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"body": "\n\nWhat happened to the art style in Fairy Tail after episode 175?\n\n**Old art style:**\n\n\n\n**New art style:**\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter episode 175 **the production studio changed** from [A-1\nPictures](http://a1p.jp/) & [Satelight](http://www.satelight.co.jp/) to [A-1\nPictures](http://a1p.jp/) & [Bridge](http://www.bridge-inc.co.jp/).\n\n**Character designer change,** before episode 175 character design was done by\n'Aoi Yamamoto' after that by 'Shinji Takeuchi' and 'Toshihiko Sano'.\n\n**Art director change,** before episode 175 character design was done by\n'Junko Shimizu' after that by 'Shigeru Morimoto'.\n\nIf you are interested in the rest of the staff check out\n[this](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10942) page\nfor everything before episode 175, and\n[this](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15799) page\nfor everything after 175.\n\n_The new animation places emphasis on the special attacks, fast-paced scenes,\noverall story's color, clarity, and fluidity. Some people will like the change\nsome don't.[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCIo039VRfo) is a video that\nshows some differences with character design._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nZoro couldn't cut them and they are stated to be as hard as diamond. So how\nare Sea-Prism Stone items made?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Alabasta Arc, Smoker revealed that Seastone has \"Sea Power\" and\ntherefore nullifies abilities just like salt water. In other words, vegapunk\ndiscovered its usage, this was revealed by Smoker and confirmed by Coby after\nWater-Seven Arc.\n\nVegapunk was able to coat ship bottoms with seastone, enabling them to pass\nthrough the calm belt without alerting the Sea monsters to their presence. He\ndiscovered a way which is yet unrevealed but confirmed by Coby back then to\nmake tools, handcuffs, and weapons, out of seastone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI occasionally see forum posts of people in Japan showing off their anime-\nstyled cars and I saw some whilst in Japan also. I believe there's also groups\nof these people who have meetups and such.\n\n \n\nIt's not just cars either, I've seen some boats and a few helicopters\ndecorated too.\n\n  \n\nObviously, these weren't around in the early days of anime - but when did they\nstart appearing on the streets?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese type of otaku-owned car are called\n[Itasha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itasha) 痛車?, literally _\" painful car\"_\n(painfully embarrassing / painful for the wallet) and started with decoration\nof cars in the **80s** when Japan experienced a lot of growth and many wealthy\npeople started importing many luxury cars. This decoration only really\nconsisted of plushies, stickers and non-permanent features.\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, fully-fledged Itasha only really started being seen in\nthe **21st century** \\- when internet culture gave the anime industry a large\ngrowth sprurt - in advertising, greater fan communities and distribution.\n\n[Expert from Itasha article, Otaku USA Magazine,\n**2009**](https://web.archive.org/web/20110718225635/http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/Events/Public/News1/Itasha_and_Intansha_1117.aspx)\n\n> Most often, stickers are put on the hood and doors of the car and then\n> airbrushed. People who think, \"It's kind of embarrassing, but I really want\n> to ride in an itasha! ... But I'd have to hide it from my family and at my\n> job. [..] can quickly take the design off by attaching and detaching\n> magnetic stickers.\n>\n> Although printing cutting sheets of personal favorite characters and putting\n> them on the car is a popular method, people who are really devoted will\n> commission a specialist to airbrush their designs.\n\nThis article mentions a few owners with itasha cars from **2002**.\n\n**Notable Dates:**\n\n * In **2007** , the first Autosalone (itasha convention) was held.\n * June **2008** , Aoshima Bunka Kyozai launched \"ITASHA\" as one of the first offically licensed Itasha.\n\nIt's not a purely-japanese phenomenon either, there are itasha to be seen in\n[Malaysia](https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1734133) , Taiwan and the\nPhilippines too. It hasn't become overly popular in the West just yet however.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are some famous manga like [One\nPiece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece) have 77 volumes and are still\nongoing or [Naruto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto) which has 72\nvolumes.\n\nWhich manga series is the one with the highest number of volumes ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs described in\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_series_by_volume_count)\nthe manga [Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo\n(Kochikame)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochira_Katsushika-\nku_Kameari_K%C5%8Den-mae_Hashutsujo) is the manga series illustrated by [Osamu\nAkimoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Akimoto) with the highest number\nof volumes and ended on September 17, 2016 in the 42nd issue of the year, in\ncommemoration of Kochikame's 40th anniversary. It was continuously serialized\nin Weekly Shōnen Jump since September 1976 with 1960 chapters collected into\n200 [tankōbon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%C5%8Dbon) volumes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've watched the anime of Brynhildr in the Darkness, however the story in the\nmanga continues from what I've heard. It seems that some questions at the end\nare answered in the manga which I haven't read:\n\n * Why are the girls alive again in the end, except one of them?\n * Were they succesfull with creating their own pills?\n * Is it really impossible for Kuroha Neko to regain her memories?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't watched the anime, so I can only guess at what's happened there so\nfar, but this is what happened in the manga:\n\n * Why are the girls alive again in the end, except one of them?\n\n> Because of Hatsuna. Her power grants her immortality and allows her to\n> regenerate infinitely, as long as her Drasil is still in her Harness. Her\n> power even allows her to revive and regenerate someone within 24 hours of\n> their death, at the cost of Hatsuna hanging up and staying in a half melted\n> state until she recovers the next day. She uses this power to save Kasumi\n> who was killed by Valkyria the same day Kotori died.\n\n * Were they succesfull with creating their own pills?\n\n> Yes. As a reward for defeating Valkyria, and saving the world by ejecting\n> Kotori, they received the formula for the medecine from Hexenjagd.\n\n * Is it really impossible for Kuroha Neko to regain her memories?\n\n> That is currently unknown. We know that Kuroha managed to recover her\n> memories when fighting Valkyria, including the ones from before she became a\n> magic user. That was the only instance where she regained any kind of\n> memory.\n\n* * *\n\nOf course, the above answers assume that the anime has been (more or less)\nfaithfully following the manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a previous question about the [first anime and manga\never](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3408/what-is-the-first-ever-\nproduced-anime-and-manga), but I was wondering when the English-speaking world\ngot introduced to the world of anime and manga.\n\nThere were comics in the English-speaking world for ages, but at what point\ndid we decide to try out the comics in the East?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first signs of manga in the western world came in through magazines - Much\nlike how manga first came to Japan before being compiled into full books.\n\nOccasionally publications would include smaller works or partial translations\nof a larger manga. Notably (as @krazr has pointed out) [Concerned Theatre\nJapan's second volume, 2nd issue\n**1971**](http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/concerned-theatre-\njapan.pdf?c=cjs;idno=aag0609.0002.002) is a manga special with 3 short works\ntranslated.\n\nThis issue features _Sakura Gaho_ (Eng. \"Sakura Illustrated\" - excerpt)\n_Akame_ (Eng. \"Red Eyes\" - Part One),\" and \"Nejishiki\" (Eng. \"The Stopcock\" -\nShort work)\n\n \n\nThe first fully independent manga series that was translated into English and\npublished was _Barefoot Gen_ in **1979.**\n\n\n\nBarefoot Gen is an epic 10 volume manga of the story of a boy during the Atom\nbombing of Hiroshima. The piece takes many sections from Keiji Nakazawa's own\nexperiences as a Hiroshima survivor. Feeling the work should be spread for the\nlargest impact, a pacifist translation charity _Project Gen_ starting working\non translating it into English in **1976**.\n\nThe first two translations were published in **1979**. Unfortunately, it\nwasn't as successful as first thought and no more volumes were published. It\nwas only in 2004 that the full 10 volumes eventually got fully released (by\nLast Gasp).\n\nPrior to this, there was a comic adaption of Astroboy redrawn by Americans in\n**1965**. Barefoot Gen retained the original artwork, so is usually considered\nthe first.\n\n* * *\n\nAstroboy was the first anime series to be brought overseas, in the same year\nas it was televised nationally ( **1963** ) and much like today - it was seen\na definite secondary market to Japan. An earlier 3-part work, _Three Tales_\nwas released 2 years beforehand in **1961** (A year after it aired in Japan)\n\n\n\n[Hakujaden](http://.http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=655)\nwas one the first Japanese animation films to make it to the US under the\ntitle _Panda and the Magic Serpent_ (and also the first anime movie) in 1961\nalong with two other titles - **Magic Boy** (premièred a month earlier) and\n**Alakazam the Great**\n\n**Additional References**\n\n * Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime & Manga Trade (Book)\n * [Frederik L Schott (Translator of Astroboy, Barefoot Gen and many other works) 's Site](http://www.jai2.com/)\n * Anime: A History - Jonathan Clements\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22431/what-\nwere-the-first-official-english-translated-anime-and-manga) and [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3408/what-is-the-first-\never-produced-anime-and-manga) both receiving some attention recently, it made\nme think - which anime was the first to receive a dub?\n\nSome of the first anime available in western countries such as [Astro\nBoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy) had dubs produced in the 1960's\nas stated in the linked wikipedia article, but which show was the original one\nto have an officially produced English dub?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_in_the_United_States#1960s),\nthe earliest anime to air dubbed in English is [_Tetsujin\n28-go_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsujin_28-go) (known in English as\n_Gigantor_ ), which started airing October 20th, 1963 in Japan on Fuji TV and\nthen the dub [started airing in 1964 in the United States on WPIX New\nYork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantor) and, according to page 319 of\n_Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews_ by Fred\nPatten, was distributed by Trans-Lux Corporation. Since the English dub was so\nheavily re-written, [13 of the English episodes were dubbed back into\nJapanese](https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=VWE79MHm1JoC&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=anime%20history%20gigantor&source=bl&ots=ctZzxldxvc&sig=OegmbEbIyjiRWGy8P6I84fBl9V8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwATgKahUKEwja9pHftpDGAhXE36YKHRJ7AF4#v=onepage&q=gigantor&f=false)\nand aired in Japan from September 1st, 1965 through May, 1966 as if they were\na reboot or sequel. It was subsequently broadcast in Australia and New\nZealand.\n\nAccording to [Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs Manga, Animation, Games, and\nMedia Art Information Bureau's _Japanese Animation Guide: The History of Robot\nAnime_](http://mediag.jp/project/project/images/JapaneseAnimationGuide.pdf),\n_Tetsujin 28-go_ is considered \"the ancestor of all giant robot anime shows.\"\nThe anime was black and white, and a radio drama and a live-action series had\nbeen adapted from the manga previously.\n\n \n\nWhether the dub was recorded first or not is unknown, as four TV anime were\ndubbed into English and started airing overseas in 1965 (in other words, they\ncould possibly have been voice recording at the same time). These are\n[_Tetsuwan Atom_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy) (known in English\nas _Astro Boy_ ), [_Jungle\nTaitei_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_the_White_Lion#Anime) (known in\nEnglish as _Kimba the White Lion_ ), [_Wonder\n3_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_3) (known in English as _The\nAmazing 3_ ), and [_8\nMan_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Man#The_US_version) (known in English as\n_8th Man_ ): 3 out of 4 being from the \"god of manga\" [Tezuka\nOsamu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 7 of Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai Ren, Shinka and her friends are\non a school trip in Kagoshima. They see a statue of someone called Saigo-san.\nOne of the friends complains that he doesn't have his dog, and Shinka tells\nher that he doesn't have a dog in Kagoshima.\n\n \n\nLater, they find a dog so they can hold it and take a picture in front of the\nstatue.\n\nInterestingly, Saigo-san appears to have European features. I know that\nKagoshima is on the island of Kyushu at the far south of Japan. The south\n[hosted a Dutch enclave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima) for years after\nthe foreigners were expelled from Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. I assume\nhe's some kind of historical figure, but who is he and what's the deal with\nthe dog?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis appears to be [Saigo Takamori](http://wiki.samurai-\narchives.com/index.php?title=Saigo_Takamori) often know as _the last samurai_\n\\- and has a film by that very name about him. He is most famous for his\nopposition against the Meiji government in the Battle of Shiroyama.\n\n\n\nYou can see here his very distinctive brow which is apparent in the scene in\nChuunibyou too.\n\nHe has another statue in Ueno, Tokyo that has a dog beside him, which is\nprobably what they are trying to replicate.\n\n\n\nKagoshima is his hometown, and there's a statue there in his likeness (without\na dog):\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nhe is saigo takamori, most known as the last samurai. he helped imperial army\nto end tokugawa successfully and gained position in meiji restoration era but\nended up lead rebellion (satsuma rebellion) because he thought meiji wanted to\nend samurai by making law that forbid samurai bring katana in public place and\netc.\n\ntom cruise movie \"the last samurai\" was inspired by saigo takamori.\n(noted:inspired, that means the movie plot was not based on actual history).\n\nand about the dog, i think nothing special about the dog. none of sources that\ni read about him talking about his dog at all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMultiple authors on the net have pointed out that a lot of the sex in hentai\nis, or appears to be, non-consensual.\n\nFrom here: <http://magicalgirlproject.tumblr.com/post/91661244454/porno-month-\nreflections-why-so-much-rape-in>\n\n> I watched 20 hentai over the course of June/July, and looking back over them\n> all, I’m left with one frustratingly unanswered question:\n>\n> [WHY IS THERE SO MUCH RAPE IN HENTAI?!?]\n>\n> Why is rape so ubiquitous in hentai, why is it so inescapable, and why do so\n> many of [these hentai that I've watched] focus exclusively on rape, with\n> maybe one token consensual scene or sometimes none at all? It’d be like if\n> 90% of the porn made in Belgium featured a buttplug scene — it’s weirdly\n> specific and implies there’s some kind of cultural thing going on that I\n> don’t yet understand.\n\nAlso, note this: <http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/431127-Why-\ndoes-hentai-have-so-much-violence-rape-towards-women>.\n\nA commenter on the first article claims these 'rapes' are not as non-\nconsensual as they seem:\n\n> ninfadelagua said: The average porn scene does seem rapey, even if it isn’t\n> extreme (no hitting/scratching/biting) there seems to be a trend of women\n> acting like they are resisting a lot and the men in the porno keep going and\n> prey on them sexually (for hetero porn).\n\nThis implies that the 'victim' enjoys the rough sex and is 'resisting' as part\nof the 'game', sort of like how tsundere pretend to hate the person they\nactually love.\n\nWhich leads to [Not If They Enjoyed It\nRationalization:](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization)\nwhich says:\n\n> Turns up often in Hentai, Boys Love Genre and Fanfiction. A lot.\n\nIn other words, the claim is that this, in some sense, doesn't count as rape\nbecause the purported victim enjoyed the experience.\n\n* * *\n\nIs this actually what's going on? What is about Japanese culture that makes\nreluctant sex, which looks non-consensual to Western eyes, so common in\nhentai?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Note:** Some references have been excluded here for PG reasons.\n\nThere's a few layers to this question.\n\nFirstly, this isn't a hentai-specific thing. Lots of Japanese non-animated\nporn contains rape. This is a cultural thing spanning more than just anime.\n\nThe main reason as some people have pointed out to you is that **it sells**.\nBut let's go a little further into why that demand exists.\n\n* * *\n\nAs you may know, Japan is suffering from [increased sexless-\nness](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2011/09/06/issues/sexlessness-\nwrecks-marriages-threatens-nations-future/) and has one of the highest\nsexlessness rates in the world.\n\n> In 2005, Durex, the world’s largest condom maker, conducted a Global Sex\n> Survey (see www.durex.com/en-\n> jp/sexualwellbeingsurvey/documents/gss2005result.pdf) involving 317,000\n> respondents in 41 countries. The survey found that Japanese had the least\n> sex in the world, at 45 times a year — far less than second-from-bottom\n> Singapore (73 times a year), and even farther from the world average (103\n> times a year, meaning twice a week).\n\nThe reasons of this are many - although there is no agreed consensus on the\nexact causes. Some of these reasons likely include:\n\n * Long Working days\n * Men and women have quite distinctly seperate social lives\n * The [emergence of pornography](http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/porn-erectile-dysfunction)\n * ['Herbivore' Men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men)\n\nThese cases are amplified by the application of surrounding businesses. Japan\nhas a large sex industry sector - [There are more than 12,000 sex-related\nbusinesses in\nJapan](http://factsanddetails.com/japan/cat19/sub127/item674.html) with big\ncompanies like Hitachi (devices) and many small companies too specializing in\nparticular niches. Many of these are relevant to couple's engagements, but a\nsignificant portion of products are made for solo purchases.\n\n\n\n_Some doll adverts claim you'll never want a girlfriend again._\n\nThat's not to say that there isn't a large couple's market - in Japan there\nare many _Love Hotels_ and _S &M Clubs_ that you can visit with your partner.\n\nOn the mention of S&M, Non-standard sexual behaviour is not as taboo as it is\nin the West (especially America & the UK). Bondage for example is occasionally\nincorporated into fashion trends and there are many specialized shops for it\naround the country. There are many other specialized stores and services\navailable for those who seek it. Famously, there are the infamous [used\nunderwear vending machines](https://www.techinasia.com/japan-used-panty-\nvending-machines-fact-fiction/) that have created many stories for Western\nnewspapers.\n\nYou can also read the rest of my answer about [Where the lolicon genre came\nfrom](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/22133/1530) which covers that large\narea of fetishization.\n\nAnd fetishization isn't a new thing, there are many lewd woodblock paintings\nfrom older Japan, such as _Diver and Octopuses_ \\- a tentacle sex scene from 1\n814.\n\nSo, non-consensual ( at first :| ) isn't particularly striking as a fetish\nwhen seen with all Japan has to offer\n([More.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_Japan#Fetish_scene))\n\n* * *\n\nSo from the above section we know that the Japanese have a large fetish scene\nanyway - and that sex rates aren't that high. But that doesn't specifically\nanswer your question - so let's keep going. Bear with me!\n\nGoing back to [_Herbivore Men_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men).\nThese men range from actively shunning women (sometimes preferring 2D women)\nto being disinterested or resigned to their fate as a single man.\n\n\n\n> As of September 2010, 36% of Japanese men between the ages of 16 and 19\n> perceived themselves in this way. Additionally, two surveys of single men in\n> their 20s and 30s found that 61% and 70%, respectively, considered\n> themselves grass-eating men.\n\nThis scarcity of female interaction can often manifest as idolizing women -\nwhich can be seen in idol obsession and other aspects of japanese culture. The\nappeal of rape for herbivore watchers is then in attaining something that is\nnot attainable normally - even if it is played out onscreen rather than in\nreal life. [This is a large reason motivation behind many real life rapes\naswell](https://emmatheemo.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/why-do-rapists-rape-for-\npower-or-sex-lets-ask-a-rapist/). There's a [certain unsavory culture in many\nareas](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-369262/Women-blame-raped.html)\nthat blame the victim for rape situations - somewhat empathizing with the\nrapist. These beliefs are also contributory rationale for some rapists. Raping\nunfortunately isn't always restricted to acted situations on TV however, and\nJapan has a significant amount of [(mostly\nunreported](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rape-debate-in-japan/)) rape charges.\nUnwarranted sexual advances can be seen in the establishment of female only\ncarriages on rail lines after many groping allegations.\n\nAnd on a more hentai-specific note, I don't know if many people who would\nwillingly do it with a sea monster. [Why are tentacles prevalent in\nanime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/818/why-are-tentacles-\nprevalent-in-anime) is possibly of interest.\n\nFurther reading:\n\n * [Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge](https://books.google.ie/books/content?id=uXDfbYIBroEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE72VMX_-wqbZct4e6l188j2GCBIRptpGeb1dFkI2NepRxNMCG3x3ZV8mNLaDX7IxDDEXbeGTaecNw8ES-W70cXbLeMvS-0mGSvoXOpFQkQajhwJ7cVCcrUR0AHczRYoZC9rZhZka)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the _Tsukihi Phoenix_ Arc of _Nisemonogatari_ Yozuru Kagenui is seen\nnot touching the ground. When she first meets Araragi and asks him directions\nto the cram school, she's standing on benches, and when she goes to leave, she\njumps from bench to bench.\n\nWhen she and Yotsugi Ononoki go to attack Tsukihi at the Araragi's house she\nis at first standing on the fence. When Tsukihi is seemingly killed by Ononoki\nshe jumps on top of Araragi, pinning him to the ground, but she still stays\noff of it herself. When she and Ononoki go to leave, she is standing on\nOnonoki's finger as Ononoki walks away.\n\nBut when Araragi and Shinobu fight the two of them in the cram school she is\nwalking on the ground. I am wondering if there is a pattern or condition to\nwhen she walks on the ground and when she doesn't?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSlight spoilers for Tsukimonogatari\n\nIt is explained that Kagenui (and another character specific to\nTsukimonogatari) had a curse put onto them which prevents them from touching\nthe ground. There's little-to-no mention as to what happens if Kagenui ever\ndoes touch the ground, but either way, with the amount of dedication she takes\nto never stepping on it, it seems to be something relatively serious.\n\nIf I remember correctly, this curse was put onto her and the other character\nfor their work on bringing Ononoki into being (as in, in the form she is now).\n\nAbout her walking on the floor of the cram school ruins, I'd say it's probably\nbecause it's the floor of a building, not the actual ground. She's able to\nwalk on structures built on the ground, just not the ground itself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Shirobako episode 16, Ema is caught doing a little dance exercise on the\nroof.\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvlVueWyu18>\n\n\n\nCrunchyRoll's subtitles call this the 'Angel Dance' exercise. There's no\nresults for that in english, but I was thinking maybe it's an exercise only\nreally known about in Japan. For the most part, Shirobako has solid references\nto existing things.\n\nIs this dance a real exercise or was it just created for the show?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to what I read in [a\nforum](http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/showthread.php?36321-Shirobako-\nDiscussion-Thread&p=290346&viewfull=1#post290346):\n\n> Ema's Angel Exercise is modelled on the real-life Angel Exercise in the 70s.\n> Bodybuilder Tsushima Seiji, under the name of Mukimuki Man (Muscular Man),\n> comically did the Angel Exercise in the TV commercial for a sweet made by\n> [Morinaga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morinaga_%26_Company) and also in\n> other TV programmes in the late 70s. (Morinaga's mascot is an angel, and the\n> founder of Morinaga & Company Morinaga Taichirō was a Christian and learnt\n> how to make Western-style confectionery in the USA.)\n\nHere's the video of the original Angel Exercise:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpF9V3nQoK4>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been seeing this thing called _Caramelldansen_ show in in .gifs by 2\ncharacters from all different series. pairs such as [Ed and\nAl](http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?q=fma%20caramelldansen) from\nFullmetal Alchemist, Arcuied and Ciel from Tsukihime, Rin and Saber from\nFate/Stay Night and these crappy quality ones on youtube of [L and\nLight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAtUzQV7F8s) and [Mello and\nNear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plijsX1wx-8) from Death Note\n\nBut what is Caramelldansen and where does it originate from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Carameldansen on Know your\nmeme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/caramelldansen)\n\n> Caramelldansen (eng. The Caramel Dance) is a series of animated dance videos\n> that use the dance track with the same title. Its original track was\n> released in Supergott which is the 2nd album of the Swedish pop group\n> Caramell in November, 2001.\n>\n> The big sensation was caused on the web by the huge amount of fan-made\n> videos and artworks in such as YouTube, deviantART and the Japanese video\n> sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) around 2008 to 2009.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTake note that the dance and a song are two parts of a whole.\n\nMost familiar with the the meme would know that the title is Swedish for\n\"Caramel Dance\" and comes from the first track of the album _Supergott_\nreleased in November 2001, by the Swedish band \"Caramell.\"\n\nWhat's important about this is not the music but the animated dance that make\nup this meme. The meme is said to have appeared during the second half of\n2006.\n\nWhile its exact date of inception is uncertain, for a fact, this means started\nas a fifteen frame Flash animation loop showing Mai and Mii, who are\ncharacters of the Japanese (adult) visual novel\n_[Popotan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popotan),_ doing some sort of\nswinging hip dance while holding their hands over their heads imitating some\nsort of animal ears. The music played in the background was a sped up version\nof the song aforementioned song sung by singers Malin and Katia from the\naforementioned band. There were other remixed versions that showed up almost\nin parallel, but that's not the most important part about this meme or its\ndance.\n\nYou see this popular dance clip originated from gif loops of the game's OP:\n\n<https://youtu.be/--Yr5q6tU9A?t=102>\n\nThe game itself was released in 2002, with an anime following it in 2003. So\nwhy did it take so long for the meme we know today to appear?\n\nIt's possible that the anime, being anime, was more available to the public\nthan its adult visual novel counterpart. For obvious reason such as content\nand availability, since fast broadband and Youtube (it appeared early 2005)\nwere as readily available and prominent as it is today.\n\nThere's evidence to suggest that the a similar loop from the anime brought\nattention to the game. This particular loop was created based off a loop of\nthe character Mii from the OP of the anime:\n\n<https://youtu.be/tboQg1xj010?t=62>\n\nThis particular loop was probably made sometime around when the anime aired in\nthe later half of 2003: <http://dagobah.biz/flash/miidance.swf>\n\nClearly the game's dance sequence would be considered cuter by most fans.\nBefore Caramelldansen was even a thing, there were many other remixes being\ncalled different things with different songs from different bands playing,\nfrom Aerosmith and Run DMC's \"Walk the Way\" to \"Dare\" by the Gorillaz, most of\nthem done in Flash. Subsequent spin-offs were created based on original\ncharacters and popular characters alike. But where and when did the meme in\nquestion start its popularity?\n\nApparently a guy from Sweden by the name of Sven, created the flash loop and\nposted it on his personal website: <http://md5.se/h/032/>\n\nFrom there it made itself across the internet in the later half of 2006.\nOriginally many large communities such as Hongfire and 4chan \"Popotan Dance\"\nor \"Popotan Dansen,\" but as after 2008 it became more popularly known in its\ncountry of origin, Japan, as the \"uma uma dance.\"\n\nHowever it's believed that it wasn't until early 2008 that the meme truly\npopularized, with the help of versions and remixes shared via video sharing\ncommunities such as Youtube and Nico Nico Douga where its popularity truly\npeaked.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of season 2, Kaneki's hair turns back to its original colour.\n\nI know his hair turned to white because of the Marie Antoinette (MA) syndrome,\nbut in all the research I've done, I've found nothing regarding a cure for the\nMA syndrome.\n\nSo, why did his hair change back? Can the MA syndrome be cured? And why did\nKaneki get cured out of the blue for no reason at all?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy interpretation was that it was purely symbolic. I saw the white hair as a\nchange in his personality, a sort of draining of his \"color\" or original\npersonality. When his hair changes back, we see some of his old self coming\nback. Keep in mind that writers don't necessarily make those sorts of\ndecisions with medical backing. Pure symbolism is often a very large factor.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI see the changing of his hair color as a physical side effect of him\nforsaking his mother's nature (his nature), and if you will allow me to\nspeculate, the white hair is symbolic of him embracing his father's nature,\nnot that I think he knows it.