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"body": "\n\nIn Rinne, Rokudou uses a special Haori called \"Haori of the Underworld\" that\ngrants several powers, like making a physical entity behave as a spiritual\none, or vice versa (by donning it inside-out).\n\nIt is also a very precious item to Rokudou Rinne, more even than his Shinigami\nScythe. This is evident during his duel with his father (wielding the blood-\nsucker fire wheel) when he threatens to convert the Haori into money.\n\nHe is half-shinigami and half-human, so he should have some powers (he can see\nspirits even without the Haori, but it is shown that anyone that eats\nafterlife food can do it, like Sakura).\n\nWhat would happen if the Haori becomes permanently unavailable (stole,\ndestroyed, etc)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring Episode 18 & 19,\n\n> The Shirushigami Kain seizes Rinne's Life Flame and Haori as payment on a\n> debt. By declaring that the Haori will sell for a good amount implies its\n> financial value.  As shown in\n> other episodes, he is unable to fly without his Haori, as he is only a half-\n> shinigami. Whereas, Ageha can fly without needing one, as she is a full\n> shinigami. This means that he would be unable to travel through the reido (\n> _without aid_ ), which would prevent him from carrying out his shinigami\n> duties, tracking his father, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShinobi using Rasengan can often use it more times in a battle as compared to\na shinobi using Chidori. Kakashi on one hand, could only use Chidori upto a\nmaximum of four times a day in Part 1. Naruto, however, even when he is using\nShadow clones (meaning that he would have only a fraction of the chakra he\nnormally has) still has no trouble using the Rasengan more than that and still\nhave plenty of chakra.\n\nThe Rasengan is almost equally, if not more, powerful than the Chidori. So the\nRasengan should require the same or more amount of chakra than the Chidori.\nNaruto is also said to be very inefficient in using jutsu. So even though he\nhas more chakra than Kakashi, his Rasengan would be less efficient than\nKakashi's Chidori. I do not believe that Naruto chakra levels are so vast,\nthat even with the use of shadow clones and being inefficient while using\njutsu, he can use it multiple times while still retaining plenty of chakra.\n\nSo why can Naruto use the Rasengan more than Kakashi using the Chidori?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I recall correctly, at one time, Kakashi commented that Naruto's chakra is\nabout 4 times of what he has. With addition to Kyuubi's chakra, Naruto has\nabout 100 times what Kakashi has. Suppose that Kakashi's chakra is 4, Chidori\nthen costs 1 chakra for each use. Naruto has 4 times what Kakashi has so he\nhas 16. Kage Bunshin actually costs small amount of chakra. The problem with\nKage Bunshin is that it splits the chakra of the user which makes it appear as\nif it costs a lot.\n\nBut, when the jutsu is cancelled either by when the Bunshin gets hit, or the\ncaster cancels it, the chakra comes back to the caster along with its\nexperience. Suppose that Naruto doesn't cancel and re-cast Kage Bunshin, there\nwon't be additional chakra cost for casting the jutsu.\n\nChidori cost = 1\n\nRasengan cost = 1\n\nKage Bunshin cost = 0.5 <\\- assuming it cost lower than Rasengan\n\nKakashi Chakra = 4\n\nNaruto Chakra = 16\n\nInefficient chakra usage modifier = 200% (was 125% but changed as per\nThatOneGuys's comment)\n\nKakashi Max Chidori = 4 / 1 = 4\n\nNaruto Max Rasengan = (16 - 0.5 * 200%) / (1 x 200%) = 15 / 2 = 7.5 -> 7\n(rounded down)\n\nWithout using Kyuubi's chakra, Naruto can do about 2 times more Rasengan than\nKakashi can use Chidori. With Kyuubi's chakra, Naruto would be able to do\nabout 100 times more. Of course, since with the training Naruto improved his\nchakra control, the current Naruto can do more Rasengan than this simple\ncalculation shows.\n\nThe reference about Naruto's and Kakashi's chakra pool size and the fact about\nKage Bunshin splitting the user's chakra and returning it when the jutsu was\ncancelled is from the episode where Kakashi train Naruto to develop Rasen\nShuriken.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto not only has a natural vast chakra pool but he has even the Kyuubi\nsupliying him with nearly unlimited chakra amounts.\n\n> and even Kakashi could use the Rasengan pretty easily\n\nEven if in the manga and anime it is stated that Naruto's chakra managament is\npoor\n\n> because the seal on his belly\n\nAfter a lot of training and getting rid of some limitations, he improved his\nchakra management vastly and even learned how to recover chakra in combat.\n\n> thanks to the Sage mode\n\nPlus, it is stated multiple times in the manga/anime that the Rasengan, even\nthough it uses a lot of chakra, isn't comparable on the amount of chakra the\nChidori uses. Chakra bending is a lot less taxing than giving an elemental\nnature to a bending\n\n> Naruto's Rasenshuriken is a Rasengan imbued with his Wind element.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI guess that naruto's humongous power comes from the nine tails chakra that is\nsealed within him and due to this naruto obviously has more chakra than\nkakashi due to which he can do more rasengan than kakashi can do chidori\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell Kakashi was making a rough estimate when comparing Naruto's chakra to his\nown. First of all by part 2 I'm pretty sure Kakashi's chakra pool had grown to\nthe point that he could make 6 lightning blades each day or a little more.\nPlus Rasengan was never said to take up a lot of chakra. Giant Rasengan was\nstated to take up more chakra because of its density so I think a lightning\nblade could be comparable to a giant Rasengan. But even then Naruto clearly\nhas more than 4 times Kakashi's chakra. He has made dozens of clones and each\ncould have done multiple Rasengans.\n\nPlus by the time Naruto learns sage mode, Naruto could have done around 6\nRasenshurikens with other Rasengan variants and still not seem to have any\nnoticeable chakra fatigue. I would say Naruto's chakra reserve is at least 6-8\ntimes that of Kakashi's for him to be able to do so many Rasenshurikens when\nthey take up a lot more chakra than a lightning blade.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's because The rasengan is an incomplete jutsu. And naruto was the one to\nperfect it. His dad invented it but never mastered it\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's because Naruto generally has more chakra; thus can use more jutsu than\nKakashi, whos chakra reserves have been getting cut after the fourth war.\nNaruto has been able to use multiple variants of Rasengan and Rasen-Shuriken\nmore than Kakashi can use a normal Chidori, and its because Naruto's chakra\nreserves are simply larger than Kakashi's.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow much of the _DEATH NOTE_ manga does the Frank Wildhorn [theatrical\nmusical](http://deathnotethemusical.com/eng/) cover? (More info in English is\n[here](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-02-01/hear-death-note-the-\nmusical-song-sung-in-english-by-tony-nominees/.83964).)\n\n(I gather that [the Korean\nproduction](http://www.allkpop.com/article/2015/04/death-note-musical-\nstarring-jyjs-junsu-reveals-trailer) is a translation of the same script\nrather than content different from the Japanese production, but if it differs,\nI'd like to know what part of the manga the Japanese staging covers as well as\nwhat part of the manga the Korean version covers.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI hope this is not too off-topic, but I recently watched _Hibike! Euphonium_ (\n_Sound! Euphonium_ ), and I was wondering if anybody knows where I can find\nsheet music for the piece that they play in the competition. Specifically, I'm\nlooking for _Crescent Moon Dance_ by _Namie Horikawa_ (I don't know if this is\nan alias or not). I play the trumpet, and I really wanted to try out Kousaka's\nsolo. If anybody could help me out, that would be appreciated!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [official website](http://anime-\neupho.com/product/bddvd/oritoku/), the official sheet music for Crescent Moon\nDance 「三日月の舞」 was given as extra on purchase of the Volume 1 of BD/DVD at\ncertain stores in Japan1. Unfortunately, Volume 1 already went on sale on Jun\n17, 2015.\n\nLikewise, the sheet music for the opening 「DREAM SOLISTER」 and the ending\n「Tutti」 will be given as extra on purchase of BD/DVD Volume 2 and 3\nrespectively.\n\n1 The stores as listed on official website:\n玉光堂、バンダレコード・ライオン堂、ＪＥＵＧＩＡ、十字屋CROSS、新星堂、山野楽器、ヤマハミュージックリテイリング\n\nThe advertisement, as [posted by one of the stores on\nTwitter](https://twitter.com/VandaHirosaki/status/599149966670438401/photo/1),\ninviting people to reserve a copy of the BD/DVD for the sheet music:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lmBtS.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCrescent Moon Dance 「三日月の舞」 trumpet solo, as transcribed by [Skye van\nDuuren](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmYuODzssAtpIiJAyYPPcA) on\n[YouTube](https://youtu.be/VU27_28hoKs):\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are\n[multiple](https://musescore.com/sheetmusic?text=crescent+moon+dance) fan\ntranscriptions/arrangements of the piece available on MuseScore:\n\n* * *\n\n * ~~[Crescent Moon Dance from Hibike! Euphonium v1.1 | Last updated 03/07/2016](https://musescore.com/user/75149/scores/1043236), Maelic~~\n * [Crescent Moon Dance](https://musescore.com/matthewlefebvre/scores/1982536), Matthew LeFebvre ( **Updated version** of the above) \n * [Crescent Moon Dance [Simple band]](https://musescore.com/user/3453076/scores/2732726), Leonardo Pereira (edited version of above)\n * [Crescent Moon Dance](https://musescore.com/user/17053691/scores/4143786), Musicmaker3000 (edited version of above)\n * [Crescent Moon Dance (with extended oboe solo!)](https://musescore.com/wjswlghks/crescent-moon-dance-with-extended-oboe-solo), French Horn Nerd\n * [crescent moon dance](https://musescore.com/user/3438701/scores/2766636), fullgames\n * [Crescent Moon Dance](https://musescore.com/devils-calculator/scores/3401111), Tenors3\n * [Crescent Moon Dance](https://musescore.com/gaussfrigate/scores/3709781), GaussFrigate (Digitization/transcription of **original score** )\n * [Crescent Moon Dance](https://musescore.com/user/2996206/scores/4146721), Little Mozart\n\n* * *\n\n * [Crescent Moon Dance](https://musescore.com/user/5488551/scores/4716476), Aidan Chang (arranged for brass band)\n * [Crescent Moon Dance - Tuba Euphonium Quartet](https://musescore.com/user/1009596/scores/5015204), MeTheDwarfpro\n\n* * *\n\n * [Crescent Moon Dance Trumpet Solo](https://musescore.com/user/1313741/scores/2963431), chuazd\n\n* * *\n\nAccording to the [Hibike Euphonium wiki](http://hibike-\neuphonium.wikia.com/wiki/Crescent_Moon_Dance):\n\n> As of 2016, the sheet music has been released for purchase by Japanese wind\n> ensembles, and is gaining recognition as a legitimate piece of wind\n> repertoire in the country.\n\nSo, if you have contacts in the Japanese orchestral/wind band scores world,\nyou should be able to purchase a copy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know I'm super duper late to this thread and you probably have found this\ninfo already, but since this thread is one of the top google results for\n\"crescent moon dance\" I thought I would reply here.\n\nThe sheet music is available for purchase at [Print Gakufu](https://www.print-\ngakufu.com/score/detail/136344/). Use Chrome to translate the page (it is all\nin Japanese). They block any non-Japanese credit cards through their\nintegrated credit card payment service, however the payment service Rakuten is\naccepted. Rakuten will allow you to use any credit card to make the payment.\n\nIF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OF JAPAN YOU MUST USE RAKUTEN TO PAY FOR SHEET MUSIC FROM\nPRINT GAKUFU!!!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the UBW final battle, how come Shirou could use Rho Aias? Archer mentioned\nit was from the Trojan War (probably learned it while working as a counter\nforce), but Shirou hadn't seen Rho Aias yet (not even when Archer used it).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [World Material\nFAQs](http://completematerial.pbworks.com/w/page/34267021/Frequently%20Asked%20Questions)\nfrom _fate/complete material III_ with Nasu (p.130) reated to the VN:\n\n> **Q:** In the end of the Rin route, was it Shirou that projected Rho Aias in\n> the Shirou vs Gilgamesh fight? Or was it Archer? In Fate/side material, it's\n> said that it was projection magic from Archer, but in the story, there was\n> the depiction of Shirou \"pulling the shield from the hill\". Does this mean\n> that this switched to Archer's scene?\n>\n> **A:** This has been easy to misunderstand, but the part about Archer\n> supporting Shirou was the time before Shirou pulled out Rho Aias, before\n> Shirou came to his realization.\n>\n> After Shirou's monologue about his surprise that he was still alive after\n> taking Gil's attack, \"If I survived, there must have been a reason why I\n> survived. But that was simply something I didn't have any control over.\"\n>\n> That was the \"Rho Aias\" that Archer made to help Shirou in a way that\n> wouldn't let Gilgamesh know there was someone else waiting to ambush him.\n\nIn other words, the first Rho Aias that defended him (as he was chanting UBW,\nit's difficult to project something like that at the same time) against Enuma\nElish was project by Archer (EMIYA).\n\n\n\nThe original has 7 petals, this one has 5 in the 2015 ufotable anime.\n\n\n\nThe second one inside UBW was probably one copied from Archer's version\n(perhaps drawing from the experience that flowed into Shiro as they clashed).\nIt's not clear how many petals was in this version (likely [4\npetals](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qU5F5.jpg), like in the Heaven's Feel path).\nThis part was never really clarified, but you can compare it to [Kuro's\nprojection](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hMC1k.png) of it using the Archer Class\nCard from _Prisma Illya._\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6bwm0.gif)\n\nNote that against Lancer, Archer had to muster almost all of his prana to\nproject a [7-petal version](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TF495.jpg). Since he\ndidn't have the prana for another 7-petal projection, he probably summoned a\nlesser projection in order to protect the Shirou and what reserves he had\nleft.\n\nRho Aias not being a sword (being a shield), is going to cost more prana to\nsummon. Since the UBW reality marble was not up, it's unlikely that Shirou had\nthe means to to summon it at the time. So it's more likely that it came from\nan external entity (Archer).\n\nThe _Fate/side material_ encyclopedia on Rho Aias\n([p.78-79](http://tmdict.com/book/fate-side-material#ro.rho-aias)) states\nthat:\n\n> The Rho Aias that protected Shirou's spellcasting during the finale of the\n> Rin route was not something he projected himself, but was actually made by\n> Archer who was watching the battle from a distance.\n\nShirou mentioned that he was able to project it by pulling it out of the \"hill\nof swords.\" This is likely a metaphor that refers to his reality marble (a\nmaterialization of one's inner self) or the collective of Archer memories, and\nnot a literal hill.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _F/SN:UBW_ season 2, they revealed that Archer's true identity is Hero\nEmiya Shirou - the MC's future self.\n\nArcher regrets that he became a hero, so he tried to kill the current Shirou\n(Archer's past self). When Archer used UBW to try to kill Shirou, the MC\ncopied it using the 'trace-on' thingy so all the things inside the UBW was\ncopied. I believe it includes the Rho Aias.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn UBW, when Rin removes Shinji from the Grail, the Grail attempts to take him\nback (with little hands). Then it grows a massive hand, but instead of going\nfor Shinji, it goes for Gilgamesh to replace its core. Why didn't the hand try\nto retake Shinji, if he was much closer than Gilgamesh?\n\nOne could argue that Gilgamesh would be much more fit to be the Grail's core,\nbut I'm not sure if that's explicitly mentioned or not. Besides, Shinji's body\nwas doing the job just fine I think.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan anyone please tell me if there has there been an English dub release of\nGhost in the Shell - Arise 3?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo clarify, so far there have been no official announcement on [Border\nOVAs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise#Films) 3 or 4 in\nrespect to dubbing. Funimation announced on the 8th of March that they aquired\nthe rights to [Arise: Altered\nArchitecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Arise_-\n_Alternative_Architecture_episodes), a recompilation of the four Border OVAs.\nNo word if the dubs or the OVA will continue or if they will just move onto\nthe TV versions, as the dubbed version for 1 and 2 just came out around [mid-\nMay 2015](http://www.funimation.com/blog/2014/05/13/english-recording-set-to-\nbegin-for-ghost-in-the-shell-arise/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second OVA, Miyamura seems borderline terrified of a student wearing a\nmaid outfit with cat ears, and indicates that he doesn't like cats.\n\n\n\nWhy's that? What does he have against cats?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode of _Rose of Versailles_ , we see the patriach of the\nJarjayes family designate his newborn daughter as his _son_ and name her\nOscar, because he is in desperate need of an heir to his office and his\noffspring only consist of daughters. Thus, it looks like a woman would not be\nnormally regarded as an appropriate candidate for military duties. This makes\nsense combined with the gender roles alluded to in the first two episodes:\n\n * Girodelle initially refuses to duel Oscar on account of gender\n * Later he makes mention of \"womanly whims\" when she disappears in the second episode\n * The Jarjayes housekeeper laments that Oscar isn't treated like a daughter and hopes when she refuses to become an officer that she is doing so because she wants to be a woman.\n\nHowever, both in this episode and the one that follows, it is shown that\nOscar's gender is more or less an open secret: at least three people outside\nof the Jarjayes household know of it.\n\n * Girodelle (see above)\n * The woman who tells Marie Antoinette about Oscar while she is going to Versailles\n * The man whom Jarjayes talks to who proposes the duel between Girodelle and Oscar, although he tells Jarjayes that it's fine that Oscar is a woman\n\n**Given that a number of outsiders are aware of Oscar's gender, is there any\nin-universe reason why Oscar is still permitted to take on masculine roles, if\nbeing female was supposed to be an impediment in the first place?** Or is\neverything fine and dandy provided that Oscar does not appear overtly feminine\nand so long as _the average person_ isn't aware of it? After all, Marie\nAntoinette, Fersen, and Rosalie are unaware of Oscar's gender until they are\ntold of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song that both Sala and Ange mysteriously know is called \"Towagatari\",\nwhich means something like \"Eternal Story\". The version that Ange sings is\nsubtitled \"Hikari no Uta\" = \"Song of Light\"; the version that Sala sings is\nsubtitled \"Kaze no Uta\" = \"Song of Wind\".\n\nThe _duet_ version that they sing in the final episode is 1.) glorious; and\n2.) subtitled \"El Ragna\".\n\nWho or what is \"El Ragna\"? [The Cross Ange wikia claims that it means \"The\nGoddess\"](http://crossange.wikia.com/wiki/Towagatari_~El_Ragna~), but I'm not\nsure on what basis they make that claim (\"El Ragna\" doesn't mean anything in\nJapanese, at least). I don't recall the show telling us what \"El Ragna\" means;\nis there perhaps some side material that does tell us what's up?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNowadays, maids are basically a moe stereotype. Otaku characters like\nSakurasou no Petto na Kanojou's Ryuunosuke Akasaka, Lucky Star's Konata Izumi,\nand the Genshiken gang all love maids. Even K-On's Sawako Yamanaka, who isn't\nan otaku, puts the Light Music Club girls in maid outfits.\n\n\n\nFor a while, every single show that came out had a maid character, and several\nshows focused wholly or in part on maids, who may or may not also be androids\n(e.g. Hanaukyou Maid Tai, Hand Maid May, He is My Master, Koharu Biyori,\nMahoromatic).\n\n  \n\n\nIt was shockingly difficult to find a SFW picture from Koharu Biyori.\n\nEven shows that didn't have maids were affected: Digi Carat's Dejiko wore a\ncostume which looked rather like a maid outfit, even though she was not a\nmaid, but rather a clerk in an anime store (and actually an alien princess).\n\n\n\nMy perception was that this all started sometime around 2001, but I never saw\nhow; it just seemed like one day I was surrounded by maids. (Not that it\nbothered me to be surrounded by maids.) How did this get started? Was there a\nsingle show or a few shows that started the maid craze? Or was it always\nthere, and I just never noticed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn UBW, Gilgamesh kills Archer. How come he's still around at the ending when\nhe helps Shirou?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTurns out, Gilgamesh doesn't actually kill Archer. Yes, he skewers him with\nmultiple weapons, but that apparently isn't enough to off him. When you see\nArcher disappear after being skewered, that's him changing to spirit form,\nrather than him dying and dematerializing altogether.\n\nKind of an unsatisfying explanation, but it is what it is.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read somewhere (can't google now) that the protagonist of [Sora wo Kakeru\nYodaka](http://myanimelist.net/manga/81079/Sora_wo_Kakeru_Yodaka) only has 200\ndays to retrieve her body, else the change is permanent.\n\nI re-read the first chapters (thanks the author for the furigana), and there\nis some character saying that in 200 days all the cells in your body are\nreplaced, so you are entirely another person after that time.\n\nBut where is that comment linked to the body change, I could not find.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't read the manga, but I have been watching the anime. Kakashi seemed\nto use earth style before inclining to lightning style. \nSo can a shinobi learn to master a chakra nature other than his chakra nature\neasily ? Or does Kakashi have both the chakra natures ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough Kakashi can have any chakra nature because of his Sharingan, his two\nchakra natures are lightning and earth. We know this, because Kakashi himself\ncreates Chidori, a lightning style technique, and he performs some kind of\nearth jutsu before he acquires the Sharingan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKaname Madoka from _Puella Magi Madoka Magica_ and Nakano Azusa from _K-On!_\nhave a broken line for mouths.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy do characters in some art styles have a broken line for mouths? The lines\nare broken unless it defines lips but I don't know otherwise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the explanation given in [moegamisama's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/23013/) is a step in the right\ndirection; however, an argument purely from high-level principles about\nmoe/cuteness lacks sufficient explanatory power to explain why _this_\nparticular style (\"broken line\" mouths) is often seen. I think a more\nmechanistic explanation for why mouths are drawn this way is also necessary.