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"body": "\n\nHattori mentioned that what Ashirogi Muto's Manga lacked was Serious Comedy\nand tries to explain what it was and how to implement it in 22nd Episode in\nsecond Season. Ashirohgi Muto implemented it but it was hardly described how\nand also the concept of serious comedy is still unclear with me. Please help\nwith some examples!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 22 of season 2, _Shuukan Shounen Janpu_ editors Hattori Akira and\nMiura Goro have a meeting with Mashiro Moritaka and Takagi Akito (the mangaka\nteam known as Ashirogi Muto) to discuss what their next manga series will be\nlike.\n\nIn this scene, Hattori gives the following explanation of **ใใทใชใขในใฎ็ฌใใ** (\n_shiriasu no warai_ [ใ็ฌใใ can be translated as \"humor\", \"comedy\", or \"comic\";\nthe literal meaning of the _kanji_ is \"laugh\" but it is used to refer to\ncomedy acts]):\n\n * Foremost, the mangaka Hiromaru Kazuya's series ใใฉใใณ11ๅทใ ( _Rakko 11-gou_ = _Otter #11_ ) is given as the primary example. It has a **serious, realistic setting**. In one chapter, an otter was made fun of on TV, and then the main character (who is an otter himself) rammed a truck into the station building and pulled out the victim otter to rescue him from his oppressors. The storyline is dealing with serious themes (bullying, vengeance) and the tone is serious as well, but when the truck slams into the side of the building, Miura agreed with Hattori's assessment, and reported that it made him laugh. In other words, the reader of the chapter probably strongly wants the otters to get back at the humans, and the main character's very earnest, dramatic way of doing so **induces a feeling of \"Yessss!\"** so the reader ends up laughing (perhaps partly in relief, partly at the ludicrousness of an otter barreling into a building).\n\n * Hattori points out that Hiramaru was **not** doing ใ็ฌใใๅใใ ( _warai wo toru_ = **trying to get a laugh** ). Mashiro concurs that ใใใใใ็ๅฃใซๆธใใฆใใจๆใใพใใ( _Iie, shinken ni kaiteru to omoimasu_ = No, I think he was really writing it **in all seriousness/earnestness** ).\n\n * Hattori contrasts Hiramaru'sใใทใชใขในใฎ็ฌใใ with Ashirogi Muto's prior gag manga series ใ่ตฐใ!ๅคง็บใฟใณใใ( _Hashire! Daihatsu Tanto_ = _Run! Daihatsu Tanto_ ), which was written with ใๅใใฆ็ฌใใใใจ่ใใฆใใใ ( _bokete warawasou to kangaetieru_ = the mind-set of **dumbing-down** to make people laugh) and Hattori deems it ใใใฃใใใชใใ (mottainai = too bad/a waste). Rather than being enjoyable to write, that method made Takagi feel ใ่ฆใใใฃใใ ( _kurushikatta_ = it was painful) and made Mushiro feel ใใใพใโฆใ ( _amari...[tanoshikunakatta]_ = it wasn't really [fun]).\n\n * Hattori also contrasts ใใทใชใขในใฎ็ฌใใ with Ashirogi Muto's prior series ใใใฎไธใฏ้ใจ็ฅๆตใจ่ฆใ็ฎใ ( _Kono Yo ha Kane to Chie to Mitame_ = _This World is All About Money and Intelligence and Appearance_ ) and with Iwase Aiko and Niizuma Eiji's series ใ+ NATURALใ, which are both categorized as ใใทใชใขในใ (serious) but ใ็ฌใใไธๅใใชใใ ( _warai ga issai mo nai_ = there's not a speck of humor [in them]). A ใใทใชใขในใฎ็ฌใใ would be received by readers as just as serious in tone as those series, yet manages to bring some irony or **makes the reader lighten up for a moment**.\n\n * Hattori explains that Ashirogi Muto's ใใทใชใขในใฎ็ฌใใ would combine ใ้ซๆจใใใไฝใ็ฌใใ ( _Takagi-kun ga tsukuru warai_ = the kind of humor Takagi-kun can create) with ใ็ๅใใใฎใทใชใขในใฎ็ตต๏ผใ ( _Mushiro-kun no shiriasu no e!_ = Mushiro-kun's serious artwork!), resulting in a ใใทใชใขในใฎ็ฌใใ that only Ashirogi Muto could pull off.\n\nThe manga that **fulfills Hattori's description** of ใใทใชใขในใฎ็ฌใใ is Ashirogi\nMuto's [subsequently published\nseries](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%80%82#.E4.BA.9C.E5.9F.8E.E6.9C.A8.E5.A4.A2.E5.8F.B6.E3.81.AE.E4.BD.9C.E5.93.81),\nใPCP -ๅฎๅ
จ็ฏ็ฝชๅ
-ใ ( _PCP -Kanzen Hanzai Tou-_ = _Perfect Crime Party_ ).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been trying to find this anime for years, the last time I saw it was in\n2002 when I was 4. I remember it was on a VHS that we rented.\n\nIt was about a red-haired boy, who I believe fought demons. He would transform\nin the style of Yugi Muto into a bigger and older-looking self when fighting\nthose demons.\n\nI can only remember one episode where he fought a super fast wolf-looking\ndemon that was actually a young marathon runner possessed by some king of a\ngolden eye if I remember correctly. Anyway, the red-haired boy protagonist\nwould eat that eye when he defeats his opponent and they would return to\nnormal.\n\nThat's about all I can remember, and I would appreciate all the info I can\nget, thanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nI think you are talking about this character\n[Kurama](http://yuyuhakusho.wikia.com/wiki/Kurama).\n\nAs you will he has red-hair and an older look as you said. He is fighting\ndemons. And also it's very old anime (1992)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's [Zenki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenki)\n\n\n\n> Zenki appears to be a child who transforms into his true and powerful demon\n> form. In the early episodes, Chiaki needed to use the bracelet to transform\n> Zenki into his true form. In the final episode, however, Zenki's anger\n> allows him to transform into his true self. With the help of the bracelet\n> and Goki, another powerful demon spirit, Chiaki is able to transform Zenki\n> into a super powerful demon spirit. The bracelet is no longer necessary when\n> Chiaki attains her full powers in the final episode of the series. Zenki\n> likes to eat the Karuma Seeds for they are delicious.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 20 of UBW (or episode 8, UBW 2nd season), Kirei announced that he\nwould take Rin's heart. I suppose that he wanted to use it as some sort of\nvessel for the grail.\n\nBut what about Illya's heart that Gilgamesh had taken earlier? Why did he take\nRin's if he already had Illya's, which I guess is better?\n\nPerhaps he was not allied with Gilgamesh anymore? Or perhaps, he just wanted\nto kill Rin for the laughs and giggles?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeriously, it may be a spoiler, given that the status of Gil/Kotomine's\nalliance is pretty uncertain in the anime (if you do not have complementary\ninformation).\n\nHowever, taking it from cues mostly from the anime:\n\n * In episode 19, he comments, as he asks Lancer to kill Rin: \"The vessel has no need for a heart.\"\n\nSo, that suggests that whatever part he envisioned for Rin, it would not need\nRin's heart. I guess you can take it from there.\n\nGoing from that, I believe that the intended meaning of \"I will take this\nheart.\" is that he is taking Rin's heart out, but not necessarily to make any\nuse of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> In episode 20 of UBW (or episode 8, UBW 2nd season), Kirei announced that he\n> would take Rin's heart.\n\nFirst, that was episode 19. Second, he says complete opposite thing. He says\n\n> \"The vessel has no need for a heart.\" This implies that he wants her body\n> except her heart.\n\nIn episode 20, we see what he meant, when\n\n> Gilgamesh pushes Illiya's heart inside Shinji, turning him into vessel and\n> using him as way to \"anchor\" the grail to this world.\n\nThe reason for this is that\n\n> Grail needs two components, first it needs the core. In Fifth grail war that\n> is either Illiya's or Sakura's heart. And it needs a vessel to anchor it to\n> real world. Vessel can be any body with enough magic circuits. Normally,\n> Illiya herself works as both core and vessel, but for some reason Gilgamesh\n> didn't want that, so he only took the core. And at the time, Rin is only\n> actual mage nearby, making her best option for a vessel. But when in episode\n> 20 she regroups with Saber and Shirou, he could no longer get to her, so he\n> went with next best option : Shinji. Even though his magic circuits are\n> pretty bad, he is still a magus.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 116 after Ultear lost the fight with Gray, she tells him that he\ncannot beat Hades, but does not tell him anything about Hades' weakness (eg:\nhis heart).\n\n\n\nThis seems weird since when she had Zeref a couple episodes back, she was\nabout to stab Hades in the back and take Zeref for her own purposes. This\nwould imply that she was no longer on Hades' side.\n\nLater we see that the guards knew that the room Hades' was in was something\nthey could not lose control of.\n\n\n\nSince the guards knew about this wouldn't Ultear know this as too, seeing as\nshe was pretty much raised by Hades?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUrtear did know for sure. She had been trying to deceive Gray all along. She\ntold Gray that the Iced Shell was the only way because the spell traps the\ncaster as a shell of ice for all eternity. She wanted him to die because she\nthought Gray was the one responsible for her mother not loving her which was\nnot true at all.\n\nUrtear knew more about Hades than any of the outsiders. She obviously had a\nplan to kill Hades herself but having Gray kill him would be killing two birds\nwith a single stone.\n\nBut Gray realizes that after he over hears her and sees her trying to kill\nJuvia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, Ultear was under the impression that her mother had betrayed her and\nshe wanted revenge on Gray. In reality, Ultear had too much magical power and\nUr brought her to a place where she thought they would help decrease her magic\npower so she could live in peace but instead they tried to increase her magic\npower for Brain (from the Oracion Seis) but he was dissatisfied so the people\nwho worked for Brain told Ur that Ultear died when Ultear escaped and ran\naway. Ur eventually moved on and took in Gray and Lyon. Ultear had ventured\nall the way back home, excited to see her mother but got really mad when she\nsay Ur with her students and she swore that she'd get revenge on them and get\nher mother back. Then, she found out Gray 'murdered' Ur and that she'd never\nget to confront her mother about the abandonment. Ultear (and Meredy) swore\nthey'd kill him. Gray learns that Ultear tried to decieve him after Ultear\ntried to kill Juvia and they battle. They both fall into the ocean (which has\nall of Ur's memories because when her iced shell melted her memories blended\ninto the ocean.) and Ultear sees what really happened and her and Meredy\napologize and leave, Ultear happy that her mother really did love her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the original Dragon Ball series, Master Roshi (Kame-sennin) realizes that\nGoku turned into a rampaging ape due to the effects of the full moon, and\ncomes up with a characteristically Dragon Ball solution--just blow the stupid\nthing up! After all, [who needs it](http://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-\nsystem/what-would-happen-if-we-blew-up-the-moon/)?\n\nAfter this, the moon is restored by the Dragon Balls, if I recall correctly.\nLater, Piccolo blows it up again to stop Gohan's rampage during their\ntraining.\n\n\n\nIt's become sort of a stereotype of Dragon Ball that people are constantly\nblowing up the moon, and that sometimes when they do it, the moon has already\nbeen blown up and yet mysteriously reappears just to be blown up again. My\nquestion is, just how many times was the moon blown up? And how many of those\ninstances were plot holes, if any?\n\n[This forum thread](http://www.pojo.biz/board/archive/index.php/t-140510.html)\nmakes some unsourced claims about the answer to this question. I wasn't\nexactly filled with confidence in its accuracy, though.\n\nAnswers covering any of the available material (the manga, the Dragon Ball and\nDragon Ball Z anime, the movies, and the Dragon Ball GT anime) are\nappreciated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I'm not mistaken, twice.\n\nAs like you said, after the first time, the Dragon Balls were used to restore\nit. After the second time, I remember a time where Goku's spaceship (in which\nhe came to earth) projected the moon so Gohan(?) could transform again, after\nwhich it was destroyed by Piccolo.\n\nThat's the reason why Vegeta had to use a special technique to transform into\na Great Ape in his fight with Goku.\n\nFinally, in GT, they had to use the earth as a \"moon\" during the fight with\nBaby, and a Blutz waves machine during the fight with Shenron.\n\nI can't remember any other time the moon was involved. So I think it was\ndestroyed twice.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## The moon was destroyed twice and recreated twice.\n\nThe first time, it was destroyed by Jackie Chun, by using a MAX Power\nKamehameha in the 21st Tenkaichi Tournament.\n\nIt was later recreated during Goku's training with Kami, after Kami removed\nGoku's tail. This was revealed during the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament.\n\nIt was then destroyed by Piccolo during his training with Gohan.\n\nFrom [Dragon Ball Wikia](https://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Moon)\n\n> After this, the Earth's moon was never shown again until the Trunks Saga.\n\nNow moving on to the questions from the forum:\n\n> that one guy(his name escapes me at the moment) who looked like Goku blew it\n> up in DBZ the movie the Tree of Might\n\nThe \"one guy\" mentioned here is Turles. And what he blew up was not the moon,\nbut a Power Ball. He had created the Power Ball to make Gohan transform into\nhis Great Ape form. He then destroys the Power Ball to prevent himself from\nturning into a Great Ape, as he claims that he would lose his wits if he does.\n\n> and didnt it get destroyed in DBGT when Baby come to earth?\n\nHighly unlikely, because I recall in the fight between Goku and Baby on New\nPlanet, Goku transforms into the Golden Great Ape due the reflection of the\n**Earth** and\n\n> the people present for the battle questioned where the moon was, including a\n> brainwashed Bulma and Baby himself, giving an elusion to the moon\n> whereabouts.\n>\n> source: [Dragon Ball Wikia](https://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Moon)\n\nBut from the Wikia itself,\n\n> In Dragon Ball Z episode 118, \"Frieza's Counterattack\", the moon can be seen\n> while the Earth is briefly shown from King Cold's spaceship. The moon also\n> appears in the sky in one scene of the movie Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the\n> Dragon. It is possible the moon was restored when it became clear that there\n> would no longer be threats from evil Saiyans/Great Apes\n\nThis reminds me of Dragon Ball GT's inconsistencies. Nevertheless, the\nofficial number of times it was destroyed was 2.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of the song played in Episode 9 of _No Game No Life_ at\naround 21:45? I can't seem to find this song anywhere.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf it is the end credit song of that episode it is:\n\n## **Ai Kayano - Oracion**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nProbably \"Gray Sky\" from the OST vol. 1, track 02\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the most popular anime shows in Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed is\nStripism. Here's a screenshot of them in-game (in their own game).\n\n\n\nKnowing Akiba's Trip and its countless references, I can't think that this\nisn't a reference to some magical girl series. Unfortunately, I don't know\nenough magical girl series - and there isn't much info about the girls on the\ninternet.\n\nI'm somewhat inclined to think they're a parody of Pretty Cure because of\ntheir vibrant colour scheme, but it's got a load of different series so I'm\nnot sure if they are or not.\n\nAt one stage the Akiba's Trip girls cosplay as the characters, so possibly\nsome of that bare skin is fan service on AT's part:\n\n\n\nAre the Stripism girls a parody of Pretty Cure? Or any other anime series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe screenshot of Stripism features the three main characters of [**Kodomo no\nJikan**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodomo_no_Jikan).\n\nFrom left to right, they are _Kuro Kagami_ , _Rin Kokonoe_ , _Mimi Usa_.\n\n\n\nI'm not entirely sure what their outfit is reference of, though. However,\nPreCure does seem to be a close match, except for the design of the clothes,\nwhich may have been altered for the purpose of the game.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[ใ็ง่ๅฐๅฅณในใใชใใในใ ใ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7lqg6Yn2A) (Akiba Shoujo\nStripism) in Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed is not a parody of [Pretty\nCure](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Cure) specifically. Pretty Cure is a\nrather new franchise that started in 2004, which itself draws from _mahou\nshoujo_ series dating from the 1990s.\n\nAkiba Shoujo Stripism employs the characters from [Kodomo no\nJikan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodomo_no_Jikan) to blatantly **parody\nthe[Pretty Rhythm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Rhythm) franchise**, as\nthe three Stripism character's names are ใใณใฏใชใบใ (Pink Rhythm), ใใซใผใชใบใ (Blue\nRhythm), and ใคใจใญใผใชใบใ (Yellow Rhythm). Pretty Rhythm's earliest incarnation,\nthe Aurora Dream series in 2011, featured three girls in vibrantly-colored\ncostumes; Pretty Rhythm is not _mahou shoujo_ but rather is an idol\ncompetition series.\n\nAkiba Shoujo Stripism **also parodies the genre of _mahou shoujo_ -mixed-with-\n_sentai_ (live-action team fighting) which began in 1991 with Sailor Moon**:\nthis is clear because the characters are battling in the game, whereas Pretty\nRhythm does not contain any fighting, and it looks like the characters attack\nusing magic.\n\nAkiba Shoujo Stripism is not a parody of the majority of _mahou shoujo_\nseries. Before [Bishoujo Senshi Sailor\nMoon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon), the long history of _mahou\nshoujo_ series were usually **EITHER one girl** who could transform into a\nmagical version of herself ([Himitsu no Akko-\nchan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himitsu_no_Akko-chan), [Mahou no Yousei\nPersia](http://Mahou%20no%20Yousei%20Persia)) **OR one magical girl from\nanother world** who is temporarily living in our world and uses an Earthling\ndisguise except for when she needs to transform into her true self to use her\npowers ([Majokko Meg-chan](http://shoujo.tripod.com/megukasha.html),\n[Mahoutsukai Sally](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_the_Witch), [Mahou no\nAngel Sweet Mint](http://shoujo.tripod.com/sweetmint.html)). In both cases,\nshe was **not part of a group** dressed in vibrantly-colored complimentary\ncostumes. (Magical girls living solely in magical worlds, such as Kero Kero\nChime or Akazukin ChaCha, do not technically fall within the genre of _mahou\nshoujo_ because everyone in their world is magical; a _mahou shoujo_ is **a\ngirl with magic powers in a generally non-magical world**.) In some cases, a\nmagical girl's identity allowed her to work as an idol ([Mahou no Star Magical\nEmi](http://shoujo.tripod.com/emikasha.html), [Mahou no Tenshi Creamy\nMami](http://shoujo.tripod.com/creamymamikasha.html), [Cyber Idol\nMink](http://idolmink.tripod.com), [Full Moon wo\nSagashite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Moon_o_Sagashite)), which drew\nmahou shoujo closer to the ordinary-girl-suddenly-becomes-an-idol sub-genre in\nshoujo ([Idol Densetsu\nEriko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol_Densetsu_Eriko), [Idol Tenshi Youkoso\nYouko](http://shoujo.tripod.com/youkokasha.html), [Chou Kuse ni\nNarisou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8D_Kuse_ni_Naris%C5%8D) and, of\ncourse, now Pretty Rhythm and its spin-off,\n[PriPara](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PriPara)).\n\nMost of the occasions for which the pre-Sailor Moon magical girls transformed\nwere **for day-to-day events, NOT for battling or trying to save the world**.\nAt the same time, there was a long history of live-action **_sentai_ (team\nfighting)** series, which created the **group-dressed-in-vibrant-colors\nscheme** (a famous example is [Power\nRangers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers) which is\nadapted from [Kyouryu Sentai\nZyuranger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dry%C5%AB_Sentai_Zyuranger)).\n**Sailor Moon was the first series ever to combine _mahou shoujo_ with\n_sentai_ : a colorful team** of magical girls trying to save the world.\n[Ensuing _mahou shoujo_ -mixed-with- _sentai_\nseries](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3646/have-the-creators-of-\ntokyo-mew-mew-or-sailor-moon-commented-on-the-similarities/14489#14489), such\nas Pretty Cure, Tokyo Mew Mew, Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach, and Cutey\nHoney F, are rather obviously Sailor Moon-inspired (if not knock-offs).\n\nAkiba Shoujo Stripism in Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed is a type of\n**parody targeted at adult male viewers** (whereas real _mahou shoujo_ are a\nsubset within _shoujo_ , meaning they are targeted at an audience of young\ngirls and if there is a manga origin or adaption, it runs in a _shoujo_ manga\nmagazine). [Puella Magi Madoka\nMagica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica) is the\ncurrently well-known example of this strain of parody for adult males (which,\nunfortunately, gets referred to as being \" _mahou shoujo_ \" proper, confusing\npeople on what _mahou shoujo_ is and isn't). Though Madoka Magica has clearly\nstruck a chord for that demographic, it is not the first series-for-male-\nviewers to adapt the _mahou shoujo_ genre. [Cutie\nHoney](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutie_Honey) was a successful men's\nversion of the _mahou shoujo_ genre (with a **stripping theme** ), but it\nsurprisingly ended up coming full circle by getting adapted into the actually\n_shoujo_ series [Cutie Honey\nFlash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutie_Honey_Flash), which was marketed to\ngirls. [Project A-ko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A-ko) parodied\n_mahou shoujo_ back in the 80s and there have been plenty of other shounen\nparodies since ([Mahou Shoujo Pretty\nSammy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Girl_Pretty_Sammy), [Mahoutsukai\nTai!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_User%27s_Club), [Mahou Shoujo Lyrical\nNanoha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Girl_Lyrical_Nanoha), etc.).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNot sure if this is on topic here as it's not a question about a specific\nmanga... or even specifically about manga, but about comic books in general.\n\nThe use of shadow is important for conveying lots of different things... mood\nof a person, setting or simply for dramatic effect. I am wondering\nspecifically, in a close up shot of a face in the classic 3/4 position, _what\nis the difference if the face is in shadow in the foreground versus on the\nbackground side?_\n\nFor this assume the only difference in the drawing is the placement of shadow,\nthe position expression and amount or surface covered in shadow are the same.\nThe only difference is shadow on the side facing the viewer versus the side\naway from the viewer.\n\nHere is my poorly drawn example of what I am thinking in my head:\n\n\n\nI _tried_ to draw a neutral expression but they both kinda look upset... so\ntry not to base the answer on the facial expression, just shadow placement.\n\nWhat are the thematic/mood/emotional response differences to the audience when\nusing those lighting patterns?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn real life, the shading on a face (or anywhere on the human body, animals,\nplants, and inanimate objects) is merely a case of the direction of light\nhitting it. In illustration, the realistic way is most common: the mangaka or\nanimation aims to highlight and shadow according to the light source in the\nscene.\n\n \n\nHowever, in some instances, a shadowing which is not primarily based on the\nplacement of the light source can be employed to convey emotion or lack\nthereof. The most common variety is to shade the forehead and eye area of a\ncharacter's face. This is partly accurate to the light source, assuming the\nlight source is generally coming from above: considering that a character who\nis angry, fuming, plotting something evil, sad, dejected, alarmed, or stunned\nmight tilt their head downward. However, its main purpose is to convey that\nthe character's emotions are not being revealed at the present moment, in\norder to generate suspense (i.e. \"What is he thinking?!\" or \"How is she gonna\nreact?!\"). To shade this area conveys that the character is clouded by an\nemotion but the audience has not yet been shown exactly what that emotion is.\nOften, the character will dramatically snap his/her head up after the effect,\nletting the audience abruptly know what he/she was thinking during that head-\ndownward period.\n\n\n\n\nSince the eyes convey the most emotion, it is possible to achieve this by only\nshadowing the eye area. Alternately, it is also common to achieve the same\neffect by simply using the character's bangs to temporarily cover his/her\neyes.\n\n \n\nIn manga, there is also a practice of using a shadowing which can go against\nthe placement of the light source. If the face is mostly dark, the character\nis feeling evil or dark thoughts which have not been shown to the other\ncharacters (only the audience is able to see that the character's feelings are\ncovered by a \"mask\" of darkness; the other characters in the scene usually\ncannot detect that the face is darkened). Alternately, a character might be\nshown with dark shadowing if the audience is supposed to assume that he/she is\nthinking something bad, but then later it will be revealed that he/she was\nmerely in deep thought/stewing over something/puzzling over\nsomething/concerned about something unrelated to the current topic of the\nscene. Another meaning is to depict the character as menacing or possibly\nscary.\n\n\n\nOne common use of forehead shadowing is to express distress, mortification, or\nutter shock. This can be drawn with vertical lines in combination with or\ninstead of shadowing.\n\n \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found this GIF on the internet, and I was kinda shocked. Does anyone know if\nthis was really said in the anime? And if possible if you could tell me the\nseason and episode?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, that dialog is made up. I saw the BL joke somewhere on the internet and\nwhile Kise's ankle/knee did bother him during the game, I'm not sure that shot\nfrom the image you posted is even from that game. The entire game is from the\n1st season and I think it spans a few episodes:\n\n * Episode 23 [I'm not mature](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/I%27m_Not_Mature!)\n * Episode 24 [Don't Get the Wrong Idea](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Don%27t_Get_the_Wrong_Idea)\n * Episode 25 [Our Basketball](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Our_Basketball)\n\nthat cover the match between Toho Academy (Aomine, from your picture) and\nKaijo ([Kise](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dta_Kise)).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy friend is really into _Fairy Tail_ and I watched a really good fight from\nit with Rogue and Sting vs Natsu and Gajeel. But he said that he didn't know\nwho Rogue and Sting were. So I was wondering who they are and when they first\nshowed up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the final episode,\n\n> Ichika is shown at the end of the finished movie wearing the clothes Nanami\n> brought from Bolivia, so it is inferred that she somehow returned to Earth\n> after being abducted by the unmanned probes from the Federation search\n> party.\n\nSo my question is not about this particular part of the ending.