\n\nI'm just guessing, but I think Arima (the white hair guy fighting the big Owl,\nthe man Kaneki runs into at the end) is really his father.\n\nThey go out of the way in episode 9 of season 2 to show Arima thinking long\nand hard on what to write in his will, but in the end he leaves it blank. I\nthink it would be messed up to write your child into a will when that child\nthinks you are dead like, \" _Dear Kaneki, so I'm not dead, but if you're\nreading this, then I am dead, so ya, sorry. P.S. Love ya_ \". But the desire to\nreach out would at that moment be strong. With Arima leaving it blank, he is\nshowing what kind of man he is. A man willing to make the hard choices. The\nsame (more or less) choices Kaneki is making.\n\nAt the end, he isn't able to walk away from his friend's request and willingly\nput himself in harm's way when at that moment no one needed his protection.\n\nThat's why I think we see his hair change over and over in the end... a battle\nbetween his two natures.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI feel that it can't be symbolic of him returning to his normal self. I mean,\nthe reason his hair turned white was due to him being damaged... Right? Like\nthe torture and all caused his hair colour to change, and Hide's death only\nadds to that damage. I'm pretty clueless\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga, Kaneki's hair slowly starts to turn black in _Tokyo Ghoul: re_ ,\nwith Haise Sasaki's hair being white with black at the crown. During his\nbattle with Kanae and then The One Eyed Owl, his hair reverts completely back\nto its original black colour. Though it takes a lot longer than the anime,\nthis is the same kind of complete cycle symbolism described above.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI agree with what people have said about why it turns white, but I think the\nreason it turned black at the end was symbolism for him touching back to\nhumanity through Hide, especially the last shot where we see Kaneki's hair go\nblack and then Arima's white hair right after.\n\nI thought it was kind of symbolic of the irony of how ghoul's are supposedly\nevil (in human's eyes) but Kaneki is showing how \"human\" he is when he carries\nHide in front of all the CCG, whereas Arima is a human but coldly walks out\nfront to kill Kaneki.\n\nThis is just my opinion based off the impression I got.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the change from black to white was physical as well as symbolic. It\nshowed the change in his personality, that to survive the torture from Jason\nhe had to leave his humanity behind and be a soulless ghoul. The symbolic\nchange of his hair colour from white to black was to show that he had regained\nhis humanity, the death of Hide brought about his emotions and his old self\nand old life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere has been several instances in the real human world where the hair of a\nperson turns white overnight due to extreme shock and stress.\n\nFor evidences, look\n[here](http://chemistry.about.com/od/howthingsworkfaqs/f/why-does-hair-turn-\ngray.htm) and [here](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121016-can-stress-turn-\nyour-hair-grey).\n\nSome well known rumors are Marie Antoinette and Captain Moody.\n\n* * *\n\n**Why did Kaneki's hair turn white in the first place?**\n\n[13th Ward's Jason](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Yakumo_Oomori) tortured\nKen Kaneki after capturing as wiki says:\n\n> Yamori then tortured Kaneki for ten days. He injected Kaneki with Rc\n> suppressants to suppress his ghoul powers and cut off his fingers and toes\n> like nails. When the injection's effects wore off, he forced Kaneki to eat\n> so his fingers and toes would regrow. Later, he also placed a Chinese red-\n> headed centipede in Kaneki's ear.\n\nSuch a magnitude of torture must trigger the autoimmune mechanism of Kaneki's\nbody due to the immense stress on his body and mind.\n\n* * *\n\n**Why did Kaneki's hair color revert back to black?**\n\nThe syndrome is thought to be a variant of [Alopecia\nareata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia_areata). In nonscarring\nalopecia, where the hair shafts are gone but the hair follicles are preserved,\nmaking this type of alopecia reversible. I guess the human body could start\nattacking melanocytes too under extreme stress or melanocytes can modify\npigmentation.\n\nIf interested, look [here](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17242160).\n\n* * *\n\n**THE THEORY** :\n\n * Due to stress and shock imposed on Kaneki's body by Jason over the period of 10 days, Kaneki's black hair starts to fall out at once. They are replaced by white hairs **quickly** (due to high regeneration power of Kaneki).\n\n * Upon finding his real self (on his meeting with Tsukiyama), the stress is finally relieved on his psyche and his turns black **quickly** due to melanin release. (His body stopped attacking melanocytes or melanocytes stopped modifying pigmentation.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom chapter 99 of the _:re_ manga, Touka was talking to Kaneki and asked why\nhe had that \"sesame-pudding\" haircut which apparently means black in Japan. He\nsaid that Dr. Shiba told him suppressing his RC cell activity increased his\nmelanin production\n\nMelanin gives you the color of your hair and skin, the production of this\nstops you from having white hair. That is why older people who have white hair\n_have_ white hair. They don't produce as much melanin as they use to.\n\nThat explains why his hair turned black: he was suppressing his RC Cells. He\nfought Arima _all out_ and so he had to use a lot of RC cells so his RC Cells\nweren't suppressed which gave him full white hair again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think his change from white to black over and over again is because of his\nhuman side fighting his ghoul side. When he got tortured by Jason he accepted\nhis ghoul side, but when Hide died it brought out his human side and his body\ndoesn't know what to choose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Kaneki's hair turns back to its original hair color, I think that means\nhe's getting his personality. Notice when his hair turns white he is\ncompletely insane, but when it turns back he gets his old self again.\n\nIn season 3's trailer or \"release\", Kaneki was shown with black and white\nhair. This means Kaneki has a split personality but not with the girl that was\nin control before but with his ghoul and human personalities. Since these are\nmixed and he is a half-breed, sometimes the ghoul personality is in control\nand his human personality is in control. Notice when he first becomes a ghoul,\nhe says no to eat human meat but the ghoul side wanted to. That means due to\nthe stress he had before and then the torture he went through much more, the\nghoul side took over.\n\nSo I think somewhat the human Kaneki was fighting his way past the ghoul\nbecause he wanted to take control and be his regular self. If you were being\ncontrolled, I think you would fight to take control. That's what he was doing.\nIn season 3, he will be in control but the thing is that the ghoul is still in\nhis personality and the instincts will come back and he will have a split\npersonality that will be stronger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the [wikia:](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit)\n\n[code]\n\n Canon Non-Canon SBS\n Paramecia - 49* 15 2\n Zoan - 17 3 0\n Logia - 11 3 0\n Unspecified - 0 1 1\n Total Devil Fruits - 77* 22 3\n \n[/code]\n\nIt is clear that Paramecia users outnumber both Zoan and Logia users. Is there\nany specific reason for that?\n\nI think that more Zoan users mean more animals, so it will have less\ncreativity (for attacks) compared to other Devil Fruits. So that may be a\nreason for less Zoan users till now.\n\nBut what about Logia? Most Logia users are big-shots.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the answer is pretty simple. Logia Devil Fruits give you the power to\nbecome an element, Zoan fruits give you the power to become an animal,\nParamecia fruits are those which allow you to do anything else.\n\nImagine if you divided all cars you saw into Volvos, Peugeots, and Others.\nYou'd expect far more of the third category because it's definition is\nbroader. So out of all the Devil Fruits in existence, you'd expect more to be\nParamecia than others.\n\nI think Logia should be even more under reported than they are, as they are\nstated to be the rarest and most powerful of the three types of fruit, but at\nthe Whitebeard War, many of the most powerful men in the world were shown, so\nthe fruits we've seen are skewed towards the more powerful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAdditional to Qiri's answer,\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_35#Chapter_334.2C_Page_146)\nis the SBS where Oda basically mentioned the same Qiri did.\n\n> **Reader** : Oda-sensei, I was curious; is Foxy the Silver Fox's Noro Noro\n> no Mi a Logia type, Paramecia type, or Zoan type? I'll be too anxious for\n> your reply to use the bathroom, so hurry it up.\n>\n> **Oda** : It's a Paramecia (superhuman) type. Logia (nature) type can turn\n> their bodies into something completely different. Zoan (animal) type can\n> turn into animals. **Everything aside from those is lumped into the\n> Paramecia (superhuman) category.** However, there are some Paramecia who can\n> change their own bodies, as well.\n\nOda indeed confirms that Logia and Zoan are a specific Devil Fruit, but\neverything else would be considered _superhuman_ and is lumped into that\ncategory, so it would make sense for it to be the largest category.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't find any girlsdemo songs with English sub they are the band from angel\nbeats. Does anyone know a place I can find videos of all the girls dead\nmonster songs with English subtitles?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This](http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/angelbeats) site is a great for anime\nlyrics from pretty much any show you can think of. Youtube is also a great\nsource. I got a ton of results just by searching \"girls dead monster english\nsub\" I'm not sure that you'll be able to find **all** of them, but stuff like\n[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7qYAmPF3E) is all over youtube.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost likely, the actual seasons are not a cause for the television\nbroadcasting schedule in Japan. Furthermore, the seasons themselves don't much\nalign to actual seasons, with \"Spring 2015\" ending in late June.\n\nIt seems strange to me that series air in such regular intervals and with such\nconsistent lengths (only deviating by perhaps 2 episodes from what I've seen).\n\nFurthermore, I'm no expert on western television, but it seems to me that\nwestern shows don't adhere to such a rigid schedule.\n\nNotably, it seems that season lengths have changed in anime over the years,\ntoo. For instance, the original season of Naruto had 35 episodes, which is\nsomething I don't think would happen these days. Is there a specific reason\nfor this schedule? (cultural or otherwise)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is for financial reasons.\n\nIn the past, many series had longer seasons: 24, 26 or 28 episodes for a\nseason was common in the 90s ( _Meitantei Conan_ 's first season was [28\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Case_Closed_episodes_\\(seasons_1%E2%80%9315\\))).\nSeries that were pretty guaranteed to be popular enough to keep up selling a\nlot of toys to kids had longer seasons ( _Sailor Moon_ 's first season had [46\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_episodes#Episode_list)).\nGag series from _4-koma_ comics are more likely to have a long series length (\n_Nintama Rantarou_ 's first season had [47\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintama_Rantar%C5%8D_episodes_\\(series_1\\))\nand _Chibi Maruko-chan_ 's first season alone was a whopping [142\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chibi_Maruko-chan_episodes)).\nIn the past, more people were loyal to their favorite series and collected the\nmerchandise carefully, whereas Japanese children now are quick to switch their\nfads (from _Pokemon_ to _Youkai Watch_ , for example), so investing a lot into\na series that'll get discarded next year is not financially-sound.\n\n12- or 13-episode series started to appear in the late 90s as a way to animate\nand broadcast something (adapting a manga or video game, or an original\nseries) that did not have a big enough fan base to sustain financing a full-\nlength series (of course, this was in the era when everything was still drawn\nby hand). Previously, those sort of anime only received a one-shot OAV or a\nbrief OAV series (for example, _[Koko ha\nGreenwood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Is_Greenwood)_ or [_Tokimeki\nMemorial_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokimeki_Memorial_\\(series\\)#Anime)).\n\nEven though anime is mostly animated outside of Japan and by computer,\nlowering production costs, the industry is able to further expand the genres\nand number of titles produced by switching to a lot of shorter series over a\nsmaller number of long-running ones. To have a long run, a series needs to\nkeep viewers coming back (the sort of plot that can go on and on, like _Inu\nYasha_ ) and sell merchandise well. Many genres of manga do not lend\nthemselves to those epic series, so studios are creating shorter series that:\n\n * Can get something animated which in previous generations of anime production would never have had a chance to get animated at all because it's more niche.\n * They can make a modest amount of money off of it if it does well (and give it another season), or they can chalk it up to not too drastic of a loss if it doesn't do well and quickly move on to the next one.\n * Provide a nice, tight story arc that has closure at the end (though when they are not sure up to nearly the last minute whether they will get the green-light for another season, the ending can still fizzle).\n\nAlthough the main reason is financial, a series where the very limited total\nnumber of episodes available to work within is known to the staff from the\nstart can allow the writers to craft the storyline to suit the length with\nlittle to no filler, which offers a different sort of project than _Rurouni\nKenshin_ or _HUNTER x HUNTER_ where you don't entirely know where it's going\nand how many episodes it will need to get there.\n\nI'm not sure what you mean by \"the seasons themselves don't much align to\nactual seasons, with 'Spring 2015' ending in late June.\" Japanese culture is\nvery specific on when seasons take place, what is associated with that season,\nwhat to do during each season, what day of the year to switch from\nspring/summer school uniform to fall/winter school uniform and vice versa\n(called _koromogae_ : see 2.07\n[here](http://www.genvid.com/lunarch/faqyou/continuity.html)), what to eat in\nwhich season, etc. The seasons coincide with the Japanese academic year, so\nthat the _sakura_ (cherry blossom) trees are blooming in most of the country\nduring graduation ceremony in late March and during the first day of school\n(on April 1st). This is a primary reason why, although Tokyo University has\nswitched to the Western academic year, most schools in Japan strongly do not\nwant to. Anime is usually keen to let the viewer clearly know what season it\nis in the story, and try to coincide this with the air date of the episode\n(New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, _sakura_ blooming, the sound of cicadas\nin summer, mosquito repellent, summer festivals, _ishi yaki imo_ (stone-baked\nsweet potatoes) in autumn, fall leaves, snow, etc.).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the point of view of a consumer who isn't watching things as they air,\nbut instead buying box sets or watching them on Crunchyroll or similar, my\nexperience is that 12ish episodes is about ideal.\n\ne.g. as much as I liked the first few seasons of the (original) Sailor Moon\nanime, they dragged out a lot. And being so large, the thought of watching\nthem again (especially if it means purchasing box sets) feels very daunting,\nand I am unlikely to do so.\n\nWhereas, for example, the 12 episodes Puella Magi Madoka Magica was long\nenough to be able to tell a story in satisfying depth, but short enough that\nit feels like the story keeps moving along.\n\nOf course, I'm just speculating that this is something producers care a lot\nabout, but I'd be surprised if they didn't care at all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs shown in Shippuden, Fukasaku, one of the two Great Sage Toads says that\nNaruto has surpassed his master.\n\nJiraiya was not able to completely enter into sage mode, and as such only had\na partial toad-like appearance.\n\nThis is what I read from [Naruto\nWiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya#Senjutsu):\n\n> Jiraiya didn't like Sage Mode because it gave him a more toad-like\n> appearance, with longer marks along the sides of his face, a goatee, a\n> larger nose with warts, webbed hands and feet and sharp teeth, all of which\n> made him unappealing to girls. This appearance is due to Jiraiya not having\n> complete mastery over the technique. \n>\n\nBut I don't think this was the only reason for not mastering such a great\ntechnique.\n\nEven though he was one of the great legendary Sannin, why was he unable to\nmaster the Sage mode completely? Any reason other than the above.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe title great Legendary Sannin does not mean theat he was the master of all\ntypes of techniques. He has sealing jutsus, summonings, body activation,\ncombination techniques and is a pretty darn awesome Ninja. He did master the\nSage techniques, he just couldn't perfect it.\n\nNaruto surpasses Jiraiya as a Sage because of the nature of Sage chakra. It\nhas to be in balance with the other two types of chakra in you. The balance\nwas slightly tending towards Senjutsu chakra for Jiraiya and hence the toad\nlike appearance, doesn't mean he didn't master how to use it.\n\nNaruto mastered it too, but with the balance being perfect. Also, his clone\ntraining technique gave him 4 times more practice [exponentially more] than\nwhat Jiraiya was able to spare during his missions and travels. So it is\npossible that's a reason he was able to perfect it. Surpassing his master\nmeant the perfect balance of chakra without any frog features according to\nsage Fukasaku.\n\nThey both were masters of Senjutsu, as they were able to use it without\nbecoming a toad, were able to perform Kawazu kumite [excuse me if that's a\ntypo] and giant rasengans. HTH.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJiraiya didn't master Sage Mode by plot from Kishi. I mean Sage jutsu is just\nanother technique a bright ninja can master even without large chakra reserves\n(Minato too had toad sage mode) In my opinion Naruto never surpassed Jiraiya.\nI mean, we all know the dynamics of kage bunshin upon which naruto relied a\nlot during his sage training, and resengan training. The advantage naruto had\nwas his mother's bloodline (Uzumaki) which genetically gave him access to vast\nchakra reserves. vast chakra reserves are needed to be a jinchuuriki( see\nconversation between 8-tails and his old jinchuuriki, see conversation between\n8 tails and the jinchuuriki that killer-bee succeeded, see conversation\nbetween killer-bee and naruto in the tailed beast transformation training arc)\nwith little danger since bijuu chakra has the tendency of 'possesing' the\njinchuuriki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe was simply incapable of **Balancing** his Sage Chakra with Physical and\nSpiritual Energy, That's why he's considered an **Imperfect Sage Mode User**\n\nNaruto on the other hand perfected it because he's capable of balancing 3\nEnergies\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlso acceptable is the first anime to have body pillows (or dakimakura) as\nmerchandise.\n\n\n\nAnime body pillows are a big part of anime otaku culture - but this can't have\nalways been the case. I doubt there were body pillows of the characters back\nin the 60s.\n\nWhen did body pillows start being sold as merchandise for anime and who was\nthe character to get the first pillowification?\n\nI'm interested in officially licensed body pillows only - and specifically\nbody pillows as opposed to normal pillows (if the line is vague though, that's\nfine).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nInside of anime:\n\nUrusei Yatsura (1981-1986) \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z6Upc.jpg)\n\nThe character Megane is likely the first otaku that featured inside of an\nanime.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o0Rx4l.jpg)\n\n> officially licensed body pillows only\n\nKeep in mind that the entire fandom started inofficially producing merchandise\nlong before any official sources even existed. Doujinshi, figures and body\npillows all started out as being made by fans for fans.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is considered Japan's first body pillow (dakimakura) was created in 1996\nby a company called Lofty. Although the definition of what a dakimakura is may\nvary depending on the person.\n\nThe precursor to life-sized full body pillow covers likely originated from the\n\"Goodnight Sheets\" bedsheets from Tokimeki Memorial released on January of\n1997 by Konami. People wrapped the bedsheet around the body pillows and slept\nwith them. Influenced by this [a person](http://www.din.or.jp/%7Emiochan/)\ncustom ordered a body pillow with the bedsheet processed as a pillow cover and\nthat popularize the trend due to his influence among _Tokimeki_ fans.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6h9KC.png)\n\nPrior to that Elf had released smaller hug pillows (about 90cm long) featuring\ncharacters from _Doukyusei 2_ in 1995.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WafDG.png)\n\nThe first ever mass distributed dakimakura covers to feature a full-body sized\ncharacter originated as a doujin work from an doujin event called [Leaf\nFan](https://web.archive.org/web/20010428085306/http://www2.nerv.ne.jp/%7Eleaffan/)\nin 1997. It is alleged that the circle named 江戸主水のお店 was the first to do this,\ncreating a two-sided (with a lewd side) cover for Multi from the _To Heart_\nseries.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/b5JVz.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nI've seen this joke float around various social media sites lately. Is there a\nparticular reason for why characters with this hairstyle - particularly mother\nfigures - seem to die so consistently?\n\nFor instance, is it an allusion or symbol that I don't understand?\n\nAlternatively, are there any strong counter examples?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis meme seems to be a conflation of two very different things.\n\nFirst, Hyakuya Akane from _Owari no Seraph_ (the girl on the lower part of the\nimage) does not share the low below-the-shoulder ponytail that the women in\nthe top of the image share; she has a loose braid. Today I was handed this\nevent flyer by a friend (a Japanese college student involved in subculture),\nwhich features a girl with a one-sided, front-of-the-shoulder loose braid and\nlong bangs. I mentioned this SE question to her and she said **the hairstyle\nhas no association other than looking gentle** and seemed incredulous that\nsomeone would come up with such an idea.\n\n\n\nA loose braid, or two, or a single low ponytail on one side at the neck, or\ntwo low/loose pigtails, or are fairly common for contemporary pre-teen/teen\ngirl character designs, since this is a **current fashionable style** among\nreal-life Japanese pre-teens through college students. So Akane doesn't\nnecessarily fall within a grouping of mother figures or people fated to die\nany more than the following characters do:\n\n\n \n\n  \n\nSecond, mothers can be given the low ponytail because it is **one of a number\nof soft, gentle hairstyles** (contrast this to styles such as a short page-boy\nclipped cut, or a long past hip-length luxurious cut, or spiky hair). Not all\nmother characters, but many are portrayed with a nurturing, warm personality.\nHowever, plenty of kind mother characters in anime -- both those who die and\nthose who don't -- sport other hairstyles. (Also, the hairstyles in the\npictures in the meme are not that strongly similar to one another when you\nlook at the styles of the bangs.)\n\nThird, there are largely **no moms in classic literature** (a wealth of orphan\nstories: Heidi, Anna of Green Gables, Tom & Huck, David Copperfield and\nbasically all of the Dickens' boys, little princess Sara, Mary of the secret\ngarden, etc.) or in Disney animation either. Dads trying to marry off their\ndaughters, yes. Cute, plump, bumbling dads, yes. Absentee fathers, yes. But in\nmany cases, we have orphan protagonists with no parents around at all. We can\n**feel empathy for the characters whose loved one died** and a **death can be\na strong motivation for characters to resolve to take a stand against evil** ,\nbut more importantly for drama, for suspense, for excitement: **without a mom\nto take care of them and worry about them and discipline them and tell them\nwhich things are too dangerous to do, orphans are freed up to go on\nadventures**. No questions asked! No curfew! If you have an eccentric, sweet\nlittle papa or dad who works long hours or lives separately from you, it's\nalso easy to slip out of the house to go on adventures. Where are the moms?\nWell, evil stepmoms are okay, since the caring mom is already dead and safely\nout of the way for the story to move forward. A common plot element in stories\nis that kids only get an adventure if mom is already dead. So the unfortunate\nmessage we get is, motherhood is boring, and mothers make their kids' lives\nboring. **Mothers who exist at the start of a story, irrespective of\nhairstyle, will often need to be killed off in order for the protagonist to\nachieve the freedom to do dangerous things that a responsible mom wouldn't\nstand for.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been looking for subtitle tracks for Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor,\nbut haven't had any luck. I figured I'd ask here in case any of you guys knew.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you check [AniDB](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=1806)'s list of subs, there are a whole list of\ngroups that have subs for it.\n\n> * Philosophy-raws\n> * ACX\n> * E-D\n> * Daman\n> * Anime-MX\n> * Blitz\n> * W_B\n> * B-A\n> * A-E\n>\n\nAt the time of this answer, these are the groups which have completely subbed\nFafner, according to AniDB.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the Punk Hazard arc, we have learned that Vegapunk had created a unique\nsubstance called [S.A.D.](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SAD), which is one of\nthe few things needed to create\n[Smiles](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Devil_Fruit#Smiles),\nartificial Zoan Devil Fruits.\n\nSo basically we have (a joker) using sadness to create smiles. I doubt Oda\nnamed both objects that way accidentally. So does anybody know if Oda has ever\nmentioned what the symbolism is behind S.A.D and Smiles?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe substance is just \"SAD\" not \"S.A.D\". Considering that Caesar Clown is the\nonly person in the world who knows how to manufacture it, and he uses it to\ncreate artificial fruits that he calls \"smiles\", it was just an appropriate\nname to fit into the theme. Clown, smiles, sad, etc.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**SAD and SMILES are named after the side effects of Artificial devil fruits**\n\nA normal devil fruit grants power and has only a side effect of unable to\nswim, but artificial devil fruits are different on top of unable to swim\n\n> they also lose the ability to become SAD or angry, they can only SMILE or\n> laugh\n\n* * *\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EM8M2.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7aNlW.png)\n\nSource: Chapter 943: SMILE\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched a scifi anime movie and I forgot its name. All I remember is the\nstory and characters. I think the female robot protagonist was on the cover of\nthe movie and had blue or white scifi style clothing. I also think the movie\nwas made in 2014, but I'm not sure.\n\nStory: The movie starts in a hologram environment where the female protagonist\nis sunbathing. Gets hit on by a guy when suddenly the hologram room gets\nhacked and she traces this hack to earth. Later on it is revealed that the\nhacker is an AI trying to get people on his rocket out of Earth to colonize\nnew planets. The AI leaves himself without anyone else in the end of the\nmovie.\n\nMain protagonist: Female data. Lives in a big structure above earth in space.\nIs allowed additional \"memory\" due to high enthusiasm and goals. Gets a\nmission to go down to earth. She hastened the body creation and took the body\nof herself at the age of 18 instead of her grown-up body. She falls to earth\nin a pod meeting her informant (male) luring mutated beast animals to her on\npurpose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen watching anime I often come across filler episodes or arcs. They are\noften episodes that are not described in the manga.\n\nI haven't read much manga, so I was wondering: Does manga also have filler\nvolumes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is **no** ,\n\nBasically what a filler episode is is a episode that does not involve any\ncontent from the original manga, these episodes are called \"non-canon\" or like\nyou described it as \"filler episodes\".\n\nThe manga is always 100% non-filler, but the anime adaption can contain these\nfiller episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDepending on your definition of filler, I would say yes, there are indeed\nfiller arcs in manga.\n\nI say this for a few reasons.\n\n 1. The other answer on here as I write this assumes that the manga is always the original content, which is untrue. While that's the most common way to do things (adapt manga into anime) there are certainly cases of adapting anime into manga form (for example, Madoka Magica).\n 2. Consider [this](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Filler) TV Tropes page. It offers a few definitions of filler. One is something that \"isn't in the source material.\" However it could also be considered something \"unrelated to the main plot,\" which doesn't necessarily mean that filler arcs are exclusive a specific adaptation. \n\nFor example, consider the Excalibur arcs in the Soul Eater manga, which also\nappear (almost verbatim in some cases) in the anime. They have no practical\neffect on the overall story - they exist simply for comedic effect. If you\nskipped those chapters, the overall story would not really lose anything.\n\nTherefore, yes, manga can have filler, because filler can be defined as\nanything which does not have a direct effect on the main story.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn anime _Monster_ , it's common to see people enter other's houses just by\nopening a door (without a key). Example: episodes #7, #12.\n\nWhy is that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no definitive answer to your question, however here are two points\nwhich may answer your question, between the two.\n\n1) The people in question deem the area they live in safe enough to leave\ntheir doors unlocked, therefore walking in without a key would be simple.\n**For example** it was a common game with us children where I lived to open a\npersons door and run away. (I was young, we did stupid stuff). As well as the\nfact that I and my family leave our doors unlocked when we are home.\n\n2) They forgot to lock it. This isn't as common though also happens. If a\nperson is not a complete safety-enthusiast with a checklist of things to do to\nensure their safety, they are bound to forget to lock one time or another.