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"body": "\n\nFirst, I want to inform that I'm French, so I'm sorry for my bad English...\n\nI'm desperately looking for a manga that I can not manage to find despite all\nmy efforts. On the dozen forums where I was searching, I found nothing. I\nremember only few scenes of the story:\n\n * It talks about two boys in an orphanage who plan to flee when one of them is going to be adopted. But in the end, they are taken together.\n * Some years later, they are in a kind of army. For a reason that I don't remember anymore, one of the boys escaped from the organization and hid himself among the society, where he attended high school.\n * But one day, his old friend is ordered to get him.\n * I read it around 3 years ago. One of the boys has black hair and seemed to be cold with others. And I think the second boy was blond.\n\nHere's all I know, I hope that I've been understood.\n\nThank you in advance!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOh, I finally found it! It's Aegis. Someone just told me the title on a forum.\nI also mixed some parts of the story with another, sorry. Thank you again for\nyour answers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have played, watched and read the media from the original School Days, but I\ndon't know much about the other games in the series and how they're linked to\neach other.\n\nI even saw there's a tower defence game in the series, which seems bizarre.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hhh2Xm.jpg)\n\nWhat order should the games be played in and how do the games fit together\n(are they all in parallel universes for example?). Are there any alternate\nadaptations of the games while I wait for them to be translated?\n\nUse the spoiler tags if necessary please.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI made a small diagram to show the order the games came out:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/55TUP.png)\n\n**School Days** is the main & first game in the series. It was remade in\n**School Days HQ** with updated graphics and additional uncensored scenes.\n\n**Summer Days** takes place during the same time period, but in an alternate\nuniverse. The story is told from the perspective of Setsuna Kiyoura. It was\nremade as **Shiny Days** and an English translation of this has been announced\nrecently. The original Shiny Days came bundled with bonus games **Ahoge\nBattle** and **Strip Battle Days** which haven't been confirmed/unconfirmed by\nJASTUSA yet whether they will be in the English version or not.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zRPM6.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qLISNm.jpg)\n\n**Cross Days** is a story that takes place at the same time as School Days,\nbut with a different cast. There is no English version yet, although there was\na trial CD at one stage.\n\n**Island Days** is a VN/Tower Defence Game, where weapons picked up in the\nmain story line are used to defend yourself during the tower-defence stage. It\nseems to just be a spin-off unplaced in time.\n\n# Alternative Versions\n\nAs of writing, only School days has an animated version, but Summer Days and\nCross Days have small manga adaptions - An anthology and a two-volume series\nrespectively. There are light novels of all three games.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be much secondary merchandise for Island Days.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for a manga I've read in English in 2009-2010. I bought the first\nvolume of it back then, but I fear I might've lost it somewhere and can't\nremember the name either.\n\nIt's set in a medieval fantasy world, and the protagonists are a man and 3\nwomen: a priestess, a thief, and a warrior.\n\n * The priestess has long fair hair and clothes like most other priestesses in manga or anime, and is pretty much like one would expect such a priestess to be.\n * The thief appears to be the youngest among the girls, is also the shortest of them all, and has shoulder-long hair. She appears to be a good-natured thief, not the cut-throat kind.\n * The warrior is quite tall and strong, even compared to men. She has dark skin and appears to be very tough. She doesn't behave much like a woman, nor does she try. She often spars with the male protagonist.\n * The male protagonist is pretty much a standard male protagonist: strong and reliable looking. He is quite a pervert, though.\n\nIt begins with the priestess looking for the successor of a legendary hero\nwhile the thief and warrior were accompanying her, helping her search.\nApparently, and according to the priestess, the hero's successor is supposed\nto be just like the hero of legend: strong, reliable, chivalrous, etc. In\nshort, he's supposed to be the ideal, perfect hero.\n\nAfter they find him, they quickly realise the truth: He's nothing like what\nthey expected. He may be strong, and he even looks reliable from time to time,\nbut he's actually an unrefined pervert. The thief and warrior regularly ask\nthe priestess, if she's sure he's the hero, to which she admits -- usually in\ntears -- that she has her doubts.\n\nWhen the priestess reports to the head priestess (the one who gave her the job\nof finding the hero), she complains about him not being at all what she\nimagined. The head priestess admits that he sounds exactly like the legendary\nhero she had been travelling with many years back. Whether the head priestess\nonly admitted it in her head, or the priestess didn't hear/believe her, I\ndon't remember.\n\nI don't remember much else about the story. I do remember, however, that the\nwomen treat the hero with a bit of hostility in the beginning, due to him\nbeing a shameless pervert. He eventually manages to earn their trust, though.\nThe priestess keeps praying to her God, hoping that she'd got the wrong guy\nall along.\n\nAlthough I've only read the first volume, it seemed to be quite funny overall,\nthough I wouldn't exactly call it a comedy.\n\nWhat's the name of that manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat sounds a lot like [Mahou Senshi\nLouie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_Soldier), released in the US as Rune\nSoldier. I haven't read or watched the series, but from the Wikipedia\ndescription:\n\n * There's a blonde priestess, Melissa.\n * A young thief, Merrill\n * A tall, dark-skinned warrior, Genie\n * The main character, Louie, is an idiot and a pervert. \n\nFrom this picture, the cast seems to resemble your description:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8nWRql.jpg)\n\nThe plot description on Wikipedia sounds just like your summary: the three\ngirls are seeking a legendary warrior who turns out to be Louie, to their\ndisappointment, since he's idiotic and perverted. Over the course of the\nseries, they slowly come to respect him.\n\nThe manga was published by ADV Manga, which was in operation from 2003 to\naround 2010, so it's perfectly plausible that you bought it in 2009 or 2010.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a romance/shoujo one-shot manga. There is a girl is considered a\nbeauty but she is also emotionless, because of her lack of emotions she\ndoesn't have any friends. Some girls call her a robot I think. One day a guy\nfrom the soccer team , who is also called a 'prince' by other girls, confesses\nto her but all she does is bow her head and leaves. The soccer guy doesn't\ngive up and becomes friends with her. I remember one part where she is outside\non the stairwell taking pictures of the sky and he asks to join her in taking\npictures of the sky. This leads to them hanging out and taking lots of\npictures together.\n\nEventually the girl thinks she's being played after some of the guys friends\nmake a comment about how the prince can get anyone's heart except for hers. .\n.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nThe manga is _Ningyo Hime to Ouji-sama_ , by KYOUMACHI Hisa.\n\nSynopsis from [Baka\nUpdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=110428):\n\n> School life becomes too much for Sonohara Kokone when Sei-kun, who is as\n> popular as a real prince at school, suddenly asks her out. They barely know\n> each other due to her doll-like but expressionless features. So, why is he\n> minding her so much!?\n\nthis manga is correct because I read it ages ago and remember it. :|\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Funimation version of episode 6 of Arslan Senki had some incredibly dark\nscenes, to the point where you basically couldn't tell what was going on. In\nthe versions broadcast in Japan, the scenes were still dark (since much of the\nepisode took place in a poorly-lit sewer), but not _that_ dark. For example:\n\nFunimation:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kB08e.png)\n\nBroadcast:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7uzJV.jpg)\n\n(Or, check out [this screenshot\ncomparison](http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/126189).)\n\n* * *\n\nAnd on the other hand, in brighter Funimation shows, the light colors end up\nbeing incredibly oversaturated. Here's an example from Death Parade:\n\nFunimation:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/X6tlp.jpg)\n\nBroadcast:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dodYG.jpg)\n\nThis is less egregious than the scene from Arslan Senki above, but you can\nstill clearly see the difference in [this screenshot\ncomparison](http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/136238).\n\n* * *\n\nThis is a consistent problem with anime on Funimation. Why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe short of it is that Funimation's video player is **completely borked**.\n\n* * *\n\nHere's the long of it: it has to do with 1.) differences in how televisions\nand computers handle RGB color; and 2.) Funimation being incompetent.\n\n## What's the RGB color model?\n\nIn the (8-bit) RGB color model, colors are represented as a 3-tuple of numbers\nranging from 0 to 255, which represent the amount of red, green, and blue in\nthe color. For example, (0, 0, 0) represents no red, green, or blue, and is\nthus black; (255, 0, 0) is 100% red, no green, no blue, and is thus a\nmaximally-red red. (65, 105, 225) is a nice shade of royal blue.\n\nNow, here's the thing: on a computer, your colors can have all three values in\nthat 3-tuple be anywhere from 0 to 255, and your monitor will happily display\nwhatever color that is. This is referred to as \"RGB Full\", or \"0-255\".\n\nBut on a _television_ , your colors are expected to have all three values\nrange from 16 to 235. Any values higher than 235 are treated as pure white\n(for that component of the 3-tuple); any values less than 16 are treated as\npure black. This reduces the dynamic range of your video a little bit, but\nthis doesn't really make too much of a difference. This scheme is referred to\nas \"RGB Limited\", or \"16-235\". This page has a nice overview of the subject:\n[RGB: Full vs. Limited](http://referencehometheater.com/2014/commentary/rgb-\nfull-vs-limited/).\n\n## How does this impact anime?\n\nSo when anime airs in Japan, the broadcasters receive video that uses RGB\nLimited, and then they broadcast it to homes in Japan, who watch their anime\non TVs that expect RGB Limited, and all is well, since the color range used by\nthe broadcaster matches the color range expected by the receivers.\n\nWhen a competent streamer like Crunchyroll receives RGB Limited video from the\nstudios in Japan, they re-encode the video to use RGB Full, and then stream it\nto their client-side video players, which expect video that uses RGB Full. All\nis well, since the color range which Crunchyroll's video uses is the same as\nthe color range that the Crunchyroll player expects.\n\nAlas, Funimation is not competent. While I'm not privy to the internal\nworkings of Funimation, the behavior their player exhibits is fully compatible\nwith the following sequence of steps:\n\n * Funimation receives RGB Limited video from the studios in Japan (just like Crunchyroll does).\n * Funimation re-encodes their video to use RGB Full.\n * Funimation streams video in RGB Full to their client-side video players. \n * The Funimation video player is broken in some way that makes it _think_ that the video it's receiving is still in RGB Limited, and thus converts any colors below 16 or above 235 to black or white, respectively.\n\n## What does this mean for the viewer?\n\nConsider a dark scene, like the Arslan Senki one mentioned in the question.\n\n 1. When Funimation receives it from the broadcaster, there might be a lot of dark grays - let's say those are RGB (24, 24, 24), in RGB Limited [remember: in RGB Limited, (15, 15, 15) is 100% black]. \n 2. Then, Funimation re-encodes to RGB Full, meaning that we have to scale the 16-235 range up to 0-255. This converts our (24, 24, 24) gray to roughly (9, 9, 9) gray. \n 3. When Funimation's video player receives the re-encoded video, it treats it as being in RGB Limited, and hence displays the (9, 9, 9) [which _would_ be gray in RGB Full] as black. \n\nSee what happens? Dark colors get further desaturated to the point where\nthey're pretty much just plain black. And on the other end of the spectrum,\nlight colors get _over_ saturated, by the same mechanism.\n\nAnd now you know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGreat teacher Onizuka got full points from the high school exam. But as I\nunderstood there are 5 tests each valued at 100 points. How many questions are\nthere for each test and how much time is each test?\n\nIf there is 2 points between Kikuchiki's result then each question must worth\nat most 2 points (if its standardised) and that'd mean he solved 250 questions\nin XX time.\n\nHis score = 500 \nPrincipal's hack score = 500 \nKikuchiki's hack score = 494 \nKikuchiki's score = 492 (He's the second highest next to Onizuka which means\nhe intentionally got one of his answers wrong)\n[info](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=49222)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YF9Zx.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDŌMO, I am SENSHIN.\n\nFujikido Kenji's NINJA Soul is that of NARAKU NINJA, a NINJA who wishes to\nslay NINJA. And thus, Fujikido becomes NINJA Slayer. I understand why Fujikido\nwishes to slay NINJA - his family was killed by the NINJA of the SŌKAIYA, so\nof course he would want to perform FUKUSHŪ1.\n\nBut what is NARAKU NINJA's motivation? What drives him - a NINJA himself - to\nslay other NINJA indiscriminately?\n\n* * *\n\n1 Note: FUKUSHŪ means REVENGE.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 4, Yanagida tells Itami that the suits back in Nagata want to know\nwhether the Special Region is worth turning half the world against Japan.\n\nWho, specifically, consitutes \"half the world\" here? As of this point in the\nanime, we haven't been told much about the political situation surrounding the\nGate. Is there a particular bloc of nations that opposes Japan's activity in\nthe Special Region? Or is this more of a figurative \"lots of people will be\nangry with us if we colonize the Special Region\" sort of thing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAround 12 minutes through Episode 4, It shows an Asian-looking ( _possibly\nChinese?_ ) President ( _ **Dechou Dong** , as the intro badge says_) in a\ncar, discussing The Gate with his secretary:\n\n\n\n> **President Dong** : \"Why did the gate open in Japan? We're the ones who\n> need it, don't you think?\"\n>\n> **Secretary** : \"That's correct, President. We can't let Japan have it all\n> to themselves.\"\n>\n> **President Dong** : At first, we'll maintain friendly relations with Japan,\n> and see where this goes. Ideally, I'd like to send half our population to\n> the Special Region.\"\n\nIn Episode 2, around 14 minutes in, you see the American President ( _noted by\nthe flags beside him_ ) also discussing it with his secretary, saying\n\n> **President** : \"The Gate is the new frontier. There must be more resources\n> on the other side than we can imagine. It's a treasure trove.\"\n>\n> **President** : \"How about it? Why don't we send our army in?\"\n>\n> \n>\n> **Secretary** : \"That might not be a good thing. Many nations anticipate\n> Japan's defeat. We ought to let Japan take the risks for us.\"\n>\n> **President** : \"Yeah, we should avoid having our nation seen as an\n> accomplice.\"\n\nWhere the following image is shown:\n\n\n\nShowing people openly protesting against invading the Special Region.\n\nIt seems the world's powers are either in it for unclaimed space, or\nresources.\n\nMost likely, when Yanagida says **half the world's people** , he either means\n**people will be divided on which side to take** , or, **the world's powers\nwill either to decide to get involved, or condemn the actions of Japan**.\n\nMost probably, the world's powers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBy half the world, Yanagida either means what everyone has been suggesting -\nall the major world powers, like the US, China, the EU and Russia, or he could\nbe suggesting, in simpler terms, every country in Itami's homeworld that has a\nmotive for wanting access to the GATE.\n\nIn the canon storyline, China's motive is apparently having a population of 3\nbillion people, which is obviously unsustainable. The US wants it purely for\nit being, as President Direll(Manga) puts it, a treasure trove. Russia and the\nEU, however, are not given any specific motivation to want to invade, most\nlikely for resources. Russia is said to be capable of being bold enough to hit\nthe GATE with a SLBM.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember someone saying (not sure which episode, though probably the same)\nthat Eren lost his 3D Maneuver Gear after exiting his Titan form. I also\nremember seeing that myself, after exiting his titan form every time except\nthe 2nd time he does (He had no gear on him, then, to begin with). So how was\nthe girl inside the Female Titan able to have 3D Maneuver Gear on her, as well\nas a Survey Corps coat?\n\nNote: I have finished watching the anime, but I have not read the manga.\nPlease don't post any spoilers for me. Thank you :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it was also stated somewhere that after shifting a few times, it is\npossible to control damage done to your clothing. That being said, the Female\nTitan has had to shift a few times, so she could take precautions when doing\nso.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs [mirroroftruth](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/23553/in-\nepisode-20-of-attack-on-titan-how-does-the-female-titan-have-3d-gear-after-\nre#comment33819_23553) has already kindly linked, it is speculated by Erwin\nthat someone who is talented with their titan ability may be able to regain\ntheir human form with minimal exhaustion. This means that, with appropriate\nplanning or fortuitous circumstances at transformation, the controller\n(pilot?) could quickly change clothes or equipment using the transformation\nitself as cover. This is possibly shown by the Colossal Titan in earlier\nepisodes: \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yP3LR.gif)\n\nor by the female titan herself during the carnage of her body being eaten. So\nshe may not come out of the titan already wearing the 3D-gear, but instead may\nhave picked up a nearby set.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/10030/how-was-annie-leonhart-\nable-to-get-out-of-her-titans-form/10034#10034) answer pretty much explains\neverything.\n\nWhilst riding on horseback\n\n> **Zoe-** Erwin, why did you order Levi to resupply? There's no time to\n> waste.\n>\n> **Erwin-** The female-form Titan was eaten. But did you see the person\n> inside get eaten? I didn't.\n>\n> **Zoe-** You can't mean-\n>\n> **Erwin-** Ah, yes. **If your original hypothesis was correct, they can\n> still move to a degree after regaining human form.** If they'd prepared 3D\n> Maneuver Gear in advance...\n\n* * *\n\n> **Erwin-** The person inside the female-form titan is wearing our uniform\n> right now... The enemy is now camouflaged as one of the troops.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo be clear, the female titan (Annie) and other titan shifters are not capable\nof shifting and not damaging the maneuver gear. In other words, she had the\nwhole place ready with maneuver gears and was already wearing the coat\\jacket\nbefore she shifted. It was also obvious that she managed to sneak in the\nSurvey Corps because she was already wearing the coat\\jacket.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe formal name of the Symphogear system is 「FG式回天特機装束」, which translates\nroughly as \"FG-Type Sky-Returning Specialized Garment\". (Maybe? I probably\nscrewed something up, but this is close enough for the purposes of this\nquestion)\n\nWhat does the \"FG\" in there stand for?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga translator's (<http://symphogear.blogspot.com>) commentary, the\nFG is guessed to stand for Fonic Gain (it should be Phonic Gain). However, I'd\nspeculate that it would mean Phonic Gear as it is the more elegant and title-\nconsistent explanation.\n\nAs we know, Symphogear could mean Symphonic Gear while Symphonic itself means\n(etymologically) \"Sounding Together/Concomittant Sound\" due to the syn- prefix\nmeans \"together/with\" or \"concommitant\"\n\nref: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n7VyR.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOriginally, I thought Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Morgan le Fay and Mordred\nwere the only people who knew Arturia was female when she was king.\n\nWhile reading up on [Kay's profile](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kay) on the\nWikia, I read that he knew she was a female and vowed to keep it a secret\n\n> Her identity as being female was known to him, but he kept the secret all\n> his life after being sworn to secrecy by Merlin.\n\nSo this got me wondering: Was there anyone else who knew that King Arturia was\nin fact a woman? How did they find out?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that after Lancelot and Guinevere fell in love, Morgan le Fay told\neveryone that Artoria is a girl.I'm not sure,but you could check the Type Moon\nwikia\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Garden of\nAvalon](https://myanimelist.net/manga/85773/Fate_stay_night__Garden_of_Avalon),\nonly Merlin, Uther (before he died), Ector (her foster father that raised her\nfrom the age of 5), Kay (her foster brother), and Guinevere once they married.\nCloser to the end of Artoria's kingdom, Guinevere reveals this to Lancelot as\nwell once they start getting closer.\n\nIn the Camelot chapter in Fate/Grand Order, [Agravain reveals that he found\nout about it when he discovered the\naffair](https://img.fireden.net/a/image/1469/66/1469662060125.jpg).\n\nWhile not explicitly stated anywhere I'm aware of, the circumstances of\n[Mordred's conception/raising](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay)\nimply Morgan must have known as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the scene where Hayate goes to visit Carin after the formation of Riot\nForce 6 (episode 5 or 6 of _StrikerS_ ), when she enters Carin's office, she\nis seen wearing a shawl, the same kind shown to be worn by people outside\nmoments before. However, when the two are talking, Hayate has taken it off.\n\nWhen an alert about Gadget Drones' attack comes in, she is seen putting it\nback on in a hurry before she leaves. Why does she need to wear it outside\nCarim's office?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is probably customary, just like it is a custom in some Christian churches\nthat a woman is expected to cover her head when entering a church building,\nespecially during the services.\n\nThe Sankt Kaiser Church is modeled after Christianity in general and the\nCatholic Church in particular. It also has an autonomous area on Mid-Childa;\ncompare the Vatican city state. (There even exists a counterpart of the Turin\nshroud.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth Lindy and Leti have a mark on their foreheads which appears to be 4\ntriangles pointing to one another\n\n1[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DK8WH.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BoOfD.jpg)\n\nthey aren't related. Neither one of their sons, Chrono and Griffith\nrespectfully, have this mark and Clyde, Chrono's Father does not appear to\nhave this which rules it out as being genetic.\n\nit also doesn't appear to be associated with their rank in the Dimensional\nNavy as Gil Graham does not have it and he too is an Admiral like them.\n\nSo why do they both have the same mark on their forehead? is there some\nmeaning behind it?\n\n1: the image of Lindy is from the first Movie which seems to have high quality\nartwork than the series so i am assuming that while Leti's appears as 4 dots i\nam assuming that it's supposed to be 4 triangles aswell\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLindy's character was based on a fairy of same name from [Lyrical Toy\nBox](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Lyrical_Toy_Box) (which is where the whole\nNanoha franchise started). Here she has both dots and wings (which she\ndisplays in the Nanoha franchise when she is using her powers).\n\nThere doesn't seem to be a canon explanation why she has them in Nanoha\nfranchise, but I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't fully human, but\npartially different race.\n\nAnd I would hypothetize that Leti's character design was based on Lindy's just\nto drive the point home that they are friends.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hpFtj.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [KnowYourMeme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nice-boat): (spoilers for\nSchool Days)\n\n> On the day before the airing of the final episode of School Days in Japan, a\n> 16 year old girl killed her father with an axe in Kyoto. Due to an extremely\n> similar scene present in the episode and to avoid relation to the axe\n> murder, TV Kanagawa replaced it with a half hour of unrelated scenery with\n> “Air on a G String” playing in the background. Among the shock and rage\n> expressed among fans, a 4chan user commented “Nice Boat”, referring to the\n> Norwegian ferry shown in the replacement footage. Immediately the phrase\n> became a meme, however is far more popular in Japan than in English speaking\n> countries.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kx0uQ.jpg)\n\nThe part with the boat is easily viewable on Youtube and other sites, but I\nhaven't been able to find the full episode.\n\nIs the episode bundled together with any merchandise or available legally\nonline to stream/download?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe full 28-minute version of Nice Boat is apparently [available on\nNicovideo](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1091683) (you'll need to make an\naccount or use a redirector like\n[nicoviewer](http://nicoviewer.net/sm1091683)). I didn't see the original Nice\nBoat back when it aired, so I can't say whether it's the real deal, but it\ncertainly looks right to me. The Nice Boat itself makes its first appearance\nat 04:36.\n\nI would be surprised if Nice Boat were ever included in a home video release\nof School Days, though. At minimum, it's not included in [the French DVD\nboxset](http://www.amazon.co.jp/School-%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88-DVD-\nBOX-%EF%BC%88%E5%85%A812%E8%A9%B1-%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA/dp/B00890EFVI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1437954057&sr=8-2&keywords=school%20days)\nor in the [2013 Japanese Blu-ray boxset](http://www.amazon.co.jp/School-Days-\nBlu-ray-\nBOX-%E5%B9%B3%E5%B7%9D%E5%A4%A7%E8%BC%94/dp/B00AQBT7FW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1437954057&sr=8-3&keywords=school%20days).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have seen this picture online quite a lot lately, and I have been wondering\nwhich series it comes from. I tried searching but did not find any results.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RWq7i.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a original piece of art (pixiv) made by [柳田史太\n(NSFW)](http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1774701&lang=zh) This piece of art\nis said to be based on [Tezuka Rin, from the katawa shoujo\nseries](http://katawashoujo.wikia.com/wiki/Rin_Tezuka)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7mNsh.png)\n\nAfter a simple [reverse image\nsearch](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/how-can-i-identify-\nthe-source-of-an-anime-image-using-reverse-image-search) only came up with\nallot of 9gag/reddit and similar results. I decided to first identify the\ncharacter, after some cropping. And a few failed search results I came to know\nthat the character was based of [Tezuka Rin, from the katawa shoujo\nseries](http://katawashoujo.wikia.com/wiki/Rin_Tezuka)\n\nShortly after with a bit help of comments given on both 9gag and reddit I\nmanaged to find out that it was a original piece of art made by [NSFW pixiv\nartist: 柳田史太](http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1774701&lang=zh) or as she is\nalso known [Humitan](https://twitter.com/humitan)\n\nThe image is based on a simple word joke Hand-Tie(hentai). And also seems to\nbe a word play, as _\"rob\"_ and _\"Tie a Knot\"_ is said to be pronounced in the\nsame way. (can't confirm this as I don't speak the language)\n\nI also seen some messages floating around that the image has been featured in\nmanga order a few years back. But so far I have not been able to find it in\nthere.