\n\nIs there any official material (manga, OVA, ONA, etc.) that tells **how** it\ncame to that ending?\n\n> How did she return to Earth?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIchika said that the earth was forbidden to be visited unless they had\ninterstellar travel. In the end, we clearly see Remon with the schematics of\nIchika's ship. This means that they must've made contact with aliens, joined\nthe federation, and she could live with Kaito.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of the last episode, Kaito's sister returns and brings a Bolivian\nsweater for Ichika, but Kaito tells her she had to return to her own country\nas her transfer had ended. We then see Remon at MIB headquarters with the\nplans for the interstellar ship and Rinon is there with her.\n\nIf you watch till the end of the credits, one year later, some students are\nwatching the old class members' student film and it shows Ichika wearing the\nBolivian sweater with some revealing dialog.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe are given an OVA where you can see Kaito and his friends 2 years after the\nending of the series. At the end of the OVA, you see Ichika crying tears of\njoy while she is looking into space. We can see that she is on a spaceship\nwith her sister.\n\nIf we compare the ending of the series, where Remon-senpai build that ship and\nwe can see Ichika in that sweater (or whatever) Kaito's sister brought from\nBolivia after she left, with the information we get from the OVA, we can see\nthat over 2 years had been gone till she came back\n\nIf you listen closely towards the ending of the show, one of the students\nsaid, that the movie was made by a graduated one this year. So, Kaito is now\nout of school, which means he ended 3rd class (2 years from 1st class till 3rd\nclass). So, Ichika returned before he ended class (because of the movie, being\npublished on the last day of school) but stayed about 2 years away, and now\nEarth's technology is at the point where she can stay and we have a happily\never after.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHappy ending!!!\n\nThey have already told you about the ova, in chapter 12. The students were\ntold that the movie was shot by former students and Ichica has the poncho of\nBolivia. I think she came back a year after arriving, because they were in the\nfirst year and practically canceled the movie, as everything was recorded in\nthe summer, they had to wait the following year (second year) and if they were\nalready alumni, they would have spent at least three years (second, third and\npresent year). Also, ... In the manga ....\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DhR8o.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Dressrosa Arc, Luffy runs or rides constantly in order to reach\nDoflamingo - first he rides the bull Moocy, then he rides Cabbage's horse, and\nlater starts running himself.\n\nWhy doesn't Luffy use his Gear Second instead to quickly reach Doflamingo? We\nhave seen how swiftly he moves and jumps from one place to another in Gear\nSecond.\n\nI get the point that he was carrying Law with him, but I guess that shouldn't\nbe problem for him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe isn't really running endlessly. **He is taking the shortest route towards\nDoflamingo every time.** In the palace, he did not take any detours and barged\nstraight into the castle, going straight for Doflamingo. Then later, when the\npalace was relocated, again, just jumped straight down into the city, running\nstraight towards Doflamingo again. Remember how he originally went over the\nstone statue, as he thought it would be a short-cut, the same with the well.\nThere was no instance where he just _endlessly ran about_.\n\nIn short, **it would not make much sense to use up your stamina even before\nthe game started**. Imagine Marouane Fellaini, imagine him having an important\nfootball match in a few hours, would it make sense for him the give it all he\nhas got and run towards to stadium to get there faster? It wouldn't, because\nthe run is not important at all and he would not be able to last until the end\nof the match to his full extend. The same would happen to Luffy. Luffy is well\naware of the fact that he will need every last bit of energy he has got to\ntake down Doflamingo.\n\nAdditionally, as explained\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8177/6166), what happens with Gear 2,\nis that Luffy is drugging himself, by making his heart pump his blood around\nmuch faster. Originally it was introduced as a major drawback as it would eat\naway at his life, since his heart would have to pump at abnormal rates.\nAssuming that it is still true to some extend, **it would not really make\nsense to shorten your life for no aparent reason**. Keep in mind that at those\ntimes, nobody was in real imminent danger and there was no real need for him\nto get to Doflamingo asap.\n\nOn top of that, **Luffy was never running alone**. There was always someone\nslower with him (Eg: Zoro, kinemon, Violla, Law, Soldier, etc), so if he would\njust run off alone, he would basically leave his friends behind, unable to\nprotect them. So by going together, he does not put pressure on his heart, is\nable to protect his friends and can have some fun along the way.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI tried to find a list of the dragons online, but so far only found [this stub\non wikia](http://juuou-mujin-no-fafnir.wikia.com/wiki/Dragons). As\nhecatoncheir is not even listed there, it is not complete.\n\nCan I get a list of the dragons that appeared on the Light Novels with their\nalleged powers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't remember hearing that the Red Dragon could steal others' power and\neven use it. How did Issei steal Vali's power? Can the White Dragon steal\nothers' power too?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIssei was able to use Vali's White Dragon Emperor power, Divine Divide,\nbecause Issei took one of the jewels in Vali's armor during their fight in\nVolume 4 and put it on his own. This allowed him to gain access to Vali's\npredecessors (past Hakuryukou) and their powers.\n\n> I picked up the thing lying at my feetโa jewel of the [Vanishing Dragon].\n> Earlier, when I hit him, his armor was damaged and this thing flew out. His\n> bodyโs armor seems to have restored the destroyed section including the\n> jewel, though. \n> ... \n> I smashed the Sekiryuutei jewel that was on the back of my right hand into\n> pieces, and drove into it the [Vanishing Dragon] jewel that I picked up\n> before! โYour power of vanishing! Iโll transplant it into my Sacred Gear!\n\nHe managed to activate it right after he transplanted it into his Sacred Gear.\n\n> A hit to Valiโs abdomen with my right fist! In my mind, Buchouโs breasts\n> shook! \n> [Divide!!] \n> At the same time I activated the Hakuryuukou power I had just transplanted\n> and felt the aura covering Vali decrease sharply.\n\nAs for the predecessors (refer to my first paragraph), one of the past\nHakuryuukou indeed came to him later and helped him during his fight in Volume\n10 of the novel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned [here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/8177/how-do-\nluffys-gear-attacks-work), Gear Second decreases the user's life span. When he\nfirst used Gear Second, it was a really important decision to make since it's\nside effect is so brutal. But after Enies Lobby Arcs he started using it\ncasually. What changed and made Gear Second from a very risky technique to a\ncasual technique?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main cause is training, and mastering of the technique.\n\nAfter the timeskip:\n\n> After training with Rayleigh, Luffy is capable of using Gear Second with\n> specific body parts, activating the technique without using the stance we\n> see in Enies Lobby Arc. This way reducing the strain he imposes on his body,\n> making him able to use it withouth the side-effects, it is even stated in\n> the manga that he could use it on his entire body with only the hungry side-\n> effect.\n\nThis only explains why he is able to use Gear Second so many times. The real\nreason for using this technique so much is because of the formidable opponents\nhe faces. He needs to be able to match or overcome them.\n\nSources: Manga,\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gomu_Gomu_no_Mi/Gear_Second_Techniques>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI really love the Fairy Tail anime, but cannot seem to find more dubbed\nepisodes in English after episode 175. Does any one know when FUNimation will\ncontinue dubbing the Fairy Tail anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt looks like my original comment does link to the release of season 2 of\nFairy Tail, but a different season 2 as I assumed. It links to the release of\nFunimation's second Fairy Tail season aka episodes 49 to 72 and not to the\n2014 sequel series aka all episodes going from 176.\n\nI ended up saving face though as I eventually discovered that Funimation had\nactually announced their release date for their seventh season not too long\nago. As you can see below, **[Fairy Tail season 7 (aka episodes 176 to 187) is\nscheduled for June 30th 2015](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KFlis.png)**.\n\nThe schedule can be found [here](http://www.funimation.com/schedule).\n\n## Update\n\nSo the release should have been tomorrow, yet it seems the release has been\ndelayed by six weeks. If you look at their current schedule, **Fairy Tail\nseason 7 seems to be moved to August 11th 2015** as mentioned by\n[shadowx123](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/15350/shadowx123).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring Karen Bee in Nisemonogatari I've noticed some weird scenery, one is\nafter Kanbaru and Araragi clean up Kanbaru's room we see there are books\nstacked outside in small structures.\n\nAnother is when Araragi is talking to Senjougahara about Kaiki, Senjougahara\nseems to be building with the sharpened pencils, at one point when the table\nis slammed a group of them fly up into the air and land next to Araragi\nforming a different structure.\n\nAnd another one is when Karen confronts Kaiki and the walls seems to act as TV\nscreens. at one point when Kaiki is talking about money, on the wall we see\ncoins fall into place forming notes with what looks to be Araragi's face on\nthem.\n\nNow there is a lot of other strange scenery like this but i am wondering, are\nthese actually described in the Light Novels or are these artistic choices\nchosen by SHAFT when making the anime? if so is there a statement as to why\nthey made these choices?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't speak for those situations in particular I think this is probably an\nartistic choice by SHAFT. Having interesting things going on in the background\nmakes the long dialogue sections more bearable for viewers and helps break up\nlong sections in the same room.\n\nI'm not up to date with the light novels, but I have reached Kanbaru's story.\nHere's a translation of the passage where Araragi appears at her house (Suruga\nMonkey).\n\n> Her futon was left spread out on the floor, clothes (including panties) were\n> strewn all around, as were books of all sort, textbooks, novels and manga,\n> some open and some closed. It almost seemed like her storehouse, with\n> cardboard boxes piled up into mounds in the corners. The worst atrocity was\n> the garbage casually left not in garbage bags but just on a random tatami,\n> or sometimes, to the best of her ability, shoved into the plastic bags from\n> the neighborhood convenience store and then left lying around. Rather, it\n> seemed as though the concept of a container for housing garbage was entirely\n> foreign to the room. Even with its expansive 12 tatami space.Not even a\n> single space to start going in from.\n>\n> \"Sorry that it's a little messy\"\n\nWhile not Nisemonogatari, this is Shaft's depiction of Kanbaru's room in\nBakemonogatari:\n\n\n\nSHAFT moved the focus from garbage onto books, and expanded the size of the\nroom tremendously (but SHAFT does like to do that with rooms).\n\n[Here's a video I found on youtube of a 12 tatami mat\nroom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUvd0jrcS8) . So it's quite big, but\nnot quite as large as SHAFT depicts. Using some size guides, I worked out that\n12 Tatami Mats is roughly 18.36 square metres.\n\nSHAFT also animates kanbaru opening several doors, including one which causes\na landfall of books to land on Araragi.\n\n> \"I know now's not the time, but can I ask you for a favor.\" \"Sure. Say\n> anything you want. I wouldn't refuse a request from you, Araragi-senpai.\"\n> \"One hour, actually, half an hour's fine... Just give me some time to clean\n> up this room. And a big garbage bag.\" It's not like I'm a clean freak, I\n> don't really even keep my room that clean, but this was just too horrible,\n> one could even call it cruel. Kanbaru stood and started at me with a puzzled\n> look on her face, as if she didn't even understand what I had just said,\n> however, without any particular reason to refuse, she simply said \"OK\" and\n> left to get a garbage bag. Fast forward. I suppose. Of course, the\n> disastrous wreckage that was Kanbaru's room wasn't so soft that much could\n> be done about it in a mere half an hour. And in any case, this still being\n> the room of a girl who I didn't know that well, there were areas that I\n> could and couldn't ethically, or rather morally, touch. So, I gathered up\n> the garbage and organized (simply sorted by size, as there weren't even any\n> bookshelves in Kanbaru's room) the various books and magazines in an\n> admittedly random way, cleaning the square room into more of a circle. The\n> room was at least at a state where I could look at it after the futon was\n> folded and stowed in the closet and clothes folded and placed in a corner.\n> At the very least, there was space for Kanbaru and I to sit and face each\n> other.\n\nIn the animated version, it shows an area where Kanbaru fit perfectly\n(implying it was the only free area). Kanbaru and Araragi play in the books\nthrowing them around and jumping into the sea of novels.\n\nSo, I'm not sure about those particular cases - but SHAFT does take\nsignificant artistic control over the work - adding scenes, emphasizing\ncertain characteristics & generally filling the work out to fit an animated\nform. As you can see from the passages the novels aren't description-heavy.\nThey are dialogue-heavy though, so I imagine that SHAFT has done these things\nthemselves.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAbout two weeks ago, at a Funimation panel, they were showing off some anime\nthat they had recently dubbed. One of the anime they showed caught my eye, but\nI completely forgot what it was called.\n\nAs far as I can remember, the plot went something like this:\n\n> By some random circumstance, this guy (I assume he's the main character), a\n> human, becomes this girl's spirit familiar (or something). Then they go to a\n> special school.\n\nYep, that's what my brain remembers. If anyone has any clue as to what I'm\ntalking about, please help.\n\nI was at ACen 2015 (15-17 May, so two weeks ago) when I heard about this. I\nhonestly don't remember anything about how it looked like, but the series\ncouldn't have been more than 3 years old.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat sounds like **Zero no Tsukaima** or **The Familiar of Zero**.\n\nVisit [its Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Familiar_of_Zero) to verify whether\nit matches your description.\n\nIt's one of my favorite, and it already has season 2.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be [The Familiar of\nZero](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6660)\n\n\n\n> Meet Louise, a budding magician. The students at the Tristein Academy call\n> her \"Zero Louise\", due to her current record of zero successes with magic.\n> In fact, her magic tends to go spectacularly wrong. Now, as an important\n> test of her aptitude for magic, she must summon a familiar to be her\n> servant. At this critical moment, she summons up all her magic and wishes\n> for a familiar that is \"devoted, beautiful and powerful\", and gets... Hiraga\n> Saito, an ordinary Japanese boy. It's difficult to say who is more surprised\n> and dismayed, but the rules don't allow for second attempts. Louise is stuck\n> with her strange familiar, and he with her.\n\n# Proof's\n\n> By some random circumstance, this guy (I assume he's the main character), a\n> human, becomes this girl's spirit familiar (or something).\n\nThis would be **Hiraga Saito** , as the description of the series points out\nhe is an ordinary Japanese boy and becomes the Familiar for **Louise**\n\n> Then they go to a special school\n\nSaito starts going to the same school as Louise, _Tristein Academy_ , because\nhe is now no longer of Earth but instead another world\n\n# Contradictions\n\n> at a funimation panel, they were showing off some anime that they had\n> recently dubbed\n\nFUNimation Entertainment did at one time have the licenses to distribute The\nFamiliar of Zero, however these licenses have since expired and now owned by\nSection23 Films (Since 2014)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGiven it was recent and from Funimation, I'd argue that it's [**Tokyo\nRavens**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Ravens), rather than _Familar of\nZero_. Both are good series though, so do check them out.\n\n * Licencer panel was Funimation, and _Tokyo Ravens_ is distributed by Funimation.\n\n * Tokyo Ravens original run was from October 9 2013, to March 26 2014, which is quite recent. _Familiar of Zero_ has been out for more than 3 years, given that it has 4 seasons.\n\n * The male protagonist, Harutora Tsuchimikado, fits the **normal guy** setting. He was born into an onmyouji family, but has no power to sense spiritual power whatsoever.\n\n * He takes up on a promise he made long ago to become Natsume's shikigami ( **familiar** ).\n\n * As Harutora becomes Natsume's shikigami, he has to follow her back to Tokyo and attend the Onmyo Prep School (which is a **specialized school** ) with Natsume.\n\nFigured I'd give a small quip from work...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, I know this is kind of a weird question.\n\n**In episode 176 of Naruto Shippuden** , when the village's history is shown,\nwe see that everyone hated Naruto, and even his homeroom teacher (Iruka)\ndidn't understood him.\n\nHe was upset, and Teuchi of Ichiraku Ramen asked him to have some ramen, but\nhe said **\"I didn't have money for it\"**.\n\nI thought a lot and was unable to figure out where he got his money from? He\ndidn't have his missions at that time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**TL;DR** The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, looked after Naruto, in\naccordance with the Fourth Hokage's wish to have the village see Naruto as a\nhero.\n\nEarly in the series, Sarutobi mentions how the Fourth Hokage sealed the Kyuubi\ninside Naruto, and died wishing that the village would treat Naruto as a hero.\nMuch later, it is also revealed that:\n\n> Sarutobi personally witnessed the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato, use the\n> Shiki Fuijin technique to assist in sealing the Kyuubi inside Naruto.\n> Sarutobi remarks about Minato making his own son a Jinchuriki to save the\n> village. In the process, Naruto also became an orphan minutes after he was\n> born. (Chapter 504) \n> \n> \n\nSarutobi saw the Fourth Hokage's deed as a heroic sacrifice (especially in the\nlight of the spoiler-text above), and took up the responsibility of fulfilling\nthe Fourth Hokage's wish. Naturally, that includes paying for the orphan\nchild's expenses until he is old enough.\n\nAlong the same lines, it was also mentioned that Sarutobi banned any\ndiscussion of the Kyuubi incident and severely punished anyone who disobeyed.\nMost other people either hated Naruto or were indifferent towards him, as he\nremarks multiple times later on during the series. Thus, nobody besides\nSarutobi could possibly care to pay for Naruto's expenses.1\n\nHence, although nobody explicitly stated that the Third Hokage looked after\nNaruto's expenses (room rent, food, clothes, etc.), it is obvious that this is\nwhat happened.\n\n* * *\n\n1 This also leads to one of the many plotholes in Naruto's childhood story:\nNaruto has said a few times that Iruka-sensei was the first person who cared\nfor him, and before then, his life was a hell of loneliness. Why didn't\nSarutobi treat him with a bit more warmth from the beginning, _especially_\nwhen he knew who Naruto's parents were?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs in _Naruto_ , Kakashi used his Sharingan only during a combat.\n\nWhere as the Uchiha clan members (mainly Itachi and Madara), used their\nSharingan almost all the time.\n\nSo, does the Sharingan consume more chakra in the case of Kakashi as compared\nto an Uchiha?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer comes right from the\n[wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake#Sharingan) as\n@mirroroftruth said:\n\n> When he first recieved it, Kakashi's Sharingan only two tomoe. Later, the\n> traumatic loss of his dear friend Rin Nohara at his own hand caused\n> Kakashi's Sharingan to fully mature. Because he is not of direct Uchiha\n> heritage, Kakashi was unable to deactivate this dลjutsu. This forced him\n> keep it covered when not needed as it also consumed much greater chakra\n> reserves than an Uchiha, leaving him bedridden if overused. Because of this,\n> Kakashi only relied on it when absolute necessary. In Part I, he could only\n> handle using it for a short while in battle before suffering somewhat\n> crippling effects and severe fatigue. In Part II, his efficiency with\n> maintaining it greatly increased, able to use it for seemingly an entire day\n> without any adverse effects.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo directly answer the question, **NO** , it doesn't.\n\nTheoretically, I think the consumption/amount of chakra using Sharingan\ncomparing to other _Uchihas_ is the _same_. They only differ on _how they use\nthem with their bodies_. We all know that Uchihas (mainly Itachi and Madara)\nhas bodies mainly adapted to use Sharingan thus making them **efficiently**\nuse it in battles. On the other hand, Kakashi retains his body (which is not\nUchiha's) causing him to use Sharingan inefficiently which in return produces\nwaste chakra during its usage.\n\nSharingans are like weapons - same weapon requires equal strength in order to\nuse them. But no different body can use the same weapon.\n\n* * *\n\nDon't get me wrong, the other answer is still correct. But does not\nnecessarily answers the question.\n\n**Update**\n\nIn addition, as per @mirroroftruth, Kakashi can't deactivate his Sharingan.\nActive Sharingan constantly use chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, as explained by the Second Hokage : Strong feelings in the Uchiha clan\nfolks had the potential to release a certain type of chakra in their brains.\nThis was visible in their eyes as a red color, which is the Sharingan. The\nstronger their emotions, the stronger their Sharingan powers grew. They were\nable to awaken Mangekyo in cases of extreme mental trauma [either self-\ninflicted / suffered]. Very few have actually done it in the series.\n\nHaving said that, Kakashi did not awaken a Sharingan, it is Uchiha Obito's\neye. He was able to use it by means of his own chakra, but since that did not\noriginate in him, the amount of chakra consumed was higher. Similar to using a\nscroll for a Suiton [Water] style jutsu, without having an affinity for that\ntype.\n\nSince, he could not control the sharingan to the level of actually using\nwhenever required, he covered it with his headband. This doesnot mean he was\nusing the sharingan always, he had to lift up his headband to use it [during\ncombat / when required]\n\nHe does have vast reserves of chakra as displayed by his use of copied\ntechniques, body activation and his own elemental manipulation, which are not\neasy without that. But Sharingan is something external to him, and he needs to\nfocus more chakra to it.\n\nWanted to add upon the wiki reference with some additional info. HTH.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeeing as though Kakashi is not an Uchiha by blood, his body does not have the\nrequired physical strength to use the blood trait of the Sharingan therefore\nit requires a lot more of his chakra to use in comparison to an Uchiha's usage\nof the Sharingan.\n\nThis works for any and all Dojutsu, if you are not the original wielder and\ndon't have the genetics for it, it will be extremely difficult for you to\nwield.\n\nWhile Obito did in fact have the spiritual energy to use the Rinnegan, he\ndidn't have any bloodline relations to the Senju or Uzumaki and couldn't use\nthe Rinnegan at all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the [1:42 of the\nsong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvO-1A4RHA#t=1m42s) there is some choir\n(priests?) singing in the background. \nBut I couldn't find out what they actually singing about. \nWhere can I found the lyrics of this song with the choir part included?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems to say\n\n> Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi\n>\n> (eng: Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world)\n\nrecalling [this other music](https://youtu.be/FMDo0QvujTU?t=13s).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBreakers can draw on Lost Precious' powers and use them. Are they the only\nones able to do so?\n\nAre LP only antiques for the other people?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nReplica can use the powers of Yuma Kuga's Black Trigger. He also seamlessly\nwraps himself over Yuma's left arm when he activates the Black Trigger.\n\nAlso, the Trion soldiers Replica creates (like the Rabbit he gated in to help\nOsamu in episode 31 \"Osamu Mikumo's Determination\") can also use Kuga's\ntrigger powers.\n\nIs Replica part of the Black Trigger, or is he an independent component which\nshares the power?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI really don't see a difference between investigators of different ranks,\nwhether it's power, personality, weapon type/weapon shape, or knowledge.\n\nWould you please describe the concept of ranks to me?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 9 of _Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?_ (\n_DanMachi_ ) Bell learns how to use an Argonaut skill which Hestia refers to\nas a skill for a hero.\n\nWhat is the literal meaning of Argonaut when used in this context?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nArgonaut has a number of meanings, but in this case is simply another word for\nAdventurer, Hero, Quester etc.\n\n[thefreedictionary.com](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Argonaut) gives the\ndefinition for 'argonaut' as:\n\n> A person who is engaged in a dangerous but rewarding quest; an adventurer.\n\nFurther down that same webpage, the thesaurus provides a description of an\nargonaut as:\n\n> Someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure\n\nThirdly, [Dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/argonaut)\ngives the appropriate definition as:\n\n> A person in quest of something dangerous but rewarding; adventurer.\n\nIt seems that an Argonaut skill is simply a skill for an adventurer to learn,\nand Hestia's comment appears to confirm that.\n\n* * *\n\nAs mentioned in my above comment, (and as I originally thought before\nresearch) Argonaut also refers to any man who, in [Greek\nMythology](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauts) accompanied Jason on his\nquest for the Golden Fleece aboard his ship, _Argo_. This may well be where\nthe word originated from due to it's Greek/Latin origins, but that's a\ndifferent question for another day!