\n\nTaking for granted that the minimization of some facial features (a small\nnose, compensated by large eyes, say) is a common feature in \"moe\" character\ndesign today, and observing that the mouth is an oft-minimized feature, the\nmechanistic explanation, then, is as follows.\n\nTake a close look at the way Madoka's mouth is drawn in the picture you\nposted. You will notice that the thickness of the line that represents her\nmouth is not constant. Rather, it is thickest near the edges and becomes\nthinner as we approach the center of her face. The line \"breaking\" at the\ncenter of her face strikes me as an artistic convenience: rather than drawing\na super-thin line there, the artist simply omits the line altogether, and the\nviewer's mind merely fills it in (this is the so-called [\"principle of\nclosure\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_grouping#Closure) of\ngestalt psychology). You see the same thing (albeit less delicately) in the\npicture of Azusa.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn reply to [Aki Tanaka's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/23007/#comment56247_23007), it\ndoesn't look better, but it looks cuter. Also, the big eyes make it look cute\nbecause of all the highlights in the eyes.\n\n_Death Note_ style works for the anime because of the genre and theme of the\nshow. It is a dark and gritty show. You don't want see happy anime girls\nkilling a bunch of people with a notebook.\n\nIt also helps the animation. If the animator is drawing the face of Light\nYagami from _Death Note_ or Jotaro Kujo from _JoJo's Bizarre Adventure_ , then\nit would take longer frame by frame. However, if the animator is drawing the\nface of Maka from _Soul Eater_ , it would not take that long.\n\nI think the mouths are like for the same reason to draw it faster. The\nreferences probably from young girls because their lips are not that big.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[From a reddit\nuser](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/7yvnm0/why_is_the_middle_of_lips_in_anime_not_always/dujj3ss/):\n\n> Ends of the mouth create a cavity in real life, often causing the said part\n> to be more shadowy, while shut lips create a more even surface, resulting in\n> even light distribution. You can even observe this in realistic drawings.\n>\n> Now translate this into lineart, and you get emphasized ends and leaving the\n> middle empty strengthens this as the brain completes it anyway. It looks\n> pretty attractive too, IMO.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he is given a wooden sword and has to fight demons and things like\nthat.\n\nHe is not used to the 20th century since he was dead for a long time. He then\nlives with this girl he saved when he first got out of hell. He also is\nfollowed by a guy from hell who watches him to make sure he doesn't do\nanything bad.\n\nI remember one part where there is a bank robbery and he defeats all the\nrobbers and saves everyone in the bank also most of the people have demons in\nthem he has to defeat\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's **[Togari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togari_\\(manga\\))**. It's about\na boy named Tobei who has been dead and living in hell for over 300 years.\n\n\n\n**Summary:**\n\nHe tried to escape hell multiple times but got caught repeatedly. One day he\nwas made an offer that if he could kill 108 demons in 108 days, then he would\nbe free to return to Earth.\n\nHe agrees on doing this and then gets sent into modern-day Japan.\n\n**Things that definitely match your description:**\n\n * On the cover you can see his magical sword that can easily be mistaken with a wooden sword or stick.\n\n * He lives together with a girl name _Itsuki Asagi_. He saved her from getting raped and murdered by a thug. After this, they live together with her grandfather.\n\n * In volume 3 they are caught in the middle of a bank robbery with one of the bandits holding Itsuki hostage.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Code Geass season 1 episode 7, there is a song playing at 16:56. I can't\nfind the song no matter where I look.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's \"Stream of Consciousness\" (track 4 from [the first\nOST](http://vgmdb.net/album/19057)). Here is a thirty-second extract from the\nbeginning of the track: <https://clyp.it/qupf3tgv>.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 10, we learn that gods are forbidden from entering the dungeon.\nThis is apparently against the rules.\n\nBut who enforces the rules? What happens to someone found in defiance of them?\nI mean, Hestia and co. _are_ gods, after all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on episode 13 of the series, it seems like the dungeon itself enforces\nthe rules. While having Hestia and Hermes in the search party didn't trigger\nany ill-effects on its own, Hestia's use of her godly powers within the\ndungeon resulted in a boss-level enemy along with multiple smaller mobs\nbreaking into the sanctuary of level 18, and the characters' reactions\nsuggested that this was the dungeon reacting to (and being upset at) the use\nof the power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn fairy tail, we know that the third generation dragon slayers have been\ntaught dragon slayer magic by dragons and also that they have dragon lacrimas\nimplanted. \nIf a dragon lacrima of an element of different type is implanted what will\nhappen? Will they gain two types of dragon slayer magic? \n( For example if Sting is implanted with a fire element type dragon lacrima\nwill he gain two types of dragon slayer magic? i.e. holy light type magic\ntaught by Vicelogia and fire type magic gained from the lacrima)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe it is dependent on the Dragon Slayer. Natsu has done this multiple\ntimes (Laxus, Zancrow) and Gajeel has accomplished it once. It could be a\nsimilar process like when people take small amounts of poison to build a\ntolerance to it. As was seen, Natsu became sick after using lighting, but over\ntime it seems he has been accustomed to it as it doesn't have such an adverse\neffect on him when he uses it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoilers to recent Manga chapters, But to be put simply they gain the ability\nto use and presumably eat that element. This is shown by\n\n> One of the Elite Members of the Alvarez Empire,[God\n> Serena](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/God_Serena), who used to be a wizard\n> saint, rank 1, who had 8 Dragon Lacrima implanted into his body.\n\nThis is shown when (Even Bigger Spoiler):\n\n> he uses the Cavern, Purgatory, and Sea King Dragon slayer magics in rapid\n> succession to beat down four wizard saints ranked 2,3,4,and 5. Draculos\n> Hyberion, Wolfheim, Warrod Sequen, and Jura Neekis were all incapacitated by\n> his 3 attacks of those 3 dragon slayer magics. He then prepared to finish\n> them off with Gale Dragon Slayer Magic, but was interrupted before he used\n> that one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe lacramas shouldnt hold restrictions since there is a character with 8\ndragon slayer elements from them. But for dragon slayers to gain dual\nelemental modes like Natsus Lightning Flame Dragon mode or Gajeels Iron Shadow\nDragon mode, i personally believe it can only be taken from 2nd or 3rd\ngeneration dragon slayers. Laxus gave Natsu his lightning in a similar way to\nhow Natsu had consumed the ethernano and other flames, but only the lightning\nhas stayed with him without being a fire based attack. I like to believe that\nsince Laxus has a lightning Lacrama, his lightning was shared by having enough\nenergy consumed to create a new lacrama in Natsu. Gajeel then did the same\nwith Rouges shadow by absorbing the power from the lacrama half of Rouge\ninstead of the shadow magic taught by his dragon. The final example i could\nthink of was future Rouge saying he \"took\" Stings magic after killing him. The\nonly possible way for that is through his lacrama, turning Rouges future self\ninto a White Shadow Dragon\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n`  \nGarp `\n\n`  \nThe Vice Admirals `\n\n`  \nThe Admirals `\n\n`  \nex-Fleet Admiral Sengoku `\n\nWhy are the coats always worn as capes? Is there an in-universe explanation as\nto why the Marines wear it in that way? The only character who I remember\nseeing, wearing a coat as it should be worn, is [**Gol D.\nRoger**](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MqItL.png).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**There has been no in-universe explanation** as to why the Marines wear the\ncoats over their shoulders.\n\nThe only in-universe information regarding those coats is that they are\nsupposedly held up by the Marine officers' beliefs in Justice. As long as the\nMarine in question believes in the justice of the Marines or World Government,\nthe coat will not fall! ... is what Oda said in [SBS Volume 61, Chapter\n596](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_61#Chapter_596.2C_Page_48)\n\n> **Reader** : You know the coat that all those commissioned Marine officers\n> wear on their backs? The one that says \"Justice\". That thing never falls of\n> no matter how much the guy wearing it moves, but how does it stay on? A snap\n> stopper? Or maybe super glue? My husband says \"it's rubber\" (making it a\n> circle and passing it through another circle). P.N. Koteni-\n>\n> **Oda** : Too bad, nothing is on there. That is a coat that has \"Justice\" on\n> the back. It never falls off, because to them, Justice never \"falls\"!! As\n> long as that feeling stays in their hearts, THE COAT WILL NEVER FALL!!!\n\nThe out-universe explanation is described by the [TV trope\nCoatCape](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoatCape) linked in the\ncomment by [mivilar](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/34/mivilar). It\nstates that **military leaders (and delinquents aka pirates) often wear their\ncoat as a cape to show how cool the character is**. The coat will never fall\noff despite the situation. The Trope also explains not to confuse the\n(Marines') _[Coat-Cape](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoatCape)_\nwith (Mihawk's) _[Badass-\nLongcoat](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassLongcoat)_ or the\n_[Coat-over-the-\nshoulder](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoatOverTheShoulder)_.\n\n> Sometimes, to show how cool a character is (or just how broad his shoulders\n> are), all he has to do is wear his coat like a cape, as in not bothering to\n> put his arms through the sleeves. This is often a trait of Japanese\n> Delinquents or military leaders.\n>\n> Don't expect them to slip or fall off, even up against powerful winds,\n> explosions and any amount of running, jumping and acrobatics, unless it's\n> for dramatic reasons.\n>\n> Compare Coat Over the Shoulder. Not to be confused with Badass Longcoat,\n> which often resembles a cape but is worn normally.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think according to Oda \"Justice never falls\". It's just to show that so long\nas they believe and keep fighting, that coat won't fall, because justice\ndoesn't.\n\nBut then again, Gol D. Roger and Whitebeard wore their coats that way for the\n\"cool\" factor, but theirs didn't have justice on it!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Dragon Ball Super considered an original works by Akira Toriyama?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis really depends on [what you consider\ncanon](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/5219/11469), but for now let's define\n\"canon\" as material that's covered in the original source material and has\nimpact on the story.\n\nSince this season does have a manga adaptation and takes place after [Kid Buu\nSaga](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Kid_Buu_Saga) from _Dragon Ball Z_ but\nbefore the tournament with Uub, I would say that this **is canon** material.\n\n* * *\n\n_But_ , After seeing more then the first episode I think its safe to say that\nthe anime does not follow the manga 100%. Therefore I consider it **somewhat\ncanon**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs much as i love super already... Technically Super is not cannon with Z\neither. Why? because it takes place straight after the buu fight (Between the\n10 year time skip). Pan's not even born yet & Goku sure as hell had not\nactivated god mode before the fight with Uub at the tournament (Last Episode\nOf Z). Completely parallel timeline. Although it does state it is on:\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_timeline> , however it also\nstates GT is apart of the timeline aswell which many would argue is not. But\nstill a series worth watching and cannot wait to see how it pans out!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Yes, it is. The stories for both the anime and manga versions of Dragon Ball\nSuper are indeed written by Akira Toriyama**.\n\nFrom [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Super):\n\n> In addition to his role as series creator, Akira Toriyama is also credited\n> for the \"original story & character design concepts\" of the new anime\n> directed by Kimitoshi Chioka.\n\n> The anime is being adapted into a companion manga by Toriyama alongside\n> artist Toyotarō, author behind the official Resurrection 'F' manga\n> adaptation. It began serialization in the August 2015 issue of V Jump, which\n> was released on June 20.\n\n**This leaves open your title question whether the anime should be considered\ncanon.**\n\n[Here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/9940/6166) Madara Uchiha answered\nthat filler equals not canon, while pieces written by the original author\nshould be considered canon. Now the DBS anime is both, seeing how \"Vegeta's\nday out\" would be filler, yet is written by the original author.\n\n[Here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/5219/6166) ton.yeung answered that\nsomething should be considered canon when the material is borrowed from the\noriginal works. So if you would consider the manga as _original work_ , than\nthe anime would be filler, yet if you would consider Toriyama's mind as\n_original work_ it would be canon.\n\nSeeing how at this point it is rather messed up and confusing, **my two cents\nwould be that it will probably be considered filler (non canon) after a\nwhile**. People would either forget (or don't care) the additional episodes\nwere produced by Toriyama or would stick by the general rule that **only** the\noriginal works (aka the manga in this case) can be considered canon, despite\nthe author of the anime. So, not sure if it is, but **manga readers will\nprobably consider all the extra content not to be canon** , while anime\nwatchers will probably not even know/care about the existence of the manga and\n[unknowingly think everything that happened in the anime to be\ncanon](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/19940/6166).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes it is. Now here's something I didn't realize until I looked into it, if\nyou want to get technical: DB Super, being written by Akira Toriyama, will\nactually be the ONLY dragon ball anime that IS canon. I'm Not sure why people\nthink it isn't, they are all wrong.\n\nDragon ball, DBZ, and GT are technically NOT canon as Toriyama didn't write\nfor them. They were based directly and heavily on his manga but he didn't\nwrite for those anime so they can't be considered canon per se. He has also\ncalled GT a \"side story\" so while most fans consider the first two animes\nMOSTLY canon (due to his influence) as he wasn't really TOO involved in GT\n(aside from some plot points and character design) most fans don't consider GT\ncanon.\n\nSuper will actually be the only dragon ball anime that is canon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know details about Ninku. It's a very old ninja anime. Anybody knows\nfrom where I can legally get raw or subbed links or online streams or even a\nmanga? When I was little, a TV channel named \"Animax\" used to telecast\nepisodes of Ninku. This was about 10-12 year ago.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are DVDs available, if you keep an eye out. Here's\n[one](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ninku-Japanese-DVD-BOX-Complete-Set-TV-\nAnime-/281361514972) ...at 750$ :(\n\nThe manga seems to only have been published in\n[French](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=3275)\n\nIt doesn't look like its been touched by any English groups apart from the\noriginal broadcast so I'm afraid you're out of luck.\n\n[ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2603) doesn't\nmention any Japanese streaming download sites, so I think your best bet is to\ntry and get the DVDs somewhere and import the manga if you read Japanese.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been watching Naruto online, and there are no episodes available to\nwatch after 301, even though I know there is a big war on that episode. Are\nthere any more Naruto episodes? People have been saying there is an episode\n700, but is that all manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are [220 episodes](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=239) in Naruto original anime series, which has\nbeen completed. Then Naruto Shippuden, which has 500 episodes in total. The\nseries finished airing on the 23rd of March, 2017.\n\nYou can stream and watch anime from [anime-planet](http://www.anime-\nplanet.com/anime/naruto-shippuden/videos) or [some other anime streaming\nsites](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/922/how-can-i-tell-if-a-\nsite-is-legal/923#923). Some of them may charge you, some of them may not.\nBest way to watch Shippuden is on Crunchy Roll.\n\nThere are 700 manga chapters and an extra 10 chapters in the Naruto: The\nSeventh Hokage and the Scarlet manga, which is set several years ahead of the\nfinal chapter (volume 72) of Naruto.\n\nWith the conclusion of Naruto, we now have its spin-off/sequel, Boruto: Naruto\nNext Generations. This is currently airing on Crunchy Roll and is 18 canon\nepisodes in as I am writing this. Also the manga is available to read for all\nthe purists.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou must be following the Naruto Shippuden English Dub Episodes. At the\nmoment, the English Dub episodes are lagging far behind the Japanese episodes\nas far as the anime is concerned. Like @mirroroftruth said, the Manga is the\nlatest episode.\n\nBut in English Dub, the latest is episode 301 and more are coming up. The next\none is expected to be aired on July 11th. So you'll have to be patient.\n\nAs for Japanese, the latest one aired yet is episode 418.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor a question with ~60k views, I found this to be surprisingly un-updated.\nCommunity bumped it up in my feed and I decided to answer.\n\nNaruto the Anime, as it is defined includes 2 series, 11 movies and over a\ndozen OVAs. The full list is available here [List of Animated Naruto\nMedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Animated_Media)\n\nThe first Naruto anime adaptation premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo October 3,\n2002, and ran for **220 episodes** until its conclusion on February 8, 2007.\nIt led to a first timeskip of two years. 3 movies were also released with the\noriginal Anime.\n\nNaruto: Shippuden is the sequel to the original Naruto anime and covers the\nNaruto manga from volume 28 on. The TV adaptation of Naruto: Shippuden debuted\nin Japan on February 15, 2007, on TV Tokyo, and concluded on March 23, 2017.\nThe series ran for a total of **500 Episodes**. There were another 8 movies\naccompanying the series, the last of which set stage for Naruto's son's solo\nseries, **Boruto:The Next Generations** which is currently airing. ( **5\nEpisodes** and counting).\n\nThus, there is no Episode 700 since the Original run and Shippuden are\nseperate series. Total episode count of Naruto finished at **720 Episodes**.\nBoruto is not considered to be of the same continuity because Kishimato is no\nlonger writing the series but is more of a supervisor.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNow that the Shippuden has finally ended, I can say for certain that...\n\nOriginal Naruto series has 220 episodes.\n\nNaruto Shippuden has exactly 500 episodes.\n\nNot to mention like 40% of\n[Naruto](http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto) and [Naruto\nShippuden](http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto-shippuden) is fillers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the _Redial_ conclusion to _Future Diary_ , we see the 3rd iteration of\nYuno living a normal life in the 3rd reality after the incident caused by the\noriginal Yuno and the 2nd Yuki saved her family's future. She has no\nrecollection of Yuki at all in this world, even though she knows she is\nmissing some very important memories.\n\nThis is almost identical to the state Yuki is in while trapped in the \"ideal\"\nworld created for him by the original Yuno. However, she purposely removed\nherself from that false world, so it makes sense that Yuki can't even recall\nher name.\n\nSo what happened to the third iteration of Yuki that meant the 3rd Yuno\ncouldn't remember him? He isn't seen at all in the final episode, so I'm\nconfused as to what occurred in that regard. 1st Yuno wouldn't have had a\nreason to kill him as she wished to \"try again\" in that timeline, and Yuki, of\ncourse, wouldn't want to kill his own self.\n\nIs there an explanation as to what happened to the 3rd timeline's Yuki? \nAnd if he did still exist in that iteration, why can't the corresponding Yuno\nremember his identity at all?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 26 from around 17:25 third world and all the diary holder are shown\none by one. Everybody are living happy life. At19:50 Yuno is shown with her\nfriend in some restaurant and she sees Yukiteru outside with his family and\nthe girl [Moe Wakaba](http://myanimelist.net/character/73005/Moe_Wakaba). He\nis the 3rd universe Yuki. Looking from those clip, Yuki is happy with his\nfamily and Moe Wakaba.\n\nHere is the [YouTube](https://youtu.be/ZbIBm0RjKtI?t=19m50s) video.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 3rd iteration of Yuki and Yuno would've never met because she only\napproached him after she'd killed her parents and was looking for someone to\ncling to. Since that never happened, she didn't have feelings for him like the\n1st Universe Yuno. The only reason she had memories was because of MurMur\nfeeding her messages from inside the cage.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI thought she said she finally got the courage to speak to Yuki when they had\nthat survey, which implies she had feelings for him before that event. I don't\nsee why she wouldn't still end up with Yuki in the third iteration.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo here's how me and my partner made it make sense....\n\nWe see 3rd Yukki with his fam and gf through the window as Yuno sits in the\nrestaurant. That's the ONLY time we see 3rd Yuki.\n\nWe figure it's because when the school got trashed in the battle, all the kids\ngot sent to different schools. Yuno ends up at school with Hinata and company,\nand Yuki ends up at a different school. That's why they never meet.