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoilers for episode 1:\n\n> By the end of episode 1 of Gakkou Gurashi, we know that some sort of zombie\n> apocalypse has happened, and that the girls are trapped in a section of the\n> school that they've managed to barricade against zombie attack. \n> \n> How long prior to episode 1 did the zombies first start appearing? Given\n> their rations situation in episode 2, anywhere from days to months seems\n> plausible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 418, when Natsu came back to Magnolia, you can see that he had both\nhis arms bandaged. He took off the bandage on his left arm when he went to\nLucy's house. However, he never took off the one on his right arm.\n\nUp to chapter 446, the latest chapter at the time of writing, I have not fount\na point when he took off the bandage on his right arm. He wasn't bandaged\nprior to chapter 418, before he started the training. This leads me to suspect\nthat he has something on his right arm which he doesn't want other people to\nsee.\n\nWhat is he hiding under the bandage on his right arm?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Log Horizon_ , how did Demikas knew about the location of the room where\ngold is processed and distributed on the Yamato server?\n\nThis happened in _Log Horizon II_ episode 11 during the raid, when Demikas\npulled Shiroe away from the raid and threw him into the corridor with the door\nleading to the gold room.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Demiqas ](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Demiqas)was part of the raid\nparty so he was privy to all of the information that was shared throughout the\ngroup. It would make sense that all of the members or the raid know the layout\nof the dungeon. [The Depths of Palm](http://log-\nhorizon.wikia.com/wiki/Depths%20of%20Palm) was a raid that was done numerous\ntimes before but never to the extent of going all the way to the Gold room\nguarded by the [Kunie Clan](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Kunie).\n\nIt is probably safe to say that since Shiroe was able to come to this\nconclusion by way of research or rumors of the room during the time before the\nCatastrophe. It is also to note that Shiroe is friends with\n[ReGan](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/ReGan), and ReGan has a very\nextensive library at his disposal. ref([Log Horizon Wikia](http://log-\nhorizon.wikia.com))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt ~6:15 into that episode, we're shown part of a map while two of the\nadventurers recant the plan. A room is clearly marked as \"Goal\".\n\nLater on, at ~12 - 12:30, we see a flashback of Shiroe going over the map and\nthe details of the plan. Presumably, what the adventurers at ~6:15 were\nrecanting was the plan that Shiroe explains during this flashback.\n\nSince all of the adventurers were in attendance, it would make sense that\nDemikas would know the map.\n\nThat doesn't explain why Shiroe didn't know what was going on when he was\nkidnapped though, which might just be a plot hole to add suspense and give him\na reason to doubt Demikas.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe all know about the 23 day rule. Well. I've been rewatching the series, and\nI've found something strange in episode 8...\n\nAt 4:10 ([youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GId34GvqXqc&t=4m10s)) Light\nasks Ryuk if you can use any date, as long it's before the victims lifespan,\nto which Ryuk replies; yes\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 23 days rule does not apply to the time of the death but to the time of\nmanipulation. You can manipulate someone e.g. to be a loyal sevant befor s/he\ndies but all manipulations can't start more than 23 day befor the death. If\nyou give someone a task that takes more than 23 days it counts as impossible\nand causes a heat attack. But if you write a possible death and a date than it\nis perfectly fine as long as it is within the normal lief span and you are not\ntoo specific about either time or a slow cause of death.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wanted to know all the characters from Negima that are still alive and are\nin UQ Holder. I saw a few such as Ku Fei, Yue, and some cat lady that followed\nFate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKu Fei and Yue are not known to be alive during the time of UQ Holder. What\nyou are referring to is a flashback scene regarding a tournament that the main\ncharacters are now training for. It shows that Yue and Ku Fei competed as a\nduo in a previous running of the tournament, some time after Negima but, by\ntheir appearances, long before UQ Holder.\n\nEvangeline is alive, and serves as one of the driving foci of UQ Holder. She's\nnot quite a main character, but she is a major character that motivates the\nprimary main character.\n\nFate Averruncus is alive, and currently serves as the primary main character's\nantagonistic rival. He does not appear to be an active villain; the main\ncharacter just wants to be stronger than him.\n\nThe cat girl you reference may be related to Koyomi, as suggested by Torisuda.\nTheir personalities don't seem to match, so she may be a descendant of Koyomi,\nor simply another member of the same race of demi-humans. Maybe Fate just\nlikes cat girls, or it's a bit of nostalgia, or it's a coincidence, or any\nnumber of things. She hasn't been a significant enough character to be sure.\n\nAlso alive is [Mana Tatsumiya](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Mana_Tatsumiya),\nthe half-demon gun user. She is the one that introduces the main characters to\nthe aforementioned tournament. Since Mana does not appear to have aged\nsignificantly, one assumes that other half and full demon characters, such as\nZazie, are also alive, but they have not appeared or been specifically\nreferenced.\n\n> Negi himself is confirmed as \"alive\". We don't know his exact state, but he\n> is in some state of needing help/rescue, but not one that is especially time\n> sensitive. This state is what drove Fate into an initial villain role, but\n> eventually they held him off long enough for the protagonists to learn his\n> aims and to negotiate a cease fire of sorts. Since Fate's goal was not\n> especially time sensitive, he did not actually need to press it as strongly\n> as he could have.\n\nNo other characters from Negima! have made confirmed appearances. We can\nconjecture a couple more, at least, in addition to demons such as Zazie. Many\nfans think that UQ Holder occurs during the timeline where Asuna had not come\nback: if so, she is \"alive\", in the sense that she is serving whatever purpose\nit is that had her separated from the world for so long. Asuna's lineage was\nalso stated to be an exceptionally long-lived one; she was already quite old,\ntechnically speaking, when Nagi encountered her. When Asuna did finally finish\nher task, she found out that her best friend\n[Ayaka](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Ayaka_Yukihiro) had lived well past 100,\nin hopes of meeting Asuna again. Since UQ Holder is set approximately 80 years\nafter the end of Negima, it is plausible that she is alive.\n\nAnd we can get a little bit meta: UQ Holder is a society of immortals, several\nof which we know are well over one hundred years old. Thus, though they may\nnever have appeared in Negima, technically speaking they were alive during the\ncourse of its events.\n\n* * *\n\nEDIT (9/25/2015)\n\n> At the end of chapter 95 we see an elderly Ayaka make an appearance, showing\n> off her pactio card, and accompanied by her (presumed) granddaughter, as\n> well someone who appears to be Chachamaru. The fact that her pactio card is\n> still functional tells us that Negi is in some sense alive. This is in much\n> the same way that we knew that Rakan's functioning pactio card meant that\n> Nagi was alive. We also see the granddaughters of Konoka Konoe. I'd guess\n> they are less than 10 years old, and they can recall stories of their\n> grandmother about Negi, so it is possible that Konoka is also alive, or only\n> recently deceased. They specifically wonder why Tota shares their last name,\n> which possibly foreshadows that we will learn about this, and that it is not\n> simply a coincidence.\n\n* * *\n\nEDIT (2/16/2016)\n\n> In Chapter 112, we see two more characters, both of which are immortal or\n> have long lifespans: Sayo Aisaka, the ghost girl; and the demon Zazie\n> Rainyday (in full jester get-up). We also basically get full confirmation\n> that Negi really is alive. It is also confirmed that the Chachamaru-like\n> character accompanying Ayaka (see the preceding spoiler) is, in fact,\n> Chachamaru.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would just like to say it's also possible for some of the \"regulars\" to have\nbecome immortal along the lines as Negi and Eva had become, or even from Eva\nbiting them (or others like this, not just vamps aka peeps like Kotarou might\nhave made what's her name the girl, he stays with the younger and hey, maybe\neven the older one into weredogs/werewolves).\n\nHeck, to get meta, other than the class rep, we don't know if any others even\naged. I hope they didn't. I am re-reading the first series after years and I'm\ngetting depressed that most of them aged or died, so I hope since it's too\nlate for the class rep, at least the others especially Nodoka, Yue, Asakura,\nSetsuna (well, she's like what's her name so she's probably immortal), Makie,\nthe twins. Well, pretty much all, but if not at least, the ones more important\nif he had to, he could make the ones like the food girl that's nice and a\nlittle chubby, no offense, but yeah, not a very important character.\n\nBut hey, so to answer I will refer to them by descriptions sometimes, and\n\"probably\" mean they haven't made an appearance or I don't remember, but, well\nyeah, probably, but those who are for sure alive are: class rep, Kaede, Eva,\nAsuna, the ghost probably she didn't move on yet, probably the twins, probably\nChao, Chachamaru or the robot, probably Zazie, almost for sure Setsuna, and\nwell frankly, if the class rep who is one of the oldest is still alive, then\nprobably is everyone else.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid Itou Makoto sleep with all the girls in the anime? And if so, did all\nthose girls were affectionate towards Itou? I'm not sure if Itou really played\ndirty with all the girls. I'm too slow with this kind of thing and I just\nhappened to watch this anime because of Kotonoha.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy answer refers to the anime series only:\n\nNo, not all of them; remember, he was in a class wherein about half of all the\n50 or so students were female. The only girls Makoto became intimate with\nwere: Kotonoha Katsura, Sekai Saionji, Setsuna Kiyoura, Hikari Kuroda, Otome\nKatou, Minami Obuchi, Natsumi Koizumi and Kumi Mori.\n\nAnd out of all of those, it was really only Kotonoha and Sekai who were\naffectionate towards him. The others were only interested in him for carnal\npleasures or some sort of manipulation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe Meir Illumination's answer is incorrect for 2 reasons, but Meir\nIllumination hasn't been around for a year, so:\n\n 1. Actually in the anime, Makoto did not have sex with Kotonoha.\n\n 2. 'And out of all of those, it was really only Kotonoha and Sekai who were affectionate towards him.' --> I think this is wrong too. Otome liked Makoto since middle school or something, iirc.\n\nMakoto had sex with\n\n 1. Sekai Saionji: Makoto's seatmate\n 2. Setsuna Kiyoura: Sekai's 'friend' (meaning that they were friends at least up to the point Makoto cheated on Sekai with Setsuna)\n 3. Hikari Kuroda: Sekai's 'friend' (meaning that they were friends at least up to the point Makoto cheated on Sekai with Setsuna)\n 4. Otome Katou: who knew Makoto in middle school\n 5. 5-8. and then the ['trio' Minami Obuchi, Natsumi Koizumi and Kumi Mori](https://overflow.fandom.com/wiki/Trio)\n\nFrom the [fandom](https://overflow.fandom.com/wiki/Trio):\n\n> There is a trio of 3 girls who are Otome's friend and serve as minor\n> characters.\n\n> They generally bully Kotonoha for no reason other than their jealousy of her\n> beauty and breast size and make up assumptions about her, such as her dating\n> Makoto for money or lying about Makoto being her boyfriend.\n\n> In Episode 11, they are curious about \"how good\" Makoto is and come over to\n> his apartment for a foursome between them. They're apparently satisfied with\n> his performance, exhibiting disappoint at having to avoid him after Sekai's\n> announcement.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that the image is of Azusa from K-ON, but I don't know where it is from\nexactly. I don't think it was in the original anime?\n\nI'm referring to [the second panel of this\nimage](https://i.stack.imgur.com/515Ju.jpg) **[NSFW]**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOnce you write suicide as the cause of death, the Death Note possesses victim\nand they commit suicide e.g. Naiomi Misora.\n\nWhat would happen if you were to physically prevent that person from killing\nthemselves?\n\nFor example, if Light were to physically restrain Naiomi before she hung\nherself, would the Death Note default to heart attack since the victim is\nincapable of fulfilling it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSecond paragraph from \"How to Use: LV\"\n\n> In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but the situation is\n> not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the\n> cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will die of heart\n> attack.\n\nSo yes, the victim should have a heart attack if they are unable to kill\nthemselves at the specified time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 37 \"Ging × And × Gon\" we can see that a tape was left for Gon by\nhis father Ging. After playing this tape, the scene jumps to Ging riding atop\ntwo different beasts. [The scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_7sND2w0B8)\nclearly shows a giant tree in the background.\n\nNow, this tree size is substantially larger than anything else seen in the\nseries except for the World Tree that Gon climbs up in episode 148 \"Until Now\nx and x From Now\". The tree showed in the scene looks to be even larger than\nthe adolescent world tree. Ging also states that he has not been to the Dark\nContinent yet due to him meeting not meeting the requirements.\n\nWould it be safe to assume that there was more than one World Tree seed that\nfound its way to the \"known\" world?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first season of _Attack on Titan_ **aired from April 6, 2013 to September\n28, 2013** , as stated on\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan). Although the anime\nis popular and there are demands for the second season, the second season is\nnot yet released. I came across [this\narticle](http://www.latintimes.com/attack-titan-season-2-release-date-news-\ndirector-talks-delays-plot-plus-5-other-323275), which explains the reason for\nthe delay as:\n\n> According to the director, there are a lot of things happening in the\n> \"Attack on Titan\" franchise this year, which hinders the second season\n> production and has delayed the hit-anime to 2016. It was also revealed the\n> delay is due to Hajime Isayama's best-selling manga lacking two-story arc,\n> which make it impossible for Araki to come up with a new season.\n\nThis makes fans (like me of course) impatient... What is this **lacking two-\nstory arc** referring to?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey rendered Misa completely immobile and blindfolded her and kept her like\nthis for 40 days. Physically, she wasn't a threat to anyone and she couldn’t\nhave possibly broken out of the cell. Even if she could kill with only a face,\nthey could have worn masks to cover their faces whenever they interacted with\nher in person. I just think It is a little inhume to have someone strapped\ndown for 24 hours a day, for 6 weeks, whislt blindfolded at the same time,\nespically when it was completely uncessary to take such measures.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**They did not know it was unnecessary.** At that point in time they did not\nknow how she was able to kill. She might have been able to kill by mere touch\nfor all they knew. So to be safe, they confined her. This does not look too\ninhumane and standard practise to me, considering the situation. Keep in mind\nthat despite her being a cute idol, she was also a serial killer and had\nmurdered their companion Ukita. L was not going to take any chances losing\nanother human life.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hJ5D1m.png)\n\nAfter reading chapter 33 again, it seems like L himself never really explained\nwhy he confined her this way, other than\n\n> She's suspected of being the second Killer, so it's only logical to restrain\n> her this way.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9ur7gm.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe opening to the anime starts out with a monologue from Tatsuya explaining\nthat magic, once a product of fantasy and the imagination, has actually been\nsynthesised into a modern technology during the 21st century.\n\nHowever, during the show's entirety, there is no concise explanation of magic,\nor any of its core concepts. Certain spells have a rough description before\nthey're activated, but the fundamentals are never covered, or not at a depth\nwhere a desirable understanding of the phenomenon of magic is attainable.\nAdditionally, the spin off series _Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei – Yoku Wakaru\nMahouka!_ only has one episode that covers how magic works, and the\ninformation there is pretty sparse.\n\nSo how does modern magic work? What does a CAD really do? What are _Psions_ ,\nCADs and an _Eidos_ , and how do they influence each other to give the result\nwe see in the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTL;DR is at the end\n\n* * *\n\n## What's a magician?\n\nA magician (or magic technician, or magic practitioner) is someone with a\n‘magic calculation area’ in their brain. This is a subconscious region of the\nmind that allows the manipulation of _Psions_ and subsequent construction of\nmagic sequences to alter a target's corresponding _Eidos_ in a certain way.\nAll this will now be explained in more detail.\n\n* * *\n\n## What's an _Eidos_?\n\nFirst of all, magic is an easier concept to consider if you think of things in\ntwo separate planes or dimensions:\n\n 1. The physical plane. This is the world as you can perceive it, reality. This is technically no different to the real-life world you and me are both in right now.\n\n 2. The information dimension. This is a representation of the aforementioned reality, but not as we know it. Each entity in the physical plane (brick, desk, chair, person) is an information body (or _Eidos_ ) that is represented in the information dimension as, funnily enough, information.\n\nThe two, while different, are inherently linked. Anything that occurs in the\nphysical plane will affect the corresponding _Eidos_ in the information\ndimension, and vice-versa.\n\nThis is, at the most basic level, how magic works. By overwriting the\ninformation of an _Eidos_ in the information dimension, those changes are\npassed through to the physical plane, and affect the target in reality.\n\nStack Exchange itself does a good job of representing this. \nWhen you begin typing a question or answer, you see two boxes - the markdown\nbox, which is where you edit the text, and a post box which shows what\neveryone else sees. If you imagine the markdown box as the information\ndimension, and the post as reality, it’s fairly straightforward to see how\nmagic works - if you edit the text in the markdown box (the target’s _Eidos_\nin the information dimension), the post itself (the target in reality) changes\nto suit the edit you made.\n\n* * *\n\n## So how does magic reach an _Eidos_?\n\nMagic doesn't travel through the physical plane, but instead acts directly on\nthe _Eidos_ itself in the information dimension. As long as the coordinates of\nan information body are known, a magician can influence it with magic.\n\nHence, magic isn't confined by physical distance. \nThink of something like a walkie-talkie - even though the broadcaster isn't\ndirectly next to the recipient, they can still be heard, as the emitted radio\nsignal is referencing a specific point in the distance (the other radio).\nWhile magic _is_ intrinsically different (radio waves travel through the\nphysical plane, and so have range), some of the concepts are similar.\n\nAdditionally, as magic affects the _Eidos_ of a target directly, physical\nbarriers are not barriers to magic - if the coordinates of an information body\nare known to the magician, he can target them through the information\ndimension. Having said this, it’s a rare case that magic _can_ be cast through\na physical barrier - while magic is _cast_ through the information dimension,\na target still has to be identified in the physical plane. As such, magicians\nare still restricted by the limits of the human body, and so are bound in\ndistance, and nearly always by need of visual confirmation. While all\nmagicians by definition can _access_ the information dimension to cast their\nspells, this doesn't mean they can use it as a medium for finding targets.\n\nOnly Tatsuya can actually [_\" see\"_ in the information\ndimension](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Elemental_Sight)\nand therefore bypass physical barriers at will.\n\n* * *\n\n## What are _Psions_?\n\nSo, so far we know that each real life entity has a corresponding information\nbody in the information dimension, and that information body can be affected\nby magic to alter its state in reality. But, just how does that happen?\n\nIn the information dimension, things aren't constructed from base elements\nlike in the real world. Instead, each _Eidos_ is made from a perfectly\norganised series of _Psions_ , which compile to exactly represent its\ncorresponding physical entity, albeit in information form. \n_Psions_ (or thought particles) are the particle manifestation of intention\nand thought, and are an information element that records cognizance. As they\nexist in the information dimension, they are substance-less, and are more of a\npsychic phenomenon, but they are fundamental to altering _Eidos_ \\- as well as\nbeing the building blocks of each information body, _Psions_ are also the tool\nthat alters them.\n\nEach person has a ‘ _Psion_ count’, which is, in simple terms, the number of\n_Psions_ they have at their disposal. Having said that, while everyone has a\n_Psion_ count, only magicians can manipulate their _Psions_ to cast magic.\n\nEach person’s _Psion_ count is different, and this directly affects their\nability to cast magic. While most spells only require a small number of\n_Psions_ to cast, continual casting will begin to drain the caster’s _Psions_\n, and eventually lead to exhaustion. At the present day when the show is set,\nadvances in CAD (see below) technology have improved _Psion_ efficiency,\nmeaning it is no longer as large of a limiting factor in magical capability,\nbut exhaustion from overuse of magic is still a threat to the modern day\nmagician. Naturally, skilled magicians are more adept at _Psion_ manipulation,\nand get more out of their _Psions_ than an unskilled magic practitioner.\nAdditionally, certain spells physically cannot be cast without a large enough\n_Psion_ count at the magician’s disposal.\n\n* * *\n\n# What's a CAD?\n\nTo cast magic, a magician will manipulate his or her _Psions_ in such a way\nthat causes them to overwrite a particular _Eidos_ in the information\ndimension.\n\nHowever, the process of casting spells without an aid is very time-consuming,\nas many steps must be taken to correctly construct a magic sequence. As such,\nalmost all modern magic users will speed up this process through the use of\nsomething called a CAD:\n\nCADs (Casting Assistant Devices) are frequently mentioned throughout the\nseries (often in tandem with _Psions_ ) and are arguably the most useful tool\nin any magician’s arsenal, allowing the processing of all the necessary\ncomponents for magic in a single moment. To begin with, there are three main\nkinds of CAD:\n\n * **General CADs:** General CADs are the tool for magicians that cover all bases. Being able to store up to 99 activation sequences, a magician equipped with a general CAD will likely always be able to adapt to the situation, with the potential for many options at their fingertips. Due to the ability to cast a larger variety and number of spells, a general-type CAD will place a larger burden on the user, who will have to make more manual adjustments for each spell to be effective.\n\n\n\n * **Specialised CADs:** Specialised CADs are inferior to general CADs in that they can only store up to 9 activation sequences, but they far exceed the latter when it comes to spellcasting. With less capacity for storing magic activation sequences, specialised CADs instead have subsystems that reduce the strain of casting on the magician, enabling them to invoke magic at much faster rate. Due to the narrowed nature of specialised CADs, they are often specialised according to specific kinds of magic as well. For instance, combat magics will often have specialised CADs [in the shape of handguns](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/8830/why-does-magic-take-the-form-of-weapons) , which incorporate auxiliary aiming systems into the ‘barrel’ portion of the CAD. This allows coordinate data to be inputted during magic invocation, making casting easier for the magician, as they have fewer variables to define manually.\n\n\n\n * **Weaponised Integrated CADs:** Weaponised Integrated CADs take the form of weapons like a swords or clubs, and are even more specialised than a specialised CAD, being able to hold only one activation sequence. This means they're limited to only a single spell. Due to the activation sequence limit, magic written into the CAD usually involves improving the power of the weapon itself, with blades usually receiving improved cutting power, shields with empowered defensive abilities, and so on.\n\n\n\nIn all varieties, CADs can come in all shapes and sizes to best suit the\nmagician using it. Another thing that remains the same between both varieties\nis how the CAD works. Absorbing _Psions_ from the user, the CADs ‘ _Psion_\nInformation Aide’ (software) transmits them into the chosen activation\nsequence. The activation sequence is then absorbed from the CAD into the\nmagician's magic calculation area, where it is translated into a magic\nsequence.\n\nStep by step, that goes something like this:\n\n 1. The magician taps into their _Psion_ count, and inputs _Psions_ into the CAD. Think of this as refilling a mechanical pencil. The _Psions_ , like the 'lead', are what will fuel the changes that the user wishes to make.\n\n 2. The CADs hardware converts the inputted _Psion_ signals into electric signals, and uses them to produce a collection of ‘electronic magic’—the activation sequence. Think of this as using a cookie cutter on dough - the final product isn't produced yet, but it has taken form. All that's required is for the user to make some final steps, whether that's baking cookies, or making a magic sequence.\n\n 3. The activation sequence sent back into the caster as electrical signals along the nervous system into the magic calculation area of the magician’s brain.\n\n 4. The magician infuses _Psion_ particles inherent in their body into the activation sequence that’s just been output from the CAD. Now in the user’s brain, the activation sequence is expanded, and any necessary parameters not already defined by the CAD are input.\n\n 5. The magic sequence is now complete. Once all the correct variables are set by the magician, the conjured information can be used (cast) to overwrite the target _Eidos_ in the information dimension. Spell complete!\n\nAs a final note on CADs: \nAs the activation sequence is absorbed from the CAD into the magician's magic\ncalculation area, there is a direct link between the users CAD and brain. As\nsuch, it’s important that the CAD in use is correctly adjusted to suit the\nmagician in question. While a well tuned CAD leads to faster invocation times\nand higher casting efficiency, a poorly configured one can have harsh\nrepercussions as severe as mental scarring and hallucinations.\n\n* * *\n\n## In summation (TL;DR):\n\n * Modern magic is simply the overwriting of an information body through the use of a magic sequence.\n * There are two planes – one physical and one information \n * The physical plane is the real world as we all perceive it\n * The information dimension is a representation of that world where each entity has a corresponding information body\n * Magic is not the ‘flinging’ of spells through the physical plane, but the precise overwriting of a target’s data in the information dimension\n * Each information body ( _Eidos_ ) is composed of thought particles called _Psions_\n * Magic sequences used to overwrite information bodies are also composed of _Psions_\n * Only those that have a ‘magic calculation area’ in their brain can manipulate _Psions_ to cast magic\n * Casting spells with a CAD takes the following rough pattern: \n * Caster > _Psion_ signals inserted into CAD > Electrical signals within CAD to activate the activation sequence > Activation sequence sent back to caster > Construction of the magic sequence > Spell output\n\n* * *\n\n## Sources:\n\n * [_Eidos_ on the _Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei_ Wiki](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Eidos)\n * [_Psions_ on the _Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei_ Wiki](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Psion)\n * [CAD on the _Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei_ Wiki](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Casting_Assistant_Device_\\(CAD\\))\n * The _Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei_ light novels\n * The _Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei_ anime series\n * _Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Yoku Wakaru Mahouka!