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"body": "\n\nWhat's the name of the song in Naruto that plays in episode 203 at 0:43? \n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QwXScAUvNE>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is known as \"Childhood Memories\". It was not included in any of the\n[Naruto OST releases](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Music). However, there are\nmany versions of it available on Youtube, such as [this\none](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDfO4pkCcMM).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy didn't Kenshin's master, Hiko Seijuro, come and fight Master Shishio\nMakoto in the showdown of the Kyoto Arc?\n\nThis is one of the many times that the Meiji government called on Kenshin to\nsolve their problems, even though his master is as skilled as he. (This is\nespecially true before Kenshin learned the final technique.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause Master Seijuro wasn't interested! He was, to put it bluntly, an\nintroverted, misanthropic and somewhat lazy martial artist, who thought the\nworld an unredeemable place, felt Kenshin a fool for wanting to improve\nsociety, and didn't care in the least to take down Shishio. (See particularly\nhis interactions with Kenshin during episode 41, \"The Ultimate Technique of\nthe Hiten-Mitsurugi Style: Reunion with a Mentor, Seijuro Hiko\".) To quote\nfrom [the Kenshin wiki page on\nhim](http://kenshin.wikia.com/wiki/Hiko_Seij%C5%ABr%C5%8D_XIII):\n\n> Kenshin describes his personality as \"twisted, brusque and misanthropic\" ...\n> He dislikes the complications of socialization, and hearing of the ills of\n> society, both of which he finds annoying, and to the latter's weight,\n> ultimately incessant and depressing. In order to avoid having to work with\n> people, he makes his living as a pottery artist alone on a mountain (a\n> profession that he is reported to excel at). He also comes off as somewhat\n> lazy, professing to have retrained Kenshin to save himself the bother of\n> having to deal with Shishio, and later on, he complains about having to\n> protect Kenshin's friends, after the latter insists him to do so (though he\n> does).\n\nIt's only after much cajoling that he agrees to teach Kenshin what he needs to\nknow to defeat Shishio (episode 43, \"Between Life and Death: Master the\nUltimate Technique, Amakakeru Ryu no Hikameki!\"), but beyond that, the most he\nwill agree to do is to (grudgingly) keep an eye on and protect his friends,\nwhile Kenshin does the actual hard work of fighting Shishio (episode 53, \"The\nGiant Versus Superman: Like an Arrow Shot at a Time of Despair\")!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEssentially it is because it is not his fight, this is the symbolic end of\nKenshin's arc as an assassin. Kenshin knew this and that is why he only asked\nHiko to make sure his loved ones were safe. For the story it would be boring\nbecause he would just waltz in and kill everyone in a couple minutes, maybe\nseconds. Hiko Seijuro is the best swordsman in this universe by far, he is\nsuperman. He is stronger, faster, more skilled and more experienced than\nKenshin. Kenshin hit him with Amakakeru because Seijuro forced him to in order\nto teach him how to do it. The only area where Kenshin measures up is heart,\nhe may even surpass Hiko in this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is gonna set some people off, but the simple truth is that Hiko would\nhave lost to Shishio.\n\nFirst, Hiko's defense is not impenetrable. Even before learning the succession\ntechnique, Kenshin was able to land a hit on Hiko when his focus and\nmotivation were at 100%. That means Shishio would have likewise been able to\nhand hits on Hiko.\n\nMeanwhile, Hiko's capacity to take damage is no better than anyone else's. Yes\nhis muscle mass gives him some protection, but it didn't protect him from the\nAmakakeru Ryu no Hirameki. And consider getting hit by that technique knocked\nhim out for a full day, whereas Shishio could withstand the full force of the\nstronger version of the technique and keep fighting, and even Aoshi could\nmaintain consciousness. That suggests one Guren Kaina would have knocked him\nout, and even Homura Dama would have whittled away his fighting strength.\n\nAll of which is to say, his build, technique, and blade give him incremental\nadvantages over Kenshin but not so much that motivation and fighting spirit\nwouldn't factor in. And on those counts, Kenshin is leaps and bounds ahead,\nbeing more invested at an ideological level (caring more about what happens to\nthe government) and a personal level (redeeming his own legacy as hitokiri),\ncontrasted to Hiko's personality (\"twisted, brusque and misanthropic\") and\npolitics (the Hiten sword must maintain its independency from factions)\n\nAll of this is set up within the narrative itself, which is why Kenshin didn't\nbother asking his master to help him out. Of course, protecting the weak from\nroving bandits is right within his wheelhouse, which is why he is willing to\nprotect the Aoya.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe very well could have. However that's not the final lesson he wished to\nbestow. He let Kenshin do so, namely because in actuality it's partially his\nmechanations that caused this circumstance with Shishio in the first place.\nMush like the Sith in Star Wars, Ascension to Master requires typically the\nstudent kill the master by perfecting the final technique. The master-\napprentice dynamic continues to point of succession in which the apprentice\ngraduates by successfully besting the master in a life or death struggle.\nPractitioners of Hiten Mitsurugi style of swordsmanship; capitulated to\nMaintain independence of any and all political entities, stressing highly the\nimportance of wielding its expertise in the name of humanity; and NOT serving\nany political, government or institutional body. Since Shishio was attempting\nto overthrow the Meiji government, killing/disposing of him would be a\npolitical move (And the Hiten style Stresses it's practitioners take NO\nambition to accumulate political power or change political dynamics)\n\nimagine you inherit a power so great, then realize you have to kill a million\nto save a million. Hiko was right. “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all\nmurderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of\ntrumpets.” ― Voltaire\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe author of the Manga stated that Hiko is too powerful and would make all\nencounters trival and boring.\n\nThis is Kenshin's story not Hiko's.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe obviously wasn't interested in fighting for the government. He scolded\nKenshin many times and even mocked him for taking sides with the government\nand what it made him to be. He could definitely defeat Shishio if he wanted\nto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read the Overlord LN, but I don't understand how Shelltear got-mind\ncontrolled. And who mind-controlled her?\n\nIt happens in volume 3, chapter 2, part 4.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Her name was Lady Kaire** , but she was injured before she could completely\ntake control of Shalltear and left her in the regular enemy NPC state _(I\ndon't do anything until something attacks me mode)_. As for what she used, in\nYggdrasil **it would have been a world-level item, but I'm sure they're going\nto have their own name for it in this new world.** PS: World-level items\nbasically make hacks look like child's play, so **it was most likely a really\nlong incantation.**\n\nCitation: All of this information is available in the last episode of\nOverlord, on Funimation, a legal site, with reliable translations. Episode 13,\nthe episode in question, is available for everyone to watch, although you will\nneed an account to prove you're 17 or older. At 19:03, Lady Kaire and what she\ndid is explained by a kneeling knight. The fact that it is a world level item\nis said earlier on in the anime by Ains.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOver the past 3-4 years, I've been noticing a number of anime that credit [a\nperson named\n外村敬一](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=78467)\n(\"SOTOMURA Keiichi\", it seems) with 主題歌協力 - something like \"theme song\nassistance\". This credit, when present, usually appears on the same overlay as\nthe four usual credits for the OP/ED song (vocalist, lyricist, arranger,\ncomposer). There are exceptions, though, like the _Durarara!! Shou_ OP\n\"Headhunt\", where it appears on the following overlay.\n\nNote that the list of credits on ANN I linked to above is non-exhaustive - I'm\npretty sure (just based on my vague recollection of having seen this guy's\nname over and over) there are a lot more credits for this Sotomura fellow that\nthey haven't added to their database yet. For example, he is credited on\n\"Connect\" (the _Madoka Magica_ TV OP), but isn't listed as such on ANN:\n\n\n\nTwo questions:\n\n * What does this position entail?\n * Why have I never seen anyone besides Sotomura Keiichi be credited with it? \n\n",
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"body": "\n\n主題歌協力 is a honorific title, but the real position behind this is music\nproducer (as seen on your linked website). The former can virtually be changed\nfor the latter when seen.\n\nThe music producer position entails the following:\n\n * choosing adequate staff for the envisioned song, i.e. pick up everyone, from the studio to writers, composers, singers, and even the supporting staff.\n * planning the schedule for all this staff. In parallel, they also oversee the schedule advancement for albums jacket covers and promotional videos. There are also cases where they plan out live events.\n * managing the staff for the song, i.e. making meetings with everyone, exchange ideas about the envisioned song, adjusting details for the creation and recording of the song, and managing conflicts that may arise.\n * last but not least, budget management for the song publication and staff involved.\n\nAs for the reasons to why you only saw Sotomura be credited as theme song\ncollaborator:\n\n 1. music producers are often also the lyrics writer and/or composer for the song, so they are credited instead as such in openings.\n 2. Sotomura is a music producer \"only\", meaning he needs a title position of his own in order to appear in the credits. Other music producers \"only\" usually appear in full staff rolls (i.e. that include full production staff), but are not credited in OPs.\n 3. A music producer can appear on the OP/ED credits on request from the artists involved in it, but seeing the number of appearances for Sotomura, it is more likely that directives were made between Sony and the animation studios to quote Sotomura in the OPs.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNever got to watch the anime itself but saw a short 2-minute clip on a profile\non Facebook like 8 years back, and never got to follow up on it.\n\nFrom what I remember:\n\n * It's about a girl who tortures people in her home. \n * I remember a scene where this girl almost escapes with a knife, tries to get out the door but is cornered and gets tazed.\n * She jams her own head into the knife, exclaiming that she won't allow the girl to be the one to kill her. \n\nPretty gruesome, I know, but I've wanted to watch it for over a year and just\ncan't find out what it is...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's the first season of [Higurashi no Naku Koro\nni](http://myanimelist.net/anime/934/Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni).\n\nThe scene you're describing is in episode 20 (about 18 minutes in).\n\n[Shion](http://myanimelist.net/character/1313/Shion_Sonozaki) is the one with\nthe taser. She ends up torturing killing like half the cast.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ZLuF.png)\n\n[Rika](http://myanimelist.net/character/1534/Rika_Furude) is the girl who\ncommits suicide by banging her head against a knife.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/htX2F.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently started watching Detective Conan and I learned that Ran and\nShinichi are in fact childhood friends. So my question is, when Shinichi, due\nto the side effects of the drug he was forced to take, end up with the\nappearance of an elementary school student, why did Ran, who has known him\nsince childhood not see the resemblance right away?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe may well have noticed the resemblance, but seeing an elementary school\nstudent who looks a lot like how a friend of yours _used to look_ in the past,\ndoes not immediately lead one to the conclusion that that student _is_ in fact\nyour actual friend! It is never explicitly stated, but in all likelihood she\nsimply noted (subconsciously?) the similarity (if she were paying attention in\nthe first place) and moved on.