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs Goddess Hestia has said in the end of episode eight, **Argonaut** is the\nname of the skill Bell has achieved. She said that it is a skill of **wanting\nto be a hero**. And it proved that it is so, when it activates every time he\nwants to save somebody. So I think Argonaut could be defined in this anime as\n**\"the hero in you\"** , much like the literal meaning of it and in which the\nArgonaut skill actually gives you the power to fulfill your desire to be a\nreal hero whenever your desire (for wanting to be a hero) wakes up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn DanMachi's universe, **Argonaut is the name of the story of a boy who wants\nto be a hero** , according to the conversation between the Loki familiar\nmembers from 17:16 in episode 8:\n\n> **Bell:** _This is my adventure. I want to be... I want to be a hero!_\n>\n> **Tiona (Tione?):** Like the Argonaut...\n>\n> **Finn:** It's the story of a boy who wants to be a hero, yeah.\n>\n> **Tiona/Tione:** I liked that story, too.\n\nHowever, that is not its first mention in the story. _Argonaut_ appeared as\nearly as episode 5 as part of the visual, when Bell was answering the question\nposed by the grimoire, as to what he sought from magic (the image corresponds\nto the bold line):\n\n> **Bell:** _What do I seek from magic?_\n>\n> **Bell:** The woman who's faster than anyone, like a lightning bolt... I\n> want to catch up to her.\n>\n> **Bell** : _Is that all?_\n>\n> **Bell** : If it were possible... I'd like to be a hero. **Like in the fairy\n> tales I read when I was a kid.** A hero they'd be satisfied with.\n>\n> **Bell** : _You're such a child._\n>\n> **Bell** : I'm sorry. But that's who I am!\n>\n> **Bell** : _That's who I am!_\n\n\n\nWhile the alphabets are distorted, it still bears a lot of similarities to\nEnglish alphabet, especially A, R, U, T.\n\nI don't know whether the light novel reveals the name of the fairy tale in\nthis scene, though.\n\nThe fact that Bell attained the skill _Argonaut_ , which is named after the\nstory of a boy who wants to be hero, signifies his strong _**desire to become\na hero**_ , which is the meaning of the kanji in the title of episode 8\n[่ฑ้้กๆ]{Argonaut}.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm familiar with some other cooking shows, but not all of them are nearly as\nexperimental as **Food Wars**. With something like \"Yakitate!\", being a baker,\nthere's a lot of truth behind the recipes and some of the crazy things Azuma\nand some of the other bakers did. Not being a chef, I can't tell if some of\nthe cooking/recipes in \"Food Wars\" actually work like they claim in the show.\nFor example, in a recent episode Soma used some crushed something (I can't\nremember) as the breading for fried fish, or the use of honey to tenderize\nmeat; how accurate are these things from the show?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike with _Yakitate! Japan_ , the recipes in the manga are\n[supervised](https://twitter.com/shokugeki_anime/status/546151956658397184/photo/1)\nby an actual professional, in this case, chef [Yuki\nMorisaki](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=126499).\n\nAs for the cooking techniques you mentioned, the [crushed \"something\" breading\nfor fish](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Char_Okakiage) is \"[kaki no\ntane](http://www.e-kakinotane.com/more/)\" (ๆฟใฎ็จฎ), essentially soy-flavored rice\ncrisps made to resemble Japanese persimmon seeds. When crushed there are more\nor less like breadcrumbs or panko crumbs, the only differ is they have a\ndistinct soy flavor to them. [Koromo-\nage](http://japanesefooddictionary.blogspot.com/2013/08/agemono.html) is an\nactually popular batter frying technique in Japan.\n\nAs for honey being a tenderizer, the food science behind it is not very well\nexplained. While cooking with honey is a technique that spans back to the\nmiddle-ages, where they did honey-cured ham and baked gammon coated with honey\nand mustard. I don't believe the proteins are actually broken down by the\nhoney. While honey is said to contain enzymes that help digest both protein\nand carbohydrates, such as amylase, sucrase, and proteases (a group of enzymes\nthat break down proteins into amino acids), there more of something that helps\nyour body break down the proteins than have an active process in cooking.\n\nYou see, honey is [extremely hygroscopic](http://www.benefits-of-\nhoney.com/honey-properties.html), which means it absorbs moisture really well.\nIf you pull water out of a piece of meat, that meat will end up less stiff and\nseem more floppy, but the collagen and tough tissue aren't actually affected.\nIt's common to find marinades containing honey and vinegar that make meat more\ntender and supple.\n\nSo while the recipes are actually recipes developed by a professional chef,\nthe food science behind them might be a bit questionable. Such things aren't\nexplained well in the anime and manga as the intended audience is supposed to\nbe Japanese. Some terms and techniques are probably more commonly understood\nto native audience than ones overseas. Such as \"A5\" meat being pure Wagyu beef\nfrom the Kagoshima Prefecture, such a designation does not really exist in\nother countries.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBesides all the info already mentioned by the top answer and comments, someone\ntried the kaki no tane breading here:\n\n<http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/11/23/we-test-out-a-new-way-to-make-fried-\nchicken-the-prison-school-way-%E3%80%90rocketkitchen%E3%80%91/>\n\nand basically said throw out your old breading.They used it on chicken though,\nand got the idea from the Prison School manga. It was the google search link\nthat showed up right under yours.\n\n(Just wanted to comment, but wouldn't let me with my new sign up rep)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that Assassin was summoned after Caster, and in most cases, Saber is\nthe last Servant to be summoned. (The exception is in Heaven's Feel if you\ncount True Assassin's appearance as a separate summoning).\n\nHowever, I am wondering about the order of summoning of all the Servants, and\nif possible, the approximate times in which they were summoned.\n\nIn the visual novel, the date is shown during cutscenes, and I am quite sure\nthat Saber was summoned on the night of 29th of February 2004, as I remember\nthat the date changed from 29/2 into 1/3 after Shirou returned home with\nSaber. This can be used to approximate when the Servants were summoned.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll of these are explained in the visual novels of _Fate/stay night_ and\n_Fate/hollow ataraxia_.\n\n * First to be summoned was Berserker, two months before Saber.\n * Second to be summoned was Caster, one month before Saber.\n * Rider, Assassin and Lancer are summoned at around the same time, around ten days or so before Saber.\n * Archer is summoned two days before Saber.\n\nBy the way, Saber was summoned during the night between February 2nd and\nFebruary 3rd.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n 0. Gilgamesh/Archer - 1994 (Fourth Holy Grail War)\n 1. Heracles/Berserker - November/2003 (2 months before Day 1)\n 2. Medea/Caster - January/12/2004 (Been around for about a month on Day 12)\n 3. Cu Chulainn/Lancer - January/23/2004 (Stated in Hollow/Ataraxia)\n 4. Sasaki Kojirou/Assassin - January/26/2004 (Said to have been around for 20 days on Day 16)\n 5. Medusa/Rider - January/29/2004 (Summond 2 days before Day 1 in Heaven's Feel Manga)\n 6. EMIYA/Archer - February/01/2004 (Summoned before Saber)\n 7. Artoria Pendragon/Saber - February/03/2004 (Last servant summoned normally)\n 8. Hassan-i-Sabbah of the Cursed Arm/True Assassin - February/04/2004 (Summoned after Saber ONLY in Heaven's Feel)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSimilar to [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/22081/1587), but\nfocusing only on the Servants of the 4th Holy Grail War featured in\n_Fate/Zero_.\n\nLikewise, it would be also be good to list when the Servants were summoned if\npossible, though I am unsure if there was any date notation of any Servant's\nsummoning to use as an approximation unlike that of Saber's summoning in\n_Fate/Stay Night_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on skimming the light novel and the Wikia, this is what I could come up\nwith about the summoning order of the Servants in the Fourth Holy Grail War.\nFate/Zero doesn't give actual dates, but it does count down the hours until\nthe start of the Holy Grail War, although the novel only gives them at the\nstart of a chapter, so there's a certain amount of imprecision. We also don't\nknow exactly when Assassin and Lancer are summoned, since those summonings\nhappen offscreen, although we have some pretty clear indications of where\ntheir summonings fall relative to the other Servants.\n\nAssassin is summoned first. This is mentioned in Act 1, Part 3 of the first\nnovel. It happens offscreen, sometime before that chapter, so we don't have an\nexact time, but Kirei tells Tokiomi that according to Risei, whose ability to\ndetect Servant summonings is infallible, no other Servants have been summoned.\n\nRider, Berserker, Saber, and Archer are all summoned in Act 1, Part 5, which\ntakes place at -268:22:30. Their summonings are stated to be \"almost\nsimultaneous\" and no exact times are given.\n\nAs far as I can tell, Lancer is summoned near this time as well, but we don't\nsee his summoning onscreen. I give my reasons for thinking so below.\n\nCaster is summoned in Act 2, Part 3, which takes place at -222:24:48, about\ntwo days after the summonings of Rider, Berserker, Saber, and Archer.\n\nIt isn't clear exactly where Lancer's summoning falls. We know it was after\nAssassin's, but we don't know how much time it took Kayneth to discover that\nWaver had stolen his artifact and prepare a different summoning. But after\nstealing the scrap of Alexander's mantle from Kayneth, Waver runs off, flies\nto Japan, and sets himself up in a house before summoning Rider. It probably\ntook Kayneth around that much time to make his own preparations. Also, the\nfirst time we see Lancer is just after Saber and Irisviel arrive in Japan.\nSaber is summoned at the Einzbern Castle in Germany, and she and Irisviel\narrive in Japan by plane in Act 3 Part 2 at -167:27:03. They meet and battle\nLancer that very night, so Kayneth, who flew in from England, must have\narrived around the same time or a little earlier. So my sense is that Lancer\nwas summoned around the same time that Rider, Berserker, Saber, and Archer\nwere summoned. It may have been a little earlier since Kayneth _was_ already\nin Japan when Iri and Saber arrived, but I don't think it could have been\nlater.\n\nSo, in the end, we arrive at this list:\n\n 1. Assassin\n 2. Lancer (?)\n 3. Rider / Berserker / Saber / Archer (\"almost simultaneously\")\n 4. Caster (two or so days later)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto_ , Yamato called Kakashi as Kakashi- **sama** , whereas Naruto as\nNaruto- **kun**.\n\nPreviously, I thought that _sama_ was for equal or higher rank shinobis while\n_kun_ was for junior rank shinobis. But I noticed that I might be wrong as\nHinata too called Naruto as Naruto- **kun**.\n\nI found some general answers on [Yahoo!\nAnswers](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060925163110AAxkqMD),\nbut is there a specific reason why they did that in _Naruto_? What's the\nactual meaning of _sama_ and _kun_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth terms are Japanese honorifics.\n\n**_Sama_ (ๆง)** is the formal version of \"san\", used for persons in higher\npositions (inferiors to superiors). On the other hand, **_kun_ (ๅ)** is\ninformal and mostly used for males, such as boys or juniors. It is used by\nsuperiors to inferiors, by males of the same age and status to each other. In\nschools, teachers address male students as \"kun\" while girls as \"san\" or\n\"chan\".\n\nAs for anime _Naruto_ , Yamato called Kakashi as Kakashi-sama simply because\nof respect for the higher position. Kakashi is a lot experienced than him.\nMeanwhile, Hinata called Naruto with \"kun\" as an informal honorific for a boy\nwith the same age, that applies too for **_kun_**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf a person has already eaten one Devil Fruit, what will happen to him if he\neats another Devil Fruit?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> **Their body would explode without a trace, and they would die...**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WqwV8.jpg)\n\nDuring the Enies Lobby arc, in chapter 385, we see how Jabra gets scared when\nseeing the [Giraffe\nFruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ushi_Ushi_no_Mi,_Model:_Giraffe) and the\n[Bubble Fruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Awa_Awa_no_Mi). He claims that a\nrumor exists that says that when an _ability_ user comes close to a [Devil\nFruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit), the Devil will come out of\nthe fruit and start fighting with the Devil residing within his body and that\nwould make his body explode. This was immediately countered by Bluenote saying\nthat **Grandline scientists have already uncovered that the body would only\nexplode if two fruits are eaten by the same user**. Therefore it is believed\nand apparently proven that eating two Devil Fruits would make a person's body\nexplode.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eQOVW.jpg)\n\nLater during the Marineford arc, in chapter 577, we have seen an exception to\nthis case. **Blackbeard was seen to have two Devil Fruits at the same time**.\nWhen Whitebeard died, he supposedly extracted the Devil from Whitebeard's body\nand put it into his own. How Blackbeard was able to extract it and whether his\nbody did not explode due to it being _different_ , due to the Dark Fruit\npowers or due to a different reason, can be read\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/9953/6166).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nApproximately how fast can people move around with the 3D Maneuver Gear (3DMG)\nin _Attack on Titan_? What is the maximum speed attainable? If people can move\nfaster when the hook is reeled in, then I want that answer, if they can move\nfaster in the air by swinging then I want that answer. But I don't want the\nspeed of the hooks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n5:54 Zapp said _\"What's he doin', playing it backwards in fast-forward?\"_ You\ncould replace _fast-forward_ with _double-time_ according to another set of\nsubtitles. He was referring to the vampire, but the vampire wasn't even doing\nanything. What exactly does it mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been wondering if season 3 for heaven's lost property would come out or\nif it was already out. Could direct me to the place where I could find it? If\nit isn't out yet, would you happen to know if it will come out and when\nexactly might it come out? I am a U.S. Citizen but I am currently not in the\nmainland. I'm at Hawaii and hopefully me telling you that might help...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [official announcement](http://kadokawa-\nanime.jp/soraoto/2013/10/2014.html) for the second film stated:\n\n> ใใ็ฌฌ๏ผๆใทใชใผใบใใจใใฆ็บ่กจใใฆใใใพใใใใใใฎๅบฆใทใชใผใบไฝๅใงใฏใชใ...2014ๅนดใซๅๅ ดๅ
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"body": "\n\nWhat happened to Argo the rat by the end of SAO (that is, the end of Aincrad)?\nDid she survive? Or was she killed before that? I can't seem to find anything\nabout her fate in the novel. Did Kawahara-sensei confirmed her fate anywhere\nelse?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for the source of the following image, including which episode of\nthe source it appears in.\n\nGoogle image search isn't able to find anything.\n\n\n\nThe reason I'm looking for this image, is because I want the image in better\nquality, given the current one is a small jpg with ugly artifacts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main character of the story is a boy born into a noble family that rules\nthe surrounding farming lands but is actually rather poor. He has many big\nbrothers, and therefore he has no hopes of becoming the successor of the\nfamily, but he doesn't have any intention of doing so anyway. His father also\nhas an affair with the village head's daughter.\n\nNo one pays attention to him or expects anything from him, except for one of\nhis big brothers. Magicians are rare in the world, but his father does have\nsome magic books, even though he cannot use magic himself. It turns out the\nboy has a great talent for magic and learns very quickly. He also visits the\nwoods behind the estate to train his magic and hunt for game. Because the\nwoods are dangerous, people generally don't enter leisurely, and since the\npopulation is desperately needed for farming, there are not many hunters. When\nhe brings back animals he hunted, he is greatly praised for adding meat to\ntheir family's fare, which is usually made of unappetizing gruel.\n\nOne day, he meets a zombie in the woods, who turns out to be a great magician\nwho died but cannot leave because of his wish to find a disciple. In a short\ntime, the boy learns his new master's magic and also receives his mana\ncapacity. His master grants him his magic storage ring, which among many other\nitems, also includes rations that could feed an army for months. The boy\ngrants his master a peaceful death with his newly learnt magic.\n\nIt slowly becomes known that this young master can use magic, and the village\nhead approaches him to usurp his oldest brother's claim to the title of the\nhead of the house. The boy, however, does not wish for conflict nor is he\ninterested in the position.\n\nWhen his oldest brother marries, all of his big brothers are forced to leave\nthe house, since they have come of age and need to find their own path in the\nworld. The boy gets to stay a few more years because he is still too young.\nHis mastery of magic allows him to fly, and thus he can visit other cities. In\nthe city, he pretends to be a young boy from a neighboring village who came to\nsell game his father hunted.\n\nWhen he becomes a bit older, the boy leaves his home to enroll in an\nadventurer's school. In order not to strain his finances, he applies for\nscholarship and passes the test with flying colors. He forms a team with 1\nother boy and 2 girls.\n\nAs a representative of his house, he is invited to attend a party of the\nreigning local noble. It turns out that they were interested in him because\nthey found out about his connection with his master. His master was a genius\nmagician among their ranks, who was sent to battle but perished and ended up\nwandering around as a zombie. The noble asks for the battle rations back and\nthe boy returns them. In exchange, they hand over his master's bank account\nand house.\n\nI think that the description of this novel says that it contains a lot of\neconomic topics. If I recall correctly, the main character is also a\nreincarnated person from another world. The novel is in the mangaupdates.com\ndatabase, but I cannot find it. Please help if you know it, thanks!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found it. It's [**Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai\nDeshou!**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=121027)\n\nSynopsis from mangaupdates:\n\n> Ichinomiya Shingo, a young 25 years old, single, worker of firm company\n> while thinking of tomorrow' busy working day goes to sleep. However the\n> moment he woke up, it's a room unknown to him. He then learn that he is\n> inside a 6 years-old boy and is taking over his mind. He then learn a lot\n> from the memories of the said boy: he was born as the youngest child (8th\n> son and 10th child) of poor noble family living in back country. Having no\n> administrative skill, he can't do anything to manage the vast land his\n> family has.\n>\n> Fortunately, he is blessed with a very rare talent, talent of magic.\n> Unfortunately, while his talent could bring prosperity to his family, in his\n> situation it only brought disaster. Yes, this is the story of the boy,\n> Wendelin Von Benno Baumeister, opening his own path in a harsh world.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Final Fantasy VII_ when infiltrating Shinra H.Q there is a puzzle where\none has to complete a model of Midgar, when examining Sector 6 it says that\nit's being rebuilt.\n\nWhen Cloud's team eavesdrop on the meeting with President Shinra, Scarlet,\nHeidegger and Reeves they mention that they are stopping reconstruction of\nSector 6 to focus on the Neo Midgar Plan (now that Aerith could lead them to\nthe Promised Land).\n\nThis has always confused me as I always thought that Midgar was a completed\ncity and that only the Sector 7 plate was destroyed in the early events of the\ngame. So what happened to the Sector 6 Plate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember seeing this title on Anime News Network but I can not for the life\nof me remember the name.\n\nThe Plot Summary I remember from the site is that in the world all humans are\nborn as female and remain like that until a certain age in which they have to\nchoose their gender.\n\nThe staring group have been tasked with an important mission of some sorts and\ni think their equipment can only be used by females as i remember the summary\nsaying that the group are at the age where they must choose their gender but\nit's been decided that they can delay the decision for the duration of their\nmission.\n\nI know it isn't Infinite Stratos as the plot didn't describe a guy who is able\nto use female equipment\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no appearance of his parents at his marriage, during the proposal or\neven at his home! But there is (as long as my memory serves) no canonical\nstatement where it is mentioned that he doesn't have any parents or lives away\nfrom them. I'm confused if he is an orphan or just living without his parents.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAce was the 2nd division commander of the Whitebeard crew, but he hadn't\ndisplayed power befitting of his title. Besides the fact that he was a Logia\nuser with the power to control fire from Mera-Mera No Mi, he has not\ndemonstrated any other type of powers like Haki.\n\nFor example:\n\n * In the Alabasta Arc, he fought against Smoker, but he wasn't able to put up a good fight, claiming that both were Logia users and the fight would end with no result.\n\nThis also raises questions about Smoker's Haki abilities and the fact that\neven Smoker wasn't able to use Haki at that time.\n\n * He wasn't able to hit Blackbeard when Blackbeard used his Logia power.\n * He showed no resistance when Akainu hit him, not even weak Haki, and took the hit head-on. \n\nHe never fought Logia users with Haki, nor has he shown remarkable Kenbunshoku\nHaki.\n\nHaki was revealed after the time skip, but it has been there since Rayleigh's\nand Roger's times. Were Ace's abilities limited to his Devil Fruit power only?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the time-skip Luffy was sent to Rusukaina to train with Rayleigh. When\nthey arrive Rayleigh introduces the island as follows.\n\n> Rusukaina is home to the \"48 seasons\", a brutal island where the climate\n> changes once a week.\n\nThis quote makes me wonder about the number of weeks in a year in One Piece.\nOne would expect there to be 52 weeks as there are in our human world. So what\nabout in the One Piece world? Are there 48 weeks in a year, 52 weeks in a\nyear, or maybe a different number?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm going to go out on a limb, and suggest that \"once a week\" is not precise.\nMost people would find it more convenient than \"once every 7.6 days\" or worse\n\"every 1.1 weeks\".\n\nWhile it would be interesting to have complicated shenanigans, and I have no\ndefinitive proof that there aren't any, I think it's more just quick\ncommunication.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Code Geass R2_ episode 17, why did Lelouch lie to Suzaku that he ordered\nEuphemia to massacre all the Japanese people? The scene starts at 8:14 into\nthe episode.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's because he did order Euphie to massacre the Japanese people.\n\nIn _Stage 22 - Bloodstained Euphie_ after Euphie had invited Zero to attend\nthe commemoration ceremony for the Special Administrated Zone, Lelouch had\nplanned to use his Geass on Euphie to shoot him. It would have looked like\nBritannia had declared the zone to lure out Zero to be assassinated and spur\nthe people to fight Britannia. In the chaos Zero would, however rise from the\ndead (as the shot wouldn't have been fatal) and help lead the Black Rebellion.\nIt is for this reason he created a ceramic and bamboo hand gun and snuck it in\nwith him.\n\nOf course Euphie was Lelouch's first love and Euphie explains that she is most\nlikely going to be condemned by the Royal Family for her independent action\nand that she wanted to create the Zone so that she could be with Lelouch and\nNunnally (as in the stage before she confirmed Nunnally was living in Japan\nwith Lelouch). 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Though you haven't got very much faith in me, have\n> you?\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : Hmm?\n>\n> _Euphie_ : Did you honestly believe that by simply threatening me I would\n> shoot you?\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : Oh, no, you've got it all wrong. When I really want people to\n> follow my orders, they will not resist me -- whether it's to shoot me, to\n> grant pardon to Suzaku, or any order at all.\n>\n> _Euphie_ : Oh, now you're being silly. Stop playing with me.\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : ***Geass Activates*** I'm serious. For example, if told you to\n> **kill all the Japanese** , it wouldn't matter how you felt about it.\n>\n> _Euphie_ : No... don't make me do it, please! I'm not-- I'm not going to do\n> it, please...! I don't wanna kill them! No...\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : Did I--?!\n>\n> _Euphie_ : You're right. I have to kill all the Japanese.\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : **I've become like Mao! -- I can't control my Geass power!\n> Forget the order I just gave you!** Euphie! Wait, Euphie, don't!\n\nSource: [Anime Transcripts - Code Geass > 22. Bloodstained\nEuphie](http://animetranscripts.wikispaces.com/Code+Geass+%3E+22.+Bloodstained+Euphy)\n\nSo while he didn't mean for it to happen, Lelouch's Geass went out of control,\njust like Mao's did. So now if he looks at anyone and asks/tells them to do\nanything, they'll always do it. Later in the next episode as the Black\nRebellion is starting, Lelouch laments that he will never be able to see\nanyone again with the exception to C.C. who is immune1\n\nBy the time Suzaku confronts him, he was suffering from the guilt of having\nbeen responsible for killing Euphie and Shirley. He had already destroyed\nShirley when he inadvertently killed her father in the landslide and in her\ngrieving state she became mentally unstable. She planned to kill Lelouch (as a\npart of Mao's plan) and then herself because she wouldn't be able to live with\nthe guilt of having killed the boy she loved. To save her, Lelouch \"killed\"\nher by erasing his existence from her memory.\n\nwhen Jeremiah Gottwald used the Geass canceller, she was caught in the blast.\nHer memories returned but the memories she gained in the past 2 years were\ngone. Still grieving her father and confused that all her friends were gone\n(Rivalz was the only one left at school as Milly, Nina and Kallen had already\nleft for different reason) and Nunally was now the Viceroy of Area 11, she\ntried to seek out Lelouch because of her last memory of him saying she would\nforget. She confronts a boy claiming to be Lelouch's younger sibling who then\nkills her. Rolo admits he did it but it was to protect Lelouch's identity as\nZero. Lelouch knows this is a lie but he blames himself because it was his\nactions which made Shirley unstable which, to him, was the major contributing\ncause of her death.