_ \\- A short spin off series of ~4 minute episodes lightly covering some of the topics seen in the show\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis might have an obvious answer that I've missed but I'm just checking it\nout for a fanfiction. I know kekkei genkai are genetic. I know everyone has\nchakra but not everyone has the ability to use it and this may or may not have\nsomething to not with the size of chakra coils? Not sure about this as I've\nprobably read more fanfics than canon. Anyway. The question is this: Is the\nability to use chakra genetic (so basically all ninja are descended in some\nway from Kaguya Otsutsuki including Sakura Haruno via some kind of recessive\ngene..) or was it simply available to use (randomly?) after Kaguya ate the\nfruit of the Shinju? Since Kaguya is named as the progenitor of chakra, I'm\nassuming no one could use chakra before her. The genetic theory requires a\nlong period of natural selection, such as the Out of Africa and Eve theories\non Earth. I'm not sure of the time skip between Kaguya and Naruto is enough\nfor this. Anyway, all answers welcome.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA good bit of episode 1 of Durarara!!×2 Ten (i.e. episode 13 of the broader\n\"second season\") was narrated by one of the female characters. But this show\nhas a gorillion characters, and I can't place which one of them it was.\n\nThe end credits list the following female characters for this episode:\n\n * ~~Sonohara Anri (Hanazawa Kana)~~\n * ~~Celty (Sawashiro Miyuki)~~\n * Karisawa Erika (Takagaki Ayahi)\n * Yagiri Namie (Kobayashi Sanae)\n * ~~Awakusu Akane (Kuno Misaki)~~\n * Mamiya Manami (Tanoue Marina)\n * Kamichika Rio (Tomatsu Haruka)\n * \"Nurse\" (Yamamura Hibiku)\n * \"Woman\" (Satou Kanami)\n\nI've struck through the ones where I'm familiar enough with the voice actor to\nknow it can't be them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the conversation between Seiji and ultra-stalker Mika at the end of episode\n2 of Durarara!!×2 Ten, Mika claims that Namie probably doesn't know where the\nhead is, and that Izaya probably doesn't have it either, since she wasn't able\nto find it when she snuck into Izaya's apartments.\n\nIn that case, who _does_ have the head? I thought that Izaya _did_ , in fact,\nhave the head. Is it that Izaya has misled Mika somehow, or am I just\nmisremembering something? And was Namie just lying when she said she'd give\nMika the head? (I mean, Namie was obviously lying about being willing to give\nher the head, but did she even have the wherewithal to give Mika the head if\nshe had wanted to?)\n\n(I would appreciate it if stuff that the viewer isn't supposed to know at this\npoint in the story were hidden in spoiler blocks.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's what I remember (sorry if it's not helping much) :\n\nIt's about a NEET who is forced to go to high school by his father to gather\nsome information about some high school girl (I think the girl is probably his\nfather's illegitimate child)\n\n * The male MC really likes lollipops, has black typical hair (not long)\n * It's said in the manga that it's easy for MC to win over a person's heart\n * His father is a doctor (?), wears glasses, has long white hair (ponytail)\n * His mother is an owner of a men's club, wears a kimono and has some connection with the police\n\nThe the first girl has a part time job at a cafe.\n\nI remember of some scenes where:\n\n * The MC wraps himself in a blanket, and then his father came.\n * The girl gives the MC some bento, the MC gives the bento back along with a lollipop.\n * MC helps the first girl cleaning the dish in the cafe.\n * MC talks with some fat guy in a hat (which is stalking the first girl) in a cave\n * At the end, there's a scene where the manager of the cafe is arrested by police (along with the fat guy) with the help of the MC's mother (wearing a kimono)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is [**Doubt!**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/51705/Doubt!) by Sakuya Amano.\n\nNot to be confused with an entirely different series\n[Doubt](http://myanimelist.net/manga/5293/Doubt) by Yoshiki Tonogai\n\n### Synopsis\n\n> Ichiru Kanzaki is given an offer he can't refuse: to clear his entire debt,\n> he has to enroll in the high school where his father works to track down his\n> father's illegitimate daughter, his own younger half-sister, whom he has\n> never met. But which girl is she?\n\nThe description in the question matches the events in chapter 1 of the manga.\n\nBelow are two pages towards the end of the chapter, showing the main\ncharacter's mother and her background (owner of a men's club and well-known by\nthe police).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/79fgP.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mZKAC.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to point out this incident from **NHK ni Youkoso** \\- Episode 21\n(11:12 to 11:34). The main character Sato is escorting his friend Yamazaki to\na subway station to bid final adieu to him. Yamazaki is a game creator (gal\ngames) and MC helps him to create one. I have written below a short piece of\ndialogue (writing it from the English subtitles) between the two at the subway\nstation:\n\n> **Sato** : Sorry\n>\n> **Yamazaki** : If you visit home, be absolutely sure you get in touch\n>\n> **Sato** : Sure..\n>\n> **Yamazaki** : See you around.\n>\n> **Sato (a bit panicked)** : Yamazaki..\n>\n> **Yamazaki** : Don't let the world beat you, Sato\n>\n> **Sato (this main character seems even more panicked and shouts in\n> Japanese)** : You are not going home defeated, right?!\n>\n> **Yamazaki** _chuckles_. \n> ... ..\n\nNow my question to all the fellow members is, why does the character shout\nhere? It seems a bit awkwardly and reluctantly placed. This is one instance\nwhich I have cited here but I have seen this sort of thing in other animes\nbefore. I can't exactly remember the names.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst off, welcome to Anime & Manga!\n\nSuddenly shouting is a trope used in a lot of media, not just anime & manga.\n\nIt is often used in the following scenarios:\n\n * **In anger:** When a character reacts to a situation with rage, much like in real life, shouting can be expected to follow.\n * **In fear or surprise:** Again similarly to real life, when taken by surprise, people often exclaim loudly almost reflexively.\n * **For dramatic effect:** More often seen in media, when an important event or statement requires additional attention, it is often shouted to give it just that.\n\nThe conversation above in particular is likely for dramatic effect - I\ncouldn't say for sure as I don't know the context of the whole show.\n\nSee [this page](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuddenlyShouting)\nfor more information.\n\nAlso related is [this\nquestion.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2886/what-is-the-purpose-\nof-characters-shouting-the-name-of-their-attack) Shouting the names of attacks\nnaturally fits into the third option.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't play Fate/Stay Night visual novel, but I'm quite a fan of the anime\nseries, mainly because of its historic sense — with those people from the\nlegends and all. However, I've spotted a flaw — albeit not a fatal one — and\nit bothers me a bit.\n\nIn the universe of Fate/Stay Night, Saber is the legendary King Arthur (or\nrather, Arthuria) Pendragon that comes from Celtic legends. With such a\nbackground, I expect her to use a Western fencing style (though the term is\nnot exclusively used in the Western world the way that word means today).\n\nWhile Arthuria did, in fact, fight with the Western fencing style throughout\nthe anime in all her real battles, I've noticed that, especially in her\ntraining with Shiro, she used an Eastern fencing style.\n\nWas it ever explained in the visual novel if she learned the Eastern fencing\nstyle before or anything? The age in which she lived in was all but related to\nthe easternmost part of the world.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Fate/SN world, heroes learn everything they need to know about about\nage they were summoned in. Knowledge such as how to operate common machinery,\ncustoms, and language are automatically learned during their summoning. As an\nexample, Saber learned how to ride motorcycles in Fate/Zero. Motorcycles did\nnot exist in her age, but she knows how to operate one nevertheless. This is\nalso the reason why there is no language barrier between Saber and Shirou.\n\nAs Kendo is a common sport in Japan and a martial art involving swords, Saber\ncould have learned this particular Eastern fencing style as part of the\nJapanese customs she had to learn from her summoning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm going to expand my comment on Frosteeze's answer into my own answer.\n\nServants have special skills and abilities by virtue of their class. These are\ngranted to them by the grail system, and may give them abilities and skills\nthey did not and could not have possessed in their actual lives/legends. In-\nuniverse this is to help bridge the (vast) cultural and linguistic gaps\nbetween summoner and Servant, and to make sure a Servant's capacities aren't\nruined because they're scared of the demonic picture box, or can't conduct\nthemselves in society even in the simplest of ways. Out of universe, this was\nprobably just to make the writing easier and the characters more relatable to\nthe reader.\n\nOn the flip side, the class can also restrict the servant: Cu Chulainn would\nhave had greater use of his rune magic as a Caster class, Hercules would have\nhad access to several of his NPs in any class other than Berserker (and would\nhave probably been more powerful as an Archer), etc. To go on a tangent into\nthe more complicated interactions, Saber's legend includes a mythical spear,\nso you might expect her to be able to be summoned as Lancer, but due to the\noverwhelming association of her to Excalibur (both in her own mind and in\nlegends), she can only ever be summoned as Saber.\n\nIn Fate/Zero we see several instances of this from Saber.\n\nThe first is when she is boarding a plane to Japan with Irisviel. She explains\nto Iri that she is aware of what a plane is and is not alarmed by it. The\ngrail provides her with this information to give her the fundamentals of the\ntime and area of the war she is summoned for. This is also why she and every\nother Servant speaks fluent Japanese, incidentally. Or why Rider has no issues\nwith reading Japanese texts, despite it being questionable at best if she\nwould have even been literate in any language in her myth. But more\nimportantly is what she says immediately after that. While she knows what a\nplane is, she has no idea exactly how it works or even how one would fly it.\nNevertheless, she knows that as soon as she sits in the pilot seat she would\nwould have zero problems flying it expertly. This is due to her Ride skill: it\nlets her \"ride\" or \"pilot\" anything up to a certain degree of mystery, and her\nrank B in particular easily includes non-magical transports such as planes and\nmotorcycles. She also expertly rides a super-charged performance motorcycle\nlater on in Fate/Zero.\n\nThe Saber class also has intrinsic sword skills, and they will work in the\nsame way: the grail will provide them knowledge of how to use their \"sword\" up\nto the proficiency level dictated by their skill. In the vast majority of\ncases (except, say, Zero Lancelot), a servant would only ever use their Noble\nPhantasms or other weapons that came with them at the summoning. As such,\nwhile Saber probably was not provided with intrinsic knowledge of actual kendo\ncombat--though as part of the generic cultural information she probably knew\nwhat it was in basic terms, what a shinai looked like, etc.--, she was granted\nexpert level proficiency with the style from simply holding a shinai.\n\nFake Assassin (and even True Assassin) also has weapon skills, and in Fake\nAssassin's case they exceed Saber's. You might note how well Fake Assassin\nhandles Saber, despite her fighting in a foreign style with an obfuscated\nweapon. And similarly for how Saber handles a foreign opponent with what\nshould be an unfamiliar style. This is probably part of the standard trope of\nlegendary fighters being able to read their opponents and know their fighting\nstyle after just a few exchanges, and would be encapsulated by the weapon\nskill involved.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Oregairu_ volume 9 chapter 6, there's a phrase,\n\n> Yukinoshita Yukino’s held beliefs. Yuigahama Yui’s sought relationship.\n> Hikigaya Hachiman’s desired genuine thing.\n\nReally, I do not understand the meaning of this phrase.\n\nWhat is it that they are looking for and can not explain?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo put it briefly, he just wants them to have an open and honest relationship,\nhence genuine.\n\n**The longer version :**\n\nHachiman is basically fed up with the facades that happens in Service Club to\nmaintain their \"friendship\" that became more fragile in the time since Tobe's\nconfession request, Iroha's election, and Christmas event.\n\nAfter Tobe's request, the relationship between all of Service Club's members\nbecoming more distant, but they are still trying to be together because they\nall want to cling to this \"friendship\". The reason for maintaining this status\nquo is because they've never had relationships this close with other people\nbefore. Having a taste of what it could've felt like, makes them hesitant to\nlet it go, just like Hayama's group.\n\nDuring Iroha's election, Yukino thought that she would be suitable for student\ncouncil president such that Iroha would lose with dignity. Everyone knows that\nif she did, the club will end. So Hachiman forced Iroha to win and hoping with\nthat their \"friendship\" would still be intact. Though this makes things even\nmore tense.\n\nAfter that Iroha come again with Christmas request, seeing as how bad things\nalready were, Hachiman didn't want this request to involve the rest of the\nservice club and decided to take matters into his own hands. Even though he\ndid this to save their fraying relationship, both Yui and especially Yukino\nfind it even sadder because they know on why he did it.\n\nWhen Hachiman realized his methods were wrong, he's tries to request for help\nfrom both of them. A bit fed up, Yukino rejected him. After some back and\nforth between them, Hachiman can't take it anymore and basically admits that\nhe just wants a relationship where they are being honest towards each other\nand actually become \"genuine\" friends instead of \"playing\" friends. Although\nhe worded it in the most vague way possible.\n\n**_Next description will go a bit further than this genuine monologue, but\nwill provide more context_**\n\nAfter they finished Iroha's Christmas request, they sat down together, Yui and\nYukino said that Hachiman's request is still not fully completed yet (the part\nwhen he said about genuine relationship), but Hachiman didn't get it during\nthis particular time. Yui and Yukino were talking about how they will confess\ntheir feeling to Hachiman instead of maintaining status quo. That's because\nthey want to make their friendship genuine now.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the series, it happens quite often, where Naruto does something stupid\n(usually sexy jutsu related) and gets hit on the head, which follows by this\nhuge bumps on his head. This happens quite often even in other series.\n\n\n\nWhat caught my eye is that objects also seem to be affected by this\nphenomenon:\n\n\n\nAnd in a earlier episode, this also seemed to happen to the chair Tsunade\nthrew out of the window.\n\nWhat is trope called, and why is it used?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe giant head-bump thing is common in other anime (and media, at least in\nEast Asia), and is used to indicate an injury to the head, as you've stated.\nFor instance, a Chinese search for \"撞头\" on Google Image (literally \"hitting\nhead [on something]\") gives images such as this one, which don't seem to be\nconnected to any anime:\n\n\n\nI am pretty sure I have seen this in other anime before (e.g. Keroro), but I'm\nhaving trouble locating similar screen-caps. In a sense, it has become\nsomething of a \"convention\", the same way sweat-drops are kind of a\n\"convention\", which explains the usage here.\n\n**Thus, the Naruto extension of this to _inanimate objects_ appears to simply\nbe an extension of this trope -- the _objects_ have been \"injured\", and so\nlike the heads of these individuals, swollen, overly stylized bumps form on\nthem.**\n\nTV Tropes calls the head case a [\"cranial\neruption\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CranialEruption).\nHowever, any searches for the term don't produce many results beyond sites\nlike TV Tropes (and some similar site), and [this small anime\nwikia](http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Terminology) doesn't seem to\nhave a listing for the trope, despite it being a fairly prevalent thing.\n(Conversely, it doesn't have \"ahoge\".) So it seems that there's no real,\n_generally accepted_ English term for this trope.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't figure out which I am supposed to read first of Yoshiki Tonogai's\nmanga: _Doubt_ , _Judge_ , and _Secret_. I know they are all related, but in\nwhat order are they supposed to be read?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe order in which they were written is how they are supposed to be read:\n_Doubt_ , then _Judge_ , and finally _Secret_.\n\nFrom [Yoshiki Tonogai's Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiki_Tonogai):\n\n> Doubt, which was completed in February, 2009, and released in the U.S via\n> Yen Press in April 2013 and July 2013. He is also the artist and writer of\n> Judge, the sequel to Doubt, and Secret, the third in the Doubt series, all\n> connected by the recurring appearance of the iconic Rabbit mask from Doubt.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile attacking the Airfield Princess during the final episode, Nagato and\nMutsu turn up midway through the fight. After firing a volley of shells at the\ntarget, Nagato says out loud, \"Don't underestimate the power of the Big\nSeven!\"\n\n\n\nWhat significance does this hold? There are more than seven ships present, so\nit's unlikely to be that, and the ship _Nagato_ has more than seven guns both\nin the anime and in real life.\n\nSo, what is Nagato referencing when she mentions the 'Big Seven'?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a real life reference, and not an in-series one. The 'Big Seven'\nrefers to the 7 battleships that, under the [Washington Naval\nConference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Conference), could\nmount 16 inch guns. As such, they were the [only battleships to have a 16\"\narmament prior to the outbreak of World War\nII](http://www.reddit.com/r/Warships/comments/3aazbr/big_seven_battleships_on_wwii/csax38o),\nand the [dissolution of the\ntreaty.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Conference#Termination)\n\nTwo of the seven ships feature in the Kancolle anime and browser game\n([Nagato](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Nagato) and\n[Mutsu](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Mutsu)), with the other five being from\nthe US and UK. They were:\n\n * [Nagato](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Nagato) (Imperial Japanese Navy)\n * [Mutsu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mutsu) (Imperial Japanese Navy) \n * [HMS Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nelson_\\(28\\)) (Royal Navy) \n * [HMS Rodney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rodney_\\(29\\)) (Royal Navy) \n * [USS Colorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Colorado_\\(BB-45\\)) (US Navy) \n * [USS Maryland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maryland_\\(BB-46\\)) (US Navy) \n * [USS West Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_West_Virginia_\\(BB-48\\)) (US Navy)\n\nThis quote also features in the browser game of _Kantai Collection_ during the\n'Battle Start' event, where Nagato says the same quote: \"Don't underestimate\nthe power of the Big Seven\"\n\nAdditionally, in the _Kantai Collection_ set of the card game _Weiβ Schwarz_ ,\nthere is a card titled \"Do not look down on the power of the Big 7\", which\nfeatures a picture of Nagato, as well as the aforementioned quote:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the final meeting and Light's death, everyone in the room knew the\ntruth. They knew that the 13 day rule was fake, and the rule about destroying\nthe Death Note was fake, too.\n\nThey also had many evidences against Misa (the tapes, fingerprints, hair,\netc.), and Light also screamed \"Misa write their names\".\n\nAt this point, they had enough proof that Misa was Second Kira, but why didn't\nthey capture her? Why did they let her go?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe was let go because to be a GOD you have to have the brains to kill. Of\ncourse she was just killing for Light, also she almost did no harm, just what\nwas right for her lover. And then again she's suffered enough halving her\nlifespan twice now, She might have not much long to live.\n\nBut why was she let free? If you remember she's lost memory of all that she\ndid. The detectives must have thought she was innocent enough that they let\nher go.\n\nEDIT: They skipped her because she was distancing away from the main character\nand the author was too focused on its main pieces like \"L\" simply being killed\nin the middle of the anime :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nall they had was misa's clothes fiber if I recall correctly...the better\nquestion is why would they ignore the false finger prints and put the weight\non the clothes fiber...so L rightfully figured that the prints were false but\nthe fibers thats where its at?\n\nAlso you can probably presume they did go after her...didnt the show end at\nthat point\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe the author don't want to lower the excitement in climax because even\nNear going after Mesa can't prove she is second kira which may leave us a\npuzzled climax. Mesa lost her memories after forsaking the ownership of her\nnotebook. Near won't be able to prove she is second kira because N works\nalmost like L it will be same like when L tried to prove Mesa as second kira\nby confining her and Lite for month. There is one secret that Near still\nunaware of, deathnote ownership and he obviously don't know if deathnote owner\nforsaken their ownership their memories are lost and when come in contact with\ntheir deathnote they can regain their memories until their contact with\ndeathnote. Even if they captured Mesa for investigation they may never make\nher touch deathnote cause they know of second kira eye power danger. If after\nwriting Lite name in his notebook Reyuk(shinigami) will take Lites deathnote\nand go to his world. Near and other police will be left with a deathnote\nwithout shinigami. Then also they can never know of deathnote ownership.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think we need to consider all the times she was held under watch for one\nreason or another. First was under suspicion for being the second kira, during\nwhich she lost her memories and the bulk of the task force then believed she\nwas innocent and harmless (aside from L who was figuring out why she went from\ndeterminedly silent to the ditzy blonde) Then after L's death, Near manages to\nbring up Aizawa ' s doubts involving Light, and even misa. So with Ide and\nMogi to back him up, they have Mogi keep an eye on her under the guise of\npolice protection where she does nothing even hinting at ulterior motives\n(having already submitted ownership to Mikami per Light's order)\n\nFinally you have Near and the SPK keeping her and Mogi in captivity under\nsurveillance again until 1 hour before the meet up where Misa is dropped off\nat a high class hotel and allowed to call Light. Near knew full well in his\ntheorizing that Misa was the 2nd kira. But by this point it would stand to\nreason that they all deemed her no longer a threat. With the last 2 books\nburned and no sympathetic shinigami to give her a new one and restore her\nmemories, she could really do nothing about the situation and doesn't even\nknow she committed any crime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll the characters in _Mirai Nikki_ follow more or less the same style, with\none exception - [Eighth](http://futurediary.wikia.com/wiki/Kamado_Ueshita),\nwho has a strangely oversized head.\n\n> \n>\n> _Spot the culprit_\n\nWhy is this? Is there a specific reason Eighth has this appearance?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wasn't able to find anything that explicitly stated as to why her character\ndesign is that way. It is apparent that a lot of the fans do not understand\nwhy her design is that way and do not like the way she looks.\n\nI will try to explain my interpretation as to why she might have been created\nto look that way.\n\n 1. **Character Impression**\n\nDuring the series, a good number of the diary owners are sociopaths that enjoy\nkilling other people. There are a few exceptions to the trend like\n[Yuki](http://futurediary.wikia.com/wiki/Yukiteru_Amano),\n[Keigo](http://futurediary.wikia.com/wiki/Keigo_Kurusu), etc.\n[Kamado](http://futurediary.wikia.com/wiki/Kamado_Ueshita) is also part of\nthis group not wanting to have anything to do with the game, but her orphan\nchildren want her to win and form a little army to protect her. The character\ndesign that was chosen shows that she doesn't look threatening in any way and\nleads most people to believe she is harmless.\n\n 2. **Motherly Figure**\n\nAs we all know, Kamado runs an orphanage that caters to quite a few children.\nThis design could imitate how some children perceive their mother. A mother or\nfather is a very big presence in a child's life, and this over inflated head\ndesign can reflect how a mothers head may look to a small child when she is\nbending down talking to a child or infant.\n\nTaking those factors into account, that could lead to an exaggerated character\ndesign. Note that this is in no way 100% fact, as it is my general\ninterpretation as to why the artist may do this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt might be too much to ask for logic from this series, but maybe there is an\nanswer somewhere.\n\nIn Episode 2 of Humanity has Declined, the narrator discovers that the board\nof directors of the factory producing weird items is a bunch of chickens that\nwere butchered, plucked, and prepared for eating in Episode 1. They somehow\ncame to life and gained intelligence and the ability to speak by making weird\nhonking sounds. (The narrator can get overly literal subtitles of their\nlanguage using a pair of universal translator glasses provided by her fairy\ncompanion.)\n\n\n\nThe butchered chickens manage to trap the narrator in a cage and declare their\nintent to erase her memory with drugs and leave her somewhere far away to\nwatch as they complete their insidious plan to destroy the ailing human\nsociety. However, the narrator's silent assistant enters and starts taking\npictures of the chickens with his camera. For some reason, this terrifies\nthem, and they run away. Several of them fall into the factory equipment and\nbecome food during the ensuing chase; the remaining group clusters against a\nseaside cliff and leaps into the sea rather than face the camera, while \"Ave\nMaria\" plays.\n\nPretty much everything about this episode is worthy of a big question mark,\nbut I found it most puzzling that the chickens feared the camera so much that\nthey leapt to their deaths rather than face it. (Yes, really, _that_ was the\npart I found most puzzling.) Why were they so afraid of the camera?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was correct in my earlier comment - The skinned chickens don't want to be\nrevealed to humankind so they avoid being photographed.\n\nThis is revealed in the first dialogue with the chickens:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0rGjD.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dfb7B.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e2LZy.jpg)\n\nIf they knew of their existance, humanity could easily overpower them because\nof the chickens' feeble bodies. Hence they try to avoid the assistant.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gTkhm.jpg)\n\nDon't worry, the main character missed it too:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iInz6m.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first thing that comes to mind when you think of Super Sonico is probably\nher large * **_ahem_** * assets.