\n\nBecause in this 3rd world, the timeline changed and Yuno never killed her\nparents. In the 2nd world (the one we watched all series) Yuno attached to\nYuki AFTER she killed them, when they were last in class working on essays.\nNone of this ever happened in world 3, so Yuno and Yuki never met.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere actually is a 27th episode. No, actually it's more like a special\nshowing what happened after ep26. There they explain what happened to 3rd\nworld Yuno (\"Future Diary: Redial\")\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI really love anime and I can't stop watching them. Among them, the anime I\nlike most is _The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays_. I really want to know\nKuroko's real name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you're asking about the character, his full name is **Tetsuya Kuroko**.\n\nIf you're asking about the voice actor, it's **Kensho Ono** for the Japanese\nversion, and **Adrien Solis** for the French version.\n\nThis can all be confirmed on Tetsuya Kuroko's [MyAnimeList\nPage](http://myanimelist.net/character/18769/Tetsuya_Kuroko)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've noticed a recurring design in anime, manga, and other Japanese art and\nI'm wondering where it comes from. It's basically a jet-like machine or\ncreature with a pointed head, tufted \"ears\", long neck, and sharp wings\nattached to a back-heavy body. Here's some examples:\n\nThe Gekko from Eureka Seven:\n\n\n\nLatias/Latios from Pokémon:\n\n\n\nChiara Toscana's weapon/vehicle from Shakugan no Shana:\n\n\n\nAre these simply coincidences or is it a design trope, similar to something\nlike mecha? Is there more history behind this shape? If you know of any other\nexamples, I'd love to know about them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs @ʞɹɐzǝɹ and @seijitsu mentioned in the comments, these designs appear to be\nbased on birds. Specifically, the long neck and football-shaped body look like\na crane or goose.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe red-crowned crane has a [significant\nplace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-crowned_crane#Culture) in Japanese\nand Chinese culture. It figures in the fairy tale [Tsuru no\nOngaeshi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuru_no_Ongaeshi). As txteclipse\nmentioned in the comments, Japan Airlines even uses the red-crowned crane as\nits logo; the Wikipedia article says this symbol was chosen by an American\nbranding expert due to the positive image of the crane in Japanese culture and\nmythology. Given that, it makes sense that Japanese artists would think of\nusing the crane as a basis for imaginary creatures or flying vehicles.\n\nThe crane-like design is also unusual in real world aircraft. As you can see\nfrom the first image of the goose, the goose's and crane's wings angle\nforwards; this is replicated in the OP's first image of the Gekko from Eureka\n7. Real-world aircraft tend to have a more straight, cylindrical body and\nwings which angle backwards:\n\n \n\nThese differences give aircraft based on the crane design a unique,\nfantastical appearance.\n\nI couldn't track down any species of crane or goose which has tufted \"ears\"\nlike the Gekko or Latios. Some geese do have tufted feathers, but they seem to\nbe always on the back of the head. However, some bird species, such as the the\ngreat horned owl and the juvenile of the house finch, do have such tufted\n\"ear\" feathers:\n\n \n\nWhen it comes to designing a fictional creature or aircraft, a design based on\nthe crane's head is a little bit boring to look at. The tufted head feathers\nalso come from real-life birds, but they add visual interest to the head area,\nwithout seeming too ridiculous or over-the-top like the head adornments of\ncertain bird species.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of the Dragon Ball series we can see [Goku fly off with Uub towards\nhis village to train](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWTlM.jpg). There had been\nyears of peace so we see Goten and Trunks all grown to teenagers, yet in the\nSuper series they are still young. So it seems that Uub does not exist yet and\nthe Super series does not follow directly after the Dragon Ball series, the\nsame way the GT series did. So where does it fit in? When does the Super\nseries take place?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last episodes of _Dragon Ball Z_ , the Tenkaichi Tournament takes place\n10 years after Buu's defeat.\n\nPan is one of the tournament participants, at the age of 4. \nGoten and Trunks are teenagers.\n\nIn _Dragon Ball Super_ , Pan is still in Videl's womb. \nTrunks and Goten are still kids.\n\nYou can say that Dragon Ball Super takes place before that tournament and\nafter Buu's defeat.\n\nMind-blowing fact: Goku can already transform into SSG in that same tournament\neheheh :D\n\nEDIT: Here's the timeline from the\n[Wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_timeline):\n\n> **Dragon Ball Super** \n> **Age 778** \n> Around August 18 Beerus awakens from a slumber and searches the Super\n> Saiyan God. \n> Bulma's birthday party is held on a cruise ship.\n>\n> **Dragon Ball Z** \n> **Age 781, May 7** \n> The 27th World Martial Arts Tournament takes place. Mr. Satan wins. Buu\n> comes in second place.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed in an episode of Sword Art Online II (Calibur arc) that Sinon (a\nCait Sith) reacted strangely when Kirito grabbed her tail. Silica (also a Cath\nSith) noticed this but it seems that she too (just like me) has no idea. What\nhappened [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzxbodu3AnY)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe following is quoted from Sword Art Online Book 8: Early and Late, page 221\n\n> The triangular ears and tail unique to the Cait Sith race were of course\n> organs human don’t have, however, they could sense the feeling using an\n> unknown mechanism. Being grabbed hard by a player who wasn’t aware of the\n> fact would cause a «super weird feeling»—— Silica’s explanation——for that\n> reason, the reaction was always very amusing.\n\nThis quote actually shows us a few things:\n\n 1. Why Kirito pulled her tail in the first place: it's \"amusing\"\n 2. What it feels like: \"a super weird feeling\" cause by sensentations from an organ humans don't normally have - similar to the wings in ALO, I might add\n 3. Why Silica looks at her tail in the YouTube clip: calling it a \"super weird feeling\" was her description, so she clearly knows how it feels. In other words, it's likely that someone (possibly Kirito, since he seems to enjoy it so much) has done the same thing to her.\n\nI've added the picture of this scene from the light novel just for reference.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe its because grabbing her tail didnt give her feeling of having her tail\nbeing grabbed due to the fact she doesnt have one, and the game made feel it\nin the spot where her tail would have been-her anus\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn many anime or Japanese pop culture, a cat-person's tail and ears are\nextremely sensitive and considered a \"place only touched with permission\". I\nthink you get it now.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI suppose it likely causes extreme discomfort or a strange feeling, due to\nactual humans not having these body parts, but the Amusphere still transmits\nthat feeling. Much like a real-life cat getting their tail pulled, but perhaps\nless painful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am latest in the manga chapter. So I know the history behind Koro-sensei.\nBut I wonder how can he fly? I mean, I know he is super fast. But being fast\ndoesn't mean you can fly. And he don't have any psychic or esper powers to\nlevitate or fly.\n\nHe may be fast to run in the air or something like that. But when he is flying\nhe is not upright, he is laying down like super man.\n\nHe may also use his tentacles as propulsion, but as seen whenever he is flying\nit seems his tentacles are just there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow Koro-sensei can fly has never been mentioned in the manga or the anime, so\nI can only explain it based on my inferences from the manga.\n\nKoro-sensei has been referred to as an octopus on multiple occasions in the\nanime and the manga (eg episode 10 at around 10:40 in the anime). So it is\nfair to assume that Koro-sensei's body behaves like an octopus.\n\nWhen you read about the [locomotive\nsystem](https://web.archive.org/web/20160729081842/https://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/Facts/cephalopods/locomotion.cfm)\nin octopi and the like, it's a [jet propulsion\nsystem](http://www.asnailsodyssey.com/LEARNABOUT/OCTOPUS/octoJet.php) that\nthey use to move around in water. Koro-sensei should be able to use similar\nmethods in the air. [As all his cells are\ntentacles1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3ugJ.jpg) and [he can freely control\nhis tentacles2](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u8CQo.jpg), Koro-sensei should be\nable to fly with a jet propulsion system like the octopus.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Chapter 140, page 14. \n2 Chapter 137, page 17.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was thinking of Mard Geer, since he's said to be more powerful than Zeref.\n\nBut was it ever mentioned in canon who cursed Zeref to be immortal?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nIn chapter 436, Zeref mentioned that he must have been cursed by\n[Ankhseram](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Ankhseram_Black_Magic), the God of\nlife and death, for researching resurrection magic (R-System, Eclipse Gate,\nand later Summoning Magic). One of the side-effects of this curse was that he\nbecame immortal.\n\n* * *\n\nAs mentioned by\n[Denslat](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/11648/denslat), this is indeed\nmetaphorical. At this point it is not proven whether a deity exists in the\nFairy Tail world. As far as we know, the curse was cast upon those magicians\nthat had messed around with incomplete versions of Grand Magic (or Black\nMagic, depending on the translation). Zeref for using resurrection magic.\n\n> Mavis for using (Fairy) Law. [FT 449](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xo4hq.jpg),\n> [FT Zero 11](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n8dRJ.png)\n\nSo whether a real deity was upset or not, the people in the Fairy Tail world,\ncall this curse the curse of Ankhseram, the God of life and death, regardless\nof its existence.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI always thought that Zeref was cursed because of the fact that he performed a\nvery hard magical spell that he wasn't supposed to do or that it wasn't\ncomplete yet like with Mavis.\n\nSo in fact, perhaps he cursed himself because a strong magic that goes against\nnature or a spell that is incomplete requires a price or something.\n\nJust my opinion though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn \"Death Note: How to use it VIII\", it [states\nthat](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note)\n\n> \"Even if you do not actually possess the Death Note, the effect will be the\n> same if you can recognize the person and his/her name to place in the\n> blank.\"\n\nIs It possible to kill a person even if you don't have a Death Note?\n\nOr am I just confused with the words?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes you can kill someone with the Death Note, without actually _possessing_\none.\n\nThat specific rule was probably referring to the Ray Penber accident. What\nthey mean is that despite Ray Penber not possessing a Death Note himself, he\ncould still manipulate his colleagues through the Death Note by filling in the\nnames in the blanks.\n\nThe second rule should be read in combination with the first (see below),\nsaying that the effects of the first part of the rule would not only take\naffect when the owner writes the names in the blanks, but also when some other\nperson does so.\n\nI think you might have been confused on the words \"possessing a Death Note\",\nwhich is more than just \"holding a Death Note\", I suppose.\n\n* * *\n\n[VIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_VIII)\n\n> 1. You may also write the cause and/or details of death prior to filling\n> in the name of the individual. Be sure to insert the name in front of the\n> written cause of death. You have about 19 days according to the human\n> calendar in order to fill in a name.\n> 2. Even if you do not actually possess the Death Note, the effect will be\n> the same if you can recognize the person and his/her name to place in the\n> blank.\n>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Japanese title is Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabu Kome wa Machigatteiru with\nsubtitle My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as Expected. The subtitle already\npretty much translate the Japanese title. So, what is the SNAFU in its English\nname? How did it get there?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere, the word for wrong - \"machigatteiru\" - is being changed into \"snafu,\"\nwhich, according to [the\ndictionary](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/snafu?s=t) is \"a badly\nconfused or muddled situation\"\n\nWhen translating literally, we could just use \"wrong\" (as in the subtitle you\nmention). However, an important thing to note about anime is that translations\nare almost never exact. Whether it's just the dialogue, or the entire anime\nname, many things can be changed to suit a western audience.\n\nFor instance, consider the title \"chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai\" (Literally:\nChuunibyou, but I want to do love) which in English is officially titled\n\"Love, Chuunibyou, and Other Delusions.\" A much more marketable title.\n\nSimilarly, with Oregairu, the English licencing company likely decided that\nusing a more \"interesting\" word like \"snafu\" would make the show more\nintriguing to western consumers, thus improving sales.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI suspect that whoever decided to use the \"SNAFU\" translation for the title\nwas going for the original military acronym \"Situation Normal, All Fucked Up\",\nrather than the contemporary non-military meaning of \"something that has gone\nwrong\".\n\nWhy? Well, the title in Japanese is \"yahari... machigatteru\", which means\n\"...wrong, as one would expect\". If that isn't a borderline literal (if less\nvulgar) equivalent of \"Situation Normal, All Fucked Up\", I don't know what is.\n\n(This is also, in my >opinion, a better translation choice than \"...is wrong\nas expected\", which is relatively unnatural and pretty obviously directly\ncalqued from Japanese.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would imagine, with the title being along the lines of \"My Teen Romantic\nComedy is Wrong, As I Expected\", that it could be for \"Sonna Fuu Ni\", which is\n\"Couldn't Be This Way\". It's pronounced Soh-Na Fuu-ni, so Sxx-NA-FUx-xx. Just\na personal thought.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBlackbeard exist in both the worlds, one piece as well as the Pirates of\nCaribbean movie.\n\nAre there any other characters who exist in both the worlds? Or is there any\nother character shown in Pirates of Caribbean which is similar to the one\nshown in One Piece?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe legend of [Davy Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones%27_Locker\n\"Davy Jones\") is featured in PoC, while his name is referenced on Davy Back\nFight in OP.\n\nThe concept of a Pirate King appears in both stories (Elisabeth Swan and Gol D\nRoger).\n\nAmongst the mythical creatures that exist in both worlds (mermaids, walking\nskeleton, etc) I think the Kraken deserves special mention.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's Davy Jones tale with the underwater ship, in both One Piece and PotC,\nfantasy creatures (fishmen, mermaids, kraken, skeletons), Blackbeard you\nalready mentioned him. One piece has more real life based characters tho. Like\nBellamy, that was a real pirate, Alvida (based on the legendary female pirate\nAlwida), Jewelery Bonney, Drake, Capone, Charlotte Linlin (shares name with 2\nfamous female pirates), Kidd, Bartholomew, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes somebody know what happened on the bridge at Enies Lobby after Usopps\nspeech to Luffy (This isn't hell!), when the three Marines attacked him and he\ndidn't manage to hit them? Suddenly he got rescued, but who did that? I guess\nit was Dragon but is there any proof?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga Usopp was saved by Zoro, but in the anime it seems **Usopp was\nsaved by a stray[Rankyaku](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rokushiki/Rankyaku)\nGaichou shot from [Lucci](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rob_Lucci)**. He got\nextremely lucky that it hit the three of them.\n\nBelow are screenshots from chapter 309. At 15:43 Lucci releases the shot. At\n15:46, Luffy dodges the shot and it goes upwards. At 15:56 it hits the Marines\nnext to Usopp.\n\n   \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Minato used the Eight Trigrams Seal and the Four Elements Seal to seal\nYang Kurama into Naruto, why didn't he use the same set of seals on himself to\nseal the Yin half? Why Reaper Death Seal? Or into Kushina? Seems like a\npointless sacrifice. And waste of Yin Kurama's potential.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first episode of _Kūsen Madōshi Kōhosei no Kyōkan_ shows Kanata risking\nhis life for his friends. However, when they show him next, they call him a\ntraitor.\n\nThe wiki is very unhelpful in this regard.\n\nWhy they call him a traitor?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe volume 1's prologue of the light novel gives you a kind of good\nunderstanding of why he is a traitor, but beyond that, it isn't discussed\nmuch. Assumptions are that after their big battle, he lost his power for\ncombat.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the start, he basically sacrificed himself to let everyone else escape. It\nmight look as something's wrong when they call him a traitor.\n\nTrue fact, but actually the first episode has the answer. When he sacrificed\nhimself, that was either somewhere into the future or he did something to\nacquire his title.\n\nMy own speculation is that once a certain episode has been released, we'll be\nback in the present to see what happened after he risked his life for his\nteammates.\n\nHowever, this is extremely flawed because there is no proof of what I am\nsaying.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know the fact that Kirito's Dual Wield in SAO was an award or was awarded by\nthe system for being the top player with the fastest reaction time. see\n[here](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Dual_Blades)\n\nAnd that Yuuki can pass down her insane sword combo - 11 hit (Mother's\nRosario) to other players like Asuna. (Because kirito is having a hard time\nreproducing Starburst Stream in ALO which is 16 hit combo, as stated\n[here](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Dual_Blades))\n\nBut how did Konno Yuuki create this skill? Or is it just a skill which came\nfrom her converted account because she was in some other VRMMO?\n\nIs there a chapter in the light novel / manga where this is discussed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI really like the storyline, and I kinda miss it since the series hasn't\nreleased a new chapter in a long time.\n\nWhy is there no progress anymore on H.O.T.D?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read this manga a few months ago, but I forgot the title.\n\nThe story is about a boy who met a lone **god** and participated in battles\nwhich would expand her shrine every time he won. I remember the guy using a\nrope to fight.\n\nI really want to read it again. Hope you guys can help me :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm quite sure it's [**Gan-\nKon**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=70670) (English title: _My\nWife Is Beautiful God_ ).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hbS4s.jpg)\n\n> Tagamori Shinta is a student who routinely confesses with complete sincerity\n> to any girls that he likes, failing every time with good reason. One day,\n> after another failed attempt, he stumbles upon a strange shrine and ends up\n> making the most important wish of his entire life. A romantic comedy packed\n> with action on a celestial scale.\n\nThe main character battles with the red thread of fate, which becomes thicker\nthe more affection he has towards the girl (his god).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YfAtp.png)\n\nAfter every winning battle, his god gets more territory and her shrine is also\nupgraded accordingly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not reading Nisekoi's light novel/manga, so I wonder, how much of the\nmanga does the anime's second season cover? Because I found that only a few\nepisodes contribute to the story itself and almost half of the entire season\nappeared to be fillers. Is it also the same in the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first episode of season 2 starts at 51 chapter of manga and the last\nepisode ends at chapter 106, but there was one filler episode (6th or 7th)\nwith something like Madoka (I closed it right after I saw what's there). Also\nsome chapters from this interval were covered in OVAs.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't been reading the Nisekoi manga either, but I have seen this chart,\nwhich purports to provide a correspondence between manga chapters and anime\nepisodes:\n\n\n\nAssuming this chart is accurate, [Mihai Svet's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/23148/) is roughly correct, though\nthere appear to be a number of omitted chapters (above and beyond those\nrelegated to the OVAs).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeason 2 roughly covers upto 105 or 106 chapters. There are total off 200+\nchapters. You should start reading the manga. I too waited in the hope that\nMore season will arrive. But its not arriving _sad_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga, Chise is referred to as being a \"Slay Vega.\" In Japanese it's\n夜の愛し仔（スレイ・ベガ）, \"Beloved Child of the Night.\"\n\n\n\nWhat does this term mean? What is the significance of this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt would seem the scanlators use the term \"Slay Vega,\" while the official\nSeven Seas release uses the term \"Sleigh Beggy.\" While the former certain\nsounds cooler, the latter seems to be more correct. Acording to [Manx\nlore](https://books.google.com/books?id=_P5fcbMQMKEC&lpg=PA313&ots=pRkNtmJAjT&dq=manx%20Sleigh%20Beggy&pg=PA313#v=onepage&q=manx%20Sleigh%20Beggy&f=false)\n\"Sleigh Beggy\" (or rather [Sleih\nBeggey](https://books.google.com/books?id=KsgrYMWZTb4C&lpg=PT293&ots=h1BKl7PycW&dq=%E2%80%9CSleih%20Beggey%E2%80%9D&pg=PT293#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CSleih%20Beggey%E2%80%9D&f=false)\nin the Manx language, meaning \"little people.\" The equivalent of \"fairy\" in\nEnglish.) is a term used to describe a type of fairy that originally inhabited\nthe Isle of Man.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRKaW.jpg)\n\nOn Seven Seas' [Tumblr\nblog](http://sevenseasentertainment.tumblr.com/post/120370462795/hello-on-the-\naccount-of-the-sleigh-beggy), they mention the significance being:\n\n> For Chise, this term is used to describe her being a type of extraordinary\n> individual, and not being an actual fairy. So while the scanlator's intended\n> meaning for \"Slay Vega\" may have been \"dearest child of the night,\" it's\n> actual meaning to English speakers is \"to kill a star.