that would mean that no\n> one would ever be _lucky_ again either.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[In the\nONA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Upon_the_Pleiades#Episode_list), they\nwere the same person.\n\nBut in TV anime version, Subaru does not seem to recognize him (or at least\nshe is keeping her cards hidden from the other girls).\n\nTheir appearance are somehow similar (the horns could be a part of the\noutfit), but the personality of the horned guy who attempts to steal the\nfragments, and the greenhouse kid are radically different.\n\nAre they the same person in the TV anime as well?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor example, in _One Piece_ , Brook, and sometimes Zorro, do some big attack\nwith their swords, but the cuts are not shown until after they return their\nswords to the sheaths.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis trope is usually attributed to Fist of The North Star, after Kenshiro\nattacks someone he pauses and says \"You are already dead\". It is only then\nthat they realise their defeat and the attacks are applied.\n\n\n\n[Reference.](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-already-\ndead-%E3%81%8A%E5%89%8D%E3%81%AF%E3%82%82%E3%81%86%E6%AD%BB%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B-omae-\nwa-mou-shindeiru) [Another Reference\n(TVTropes)](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreAlreadyDead)\n\nIt's similar to how in Road Runner, Wilee Coyotee often runs off of cliffs,\nwithout realising the ground below him has stopped - he only falls when this\nis pointed out to him.\n\n\n\nThe usual rationale is that everything happens so fast that the character\ncannot register what is going on - and neither does their body.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTV Tropes defines this as [Delayed\nCausality](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DelayedCausality). It is\npurposely meant for dramatic effect.\n\nThe in-universe explanations for it (if any) are often noticeably tongue-in-\ncheek rather than meaningful. There is _nothing_ believable about cutting\nsomeone up with a sword and them failing to notice.\n\nIn One Piece this is more strongly associated with Brook, because his fighting\nstyle has emphasis on speed and \"so fast they didn't notice\" plays to it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis slashing technique is explained in _Chapter 450: General Zombie Night_.\nknown as **Hanauta Sancho: Yahazugiri** (literal meaning: Three verse humming:\nArrow-notch slash). The slash occurs at such a fast pace that it appears as if\nthe swordsman simply walked past the victim. The victim feels the effects only\nafter a certain amount of time, which is about the time to walk three metres\n(or ten feet) away. As Dr. Hogback points out, the victim _continues to hum\nthree verses_ , and only then realize that they have been cut. Further, he\nnotes that only a \"master\" swordsman can use this slashing technique.\n\nThe swordsman sheathing the sword and announcing \"I have already cut you\",\nmoments before the victim feels the slash is only because it [looks\ncool](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool). The victim would\nfeel the effect all the same even if the swordsman just stood there doing\nnothing after slashing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid you ever experience being cut or injured and you notice it later because\nthe cut or injury was insignificant that you fail to notice it until it's\npointed out to you or you feel pain later due to a movement that depends on\nthe place where you get injured or cut?\n\nIt is probably inspired by these kind of situations in real life but with a\nlittle exaggeration (being that the cut is critical that you can't possibly be\nthat stupid that you can't notice and you can pretty much predict the exact\nmoment that the victim will feel the injury every time without fail)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis trope isn't even really a trope in the sense that most tropes are. IE in\nbeing a sort of ridiculous event that is habitually used in modern writing due\nto it being an expedient plot device, and it has its origins way in the past,\nprior to any animation or movies even existing. It has roots in reality that\ngo beyond movie/anime writing devices that provide dramatic effect.\n\nIt refers to becoming so proficient with your sword, your technique and human\nphysiology that you can make a cut clean through some part of a person not\nonly extremely quickly, but while encountering essentially zero resistance\n(such as from striking bone) In a technical sense, it would be because your\nmuscle control, edge control, technique and knowledge are so perfect that -\nlet's say in a decapitation - the edge of your blade naturally moves only in\nplaces in between the bones rather than a sloppier blow that's simply a wild\nchop.