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VReTDm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/slHNPm.jpg)\n\nSuper sonico is all over the internet and has many fan-service wallpapers,\nfigures, etc.\n\nWhat is Super Sonico actually famous for?\n\nI know she's a mascot for a gaming company, but is it purely the appeal of her\nchest that has gained her the massive fan following?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI did a little more research after writing my initial comment, though it was\npretty hard to find good information on this topic in English. What I present\nbelow is my own theory, compiled from my own interpretation of the evidence.\n\nSuper Sonico isn't the mascot of just any gaming company; she's the mascot of\n[Nitroplus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus), the visual novel\ncooperative which [gave Gen\nUrobuchi](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Nitroplus) his break\ninto the visual novel world in 2000 when he wrote the scenario for their first\ngame, Phantom of Inferno.1 Urobuchi later went on to work on the Fate/Zero\nnovels and anime, and to become one of the Magica Quartet group that created\nPuella Magi Madoka Magica. Nitroplus was also involved in the creation of the\nScience Adventure visual novels, Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, and Robotics;Notes,\nalongside another company called [5pb.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5pb.)\nThese are hugely popular works among otaku, and their rise seems to have\ntriggered the rise of Super Sonico by association.\n\nVarious sources, including [TV\nTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Nitroplus), give me the\nimpression that Nitroplus's breakthrough work was 2003's [Saya no\nUta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saya_no_Uta), another Urobuchi project. In\n2004, Urobuchi was invited by Kinoko Nasu to coauthor the Fate/Zero light\nnovels, which were released in 2006 and 2007 according to [Madoka\nWiki](https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Gen_Urobuchi). In 2011, Urobuchi worked on\nthe Fate/Zero anime and also became part of Magica Quartet and developed the\nstory for Puella Magi Madoka Magica. By 2012, Urobuchi was likely a household\nname among otaku due to his involvement in these massive hits. His involvement\nwith Nitroplus probably caused a massive boost in popularity for their work.\nAlso, the Chaos;Head/Steins;Gate/Robotics;Notes series [began in\n2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Adventure) with the initial\nrelease of Chaos;Head, and seems to have been fairly popular--it's certainly\nhad enough manga and anime adaptations that it can't have been a total\nfailure, though I'm not familiar with the series myself. All of this means\nthat Nitroplus was just starting to hit the scene in a big way around 2011.\nThis was the year Urobuchi took off, and also the year that the Steins;Gate\nanime came out. (There had previously been a Chaos;Head anime.)\n\nNow, 2011 also seems to be the year that Super Sonico really hit the scene in\na big way. Super Sonico was created by Nitroplus's Tsuji Santa in 2006 for\ntheir annual music festival, Nitro Super Sonico, according to the [Super\nSonico Wiki](http://super-sonico.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Sonico_Wiki) and\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus). However, as far as I can\ntell, the Super Sonico merchandising rocket really took off starting around\n2011. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sonico),\n2011 marked the release of the first Super Sonico album, _GALAXY ONE_. 2011 is\nalso the year the majority of Super Sonico singles were released (there was\none single released in 2010, and another song which was introduced at 2010\nSummer Comiket but not released as a single until 2011. The rest of her\nsingles and albums are clustered in 2011 and 2012). The first Super Sonico\nmanga, Super Sonico SoniKoma, and the Super Sonico visual novel, SoniComi,\nalso came out in 2011.\n\nThe manga and visual novel seem to have been the start of a massive marketing\nblitz by Nitroplus to get Super Sonico on as many screens as possible. 2014\nsaw Super Sonico: The Animation, which likely introduced the character to\nWestern audiences when it ran on Crunchyroll. There was also a second Super\nSonico game, this time for 3DS, in 2014. Super Sonico made cameo appearances\nin [tons of other\ngames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sonico#Appearances_in_other_games)\nand is slated to appear in even more.\n\nSo the chain of events suggests that Super Sonico became famous at the same\ntime that Nitroplus did, and that since then, Nitroplus has intentionally put\neffort into maintaining her popularity by releasing tie-in merchandise and\ngetting her cameos in other media. It makes sense from Nitroplus's perspective\nto spend money on this: otaku are known to become enamored of mascot-type\ncharacters (the Digi Carat gang, Hatsune Miku, Kantai Collection, Touhou, Miss\nMonochrome) and spend money on games, albums, toys, phone cards, pencil\nboards, dakimakura covers, and manga spinoffs featuring the characters, so\nSuper Sonico is a direct revenue source for the company. But as the company's\nmascot, Super Sonico also increases Nitroplus's profile in a way that even a\nsuperstar like Urobuchi can't do. She's like Nitroplus's equivalent to the\nMcDonald's golden arches, or the Disney Mickey Mouse head. Every Super Sonico\ndakimakura cover, every Super Sonico doujinshi, every piece of Super Sonico\nfanart, is an advertisement for Nitroplus. Every person who stumbles on a\nSuper Sonico doujinshi without knowing the character, and decides to look into\nher origin, is another potential buyer for Nitroplus's products--not just the\nSuper Sonico products, but also their other products like Saya no Uta and\nChaos;Head. I suspect that her popularity is going to wane soon, now that\nshe's advertising [train stations and\nbeer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sonico#Endorsements). However, for\nnow, she seems to be an important part of Nitroplus's marketing strategy.\n\n(Now we just need the Super Sonico vs. Miss Monochrome Battle of the Mascots\nrhythm game/manga/anime/visual novel, continuing the epic battle between big\nboobs and average boobs which has played out across countless anime.)\n\n### Notes\n\n1: The [Madoka wiki article on Urobuchi](https://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Gen_Urobuchi) claims Phantom of Inferno came out in 2001, but\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus) and [TV\nTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Nitroplus) agree on 2000\n(February 25th, 2000 according to Wikipedia).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 50 of _Hunter x Hunter_ (2011), Hisoka wants Gon and Killua to\n\"Play dumb,\" and pretend not to know him.\n\nWhy? What's the purpose of Gon and Killua pretending not to know Hisoka?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly, Killua and Gon were kidnapped.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x2sPVl.jpg)\n\nThere are two things in play here.\n\nThe first is that they had rapport with Hisoka. This means that they could use\nhim to their advantage later on, to break free, to take down a gang member, to\nget information from him, etc. If the gang was aware of this, they may\nintervene to stop this advantageous situation.\n\nSecond and more importantly, the gang members knowing that Hisoka knows them\ncould be deadly for all three of them. The gang could interpret that as Hisoka\nbeing a traitor, or Killua and Gon being infiltrators. In either case, the\ngang would want to eliminate Hisoka, or Killua and Gon... or both.\n\nSo, due to their **advantageous relationship** and their **potential threat to\nthe gang's security** , it was far more beneficial for all three of Hisoka,\nKillua, and Gon to pretend that they did not know one another.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _God Eater_ , Lenka and Alisa are both apparently \"New-Type\" God Eaters.\nTwo questions about that:\n\n 1. What makes someone a New-Type? That is, is that how you're born, or can you be made into a New-Type by some sort of surgery/magic/etc.?\n 2. Why are New-Types so prized? What can they do that \"old-types\" can't?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**[God Arc Definition](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=399627)**\n\n> **God Arcs** are mechanical weapons that are infused with Oracle Cells. In\n> short, the God Arc is actually an Aragami itself,with an artificial man-made\n> core called the Artificial CNS. It is currently the only weapon capable of\n> eradicating the Aragami. The God Arc can be temporary boosted by devouring\n> an Aragami.\n>\n> The God Arc is a complex weapon. As **it is\n> an[Aragami](http://godeater.wikia.com/wiki/Aragami), it is made of Oracle\n> cells- the only thing that can harm them.** The first form of God Arc was in\n> the form of a gun that shot converted Oracle Shots. At first, these guns\n> were no bigger than a pistol, due to the cores being converted coming from\n> Aragami the size of small mammals. However, with these pistols, the God\n> Eaters were able to take down bigger Aragami such as Ogretails. In a process\n> similar to natural evolution, the God Arcs then evolved to the size seen\n> today. Next in development was a God Arc made in the shape of a blade.\n> Typically, blades could not harm Aragami due to the bonds between cells\n> being too strong to unbind. However, with God Arc blades, Oracle Cells are\n> lined up along the blade's edge, which allow the blade to cut the bonds and\n> harm the Aragami.\n\nOne clear difference from being a New-Type God Eater is that as the name\nimplies, you wield a **New Type** God Arc which can be wielded either as a gun\nor a blade.\n\n> **_What makes someone a New-Type?_**\n\nThere are actually two factors:\n\n 1. > They are made into God Eaters by **injecting Oracle cells** into them, same as the old types.\n\n**God Arc Armlet**\n\n> Gods Eaters control their [God\n> Arcs](http://godseaterburst.wikia.com/wiki/God_Arc) through their armlets,\n> using intravenously injected Bias Factor as a catalyst. **In order to wield\n> a God Arc, Oracle Cells must be embedded deep inside a human body and linked\n> to his nerves** : it is essential that his genetic makeup be compatible with\n> the God Arc in question.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o0t1N.jpg)\n\n 2. **Compatibility**\n\n> It [God Arc] is completely linked to its compatible God Eater; if a God Arc\n> is wielded by a non-compatible God Eater, its Oracle cells will begin to\n> devour them. This is a fact that was, at first, without a single exception.\n\n> **New-Type God Arcs:**\n>\n> These are the newest type of God Arcs, and people who wield them are called\n> New-Type God Eaters. **People who are compatible with these God Arcs are\n> quite rare.** Unlike the Old-Type God Arcs, these God Arcs can freely\n> transform between Blade Form and Gun form. New-Type God Arcs exhibit\n> superior power as compared to Old-Type God Arcs.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tlIYi.jpg)\n\n> However, the God Arcs with this function seem to have **lower rates of\n> compatibility than others** , making Old-Type Arcs still feasible.\n\nSource: [God Eater Wikia](http://godeater.wikia.com/wiki/God_Arc)\n\n> **_Why are New-Types so prized? What can they do that \"old-types\" can't?_**\n\n> (New-Type God Arc) Recently developed by the Fenrir HQ, these God Arcs can\n> instantly switch between close-combat and long-distance attack mode, a\n> flexibility sure to prove invaluable in various scenarios on the\n> battlefield. However, its conditions for compatibility are more stringent\n> than for Old-Type God Arcs, and Matches are quite rare. Because of this,\n> there are still many unknown regarding the New-Type God Arc's effects on\n> human bodies.\n\nSource: [Wikia](http://godseaterburst.wikia.com/wiki/God_Arc)\n\n> **Development of New-Type God Arcs**\n>\n> Flaws were apparent in the two separate types of God Arc. **The blade type\n> Arc could collect Oracle cells for conversion, but could not fire them** ;\n> conversely, **the gun type Arcs could fire the shots, but had no means of\n> collecting Oracle cells short of refills** carried with the God Eater. This\n> was fixed with the development of New-Type God Arcs. These weapons had the\n> functions of both blade and gun, and could therefore fulfill a much more\n> flexible role as melee and long-range platforms.\n\nSource: [God Eater Wikia](http://godeater.wikia.com/wiki/God_Arc)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the music playing in One Piece episode 644 when Hajrudin encounters\nLucy aka Luffy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song which starts playing at 22:00 and continuing on to the scene where\nLucy/Luffy stands back up and faces Hajrudin is **ルフィ猛攻!** ( _Luffy's Fierce\nAttack!_ ) from the album [_ONE PIECE THE MOVIE Norowareta Seiken\nSoundtrack_](http://vgmdb.net/album/44982).\n\nThe song can be sampled on\n[Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00AGKEFQY/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp) and\n[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLdFWj4R5zo).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe soundtrack playing at 20:40 (when Lucy/Luffy charges Usy towards Hajrudin\nbut fails to take him down) is Track 26 **ゴムゴムが効かない?!** ( _Gomu Gomu Is\nIneffective?!_ ) in the album [_ONE PIECE \"Adventure in Nejimaki Island\" Music\nFile_](http://vgmdb.net/album/42756).\n\nYou can listen to a sample of the track on\n[Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00AG4BSYW/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp) or\n[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBbdo4ivbmQ&t=7m43s).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the song that is played in episode 11 of One Piece at 21:54?\n\nI have been dying to find out the name to the song, and I really like it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is **Overtaken** (Japanese title: 追いつめられた), and it is recorded as\ntrack 13 in [**ONE PIECE MUSIC & SONG Collection\n2**](http://vgmdb.net/album/18825).\n\nYou can listen to it on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN1zAsS3hyo)\nor a sample of the song on\n[Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B32-TV%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9/dp/B00005HLM2).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia_ in both Misha's and Aurica's Cosmospheres a\ngirl with white hair appears\n\n * In Level 4 of Aurica's Cosmosphere where she appear as Rei-chan\n * In Level 4 of Misha's Cosmosphere where she appears as Misha's Mother\n * In Levels 5 and 7 she appears as Misha's Sister\n\nIn Stage 3 we find out that the girl seen in Aurica's and Misha's Cosmospheres\nhave to be Shurelia as they have the same hair style and also in Shurelia's\nVirtual World she looks the exact same as Misha's sister\n\nNow i could understand why she would appear in Misha's Cosmosphere if the 2\nmet before Misha became the Star Singer must like how Harmonica appears in\nMisha's Cosmosphere but not in Aurica's, but Aurica had never met Shurelia\nbefore and even thought she was a robot (up until Mir's 3rd attack). while the\nCosmosphere is also a mechanic of the game to Develop Misha and Aurica, both\nhave to have passed Level 4 in order to be installed with Purger so regardless\nof route or personal choice the player will see Shurelia not wearing LINKER as\napart of the story.\n\nSo why was Shurelia appearing in both of their Cosmospheres?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's because Shurelia's will and personality can subconsciously seep in trace\namounts into the other Reyvateils' Cosmospheres due to her being the Tower\nAdministrator and residing into the Tower's Binary Field.\n\nThat said, she herself can't consciously see the events taking place in the\nCosmospheres or interfere in them because her SH Server (the storage device\nwhere the Cosmospheres are lodged) is separate from Beta-6D's, which is the\none where all other Reyvateils have their minds stored. And since the Beta-6D\nSH Server was added after her Administrator training was complete, she doesn't\nhave any power to interfere with it either\n\n(Reference:\n<http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/ARM_Backup/Ar_Portal_translation/Toukousphere/Issue_46>)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin Phase 2 we find out Bishop Falss is in fact Kyle Clancy, a former Apostle\nof Elemia from Platina who sought to release Mir before he was stopped and\nbelived dead.\n\nRadof says that the church had been mislead in that the Trio of Elemia was in\nfact Mir and Kyle knew that all along which was how he minipulated them.\n\nBut the Church existed before Kyle fall to the Wings of Horus, also one of\nthem appeared in Aurica's Cosmosphere and said she was their descended but\nKyle said that Aurica is the daughter of Mir.\n\nSo i am wondering, is the Trio of Elemia real? or was Aurica's story about\ntheir rule in the past a miss-conception from back before Mir began to hate\nhumans (when she crafted Harmonious)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Trio of Elemia are actual mythological figures in Ar Ciel that existed far\nbefore the Towers were even in planning stages: they are the protagonists of\nthe first myth to ever have been told in that planet (Stelliarhythm - Festival\nof the Stars), and they were the first three demigoddesses to have been\ncreated by the Wills of the Planet shortly after humanity was created. Each of\nthe three sisters had power over an element: Eolia could control the wind,\nFrelia the earth and Tilia the water; and since they were what gave hope to\nthe newborn humanity and allowed them to continue exist, they were revered\never since. This is also the reason why the three Origin Reyvateils are named\nafter each of the three mythical sisters: Shurelia (true name: Eolia), Frelia\nand Tilia.\n\nHowever, the Tilia that appeared in the game was no more than a disguise Mir\nused to get Aurica and Lyner to cooperate in the plans for her resurrection,\nand Aurica has zero relationship to Mir aside of them both having similar\nenough mental wave frequencies that the Tower mistakenly assigned her a copy\nof Mir's Hymn Code. The only reason Mir says that is because she considers all\nReyvateils except for Shurelia and the Star Singers as her daughters during\nher hatred-filled phase. Mir already grew out of it, as a comment she made in\nthe official fan-site Ar Portal reveals she doesn't want to be associated with\nAurica in any way, and even feared what would have happened if she ended\nhaving Aurica's personality after she took over her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - ViVid_ Vivio's Intelligent Device Sacred\nHeart, AKA Chris, takes the form of a rabbit in Standby Mode while most other\ncharacters go something they can wear (ie. Nanoha's Rasing Heart necklace,\nErio's Strada wrist watch, Shamal's Klarwind rings, Fate's Bardiche grove).\n\nWhy is this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason why Chris (Sacred Heart) take the form of a rabbit in Standby Mode\nis most likely because the rabbit form is based off from a present Vivio got\nwhen she was young, something very precious to her.\n\nIn Episode 13 of _StrikerS_ when Vivio is being treated after being rescued by\nthe Riot Force 6 Forwards Nanoha buys a white rabbit she saw in the hall and\nreturns to Vivio's room placing it by her pillow.\n\nLater in the episode Vivio is seen crying when Nanoha goes to leave to learn\nof the reason why Riot Force 6 was created. when Fate approaches Vivio to calm\nher down she picks up Vivio's rabbit, while she talks you'll notice that as\nFate moves the rabbit around Vivio's follows it with her head.\n\nyou'll also notice that the 2 look very similar (albeit the glow on the\ncheeks)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tqsI8.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6frbN.jpg)\n\n**Left:** Vivio in Strikers holding her rabbit toy. \n**Right:** Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Poster with Vivio and Chris\n\ni would suspect the rabbit has the same kind of sentimental value as Nanoha's\nand Fate's hair ribbons they traded to one another at the very end of the\nfirst season, but later on for a grown woman to be carrying a rabbit toy would\nseem strange1 so making it her device's Standby Mode preserves it's spot in\nVivio's life and thus keeping the memory of Nanoha close to her no matter how\nfar they be apart\n\n1: Vita carrying the rabbit Hayate brought her isn't strange because Vita will\n_still_ look like a child\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen anime and manga first came over to English-speaking areas, I presume it\nwas treated more like traditional national comics were, and that manga fans\nwere still primarily comic fans - rather than there being a distinction like\ntoday.\n\nWhat was the first public group that had an _anime/manga_ fandom that was\n**distinct** from western comic fandom?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [interviews with co-founder Fred\nPatten](http://otakuinabottle.blogspot.ie/2012/03/fred-patten-interview.html),\nthe _Cartoon/Fantasy Organization_ (C/FO) was the first anime/manga fanclub\nset up in 1977. Based in Los Angeles, the group started expanding into several\nspin-off groups in the 80s, including another major group in New York:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZMW3x.jpg)\n\n> 1980s C/FO New York meeting.\n\nMost ways of accessing anime & manga were limited back then. You either had to\nknow someone over in Japan, or visit one of very few Japanese bookshops.\nNearly none of which having English translations.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HrUA6.jpg)\n[(src)](http://www.fanboy.com/2011/02/what-was-it-like-to-be-an-80s-anime-fan-\nin-nyc.html)\n\nWhilst there may have been some small gatherings of friends before the C/FO,\nit was the first group to be open to the general public.\n\nMany of the early members of the C/FO became prominent figures in the\nemergence of furry fandom.\n\nUnfortunately, due to political in-fighting the splinter groups gradually\nceased to exist, leaving only the original L.A. branch active. Their [current\nwebsite](http://c_fo.tripod.com/) was last updated in 2013.\n\nEven today, Los Angeles is one of the most important places in english-\nspeaking territory for anime, hosting one of the largest conventions - [Anime\nExpo](http://www.anime-expo.org/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSometimes on convention pages I see bans on _Yaoi Paddles_ ; canoe-like\npaddles with _Yaoi_ or similar phrases (For example _Seme_ , _Uke_ or _Yuri_ )\nwritten on them.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2jSfI.jpg)\n\nI understand that someone who has a Yaoi Paddle goes around smacking people on\nthe butt with it, which presumably is why they are banned (as I've seen a lot\nof people complaining that they hurt) - but why is this a thing in the first\nplace?\n\nWhen and where did Yaoi Paddles originate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFollowing up on some stories I heard of yaoi fans I know from conventions, and\na lot of trips on the [WayBack machine](http://archive.org/web/) to find\nold/deleted posts following the first ban, I came down to this pretty\nconsistent story both online and among the fans.\n\nThe original yaoi paddle was made as a prank between 2 friends. The one\nreceiving it was a yaoi manga/doujishin artist, which made quite a bit of his\nincome this way. It is said that this event happened at [yaoi\ncon](http://www.yaoicon.com), hence the interest of other people at the time,\nand the huge surge of requests for the yaoi paddles.\n\n> I originally made the first yaoi paddle, with woodburned letters and a high\n> gloss acrylic finish for the owner of the company \"hen da ne\".\n>\n> It was meant as a joke since he and I are friends and over 33% of his\n> business relies on the sale of yaoi manga and doujinshi, and his business\n> model includes yelling out catch phrases to passerbys in con dealer rooms\n> (such as \"geeeeet your red hot yaoi books right here!\" and \"hot boys in\n> tight pants right here\").\n>\n> He liked the present so much, that he decided to mass produce them (to my\n> dismay, without my final consent). And thus, has sold them ever since.\n\nFrom [http://adf-\nfuensalida.deviantart.com/journal/15376535](http://web.archive.org/web/20090522201352/http://adf-\nfuensalida.deviantart.com/journal/15376535)\n\nThe post also said that the original yaoi paddle was invented in 2002/2003 by\n[akicafe](http://web.archive.org/web/20090403153105/http://akicafe.deviantart.com/),\nand the rights of mass production have since been bought by\n[hendane](http://hendane.com)\n\nShortly after the start of the mass production, bans started to follow fast,\ndue to the high number of \"incidents\" surrounding the paddles on cons. Several\nof these stories can be found online. All stating something along the lines of\n_\" I felt a intense pain running through my bottoms, as I turn around to see\nwho did it, I see this small girl carrying a huge yaoi paddle melt into a\ngroup of people in cosplay with more paddles\"_. Some of these cases even\nstated that the paddle broke/splintered, leading to their\n[upgrade](http://web.archive.org/web/20081201120202/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-06-02/yaoi-\npaddle-upgrade) in 2005, and also the introduction of yuri/uke paddles.\n\nIn between 2004 and 2006, the paddles gained their massive media surge in\nresponse to the bans and police involvement. Following this media surge, even\nmore bans occurred as a preventive measure on cons world wide.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nThey originate from a prank between a yaoi artist and his friend around 2002,\nfollowing up the purchase of mass production rights in between 2002-2003.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm currently reading a hilarious manga called _Clockwork Planet_.\n\nWhen I'm reading a given page, some guys _tsukkomu_ s (comments) on that page\nwith \"I used to be an engineer once.\" Basically, this pic depicts a scene that\nthe main male character expresses his love to the main female character and\ngets accepted.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yNRICl.jpg)\n\nThis scene is pretty good, but I still don't understand why some guys say \"I\nused to be an engineer.\" I've googled it but got no appropriate answer.\nTherefore, I'm very confused. Would you like to give me an explanation for\nthis weird sentence?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAh, as an engineer myself, I think I know where they're coming from, since my\nfriends have made this joke to me before. If I'm right, this isn't an in-\nseries joke, or even one related to anime & manga at all:\n\nThere's a running joke that (male) engineers are hopeless at romance and can't\npick up women, likely originating from the fact that engineering is a\nprofession that has a very skewed ratio of male to female participants. While\nthe number of female engineers is increasing over time, the difference in\nnumbers is still comfortably large enough for the joke to be made.\n\nI expect the joke they're making is that since he is no longer an engineer (\"I\nused to be an engineer\"), a girl can finally accept his feelings.\n\nNaturally, this has some traction on the internet - here are some examples\nI've found over my time:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/K2Le7.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oNc7f.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Unlimited Blade Works_ , we eventually learn that Archer was summoned as\nRin had a relic associated with him (i.e. the pendant Shiro keeps). In the\nrecent anime adaptation, there is also some statement to the effect of \"a\nrelic is required to summon a servant\".\n\nSimilar sentiment is expressed in the _Fate_ route of the visual novel. On the\nlast day, Saber tells Shiro that he must have been able to summon her as a\nresult of having had Excalibur's sheath embedded in him (similar to how it was\nembedded in Irisviel in _Fate/Zero_ ):\n\n> To summon a heroic spirit, one needs a symbol connected with that spirit.\n\nThis seems in line with the other summonings we see, such as Waver's use of a\ncloak to summon Iskandar and the trouble the Einsberns take to retrieve the\nsheath so that Kiritsugu summons a good servant. Finally, some remark Lord El\nMelloi makes about having to find a relic last minute suggests that a relic is\nalways required.\n\n**Is this (\"a relic is always required for a successful summoning\") correct?\nIf so, did Rin have anything she knew to be a relic when she summoned\nArcher?** (I feel like she didn't, but if a relic is required, I would have\nassumed that she'd be aware of this, as a reasonably competent magus.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA catalyst is not required, but most Magi prepare for one because they have\nbeen preparing to partake in the Holy Grail War for years.\n\n> Most Masters will prepare a catalyst with which to summon their desired\n> Heroic Spirit, but it is not absolutely necessary. Without a specific\n> artifact, the Grail will, rather than base it on their power, chose a\n> Servant based upon similarities to the summoner's own nature.