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn fairy tail, during the fight between Natsu and Rogue and Sting in the Grand\nmagic games, Natsu finally uses an attack called Crimson lotus exploding flame\nedge. \nHe says that it is a secret dragon slayer art. So, what is so secret about\nthis attack?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can guess that they are called as secret because only Natsu can use those\nsecret attack , As shown\n[here](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Natsu_Dragneel#Magic_and_Abilities)\nattack like **Dragon Roar** are pretty similar to other dragon slayer and\nthose secret attack are very powerful comparing to other attack.\n\n[Here](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Gajeel_Redfox#Magic_and_Abilities) you\ncan see , Gajeel also have Dragon Slayer's Secret Art like [Karma Demon: Iron\nGod Sword](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Karma_Demon:_Iron_God_Sword). And\nWendy also, like [Shattering Light: Sky\nDrill](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Shattering_Light:_Sky_Drill) and [Milky\nWay](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Milky_Way)\n\n* * *\n\nAs you mention, while fighting with Rogue and Sting ,Natsu was playing with\nthem and when he became serious he use his secret attack which is one of the\nimportant attack for a Dragon slayer. Which are very powerful, even Laxus and\nGildarts had hard time handling that attack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball, Piccolo and Kami are written as if they are demons from Earth,\nbut in Dragon Ball Z, it is revealed that they are actually aliens from the\nplanet Namek.\n\nAnother prominent character who _looks_ like a demon, [Emperor\nPilaf](http://www.dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor_Pilaf), is never stated to\nbe a Namekian, but he shares the odd skin tone and pointed ears of one.\n\n\n\nSimilarly, [Garlic Jr.](http://www.dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Garlic_Jr.) is\nNamekian-looking, minus the antenna, and seems to have some connection with\nKami that is never fully explained. He also doesn't seem to grow taller at all\n(Neither does Emperor Pilaf) and has the same approximate skin tone as Pilaf.\n\nThey're almost Namekian, but not quite, and don't seem to follow the same\ncharacter design as other Namekians, and they seem to be permanently short, so\nI hesitate to call either of them Namekians.\n\nI don't know if they're the same species, but they're very similar.\n\nWhat exactly are these two characters? An offshoot of Namekians? Actual\ndemons? Or something else entirely?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGarlic Jr. is a [Makyan](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Makyan) ( natives of\nthe Makyo Star) not a Albino Namekian. Albino Namekian are still presumed all\ndead. For Emperor Pilaf nothing much is know, we can assume him as earthling\nlike other animal looking people.\n\nOther [Known Makyans](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Makyan#Known_Makyans)\n\n * Cinnamon \n * Garlic \n * Ginger \n * Herb\n * Jasmine\n * Mustard\n * Nicky\n * Salt\n * Sansho\n * Spice\n * Vinegar\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince this question doesn't have a definitive answer yet, I suppose I'll\nexpand on my comment above.\n\nAs Ankit Sharma explains, Garlic Jr. is from the Makyo Star. However, I find\nit doubtful that Emperor Pilaf is also from the Makyo Star. Emperor Pilaf [was\nthe first villain introduced in Dragon\nBall](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor_Pilaf_Saga), when Goku was\nstill a child, before we even knew that Goku was an alien (let alone Piccolo,\nwho wasn't introduced until much later). All the material involving Garlic Jr.\nis anime-original and dates to long after the start of the manga, whereas\nEmperor Pilaf is Akira Toriyama's own creation and was introduced right at the\nstart.\n\nSo why do they look alike? I think it's just a coincidence. As Zibbobz\nmentions in comments, this would make Emperor Pilaf some kind of Earth\ncreature. (Considering all the weird creatures that live on \"Earth\" in the\nDragon Ball universe, this isn't _too_ hard to accept.) The Dragon Ball manga\nwent on for a long time, and Toriyama himself occasionally used slightly\ntweaked versions of his earlier designs; that's why Emperor Pilaf and Piccolo\nlook so much alike. The animators who designed Garlic Jr. had to come up with\ntheir own design, but also make sure it was consistent with Toriyama's art\nstyle. They chose to tweak Emperor Pilaf and Piccolo by changing the color and\nremoving the antennae, probably to maintain a recognizable look.\n\nThe animators did something similar in the movies: Turles, the villain of [The\nTree of\nMight](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z:_The_Tree_of_Might),\nlooks exactly like Goku, for no reason I can remember. Bardock, Goku's blood\nfather, introduced in [Bardock - The Father of\nGoku](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z%3A_Bardock_-\n_The_Father_of_Goku), is also an exact copy of Goku's appearance (and even\nshares the same voice actor in the Japanese version). Toriyama's character\ndesigns, especially for non-human characters like these two, have a very\ndistinctive look. It's plausible that the animators decided to play it safe\nand copy his designs, instead of taking their chances and trying to replicate\nhis unique style.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * Emperor Pilaf is actually a _[Monster-Type Earthling](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor_Pilaf)_ as it's stated in Daizenshuu #4.\n * Garlic Jr. might look like Namekian or Demon but it's actually a Makyan. The [Makyo Star](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Makyo_Star) is their home planet. They share similarities with the Namekians and the Demons like pointy ears and evil heart respectively. But they do have a difference, they can transform into [Super Form](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Makyan#Super_form) which causes extreme growth of the body and an increase in strength. This is a bit different from [Great Namek Form](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Namek). Although both are gigantification techniques but the _Super Form_ is smaller in size. \n \n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Hunter x Hunter, one of the rules of\n[Nanika/Alluka](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Alluka_Zoldyck)'s power\nis:\n\n> If Alluka is making requests from a particular person, they cannot be moved\n> over to another person mid-way. Therefore if that particular person\n> disappears such as concealing themselves, Alluka is unable to make requests\n> to anybody else.\n\nWhen Tsubone disappeared from Alluka's sight, Nanika was not able to give her\nwishes. So therefore, if the target of Nanika's wishes is never seen by\nAlluka/Nanika again, theoretically, would that be able to stop Nanika from\nusing the wish granting powers?\n\n(This does not include Killua's ability to give Nanika 'orders'.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll evidence thus far supports this understanding but it is clear from the\nstory that not everything about her powers is understood. For instance, what\nif the person dies before being given the subsequent requests? This means,\ntherefore, that would stop her powers unless there are additional rules that\nhave yet to be stated to us.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Tokyo Ghoul_ , fodder ghouls were getting killed by stabs to the chest and\nstomach, but then there are people like Nishiki getting impaled repeatedly and\ndestroyed by Shuu, but he still lives. Plus, there's Kaneki getting those...\ninjuries at the end of part 1, but he also still lives.\n\nIs Ishida just being inconsistent, or is there a reason for this? What does it\ntake to kill a Ghoul?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you know, ghouls have very strong muscle and high regeneration abilities. A\nghoul's body can be damaged by\n[Quinque](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Quinques) or [Q\nbullets](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Q_bullets).\n\nThe main requirement to kill a ghoul are weapons like those mentioned above\nand critical damage to a ghoul's body that even their regeneration abilities\nis not enough to keep them alive.\n\nAs stated [here](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Ghoul#Biology) regarding the\nweaknesses of a ghoul,\n\n> Ghouls will die if they receive extremely critical or life-threatening\n> traumatic injuries that will kill them before they have a chance to heal.\n\nAs you described, some ghouls are still alive while some are not even when\nthey received similar damage. It is because they are strong ghouls, they have\nmore power compared to others and can handle bigger damage.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhilst it's true that Nishiki should have died (as he hadn't eaten for quite a\nwhile), Kaneki was special since he was not just a one-eyed ghoul, which have\nunrivaled regenerative abilities but also had Rize's kagune, which has been\ndescribed by Ishida as being a 'kakuja from birth', meaning it makes him\nstronger than ghouls in general. Whilst he did lose his memory, it is feasible\nthat he survived multiple impalements by Arima.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this definition of \"video game\", I am purposely excluding visual novels. By\n\"video game\", I generally mean anything you can play on a console (e.g. Chrono\nTrigger, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem, etc...).\n\nSo most anime that airs each season is adapted from some form of source\nmaterial, like a manga, a light novel, or a visual novel. Why aren't video\ngames adapted as often? Sure, there are a few out there ([Valkyria\nChronicles](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5507/Senjou_no_Valkyria:_Gallian_Chronicles),\n[MapleStory](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2719/MapleStory), [Devil May\nCry](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1726/Devil_May_Cry), and of course Pokemon,\nto name a few), but overall, anime adapted from games tend to be much less\nfrequent than those adapted from LNs or VNs.\n\nWhy is this? Why don't bigger title games (like the aforementioned Chrono\nTrigger or one of the many Final Fantasy games) get full-length anime\nadaptations? (I'm also not counting those [small\nOVAs](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1751/Jikuu_Bouken_Nuumamonjaa) or [side\nstory series](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1157/Final_Fantasy:_Unlimited) that\nhave nothing to do with the actual in-game story either).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nData about anime adapted from video games does not always separate out genres\nas you would like (you seem to be primarily interested in RPGs, but data about\nanime adaptions may generally group RPGs along with other games such as\nchildren's games, dating sims, visual novels, etc.), but according to page 8\nof _Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the\nCrossroads of Animation and Computer Games_ by Dani Cavallaro (Jefferson, NC:\nMcFarland, 2010) and [_Manga, Anime and Video Games: Between Adaptation,\nTransmedia Extension and Reverse\nRemediation_](http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Fall2014_MangaGames.html) by\nStefan Werning,\n\n> manga and anime based on digital games appeared much later [than video\n> games]; for example, series like _Fate Stay/Night_ (2006) have been\n> developed as adaptations of existing visual novels. . . . _Sword Art Online_\n> (2009-2014), _Accel World_ (2012) and _Btooom!_ (2012) is constructed around\n> a fictional video game. This phenomenon can be partially explained in the\n> context of films referencing (digital) games as plot elements or even as\n> narrative structures. . . . **adaptations** of popular game franchises such\n> as _Super Mario Bros._ (Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel, 1993) or _Street\n> Fighter_ (Steven E. de Souza, 1994, Figure 2) **were first produced for an\n> international audience** [in other words, not produced for Japanese\n> demographics].\n\nAnd according to Mélanie Bourdaa's \"‘Following the Pattern’: The Creation of\nan Encyclopedic Universe with Transmedia Storytelling,\" ( _Adaptation_ 6, no.\n2, 2013: pages 206 and 211) and Werning,\n\n> Even though many of the anime series represent adaptations of light novels,\n> the games usually do not cover the “canonic” stories from the novels but\n> rather pick up loose ends and elaborate on the characters, often in unusual\n> ways, thereby adding to the **“multiplicity” of the franchise**.\n\nWikipedia's [List of anime based on video\ngames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_based_on_video_games)\nevidences that the number of anime adapted from video games has been\ndramatically increasing within the past decade. By \"full-length\" anime\nadaptations, if you mean a TV anime of any length, including the current trend\nof series that are 10 to 12 episodes in total, the number of these has been\n**greatly increasing as compared to the situation in the 90s or the 80s**. It\nis not an overstatement to predict that the percentage of all anime produced\nwhich are video game adaptions is likely to rise in the next decade.\n\nSee senshin's answer to [Are anime that are not based on manga\ncommon?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/8237/are-anime-that-are-\nnot-based-on-manga-common/8240#8240): during the 2000s, anime adapted from\nvideo games have maintained a sizable chunk of all TV anime produced and has\nincreased in percentage since 2006. **You can see in the graph that video\ngames have gotten adapted into anime more often than visual novels have**. See\nalso [Why does anime air in 4 seasons per year of ~13\nepisodes?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/22479/8134) and [What are the\nreasons for producing short-form\nanime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/17239/what-are-the-reasons-\nfor-producing-short-form-anime)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLogically speaking, it's a game - therefore, its role is to make people play\nit. Say you made an anime based on it, that may result in people playing the\ngame, but it would also result in paying weekly for the animators to work on\nit (even though they already made plenty of money from the game itself). Also,\nthere's no point making one, as it would potentially give spoilers, as seen in\ntitles such as Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, which both have in depth\nstories. Remember, making a game is more complex and harder than animating.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you don't know the name but know whether it's a Saudi-type song or some\nother type, let me know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found it out... it's called \"L'arabesque danse toujours\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found on the web that there are some differences in the storyline of the\nmanga and the anime (English) of [Beyblade (original\nseries)](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Beyblade_%28original_series%29). In my\nquest to know the differences I tried to find the manga online (legal), but\nI've yet to know for certain how many volumes/chapters (of the manga) are\navailable for the original Beyblade series. Wikipedia\n[shows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyblade) that there are 14 issues\navailable. But the description about Vol. 14\n[here](http://www.comicvine.com/beyblade-14-vol-14/4000-261215/) is the source\nof confusion for me. It says:\n\n> It's down to the final battle in the G.B.C.--the ultimate test to see which\n> team will earn the title of Beyblade world champions! Tyson's grandfather\n> and friends start celebrating victory before the final battle even takes\n> place--but will the BBA Revolution actually win?\n\n* * *\n\n> I just completed the series and the aforesaid description fits into [Episode\n> 30](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyblade_%28season_3%29) of the [Season 3\n> G-Revolution](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Beyblade:_G-Revolution) where\n> BBA team stands victorious in final round of Beyblade World Championship.\n> Also, Season 3 ran for 52 episodes and the episodes after Episode 30 dealt\n> with a challenge named BEGA.\n\nThis is exactly my confusion. If I consider the description then it means\nalmost 40 p.c. of anime aren't present in the last issue, Vol. 14 of manga\nseries, and this seems to be a major difference.\n\nNow, it all comes down to the following points:\n\n * Am I missing something about manga of the said series?\n * Could it be that the said description is incomplete or wrong?\n * Where does the final issue of manga end?\n * Would manga be enough to reflect the complete storyline of anime? Meaning, does there exist mini-series too?\n * Optional: where can I buy/get the complete manga for the said series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _Bakuden Shoot Beyblade_ [manga by Aoki\nTakao](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Bakuten_Shoot_Beyblade_chapters)\nis the basis for [seasons 1 to\n3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_Beyblade_episodes) of the\noriginal anime series. Episode 51 of season 3, [_G-\nRevolution_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyblade_\\(season_3\\)), correlates\nto chapter 3 (the final chapter) of volume 14 of the manga. Chapter 3 of manga\nvolume 14 does not correspond to _G-Revolution_ episode 30.\n\nSpoiler for final pages of manga chapter 3 and episode 51:\n\n> Taichi and Kai stand poised to battle one more time, but the battle itself\n> and its results are not shown. \n\n_G-Revolution_ [episode\n52](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyblade_\\(season_3\\)) features\n\n> a giant vortex crisis and then wraps up with showing images of every team\n> and major character that appeared in the entire 3 seasons.\n\nThe contents of that episode are not covered in the manga.\n\nManga volume 14 includes a manga version of the _Bakuten Shoot Beyblade The\nMovie: Gekitou!! Takao vs. Daichi_ direct-to-DVD anime film.\n\nVolume 14 also features an epilogue one-shot manga about the children of the\nmain characters (who are now grown up). This epilogue was not animated.\n\nFinally, Aoki Takao commissioned novelist Tachimori Megumi to write a Bayblade\n_gaiden_ (side story) short novel titled _Bakuden Shoot Beyblade Gaiden -Yuriy\nIvanov-_ for which he provided the illustration, which is [free to read on his\nofficial website](http://sakura2factory.web.fc2.com/novel.html). Fans have\nmade an English translation of it\n[here](http://z4.invisionfree.com/BeyUKforum/ar/t505.htm). This novel was not\nanimated.\n\nThere was also a spin-off manga from the original series titled [_Seidoushi\nBLADERS -Beyblade Battle\nStory-_](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Saint_Warrior_BLADERS) written by\nMiyazaki Masaru and illustrated by 印照 (whose _romaji_ name I can't find\nanwhere. It might be pronounced \"Shirushi Shou\" or \"Shirushi Teru\"), collected\ninto 3 volumes. Its content is not depicted in the anime at all.\n\nFans have discussed some differences between the manga and the anime in [this\nforum](http://z10.invisionfree.com/Beyblade_Blitzkreig/index.php?showtopic=16).\n\nYou also mentioned the English-language version of the anime. Since the\nEnglish dub contains a large amount of edits from the original anime, the dub\nversion does not match the original manga closely. You can see the dub changes\nfrom the original anime listed\n[here.](http://animemanga.worldbeyblade.org/index.php/Cuts_and_changes)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the _Mayoi Snail_ arc in _Bakemonogatari_ we eventually learn that\nSenjōgahara couldn't see Hachikuji while Araragi could, because only those who\ndidn't want to return home would be able to see her.\n\nBut while Araragi was waiting for Senjōgahara to get back from seeing Oshino,\nHanekawa turns up and is able to see Hachikuji. Later in _Tsubasa Cat_ we\nlearn that the stress which caused Black Hanekawa to appear was from\nHanekawa's repressed feeling for Araragi and not from family problems which\ncaused Black Hanekawa's original appearance.\n\nSo I am wondering, was there a particular reason why Hanekawa didn't want to\ngo home or were things getting worse between her and her parents?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the middle of the last episode of the \"Mayoi Snail\" arc, we are told that\nAraragi is being led astray by Hachikuji after he didn't want to go home,\nbecause he was:\n\n> feeling awkward because it's Mother's Day, fought with [his] sister, and\n> didn't want to go home\n\nMoreover, past 14 minutes into the episode:\n\n> The condition for encountering a lost cow is to have a desire not to go\n> home. But everyone feels that way at some point. After all, everyone has\n> family problems.\n\nSo it doesn't have to be a particularly strong lack of desire to go home -- it\ndoesn't have to be something \"big\" enough to lead to another appearance of\nBlack Hanekawa.\n\nHaving thus obtained an explanation for why he saw Hachikuji from\nSenjougahara, Araragi thinks of Hanekawa, and concludes to himself that\nHanekawa _was_ able to see Hachikuji because of her family problems:\n\n> And so did [Hanekawa]. Carrying the weight of bad blood and strain within\n> her family . . .\n\n**So it simply looks like while Hanekawa's stress with her parents dissipated\nsomewhat after the first Black Hanekawa possession, the underlying problems\nwere never resolved.** For instance, in the beginning of \"Tsubasa Tiger\",\nwhich is in the second season of the series and which is after\n_Bakemonogatari_\n\n> we learn that Hanekawa (still) doesn't have a room of her own in her house,\n> and sleeps on the floor\n\nSo, at the very least, it looks like _Araragi_ thinks that Hanekawa's ability\nto see Hachikuji is entirely to be expected, and not a cause for concern about\nnew developments. It's _possible_ that Hanekawa is keeping her friend in the\ndark about things -- if I'm not mistaken, in the \"Suruga Monkey\" arc, we see\nher lying to Araragi about where she is. **But _even if_ something new has\ncome up between her and her parents, it probably isn't anything out of the\nordinary, at least in that we never see any more detail go into this in the\nanime and in that it never turns into a massive crisis on its own.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust because she wasn't stressed by her family situation doesn't mean she was\nnot bothered by it and didn't want to return home. The situation with her\nparents was still same, but as Araragi notes, it would take some time before\nher stress built up enough from that. The stress from her unrequited love was\nmuch worse and accumulated much faster. Most probably because she spent all\nher time outside so her family situation was not on her mind all the time. But\nshe met Araragi all the time.\n\nThings started getting better with her family only after Tsubasa Tiger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we find out at the end of the series…\n\n> Amasawa Yuuko's brother actually died in an accident some years ago and was\n> not in a coma like she thought.\n\nSo who did she go visit in the hospital then? Was it a very complicated\nhologram and she's never taken her glasses off the entire time (hard to\nbelieve, but not impossible)? Or was it another person in disguise hired by\nthe Megamass?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been watching this anime, then while I was watching it, I had no idea\nwhat's really going on.\n\nAftering watch the first season, I started the second one (Episode 1-5), I\nrealized that one or more scenes in _Zoku_ is the same with the first season. \n(What I remembered the most is the PSP scene)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, [_Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.\nZoku_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/23847/Yahari_Ore_no_Seishun_Love_Comedy_wa_Machigatteiru._Zoku)\nis simply the second season of the show\n[_Oregairu_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14813/Yahari_Ore_no_Seishun_Love_Comedy_wa_Machigatteiru./),\nand not a remake of the first.\n\nWhile both are adapted from the original\n[manga](http://myanimelist.net/manga/40171/Yahari_Ore_no_Seishun_Love_Comedy_wa_Machigatteiru.),\nthe current two seasons of the anime are chronologically ordered, following\ndirectly on from one another. \nThis is clear after comparing the episode synopses of both [season\n1](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14813/Yahari_Ore_no_Seishun_Love_Comedy_wa_Machigatteiru./episode)\nand [season\n2](http://myanimelist.net/anime/23847/Yahari_Ore_no_Seishun_Love_Comedy_wa_Machigatteiru._Zoku/episode)\non their corresponding MyAnimeList pages.\n\nThere may well be some similarities in the two seasons, as shows often provide\nthrowbacks or other references to earlier works, but since the plot itself\ncontinues on, this isn't enough to classify it as a remake.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo i remember once reading a mange where theres is an online VR game. Two\nclassmates play it without knowing that either plays it, Both of them hate\neachother in real life but in game are very close. Both of them play the\nopposite genders. The girl playing as a male and vice versa. One day they get\nstuck in the game due to a \"bug\" and i believe one of them turns into the\ngender they were in the game.\n\nAny help would be appreciated.\n\nTo further add, The male character is a so called \"loner\"\n\nThank you for your time.\n\nEdit: I remember that when the male character was later \"attacked\" in the\nmanga. his game persona took over his real life body for a little while. 2nd\nEdit: Found it, Check answers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFound it, [**Trans Trans**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/61561/Trans_Trans) by\nRuen Rouga. For some odd reason it is simply listed under RUEN Rouga however.\n\n> A girl playing a male character in a video game falls in love with a female\n> character in the virtual world while unaware the player is actually a boy.\n> Meanwhile strange distortions begin to happen in the real world...\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I have a list in notepad that I use to keep track of what episode I have\nwatched:\n\n> ********** Latest episode that I have watched: **********\n>\n> * A Certain Magical Index Season 1 Episode 24\n> * A Certain Scientific Railgun Season 2 Episode 24\n> * Absolute Duo Episode 7\n> * Accel World (anime) Episode 23\n> * Accel World (light novel) Volume 2 -all-\n> * Accel World (manga) 11\n> * ... etc.\n>\n\nAnd some other headings like:\n\n> *********** Finished (hopefully not) ***********\n\nand\n\n> *********** To watch/consider: ***********\n\nIs there a good tool online to do the same thing that I am doing but better,\nand will update automatically when a new season is automatically added, such\nas moved from the finished section to the latest section?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/panel.php) is a fantastic option. Of\nevery site I've tried it's by far the best. In addition to allowing you to\ntrack your anime according to a number of headings, it also allows you to\nspecify a ton of other information, like times rewatched, rating, start/end\ndates, and how you have it stored (for example, if you own DVD's or BluRays of\na show). Your ratings are actually aggregated with the rest of the community\ntoo - which is a very active community, I might add.\n\nFurthermore, the site will help you track manga in the same way. Not to\nmention favorite characters and staff members.\n\nPlus they have news, and there's even a blog attached to your account should\nyou choose to use it.\n\nIf that weren't enough, it has a massive database of just about every anime\nand manga you could ever imagine, complete with character lists, plot\nsummaries, staff/stuido information, user reviews, and recommendations for\nother similar anime.\n\nIn conclusion, MAL is exactly what you are looking for and more. Switching\nfrom a notepad document to that has saved me quite a few headaches.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned by [Gao](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/8486/gao) and\n[キルア](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/274/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A2),\n[Hummingbird](http://hummingbird.me) is also worth a shot. At least as of the\ntime of writing, it fails on a few points:\n\n * **Unlike MAL, Hummingbird does not really support keeping track of manga well: its focus is on anime.** You can easily click on an image of animated shows on the front page to move the \"record\" the site has of where you are forward, but it offers nothing similar for manga.\n\n * **A lot of the additional information you can input into MAL (such as start/end dates of when you saw something) is not present.** I don't care about which set of subtitles I used or my rewatch priority for a series -- I mainly use sites like these to keep track of where I am in a series or what I want to watch in the future -- but things like _when_ I saw something are kind of interesting to look at.\n\n(This is why I only mentioned MAL initially.) However:\n\n * **You have a choice between the website showing \"canonical\" titles, the most common English translation of the title, or the romanized Japanese title.** This is immensely useful: MAL often only features the romanized title in its main listings (although it does list alternative titles) and no form of the English title except in cases where the Japanese title is some transliteration of some other language (e.g. [Girls und Panzer](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14131/Girls_und_Panzer) or [Excel Saga](http://myanimelist.net/anime/379/Heppoko_Jikken_Animation_Excel_Saga), which is listed as _Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel Saga_ ). This can become incredibly confusing in series (such as various Studio Ghibli films) where the Japanese title may not be well-known.\n\n * **It offers machine recommendations for anime based on what you've watched.** This feature can get kind of wonky because it depends on the various \"lists\" you have of anime: for instance, at one point, I had a lot of recommendations for various Evangelion productions based on my \"watching\" list because I was rewatching the Evangelion anime, and moreover, if I've already seen Evangelion and liked it, I probably already know of the existence of the additional films. But this makes for a nice additional feature, and, at least personally, I tend to trust machine recommendations a bit more.\n\nI am unsure if MAL offers anything for light novels: I am inclined to suspect\nthat it does not, as it only has an \"anime list\" (for anything animated) and a\n\"manga list\" for each user.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnother large one is [Anime-Planet](http://www.anime-planet.com/). This has\nsimilar things to MAL & Hummingbird, but also has some additional features.\n\n * Recommendations of shows based on other shows\n * Recommendations of shows based on what you've watched\n\n(Similarly for manga)\n\n * Watch anime on-site - legally thanks to their partnership with Crunchyroll, Hulu and some other video providers. **If you watch anime through this feature, you can let it automatically update your stats.**\n\n * Track the anime/manga you are watching, have watched, want to watch, do not want to watch, watching-but-stalled-halfway-through... (it covers most bases - even rewatches)\n\n * Add favourite characters, artists, staff, etc.\n\n * Read reviews of shows you might like\n\n * Create custom lists (e.g. \"Anime for showing someone how hasn't seen any anime\")\n\n * Discuss anime things in their forum (I don't use this much, but it's there if you want it)\n\n * View lists of upcoming anime and the currently most popular shows.