\"\n>\n> To this extent, we are of one mind in that the usage of Sleigh Beggy is in\n> line with the manga-ka’s intended vision for this amazing series. Hopefully\n> this clears up any confusion or misconceptions our readers had.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSleigh Vega is correct. Everything is about her being the lone star. Sleigh\nBeggy is a very interesting Manx spirit, but she isn't a spirit, she's an\nactual human girl, so the Sleigh Beggy translation is altogether incorrect.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've kept up to date with the manga of Denpa Kyoushi, which I've really\nenjoyed - but I've heard bad things about the animé. Mostly about the low\nstandard of art and not doing the manga justice in some scenes.\n\nI did enjoy the manga, but not enough to watch the anime - unless there is any\nsignificant difference between them (in which case, I'd like to watch those\nsegments so I have the _complete_ story).\n\nIs there anything major in the anime that is different to the manga? or any\nnew characters?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDifferences I noticed in manga vol 1:\n\n * when Junichiro first met Minako, he asked her whether she's from choir club after she finished singing.\n * There's a replacement teacher in Junichiro's retirement speech. Junichiro at first attempt to just give normal speech, but due to that teacher that orders the students to follow the rules, Junichiro instead uses his 'special' speech.\n * Junichiro gets paper with signature of his students after being fired.\n * After Junichiro was fired from the first school he taught, his former colleague from Jenewa came to ask him to go there to work with her. However, he turned the offer down just like when the chairwoman recruits him. Before he started teaching in Hiiragi School.\n * Since Junichiro's colleague came and went back to Jenewa after she failed to recruit him, there's no 'playing hide-and-seek' big scene that the chairwoman and Suzune tracking down Kagami.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am looking for an old TV-series. As far as I remember there were different\nspecific characters and a plot in something like a farm. The main-character\nwas a blonde and blue-eyes girl, who had a mother who died (I think due to a\ndisease) and she told her, that when someone dies, they turn into a star. The\nfather was a doctor I think, he had, if I remember correctly, a mustache and\nbrown hair. Then there was of course the mother, she had long blond hair too,\nlike her daughter. The daughter would often wear pink dresses.\n\nAnother boy, who has brown hair and probably worked on the farm along side\nwith another black boy who worked at the farm with his father.\n\nThe boy with the brown hair would later go search for her, find her in\nsomething like a foster home, lead by a nun and something like a butler, who\nraise children, and the main-character helps them.\n\nThe brown-haired boy asks her if she wants to marry her, but she doesn't want\nto and hides behind a door.\n\nThis is all I can remember, I hope you can help me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt sounds like [**Jeanie with the Light Brown\nHair**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_with_the_Light_Brown_Hair_\\(anime\\))\n\n\n\n> The story begins in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1838. Jeanie MacDowell\n> is a cheerful and beautiful girl with light brown hair (although this could\n> be perceived as being blonde hair). Jeanie enjoys playing the piano and\n> loves taking piano lessons from her mother.\n>\n> Steven, a good harmonica player, and Bill, a boy who is very good at playing\n> the banjo, are great friends of Jeanie's. They enjoy playing music together\n> like a small band.\n>\n> However, Jeanie's happy life changes dramatically after her mother suddenly\n> passes away.\n>\n> Experiencing many difficulties and learning the importance of life, she\n> decides to devote her life to helping many people suffering from illness.\n>\n> The series is a love story about the relationship between Steven and Jeanie\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomebody tell me where I can get them on the internet please? I'm looking for\nany and all sites where you find them for sale. I've looked vigorously, but I\nneed to be sure that their existence is only a dream before I give up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI also were unable to find a direct re-seller for those glasses. I did however\nfind something very similar on\n[Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/nl/listing/168888764/anime-noriaki-kakyoin-jojos-\nbizarre?ref=shop_home_active_6). It also seems this person accepts custom\nrequests, so you could also contact him for a custom design if necessary.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan Dragon Slayers teach other people Dragon Slayer Magic just like how the\nDragons taught them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThroughout the episodes, there are several scenes that play out in a similar\nfashion:\n\n> _Static is heard and a diary's contents are updated to reflect the updated\n> future._\n>\n> Person 1: \"Did you hear that?\"\n>\n> Person 2: \"There must be another diary user nearby\"\n\nBut sometimes the things that alter the future are incredibly trivial, (like\ntravelling to a different floor on the elevator, or not eating a salad) and\ntheoretically anyone should be able to do them. The main reason the diary\nusers change the future more often is because they can see certain events in\nadvance and consciously decide to change them, but other than that, they are\nvisibly no different from the rest of the population.\n\nEveryone seems to have free will, and so everyone should be able to make a\nspontaneous decision and affect the timeline. For example, Yuki altering the\nfuture by opening the door at Yuno's house was down to his curiosity alone and\nnot related to his diary, so surely a non-user would have altered the timeline\nin that same scenario.\n\nGranted, for a diary to display the altered future, it has to correspond with\nthat diary's output (e.g. something in close proximity to Yuki, something\naffecting an escape for Ninth), but that alone doesn't isolate changes to\n_only_ other diary users.\n\nSo why are the diary users so confident in proclaiming the proximity of\nanother diary user when the future changes? Why couldn't it just be a regular\nperson altering their schedule, coincidentally coinciding with the user? And\ndoesn't Akise change the future (as a non-user) in chapter 14 during the coin\ngame?\n\nExample 1\n\n\n\nChapter 11 page 27\n\nExample 2\n\n\n\nChapter 14 page 33\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe future only changes when a diary owner acts against the \"reality\" which\ntheir diary foretells. So the future for everyone is predefined, because they\nalready decided if they want to eat the salad (but they don't know they did).\nOnly if you know for sure that the current future contains you eating a salad\nare you able to change the future.\n\nEDIT:\n\nAbout the Akise thing: No, Akise didn't change the future. Yukiteru's diary\nnever really tells the truth. It just tells what Yukiteru is/was/will be able\nto see. (It was the same thing when that little kid, Fifth, attacked them.\nYukiteru was in the toilet and his diary didn't \"say\" anything except that it\nwas quiet at the toilet.) So, Akise won the coin game, but he told Yukiteru\nthat he lost, his diary will \"think\" he lost even though he didn't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome Chimera Ants remember parts, or all, of their life before they were eaten\nby the Queen.\n\n> By eating other creatures, a Chimera Ant queen can impart the\n> characteristics of ingested creatures onto the next generation of Chimera\n> Ants it gives birth to.\n\nChimera ants are shown to have characteristics that are from two, sometimes\nmore (in the case of [Rammot](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Rammot), a\ncombination of human, rabbit and shrike) It is shown that not only human past\nlives can be remembered, because in Chapter 197 of the manga,\n[Leol](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Leol) remembers being a lion.\n\nHowever, the chimera ants that remember their past life seem to only remember\none. Is it only possible for them to remember one? Why would this be? If they\ncan remember more, why is this never shown?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I read/seen in the anime/manga is that they remember the memories\nassociated with strong emotions. I.E Colt has a strong sense of protection\nbecause in his human life he was dead set on protecting his little sister.\nThese emotions probably cause the memories to take precedence over others.\nThere are how ever small instances that show both sides can be remembered.\nThere is a conversation between Killua and Ikalgo, in where Ikalgo recalls his\ntime as an octopus and always envied the graceful squid. Later when Ikalgo is\nwith Welfin in the control room after shooting Welfin in the legs Ikalgo makes\nhim speak of his human memories. This conversation jogs Ikalgo's memory and he\nstarts to remember some of his past human memories as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe dragon ball super anime started last week.\n\nI'm wondering when this takes place. I know it takes place after the defeat of\nbuu, like a few months or something.\n\nBut with the releases of the movies I'm wondering where does those fit in? Can\nanybody answer me this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTypically when an anime airs, it's resolution is 1280x720 and gets downscaled\nto 853x480, 640x360, or even upscaled to 1920x1080. However, one of the odd\nthings I noticed about Grisaia no Rakuen is that it has black bars on the top\nand bottom; removing these black bars shows it's true resolution: 1280x544,\nwhich is particularly odd. Is there a reason why they drew/animated/produced\nGrisaia series at a weird resolution?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [a Gigazine article](http://gigazine.net/news/20150505-grisaia-\nmachiasobi14/) that reported on [a 2 May 2015 panel at Machi\nAsobi](http://www.machiasobi.com/events/grisaia.html) featuring some of the\nGrisaia staff, it seems that Tensho (the director) just really wanted to do an\nanime fully in a cinematic aspect ratio (2.35:1 / 21:9 / Cinemascope) and\nrefused to compromise on this point. Tensho does not appear to have elaborated\non his motivations, at least not at this particular panel. So, chalk it up to\ndirectorial whim, I guess?\n\nIncidentally, according to [a tweet by\nTensho](https://twitter.com/tensho_tw/status/518818557488930816), Grisaia no\nKajitsu was in fact the first television anime to be produced entirely in\nCinemascope. Apparently, they had to place a special order for paper with that\naspect ratio since they wanted to draw on paper that was genuinely the right\nsize (rather than just taping over the top and bottom of standard 16:9 paper).\n\nI should add: [according to\nAnibin](http://anibin.blogspot.com/2014/10/1_99.html), Grisaia no Kajitsu was\nactually produced at a native width of 1920 pixels (equivalent to 1080p\nvideo), so its \"true\" resolution is roughly 1920x822, not 1280x544. This is\nstill something of a rarity (I think with the exception of Kyoto Animation?),\nthough we're seeing more shows pop up in full 1080p nowadays, e.g. Working!!!,\nairing now (in summer 2015).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode of Rokka no Yuusha, Adlet uses some kind of tool to spit\nout fire.\n\n\n\nWhat is this tool called? Is there a real life equivalent?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI could not find a real world equivalent to this device. The closest thing\nthat I can compare it to is when someone has a torch and [they spit some\nalcohol through the flame](http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/circus-\narts/fire-breathing.htm).\n\nAdlet most likely came up with this device through his extensive years of\ntraining with Atoro.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIts not as much as a weapon as much as it is just 2 pieces of Flint and Steel.\nAdlet has something flammable in his mouth that is liquid (Such as gasoline or\nalcohol) and strikes the flint and steel while blowing outwards causing a sort\nof flame to come from his mouth. Its not very effective since the flame dies\nout quickly but if the enemy is covered in something flammable it can be\nextremely devastating\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you look carefully in the first fight between Adlet + Nachetanya against\nthe fiends or more recently when Adlet escapes Mora after she frames him, this\nis actually a two stage weapon. First, Adlet throws those \"water bombs\" which\nare actually a flammable chemical. Then he grinds/clicks the flint and steel\nor other sparking device on his teeth together. At close range the sparks\nignite the liquid previously placed, making it seem like he is breathing\nfire/explosions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Chris purges Nehushtan and dons Ichii-bal during her fight against Hibiki\nin episode 7 of the first season, she complains about how she has to start\nsinging now. And indeed, Ichii-bal, like Ame-no-Habakiri and Gungnir,\ngenerally requires the wielder to sing while transformed (because of, like,\nphonic gain, or something?).\n\nHowever, neither Chris nor Finé sing when they wield Nehushtan (thereby\ndepriving us of what would surely have been a glorious Sawashiro Miyuki battle\nsong).\n\nWhy is that? Why doesn't Nehushtan require its wielder to sing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer turns out to be simple. There are two key facts here:\n\n * Nehushtan is a complete relic. I'm not sure if this is mentioned in the show, but [it is mentioned in the season 1 keywords](http://www.symphogear.com/key12.html). \n * According to Fujitaka in episode 3, a complete relic need only be activated by song a single time, with the caveat that the initial activation requires a significant amount of phonic gain. Thereafter, anybody can wield it at full power without needing to provide supplemental phonic gain in the form of song. \n\nNehushtan was activated in episode 1 by the phonic gain from the Zwei Wing\nconcert, and was thus usable by anyone (including Chris and Finé) thereafter.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe BDs for Symphogear (season one) came with three creditless versions of the\nOP (Synchrogazer). One difference between the second and third versions of the\nOP (I think the only difference, in fact) is that Yukine is added to [this\nshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/83K53.jpg), which makes sense, since the third\nversion of the OP is first used in episode 11, by which point Yukine is one of\nthe \"good guys\".\n\nBut I cannot, for the life of me, tell what the difference between the first\nand second versions of the OP is. I even played them side-by-side, and still\ncouldn't notice anything different between them. How do the first and second\nversions differ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI ended up going through the OP with a fine-toothed framestepper, whereupon I\nfinally sighted the differences between the two.\n\nAt 00:51-00:52, NCOP 1 has a body shot of Yukine in Nehushtan, followed by a\nface shot of Yukine in Nehushtan...\n\n \n\n...while in NCOP 2, there's a body shot of _Finé_ in Nehushtan, followed by a\nface shot of Yukine in _Ichaival_.\n\n \n\nThe shots last for 8 and 10 frames, respectively.\n\n(And one's probably traced off of the other, so they look pretty similar if\nyou're not specifically looking for them as they flash by, which is why it\ntook me a while to notice. Unexciting answer, but it is what it is.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the first verse in the second opening to _Hayate no Gotoku_ (\n_Shichitenhakki Shijou Shugi!_ by _KOTOKO_ ), this face (O_O;) appears in each\nversion of the subtitles; the translated, romanised and original Japanese\nversions.\n\nAdditionally, the face is also included on various lyrics sites such as\n[here](http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/hayate/shichitenhakki.htm) and\n[here.](https://atashi.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/hayate-the-combat-butler-2nd-\nopening-theme-shichiten-hakki%E2%98%86shijou-shugi/)\n\nWhy is this? I've never seen emoticons or unicode faces in any other\nsubtitles, and I don't see how it adds to the song at all. I know this is a\nseries that doesn't take itself too seriously, but is there any explanation as\nto why this is here?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPossibly to show the reaction of the actor in the song, which seem to be\nsurprised/heavily pressured by fact of \"the demon who wears goddess mask\"...\n_maybe_... or probably there's _no_ purpose of the _kaomoji_!.. or it can be\n_anything_...\n\nConsidering that KOTOKO is a famous [denpa\nsong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpa_song) artist (read also [What is the\nactual meaning of\n\"denpa\"?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/27837/what-is-the-actual-\nmeaning-of-denpa)), _anything goes_. (Note: the Japanese title even has a star\nin it: **七転八起☆至上主義!** )\n\n**So, what is a denpa song?**\n\n> Denpa song (電波ソング) is a type of Japanese music that is intentionally strange\n> and catchy. Common features of denpa songs include intentionally off-key\n> vocals, nonsensical lyrics and an over-the-top tune.\n\n**Back to _kaomoji_**...\n\n_Kaomoji_ is certainly rare in song lyrics, but there are some more (not\nnecessarily denpa song). From [Yahoo!\nChiebukuro](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1341628838):\n\n> * [Koi no\n> Tsubomi](http://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/kodakumi/koinotsubomi.htm): (T_T),\n> (>_<), (*_*), (;_;), (T^T), (T0T)/, (*_*)\n> * [Love Love Chu Chu!](http://www.kasi-time.com/item-36223.html): (><),\n> (T_T), (#^_^#), (@_@)\n> * [Happy\n> Succession](http://utaten.com/lyric/%E5%AE%AE%E5%B4%8E%E7%BE%BD%E8%A1%A3/Happy+Succession/#sort=popular_sort_asc):\n> (^^;), (T_T)\n> * [girls](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a0006b2/l00ab4f.html): (>_<;), (≧O≦)\n> * [message](http://www.kiwi-\n> musume.com/lyrics/ikimonogakari/mysongyoursong/message.html): (-.-;)',\n> !(><)!'\n>\n\n>\n> (All links are link to song lyric)\n\nLast but not least, Ryuichi Kawamura has a song titled\n[〔>_<〕](http://petitlyrics.com/lyrics/72858).\n\n* * *\n\nPersonally, I don't consider _Shichitenhakki Shijou Shugi!_ as denpa song, but\nperhaps it's because I'm already used to IOSYS.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems to me that anime and manga has tropes like \"traps\" and even\ncharacters that change gender quite frequently, especially in comparison to\nWestern series, which seem to have characters more consistently within \"the\nbinary.\" In particular, I'm thinking of shows like _Ranma 1/2_ , _Maria Holic_\n, _Ouran High School Host Club_.\n\nI am under the impression that Japanese culture is quite conservative, so this\ndoesn't make much sense to me. I would expect a conservative culture to create\nseries that aren't so liberal with gender related themes.\n\nIs there a reason for this? Or am I somehow biased? Are there strong\ncounterexamples to my observation?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe it is most related to \"draw a girl, call it a boy\" meme.\n\nFirst, in anime, manga and others, it is extremely easy to distinguish between\nmales and females; Simply because they have different styles. Also, to\naudience the attraction to characters is often based on this style and not on\nactual biology of characters.\n\nIn real life, it is often hard to find an androgynous male that would be able\nto properly pose as a girl, unless lots of effort was put into dress or\nmakeup. But in drawn media, it is extremely easy to just draw a character in\ngirly style and call it a boy. For anyone watching it could be just normal\ngirl and as such, there is still attraction as if it was a girl. The fact that\nit has a penis is usually only explored in ero-doujinshi. For all purposes,\nsuch characters can be regarded as girls with no ill effects.\n\nI have yet to see a \"trap\" character that would be liked as such while having\nobviously male styling. Unless it was for fujoshis.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Euphoric's answer is just one piece of the puzzle. It's a more direct\nanswer to the question in the title, but, to my mind, not quite complete. I'm\nnot equipped to piece together the whole thing, but I'll try to contribute\nwhat I can.\n\nJapanese culture seems to have been fascinated with gender themes all the way\nback to its very beginning. Shinto mythology apparently features a transgender\ndeity called [Ishi Kore Dome no\nKami](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi_Kore_Dome_No_Kami), and some of the\ncreation myths incorporated homosexual themes.\n[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_mythology#Asian_mythologies/).\n\nJapanese kabuki theater originally had both male and female actors, but\nstarting in the 1630s, the Tokugawa shogunate banned women from appearing on\nstage due to the increasingly erotic nature of the plays, so male actors began\nplaying all female roles. ([ _Kabuki_ , \"Transition to _yarō-kabuki_\n\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki#1629.E2.80.931673:_Transition_to_yar.C5.8D-kabuki)).\nAn all-female theater group called the [Takarazuka\nRevue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takarazuka_Revue) was established in\n1913; women play men's roles in their productions, somewhat like the common\nanime trope of a class putting on a production of _Romeo and Juliet_ or\n_Sleeping Beauty_ with a boyish-looking girl playing the male lead and a\ngirlish-looking girl playing the female lead. In more modern times, [visual\nkei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei) street fashion often emphasizes\nan androgynous look for men and women. The Wikipedia page on\n[Bishounen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bish%C5%8Dnen) discusses more about\nboth historic and modern aspects of how Japanese culture views androgyny and\ngender blurring.\n\nSo Japanese culture already had a long-established tradition around gender\nissues. I believe the prevalence of traps and genderbending in anime is a\nmodern expression of this tradition. As Euphoric says, because anime and manga\nare drawn, they are beyond the bounds of the physical. They don't need to find\nan actor who's a little androgynous and dress up that actor to accentuate\nthose features. Anime and manga can actually just draw a girl and say it's a\nboy, or draw a boy and call it a girl.\n\nAs to the last point about potential cultural bias, it does seem that Japanese\nculture deals with these themes in a unique way, though similar themes are not\nunheard of in the West. The situation with kabuki during the Tokugawa period,\nwhere all parts were played by male actors, is similar to the situation in\nEngland during Shakespeare's time: female actors, though not officially\nbanned, were highly uncommon. Young boys often played female roles.\n([Wikipedia, _Boy player_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_player)). This\nmakes _Twelfth Night_ and other plays with cross-dressing a sort of triple-\nlayered metafictional joke: at the time _Twelfth Night_ was first produced,\nElizabethan audiences would have seen a boy playing a woman who was in\ndisguise as a boy.