\n\nSource: [Servant -\nSummoning](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Summoning)\n\nThis coincides with Gilles de Rais' summoning in the 4th Holy Grail War:\n\n> His Master was Ryuunosuke Uryuu, a serial killer who unwittingly performed a\n> successful summoning ritual using the blood of a murdered family. Ryuunosuke\n> lacked a cataylst so the Grail chose a servant with the closest personality\n> to Ryuunosuke. He first introduces himself to his Master as Bluebeard.\n\nSource: [Caster (Fate/Zero) -\nRole](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Caster_\\(Fate/Zero\\)#Role)\n\nYou can see a list of all the the heroes who are known to have been summoned\nwith a catalyst in the [Catalyst\nsection](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Catalyst) of the Servant page,\nand you'll notice that not only Gilles is missing.\n\nYou'll also notice that the mirror used to summon Medusa was a weak catalyst,\nso Sakura's similar personality helped summoning Medusa:\n\n> Mirror dug up from a temple in Eritrea, an item with ties to an old Earth\n> goddess of Greece. It is noted to have been a weak catalyst to Medusa, so\n> Sakura Matou's similar personality plays a role in the summoning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 7 of the second season ( _Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT_\nreleased 2013), Maria-chan gave Kobato-chan a present. It was a key necklace\nsimilar to hers. Kate – Maria's elder sister – told Kodaka that on her\nbirthday she had received a locket necklace from Maria, while Kobato received\na matching key necklace. During that scene, Kate's necklace was exposed to be\na locket.\n\nHowever, in episode 11 (not very sure) Kate was exposed to have a key\nnecklace. Why is she wearing the same necklace as that of Maria?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think this was ever explained in the anime--not that I can remember.\nHowever, in this picture, which I believe is from Kate's first appearance in\nEpisode 2 of NEXT, you can see that she has a key necklace that looks like\nMaria's and Kobato's:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IhQ1ml.jpg)\n\nIn Episode 7, Kate tells Kodaka that her birthday present from Maria was the\nshell of a dead cicada, and shows him a locket she went out and bought herself\nto put the cicada shell in.\n\nYou can see in this picture of her cameo appearance in Series I as she walks\nby in the background that she's wearing a cross necklace:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kwAaVl.jpg)\n\nThis leads me to believe that Kate has several necklaces and doesn't wear the\nsame one all the time. She probably owns a key necklace that looks like\nMaria's, in addition to a cross necklace and a locket containing the dead\ncicada shell that Maria gave her. As for why she would have a necklace like\nMaria's, there are multiple possibilities. Maybe she bought it herself so she\ncould match Maria. Maybe Maria gave it to her at some point in the past when\ntheir relationship was better. Maybe the matching key necklaces were a gift\nfrom their parents or someone else. I don't believe the anime tells us, so\nthis is all speculation.\n\nIncidentally, the light novel is no help. In the light novel, Kate and Maria\nboth wear cross necklaces. If you zoom in close on the bottom half of the\nfollowing picture, you can see Kate's.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ynXYl.jpg)\n\nAnd here's a picture of Maria's from the light novel:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FLwHYl.png)\n\naccompanied by this text:\n\n> Kobato gently removed the sticker keeping the bag shut, and took out its\n> contents.\n>\n> The item that was inside the bag was a necklace with a cross on it.\n>\n> It was the same as the one Maria's always got hanging around her neck.\n\nSo in the light novel, all three necklaces were crosses, and there was no\ninconsistency. The wikia mentions this discrepancy in its summary of Episode 7\nunder [light novel\ndifferences](http://haganai.wikia.com/wiki/NEXT_Episode_7#Light_Novel_Differences):\n\n> In the light novel, Kodaka saw Kate wearing a silver egg-shaped pendant\n> after she caught the latter spying on their house. In the anime, Kodaka saw\n> Kate wearing a key necklace instead, just like Maria. (this is probably an\n> error by the creators)\n\nThe egg-shaped pendant, in the light novel, contained the dead cicada husk\nthat Maria gave Kate for her sixteenth birthday. However, in the anime, Kodaka\napparently sees Kate wearing a key necklace, then later sees the locket when\nshe shows it to him. This supports my \"multiple necklace\" theory.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode where the Chimera Ant King Meruem is born, Shaiapouf plays some\nvigorous music with his violin. I want to know the name of the song he played.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 91 [_The Strong × And × The\nWeak_](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_91_\\(2011\\)), King Meruem\nis born. After his birth, he goes to the top of the ant hill where Shaiapouf\nplays a song titled [**In the Palace ~\nLamentoso**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ZPdaqxsnU).\n\nThis particular song can be found on the [**Hunter × Hunter (2011) Original\nSoundtrack\n3**](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter_\\(2011\\)_Original_Soundtrack_3)\nas track number 10.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the _GATE_ anime (ep. 3-4), Itami goes to Coda village, then returns to\nArnus Hill with the children and the left-behind refugees.\n\nFrom the time he left to when he returns, the JSDF camp went from a tent park\nto a fortified pentagonal structure with buildings.\n\nNow XXI century building tech can make [a 57-floor-tall building in 19\ndays](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2989769/Building-skyscraper-\nLego-style-Chinese-firm-builds-57-storey-block-record-19-days-rate-three-\nfloors-day.html), but we are talking about reinforced military-grade\nstructures with materials being shipped through a portal, so YMMV.\n\nThe anime never tells how many days Itami was away during his Coda Village\nreconaissance sortie.\n\nDoes the light novel tell of the passing of time during Itami's mission?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that it is never told. However, it is possible to make a fair\nestimate, while keeping in mind that it was never like that in the manga.\n\nIn the anime and manga alike, Itami travels to the Elven forest from Coda\nvillage, so roughly 7-13 days, if they were able to make peaceful contact and\neven were able to learn basic rules of the language. The 7-13 here refers ro\nthe time spent at Coda.\n\nTravelling to the Elven forest would take roughly 1-2 days. The time they\nspent searching for survivors in Tuka's village adds 1.\n\nWhen they return to Coda, presumably in a similar timeframe as when they\ntravelled to Coda, the entire village began to evacuate, so roughly 1 day\npassed at the start.\n\nIt is mentioned that rain and several other problems were exhausting the\nvillagers, so presuming that, we can add 2-3 days there. The fire dragon also\narrived, so that would add half a day.\n\nSo while it is never revealed, I believe that roughly 13 - 21 days were spent\nin the Coda area. However, I seriously disregard against using the anime'\ntimeline because there are multiple mistakes made while speeding up the\nsequence of events. But if you like, this is my estimate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNot only has he not used his bandana against Pica but is hardly shown wearing\nit on the arm.. I can't recall if he even had it on the arm.. He usually wears\nit to defeat the enemies but this time.. Why the exception? Is it because it\ndoesn't look good on the suit he was wearing? If it was the reason it would be\nthe stupidest reason ever! I Might be missing something.. Maybe..\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**He put it on, right before he executed his _Tactics No. 5_ and wore it\nduring his last attack on Pica.** He just did not need it before this. It was\nonly when Pica started attacking King Riku and Usopp that he needed to be\nserious and defeat Pica before there were any casualties.\n\nIt was not shown explicitly but he put it up at the last page of chapter 777,\nwhen he decides to go with plan E (aka plane, seeing he decides to fly through\nthe sky. Sorry for the lame pun, could not help it.) From this point until he\ndefeats Pica he wears his bandana. This is the only time we can see him wear\nit during the Dressrosa Arc.\n\nAs for where he put the bandana during the rest of the arc, it seems like he\nindeed hid it somewhere beneath his suit, because I can't seem to find a\nsingle panel where it was shown.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ulUt2.png)\n\nHe took the bandana off at the beginning of chapter 779 after his plan(e) was\nsuccessful.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lHhYA.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm currently only watching the anime. I hardly read the manga but I'm very\ncurious as to how humans become titans. Is it by some kind of drug similar to\nthe one Eren was injected with by his father?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis contains major unmarked spoilers if you've only watched the anime, as\nwill the linked questions.\n\n* * *\n\nIn Eren's case, it's through a particular serum that his father injected into\nhim just after the fall of Shiganshina, shown in chapter 71 of the manga. This\nserum was stolen from the [true royal\nfamily](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Reiss_family) by\nEren's father, and is used to allow the subject to turn into a titan. As well\nas Eren, Rod Reiss is also shown as being able to transform after he has some\nof the serum:\n\n> \"...he himself scrounges the fluid off the floor[...]. After ingesting it,\n> he turns into a gigantic Titan considered by Levi and Armin to be bigger\n> than the Colossal Titan.\"\n>\n> [Rod Reiss](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Rod_Reiss#Story) on the\n> SnK Wiki\n\nCertain humans that are also 'titan shifters' seem to have this ability\ninherently, or at the very least, it hasn't been covered as to where they\ngained it - this includes the likes of Annie, Reiner and Bertholt.\n\nAdditionally, if a titan shifter is eaten, a titan with a human inside will\ngain the ability to shift between two forms. This is evident in the case of\nYmir, discussed in [**this\nquestion.**](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/17210/how-does-ymir-\nturn-back-into-her-human-form)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the great victory gained by humans against the Titans in episode 13,\nwhen the trainees were collecting dead bodies, Annie was apologizing to a dead\nsoldier. Who was this? Was it Marco?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the wiki for **_[Episode 13 Primordial\nDesire](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Primordial_Desire_\\(Episode\\))_**\nit states that: \"At the same time, Annie is also looking at a corpse of a\nsoldier, apologizing to them.\" There is no name stated for the solider it was\nmost likely just the face of a fellow solider that she recognized.\n\nJean finds and identifies Marco's corpse as he is assisting in the retrieval\nof the bodies. Marco's death is off-screen, so as far as for the anime the\nexact means of the death can not be identified.\n\nArmin does manage to recognize Marco's 3D Maneuver during the attempt to\nArrest Annie, when questioned she states that she \"found it\" so there is a\npotential that she may have done something that either led to his death or had\na hand in his killing. ref([ ** _Marco\nBott_**](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Marco_Bott))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn [wiki](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Annie_Leonhart) it is stated.\n\n> Despite her seeming callousness, she has expressed a level of guilt and\n> shock, most notably when apologizing to a certain corpse after the battle of\n> Trost\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YfvIV.png)\n\nVarious sources say it was\n[Mina](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Mina_Carolina) which may be true\nbecause;\n\n> Mina is shown sitting with Annie at the tables in the background of the\n> first few episodes. That shows that they had some sort of friendship between\n> them, as Annie is asocial and would have otherwise sat alone.\n\nAs counter argument: It is stated that Mina's head is bitten off but in the\nanime there is no such scene.\n\n> After Eren's leg is bitten off suddenly by one of the Titans, she and the\n> other two attempt to kill the Titan that injured him. However, a group of\n> Titans arrive out of no where and one of them kills Nac, catching her off-\n> guard as another Titan grabs her 3D Maneuver Gear's wire, Mina killed anime\n> Mina is caught by a Titan. knocking her over to the wall. When she realizes\n> where she is, it is already too late for her to escape; she is grabbed by\n> the Titan and her head is bitten off\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o3PEC.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the recent release of volume 77, I think it was, its revealed\nthat Annie did have a hand in Marco's death. After Marco overheard Bertholdt\nand Reiner's conversation about their true identities, he approached them and\nReiner tackled Marco. After Annie came along, Reiner ordered her to take his\n3DMG and leave him stranded. They watched a titan eat Marco in horror.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConcerning chapter 77, Reiner asked Annie to take Marco's 3D gear. She\nrefused. Then Reiner manipulated her and forced her to do it by threatening\nher and her father. After much hesitation, she finally did it and she watched\nMarco being eaten. She cried a lot because Marco was being eaten.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, when it shows Jean talking to the lady who was asking about Marco, it\nshows a headless person on the roof. So I believe that was Mina. The person\nAnnie was apologizing to was not Mina. Of course, it wasn't Marco either since\nhe was bitten into. She could've even just have been apologizing to a random\ndead person.\n\nIf you read the manga, it does show how Reiner was forcing Annie to take of\nMarco's gear. Reiner, Bertl, and Annie were each saddened about Marco's death.\n\nEven so, maybe Annie was apologizing to Marco. Reiner probably wanted her to\ntake the body and dispose of it herself. She knew Jean would come by, knowing\nthey were friends, so she propped it against a wall instead. That is my\npersonal belief.\n\nAnnie has feelings too. It shows her crying over Marco in the Manga. Of\ncourse, she would do something like this to make sure Jean would know about\nMarco's death.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe corpse is shown to have 3DM gear attached which makes it impossible to be\nMarcos corpse as his gear was removed by Annie before his death. The hair on\nthe corpse is dark and long, in the shape of a pigtail. It is very obvious\nthat the corpse is Mina Carolina's.\n\nFurthermore, Mina and Annie were illustrated to be very close as they sat\ntogether in the dining room, which would explain her apologizing to the corpse\n- she was her friend. Finally, Mina's head was bitten off which is shown in\nthe image as well. If it was Marco's corpse it would be against the wall, like\nwhen Jean found him, but this corpse is on the floor, not against a wall, so\nit could not have been Marco.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think she she is saying sorry to Marco, but she's substituting some cadets\nbody for Marcos, as Annie would assume the Titan wouldn't leave a body.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's Ruth D. Kline. Type up the episode on its wiki page and the list of\ncharacters featured there will show Ruth D. Kline so one of the deceased but\nmore importantly, the one that Annie Leonhart was apologising to............\nI'm glad I found it because Marco's death was outrageous. Such a fun loving\nguy..... killed due to treachery...... Jean should've beaten them all to a\npulp..........\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a very old post but I’d like to give the confirmed answer. Annie was\napologizing to Marco because it’s her fault he died. She took his maneuvering\ngear so that a Titan would eat him; she did this because Marco overheard a\nconversation between Reiner and Bertolt about “using my Titan,” they obviously\nhad no other choice but to eliminate all possibilities of their involvement\nwith Marley, the Colossal and Armored Titans. and the fall of Zhinganshina\nbeing known. Although it’s phenomenal character building, Annie who was raised\nto believe the island eldians are devils incarnate and pure evil, apologizing\nto one of said demons, it really shows the cognitive dissonance and dilemma\nAnnie was going through mentally.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that Annie was apologizing to Mina Carolina, because the corpse had\npigtails along with long black hair, as Mina had. Also it wasn't Marco because\nhis head was bitten into and he was half of a body, also Marco had his ODM\ngear taken from.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a question really about how the spiritual body is \"comprised\" How and\nwhy do shinigami bleed, have internal organs etc, it is shown they do not need\nfood, so why a digestive tract at all.\n\nAll things in soul society is made of reishi, are we to believe reishi is the\nequivalent of \"atoms\" or \"particles\". \"Spirit particles\" is commonly used to\ndescribe energy that a quincy uses... so the main question is... In cannon,\nhas it been explained why shinigami have a body that is still basically\nhuman...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe you've answered your own question - it's not _really_ blood that's\ndraining from a shinigami, it's the reishi of that person draining away, thus\nweakening their soul. Ichigo and co (and the viewers) only _perceive_ it as\nblood because that's something our minds can actually grasp and understand. In\nmore extreme cases, such as Ulquiorra, when critically injured, the person may\nsimply disintegrate directly into particles before one's eyes, due to a sudden\nuncontrolled collapse of spiritual energy. Nell's wound results in rapid and\nongoing \"bloodloss\" (reishi-loss) in her adult form, forcing her to 'reduce'\nher 'mass' back to a smaller size, that of a child.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Short Version:\n\nShinigami bleed because they have blood. Thanks to science-minded characters\nlike Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Szayelaporro Grantz and their talk of\norgans and nerves, we know that a shinigami's body has these components and\nfunctions very much like a living human's body. Thus, we can infer they also\nhave blood vessels and blood.\n\n## Long Version:\n\nThe question of what sort of substance a soul is made up of is one that many\nphilosophers have taken on through the ages. A follow-up question would be how\nthis substance interacts with other substances. _Bleach_ seems to give partial\nanswers to these questions for the universe in which it exists.\n\nSo, in Bleach, there are two substances: The substance that makes up a living\nhuman body (physical matter), and the substance that makes up a Shinigami and\nWholes (Reishi). As it turns out, in the world of _Bleach_ these substances\nare very similar. Living humans and spirits both have organs and bleed. Though\nthere is some uncertainty with how physical matter and reishi interact, at\nleast when separate in their own worlds (the World of the Living and the Soul\nSociety) they behave in similar manners.\n\nIn western culture, we tend to view spirits and the afterlife in a very\nethereal way. The substance of the soul and the body are considered to be very\ndifferent. This is probably why it seems so strange in _Bleach_ that ghosts\ncan bleed. The idea of a more physical afterlife was not unknown in the\nancient world, though, and can be seen in the [Norse\nValhalla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla), where fallen men eat,\ndrink, and do battle. Also, many Christian denominations believe that Jesus\nascended to heaven with his physical body and that there will be a physical\nresurrection of the body at the end of times.\n\nAlso relevant: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection> and\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(religion)>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 5, immediately after Eren misses his shot to the Colossal Titan and\nit reverts to human form, I looked from multiple angles but there were no\nhumans.\n\nHowever, given what we know later, one would expect to see\n\n> Bertolt Hoover\n\nbut they are not visible in the scene. How were they able to escape in the\ntime before Eren attached to the wall and looked down?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned in [@mirroroftruth's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/23809/how-does-the-\ncolossal-titan-vanish#comment34220_23809), an experienced Titan Shifter can\neasily morph between both their forms quickly, meaning it wouldn't be\ndifficult for Bertolt to swiftly escape the body of his Colossal Titan.\nAdditionally, if he already had 3D Maneuver Gear equipped (like Annie does in\nepisodes 20/21 of the anime, mentioned in [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/10030/how-was-annie-\nleonhart-able-to-get-out-of-her-titans-form/10034#10034)), escaping the area\nquickly would not have been an issue. Given the scenario of episode 5, it's\nhighly unlikely that he _didn't_ have this gear on his person.\n\nAlso, don't forget that the Colossal Titan is emitting an intense amount of\nheat and steam:\n\n> \"It is also constantly releasing jets of steam from the surface of its\n> body...\n\nAnd this can be amplified as a defensive mechanism, seen in the attack on Wall\nRose:\n\n\n\n> \"...he possesses a powerful defense mechanism that involves him releasing\n> large amounts of extremely hot and pressurized steam from his body. The\n> steam has enough force to deflect any cables shot from the 3DMG and burn\n> away or repel close-range fighters.\"\n>\n> Both excerpts taken from [Bertolt\n> Hoover](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Bertolt_Hoover) on the SnK\n> wiki\n\nWith the disappearance of such a massive body, the amount of steam produced\nwould create a very effective combination of a repellent and a makeshift\nsmokescreen. This would have been ample for Bertolt to escape from the scene\nwithout being seen.\n\n* * *\n\nThis is confirmed on page 22 of chapter 72 - in the bottom left panel, there\nis a picture of Bertolt escaping while near a damaged wall. His 3D Maneuver\nGear is clearly visible and he's under the cover of steam.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 96 of the manga\n\n> It is showed that Reiner climbed up the wall in his titan form while\n> bringing Bertholdt and Annie.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs shown in episode 17, the Female Titan is after Eren, looking for him in the\nformation outside the walls. Why is the Female Titan after Eren?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of episode 13 of [_Anime de Wakaru\nShinryounaika_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/27911/Anime_de_Wakaru_Shinryounaika),\nRyou's face is partially covered by a triangle with the SMPTE colour bars:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yeukg.jpg)\n\nAt first, Ryou just keeps talking as if everything is as expected. But then he\nseems to notice this blocking his face, and so he tries to step away from\nbehind this triangle so that he isn't blocked by it, though the triangle\nfollows him around:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuK0v.jpg) \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkgYM.jpg)\n\nIn either situation, neither Asuna nor Himeru seem to paid any mind to the\ntriangle with the SMPTE colours.\n\nThen, it simply goes away, and it's as if it never happened. No one makes\nmention of it again, nor is it explained.\n\n**Was this a reference to something else I missed? \nWhat was the meaning of having partially blocked Ryou's face with a triangle\nwith the SMPTE colour bars?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?_ season 1 episode 11, there's a song playing at\n11:24 and ends at roughly 12:26 ([YouTube video by\nFunimation](https://youtu.be/mhdAPS3Fb70?t=11m24s), region-locked for North\nAmerica).\n\nWhat is the name of the song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song playing is OST piece 19 called \"Yami no chikara\"\n\nThis song were included in the the second released OST set with specials by\n**Shinji Kakijima** whom composed all the songs through out the [kore-wa-\nzombie-desu-ka](/questions/tagged/kore-wa-zombie-desu-ka \"show questions\ntagged 'kore-wa-zombie-desu-ka'\") series\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Attack on Titan_ has lots of Germanic features such as the music and wall\nnames. In the case of the walls:\n\n> \"Rose\" was the East Germany's secret codename plan to build the Berlin Wall.\n\nWhere does the other wall names Sina and Maria come from? Are there any\nreferences to the walls' names inside the story-line?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think you can have two (or possibly more) interpretations for this. One\nbeing a dance or music; the other being to accomplish something with little to\nno effort. Are these two interpretations correct or is it just the former\nthat's correct?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI couldn't find a source that explicitly stated the meaning to the name of the\nepisode. I agree with your interpretations with both of them fitting moments\nin the episode. So let's break down the episode:\n\n**\"[ _Waltz for Venus_](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Waltz_For_Venus)\"**\n\nVenus is the setting for most of this episode so that fits just fine, the\nchallenge is what the waltz stands for as. Stated on Merriam Webster the word\n**[_Waltz_](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waltz)** can be a\ndance/music with a time signature of 3/4. This particular definition doesn't\nseem to have any real relevance to the episode, but if we take the whole\ntimeframe in which **_[Rocco\nBonnaro](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Rocco_Bonnaro)_** is eluding\n[**_Piccaro Calvino_**](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Piccaro_Calvino)\nthis could be considered a \"dance\".\n\nThe reason I say this because\n[**_dance_**](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dance) as a verb can mean\nto move quickly or nimbly. This is why sometimes in sports, for example\nAmerican football, sometimes sports announcers will say a player \"danced\naround the defense\", meaning they eluded the defense. So I don't think it is\nthat much a stretch to say Rocco was \"dancing\" away from Piccaro.\n\nAnother reference from the episode that can be used is when\n**_[Spike](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Spike_Spiegel)_** and\n**_[Faye](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Faye_Valentine)_** take a\ncommercial shuttle into Venus. They are doing this to catch some hijackers and\ndefeat them very easily. This ties into the other definition of waltz being\nused as a verb and means to \"to succeed at something easily\".\n\nNow this is in no way 100% the reason as to why the episode is titled this way\nbut merely an interpretation as to why it could be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhich chapters does the anime cover? Where should I start reading in order to\ncontinue from the anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime covered about the first 4 volumes of the manga.\n\nIf you want to pick up the manga then starting at about chapter 16 would be a\ngood choice.\n\nIf I remember correctly there was a little left out in the final episode of\nthe series, but nothing critical.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Chaos;Head Visual Novel, the protaganist's room has lots of anime\nmerchandise scattered around. Behind his PC he has a large set of shelves with\nanime characters on them:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Yg1f.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jp0cQ.jpg)\nSome gameplay of this scene can be seen on\n[YouTube](https://youtu.be/BlpA2NV2AXQ?t=1250)\n\nI've also seen this image online, so perhaps one is changed in a remake or a\nspinoff or a different scene or something?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TF1kg.jpg)\n\nThis one has figurines of\n[Seira](http://chaoshead2.wikia.com/wiki/Seira_Orgel), an in-game fantasy\nanime character, and the other figures seem fairly generic -- so I presume\nthey're not from other shows.\n\nThe first image's characters are much more distinctive though and I can\ninstantly recognise Saber from Fate/stay night.\n\n**What are the other series represented here?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Chaos;Head (PC Version)\n\n * **Top** : Hazuki ( _Demonbane_ ), Another Blood ( _Demonbane_ ), Al Azif ( _Demonbane_ ), Ruri Hadou ( _Demonbane_ , Zanmataisei ver), Ruri Hadou ( _Demonbane_ , Kishin Hishou ver), Ignis ( _Jingai Makyou_ ), Franco Il Nero ( _Satsuriku no Jango_ ), Alfie ( _Satsuriku no Jango_ ), Ignis ( _Jingai Makyou_ ), ???, Donne Anonime ( _Satsuriku no Jango_ ), Mahiro Sendou ( _Memories Off 5: Togireta Film_ ), ???, Euretta ( _Eternal Fantasy_ ), ???