\n\n * View graphs of your anime/manga activity. Here's mine for an example:\n\n\n\nThere is also a smaller selection of light novels and music videos (like Miku)\nthat you can track as well.\n\nThe site has a very active owner, who continually makes changes to the site to\nimprove the experience.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI find the [AniDB](http://anidb.net) the best choice by far, when it comes to\ntracking watched or planned to watch anime. It also contains some useful tool\nwhen you are downloading anime. The tool will scan the file and if it is they\ndatabase and you marked check box it will automatically add the episode into\nyour list.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n(This is only my way of doing it.)\n\nI'm downloading every episode I watch (mainly because my internet is too slow\nfor streaming) so I'm sorting them in folders on my HDD. Also I have a normal\ntext file in the root of my anime folder where I list all the anime I want to\nwatch.\n\nThis method has pros but also, unfortunately, cons:\n\n**Pros**\n\n * You don't have to care about any 3rd party service.\n * You can watch the episodes everywhere. Offline.\n * After downloading an episode, It won't use any bandwidth when watching it. (useful for people with slow internet, like me.) This includes rewatching.\n\n**Cons**\n\n * You are not able to make such nice graphs as @moegamisama showed.\n * If your HDD dies, you lose everything.\n * It overall isn't as fancy as on a website. It might look like this: \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can use [SerienGuide](https://www.serienguide.tv/index.php) to track your\nTV shows.\n\n * You'll get **recommendations** based on the shows you have watched.\n * You can track: \n * The shows you are currently watching\n * All watched series\n * You can also create a watchlist and much more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou may want to try [Kitsu](http://kitsu.io)\n\nPros:\n\n * A **modern** UI (much much better than MyAnimeList)\n * **Official Android/iOS applications**\n * You can **import/export** from MyAnimeList (including others)\n * It can **automatically update your MyAnimeList (and other) library** whenever you update your progress on Kitsu\n\nCons:\n\n * The community is currently smaller than MyAnimeList (but still considerably large and active)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've started watching _Naruto_ and was wondering if anyone actually dies or if\nit is like _Dragon Ball_ and it never really happens.\n\nPlease no spoilers about who dies, just if someone does or if there are\nserious injuries inflicted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, people die. The first major arc (Zabuza arc) features multiple deaths.\nSeveral villains die throughout the story. Some country leaders also die, as\ndo some fairly plot-important characters and/or their relatives. A lot of the\nmost important characters end up near-death, but survive for various reasons.\nNot all of those are able to recover well enough to resume their previous\nlives.\n\n> Some of the dead ones don't stay dead, though. Some of those come back as\n> zombies. But then they go back to being dead. Others just get a resurrection\n> spell cast on them. Kind of like in Dragon Ball.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are often serious injuries inflicted on \"good guys\" which causes them to\nbe assumed dead but they usually end up alive and well with a few exceptions\nhere and there.\n\n> There is a medical ninja who basically magically cures everyone.\n\nThe villains die more often but some of the stronger ones live and cause a lot\nof trouble. Most just die though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm trying to find out the name or any identification of the background music\nplayed at:\n\n * [01:05](https://youtu.be/2abVsiv8Edo?t=1m5s) in Episode 2 of Beyblade [Season 1](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Beyblade_\\(First_Anime_Series\\)) (English dub) from [original series](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Beyblade_%28original_series%29). It's played during the battle between [Kai](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Kai_Hiwatari) and [Tyson](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Tyson_Granger).\n\n * [05:57](https://youtu.be/7e7fjtpYNwU?t=5m57s) in Episode 3 of the aforesaid season. The music plays during the conversation between Tyson and [Kenny](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Kenny) after a friendly battle between Tyson and [Max](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Max_Tate).\n\nI did search on web but most of the time the results I get are either the\nBeyblade songs with lyrics, or links to Japanese ones, but I can't figure out\nthe one needed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAFAIK, the soundtrack for the English Dub is as such. For example, others like\nyou [have tried to ask and received a similar\nreply](http://worldbeyblade.org/Thread-Season-1-background-music).\n\nThe music for dubs seems like quite a collaboration from both Nelvana and the\nJapanese side, as referenced from [this\nthread](http://www.toonzone.net/forums/anime-forum/272264-nelvanas-dubs-\nbeyblade-metal-fight-fusion-bakugan-music-expensive-2-print.html):\n\n> Actually - aside from guitars/bass - there's only 1 piece where I used live\n> instruments- and that was cello. The rest is all electronic acoustic.\n>\n> Beyblade was a really unique situation, because once Corus/Nelvana sorted\n> out the initial details, I was working directly with the Japanese for the\n> entire process and I'd literally just update Nelvana with what was happening\n> every few weeks or so.\n>\n> The director was very specific about instrument choices (you'll notice\n> there's very little synthesizer/electronica) and it's mainly traditional\n> orchestra/acoustic instruments. I worked with a translator on the Japan side\n> at D-rights and all the music requests/revisions and so on were through\n> them. The schedule was so tight that they were animating an episode as I was\n> composing it and then they'd edit video to score on many occasions. Very\n> interesting!\n\nIt shows that it is definitely different from the original Japanese version,\nalthough it was for Metal Fight instead of the original Beyblade series, I\nsuspect it is the same treatment.\n\nYou might try your luck trying to contact the guy who did it.\n\nAs for _**why**_ you are looking into it, I am not sure. However, if you just\nwant to listen to it, there is some guy who did some sort of compilation:\n\n<https://youtu.be/w_7460ppe2c> \n<https://youtu.be/6fu-ONlAn64> \n<https://youtu.be/UfB7IbP_uyE> \n\nAnd he credits Martin Kujac in his FAQ.\n\nThis is probably not sufficient as an answer, but also, it was too much to put\ninto the comments.\n\nI do not think that you will find your answer anywhere, and this question is\nprobably not answerable, unless you contact Nelvana or the creator of said\nBGMs, as they are unnamed and uncatalogued.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one-piece is there an in-universe reason for the seagull on the navy flag\nor is there another reason that they chose a seagull for the navy flag?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Symbolic meanings of Seagulls](http://www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-\nmeaning-of-seagulls.html)\n\n * Freedom : Marines believe in absolute justice. They believe they provide true freedom the populace by catching people that put a stop to them. Thus they provide freedom to the general population by protecting them. \nFreedom is the most important symbol we have discussed. Luffy says he wants to\nbe Pirate King because Pirate King is the most free person in the world.\nThroughout One Piece the importance of Freedom is emphasized. Blackbeard's\nsniper also shot down a Gull on Jaya. Did Oda foreshadow BB pirates will kill\nthe \"freedom\"?\n\n * Adaptation: Seagulls are present on Land, Sea and in Air. They can live in harsh climates on meagre sustenance. They can scavenge off anything. Sounds like the marines we know.\n\n * Communication : How many types of Den-Den Mushi do marines have? I've lost count :p\n\n * Opportunistic : Marines are highly opportunistic. They rushed ahead with Ace's execution to trap WhiteBeard. They'll use any and all means in their hand to carry out their own sense of justice.\n * Resourcefulness : Marines are highly resourceful. Smoker, though just a Captain, was able to assist and capture a Shichibukai. \n\nGoing through the list, we can easily see the qualities represented by\nSeagulls and how any Marine would strive them to be. Sengoku must really\nbelieve in Freedom to wear that hat though :P\n\nAlso additionally... Its Oda's favorite bird!\n\n> This is an interview with One Piece author Eiichiro Oda that was published\n> in the One Piece: Blue Grand Data File volume. \n> \"Q.25 (Tashigi, Kuina, Nojiko and so on are characters with bird names but)\n> What kind of bird do you like best? \n> Seagull\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\n\n\nMany shows use the same face template throughout. Why do they use this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Relevant TV Tropes\npage.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlySixFaces)\n\nIt's easier for animators to keep one face pattern and differentiate through\nother features that are unique to that character - hair colour, hair design,\neyes, etc.\n\nThe love-live girls are a good example of this. They're very unique at first,\nbut their faces are mostly similar designs.\n\n\n\nSome benefits of keeping the same face is that the animators only have to\nlearn that single type of face, meaning less time redrawing as they should be\nvery used to it.\n\nAlso, in certain scenes characters may be switched out for others if the\ndirector decides it. This means that only the hair / peripherals would have to\nbe changed - rather than the entire body. Even if they are somewhat different\n- changing a the colour of an eye is a matter of a simple image tool's slider.\nIt also means that facial features can be mostly left alone if there is a\nsignificant rush for release. Your first image is a good example of this.\n\nAnime also is a medium that has gone through years of refinement. If you watch\na show about schoolgirls - there's a certain subset of design that this will\nfall into - you aren't going to get gritty speedlines and heavily shaded faces\nunless in the case of a gag.\n\nCombine this with the artist's particular style which is an important feature\nfor first-glance recognition - and **the fact that anime characters are\nsignificantly less detailed than real-life humans** , means that a lot of\ncharacters can look the same.\n\n\n\nThis is what has lead to all the crazy pink, purple, blue hair colours that\nare so common (and presumed natural) in anime.\n\n[Why do many characters tend to have crazy hair colors and\nstyles?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2872/why-do-many-\ncharacters-tend-to-have-crazy-hair-colors-and-styles)\n\n**In summary** : Character designs are limited in several ways, so animators\nprefer to spend time on other parts of anime characters instead\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a matter of **artistic style** and a **branding strategy**.\n\nAs a prime example: **Studio Ghibli films are arguably the highest-quality\nanime produced**. They **painstakingly aim for realism** in the movements of\ncharacters and objects and the backgrounds are lush and extremely detailed.\n\nThe balance of light and shadow accurately matches real life, and every cell\nis intentionally still hand-painted in the studio to preserve the high quality\n([Roger Ebert's interview with Miyazaki\nHayao](http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/hayao-miyazaki-interview) reports,\n\"Miyazaki, who is suspicious of computers, personally draws thousands of\nframes by hand. 'We take [handmade] cell animation and digitize it in order to\nenrich the visual look, but everything starts with the human hand drawing. And\nthe color standard is dictated by the background. We don't make up a color on\nthe computer'\").\n\nNot only do the Japanese think so, but Studio Ghibli's work has been\ninternationally acclaimed for its impeccable quality. **Without any interest\nin a computer-generated template,[Studio Ghibli uses the same face character\ndesigns over and over.**](http://kotaku.com/studio-ghibli-characters-sure-\nlook-the-same-1578891061)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HR5OL.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/krJFz.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yw9kr.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NW0GF.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wT6t4.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EN7m3s.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JwpdG.png)\n\nThere are four main points:\n\n 1. Studio Ghibli doesn't do this because they are lazy, cutting corners in the production process, or not creative enough. Similar and even nearly-identical faces are **not a result of mangaka and animators feeling limited by their mediums** , as if a wider variation in facial design would be too hard for them to pull off, or not worth bothering with. Studio Ghibli has never been interested in trading a drop in quality in exchange for a time-saving measure. Though many anime studios now animate by computer, **the tradition of crafting and amply using a trademark facial design for multiple characters predates the technological possibility of mixing-and-matching** hairstyles onto a basic \"doll\" head, and did not arise in the art form in order to make that the standard once animation software could be invented.\n 2. The **character designer is a prominent position** in an anime's staff roster, as some character designers, such as [Tadano Kazuko](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2014-10-02/pmx2014-sailor-moon-character-designer-guest-of-honor-kazuko-tadano/.79507) and [Nobuteru Yuuki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuteru_Y%C5%ABki), draw such recognizable faces that the designer can be billed as a feature of the series. Character design is all done in pre-production (before the animators start painting cells), so **increased/decreased variation in the character design does not create a large impact on the production schedule** once animating begins, unless the character's costume is extremely detailed. Once the designs are established, the character designer draws official _[**settei**](http://aquantis.tripod.com/setteifaq.html)_ (設定, meaning \"materials\") sheets which show the character from various angles and includes notes for the animators about details not to overlook. These usually utilize very clean lines, though some character designers distribute sketchy ones. The _settei_ are photocopied and each animator receives one copy for reference while animating, so that the character designer's intent is realized even across a large number of animator staff.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cHySc.jpg)\n\n 3. Each mangaka or character designer has a style that he/she personally likes. It may get honed over the course of the beginning of her career, but once he/she captures his/her Ideal, **the artist becomes a pro at making it consistent**. Unless it is a rare manga or anime in which that character designer does not intend to draw attractive-looking characters, it stands to reason that **the design perceived as most attractive will be used time and again**. This may mean the same face for nearly all female protagonists, the same face for nearly all male love interests, and the same face for amicable, friendly men. As an example, Takeuchi Naoko can be counted on for consistency.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aqysPs.jpg)\n\nOnly one of these blue-haired girls is Sailor Mercury:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Xtqcs.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I9nyls.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Is9WVs.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPtaX.png)\n\nChiba Mamoru (Tuxedo Kamen) and his dead ringers from other series:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iKSu6.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/b3h1d.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wKO91.png)\n\nTenou Haruka (Sailor Uranus) and dopplegangers:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kqiVv.jpg)\n\n 4. [Branding](https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/240/whats-the-difference-between-a-logo-and-branding) (also known as [Visual Identity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Visual_Identity_Management), [Brand Management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_management), or [Corporate Design](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_design)), is very important in successful marketing. Mangaka and character designers who provide **immediately recognizable** faces grant fans the ability to know in an instant that this is a title they are interested in, and whenever they hear an announcement that the same creator is starting a new series, they can **know exactly what to expect**. Studio Ghibli has crafted **simple** character designs that **strike a chord, make the protagonist easily likable, and garner sentimentality** from the viewers. This strategy ensures repeat consumers more than if they changed up the character design from film to film. A good example of strong branding that evolved from the time of her debut is Yazawa Ai:\n\nearly work → [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uDN3ls.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dFpCGs.jpg)\n\nmiddle period →[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YIDK7s.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yE6fRs.jpg)\n\ndistinct branding → [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DtACOs.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0eAiUs.jpg)\n\nAlthough many mangaka and anime character designers do this type of branding\nvery well, it should be noted that this is not specific to manga and anime,\nbut can be seen in other mediums in other countries.\n\n_For example_ , even while Disney intentionally adds hints of traditional\ncultural art styles into its films (eye shapes for Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan,\nMegara), facial design for Disney protagonists is, for the most part, easily\nrecognizable as being Disney, regardless of the ethnicity of the characters.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gDQbu.jpg)\n\nDisney women of color:[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JEZZt.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**_Everyone can relate to_**.\n\nThe more basic a face looks, or the less it looks like anyone in particular,\nthe more relateable it will be.\n\nYou might notice in many series _(especially within the Shounen genre)_ this\ntrope really only applies to the main cast, where sameface will be applied\nequally regardless of race. If a villain is supposed to be cute, or\nsympathetic in some way, they will be granted sameface.\n\n**However** , more and more distinguishing features will be added the more a\ncharacter is to be viewed as either unimportant or an unredeemable bastard.\nOther examples of breaking the trope include trying to visually push a\n_character_ trope.\n\nFor example, the tiny but relateable girl will be given less of a nose than\nthe other main cast, or the strong guy of the bunch will have a more defined\nnose or squared shin tip, but they will both have generally the same\nstructure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause they produce like 100 anime every year or something. They have to be\nfast at it and we all know how the Asian market is low when it comes to\nquality. Sure thing Studio Ghibli and other studios that make movies (like the\n_Vampire Hunter D_ ) can do wonders, they choose not to when it comes to mass\nproduction.\n\nEffectively, the different characters rely heavily on the hair and little bit\non eye colour and/or shape. Especially filler characters that might not really\nplay a huge role will have the generic anime face with some average hairstyle.\n\nThis is also why in anime all characters wear one and one single outfit ONLY\nthroughout the whole series. Give them a different clothing and they turn into\na different character.\n\nFor example, there was an episode in _Sailor Moon_ where Sailor Venus had\npigtails on purpose to pretend she is Sailor Moon to distract the enemy from\nthe real Sailor Moon, she was identical in every aspect and the only thing\nthat made her different was the length of the pigtails since Sailor Moon has\nknee hair length while Venus hip length hair.\n\nAt some point, they will have used all possible hairstyle, hair colour, and\noutfit combinations and they will have to upgrade in style.\n\n* * *\n\nWestern cartoons also tend to have a continuation throughout the series, you\nwon't see them change the hairstyle or clothing too much, but many times they\nportray the hair and clothing and face more realistically different than the\ntypical anime face with spiky otaku hairstyle with glasses or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause it's easier honestly. Japanese have a thing people can't stand out or\nbe too individualistic. That's why I love seeing realistic interpretation of\nanime character in fanart or 3D animation like Final Fantasy\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMio was carrying Yuuko's wallet in her bag for some reason (why?). Then the\nmoment comes and Mio realizes that the wallet is not there. They go to the\nlost and found department. They found the wallet and we see inside of it as in\nthe screen shot below. Yuuko's day is ruined after see that paper and the\ngreen thing inside.\n\nWhat was that paper and the green substance that put Yuuko in such a bad mood?\n\n* * *\n\nInside the wallet:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VOFSR.jpg)\n\nYuuko's mood for the entire day after this event:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ddagZ.png)\n\n(Location: Episode 12; at the beginning of the second half.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n( ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°) It's a [piece of snakeskin](https://youtu.be/zhz6smMccYo?t=66) and\na receipt from a store in front of a [certain\nstation](http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/nichijou/_userdata/map/tokisadame_station.html)\nshe frequents.\n\nThe wallet is Yuuko's because she identified it by the color and unique\ncontents (the snakeskin). The empty face is one of shock and perhaps angst\nbecause all her money is gone. The gag here is not the contents but her\nreaction after looking in her wallet.\n\nIn Japan, there is a superstition that goess if you put the cast-off skin of a\nsnake into your wallet, your wallet will be able to accumulate more money. In\nJapan and other asian countries as well, snakes are a traditional symbol of\nmoney and wealth (amongst other things), in Japanese myth some notable ones\nassociated with snake gods are Ugajin and Benzaiten.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo answer your side question about why Mio was carrying Yuuko's wallet in her\nbag:\n\nYuuko gave it to Mio to hold onto for safekeeping purposes, because Yuuko\nthought that she would just lose it if she held onto it herself. She mentions\nthis in an earlier scene:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SW0Xz.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy a modeler originally choose 1:144 scale to create a plastic model such as\nGunPla? Why not choose 1:100 or some other number that can easily determine\nthe size of the model from the original size?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n1:144 is often used for models of large aircraft like airliners. 1:144 is half\n1:72 which is a very popular scale for scale model aircraft/tanks etc.\n\nAnd thinking about it, as scale aircraft came first, I think it likely that\nBandai etc adopted existing conventions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n(Didn't you ask this exact question of SF&F yesterday?)\n\nTraditionally, toy makers have used a 1:12 scale when building scaled down\nmodel of real objects, such as dollhouses. This practice pre-dates the metric\nsystem, and made it easy to scale down measurements because, at 1:12, one foot\nbecomes one inch.\n\nNow, suppose you wanted to build a dollhouse, and inside it, you want to have\na dollhouse. To do that, you'd have to scale down your 1:12 model house by\nanother 1:12, to give you 1:144. This is why 1:144 is sometime's called the\n\"dollhouse's dollhouse scale\".\n\nSince 1:12 and 1:144 were already well known and popular by the time anime\nminiatures came around, the first people to make such models were already\nfamiliar with it, and they used it. After that, it's mostly inertia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of the more common modeling scales are based on the Imperial System,\nrather than the (base-10) Metric System. 1/12 for dollhouses is one foot per\ninch. The popular aircraft scales of 1/48 and 1/72 are four feet and six feet\nper inch, respectively. When it came time to produce models of larger\nsubjects, in particular airliners, 1/144 made perfect sense. It is 1/2 the\nsize of 1/72, and still an even division of units in IS (twelve feet to the\ninch). As a previous answer pointed out, Bandai most likely chose it because\nit was suitable to the size of their subjects and was already in popular use.\n\nThere _have_ been efforts to popularize scales that are base-10, but they've\nhad very limited acceptance; 1/50, 1/100 and 1/200 have all been used by\nvarious kit-makers, but none have gotten the customer buy-in that the other\nscales have. Other Imperial-based scales that have strong followings include\n1/96, 1/192 and 1/720, which are popular in boat/ship modeling.\n\nThen things get interesting in the world of scale. (Well, \"interesting\" if\nyou're a model geek, I suppose.) Some scales don't really make that much\nsense, unless you know some of the history. While 1/720 is/was frequently used\nby U.S. model manufacturer Revell for ships (and later Italian manufacturer\nItaleri), the [1/700 scale used by Japanese manufacturers has become much more\npopular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1:700_scale \"Wikipedia on 1/700\nscale\"). And once 1/700 had a lot of appeal, 1/350 (2x the size of 1/700) came\nalong a few years later for people who wanted larger-scale models. The 1/32\nscale (3/8\" equals one foot) that is popular in aircraft and has some\nacceptance in automotive and older armor kits, was mostly [introduced by\nrailroad modeling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1:32_scale \"Wikipedia on 1/32\nscale\"). It is also popular with slot car models. It's popularity with armor\nlost out over the years to 1/35 scale. [1/35 was made popular by the Japanese\nmanufacturer Tamiya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1:35_scale \"Wikipedia on\n1/35 scale\"), largely so they could fit motorization gear into their models.\nTheir models proved more popular than the 1/32 offerings from places like\nMonogram, and eventually 1/32 largely disappeared from the military miniatures\nlandscape. Except for the realm of figurines, many of which are still sculpted\nto 1/32 (54mm) scale.\n\n(I'm sorry... what was the original question...?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid chakra really come from the Juubi?\n\nI saw the flashbacks where Rikudo Sennin's mother took chakra from the Juubi\nand that the Juubi was a tree first. Is that correct?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga _Stretch_ is a story about two girls living together who come to\nlove stretching.\n\nUsually the stretches they do are introduced in a small panel with a little\nbit of demonstration:\n\n\n\nHowever, there is some story elements in the manga and also the types of\nstretches are often spread out in different places (example: stretches to do\nbefore you go to bed occur interspersed in several chapters)\n\nIs there an existing convenient way of seeing these stretches grouped together\nrather than having to compile them manually?\n\nI know there are groups that will compile anime cookbooks, so I don't think\nit's too out-of-the-ordinary that something like this may exist\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am trying to identify these girls for a friend. Any lead would be most\nappreciated.\n\n \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first one is Erika Sendou from Fortune Arterial.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs @Alchemist already pointed out the first figurine is [Erika\nSendou](http://www.anisearch.com/character/15952,erika-sendou) from the anime\nseries [Fortune Arterial](http://www.anisearch.com/anime/6277,fortune-\narterial).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/huaol.jpg)\n\nThe second figurine is a swimsuit version of the character [Al\nAzif](http://www.anisearch.com/character/13471,aru-ajifu) from the anime/game\n[Kishin Houkou Demonbane](http://www.anisearch.com/anime/607,kishin-houkou-\ndemonbane-2006).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BWLz.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe DVDs I own of _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ seemed to use very bad fan\nsubs as when Alph first appeared, Arisa kept referring to her as a 'he'\n(despite clearly seeing her boobs), then Fate was named Feid, and Alph was\nElofy.\n\nIn episode 7, _Is This a Third Magician?_ (titled in the subs as _The Third\nMagical Girl_ ), there is a subtitle indicating where Fate was living.\nHowever, I don't trust it as shortly after when Nanoha gets off the bus to\nwalk home and meets Yuuno with the repaired Raising Heart, there is a subtitle\nof where she is and not only is it totally different to what was shown with\nFate's location, but it doesn't even says Uminari City which is where the the\nTakamachi's, Bannings' and Tsukimura's live and where Midori-ya and Seishou\nElementary School located (as such it's very unlikely Nanoha was dropped off\nin another city after school to go home or to visit Arisa or Suzuka).\n\nSo I am wondering where was that apartment tower Fate was living in?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn Earth, Fate and Arf live in an apartment which is probably located\nsomewhere in Uminari City. Apart from that, their home is the Garden of Time,\nthe base of Precia Testarossa in the dimensional space.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat I remember is that a young black-haired teen gets transported to another\nworld but he notices that there is no manga in that world, so he stayed there\nand opened a manga shop or library. He also is tended by a young, blonde and\nkind maid whom he also taught to write or something.\n\nThe ruler of that world is interested in the main character. The ruler is a\nvery young stubborn and spoiled girl, who gets her way, and who likes manga.\n\nAny suggestions?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're probably thinking of [_Outbreak\nCompany_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_Company)\n\n> Shin'ichi Kanō is a young secluded otaku who is offered a job thanks to his\n> vast knowledge of anime, manga and video games. However, just after meeting\n> his new employer, he is kidnapped, awakening in an alternate world with a\n> fantasy setup. Shin'ichi is then informed that he was in fact selected by\n> the Japanese government to help improve his country's relations with this\n> new world by establishing a company to spread the unique products of the\n> Japanese culture to this new, unexplored market.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen watching episode 10.5 of Kekkai Sensen, I found that Black, when\npossessed by King of Despair, was whistling some tune. I'm sure that Black\nwhistles that tune more than once.