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRan had a few suspicion arcs, where she believed (Desperate revival) or\nsuspected Conan's true identity. The truth is quite nonsense, if someone comes\nand says your friend has shrinked from 17 years to 7 years, would you believe?\nIt is very illogical and hard to believe. Plus Conan always fools her into\nsome kind of trick at the end of suspicion arcs and he has a lot of other\npeople to help him out (Professor, Heiji, His parents, Ai), and moreover Conan\ntries to act like a kid around her and wears big glasses. So it shouldn't\ntrigger more suspicion than we see. She just thinks his big resemblance to\nShinichi is some kind of coincidence, though she suspects at times, and there\nshouldn't be more suspicion than this logically.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've watched 2 seasons of Arakawa and it seems that the story didn't get\nadapted into anime in full. Namely, we know that Nino must leave for Venus\nsoon, but she doesn't even in the final episode. And we haven't seen her\nparents yet, which she claims called her there. Does it all happen in manga or\ndo both versions suddenly stop at the same point?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo _Naruto Gaiden_ has concluded, and it featured both Sasuke and Orochimaru\nin his latest iteration. Which again raises the question, what exactly was the\nmoral of the story for these two?\n\nThe _Naruto_ series excelled at emphasizing certain moral behaviors to its\nreaders/viewers: e.g., [with hard work, determination, self-confidence, and a\nwill to succeed, even a loser or social outcast can reach the\ntop](http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=352586); [love and\nunderstanding each other on a deeper level can solve any problem and bring out\nall you're actually capable\nof](https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/362x7q/the_moral_of_the_story_in_naruto_is/);\nkindness and compassion towards wild 'Beasts' can lead to positive results;\nit's important never to abandon your friends and family; etc etc. All very\ngood, solid shounen values!\n\nSo what do the lives of Sasuke and Orochimaru teach us (if anything) from\ntheir character arcs? By the end of _Shipuden_ neither has really repented or\nshown remorse for their bad behavior (simple \"sorries\" do not cut it), both\nhave done horrible things (murder, hideous human experimentation, etc) for\nwhich they are never punished (Sasuke is pardoned, Orochimaru's 'imprisonment'\nin _Gaiden_ is pretty milquetoast, and he's even allowed to continue\nresearching with his assistants!), and it is implied that they got a free pass\nfor the simple reason that they joined forces with the Shinobi Alliance to\ndestroy a common threat that was even worse (and one which was against their\nown interests to see succeed anyway!). Even then, Sasuke attempted to hijack\nthings at the last minute and take over the world, only relenting when he was\nsoundly defeated (i.e., he stopped when it was no longer _possible_ for him to\nachieve his ends!). Yet both are still allowed to do pretty much whatever they\nplease for the next decade or two. So what are we to make of all this? Do\nwhatever you want and if you have powerful enough friends, you can get away\nwith it, and keep on doing whatever you want?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNot really, it was just to show what the hell Sasuke was doing with Orchimaru,\nand how Sasuke obtains the powers he does. Naruto is kind of a split story\nbetween Naruto and Sasuke. But we see Naruto's side more often than Sasuke's.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough walking the line about the possibility of this being opinion based, I\nfeel we can answer the question based on the good ol' \"Shounen Virtues\" you\naptly described. Let me know if you want to expand/limit the answer.\n\nThe main two according to me are:\n\n * **No one is completely bad**. However in the darkness you may be, you always have that small little goodness inside of you. Be it Anti-Villains, Not Evil but Misunderstood or another common Trope. Other examples include Zabuza, Haku, Kimimaro, Itachi, Kisame, Nagato, Konan, and Obito. This also goes very nicely with the Whole Yin-Yang symbolism.\n\n * **Everyone deserves forgivness/second chances**. There is nothing you can do that can/should/will not be forgiven. True redemption however takes sacrifice. I really liked the panel where Orochimaru saves Tsunade's life and then they talk about Jiraiya's death. Sasuke undertakes a journey of self discorvery post the events of 4th Great Ninja war. This is a true Shounen value in the sense because if they regret their past actions they are excused.\n\nOther small values I feel were discussed are\n\n * Morality of Revenge - Sasuke's journey from Itachi to hidden leaf and finally for World Domination. Also subverted by Naruto by forgiving Pain. Shikamaru meanwhile is still laughing at Hidan\n * Bonds of Student and Teacher - Fights between 3rd Hokage and Orochimaru, Jiraiya and Pain, Kakashi and Sasuke, 4th Hokage and Obito we see recurring instances of Sensei's love.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Code Geass R2_ , episode 14, at time code 14:35, there is a track playing.\nIt plays after Rolo kills the other children with Geass. The battle between\nLelouch, Jeremiah, and V.V.\n\nWhat is the title of this track?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have checked all soundtracks; it has not been released. People on anime\nforums confirm that (for example, here:\n<http://forums.animesuki.com/archive/index.php/t-38178-p-4.html>).\n\nThe only one is someone's edit\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUKJ4zQ0MKY).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's an unreleased piece from the soundtrack called **Collective\nSubconscious**. You can find it here:\n\n[Code Geass: Unreleased Album - 49 Collective\nSubconscious](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBrFOFPTrGI&list=PLb4mticUuCmQSnQpXJDttkzbhOxAdnGWf&index=49)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we learn in the second cour of the first season of _Durarara!!_ , Niekawa\nHaruna is the Saika-wielder primarily responsible for the slashing incidents\nthat have been plaguing Ikebukuro for a while.\n\nIn episode 17, when Anri reveals herself to be the true bearer of Saika,\nNiekawa realizes that it must have been Anri that slashed and \"infected\" her\nwith Saika.\n\nBut, according to Shinra, Saika had been dormant for some five years prior -\nstarting when Anri took possession of Saika after her parents' death, and\nending presumably when the current series of slashing incidents began.\n\nWhen did Anri slash Haruna? And why? I would think that if Anri had slashed\nher during Saika's supposed period of dormancy, _somebody_ would have found\nout about it, at least.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am wondering what the \"x\" in \"Hunter x Hunter\" means. To clarify: I am also\ntalking about what the \"x\" means in general as many other anime/manga also\nhave it in their titles.\n\nA quick\n[Google](https://www.google.com/search?q=the%20x%20in%20hunter%20x%20hunter)\nsearch for this question returns a Yahoo answer result which claims that the\n\"x\" is just for style and has no meaning whatsoever. Is this correct? Does\nthis also apply to other anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've done some searching about the names like this, and I wasn't able to find\nany particular explanation. Some people say it's just for style, other argue\nthat the × is another form of \"vs\" (which kind of makes some sense), or \"and\"\n(like &), or \"with\". (Not to mention that it might also mean \"kisses\" like in\n\"xoxo\" = \"hugs and kisses\", but that's most likely irrelevant :P)\n\nIt's worth noting that it is not uncommon to find odd letters in anime/manga\ntitles (e.g. Lucky ☆ Star - らき☆すた has a star in the name) and even in\ncharacter names (e.g. Black☆Star from Soul Eater has a star in his name as\nwell). Also the 'x' in \"Hunter × Hunter\" is not actually the letter 'x', but\nrather the symbol ×.\n\nSo, considering the above, I would personally say that it's just for style.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could mean \"Hunter of Hunter\" as x, as a multiplication symbol is often\nreplaced in equations with the word \"of\".\n\nFor example, **\"5 of 12\"** means **5 lots of 12** , and **5 x 12.** Thus, the\nx in Hunter x Hunter could also follow the same pattern, and mean \"Hunter of\nHunter\", which would also line up with Gon's goal to search for his father.\n\nHe's a hunter, hunting for his father, another hunter.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 'X' probably means \"cross.\" In math it can be seen as \"vector X vector.\"\nWhich is to cross-multiply two vectors, the result is a vector 90 degrees to\nboth vectors. To \"cross\" someone is to challenge them. So the title is read\nas, \"Hunter Cross Hunter.\"\n\nThe 'X' has been used in other titles such as: \"X Multiply\" as NES game which\nI think is just a clever way to say \"Cross Multiply\" \"Street Fighter X Tekken\"\na multi-platform game(PS3, Xbox360, PC, etc.) which is also said as, \"Street\nFighter Cross Tekken.\" Because it is a crossover game.\n\nAnd \"XX\" would be \"double-cross.\" Also, title ending in an 'X' may not mean\nanything, just to look and sound cool. Such as \"Castlevania: Dracula X.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is so funny to watch people attempt to answer this with logic and sound so\nconfident!\n\nAs a branding expert, it is a stylistic choice to imply 'and' but more of a\n'with' implication. So a partnership in business, either temporary or\npermanent you will see this sometimes, more often than not, in fashion\ncobranding partnerships. Like if Marvel partnered with JCPenny, you'd most\nlikely see both logos with the x between them. Some confused this with a pipe,\nbut that is meant more for further explanation of a division or group within\nthe same parent company. It isnt really logical other than simply a stylistic\nchoice that someone came up with and others ran with.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA warning if you are planning to search on some of the titles listed below as\nsome contain NSFW content.\n\nTo add to the previously accepted answer, while the × or ×'s in anime titles\nwill usually not be pronounced, leading to the idea that this is just for\nstyle or preference, _this is not always the case_.\n\nAnother reason I see as to why this is just for style or preference in some\ncases is because as far as I know, there is no × or X in hiragana or katakana,\nunlike in the English alphabet. I also have not yet seen an × or X in kanji or\na representation of it in kanji. Examples of where the × is not included in\nthe translation include (I got their translations from their respective\nWikipedia pages):\n\n * **Hunter × Hunter** \\- ハンター×ハンター Hantā Hantā, abbreviated: HxH\n * **High School D×D** \\- ハイスクールD×D Haisukūru Dī Dī\n * **×××Holic** \\- ×××ホリック Horikku, pronounced as \"Holic\"\n * **Kiss×sis** \\- キス×シス Kisu×shisu\n * **Servant × Service** \\- サーバント×サービス Sābanto × Sābisu\n * **Dusk Maiden of Amnesia** \\- 黄昏乙女×アムネジア Tasogare Otome × Amunejia\n * **Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia** \\- 魔装学園Hハイブリッド×Hハート Masō Gakuen Haiburiddo Hāto\n\nAs you can see, the × is not included in the translation. If it was, it can be\ntranslated as 'ekusu' (エクス) or 'ekkusu' (エックス) (I'm still learning Japanese so\nany corrections on its katakana equivalent would be welcome). But, in some\ncases, the × might represent another word. I found an example in the anime\n_Romeo × Juliet_. According to its Wikipedia page, this is not pronounced as\n'Romeo Juliet' but rather 'Romeo and Juliet' (ロミオ×ジュリエット or Romio to Jurietto)\nwhere 'to' is the Japanese equivalent of 'and'.\n\nThus, **this varies depending on the anime or the manga title**. I suggest you\ncheck the Wikipedia pages or something similar of works with the symbol '×' if\nyou want to verify whether or not they are pronounced or if they are read as\nother words, like in the case of _Romeo × Juliet_ , or if they represent\nsomething else.\n\nIn the case of Hunter × Hunter, [it is not\npronounced](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter#Production) and\nhas no meaning whatsoever. The image below is from **Volume 6** of the VIZ\ntranslations. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2JC9X.jpg)\n\nTogashi was only focusing on naming a manga that has the format '(something)\nHunter' and after seeing a joke about repetition, decides to repeat the word\nHunter as a title. He did not mention anything relevant about including × so\nin my assumption, this has no meaning whatsoever, unless of course he only did\nthat to prevent spoilers about something in his story that has yet to be\nrevealed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith crossover fighting games it appears to be used as something of a blend\nbetween versus and and/with, as the two companies (as well as their\ncharacters) are both collaborating and competing at the same time. With anime,\nwhere meaning is present at all, I suspect it's a similar blending of usages.