\n\nBy _Turn 17 - The Taste of Humiliation_ , Lelouch had already accepted these\nand while he may have been able to handle it, Suzaku then re-opens and pours\nsalt on the wounds\n\n> _Suzaku:_ You wanna know? I'm fed up with lying. I've had to lie to\n> Nunnally. Just the way you have. That's the worst thing. Some friend you\n> were. You've been betraying me all along. Not just me, either, but everyone\n> on the student council, too. And even Nunnally. And don't forget Euphie!\n>\n> ...\n>\n> _Suzaku_ : I need to know. Did you use your Geass power on Euphie? Be\n> honest.\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : Yes.\n>\n> _Suzaku_ : You caused her to massacre the Japanese?\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : I ordered her to do it.\n>\n> _Suzaku_ : Why would you use your Geass like that? Answer me!\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : To motivate the Japanese people. If the specially administrated\n> zone of Japan had been established, the Black Knights would've collapsed.2\n>\n> _Suzaku_ : And Shirley's death?\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : Also my fault.\n>\n> _Suzaku_ : You aren't even a human. You know that? Shirley and Euphie were\n> both of them nothing more than pawns for your ambitions?\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : Yes, that's right. **So all the sin is mine alone to shoulder**.\n> My little sister had nothing to do with it.\n>\n> _Suzaku_ : Why, you coward! How could you use Nunnally like that?\n>\n> _Lelouch_ : Suzaku, I'm sorry.\n\nSource: [Anime Transcripts - Code Geass R2 > 17. The Taste of\nHumiliation](http://animetranscripts.wikispaces.com/Code+Geass+R2+%3E+17.+The+Taste+of+Humiliation)\n\nLelouch had already been a good liar: he hide his family background and who\nknows how many people in the past could have identified him and Nunnally as\nroyalty, he's lied to Nunnally about his night activities, he hid from Shirley\nabout him being Zero, he had lied to the Black Knights about who he was, and\nhe had planned to lie to the entire country in his original plan for the\nSpecial Administrated Zone. What's a couple more lies now? Especially when he\nbelieves it's his actions which caused their deaths.\n\n* * *\n\n1: There is the exception to those who Lelouch has used his Geass on before\nlike Shirley but numbering those who Lelouch would have met if he had a normal\nlife to everyone else he would meet these are few in number. Also with\nNunnally, while Lelouch couldn't make eye contact with her due to her\nblindness, aside from what we learn at the end of the series it was initially\nsaid that her blindness was trauma from seeing her mother die, so that aspect\nis based more on psychological factors that actual damage to the eyes. Nunally\nwould one day open her eyes and then she's be susceptible to Lelouch's Geass\n\n2: This is actually true, had the zone been established then the Black Knight\nwho are mainly Japanese would choose this option over getting killed. Though\nafter being convinced by Euphie, Lelouch was going to amend his plans for the\nBlack Knights, and this could mean allowing them to disband or having them\nsupplement a S.A.Z Military Force\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat's a really good question to ask, to be honest I didn't know at first but\nI thought about it for a while and came up with a few ideas why.\n\nMy first guess is Lelouch didn't mean to use the Geass on Euphie (which we all\nknow) but he was probably scared to tell Suzaku, his best friend, that he had\nlost control of the Geass since it was to powerful for him to tame. Plus,\nsince he had used the same power to control many other people including\nSuzaku, he might have thought telling him he lost control of the Geass would\nmake him no longer want to trust Lelouch.\n\nMy second idea is he was probably disappointed to tell Suzaku that he had lost\ncontrol of his own power by accidentally using it on his little sister Euphie\nto kill all the Japanese.\n\nMy last and final guess is that he was afraid of his best friend, Suzaku,\nfinding out that he had lost control of the Geass and accidentally used it on\nhis little sister, and that he would consider him as nothing but a selfish\nbrother. Also knowing he did not have control, Lelouch knew telling Suzaku\nwould make him a danger to the people and to his friends. Lelouch most likely\nknew this and that is why I think Lelouch didn't tell Suzaku the truth about\nhim losing control of his Geass just as Mao did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLelouch isn't the bad guy, but as we have seen throughout the series, he finds\nit easier to work in the shadows. I think that if he told Suzaku that Euphie's\ndeath was an accident then Suzaku would have fallen into a depression\nbelieving that there could have been ways to stop it rather than just\ndefeating Lelouch. I even think Kallen mentions this at the very end of the\nseries and it's something along the lines of \"it's easier to blame a person\nrather than circumstance\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo that he will take all the hatred and all the blame. So, when he dies, it\nwill be taken to the grave with him. Letting people move on, be happy, hence\nlie to Suzaku and everybody he cares about. That's what I believe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter watching Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Code Geass:Lelouch of\nthe Rebellion R2, I simply couldn't understand why Lelouch allowed himself to\nbe overthrown by the Black Knights, and even lied about what his intent was.\nOr why he lied to Suzaku about ordering Euphie to kill the Japanese. So I\nspent hours trying to come up with a theory, and I ended up with this.\n\nI think that Lelouch had planned for Suzaku to kill him all along. If he had\nadmitted that he didn't mean to make Euphie kill the Japanese, Suzaku would be\nunable to kill Lelouch. In order for the Zero Requiem to succeed, Lelouch had\nto die. And Lelouch trusted nobody more than Suzaku, even when they were\nenemies. After all, he frequently said that there was nothing they couldn't do\ntogether.\n\nMany people have wondered if Lelouch really did use the Black Knights. I\nbelieve this is partly true and partly false. When he was confronted by the\nBlack Knights after they heard the recorded conversation between Lelouch and\nSuzaku, he told them that everything he had done was for his entertainment,\nand that the Black Knights were just pawns to him. I think he did this to\nprotect the Black Knights-if they believed they were worthless to him they\nwould have no reason to rescue him now that Schneizel knew his identity. This\nwould protect the Black Knights. This implies that he cared for them and did\nnot use them. However, the Black Knights were essential to his plan, as he was\nrelying on them to create a better world once he died. So he couldn't afford\nfor them to collapse and be defeated. This could be seen as using them.\n\nSo I guess Lelouch is evil, but he is fighting on the side of justice-he is\nwilling to sacrifice his humanity for the greater good. And an evil hero is\nstill a hero. And as Suzaku realised at last, it's the end result that\nmatters, not the means of getting there.\n\nI hope you consider and expand my theory, and I hope this answers the\nquestion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHironobu Sakaguchi, a designer at Square (the company who developed _Final\nFantasy_ ), was essentially creating what he saw as a magnum opus. After his\nlack of success with previous Square titles (nearly leading to its\nbankruptcy), this was his **final** attempt to live out his **fantasy** of\ndeveloping games.\n\nFrom [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy#Origin):\n\n> Though often attributed to the company allegedly facing bankruptcy,\n> Sakaguchi explained that the game was his personal last-ditch effort in the\n> game industry and that **its title, _Final Fantasy_ , stemmed from his\n> feelings at the time**; had the game not sold well, he would have quit the\n> business and gone back to university.\n\nWikipedia attributes this to [another article](http://www.develop-\nonline.net/news/sakaguchi-discusses-the-development-of-final-fantasy/0102088),\nwith a direct quote:\n\n> โThe name โFinal Fantasyโ was a display of my feeling that if this didnโt\n> sell, I was going to quit the games industry and go back to university. Iโd\n> have had to repeat a year, so I wouldnโt have had any friends โ it really\n> was a โfinalโ situation.โ\n>\n> โ Hironobu Sakaguchi\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently read this [Destructiod article](http://www.destructoid.com/final-\nfantasy-was-almost-called-fighting-fantasy-creator-explains-actual-reason-\nbehind-the-name-292792.phtml) detailing why Sakaguchi decided to call the game\n_**Final** Fantasy_. \n \nThe article states that he wanted to use the abbreviation \"FF\" because it\nrolls off the tongue nicely in Japanese. \n\n> According to Sakaguchi, the team wanted a title that had a simple\n> abbreviation in the Roman alphabet _(FF)_ and a four-syllable abbreviated\n> Japanese pronunciation (\"efu efu\"). Because of the setting and style,\n> \"fantasy\" was an easy choice. \"Final\" wasn't the first choice of adjective,\n> however.\n>\n> The initial proposed name was \"Fighting Fantasy,\" but it was already taken\n> by a tabletop game. And so it is, _Final Fantasy_.\n>\n> \"To be sure, we had our backs to the wall when we were developing _Final\n> Fantasy_ ,\" Sakaguchi said, \"but really, anything that started with an F\n> would have been fine for the title.\"\n\nThe Destructoid article links to a Famitsu article (in Japanese) where\nSakaguchi says this. The article is dated 24th May 2015. \n\nThe article goes on to explain that FF composer Nobuo Uematsu confirms the\nstory of \"Final implies it may have been the last game\" but that was in a\n[Wired article from six years ago](http://www.wired.com/2009/07/final-\nfantasy/). \n\nThis doesn't disprove the original theory that \"Final\" was the last one. But\nit's interesting that Sakaguchi doesn't appear bothered about what the first\n'F' stood for, but never denied the theory that they made it 'Final' because\nhe was planning on quitting if the game was not successful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read from [here](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2923653/1/Duty-Before-Honor)\nthat for an A-class ranked mission, Sakura teams up with Kakashi, her sensei,\nand according to the requirement of the mission, she loses her virginity to\nKakashi.\n\nIs this story true? Had it actually happened in the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCanon information about Sakura does not anywhere mention her losing her\nvirginity to Kakashi, nor her being sexually-involved with him in any form.\nSee some of the following profiles:\n\n * [Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Haruno)\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Haruno)\n * [Japanese Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%A5%E9%87%8E%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9)\n\nSame goes for Kakashi profiles:\n\n * [Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake)\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake)\n * [Japanese Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AF%E3%81%9F%E3%81%91%E3%82%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B7)\n\nSince the event did not occur in manga canon, no page reference can be\nprovided. Sakura's virginity, or lack thereof, is not unmistakably specified\nin canon. In [manga chapter\n700+1](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sarada_Uchiha_\\(chapter\\)) titled _Uchiha\nSarada_ , it is evidenced that Sarada has believed Sakura to be her biological\nmother and Sasuke to be her biological father, so it _implies_ that Sakura\nlost her virginity at some unspecified point (unless she used IVF technology).\nHowever, Sarada _subsequently questions_ whether Sakura is indeed her\nbiological mother; this is debated by fans in threads such as\n[here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:168274),\n[here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:168203), and\n[here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:169667). Sarada's doubt about\nbiological ties to Sakura means that canon has not uniquivocally defined\nwhether or not Sakura has ever been sexually active or pregnant.\n\n[_Duty Before Honor_](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2923653/1/Duty-Before-\nHonor) is an English-language fanfiction written by\n[SilverShine](https://www.fanfiction.net/u/524424/SilverShine) with a\nKaka/Saku [ship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_%28fandom%29) (a.k.a.\npairing). The [reader reviews](https://www.fanfiction.net/r/2923653/) for the\nfanfic indicate that the premise was created to be an\n[AU](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_universe_%28fan_fiction%29)\n(alternate universe) rendition of the characters crafted by SilverShine.\n[_Stripped Bare_](http://archiveofourown.org/works/443225/chapters/757443) is\nalso an English-language fanfiction, written by\n[Purple_Panic](http://archiveofourown.org/users/Purple_Panic/pseuds/Purple_Panic)\n(formerly known as [J-Pop\nPrincess](https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1277173/J-Pop-Princess)); its reader\nreviews are [here](http://archiveofourown.org/works/443225/chapters/757443).\n[Fanfiction.net](https://www.fanfiction.net/guidelines/) and [Archive of Our\nOwn](http://archiveofourown.org/about) are both fanfiction repositories. As\nsuch, they do not feature canon material and are not intended to serve as a\nsource of information about canon; in contrast, fanfiction and _doujin_ works\ntend to create content that is original or intentionally contradicts canon.\nKaka/Saku (written as ใซใซใตใฏ, or ใซใซใทรใตใฏใฉ) is [not a prominent ship in Japanese\ndoujinshi](http://auctions.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?auccat=&p=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%80%80%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AF%E3%80%80%E5%90%8C%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%8C&tab_ex=commerce&ei=utf-8).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, Kakashi has saved girls' life rapidly over the years like Rin. He\nrescued her, but later on, she made him killed herself.\n\nIf Kakashi had intercourse with Sakura, that's like a teacher having\nintercourse with a student. If she was over 18, it's fine, but it makes people\nworried because in _Boruto_ , there is a kid that is like Kakashi but with\nbrown hair and pink and white hair, making a brownish rose color. So they\ncould be parents.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the canon manga, it's confirmed Sasuke and Sakura have a child together,\nhence her losing it to Sasuke. Kakashi and Sakura have never been sexually\nactive together.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEarly in the Dragon Ball series, Goku and Krillin rescue a chick named Launch\nwho could switch personalities by sneezing. What happened to her? They don't\ngive any mention about her in Dragon Ball Z or GT, and she seems to have just\ndisappeared in Dragon Ball.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [DragonBall wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Launch)\nand\n[TvTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DragonBallSupportingCast),\nAkira Toriyama gave a statement saying that the reason Lunch stopped appearing\nduring Dragon Ball Z was because he simply forgot about her and that her bad\nstate would have caused confusion because of its similarity to the Super\nSaiyan transformation.\n\nShe does appear three times in Dragonball Z's anime - most prominently at the\nbeginning of the Vegeta Saga - although she mainly appears in filler or\nflashbacks. In the manga she doesn't seem to be there at all.\n\nThe original source of the interview seemingly in the March 24th 2013 edition\nof Mandล Kobayashi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPeople can use the lift to go down. The Birdcage wouldn't possibly be deep\nenough. Also, the cage won't do any harm since it is a port and there is sea-\nwater. The path can be created by any strong character to lead to the\nuderground place like Fujitora, Chin Jao, etc.\n\nAlso the Scrapheap where Kanjuro was held could also be used for refuge!\n\nThis is the depth of the underground space:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jHrPj.jpg)\n\nWhy isn't Oda using it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nIt would not make sense for them to go down there. Most of the citizens don't\neven know about the underground port and everybody also witnessed Pica's\nstrength. **If they would go down there they would be sitting ducks.**\nDoflamingo would be able to throw attacks at them and use Parasite until they\nall die, or Pica would be able to just bury them all alive.\n\nKeep in mind that we know more than the people in One Piece know. **Most\npeople don't know about the port and a lot of people don't know about the\nsharpness of the cage.** Normal citizens in general don't know about the port,\nbecause it was always kept secret, while those that were turned into toys,\nhave a big grudge against Doflamingo and would be going straight for him to\ntake revenge. There was also a short time period where the citizens believed\nDoflamingo and wanted to end the game by capturing the _criminals_.\n\nDressrosa is a pretty big country and is in a state of confusion. Aside from\nthe fact that **they just wouldn't all fit in there** , most citizens take the\nmost logical decision and that is running away from the most imminent treat.\nThose at the suburbs would notice the cage coming closer and would run towards\nthe city center, while those at the city center, would see the Donquixote\nfamily being close and would try to run towards the cage as they don't know it\nis closing in and is as sharp as it is. **The citizens are powerless and would\njust run until this is all over.**\n\nAdditionally, the tunnel under Dressrosa is filled with water, so they either\nhave to swim out of there, or take a boat. Since there are many people that\ncannot swim (elderly, kids, even adults, Devil Fruit users), they should all\nbe carried or taken on a ship. Yet most citizens don't even know how to\nnavigate a ship and there just are not enough ships available to carry\neverybody. **So in any case many would have to be left behind.**\n\nWhen they would eventually reach the outskirts of the country, they should go\nsomewhere. Yet they are in open sea, so there is nowhere to go. The only thing\nthey could do is, build a tunnel upwards or make a net to climb the huge\nboulders and wait until the fight is over. While this on its own sounds very\nunlikely to be done, when they get out, **Doflamingo would just redo the\nbirdcage** over the entire island, destroy the tunnel/net and start over from\nthe beginning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [Wiki page](https://dungeon-ni-deai-o-\nmotomeru.wikia.com/wiki/Items), adventurers can exchange the gems they collect\nin the dungeon for money.\n\n> Magic stones are crystal-like stones that are dropped by monsters. The\n> stones can be exchanged at the Guild for valis (Orario currency).\n>\n> The bigger the stone, the more valis it is worth.\n\nI was wondering, why does the Guild want these crystals? Do they have a use?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, they use it to create potions or armors, weapons and/or anything it can\nbe made out of.\n\nNote that both shards and drop items (monster parts) can be used for crafting.\nDrop items not necessarily lead to magic items.\n\n> In episode 9 entitled \"Blacksmith (Welf Crozzo)\", Bell meet Welf Crozzo and\n> at the end of this episode, Welf made Bell a weapon crafted from the horn\n> dropped by the Minotaur he had killed on previous episode. \n> Since Crozzo is reluctant to craft magic items, the weapon he crafted from\n> the minotaur' horn is not a magical item.\n\nAdditionally, from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_It_Wrong_to_Try_to_Pick_Up_Girls_in_a_Dungeon%3F)\n\n> Adventurers visit the dungeon to defeat monsters and take their shards,\n> which are used to craft magic items.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to\n[ja.Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AB%E5%87%BA%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%84%E3%82%92%E6%B1%82%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B%E3%81%AE%E3%81%AF%E9%96%93%E9%81%95%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A0%E3%82%8D%E3%81%86%E3%81%8B#.E3.82.A2.E3.82.A4.E3.83.86.E3.83.A0.E9.96.A2.E9.80.A3):\n\n> **้ญ็ณ**\n>\n> ใขใณในใฟใผใฎ็ๅฝๅใฎๆ ธใซใใฆใๅ้บ่
ใฎ้ฃฏใฎ็จฎใไพๅคใชใ่ธ้จใซๅญๅจใใใ \n> ใขใณในใฟใผใๅใใฆ่ธใฎ้ญ็ณใใใใๅบใ๏ผใขใใกใงใฏๅใใจ่ไฝใๆถๅคฑใใฆ้ญ็ณใ ใใๆฎใ๏ผใใฎใซใใงๆ้ใใใฎใๅ้บ่
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ฅๆบใ \n> ้ญๅใ่พผใใใใฆใใใ็
งๆใไธๆฐดๆตๅใ่ชฟ็็จใณใณใญใๅท่ตๅบซใชใฉใใใพใใพใช้ๅ
ทใซ็จใใใใใ \n> ่ธใฎ้ญ็ณใ็ดๆฅๆปๆใใฆ็ ใใๅ ดๅใใขใณในใฟใผใฏๅณๆญปใใใ\n\n> Magic Stones are the core of the monsters' life force, and adventurers'\n> means of living. Without exception, it locates in the monster's chest.\n>\n> Killing the monsters, gouging the Magic Stones out of their chests (in the\n> anime, the body of the monsters disappear when defeated, leaving their Magic\n> Stones behind), and cashing them in at the guild is **the main source of\n> income of the adventurers**.\n>\n> Charged with magic, **Magic Stones can be used to create various tools** ,\n> such as lighting, sewage purification, cooking stove, refrigerator, etc.\n>\n> Monsters die an instant death if the Magic Stone in their chest is destroyed\n> by a direct attack.\n\n[DanMachi Wiki](http://dungeon-ni-deai-o-motomeru.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Stone)\nhas a bit more details regarding the use of Magic Stones:\n\n> ## Uses\n>\n> * **Magic Stone Lamp:** A handy and flexible use of the Magic Stone is the\n> production of Magic Stone Lamps. These items give off a dim shine that\n> allows one to see underground or in total darkness. It was once considered\n> as the \"century's greatest invention.\"\n> * **Ignition Device:** Magic Stones can be used to produce ignition\n> devices.\n> * **Freezer:** Magic Stones are used in the production of freezers to\n> preserve food.\n>\n\nVolume 1, Chapter 2 is cited as the source of the information above.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBasically, they mainly act as power sources like batteries. Bigger ones are\nworth more because they can be used for longer and contain more power.\n\nFor example, when watching an episode, look at the lamps. There isn't a candle\nin there, it is a magic stone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlease help me find the name of this anime I've watched online maybe 3 years\nago. This is how I remember it:\n\nThere were two villages with previously unfriendly assassins or samurais\n(possibly with supernatural powers) that made some sort of pact because a\nwoman from one village and a man from the other were in love. They were always\nmeeting somewhere in the middle of the path between the villages. It was\nalmost sunrise and each wanted to stay together a little bit longer.\n\nIn the meantime, some weird bad person decided the villages had to have a\ntournament of some sort, and scrolls were given to the heads of the families.\nThey had a fight, maybe both died? And a crow or some bird took one of the\nscrolls. The Romeo/Juliet (not their real names) parted ways. Maybe some\nspiderwebs now and maybe the scrolls were 10 for each of the strongest\nwarriors.\n\nAnd there was fighting. In the last episode, the only ones left were the\nRomeo/Juliet combo. I think the Juliet was seriously injured and one of them\nwas blind. Furthermore, one of them took some kind of poison. They probably\nboth died at the end, but I think the weird bad person died, too, maybe in a\ncarriage carried by people, not horses.\n\nI'm not sure about most of the stuff, except for the title of my request. :?\nIf anyone can help me, I'll be happy to watch this anime again. Thank you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis sounds a lot like\n[Basilisk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk_%28manga%29).\n\n\n\nThere are two warring ninja clans, one led by a girl, Oboro Iga, and the other\na man, Gennosuke Kouga, who are both secretly in love with each other. They\nall have unique supernatural powers. During the course of the story, Gennosuke\nis blinded by a spell of some sort and they both of to fight each other at the\nend of the series.\n\nIt's very much like a \"Romeo/Juliet\" type story set in 17th century Japan.\n\nMore info:\n\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk_%28manga%29)\n * [Wikia](http://basilisk.wikia.com/wiki/Basilisk_%28anime%29)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4318)\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/67/Basilisk:_Kouga_Ninpou_Chou)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYuta Iridatsu has a strange power:\n\n> If Yลซta sees a girl's panties twice in a row, the Earth will be destroyed by\n> a meteor.[[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Line_%28anime%29)\n\nBut also\n\n> Yลซta is biologically female\n> [[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_Line_%28anime%29)\n\nMeaning that he\n\n> always was a boy inside a girls' body for a long time, ever since the\n> accident when they escaped the lab.\n\nAssuming he kept proper hygiene (else the other tenants would've kicked him\nout a long time ago) and\n\n> Meika seems to be the only one that knows Yuta is biologically female -\n> until she reveals the fact to the other tenants before the new year.\n\nWouldn't Yuta have caused the meteor to strike several times already?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis might seem kind of stupid, but maybe it doesn't work on him. Maybe he\njust sees himself as a male, and not a girl.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince it is an original anime series, there is little canon material outside\nthe videos themselves.\n\nSo lets attempt to delve into Yuuta's psyche using another strongly male-self-\nidentifed character: Ranma Saotome.\n\nRanma could change back into a boys' body, but nowhere in the whole series he\ngot turned on by his own female body. There were times when he was embarassed,\nbut even when male and female Ranma got separated, there were no chemistry\nbetween them, at least from the male side. (chapter ref pending).\n\nWe can also bring the panty fanservice that is abundant in shonen titles.\n\n> These factors all come into play for the Japanese panty fetish. First,\n> panties were long associated with the risque. Not only do they cover up\n> desirable bits, but they also have a strong association with high-class\n> prostitution. Second, panties tend to reflect a ladyโs personal tastes in\n> fabric, lace, and design. They also have connotations of wealth since\n> originally only the wealthy could afford such luxuries. Finally, the up-\n> skirt shot originated from when women were adapting to the less constrictive\n> Western styles and developing feelings of shame with underwear exposure.\n> These associations merged into the panty fetish and fan service we see in\n> Japanese culture and anime today. [(ref)](http://www.japanpowered.com/japan-\n> culture/the-historical-origin-of-panty-fan-service)\n\nAlso, Yuuta uses boxers. Maybe it gets a little loose in the front, but lets\nassume he is used to it.\n\nIn ep9 flashback at 15:30, Narugino and Yuuta stumble onto each other on the\nfront porch, causing Yuuta's bag to burst open. Narugino accidentally grabs\none of Yuuta's boxers.