\n\nI remember hearing it:\n\n * Before Leo [meets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-_Hkc3Bc8&t=1) Black in a train, and\n * When Black is waiting for White to wake up to ask for taking Leo's eye.\n\nIs it from another song? Or is it an original tune?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA few years ago I read a manga with the following features:\n\n * The protagonist was a teenage boy, who grew up to an adolescent over the course of the story.\n * He cruelly stabbed both his parents to death when he was young.\n * He got sent to a juvenile detention centre, where he learned karate.\n * When he got out he became a delinquent.\n * Highly psychological and adult manga.\n\nI am really curious as to how it ends, but I just can't remember the manga's\nname. Any help would be greatly appreciated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## [Shamo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamo_%28manga%29)\n\n\n\nSelected synopsis (emphasis by me):\n\n> Ryo Narushima (成嶋 亮 Narushima Ryō?), a talented highschooler who was about\n> to enter Tokyo University, the most prestigious university in Japan,\n> **killed his parents** before his successful life could begin. [...] The\n> **16-year-old** bookworm murderer was convicted and **sent to a\n> reformatory** where he was gang raped by other boys. Kenji Kurokawa (黒川健児\n> Kurokawa Kenji?), a jailed man who nearly assassinated Japanese Prime\n> Minister decades ago, was sent to the reformatory to **teach the youngsters\n> karate** every week. [...] Ryo returns to society with the mindset of\n> gaining strength so as to survive and never be a victim again.\n\nOf interesting note is that\n\n> This story was inspired by the Kobe child murders of 1997 that a 14-year-old\n> \"Boy A\" (\"Shōnen A\") killed and decapitated several children.\n\nThe plot and settings somehow reminded me of\n_[Rainbow](http://myanimelist.net/manga/7482/Rainbow:_Nisha_Rokubou_no_Shichinin)_\n, which tells the story of 7 teenage delinquents, their lives in the\nreformatory, and their encounters in the real world outside. One of the seven\nkilled his father (if memory serves), another went searching for his sister,\nand yet another learned boxing while in the reformatory, all very similar to\nwhat the protagonist Ryo in Shamo did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA while back I have watched all three of the Berserk\n[movies](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Berserk_\\(Films\\)). Since I really\nenjoyed them, I decided to start watching the anime as well.\n\nThe anime, however, starts a while after the events in the movies since Guts\nalready has his mark. Reading the [Berserk\nwiki](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Berserk_\\(Anime\\)), it states that a lot\nof events are missing in the anime.\n\nNow, since I especially care about Berserk's storyline, I was wondering if I\nshould start watching the anime from start to end, jump in a few episodes of\nthe anime to get the chronological order right, or skip the anime all together\nand just read the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the English release of Princess Kaguya, it's translated that she originally\ncame from the moon. And it seems that way, as she looks up at the sky above a\nlot when the moon is out.\n\nMy question is though, is she actually from the moon - or is it something lost\nin translation, because during the ending scene:\n\n> The buddha and other celestial beings come down to retrieve her.  \n\nI thought he was not from nor went to the moon, but an exceptional human\nbeing. This has me thinking that there is something out of place here.\n\nIs 'moon' the correct translation? Is my understanding of the film off?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen this shared several times on Tumblr, Facebook and forums. But I have\nnever found what the source is.\n\n\n\nWhere are the catgirls originally from, and why are they so sad :'(\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Warning: spoilers of the second season.\n\nThe education committee decides to eliminate Mamoru, and sends the Impure Cats\nagainst him, but fail.\n\n> It then leads to him and Maria escaping and triggers the whole mess with the\n> monster rat revolution.\n\nThe Education Committee is scolded for attempting to eliminate Mamoru and also\nfor failing to do so.\n\nBut why did they decide that Mamoru had to be eliminated in the first place?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore trying to eliminate Mamoru, the committee had already gotten rid of a\ngirl named [Reiko](http://shinsekaiyori.wikia.com/wiki/Reiko_Amano), who\nbelonged in the same group as Saki and the others.\n\nThe reason they killed her was [due to her poor control of\nCantus](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4130/13330), out of fear of Fiends\nand Karma Demons. In this particular case, it's the fear of Karma Demons and\ntheir inability to control their Cantus, leading to unconsciously and\ninvoluntarily destroying their surroundings.\n\nMamoru had similarly weak Cantus. Though not quite as bad as Reiko's, the\ncommittee feared he might become a Karma Demon because of this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo looking in my emails i noticed that there was a _Senran Kagura_ Anime and a\nsearch on [AniDB.net](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?adb.search=Senran%20Kagura&show=animelist&do.search=search)\nshows there is also an OVA.\n\nI have _Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus Let's Get Physical_ on the Vita and plan\nto get _Senran Kagura Burst_ on the 3DS so i am wondering if the Anime and OVA\nof _Senran Kagura_ are related to games plot wise?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I've had this image for a while (just been trying to find it to use in the\nquestion).\n\n\n\nI know that all four characters are from Shonen Jump and looks (to me) like a\nscreenshot of an actual anime, but when I try to use Google reverse image\nsearch I either get other image hosting sites tagging all the characters\nuploaded by various users or a [YouTube\nAMV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_pO_21VIk). (I am assuming as it is an\nAMV I don't have sound but the description links to a song called \"Hear Me\nNow\". Also I don't see the image in question in the video so I think it's used\nas a thumbnail).\n\nSo I am wondering is there a Shonen Jump anime which stars Luffy, Naruto,\nIchigo and Goku?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe second page of a reverse image search leads me to [this Deviant Art\npage](http://ladygt.deviantart.com/art/Making-of-a-crossover-\nfanart-207124921), where it's made clear that this is fan art. (A lot of fan\nedits can look reasonably professional. For example, I know of someone on\nYouTube who includes a lot of scenes in her AMVs which she creates with\nPhotoshop or the such. As an example, [this _Fullmetal Alchemist_\nAMV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhV5spHUbT0) features a number of with\nHawkeye and Mustang that are non-canon, and which the creator states as such\n[on her Tumblr\nblog](http://climbingonroofs.tumblr.com/tagged/fma%3Ab+scenes+were+mainstream+so+I+made+my+own).)\n\nHowever, since it's still interesting to look at whether or not a cross-over\nexists, I'll take a look at that as well. It doesn't look like there's an\nanime starring all four, at least in that a search for any cross-over spin-\noffs doesn't generate anything \"official\". As I don't follow any of these\nseries, this may have been insufficient.\n\nFor what it's worth, I searched for `one piece spin-off dragon ball z naruto\nbleach`. However, `one piece spin-off dragon ball z` did generate [this one-\nchapter\ncollaboration](http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Toriko_Collaboration_Specials/Toriko_x_One_Piece_x_DBZ)\ninvolving both series and _Toriko_ , so it can't be that my search terms are\ncompletely off. Replacing `spin-off` with `collaboration` still yields no\nuseful, official results. Moreover, when I put the names of the series in\nquotation marks, all I ended up with on the first couple pages were either\nreferences to the Toriko collaboration or people comparing all four series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 12, when Hestia walked up to Bell who was battling with the envious\nadventurer, she was glowing while angrily saying something like \"I said stop!\"\n- referring to the battle. Meanwhile, Hermes, overlooking them from a cliff,\nsaid that Hestia released her power.\n\nI'm aware of the rule that Gods and Goddesses are not allowed inside dungeon.\nBut at this point, I'm confused whether the Gods and Goddesses regain their\npower inside dungeons, or they possess it all the time (even outside dungeon)\nbut they just don't use it? I don't mind if the answer contain spoilers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell the gods sealed their powers on earth and the reason they are not allowed\nto go in the dungeon is because they are not allowed to unseal their powers\nwhich makes them weak, Hestia entered the dungeon as did Hermes but nothing\nhappened yet when Hestia released her power the dungeon that was proven by the\nmid-levels to be semi/fully sentient saw Hestia as something that needed to be\nremoved, the fact she sealed her powers again is how i think they won, had she\nleft her powers unsealed the dungeon would not have stopped until they were\nall dead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince I liked _Revolutionary Girl Utena_ and _Mawaru Penguindrum_ , I'd like\nto watch the _Yuri Kuma Arashi_ anime, particularly since it's spawned some\ninteresting questions on this site.\n\nNow, [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurikuma_Arashi) tells me that\nthere is a manga, an anime series, and a light novel, which MyAnimeList give\nnearly identical summaries for\n([1](http://myanimelist.net/anime/26165/Yuri_Kuma_Arashi),\n[2](http://myanimelist.net/manga/66879/Yuri_Kuma_Arashi),\n[3](http://myanimelist.net/manga/86367/Yuri_Kuma_Arashi)). The Wikipedia\ndescription suggests that the announcement was first for an anime series, but\nthe manga is ongoing and started first, whereas the anime is already done\nwith. Moreover, the Wikipedia character lists suggests that the manga\noccasionally differs from anime characterization.\n\nHow do the various adaptations of _Yurikuma Arashi_ relate?\n\n 1. Can I just assume that the \"original\" medium was the anime?\n\n 2. Is the manga simply an adaptation, or is it the \"original\" work?\n\n 3. The light novel and manga are listed as \"alternative versions\" on MAL. Are there any major content differences? (Is there anything comparable the differences between the two _Fullmetal Alchemist_ continuities, or maybe even just the differences I've heard of between the various adaptations of the basic content of _Revolutionary Girl Utena_?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a bit complicated. [kumagoro's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/24339/2516) explained the background\nof this confusion about \"independent writing\".\n\n> Can I just assume that the \"original\" medium was the anime?\n\nYes, both English & Japanese Wikipedia introduced the article as \"TV anime\".\n\nOn 23 March 2013, during a closed-talk event about _Revolutionary Girl Utena_\n, Kunihiko Ikuhara shown a short PV for the new _anime project_ , which would\nbe revealed as _Yuri Kuma Arashi_\n([ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-02-16/utena/penguindrum-\nikuhara-to-debut-new-anime-promo-video), [excite News\n(Japanese)](http://www.excite.co.jp/News/reviewmov/20140825/E1408913965509.html)).\nIt's before the first chapter of the manga was published on 28 February 2014\n([ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-30/yuri-kuma-arashi-\nproject-by-utena/penguindrum-ikuhara-gets-manga)).\n\n> Is the manga simply an adaptation, or is it the \"original\" work?\n\nIt's an \"original\" work.\n\nAkiko Morishima, who was in charge in character design and artist for the\nmanga, was also entrusted by Ikuhara in writing the story. This is because\nIkuhara's scenario was too difficult to be realized. Because of that, the\nsetting and story progression for the anime are different from the manga, but\nsome of the manga's content were used as inspiration for the anime. ([Akiko's\nblog (Japanese)](http://akicocotte.blog45.fc2.com/blog-entry-284.html),\n[Gigazine (Japanese)](http://gigazine.net/news/20141012-yurikuma-\nmachiasobi-13/))\n\n> The light novel and manga are listed as \"alternative versions\" on MAL. Are\n> there any major content differences?\n\nThe light novel is an adaptation of the anime, thus it has same storyline. The\nmanga, as stated before, is original.\n\nSince the story diverges, the character's backgrounds and some of the settings\nwere also modified (example: in anime, Arashigaoka Academy is girls' school,\nwhile in manga it's co-ed).\n\n* * *\n\nSome of the references were taken from [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AA%E7%86%8A%E5%B5%90)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoilers, obviously, since this concerns the end of the Negima manga.\n\nThere were many confusing aspects of the ending of the Negima manga. Many,\nmany confusing aspects. For a series that started out as Harry Potter crossed\nwith Love Hina, it's amazing how many were the confusing aspects of the\nending.\n\nNagi's appearances towards the end were possibly the most confusing. In 334th\nPeriod at the end of Volume 36, the group defeats the Averrunci, only to find\nthat their leader, in the black robe, is apparently Nagi. He tells Negi: \"Kill\nme. Then it will all be over…I'll be waiting\" (KC USA translation), then\ndisappears.\n\nIn Volumes 37 and 38, we go through the wrap-up to miscellaneous other plots,\nand it seems that no one says anything at all about Nagi, as the focus is\nmostly on Asuna. Then, in Volume 38, 355th Period, the story skips ahead seven\nyears to the day of the Ala Alba reunion. And there's Nagi, sitting right\nthere drinking tea with Albireo, Rakan, Eishun, and Evangeline. Nodoka, Yue,\nMakie, and Ku Fei are surprised to see him, but Konoka and Setsuna are just\nsurprised to see him up and about, and make some remarks about his health.\n\nWhat happened? Is there any supplemental material that explains how we went\nfrom the events of 334th Period to what we see in 355th Period? I read [a\nblog](http://anime.astronerdboy.com/2012/03/new-proposed-japanese-law-reason-\nken.html#.VYnTu0ZmO1s) saying there was some kind of legal issue going on at\nthe time Akamatsu finished Negima, which may have led him to finish it early.\nDid that have anything to do with this? The entire story began with Negi\nwanting to find his father, so it seems pretty odd to go through 37 volumes of\nmaterial, set up the story where'd he'd finally accomplish this goal, and then\ntotally skip it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, in the real-world, there was a law set to be passed that would, in\nprinciple, give editors and the magazine substantially more control over the\nindividual manga. In the end not much came of it, but Akamatsu took it pretty\nseriously at the time and suddenly ended the manga in three chapters,\nseemingly in part to avoid and protest the perceived legal issues. He has\nsubsequently said that the ending was nevertheless the ending he had wanted\nand envisioned.\n\nThere is an ongoing sequel of sorts called UQ Holder that may resolve some of\nthe unresolved plot threads. It's set about 80 years after the end of Negima;\nNegi and Nagi have made cameo appearances in recent events; and Eva appears\nfairly regularly (probably about the same as in Negima). It isn't entirely\nclear exactly where this fits into the full plot of Negima. Some fans think\nthis is the timeline Asuna hadn't returned in, and/or that the Eva we see was\nthe one we saw heading off with Chao Lingshen to find someone, or any number\nof other possibilities. Exactly which, if any, of these is true hasn't been\nsettled.\n\nAs for how Nagi was seen as The Lifemaker (aka The Mage of the Beginning),\nthis is part of a number of events that indicate the Lifemaker is something\nthat cannot be killed in a normal way, and gets \"passed on\" to anyone who\nkills the current Lifemaker. Why this happens is uncertain. It could be a\npossessing spirit, with a goal to take over ever more powerful hosts to some\nunknown end; a sort of parasite (with much the same goal, just not a spirit\nper se); or maybe the Lifemaker serves some major and important function that\nthose who best it find out about and cannot find any way to resolve other than\nto take on its mantle for itself. The latter seems favored to me by what we\nknow of what Nagi did between defeating the Lifemaker and the last time Negi,\nor anyone else, saw him, and the overall plot themes that are emerging in UQ\nHolder. But that's just my opinion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to start reading the manga Naruto Shippuden, but I would rather start\nreading from the last episode that was aired (currently episode 414). Do you\nknow which chapter that episode (episode 414) would be?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe next episode [\"The Two\nMangekyo\"(416)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Two_Mangeky%C5%8D) is\nparallel to [Two Mangekyō (chapter\n666)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Two_Mangeky%C5%8D) from the manga. So you\ncan start with chapter 666.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsing ~-san, ~-kun, ~-sama while addressing other people is common in Japanese\nculture.But Law uses **ya** as suffix while addressing people, like in the\nnicknames **Strawhat-ya** for Luffy and **Blackleg-ya** for Sanji, and in real\nnames **Zoro-ya** , **Nami-ya** and **Nico-ya**.\n\n**Ya** are translated as **Mr.** or **Miss.** in English. But in Japanese\nadding **ya** defines someone's profession. It is not that Law does not use\n~-san at all, Like with Corazon and sarcastically with Vergo. As stated in\n[this\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Trafalgar_D._Water_Law#Translation_and_Dub_Issues).\n\nSo why does Law use **ya** rather then ~-san, ~-kun, etc. while addressing\nothers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nや [ya] is the kansaiben flavor of the copula verb です [desu], OR だ [da].\nKansaiben is a language that isn't official in Japan. It is like a dialect.\nTherefore it could be that to emphasize his character it chooses to use that\ninstead of the ~san, ~kun or any other honorific expressions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the SBS (質問を募集する, \"I'm Taking Questions\") question and answer column of\n[volume 62](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_62), chapter 609, page\n122:\n\n> D: Like \"Mugiwara-ya\", Law-san tends to call people with the \"-ya\" suffix,\n> but in the case where the person's last name is \"Tsuchiya\", then does that\n> become \"Tsuchiya-ya\"? Please tell me Law-san♡ P.N. HeartLoveWoman\n>\n> O: Mr. Law—they're calling you --! ............. Aw he won't come-. Let me\n> answer instead. A long time ago, around maybe the Edo period--. There was\n> this thing called \"[Yagō](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yag%C5%8D)\". So if\n> for instance, in the case where there were two Mr. commoners named\n> \"Tomekichi-san\", things like \"Dōgu-ya no Tomekichi\" (Tomekichi of the Tool\n> shop) or \"Oke-ya no Tomekichi\" (Tomekichi of the Bathtub maker); something\n> with \"~ya\" would be used in place of a last name-. Like how you shout\n> \"Tamaya~\" at the fireworks or \"Nakamuraya\" from Kabuki; have you heard of\n> those? In other words, he just goes with the flow. Right, Law-san?\n>\n> L: Yeah.\n\n\"D\" denotes the reader (dokusha), \"O\" denotes Oda, the author, \"L\" denotes\nLaw.\n\nEssentially it's as as if Law is calling Luffy \"Strawhatter\" or \"Strawhat\nguy.\" Like you would refer to a butcher (nikuya) or a baker (panya) by the\nshop they run. Note that no honorific is applied, so you cannot assume this to\nbe polite. You could say it puts a bit if the distance between the speaker and\nthe one they are speaking to. Much like in a MMO party where someone calls you\nby your class or your role instead of your character name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am reading the Claymore manga. There are around 5 chapters left before I\nfinish it. In chapter 150 of the manga, I see that Teresa is alive, but I am\npretty sure that in the anime, she was killed by Priscilla, and Priscilla was\ndefeated by Clare at the end of the anime.\n\nThe difference in the endings of the storylines of the manga and the anime has\nconfused me. Can you tell me what's going on here? Or does this simply mean\nthat the anime's storyline is different from that of the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Disclaimer:** although strictly not spoiler info (they're all details that\nwere mentioned before), reading the answers kind of spoils the excitement and\nall the built-ups that lead to the grand conclusion. I advise you to just\ncontinue reading chapter 151, which would clear your confusion.\n\n* * *\n\nThe Claymore anime storyline is indeed different from that in the Claymore\nmanga, albeit only substantially different for the ending. As the manga was\nstill ongoing, the anime had to end at the conclusion of the Northern Campaign\narc, but they somehow made the ending different.\n\nBefore the final chapters in the manga, Priscilla remained undefeated since\nshe slew Teresa. What's more, she never met Clare and her comrades in the\nNorthern Campaign arc, and would not have been defeated by Clare were she to\nmeet her at that time. This was different in the anime, as you said, Priscilla\nwas defeated by Clare, and seemingly more by her desire for revenge than by\nTeresa's flesh and soul, and therefore talent and power, that resided within\nClare.\n\nTeresa was killed for sure, in both the anime and the manga, but she still\nlived within Clare because Clare took up her flesh and blood (from her severed\nhead) to become an unusual Claymore who is 1/4 yoma and 3/4 human. The Teresa\nthat appears in chapter 150 is Clare's awakened form.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nManga and Animations do have totally different endings. Anime has a rushed\nending but completes the series, whereas Manga has a smooth ending yet leaves\na bit incompletion or does not satify the feels of ending! Although, its just\nendings, but the whole story differs due to those changes. Personally, I liked\nthe Manga more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo make it short: I watched all three anime adaptations, but after browsing\nthe questions here for 5 minutes I feel like I don't know anything about\nthem...\n\n~~Where is all this extra information hidden?~~\n\n(More specific question:) I am searching for information about 2 things.\n\n 1. \"Hidden\" information which is only for one story.\n 2. \"Hidden\" information which is cross-story (at least two stories \"combined\")\n\nNow I'll specify what I mean with that.\n\n 1. (This example is not related to the stories in the title.) For example, something like the real name of L (from Death Note).\n 2. Something like \"What is DaSH?\"\n\nI do NOT want you to list all the secrets and easter-eggs! I only want to know\nwhere, and (maybe) how to find them. If there are manga with extra\ninformation, please give me the title. Or if there are articles on the\ninternet about it, please give me a link.\n\n(I know that there are visual novels for all the stories listed in the title.\nI'm going to watch/read/play them soon.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs said by senshin in\n[his](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22737/chaoshead-steinsgate-\nroboticsnotes-where-is-all-the-extra-information#comment32482_22737)\n[comments](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22737/chaoshead-\nsteinsgate-roboticsnotes-where-is-all-the-extra-\ninformation#comment32484_22737) the Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Robotic;Notes\nanime series are adaptions of Visual Novels. bellow is a list of the\ncorresponding games on VNDB (Visual Novel Database)\n\n * [Chaos;Head](https://vndb.org/v382)\n * [Steins;Gate](https://vndb.org/v2002)\n * [Robotic;Notes](https://vndb.org/v5883)\n\nFrom each of those links you can also find links to the anime and other games\nbased off each of these. however not all of these one would consider canon and\nmost times these would have [Unofficial] in their title or have Fan-Fiction as\na tag, ie. [Steins;gate Divergence](https://vndb.org/v15695). As senshin has\nsaid\n\n> The visual novels are significantly longer and contain a lot more\n> information than was shown in the corresponding anime\n\nThis obviously because of time constraints on Anime being set to go on for a\nset number of episodes of certain length (normally between ~12 and ~24\nepisodes ~20 minutes long Excluding OP and ED). multiple seasons of a series\nare normally either done based on popularity of the previous season or planned\nbecause it is foretasted that the previous season will sell well (as with\nFate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works).\n\nAnother source of information is also Art/Material Books such as the\n[Steins;Gate Official Material Collection\nBook](http://www.animebooks.com/stofmacobo.html). these tend to have a bit\nmore information that may not have originally been in the Visual Novels. in my\nexperience large series tend to have these to fill in some plot holes, for\ninstance in the Nasuverse (Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime etc.) the Material Books\ngo into depth about the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, the on-goings between the\nChurch and the Mage's Association and the Aylesbury Valesti which is theorized\nto have been the cause of the Prana drying up in the world in Fate/Extra.\n\nAlso on occasion at conventions some writers/developers hold Q&A Sessions\nwhere fans can ask them a number of questions. these can sometimes also been\nincluded in Material Books.\n\nHowever most of the time this extra information is in Japanese, for English\nfans who don't know Japanese this can be a barrier when the work isn't\ntranslated. for instance while Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate have English\ntranslations, both fan made and official, Robotic;Notes does not and the\nlikely hood of a fan translation of it is very unlikely due to the game being\non Console.\n\nin these situations a Wiki (normally a Wikia site) tends to be a good source\nof information. however one need to be careful as sometimes there are\n[two](http://chaoshead2.wikia.com/wiki/Rimi_Sakihata) [Wikias](http://chaos-\nhead.wikia.com/wiki/Rimi_Sakihata) for one game however one can normally tell\nwhich is of inferior quality. also despite the 3 titles mentioned being apart\nof the **_The Science Adventure series_** (科学ＡＤＶ, _Kagaku Adobenchaa_ ) there\nis [three](http://chaoshead2.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Adventure_Series)\n[separate](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Adventure_Series)\n[wikias](http://robotics-notes.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Adventure_Series).\nsometimes however you may get lucky with a series which has a single wiki (eg.\n[Type-Moon](http://typemoon.wikia.com/)1, [Final\nFantasy](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/)2)\n\nOfcause one should take heed with Wikia's as these tend to not normally be\nmaintained by the developers. a good sign that a Wikia is reliable is what\nkind of References it has, on the Type-Moon Wikia information gained from Q&A\nsessions will be included most of the time in both Japanese and in English\n\n* * *\n\n1: Titles include Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, Melty Blood, Kara\nno Kyoukai, Notes, etc.\n\n2: Titles include the Final Fantasy games (I - XV, Tactics, Crystal\nChronicles), Vagrant Story, Bravery Default, The Four Heroes of Light, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember that this is a manga with 7 chapters or books about the servers of\nthe former Ragnarok online (if I'm not mistaken: Chaos, Iris, Loki, Fenris,\nFenrir etc.).\n\nDo you have any suggestions about where I can buy, bid on, or otherwise obtain\nthis manga series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe series is currently on on indefinite hiatus. In total there should be 10\nvolumes. The NA publisher Tokyopop went out of business, but you can probably\nstill get the English version thru Madman Entertainment (UK/AU) or Chuang Yi\n(Singapore). You might also be able to find used copies on Ebay and other\nauction sites.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile searching for the answer of my question [What do the sheep dolls\nrepresent in Mayo\nChiki?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14433/what-does-this-sheep-\nrepresent-in-mayo-chiki) I found out that the plush doll is from the the\npopular series \"Lost Sheep\" as stated in\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Chiki!#Characters).\n\n> she enjoys instant noodles and is also a fan of the popular \"Lost Sheep\"\n> series of plush dolls.\n\nWhen I searched for the series \"Lost Sheep\" I found about the [Parable of the\nLost Sheep](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Lost_Sheep). I tried\nto search using different Keyword but the result is same. It leads to the\nParable of the Lost Sheep but in different site and presented in different\nmanner.\n\nIs this the series that is stated in Wikipedia Or there is another series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the '\"Lost Sheep\" series of plush dolls' is a line of toys that\nexists only in the Mayo Chiki universe, something like\n[gashapon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gashapon) vending machine toys. (If I\nrecall correctly, the Lost Sheep toys are larger and come from a crane game\nmachine, though.)\n\nToys like this are fairly common in anime and manga since the characters are\noften teenagers who spend time in game centers, and they're quite common and\nubiquitous in real life as well. From the Wikipedia article on Gashapon:\n\n> Gashapon toys are often licensed from popular characters in Japanese manga,\n> video games or anime, or from the American entertainment industry. These\n> highly detailed toys have found a large following among all generations in\n> Japan, and the trend is filtering to the world, especially among adult\n> collectors. It is not uncommon for sets marketed specifically for adults to\n> feature risqué female figurines.\n\n(By the way, if you go through to the original article, **do not** click on\nthe citation for that last sentence unless you are alone in a dark room,\npreferably about forty miles from the nearest civilization.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSkimming over the localization fact (a wordplay from the original title?\n\"Hesitant Butler\" → _Mayoeru **Shi** tsuji_ → _Mayoeru **Hi** tsuji_ → \"Lost\nSheep\"?), the original Japanese name for these plush dolls is \"Silent Lamb\"\nand indeed, **an original in-universe toy**.\n\nThere was never a \"Silent Lamb\" plush doll as a prize in real-life crane\ngames/other toy-looting games, except for a licensed plush doll sold on\n[Animate Online Shop](https://www.animate-\nonlineshop.jp/pn/%E3%80%90%E3%82%B0%E3%83%83%E3%82%BA-%E3%81%AC%E3%81%84%E3%81%90%E3%82%8B%E3%81%BF%E3%80%91%E3%81%BE%E3%82%88%E3%83%81%E3%82%AD!+%E6%B2%88%E9%BB%99%E3%83%92%E3%83%84%E3%82%B8%E3%81%AC%E3%81%84%E3%81%90%E3%82%8B%E3%81%BF/pd/1086729/?product_id=1086729)\n(Japanese, dead link) since 15 December 2011 for an unknown period.\n\n> \n>\n> (From [a blog entry by kurokogeunagi on Ameba\n> (Japanese)](https://ameblo.jp/kurokogeunagi/entry-11033416067.html))\n>\n> \n>\n> (From [a tweet](https://twitter.com/IEEE80211/status/131647384773066752) by\n> @IEEE80211 on Nov 2, 2011)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that Ittou Asanuma's first appearance in _Sailor Moon Crystal_ is in\nepisode 15 when Makoto introduces him to Usagi and friends, that he does not\nappear in episode 16, and that his famous scene with Makoto from the manga is\nin episode 17. Is he in any other episodes, or did he only appear in those two\n2 episodes?