\n * **Middle** : Rebecca ( _Gekkou no Carnevale_ ), ???, Rin Tohsaka ( _Fate/stay night_ ), ???, ???, Yume Asakura ( _Da Capo II_ ), Otome Asakura ( _Da Capo II_ ), Anna ( _Gekkou no Carnevale_ ), Perla ( _Gekkou no Carnevale_ ), ???, Ruri Hadou ( _Demonbane_ , Zanmataisei ver), Saber ( _Fate/stay night_ ), Leica Crusade ( _Demonbane_ ), Franco Il Nero ( _Satsuriku no Jango_ )\n * **Bottom** : ???, Mahiro Sendou (Memories Off 5: Togireta Film), Euretta (Eternal Fantasy), Donne Anonime ( _Satsuriku no Jango_ ), Otome Asakura ( _Da Capo II_ ), Anna ( _Gekkou no Carnevale_ ), ???, Alfie ( _Satsuriku no Jango_ ), ???, Al Azif ( _Demonbane_ , nendoroid), Jessica ( _Gekkou no Carnevale_ ), Leica Crusade ( _Demonbane_ ), Rider ( _Fate/stay night_ ), ???, Anna ( _Gekkou no Carnevale_ ), Arcueid Brunestud ( _Tsukihime_ ), Lunaria ( _Gekkou no Carnevale_ )\n * **Desk Shelf** : Noel ( _Gekkou no Carnavale_ ), Lunaria ( _Gekkou no Carnavale_ )\n\n## Summary\n\n * Nitro+ \n * _Demonbane_\n * Al Azif\n * Ruri Hadou\n * Leica Crusade\n * Hazuki\n * Another Blood\n * _Jingai Makyou_\n * Ignis\n * _Satsuriko no Jango_\n * Franco Il Nero\n * Donne Anonime\n * Alfie\n * _Gekkou no Carneval_\n * Anna\n * Lunaria\n * Noel\n * Rebecca\n * Perla\n * TYPE-MOON \n * _Tsukihime_\n * Arcueid Brunestud\n * _Fate/stay night_\n * Saber\n * Rin Tohsaka\n * Rider\n * Circus \n * _Da Capo II_\n * Otome Asakura\n * Yume Asakura\n * _Eternal Fantasy_\n * Euretta\n * KID \n * _Memories Off 5: Togireta Film_\n * Mahiro Sendou\n\n# Chaos;Head NOAH (Console Version)\n\n * **Top** : Rider ( _Fate/stay night_ ), ...\n * **Middle** : Seira Orgel ( _Chaos;Head_ ), ...\n * **Bottom** : Saber ( _Fate/stay night_ ), ...\n * **Desk Shelf** : ...\n\n## Summary\n\n * Nitro+ \n * _Chaos;Head_\n * Seira Orgel\n * TYPE-MOON \n * _Fate/stay night_\n * Saber\n * Rider\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn what is presumably the \"good ending\" of the Unlimited Blade Works route,\nSaber stays after the Grail is destroyed, because Rin has turned her into a\nfamiliar. (I also got the sense that Shiro was supposed to aid Rin in\nsupplying prana to Saber by having sex with her.)\n\nHowever, everything up to the end is identical to the path taken in the true\nending, _except_ for the fact that Shiro spends more time bonding with Saber\n(and less with Rin) in the path to this ending. If so, why does Saber remain\nin one ending and not the other, given that:\n\n * Everything Rin did up to the end should have been identical in either outcome in UBW\n\n * Saber should have disappeared (as stated before the final battle) with the destruction of the Grail. However, whether or not this statement about Saber is _entirely_ correct may be slightly debatable, per content from the rest of the _Fate_ series.\n\n> In the true end of Heaven's Feel, Rider remains after the destruction of the\n> Greater Grail, because Sakura still has a lot of prana on account of her\n> being a copy of the Holy Grail vessel. In _Fate/Zero_ , we see Gilgamesh\n> pull Kotomine out of the rubble, and in the Fate route, we learn that he has\n> stayed around for the last ten years, partly by obtaining energy from the\n> orphans of the fire.\n\nDid Rin just pull more strings to try to keep Saber, or did Saber have more\nreason to try to stay because of her connection to Shiro?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason Saber stays in the good ending but not the true ending is\nspecifically because of the love between Shiro and Arturia. Under Shiro's\ncommand, she has a strong reason to destroy the grail and also to claim the\ngrail. While she may want to stay with Shiro, which not using up the command\nseals would allow, her desire for the grail and her desire to stay with Shiro\nwould both strongly prevent her from destroying the grail, thus resulting in\nShiro's use of the last command seal, releasing the summoning that maintains\nSaber. However in Unlimited Blade Works Saber is released from Shiro at one\npoint and makes a pact with Rin.\n\nThen, following the path with Rin as her master and still focusing on her\nallows Saber to fall in love and have no opposing desires in relation to the\nHoly Grail. Falling in love with Shiro and becoming dedicated to its\ndestruction for multiple good reasons throughout the UBW route means she's\nfree to destroy it herself without any compelling action of any kind. No\ncommand seal needs to be used, so her summoning isn't canceled when its\ndestroyed.\n\nThis is based on logical thought on my part though: I've watched UBW and FSN,\nbut they say the FSN anime is butchered and the UBW anime follows the\nconclusion to the true path. I've not seen the good ending for Unlimited Blade\nWorks, I recently started through the Fate portion of _Fate/Stay Night_ and am\nworking towards UBW, where I'll likely find the good ending before Heavens\nFeel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the visual novel nothing is told. The anime clarifies quite a bit:\n\nTrue ending: Rin stares as saber disappears (no running from Rin). After a\nwhile Saber starts her speech: Basically congratulations, I would have really\nliked to stay but Shiro has you (it is sooo clear she can be easily convinced,\nbut Rin didn't do anything). In this ending it is also clear Rin is head over\nheels for Shirou and realises he doesn't care that much for saber.\n\nGood ending: Rin runs like berserker to save saber (it's just a few meters\nthough). Now the big question, Why did Rin saver her? There are 2\npossibilities:\n\nA) She doesn't love Shiro that much since she didn't receive enough points. I\nwould find it hard to believe though because of how much she insists\nafterwards he's hers and that saber and her will teach him magic and martial\narts on a daily basis. Also, why get so angry then when she considers they're\nflirting? And why would Rin also say: You want her to stay, so it's alright\n(this is said in the VN). Another reason I don't think it's likely is because\nin the whole VN Rin always gives Shirou what he wants: Fate (she helps\nbringing saber and Shirou together); UBW (if you just want Rin, you get just\nRin. If you're also interested in saber Rin runs to save her); HF (she wants\nhim to be with Sakura and be happy). You could argue it is because Rin doesn't\nlove him a lot, but 90% of the time she's risking her life because of him (and\ndies a few times due to that in the bad endings). Sakura can't do that even if\nshe wants to and saber does it out of her contract (at least during the first\npart of each route). I've always imagined Rin as Shirou's guardian angel, and\nthe only reason they turn into a couple in UBW is because he realises that\neven before the war started she saved him by consuming her most powerful\nweapon.\n\nB) She knows in this ending Shirou would almost die of sorrow if saber goes\n(not so much as the fate route but not that far away either). Well, this is\nwhat I believe happens. The reason why Rin keeps insisting saber is her\nfamiliar and hers would therefore be because:\n\n * She doesn't want them to get romantically attached (in the VN she tells them not to flirt), she just wants saber to watch over him (so he doesn't become archer) and support him and make him happy.\n\n * Imagine Rin gives saber back. Well, this would be a threesome whether they want it or not. Rin not having a link with saber = having sex with her, the same goes for Shirou. Now, with the link Shirou and Rin can become a couple and mana be supplied constantly without sex. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs someone who completely finished the Visual Novel (including the secret\nscene for viewing all the tiger dojos) I believe I am well qualified to say\nthis: The difference is not clear. It could be said that Rin loved Shirou so\nmuch that she chose to keep Saber (at the cost of 80% of her reserves) it\ncould also be said that she kept Saber for the prestige of having a Pseudo-\nDivine spirit as a familiar. It could even be said that it was to give Saber a\nsecond chance at life. In the end it's up to the viewer to decide.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKyle mohr, I read everything as well (Fate VN, fate hollow and anime =P)\n\nAs I said at the beginning of my last post, the VN clarifies very little. Even\nso there's some evidence to defend my point of view (which I stated in my\nprevious post). Something I didn't mention before but is quite relevant is\nthat Rin either subsconciously or conciously chooses Archer (Shirou) over\nSaber. She asks Archer to remain in this world and cries when he doesn't\naccept. This happens in both the good and true ending (right before the good\nending would come archer's scene). I think that if Archer had accepted Rin's\nproposal, both the true and happy endings would be the same (Rin - Shirou -\nShirou). I do believe in the good ending, Rin runs to save Saber because of\nhow much Shirou cares for her (at least 4 points given to her). Even so by\nasking Archer to stay afterwards Saber would have left this world had Archer\naccepted. (There's not enough mana for both of them and Rin knows it. She also\nknows Saber isn't selfish to stay that way. By asking Archer she's in a way\nbetraying Saber, that's why she thinks \"I know I shouldn't ask\", even though\nshe asks, and Archer says \"I do not know if you will keep your contract with\nSaber, but I am not qualified for that.\")\n\nThen again, I guess if you really push it, it could also be said she does it\nfor selfish reasons. (You mentioned \"It could also be said that she kept Saber\nfor the prestige of having a Pseudo-Divine spirit as a familiar.\") Well, that\nis a possibility: maybe she wants a powerful servant and she just happens to\nfind Archer more adequate to her needs. She may also want a harem and 2\nShirous are better than one so she's saying to Saber: I really wanted to give\nyou a second chance in life but since I'd have to monitor your every move\n(cause you're into Shirou...) I'd much rather give that second chance to\nArcher and have 2 boys head over heels for me.\n\nThe only clear thing is that Rin prioritizes Shirou and Archer. (Even after\nhis betrayal, which almost kills her at some point, her mind is 100% set in\nmaking Archer live with her no matter how many VN points she is assigned from\nShirou. This shows how much she cares for Shirou. After all she does say at\nsome point in the VN: \"it doesn't matter if he betrayed me, Archer is\nShirou.\")\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was to make him happy. Just watch this video (minutes 9-16) in which future\nRin talks to present Rin in fate hollow ataraxia. At some point future Rin\nsays: Rather than becoming happy together, I will, with no questions asked,\nand more than anyone else, give him happiness.\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9thish4tmk4> In the good ending Shirou's\nhappiness depends a lot on saber staying, that's why Rin does all she can to\nmake her stay.\n\nWhat word does define Rin?: Tsundere that hides her feelings and pretends to\nact out of selfishness. I will translate her tsundere words:\n\nShirou asks Rin: Why did you keep her? Rin asnwers: Because she is the most\npowerful servant. Translation: \"I did it for you\" (because otherwise it\ndoesn't make sense that in the true ending she doesn't keep saber or how much\nshe implores archer to stay as her servant when there's not enough prana for 2\nservants).\n\nRin says: \"\"Saber is mine and so are you\" Translation: You are MINE and I'd\nsuffer a thousand deaths before giving you saber back so that you can fuck her\nevery day (Because that's how bad Shirou is as a mage. Unlike Rin, Shirou\nsupplies magical energy by fucking. A link is never created, it is just\nendless fucking).\n\nRin says: \"I'll need you to help me supply saber. I won't be as bad as saber\nbut I'll still be an inconvenience\"; \"I'll supply saber with magical energy\nand you will give me a boost\" Translation: Keep your hands off Saber, you\nhorny dog! Eh? You can't hold it? Hmph, i-it can't be helped. I will l-let you\ndo me, OK? It's not like I want to f-fuck or anything, baka! I just need mana\nfor Saber!\n\nLuckily future Rin leaves the tsun part and becomes a love-struck caring wife\nthat doesn't conceal her feelings.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTrue End: Saber drew her conclusion from watching Shirou's conflict with\nArcher and gives up the Holy Grail. Although its not the \"perfect\" end like\nFate, she still managed to find her answer. She knows that Rin will make\nShirou happy and keep him hinged to reality, so she peacefully sever her\ncontract with Rin and disappear (as all 3 Command Seals at that point are\nused)\n\nGood End: Due to the increased affection between Saber and Shirou, she decided\nshe wanted to watch over him and Rin. Rin decide not to cut the contract,\npartially because she wanted Shirou to be happy, partially because she wanted\nSaber to be happy (from Fate route Boy meets Girl meets Girl, Rin is a\nconfirmed bisexual and is attracted to Saber).\n\nSo Good End is Rin's harem essentially\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe difference lies in the way Shirou distributes his affection points. \nIn the good ending Shirou gives Saber a certain number of them whereas in the\ntrue ending Shirou only wants Rin and doesn't pay attention to Saber.\n\nI believe the best way to understand why Rin only brings her in the good\nending is to know what she does in every route. My conclusion is that it was\ndone for Shirou's sake. If we start with the routes in which Shirou loves\nSaber we have\n\n * Fate route: At the beginning Rin doesn't want Shirou and Saber to be together. When Saber ran out of magi and was about to die Rin told Shirou she'll disappear as he can't give her mana. She was deliberately letting her die. After a while Shirou is taken by Illya. Rin goes to save him. There are a few times where Rin tells Shirou to abandon Saber as she's too weak to go on, but he doesn't, he carries her. It isn't until they are all about to die that Rin says Mmm even if you're inexperienced and can't transfer mana through the master-servant pact you can sex her as your semen contains lots of magic.\n\nOnce he falls in love with Saber, Rin helps him get her. Rin helps Shirou plan\nSaber and Shirou's date. At the end Rin wasn't there to save Saber because she\nwas at the Emiya house close to dying because of heavy injuries. Fortunately\nin the \"last episode\" we get Saber and Shirou's true happy ending.\n\n * Unlimited Blade Works Good Ending: Shirou gives Saber affection points and Rin brings her. They all live happily. Rin supplies mana through the master-servant link as she's an experienced magician. Shirou has to sex them as it is the only way he can supply magic.\n\n * Fate Hollow Ataraxia: 6 months after some route Rin revives Saber and gives her to Shirou as he needs her. Shirou was so happy his eyes are watery and he can barely see. Because of different reasons there's no need to give her mana so this time Rin makes Shirou Saber's master as she's not needed to give her mana. By the end of the game he's still Saber's master. \n\nThe routes in which Shirou doesn't love Saber\n\n * Unlimited Blade Works true ending: Shirou deliberatey focuses on Rin and doesn't pay attention to Saber. Rin doesn't bring her home.\n\n * Heaven's Feel: Shirou wants Sakura. Saber becomes an obstacle. Rin supports Shirou against Saber/Dark Sakura in order to save Sakura, which leads to Saber dying and Shirou getting Sakura. \n\nSo, by comparing what Rin does in every route regarding Saber I've come to the\nconclusion Rin only saves/resurrects... Saber when Shirou needs her and most\ntimes Rin won't even be with them. The closest Rin gets to Saber is UBW good\nending where all 3 are living happily because Shirou loves Rin but at the same\ntime he needs Saber. The reason she becomes Saber's master in UBW is to save\nShirou who was seconds from dying and at the end of the good ending she's the\nonly one that can give her mana through a link and has enough mana to sustain\nher properly (though boosts are still needed).\n\nThe rest of the times Rin either hands Saber to Shirou even though she can\nhave her (Ataraxia) or simply doesn't try to get her for her own gain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I began watching _Anohana: The Movie_ after completing the series. In the\nmovie, there's this scene where Anaru is writing a letter to Menma.\nUnfortunately, the contents of the letter are left untranslated. Can someone\nplease tell me what Anaru wrote in the letter?\n\nHere is the screenshot of the letter:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BGb8.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTranscript:\n\n> めんまに[謝]{あやま}りたいから、お[願]{ねが}い[叶]{かな}えようって[思]{おも}ってた \n> I want to apologize to Menma, so I think my wish has been granted.\n>\n> いつからか... いつからか、[私]{わたし}... じんたいが[好]{す}き \n> Since when... Since (who knows) when... I fell in love with Jintai.\n\nいつからか means [“since some time or another; since who-knows-\nwhen”](http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E4%BD%95%E6%99%82%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81%8B),\nbut I am not very sure how to put it to make it sound natural in English.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes the fourth progenitor, Kojou Akatsuki, have two kids — one with Himeragi\nYukina and another one with Asagi Aiba?\n\nWell, when I saw the last episode it did not seem like that to me. However,\nmany sites like [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_the_Blood)\nclaim so.\n\nCan anyone give me definite evidence? (if possible with pictures)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo to answer your question,\n\n> yes, Kojou has 2 kids.\n\nAccording to Wikipedia and from what I remember,\n\n> Yukina and Kojou has a kid that looks a lot like Yukina except for a few\n> minor differences like the eyes. Yukina's kid, Reina, has Kojou's eyes and\n> can also summon familiars like Kojou. Not much is known about Moegi, Kojou's\n> kid with Asagi, except that she sent Reina back in time to chase a man-made\n> magical beast that I believe attacked Kojou and Yukina.\n\nYou can read more about it in these links:\n\n * <http://strike-the-blood.wikia.com/wiki/Reina_Akatsuki>\n * <http://strike-the-blood.wikia.com/wiki/Moegi_Akatsuki>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, that was evident in the last episode of season 1. In the end, you can see\nthat there was another girl who was the daughter of Asagi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Kojou has a kid, but I believe that Moegi isn't Asagi's and Kojou's\nchild.\n\nThe reason why I think this is because Asagi's hair was originally black, so I\ndon't get it why Moegi's hair is greenish yellowish. And on the last episode\nof season 1, Reina said, \"I got to see [my] dad before he died.\" Moegi\nresponded, \"No no no, [that man] can never die.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's this scene in _Nichijou_ episode one where a Grim Reaper is asking\neveryone:\n\n> Do you know what K.Y. means?\n\nNobody replies him, maybe because they're scared of him. Finally he asks\nanother reaper dressed in blue, and he replies:\n\n> Someone clueless, like you.\n\nIs this supposed to be a joke? I don't really understand what happened.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sWRzX.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hx7X9.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nK.Y. stands for _Kuuki Yomenai_ or [\"can't read the\natmosphere/situation\"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/372/when-\njapanese-say-ky-on-the-internet-what-does-it-mean-exactly).\n\nThe joke is that the Grim Reaper does not realize that he is a scary sight in\nthe human world, and that asking questions like that isn't appropriate. The\nsecond Grim Reaper knows what it means and is basically saying that he isn't\nreading the atmosphere.\n\nAnother translation could be \"not taking hints\" - like when you start cleaning\nup after a party and some of the guests _fail to read the atmosphere_ and get\nready to leave.\n\nReference: [Japan Talk - Why You Need To Read The Air in\nJapan](http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/kuuki-yomenai)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Nichijou_ episode one, Yuuko gets hit by a _Kokeshi_ , and then by an\n_Akabeko_ on her head. She says that it could've been worse if she were struck\nby a Perishable, before actually getting hit on the head with a piece of\nSalmon.\n\nI'm not sure if I get this. Why would it be worse? Why would she even say\nthat? Is this some cultural reference, or am I just reading too much into\nthis?\n\n> I should be glad nothing perishable struck me. It could have been worse.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5aWfSm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I4lxQm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPerishables are worse because kokeshi is a solid wooden item and does not\nstain or make your hair dirty, whereas salmon would smell, and soil the hair.\nThe joke is in the fact that she mentions the possibility of something like\nsalmon falling on her head right before it happens. She mentions that because\nit is very unlikely that any object would fall from the sky and hit one's\nhead, and it happens twice in a row, which is supposed to add to comic effect.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember watching a few episodes of this anime, which was an action anime\nthat featured guns.\n\nIn one of the episodes, the two protagonists (a male with black hair, and a\nblonde female, both teens I believe) were stuck on a hijacked bus along with\nmany other people. The two protagonist had communication with some sort of\nheadquarters. I believe there was a threat to the bus saying that if the bus\nwere to slow down or stop, it would get blown up. Therefore, the bus driver\ncouldn't slow down and had to go faster and faster, and when the bus was\napproaching a corner, they weren't able to turn. However, the two teens\nthought of gathering all people onto one side of the bus and using their\nweight to make the bus lean and turn.\n\nIn another episode, I think the two teens were on their way to school, but\nthey got stopped half way at a warehouse as a bunch of robots came out of\nsomewhere and started shooting at them. The teens decided to hide behind\ncrates/boxes. They then pulled out their guns (which they were **very** good\nat using) and started shooting at the robots, but it wasn't really effective.\nThere and then, I think it was the male character who did something and shot\n**all** the robots right in the robot's muzzle, which made all of the robots\nexploded, creating a scene for the two teens to escape\n\nIn yet another episode (and the last one I can remember), they were on a plane\nand they found out that one of their friends had been sabotaging them. Some\nintense talking went down, and that friend of theirs decided to jump out of\nthe plane (safely, because that friend planned the whole thing, so she somehow\nhad a parachute).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt sounds like [**Hidan no\nAria**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria_the_Scarlet_Ammo) (English title:\n_Aria The Scarlet Ammo_ ), except that the girl ( **Kanzaki H. Aria** ) has\npink hair instead of blonde hair (her hair was originally blonde, though).\nBoth of the protagonists are adept with guns, since they are students at Tokyo\nButei High, where students are trained to become Butei ( _Armed Detective_ ).\n\nEpisode 3 of the series features a bus hijacking incident, where the bus would\nbe blown up if it were to slow down or stop. _However, the part about leaning\nthe bus with the weight of all the people on the bus does not occur in this\nseries. Also, they were not stuck on the bus from the beginning, but they\nactually took on the mission to rescue everyone on the bus. They did get on\nthe bus to search for the bomb, though._\n\nThe second half of episode 1 of the series features a scene where the two\nprotagonists were inside a vaulting box inside a warehouse, when some remote\ncontrolled Segway mounted with guns came and shot at them. The male\nprotagonist Tōyama Kinji (after activating _Hysteria Mode_ , a special\ncondition that runs in his family) shot into the muzzles of all the guns,\ncausing all of them to explode.\n\nEpisode 4 and 5 is where the two protagonists found out that **Mine Riko** ,\none of their friends at school, was actually the culprit behind the previous\nincidents in episode 1 and 3. They had a few shootouts in the plane, and Riko\nescape from the plane by opening a hole on side of the plane with explosives\nand turning her clothes into a parachute.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just started watching _Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru_ ,\nand the black rope-like object I see on Yui looks like bondage ropes. I doubt\nit really is, so what is it?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VCM72.jpg)\n\nJust watch the first episode of first season and pay attention to Yui.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't been able to find an official screenshot showing this, but fan art\nof Yui seems to be consistent in showing the cords being part of an undershirt\nwith a saw-cut edge:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nfIybl.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZYT01m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONVS2m.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's the official picture from the light novel itself, it's exactly like the\npictures from Toshinou.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IUW3k.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw _Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F_ today in the theatre, and right around\nthe point where Frieza is put in the regeneration machine, a song starts\nplaying. I would categorize the song in the heavy metal genre, and I heard\nFrieza's name several times in the lyrics as well.\n\nI would like to know the name of this song and the band who played it, as it\nsounded pretty awesome, but I didn't have enough time to stick around for the\ncredits to see who it was.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song you are looking for is titled 'F' and is performed by Maximum the\nHormone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Fairy Tail_ (2014) episode 70, Jellal was wearing a blindfold and was\nbeing guided by Meredy. What is the reason that he was wearing this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 369 (episode 240 aka episode 65 (2014)) Jellal crushed his own eyes\nto prevent himself from falling for Nightmare's illusions. Seeing how he does\nnot have an artificial eye like Erza, he could not find another way to destroy\nMidnight's illusions.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P411G.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo Jellal blinded himself remembering how Erza was easily able to beat\nmidnight's illusions before because of her artificial eye. There for he\ndoesn't have that handy cap that could very well have saved him he injured his\neyes making him blind along with his other severe injuries from his fight with\nMidnight and the rest of the Oracion Seis. If you want my honest opinion\nMeredy did the right thing by helping him as at the time he was hurt and\ncouldn't see. Also to her surprise the Oracion Seis helped protect Jellal from\nRusty Rose and later he regained his eye sight as he removed the blindfold.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I watched the anime not too long ago, and it was the single most important\nrule in the game to not die, otherwise one would die in real life.\n\nHowever, _I never encountered an episode where they showed players die in real\nlife._\n\nI had my share of skepticism, but hey, we all get the story. Die in the game,\ndie in real life. Cool problem which made story interesting.\n\nThen I had conversations with friends about the anime and I was in for a\nsurprise. _They all firmly believe nobody actually died_. Their basis for this\nargument was the episode near the end where it was mentioned that all players\nwere logged out. They were convinced that it meant all players that were left,\n_and all players who died in-game_.\n\nThis, plus the fact that I never saw a person having their brains fried with a\nnerve gear made me think otherwise for a bit. If they really did die, they\ncould have just died from malnutrition or the extreme stress of thinking it's\nthe real deal. As to why no one woke up ahead, they could have been held in\nsome limbo after in-game death until Kirito defeated the game.\n\nBut after doing some research, everyone else does say players died in real\nlife - but have no proof. They all just said they will die because it was said\nthat they would.\n\nCan anyone point me to an episode (or manga chapter) that depicted someone had\ntheir brains fried with the nerve gear? or proof that someone actually died\nfrom being fried with a nerve gear (like a cemetery visit scene, certificate\nof death etc.).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, [Ergastulum](http://gangstamanga.wikia.com/wiki/Ergastulum) has\nthe architecture of a typical Italian city. Yet, the newspaper is printed in\nEnglish and the cars drive on the right, although road signs and the like do\nhave a European feel to them. The police cars are also reminiscent of LAPD\ncruisers, in that they are black and white. Finally, from looking at the\ncurrency depicted in the anime, it seems that the city prints its own money.