\n\n\n\nSo, from these arguments:\n\n 1. Yuuta is not turned on by his own female body\n\n 2. Yuuta has a panty fetish. We can safely assume he is more turned on by a pretty (or daring!) panty than naked female genitalia.\n\n 3. Yuuta does not uses female underwear. We can also consider that Chiyoko's (Narugino original body) teen body is underdeveloped, and he does not need a bra, or uses other ways of holding/hiding the breasts.\n\nWe can then add the final statement: When he returns to his body in ep7,\nChiranosuke (the ghost cat) tells him that if his Uberfy goes overboard in his\nspirit form, the physical body (possessed by another timeline's Yuuta) dies.\n\nSo, if he bathes on his physical body, he would only drop unconscious from\nover Uberfy-ing if he did Uberfy from his own female body (we showed he\nwouldn't).\n\nAlso there is the issue if viewing the same thing twice in a short time counts\nas two viewings. Every time he blew up he had seen two separate sets of\npanties.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was unfortunately unable to be a part of the group that got to read the web\nnovels before they were taken down, but it's killing me ever since I finished\nLN 15. There are so many unresolved questions that I have and I can't seem to\neven find a release date for the Japanese version of Volume 16, let alone the\nEnglish version, so if you read the web novel, can you enlighten me on a few\npoints that are driving me crazy?\n\n * At the end of LN 14 when the power surge hits Kirito's FL, it seems to rip a hole in his consciousness and even the crying out of Asuna only seems to bring nostalgia, but he can't seem to place why he knows that voice? Is that what happened?\n * Alice seems to be following a similar train of thought to Kirito from the original SAO arc, that if the **** hit the fan, she's going to run with Kirito for the World End Altar? What would happen if she and Kirito do make it there? Kirito could log out, but she can't?\n * Not that I want to seem like a shipper, but the relationships in this storyline are frustrating because I can't decide who to root for. It's almost like Reki is opening the chance for Kirito to stay with Alice instead of returning to the real world?\n * How does Kirito get his consciousness back?\n * Given the side stories that have been released, it seems that the battle comes to a close with a truce? Is that true for the main storyline?\n * Does anyone have any info on release dates?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike when you watch a character talk in anime you'll notice he/she is not lip\nsyncing the words he/she pronounces: their mouths move up and down and appear\nto be looping. This limited animation technique is 'looping' from talking,\nrunning, walking, etc. So why is it Japanese animation is limited?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Edit:** I have done a big re-work on this answer, so it is worth re-reading\nif you have read an older version. This answer also focuses on mouth movements\nin particular.\n\nThe more time that is spent dubbing a show precisely, the more money animators\nwill need to be paid, as they will be drawing many additional frames.\nAdditionally, retakes are harder for voice actors/actresses - so more money\nmay be needed for the time needed to re-voice a part as it is more difficult\nto match the precise mouth movements. Anime usually have tight budgets, so\nsometimes paying for more animation or voice time isn't seen as a worthwhile\ndecision.\n\nThere are **a lot** of techniques that studios use to save money, and this is\njust another one of them. Other examples include using the same drawings in\ndifferent scenes, not showing lips at all when characters are talking, panning\nshots (over one drawing).\n\n\n\nEven in early anime, _looping_ was common as a cost-saving technique. (Kimba\nthe white lion)\n\nAnimating people talking in a fixed loop is a fairly standard technique in\nanimation. There are a certain number of mouth positions to know, which can\nalso be simplified down to as low as two looped frames. The broadness of these\nsimplified frames lets the timing and positioning [seems less _off_ than a\nhighly precise matchup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley) which\nmay seem unnatural. Sometimes in a close-up shot, there will be a larger range\nof mouth poses that the animators will draw to add detail to the scene. In\nmost scenarios though, animators can get away with a reduced set of movements\n\n**Differing levels of mouth movement:**\n\n  \n\n\n\n_A small guide to animating dialogue. This isn't a feature of just anime, but\nis in most animated and 3D works too._\n\nIn regards to voice acting itself, the way the English and Japanese voice\nactors/actresses work are quite different;\n\nUsually when the anime is first being made, the Japanese actors will face a\n[Leica Reel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_reel) (sometimes called\n_animatics_ in the West, but essentially timed storyboards). There are\nsections in the script where they can ad lib and generally, the animators will\nmatch the pauses and openings with the recorded voices.\n\nIn the exported market however, the anime is already created and voice actors\nhave to \"match the lip flaps\" that already exist. The translation team\ntranslates the script - but usually the non-scripted ad lib sections will be\ntranslated too. This is because a lot of the time Western voice actors won't\nhave much of an idea about the story (at least in the less prolific studios /\nactors).\n\nWestern dubbed anime can sometimes seem better dubbed (in term of lip matchup)\nbecause of the sole focus on this aspect of the show. Japanese studios need to\nworry about a lot more aspects of the anime and cannot afford to be\nperfectionists in each area. Seemingly (I have no solid source for this),\nculturally the Japanese experience less of a disconnect from the show with\nless-than-perfect syncing than in English.\n\n**Further Reading:**\n\n * an [FAQ](http://www.kylehebert.com/?page_id=241) that Kyle Herbert [from many well known series](http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kyle-Hebert) has made, where he talks a little about matching the flaps and the skill required.\n\n * Newtype USA April 2003 - Jonathan Clements talks about directing English voice actors and the surprise they faced when asked to ad lib.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlease see the latter part of the answer to [Is intentionally producing a\nlower quality TV release unique to\nanime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/16668/is-intentionally-\nproducing-a-lower-quality-tv-release-unique-to-anime/18560#18560):\n\n> American cartoon viewers are very particular about the quality. My friend\n> who is a key-frames animator for _The Simpsons_ told me that there is one\n> animator whose entire job is just to animate the mouth movements, because if\n> the mouth movement does not perfectly match the voice actor's words, the\n> fans generally feel that they cannot suspend disbelief. In contrast, anime\n> in Japanese does not always bother to **record the voice actors' voices\n> first before animating** , since Japanese fans do not care much whether the\n> mouth movements exactly match. . . . American viewers are used to watching\n> mouth movements like in _The Simpsons_ and Disney films which are perfectly\n> aligned.\n\nThis is not a case of anime being \"limited\" in a negative sense of slacking\noff, cutting corners, or being too rushed, but rather, Japanese viewers are\nnot at all bothered by mouth movements which do not perfectly align with the\nvoice, and therefore do not expect that out of animation production companies.\nIt is **a cultural difference** , so it does not make sense to label the\nWestern style as \"better at\" animating.\n\nAnime can precisely match mouth movements to the voice **when it is desired**\nto do so (see the opening theme song sequences of _Ao Haru Ride_ and _Ore\nMonogatari!!_ for examples), so the companies have the required skill to do\nit. It is just a matter of preference that they often do not.\n\nBecause Japanese viewers are not particular on this point, it allows the\nproduction company to begin animating the cels before the _seiyuu_ (voice\nactors) finish recording their lines. This gives the anime industry more\n**flexibility in the timeline of production** , as compared to non-Japanese\nanimation which requires the script to be finalized and the voice acting to be\nrecorded before the mouth movement animation can begin (in other words,\nmultiple aspects of the production of an anime episode can occur at the same\ntime). A benefit of this flexibility is that _seiyuu_ have the **freedom to\nad-lib** lines in the studio on the spot if they come up with something they\nthink might work better than what is written in the script that was handed to\nthem; even if the mouth movements have already been animated to basically\nmatch the line in the script, improvisation is still possible. Some fans enjoy\nbuying anime scripts and comparing the original script to the final product,\nso they can discover which parts the _seiyuu_ contributed.\n\nHistorically, anime was drawn by hand, so looping, panning, overlaying cels,\netc. were more utilized in older titles (since animating a whole episode's\nworth of cels took a lot of man hours) than in current anime, which is\npredominantly computer-animated. If you watch older series such as _Ashita no\nJoe_ or _Ace wo Nerae!_ , you can see very impressive and creative\nalternatives to animating many frames per second, an art form which has\nlargely diminished with the advent of computers. There is a remarkable and\narresting charm to some of the classic animating techniques which were\ndeveloped in order to stylistically or realistically convey the scene or the\ncharacter's emotion in less frames. The looping mouth movement is one of these\nearly innovations.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\n\n\nComparing Naruto and Goku, we can see that Naruto has the same hair and eye\ncolor as Goku from his Super Saiyan form and also, their jumpsuit color\nschemes are similar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo put it precisely, **no**. As\n[@Gao](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22181/is-naruto-a-clone-of-\ngoku#comment31529_22181) mentions in his comment, the difference in appearance\nbetween the two is obvious enough, keeping their clothing similarity aside.\nMoreover, Naruto and Goku exist in different series universes and hence\nthey're not _clones_ of each other.\n\nHowever, the similarity between the characters are astonishingly similar.\n\nThis is because Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of the _Naruto_ series, was\ndeeply inspired by Akira Toriyama's (creator of _Dragon Ball_ series) works.\nKishimoto often describes how Toriyama's works influenced him and encouraged\nhis own works.\n\n> **Q: When was the first time that you thought of becoming a mangaka, and\n> why?**\n>\n> Masashi Kishimoto: At some point between second and fourth grade I got into\n> Akira Toriyama Senseiโs Dr. Slump anime and Dragon Ball manga. I loved his\n> characters. I was especially attached to Dr. Slumpโs Arale and Dragon Ballโs\n> Goku. Also, his art really appealed to me. There was something about his\n> cartoony drawing style that felt right, more so than realistic drawings. I\n> thought to myself, I want to become like Toriyama Sensei.\n>\n> [INTERVIEW: Masashi Kishimoto - Feb 13,\n> 2012](https://shonenjump.viz.com/blog/posts/interview-masashi-kishimoto-59)\n\nMasashi Kishimoto openly admits that the character Naruto is inspired by the\nhero of Dragon Ball, Goku.\n\n> Kishimoto cites Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball series as one of his\n> influences, noting that Goku, the protagonist, was a key factor when\n> creating Naruto Uzumaki due to his energetic and mischievous personality.\n>\n> Art Collection: Uzumaki, page 139\n\nAs for the clothing, both the characters are often portrayed in orange-blue\ncolor schemes (although it changes series wise). The reason for this uncommon\ncombination is, to make the character appear more active and pop out to the\nviewers.\n\nFrom\n[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContrast):\n\n> Basic complementary color theory states that when two contrasting colors are\n> put together, they \"pop,\" so the natural technique is to color films to have\n> a strong, contrasting palette.\n\nBright color schemes are used so that the character would certainly catch\npeople's attention.\n\n> The orange in his costume makes Naruto \"pop\" and the blue parts are often\n> used as [complements](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors).\n>\n> source: [Naruto Uzumaki\n> (Wikipedia)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki)\n\nAlso, as I have mentioned above, Naruto was deeply influenced by Goku.\nTherefore their are very similar (that includes the color schemes too).\n\nFor more details regarding the creation and concept of the two characters,\ncheck out their Wikia articles:\n\n * [**Goku**](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Goku#Concept_and_creation)\n * [**Naruto Uzumaki**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto#Creation_and_Conception)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs shown in the following pictures, there are so many similar scenes/character\ndesigns with _One Piece_ :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ENIYR.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oSXWE.jpg)\n\nIsn't this considered plagiarism?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth artists have claimed Akira Toriyama (creator of Dragonball) is their\nbiggest influence, and coming from the same art school I think it's likely\nenough they share a lot of other influences as well as possibly knowing each\nother personally as well.\n\nHiro Mashima's earlier work _Rave Master_ was quite similar artistically to\nEiichiro Oda's work & Fairy Tale as well. So, it's not as if Mashima's has\npurposefully made Fairy Tale similar in an art style similar to One Piece -\nIt's just his own style.\n\n\n\nAnd as mentioned before, there is only so much uniqueness that one can have in\na show as long as both of the shows are. The combination of those two facts\nare probably sufficient to pass the comparisons you've shown as coincidence.\n\nRegardless, I would imagine that it's not doing Oda any harm so he's chosen to\nleave it be if it was the case that there was some level of plagarism going\non.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Plagiarism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism) is a legal crime and\nthereby **its definition and how it is handled differs by nation** (also,\nplagiarism and copyright infringement are two different things). For example,\nin the U.S., an illustration that draws upon previous works by others must be\ndifferent enough that a specific source for it cannot be pinpointed and that\nmultiple possible sources cannot be presented (to mash-up a couple of works\nand/or to change the pose slightly can be enough that it does not constitute\ncopyright infringement). Some of the illustrations you include above are not\nclearly similar enough to count under that sort of definition.\n\nHowever, **Japan is not a country that is as concerned about plagiarism** as\nmany other nations. Plagiarism is generally thought of as poor behavior **in\nthe academic context** and when infamous cases of it come out in the\ninternational sphere, **an apology** and possibly **a retraction** of the\nacademic paper may be made: [a recent\nexample](http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579438131341933464)\nis the stem-cell research dissertation that contained almost identical\nportions to text posted on a U.S. National Institutes of Health website; the\nauthor \"said she was 'very hurt' by the media hoopla surrounding the research\"\nand the university \"released a statement of apology it said was signed by Dr.\nObokata and two of her co-authors. They said they 'humbly accept the various\nsuggestions made about the flaws in our paper' and were discussing a\nretraction . . .\" Some universities do not even prepare and distribute a\nplagiarism policy, professors vocally welcome plagiarism (I heard the other\nday a prof say in a room of fellow instructors and students that it is fine\nfor students to plagiarize speeches as a way of practicing English), and\nunwelcome plagiarism noticed by professors is often not reported (instead, the\nwork is graded according to its quality or the student fails the course. If\nthe plagiarism is reported, the prof must fill out lots of paperwork and the\nstudent fails the course anyway, which means the same student may be back in\nthe same class next semester and the same prof has to deal with him/her again,\nso failing the student quietly or grading the work on its own merit [usually\nnot high quality] can be preferred. This is especially true because once the\npaperwork is filed, the school administration can decide whether or not to\ngive the student any consequences or can tell the prof to please go ahead and\npass the student).\n\n**In standard publishing** , plagiarism is usually dealt with by simply making\na **public apology, or an expression of regret** (which carefully avoids\ntechnically apologizing), and possibly **withdrawing further sales of the\npublication** and/or the plagiarist **promptly retires** (a culturally well-\nthought-of means of demonstrating that you were not qualified to have that\nrole; if a Japanese company makes a major blunder, often the boss will\nannounce retirement to take the blame): see the examples in the [Japanese\nWikipedia page on\nplagiarism](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%97%E4%BD%9C#.E7.9B.97.E4.BD.9C.E3.81.AE.E4.BE.8B).\nIn only two of the cases listed there did the victim press charges and file a\nlawsuit.\n\nJapanese are often assuaged by, or really **the only thing they wanted out of\ntheir complaint is, an apology**. In Japanese culture, it is rude to explain\nin an apology why the thing happened (i.e. if you are late to class, only say\nyou're sorry for being late; do not mention whether your mother just got\nrushed to the hospital or the train got delayed from a suicide on the tracks\nor you overslept. They want the apology only, and it is more polite to make it\nas succinct as possible).\n\nTo sue over plagiarism, the victim who was wronged (the publishing company\nthat owns the plagiarized work, or possibly the author of the plagiarized\nwork) must have a desire to sue; then it will come up before a prosecutor and\nthen possibly proceed to court (sometimes the prosecutor determines that the\ndefendant is not guilty, or for some other reason that it would not be best\nfor the case to go to trial, and it dies in the prosecutor's office. Fictional\nexamples of this can be seen in the Japanese live-action TV drama _HERO_ ).\n**In Japanese culture, suing is not as common and viewed as respectable\nbehavior** as it is in some other countries. About a year ago at my Japanese\nuniversity, a student was physically abusing another student and it was found\nout by an American international student, who reported it to the advisor. The\nadvisor was angry that this was reported by the international student because\nit could look bad for the department, and the police came to campus to\ninvestigate but were not able to do anything because the victim refused to\nadmit the abuse, since if he did so, his chance of getting hired by a Japanese\ncompany after graduation would sharply decrease: **a person who reports\nmisdemeanors is considered a trouble-maker** that a company would not want to\nhire; the batterer went off scot-free. This is not the unfortunate case of\nevery crime in Japan, but it is prevalent for victims to want to protect their\nstanding in society by not getting involved in a police report or lawsuit.\n\n**Some character designs, and battle poses, are common enough** in many\nmanga/anime titles that no one could sue over them (such as hair styles like\nthe long, black straight hair that waves at the bottom seen in Tomoyo in\n_Cardcaptor Sakura_ and _Tsubasa Chronicle_ , or the high ponytail with a wide\nribon or sash seen in Kaoru in _Rurouni Kenshin_ , or the shooting-straight-up\nspikes of hair like Gon in _HUNTER x HUNTER_ ).\n\nIt is also not considered plagiarism to **pay tribute** to a character/costume\ndesign that you like in a parody sort of way. Having your characters cosplay\nis the easiest way, like _Hyouka_ 's [Ibara\nMayaka](http://hyouka.wikia.com/wiki/Mayaka_Ibara)'s copy of Frolbericheri\nFrol's fashion in the classic shoujo sci-fi [_11 Nin\nIru!_](http://frolbericheri.tripod.com/) (They Were Eleven), but adapting a\ndesign in a way that incorporates originality while giving a big hint to the\naudience who you're giving a shout-out to is also unlikely to garner ill\nfeelings from the artist who created the original character. As an example,\n[_Sailor Moon_ parodies appeared in _Crayon Shin-chan_ and vice\nversa](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Sailor_Moon_and_Crayon_Shin-chan),\neven though the manga titles were not owned by the same publishing company nor\nthe anime owned by the same animation studio (though both aired on the same TV\nchannel), and [here's a list](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Cameos) of\nother series in which Sailor Moon was given a cameo appearance.\n\n   \n\nUltimately, 1) **plagiarism is not considered a major scandal requiring action\nto be taken** and 2) **a publishing company or the artist must have a desire\nto sue for plagiarism, which is not all that common** in Japan. When Kamiya\nYuu's illustrations were [accused of\nplagiarism](http://seventhstyle.com/2014/09/23/no-game-no-life-artist-caught-\ntracing/) on the Twitter account rotiflride (which has since been suspended),\nno action was taken. When an element in the anime adaption of his _No Game No\nLife_ series was discovered to be plagiarized according to another Twitter\naccount, the production committee admitted this and issued an apology, and\ndecided to replace the image for the DVD and Blue-Ray release. The specific\nartist who committed the plagiarism [wrote a\nresponse](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-29/no-game-no-life-\nanime-staff-apologizes-for-using-art-without-authorization/.74993) which looks\nvaguely like an apology but which does not technically apologize.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was in Akibahara when I came across a load of stalls selling second-hand\nfigures. I couldn't resist and bought some stuff from my favourite series.\nAlso, I bought a figure of a schoolgirl with a baseball bat who seems to be\nfloating on top of some water with lotus flowers.\n\n\n\nThere doesn't seem to be any company markings on it, apart from maybe a 'C' at\nthe backside of the base. I don't have a ruler, but I estimate it to be about\n5.5 inches tall. Unfortunately I don't speak Japanese, so I couldn't ask the\nseller.\n\n\n\nDoes anyone have any ideas what series she could be from? I'd really like to\nput a name to the face (and watch the series also)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe seems to be [**Natsume\nReiko**](http://www.natsumeyuujinchou.wikia.com/wiki/Reiko_Natsume) from\n[**Natsume Yuujinchou**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/4081/Natsume_Yuujinchou)\n\n\n\nSometimes, she's shown with a baseball bat with some seals on it, which she\nuses to fight youkai. This is a picture of her wielding the bat:\n\n\n\nFor extra confirmation, the same figure can be seen on\n[Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-\nlanguage/product/B00DT3RY6S/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en_JP) with\nๅค็ฎๅไบบๅธณ (Natsume Yuujinjou) and ๅค็ฎใฌใคใณ (Natsume Reiko) in the description.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Hueco Mundo arc, Episode 139, 19th minute, the passage between gates\nshould be closing from behind but the narrowing of the passage wasn't\napproaching and though Inoue stayed there for a lot of time and chatted with\nUlquiorra while he cuts down Inoue's escorts and she waits and heals them.\nSuch a long time taken and no threat of narrowing of gates till then? What\nhappened suddenly? Why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe passage doesn't close because they had hell butterflies with them. Hell\nbutterflies are used for both communication as well as keeping the gates from\ncollapsing while they are in them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI had a few questions in mind. Akane is someone who strongly believes in\njustice and she doesn't cross the line even she could. She knows Sybil is not\nthe perfect system and lots of people do suffer from injustice because of it.\nSo why support it then even when she has had the chances to destroy it?\n\nI mean how bad can it get without Sybil. It might be difficult for the society\nwithout Sybil but if the rest of the world can live without it, then why not\nthe Japanese?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are several opinions on this matter discussed in the anime, and I\nbelieve one of them makes the most sense. The fact that the society living\nunder the law of Sybil has already formed certain behavioral patterns makes it\nvery hard to safely oppose the system.\n\nRemember how people start freaking out at the very thought that their criminal\nrating _could_ go up? How they become extremely nervous at the sight of a\ncriminal activity or something that may look like it. Imagine if they learned\nthat somebody is trying to oppose Sybil, how they would react. This would\ncertainly cause a lot of trouble and quite possibly lots of people killed\nbecause of how the Sybil system works.\n\nSo the safer solution is to change the way it works gradually from within, by\nchanging the basic principles of how it judges people. Akane can't single-\nhandedly destroy the Sybil system, and because she has such a strong sense of\njustice, she knows it would not be right to risk more innocent people's lives\nthan she has to, so she doesn't really have a lot of choice.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst, how Hakase said, the process of disabling Sibyl would be extremely\ntough and if not done correctly, it would result in many people getting hurt\nor dying.\n\nBut there is other problem : what system should replace it? I think it was\nstressed enough in conversation between Akane and Sybil. Even though Akane\ndoesn't like the current system, she doesn't have a replacement that would\ngive same results as Sybil while being much \"nicer\". Unlike Makishima, who\ndidn't care what would happen after Sybil was destroyed, she doesn't want to\nrisk anarchy afterwards. She doesn't want to risk a situation, where system\nmuch worse than Sybil would emerge afterwards.\n\nAnd one more thing : no matter how bad you think Sybil is. It still gives\n\"happiness\" to most people. Even if life of few are sacrificed for it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would also like to mention that the rest of the world ISN'T functioning very\nwell without a system like Sybil. Wong and Sybil both stated that most of the\ncountries in the world are in a state of anarchy and disorder.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe virtual robots that cleans up outdated space and illegal objects called\nSatchii, arrive in a similar manner: before they start shooting erasing beams\nat animate objects like people and virtual pets, they announce _\"Boku\nSatchii!\"_ or \"I'm Satchii!\" (slightly distorted Japanese transliteration of\nthe English word _search_ ). How many times, throughout the 26 episodes of\nanime series, do these robots announce their arrival?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter extracting all subtitle files and looking for the name \"Satchii\", it\nlooks like there are a total of 120 mentions of their name, and 20 times it's\nthemselves announcing their arrival:\n\n(Click for full size)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U9ahm.