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do not recall Asanuma appearing in the first half of the show. It's of\ncourse possible he might have appeared earlier as a background object, similar\nto how the Curtis couple in _Fullmetal Alchemist_ shows up in the background\nwhen Winry arrives in Central before they are formally introduced, but there\nare assuredly no _explicit_ appearances up until episode 15. (If he did show\nup before then, it would be unsurprising for me -- as someone not _that_\ninvested into _Sailor Moon_ \\-- to have missed it, since I would not have\nknown of Asanuma before episode 15.)\n\nThus:\n\n * Episodes 1-14: no explicit appearances\n * Episode 15: Makoto introduces Asanuma\n * Episode 16: no appearance except in the preview for 17.\n * Episode 17: Asanuma asks Makoto about her identity and tells her he wants to protect her.\n * Episode 18: Asanuma is briefly shown standing in front of a building right before the half-way mark, thinking of Makoto, and then at the fortune-telling meeting being brainwashed along with some other characters (Naru-chan, Sarashina from Rei's school).\n * Episode 19-25: no appearance: apart from two brief instances where Usagi and some of her friends return to the 20th century, these episodes are entirely set in the 30th century.\n * Episode 26: short appearance in a still towards the end, after characters return to earth.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMore specifically, how many objects can a user mark simultaneously?\n\nIf it's an infinite number, then why don't they mark all the objects around\nthem?\n\nAlso, besides the number count issue, what other limitations are there?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nAs from what we have seen this far, if you remember the fight of Minato and\nthe [A](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/A_%28Fourth_Raikage%29) (War Arc 4th\nRaikage), [Minato](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Minato) had a lot of kunai\nwith the mark of this Jutsu spread around the area. So we can say there has to\nbe a specific limitation.\n\nAlso we know this technique is connected to the chakra of each user, so it\nmeans there are also some limitations there as it's one he makes it takes some\nof the chakra user.\n\nAs for the longetivity of this justu as from the wikia about [Flying Thunder\nGod Technique(Flying Raijin\nJutsu)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Thunder_God_Technique):\n\n> As Minato also noted, the marking formula never disappears from a marked\n> target.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [the One Piece wikia's Enel\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Enel), Enel's power won't work against\nLuffy because he is a rubber-man. But at some point, I'm confused from this\nfact since lighting that strikes at 1 Million Volts would burn anything, even\nrubber. Also, he melted gold and placed on Luffy's hand.\n\nSo my question is, is there any logical reason why is it that Luffy doesn't\nfeel any hurt when Enel strikes him?? I will not include what episodes this\nhappen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, it isn't logical, but it was deliberate. TVTropes has a trope which\nperfectly summarizes this kind of phenomenon: \"Acceptable Breaks from\nReality\".\n\n> A Willing Suspension of Disbelief is a must for almost any work of fiction.\n> There are certain elements of story or gameplay where realism would simply\n> make a work tedious, difficult, or confusing for the audience. Thus there\n> are ways in which works will be blatantly, unabashedly unrealistic, and\n> nobody really minds.\n\nThe manga deliberately takes liberties with certain inconvenient real-life\nphysics rules for the sake of drama or balance; Most Logia Devil Fruits would\nhave been way overpowered and/or impractical if the manga followed the laws of\nphysics faithfully. Akainu's magma powers, for instance, would have made him\nunapproachable because his magma would have vaporized everything without even\nneeding to make contact. For the same kind of reason, Luffy is completely\nimmune to electricity; Enel would have won way too easily otherwise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLogically Speaking,\n\nLuffy would be the person most vulnerable to lightning attacks, as rubber,\nbeing a resistor, cannot channel a high concentration of electricity away like\nmetals can. Fortunately for Luffy, this means that a lightning strike would\nrarely ever hit him, and if he were struck, it's unlikely it could kill him,\nas the electricity would not have a chance to pass through his internal\norgans, but would cause severe damage to the location of the strike. High\nvoltages and lightning will usually just melt rubber.\n\nFunnily enough, the character most logically capable of facing Enel would be\nGan Fall, as though lightning would be more likely to hit him, any strike\nwould be channeled by his metal suit of armor around his body, into the\nground, never passing through any internal organs, preventing damage. See:\nFaraday Cages; <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage>\n\nIf the world of One Piece were governed by Earthly physics, Enel would be\neasily beatable by a knight in (shining) armor. But for us to suspend\ndisbelief by believing in all the crazy stuff that happens in One Piece-Land,\nI assume we must also accept this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo be honest, Enel was ridiculously strong anyway even with his handicap\nagainst Luffy. Although since he has complete control of lightning and\nelectricity, he would probably be able to melt Luffy into a puddle of goo\nwithin seconds, realistically speaking.\n\nHowever, the idea that a knight in shining armor could beat Enel sounds\nrealistically feasible until you take into account what Enel can do. Remember\nhow he could instantly melt down the gold and manipulate it through\nelectromagnetism? Well, what they don’t say is that he could technically do\nthat with any metal as long as it has a magnetic field. Enel would be able to\nliterally crush Gan Fall in his own armor. In fact, approaching Enel with any\nmetal is suicidal since he’s essentially an indestructible Magneto.\n\nIf he comes back, he’ll be a killer in the New World because with his haki\nhe’d be able to move his body parts out of the way of haki users with swords.\nWith a little improvement, nothing could touch him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know this is old, but.... let's use anime logic and assume that rubber has\ntruly infinite resistance. If high voltage source is applied on Luffy, there\nstill wouldn't be any current flowing through Luffy, rendering him completely\nsafe, right?\n\nAs for Pokemon, I really don't agree with their setting. it should be the\nother way around. Ground should be extra weak against electricity. Since they\nare directly grounded, when connected to a voltage source, massive current\nflows through them, causing them extra harm. So ground types should've been\nset to be extra weak against electricity.\n\nIn contrast, flying type is hardly connected to anything else in mid air, so\nelectricity without high enough voltage shouldn't even affect them, so flying\ntype should've been set to resist electricity more than normal....\n\nWhat do you guys think?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the pieces of character motivation in Ikki Tousen that I found\ninteresting is that the characters get their powers from _magatamas_ ,\nbasically stones containing the souls of people from the Romance of the Three\nKingdoms. In exchange for this power, characters are (supposedly) cursed to\nplay out the Romance of the Three Kingdoms again, taking the role of the\nperson whose soul they carry; some characters are aware of this and\ndeliberately try to avoid their RoTK fates.\n\nWhich RoTK characters do each of the major Ikki Tousen characters correspond\nto, and are there any ways in which the Ikki Tousen overall plot breaks from\nthe RotK plot (ignoring trivial differences that don't affect the ultimate\nfate of notable characters)?\n\nNote: This is specifically about the **manga** , not the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the intro to Shirobako, the girls are shown flying in fighter jets. Each of\nthem has a design under the cockpit - presumably related to the characters.\n\nI can't figure them all out though.\n\n\n\nThis is the easiest one, the two toys are delusions of Aoi's that she\ninteracts with often during the show.\n\n\n\nShizuka's plane has the pig with a plum-shaped nose. This was the character\nthat she got to play in costume during one of the episodes.\n\n\n\nMisa's plane has a depiction of a penguin - from the show that inspired her to\njoin the company she was making tires for.\n\nHowever, I don't know what the final two are referring to.\n\n \n\nDid I miss something obvious? Any ideas how these pictures / characters are\nrelated to the cast?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEma's is one of the characters from their _Seven Lucky Battle Gods_ anime.\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6nGYD.png)\n\nI'm not sure about the one for Midori, but it might be the guy behind her in\nthe red armour.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This blog post](http://metanorn.net/2015/03/shirobako-20) suggests that the\nfinal character might be **[Fyodor\nDostoevsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky)** , a famous\nRussian author, journalist and philosopher.\n\n\n\nWe see that Midori is a big fan of Dostoevsky's in the anime occasionally,\nincluding dropping the title of arguably his most famous book [_Crime &\nPunishment_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/POiZsl.jpg)\n\nDostoevsky's influence is one of the reasons why Midori wanted to be a writer\nin the first place.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConan mentioned that he probably worked for the Japanese Secret Police, but\nwho are they exactly? Under what jurisdiction of Japanese law enforcement are\nthey under? Are they like MI5 or something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFuruya Rei is a member of 「黒の組織」( _kuro no soshiki_ = the black organization).\nI don't know what chapter or episode you are referring to, so I cannot verify\nthe original Japanese for [\"Japanese secret police\" used\nthere](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Rei_Furuya#Scarlet_Showdown_.28Manga:_894-898.2CAnime:_781-783.29),\nbut:\n\nYes, in real life there was a Japanese secret police along the same lines of\nNazi Germany's [Gestapo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo) and the Soviet\nUnion's [KGB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB). It likewise carried out\n[human rights\nabuses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempeitai#Human_Rights_Abuses) and\n[crimes against humanity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731), such as\nexperimentation on live prisoners of war and other individuals, and biological\nwarfare (see also _Japan’s Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem And Torture In Wartime\nAsia_ by Mark Felton).\n\nIt was called the [_Kempeitai_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempeitai).\nThere was also a navy branch called the [_Tokubetsu\nKeisatsutai_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu-keibi-tai_\\(Navy\\)). In\naddition, the [_Tokubetsu Koutou\nKeisatsu_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu_K%C5%8Dt%C5%8D_Keisatsu)\nconducted domestic criminal investigation of civilians suspected of being\nanti-war or dangerous and counter-espionage functions, and punished perceived\noffenders with\n[torture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu_K%C5%8Dt%C5%8D_Keisatsu#The_Tokk.C5.8D.27s_use_of_Torture).\n\nHowever, all three were abolished by the Allied Powers in 1945, so **it is not\npossible that Furuya Rei was a member** , since he is only 29 years old in the\n_Meitantei Conan_ series. Japan does not have a post-WWII secret service. It\nis likely that what is being translated as \"Japanese secret police\" is either\n1) the\n[_Kouanchousachou_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Security_Intelligence_Agency)\na.k.a. the **Public Security Intelligence Agency** established under the\n[Ministry of Justice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_ministry) in 1952,\nwhich \"is tasked with internal security and espionage against threats to\nJapanese national security\" and \"has ties to several foreign intelligence as\nsecurity agencies, including the CIA, FBI, MI6, and Mossad, with several PSIA\nagents having been invited to train with the CIA under its Intelligence\nAnalysis Course,\" or 2) one of the [types of **special\npolice**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Japan#Special_police)\nin Japan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConan mention the name of the police just before we saw Akai for the first\ntime after his death. Conan and Bourbon are investigating on a attempted\nmurder. The target was Bourbon's client. The FBI is here, because the victim\nis also Jodie's friend. And Bourbon mocks the FBI, want them to leave Japan\n(in the French version he said \"When did you leave my Japan ?\" or something\nlike that).\n\nScarlett arc, I think. And later, I think there is information that the Police\nis called, in French, PSB. When I googled that that give the Tokyo\nMetropolitan : [Tokyo Metropolitan Police Public Security\nBureau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police_Department_Public_Security_Bureau)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched 2 seasons of _Vampire Knight_ about 2 years ago. As I know, the\nmanga is still continuing.\n\nWas there an announcement for the 3rd season?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _Vampire Knight_ manga by Hino Matsuri ended its run in _LaLa_ manga\nmagazine on [May 24th, 2013](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Knight)\nwith [chapter\n93](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vampire_Knight_chapters#Chapters_not_yet_collected_in_tank.C5.8Dbon).\nHowever, [2 side-story\nchapters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vampire_Knight_chapters#Chapters_not_yet_collected_in_tank.C5.8Dbon)\nwere not published within the _tankoubon_ graphic novels. Two light novels\nauthored by Hino Matsuri were published in 2008: _Vampire Knight: Ice Blue no\nTsumi_ and _Vampire Knight: Noir no Wana_.\n\nThe second season of the anime, _Vampire Knight Guilty_ , ended its run on\n[December 29th,\n2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vampire_Knight_episodes) (4 1/2\nyears earlier than the manga ended). No further TV anime or other anime\nadaption was announced before the manga's final chapter.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have just finished the Claymore manga. Clare and Raki stay together at the\nending of the story. I am sure they are going to get married.\n\nI have a question about the two of them. We know that female Claymores are\nhalf-human and half-Yoma hybrid warriors, but in the manga, they never tell us\nwhether female Claymores are able to give birth to babies.\n\nWould Clare be able to get pregnant for Raki?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noted that when Clare first went to battle an awakened being with Deneve,\nMiria, and Helen, Helen mentioned how Raki \"...Couldn't be one of her own...\"\nin reference to Clare, which can be taken as Clare can't have children, and\ndue to Helen being so sure that the fact of the matter was that Raki wasn't\nClare's son, it leads you to believe it is a trait shared among Claymores.\nHowever Clare may be a special case due to being only a quarter Yoma, instead\nof half Yoma.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that Clare would be able to. Since she isn't half yoma, but a third,\nshe has a higher chance of getting pregnant than the average warrior would. In\nthe manga, dragon-kin are probably able to reproduce anyway. That would mean\nyoma are able to reproduce but probably don't because of lack of necessity.\n\n(Dragon-kin are the beings that the organization used to turn humans into\nyoma. Yoma, as you know, are the beings used to make the warriors in the\norganization.)\n\nHonestly, even if she was an average warrior, I think she would. Warriors tend\nnot to have relationships because of the way humans see them and the only men\nthey would encounter are Male awakened beings aside from bandits; as we saw\nwith Teresa. They also have a lot of mental illness and emotional trauma;\nOphelia for example as well as Priscilla. They tend to be unemotional or so\nemotionally unstable that it can be very difficult to form relationships at\nall.\n\nLet's also not forget that they have a large \"wound\" running from their neck\nto their groin and might not be able to even carry one without literally\nsplitting in half. Clare's was momentarily closed when she entered The\nDestroyer but she had to be practically sewn back together when it appeared\nagain.\n\nSo the real problem isn't if she can get pregnant, its if she can carry a baby\nlong term without having real issues.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe timeline in Owari no Seraph is a little bit confusing to me.\n\nWhen did vampires first come into contact with humans? I was initially under\nthe impression that this happened when the \"disease\" struck some 5-10 years\nbefore the \"present\" of the show (i.e. \"during episode 1\") - but if that's the\ncase, _where_ did the vampires come from at that point in time? Given that\nthey have robust, structured, hierarchical societies, it can't be that they\njust appeared out of nowhere then, could it?\n\nAnd if the vampires have been around longer than that, where were they, and\nhow is it that a modern human society didn't run into them sooner?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're correct: the [vampires](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Vampires)\nhave regenerative abilities and thereby would are essentially able to be\nimmortal, so long as they don't starve to death, get their head destroyed, or\nget [too much exposure to ultra-violet\nlight](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B5%82%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AE%E3%82%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95#.E5.90.B8.E8.A1.80.E9.AC.BC).\nTheir structured, hierarchical society lived for a very, very long time\nunderground.\n\nDuring the prequel light novel [_Owari no Seraph: Ichinose Guren, 16sai no\nHametsu_](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Volume_1), which opens about 10\nyears prior to when the virus strikes, the vampires were not yet rampant above\nthe surface of the Earth.\n\n[The reason they decided to\nemerge](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Japanese_Imperial_Demon_Army) was\nwhen the [Four Horsemen of\nJohn](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse) (a.k.a.\nHorsemen of the Apocalypse) surprisingly arrived in 2012 and started killing\nhumans. The _Owari no Seraph_ Wiki says,\n\n> **In response,** vampires came into the open and saved as many humans as\n> they could as human livestock **out of concern for their drastically\n> diminished food supply**.\n\nIt is likely that, until that point, vampires preferred to covert travel above\nground to snatch individual human prey without alerting humankind to their\nexistence (during that period, it's very reasonable to assume that once in a\nwhile a human got tipped off about the existence of a vampire, but it was\nnever accepted as fact by human society at large [chalked up to the level of a\nreport of monsters, ghosts, or UFOs]), but once the humans started dying off\nat a rapid rate, the vampires reasoned that they could not continue their\nsubtle hunter/gatherer style and needed to turn humans into livestock (a\nfarming style that they could control themselves).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKoro sensei is super cool and ultra powerful. Although he has many weakness\nlike water, special knives and bombs. I want to know if he is also fireproof?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo far there has not been any sign of a fiery attack or his ability to resist\nit, besides the hot weather. Which seems to cause him a quite extreme fatigue.\nHe also is said to handle hot food pretty badly.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Shirobako_ , the studio has to deliver the tapes to broadcasters\nphysically. I'm not surprised that this is a process, but I am surprised that\nthere's nothing more _modern_ in place.\n\nEarly on, we learn that Musani Animation has an FTP server to store their\nfiles - So why don't they just send the file over the internet?\n\n\n\nI've heard some arguments that physical deliver is still faster, but I'm not\nsure I buy that - Japan's internet speeds are quite good and the file sizes\nshouldn't be overly huge as it should be the compiled product rather than\nfiles with image layers, audio tracks, cg models, etc all seperate.\n\nAre anime really still submitted by tape? If so - why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJustim Sevakis, who is a cohost of the ANNcast, day job is DVD authoring; from\nlistening to him (they even did a show where Justin was a guest and not host)\nit is all digital. I would be really curious to see if anyone has ever made a\nnon-digital medium (tape) that can hold 1080p video. I have friends who work\nin US TV stations and everything is stored on a server and I don't see why the\nJapanese would do it differently. You also have to remember that if you are\nproducing TV for 1080p you need to shoot at a higher resolution. This is the\nproblem with 4K video. In order to produce professional content you need to\nshoot at 8K the problem is getting a monitor that can view this resolution.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, tapes are no longer used. The tape appearing in Shirobako is just a joke\nin reference to old times. DVD-R are used nowadays, and maybe sometime in the\nfuture, blu-ray will replace them. It seems like the trend of using DVD-R\nbegan [at least in\n2007](http://blog.livedoor.jp/eniqma_k/archives/50708458.html). On a side\nnote, shirobako are not necessarily white either [in\nreality](https://twitter.com/g1_bari/status/525673642424676352).\n\nAs to possible reasons regarding why they have to give it physically:\n\n 1. They are late so they don't have the time to send it by post.\n 2. The FTP server was down in the anime so they had no other choice.\n 3. Mark of respect and seriousness for the broadcasters.\n 4. No problem of \"timestamp\" proof (if the broadcasters refused to accept the shirobako because of lateness) since a person goes directly to give it.\n 5. Reduced risk of leaking the episode if it was given by another mean.\n\nSources:\n\n * moto-neta.com/anime/shirobako/\n * detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1185176891 \n * img.animeanime.jp/imgs/thumb_h/44928.jpg\n * the anime Shirobako itself\n * Lots of other pages on Google when searching for \"白箱\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I went back to research following Ross Ridge's comment, and my answer is\nnow:\n\n**Yes, they are still used** (but a bit less since 2011-2012).\n\n* * *\n\nBasically, as networks and high-speed bandwidths are becoming more\ncompetitive, **the transfer solution over internet is now the state-of-the-\nart** regarding sending data to broadcasters. [Dedicated\nsolutions](http://www.toshiba.co.jp/tech/review/2011/04/66_04pdf/a08.pdf)\nstarted appearing around 2011, and are being adopted progressively.\n\nHowever, **professional tapes are still the most popular means** (as of 2016)\nto use as a **master tape** to give physically to broadcasters.\n\nEffectively, animation software, such as RETAS STUDIO, takes care of network\nneeds for in-house file circulation, then a professional tape recorder is used\nfor the last steps of the post-production to \"compile\" everything, as you\nsaid.\n\nAs for possible reasons regarding why they have to give it physically in the\nanime:\n\n * They are late so they don't have the time to send it by post.\n * The FTP server was down in the anime so they had no other choice.\n * Mark of respect and seriousness for the broadcasters.\n * Reduced risk of leaking the episode if it was given by another means.\n\n* * *\n\n**More details on the tape formats**\n\nHistorically, anime studios mostly used D2-VTR tapes in the 90s-00s (SD\nquality), then progressively transitioned to newer formats.\n\nNowadays, [the preference from the broadcasters'\nside](https://www.actzero.jp/communication/report-689.html) basically dictates\nthe expected format. Notably, the standard in the industry is **HDCAM**\n(1440x1080), whereas NHK is pretty much the only broadcaster to prefer having\nthe master sent to them as a more recent and better HDCAM-SR tape.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D3EO6.jpg)\n\nMost anime studios, on the other hand, already upgraded to **HDCAM-SR** ,\nwhich boasts compatibility with HDCAM, and so they can also be used to be sent\nto broadcasters regardless of whether the broadcasters use HDCAM or HDCAM-SR.\nHowever, a minority of studios cannot afford paying for a [HDCAM-SR\nrecorder](http://www.sony.jp/pro/products/SRW-5800/), so they may prefer\noutsourcing the encoding to external companies such as IMAGICA or Sony PCL.\n\n* * *\n\n**Regarding overseas broadcasters**\n\nThe preferred solution is for the studio to edit out the black screen parts\nnormally left for TV commercials, then capture the output content directly\ninto HD data to be put onto **a simple HDD with USB 3.0**.\n\nThis is mainly due to HDCAM-SR being very costly, to the point of making it\nnot worthwhile financially if it were to be used as a medium to send overseas.\nIn addition, the great earthquake in Japan in 2011 destroyed the Sony factory\nwhere HDCAM-SR tapes were being manufactured, causing a shortage of tapes\naround the world. This event shaped the cost of the tapes, and so the process\nof how to send anime overseas at the time.\n\n**Nowadays, when there are requirements of simulcast, like for Crunchyroll or\nFunimation, the direct transfer solution is preferred** , with software such\nas Aspera being the standard in the industry for fast file transfer (a normal\nanime episode may be around 37GB to send, whereas a special episode can easily\ngo over 100GB).\n\n* * *\n\n**More about shirobako**\n\nMy previous answer revolved essentially around shirobako. I had some confusion\n(I give my thanks to Ross Ridge for pointing it out), so I will give a few\nmore details about it to correct myself, but nevertheless leave the contents\nof my previous answer here.\n\nAs told in the anime, \"shirobako\" is historically a tape inside a white box.\nThis medium is given to the **studio staff** so they can do a final check for\nerrors before the master tape (the HDCAM-SR I previously talked about) is sent\nto the broadcaster. However, **the term shirobako is also sometimes used to\ntalk about the master tape**.\n\nThis actually comes from the fact that shirobako are generally HDCAM-SR tapes,\nwhich usually come in white-ish grey boxes (like the picture above), the same\nas the tapes used to send to the broadcaster!\n\nHowever, a trend of using DVD-R for shirobako seem to have started somewhere\n[around 2007](http://blog.livedoor.jp/eniqma_k/archives/50708458.html), and so\nthe \"white box\" characteristic was no longer relevant.\n\n[A shirobako nowadays](https://twitter.com/g1_bari/status/525673642424676352)\n\nOn a final side note: boxes for HDCAM are typically black-ish grey, so the\ntape in the screenshot from the question is most likely a HDCAM tape.\n\n* * *\n\nSources:\n\n * <http://tonarino-kawauso.com/wordpress/column01/>\n * [moto-neta.com/anime/shirobako/](http://moto-neta.com/anime/shirobako/)\n * [detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1185176891](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1185176891)\n * [img.animeanime.jp/imgs/thumb_h/44928.jpg](http://img.animeanime.jp/imgs/thumb_h/44928.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDo Elizabeth Midford and Ciel Phantomhive stay together even after Ciel turns\ninto a demon in Season 2 episode 12?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of that episode, it was shown that Ciel went to leave his mansion\nalong with Sebastian. Sebastian then jumped off a cliff with Ciel on his arms.\nConsidering this, it is very likely that Ciel didn't stay together with\nElizabeth. He left her (dumped her, whatever you call that) to go with\nSebastian, possibly to the underworld, considering the settings of the manga\nand anime.\n\nCiel left a card saying that he died to all his friends (Prince Soma,\nUndertaker, Greill Sutcliffe). [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBwiX.jpg)\n\nHe was then seen princess carried by Sebastian in a flowery field and the\nsound effect suggests that they jumped of the cliff. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/29XwG.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe never had a genuine emotional connection with her and they were never\ntogether in the first place, so it's not like he loves her and wants to stay\nby her side. He cared about her but it's clear he never intended to marry her,\nparticularly as he knew he would die sooner than that. After getting turned\ninto a demon, he decides to start an entirely new life. He gives Lizzy the\nlast dance as a gift and that's it. Ciel never had romantic feelings for her,\nso I can't see why he would decide to return from hell, where he and Sebastian\nheaded, to reunite with her. It'll be easier for her, too: they were always\nincompatible but now Ciel can't even die, so she'd be unable to have a normal\nlife with him anyway.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Itachi Uchiha always said complete truth, is it possible that he himself\nknew the truth about Tobi being Obito and not Madara?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is some evidence that Itachi at least knew that Obito was alive. After\nDeidara and Sasuke fight, Kisame tells Itachi that Sasuke died and Itachi\nstates that Sasuke is alive and that, like, he knew that is him and Sasuke\nweren't the only Uchihas left.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nItachi definitely knew that Tobi was an Uchiha, but there is little evidence,\nif any, to say that he knew that Tobi was Obito. Why I think that Itachi would\nknow that Tobi wasn't the real Madara was because the amount of chakra\nemanating from Tobi, when the real Madara was present on the battlefield\neveryone knew about his presence.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is titled **Stories** , sung by Hitomi Kuroishi (黒石ひとみ).\n\nMore details about it is here: \n<http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Stories>\n\nHere is the youtube link: \n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN0fkr2XoCM>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hz8b0.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ual8O.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/azqvg.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SbE0j.jpg)\n\n_Dragon Ball_ , _One Piece_ , _Bleach_ , and _Naruto_ all have blood. Why\ndoesn't _Fairy Tail_ have it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason for this is **censorship**. Fairy Tail has a 'PG-13' age rating;\nmost shows with this rating do not show gore.\n\nAnother example of something they censored would be that in the manga, [Gray\nFullbuster](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Fullbuster) is a smoker. They\ntook this out in the anime because they were afraid it might influence\nchildren to think that smoking is cool.\n\nThis can be seen in **Chapter 4, Page 20** and **Chapter 10, Page 6-7**.\n\n\n\n_On a side note, the first OVA ( \"Welcome To Fairy Hills!