\n\nIf one was sufficiently proficient, they could deliver a single devastating,\ndismembering/fatal, blow that was delivered with such finesse and so perfectly\nthat their opponent's reaction was vastly delayed as the lack of violence of\nthe strike itself wasn't enough to even break their chain of thought, it's\nonly when their eyes make contact with the wound that they realize something\ngrievous has happened.\n\nIt's a little ridiculous here people thinking that they'd know immediately if\nthey lost an arm or were otherwise struck with such a blow - as the body\ndoesn't really have a discrete sense picture that goes along with\ndismemberment. The body plans on never being dismembered - and as such, it\ndoesn't doesn't have a particular nerve signal that tells you \"HEY, ARM\nCHOPPED OFF\" and as such it can't differentiate between \"OMG OW MY ARM\" and\n\"OMG YOU CHOPPED MY ARM OFF\". Hence realization visually is a key component of\nknowing what's happened in this situation (which I point out only to be more\nclear regarding why this trope isn't really nearly as ridiculous as one might\nthink at first glance).\n\nAlso, given a lifetime of experience as a human being, where every time you\nfeel a pain in your hand, and you look down, your hand is always there. The\none time it's not is definitely a shock, and assuming its removal isn't\naccompanied by the simultaneous shattering of every local bone and said cut\nwas administered with aforementioned skill, technique and a very sharp blade,\nan appropriate reaction to it that fully understands its seriousness would\nmost definitely be delayed, and it would be this way for any normal human\nbeing who doesn't spend their day to day expecting a limb to be missing every\ntime they feel a twinge.\n\nThe effect, as a result of practice and technique is described as such in The\nBook of the Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi - a 17th century samurai most well\nknown for having won more duels to the death than...well, likely anyone ever\n(something like 60 duel to death wins between ages 12 and 30.) And a\nrevolutionary master of the blade. One opponent of his was waiting to ambush\nhim along with their friends and bodyguards after challenging Musashi to a\nduel; Musashi spotted the ambush and then still was able to run up to the man,\nremove his head with a single sword stroke and then get away unscathed despite\nthe dozen+ other men waiting there thinking only about killing him,\n\nSo his credentials are solid. Yes it works for dramatic effect, but it's just\nnot nearly as silly and outlandish as the answers here are making it out to\nbe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLong story short, the motion is so fast we can't realise what has been done.\nOur body also doesn't realise it has been cut until a few seconds. Similar to\na scene where somebody is running to the edge of a cliff, suddenly looks down\nand realises that he has already crossed the cliff and after a few seconds,\njust falls down.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Arlong Park arc, specifically episodes 33 and 34, Nami stabs her\nleft hand to help Usopp fake his death before the fishmen. Following the\nincident, Nami wears a glove on her _right_ hand. Then Usopp resurfaces (pun\nvery much intended) and the crew learns that Usopp is not dead. We then see\nthe glove on her left hand to cover the stab wound.\n\nDid I just miswatch the episodes or did the animators screw up?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis incident occurs during anime episodes 33 and 34. Nami does not wear a\nglove on her right hand at any point.\n\nSee the stills from these episodes below.\n\n**Scene 1: Nami \"stabs\" Usopp at Arlong Park**\n\nNami pretends to stab Usopp.\n\n\n\n**Scene 2: Nami returns to her room**\n\nNami has bandages on her left hand when she returns to her room.\n\n\n\n**Scene 3: Nami meets Luffy's crew**\n\nNami has a glove on her left hand when she meets Luffy's crew.\n\n\n\n**Scene 4: Nami visits Nojiko**\n\nNami still has the glove on her left hand when she visits Nojiko.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song starts playing from around 3:12 (when Shin'ichi walked to school) to\naround 4:53 (at the end of the basketball game). I just really like the music\nduring that scene.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe music is written by [Ken\nArai](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%84%E7%94%9F%E7%8D%A3#.E3.82.B9.E3.82.BF.E3.83.83.E3.83.95).\n\nThe soundtrack track listing is\n[here](http://www.vap.co.jp/goods/1413348048571/) (or [here on\nAmazon.co.jp](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00ONY5W66)), where you can listen to\nsamples of each track to check which song you're looking for.