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the song playing when Mr. 3 uses his Wax Wax Mansion ability on Luffy\nduring the Little Garden arc (I think it's episode 75 ish)? I've been\nsearching for it ever since I heard it, but no luck.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EmX1eO5Xo&ab_channel=MrCyboron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32EmX1eO5Xo&ab_channel=MrCyboron)\nHere is the sound track. Most One Piece official soundtracks will come with at\nleast more than one song. The soundtrack you're looking for will be the second\nof two soundtracks. EDIT: The name of the soundtrack is Difficult.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn non-hentai anime, nudity and ecchi scenes are everywhereโdramatically more\nthan American broadcast TV and even more than non-porn American movies and\ncable TV. Yet, at the same time, sex is almost nonexistent and nearly all non-\nadult anime characters (and many unmarried adults) are virginsโdramatically\nmore than in American movies and broadcast TV (and cable all the more so).\n\nHow is this discrepancyโthat anime is so perverted and yet so prudishโto be\nexplained?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCurrently, nearly 50% of Japanese adults are not sexually active. This has\nbeen reported in international news such as the [Washington\nPost](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/22/japans-\nsexual-apathy-is-endangering-the-global-economy/), the\n[Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11357201/Nearly-50-per-\ncent-of-Japanese-adults-not-having-sex.html), the\n[Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-\nstopped-having-sex), the [Daily\nMail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2473167/Why-\nJapans-20-somethings-stopped-having-sex.html), and Japan's own English-\nlanguage news source, the [Japan\nTimes](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/19/national/japanese-couples-\ngoing-without-sex/#.VXOTDGSqqko). Anime characters are a reflection of the\nreal situation. Not all of the adults who are not currently sexually active\nare virgins: some are, while others are people who do not plan to become\nsexually active again.\n\nJapan is a don't-ask,-don't-tell society: what you want to do in the privacy\nof your own bedroom (watch hentai, use body pillow dolls, any matter of\nfetishes, etc.) is not considered any big deal, and mentioning that you felt\nup a stranger's breast in a hostess club can be done in front of your\ncolleagues without anyone raising an eyebrow, so it is not a \"prudish\" society\nat all. However, the Japanese overwhelmingly want you to keep your sexuality\nand sexual activities to yourself: do whatever you like and that will\ngenerally be respected, but PDA (public display of affection) or coming out\nand sharing about it to others is not socially respected (i.e. don't bother\nother people with it). Many young Japanese believe, likely as an influence\nfrom the Western nations, that it makes sense to test-drive a potential spouse\nbefore marrying (sleep together and/or live together), but it is simply the\ncase that not as many Japanese are even dating and getting married.\n\nAnother cultural factor that may contribute, which you can see in quite a lot\nof manga and anime, is that a major format of Japanese romance is to like\nsomeone who you are not friends with for a long time, and finally \"confess\"\nyour feelings in a sudden love letter, on St. Valentine's Day, or on\ngraduation day, in which the recipient must abruptly decide whether or not\nhe/she has romantic interest in the other person -- who might not have been on\nthe recipient's radar whatsoever. This can result in either being turned down\non the spot (\"I don't even know you\"), a willingness to try to go on a couple\ndates (\"Maybe I could get interested in you\"), or the first-choice being the\nrecipient is overjoyed (\"I secretly pined away for you for years too!\"). A lot\nof romantic feelings and sexual desire are never confessed, but some that are\nget rejected due to the format in which the potential couple does not get to\nknow each other through friendship or casual dating before a major DTR\n(defining the relationship) event takes place, or reciprocal feelings are\nconfessed right after the graduation ceremony and the respective parties part\nways to go to different schools for high school or university, so the mutual\ninterest doesn't lead anywhere.\n\n_Ecchi_ content in anime is responding to a market that may not have an outlet\nfor sexual release in a real-life relationship; on the flip side, characters\nwho are virgins are easy for certain demographics to relate to, so if the\nvirginal character ended up getting laid, the viewer wouldn't feel like a\nkindred spirit. In terms of storytelling, delaying steps toward the\nculmination of a relationship keeps viewers coming back for more episodes,\nsuch as rationing out the hand-holding, kissing, etc. (although this is\nperhaps not as often done regarding sex between characters in mainstream\nWestern TV shows for adults, a good example is Sheldon and Amy in _The Big\nBang Theory_ ). While delayed gratification is a normal plot device, in modern\nJapan, another type of love triangle has emerged in _bishoujo_ harem and\n_bishounen_ reverse harem anime: a lot of love interests are available to the\nprotagonist, but he or she ends up not choosing between them and doesn't end\nup with anyone. This purportedly allows the view to favor any one of the\npotential suitors and imagine the post-episode happily-ever-after that they\nprefer without their favorite ship getting rejected in canon.\n\nLegally, what is considered porn or not porn differs by country. I once turned\non a Japanese TV during prime time (while kids are awake) and found myself\nlooking at a topless woman in a live-action TV drama series. In manga and\nanime, non-pornographic depictions of nudity should not include the details of\nfemale nipples or any genitalia (and they usually do not include any body\nhair), so the bodies look Barbie doll-ish or the genital area is censored with\na white spot (nothing is drawn there).\n\nNot all nudity in manga and anime is considered sensual or sexual. Just as the\nJapanese public baths ( _onsen_ and _sento_ ) do not innately bear any\nassociation of nudity with sex among the general population, nudity can be\nincluded in illustrations that are not intending to have any sexual\nconnotations. Historically, the Japanese were surprised by the foreigners who\narrived on their shores and balked at the public baths, since the Japanese\ndidn't view them as related to sexual interest. In fact, nudity can in some\ncontexts connote purity, as in the [final\nepisode](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Usagi%27s_Love!_The_Moonlight_Lights_up_the_Galaxy)\nof _Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon_ , in which the protagonist fights her final\nbattle in the nude, her pure heart able to\n\n> reach and connect to the villain's and set her free from being possessed by\n> evil.\n\nNeither the villain, nor any of the onlooking supporting characters,\nparticularly pay attention to her nudity during and after the battle; even\nwhen she is subsequently hugged by her boyfriend, there is no sensuality\npresent in the depiction.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that this is not really that anime-specific, It can be seen in lots of\nAmerican shows also. I can't say that I see much of a difference myself,\nperhaps there are particular genres (either american or japanese) that do, but\nfor the most part I think it's about equal. Perhaps barring more recent shows\nas I believe american TV has become more open about sex.\n\nIn the context of a story, usually traits are added if they're essential to\nthe plot. Because of this, we usually have two polar opposites - Pure Virgin &\nPromiscuous. Some stories need some conflict with exes, and there's usually an\nepisode of intimacy included here - just like with American TV. Most of the\ntime however, one's _experience_ isn't really mentioned and it's assumed by\nthe viewer that they are virgins from their appearance/demeanour.\n\nIn ecchi shows, being a virgin is often an appeal point - viewers like\ninnocent females moreso than promiscuous ones. This is seen in Western culture\ntoo - see [Slut-Shaming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slut-shaming) and the\nporn industry's value on virginity videos. For an example in Eastern culture,\nsee the [many idol groups who prohibit\nrelationships](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-21299324) in order to keep\ntheir appeal to their fans.\n\nAnother point to mention is that anime _generally_ has a younger cast than\nwestern shows. Many western shows are based around an adult cast at work,\nwheras the majority of anime shows are focused on school-life. Obviously adult\ncharacters would have had more time to experience intimate relationships than\nschool characters (especially as they could be in single-sex schools)\n\nAlong with a school setting, comes teenage angst, fluctuating hormones and an\nincreased interest in the opposite sex. Because of this, a common character is\none who has found their first love / wants to experiment with the opposite\nsex. This is a theme that resonates strongly with the male teenage target\naudience which is an important majority of anime fans.\n\nThat being said, my exposure to American shows is limited. But coming from a\nbackground with much exposure to British media - I think it's not too\nindifferent from the shows here. Maybe it's America who are the odd ones out?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat are the similarities and difference between Reiatsu from _Bleach_ and\nChakra from _Naruto_?\n\nI've felt that they both are similar, like it's a part of the individuals'\ninsides/spirit/soul and also it can be sensed from a distance. Generally, the\nhigher the person's Reiatsu or Chakra levels, the stronger that person is.\nAnother similarity is how Chakra and Reiatsu diminishes to zero while dying.\nHowever, there are some significant differences which don't make them the same\nthing with different names.\n\nI want to know both the differences and the similarities between them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFairy Tail and Yankee-kun to Megane-chan have a cross over titled Fairy\nMegane, and there's one scene when Natsu wore a glasses from Adachi.\n\n\n\nWas he trying to imitate someone? If he did, who was that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthe bit where Natsu says are you here to get burned wearing the glasses is\njust imitating a yakuza or a gangster because he is wearing the sunglasses and\nthe glasses symbolizes yakuza or gangsters in a way. if you search up yazuka\nor gangster in google images, you will find that out of the ones that wear\nsunglasses, they mostly wear glasses that is the same or similar (big lenses)\nto the glasses Natsu is wearing in the image. for example [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hS8xN.jpg)\nor here, an anime one [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dwBMB.jpg)\n\n**EDIT:** because the other manga was flunk punk rumble, the whole fairy tail\nguild (in that manga were being punks and acting tough. and yakuza was one of\nthe typical tough guys in that sense. please excuse my poor English but yeah,\nhope this helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI cannot find the name of the manga.\n\n * The boy ends up joining a mercenary group that has a talking Alligator as the leader.\n\n * He teams up with a vampire girl, a robot dude with his robot dogs.\n\n * In the last chapter I read, his team was stopping a slave trafficking caravan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has been confirmed by L that if a person's name is written in the Death\nNote, and they are written to die in a form that specifies another person's\nname, (like \"L Lawliet will die after he deletes all his evidence on Light\nYagi and goes to Misa Amani's apartment\") then all of them would die of a\nheart attack.\n\nThis is due to [Rule\nXI](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XI)\n\n> 3. [...] once the victim's name has been written, the individual's death\n> can never be avoided.\n>\n\nThe rule above may appear to trump [Rule\nX](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_X)\n\n> 2. Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or\n> accident, if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the\n> person will simply die of a heart attack. [...]\n>\n\nHowever, it does not. \"The victim\" is automatically anyone whose name is\nwritten in the Death Note.\n\nSuppose somebody uses a Death Note to kill someone and specifies another\nperson's name in the description. **Will that person โ who is specified, but\nnot intended to be killed โ live, if the Death Note user does not know their\nface?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe person would live in many cases. That rule indeed says that if multiple\npeople are specified, that they all would end up having a heart attack, but\n**it does not circumvent all the other existing rules**. You would still need\nto have the person's face in mind while writing and the name should be the\nperson's real name and not a nickname. The only thing that rule says is that\nall other details regarding the first person's death are just ignored.\n\nFor example if you write\n\n> Person A stabbed to the heart. Person A would hug person B and would then\n> kill person C. Person D would become jealous and would stab person A.\n\nthe Death Note would read it as\n\n> Person A ~~stabbed to the heart.~~ Person A ~~would hug~~ Person B ~~and\n> would then kiss~~ Person C. Person D ~~would become jealous and would stab~~\n> Person A.\n\nor\n\n> Person A \n> Person B \n> Person C \n> Person D\n\nSo unless you had the specific person's face in mind while writing the name or\nunless the name was fake, the person would die from a heart attack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [How to Use:\nI](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_I)\n\n> This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in\n> their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same\n> name will not be affected.\n\nTherefore, answer for this question is **That people, who Deathnote user does\nnot know their face, will live.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of the Dragon Slayers were trained by Dragons, while others gained Dragon\nSlayer Magic by means of Lacrima implants (as in the case of Laxus). For\nLacrima implants, the Dragon Slayer Magic has to be extracted from a Dragon\n(that's my assumption). So how many Dragons in total, living or dead, exist in\nFairy Tail? If possible please provide their names.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are thousands, but the main ones (that trained the dragon slayers) are\nof a number of 5. ( **Igneel** (Natsu), **Grandine** (Wendy), **Metallicana**\n(Gajeel), **Skiadrum** (Rogue) and **Weisslogia** (Sting).) There is also\n**Acnologia** , making a total of 6 main dragons. There are a lot of other\nones, but these are the dragons worth remembering. Especially Acnologia. There\nare other minor ones, but I don't think they are really important to the plot.\nThe number of names mentioned is of 13, though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the Fairy Tail\n[wiki](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon#Known_Dragons), there are **18\nDragons** who have been given a name.\n\n> However in the [Grand Magic\n> Games](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Grand_Magic_Games_arc) arc we learn\n> that 400 years ago the world was ruled by dragons. Many a Dragon were slain,\n> and thus, the humans became known as Dragon Slayers.\n\n**Dragons with titles:**\n\n * [Igneel](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Igneel) \\- The Fire Dragon King\n * [Metalicana](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Metalicana) \\- The Iron Dragon\n * [Grandeeney](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Grandeeney) \\- The Sky Dragon\n * [Acnologia](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Acnologia) \\- The Black Dragon (The Black Dragon of the Apocalypse)\n * [Weisslogia](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Weisslogia) \\- The White Dragon\n * [Skiadrum](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Skiadrum) \\- The Shadow Dragon\n * [Zirconis](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Zirconis) \\- The Jade Dragon\n * [Atlas Flame](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Atlas_Flame) \\- The Fire Dragon\n * [Belserion](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Belserion) \\- The Sage Dragon\n * [Irene Belserion](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Irene_Belserion) \\- Queen of Dragons\n * [Elefseria](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Elefseria) \\- The Law Dragon\n * [Mercuphobia](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Mercuphobia) \\- The Water God Dragon\n\n**Other named Dragons:**\n\n * [Motherglare](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Motherglare)\n * [Scissor Runner](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Scissor_Runner)\n * [Levia](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Levia)\n * [Dark Dragon](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Dragon)\n * [Rock Dragon](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_Dragon)\n * [Animus](https://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Animus)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are 18 dragons:\n\n * Igneel\n * Metalicana\n * Grandeeney\n * Acnologia\n * Weisslogia\n * Skiadrum\n * Ziroconis\n * Atlas Flame\n * Motherglare\n * Scissor runner\n * Levia\n * Dark Dragon\n * Rock Dragon\n * Belsrion\n * Irene Belserion\n * Animus\n * Elefseria\n * Mercuphobie\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthere are several dragon slayers (if u look at the dragon war era), but the\nones that actually played a role in the story are:\n\n * Natsu (Fairy Tail)\n * Gajeel (Fairy Tail)\n * Wendy (Fairy Tail)\n * Sting (Sabertooth)\n * Rogue (Sabertooth)\n * Laxus (Fairy Tail)(Lacrima)\n * Eric (General Cobra)(Crime Sorcery)(Lacrima)\n * Irene (Erza's mother)(Spriggan 12)\n * Acnologia (Dragon King)\n * God Serena (Wizard Saint)(Spriggan 12)(Strongest Man on Ishgar)\n\nThat makes a total of 10 dragon slayers\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fairy Tail, all the Dragons have names, like the Fire Dragon, Igneel. But I\ndon't remember anyone mentioning the names of the Thunder Dragon or the Poison\nDragon in the anime. Does someone know what their names are?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLaxus and Cobra are [**Second generation Dragon\nSlayers**](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Slayer#Second_Generation),\nso they weren't taught Dragon Slayer Magic by a Dragon. Hence, Thunder and\nPoison Dragons are never mentioned (moreover, they possibly do not exist at\nall).\n\n> Those from the second generation of Dragon Slayers have had Dragon Lacrima\n> implanted into their bodies, granting them the ability to use Dragon Slayer\n> Magic. Because they were not taught their abilities by a Dragon, they are\n> considered artificial Dragon Slayers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe dragon lacrima is only able to be extracted out of the dragons when they\nare dead, so technically, there was a thunder dragon and a poison dragon, but\nthey were most probably on the verge of dying, or already dead, so the lacrima\ncould be extracted and placed in their bodies.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the new manga mini-series, Sarada figures out the girl in glasses with\nSasuke to whom Sarada seems to look like (the glasses, the face). I was\nwondering if maybe Sakura isn't her biological mother and that Sarada is a\nchild of Sasuke and the other girl in picture.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome fans are stating as fact that Karin is Sarada's biological mother based\non the result of a DNA test in **[chapter\n700+7](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Genetic_Slaves), but the test does not\nmake this clear**.\n\nIn chapter 700+7, Sarada gets a genetic (้บไผๅญ, _idenshi_ ) test. The Japanese\nwords for \"DNA\" (ใใชใญใทใชใๆ ธ้
ธ, _deokishiribo kakusan_ ) and \"DNA test\" (DNAๅ้ๅฎ,\n_DNA-gata kantei_ ) are **not used**.\n\nSarada goes into it with the assumption that doing so will conclusively\ndetermine who her birth mother is. Her assumption is based on a photo she saw\nin [chapter 700+1](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sarada_Uchiha_\\(chapter\\)) of\nKarin standing next to Sasuke, who she believes to be her biological father.\n\n \n\nThe result of the test is that she has a genetic match (ไธ่ด, _icchi_ : the\nimage above from page 20). **However,**\n\n**=** it is unknown what genetic material Suigetsu matched Sarada's saliva\nswab to. Suigetsu found something in Karin's desk which he believes to be from\nthe time of Karin's birth (on page 19), but 1) what item he found and tested\nis not shown and he does not mention what it is, 2) whether Suigetsu's\nassessment of it dating from Karin's birth is unknown, and 3) even if it dates\nfrom that time, it is unknown whether the item contains Karin's genetic\nmaterial (the possibility that the genetic material belonged to someone other\nthan Karin remains)\n\n**=** there are ways Sarada and Karin could have a genetic match without being\nmother/daughter\n\n**=** even if Sarada and Karin have a genetic match based on Sarada being\nconceived from Karin's egg, it is possible that Karin was not the birth mother\n(such as surrogacy, egg donation)\n\n**=** the storytelling **lead-up within the chapter to this scene implies that\nthe reader should not put too much trust in genes alone** through the\nfollowing plot points.\n\n 1. On page 9, Sakura says that Ochimaru is even a bigger idiot (ๅคงใใซ่
, _oobakamono_ ) than Orochimaru because he doesn't at all understand what is important to a parent (่ฆชใซใจใฃใฆๅคงไบใชใใฎใไฝใใพใใงๅใใฃใฆใชใ๏ผ _Oya ni totte daiji na mono ga nani ka marude wakattenai!_ )\n\n\n\n 2. On page 15, Ochimaru says that humans are merely \"slaves to genes\" (้บไผๅญใฎๅฅด้ท, _idenshi no dorei_ ) and that any individual's connection to any other person can be proven by such (ใใฎ็นใใใๅ
จใฆ่จผๆใงใใ, _sono tsunagari mo subete shoumei dekiru_ )\n\n\n\n 3. On page 22, Suigetsu feels likes he might've done something bad by conducting the genetic test (โฆใผใโฆใชใใใพใใใใจใใกใใฃใๆใใใช๏ผ, _...Boku... nanka mazui koto shichatta kanji kana?_ )\n\n\n\n 4. On pages 22 to 23, Sarada violently reacts to believing she now knows who her biological mother is (we could say, she overreacts: she verbally disowns Sakura as her mother)\n\n \n\nThere is still room for someone other than Karin to be Sarada's birth mother.\nIf the reader is meant to trust Sakura over Ochimaru regarding what a parent\nis, and to dislike Sarada's turbulent reaction to the genetic test result,\n**the reader should not 1) interpret the test as conclusive, and 2) even if\nKarin is the biological mother, to not interpret Karin as the \"real mother\"\nbecause parenting is not simply about biological ties**.\n\nWhether Karin is Sarada's biological mother or not has not been stated in\ncanon, but **[adoptive mothers are real\nmothers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_adoption) in the full sense\nof the word**, so Sakura is Sarada's \"real mother\" even if Karin is her\nbiological mother. Likewise, adoptive daughters are \"real daughters\" of the\nparent/s who raise them without being related biologically. The relationship\nbetween adoptive mother, adoptive daughter, and birth mother is given a\ncareful treatment in [_Kodomo no\nOmocha_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodocha) (also known as Kodocha or\nChild's Toy) manga volumes 3 to 4 and in episodes 17 to 19 of its anime\nadaption. For more information about the complicated situations of people who\ngrow up without knowing who their biological parent/s are, see the documentary\nfilms [_The Invisible Red Thread_](http://theinvisibleredthread-\nthemovie.com/about-the-movie/), [_Birthplace\nUnknown_](http://www.docsonline.tv/documentary/314), [_Foster\nChild_](http://www.nfb.ca/film/foster_child), [_Anonymous Fatherโs\nDay_](http://www.anonymousfathersday.com/about/) and\n[_Breeders_](http://breeders.cbc-network.org/?page_id=2).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKarin (the other girl you're talking about). It's a very minute possibility\nthat Karin is the mother of Sarada.\n\nThe reasons being:\n\n 1. There was no relation whatsoever between Karin and Sasuke until the end of war.\n 2. After the final fight, Sasuke went to explore the Ninja world. And before leaving, he tapped on Sakura's forehead. The tapping symbolizes love, and affection. This is similar to what Itachi did to Sasuke. So it's a very minute possibility that Sasuke would maintain sexual relations with a girl at that time. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEverything in this answer takes place after Shippuden ends and should be\nconsidered a spoiler.\n\n* * *\n\nIn [Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet\nSpring](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Gaiden:_The_Seventh_Hokage_and_the_Scarlet_Spring)\nSarada is unsure of who her real mother is after finding a picture of Sasuke\nwith Karin. Since Sarada had never meet her father she follows Naruto to meet\nSasuke and find out the truth about her biological mother. When she meets\nSasuke he says that its nothing to do with her and leaves it at that.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yhMhC.jpg)\n\nLater in Orochimaru's hideout Sarada ask Suigetsu about Karin to see if she\nwas there in the hideout or if he knew who her real mother is. Suigetsu did\nknow the answer but remembered that Karin had an umbilical cord in her desk.\nSuigetsu thought it was from Karin's birth. He then did a mouth swab on Sarada\nand preformed a DNA test. The test was a positive match. This leave Sarada to\nthink that Karin is he biological mother.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eN1Y1.jpg)\n\nIt is later revealed that Karin could not be Sarada's mother because she was\nthe one who delivered her. Karin tells Suigetsui that the umbilical cord he\ntested was Sakura's and that she was Saradas biological mother.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jdN99.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom _Punch Line_ episode 7, at around 6:35 there's this scene:\n\n\n\nThere are five girls here. Who are they depicting?\n\n 1. Blonde with the green dress.\n 2. Brunette with the blue dress. Meika?\n 3. Redhead with the purple dress. Mikatan, probably.\n 4. Slender brunette with the brown dress.\n 5. Green haired in the lower right.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on their hairstyles, they seem to be (from left to right) Lovera, Ito\n(undyed), Mika, Yuta (technically a female), and Meika.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn both _One Piece_ and in _Overlord_ , there is a character named Momonga (in\n_Overlord_ , Momonga was his earlier name, but he goes by Ainz Ooal Gown\nduring the series).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bplYY.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pvb1p.jpg)\n\n[ใใขใขใณใฌใ](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%9B%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A2%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC)\n( _momonga_ ) is the Japanese word for [\"flying\nsquirrel\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_dwarf_flying_squirrel) and is\nused for the type native to Japan, as well as for the northern flying squirrel\nand southern flying squirrel of North America, and for the Siberian dwarf\nflying squirrel (in contrast, the word ใใ ใตใตใใ [ _musasabi_ ] is used to refer\nto giant flying squirrels native to and outside of Japan), and the marsupial\n[sugar glider](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glider) is called\n[ใใใฏใญใขใขใณใฌใ](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A2%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC)\n( _fukuro momonga_ ).\n\nThese characters both are not particularly cute, are large in size, have small\neye sockets, and do not feature a\n[patagium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagium) (a.k.a. gliding membrane-\nlike flap of skin or fabric stretched from their wrists to their ankles). In\nother words, they do not feature the best-known features of flying squirrels.\nWhy were they named Momonga? Is there anything about them that was\nintentionally derived from real-life flying squirrels?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is Kotetsu trying to parody in this scene from chapter 495? \nApparently its really old.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a reference to the manga [Kyuukyoku Chojin\nR](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=44207) (็ฉถๆฅต่ถ