\") is the only\nepisode I know of that shows blood before Fairy Tail 2014._\n\n>  \n> \n> Levy after Erza smashed her face into the wall (10:05).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nAlthough Gon doesn't look similar by facial design, he is similar to the green\nschemes that Yusuke has, and his hair color is similar.\n\n\n\nKillua is similar to Hiei's demeanor.\n\n\n\nBoth Kurapika and Kurama have androgynous appearances\n\n\n\nPersonalities are similar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Fairy Tail_ chapter 425, during the Avatar arc, Sting has become a\n\"little\" chunky.\n\n\n\nMight it be a new move or something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is clearly explained in the same chapter (425), that he had taken part in\nSabertooth's annual Saber eating competition.\n\nWithout cover etc., it was explained on page 13, upper half, said by Minvera\nto Lucy.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/grHzW.png)\n\nIn the same chapter, two pages further, Libra had helped Sting with her magic\nto get thin again, so even if he had some use for the fat, it is now gone.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y6soK.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 4 of _Space Dandy_ , Meow, Dandy, and many other people become\nzombies, after Meow gets bitten by an infected alien. If I'm not mistaken,\nthere's no cure for being a zombie -- all the advice Dandy and Meow get is to\nchange their outlook by eating yoghurt instead of meat and sunbathing, so that\nthey are _fermenting_ instead of rotting. (Whether this logic about zombie\nbiology is true is probably best left to another question.) This reaches the\npoint where since life insurance companies are losing a lot of money to\nzombies cashing out on their policies, they try in vain to hunt down these\nzombies (but fail and eventually also become zombies).\n\nNow, everything looks fine in the next episode: Meow, Dandy, and the massive\nswathes of the population that were zombies in episode 4 are now alive again.\nWhy is this the case? Does _Space Dandy_ largely simply consist of non-\ncohesive \"filler\" segments that don't necessarily have to follow each other?\nOr did some cure for zombification come up?\n\nI haven't read the manga, so perhaps something comes up there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNon-spoilery answer: there's an explanation for this, but you're going to have\nto wait pretty much until the end of the show to find out what it is. It's not\na deus ex machina or anything, though; there are hints dropped along the way,\nand you may be able to figure it out beforehand.\n\nHere is a fuller answer, which spoils some of the last episode of the show,\nexcept sort of not really, since the whole thing is so damned wacky anyway:\n\n> The reason that Space Dandy seems so vignettish is that it takes place\n> across a number of different timelines. When Dandy and crew die in the\n> zombie episode, they're dead and stay dead - _in that timeline_. When we see\n> them alive and well in the following episode, that's a Dandy-and-crew from a\n> different timeline. \n> \n> You see, the Dandy universe (well, multiverse) is one in which the \"many-\n> worlds\" interpretation of quantum mechanics (hey, Everett!) is literally\n> true - there are infinitely many parallel universes, and for the most part\n> they can't interact. However, \"cosmic strings\" (which are probably somehow\n> unrelated to [these things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_string))\n> can reach from one universe into another, and the way in which they do is\n> regulated by some mysterious substance called MEGA-pyonium (which, in\n> Japanese, sounds _suspiciously_ like \"bigboobsonium\"). \n> \n> Anyway, for some reason, Dandy is well-endowed with pyonium (\"boobsonium\"),\n> which is like MEGA-pyonium, except smaller, I guess? Well, not just \"some\n> reason\"; apparently, the supreme god of the universe (a.k.a. The Narrator)\n> has had his eye on Dandy for some time, and wants Dandy as his successor for\n> after the universe goes through another Big Bang / Big Crunch cycle, and I\n> guess this is why he has all this pyonium? And, uh, yeah, this doesn't\n> actually matter, since Dandy himself can't really interact with his\n> alternate-universe selves (but then again, there's episode 14...). I think\n> Dandy yanking on the cosmic string in episode 1 may have had something to do\n> with it? \n> \n> Point of the matter is, there's a lot of universes. And pretty much every\n> episode from 1-25 takes place in a different one. The only time we have any\n> real episode-to-episode continuity is between episodes 25 and 26. In every\n> other case, you can probably safely assume that the Dandy of episode _n_ is\n> a different Dandy from the Dandy of episode _n+1_.\n\nI should note that I haven't touched the Space Dandy manga; it could be that\nthere are some better explanations in there. (But, given that this is Space\nDandy we're talking about, I kinda doubt it.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there a standardised English-English (as opposed to English that borrows\nwords willy-nilly from Japanese) term for Shōjo manga (少女マンガ) used when\ndescribing it to people not familiar with manga and anime or the Japanese\nlanguage?\n\nOne person suggested \"girl-oriented manga\", but that sounds ambiguous, because\nit sounds like it's talking about manga with lots of girls in it, as opposed\nto manga whose target audience is girls.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, I don't think we really have a term for this. Keep in mind\nthere's a vast cultural gap between Japan and English-speaking countries, so\nour terminology doesn't exactly overlap.\n\nIf you're talking about movies, **chick flick** can come reasonably close. The\ndemographics aren't a perfect match-up, and there are certain elements you\nmight expect from chick flicks not always seen in shōjo media, but it's the\nclosest the average English speaker can get.\n\nMy best suggestion is to go with the descriptive route: **(Japanese) comic\ntargeted at females, mostly preteen or younger**.\n\n[Wikipedia's article on shōjo\nmanga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djo_manga#Meaning_and_spelling)\nsuggests the following:\n\n> As shōjo literally means \"girl\" in Japanese, the equivalent of the western\n> usage will generally include the term: **girls' manga** (少女漫画 shōjo manga),\n> or **anime for girls** (少女向けアニメ shōjo-muke anime).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Is there a standardised English-English (as opposed to English that borrows\nwords willy-nilly from Japanese) term for Shōjo manga (少女マンガ) used when\ndescribing it to people not familiar with manga and anime or the Japanese\nlanguage?\n\nNo, there is not a standardised English-English term for Shōjo manga. However:\n\n * **There is a succinct, accurate, and accepted** English-only way to describe Shōjo manga in to people not familiar with manga, anime, or the Japanese language.\n * **There is a standardised term** for Shōjo manga but it is comprised of loanwords which were not borrowed \"willy-nilly.\"\n\n## How to Describe to Those Unfamiliar with Anime/Manga\n\nAlthough _shoujo_ can still be used to refer to manga targeted at Japanese\nfemale teens and women, the accurate way since the 1990s to describe _shoujo\nmanga_ to those unfamiliar with anime/manga has been a descriptive phrase:\n\n**Japanese comics published in magazines that have a target readership of\nelementary school girls**.\n\n[**Matt Thorn**](http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/whatisandisnt.php),\none of the world's shoujo manga experts and professor in the [Faculty of Manga\nat Kyoto Seika University](http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/eng/edu/manga/),\n**acknowledges** in his article _What Shôjo Manga Are and Are Not_ :\n\n> For most Japanese below the age of fifty, such categories as shôjo (\"girls\")\n> manga and shônen (\"boys'\") manga require no definition or clarification.\n> They are as plain as the nose on your face. But **to outsiders** , it seems,\n> **the categories are perplexing, and therefore a little explanation is\n> required**. Most people seem to think that shôjo manga are distinguished by\n> certain features of content and style. For example: the eyes are unusually\n> large (even by manga standards); flowers and bubbles are often seen floating\n> in the background; they are romances; or they invariably have a female\n> protagonist. I've seen fans debate these fine points on English-language\n> message boards for ten years or more, and when I intervene and offer my own\n> two cents (based on 15 years of studying shôjo manga, their readers, their\n> creators, their editors, their publishers, and their retailers),\n> participants are usually disappointed. This is probably because, after they\n> have plumbed the depths of style and content ad nauseam, I simply tell them\n> that **shôjo manga are manga published in shôjo magazines (as defined by\n> their publishers)** , and shônen manga are manga published in shônen manga\n> magazines (likewise defined by publishers).\n>\n> I'm sorry, but **that's really all there is to it**. Naturally, there will\n> be certain leanings in one genre or the other, since they are geared at\n> different sexes, but just as you will find sci-fi shôjo manga, you will also\n> find romantic shônen manga.\n\nMatt Thorn is not alone in this definition: others well-respected in\nestablishing the global fandom of shoujo content concur, including the\nfollowing figures:\n\n * [Sato Yasuyuki](https://web.archive.org/web/19990203035746/http://whistler.cs.ucla.edu/~yasuyuki) of GENERAL RESOURCES ON MAHOU SHOUJO ANIME (formerly at <https://web.archive.org/web/>*/<http://whistler.cs.ucla.edu/~yasuyuki/www/mahou/genres.html>)\n * [Barbara](http://www.technogirls.org/barbara/anime/tapelist.htm) of The Technogirls, The Shoujo Anime Club, and Shoujo Anime Club Mailing List which gathered together the well-known shoujo fan community during the 90s (definition provided [here](http://www.technogirls.org/barbara/anime/tapelist.htm#shoujo)):\n\n> SHOUJO: Manga or Anime which was **originally marketed to girls or ladies**.\n> The content is superfluous -- it is **the marketing intent** , not the\n> content, which determines whether a feature is shoujo or shounen.\n\n * [Dave Endresak](http://shoujo.tripod.com/kasha.html), founder of KASHA a.k.a. Kawaii Shoujo, Anonymous (formerly at members.aol.com/AiTenshi/kasha) and the Tenshi-tachi mailing list\n * [Gamera](https://web.archive.org/web/20030608190513/http://mahoushoujo.com/) (a.k.a. Mikage) of Temple of Yokyun and Wasabi Anime San Diego's Anime Club (formerly at <http://mail.mahoushoujo.com/~mikage/resources>)\n * [dioptase](http://shoujo.tripod.com/intro.html) of Energetic Heartbeats:\n\n> Shoujo (girls') is not a genre itself - it's **the marketing strategy**.\n> Shoujo simply means that **the title was originally marketed to a female\n> audience in Japan. Nothing more than that.** Shoujo includes its own genres\n> that cannot be found in their original form within the shounen world,\n> including mahou shoujo, shounen ai, yaoi, yuri, and others. . . . It is not\n> even neccessarily work by a specific creator. For example, the beloved team\n> CLAMP is responsible for outstanding examples of shoujo manga and anime, but\n> has also created shounen manga. What's the difference between the shounen\n> manga and the shoujo manga? The shounen series was serialized in a manga\n> magazine aimed at male readers.\n\n * [Zahara](https://web.archive.org/web/20130508224207/http://www.swb.de/~zahara/shoujo/shoujo.html) of Zahara's Shoujo Manga Page (formerly at <http://www.swb.de/~zahara/shoujo/shoujo.html>)\n\n> What is shoujo? \"Shoujo manga\" is the term used to classify those manga\n> **published in magazines oriented towards girls and young women** ^^ This\n> genre encloses a pretty **wide variety of genres** in itself; the all-famous\n> \"magical girl\" genre is typical of the shoujo, and so are themes like sport-\n> girls' life, romance, grown-up stories, etc. ^^\n\n * [Emiko](http://ribon.toxikon.org/indexx.php) of Emi-chan's Ribon\n\n> Shoujo - Literally, \"young girl\". It is usually descriptive of a certain\n> genre of comics/manga. Shoujo manga is **comics for young girls**.\n\n## The Standardised English Term\n\nIt may sound confusing, but there is a standard English term that was not\nchosen \"willy-nilly.\" Actually, the standard term is... **\"shojo manga\"** ,\nwhich is now a valid English phrase.\n\nBoth [\"shojo\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djo_manga) and\n[\"manga\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Japanese_origin#Arts)\nare actually English words just as much as \"kamikaze\" or \"skosh\" are\nlegitimate words in the English language (that were derived from Japanese\nwords). You can play the word \"manga\" or pluralize it as \"mangas\" in [the\nofficial rules of\nScrabble](http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble-2/en_US/search.cfm#dictionary), which\nare rooted in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Note that **the English-language\nword[\"manga\"](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/manga) has\na different meaning from the Japanese word**. The Japanese word 「漫画」 ( _manga_\n) can refer to all comics from any countries/cultures (i.e. including American\ncomics), whereas the English word definition specifies that manga are Japanese\ncomics.\n\nThe [Oxford\nDictionary](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/shojo)\ndefines it as:\n\n> shojo: A genre of Japanese comics and animated films aimed primarily at a\n> young female audience, typically characterized by an intense focus on\n> personal and romantic relationships\n\nThe [Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shojo)\ndictionary defines it as:\n\n> shojo: manga intended primarily for girls\n\nBoth use the spelling \"shojo,\" rather than _shoujo_ or shôjo or shōjo.\n\n## Demographics: Who _Shoujo Manga_ is Aimed At\n\nMatt Thorn [recounts that](http://www.matt-\nthorn.com/shoujo_manga/japan_quarterly/index.html)\n\n> Strictly speaking, the term shôjo manga refers only to those manga geared\n> explicitly at girls **below the age of eighteen** , but as often as not it\n> is used as I use it in this article, to refer to all female-oriented manga.\n> . . .\n\nhowever,\n\n> Manga magazines geared at adult women also began to appear in the 1980s\n\nand so\n\n> [T]he first successful manga targeting adult women were labeled as \"ladies'\n> comics,\" and these comics quickly acquired a stigma that fans of shôjo manga\n> did not want to be associated with. . . . It wasn't really until the 1990s\n> that sophisticated and intellectually stimulating manga for women began to\n> really get a foothold in the manga industry in Japan. . . . [We] call them\n> _josei-muke_ (\"woman-oriented\") or **_josei_ (\"women's\") manga**.\n\nWe see here that the term _shoujo_ **previously described a wider target age\nrange than it generally does now**. Since _josei_ has been the term for\nwomen’s manga since the 90s, that addition to the terminology has **pushed the\ngeneral image of _shoujo_ to a younger age range** than it encompassed up to\nand during the emergence of _josei_. Furthermore, the older the average\nJapanese grows, the less manga he/she reads (see the “Have the Japanese\ncreated genres to meet the interests of those who consume anime and manga\n(which if I'm not mistaken, is a far larger amount than Americans who consume\ncomics and cartoons)?” part of this answer starting from the “Unlike in many\nparts of the world…” bullet point for [demographic\ninfo](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15088/is-there-a-huge-\ndifference-in-the-amount-of-male-vs-female-protagonists-in-anim/22612#22612)).\nAs [virmaior](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/9052/virmaior) first noted\nhere in his comment on a deleted answer, magazines for young girls sell more\nthan those for older girls/teens/women, so **contemporary shoujo targets\nyounger readers more than older ones.**\n\nEvidence that the targeted age range for most shoujo manga is young elementary\nschool age can be taken from:\n\n * the age of the real-life models shown the photos on pages about fashion/hair/make-up or modeling next month’s advertised furoku. In the big three magazines ( _Ribon, Nakayoshi_ , and _Ciao_ ), they are always preteens.\n * the age of the male idol groups featured on pages containing news or interviews with idols -- in the big three these are usually the ones comprised of younger boys such as [Ya-Ya-yah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya-ya-yah) and [Sexy Zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_Zone).\n * the type of _furoku_ [freebies] included with magazine issues. In _Ribon, Nakayoshi_ , and _Ciao_ , the bulk of _furoku_ can only be used by little kids: a Japanese high schooler couldn’t be caught dead wearing them. The _furoku_ produced in recent years have increasingly become \"kiddie\" items.\n * the [types of commercials that air during shoujo anime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUVMin4QoE). If they are advertising children's sneakers, Barbie-style fashion dolls, and eye drops for swimming at the kiddie pool, you can know the target readership of the manga that this anime was adapted from is young girls rather than teens.\n * the fact that only 1) young kid characters, 2) very childish characters, and 3) hardcore otaku characters in anime/manga are ever shown reading a manga magazine. Tsukino Usagi in _Sailor Moon_ and Gouda Takeo in _Ore!! Monogatari_ are shown with manga magazines in their bedrooms, because it shows that these characters have the mental age of an elementary school kid despite being high school freshmen. Manga magazines aren't found in the bedrooms of mature and average teen characters, just as most real-life Japanese teen girls do not read manga.\n\n## Pitfalls in Referring to _Shoujo Manga_ as Chick Lit\n\nIn キルア's answer and the comments to it, the term \"chick flick\" is posited as\n\"the closest the average English speaker can get\" to an equivalent term.\nRather than posting further comment there about his rationale, I will append\nsome cautions for this approach here:\n\n * the slang term \"chick\" is offensive/disliked by some women who consider it derogatory or disrespectful, whereas the word \" _shoujo_ \" isn't slang and doesn't bear any negative or controversial connotations.\n * the term \"chick\" refers to women, not usually to young girls, whereas \" _shoujo_ \" refers to girls rather than to grown woman. Accordingly, chick flicks are targeted more at adult women than they are at young girls, whereas _shoujo manga_ is targeted more at young girls than at adult women.\n * **the term \"chick flick\" is not applied to non-Japanese animation targeted at girls** (such as _My Little Pony, Powerpuff Girls, Dora the Explorer, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan_ , and _Disney Fairies_ ) **nor to live-action films targeted at girls** (such as _Ramona and Beezus, What a Girl Wants, Matilda, Harriet the Spy, The Secret Garden_ , and the American Girls franchise). If there is a term that describes these, it might be appropriate for _shoujo manga_.\n * the term \"chick flick\" refers to [films](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_flick#History). Since shoujo manga is a print medium rather than film, [\"chick lit\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_lit) or \"chix comix\" come closer to it than \"chick flick\" does.\n * [American feminist film critic Molly Haskell describes chick flicks as](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_flick#History) \"sing[ing] a different tune\" from the \"women's pictures\" of the 1950s and are \"more defiant and upbeat, post-modern and post-feminist.\" In contrast, _shoujo manga_ is a marketing strategy that has nothing to do with the content of the stories, which encompass every literary genre, and many are not-at-all feminist or post-feminist.\n * chick flicks are **associated heavily with light romance plots**. The [Cambridge Dictionary](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/chick-flick) defines \"chick flick\" as \"about relationships, love, etc. that attracts mainly women.” [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_flick) says \"a film genre mainly dealing with love and romance,\" \"'chick-flick' is typically used only in reference to films that are heavy with emotion or contain themes that are relationship-based,\" \"most films that are considered chick-flicks are lighthearted,\" and \"generally held in popular culture as having formulaic, paint-by-numbers plot lines and characters.\" While many _shoujo manga_ do feature relationships, there are plenty more which are **about anything under the sun _other_ than an angsty young woman in a love triangle**. A few examples are the sci-fi classic _Terra he..._ and tons of works written by the venerated Moto Hagio, such as her manga about Siamese twins, her manga about a man trapped in a room as a science experiment, _11nin Iru!_ ( _They Were Eleven_ : a space academy entrance exam mystery), _Poo no Ichizoku_ ( _The Family of Poe_ : a serious story about a vampire family), to name only a few. Even _shoujo manga_ stories that include romance can make it take quite a backseat and **not figure as a main plot element** ; for example, _Glass no Kamen_ , _Attack No. 1_ , and _Magic Knight Rayearth_. These are all a far cry from the best-known staples of chick flicks (i.e. _Breakfast at Tiffany's_ , _Bridget Jones Diary_ , _The Notebook_ , and _Twilight_ ).\n\nIf we consider \"chix comix\" as a better substitute than \"chick flick,\" we come\nto the following problems:\n\n * this was [a term coined by TokyoPop](http://comicbookdb.com/imprint.php?ID=289) for their _shoujo manga_ translations but it did not catch on in the industry. Do a Google search for the term and not much comes up.\n\n * no one uses this term to refer to non-Japanese girl-targeted comics such as [Persepolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_\\(comics\\)), [Anya’s Ghost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya's_Ghost), [Castle Waiting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Waiting), [Jem and the Holograms](http://www.idwpublishing.com/jem-and-the-holograms/), [W.I.T.C.H.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.I.T.C.H.), [Winx Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winx_Club), Marvel's [Barbie](http://marvel.wikia.com/Barbie_Vol_1), or [Disney Princess comics](http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Disney_Princess_Comics_Treasury). As some of these are award-winning literature, to call them \"chick\"-anything sounds not only misleading but rude.\n\nIf we consider \"chick lit\" as a better substitute:\n\n * **renowned classics of world literature targeted at female readers are not customarily referred to as \"chick lit.\" _Shoujo manga_ includes esteemed award-winning literary classics which deserve the same respect.**\n\n * chick lit is [a genre that emerged in the late 1990s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_lit), whereas _shoujo manga_ has been developing a vast variety of literary genres since the 1950s.\n * while \"Chick lit typically features [a female protagonist whose womanhood is heavily thematized in the plot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_lit#Composition),\" the arena of _shoujo manga_ includes many series which do not dwell on the protagonist's womanhood at all and, in fact, there are **plenty of titles which feature a male protagonist** \\--- not only the massive corpus of boy's love manga, but even mainstream _shoujo_ titles such as _Ore!! Monogatari_ , _D・N・Angel_ , _Tokyo Babylon_ , and _Cowboy Bebop_ (yes, the [_Cowboy Bebop_ manga is _shoujo_](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2351/has-an-anime-ever-come-out-before-the-manga-was-published/22132#22132)).\n * chick lit remains subject to [harsh feminist literary criticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_lit#Criticism) as the bulk of its titles feature a white, upper-class protagonist. _Shoujo manga_ 's critics and their criticisms are wholly different.\n\nIn conclusion, the terms \"chick flick\" and \"chick lit\" often evoke\nconnotations that are **more harmful than helpful** in succinctly and clearly\ndescribing what _shoujo manga_ is. **\"Japanese comics published in magazines\nthat have a target readership of elementary school girls\"** is admittedly a\nbit longer rolling off the tongue but is a more neutral way to describe\n_shoujo manga_ using only English words without the risk of accidentally\ninserting misrepresentative associations that are untrue of _shoujo manga_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm sure the other people that answered are much more informed than myself,\nbut I just wanted to say that back in 2000, Tokyopop was putting out\n'Americanized' shojo manga (they changed the left-to-right format over to\nright-to-left, they changed character names to English names, and they often\nchanged names of Japanese food or places to American food or places), and they\nput them out under a line of books they called 'Chix Comix'. These versions\nwere pretty much forgotten when the better ones came out later, but since they\ndid introduce a lot of people to manga, I heard some women and girls still\nrefer to shojo as 'chick's comics' for a few years after. Just thought I'd\nmention that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the final episode of Ufotable's adaptation of Fate/Stay Night, we were\nshown a glimpse of what Waver looks like years after the events of Fate/Zero:\n\n\n\nIn Fate/Zero, we are shown that Iskandar's reality marble contains all of his\ncomrades from the past. One of the soldiers who appeared in his army looks\nvery similar to Waver:\n\n\n\nSo is that really Waver? If so, how did he appear in Iskandar's reality\nmarble?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [type moon\nwiki](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Ionioi_Hetairoi), Iskandar's reality\nmarble is created with help from people who \"shared his dreams and pledged\nallegiance to him after many victories and defeats\"\n\nThus, in essence, Iskandar's reality marble is created by his followers, which\nWaver is, essentially, by the end of Fate/Zero.\n\nTherefore, Waver is included among the rest of Iskandar's followers inside the\nIonoi Hetairoi. However, you might ask how it's possible for older Waver to be\nhere already. Servants and their magic are noted to exist outside of time, so\nas with Shirou and Archer, it's not unreasonable for the two to exist in the\nsame time through the power of Rider's noble phantasm.\n\nEDIT - Several other things of note, as suggested by : First, consider Waver's\noath to Rider. On the last day of the 4th Grail War, Waver uses all of his\ncommand seals on Rider, effectively stepping down as Rider's master. However,\nRider insists that Waver ride into battle with him _as a friend_. Furthermore,\nafter Rider's death, Waver promises to live in order to tell the story of \"his\nking.\" All this lends support to the idea that Waver is a follower of\nIskandar, just like everyone else inside Rider's Noble Phantasm.\n[source](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Waver_Velvet#Fate.2FZero).\n\nTo elaborate on how Servants exist outside of time, according to\n[this](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Heroic_Spirit) heroic spirits are \"freed\nfrom the constraints of time itself and removed from the ring of\nreincarnation, moved to the Throne of Heroes\" which exists \"outside of both\nthe world and the time axis\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat's not Waver. He may look similar but he is explicitly named as Eumenes in\nthe Case Files Materials book.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XhpEc.jpg)\n\nAnother one of Iskandar's soldiers is Ptolemy.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vkIy.jpg)\n\nNote that the designs discepencies from the _Zero_ anime. The above designs\nare exclusively made for the _Case Files_ anime.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9hcHH.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nIn the Epilogue episode of UBW, who is the guy that Shirou passes in the Clock\nTower that he mentions he recognizes? Is his appearance significant in anyway?\nLike Luvia's or Waver's appearance (as El-Melloi II)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems to be [Twice H.\nPieceman](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Twice_H._Pieceman) or someone that\nlooks like him at least.\n\n\n\nAs for why they decided to show him... I'm not sure, but...\n\nIt would seem that he and Shiro (or rather EMIYA) shares some common\nviewpoints about war (orphaned by conflict), but ultimatly came to different\nconclusions on what to do.\n\n \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to watch this new season but It will be my very first time with\nGintama, so... Maybe should I start from the beginning?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, there's nothing stopping you from watching the newer episodes :)\n\nGintama is mainly episodic (as in, not much ongoing connection from episode to\nepisode) so it's probably okay to do so. You might miss out a few references\nto past episodes though.\n\nOf course, if you want to enjoy it fully I'd recommend you start from the very\nbeginning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Kancolle anime (and presumably the game as well), several characters\nhave little quirks that make them more memorable and unique. Some of these\nappear to be based on the factual history of the warships they resemble, but\nothers I'm not so sure on.\n\nFor example, the character Kongou often uses English phrases sporadically in\nher sentences, and in her introduction to Fubuki she mentions she was \"born in\nEngland [and] raised in Japan\". The real life battleship that was the first of\nthe Kongou class was indeed originally constructed in England, which makes me\nbelieve that the quirks of this character are a reference to the history of\nthe warship.\n\nSo, which of the following are jokes based on fact, and which are simply made\nup, or carried over from the browser game?\n\n * [Yuudachi's 'Poi'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_Pc1ZK7aw)\n * Shimakaze's speed\n * [Shimakaze having 3 'Rensouhou-chans' rather than turrets attached to her body like the other girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-1V2FElk0)\n * Sendai's love of night battles\n * [Naka's claim of being the one idol of the fleet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgdC2CHHBi8)\n * [Akagi's (and Yamato's) huge appetite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszhCnteRvE)\n * [Fubuki being unable to sail properly at the anime's beginning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXrzXL7Oe0g)\n * [Akatsuki's obsession with being 'ladylike', Ikazuchi's phrases about relying on her, Hibiki's 'khorosho', and Inazuma's 'nano desu'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zvqy4810M)\n * [Atago's 'pan paka pa~n' (ta-da!)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1pv3WMlQRE&feature=youtu.be&t=34s)\n * [The poor relationship between carrier groups 1 and 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmTJ8hToy_U)\n * [All sister ships have a close relationship, but is the especially close relationship between Kitakami and Ooichi significant?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njim5jIcZ-U)\n * [Ashigara and the other Myoukou class ships taking up positions as teachers in the fleet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGuTWiEhuA0)\n\nI've tried to include links to evidence for most of them. If I've missed any\nmajor historical references made in the anime, please mention those in an\nanswer as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is all I've been able to find:\n\n# Yuudachi\n\n\n\n## _~poi_\n\nAccording to [the Kancolle Wikia](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Yuudachi) and\na few other sources, _~poi_ can roughly be translated as 'supposedly', 'seems\nlike', 'perhaps' - all words of uncertainty.