\nI supposed in some, where it's not pronounced orally, the reasoning is there's\nno equivalent single word. Less, in this case, stylistic use and more a\npractical use (much like a contraction), albeit with notable inconveniences\nwhen trying to discuss it verbally.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome shows such as Highschool DxD have the title in their intro song in which\nyou can hear what it stands for; **by**. So Kiss x Sis will be read as Kiss by\nSis ( _it was either the opening or ending or throughout the show, but it was\npronounced as kiss by sis, not sure where to find it_ ). Highschool DxD will\nbecome Highschool D by D (in the song you can hear D by D). However this isn't\nfinal, based on other shows x can hold multiple meanings which become for\nexample **and** or **versus** or just the multiplication. Some examples to\nillustrate what I am talking about:\n\n * Romeo x Juliet -> Romeo and Juliet\n * C³ Cube × Cursed × Curious -> C³ Cube and Cursed as well as Curious\n * Hidamari Sketch × 365 -> Hidamari Sketch times 365\n * Servant × Service -> Servant and Service\n * Street Fighter x Tekken -> Street Fighter versus Tekken\n\nWith Hunter × Hunter for example the × is never pronounced but can be seen as\na symbol indicating Hunter versus (or and) Hunter which is extremely fitting\nto the show itself.\n\nPlenty of shows also use different symbols in their title for example\nSteins;Gate, Choukadou Girl ⅙, .hack//Sign, Tokyo Ghoul √A, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ\nNan. Based on that the symbols pretty much always have a meaning related to\nthe show itself. So in conclusion whether x (or ×) is pronounced or not it\nalways has a meaning that fits the show. It however doesn't have a solid\nstandard meaning. Sometimes the meaning is a lot easier to decipher and in\nother occasions it becomes quite a journey to discover what it means. The\ntitles I picked as examples all have meanings in which you can see that some\nare extremely straightforward (if you watched the shows) while others aren't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOthers have offered valuable insights. I believe that this is common notation\nin matrices. In most cases it is like a 2d space, X axis then Y axis. `A\nmatrix of dimension 5 x 10.` `Pursuit × And × Analysis` (Episode 59), Pursuit\nis contrasting to Analysis as is `Aggressive x Passive`. So imagine `Passive\nis X axis`, `Aggressive is Y axis`. They are somewhat disjoint, yet are\nimportant factors in victories. `Chasing × And × Waiting`, `Restraint × And ×\nVow`, `Defend × And × Attack`, all from Episode 40s and so on, the first is\neither passive, then there is aggressive. Other instances like `A × Shocking ×\nTragedy` (Episode 43) are a mere continuation of this style, they can be seen\nas exceptions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 6 of the first season of _Durarara!!_ , we see that Kadota is\ngainfully employed doing some sort of construction-related manual labor.\n\n\n\nBut his three buddies in the ~~Mystery Machine~~ Dollars van don't appear to\ndo anything that would earn them a dime - they just drive around town doing\ngod-knows-what. Karisawa and Yumasaki seem to spend stupid amounts of money\nbuying light novels and merchandise and stuff; and I'm guessing it costs\nTogusa a pretty penny to fund his Hijiribe Ruri habit.\n\nHow do the three of them afford anything?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Sasuke actually serious about ever restoring his clan?\n\nRestoring the Uchiha clan, both in population and prestige, was the second of\nSasuke's two major life goals since the beginning of the _Naruto_ series. Yet\nby 700, some 20 years after the massacre, he has so far succeeded in producing\nonly a single Uchiha heir. If we include Sakura, that's only 2 additional\nUchiha in that entire time! Given the highly dangerous shinobi training regime\nand overall risky lifestyle, isn't it reckless to rely on Sarada alone to\ncarry the tribal line, especially given the number of children he'd need to\ncreate a [minimal viable population\n(MVP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population):\nsustainability levels for vertibrate mammals is generally estimated at 500 to\n1000 individuals, but given there's a whole village of Konoha to interbreed\nwith, let's be generous and say only 5% of that number would be needed\n(25-35). If so, then Sasuke really should be having in the order of 12\nchildren (who, if each of those keeps up near that birthrate, the Uchiha clan\nwould be fully restored within 2-3 generations!) I know it's common for\ncontemporary Japanese families to produce only one or two children at most, so\nit's what the readers would be used to, but this is ancient/different\ndimension Japan!\n\nWhat exactly is he waiting for?\n\n(Maybe Shin will have to step up to the plate instead, or Orochimaru making a\nton of test tube Uchiha babies, haha!)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Ente Isla they have their own language, and I don't think the people there\n(especially the ones living on the land) know anything about Japan or Earth.\nSo how could Emilia, her father and that one guy carrying that cart (in the\nflashback) speak fluent Japanese?\n\nAnd if they actually know Japanese, why don't they speak it all the time?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe people from Ente Isla do not speak Japanese. They are simply shown\nspeaking Japanese for the convenience of the audience during the flashback.\n\nThe moments where they are shown speaking their own language instead of\nJapanese are when they are chanting spells, which might not be able to be cast\nin other languages, or when it is necessary to remind the viewers that they\ncome from a different world.\n\nWhen Maou and Alciel had just arrived in Japan, they did not know the\nlanguage, so it is important to demonstrate the language barrier to the\naudience.\n\nDuring Emi's flashback, all the parties involved spoke the same language, so\nthere was no need at all to show a language barrier, instead it is easier to\nmake the whole scene in the audience's language.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm currently watching the anime series Hunter x Hunter. I'm currently on the\nepisode 30. But looking back, I get confused why exactly did Killua kill the\nopponent of Leorio.\n\nBefore the fight, his brother was seemingly hypnotizing him that he will need\nto step back if he know that his opponent is stronger than him, thus making\nhim protecting Killua.\n\nHis brother also stated that a certain day will come that Killua will leave\nGon to die. I don't get the point why such action will be done to Kill the\nopponent of Leorio.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYay, I watched this again yesterday:\n\n 1. He felt he had to quit the exam due to pressure from his brother (which involves literal and quite horrific mind control that is explained in more detail in the chimera ants arc).\n 2. Disqualification is a faster way to quit than waiting to the end.\n 3. He wanted to kill something as he is quite a blood thirsty individual and wanted to reaffirm his strength and control over the world.\n 4. He lost most of his self control because of his emotional state. Note that he truely believed that Illumi would kill Gon and that his losing the match without fighting proved his was not fit to be a normal human. He was not willing to fight to protect his only friend from being killed.\n\nWhile he might have considered that killing that opponent helped Leoreo that\nwas determined not to be why he did it. If it was why he killed him, Leoreo\nwould have been disqualified as was explained when Leoreo (and later Killua\ntoo) wanted to step in against Hanso to protect Gon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid the human body of Momonga transform itself into his character in the game?\nIf that's the case, his soul should be in this character.\n\nOr is it something similar to SAO in which his original body is still in the\n\"human world\", but his soul (or consciousness) in the \"game world\"?\n\nOr could it be that Momonga is with his soul and human body in his own world\nand sits in front of his computer playing this realistic game?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 1 start with an explanation that Yggdrasil (the name of the game) is a\nDMMO-RPG (Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). So, basing my\nassumption on the word 'dive', I would say that the setting is somewhat\nsimilar to SAO.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**He's definitely transported into the game** , unlike in SAO, all the game\nfeatures are gone, if you'll recall in the first couple episodes, he has to\nadjust to his powers and how to use them. In SAO even though they were \"full\ndive\" they still played it like a game, while in overlord it was more, this is\nreal life, not just a really realistic video game.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin the LN it says this 'To date, this body of his had not felt thirst, so it\ndid not bother him. Although he was well aware that the dead would not feel\nthis way, he could not help but think this was all a joke once he realized\nthat he was no longer human.' So we can assume his body no longer exists in\nthe real world\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAinz was transported to a new world, some say he was transported because of\nwild magic, but the wild magic for some reason believed his avatar was his\nreal body.\n\nThere are some hints as this in the beginning of the light novel that leads\nyou to believe that it isn't like SAO.\n\n * It is mentioned that there are laws against stimulating senses in games.\n * Ainz was in the New world for a long time, he would have died already.(Ainz wasn't very known and didn't have many friends in real life, no one would have checked on him)\n * NPC and people show human emotions, fears, world history and other complex matters which are hard to explain in a game world.\n\nThere are some other parts that explain this a lot better than I can. Not only\nis there a Light Novel, but there are a lot of secondary or mini Arcs that\nhave other details. There is one which is some time after the game ended with\na few of Ainz old guild mates talking in real life and some other details.\n\nYou can check with the overlord community on reddit and it is common\nunderstanding that Ainz is in a real world.\n\nTheories about how players got there:\n<https://www.reddit.com/r/overlord/comments/6q9g3i/yggdrsil_shutdown/dkvnj5y/?context=3>\n\nWild magic and how it might work:\n<https://www.reddit.com/r/overlord/comments/6tfawd/speculations_of_yggdrasil_and_nw_magic_possible/dlkxqwh/?context=3>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> The Momonga we see in the new world (new game) is an AI version of that\n> player. Why bother with the far future? Why the differences he has noticed\n> in his emotional make-up? My theory? He isn't \"real\". Free beta testers! –\n> RichF\n\nThat is a great answer! It also explains so many other things, for example,\nthe new setting appears to run on many of the same basic rules...with new\noptions added, like marshal arts (and rune magic) that didn't exist (or\nweren't implemented, or were largely unknown to the players), in Yggdrasil.\nAlso, there is mounting evidence...we even see plenty of it in the anime, that\nthere have been other players in the new World...many, many years ago.\n\nMomonga could have been sitting, as lifeless data on a hard drive, along with\nthe rest of Nazerick, for all the years it took for true AI to come into\nbeing, finally, after loads of history takes place, often using rules that\ncame into being long after Momonga was recorded, the Great Tomb is awakened\nand the Supreme One orders Sabas to scout the perimeter...\n\nIf he were still thinking using his human brain, back in his apartment, he\nwould have passed out from low loos sugar and lack of sleep days before he\neven goes outside for his fateful Moonlight talk with Demugure.\n\nOn the other hand, maybe it is all just magic. Maybe when the Wild Magic event\nthat created the currently popular forms of magic occurred, it copied the\nrules for how the system of spells would work from a computer game on a\ndifferent World. When the game was copied, it was copied complete with the\npopular dungeons, like Nazarick. Another popular story, in the same genre\n(\"Isekai\"), which should also get an anime,\"Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka?\" (high\nschool class becomes heroic princes and princesses...our hero, friendless\ngamer-girl becomes mook tier monster in a dungeon) eventually deals quite well\nwith the often ignored question of why a real-seeming World would so closely\nresemble a game. I, personally, am very fond of how \"Re:Monster\" (govenment\nassassin becomes goblin, in goblin clan) handled it, too.