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yvGgR.jpg)\n\nI do remember a scene where a newspaper article shows something happening in\nParis, France. So I do think the story takes place on Earth.\n\nI have looked over the _Gangsta_ Wiki and so far it does not seem to have any\ninformation on where exactly the city is located. Do we or will we know where\nErgastulum is located? Is it its own country?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe setting is generally set somewhere in France or Italy since both people\nfrom the Mafia and Perrier (a sparkling water drink from France) are common.\nWorick also says 'ciao' before killing a gangster, which is an informal\nItalian word that can be used as a goodbye.\n\nAs you have pointed out, there is the newspaper article that states an\nincident occurred in France. There is also the fact that people call Nicolas\nan 'oriental' which is what Asians are commonly called in Europe, so it is\nlikely set somewhere in Europe. Also, remember that France and Italy share a\nland border, and so are very close to each other.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe wikia for Ergastulum says that it is a mix between Italy and America.\nNicholas is also half Italian and Half Japanese. There is even an uncle sam\nposter in the gun shop on the first episode, as well as an alley way\ncontaining posters of American soldiers. And of course all the references to\nitalian and ancient roman culture as well, with the fact that civilians are\nallowed to buy and own guns, like here in America.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter perfectly timing the Release from Kushina Uzumaki's body, Tobi attacks\nthe village using Kurama, the Nine Tails, in chapter 501.\n\nWhy did Tobi suddenly decide to use Kurama to attack the village? He was going\nto need Kurama for his 'Moon plan' as well. So why did he not just take it and\nleave?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChapters 501-502 never give or imply any particular reason for why exactly\nTobi/Obito would attack the village at that time. Certainly, the smartest\nstrategic choice would have been to simply extract Kurama from Kushina and\nimmediately run for it as far and fast as they could.\n\nThe most straightforward reason is simply: rage. The Uchiha are famous for\ntheir fury, once their blood starts boiling, and it may be he simply saw red\nso went on a rampage with the most devastating weapon he had on hand. Remember\nthat he had just been to Rin's grave and seen Kakashi there, reviving all\nthose old, tormented memories, and from there had to immediately battle\nMinato. Minato was probably the most powerful and wily opponent he'd ever\nfaced until that point, so battling him must have been frustrating. The\ncombination of these events in such quick succession: boom!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMadara was the only person who in the past could control kurama and use him as\na weapon. Since Tobi wanted people to think that he was Madara he attacked the\nvillage by using kurama.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been trying to find this particular one shot shoujo manga.\n\nIt was about a shy girl with short (red?) hair, who didn't really know how to\nhang out/deal with boys. An upperclassman who had blond (?) hair from the\ndrama club (?) noticed her predicament. He tried to help her out by going on a\ndate with her to the amusement park. The upperclassman dressed up in different\nclothing for a stimulation, and he went with the cool ikemen image. They both\nwent on their amusement park date, and the girl gradually fell for the\nupperclassman. Somewhere along the plot, she thought that she had been cured\nfrom her androphobia, but it turns out she was still bad with boys, except for\nthat upperclassman.\n\nThe last thing I remember from the manga was that the girl found out she\nwasn't the only one that the upperclassman was helping. He had other girls ask\nfor make-believe dates, so she felt betrayed, and she probably ran away crying\nor something. In the end, the upperclassman came to her and said that she was\nthe only one for him, and he promised he would never go on make-believe dates\nagain, all that jazz.\n\nThe art was shoujo, similar to [Shiraishi\nYuki](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=3742)'s art.\n\nI've been trying to find this manga for the past 4 months, and I don't know if\nit's real anymore.\n\nIf anyone has any idea what manga this is, would you please let me know?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs it perhaps [**Kazekou\nEngekibu**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=98499) by [Asagi\nHikaru](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=14922)?\n\n> Much to her embarrassement, the shy Mashio-chan wins a set of couple tickets\n> for the amusement park. She feels at a loss for what to do since she has\n> always been bad with men. So what will happen to her when the drama club\n> president Katokura Aki suddenly declares that he would erase her\n> awareness...?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to buy for my collection a copy of Dragon Ball Volume 1 colored\nand uncensored or the closest thing.\n\nBrowsing I have found so far:\n\n 1. Regular Volume 1 is uncensored but no color pages.\n\n 2. Collectors edition has some colored pages but is censored. \n\n 3. Viz Big has some colored pages but is censored and is really big.\n\nI am wrong? Any other choice?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime is now consumed internationally at a large scale, and there are many\nnon-Japanese companies that make their living off of this audience.\n\nBecause of this, I've been wondering - **are there any anime or manga award\nceremonies (for the shows themselves OR for anime-related companies, Western\nor not) that are based outside of Japan?**\n\n* looking for examples rather than an exhaustive list\n\n** anime-specific (I know there are general animation awards that can be won\nby anime)\n\n*** of a reasonable scale (i.e. a formal event)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, after searching the web for a while, the largest one I was able to find\nis the [American Anime\nAwards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anime_Awards), which was only\nhosted once on the New York comic-con in 2007. Aside from this, I was unable\nto find any full-scaled events. However, you might be able to find smaller\nawards or contests in different countries, for example I came upon\n[this](http://www.animecon.nl/program/events/contests/dutch-manga-awards)\ncontest which is a part of Dutch animecon.\n\n> I know there are general animation awards that can be won by anime\n\nI think this is the main reason why you will not find any full-scale awards\noutside of Japan (Japan is a special case, obviously). However lot of major\nfilm festivals will most likely have awards for \"best animated film\" (or\nsomething similar), where anime entries will be able to compete - for example,\nyou will often see anime in the list of Academy Award for Best Animated\nFeature nominees.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlbedo's conversation with Momonga at the beginning of episode 5 has a few\nelements that confuse me. Albedo reports to him that they have yet to find any\nother \"Yggdrasil players\". Later, Momonga tells her that her love for him is a\nresult of him messing with the \"settings\" Tabula specified for her.\n\nDoes this mean that Albedo is aware that her entire world used to be just a\nvideo game from Momonga's perspective? Did Momonga tell her this, or did she\ninherently have this knowledge from the very beginning (i.e. when Momonga got\ntransferred into the game world)? Do Albedo (and the other underlings?) just\nnot care about this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer to your question lies in your question. If the NPCs were unaware\nthat they were in a video game, Albedo would have questioned what Momonga\nmeant in the conversation during the beginning of episode 5. However, she was\ncalm during the conversation. Remember that the NPCs also did not show signs\nof surprise or wonder while they began to feel emotions. The most likely\nscenario is that the programmers made the NPCs realize that they were in a\ngame, although this is my opinion and I expect the reason to be revealed later\non in the season.\n\nRegarding your question on whether or not the NPCs care about their position,\nthis is also my opinion but think of it like the relations between species in\ndifferent dimensions. There is a theory that although 1D species can think\nabout 2D species, they can never fully see nor understand how they work. The\n2D species on the other hand can see 1D species and understand how they work;\nhowever, they cannot see nor understand 3D species. Consider the players as a\nhigher dimensional species and the NPCs as a species that are a lower\ndimensional species than players. The NPCs may think about the higher\ndimensional species and see an equivalent dimensional version of Momonga\n(which is what the game software created), but thats their limit.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Short answer, they see them as gods, so they probably think they have their\nown sort of \"heaven\".** Long answer, they do know that there is a clear\ndifference between the underlings and Ains ( _He ordered to be called that, so\nthat's what I'm calling him_ ), we see that they often overheard things they\nwere talking about and associate it with god powers, just to drive home how\npowerful they think Ains and the creators are. Ex: I can't speak for the\nmanga, but in the anime, Demiurge overheard some of the creators talking about\ntheir jobs, to which he associated voice acting as actually breathing life\ninto inanimate objects. You also have to remember that they had to behave as\nregular NPC's before the servers shutdown, and in that time, they literally\ncould not do anything unless they were ordered to. **So, although they do\nrealize Ains is from another world, but I doubt the image they have in their\nheads about the \"different world\" of Ains is very accurate.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey are aware that Ainz and the other supreme beings are not from Yggdrasil,\nbut they believe the place that they are from is similar to a divine realm. In\nthe light novel there is a moment where Shalltear (vampire) and Sebase\n(butler) are talking about what she heard from the supreme being (players).\nShalltear heard that one of the supreme beings is a voice actor, someone how\ngives life to characters.\n\nThat is just a saying, but Shalltear took it literally. In her defense, the\nsupreme beings did create the NPCs, so if they created you, (which is\nsomething you can't do and you don't understand)... It isn't a far off\nstatement to say they can do it with their voice?\n\nAlthough something else brought them to life (which we don't completely know,\nthere is a theory about wild magic) Their are a few other moments which the\nNPC's completely take things out of context.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne underling of Momonga, Narberal Gamma (aka \"Nabe\"), accompanies him when he\nstarts adventuring in episode 5. I'm guessing he chose her since she looks\nhuman and hence can blend in without needing full-body armor or illusion\nmagic, as Momonga does, and as someone like Albedo or Demiurge would.\n\nThat's all well and good, but Narberal clearly _isn't_ actually human - she\nexpresses her disgust for humankind on multiple occasions, and it's pretty\nclear that this isn't self-loathing. What _is_ she?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the Overlord Wiki, **[Narberal\nGamma's](http://overlordmaruyama.wikia.com/wiki/Narberal_Gamma)** race is:\n\n> a doppleganger battle maid\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**According to Overlord Combat Maid Chibi Comedy Spinoff Episode 8, she's a\nwerewolf** , if you haven't watched the series, their three minutes each, so\ndon't just watch the 8th episode, but basically it names off all the different\nspecies of the maids, however, the translator might have been a fu~~, I mean,\nhe might have had a terrible sense of humor and decided to put the species\nnames in random order.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNarberal gamma is a doppelganger, her normal appearance is different than that\nof a human. She looks similar to Pandora's Actor. Oddly between a human and a\nskeleton, but none the less she is able to use her ability to change her form\nand look like a normal human.\n\nA secondary reason not really mentioned in the Anime and mostly only a\nsupporting reason after the fact, but it is hinted at a few times in the light\nnovel. She is a battle maid, most of the times that Ainz leaves Nazarick or\neven the new capital of the Sorcerer Kingdom the maids complain saying that\nAinz should always have a maid, blah blah blah basically they think he needs a\nmaid to do everything for him because he is a supreme being and he shouldn't\nhave to worry about the little details.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHyperdimension Neptunia is an anime that is based on the console war. Its\ncharacters are based on the game consoles, namely, Sony Playstation, Microsoft\nXBox, Nintendo Wii, and the scrapped Sega Neptune.\n\nNow, moving on to Kantai Collection for a while. Like Hyperdimension Neptunia,\nKanColle is based on real thing. Whereas Hyperdimension Neptunia is based on\nconsoles, KanColle is based on warships. In Kantai Collection, there is a\ncorrelation between the size of the girl's oppai and the ship's displacement\nas shown in the following chart taken from its Wikia page.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vNi9H.jpg)\n\nNow, as we know, the CPU and CPU candidates in Hyperdimension Neptunia, all\nhas varying oppai dimension. Question is, is there any correlationship between\nthe oppai's dimension and the based console's attribute like KanColle has?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think there's a correlation, based on the fact that bust sizes change\nwhen in HDD form. Sometimes dramatically. Neptunia herself upgrades from a\nmodest A to an E cup when she transforms into Purple Heart.\n\n**Before :**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Hc6Jm.jpg)\n\n**After:**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uje5Om.png)\n\nThat being said, I don't know much about the series as I'm only playing the\nfirst game.\n\nMaybe someone else has more knowledge than me and can also answer.\n[Here's](http://pastebin.com/eg3qSyMR) a spreadsheetable list of some of the\ncharacter's bust sizes for any other answer's _research_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't believe there is an official reason for why their bust sizes varies.\nHowever, there is a correlation to the CPU bust sizes and the targeted\ndemographic of their respective consoles or at least the kind of games\nassociated with the console.\n\nFor example, [the target demographic for the Wii is\n\"everyone.\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii?oldformat=true#Demographic)\nThis means that the games for the console have to be playable for kids. It has\nto be family friendly. Nintendo's collection of games, such as Pokemon and\nMario, are also family-friendly. This explains why Rom and Ram are kids\nthemselves and why Blanc is an A cup size. They are shown off as much younger\nthan the other goddesses.\n\nFor Noire, [the target demographic is a \"younger\naudience,\"](http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps3-to-target-a-slightly-younger-\ndemographic/1100-6347076/) or at least it was years after its original\nrelease. This explains why she's in the middle of sort. Plus, the top games\nfor the consoles include mature games such as Call of Duty and more family-\nfriendly games such as Little Big Planet.\n\nFor Vert, [because the top-selling games feature more mature games such as\nGears of War or Halo](http://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_best-\nselling_Xbox_360_video_games), it makes sense why she has the biggest bust.\nThe games are for a more older audience and so it makes sense that her bust is\nmore matured than the others'.\n\nI can't explain why Neptune's bust is the way they are as the console she is\nbased on is fictional. It could be that the dramatic increase in bust size\nindicates how her console's demographic would vary.\n\nThis same theory doesn't hold well for the characters based on publishers and\ndevelopers, however. IF has made games not suitable for everyone and she has\nan A cup size. Perhaps their bust size is irrelevant as their characters are\nbased off the characters from the games published or developed by their\nrespective company.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe original 4 CPU's cup sizes are likely based on RAM sizes for their\nrespective consoles.\n\nXbox 360 had 512MB of unified ram, while PS3 had 256 each of video and system\nram (often giving the false impression to gamers of \"half as much as Xbox\"),\nWii had a relatively pitiful 88MB ram. Neptune...doesn't exist as a console so\nit's hard to say here.\n\nSo, have F/G cups for Vert/Green Heart (the most), C/C cups for Noire/Black\nHeart (\"half\" of Xbox), and A/A cups for Blanc/White Heart (almost nothing\ncompared to Xbox). We have A/E for Neptune who...doesn't have anything to map\nto. All cup size info taken from the measurements in the HDN1 visual guide.\n\nAfter the first game cup size doesn't correlate to anything in particular\nbeyond character stereotypes (cute \"loli\" plutia vs big \"sexy dominatrix\" iris\nheart). The series' interpretations of console -> character has changed a lot\nover the years (see the change from French color names to...fairly random\nnames for the candidates to direct planet names for the non-Nepgear Planeptune\ncandidates).\n\nCupsize change isn't a constant matter either. Only Neptune, Plutia and Peashy\nget significantly larger (Peashy seems to be an entirely gaming-unrelated\njoke, \"the smallest one becomes the biggest\"), Vert, Blanc and Uzume get\nnoticeably but not impressively larger, Noire and Nepgear stay about the same,\nand Uni actually shrinks (a reference to the PSP Slim in all likelihood). Cup\nsize change seems basically random and was probably the designer (Tsunako's)\npreference, especially beyond the first 4 CPUs..\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNepgear is based on the [Sega Game\nGear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Game_Gear), its reference being that\nNeptune wears two hairclips while Nepgear only has one, possibly representing\nthe maximum number of D-pads supported by the respective consoles the two are\nbased on. (The Sega Neptune is equipped with two controller ports, while the\nSega Game Gear requires a link cable to play with more than one player.)\n\nNoire does represent the PlayStation as \"Noire\" means \"Black\" in French, the\ndefault color of PS2, PS3, PSP and PSVita. Her HDD form in Neptunia Victory is\nbased on _the original PlayStation_ , her human forms seems to be based on\nPlayStation 2, and the yellow diamond on her outfit being a variation of the\nSony Computer Entertainment logo (seen upon booting up PlayStations). In\nNeptunia Victory, all of her Processor Units are based on PS consoles: Her\ndefault (Stone Gray) is based on the original PlayStation, Night Blue is based\non the PlayStation 2, DX Silver is based on the PlayStation 3 prototype, Piano\nBlack is based on the PlayStation 3 and Orbital-S is based on the PlayStation\n4.\n\nUni is based on the PlayStation Portable, probably with her name derived from\nthe PSP's optimal disc, the [**Uni** versal Media\nDisc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc).\n\nVert and Leanbox references the Xbox and Xbox 360, but there is no concrete\nhint to which they are. Although, in the first game, Vert was said to have a\nproblem with getting too hot; this may reference the 360's tendency to\noverheat. The Green Heart's outfit is revealing, preferably to easier vent\nheat.\n\nRam and Rom are both based on the Nintendo DS. As they are twins, they could\nresemble the DS' dual screen. The rectangles on their hats in their default\noutfit seems to represent the screen icons from the DS logo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEach game in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series is different. They have\ndifferent stories and different origins. As an example, in Re;Birth 1, the\nremake of the first game, the goddesses were fighting against each other in\nthe start of the story. In Re;Birth 2, they were already friends in the\nbeginning and Arfoire is technically dead.\n\nWith that in mind, when the first game was conceived, the latest consoles are\nthe PS3, the Wii, and the Xbox 360. Noire, Blanc, and Vert's CPU forms\nrepresents these consoles respectively. The color scheme for Noire and the PS3\nis black. For Blanc, it's white and blue just like the Wii. For Vert, it's\ngreen and white, just like the Xbox 360.\n\nBy the time the second game (Hyperdimension Neptunia MK2) comes out, the PSP\nand the Nintendo DS are already released. Ram and Rom represents the dual\nscreen that the DS has and Uni represents the PSP. You can see how the front\nof Uni's dress matches the UMD holder of the PSP. Her color is also black,\nwhich matches the piano black color scheme of the PSP.\n\nAlthough the goddesses represents the entire console line, their style changes\nwith each generation as each game are different. With Victory 2, because the\nnew Xbox One is the latest Xbox console, Vert's color theme changes to include\nblack. Noire's color theme also includes blue due to the bluish color that the\nPS4 have.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WlI8C.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs explained by other answers above the CPU/CPU Candidates and Nations of the\nHyperdimension Neptunium Games (with 3 CPUs missing) are\n\n * Planetune = Sega\n\n * Neptune = Fictional Sega Home Console\n * Nepgear = Fictional Sega Portable Console\n * Plutia = Released Sega Consoles\n * Lastation = Sony\n\n * Noire = Playstation 3 (the system the original game was release on)\n * Uni = PSP\n * Lowee = Nintendo\n\n * Blanc = Wii\n * Ram and Rom = the DS and DSi1\n * Leanbox = Microsoft\n\n * Vert = X-Box 360 (as the 360 is from the same generation as the PS3. the X-Box is from the same generation as the PS2)\n * Eden = Hudson Soft2\n\n * Peashy = TurboGraphx 16\n * Tari = Atari\n\n * Rei = Atari Consoles\n\nSoruce: [CPU - List of CPUs](http://neptunia.wikia.com/wiki/CPU#List_of_CPUs)\n\nNoire's, Vert's and Blanc's console representations in the Ultradimension of\n_Hyperdimension Neptunia V_ are a bit looser as the Ultradimension represents\n1989 and to my knowledge out of the 3 only Nintendo had a console back then\nfor Blanc to fall back to while Noire and Vert do not (Vert questionably could\nbe PC)\n\nthe terms used in the games are taken from now Information Technology/Games\nterms however are altered for the series\n\n * Gamindustri = Game Industry, the constant battle for Shares is an indication of this as well as the value of a company on the stock market is the value of the shares. so in Gamindustri the more Shares one nation has the more powerful said nation is much\n\n * CPU (Console Patron Unit) - based off the term Central Processing Unit found in all the consoles\n\n * HDD (Hard Drive Divinity) - based off the term Hard Drive Disk. in one form or another all the consoles a CPU is based from had a form of hard drive. (the DSi allows the inserting of SD Cards)\n\n * DOS (Deity of Sin) \n\n * one definition can be that it is based off the term [Disk Operating System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_operating_system), the background system used on computers (mainly Windows). this has been the definition i thought it was as the final boss of the true route is called DOS.Arfoire and since this boss is the underlying foundation of ASIC (this is the true Arfoire that had to be defeated not the previous one found in the normal route who is named CFW.Arforie)\n\n * Sakurai Tomoko however has suggested that DOS could be based off the term [Denial-of-service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack) attack which is used by criminals and fits with ASIC's nature3\n\n * CFW (Criminals of the Free World) - while there are many definition of [CFW](http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/CFW) i believe in the context of Neptunia it's a reference to be Custom Firmware, normally used when hacking consoles for pirated content\n\n * Console Wars - the term used in real life to describe the constant battle between companies when they release a console to attract buyers to it. done so by inciting developers to develop games for the console, other peripherals such as motion senoring and system changes to include new features such as allowing Indie developers to release games or backwards compatibility\n\n * Arfoire - as per how it is pronounced, the R4 is a pirate hardware/software used on the DS for running DS Roms\n\n> which may also be why CFW.Trick and Linda converted Rom to their side rather\n> than Ram during the Lowee chapters of Mk. II\n\nOne should note however that as indicated in the Trivia Section of the CPU\nWikia Page the term CPU was not used in the Japanese Version of the game much\nlike that of [Arfoire](http://neptunia.wikia.com/wiki/Arfoire) so the\ndefinitions i have provided above related to the English release of the games\n\n* * *\n\n1: both the DS and DSi were released in japan before the Japanese Release of\nHyperdimension Neptunia Mk II. the games released for both DS consoles are\nlabeled as DS and work on both systems (as opposed to 3DS or NN3DS games)\nhowever the DSi contained a redeveloped operating system and the\nreintroduction of Region Locking (not present in the original DS) making\ndifferent operationally wise much like how Ram and Rom are different\npersonality wise\n\n2: as stated on the [Wikia's Trivia for\nEden](http://neptunia.wikia.com/wiki/Eden#Trivia) there is a reference to\nHudson Soft logo which also fits Peashy's color scheme however while Hudson\nSoft never released any consoles they did make the Hudson Soft HuC6280 CPU for\nthe [TurboGraphx 16](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16)\n\n3: as you can see on Wikipedia the Acronym is _DoS_ (with a lowercase o) while\nDisk Operating System it's _DOS_ (with a Capital O) and the _of the_ in the\nterm _Criminal of the Free World_ is omitted in the acronym CFW as such i\nwould more side with DOS rather than DoS however i have no proper citation for\nwhich term was used in the English translation\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe animated Akira movie (not the manga) contains a number of explicit Judeo-\nChristian religious terms, in addition to the overall apocalyptic themes. The\nmost prominent of these (from the 2001 dub) are:\n\n * When the citizens of Neo-Tokyo see Tetsuo deflect tank shells and destroy helicopters and tanks, somebody shouts out, \"It's the Great Awakening!\" while another says, \"Don't be fooled! This isn't the Rapture! He's a false messiah!\" \n\n * Later, Lady Miyako appears with her entourage and, during the chaos of battle, chants, \"Burn all the unclean believers of our time! Give yourselves into the flames, children, you will all be born again. Consume our hearts! Wash our unclean hearts in the eternal fire!\"\n\nWhile different cuts of the movie may be of different runtimes, the scenes I'm\nreferring to occur from approximately 1:06:00 (Tetsuo walking out of the smoke\nof the exploding helicopter) until 1:08:00 (Nezu's escape), and then 1:10:00\n(Miyako's entourage) until 1:12:00 (Tetsuo destroys the bridge).\n\nWere these religious references, extremely familiar to American Christian\nsociety, part of the original Japanese dialogue, or were they 'westernized'\nfor the English dub? What was the meaning of these quotes in the original\nJapanese context? (e.g., did it refer to messianic figures or raptures etc?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**These were not direct references to Christianity in the original.**\n\nWhen Akira is seen surviving the tank shot, the dialog among the onlookers is:\n\n> アキラ様 \n> Lord Akira!\n>\n> アキラ様の降臨だ \n> It's Lord Akira's advent/coming!\n>\n> 違う 騙されてないかん あれはアキラ様ではない \n> No! Do not be deceived! That is not Lord Akira!\n>\n> うるせー アキラ様、万歳 \n> Shut up! Long live Lord Akira!\n\nWith the use of 降臨 ( _kourin_ , lit. advent), it does sound somewhat...\nspiritual. But it does not seem to be a direct reference to Christianity at\nall, rather just the coming of a godlike being—Akira.\n\nThe second scenario is mostly the same, in that the subtext is spiritual but\nnot Christian or even really religious.\n\n> おお、清浄の炎よ \n> O, flames of purity!\n>\n> 汚濁の街を焼き払い \n> Burn down this corrupt city!\n>\n> 我らの穢れた心を焼き尽くすがよい \n> Burn up our impure hearts!\n>\n> 恐れてはならぬ \n> Do not be afraid!\n>\n> その身を炎で清めるのだ \n> Your bodies will be cleansed by the flames!