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you mean [this OST](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA3PSYeo7rs&t=2m35s),\nthen title is _**Lesson1**_ by Ken Arai.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * The main character was a young (probably 10–15 years old) boy who was possessed by some sort of demon (so, fantasy); a tree might have been related here\n * This might have caused him to (want to?) eat people\n * Said possession happens during the course of the book, and the character is still himself, only more… evil\n * The cover was this character with a sharp-toothed grin\n * The title was one word starting with K\n * It was a series\n * I found the first in the series in [a book store](http://www.bolen.bc.ca/) somewhere between 2007 and 2011; it was the only one there at the time\n\nThis is a bit of a stretch and it’s been so long that I’m not completely sure\nof any of the details. Still, if anything can be found from it…\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe confirmed [in\nchat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/21545988#21545988) that\nthis is [Kurozakuro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurozakuro). Here's the plot\nsynopsis from [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/manga/1063/Kurozakuro):\n\n> This is the story of a wuss named Sakurai Mikito who one day swallows the\n> creation of a creature called Zakuro and becomes an \"oni\", a superhuman\n> creature with a taste for human flesh. As Mikito is horrified by this change\n> in his once-gentle nature, he decides to leave on a journey with an oni-\n> hunter in order to discover a way to turn back to normal.\n\nEssentially everything matches the description in the OP. The first volume of\nthe manga was released in English in November 2010 by Viz media. The series\nwas finished in English at 7 volumes a year later in November 2011.\n\nHere's the (Japanese) volume 1 cover:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nWhat manga is this image from? I found it on Tumblr, but I couldn't find the\nname of the manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's from a hentai manga by `Otsuka Kotora`. The tankoubon title is\n`Angraecum`. The story title is `Phalaenopsis`. It's the third story in the\ntankoubon.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8hMSf.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E5fP0.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been watching Inuyasha with subtitles and in episode 6 and 7, Inuyasha\nfights with his brother Sesshomaru about a sword. The English subtitle says\n\"Tetsusaiga\" but they're clearly saying \"てっさいが\". Why are they subtitling it in\nthis way?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason why the subtitles don't match the dialog is apparently because Viz\nwanted to be consistent with their earlier translation of the Inuyasha manga.\nIn the manga it's not at all clear that the sword should be named tessaiga\n(てっさいが) instead of tetsusaiga (てつさいが). It's a made up name whose kanji (鉄砕牙)\ncould be pronounced either way. There's furigana in manga to show the author's\nintent but it doesn't make the tsu character clearly smaller:\n\n \n\nI found the above pictures in a [Tumbler post](http://inu-\nfanon.tumblr.com/post/64738304205/tetsusaiga-vs-tessaiga) that goes into more\ndetails about the mix up.\n\nIt seems it wasn't until the release of the anime that Viz had any reason to\nbelieve they were wrong, and I guess they decided it would be better to be\nconsistent with their manga translation than the Japanese audio.\n\n(I have to say though that all this makes me wonder if the producers of the\nanime version were just guessing as well.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile it's tempting to chalk this up to a mistranslation by Viz, as [Ross\nRidge's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/21435) suggests (and that\nViz themselves might even admit to), I think if we take the question as\nseriously as possible, the answer must be that both names are correct, at\nleast in writing.\n\nThe relevant background here is that Inuyasha takes place in the [Sengoku\nperiod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengoku_period) roughly 500 years ago. So\nInuyasha's sword's name should be interpreted in the Japanese of the time, not\nmodern Japanese.\n\nOn the other hand, the use of っ in Japanese is a relatively modern invention.