\n\nIt is very, very common, right now, in Isekai stories, to have the new world\nthe hero is reincarnated into be bizarrely similar to a \"RPG\" video game, to\nthe point where everything runs on \"Dungeons and Dragons\" style rules, even\nwhen they seem ridiculous for a \"realistic\" fantasy world...when they seem\nlike an approximate model of reality, that skips a certaint level of detail,\nrather than anything that would ever naturally develope. While this seems\nreally odd to most readers/viewers who aren't used to it (English speakers),\nit is so much a convention, that the vast majority of the stories don't even\nquestion it, some of the best ones do. The two I just mentioned, and others;\n\"Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku\" is a parody, and acts like a parody,\n\"Youjo Senki\" has divine intervention as part of the basic premise, \"ErfWorld\"\nhad a magic spell looking for someone, somewhere in the multiverse who had a\nrequired aptitude with the way the World worked (so it grabbed a game designer\nwho had made a similar game)...SAO tries to explain why people are \"trapped in\na game\" and is EXTREMELY popular...but I feel it falls far short of Tad\nWilliams' \"OtherLand,\" but apparently popular audiences wanted a quick\nexplanation, rather than clues dribbled out over five long novels.\n\nOverlord might just leave the question unanswered, as so many do, and we will\nhave to decide for ourselves. Momonga is certainly better off as Ainz-sama,\nthan as \"Sezuki Satori\" in his crapy, distopian Japan, and I'd enjoy his\nstory, in his New World, even if he, and we, never find out how it\nhappened...I just hope we get more than just 12 new episodes, in this story\n(second season is happening, I'm so happy) because our World really needs the\nfew truly great isekai stories, of which Overlord is definitely one, to become\nwell known...because there are quite a few stories that aren't as good, and\nthe genre is very popular, in some languages. The potential audience needs to\nsee that modern popular isekai can be great.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe died. His soul just stayed in the full dive game.\n\nIt's kind of like what's happening in season 3 of _SAO Alicization_. Just he's\nactually dead and can't fix his brain. When it went all black and he said \"I\nhave work at 4 am\", I figured he just died from over-exhaustion or he had a\nheart attack, otherwise why else would he go black for that couple seconds\nthen come back. He died for sure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe not dead the New World and Yardrasigil are completly different even the\nland and surrounding are not the same.I'm willing to bet that this is the\nresult of a summoning type wild magic that existed in New World before and\nthat magic creating a portal that summons a powerfull objects and people from\nYardrasigil every 200-300 years New World time (since the game was only 12\nyear there is a difference in time space law) and since the magic was fixed to\nbascically what it thought was another world (Yggdrasil) it sensed that this\nworld was coming to a end and pulled the last people it could find and their\nbelonging and buildings. Buildings have been taken before such as (due to lots\nof speclation that holds a good probability in fact) that the floating\nbuilding the Platinum Dragon lord building belongs to the Eight Greed Kings.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI for myself think he is dead. Even if his body in the real world is still\nalive when his consciousness were brought into the New World, I don't think\nhis real body would have survived starvation without proper medical attention.\nAnother possibility is at the moment when the clock hit 0:00:00, the device\nwhich he used to dive into YGGDRASIL malfunctioned, thus frying his brain\nresulting in instant death. There's millions of players in YGGDRASIL and\ncertainly Momonga is not the only one waiting for the \"force logout\". Even\n0.1% of 1 million players is enough to flood the New World.\n\nMy point is, since Momonga's real body was already dead when the clock hit\n0:00:00, his consciousness (which was already in Nazarick) didn't have a body\nto return to, thus resulting in his consciousness staying in Ains' body.\nBecause when you think about it, the Six Great Gods came into the New World\n600 years ago whilst the Eight Greed Kings came 500 years ago, which means\nAins' appearance is 500 years after the demise of the Eight Greed Kings.\nSomething must have happened to their original bodies, too. Because if not,\nthen who came 400 years ago or 300 years ago? It was never mentioned, right?\nThat's because nobody else came after the Eight Greed Kings' death. It can be\nsaid that one of the conditions for being transported to the New World is that\nthe player's real body must be dead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt certain points during the Dragon Ball Z-serie, the group receives a bag of\nSenzu Beans from Korin. Senzu Beans are very nutritious and heal wounds,\nsometimes even saving people from life-threatening injuries.\n\nKnowing that, it would be stupid not to have extra Senzu Beans on hand.\nUnfortunately, the only one who's able to grow them is Korin.\n\n_Is there a reason why nobody else can grow Senzu Beans, other than\ndifficulty?_ I'd imagine regular people can learn to grow beans, even if\nthey're magical.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf someone were to change his face through plastic surgery, would he become\nimmune to the Death Note?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 25 of _Durarara!!_ (the second special episode), three groups of\npeople try to attack Shizuo upon seeing on TV that he and Izaya are fighting.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I7KgSl.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zjdzjl.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k2uvMl.jpg)\n\nThe first group consists of some of the ruffians that Shizuo beat up in\nepisode 3. Naturally, they'd want revenge on Shizuo. The third group is a\nbunch of members of the Yellow Scarves. The Yellow Scarves generally perceive\nShizuo as standing in the way of their plans for Ikebukuro, so I can see why\nthey'd want to take him out, too.\n\nI do not recognize the second group, though (and I just rewatched the whole\nfirst season). Who are they?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 11 of _Kekkai Sensen_ aired on 20 June 2015. One would expect episode\n12 (the last episode) to have aired a week later, on 27 June 2015. That... did\nnot happen.\n\nAt present (17 Aug 2015), the last episode _still_ hasn't aired. This is\nhugely abnormal - the last time I recall a delay of this magnitude this\nhappening was when the Tohoku earthquake hit back in March 2011 and delayed\nthe last few episodes of a number of winter 2011 shows.\n\nWhy is episode 12 over a month delayed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe current [reason](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1400347) listed on\nthe show's\n[website](http://web.archive.org/web/20150911034920/http://kekkaisensen.com/news/index.html)\n(link in Japanese) is that the final episode is planned to be longer than the\n30 minute time slot it was originally allotted. The production committee has\npostponed the airing of the 12th episode until further notice (perhaps as they\nattempt to secure a longer time slot), when its Twitter and official pages\nwill be updated with the decided date.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, what is the orderly list of appearance of the game's dungeons in the\nanime? I'm pretty sure that based on the enemy (Dogoo) and the landscape, the\nfirst dungeon showed in the anime is Virtua Forest, but what about the rest,\nlike the R-18 island? And since the game consist of several series, which\nversion of the game the featured dungeon is based on?\n\nNote: I played Rebirth 2 and only tried the prologue of Rebirth 1. But so far\nI can tell, the world map is different and the landscape of the first dungeon\n(both are Virtua Forest) is different too. Therefore, in the answer please\nspecify which version of the game.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsually anime will be completed in a single season while second season is a\nsequel or prequel. But Fate/Stay Night UBW and Fate/Zero aired the first 12\nepisodes on first season and continued the next episode in the next season.\nWas there any reason why they do that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo let's say I write:\n\n> Bob Shneizel Car Accident. Forgets where he lives, and then thinks about how\n> awesome he is. Then he gets killed in a car accident at 9:30.\n\nWould that (manipulating someone's thoughts via what I write) work?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy take on this, is that **it could be possible, but not to much use.**\n\nBased on the content shown in the series, you can only specify his cause of\ndeaths, and the events leading up to it.\n\nBut since it would all result in death regardless, and the victim seems to be\nable to do nothing when they run out predefined actions.\n\nHowever, it is shown that the book can order people to commit suicide. The\nlook on people's faces seems a bit like they are aware they will end their own\nlives soon, so maybe it is possible, in extention.\n\nOnly thing I can say with certain, is that you would need to give it a try:\n\n**From How to Use: VI**\n\n> The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the gods of\n> death, either. So, you must examine and find out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'll expand my earlier comment, which is basically: yes, thought manipulation\nis possible to some extent.\n\nIn _Death Note_ , we see Naomi Misora get killed by Light via the following:\n\n> Commits suicide in such a way that nobody will be inconvenienced and her\n> body will not be discovered. Dies by implementing this plan within 48 hours.\n\nThus, Light essentially manipulates Naomi Misora into _planning_ a suicide --\nshe is not merely someone who receives a heart attack, and unlike some of the\nother instances (e.g. the bus hijacking case, where the actions of the victim\nare largely dictated by Light himself), it is clear that she isn't _entirely_\nan automaton whose actions do not involve any conscious thinking (since it's\nup to her to fill up the gap's in the DN's plan for her death).\n\nThus, thought manipulation in the sense of exercising some control over\nsomeone's thought processes via the Death Note are possible. The death note\ndoesn't only control someone's body (which is about as much as we can infer\nfrom the other incidents).\n\nHowever, this would presumably be restricted via the same mechanism the deaths\nare restricted (i.e. people cannot die via physically impossible means, and\nthey cannot be instructed to do things they are incapable of doing). With mind\ncontrol there might be slightly more flexibility, but it would seem\nimpossible, for instance, to write:\n\n> Average three-year-old child dies by choking to death after thinking about\n> topological spaces and game theory.\n\nThere might be more flexibility with _emotions_ , but that doesn't cover other\ntypes of thoughts, and some thoughts would be entirely impossible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of\nfables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Here is a description of\nAesop:\n\n> \"of loathsome aspect... potbellied, misshapen of head, snub-nosed, swarthy,\n> dwarfish, bandy-legged, short-armed, squint-eyed, liver-lipped—a portentous\n> monstrosity,\"\n\nHere are somethings that they have in common.\n\n * They both tell fictitious stories.\n * They both have liver-lips.\n * Their names are pronounced the same.\n\nI believe that Ussop might be a combination of Pinocchio and Aesop.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Ussop's name is probably based on \"Isoppu\" which is the Japanese\n> pronunciation of Aesop. ([ _One Piece_\n> Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Usopp/Misc.))\n\nThe Wiki also claims \"uso\" means \"lie\" in Japanese so Ussop is a combination\nof \"liar\" and \"storyteller\" (Aesop). Basically this says it is likley but the\nsource is not at all canon. We don't know as Oda hasn't definitively said, but\nprobably.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsopp's name was inspired by Aesop. Aesop told made up stories called fables,\nmuch like Usopp. Also, Aesop is the author of \"the boy who cried wolf\", the\nstory of the boy who lies to the villagers about a wolf appearance in order to\nalarm the villagers for fun, but because of his history of lying, the\nvillagers don't believe him when the wolf actually appears. This is parallel\nto Usopp lying about pirates arriving in order to prank the villagers, but\nthey don't believe him when he's telling the truth.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWill there be a way to acquire it like Windows 7? Is it even installed on any\npersonal computer in Japan?\n\nI noticed that the Windows 8 OS-tan theme also seems unavailable, so I guess\nthis is futile. But what is the point of announcing them if nobody can use it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was wondering, how does the Yu-Gi-Oh manga differ from the anime? If someone\nenjoyed the anime would they like the manga?