\n\nThere are also modern Western works where men disguise themselves as women or\nvice versa, e.g. [Mrs. Doubtfire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107614/),\n[Ladybugs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104670/). (Whatever you think of their\nquality, they do exist.) In Neil Gaiman's [Marvel\n1602](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_1602#Characters), Jean Grey\ndisguises herself as a boy, as does Arya Stark in George R.R. Martin's [A\nClash of\nKings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clash_of_Kings#In_the_Seven_Kingdoms).\n\nHowever, I hesitate to call any of these \"counterexamples\" to the premise of\nthis question. Aside from Shakespeare, the Western works I mentioned don't\nreally use this device to explore gender issues. They might, just a little, in\na small way, but mostly, it's just for comedy or for practical reasons, like\nblending in with an all-male mercenary troupe. Ranma 1/2 is also mostly\ncomedic, but other such anime and manga actually explore gender issues at some\ndepth. Traps like Haganai's Yukimura, Mariya Holic's Mariya, and Otoboku's\nMizuho are designed to be attractive to heterosexual male viewers, while also\nprovoking a feeling of confusion or discomfort. That discomfort can be\ncapitalized on for comedy, as it is in Haganai and Mariya Holic, but this\nmethod is very different from the way Mrs. Doubtfire creates comedy.\n\nThere are highbrow works of literature and film which explore gender issues in\nthe same way that these anime and manga do. But the anime and manga examples\nare not highbrow; they are relatively popular, and created for normal readers\nand viewers, not for literary critics. Haganai and Otoboku are even aimed at a\nyoung, male audience, _not_ an audience known for its openness to discussing\ngender issues. It does seem that Japan has a unique tradition around gender\nissues in fiction, and the modern use of traps and gender-bending in anime and\nmanga is a modern continuation of that tradition.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs per Narutopedia,\n\n> Orochimaru proceeded to don the mask which invoked the Shinigami to possess\n> his body. Orochimaru then cut open the Shinigami's stomach, a wound\n> reflected on his own body, to release the trapped contents inside the\n> Shinigami\n\nWe know that Orochimaru used Wood clones (White Zetsu) to escape from the\ndeath. What happened to the Shinigami who got the same wounds? I know that\nShinigami means 'Death God', but, nowhere it's mentioned that it's immortal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAssuming that the inventor of the jutsu used it before Orochimaru (so he could\nknow not just about its existence but also how it works) the Shinigami can\nrecover from such wounds.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Shinigami** means ' **God of Death** '. I think it is reasonable to assume\nthat **God** is above death or birth.\n\n* * *\n\nHowever to look at this objectively in the light of the manga, the _shinigami_\nis summoned by the [Dead Demon Consuming\nSeal](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal). Since it only\nacts as a container of souls, any impact on physical world should not reflect\npermanently in the spirit world. Additionally, it might be possible that on\neach invocation of the seal, a different _shinigami_ is summoned. In which\ncase, we cannot really say anything about the fate of a particular\n_shinigami_.\n\n* * *\n\nI will also propose another hypothesis. I think every person has their own\npersonal manifestation of the _shinigami_ in the Naruto universe. This solves\na few problems. Two possible ways to go about it:\n\n 1. Every user summons a different shinigami. **The shinigami devours the user's soul as well.** Since a body cannot last long without its soul, the body will die soon. This raises two possibilities:\n\n * The shinigami dies along with the user. So every shiniami is different. There are as many shinigamis as there are people in the physical world.\n * The shinigami is immortal. There may be one or more of them.\n\nBoth possibilities ensure that any other person's summoning is not affected.\n\n 2. The user can never really summon the **_real shinigami_**. This means that every user gets a clone from the spirit world. But this _could_ mean that any impact on a clone might reflect on the real one. Again we must assume that all shinigami must be immortal.\n\n 3. There exists just one **_real shinigami_**. And every user summons it with the seal or mask (more on this later). And it must be immortal because of reason stated in point 1.\n\nThe third idea seems best supported. The fact that there are several _Oni-\nmasks_ in the [Uzumaki Clan's Mask Storage\nTemple](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki_Clan%27s_Mask_Storage_Temple)\nseems to suggest that they might be representations of Gods. Thus the\n[shinigami mask](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami_Mask) would then be\nassociated with the **'God of Death'**. Then it would mean only one **'real\nshinigami'**. Every user summons it with either the seal or the mask. And it\nis **immortal**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo. Let's say John has a death note. Now there's a killer on the run, and John\ndoesn't know his name and face. Now he writes the name of a criminal in his\ndeath note, to indirectly catch the killer. He writes:\n\nBob Zorto gets stabbed to death, at 12:30, by the serial killer, who uses the\nalias ''Shadow Killer''.\n\nCould that actually work?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**No, this would not work.**\n\n[In chapter 45 page 17](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bZi7C.png), we see how L\ntells us that nicknames would not work and the cause of death would turn into\nan heart attack. The exact quote for reference was:\n\n> It is not possible to have \"Make Amane Misa talk about L and then kill her\",\n> and it would turn into a heart attack since \"L\" is a nickname.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nK-On! was based on a real-world elementary school in Toyosato. According to\n[this article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyosato,_Shiga) on Wikipedia,\nthe elementary school moved to a new building in 2004.\n\nIs the old elementary school open year-round to visitors and anime fans?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes it's open to public. The other room of the building is using as office of\ncity.\n\nSome small things if you want to visit.\n\n * You need to check schedule, for example 3/1 to 3/18, it was [closed](http://toyosato-kanko.jp/news/%E8%B1%8A%E9%83%B7%E5%B0%8F%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E6%97%A7%E6%A0%A1%E8%88%8E%E7%BE%A4%E3%81%AE%E3%81%94%E8%A6%8B%E5%AD%A6%E5%88%B6%E9%99%90%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6/).\n * [8:30 to 17:00 on weekday. 9:00 to 17:30 on weekend](http://bushitsu.blog47.fc2.com/blog-entry-22.html).\n * It's free but need to sign-in.\n * Some people brake the building the city [considering to close](http://www.town.toyosato.shiga.jp/contents_detail.php?co=tpc&frmId=438). be a good otaku.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last episode, Haruma Yamazaki finally allowed Yamada-kun to continue\nhis plan because he wanted to know why he became the student council\npresident. Nevertheless, after the wish was granted, the reason why he became\nthe president is still not clear to me - did I miss anything, or is the reason\nstill unrevealed at this point?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHeads up. Spoiler from the manga.\n\n> Haruma Yamazaki became the president of the student council to save the\n> Supernatural Studies Club from being abolished. Because only he and Leona\n> Miyamura are the members of the club.\n\nSource: Chapter 84\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know if you answer these type of questions, but it would help if you\ncould answer this. Japanese schools have signs outside their rooms. For\nexample, there's 資料室 for \"resource room\". In the first episode of Gakkou\nGurashi!, the opening sequence shows a sign that is covered with a piece of\npaper by the words \"学園生活部\". This anime is apparently extremely misleading in\nits content, and I was wondering whether the words behind it were a reference\nto something in the anime. Do you know if you can figure out what the words\nmight be?\n\nThe picture is attached below:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe original sign is 生徒会室 _seitokai-shitsu_ \"student council room\".\n\nI haven't read the manga, so I can only presume that their club has co-opted\nwhat was formerly the student council office as their headquarters for some\nreason.\n\n(I guess this is something of a tip-off to the episode 1 twist - it's weird\nthat another club would just up and occupy the student council office, after\nall.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom One Piece wikia for [Vivre\ncard](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Vivre_Card)\n\n> Vivre Cards, also known as the \"paper of life\" (命の紙 Inochi no Kami), are a\n> special form of paper made in the New World. A Vivre Card is made from part\n> of a person’s fingernail which is then made into paper.\n\n\n\nSabo made one. He made it himself or gave someone to make it.\n\nI want to know the process of converting finger nail into paper.How they do\nit? And is it made only in new world also?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nXP-tan and 98-tan are easy to recognize, but who are the others? [This\npage](http://www.zerochan.net/63614) only tagged 13 with no location.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo. In order to kill somebody with the death note, you have to know his face\nand name. Let's say, Bob knows both, and wants to kill John. Now he hasn't a\npicture of John, but he remembers his face and name. But the thing is, that\nwhen he met John, John wore contacts, that gave him blue eyes instead of his\nnatural brown eyes.\n\nNow he has to remember Johns face, but John has brown eyes, and he thinks in\nhis mind, that his victim has blue eyes. So does he have to know Johns true\neye color?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has been a while, so I can't seem to remember, but who is Beerus referring\nto, when he is talking about \" _that dinosaur guy with the nasty attitude_ \"\nthat he asked to destroy Earth?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [Stark Uprising's\nreview](http://starkuprising.blogspot.in/2015/07/dragon-ball-super-\nchapter-2-gokus-defeat.html?m=1) of _Dragon Ball Super_ Chapter 2:\n\n> Also, note how Beerus says he asked \"the dinosaur guy with the nasty\n> attitude\" to destroy Earth. In \"Battle of Gods\" Beerus says this a little\n> differently--he says he is the one who destroyed all the dinosaurs on Earth.\n> This could be an error in translation, or it could be Toyotaro changing it\n> up, since we all know dinosaurs are still alive and well on planet Earth in\n> Dragon Ball (I explain how that is at the bottom of my \"Battle of Gods\"\n> post). Maybe this \"dinosaur guy\" is someone we'll meet eventually? Maybe\n> it's a reference to King Piccolo or Babadi? Or maybe it's just an off-handed\n> joke to a Godzilla-like kaiju that'll never be followed up on.\n\nIt could well be a translation error as [Dragon Ball\nWikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Beerus) confirms what Beerus said in\n_Battle of the Gods_ :\n\n> Beerus also claims that he once went to Earth, and dinosaurs took a rude\n> attitude toward him, so he wiped them out.\n\nThis could be revealed in the future or be kept as a mystery element. Only\nAkira sensei knows how its going to be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a theory the dinosaur guy maybe kami before he extracted piccolo from\nhim but then he saw the beauty in earth and decided to protect it rather than\ndestroy it that's just my guess though\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's Azala from Chrono Trigger <http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/Azala> I\nthink Beerus make a few other Chrono Trigger jokes like he destroyed the time\nship Epoch. That's why I think he's talking about Azala the dinosaur guy with\na rude disposition.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI enjoy reading about old anime and manga, but I don't know too much about the\nhistory of anime in the gaming industry. And I have been wondering what the\nfirst visual novel from Japan was.\n\nMore specifically, one featuring anime-style characters (rather than a Visual\nNovel in a different style). I've searched myself, but I haven't found any\nreliable source that gives me an answer. Perhaps some japanese-based resources\nwould prove more useful.\n\n**What was the first/earliest-known visual novel to feature anime-styled\ncharacters?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI heard there was a manga based on the game Dragon Ball Heroes. If there is,\nis it in English, and does it contain the non-canon characters like Beat and\nSSJ4 Broly?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, there is an spin-off manga called [**Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory\nMission**](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Heroes:_Victory_Mission)\nthat has been running since October 20, 2012.\n\nBeat appears a lot throughout the story, the only reference I could find on\nBroly was in chapter 9 when a Super Saiyan 3 Broly card is played. I couldn't\nfind any licensed English translation. However there are some fan-\ntranslations.\n\nThe story takes place after the events of [Dragon Ball\nGT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_GT).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know what kind of illness Kaori Miyazono was suffering from?\n\n * Kaori Miyazono is a girl about 14 years old\n * It has caused her to be hospitalized several times prior to the events of the series.\n * The disease causes her to collapse during a violin performance\n * It appears to cause her to have trouble walking, and is ameliorated by rehabilitation\n * It causes seizures that can cause unconsciousness, and lead to her being placed in the ICU\n * It is cured or temporarily halted by surgery, but the surgery is highly risky, and can result in patient death\n\nAccording to the [series' wiki](http://shigatsu-wa-kimi-no-\nuso.wikia.com/wiki/Kaori_Miyazono), it is speculated that it was [bone marrow\nfailure](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow_failure),\n\n> due to the change in her skin pigmentation and the need for an operation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn my theory, her disease is Friedreich's Ataxia. Symptons begins between the\nages of 5 to 15. Muscle weakness in the arms and legs and loss of coordination\nare symptons.\n\nIt causes heart disorders. In Episode 20, she may be having a severe and\npainful tachycardia, and a following cardiac arrest. The surgery may be to\nimplant a pacemaker, but another arrest killed her during the surgery.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there a name for this expression?\n\nThey do it a lot in YuruYuri, too.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a pout, and is based on the real life expression of the same name.\n\nWhile it can be used as way of making oneself look more attractive, it's more\noften used (especially in anime) as a childish way of expressing displeasure\nor annoyance, in a similar way to the [puffed out cheeks\nexpression](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6uCBr.jpg).\n\nSee [here](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pout) and\n[here](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pout) for additional\ndefinitions.\n\nThe \"3 face pout\" is an exaggerated form of a pout, and there are other less\nextreme cases to be found elsewhere. Some examples of varying intensity are\nincluded below.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ZekR.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3E87a.jpg)\n\nAdditionally, the \"3-face\" is not limited to only a pout. As a shorthand form\nof displaying puckered lips, it can also be seen upon characters either\nawaiting or giving a kiss, or on those whistling.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat Monet could be killed By Caesar Clown by stabbing its heart looks a bit\nawkward to me.\n\nI mean, when Monet was cut by Zoro she didn't look to be prepared to properly\nactivate its logia power to receive the cut and she still was able to survive\nand regenerate, so it's safe to assume that he can instinctively react, or\nthat even if she got damage on her brain, she was still able to avoid it by\nconverting into it's logia element, and it's sure worse to have your brain\nsplitted in two than having your heart stabbed.\n\nMaybe Law's powers made her unable to use her logia powers, but it's clear\nthat any cut part that is under Law's power still can react to its owners will\nas shown with Kinemon's legs.\n\nThen maybe it's that Logia users cannot convert their heart to their logia\nelement, so that would be a weak point they have.\n\nI'm asking about the possibility of logia users not being able to convert\ntheir heart into their element, so it would be another weak point they would\nhave apart from being attacked with haki. I mean, they could also be killed,\nfor example, by stabbing them with a sword where their heart would be, no need\nof haki to do that. I'm giving those facts as a support for this possibility,\nso I'd like your opinion if that's really a fact, a possibility, or there's\nsomething that makes the possibility I'm telling impossible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConcerning Monet, she was too terrified by Zoro's killing intent to properly\ndefend herself. When she was cut, you could see her struggling to move in an\nattempt to put herself back together. She can't and is shivering with a scared\nand confused expression on her face. Logia powers activate on a mental level,\nmuch like Paramecia and Zoan, however Logias rely on their subconscious to\nactivate the power in the even of danger. It's why they can still touch\nthings, when not using it. There are cases when a human can be paralyzed with\nfear, as was the case of Monet.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8SUuK.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TlSuU.jpg)\n\nNow, for Law, that's actually pretty simple. Law's power creates a field into\nwhich he can manipulate all matter as he pleases. So while inside the field,\nLaw had separated the hearts from the user and enclosed them in their own\nspace. It's why they seem to be frozen in ice, which is how the effect is\nshown.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was recently reading _One Piece_ (specifically chapter 754), and I noticed\nthat Zoro used the attack \"1080 Pound Phoenix.\"\n\n\n\nAfter I read through this chapter, I was rewatching the anime with my sisters\n(episode 66 in this instance), and we were in the Baroque Works arc and I\nnoticed that Miss Valentine declared her attacks as \"10,000 Kilogram Press.\"\n\n\n\nI'm pretty sure that Japan does not use the imperial form of measurement, so\nwas the translation of \"1080 Pound Phoenix\" incorrect?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs was pointed out to me by キルア, the reason Zoro uses \"pound\" in \"1080 Pound\nPhoenix\" is purely an artistic choice. The original Japanese uses the furigana\nポンド (pondo, \"pound\")\n[reference](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Santoryu#Before_Timeskip \"Scroll\nDown to Hyakuhachi Pound Ho\").\n\nAlso, as the wiki points out, the choice to use pound incorporates a sort of\npun.\n\n> The attack's name is actually a very heavy pun — it is written out as\n> \"Phoenix of the 108 Earthly Desires\" in the manga with a skewed reading\n> attached that makes it \"108 Pound Hō\" when read out. Ho means both \"cannon\"\n> (砲 Hō?) and \"phoenix\" (鳳 Hō?), however the attached kanji is for \"phoenix\",\n> making that the literal translation and the \"cannon\" reading a pun on that,\n> both of which are correct. The \"pound\" part is a skewed reading of the kanji\n> for \"earthly desires\" (煩悩 Bonnō?), and it is referring to the caliber of a\n> cannon (a 108 Caliber Cannon would fire a 108 Pound Ball).\n\nThank you again to キルア for pointing this out to me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga [_Osu!!\nKaratebu_](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=43102) the word \"osu\" is\nused quite frequently, and from context I have so far assumed that it is a way\nfor the junior members of the karate club to respond to their seniors in a\ngeneral \"yes, sir\" way. However, I recently came across this panel which\npresents a quite different take on the word:\n\n\n\nWhat is the significance of Shingo's particular dialogue about \"osu?\" Is it a\ntypical philosophy of the character, karate, or a mix of the two? Why is it so\ndifferent from how it is used elsewhere in the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou make an overly broad assumption with this particular word. \"Ossu\" here is\ntalked about not as a salutation here, but for a deeper more philosophical\nmeaning in general.\n\nOssu, is made of of two kanji:\n\n[押]{おっ} and [忍]{す}. 押 by itself loosely translates to the action of apply\npressure to something, such as pushing. 忍 means endurance or restraint.\n\nThe dialogue by the character here breaks down the literal meaning of the word\nand uses the two kanji as a philosophy of sorts. It's like using the word\nembodiment of a word as a sort of ambition or goal to live by.\n\nIn this case the spirit of Ossu is made up of these two kanji. The meaning\nhere is to apply them meaning of those to your own life and when you use them\nremember their meaning so that it may carry you further, whenever or wherever\nyou may need it, like a mantra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the whole of the Alabasta arc, the Straw Hat Pirates had wraps on their\narms concealing that they all had a black \"X\" underneath for means for making\nsure that they could tell the real Straw Hat from the fake made by Mr. 2's\ndevil fruit the Mane Mane no Mi. The \"X\"s were revealed right at the climax of\nthe arc, when the crew was saying goodbye to Vivi, as a sign that they were\nstill friends even though they couldn't say it out loud.\n\n\n\nWell, as I was watching the anime, I noticed that it was not long after that\nthe \"X\" disappeared off of the arms of the Straw Hat Crew. Is this just that\ntime went on and they wore off or is there supposed to be some deeper meaning\nto it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust because the Xs disappeared doesn't mean their friendship is over. The Xs\nprobably simply vanished naturally; ink doesn't stay on forever, especially\nwith how many battles the Straw Hats go through. Plus, Vivi is still keeping a\nclose eye on what the Straw Hats are doing, which obviously means they're\nstill friends.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nInstead of yelling, the pirates raised their hands to signify that they were\nalready friends with Vivi. They wanted to shout, but the marines would go\nafter Vivi if they knew she had connections with the pirate, so they raised\ntheir hands instead. and that doesn't mean the mark is disappeared their\nfriendship will also disappeared.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy understanding was that the sea is supposed to weaken devil fruit users and\nrob them of their powers. The [One Piece\nWikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit#Side_Effects_of_Devil_Fruits)\nelaborated:\n\n> Devil Fruit users are susceptible to all types of water, not just seawater.