ไบบใใใ), a gag manga\nrunning from 1985-1987 published in Shuukan Shounen Sunday (the same magazine\n_Hayate_ runs in) about a robot student named R who joins a photography club.\n\nMore specifically, it's a reference to the somewhat well-known scene in the\nfirst chapter of volume 8, titled ใใใใฏๅบๆฌใ ใ (\"These are the fundamentals\"), in\nwhich a couple club members get into an argument about what the most important\nprinciples are to follow during photography. Here's the relevant 2-page spread\n(click for full-size):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WHsOf.jpg)\n\nYou can see that the third panel on the left page is obviously a similar\nposture to the one in the image from _Hayate_. The text there and in the next\npanel translates to:\n\n> These are the fundamentals of photography!\n>\n> \"Triumph through backlighting!\"\n>\n> \"Divide the world in thirds!\"\n>\n> \"Never use direct sunlight!\"\n>\n> \"Overhead empty margins are the enemy!\"\n\nThis is basically exactly what Kotetsu says as well. I don't have access to an\nuntranslated version of _Hayate no Gotoku_ chapter 495, but it's clearly the\nsame principles being said, and quite possibly the exact same dialogue in\nJapanese.\n\nIncidentally, this scene itself has a reference to [Kodak Tri-X\nfilm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Tri-X). The right page contains the\nphrase ใใใฉใค๏ผธใงไธๅ
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"body": "\n\nI have only watched the whole anime series, but I'm not sure if I'm missing\ncontent.\n\nI have read the American arc is anime only, but are there any other arcs that\nare different? Also are there any major plot points that deviate from the\nmanga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 23 of Dennou Coil, we find out that Yasako (Okonogi Yuko) has a\nworking encode reactor. I think I missed the part where they explain how she\ngot it and whether it's a physical device or a virtual one. Was it something\ninstalled into her body (or her virtual private data) during the healing\nexperiment?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a forum [post](http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?339229-Anime-Dennou-\nCoil&p=8197494#post8197494) asking the same thing you did,\n\n> So, where did Yasako's encode reactor come from? It can't possibly be from\n> Isako's prior encode; Satchii always chased Yasako even when she was\n> \"clean.\" It must have been built into her glasses from the beginning by the\n> Cyberpappy. Exactly why he felt the need to do this, I don't know.\n\nthis was the [reply](http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?339229-Anime-Dennou-\nCoil&p=8197538#post8197538):\n\n> It came from the kilabug (kirabug?) that Isako transferred while trying to\n> save Haraken.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Grisaia no Rakuen, it is revealed at the end of episode 5 that,\n\n> Kasuki is still alive as part of the Thanatos system.\n\nFurthermore in episode 8,\n\n> She gets a body. \n\nQuestions are:\n\n * Is Kazuki's body in episode 8 her original body at the time of her \"death\" preserved through the years? Or was it newly grown in a laboratory?\n * Is there any hard evidence suggesting either?\n\nKazuki's body doesn't seem to have aged though it may be difficult to tell.\nEither way, that doesn't give any new information.\n\n * A cryopreserved body would retain the original age.\n * Likewise a body in a vegetative state would continue to age at the normal rate.\n * A newly grown body can be given an arbitrary look and age.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto_ , we have seen that Orochimaru summons the coffins of both, the\n1st and 2nd Hokage, and uses them to fight against the 3rd Hokage. Also in\nShippuden Season 2, he tells that he experimented with the 1st Hokage's body\nto make Yamato. Why didn't the coffins of both the Hokage have any seals on\nthem, so that no one could humiliate their bodies?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow you perceive it is incorrect.\n\nThe Edo Tensei doesn't summon their coffins or their dead bodies. Edo Tensei\nuses the body of a live person. Then it binds the soul of the person you want\nto ressurect to the body of the host. Through this technique, they get the\nimage of their own body and can use their jutsu.\n\n   \n\nThe reason the Fourth couldn't be summoned was because his soul was sealed\nthrough a sealing technique he used to seal the kyuubi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the events of _Selector Infected Wixoss_ , it is revealed that when a\nSelector loses 3 battles...\n\n> her wish is reversed. Hitoe, who wished to make friends, would therefore be\n> unable to touch any potential or current friend without suffering from\n> intense pain. She would also be unable to remember her friends or read any\n> diary entry about them.\n\nInterestingly, the very first episode of _Selector Spread Wixoss_ shows Hitoe\ntouching Ruuko without showing any signs of pain.\n\nHow is that possible?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Tsubasa Cat arc, I remember Hachikuji saying that she saw Shinobu at\nMister Donuts and she ran away.\n\nWhen did Hachikuji meet Shinobu? As far as I remember, Hachikuji never met\nher, except in Kabukimonogatari.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe don't see that happening but before the fight with Hanekawa, Araragi checks\nMister Donut since Mayoi says she saw her in there. Because of this Araragi\ngoes there and cant find Shinobu regardless but it is safe to assume that\nShinobu hides in Araragi's shadow when he enters and the events of last arc\nhappens.\n\nI can also prove this with another arc in Monogatari Second Season. Spoilers!\n\n> In Mayoi Jiangshi arc Mayoi was never able to see Shinobu thus causing the\n> death of Araragi since she, Shinobu, wasn't able to sneak Araragi's shadow.\n\nSince we know this fact we can say it happened on the same day.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm curious as to what is the chronological order of the [_Sono\nHanabira_](https://vndb.org/v917) series, including the placement of\n[_Hanahira_](https://vndb.org/v5244) and the [_Sono Hanabira -\nTenshi_](https://vndb.org/v12293) games (the latter in relation to _Sono\nHanabira_ ).\n\nI know that some games like Sono Hanabira 4 and 6 are sequels to Sono Hanabira\n2 and 1 because their starring couples are already in relationships by this\ntime. I also know that in the second game, Yuuna appears and tries to convince\nSara to call Kaede \"Onee-sama\", and in the third game she encouraged Mai to be\nhonest with her feelings, saying that it feels good to be in love. But in\nneither of these does Yuuna hint that she's already in a relationship with\nNanami, as in the first game Yuuna admits she fell in love with Nanami when\nthey first met when Nanami was lost and was trying to get to the opening\nceremony and that she has always wanted to be called Onee-sama.\n\nI also remember in one of the games, some of the characters mentioning the new\nstudent which I think is referencing Sara (though I can't remember which\ngames).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI get it's all equivalent exchange ,but logic dictates that to bring a soul\nyou must lose a soul (Al's) and to make the materials into a body you would\nneed to destroy a body (Al's again) but why was Ed's leg taken?\n\nI mean if it was about the size of the person they should both be\ndisintergrated and there mom alive. But it seems arguably more than enough to\nbring her back. And I get that the point of human transmutation is that it is\nimpossible to bring someone back from the dead, but shouldn't Ed be unscathed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat happened to Al and Ed's Leg was the result of the Rebound\n\n> Since the alchemical forces being manipulated are not human in origin, but\n> of the world as a whole, the consequences for attempting to bypass the Law\n> of Equivalent Exchange in transmutation are not merely failure and\n> cessation. When too much is attempted out of too little, what occurs is\n> called a Rebound, in which the alchemical forces that are thrown out of\n> balance on either side of the equation fluctuate wildly of their own accord\n> in order to stabilize themselves - taking or giving more than was intended\n> in often unpredictable and catastrophic ways such as accidental mutation,\n> serious injury or death.\n\nSource: [Alchemy - Rebound](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alchemy#Rebound)\n\nwhat happened was that Ed and Al had all the Materials collected for an\naverage adult body, whether or not this matched Trisha's body isn't the\nproblem but what they gave up for the Soul, a couple drops of blood.\n\nThis is hinted on when Ed is talking to Rose about what makes a human and how\nCornello's \"miracle\" to bring the dead back to life is no act of god.\n\n> Ed: Water, 35 liters. Carbon, 20 kilograms. Ammonia, 4 liters. Lime, 1.5\n> kilograms. Phosphorous, 800 grams. Salt, 250 grams. Saltpeter, 100 grams.\n> Sulfur, 80 grams. Fluorine, 7.5. Iron, 5. Silicon, 3 grams. And trace\n> amounts of fifteen other elements.\n>\n> Rose: What's that?\n>\n> Ed: **It's all the ingredients of the average adult human body, down to the\n> last specks of protein in your eyelashes.** And even though science has\n> given us the entire physical breakdown, there has never been a successful\n> attempt at bringing a human to life. **There's still something missing,\n> something scientists haven't been able to find in centuries of research.**\n> So what makes you think that hack-job priest with his parlor tricks is going\n> to be able to? And in case you're wondering, all those ingredients can be\n> bought on a child's allowance. Humans can be built on the cheap. There's no\n> magic to it.\n>\n> Rose: Well if there's no magic, then you bring someone back to life!\n>\n> Ed: Just a matter of time, Rose. Science will find a way. Science is the\n> answer to everything. If I were you, I'd drop the scriptures and pick up an\n> alchemy book. We're the closest thing to gods there are.\n\nSource: [Fullmetal alchemist >01. Those Who Challenge the\nSun](http://animetranscripts.wikispaces.com/Fullmetal+alchemist+%3E01.+Those+Who+Challenge+the+Sun)\n\nWhat Ed is referring to is the Soul. while scientists in Fullmetal Alchemist\ncan measure all the stuff needed to make a human body the problem arises that\nthere is no equivalent for a soul. even in real life the existence of the Soul\nis debated because there is no way to confirm it's existence or even measure\nit to determine what would be of equal value.\n\nEven Ed wasn't sure when they did it\n\n> Ed: Just hold out your finger, okay? What's a soul, really? When you take\n> out the myth, it's just the spark that starts life. This is our blood. From\n> her blood. That's a fair trade.\n\nSource: [Fullmetal alchemist >03.\nMother...](http://animetranscripts.wikispaces.com/Fullmetal+alchemist+%3E03.+Mother...)\n\nso anyway, back to the rebound. It wasn't a fair exchange as a couple drops of\nblood wouldn't equal a soul so Al's entire body, soul included, was taken\nalong with Ed's leg by the wildly fluctuating equation taking more than it\nshould in it's attempt to stabilize.\n\nwe can even call the end result to be a cause of the rebound, Trisha was given\n_\"life\"_ but her body wasn't properly reformed as her organs outside her body\nnot to mention there is no way to confirm if Trisha's soul has been brought\nback. in the 2003 Anime we learn that this Trisha did continue to live but as\na Homunculus didn't have a soul and was missing parts of her memories while in\nBrotherhood and the Manga, Ed exhumes Trisha's body which Pinako buried and Ed\nlearns that what it wasn't Trisha as her hair colour and bone structure were\ndifferent.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been warned lots of times to make sure figures aren't fake before buying\nthem. Mostly conventions have strict policies about this with the allowed\nvendors - but occasionally I see people complaining about one stall selling\nfake merchandise.\n\nI can usually tell with obvious fakes, but it seems to me that fakes are\ngetting less and less distinctive.\n\nCould someone provide some helpful information about making sure I can avoid\nfake figures, and stick with the official ones?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo identify for fake goods, sometimes you'll have to check the official\nwebsite for how the goods actually looks like. This is not always available\nthough as not all company provides pictures of the goods in their website.\nGOOD SMILE is one of the companies that do. You can check it\n[here](http://partner.goodsmile.info/support/eng/fake/).\n\nBasically the fakes are of lower quality. If its sculpting is not perfectly\nsmooth, colors are different from what they are depicted in the anime (even a\nlittle difference is a clue), weird joints, cheaper than what is should be\n(not always since some shops sells their fake goods with the price of the\nofficial ones), then it is very likely that it is a fake goods.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst,\n\n 1. Check if there is a fan website that catalogues the produced figures for the series you're interested in.\n 2. Check the catalogues at [MyFigureCollection.net](http://myfigurecollection.net/), make an account, and consult collectors there.\n 3. Browse the website of the Japanese manufacturer/s that produce the official figures and familiarize yourself with them (even if you don't read Japanese, you can navigate a bit with GoogleTranslate on and just by trial-and-error) and take note of 1) the market price, 2) details of the packaging, and 3) when the figure was released (if it is brand-spanking-new, the chance of bootlegs floating around already is low).\n 4. Even if you're standing at a convention booth with a figure package in your hand and wondering, pull out your smartphone/tablet/laptop and do a quick Google search for name-of-figure + manufacturer+name-on-box or model-series-name-on-box + the word \"bootleg\": do other collectors own this? Have other collectors warned against buying this?\n\nJapanese companies are very unlikely to sell you a bootleg, so if you are\nconcerned about shelling out your hard-earned cash on the real thing, you can\nhave more peace-of-mind if you purchase from a Japanese store, its online\nwebsite, or its Rakuten online shop. Even if you are buying a used figure from\nMandarake, you will know the staff have already inspected and verified it as\nbeing, to the best of their knowledge, an authentic figure. Another option is\nto bid on [Yahoo Japan Auctions](http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/), where most\nsellers are Japanese (some are real stores that also have an online auction\npresence, but many are individuals); since the Japanese generally have a\nstrong ethic regarding honesty about their products, you can also have the\npiece of mind that virtually none of the sellers are trying to swindle you (I\nhave purchased well over a hundred items from sellers there with no problems.\nIf a seller has any concerns whatsoever about the condition of the product,\nthey will explain this in the item description and/or advise to carefully\ninspect the uploaded photos; they lean towards cautioning potential bidders\nnot to bid if you have any possible qualms about the item: in all such\ndisclaimers cases for the dozens of items I have won, only 1 of them was\nactually in poor condition as the seller had mentioned. In all the thousands\nof auction listings I have perused, I have not come across any bootleg items.\nThis is not to claim that none ever crop up, but there is not as much to worry\nabout as when buying from eBay or at a convention outside of Japan). Most\nJapanese auction sellers do not personally ship to overseas customers, so if\nyou do not have an address within Japan, you can use a proxy bidding service.\n\nIf you are in a situation where you're looking at the figure and you don't\nhave a chance to investigate online before buying (or not):\n\n 1. The first thing to look for (as I assume we are talking about bootlegs that look pretty real, rather than ones where, on first glance, you can tell the quality is shoddy) is any non-Japanese text, such as Chinese, Korean, Thai, etc. While there are figures officially-licensed for production and sales outside of Japan, most bootlegs are also produced outside of Japan. If you see non-Japanese text, be wary.\n 2. Next, locate the logo of the series and a copyright (such as the copyright symbol ยฉ or the trademark letters \"TM\"). This might be printed directly on the box, might be embossed into the cardboard of the box, and/or there might be a gold-foil sticker.\n 3. Carefully check the font of the lettering. Some official Japanese figure boxes have English on them, but it follows a pattern, so that is a reason to familiarize yourself with what words/phrases/font the manufacturer uses for its printing. Seeing the name of the series or character typed in another font than the company usually uses should be a red flag.\n 4. Japanese companies are very meticulous about packaging, so if the box looks like 1) the art doesn't quite line up with the box edges, 2) the art is slightly blurry, and/or 3) the colors are too harsh, it probably is fake. In other words, a bootleg package might be created by taking a digital photograph or scan of the original box and printing a copy, so it might lose crispness in the reproduction process.\n 5. Something to be aware of is that Japanese high-quality models (garage kits) are usually sold unpainted (the body comes in pieces that must be assembled and is cream-colored or light gray [paints must be purchased separately]); generally, if you are looking at something that is painted or colored plastic, either 1) it was an unpainted model that someone painted and is selling their painted version (a model painted by someone else is not mint condition, yet it often has a high price tag to pay the artist for their time and skill in painting it for you. This is a valid option of something to buy, but pay attention to whether the paint colors used accurately match the colors from the real series; some artists use their creative license and change details in the paint job), 2) it is a plastic figure produced as such by the company (the plastic sort are usually cheaper in price than the top quality line of models. One type is the posable, jointed limb plastic models. Another type are lower-quality figures marketed toward kids with pricing that parents, rather than serious collectors, would be willing to buy), or 3) it is a bootleg.\n\nAs an example, here's a [helpful\nreview](http://myfigurecollection.net/blog/16464) of a Sailor Saturn figure\nposted on MyFigureCollection.net and the corresponding article [\"Identifying\nSHFiguarts Sailor Moon Series\nBootlegs\"](http://sailormooncollection.com/2014/11/26/identifying-s-h-\nfiguarts-sailor-moon-series-bootlegs/) at the fansite Sailor Moon Collection.\n\nAn official figure box (the Toei animation gold sticker, the real logo\n[\"Sailormoon World\" is the official logo created for the 20th anniversary\nmerchandise, not one of the original TV series official logos], the copyright\ninfo at the bottom edge, standard pattern to the lettering font): \n\nWhat a garage kit figure looks like pre-painted (cream-colored pieces):\n\n\nWhat a garage kit figure looks like after being painted by someone: \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAdding ontop of the other points these people have made which I'm going to\ntake from this post [How to Spot Bootleg\nFigurines](https://www.senpaiwares.com/blogs/news/how-to-spot-a-bootleg-\nproducts-figurines)\n\nWhilst MyFigureCollection is a great place to source these figurines, it's\nworth noting it's not 100% guaranteed to stop fakes from filtering through,\none common issue at Comic & Anime conventions is that stalls which sell\nofficial figurines will also sell fake figurines for a much lower price with\nthe illusion that you're getting a discount.\n\nMy biggest tips I've read about are the following:\n\n 1. Check the figurines Hair; Hair is typically the easiest way to determine the quality of a product. If it feels cheap or is easy to bend and morph, you've likely got a bootleg. For Nendoroids, shiny elements in the hair and faceplate are usually a giveaway.\n\n 2. If you can look prior to purchasing, check the underside of the figurine if the logo looks off or not smooth it's likely a bootleg.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is Tsumugi's gender? I know that she is created from Hoshijiro's placenta\nand shares the same seiyuu, but does that also means that they are of the same\ngender? Was there any evidence that shows that Tsumugi is a female?\n\nI know that Nagate is in love with Tsumugi as Tsumugi was born from placenta\nHoshijiro, but since IRL same gender relationship do exist, I don't think this\ncan be used to prove that Tsumugi is a female.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the _Knights of Sidonia_ [wiki page](http://sidonia-no-\nkishi.wikia.com/wiki/Tsumugi_Shiraui), Tsumugi's gender is female.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShiraui Tsumugi is a\n[่ๅๅไฝ](http://ja.knightsofsidonia.wikia.com/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E7%BE%BD%E8%A1%A3%E3%81%A4%E3%82%80%E3%81%8E)\n( _yuugou kotai_ , meaning \"fusion individual organism\") created with the\nintent of serving as a biological weapon (็ไฝๅ
ตๅจ = _seitaiheiki_ ). As such,\n**Ochiai's intent as to whether Tsumugi has a sex and/or gender is unknown**.\n\nโSexโ and โgenderโ bear disparate meanings (though many people accidentally\nconflate these words). In the technical distinction, โsexโ is a neutral word\nreferring solely to physiology including differences in reproductive organs,\nbrain chemistry, and hormones, whereas โgenderโ refers to cultural\nconstructions/assumptions about what personality traits and behaviors best\nsuit (or are innately connected to) a particular biological anatomy. It is not\nclear whether or not Tsumugi subscribes to a belief in gender essentialism or\nwhat \"her\" specific concept of \"female gender\" would include and not include.\nTsumugi does not seem to have any focus on or concerns regarding gender\nidentity. However, **the creators have implied that Tsumugi identifies as\nfemale** through the following aspects:\n\n * Tsumugi was given a female _seiyuu_ (voice actor) and speaks in [feminine Japanese](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_spoken_Japanese) rather than masculine Japanese (more details on Japanese gendered language can be found [here](http://www.tofugu.com/guides/japanese-gendered-language/) at Tofugu)\n * Tsumugi's mannerisms culturally align closer to the gender norms of Japanese girls and women than to 1) Japanese men or to 2) Shinatose Izana's mannerisms which were intentionally written as gender-ambiguous (since Izana is intersex)\n * Tsumugi's bodily form features what looks like the shape of a very fluttery dress\n * Tsumugi likes Nagate from the get-go, which could imply that Tsumugi possesses memories of Hoshijiro, who was both biologically female and mentally identified as female\n\nTsumugi's sex is unknown (whether or not the body has any female anatomy and\ncould reproduce in kind). Gauna are not understood to bear distinct bodily\norgans, but on the other hand, Gauna placenta are able to replicate a\nfunctioning human uterus. In real life, even plants can reproduce and are\nlabeled in science as โmaleโ or โfemale,โ or even โmaleโ and โfemaleโ parts on\nthe very same individual plant, without needing to reproduce by sexual\nintercourse of the human kind (using the words โmaleโ and โfemaleโ for these\nplant parts makes their reproduction easier to describe). On the other hand,\nsome humans cannot naturally reproduce (infertile, or use in vitro\nfertilization), but no one is unwilling to call them โmaleโ or โfemaleโ due to\nthat limitation alone, since that is not what verifies whether or not they are\nindeed male or female (biologically and in identity). So even without organs\n**it is possible that Tsumugi could be biologically female in addition to\nidentifying as female in gender**. Interestingly, Tsumugi's tentacle (่งฆๆ =\n_shokushu_ ) arguably looks rather phallic, but it does not seem to be\nperceived this way by the other characters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a lot of supernatural anime, like _Shin Sekai Yori_ , or _Tokyo Ravens_\nthere often appear these large ropes with folded paper things hanging from\nthem:\n\n\n\nAs far as I can tell, they serve to seal or mark places that are sacred or in\nsome way supernatural, like _shinboku_ , or holy trees:\n\n\n\nWhat are these folded paper things, and what purpose do they really serve?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Zigzag-shaped paper streamers are called\n[Shide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shide_\\(Shinto\\)) and are used in Shinto\nrituals. They can be seen in many animes that are located near Shinto shrines.\nTo create one you can cut out a piece of paper like the diagram below and fold\nthe paper along the dotted lines.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe zigzagged paper streamer things you mention are called\n\"[shide](http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=316).\"\nThey are in essence wards for purification. They are often seen with the rice\nstraw rope they are attached to are called\n\"[shimenawa](http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/array/convolute3/shimenawa.html).\"\nTogether they marks the boundary to something sacred (or rather mark the\nboundary between the sacred and that which is not) and can typically be found\ncan be found on torii gates, around sacred trees and stones, etc. They are\nintended to keep impurities out and purify the space within.\n\nAs the same time, they can also be use to prevent, or rather seal the passage\nof gods. According to the Kojiki (a oral collection of myths forming the basis\nof the Shinto religion.), shimenawa was first used to prevent the sun goddess\nAmaterasu from re-entering a cave to save the world from eternal night.\n\nIn the _Shin Sekai Yori_ anime, it's mentioned \"evil spirits\" and \"monsters\"\nare roam outside the town and any child who ventures out alone would suffer\nterribly. Hacchijoume is the shimenawa that encircles Kamisu's District 66,\nerecting a sacred barrier that _protects_ the town from outside forces.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat I mean by this is not the alias they use when they do H-Games. What I\nmean is whether they use a stage-name when doing anime works.\n\nIt all started from a little question I had in mind, \"Is Hanazawa Kana really\nHanazawa Kana?\" Usually people in the entertainment industry use a stage-name\nto avoid mixing up their personal life and their public life. An example for\nthis is the actor Hiro Mizushima, who is not really Hiro Mizushima by birth.\nHis birth name is Saito Tomohiro. Does the same hold true with the seiyuu\nprofession?\n\nI also noted that Mizuki Nana's birth name is Kondo Nana. But is she just a\nrare case or are most seiyuu like that (that is, using a stage name)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI looked up each of the [listed \"major\" and \"popular\" male and female\n_seiyuu_](http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/individual.html) at Hitoshi Doi's\n[_Seiyuu_ (voice actor) Database](http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu) (Doi's\ndatabase has been collecting _seiyuu_ information [since\n1994](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Doi) and hit [50,000 entries in\n2001](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-11-02/seiyuu-database-\nsurpasses-50-000-entries)).\n\nAlthough this is not a representative sampling of all _seiyuu_ , out of these\n20 individuals recognized as \"major\" and \"popular\" by Doi, 4 (or possibly 3)\nare using a stage name (if 4, that comes out to 20%):\n\n * ๆฐดๆจนๅฅใ