\nThe earliest known uses of it in this way occurred in the 19th century, and it\nwasn't standardized until 1947. Prior to this, double consonants in Japanese\nexisted only as common slurs where only the consonant was pronounced. This\nform of slurring _has_ existed for a long time, likely since the Sengoku\nperiod. I suggest reading [this Japanese SE\nquestion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/751/how-did-little-tsu-\nbecome-a-lengthener) for more information.\n\nSo, while 鉄砕牙 would have been written out as 「てつさいが」 in the classical Japanese\nof the time (or possibly in several other ways, as _hiragana_ themselves were\nnot standardized until 1900 with the removal of\n[_hentaigana_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentaigana)), it could plausibly\nbe pronounced as either 「てつさいが」 ( _tetsusaiga_ ) or 「てっさいが」 ( _tessaiga_ ) to\nthe modern Japanese ear. But the classical Japanese speaker would have\nrecognized these as the same word. Even this is something of a simplification,\nas pronunciation of these syllables has shifted over time, but without having\naudio records of Japanese from that time it's fairly difficult to know exactly\nwhat shifts have occurred.\n\nThat is to say, while _tessaiga_ and _tetsusaiga_ sound rather different to\nus, there isn't any distinction between the two in period Japanese writing, in\nthe same way that \"sorta\" is just a slurred version of \"sort of\" in English.\nThey're both valid romanizations of the same word, and so they're both really\nthe same name. In some sense, saying that either _tessaiga_ or _tetsusaiga_ is\ncorrect is actually historically inaccurate. In modern Japanese, it's clear\nthat they say _tessaiga_ , but that doesn't really mean that _tetsusaiga_ is\nan incorrect way of writing the name.\n\nI guess the real reason for this confusion is that the text has gone through\nso many different linguistic steps that it would necessarily end up being\nsomewhat confused. Of course the text is written in modern Japanese, but it's\nsupposed to be a modern interpretation of historical Japanese. In order to\nromanize it, since there's no way to romanize classical Japanese, it first\nneeds to be converted back into modern Japanese, and then to roumaji (which\napproximate Japanese pronunciation using latin alphabet characters). But the\nconversion back to modern Japanese is ambiguous, and so both _tessaiga_ and\n_tetsusaiga_ could be simultaneously valid.\n\nWith all that said, I don't think Inuyasha tries especially hard to stick to\nhistorically accurate Japanese, so to some degree this is a moot point. I just\nwanted to point out that, strictly speaking, in Sengoku-period Japanese, there\nis no way to differentiate the two words. On the other hand, for practical\npurposes, one can hear that the anime uses _tessaiga_ for pronunciation and\nwrites てっさいが as the furigana, so presumably this is the more understandable\nchoice in English.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the Naruto Shippuden song played during Sasuke's and Itachi's final\nbattle (episode 135 of Naruto Shippuden)? The song starts playing\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjfA-JetlHw&t=2m25s).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBingo. The name of this song is **_Hidan_**. You can check it out\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FjkQQql4I).\n\nThough it might sound a bit higher in pitch to the link you provided, the tune\nseems very pretty much alike, maybe it was modified because of, you know, to\navoid copyright infringement.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Ikebukuro there are two living urban legend, The \"Black Rider\" and The\n\"Slasher\".\n\n\n\nThe \"Black Rider\" Celty Sturluson is a\n[dullahan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullahan). And The \"Slasher\" Saika\n(currently in the possession of Sonohara Anri) is an entity that manifests\nitself as a cursed Japanese sword.\n\nCelty is based on Irish mythological figure, so is Saika also based on some\nold folklore?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japan folklore, there is no such thing as a cursed blade which turns people\ninto slaves or zombies or whatever Saika turns people into.\n\nMany of the most known cursed blades are Muramasa's, however they are rather\nfamous for being able to cut through armor while regular blade were used on\nweak spots (not even close to saika's abilities) or to make their owner mad\nlike they were controlling them ( **closer but not that much** ).\n\nSources : \n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muramasa> \n<http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/curse-samurai-\nmuramasa-blades-002878>\n\n_I recommand reading the second one which is really interesting._\n\nHope that helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll I can remember is that there was a girl riding a scooter/bicycle and she\nwitnesses kids jumping off a roof to see who can get closer to the ground and\njust before they hit the ground they stop and hover. I can't remember anything\nelse; it was about 8-10 years ago.