\n\n> The main reason behind Yuudachi's speech pattern is because no one actually\n> had a clear record of what she actually accomplished in the Guadalcanal\n> Campaign.\n>\n> It was technically a huge mess during the fight and no one actually knew\n> what was happening. Even though Yuudachi did wreak havoc in the battle,\n> there are other ships who also claimed the kills.\n>\n> Since her battle records were unclear and involved a lot of guess work from\n> naval historians from both sides after the war, the game version of Yuudachi\n> landed with the \"poi\" catchphrase just to reflect that little piece of\n> history. (You can see from her introduction line that she wasn't so sure of\n> her battle result in Guadalcanal either.)\n\nThe [Guadalcanal Campaign](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign)\nwas fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 in and around the island\nof Guadalcanal in World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied\nforces against the Empire of Japan.\n\nThe Yuudachi was disabled on the night of 12-13 of November, 1942 and the crew\nmade some makeshift sails out of white hammocks. This was mistaken by the\nAmericans to be a flag of surrender [causing much confusion as they were still\nfighting back](http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/22866-the-\nyuudachi-destroyer-shiratsuyu-class/).\n\nIt seems that the Yuudachi is surrounded with a lot of confusion and vagueness\nwhich I image is what _poi_ is referring to.\n\n# Naka\n\n\n\nI can't see [anything](http://www.combinedfleet.com/naka_t.htm) related to\nidol culture in Naka's [history](http://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=59),\nbut it did go through a repetitive change in leadership and was at the\n_[Battle of the Java\nSea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Java_Sea)_ which had the most\namount of ships taking part in battle since 1916.\n\nSo possibly there's been some parallels drawn between that and the larger idol\ngroups like AKB48. (She does [reference](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Naka)\nthe group in some of her game lines)\n\n# Shimakaze\n\n\n\nThere are two Japanese destroyer Shimakazes, the one built in\n[1942](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Shimakaze_\\(1942\\))\nwas enormously powerful and one of the fastest destroyers in the world: her\ndesigned speed was 39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph), but on trials she made 40.9\nknots (75.7 km/h; 47.1 mph). The\n[1920](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Shimakaze_\\(1920\\))\nships were also record-breakingly fast for their time.\n\n[The ship](http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/7250-focus-the-\nshimakaze-class-destroyer-shimakaze/) does have 3 [powerful twin-\nturrets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12.7_cm/50_Type_3_naval_gun). I'm not\nsure why they are separated from her body though. They did seem to be very\n[powerful](http://www.avalanchepress.com/Shimakaze.php) \\- perhaps the\noriginal designer thought they deserved their own characters.\n\n# Sendai\n\n\n\nThere's not much information about the Sendai light cruiser, but its most\nfamous naval battle was when it attacked Malaya as part of the Second Sino-\nJapanese War (according to _Imperial Japanese Navy Light Cruisers 1941-45_ ,\nMark Stille) at 23:45 on 7th December 1941 under the cover of darkness.\nPresumably, that's why she loves night battles.\n\n# Fubuki\n\n\n\nAgain, not much relevant information here. However, there were some\naccusations that the Fubuki destroyer accidentally sunk a Japanese minesweeper\nand four transports - perhaps as an anime girl that makes her clumsy? (It is\nnow thought that the ship Mogami was the culprit) [Mark Stille again]\n\n# Akatsuki\n\n\n\nI couldn't find anything that was lady-like about this ship.\n\n# Hibiki\n\n\n\nHer tendency to include Russian words in her speech ([not just\n\"khorosho\"](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Hibiki#Quotes), as seen in the\ngame) is a reference to the fact that she was [turned over to the Soviet Union\nas a prize of war in\n1947](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Hibiki_\\(1932\\)), and\nplaced in service with the Soviet Navy under the name Verniy (Russian: Верный\n\"Faithful\"). She was renamed again in 1948 as Dekabrist (Russian: Декабрист\n\"Decembrist\"). She was retired from service in 1953.\n\nIn the game, on her second remodel (Kai Ni), her name is changed to\nВерный/Verniy, and her hat is changed to a white hat with a star and hammer-\nand-sickle symbol, which are references to the Soviet Flag.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/29mNo.jpg)\n\n# Ashigara & the other Myoukou class ships\n\n\n\nAgain, I think this is a seniority thing, Ashigara was one of the very first\n_10,000 Tonne_ ships produced by any nation, according to [_All the World’s\nFighting Ships\n1902-1920_](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0870219073). The\n[Myoko cruisers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%C5%8Dk%C5%8D-class_cruiser)\nwere also built fairly early.\n\nAnother question asking about seniority in Kancolle: [Do seniority relations\namong the fleet girls have any basis in properties of the actual\nships?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19134/do-seniority-\nrelations-among-the-fleet-girls-have-any-basis-in-properties-of-the?rq=1)\n\n# **Carrier Divisions 1 and 5**\n\n\n\nWhile the reason for the dislike isn't mentioned explicitly, on the Kancolle\nwiki page for [Kaga](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Kaga), this excerpt can be\nfound under Quotes > 'Battle start':\n\n> Quote: 五航戦の子なんかと一緒にしないで。\n>\n> English translation: Don't put me together with 5th Carrier Division's kids.\n>\n> Historical note: By \"kids\" she refers to their air wings rather than the 5th\n> Division's ships themselves; historically 1st Carrier Div's crew looked down\n> upon 5th Div's (Shoukaku and Zuikaku) as they were newly grouped during the\n> early stage of WW2.\n\nAdditionally, the ships originally in Carrier Division 5 (Zuikaku and\nShoukaku) along with the light carrier Zuihou were moved into [Carrier\nDivision 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Carrier_Division) after Kaga\nand Akagi were sunk.\n\n# **Yamato**\n\n## **Yamato Hotel and Yamato huge appetite**\n\n\n\nI couldn't find anything related to Akagi huge appetite but as [Sakurai Tomoko\nmentioned on comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22842/which-\nof-the-character-quirks-are-based-on-real-life-and-which-are-purely-\nficti#comment32690_22843) Yamato were the heaviest and most powerfully armed\nbattleships ever constructed and she has a high fuel consumption which explain\nher huge appetite.\n\n[It is mentioned on\nwiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato#Service),\nYamato was once dubbed \"Hotel Yamato\" by the Japanese cruiser and destroyer\ncrews. The battleship spent only a single day away from Truk between her\narrival in August 1942 and her departure on 8 May 1943.\n\n> She remained here (Truk) throughout the Guadalcanal Campaign because of a\n> lack of 460 mm ammunition suitable for shore bombardment, uncharted seas\n> around Guadalcanal, and her high fuel consumption\n\n## **Mamiya**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rqzFp.jpg)\n\nMamiya is often seen to runs a cafe in the naval district. In real life,\nMamiya was a food supply ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy and was in service\nfrom 1920s-1940s.\n\n## **Ryuujou**\n\n\n\nUnlike most aircraft carrier, her small figure look different than the likes\nof Kaga or Akagi. She's totally flat on top and use a scrolls instead of bow.\nIn real life, Ryuukou was classified as light aircraft carrier. She was the\nonly light aircraft carrier of her type to be completed by Japan. She was\nsmall and lightly built compared to other aircraft carrier.\n\n## **Tenryuu and Tatsuta**\n\n\n\nKnown for using a melee weapon, both Tenryuu and Tatsuta are unique compared\nwith other kanmusu who mostly only use their guns (with an exception for\naircraft carrier). In real life, both ship were renovated with a modified bow\nsuperstructure, replacing the canvas sides of the bridge with steel plate. The\nbridge was then further reinforced with steel plate as protection against\nshrapnel.\n\nTheir weapon also look similar to their bow:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter a little online search, I've found the following list, compiled from\n[wikia](http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Comics#Official_.28Japanese.29) and\n[wiki](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Official_Literature#Comics) (excluding\nthe two short stories and including the two comics in the Artbooks section),\nof official Touhou Project manga related to ZUN's scenarios:\n\n * [Eastern and Little Nature Deity](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Eastern_and_Little_Nature_Deity)\n * [Strange and Bright Nature Deity](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Strange_and_Bright_Nature_Deity)\n * [Oriental Sacred Place](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Oriental_Sacred_Place)\n * [Extra of the Wind](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Extra_of_the_Wind)\n * [Memorizable Gensokyo](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Memorizable_Gensokyo)\n * [Silent Sinner in Blue](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Silent_Sinner_in_Blue)\n * [Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Inaba_of_the_Moon_and_Inaba_of_the_Earth)\n * [Wild and Horned Hermit](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Wild_and_Horned_Hermit)\n * [Forbidden Scrollery](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Forbidden_Scrollery)\n\nIn what order should I start reading these manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn any way you like each stories revolve around individual incidents, there is\nno particular order to them, but if you really care about the time\nchronology.. I think its almost correct with exception of Wild and Horned\nHermit events taking longer than Forbidden Scrollery, you must understand that\nmost of the Fairies manga, Forbidden Scrollery and Wild and Horned hermit as\nwell as Visionary fairies in a shrine happen in between at the same time line,\nthese comics aren't sequels but rather concentrate on different view points\nand characters and are complementary both to themselves and the games but also\nconcentrate on exclusive plot lines that nevertheless are cannon through them\nall, so there is no particular order for you to read them and is more like\nwhose story you are interested in at the moment.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI heavily recommend reading the manga in release order, taking into\nconsideration the release dates and plots of the official games. Most of the\nmanga are standalone (with some exceptions) in the same way that the games are\nstandalone to an extent, but keeping everything in line with game release\ndates will allow for better understanding of the plot context.\n\nNote that the manga focusing on the three fairies are directly associated with\nthe Great Fairy Wars game, and note that Kasen did not have her first\nappearance in a game until WaHH had been going on for quite a while.\n\nIn general however, feel free to read them in any order (aside from the ones\nthat are direct sequels, etc). Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth for\nexample is entirely made up of separate comics, and as long as you are\nfamiliar with the dynamic of the characters, it is an enjoyable experience.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy interest in anime and manga is largely a solitary pursuit that consists of\nme watching copious amounts of animated TV shows and answering questions on\nthis site -- I don't really collect merchandise much or go to conventions .\nHowever, in the past, I've missed at least one convention that I would have\nliked to go to, on account of the fact that someone who had been involved with\na few series I really like spoke there.\n\n**One problem, in addition to my lack of interest in looking through guest\nspeaker lists early enough, is probably simply that I don't really know where\nI can learn about ongoing conventions.** I might know of some small\n\"convention\" run by the anime club of a school I might be affiliated with,\nand, along with that, of one much larger convention in the area. However, I\nonly know of these via word-of-mouth, and I pretty much do not know of the\napproximate times of any other conventions near areas I've lived in. Moreover,\nif I travel, it'd be nice to be able to have some approximate idea as to\nwhether there are any conventions in the area, so I can see if I might be\ninterested in going.\n\n**With this in mind, are there any websites that list major conventions by\nlocation and dates?** (Bonus points: are there any particular websites that do\nnot just do so for, say, the US?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough Jay Fubler Harvey's massive Anime Web Turnpike web directory of over\n40,000 links unfortunately went offline in November 2014 [after being acquired\nby The Anime Broadcasting Network,\nInc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_Web_Turnpike), the classic version\nis still visible at archive.org. The **[Anime\nConventions](https://web.archive.org/web/20120301161848/http://classic.anipike.com/cons.html)\npage lists all of the main anime and/or manga conventions** that had come into\nexistence by that point. There is also **Wikipedia's[List of Anime\nConventions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_conventions)**.\n\n**The largest anime convention in the world is[AnimeExpo](http://www.anime-\nexpo.org/)**, which is held in July in either Los Angeles or Long Beach,\nCalifornia. It features what is arguably the best line-up of Japanese\ncelebrities: mangaka, anime directors, anime producers, animators, and seiyuu.\nIt also features a variety of options for spending your time such as anime\nscreenings, hands-on workshops, academic lectures, competitions (cosplay, AMV,\ngaming, karaoke), and performances.\n\n**The largest doujinshi convention in the world is Comic Market, better known\nas[Comiket](http://www.comiket.co.jp/index_e.html)**, held twice a year in\nsummer and winter in Tokyo. Since it is doujinshi-focused, it does not contain\nmuch in the way of anime/manga guests of honor, licensed anime/manga content,\nor vendors of anime merchandise, but it does include cosplay and sellers of\nhandicrafts.\n\n**The main manga conventions in Japan are[Jump\nFesta](http://www.jumpfesta.com/) and [Ribon\nFesta](http://ribon.shueisha.co.jp/festa2015/index.html)** (this is the link\nfor the 2015 Ribon Festa, but the URL for the convention changes every year.\nYou can find the current one linked from the Ribon magazine [official\nsite](http://ribon.shueisha.co.jp/)). These conventions include exclusive\nanime OAV premiers, exclusive collectibles that cannot be bought elsewhere,\nmangaka talk shows and autograph sweepstakes, and gallery displays of real\nmanga pages. Since they are sponsored by the publishing company, they aren't\nconventions that feature any titles other than Shuueisha's own series. Jamie\nLynn Lano (who worked as a professional mangaka assistant) attended Ribon\nFesta and reported on it [here](http://www.jamieism.com/1527/japan/ribon-\nfesta-2013), as well as on [Tenipuri\nFesta](http://www.jamieism.com/1965/japan/working-assistant-prince-\ntennis-p43), which represents smaller-scale Japanese conventions about\nspecific titles (in this case, _Tennis no Ouji-sama_ ).\n\nIf you're going to shell out a lot to travel to a con, AnimeExpo is highly\nrecommended and you'll want to be there all 4 days (there's quite a lot to\ndo); Jump Festa and Ribon Festa are a fantastic experience but minimal\nJapanese language skills are required (1 day is enough, as the scale is much\nsmaller than AnimeExpo). Comiket is about 90% explicit hentai doujinshi, so if\nthat's not your thing, you will likely be disappointed by the experience and I\nwould recommend against attending.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can also find a list of anime and comic conventions on\n[UpcomingCons.com](http://upcomingcons.com/). For just anime, click through to\nthe anime page. I also don't collect merchandise much, and even though vendors\nrooms are a big part of the cons, there are also lots of guests to meet, along\nwith a lot of cool cosplays.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA good place to find upcoming anime conventions is\n[animecons.com](http://animecons.com/events/). You can choose specifically\nwhat year you would like to look at and in which area. They provide\ninformation about anime conventions all around the world, not just America.\nThey provide the dates, name of the con, and the location. It also gives you\ninformation about the con (e.g. who runs it, how frequently this con is held,\nand where to register).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLelouch declared the creation of the \"United States of Japan\". But why did he\nadd \"United States\"? Japan is not called this in the real world, nor in the\nseries before this moment. Why did he have this change of mind?\n\nI am in the middle of R2 but I will not mind spoilers from manga or further\nepisode if necessary.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLelouch's intended style of government is unlike real-life Japan's central\ngovernment, in which all laws and decisions pass from the decision-makers down\nto prefectures which do not make their own differing laws. To add the words\n\"United States of\" is to communicate that, of all the types of government that\nexist (such as confederation, empire, federation, hegemony, unitary state,\netc.), he wants to avoid Japan's [constitutional\nmonarchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Japan) system and select\nnot only a [democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy) (of which many\nvarieties exist), but specifically\n[**Federalism**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism): \"a political\nconcept in which **a group of members** are bound together by covenant . . .\nwith a governing representative head. The term \"federalism\" is also used to\ndescribe a system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally\n**divided** between a central governing authority and constituent political\nunits (such as states or provinces).\" This fits with Lelouch's [action\nprinciple](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8#.E8.A1.8C.E5.8B.95.E5.8E.9F.E7.90.86)\nthat the king should consider himself like only one piece on the board of a\nchess game and that the other pawns are also valuable.\n\nIn the real world, Japan is a **constitutional monarchy** (formerly an empire)\ncomprised of\n**[prefectures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Japan#Local_Government),\nwhich are administrative divisions** called\n[unitaries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state) (\"governed as one\nsingle power in which **the central government is ultimately supreme** and any\nadministrative divisions [subnational units] exercise **only powers that their\ncentral government chooses to delegate** \"). Since prefectures directly follow\nthe decisions of the nation's central government, this differs in nature from\na federated union of states.\n\nThe real-life United States of America is a [**federal\ngovernment**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation#Federal_governments),\nmeaning \" **two or more** levels of government that exist within an\nestablished territory and govern through common institutions with\n**overlapping** or shared powers as prescribed by a constitution.\" The word\n\"federal\" refers to a [federation or group that retain individual\nrights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation): \"entity characterized by a\nunion of **partially self-governing** states or regions under a central\n(federal) government.\" It was designed in such a way that federal power is\nsupposed to be balanced by states' individual powers and the will of\nindividual citizens (an actual union of colonies that started out with\ndiffering charters and laws but which decided of their own will to become a\nteam against the British Empire). The USA's \"founding fathers\" were very keen\nto make sure that a federal government of the union of states would not easily\nbe able to make top-down decisions, and made provisions so that state laws are\nstill in many ways independent of each other (\"created to **limit the federal\ngovernment from exerting power** over the states by enumerating **only\nspecific powers** \"). Nowadays, many people rattle off the phrase \"United\nStates of America\" without thinking about the meaning, but the name was chosen\nintentionally, to enduringly show that it is **not a single entity nation**\nlike many others but rather **a conscious, willful union (banding of)\nindividual states that largely intend to maintain their autonomy** even while\nforming a team. This is the message that Lelouch wants to convey, and\ntherefore the United States of Japan is referred to as a [Unitary\nParliamentary\nDemocracy](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/United_States_of_Japan) (not a\nreal-life phrase).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the series, it is stated that Kakashi was 26 when he became the leader of\nNaruto's squad. So following that, he was 14 when the Kyuubi attacked the\nvillage. Seeing that Obito was the same age as Kakashi, he should be 14 but he\ndidn't look like it. How old was Obito at that time? It shows him as an grown\nup, adult man. Is this because of Zetsu covering him or is he just older than\nKakashi?\n\nThis is not a question directly about the age of Obito but also why he looked\nolder. In my understanding Kakashi and Obito are about the same age. I don't\ncare when Kakashi became a Jounin because that is not relevant to this\nquestion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe difference in age between Obito and Kakashi has been explained in this\n[answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19385/at-what-age-did-\nkakashi-hatake-become-a-jounin/19400#19400).\n\nFrom [this thread on\nnarutoforums](http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=855357) (emphasis\nmine):\n\n> It is impossible for both Kakashi and Obito to have been 13 during the\n> Kakashi Gaiden, because there is at least a confirmed **4 year age\n> difference** between Kakashi and Obito when they were confirmed to both be\n> Genin teammates during the Chuunin Exams. They entered the academy the same\n> time, and they all graduated the academy together as teammates. Kakashi was\n> at least 4 years younger than both of his teammates at all times. There is\n> **no** possible way that Kakashi was a 13 year old Jonin during the Kakashi\n> Gaiden.\n\nSince Kakashi is younger than Obito, obviously Obito will look older.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat isn't completely right. We have clearly seen Kakashi's backstory in the\nanime. There we see that Obito and Kakashi many times together, especially at\nKannabi bridge. They both appear to be of the same height. Kakashi was about\n12-13 at that time. If Obito was actually 4 years older than him, then he\nshould have been taller than him. I myself don't know the answer, but I know\nthat the hypothesis given by **Ero Sennin** isn't completely right.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is just a guess but the looks could have been different because of the\nzetsu thingy attached to obitos body. Maybe he made the zetsu part appear more\nadult like to misguide any possible connection any of his former friends may\nfind in his behavior if he ran into them. Judging by how long he observed\nkushinas pregnancy and waited for the opportunity , it is possible that he\nconsidered more than several scenarios of the attack. but again it is just a\nguess.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough it seems like that could be true and considering he became chuunin\nand jounin at such a young might mean that. But from my understanding Kakashi\nmust of just been a really strong and smart ninja. But considering that Rin,\nObito and Kakashi were in the academy at the same time and how Kakashi easily\nknew the rules from the top of his head might just means he is the same age\nbut just smarter.\n\nIts the same with Sasuke. Anyone can say his age is 4 years younger than\nNaruto but it would not add up. I just think that Kakashi is the same age,\nshort, and may just talk smack about Obito.\n\nHe could very well be 4 years younger but there's just not enough evidence to\nsupport that. Although its very smart to assume that he is younger because\njust because they are in the same cell does not mean they are the same age.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe final chapter of Girl May Kill is very confusing.\n\nThere is a lot of dream sequences / flashbacks mingled with the real story,\nand I am having a hard time separating them.\n\nThe pages with a black background are not real. But what happened?\n\n> Did she really kill Gohongi? If she killed him, what did it accomplish?\n\nAnd later on\n\n> If Gohongi is dead, is she only dreaming of how it would go if he was alive\n> (when she is grown up and says \"I am glad you waited for me to grow up\")\n> when she eventually grow up?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI find it really odd and confusing that the six paths were all people Jiraiya\nhad encountered randomly in his journeys. Jiraiya recognized them all during\nthat last fight and they were all there in his chronicles.\n\nOne or two guys being the same can be thought of as a coincidence, but all six\nof them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm a bit confused about it, especially the following dates:\n\n * When was the big battle featuring the Demon King and the Hero King (and, apparently, \"a young swordsman Hina Maxima\")?\n * When was Hina knighted in Biscotti?\n * When did she meet Yukikaze? Was it before or after she was knighted?\n * How old are actually Maxima siblings and Yukikaze?\n\nThank you very much!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is it that during the Dekoboko Arc (Anime episode 275-277) the seiyuu for\nSakata Gintoki, Kagura, Okita Sougo, Kondo Isao, Sarutobi Ayame, and Tsukuyo\nchanged?\n\nSakata Gintoki : Sugita Tomokazu -> Tomatsu Haruka\n\nKagura : Kugimiya Rie -> Ishii Kouji\n\nKondo Isao : Susumu Chiba -> Takahashi Chiaki\n\nOkita Sougo : Kenichi Suzumura -> Itou Shizuka\n\nSarutobi Ayame : Kobayashi Yuu -> Okitsu Kazuyuki\n\nTsukuyo : Kaida Yuuko -> Hoshino Takanori\n\n**Yet, the seiyuu for Hijikata Toshirou was not changed**. Why is that? If it\nwas to keep cost low, then why not have everyone voiced by the usual seiyuu?\n\nI'm not aware whether such sex change has happened before in other anime. If\nyes, then please state what anime and what kind of approach they were using\nand the reason for such approach for comparison.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was done in jest; Hijikata's female form was depicted as ugly and\nswinelike, so they decided to keep his original male voice actor to make it\neven funnier. This is the most likely explanation, although there could have\nbeen some other reason like casting issues.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't read the kanji, but I'm interested in what each member's score was.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTheir Karaoke Score/Dance Result (the names in the note are their surnames):\n\n * Yazawa Niko （矢澤 にこ）: 94/A\n * Kousaka Honoka （高坂 穂乃果）: 92/A\n * Minami Kotori （南 ことり）: 90/B\n * Sonoda Umi （園田 海未）: 93/A\n * Nishikino Maki （西木野 真姫）: 98/B\n * Koizumi Hanayo （小泉 花陽）: 96/C\n * Hoshizora Rin （星空 凛）: 91/AA\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * Akashi → Emperor Eye\n * Kise → Perfect Copy\n * Aomine → Formless Shot (among others)\n * Murasakibara → Thor's Hammer\n * Midorima → ???\n\nDoes Midorima's ability to shoot 3-pointers from anywhere on the court have a\nsuper-cool name like the special techniques of the rest of the Generation of\nMiracles?\n\nThere's a few frames in the last OP of season 3 that say \"Sky Direct 3P Shoot\"\nin green text, which I suppose sounds kind of like a description of Midorima's\ntechnique, but I don't recall having heard that in the anime. (It's also the\nonly move name in that OP I can't match up to a player, for what it's worth.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, in the manga, his skill is also hardly mentioned, and when he does it,\nhe is \"shooting\" and mostly translated as \"Midorima's super long\n3-pointer/shooting\" or some variation. There wasn't a special name for it.\n\nThe wikia lists it as:\n\n> Talent: \n> High Projectile Three \n> Perfect Accuracy \n> Unlimited Range\n\nSource: <http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Shintar%C5%8D_Midorima>\n\nSo I guess there really isn't a \"special\" name for his move. Just a super long\n3 pointer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen bits and pieces of the _Nana_ films before, and I'm thinking of\nwatching them again for the nostalgia kick. I am aware that there is also an\nanime adaptation of the manga, which I assume does not cover the entirety of\nthe manga. (The anime ran in 2006, and the manga last published in 2009.)\n\nI've been recommended the anime before (albeit by a friend who had somewhat\ndifferent taste in this sort of thing), so on the off-chance I end up wanting\nto watch the anime or read the manga after seeing the film: **how much of the\nmanga do the live-action films cover? Are there any major changes to plot or\ncharacters that I should be aware of?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe live action goes up to episode 19 of the anime series, which in turn is\nshorter than the manga (only goes up to the 12th volume out of 21).\n\nThere's a lot of plot and relationship changes that happen in the future\nchapters, rather than spoil them here you should read to find out :D\n\nUnfortunately, the manga does not have a conclusion just yet as it was put on\nhiatus in June 2009 when Yazawa became ill. So just be aware that there is a\nlot of loose ends in the _current_ final chapters\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**No, there are no Devil Fruits that allow a user to swim in water. Every\nDevil Fruit user has the same basic weakness.**\n\nSince wood is lighter than water, he might be able to float on the water\nthough. While floating on the water, you are submerged for over 50%, which\nwould result in energy drainage for fruit users and make the user unable to\nmove and even if he could master some energy to move his arms or legs, if he\nwants to move through the water he has to put them in the water, submerging\nhimself more and losing even more energy. So **my guess would be that the user\nwould not drown and be able to motionlessly float around the ocean**. He has\nto go into the water laying face up though or he would not be able to breath\nand still drown anyway (but not sink). So I guess if such a user falls into\nthe water and would emerge with his head first fast enough before passing out,\nhe might be able to survive, but probably not for long.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the music name...that plays in episode 533 at 19:47 min when Brooke\nruns to see Mermaid Princess\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis song from One Piece Movie 9 is called **The Doctor Living in Castle (Dr\nno Sumu Shiro)**. Here's the [Crunchyroll episode\nlink](http://www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece/episode-533-its-an-emergency-the-\nryugu-palace-is-occupied-657953) and [YouTube song\nlink](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PebtVuAJWXw) for reference.\n\n",
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