(Mizuki Nana), who you mentioned, born as [่ฟ่คๅฅใ
](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%A8%B9%E5%A5%88%E3%80%85) (Kondo Nana)\n * [ๅฑฑๅฃๅๅนณ (Yamaguchi Kappei), born as [ๅฑฑๅฃๅ
้](http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/yamaguchi-kappei/) (Yamaguchi Mitsuo)\n * ๅชๅธๆฏๅ (Yuuki Hiro), born as [้ฒๅด็
งไน
](http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/yuuki-hiro/) (Tsuyusaki Teruhisa), debuted in 1988 under the name ็ตๅๆฏๅ (Yuuki Hiro = same pronunciation but different _kanji_ for the surname), [changed his surname to ๅชๅธ in June, 2007](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%84%AA%E5%B8%8C%E6%AF%94%E5%91%82#.E4.BA.BA.E7.89.A9).\n * ๅ ๆฑ็ฑ่กฃ (Horie Yui), born as Horie Yoshiko [according to Hitoshi Doi](http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/horie-yui/), but he does not know her original _kanji_ nor does the [Japanese Wikipedia page](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A0%80%E6%B1%9F%E7%94%B1%E8%A1%A3) mention a name change\n\nBased on this small sample, 1) _seiyuu_ can choose stage names and change\nstage names after debut, but the majority go by their real name, and 2) those\nwho do adopt a stage name may likely adapt their real name (change only the\nsurname or given name but not both).\n\nTo check for more individual cases, the Japanese Wikipedia page of each\n_seiyuu_ lists the real name under ใๆฌๅใ ( _honmyou_ = real name) in the\nprofile box on the right side, if the person has a different real name.\n\n[่ฑๆพค้ฆ่](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E6%BE%A4%E9%A6%99%E8%8F%9C)\n(Hanazawa Kana) is her real name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis man is shown to be the Beast Titan. Who is he? A member of the royal\nfamily, maybe?\n\nSpoilers below for chapter 70 of the manga:\n\n> \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe ape titan is highly unlikely to be Grisha. The titan didn't really know\nwhat the 3 Dimensional Maneuver Gear was, whereas Grisha knew very fondly of\nthem. To add on to that, he wasn't aware that he and humans spoke the same\nlanguage.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of now, the **Beast Titan's** identity is a secret known to only **Hajime\nIsayama**.\n\nThis answer is a heavy spoiler, read at your own risk.\n\n> The only things disclosed about him are: \n> \n> **1.** His appearance, in both Titan form and human form. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWUFy.png) \n> In his Titan form, he is an extremely unusual specimen, having a distinct,\n> ape-like appearance. His body structure and facial features are like that of\n> a human's; he walks upright like one also. He stands at a previously unseen\n> 17 meters in height. Dark fur covers the large majority of his body, with\n> the exception of his face, hands, feet, and torso. His arms are also\n> elongated, with long fingers and fully-functional thumbs. The proportions of\n> his upper body are similar to those of the Colossal Titan, possessing a\n> massive chest and small head, as well as unusually slim arms. He is also one\n> of the few Titans known to have the ability of sentient communication with\n> humans, including use of the human language while in Titan form. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AGOaJ.jpg) \n> In his human form, he has a well toned body, light white skin, shaggy\n> blonde hair and a matching moustache that transcends down into his beard. He\n> was seen wearing no shirt, loose pants, combat boots, and circular glasses.\n> He has a large scar running down his left arm. \n> \n> **2.** His ability to converse with humans in the Titan form, implying\n> intelligence. \n> \n> **3.** His characteristics. \n> He has the traits of a leader, giving orders and telling other people,\n> sometimes even Titans, what to do. If his orders are not followed, he does\n> not hesitate on using brute force, like when he crushed the head of the\n> Titan that was eating Mike when it disobeyed him or when he beat Reiner to\n> make him and Bertolt focus on his plans instead of saving Annie. Also the\n> Beast Titan seems to be a cruel, sadistic and sarcastic individual. \n> \n> **4.** His statistics. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nfuVA.png) \n> \n> **5.** His Power to transform humans into Titans and to control them.\n\nHe could be an ancient Titan for all we know (derived from the fact that he\nhas next to no knowledge of the human language and advancement in technology).\n\nAnd it's definite that he isn't anyone from the inside of the walls, or else\nhe would have known about the 3DMG and the language of humans.\n\nWhat is known is that he isn't Grisha, as Grisha was eaten by Eren, and\nneither is he Marcel (eaten by Ymir). That leaves Kenny Ackerman and Mr. Smith\nas candidates. As the Beast Titan is from outside, he isn't Kenny Ackerman, or\nelse he would know about the 3DMG and the human language. That leaves Mr.\nSmith. He was locked up, beaten and thrown in a far off town by the MP. He\ncould be the Beast Titan, but the problem is that since he lived inside the\nwalls, he knew about the human language, thus ruling out the possibility that\nhe's the Beast Titan, even though both look strikingly similar, unless he\nsomehow survived and suffered from a memory loss. Since he (Beast Titan) is so\nkeen on getting the Coordinate, it can be said that he might be somehow\nrelated to the royal family.\n\nHis identity has been kept as a secret and it will be surprising to know about\nit.\n\n* * *\n\nEDIT : His name has been revealed. It's\n\n> Zeke\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnd if you're asking whether he is a member of the royal family\n\n> Technically, yes. Because he is son of Dina Fritz.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there a reason that no one notice Dal Dal cat ears? \nI'm not very familiar with the Korean traditions, but I don't think it's just\na hair accessory because sometimes when she get excited she reveal a cat tail. \nAnd I also remember there were some guy who cheer for Moon-Young who has a\nbear ears, so she couldn't be the only one (isn't?).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer comes from the wiki of this\n[manga](http://girlsofthewilds.wikia.com/) :\n\n\n\n> [Dal Dal](http://girlsofthewilds.wikia.com/wiki/Dal_Dal_Choi) always sports\n> a pair of tiger ears. The tiger ears are actually detachable and are pinned\n> to her hair. The author also sometimes adds a tail on her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy did Portgas D. Ace refuse to take the Monkey D. name?\n\nWhat had his father done to him to resent him that much?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst off, his father is Gol D. Roger so his birth name was originally Gol D.\nAce. However, he did get adopted by Monkey D. Garp. And before his execution,\nmany assumed that he's Monkey D. Dragon's son.\n\nMoving on to your question as to why he rather chose his mother's name that\nhis father's was that he felt grateful for her mother's willpower and\nsacrifice just of keeping him in her belly for one year and a few months after\njust to save him from the Marines of finding out he's Roger's son.\n\n> _\"Just before passing away, Rouge gave him the name Gol D. Ace. However,\n> Ace, grateful to his mother for her sacrifice, chose to take her name\n> instead.\"_ (taken from\n> [Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Portgas_D._Ace#Portgas_D._Rouge))\n\nFor your second question, it also has been revealed in the manga that he did\nnot resent Roger that much in fact from the flashbacks, Ace would get violent\nto anyone who would speak ill of his father. Let's just say Ace was\nindifferent to the idea of Roger being his father. Because after all, Roger\nwas already dead wen he was born.\n\nOf course, for proof you could check out the wikia page of\n[Ace](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Portgas_D._Ace#Gol_D._Roger).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_In This Corner of the World_ (or _Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni_ ) was announced\nrecently to be funded for an anime adaption.\n\nHowever, I can't find the original source of the crowdfunding campaign. I'd\nlike to be able to see their pitch, budgets and other interesting information\nthat they've likely provided to potential funders.\n\n[The official website](http://www.konosekai.jp/) doesn't seem to mention it\neither.\n\nWhere was the anime funded?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJeff-kun is both the stuffed bear charm and the mysterious magician / ~~pen-\npal / mentor of Sae~~ (supposedly the stuffed bear was given to Sae by him).\n\nEDIT: I misplaced Jeff with Miki-senpai.\n\nHe is shown as a silhouette in the end of S2, but still remains shrouded in\nmystery.\n\nThe other kids don't even register Jeff-kun as a distinct entity. They just\nassume Sae is taking to the toy.\n\nIs the information above correct? Is there any other source as to who Jeff-kun\nreally is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know which _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ movie package contains both\n_Death and Rebirth_ and _The End Of Evangelion_. I already have the 26-episode\nrun.\n\nWhen searching, I found that _Neon Genesis Evangelion - Evangelion Feature\nFilms - DTS_ was including _The End of Evangelion_ , that version seems to\ncontain _Death and Rebirth_ and _The End Of Evangelion_.\n\nI want to know if that was the right version to buy/watch.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _DTS Evangelion Feature Film_ collection seems to be correct in having\n_Death & Rebirth_ and _The End of Evangelion_. According to the [Evangelion\nWiki](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_media)\nanyway.\n\nIt's also been remastered with [_DTS_\naudio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS_\\(sound_system\\)) which I think means\nit supports surround sound and other such systems better.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the proper reading order for the _Tokimeki Tonight_ shoujo manga series\nabout a half-vampire, half-werewolf girl written by Ikeno Koi? When should\nใใจใใใใใใใใคใใ( _Tokimeki Midnight_ ), ใๆใฎใใใใ( _Hoshi no Yukue_ ), ใ็ๅฃไฟใฎไบๆ
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"body": "\n\nDuring Thriller Bark Arc., when Absalom is having marriage ceremony with Nami\nfor the second time after being interrupted by Sanji, Lola appears and once\nagain the ceremony is interrupted and Absalom hits Lola. After that Nami\nbrings out her Clima-tact and attacks Absalom with thunder tempo.\n\nNow since Nami was unconscious and her dress was changed by zombies, where did\nshe get her tact to fight Absalom?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no official answer but I have an idea:\n\nShe always wears a girdle around her leg where she keeps her clima-tact, the\nzombies probably didn't think it would be something relevant or dangerous and\nlet her keep it on her when they changed her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring Thriller Bark Arc, it was shown that all general zombies are under the\ncommand of Absalom and all zombies must follow the orders of their commander.\n\nThen how is Lola able to chase after Absalom even though he keeps telling her\nthat he will not marry her? Also, Lola comes and saves Nami from Absalom even\nthough they are enemies and Lola was given order to fight Straw Hat crew?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer can be found when Moria infuses Oars' body with Luffy's shadow, in\nChapter 457. Moria is the Master of Shadows; when he is talking to a shadow\ndirectly, he has complete control over them. Therefore, it is during that time\nthat he needs to give details directives to the shadows **before he infuses\nthe shadow in the Zombie's body**.\n\nFor example, if he does explicitly state that the shadow should forget\neverything about his past, his personality might remain with the Zombie. Note\nthat Luffy's personality remained at first because of the size difference\nbetween the shadow's original body and Oar's.\n\nAs Dr. Hogback states, they were not always aware of those rules and therefore\nmade some mistakes with a number of Zombies (the only confirmed case is\nCindy). We can however extend that theory to other Zombies which did not\nnecessarily obey their masters perfectly, like Lola.\n\n(For conciseness purposes, only part of pages 4 and 5 are shown.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/34VpX.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/arVRP.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 16 of _Fate/Zero_ , we see Kayneth go to the church in a wheelchair\nto plead for a command seal. Risei Kotomine relents, and when transferring one\nof the command seals onto Kayneth's hand, we see this line:\n\n> Take this cup and drink from it. This is my blood, given to you, for the\n> salvation of all. The blood of a contract!\n\n(Translation from Crunchyroll subtitles.) Barring the bit about the contract,\nthis is suspiciously -- to me anyway -- reminescent of the Christian tradition\nof [the\nEucharist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper#Institution_of_the_Eucharist).\nHowever, unlike the real world ritual, there is no actual cup here: Risei says\nthis line while his hand is on Kayneth's.\n\n**Is there any in-series meaning or significance to this?** (Is it part of the\nritual of transferring \"blank\" command seals unconnected to a specific\nservant? Notice that when Sola-Ui forcibly takes Kayneth's command marks,\nnothing similar seems to appear.) **Or is this merely symbolism or a reference\nthrown in for the sake of atmosphere?** (Here, perhaps to give a sense of\nmysticism and foreboding to the Grail, given that blood, on its own, could\nhave negative connotations? Or perhaps simply some sort of \"Easter egg\"?)\n\nThe latter explanation seems more likely to me, given what I've heard about a\nlack of knowledge of Christianity in Japan, but it could be that I'm missing\nknowledge about the workings about the _Fate_ series universe.\n\nI have not seen _Fate/Zero_ beyond this. I _do_ have some vague idea of how\nthe Grail works from skimming over various Wiki articles or posts on this\nsite, and from what has so far been covered in the current UBW adaptation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is just some unimportant ritual Risei thought up, possibly because he\ncared for the symbolism (being a devout priest), or that it might accentuate\nand reinforce his role as overseer. You'll see implicit evidence of this in\nlater episodes:\n\n> After Risei is killed, Kotomine takes the command seals. He has to recite a\n> specific verse of scripture to do this, thus reinforcing how Risei likes to\n> add his faith into the things he does. He later convinces Kariya to use two\n> of his command seals to kidnap Irisviel, on the promise that Kotomine will\n> give him another fight with Tokiomi, as well as the grail at the end of the\n> war. He wonders if it was really worth two commands, and Kotomine assures\n> him that there is nothing to worry about. He simply places his hand over\n> Kariya's command seal marks, and they are restored in a (literal) flash, and\n> nothing more. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile exploring this site, I came across this particular question: [What are\nthe 9 mountains and 8\nseas?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20202/what-are-\nthe-9-mountains-and-8-seas)\n\nIn the answers however, I did not see anyone mention All Blue. So my question\nis why is All Blue not a part of the 8 Seas that Zoro mentions?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause All Blue is not a sea in itself, but the point of union of all 4 great\nseas where every kind of fish of every sea can be found.\n\nSource: [One Piece wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/All_Blue)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know what's the name of the song that plays in FMA Brotherhood\nwhen Ed and Pinako dig up the corpse of the failed transmutation during rain?\n\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESzkiDXlFkI) you can hear the song more\nclearly from the minute 9:25 to 10:03.\n\nI can't find it on Shazam or on Youtube :(\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's **FMA Brotherhood OST 2 - Anticipation** :\n[this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-W7xveVzUw) is a link to the full\ntrack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter reading [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/22379/6166), I\nlooked through some One Piece world maps as you can see below and they made me\nwonder. Where would [All Blue](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/All_Blue) even\nbe at? All Blue is supposedly the place where the four seas meet.\n\n> The All Blue is a mystical sea of legend, rumoured to be the only place in\n> the world where the North, South, East, and West seas meet.\n\nSince the four seas are separated from each other by the Grand and Red line,\nhow and where would they be able to meet? Where would All Blue be at?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLSru.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xZPzf.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\nThere is even [this interactive world map](http://khooz.com/) if you would be\ninterested.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nReverse Mountain. That's the only logical option right now - the currents are\nformed from water of the four Blues so it connects on top of it. Maybe there\naren't fish from all Blues, but there is definitely water from all of them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no canon or non-canon answer from the One Piece universe. Sanji\nreferred to a lake on Fishman island as his All Blue but that was not serious\n(I think). Until Oda says, we don't know.\n\nWe could speculate it could be reverse mountain, or a bay at Raftel, or a\ncavern deep underground, or Vegapunk's research aquarium on the moon, or an\nalternative dimension (an island ate a devil fruit?), or ..... The point is\nthat Oda is very creative. It could be many things as a result.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 530 around 22:41 Hody Jones says that \"We will take the center of the\nworld, Fishman island\". Fishman Island should be all blue, but then again\nFishman island is deep down...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe most predictable location would most likely be reverse mountain. After\nall, that is the only viewable location in which all the Blues meet. It\ninstead could also be a deep lake that has underwater currents moving through\nit from the Blues through caves.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWatari is a big part of the romantic rectangle in the story, but he is also\npivotal to \"the lie\".\n\nIn the anime it is only hinted that he is aware of the lie, for example\n\n> when he in a light, teasing tone asks Kousei if he is going to steal \"his\"\n> Kaori (while climbing the stairs of the hospital, during a visit - one of\n> the last 4 episodes of S-2, i think).\n\nIs this internal conflict of Watari explored in more depth in the manga? Is it\nshown that he is aware of the lie?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, technically the \"lie\" was\n\n> Kaori liking Watari, so whether Kousei likes Kaori or not wasn't a direct\n> indication.\n\nEven very early on in Chapter 3 page 5:\n\n> Watari half-jokingly boasts about Kaori and implies Kousei has intentions\n> for her. Kousei rejects this suggestion, because \"she likes Watari\", thus it\n> was \"impossible\". To which Kousei did give him some form of open competition\n> by telling him only Kaori can decide what's impossible for him.\n\nAlso much later on,\n\n> When Watari decides to encourage Kousei to visit Kaori more, he admits that\n> Kaori always turns to Kousei and that Watari himself feels unable to help.\n> This is also shown in the anime. At this point Watari is probably at least\n> subconsciously aware that Kousei is probably as important to Kaori as he is\n> (at least) (This is however my take on it)\n\nThe anime is quite filial to the manga, as the events are followed quite\nclosely. Any variation comes from the differences in emphasis between certain\nscenes but is outside the scope of this question.\n\nIn summary, the manga hints as much as the anime about how much Watari knows\nand it is never clearly stated.\n\n> We can only guess that perhaps that this one time, Watari \"lost\" a girl he\n> really liked to Kousei, and that he probably didn't want to admit it himself\n> as we see the parting shot where he stares at the picture of him and Kaori\n> on his phone. Or maybe perhaps he knew all along and was lying to himself.\n> There is no confirmation either way.\n\nHowever, as far as how much Watari suspects, the first real evidence of this\nis from the manga, Chapter 21, page 31, where they were talking after Watari\nplayed some football.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hvk44.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HNYBJ.jpg)\n\nKaori gave an affirmative to being asked if she \"likes\" Kousei and Watari even\nsays that he has thought as much, meaning that he actually suspected it then.\nHowever, Kaori gave a cop out answer stretching the meaning of \"like\" and says\nthat she likes everyone.\n\nThus Kaori never admitted to Watari, so as a technicality, Watari never knew\n**for sure**. But surely he had strong suspicions all the way.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto_ anime, though at first Itachi was accused for murdering his best\nfriend, Shishui Uchiha. But later, it was revealed that Shishui gave one of\nhis eyes to Itachi. But the next day, he was found dead. But what happened to\nShishui? Did Danzo kill him? But he already snatched his other eye before\nShishui met Itachi. I did not understand if it was shown in the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can search on the wiki about the\n[character](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shisui_Uchiha)..\n\n\n\nWhat you have seen in the anime, contains more story than in the manga. The\nonly thing that we learned from the manga was that, Shisui gave one of his\neyes to Itachi because Danzo had the other eye already. In order to hide his\nother eye from Danzo, he found Itachi and gave him the eye.\n\nThe truth about his death is as explained (from the wiki):\n\n> Fearing that Danzล was right in Shisui's inability to stop the Uchiha's\n> revolt and that the elder would continue to pursue his left eye as well,\n> Shisui entrusted it to Itachi, telling him to protect both the village and\n> the Uchiha name. Shisui wrote a suicide note telling his clan he cannot\n> follow through with the coup d'etat, but his clan's narrow mindedness made\n> them unable to understand this, believing he would even sacrifice innocent\n> lives for the sake of the Uchiha Clan. The contents of the suicide note also\n> made it appear as though he had crushed his eyes when jumping off a cliff\n> into the Naka River to kill himself in order to prevent conflict from\n> arising over his eyes within the clan. He, at the same time, was able to\n> erase his existence, leaving no corpse behind. In the anime, Shisui was also\n> hoping to use his death to awaken Itachi's Mangekyล Sharingan, succeeding in\n> the goal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Nagi no Asukara_ , what is exactly \"the calm\"?\n\nThe fisherman at the final episode rejoices because\n\n> \"the calm\" has ended.\n\nWhat is \"the calm\" referring to?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm quite new to StackExchange but am a Literature student and like to look at\nAnime and feel very strong symbolic meanings within them.\n\nThe Calm simply refers to the lack of strong tides in the sea. Read on if\nyou're interested in a deeper, more wholesome interpretation of the series:\n\nThe following is an opinion piece.\n\n**Nagi no Asukara is also known as \"A Lull in the Sea\".** (Google defines\n\"lull\" as a temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity.) To me, a Lull in\nthe Sea is essentially what NagiAsu is literally **and figuratively** about.\n\nIn the final episode, Manaka explains the Sea God's legend behind the calming\nof the Sea.\n\n> A long time ago, the Sea God fell in love with a maiden who was a sacrifice\n> in the festival, but felt guilty over separating her from his boyfriend on\n> the surface. He decided to send her back up.\n>\n> However, her surface boyfriend already committed suicide over the incident.\n> Not wanting her to grief over that, **the Sea God removed that maiden's\n> ability to fall in love with anyone**. At the same time, the sea fell into a\n> lull. **The Lull in the Sea _represents_ the Sea God's maiden's feelings.**\n\nWhenever the festival is held, the sea god is reminded of his love towards\nthat sacrifice. The fear of loss of his love triggers him to keep Manaka (and\nlater on Miuna) from being stolen, by enclosing her in the lightning-\nprotective shell (that shocks Hikari when he tries to breach it). The Sea\nGod's baggages is the reason Manaka loses her memories. He does to her what he\ndoes to his first love, as this lets Manaka become more likened towards his\nfirst love that he longs for. Ironically, this reminds him of what he did to\nhis first love, and of losing her, only to make him feel requiem and loss\nagain. It's quite ironic when we observe it but there are people who actually\ndo this, which creates lots of toxic behaviours in love out there.\n\nThis is why when the sea comes back to life, the waves are stronger than ever\n- it is the Sea God's consolation and realisation from Manaka and Miuna that\ncauses the Sea God to release his pain and baggages towards love. As this\nhappens, the Sea God stops casting his baggages on Manaka (that remind him of\nhis feelings for his first love) and she regains her ability to love people.\n\nAs for what made him realise again... I think it was Hikari's shout. Come to\nthink of it, I should rewatch it to know what it is.\n\n> **\" Love is like the Sea\"** \\- Episode 25 Title\n\n**The calm of the sea is the apathy, the malpractice and the escapism towards\nLove itself, out of the Sea God's defeatist belief that loving is a zero sum\ngame, that will not yield anything good**. That is why when the calm is\nresolved, we also see all our main & supporting characters behaving healthily\ntowards love. The Japanese love to portray Gods in a way that they watch over\nand guide men and women, and that is why when the Sea God is in a lull,\neveryone is; and when the Sea God resolves the lull, everyone also behaves\nhealthily towards love.\n\nOnce again, this (other than the initial literal meaning that answers the\nquestion) is a subjective interpretation and I hope you enjoyed it.\n\n",
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