\n\nThere's nothing about being believers or belief, and nothing about being born\nagain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCompared to some of its contemporary shounen titles, _Naruto_ draws heavily on\na variety of religious and mythological sources to inform its narrative,\nthemes and cosmology. Kishimoto's use of explicit [Hindu, Buddhist and\nShinto](http://nihon-go.org/nihon-go-guides/narutology-an-introduction-to-\njapanese-mythology-symbolism-in-naruto/) motifs has already been [discussed in\na number of places](http://www.godofkonoha.com/blog/influence-of-buddhism-and-\nhinduism-in-naruto). Common elements identified include deity names for jutsu,\nshamanic activities such as obtaining the eyes of others to 'see' as they do,\nmaking pacts with animal and other nature spirits, summoning 'demons' such as\nSusanoo, etc ([Shinto,](http://www.geocities.ws/sasuxhinatheories/t04.html)\nheavily associated with the Uchiha clan); Jimmu Tenno motifs for both Rikodu\nSanin and later Naruto himself, such as his magatama and staff of 6 rings,\nmanifestation of Gedo Mazu upon a lotus, etc\n([Buddhist,](https://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php/2995557-Buddhist-\nmythology-explaining-Naruto-\\(How-Madara-and-Hashirama-are-Mara-and-Buddha\\))\nheavily associated with the Senjuu/Uzumaki clans); chakra, the 6 lokas\n(worlds) and 6 components of the bhavachakra corresponding to [the 6\npaths](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1190691) of Pein and referenced\nwith the Rikodu Sanin as well, the Garuda, Jashin religion (apparently\ninfluenced by the Thug cult) and the battle between Indra and the Ashuras,\ncomplete with spiky hair imagery for his protagonist (and to a lesser extent\nthe antagonist) frequently associated with ashuras (who are known for great\nrage and passion) - [probably derived from Toriyama's\n_Dragonball_](http://art-eater.com/2012/01/a-buddhists-guide-to-asuras-\nwrath/), a major influence on Kishimoto\n([Hindu,](http://forums.cleverbaka.com/showthread.php?96454-Hinduism-in-\nNaruto) many elements absorbed into Mahayana Buddhist culture).\n\nHowever, relatively little work has been done examining Christian influences\nto date, though [some have already pointed out\nelsewhere](http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/naruto-just-went-full-\nchristianity-this-week.453347353/) that [there seem to be a number of\nChristian references](http://www.examiner.com/article/naruto-might-be-a-\nchristian-tale) appearing, [especially towards the\nend](http://beneaththetangles.com/2014/11/06/naruto-chapter-700-the-gospel-of-\nsasuke-uchiha/) of manga/anime series, for example:\n\n * Kaguya, a woman who ate forbidden fruit from a powerful tree and brought powerful but potentially evil forces into the world (chakra from the chakra tree) (Eve);\n * two of her descendants who were \"brothers\" (Asura/Indra then Naruto/Sasuke) fighting each other (Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau);\n * Sasuke, a betrayer who turned his back on his best friend for personal gain (Judas), yet Naruto repeatedly attempts to win him back, even to the extent of proclaiming his willingness to die in the effort (Jesus, the good shepherd); this eventually works and Sasuke repents and seeks forgiveness for his behavior (prodigal son); \n * Naruto as a messiah figure who was prophesied (by the Toad Sage) to save the world (plus his 'Christ the Redeemer' poses on high points, e.g. chap. 245);\n * Naruto as the new Sage, who was the progenitor of the ninja world (Jesus as the new Adam);\n * wooden memorial crosses marking the graves of Zabuza and Haku;\n * frequency of resurrection jutsu (by Pein, Madara, Kabuto etc), even mass resurrections of the dead;\n * [Adam Barkman has suggested](http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id=b033100fd1644c52a87d4f65a73c1054) the use of crucifixion motifs (presumably referring to Kakashi's tortue by Itachi and/or the rongusodo ninja ato: waiya haritsuke jutsu) as having Christian significance.\n\nThe heavy use of religous and mythological themes at the heart of _Naruto_ ,\nsuggests that these may not be coincidental parallels. (This does not\nnecessarily suggest that these examples were exclusively derived from\nChristian sources, e.g. the cosmic conflict between Naruto/Sasuke could be\ninfluenced by the primordial 'brotherly' conflicts in both Hinduism (Indra vs\nthe Ashuras) and Christianity (Cain vs Abel) simultaneously.)\n\nOne potential source for such themes could be Kishimoto's [favorite\nmovie](http://www.naruto-boards.com/717851/a-collection-of-masashi-kishimoto)\n_The Matrix_ , known to be a source of some artistic inspiration as well (\n_The Art of Naruto: Uzumaki_ , 2007), which is filled with many [overt\nChristian themes and\nimages](https://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/Vol9No2/StuckyMatrixMessiah.htm).\n\nIs anyone aware of other sources that discuss Christian influences and sources\non the text, e.g. interviews with Kishimoto, academic texts, discussion\ngroups, etc?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd say that Kishimoto draws a lot from Christianity and other religions. It's\nnot just similar stories by chance. The events you list from Naruto are almost\nthe exact events that happened in the Bible. That's not just chance, nor is it\nsurprising. Almost all elements and events in Naruto are influenced by outside\nforces. So, it's not surprising that the more supernatural seeming events\nwould be influenced by religion.\n\nI'd also like to add that, although Kishimoto hasn't gone into full detail on\nall of the influences of Naruto, Christianity seems to be well-known in Japan,\nconsidering its influences in other anime and manga. The stories from the\nBible are probably known by a large number of Japanese people. Especially the\nmore important ones like the forbidden fruit, which has been referenced\nnumerous times in other anime.\n\nHere are some interesting subtle influences of Christianity in Naruto:\n\n * Danzo Shimura originally went by the nickname Kanzo when originally meeting with the Akatsuki, which appears to be a nod to [Kanzo Uchimura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchimura_Kanz%C5%8D), a protestant and creator of the Nonchurch Movement. Kinda like a rebel among religious bodies at the time, who often got fired because of his beliefs and practices.\n\n * Mifune is based on Toshiro Mifune, a famous Christian actor.\n\n * Sasuke is not only similar to Judas, but [Obito _called_ him Judas](https://narutobase.net/forums/showthread.php?t=402061&page=2) in the manga, just before he became the Jinchuriki of the Juubi.\n\nThere's been evidence of Christianity's influence on Naruto before, but that\nlatter example seems to act more as proof than evidence.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUser /u/JekoJeko5 has recently posted on /r/anime [his observation that the\nterm \"forced drama\" is almost exclusively used in discussions of\nanime](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3grik3/til_anime_fans_are_the_only_people_who_use_the/).\nIt is difficult to give a concrete description of what \"forced drama\" is, but\nmany users in the linked thread have offered their opinions on the matter. The\none that seems most \"correct\" (or at least, most pithy) to me is [this one by\n/u/OverKillv7](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3grik3/til_anime_fans_are_the_only_people_who_use_the/cu0weci):\n\n> Forced drama is every idolmaster-like show that has the stupid sprain-the-\n> ankle-before-the-big-show thing... every time for no reason other than they\n> need something to happen.\n\nIn retrospect (now that the topic has been brought up), I do notice that the\nterm really isn't used in non-anime circles. I find it interesting that the\nEnglish-speaking anime community has developed this term, presumably to\ndescribe a particular kind of frustrating storytelling that is common in\nanime.\n\nWhat I would like to know is this: **how did the term originate and gain\ncachet in discussions of anime?** (Basically, I'm looking for something\nanalogous to my earlier answers about\n[\"waifu\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4756/) and [\"best\ngirl\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/19736/).)\n\nAs with many internet neologisms, I suspect this one originated on 4chan,\nthough I'm not sure whether we can pin this on /a/ specifically. Snowclones of\nthe term are reasonably popular on 4chan; for example, \"forced fun\" on /v/ and\n\"forced animation\" on /a/ (both of these examples are mostly used\nparodically). The /a/ archiver returns [results going all the way back to\nFebruary\n2008](https://archive.moe/a/search/text/%22forced%20drama%22/order/asc/), when\narchival began, which gives us an upper bound on how late the term could have\nbeen coined. I'm not sure how to proceed for getting to the root of \"forced\ndrama\", though - and that's where you come in, dear answerers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, my research skills weren't up to the task of finding out how\nthe term \"forced drama\" first appeared in the anime fandom, so all I can is\nspeculate. I hope that someone else can contribute an answer which sheds more\nlight on that particular aspect of the question. However, I did find some\ninteresting information on the origins of the term, which can be found long\nago and outside of anime. It seems that this phrase was actually in use among\nfilm, theater, and art critics before anime or 4chan, although it wasn't\nparticularly common.\n\nHere's a screenshot of Google N-Gram viewer for the phrase \"forced drama\":\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NJVg5.png)\n\nWe can see that the first appearances of the phrase are shortly after 1900.\nOne of the earliest I found was a theater review of the play \"Dr. Wakes'\nPatient\" from a 1905 issue of [Illustrated London\nNews](https://books.google.com/books?id=gV84AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22forced%20drama%22&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q=%22forced%20drama%22&f=false):\n\n> The real play, it must be admitted, only begins at almost the close of the\n> third of its four acts, when the old farmer rounds (in true Adelphi fashion)\n> on the scornful peer who is horrified by his \"common\"-ness. But then come\n> tears and affecting if rather forced drama [...]\n\nAs in the [classical music\nbook](https://books.google.com/books?id=p27gT7VcuNUC&lpg=PA75&ots=ySnWVJ8uAW&dq=%22forced%20drama%22%20-anime%20-manga&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=%22forced%20drama%22%20-anime%20-manga&f=false)\nfrom 2003, this usage seems to be just a nonce coinage, not a discrete lexical\nitem like the question describes.\n\nI dove into the results from the years 1926-1952, but most of those usages,\nagain, seemed to mean something slightly different from what the OP describes.\nMany of them seemed to refer to uses of color (in art) or pageantry and\ncostume (on the stage) that the writer found overblown or unnecessary. E.g.\n[this Art Magazine issue from\n1947](https://books.google.com/books?id=aX_rAAAAMAAJ&q=%22forced+drama%22&dq=%22forced+drama%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBWoVChMIp7SriYenxwIVAhoeCh3HpguL).\n\nHowever, the years 1954-1997 proved more fruitful. Italian director Vittorio\nde Sica seems to use the phrase with more or less the same meaning as that\nunderstood by anime fans. In an interview, De Sica and the interviewer are\ndiscussing his film _Two Women_ , which was based on a novel that the\ninterviewer seems to feel de Sica may have adapted too faithfully:\n\n> S [the interviewer]: Don't you find it [the novel _Two Women_ was based on]\n> melodramatic? Can you believe that the young girl, after being raped, would\n> turn so quickly to sexual license?\n>\n> DS [de Sica]: That's the way it is in the novel.\n>\n> S: It seems opposite to the kind of truth I find in _The Children are\n> Watching Us_ and _Umberto_.\n>\n> DS: Yes, it is **forced drama**\n\nThis interview was published in 1972 in the book [_Encountering\nDirectors_](https://books.google.com/books?id=Cn9ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22forced+drama%22&dq=%22forced+drama%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBGoVChMI7d_8uY2nxwIVgpseCh1TawfJ).\nYou can read more of the interview in the 2000 anthology [_Vittorio de Sica:\nContemporary\nPerspectives_](https://books.google.com/books?id=gj2qbAsmHK4C&pg=PA43&dq=%22forced+drama%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMIzOz6-IenxwIVAhoeCh3HpguL#v=onepage&q=%22forced%20drama%22&f=false),\nwhere it is included as the first chapter, _De Sica on de Sica_.\n\nIn [Two Women (novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Women_%28novel%29) on\nWikipedia, the girl that de Sica and the interviewer are discussing, Rosetta,\nis described as \"a naive teenager of beauty and devout faith.\" However, during\nthe novel:\n\n> On their way home, the pair [mother Cesira and daughter Rosetta, returning\n> to Rome after it is taken by Allied forces during World War II] are attacked\n> and Rosetta brutally raped by a group of Goumiers (Moroccan allied soldiers\n> serving in the French Army). This act of violence so embitters Rosetta that\n> she falls numbly into a life of prostitution.\n\nDe Sica and the interviewer find this event unrealistic. They have a hard time\nbelieving that a \"teenager of beauty and devout faith\" would immediately\nbecome a prostitute upon being brutally raped, and imply that this only\nhappened because the writers wanted to make the situation more dramatic. This\nappears to be nearly the exact meaning that the anime fandom generally assigns\nto the term: an event is \"forced drama\" if it is improbable or feels contrived\nwith the sole purpose of creating drama that would not arise naturally from\nthe situation.\n\nThe 1986 fiction book _Hollywood Heroes_ [also seems to use this\nphrase](https://books.google.com/books?id=Qb_zeGvLfowC&q=%22forced+drama%22&dq=%22forced+drama%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBmoVChMIyvD8voinxwIVSSseCh2MQg-s)\nin the same way as anime fans:\n\n> \"Yeah, you know, soap operas aren't what they used to be. I mean, they used\n> to be a joke. **Forced drama** and organ music. [...]\"\n\nThe stereotypical image of soap operas in the US is also in keeping with the\nanime fandom's usage of \"forced drama\"; conniving ex-girlfriends and evil twin\nbrothers are constantly coming out of the woodwork to throw a wrench in the\nheroes' and heroines' plans at happiness.\n\nIn my initial searches, I found several uses of \"forced drama\" in modern film,\ntelevision, and theater reviews, including [this review of the film\n_Confessions of a Teenage Drama\nQueen_](http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2004/02/20/forced_drama_hurts_insincere_confessions/)\nand [this review of the film _A Little\nHelp_](http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/A-Little-Help-review-Fine-star-\nbut-forced-drama-2352875.php). Both of these articles use the term in ways\nthat seem consistent with Vittorio de Sica's usage, which I have argued is\nvery closely related with the usage in the anime fandom.\n\nMy own research did, however, suggest that the term is much more common in\ndiscussions of anime than in discussions of other types of media, as presented\nin the question. I have only speculations for why this is. \"Forced drama\",\nacross all the usages I've found, is a broad, subjective term which\nconsistently describes dramatic events which are implausible and written\nwithout subtlety. Anime, by its very nature, does not lend much plausibility\nto the events which occur. Though there are anime which are subtly written,\nthe norm for anime writing, especially in the genres most commonly seen in\nWestern countries, is not subtlety.\n\nSince there are many anime containing events which could be reasonably\ndescribed as implausible and unsubtle, it makes sense that a term describing\nsuch events would become common among anime fans. However, as I mentioned at\nthe outset, I wasn't able to find out exactly when the term entered the anime\nfandom, and I have no proof to support my hypotheses about how it gained\npopularity. I hope that another answer can fill in these gaps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Disgaea 4 - A Promise Unforgotten/Revisted_ Fuka believes everything is a\ndream or nightmare. When she first meets Desco she recognizes her to be the\none who attacked her and believes the dream/nightmare is a result of being\nknocked out.\n\nWhen the Hades Party goes to Earth Fuka found out that Des-X was the one who\nkilled her, and since Des-X looks the exact same as Desco it explains why Fuka\nthought it was Desco.\n\nBut before invading the Information Bureau Desco admits she never met Fuka\nbefore, yet from the moment she was released she knew who she was (wanting to\ndemonstrate her power to her Big Sis) and it seems Desco had been sealed up\nfor quite some time given the other inmates and Axel knew about her (so she\nhadn't just arrived).\n\nWhat I would like to know is the order of events between Fuka, Desco and Des-X\nsuch as which came first, Desco being locked away in Hades or Fuka being\nkilled? And also how Desco knew who Fuka was despite never seeing her before?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI came across this in the Trivia section of\n[Bukubukuchagama](http://overlordmaruyama.wikia.com/wiki/Bukubukuchagama#Trivia)\non Overlord Wiki:\n\n> Giving the watch with her voice to Aura, Ainz told her not to set an alarm\n> at 19:19 or 7:21. These numbers can be read as a sexual word in Japanese\n> wordplay. It seems that she recorded her voice for an H-Game at that alarm.\n\nSince I don't know Japanese, I am curious to know how they are read.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs a [comment](http://overlordmaruyama.wikia.com/wiki/Bukubukuchagama#comm-\ntext-8408) pointed out in the wiki page you provided, the words which the\nnumbers represent seem to be a common thing in hentai games.\n\n**For 19:19** :\n\n> In Japanese when reading the time, or a string of numbers, it is often read\n> as if each number is separate, for example, \"One Nine One Nine\". Doing this\n> with 19:19 sounds a bit like \" _Iku, Iku_ \" which translates to \" _I'm\n> cumming, I'm cumming!_ \".\n\n**For 7:21** :\n\n> Thanks to [ʞɹɐzǝɹ's](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/24048/some-\n> kind-of-wordplay-in-overlord/24051?noredirect=1#comment34657_24051) comment\n> we now know that it sounds a bit like \" _Onanī_ \" which translates into\n> \"onanism\" which is a synonym for \"masturbation\".\n\nThese are instances of\n[Goroawase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_wordplay#Goroawase) word\nplay in Japanese, which takes advantage of the readings of digits to encode\nmeaning in a string of numbers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn addition to Alagaros' answer, I'll try to explain it from another\nperspective.\n\nAs explained in [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters),\nKanji is adapted from Chinese letters (Hanzi). Originally, Hanzi was written\nbased on the shape of the represented object but then undergoes evolution with\nthe passage of time. For example\n[this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Evo-r%C3%AC.svg).\n\nSuch a language habit is then evolving into using the existing characters to\nrepresent things. This is especially common with younger people (source: my\nChinese lecturer). Think of it like the westerners using symbol characters to\nform smileys :D :P.\n\nNow, the time 19:19 and 7:21 if written in kanji would be 一九一九 and 七二一\nrespectively.\n\n一九 represents a kneeling person and a [Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong\nCannon](http://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Neo_Armstrong_Cyclone_Jet_Armstrong_Cannon)\n(alias to keep this relatively Safe For Work). And 七二一 represents either a big\nNeo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon or a Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet\nArmstrong Cannon and a\n[manko](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwjbtbi94qrHAhUDcI4KHfd3C8w&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urbandictionary.com%2Fdefine.php%3Fterm%3Dmanko&ei=oQXPVZvhKIPguQT3763gDA&usg=AFQjCNH2vsyqh2iCwcmNE9pshbAMa_j8Fw&sig2=5miCV6mM0WQXOcSjTcBjjQ&bvm=bv.99804247,d.c2E).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently started World Trigger and I was wondering if Chika Amatori has a\nside effect. It seems that she is able to sense the presence of Neighbors\nbefore they come through a portal. Does this count as a side effect or is it\njust something that people with high amounts of Trion already have?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, at least in the anime Chika Amatori has a side effect. This is shown is\nepisode 6 which was called \"Chika Amatori's Side Effect\". Her side effect\nappears to be at least the ability to sense neighbors searching for her with\nhostel intent. Note: all sensory improvements due to high amounts of Trion are\ncalled side effects and no one so far seems to have the same ones.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n「In the manga, Misogi Kumagawa talks with his words inside [quotation\nmarks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typographic_symbols#Brackets_and_quotation_marks),\njust like this.」\n\n「Here's a typical example:」\n\n\n\n「Why is this? Is there a specific reason he has this notation while talking?」\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason why Kumagawa's \"speaks\" in brackets is a [bit of a\npun](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E7%90%83%E7%A3%A8%E5%B7%9D%E7%A6%8A) (see\n『カギカッコ』). The context here implies literally [括弧]{かっこ}つける (kakko tsukeru),\nmeaning \"to add brackets/parenthesis (to something, e.g., a sentence).\" The\npun involves a well-known expression [格好]{かっこ}つける (kakko tsukeru), meaning \"to\nshow off or try to look cool.\" Kumagawa speaks in the way he does because he\nis trying to sound cool.\n\nOne thing to note about 格好 is it's a kanji with [irregular kana\nusage](http://jisho.org/word/%E6%A0%BC%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%A4%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B).\nおう (ou) like えい (ei) is what's called a \"long vowel.\" The おう (ou) is\nessentially a long \"oo\" sound. Historically [格好]{かっこう} (kakkou) is the correct\nspelling, however in certain, more colloquial contexts the う is\n[omitted](http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E6%A0%BC%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%A4%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B)\nfor purposed such as brevity.\n\nIn [chapter 88](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SwgiU.jpg) of the manga, when\nKumagawa returns to the dream classroom and ask Ajimu for his original Minus\nback. Ajimu asks him to express himself sincerely, without brackets if he\nwants it back.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SD01v.jpg)\n\nHe [replies](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yerUY.jpg) w/o square brackets.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vx5vh.jpg)\n\nIt should be noted that he speaks using \"double square brackets\" (二重鉤括弧 『 』)\nused to mark quotes within quotes. In Japanese fiction this type of square\nbracket is often [used to\ndenote](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8B%AC%E5%BC%A7#.E4.BA.8C.E9.87.8D.E9.89.A4.E6.8B.AC.E5.BC.A7.E3.80.8E.E3.80.8F)\nsomething heard through another device. It's implied in the case of Kumagawa\nthat what we are seeing is essentially subtitles. We're hearing the literal\nmeaning being his _cool_ words.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dvOVL.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a common mistake by the translator in the words of Kumagawa. The\norigin of the meaning of parentheses, whether in the anime or manga, has two\nreasons in the Japanese language. The first reason is that the words inside\nthe brackets are all lies. The second reason is that the words inside the\nbrackets are said in a single tone of voice without any feelings, whether\nanger, sadness or joy, and I think that Kumagawa uses both reasons\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, we all know that\n\n> Tanaka Taro, a.k.a. Ryuugamine Mikado\n\nfounded the Dollars.\n\nBut he wasn't the only one - in episode 11, we see that he founded the Dollars\nalong with some other folks he met online, including at least 閣下 (\"Kakka\"),\nGG, and ZAWA.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a6qRn.jpg)\n\nThe show indicates that these other people eventually left when the Dollars\nbegan to spin out of control. But Durarara is a show that does a ridiculously\ngood job of conserving detail, especially with respect to its characters. This\nleads me to my question: do any of the other founders of the Dollars show up\nagain later on in any capacity?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know the name of the song that plays as Yu puts the headphones in\nand gets transported to the grassy field in his mind? The time it starts is\njust after 9:30.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is called Clouded Sky by Zhiend (which is a band that exists in real\nlife).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song you're after is called 'Clouded Sky', and is performed by the band\n'ZHIEND'. It is an insert song in episode 5 of the anime.\n\nThe scene where the song in question plays is viewable\n[**here**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyklwyKHKLE).\n\nThe full song can be listened to\n[**here**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuYTRaVvFiY).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think every Gaichuu named in the Manga wears the name of an alcoholic\nbeverage:\n\n * Cabernet -> Wine (Cabernet Sauvignon)\n * Absinthe -> Strong Liquor\n * Cider -> Applewine\n * Daikiri (or Daiquiri) -> Rum-based cocktail\n\nand some more...\n\nIs there an in-canon reason to name the \"Heart\"-eating bugs after Alcoholic\nbeverages?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure an in-universe answer is ever directly stated. If there is one,\nit would probably be in one of the Doctor Thunderland segments at the end of\neach volume. I only have volumes 14, 15, and 16 at present, but if I get the\nchance, I'll review the others.\n\nThat being said, I can think of a reason that the Gaichuu would be named after\nalcoholic beverages. Alcohol is a depressant. This means it slows down your\nbody and brain. The [wikipedia page for\nalcohol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_drink) lists lethargy as a\npossible symptom for drinking alcohol. This is similar to a battle with a\nGaichuu: A letter bee will fire off fragments of their heart to defeat it. The\nweariness they experience would be comparable to the effects depressants\ncause. They would both cause some loss of feeling and thinking. [The wikipedia\npage for depressants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressant) lists one of\nthe effects of depressants as being memory impairment, similar to how a bee\ncould lose memories if they fire their shindan too much. Firing too many\nshindans and drinking too much alcohol can also both cause loss of\nconsciousness.\n\nSo, letter bees might have seen the similarity between battling gaichuu and\nbattling alcohol and named the gaichuu accordingly.\n\nI'd like to point out a relevant passage from Dr. Thunderland at the end of\nvolume 16:\n\n> To be honest, in the last volume I prudently resolved to stop sulking about\n> my continued failure to appear in this story. But before I knew it I found\n> myself drowning my sorrow in booze from the stress of being prudent. I'd get\n> up in the morning and have breakfast and beer. At noon it was lunch and\n> draft beer. My afternoon snack was a tequila. With dinner I'd have wine and\n> sake. After dinner I'd have shochu and a whiskey nightcap. After using the\n> bathroom I did shots of alcohol hand sanitizer... \n> \n> Incidentally, I lose my memory when I drink too much. I hypothesize that\n> the drinking is causing my brain to shrink. I wonder if it's something like\n> What-chamacallit for Algernon. But they do say, \"Ignorance is bliss.\" Still,\n> my life has been a mess lately. I wonder why. Oh, right, because of the\n> drinking... heh heh heh...\n\nHere, Dr. Thunderland specifically mentions the memory-loss properties of\nalcohol. And from an out of universe perspective, Dr. Thunderland's article\nconveys that the author has some kind of interest in alcoholic beverages and\ndrunkenness (the references to different kinds of alcohol are particularly\ninteresting). I admit it might be a little presumptuous for me to assume so\nsince drunken characters are a common gag.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the music in Episode 29 at 16:10 minutes?\n\nLink here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuQfSMoCtF0>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's **Orochimaru's Battle/Fighting theme** (Orochimaru no Sentou theme) from\nNaruto Original Soundtrack 2.\n\nHere's a Youtube [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4N-Q14MvOI) for the\nfull clip.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm wondering what anime this character is from? She's so cute that I just\nbought it anyway but I feel silly not knowing if anyone asks me about it. I\nwould be very happy to know.\n\nThank you!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyShZm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat keychain is actually\n[Meruru](http://myanimelist.net/character/37596/Meruru/pictures) from [Ore no\nImouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga\nNai](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8769/Ore_no_Imouto_ga_Konnani_Kawaii_Wake_ga_Nai).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AauWB.gif)\n\nBut it's totally understandable to mistaken it as\n[Madoka](http://myanimelist.net/anime/9756/Mahou_Shoujo_Madoka%E2%98%85Magica)\nat first glance.\n\n",
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