\n\nAnd were there ever any Yu-Gi-Oh movies?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga starts with Yugi and the soul inhabiting the enigma being involved\nin many different disputes on many different kinds of games: from card games,\ntabletop games, electronic games, video games, lots of gambling and small\ncrimes too.\n\nThen, the card game created for the manga starts being the center piece of the\nstory, with clear rules being developed and all.\n\nThe story centered on the card game is the one they adapted into the anime,\nafter removing and altering much of the content at the beginning of the manga.\n\nAlso, there are \"filler\" arcs in the anime - original stories not present in\nthe manga medium.\n\nIt is still mostly the same story, so you would like the manga if you enjoyed\nthe anime.\n\nThree animated movies based on Yu-Gi-Oh have been released at the time of\nwriting, according to Wikipedia, with one more to be released in 2016. There\nare no live action movies, though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo clarify before I proceed, I am referring to \"Yu-Gi-Oh!\" as the story from\nDuelist Kingdom up until and including the Millenium World arc (including\nanime fillers in between although my answer does not discuss it). I will not\nconsider the original 7 volumes of the manga, Season 0 of the anime or\nGX/5D's/Zexal/Arc-V. Basically most the story that involves Yugi and his\nfriends.\n\nIn addition to everything Sigfried666 said, a noticeable difference is the\nmaturity levels of the different medium. The manga was intended for an older\nteenage audience, whereas the anime was made for a younger elementary school\naudience. So you will see a fair amount of censorship and/or omission in the\nanime. Depending on your tastes, you may or may not enjoy that. Also the\nEnglish version, should you decide to watch it, was dubbed by 4Kids\nEntertainment, so you would see even more censorship in the dub than the sub.\n\nHere are some examples of the changes made in the anime to accommodate the\nyounger audience:\n\n * There is blood in the manga, but not the anime.\n * > Some characters die in the manga, but they live in the anime (but the overall story line of the anime stays true to the manga despite this)\n\n * (In the english dub) Some names were changed to be less dark/disturbing. For example, they renamed \"Player Killer\" in the manga to \"PaniK\" and they renamed \"Pandora\" to \"Arcana\". On a slightly related note to that, many names were changed for the dub too, mainly \"Jonouchi\", \"Honda\", and \"Anzu\" were renamed to \"Joey\", \"Tristan\", and \"Tea\" respectively.\n * Characters wear more suitable clothing for a young audience. \n\n> (Mai Valentine especially)\n\n * There is A LOT of emphasis on the power of friendship and whatnot, so that may bother some people, especially older watchers, as they will quickly notice how much they abuse friendship in the anime (much like Fairy Tail if you are familiar with that). The manga does use the concept of friendship a fair amount, but nowhere near to the extent that the anime does.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 99, the Chimera Ant bat says, \"Water significantly weakens the\npower of sound!\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aEkCH.jpg)\n\nBut water [is a good conductor of\nsound](http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_is_water_a_good_conductor_of_sound). Why\ndoes she say this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause water is more dense than the air, the sound does travel faster through\nwater, i think about 4 times faster than air! but because water is dense it\nalso needs more energy to moves the water particles ! which is why you can\nhear a faint sound in air but in water it doesn't even start, so you can't\nhear anything \nin the end what you read in the link you mentioned is a talk about sound\nspeed, which is indeed faster in water, and even faster in metal ! but there\nare variables such as initial energy needed for moving the particles, so you\ncan hear \nThis site too, explains about sound travel under water \n<http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/how-sound-travels-under-\nwater/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe probably says this because water weakens the effect of the technique,\n[secret sound](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Bat), that Bat.\n\n> Bat enhances her voice and produces a powerful sound wave infused with her\n> nen that confuses and disorientates her enemies leaving them without guard\n> for some seconds\n\nIn this scene, Gon rips a bit of his trouser pocket before making them damp\nwith saliva and stuffing them in his ears, effectively making earplugs for\nhimself.\n\nPractically speaking, fabric itself doesn't make good earplugs, but by\ndampening it, it works quite well.\n\nIf Bat's sound waves cannot be heard as well, it won't have the same effect.\nTherefore it is weaker.\n\nIt's important to note that the original phrase was: 水は音波のエネルギーを著しく弱める\n\nWhich can be translated, taking in context, to: Water significantly weakens\nthe energy of the sound wave.\n\nTherefore it could be her referring to how water is weakening the effect of\nher technique, instead of sound in general.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Geass Canceller of Jeremiah Gotwald cancels the effects of Geass on people\nwho have been affected.\n\nHis Geass Canceller is effective on the people that Lelouch, Rolo, and Charles\nhave cast their Geass on.\n\nBut how about with the Geass of Marian, the Knight Of One, and Mao?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey rushed the ending, and it has too many plot holes. They leave the ending\nwithout any explanation, and there are characters who never revealed their\nidentities.\n\nIt's pretty popular outside Japan (I don't know whether the manga is well-\nreceived by the fans in Japan or not). Did they make some official statement\nabout this rushed ending?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis novel may involve aspects of rebirth. It is also either a Japanese light\nnovel or a Chinese novel with a small possibility of being a fan-fiction.\n\nThe part I remember best about the novel is as follows:\n\n * A young, human boy, either a _commoner_ , _lower class noble_ , or _noble with weak powers_ is attending a school for training students in magic or magical abilities. \n\n * He is looked down upon by the other students in his class. He is the only one in the class who I'd reborn in a different world from his original world.\n\n * The boy uses body strengthening magic/powers. During a training exercise, survival training, I believe, where the students are required to follow a route through a forest that surrounds their city, the entire class is in attendance. \n\n * His classmates include a royal princess and other high ranking nobles. The students make a big deal out of choosing a leader and eventually choose a high noble boy and his compatriots to lead the class. \n\n * The protagonist becomes the baggage handler basically, carrying others' supplies. The high noble boy wants to show off to the princess and other high noble girls, so he and his friends elect to try and take a short cut through the forest. Thereby getting a high score or something and impressing the ladies and teachers. \n\n * As the high noble has a bit of influence over the class, they agree to the shortcut. The exercise was predesigned by the teachers with the children's safety in mind, so, when they used the shortcut they were attacked by goblins and other weak magic creatures or demons. \n\n * At first the students were able to handle it easily. However, the number of creatures continued to rise and the students were tiring and they became trapped on top of a cliff. Of course, the protagonist is fine, even though he is carrying more weight than everyone else, however, everyone else is showing fatigue.\n\n * The students elect to fight the goblins and fended off waves of them, eventually they were pushed to a point of collapse and in the panic one of the high noble boys knocked the princess back and over the cliff. \n\n * The protagonist at this point uses his body strengthening skills/magic to rush to her, jump down toward her falling self, and then throw her back up the cliff while falling down himself. The students were occupied and not many saw the noble boy knock the princess off so he is ignorant or hiding the fact that he did it. \n\n * The princess brings up the fact that he knocked her off and was then saved by the protagonist. The high noble boys hearing this are nervous and say such things as that the protagonist should be honored to have died for the princess.\n\n * The princess is now pissed and takes control of the exercise, citing the reason being the boys are fools. She leads them to finish the exercise while worried of the fate of the protagonist who saved her. He lives, and moves on with his life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAh. I found it by chance. It's \"Seirei Gensouki ~Konna Sekai de Deaeta Kimi\nni~\"\n\nA summary can be found here: <https://zmunjali.wordpress.com/seirei-gensouki-\nkonna-sekai-de-deaeta-kimi-ni/>\n\nAnd the piece that is summarized in detail can be found between chapters 10\nand 11 of Act 1.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo. I now know that you can manipulate someone's thoughts. For example: Naomi\nMisora.\n\nBut what I'm asking myself is, whether or not you can manipulate someone's\nmemories. For example, Bob and John are best friends, right? So what if I\nwrite this:\n\n> Bob Shneizel forgets who his best friend is, and then dies of diabetes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe rule was that the Death Note user can make people do anything s/he wants\nthem to, as long as it is possible. For example, let's say Kira wrote\n\n> September 7, 2015 8:30 A.M. Mr. A dies of a heart attack in Kyuushu. Mr. A\n> starts running from Tokyo at 6 A.M. on the same day, before dying of said\n> cause in Kyuushu.\n\nSince this is impossible, it won't happen as written. He will still die of a\nheart attack, but not in Kyuushu. Now, would it be possible for someone to\nforget his best friend? Yes, it would. Amnesia. If you write it like that,\nthen Bob will experience amnesia before dying from diabetes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a \"blue forest\" sort of place in Nausicaa where trees are broken in a\nvery peculiar way. Normally trees break apart along the growth rings, and not\nstrictly across like seen in this image:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTv8E.jpg)\n\nSome trees look like someone cut those pieces. From the movie we can\nunderstand that the trees are dead, but how did they end up in this particular\nstate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy assumption is that Miyazaki wanted to give the forest a feeling of great\nage. It would hardly look like an old forest without a few trees that had\nfallen or been cut. We are led to believe that these trees were cut when the\nforest was much younger.\n\nOf course, there are several questions that come out of this.\n\n * Why didn't these fallen trees decay (either the fallen part or the stumps)? Yes, there are examples of root systems intertwining, but this doesn't appear to be that way.\n * Why isn't there any underbrush?\n * If these trees are petrified, what purifies the water? If they aren't petrified, why isn't there any moss?\n\nI think Miyazaki was aiming for the look and feel of an ancient forest with\nconflicting ideals.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the series the \"Forest of Decay\" grows above the petrified remains of\nancient trees. Dialogue from the anime and manga suggest that the toxins from\nthe immense pollution humanity caused in the past are absorbed by the plants\nwhile water and sand are filtered through the remains of the petrified wood\nand become purified, which is why the wells that people made have clean soil\nand water.\n\nThe petrified trees seems to be in part inspired by the natural process of\n[petrified wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrified_wood), a special type\nof fossilization.\n\n> the result of a tree or tree-like plants having completely transitioned to\n> stone by the process of permineralization. All the organic materials have\n> been replaced with minerals (mostly a silicate, such as quartz), while\n> retaining the original structure of the stem tissue\n\nThe actual process of petrification and filtering were or touched upon in the\nanime or manga. However in the manga it's inferred to be part of the\nartificially process ancient the humans created to clean up the miasma over\ntime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 6 of _Durarara!!×2 Shou_ , we see Mairu speaking lines that are\nattributed in chat to \"Kyou\" (狂) around 18:14. Later on, around 18:44, we hear\nMairu's voice actor (Kitamura Eri) speaking lines that are attributed in chat\nto \"San\" (参), followed shortly by Kururi's voice actor (Kanemoto Hisako)\nspeaking lines that are attributed to \"Kyou\".