\n> This includes the white sea surrounding Skypiea. [Oda] elaborated on this,\n> saying that \"moving\" water, like rain or waves, does not weaken Devil Fruit\n> users, while standing water does.\n\nThe Wikia also states the users cannot use their powers while submerged.\n\n> Even if a part of the user is submerged, they cannot use their Devil Fruit\n> powers, no matter how much or how little is submerged. However, if the\n> user's body has been permanently altered by the fruit, then the user's\n> ability can be manipulated by outside sources (eg Luffy's neck was stretched\n> while submerged at Arlong Park).\n\nMy questions:\n\n * How did Ajoki freeze the ocean?\n\n\n\nMay I emphasize he submerged his hand in the sea to use Ice Age?\n\n * How did Luffy fight Crocodile while wet at Marine Ford?\n\n\n\nHe was dripping wet after having fallen into the sea. Does the water not\nweaken him since he was now submerged? I assumed since sea stone worked just\nby touching it and it has the same effect as the ocean, then by having part of\nthe ocean \"touch\" him would drain his power.\n\nAre these just plot holes or am I missing something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n * Kuzan freezes the water without touching it. So the water doesn't nullify him. Think like how Ace tries to vaporize sea water with fire. He only creates those fire he isn't the fire in that case.\n * Sea water doesn't cancel Devil Fruit powers it only weakens it for the _Paramecia type_.\n\n* * *\n\nFrom [Wikia article on Kuzan](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuzan):\n\n> In addition, Kuzan is one of the few Devil Fruit users who has adapted their\n> powers to travel efficiently across the sea. In his case, freezes the water\n> underneath Ao Chari then rides across the sea, due to the water freezing as\n> the wheels pass over it. This freezing ability, which can be used on a very\n> large scale, renders Kuzan one of the few Devil Fruit users who can actually\n> counteract the weakness of falling into a large body of water and drowning,\n> as he can just freeze the water and stand on the ice.\n\nFrom the [Wikia article on Logia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuzan)\n\n> Logia Devil Fruits allow a person to **create** , **control** , and\n> **transform** into a natural element or force of nature, depending on the\n> fruit. The user can transform partly, or completely.\n\n* * *\n\nFor Luffy's case, check this\n[post](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6509/11077).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell in episode 302, there is a fight between Lucci and Luffy, they are\nunderground under the sealevel, Lucci slams the wall, seawater starts to flow\nin and they, both fruit users, stand in the water like almost nothing is\nhappening. True that the water level is reaching only their knees or something\nat that height.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes the anime series of Bleach stick to the manga's plot? Or is it like the\noriginal Fullmetal Alchemist series where the anime is its own thing and\ndoesn't follow the story of the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime pretty much stick to the manga, except of course during the filler\narcs. The filler arcs are the Bounto Arc, Third Squad New Captain Amagai\nShuusuke, Zanpakutou Rebellion, and the Gotei 13 Invading Army arc. There are\nalso occasionally filler episodes among the canon arcs. A detailed comparison\nis available [on Bleach Wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Episodes).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor the most part, the anime does stick to the content found in the manga. It\ndoes have a few filler arcs here and there and some slight changes, but for\nthe most part it is the same. (For specific comparison episode-by-episode, you\ncan head to the Bleach Wiki [here](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Episodes).)\n\nTo cite your question, the reason why the Bleach anime sticks better to the\nmanga than the original Fullmetal Alchemist is because of timing. The original\nFullmetal Alchemist anime started shortly after the manga, and since it was\nfaster to turn precreated content into a new format than it was to create new\ncontent, the anime quickly outpaced the manga and thus they had to start\nmaking up their own material in order to keep producing the show. The Bleach\nmanga on the other hand, for a while it stayed about level with the anime. But\nat the end of the The Lost Substitute Shinigami arc (episode 366/chapters\n476-479) the anime stopped airing (for more information on why, look at a\npreviously asked question\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18801/why-did-bleach-anime-\nstop-airing-and-did-bleach-manga-also-end-its-serializatio)). So as of that\npoint, there is no more anime to stay with the manga. But the manga is still\ngoing, according to\n[mangaupdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/releases.html?search=35&stype=series)\nchapter 635 was just released on 7/15/15 by means of MangaStream.\n\nSo in review, yes. For the most part the anime does follow the manga... until\nthe anime stopped.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nWhen Vegeta found Gohan on Namek, he told him:\n\n> . . . Too bad, because you see, we are the last of the Saiyans, that means\n> we have to look out for one another, understand? It's like... like the three\n> of us are brothers...\n\nThen, Vegeta kicks Gohan in the stomach. At that moment he had a big grudge\nagainst Goku and could've easily killed Gohan out of anger. Instead, the kick\nthat he gave him was nonlethal.\n\nNow I am wondering if there was some truth in Vegeta's words. As he already\nexplained many times, the more of a beating a Sayian takes the stronger that\nSayian becomes. Did he really want to help Gohan become stronger by kicking\nhim?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis question is a little open ended, I could not find any material supporting\na definite answer. One could surmise that since Gohan is one of the last\nSaiyans he doesn't want to completely wipe out the race. It is already\nunderstood at this point in time Vegeta did harbor a lot of anger towards Goku\nand if that would have been Goku in a weakened state he probably would have\nkilled him. Vegeta maybe saw no challenge in killing a child Saiyan or maybe\nhe thought Gohan could come to be a potential challenger one day and would\nrather wait for that fight then kill him right there.There are a lot of\nanswers that could be generated for this question. Until hard supporting\nmaterial can be found it can really be anyone's opinion as to why he didn't\nkill him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo add to that answer, Vegeta was also in a \"good mood\" at this point as in\nhis mind he now had all of the dragon balls. So the idea of Gohan coming after\nhim later on wasn't really an issue since he figured he be an immortal soon.\nAs far as Vegeta wanting Gohan to become stronger, that could be the case.\nThroughout the series, mostly after Gohan has grown up, Vegeta often shows\nvisible frustration at Gohan's unwillingness to train the way he and his\nfather do. It annoys him that Gohan has so much latent power yet he refuses to\ntrain and try to become even stronger. It's an insult to his Saiyan heritage,\nin his mind.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am a big fan of Shunsuke Kikuchi, the composer of the BGM (background music)\nfor the Dragon Ball animes such as this one:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apzgm_hpoZw>\n\nWhile I can only usually find his music for Dragon Ball online like YouTube,\netc, I am wondering if some of his other works can be listened to online.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe composer doesn't have a dedicated channel, as not many of his works are\navailable for streaming or download legally online.\n\n[A discography](http://www.discogs.com/artist/311877-Shunsuke-Kikuchi) and\n[filmography](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452853/#soundtrack) of his work is\navailable. As he has done work for not only anime, but live action series and\nfilms (as writer and/or composer), your best bet is to use a combination of\ntwo lists and look them up individually on sites such as Youtube.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> After eating a few humans ― approximately four or five according to Kyoko in\n> episode 5 ― they will grow into witches themselves.\n\n* * *\n\n> familiars are \"projections of the magical girl's heart before she became a\n> witch\".\n\nWhen a magical girl falls into despair, her soul gem turns into a grief seed,\nwhich makes her a witch. What does \"projections of the magical girl's heart\"\nmean? Does it mean a magical girl can become more than one witch? Also, how\ndoes this affect the universal entropy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe \"projections of the heart\" could mean a few things. The interpretation\nthat I get from the wiki, is that the familiars are based off strong feelings.\nThese can be regular everyday emotions or they can be a strong like towards\nsomething. I.E. Charlotte desires a certain type of cheese above everything\nelse so her familiar Pyotr only duty is to search for cheese. As for how they\nare created not much is really stated. One can assume that the familiar is\nborn alongside the witch or the witch creates the familiar using the\n\"projections\". ref([Madoka Magica Characters](https://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Madoka_Magica_Characters))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> When a magical girl falls into despair, her soul gem turns into a grief\n> seed, which makes her a witch.\n\nSounds about right. Fun times all round! Good old 'Dokes.\n\n> What does \"projections of the magical girl's heart\" mean?\n\nMadoka is quite meta in it's Magic sometimes. Consider Wishes, which just\nbreak **all** laws **ever** , by Kyuubey's word. The exact mechanics beetween\nWitches and Familiars aren't touched on much beyond they're some kind of life\ncycle, but we can infer some things.\n\n * \"Projections of the magical girl's heart **before she became a witch.** \" Since that's a one-way trip, witches would seem to have a finite pool of experience to base Familiars on.\n\n * Witches maintain barriers to protect themselves and entrap victims.\n\n * Familiars are a division of a Witch's essence who, after consuming several humans will grow into a Witch with their own barrier.\n\nWitches seem to be creatures of emotion, given that they're born from grief,\nand their very appearance is a complex cocktail of the Girl's emotions,\ndesires and fears. This makes the line about \"projections of the heart\" make\nmore sense.\n\nI imagine the process to be something like this.\n\n * Magical Girl becomes a Witch. Her appearance and powers are defined by her experiences prior.\n * Witch feels one of her remembered emotions in her essence\n * The emotion is so strong it is \"divided out of the essence\" and becomes it's own, autonomous being with it's own essence, based on that emotion.\n * Feeding on humans develops the familiar into a Witch somehow, at which point it can erect it's own barrier and become truly autonomous.\n\nAnd an example:\n\n * Charlotte is a Witch. Her Magical Girl self loved cheese.\n * Charlotte wants cheese.\n * Charlotte **really** wants cheese.\n * Charlotte wants cheese **so hard** , that a little bit of **\"WANT CHEESE\"** pushes out of \"her\", subdivides from her essence and drops off.\n * Naturally it's entirely **\"WANT CHEESE\"** and is thus single-minded and weak.\n * It consumes a person. This somehow grows it's essence a little. It's a little smarter and stronger.\n * Repeat this until it's grown enough to handle a barrier. At this point, it can leave the vicinity of it's \"parent\" safely and can protect itself as a fully grown Witch.\n\nAlthough, this does raise the question: Does every familiar bother hunting and\nkilling people? How fast is their growth rate? The Witches in the series never\nseem to handle more than 10-20 people at once, maximum, so it may not be that\nviable, considering the Witch must need feeding too. Food for thought. (haha)\n\n> Does it mean a magical girl can become more than one witch?\n\nBy the logic we've been presented with, I can see no reason why not. Though,\nthere's no mention of whether a Familiar grows into it's parent Witch, or\nsomething else. It does raise questions about \"Witch Farming\" as a viable\ntactic though.\n\nKyouko's \"Wait around until they become Witches\" seems a very passive route.\nWhy not directly feed your Familiars humans if you _really_ don't care? Looks\nlike the goodness of a girl's heart is the only thing keeping us safe.\nFitting, non?\n\n* * *\n\n**Note:**\n\nFrom discussion in the comments, it's become clear that we don't really know\nif Familiar!Witches _actually_ drop Grief Seeds apart from these lines from\nKyouko\n\n> \"You just have to wait until it eats four or five people and becomes a\n> witch. That way, you'll be able to get a Grief Seed from it. Why would you\n> want to slaughter the chicken before it lays any eggs?\"\n\nYes, Kyouko _thinks_ they do, but we never actually see it happen. Thus, it\nmakes the next section only relevant if they do. If they don't, everything's\nfine and there's no imbalance in the first place, so potato-patato.\n\n* * *\n\n> Also, how does this affect the universal entropy?\n\nThe same way the rest of the series does, this doesn't necessarily change\nanything.\n\nInitially thinking about this, yes, I got a little freaked if you could\npotentially get fifteen witches where you had one, and that'd definitely throw\nsomething somewhere down the line off.\n\nBut when you get down to it, there are a few points of information we can use.\n\n * Magical Girls have been around for a looooong time. Consider the historical ones we see for sure. In fact, Kyuubey flat out states we'd still be in caves without his kind, so that kind of dates them. Though, if you trust his word is another matter entirely.\n\n * Only with \"The Most Powerful Witch\" will Incubators have offset Entropy for any reasonable amount, and she was _ludicrously powerful_. I won't reason about it here for plot's sake but she's a complete fluke is my point.\n\nSo, threading this together.\n\nIf Magical Girls have been around for a long time and only now, with this\ncompletely, universally, OP Witch, will we actually make a dent, we can infer\nthat the Entropy paid back for a \"normal\" witch isn't actually that much.\nKyuubey can harp on about his \"tremendous amount of energy\" all he wants, but\nfrom the looks of things they aren't really doing a whole lot.\n\nThe way Kyuubey treats the girls, even apart from his alien detachedness,\nwould suggest that they're disposable to him. And they are, because this\nentire scheme is ultra-long-term. He has a quota to reach, yes. But his\ndeadline is _literally_ the death of the Universe. A girl here or there, a few\nwitches, it doesn't matter. Thousands, millions, now they might matter. But\nthe impact of the average individual Girl or Witch doesn't seem to. Thank you\nfor making me logic out this horrifying new revelation, I really enjoyed it.\n:)\n\nThus:\n\n * Normal Witches are worthless in the grand scheme of things, since we've been fighting them for years and Kyuubey makes no mention of progress.\n * Entropy would need many multiples of the time Magical Girls have been around to even begin to be repaid.\n * So you can have ten, fifteen witches from one girl and it's still chump change.\n\nAnd yes, this means there are ten, fifteen Witches in the locality now. But\nall Kyuubey has to do to rebalance the teams is lie to three, four little\ngirls. And we all know how good he is at that!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't completely remember the story, but this is the main protagonist:\n\n\n\nShe is a high school (?) student whose best friend tries to kill her after\nshe's drugged/hypnotized into killing anyone who is a murderer, but —\nsurprise! — she's in fact a murderer who hasn't yet \"awakened\" to her\nmurderous tendencies.\n\nAnother serial killer that wields giant scissors that come apart (it's one\nscissor by the way) comes along and finds her and tells her that she's now his\n\"little sister\" and she's \"part of the family\", to which she accepts.\nApparently, he got lonely being a ruthless serial killer and starts gathering\nserial killers to form a family. He defends her against people who are hunting\nserial killers down, and kills the girl's family and drugs the city and that's\nas far as I've got.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe deal the Incubators make to girls is that by granting one wish that a girl\ndesires they become a Magical Girl and fight Witches.\n\nWe know that Witches are in fact Magical Girls, so I am wondering how did the\nIncubators first start making the Magical Girls when there were no Witches to\nfight (as there were no Magical Girls to become Witches)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWitches are not needed for the Incubators. Witches are needed for the survival\nof the magical girls. The Incubators could not care less about what happens to\nthe magical girls as long as there are enough girls to turn into Puella Magis.\n\n[The sole purpose of the Incubators making Puella Magis is to generate\nenergy.](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Kyubey) There would be no need to have\nwitches.\n\nOf course, there is another explanation. [Familiars can form from Puella Magis\nbefore they turn into a witch.](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Familiar#Familiar)\nSince Familiars can become witches themselves, it's possible for the first\nPuella Magis to encounter witches.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAFAIK, there is no requirement for making magical girls except the wish. The\nwish is a \"requirement\" for payment of the contract. Thus the very first\noccurrence only needed the wish. Perhaps subsequent girls have the added\n\"benefit\" of destroying witches, but the first one just needed a wish granted,\nand that could simply be how it started.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt end of the series, Homura is in a world without witches, yet she is\nfighting Majuu. It is hinted that they are coagulated form of bad emotions.\nBut unlike witches, they don't seem to grow that strong, being more numerous\nthan witches. This can be seen in their \"Grief cubes\" being smaller but being\nmore of them.\n\nI would assume that first magical girls were fighting those same Majuu, but\nthe moment they started turning into witches, the Majuu started disappearing,\nbecause Witches absorbed all the bad emotions, leaving nothing for Majuu to\nform from.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis answer is somewhat speculative, but, I think, not completely off-base.\n\nAs Frosteeze's answer says, the Incubators don't really care at all about\nwitches; the witches are sort of a nasty byproduct of the energy creation\nprocess, the same way that burning fossil fuels creates carbon emissions. If I\nrecall correctly, the energy that the Incubators need is released as the\nmagical girl becomes a witch, at the height of her despair. It doesn't matter\nto them that there's a witch left over afterwards.\n\nWe know the Incubators have no compunctions about hiding information from\ngirls they make contracts with, so I always imagined the first magical girls\nwere created in a scenario like the following:\n\n * The Incubators land in ancient Sumeria and find some young girls whose emotions are in turmoil. There was a lot for young girls to be in turmoil about in ancient Sumeria, so this was probably not hard.\n * The Incubators offer to grant the girls' wishes and give them magical powers.\n * The girls agree. They become magical girls, but there are no witches to fight, so they go off and become prophets or great warriors. This requires them to use magic, which causes their soul gems to cloud.\n * Eventually, these girls succumb to despair due to events in their own lives. This was probably quicker and easier to achieve in ancient Sumeria, where life was harder overall.\n * The first crop of magical girls become witches.\n * The next crop of magical girls kills off these witches and starts the whole cycle.\n\n(We know the Incubators go back at least to ancient Egypt, since, [as we\ndiscover in Episode 11](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Madoka_Magica_Episode_11:_The_Only_Signpost_Remaining), Cleopatra was\na magical girl. And nothing about the scenario substantially changes if we\nassume it was in Egypt instead of Sumeria.)\n\nThe Incubators may not care about witches, but having the magical girls fight\nthem is a useful thing for three reasons:\n\n * It makes the energy harvesting more sustainable. Witches kill people or cause them to kill themselves, as we see in Episodes 2 and 4. If the world gets overrun with witches, the number of potential magical girls reduces. The witches also seem to cause emotional disturbances that, if widespread enough, could discourage people from reproducing, reducing the number of potential magical girls in the world.\n * It speeds up the process of pushing the magical girls into despair, which also speeds up energy gathering. This is especially relevant in modern day. An ancient Sumerian girl might have her village razed by bandits once per fortnight; a modern Japanese girl's greatest worry is whether her allowance stretches far enough to buy new shoes. \n * It stops the girls from getting suspicious about the deal. As soon as a girl thinks \"This is too good to be true\", the Incubator mentions the requirement to fight witches. That's not the _only_ caveat, but it's enough to make the deal sound more like a bargain and less like a trap. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Very_ surprised this question has not been asked yet.\n\nIn almost every single episode, at least from the first season all the way\nthrough to the Unova region, Team Rocket is trying to catch Pikachu to give\nhim to Giovanni. Why do they do this? They often cite reasoning that this\nPikachu is special somehow, but is that actually true? Nobody else really\ntalks about how awesome Pikachu is, and he certainly doesn't seem to win very\noften.\n\nI'm looking for any kind of answer, in-universe, out-of-universe, thematic,\nhumourous, etc.\n\nI have a theory I will post below but wonder if this community could come up\nwith a better answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Short answer: This is Team Rocket's version of \"following your dreams\"**\n\nThe only answer I've been able to come up with is a thematic one. The Pokemon\nanime, as with much Bishōnen anime is all about the idea of fulfilling your\ndreams and never giving up (being the most important part of [Japanese\nSpirit](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JapaneseSpirit)). Ash has\nhis dream of being the best Pokemon Trainer, Misty her dream of being a great\nWater-type trainer, Brock his dream about being a great breeder. None of these\ncharacters could give up on this dream or it would break the theme of the\nseries.\n\nIf you had to pick a \"dream\" for Jesse, James and Meowth I think it would be\nto catch Ash's Pikachu. It kind of made sense in the first episode because\nPikachu happened to win, but over the series as a whole, Pikachu doesn't seem\nespecially powerful. But it doesn't really matter - Team Rocket could not give\nup on this dream of catching Pikachu, even though they are the antagonists,\nbecause it would break one of the central themes of the show: not giving up on\nyour dreams.