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat sounds like the \"Beyond\" segment of the anthology [The\nAnimatrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix).\n\n> \"Beyond\" is written and directed by Kōji Morimoto. It follows a teenage\n> girl, Yoko (Hedy Burress), looking for her cat Yuki. While asking around the\n> neighborhood, indicatively somewhere in Japan, she meets some younger boys.\n> One of them tells her Yuki is inside a \"haunted house\" and invites her to\n> see it.\n>\n> The children have stumbled across an amalgamation of anomalies within an\n> old, dilapidated building. They have learned to exploit this glitch in the\n> Matrix for their own enjoyment, through several areas which seem to defy\n> real-world physics: glass bottles reassemble after being shattered, rain\n> falls from a sunny sky, broken lightbulbs flicker briefly (during which they\n> seem intact), a door which opens into an endless dark void, shadows which do\n> not align with their physical origins, and a dove's feather that rotates\n> rapidly in place in mid-air. **There is a large open space in the middle of\n> the run-down building where they take turns jumping off a high point and\n> falling towards the ground, yet somehow stopping inches before impact.**\n> This proves amusing and they do not seem to be bothered by the inherent\n> strangeness of the place.\n\nHere it is on YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJe53IA9DE>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just want to know who is the main character in Fate/stay night Unlimited\nBlade Works, in the sense that every season has a different main character.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the author of the game (Nasu) it would be Shirou in all 3 routes\nand the main theme of the game is his growth and being able to conquer\nhimself.\n\nWhen asked about the main theme in an interview Nasu said:\n\n> **Interviewer:** \\- What was the theme you are trying to express?\n>\n> **Nasu:** The main theme is \"conquering oneself.\" There are three story\n> lines in Fate, each has a different themes. The first one is the \"oneself as\n> an ideal.\" The second one is \"struggling with oneself as an ideal.\" The\n> third one is \"the friction with real and ideal.\" This game is describing the\n> growth of the MAIN CHARACTER Emiya Shirou. The first storyline shows his\n> slanted mind, the next storyline shows his resolve, and the last storyline\n> gives another resolution for him as a human. All three storylines are\n> essentially equal, but they have different forms.\n\nAnd there the part that answers your question the most is:\n\n> **Nasu:** This game is describing the growth of the MAIN CHARACTER Emiya\n> Shirou. The first storyline shows his slanted mind, the next storyline shows\n> his resolve, and the last storyline gives another resolution for him as a\n> human.\n\n<https://comipress.com/article/2006/06/30/386.html>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of every episode, there are some guys cosplaying the Chief and\nHoshi\n\n\n\nWho exactly are they?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched half an anime movie a long time ago and need to identify it so I can\ncatch the whole thing. This would've been from the 90s, possibly very late\nnight on the sci-fi channel.\n\nFrom what I can remember, a tall, very strong (possibly genetically modified)\nmale character gains control of an absolutely massive mech. He unleashes a set\nof missiles with the mech that release a chemical which renders down a huge\nnumber of people in seconds. The protagonists fly in a jet straight into the\ncockpit of the mech. The main character is a male, black hair, mid twenties\nwith a bandage round his eyes, blind. There is a female character, she is mid\ntwenties, has long blue hair, two tendrils of which she seems to press to the\nmain characters head to share her sight with telepathically, as they also seem\nto float. I also believe there was an old man in the cockpit with them.\n\nThe antagonist basically tanks a fight with them, ignores several punches and\nattacks. Eventually, the hero breaks his neck. When they think they have\ndefeated him, he pops his neck back into place. He is finally defeated when\nthe hero shoots him in the head with assistance. The ending is the giant robot\nvanishing, and the woman with blue hair appearing naked in the wilderness,\nwhere two more children with the same floating hair things discover her.\n\nI would love to find it, is driving me insane and I have been searching for\nyears.