\n\nThen there's the fact that Kururi is taciturn in person but \"Kyou\" is super-\ntalkative in chat, while Mairu is a chatterbox in person and \"San\" just\noccasionally posts one-line replies in chat.\n\nAnother thing (which I might be making too much out of) - in episode 2 of\n_Ten_ , Mika mentions that \"San and Kyou are Mairu and Kururi\", without\nspecifying which one is which.\n\nAnd, to be clear, the character used for \"Kyou\" can also be pronounced \"Kuru\"\n(as in 狂う), while the character used for \"San\" can be pronounced \"Mai\" (as in\n参る) - the chat handles are clearly derived from their names.\n\nI don't see how to reconcile all these details without concluding that both\nKururi and Mairu use both \"Kyou\" and \"San\" as chat handles at various times.\nThis seems like exactly the sort of trollish thing they would do (runs in the\nfamily, I imagine). Am I right in thinking so? Or have I misinterpreted\nsomething?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm a few chapters into _Hyperdimensional Neptunia Re;Birth 1_ and I\nunderstand the game is a large rework of the previous first Neptunia game. I'm\nnot overly interested in the mechanical changes, but I'd like to know how the\nstory has changed - as it's been mentioned a few times already about being\noverhauled.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MPumP.jpg)\n\n**How much does Re;Birth 1's story differ from the original?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWithout spoiling you anything, I can say that the main setting is the same in\nboth games; Neptune loses her memory, and starts an adventure alongside Compa\nand IF.\n\nIn Re;Birth 1, the dialogue is the thing that has been radically changed. They\nmade the storyline more steadier and more diverse and included special events\nwhich can't be found in the original game. There are also more comical scenes\nincluded, due to the success of _[Choujigen Game Neptune The\nAnimation](http://myanimelist.net/anime/16157/Choujigen_Game_Neptune_The_Animation)_\n, which had a rather lighthearted atmosphere.\n\nVert, Noire, and Blanc have now more impact through the whole story, unlike in\nthe original game in which they only had involvement near the end of the game.\nNew side characters also appear in this remake.\n\nLike the original game, Re;Birth 1 also has two different endings, namely the\nNormal Ending and the True Ending. Althought these are fairly different from\nthe original, too.\n\n[Here](http://www.siliconera.com/2014/08/01/hyperdimension-neptunia-\nrebirth1s-story-localization-changed/) is an interview with the director\nShingo Onodera and Idea Factory CEO Haru Akenaga, regarding the changes made\nin the remake.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is quite some differences between the original PS3 game and the Re;Birth\nPS Vita game aside from mechanics. the basic premise of the plot is still the\nsame but the progression though it and the finale are different\n\n# World\n\nIn the original game, much like Re;Birth, the 4 nations were on floating\ncontinents however in the original game they moved. this played to a mechanic\nwhere you had to go through dungeons in order for time to progress before one\nof the other nations where nearby for you to cross over. in Re;Birth it\nappears they don't move as the world map doesn't show them changing places\n\nAlso in the original game every dungeon was on it's own floating island which\ncircled a nation so more or less the 4 nation's main continents were more or\nless a giant city. this isn't the case in Re;Birth with some of the dungeons\nbeing on the same landmass as a nation's capital\n\n# Main Plot\n\nAlot of the elements of the main plot remain consistent between the 2 such as\nthe quest to get the Keyfragments to release Histoire, IF being a fan of Vert\nand being used to poison Neptune. Avanir taking control of Lastation, Afoire's\nfinal plan to destroy Gameindasti by colliding the 4 nations and Green Heart\nproudly boasting about her breast size to Lady White Heart at the beginning\nprompting Lady White Heart to call her \"Thunder Tits\". however the events\nwithin the main plot have been changed up\n\n### Key Fragments\n\nin the original game all 4 Key Fragments were guarded by the Guard Vermin, one\nin each nation which only was accessible after the 2nd Arc of Lastation, Lowee\nand Leanbox. Planeptune's Keyfragment acquisition was still different as\nindicated in the screenshot as it was this dungeon that is shown in the\nScreenshot that the Keyfragment was obtained and it wasn't accessed by Neptune\nand Compa falling down\n\n### Missing Characters in the Main Plot\n\nAbsent from Re;Birth was Nisa and Gust who represented their titler companies,\nNippon Ichi Software America (the American branch of [Nippon Ichi\nSoftware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Ichi_Software)) and\n[Gust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust_Co._Ltd.).\n\nIn regards to Gust when Neptune was poisoned it was her who created the\nantidote thus her being removed also meant that this part had to be rewritten\n\nNisa was largely unimpressive and didn't leave much impact but a couple of\ncharacter's background had to be re-written with her removal which we'll get\nback to later\n\n### Missing DLC Characters\n\nwhile optional in the original game the 2 DLC Characters, Red and 5pb.\n(likewise named from their companies, [Red\nEntertainment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Entertainment) and\n[5pb.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5pb.)) both of whcih more focused on IF\nthan Neptune\n\nwith Red she was looking to build her harem of \"Wifeys\" (english-fied version\nof waifu?) and targeted IF first. despite being defeated she kept trying to\nmake IF, Compa and Neptune her Wifeys which always lead to a battle and her\ndefeat.\n\nwith 5pb it starts off with her being shy about singing in front of people\nuntil IF find her and after a number of encounters builds up her confidences.\n5pb also is shown to have a demon and angel side to her when she was\ncontemplating stealing Neptune's puddling\n\nin Re;birth the DLC characters are Histoire, Plutia and Peashy however the\nlast 2 don't have any storylines associated with them (like why they have\ncrossed to another dimension) while Histoire's \"story\" can more or less be the\nmain plot as the DLC doesn't add her to the party until she is released (the\nlater 2 are unlocked in chapter 1)\n\n### Substories\n\nin the original game there were also other small substories consisting of a\nscene. some of these poked fun at other games such as Neptune, Compa and IF\nmaking comments on a Mario Cart like racing event.\n\nOne of Nisa's substoires involved her meeting with the Large Breast Loving\nBrothers however in the original game the Brothers were bandits. after getting\ninto some trouble with monsters Nisa saves them after they ridicule her of her\nlack of breasts. when they question why Nisa did this after they ridiculed\nher, in her usual fashion Nisa boasts about her strong sense of justice and\nwill always help those in need. moved by this the Brothers then turn over a\nnew leaf. as Nisa is mission from Re;Birth the Brother's background was\nrewrote.\n\nAnother of Nisa's substories involved her helping a couple of people who were\nbeing chased by a Demon which was revealed to be a pissed off Lady White Heart\nwho wanted to kill them for making fun of her chest size. Nisa calmed Lady\nWhite Heart down but when the people she was chasing thanked Nisa while at the\nsame time making fun of her chest size (calling her pimple nipples if i\nrecall) prompting Nisa to do a 180 and aid Lady White Heart to kill them (not\nsure if they were killed or just badly beaten).\n\nanother substory involved Lady Blanc and Noire both going to a convention in\nLastation and seeing one another but not recognizing each other.\n\n### Story Arcs\n\nBecause of the game mechanic in the original game where you could only\ntraverse between continents when they were close the plot was broken up to be\nplayed in almost any order.\n\nbefore getting the Keyfragment each nation had 2 Arcs. i says 2 because\nLeanbox was 2 distinctive plots but when i played i first went to Lastation\nand was forced to stop helping Chian and then went to Lowee (the continent\ncloest at the time) and was forced to stop that until i did Leanbox's first\narc before returning to Lastion and getting the Keyfragment.\n\nLastions 2 Arcs were more or less the same with Avanir taking over Lastion,\nNoire feigning amnesia to lean why Neptune was there, helping Chian for the\nexpo and fighting the CPU Breaker Avanir created.\n\nI can't remember much of Lowee's Arcs but i think it was still similar as the\nCG on Blanc with a book in Re;Birth is also in the original game.\n\nthe first arc of Leanbox in the original game was more or less the same minus\nVert joining the party and getting a Keyfragment. the second Arc was about\nVert working her hardest to earn back the faith of her people after being lazy\nin the first Arc however was overheating alot (the X-Box 360 Overheating\nProblems when it was released) and being rescued by Neptune's Team (primary\nbecause IF was worried).\n\n### The Quartet Weapons\n\nIn the original game each weapon was on each continent but broken into 4,\nfound at the end of 4 different dungeons which were all \"kill the boss at the\nend\" types so you had to go through 16 dungeons before being able to get to\nCelestia.\n\nAlso after remaking the 4 weapons Neptune leaves the party in an attempt to\nface Arfoire alone (having regained her memories) forcing IF, Compa, Gust and\nNisa to fight her when they try and stop her.\n\nin Re;Birth the weapons aren't broken and get remade into weapons that better\nsuit the CPU. this also means that the CPUs didn't force the weapons into\ntheir sockets. also in the Original game the gateway worked so there was no\nneed for the party to get the Basilicon's help\n\nAlso in the original game the acquisition of these weapons didn't coincide\nwith each nation having to deal with Fake CPUs and thus Lady Blanc's 3 sizes\nwas never blurted out during a quiz\n\n# Other Stuff\n\n### The Guild\n\nin the original game the Guide was made up of people who were born in one\nnation but worshiped another's CPU. generally these people were looked down\nupon by others so IF's affiliation with the Guide was kept hidden for much of\nthe game\n\n### CPU's joining\n\nin the original game the CPU's were optional, only required to get the True\nEnd. in order to get them using Gust's hidden ability to show the national\nshare levels one needed to increase the shares for one nation in order to\ntrigger an event which lead to Neptune, Compa and IF fighting them.\n\n### IF x Vert\n\nIF's and Vert's relationship is much more expanded on in Re;Birth than it is\nin the original game, most likely because of how the CPU's are optional. in\nRe;Birth we see events such as Vert joining the party when they leave Leanbox\nstating she can't live without her Iffy, Vert using IF as her \"warmer\" in\nLowee (placing the warmers IF gave her in her endowments before returning to\nher Iffy) and IF \"dying\" when everyone tried to fit into the portal device to\ntransport them to Celestia with Vert, purposely, squeezing in with IF and\nsmoothing her within her breasts. 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II's Colosseum\nas a palette swap of of DOS.Afoire however was a different pallet swap to\nRe;Birth's Delphinus)\n\n### Afoire\n\nin the original game it's revealed that Afoire was the True Goddess until she\ngot tired of the job and split her power, and Gamindustri into 4, creating the\nCPUs and giving full control of the world to Histoire. later however she\nwanted it all back and reclaim her spot as the True Goddess and turned on\nHistoire and sparked the Console Wars so she could reclaim her powers from the\nCPUs.\n\nin Re;Birth it's revealed that Afoire was just a regular human who fought\nalong side the Hero Quartet when they fought the True Goddess who was evil.\nwhen the True Goddess was defeated her power was split into 4 and Arfoire\nraised the CPUs herself.\n\nit is also initially suspected that Arfoire was corrupted by the True\nGoddess's power she copied from her during the battle and sought to become the\nnew True Goddess however in Re;Birth's true end Nepture suspected that\n\n> Arfoire wanted to become the True Goddess so she could better raise the\n> CPUs.\n\n# Endings\n\nThe 2 Endings, Normal and True, also are different.