\n\nI can't think of any satisfying in-universe logical reason for Team Rocket to\ncontinue pursuing Pikachu. There's not really any need to manufacture one, but\nI'm looking forward to other possible answers that might have thought of\nsomething I haven't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are multiple reasons (and theories. People won't give up with Pokémon\ntheories & creepy pasta) of why Team Rocket would like to get Ash's Pikachu.\n\n1) In ep65 \"The Battle Of The Badge\" in Season One, it revealed that the boss\n**asked them to** , by team rocket saying to the Jovani \"It's even rarer than\nthe Pikachu you want so much\". the question remaining is what makes Ash's\nPikachu so rare and special?\n\n> In the Season one episode \"Ash Catches a Pokémon,\" when Team Rocket was\n> trying to steal Pikachu, Meowth accidentally says that Ash's Pikachu's power\n> exceeds the power level he would possess as a Raichu (the evolved version of\n> Pikachu).\n\nAs said in the [wiki](http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Ash%27s_Pikachu), as an\nexample. (I'll try to update the post with a video link).\n\nWhich can be interpreted as\n\n> Ash's Pikachu has got more power than a regular Raichu\n\nAs you can see in the different seasons of Pokémon, Ash's Pikachu is dunking\nasses. If you compare it to a regular Pikachu from one of the games, the\ndifference in stats is ridiculous. I mean like...\n[really](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29#Stats)?\n\nWhat's more, Pikachu is one of the few Pokémon Ash didn't abandon (I mean..\nC'mon, he left Charizard, who in the world would be insane enough to do this?\nWhat do you mean, Pokémon have feelings too?), so Ash spent many years\ntraining him.\n\nSo we can assume that, even if Ash was one of the most incompetent trainers,\n**Pikachu should be around level 100** , giving the Team Rocket another good\nreason to try to catch him.\n\n2) Another way to see it (not proven at all, just my personal opinion) is\nthat, more than being stupid, Team Rocket is incredibly **stubborn** , as\nproven by the hundreds of tries of catching Pikachu. They spent years trying\nto catch Pikachu, what would be the sense of all this time of their lives if\nthey stopped now? They prefer to keep spending their time trying to catch this\nPikachu rather than admitting they lost years of their lives for nothing.\n\n**TL;DR : Pikachu OP & Team Rocket stupid**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is answered in the very first episode that Team Rocket shows up in (the\nsecond episode in the series). In it, Team Rocket (Jessie, James and Meowth)\narrive at the Pokémon center that Ash and Misty are at - Pikachu is recovering\nfrom the events of the previous episode.\n\nAt first, Team Rocket has no interest whatsoever in Ash's Pikachu, and are\nonly really interested in taking _all_ of the infirmed pokemon, disregarding\nhis one ordinary Pikachu completely.\n\nHowever, when Pikachu recovers, and with the help of several other Pikachu at\nthe Pokémon Center, Pikachu manages to defeat Team Rocket in a single attack.\n\nAfter this catastrophic failure, Team Rocket (Jessie, James and Meowth, not\nthe group as a whole) determines that Ash's Pikachu must be \"special\", and\nresolve to catch it for their boss.\n\nSo to sum up, the reasons that Jessie, James, and Meowth want Ash's Pikachu so\nbadly are:\n\n1: It beat them badly with a seemingly impossible level of power. 2: They want\nto give that \"special\" Pikachu to their boss.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of the second episode of the anime (Team Rocket's first\nappearance), Pikachu generates a large explosion which renders Team Rocket\nflying into outer space. Shocker (pun intended).\n\nThe next time we meet Team Rocket (next episode, again, shocker) they tell our\nfriends the following:\n\n> The only Pikachu we want is that one.\n>\n> We're only looking for the rarest, most valuable Pokémon in the world, kid.\n>\n> And that special Pikachu is just the kind of Pokémon we need.\n\nAs portrayed later in the series, this Team Rocket trio does not have a good\nstanding with Giovanni (anymore) so they try to get him the best Pokémon they\ncan find to make up for it, which they believe is Pikachu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that team rocket is always trying to catch ash's pikachu, because team\nrocket, as long as ash and his pals, haven't aged for just about **20 darn\nyears,** for the sake of the franchise. They've been with ash in the anime the\nmost, so they've also then seen ash's pikachu countless times, and often\ntimes, getting into the **'were blasting off again!'** phrase. It's only\nnatural that they'd want to capture pikachu, because they want pikachu's\namazing power for themselves. How ever, they always fail to capture pika, and\nI'd like to sorta see a episode where rocket finally catches pikachu.\n\nHope this helps \\- Matt\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEven though Killua commanded Nanika to revert Gon back to normal, I am unsure\nif Nanika also revert Gon's potential on nen. Since Alluka and Nanika's limits\nare undefined, it may or may not be possible to do that, unless that there is\na strong nen exorcists out there in dark continent.\n\nBut still, it is still unconfirmed by the manga\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn what order should the _Appleseed_ movies be watched?\n\n * _Appleseed_\n * _Appleseed Ex Machina_\n * _Appleseed Alpha_\n * _Appleseed XIII: Tartaros_\n * _Appleseed XIII: Ouranos_\n * other else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWatching the movies in the order they were released is a good idea.\nReferencing [Appleseed\nFAQ](http://appleseed.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_timeframe_is_the_series_set_in.3F):\n\n 1. The OVA from 1998.\n 2. The 2004 movie is set in 2131.\n 3. The 2007 movie is set in 2138.\n 4. Appleseed XIII the OVA (13 episodes) from 2011-2012.\n\nAlso note that Appleseed Alpha is a standalone from the others.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo contrast with the other answer, here's a roughly chronological order (of\njust the movies).\n\n 1. [Appleseed Alpha](http://myanimelist.net/anime/22677/Appleseed_Alpha)\n 2. [Appleseed (2004)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/54/Appleseed_\\(Movie\\))\n 3. [Appleseed Ex Machina](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2969/Appleseed_Saga_Ex_Machina)\n\nAlso, note that there is a movie adaptation of _Appleseed XIII_ if you are\ninterested. However, according to [the Appleseed\nWiki](http://appleseed.wikia.com/wiki/Appleseed_XIII), it's actually a\n\"relaunch of the series following the 2003 and 2007 films.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShinji's Walkman (I don't know the exact term in English, but I already know\nit's a rare cassette player that didn't take off except in Japan), but what\nI'm interested is the music he is listening on it. (More specifically, the\ncassette have 26 tracks, and a duration of around 1h30 if I trust my memory of\nthe appearance of the player). I've re-watched NGE and the RoE:1.01, and the\nmusic have a great importance on Shinji's development, but we do not hear\nenough for any app to recognize it, and the name don't seems to be revealed in\nthe credits.\n\nDid the name of the cassette/compilation/music Shinji is listening to revealed\nin the show, a interview or any other \"official\" source?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTake a look at this cut from [Episode\n4](http://wiki.evageeks.org/FGC:Episode_04_Scene_02a#cut_04_037) (via the\nofficial storyboards), and also the [Shinji Ikari character\npage](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Shinji_Ikari#Notes) notes that the two songs\nthat play are:\n\n> The two songs usually played on Shinji's SDAT are: Track 25 for \"You are the\n> only one\" and Track 26 for \"Blue Legend\", respectively. The songs are from\n> \"Lilia from Ys\", an image album for the \"Ys\" RPG series. The Vocalist is\n> Kotono Mitsuishi, Misato's seiyu. However, Episode 02 has two Eva BGM pieces\n> playing, while Episode 23 has a different vocal song for Track 25 instead.\n\nAlso on Youtube:\n\n[Aoi Legend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-4xDNbfJc), [You are the only\none](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaLOOiXbkYo)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis article on EvaWiki has all the tracks played by Shinji's walkman/SDAT.\n<http://wiki.evageeks.org/SDAT>\n\nEdit:\n\nEpisode 2 - A-2 (\"Background Music\" - S² Works, Disc-01, track 02) and B-4\n(\"Fly Me To the Moon\" - S² Works, Disc-01, track 27)\n\nEpisode 4 - \"Blue Legend\" (蒼いレジェンド Aoi Legend), track 3 of Lilia ~from Ys~ and\n\"You are the only one\"[5], track 1 of Lilia ~from Ys~\n\nEpisode 9 - \"Blue Legend\" (蒼いレジェンド Aoi Legend) and \"Distant Empty Promise\"[6]\n(遠い空の約束 Tôi Sora no Yakusoku), track 8 of Lilia ~from Ys~\n\nEpisode 15 - \"You are the only one\", track 1 of Lilia ~from Ys~\n\nEpisode 23 - \"Ryoute Ippai no Yume\" (両手いっぱいの夢 lit. Both Hands Full of Dreams),\ntrack 4 of Masami Okui - Gyuu\n\nEpisode 24 - Ode to Joy - Beethoven\n\nEpisode 25' - It plays nothing...\n\nIf you would like to know more there are\n\n[Music in Chronological Order of\nUsage](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Music_in_Chronological_Order_of_Usage) and\n[FLY ME TO THE MOON\nGuide](http://www.evageeks.org/s2/reichu_s2works_fmttm.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read some threads related to Shu case, for example that he took all the\nvoids and illness of each people to save them but then Inori in some way she\ntook them and die instead of Shu. And after that Shu becomes blind because\nInori was like that before she dies?\n\nI am not sure..\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring episode 22 after Shu defeats Gai and both he and Mana crystalize, Shu\nthen uses both his original King power and Gai's power to absorb every single\nvoid and Apocalypse Virus remaining on the planet. After this action Shu\nbecomes fully crystalized and has a vision of Inori offering him the Guilty\nCrown and Shu accepts. By this acceptance of the crown Shu and Inori switch\nplaces. A trade happens and Inori receives all of Shu's illness and he\nreceives hers. ref([Guilty Crown\nWiki](http://guiltycrown.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_22))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the end Inori gave Shu her soul, Shu and Inori became one. Inori wanted Shu\nto live on which is why she gave her soul to him even though they can never\nmeet again. Inori was blind before she gave her soul to Shu which explains why\nShu is blind at the last part of ep 22.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI guess Inori gives her soul to Shu before she died as the red strings in the\nanime represent a person's soul.\n\nAlso, it's not correct that Shu and Inori will never be able to meet again.\nThey can still meet at that place called as 'spirit lobby', the place where\nShu talks to Jun.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe red thread of 'Fate/Life' (same thing Yahiro's void can cut) that connects\nthem was unexpectedly severed by Inori moving 'away' from Shu. In the\nbeginning of the series we know that Inori offers the same threads to shu, the\nmeaning of it not fully understood yet by that time. Now we know that this\nthread symbolizes her Fate, and her asking Shu to 'take it' is her invitation\nto Shu into her Fate. In the end of the series we see Inori doing the same\nthing, and Shu fully accepts it and decides to rest in eternity with Inori\ninside the crystal, taking all the remnants of Void/Apocalypse from the world\nand into eternal rest. However, Inori did not wanted Shu to die, so before the\n'end of all' she lets go of Shu and moves 'away'. She chooses to die alone and\nlet Shu live, leaving the whole world 'without all Voids, all Apocalypse, and\nwithout Inori' knowing she cannot be saved anyways (There is no way to save\nher but by Shu taking all the Apocalypse from her, of course that would result\nin Shu dying and she didn't want that).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk. Just watched this anime and the ending, like everyone else had me confused\nand bothered. Seems vague but after reading several discussions on forums I\nthink I can break it down and explain the reality I haven't seen anyone else\ncome to:\n\nTo understand what happened you have to think like the writer, and what\nthematic point they're making. Thesis is the main message of the story, anti-\nthesis is the narrative tool to highlight thesis, using Protagonist and\nAntagonists to represent these ideas. Shu and Inori are thesis and Gai and\nMana are anti-thesis.\n\nShu's battle is against the selfish, survival of the fittest \"natural\nselection\" of human nature represented by Gai and Mana--who only seek to\nreproduce themselves, also Doth who represents the natural drive of\nreproduction. Shu's selfless nature and Inoris innocence represent the\nopposition to this.\n\nIn the end Gai wanted to save Mana, Shu's sister, because he couldn't care\nless about anyone else and was willing to sacrifice all of humanity to be with\nher. Remember when Mana talked to Shu about Triton looking at her? Triton\nliked her and still did to the end. In the end Gai went to Mana's traumatized\nbody before the lost Christmas event to be with her to save Shu's sister but\nthey both died. However, since Shu was absorbing all the voids he took Gai's\nvoid power, his king power. Eve represents the potential to create a new\nworld. Shu could have created a new world but with Mana's body gone there was\nno person to house the EVE creation power, but Inori was the whole time\ncreated solely to house the EVE power. Inori was preserved genetically with\nher last tear that dropped and crystallized as the flower Shu took hold of.\nHaving that Shu basically had Inori's soul.\n\nThis is where people miss the point, Shu had the king's power and could create\nthe new humanity but EVE was gone. Inori was still existing though and came to\nShu. Shu used his Gai void power to Bring EVE out of Inori, since that's the\nonly way he could be with her---he took the seat as king and made Inori INTO\nEVE--remember Inori was a copy of Mona, and had the EVE power to remake the\nworld within her--Shu just needed Gai's power to bring it out of her.\n\nSince he was able to bring Inori's latent EVE power out Inori offers Shu her\ncradle, which is red string representing her soul and he took it, basically\nfinalizing the creation process, HOWEVER, Shu did not destroy the world and\nremake it like the antithesis (Gai and Mana) were planning. INSTEAD he took\nInori's soul like Gai wanted to do with Mana, to be one and with her forever,\nand he gave the world life by not destroying it and ridding it of the void\nplague.\n\nShu was still alive but at the end he and Inori were 'in heaven\" (or the\ncrystal plane as they said) together forever, their souls and hearts one, just\nlike how Gai and Mana planned. As for Shu losing his sight--he rid void powers\nfrom the world, and his void power was connected with his eyes, since his eyes\nwere what drew out the voids of others, so when he got rid of the powers his\neyesight also went. I think it's coincidence that Inori couldn't see due to\nthe crystal plague that had almost totally consumed her body.\n\nSo to conclude, Inori's body was gone, but she became EVE (a new \"Eve\") in the\nprocess and took over the role as the force that provide the power to re-\ncreate the world, and since Shu took the cradle, signifying his unity with her\nas king, they both lived in heaven together for eternity from then on. He\ndidn't lose her at all, their souls were united (and she isn't just some\ndistant memory. He's really with her there in the other world and she's very\nmuch alive). If Shu healed Inori he would've died having taken all the void\nplague and she would've lived without him, she chose to give him her power as\nEve and offer as an alternative to be Eve and let them join in spirit, which\nlet them be together and still (even though she's just a soul in\n'heaven/crystal world') save the world from the void plague. The alternative\nwas Shu saves himself but the void plague kills Inori. If either of them were\nselfish one would've lost the other. It's such a heartbreakingly warm story\nand hits you in the feels to know they transcended any level of love if they\nboth lived physically. Their love truly rules all and would last forever.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, Hashiba plants a phone in the classroom under instruction from\nKobayashi, and then has Ms. Hanabishi show it to the class, asking who it\nbelongs to. Hashiba replies that it belonged to their murdered teacher.\n\nSomehow, from this sequence of events, Hashiba is able to deduce that the\nteacher-killer is in their class, as he reports to Kobayashi when he blusters\nhis way into the interrogation room later.\n\nI don't follow Hashiba's logic here. We did get those shots of [an eye darting\naround (nervously?)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2aAQh.jpg) during the sequence,\nbut I'm not sure what to make of them. It can't be that Hashiba noticed\nHoshino (the killer) acting suspiciously, since if he had, he could have just\ntold Kobayashi about her right away. But nobody besides Hanabishi and Hashiba\nhimself said or did anything (besides the darting eyes) during the staged\nphone-finding... so on what grounds was Hashiba able to conclude that the\nkiller was in the class?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I first heard about Kai thought it was a Remake similar to the recent\nSailor Moon Remake (not Crystal the original series where Haruka and Michiru\nwere made to be cousins to censor their relationship). however i have seen\nposts that seem to indicate that the first few Sagas have been covered in less\nepisodes in Kai.\n\nSo i am wondering what is the difference between the original Dragonball Z and\nDragonball Z Kai? eg. What has been added/removed in comparison, do people\nbleed when their limbs get cut/ripped off (when i first saw DBZ there was\nnever any blood)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently watched \"Aldnoah.Zero\" and started with \"Aldnoah.Zero (2015)\". I\nwas wondering about one of the main elements in this anime.\n\n> **Aldnoah** is something that was found on Mars (\"Vers\" as it's called by\n> the Martians) and is something old from an ancient civilization no one knows\n> much about. They power up their \"weapon systems\" (mechs) with this thing\n> too.\n\n**What is Aldnoah really?** Is it some sort of stone, or some sort of energy?\nIf it were just energy, they wouldn't have so advanced weapon systems, or not?\n\nWhere does the \"Zero\" in the name come from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo there was this anime I watched but never finished and I forgot the name of\nit.\n\nThe anime was a harem, and the story was about humanoids fighting each other\nuntil only 1 survived. All the humanoids were girls and had the power to\nbecome stronger if they kissed a person.\n\nA few things I remember:\n\n * Humanoids 1-9 (possibly 1-10) were stronger than the rest. \n * At one point, the main character helps a man and his humanoid escape the city (a forbidden act) which was heavily guarded with a few of the 1-9 humanoids. \n * The main character's sister had a humanoid that was trying to find it's sister, which turned out to be the main character's humanoid. \n\nI'm sorry if this is confusing but it's probably the most simple way I can put\nall this down. I'm 99% the girls were some type of humanoid or something but\nI'm not 100% if the term in the anime was humanoid.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nProbably [**Sekirei**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/4063/Sekirei).\n\n> the story was about humanoids\n\nWhich are called \"Sekirei\".\n\n> All the humanoids were girls\n\nMost, but not all (Shiina is male; Homura may also be). Equal-opportunity\nfanservice!\n\n> the main character\n\nGeneric McProtagonist-kun.\n\n> helps a man and his humanoid escape the city\n\nShigi with his Sekirei, Kuno.\n\n> the main character's sister had a humanoid that was trying to find her\n> sister which was the main character's humanoid\n\nsister = Yukari; her Sekirei = Shiina; Shiina's sister = Kusano; Kusano's\n\"master\" (Ashikabi) = McProtagonist-kun.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the song that starts playing at 21:05 of Fairy Tail episode 124?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the song is called Kizuna. [Kizuna-Fairy Tail\nOST](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqxmFkmEoZQ)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA few year ago, I saw an episode of an old anime. This anime was probably from\nthe late 90s or early 2000s. It starts with a teenager on a boat that was\ntalking to the boat driver and thought he was going to an acadamy on an\nisland. But actually it's just some house or castle. (I don't remember which.)\n\nIn this house were a lot of girls of different ages, younger and older then\nthe boy. Each girl has a different kind of hobby (I would say) like magic\n(with cards and a broom) or sports.\n\nThat's everything I know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat sounds like [Sister\nPrincess](http://myanimelist.net/anime/836/Sister_Princess). It came out in\nthe early 2000s and started with the main character, Wataru, on a boat going\nto an island with a big mansion. The mansion had Wataru's twelve younger\nsisters. One sister, Chikage, was a magician who had tarot cards and a crystal\nball, and I believe also a broom, as you describe in the question. Another\ngirl, I believe named RinRin, was a sports nut. There was also a girl who was\na detective (Yotsuba), a girl who was a French noblewoman (Aria), a girl who\nwas trendy (Sakuya), and several others.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Father sacrifices his five subjects—the five who have all seen the\nportal—why is it that they are all fine right after? I would have expected\nthem to be gone, or dead, or something.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Short answer:** There is no canonical reason for this.\n\n**Long answer:** In English, a sacrifice is defined as:\n\n> an animal, person, or object offered in an act of slaughtering to God or to\n> a divine or supernatural figure\n\nHowever, a sacrifice in the _Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood_ (and manga)\ncanon is simply a being which has attempted Human Transmutation, and thus\npassed through the Gate of Truth. This sort of \"activates\" their Gate, so that\nsomeone with the right knowledge and setup (read: Father) can access it.\n\nI think the [_Fullmetal Alchemist_\nWiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Sacrifice) says it best:\n\n> Contrary to what the name suggests, the Human Sacrifices don't actually die\n> and survive with no ill effects. In fact, the Sacrifices were some of the\n> few humans to not have their souls dragged from their bodies.\n\nSo, why are they called sacrifices? It's really anybody's guess. In a way,\nthey line up with another definition of the term:\n\n> an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded\n> as more important or worthy\n\nIn that sense, they _are_ sacrifices; just not in the way we would typically\nthink of a ritualistic sacrifice taking place.\n\nSo, no, no particular reason why they don't die, except... well, the author\nneeded them alive.