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm almost certain this is the 1993 OAV [Super Dimension Century Orguss\n02](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=707)\n\nDetails escape me, but there is indeed a gigantic mecha near the end that the\nprotoagnists needed to stop. The hero was injured and couldn't see, so his\nfriend (the aforementioned blue haired girl) helped him see by linking him to\nher eyes using tendrils that come out of her head. That's her in the eye-catch\nbelow:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, so I'm trying so hard but I cannot remember this for the life of me...\n\n * It's a movie that's relatively new and probably around 2005-2013\n\n * Genre: Mecha\n\n * A princess is on the run and controls a mecha\n\n * Princess' mother was killed in a coup d'tat\n\n * Boy whom she finds has white hair and blue eyes and is a really good fighter \n\n * At the end of the movie, there is huge fight with a mega mecha that everyone assumed was a myth\n\n * In order to use the mecha, it has to stab you in the throat\n\n * It has a sad ending cause both the main characters die\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNeppu Kairiku Bushi Road\n\n\n\nSounds a lot like this anime and it is from 2013 but the boy did not die, only\nthe girl did. But that was in the after-credits scene so its possible you did\nnot see it. The robot did stab the girl in the throat and it was considered a\nmyth.\n\nFrom [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neppu_Kairiku_Bushi_Road):\n\n> The story takes place in a time when the world is in the pits of despair\n> after being ravaged by a poison called \"shinobi\" that came to earth via an\n> asteroid. The people run away to the place called \"Kairiku,\" a place that\n> used to be the bottom of the ocean. Here, the people try and protect\n> themselves against the effects of the poison. In such a world, there was a\n> single light of hope. The \"Holy Weapon Giga Road\" and the legendary warrior\n> \"Yagyuu\" are needed in order to counter the effects of the poison. Ame, a\n> princess of a fallen nation, stands up in order to save the world.\n\nAme: The main girl\n\n> A former princess/priestess of the country Ise. Her mother is dead because\n> of a shinobi. She travels with companions and a key to finding a weapon\n> built by men who put an end to the shinobi. She has romantic feelings for\n> Suou. She disappeared in the end.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLately, Mashima has been giving us a lot of double chapters. He will\nreportedly have double chapters for four consecutive weeks (starting week of\nApril 22, 2015 with chapter 429). At first, I thought it was related to Golden\nWeek, but that does not last four weeks. Does anyone know why we are getting\nfour double chapters?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think this is mainly a marketing tactic, meant to attract more readers to\nbuy copies of the Weekly Shonen Magazine1. When the magazine's copies hit the\nbookstore, a front cover caption **Fairy Tail! Double Chapter inside!! ... and\nnext 3 weeks too!!!** (or something on those lines) will draw the buyer's\nattention, and would likely lead to an increase in sales.\n\nRegular readers would buy the magazine no matter what, but the tactic is\nmainly aimed at two categories of prospective buyers:\n\n 1. New buyers, that is, people who have never bought (or perhaps, even heard of) the magazine before.\n 2. Buyers who are unsure if they should buy the magazine.\n\nPeople are made to believe that they are getting something \"extra\", which\noften leads to making a buy decision. This, by the way, is not much different\nfrom the \"Buy One, Get One Free\" offers. It is also quite common for popular\nTV shows to have \"2-hour specials\" every once in a while, which is also based\non the same \"principle\" (if you will).\n\nMoreover, announcing 4 consecutive editions with double chapters increases\nlikelihood of repeat business. People look forward to buying the next 3 issues\nas well. Buying 4 consecutive issues will lead to at least a sizeable number\nof readers \"latch on\" to the magazine, who would naturally choose to continue\nbuying later issues as well.\n\nAs for why Fairy Tail gets double chapters so often (as against other mangas),\nI think it mostly comes down to **\"because he is** ~~Erza~~ **Mashima!!\"** To\nelaborate, Mashima (and his assistants?) are able to spend more time and/or\neffort on their manga and can submit two chapters in a week, whereas most\nother mangakas may not be able to do so due to personal commitments or other\nreasons. As an aside, he published _triple_ chapters of Fairy Tail for two\nconsecutive weeks a year or so ago. (Chapters 338-340 and 341-343, IIRC)\n\n* * *\n\n1 Weekly Shonen Magazine is different from Weekly Shonen Jump.\n\n",
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