\n\n### Original Game\n\n**Normal**\n\nI never got the Normal Ending in the original game however compared to\nRe;Birth's normal ending i can assume they would be different as one of the\nrequirements of the True End in the original game was having all the CPU's\n(shares didn't count)\n\n**True**\n\n> After defeating Afoire and escaping Celestia the CPU's realize they still\n> have alot of work to do as Afoire's Enemy Disks are still active and all\n> over the world. in order to make their job easier they sacrifice their HDDs\n> making them regular humans and ridding the world of monsters for good\n\n### Re;Birth\n\n**Normal**\n\n> Afoire is defeated and Histoire visits each nations to see how the CPUs are\n> doing finishing with Planeptune where she joins Neptune, Compa and IF in\n> eating pudding\n\n**True**\n\n> Afoire is defeated but tries to destroy Celestia. with the CPU's exhausted\n> everyone goes to flee yet Neptune remains hoping to save Afoire with\n> everyone having escaped but prays for Afoire to be saved too. \n> \n> A Year later Histoire states that while everyone escaped Celestia was\n> suspected to have been destroyed in the explosion, Neptune and Afoire with\n> it, as the gateway no longer worked. \n> \n> after visiting the other nations to see how the CPUs were doing she visits\n> Planeptune. while IF and Compa are talking about Neptune, low and behold\n> Neptune falls through Compa's roof revealing that Celestia wasn't destroyed\n> but instead just the gateway and that she fell from the sky because she was\n> flying around in HDD and got hungry and reverted back. \n> \n> Neptune also introduces Afoire who was saved (and looks very different now\n> not looking like some witch). Afoire apologies to Histoire about the trouble\n> she has caused and voes to make up for it until the end of her life while\n> Compa and IF warmly welcomes Neptune home\n\n### The CPU Candidates\n\nif one got the Shares up to a certain level for Planeptune, Lastation and\nLowee they can get plans to unlock Nepgear, Uni, Ram and Rom. to actually\nunlock them one had to get the items and the shares to 35% for the CPU\nCandidate's nation (which stills fall into the requirements for Re;Birth's\nTrue End which is 0% for Other Shares and all 4 nations having atleast 20%).\nfollowing their unlocks there is a scene which Histoire says that they are\nborn from the accumulation of shares with each CPU posting on their blogs\nabout their new sister(s) (with Vert expressing how she's depressed that she\ndidn't get one but will still work hard for Leanbox)\n\nsince i never got the normal ending in Re;Birth with any of the CPU Candidates\nunlocked i can only assume their appearance in the normal end is similar to\nthe True End in which it appeared their small segment are injected in the\nscene with some differences as\n\n> with Nepgear she has taken over her sister's work since Neptune didn't\n> return from Celestia\n\nhowever how the world is formed in Re;Birth still makes it incompatible with\nthe 2nd Hyperdimension shown in the other Re;Birth games and _Megadimension\nNeptunia VII_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor insect bases, syringes are used as the medicine while other\ntransformations require different medicine. What about the other types of\ntransformations? How did they consume the medicine?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConsidering that Obito, Kakashi and Madara all knew the name of Kamui without\nsomeone telling them, can we conclude that those who have the Mangekyō\nSharingan know the name of its exclusive power? (Obito's Kamui, Shisui's\nKotoamatsukami, Itachi's Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi, Sasuke's Amaterasu and Blaze\nRelease: Kagutsuchi, and everyone's Susanoo)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga, the Skull Night foils many of the God's Hand's plans, and also\nattempts to kill Void specifically. Why did the Skull Knight do these things?\nIs there a past between Void and the Skull Knight? And what are his intentions\nas far as killing Void?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TNpvQ.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNumbers frequently have cultural meaning, which can include superstition and\nforeshadowing. Anime shows, being Asian-derived (Japanese, right), likely have\nmore local meaning. China represents just one example of cultural number\nmeanins (ref:\n[wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture),\n[chinese.SE](https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/826/special-meanings-\napplied-to-numbers-0-10))\n\nThe characters in _Knights of Sidonia_ have numbers on their helmets, so I'm\nwondering if they are at all connected to the fates of the characters wearing\nthem.\n\nFrom the Wikipedia article the digits \"2 and 8\" in a number mean \"double\nlucky\", while the digit \"0\" is also lucky and even. Inspection shows that\nNagate Tanikaze's helmet contains these three values.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fCLZ8.jpg)\n\nThe digit \"6\" (in Cantonese) is supposed to mean \"to fall\" have some unlucky\nconnotations.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5vqlD.jpg)\n\n**Question:**\n\nIs there a direct connection between the characters' fates and the numbers on\nthe helmets they wear? Please provide details, clarifications, and references\nas possible.\n\nPartial list of character names and helmet numbers:\n\n * Nagate Tanikaze, 028 in training, 704 as pilot\n * Shizuka Hoshijiro , 336 in training, 702 as pilot\n * Izana Shinatose, 291 in training, 723 as pilot\n * Yuhata Midorikawa, 256 in training, moves to command.\n * Eiko Yamano, 290 as cadet, killed in action\n * Hinata Momose, unit designation 002, killed in action\n * Kashiwade Aoki, unit designation 003, killed in action\n * Izumo Midorikawa, unit designation 004, killed in action\n * Ittan Samari, unit designation 005, often acting as field commander\n * Koichi Tsuruuchi, unit designation 007, killed in action\n * Tonami, unit designation 005, killed in action\n * Ichiro Seii, unit designation 026, senior commander\n * Do Imada, unit designation 139, killed in action with team (011, 217, and 312)\n * En Honoka, 203 as cadet, 703 as pilot, injured in action\n * Ho Honoka, unit designation 705, killed in action\n * Ren Honoka, unit designation 706, survives.\n * Norio Kunato, 001 in training, 701 as pilot, murderer, killed by Ochiai\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo i got all the Ar Tonelico Soundtracks in the mail and going though them i\ncan ID the Songs that are downloaded into Aurica, Misha and Shurelia as they\nall have the prefix EXEC_ (ie. EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY is the song Misha sings to\nseal Mir, EXEC_SUSPEND is what Shurelia uses to shut down Ar Tonelico and\nEXEC_RE_NATION is the song sang to restart it)\n\nI got the soundtracks so i could listen to the boss music for when one fights\nELMA_DS at the SPU and i found the track in the Soundtrack _Singing the Stars\n~Hoshiyomi~ Ar Tonelico Hymmnos concert Side Ao_ and it has EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY\nand EXEC_HARMONIUS but the song i was looking for is titled _EXEC_PAJA/.#Misya\nextracting_\n\nFrom the looks of the track name it seems like it's supposed to be Song Magic\nbut if it is Song Magic who's it is and what does it do? because i don't\nremember there being a mention of a Song/Hymn Crystal called Paja.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen a lot of coffee art of anime characters on social media, and I'd\nlove to get my own anime-coffee - or even find out the location so I can see\nmore of their art.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6IsBIm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J8vtNm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ayyhom.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1SlLJm.jpg)\n\nIs there somewhere specific that serves these anime coffees or is this just\nindividuals creating the art?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCoffee art is commonly refered to as \"Latte art\" (ラテ・アート in japanese). By\nsearching this term in japanese along with \"anime\" (アニメ) on the internet, you\nwill be able to find many results (such as [this\nblog](http://natsucafe.blog120.fc2.com/) where you will find many anime latte\narts), and even many tutorials to make your own latte arts!\n\nIf you want to go see by yourself in a café, you can probably use this\n[article](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2135358908679594101?&page=1) as\nreference as it lists many recommended places in Japan where you can enjoy\nlatte art. However, arts such as characters representations usually require\nlot of preparation/work/tries, so I would not expect too complex arts by going\nthere in the first place.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the latte art cafés has started putting watermarks on their images, now\nI can tell everyone about this amazing place, which is the source of a lot of\nthe images currently circulating\n\n[Belcorno](http://www.belcorno.jp/_latte_art/index.html)\n\nIt is a pizzaria that also does latte art. **By reservation only** , for about\n1050 Yen.\n\n[Here is their facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/BELCORNO/)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4m97zm.jpg)\n\nAlong with this mix they have entire sets of characters from series like\nIdolM@ster, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter achieving both Rinnegan and Sharingan in his left eye, can Sasuke use\nRinne Rebirth Jutsu to bring Jiraiya and Itachi back to life?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you are talking about [Gedō — Rinne Tensei no\nJutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_Path_%E2%80%94_Samsara_of_Heavenly_Life_Technique),\nthen there are some restrictions:\n\n * First of all you need the body of the dead person\n\n> To perform this technique, the user summons the King of Hell, which then\n> releases the souls of the deceased from its mouth. With their rejuvenated\n> bodies acting as an anchor, the deceased individuals' souls are able to\n> leave even the crossroad between life and the afterlife, returning back to\n> their physical vessels.\n\n * The person who used the jutsu dies\n\n> Ultimately, once the technique is finished, the user inevitably dies.\n\nI don't know about Itachi's body, but Jiraiya's was lost that even Kabuto was\nunable to find it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes he can use this technique .but he needs their bodies and I think he can\nescape death if he uses the power of all tailed beast that Naruto has or the\nten tails since they posses immeasurable amount of chakra,as for jiraya that's\nimpossible because his body is not available.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWho's the girl on the cover of the _Dragon Ball_ manga, chapter 67? Is it just\nrandom art? It is not featured in the chapter!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6NHoG.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is not known to have any name, nor has she appeared elsewhere besides the\ncover.\n\nFrom [Dragon Ball Wiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Go_West,_Young_Goku):\n\" _The cover of this chapter shows Goku and a young cavewoman riding a\ndinosaur with a prehistoric-like background._ \"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I saw that girl in that cover, she actually seemed to me like the girl\nfrom the next chapter (68) whom Goku has some interaction: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G3UqR.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning, there were several times when Kousei was playing the piano,\nand he suddenly felt that he was at the bottom of the ocean and couldn't hear\nwhat he was playing. Why did that happen, and was he able to hear himself play\nat the end?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason is because of the psychological trauma he suffered from being\nforced by his mother to play exactly as the notes book dictates and punish him\nfor every wrong notes. He felt frustated as even when he did his best and won\ncompetition by competition, her mother still wasn't satisfied as he still made\na few mistakes here and there, despite already called as the human metronome\nfor his astounding accuracy by others. And the when he's fed up, he burst in\nanger at his mom and soon after his mom died, making him feel shocked and\nguilty which shown in his mother's ghastly appearance in when he played his\npiano. This psychological trauma is the cause and it doesn't immediately kick\nin too, which explains why he can hear the first few notes and when he's\ngetting into it, he lost it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe more he focuses, the more he gets into it, and the more the traumatic\nmemories kick in. It's probably some sort of side affect from maybe PTSD or\nPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder that only occurs in Kousei's case, because his\nmother introduced him to the piano and now since she is gone, part of the\npiano left with her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I just watched Princess Kaguya and I can't help but feel like I've heard\nthe ending song in another anime before?\n\nAnybody have any idea what others it has been in? I feel like I've seen it in\nClannad or Clannad After Story or some other anime like that.\n\nAny help at all would be greatly appreciated because we all know how stuff\nlike this can drive you insane! :')\n\nHere is the song link: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wmUQDR6zG4>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm pretty familiar with the Clannad anime, and I can tell you with 99.9999%\nconfidence that this song never appears in it.