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor the same reason none of the people in Amestris die: Van Hohenheim's plot\nto reverse the circle. While this isn't specifically mentioned in canon, it\ndoes logically follow.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've rewatched Rebuild of Evangelion: 1.01: You can (not) advance, and\nsomething struck me. At the very end (so spoiler):\n\n> Kaworu is on the moon, looking at Shinji, and say \"You're the third again,\n> Shinji\"\n\nIs the \"again\" a sign that what happened in NGE/EoE in the same continuity? Or\ndoes it link with RoE 3/4 (which I've still to see)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's up to interpretation and there hasn't been, as of yet, any sort of\nofficial take on what a lot of the cryptic stuff that Kaworu says. If you'll\nrecall, he also calls Gendo \"Father\". The line you're referring to is probably\nmore something like:\n\n> \"The third again? You never change. I look forward to meeting you Shinji\n> Ikari.\"\n\nNot that Shinji is the \"3rd\" again so much as referring to Shinji as \"3rd\" and\nsaying he's up to something \"again\".\n\nLots of ways to interpret this in light of some of the other things:\n\n 1. Kaworu and Shinji may have met a long time ago, and when Kaworu mentions looking forward to meeting him again, it's in reference to a previous meeting which Shinji may not have either been aware of or remember\n\n 2. Similar to #1, it may have been that Kaworu was a silent observer through a lot of the previous chronology before the start of the first film, enough so to have felt that he has personal ties with the family, thus also referring to Gendo as \"father\"\n\n 3. Going along the veins of #2, there's also an off-hand mention of a \"Pact\" with Lilith in the 3rd movie, this could all have tied into how Angels in general play a different role in this continuity than in the original TV series. It's possible that Angels have been interacting with humans well before Sachiel's attack in the first film and that Kaworu may be referring to that interaction.\n\n 4. Venturing in to even more speculation, there is the \"Sequel\" stuff. Some people interpret Kaworu's language and how he's acts as he's met Shinji before as evidence that Kaworu is either some sort of time traveller, that the new films are a thematic or chronologic sequel of the original TV series (and for some reason, Kaworu alone remembers the events from the TV series), or there was a world \"reset\" after instrumentality of the TV series (and again, Kaworu is the only one that remembers those events). Can get even wilder with speculation, but you get the idea.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe prevalent theory about the Rebuild movies is that they are, in fact, a\nsequel to the original. No one is entirely certain how everything connects,\nbut there are a lot of theories out there. Rather than attempt to cover them\nall myself, I'll provide links to relevant discussions. I encourage anyone who\nhas more links to add them here so we can create a good resource for future\nreference.\n\n 1. [Relevant post on this site.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7722/is-the-evangelion-remake-a-remake-or-a-sequel) The answer here provides common pieces of evidence, while also bringing up alternative theories (including the idea that these are just nods to the original series and nothing more). Furthermore it's noted that \"Kaworu has always been saying weird things.\"\n\n 2. Check out the first comment on [this reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/evangelion/comments/1esehu/looptheory_questions_30_spoilers/). It provides some relevant quotes from the show's staff. In particular, there is a quote from Anno himself saying that \"Eva is a story that repeats,\" which is one of the more strongest pieces of evidence supporting the sequel theory (that said, Anno, much like Kaworu, is know for saying some pretty weird things).\n\n 3. Comment #4 on [this MAL](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=241336) thread offers some additional perspective related to the overall tone of the series. It discusses this difference of tone in context with how Touji's story has a different ending in several iterations of the series, including the manga.\n 4. [This thread](http://forum.evageeks.org/thread/6022/A-remake-or-a-sequel/) on the EvaGeeks wiki offers some opinions contrary to the sequel theory. However, I personally don't see many strong arguments here - mainly opinions that aren't backed up with an evidence - for example comments like \"I think it's just a re-telling with plot twists and new plot holes.\" While funny, this really doesn't examine evidence in support of either side. That said, it's important to consider both perspectives with something as complex as Evangelion.\n 5. Finally, here's a picture commonly referenced in this debate.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c0lYH.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Evangelion franchise is full of unknowns, most were never explained or\ngiven any \"word of god\" statement.\n\nSome examples:\n\n> What Gendo whispered to Ritsuko after: \"I truly... (muted)\" to prompt her to\n> answer: \"Liar!\"\n\n> What is real the motivation for Asuka to tell Shinji \"気持ち悪い\" at the ending\n> of the End?\n\nHideaki Anno then made [this\nstatement](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Theory_and_Analysis:Gendo%27s_Silent_Words#cite_note-5):\n\n> We all have to find our own answers.\n\nCan we truly say that they left these blanks intentionally?\n\nWhat is the stance of Evangelion creators on the \"Death of Author\" concept,\nregarding the series?\n\nPlease use references.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer to your question must be a resounding \"Yes, as far as _Shinseki\nEvangelion_ is concerned, Anno Hideaki and team are firmly in the 'Author is\nDead' camp when it comes to explanations for the franchise.\" [The broader\ncontext of the quote from\nAnno](http://www.cjas.org/~echen/articles/spring97/05_03b.html) that you've\nprovided in your question, goes into more detail:\n\n> Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give\n> his/her own answer. In other words, we’re offering viewers to think by\n> themselves, so that each person can imagine his/her own world. We will never\n> offer the answers, even in the theatrical version. As for many Evangelion\n> viewers, they may expect us to provide the ‘all-about Eva’ manuals, but\n> there is no such thing. Don’t expect to get answers by someone. Don’t expect\n> to be catered to all the time. We all have to find our own answers.” \n> – Anno Hideaki\n\nThis is not really surprising, as it's the only stance consistent with the\nthemes and aims of the franchise itself, being based as it is on [the\nphilosophical platform of 'postmodern\nexistentialism.'](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/#FreVal) In\nthis schema, there is **no such thing** as 'objective meaning', only meanings\nconstructed by each individual as a function of their own existence.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second Symphogear G \"Zesshoushinai\" special episode, the last segment\n(starting at around 12:48) has Shirabe showing Kirika a letter that had been\nconfiscated from them after they were taken into custody. Kirika immediately\nsnatches it away, hides it behind her back, and starts yelling rather\nincoherently (and cutely).\n\nWhat did the letter say? (My best guess is that it's probably something that\nKirika wrote when she thought she was going to \"die\" as a result of being\ntaken over by Finé, but I'd like to know if this is touched on anywhere else.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, it turns out that the B-side of [Kirika's character song album for\nSymphogear G](http://vgmdb.net/album/39883) is a song called 手紙 \"Letter\". It\nwasn't used in-show, at least not during G - it doesn't make much sense as a\nbattle song, and Kirika didn't do any singing outside battle (ORBITAL BEAT\ncover in episode 5 notwithstanding).\n\n[The lyrics for the song](http://vgmdb.net/db/covers.php?do=view&cover=179190)\ninclude three segments that are enquoted (in 「」), and have part of the\nstructure of a formal Japanese letter, beginning with the salutation _haikei_.\nI think that it is reasonable to construe these enquoted segments as being the\ncontents of the letter that appeared in the special episode ([zoid9000,\nSymphogear fan extraordinaire,\nagrees](http://zoid9000.tumblr.com/post/80821407128/could-you-explain-the-\nlast-joke-in-the-senki)).\n\nAlas, it is nightmarishly difficult to render those segments into English, for\nthe reasons zoid9000 points out in [his translation of the\nsong](http://zoid9000.tumblr.com/post/74602798962/regarding-the-translation-\nof-tegami) (tl;dr it's _really_ Kirika-esque). His translation is a bit stolid\nfor a song sung in Kirika's voice, but I doubt that I could really do any\nbetter, so I'm just going to mirror the enquoted segments over here, which\nshould give you a good feel for how it plays out:\n\n> 「dear everyone, um, what should I say? \n> Thanks for giving me a place to hold on to with these hands that’ve gotten\n> chilly. [☆^(o≧∀≦)o](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/23267/ \"The astute\n> reader will notice that this is another example of a song with emoticons in\n> the lyrics\") \n> I pray that one day this whole world will be happy, then let’s laugh! 」\n>\n> 「Daer god, um, hello it’s nice to meet you. \n> If I am to disappear, I leave everyone in your hands.ヽ( _>□ <_)ノ \n> Please plant a big garden with flowurs that spell out the words “thank\n> you”….」\n>\n> 「Dear Everyone, something like this is…well, \n> This is something I’m no good at, but if I can just pass it on \n> Rainbows, the wind, time, the sun, all that encompassing warmth \n> I really love it…I truly loved it very much (p〃Д〃q) \n> I pray that one day this whole world will be happy, then let’s laugh! 」\n\nzoid9000 explains his translation choices [in another\npost](http://zoid9000.tumblr.com/post/74606758394/an-explanation-of-kirikas-\nletter), though I think that it's still going to be difficult for the non-\nJapanese-reader to fully understand everything that's going on here.\n\n* * *\n\nAnyway, it is not difficult to see why Kirika might have been embarrassed if\nShirabe had read this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1 of Symphogear G, shortly after Maria summons Noise to the concert\nhall, we get a shot of a rack of TVs showing news stations from around the\nworld reporting on the event.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kn5M0.jpg)\n\nIn many of the languages shown (including English), the word \"Noise\" is set as\n\"N.O.I.S.E.\", suggesting that it's actually an initialism (I'm guessing in\nEnglish).\n\nIs it? If so, what does it stand for?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the Gintama official page, it says Gintoki's age is 20+. But it is not\nclear how old he is, because in the last generation of the Joui war, the\nfoursome of Sakata Gintoki, Katsura Kotarou, Takasugi Shinsuke, and Sakamoto\nTatsuma joined. So it's confusing what his real age is.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that Gintoki is about 25 to 26 years old.\n\nIn the Ask Sorachi segment of `Episode 9: “You should go all out in a fight”`\nGin were described as a \"hairless baby\" when the Amanto first arrived. Shortly\nafter which the Joui war started.\n\n> **[After credits and preview]**\n>\n> **Class:** Teach us, Ginpachi sensei!\n>\n> **Gintoki:** Um, this is a question from a Mr. Oonishi, from the second\n> floor. ‘I noticed something strange the other day. Shinpachi-kun said that\n> the “purge” was a movement that happened twenty years ago to drive amanto\n> off earth. So, no matter how you cut it, Gin-san and Katsura-san have to be\n> more than thirty years old. Is that true?’ Uh, ok now. Pay attention now,\n> cuz this is gonna be on the test. The war of expulsion didn’t end in just a\n> year or two, you see. When the war started twenty years ago, Gin-san was\n> still just a hairless baby. The shogunate, afraid of the aliens, surrendered\n> right away, but the samurai still resisted. It was around this time that\n> Gin-san got a different kind of hair. When the amanto had infiltrated the\n> entire government and were running roughshod over the whole nation, Gin-san\n> finally entered the fight! Well, in a manner of speaking…So, that’s how the\n> war of expulsion, lasting ten full years, happened. Gin-san and his friends\n> only really participated in the very end of it. Oh, and Oonishi, go stand in\n> the hall! Source:\n> [wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gin_Tama#Episode_9:_.E2.80.9CYou_should_go_all_out_in_a_fight.E2.80.9D)\n\nGin was said to join the war towards the end, at which point we know he must\nbe at least 20 years old. As that is how long the war just about lasted. But\nthis was already known, as this was also answered inside the sorachi segments\n(see image)\n\nNow using [this live journal](http://gintama.livejournal.com/404315.html) as a\nguide line we can see that up to episode 195 roughly 4 years have passed based\non the seasons represented, and Christmas specials. As there are now 281\nepisodes, and it roughly takes 49 episodes to progress a year another 1.8\nyears should have about passed making Gintoki 25, almost 26\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OkAYm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe Gintoki is 33, in episode 251? (the Kotatsu episode) of the anime,\nGin states that after 6 years of the anime playing he is mentally almost 40.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he's around 23-24. On episode 292, when gintoki wore a 3rd year\nuniform he said that he's a 9th year, this implies that he's about 23-24 since\na 3rd year is usually 17-18.\n\nAnd on Ginpachi sensei, it was said that 20 years ago, gintoki was this\nhairless baby, who doesn't look to be more than 4 years old, also when he went\nto join at the very end of the war that lasted for ten years, this was when he\nstarted growing a different kind of hair which is usual on 10-15 year old\nboys. He's likely around that age when he joined the war.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\ni think hes is 26 no I'm accurate he is 26 because I searched the gintama wiki\nand plus in the sorachi's segment it said gin was in his twenties\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe is 27 as in a episode in anime series sojo or someone else said he is of\nsame age as Toshiro Hijikata P.s:season1\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBetween 24-28. We know he is younger than Kondo who is 28 and we know he\nshould be older than Mutsu who is revealed to be 24 in her episodes. I like to\nthink he is the same age as Hijikata (who he has many parallels with) so\naround 27 (the same should be the case with Takasugi and Katsura who were his\nclassmates and Sakamoto who may be a year older at most)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nProbably between 28 to 30.\n\nThey joined the Joui war around 10 years ago. At that time, they didn't look\nlike teenagers but already adults, maybe 18 or 19 years old. So, 10 years\nlater a.k.a the present time, they must be 28 or 29.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm really far behind on fairy tail, is there a list of plot episodes I could\nwatch. and I mean Plot not just canon and filler episodes\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKindly look into this link for the same.\n\n<http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/fairy-tail>\n\n[code]\n\n Filler Episodes:9, 19, 49-50, 69-75, 125-150, 204-226 \n Canon Episodes:1-8, 10-18, 20-48, 51-68, 76-124, 151-203, 227-233\n \n[/code]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Rokka no Yuusha_ , we see a number of instances of a fictional script\nconsisting of glyphs inside circles. For example, from the introductory\nnarration:\n\n\n\n\n\nThese are probably too low-resolution to be readable. However, in episode 3,\nwe get a suitably-high-resolution shot of Adlet's letter to the princess:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eNvWE.jpg)\n\nFictional scripts in anime are often ciphers (a la [_Space\nDandy_](http://altairandvega.net/2014/01/06/cracking-the-dandy-code/), [Suisei\nno Gargantia](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3418/), etc.). Is this one\nalso a cipher of some sort?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMultiple presumably-independent decipherments have been conducted by denizens\nof the internet ([>>128296467 on\n/a/](https://archive.moe/a/thread/128250341/#128296467), [>>128297371 on\n/a/](https://archive.moe/a/thread/128250341/#128297371), and [/u/justinlam3 on\n/r/anime](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3drik1/_/ct9oal3)), all of\nwhich arrived at the same conclusion: the circle-script is a simple\nsubstitution cipher for the Latin script, and the underlying plaintext happens\nto be coherent English.\n\nAdlet's letter reads:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AIugW.jpg)\n\n> TO NACHETANYA \n> I MET OUR \n> COLLEAGUE FROM \n> THE SIX FLOWER \n> IM GOING AFTER \n> HER SO YOU \n> JUST GO AHEAD \n> FOR YOUR \n> [...]\n\nAnd indeed, this is essentially what Nachetanya says when she reads the letter\nout loud (in what sounds to us like Japanese).\n\nThe cipher appears to lack a majuscule/minuscule distinction, and also appears\nto lack punctuation. Adlet's letter didn't have enough text to allow us to\nidentify the circle-script equivalents of all 26 English letters, but\n>>/a/128297371 did construct a partial substitution table based on Adlet's\nletter:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/i11kr.jpg)\n\nLuckily, we get more ciphertext to work with in episode 12:\n\n> The text on [the tablet with the instructions for activating the\n> temple](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jWNKn.jpg) became marginally readable\n> after I spent over 9000 hours in ~~Photoshop~~ GIMP enhancing it:\n> [link](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lPmIO.png) (you might like to try running\n> it through [waifu2x](http://waifu2x.udp.jp/) for increased readability). It\n> reads as follows: \n> \n> TO ACTIVATE AGAIN THE \n> BORDER BETWEEN INNER \n> AND OUTER CLOSED AREAS \n> AS FUNCTION OF \n> SANCTUARY REPEAT THE \n> SAME OPERATIONAL \n> PROCEDURE AFTER REMOVING \n> THE TREASURED SWORD AND THE \n> BROKEN LITHOGRAPH THAT IS \n> GRASP THE TREASURED SWORD \n> AND LET THE BLOOD \n> PASS THROUGH IT AND DESTROY \n> INTONING FIXED WORDS \n> \n> This accords what Hans tells the rest of the group.\n\nUsing this information, we can decipher a few more letters.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GYPG2.png)\n\nAlas, there is no information available to us beyond Adlet's letter from\nepisode 3 and the ciphertext from episode 12. While there are other\nciphertexts large enough to be readable (mostly close-up shots of the map of\nthe continent, which has labels on it), none of them give us any letters that\nwe don't already have from these two sources, meaning that we will never know\nwhat the circle-script equivalents of \"Q\" and \"Z\" are. And _that_ , my\nfriends, is the _real_ mystery of _Rokka no Yuusha_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Funimation simulcast of episode 2 of Kuusen Madoushi featured a very\nabrupt transition at the half-way point - Kanata was in the middle of a\nsentence (確かに、俺… / _tashika ni, ore..._ ) when he was cut off by the eyecatch.\nHis being cut off was not humorous, so it doesn't seem like it was\nintentional.\n\nWas this a production error? If so, whose fault was it - Funimation or someone\nfurther upstream?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, yeah, the schmucks at Funimation messed this one up. The versions of\nthis episode that aired on [TOKYO\nMX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Television) and\n[SUN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Television) both don't have the abrupt\ncut - there's about 20 seconds of content missing. Here's a webm of the\nmissing content, taken from the MX raws: <http://webmshare.com/play/7D8wK>.\n\nBasically, Kanata tells them that he's too strong for them. Misora asks what\nthey're going to be doing for training today. Kanata replies that they'll be\nplaying tag, to which they all respond in shock.\n\nGiven that this didn't happen in the versions of the show that aired in Japan,\nI blame this on Funimation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is it that Terminal Services employees need to work in pairs of one human\nand one Giftia?\n\nNothing they do as part of their jobs seems to strictly require the presence\nof specifically a human, nor specifically a Giftia. (And, I mean, given that\nhumans and Giftias are virtually indistinguishable until near the end of the\nGiftia's life, what difference would it make, anyway?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Because being delicate in handling the relationship between other humans and\nGiftias _is_ a part of their job**\n\nThe terminal services is not an elite group of armed forces even though that\nwould be more efficient/guaranteed of a way of doing things. This fact tells\nus that the company wants the more delicate approach, in an effort to respect\npeoples feelings during this difficult time. A best case scenario of a bitter-\nsweet parting of ways is hugely encouraged, and although it may not seem like\nit, that has _everything_ to do with pairing the teams with a human and a\nGiftia.\n\nWhen on various assignments, workers will need to deal with a large range of\ndifferent relationships between people and Gifias, and having a (working)\nrelationship of their own between human and Giftia means they will be able to\nrelate, understand and empathise with each case and have a better\nunderstanding of how to handle the situation with respect.\n\nIt is also beneficial because of how people will react when the Terminal\nService shows up. A group of humans, or a group of Giftias showing up would be\nmore likely to lead to them becoming upset and thinking \"you don't\nunderstand!\". Of course the employees may not understand every situation, but\nhaving an openly displayed working relationship between Human and Giftia\npromotes the idea that they are understanding and caring and would mean people\nare less likely to react in this way when the pair show up.\n\nLastly, there are situations on the job where specifically a human may be\nrequired or specifically a Giftia. For example, if someone is hostile to all\nGiftias, then naturally having the capacity to send in just the human (or\nvice-versa) is very valuable, not to mention the different capabilities humans\nand Giftias have which are useful in different circumstances (as said in\n@SWard's answer) and this would not be possible if they were not paired\npurposefully.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe last song that plays while kaneki's holding hide in his arms while walking\nthrough whithout looking back, right at the last scene of the last episode...\n(which I believe it's an acoustic version of unravel, if my memory isn't\ntricking me). Has it been released yet?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe this is the song you are looking for. [Tokyo Ghoul - Unravel\n(Acoustic)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jA4GvMtHhs).\n\nIf you want to purchase it, here is the link to the Apple iTunes page:\n[unravel (acoustic version) - Single, by TK from\n凛として時雨](https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/unravel-acoustic-version-\nsingle/id992699090)\n\n",
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