\n\nAs I said in my comment, and as Toshinou-san and senshin reaffirmed in theirs,\nit would be very unlikely for two anime to use the same song, especially if\none of them is a Studio Ghibli production. Not impossible, but unlikely. As in\n\"I've been watching anime for seventeen years and I've never seen two of them\nuse the same song\". That kind of unlikely.\n\nHowever, that still doesn't mean \"impossible\", so I looked into the song,\n\"Inochi no Kioku\", to try and find out more about its origins. It was written\nand performed by Japanese singer Kazumi Nikaido. An [Anime News Network\nannouncement](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-05-23/kazumi-\nnikaido-sings-theme-for-takahata-and-ghibli-kaguya-hime-film) about the Kaguya\nHime film mentions that the song was chosen as the movie's main theme.\n\nThe wording of the announcement makes it sound as if Nikaido created the song\nindependently of the film's production, and the production staff decided to\nlicense it for use in the film. This is also supported by the release dates;\nthe single for \"Inochi no Kioku\" was released 24 July 2013, according to\n[GhibliWiki](http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/The_Tale_of_Princess_Kaguya_%28Theme_Song_-\n_CDS%29), while the film was released 23 November 2013 according to [Anime\nNews\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=14976).\n\nLicensing a song like this is somewhat unusual for anime; it's more typical\nfor the production to hire a songwriter to write a custom song for the anime,\nand hire a singer (often one of the voice actors) to perform it. They also\nsometimes hire singer/songwriters to both write and perform the music. I can\nonly think of a few cases (e.g. FLCL with The Pillows) where an anime\nproduction licensed music which had already been released.\n\nHowever, [the Anime News Network page on\nNikaido](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=135874)\nonly lists her as staff on one anime, The Tale of Princess Kaguya. This\nstrongly suggests that \"Inochi no Kioku\" only appeared in that anime. I think\nyour memory might be playing tricks on you :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI hardly read the manga. I watch the anime series, _Naruto: Shippuden_. In\nepisode 424, Kakashi's Sharingan (previously Obito's Sharingan) is stolen by\nMadara. Then in episode 425, Naruto uses his new power and give Kakashi's old\neye (as far I know and from my view, it is a normal eye).\n\nKakashi is the **Copy Ninja**. So how could Kakashi survive in the ninja world\nand become the next Hokage (I watched _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ ) with\nnormal eyes? I'm curious because Kakashi's nickname was given because he used\nhis Sharingan for copying others' jutsu. That was his technique. As I can\nremember in _Naruto_ series, someone described Kakashi and told that the only\njutsu he mastered by himself was the **Chidori**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVery soon in anime,\n\n> Obito will say that his gift for Kakashi was not full and will give him both\n> Sharingans. He will manage to use Susanoo and save Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura\n> from Kaguya's attack. I don't know why, but after war he has normal eyes,\n> maybe he can deactivate Sharingan.\n\nUPD.\n\nI've read that chapter again and understood why he has normal eyes.\n\n> Obito says that his present may expire but it's not completely useless.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jTfoh.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uqh1m.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA sword is only as sharp as the one who wields it. The sharingan was nothing\nbut a ninja tool that Kakashi used. And he was good at it considering the fact\nthat he was not a true Uchiha.\n\nHowever, the tools a ninja uses is not the only criteria that would be\nconsidered while appointing him to a post of a kage. His diplomatic skills,\nhis relation with the other villages, his services to the nation are some of\nthe other (among a larger list) that needs to be considered.\n\nIn all these aspects, Kakashi has excelled. There can be no doubt on the fact\nthat Kakashi was capable of fighting with and without the sharingan. His\nskills in strategy were at par with the best of the best. He had fair\ndiplomatic skills, which we can assume from the fact that he had already been\nappointed for the post of hokage earlier (right after Danzo dies). He was a\nperson of calm demeanor and not pragmatic. He weighed his options before\nmaking a decision and could think calmly in the face of adversity. All these\ndoes make him a strong contender for the position of Kage.\n\nTsunade was not only appointed as the hokage because she was a great medical\nninja, but also because of her services in the endorsing the idea of the 4 man\nninja team with a medic ninja included in each team.\n\nAlso, the sharingan that Kakashi had only allowed him to read the movements of\nhis opponents in a precise manner. His ability to copy the jutsu was aided by\nthe sharingan, but in the end he had to commit it to memory so that he could\nuse it later on. Also he must have had excellent chakra control to read the\nhand signs of a jutsu once and copy it immediately. Also, he himself mentions\nwhile aiding naruto create his rasen shuriken, that he could use chakra of\nelements other than thunder. We have seen him use water style, earth style and\nfire style. So, his strength is not solely because of the sharingan. Like a\ntool, the sharingan helped his cause.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKakashi did not have his sharingan anymore. However, Kakashi did still have\nall the abilities he was shown copying and the last ability he copied in the\nnaruto series is water dragon jutsu which was in the first series and it made\nit that far without copying another jutsu. I bet there are thousands of more\njutsu that Kakashi has than the amount he's shown.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe general rule seems to be that filler is made when an anime is being\nproduced faster than the manga. The thing I just can't seem to figure out is\n\n 1. How an entire freaking episode takes longer to produce than a manga which practically only equals a story board.\n 2. Why would they start producing random filler rather than just overtaking the manga with their own story.\n\nI mean, is this some Japanese cultural thing where a lot of credit is given to\nthe author of the manga and he isn't allowed to collaborate with others to\nspeed up production or is this a cultural thing where Japanese actually like\nthose fillers or what? After all, there are a lot of economic incentives not\nto produce filler episodes as they tend to irritate fans a lot and still cost\na lot to produce.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**TL;DR** \\- It's because financially, it pays off for longer, more popular\nanime series. It allows them to retain broadcasting slot, as well as sponsors\nand advertisers, by sacrificing a bit of quality.\n\n* * *\n\nFirst, it needs to be pointed out that many anime don't have filler. Filler\nepisodes are only common in long-running popular anime such as _One Piece_ ,\n_Naruto_ , or _Bleach_. This is because of the particular profit model they\nhave. These long-running shows make a profit through sponsorships and\nadvertisements. In contrast, shorter works, especially late night anime, only\nmake a profit through sales of blu-rays and other merchandise. Hence, for\nlong-running shows, the quality of individual episodes is somewhat less of a\nconcern.\n\nGiven that the episodes need to be around 20 minutes long (excluding OP and ED\nsequences) and air once a week to fit into TV programming schedules, the anime\nalmost always needs to go faster than the manga. Hence, there are essentially\n3 options for what to do. Most commonly, they will just add a few irrelevant\n\"filler\" episodes occasionally. This does tend to make viewers unhappy if\nthey're too common, but production studios have determined that viewers are\nless likely to stop watching if fillers air than if the anime just takes a\nbreak.\n\nAnother option is to take a break whenever the anime gets close to the manga.\nThis is the strategy _Gintama_ takes as well as most late-night anime that are\npopular enough to be adapted fully (e.g. _To Love-Ru_ ). It results in higher\nquality, but it's harder to keep sponsorships and TV slots when the show airs\ninfrequently, and viewers may drop it during the break. _One Piece_ has done\nthis at times and aired fillers at other times. The third option is to abandon\nthe manga entirely and write an original story. Some works that did this are\n_Fullmetal Alchemist_ (the original), _Hayate no Gotoku_ (1st season), _Hunter\nx Hunter_ (original) and _Soul Eater_. This used to be much more popular,\nespecially in the 1990s, but it makes it more difficult to continue the anime\nand fans usually aren't happy with the changes, so these days it's become very\nuncommon. Notice that 3 of these 4 ended up needing to be rebooted or have\nlarge retcons to have anime continuations, and the fourth hasn't been despite\na large following simply because of the difficulties involved.\n\nSo, to put it simply, these long-running shows have filler because that's\ntheir best option to keep their TV slots, sponsors, and viewers. It does cost\na bit of quality, but that's acceptable for highly popular shows like this\nwhere quality is somewhat less of a concern.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for why they can't just speed up the manga production to accommodate the\nanime, that wouldn't really be feasible. Manga production is mostly done by a\nsingle mangaka with an editor and sometimes one or more assistants, while a\nsingle anime episode may have dozens of animators working on it. In the case\nof popular works, essentially everything that can possibly be is left to the\nassistants. Apart from splitting up story and artwork, there isn't much that\ncould be done to speed up the process, and few mangaka want to do that (though\nit has been done in some cases). Furthermore, managaka are already\nridiculously overworked; the rate at which manga is produced right now is\nbasically as fast as it can possibly be produced. To get rid of fillers,\nproduction would need to be sped up significantly (roughly 50-100% faster for\nmost works), and it's hard to imagine any way to do that.\n\nIn addition, it wouldn't really help the manga to be produced faster. Most of\nthese manga are released in weekly magazines which contain a chapter of\nseveral works. If production was sped up drastically, this would mean fewer\nworks could be included in a single issue. It's likely that this wouldn't\nreally increase revenue, since these works typically target younger children\nand adolescents without a large amount of disposable income, but it would\ndrastically increase the production costs per series. Given that the manga and\nanime are produced by two completely different companies, that relatively few\nmanga ever get adapted to anime, and that the manga is often more profitable\nthan the anime, there's really no reason (and no realistic way) to speed up\nthe manga just for the sake of eliminating anime fillers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLogan's answer covers most of the relevant points, but I also want to add that\nin many cases, one chapter of manga is not enough story to fill one episode of\nanime. You often need two or even three chapters of manga to have enough story\nfor an anime episode. So it wouldn't be enough to just produce the manga one\nchapter ahead of where the anime story is; you'd have to get two or three\nchapters ahead. This isn't possible for the reasons Logan described.\n\nAnime series choose different ways of dealing with this problem. This depends\na lot on the particular series:\n\n * In the Dragon Ball Z anime, there were a lot of extra clashes and inconclusive exchanges of blows than in the manga, which filled up time so the story could progress more slowly. While this sometimes grew tiresome, it was generally a low-impact way to stretch out a manga chapter so it would take an entire episode. \n * Full Metal Alchemist, on the other hand, had a much tighter sense of continuity, so the story couldn't be slowed down without damaging it. The earlier stories mostly played out just like in the manga; later, the 2003 anime took its own path. Some other series do this in a small way; for example, Aria did an original story early on that introduced several of the main characters, where in the manga these characters were introduced in separate stories.\n * Series which are more episodic, like Yuru Yuri, will sometimes combine multiple manga chapters into a single anime episode; in these cases, the manga itself typically contained what could be called \"filler\", stories which can be moved around in time without affecting the continuity, so the anime producers slot them in as needed.\n\nCreating original filler material is another way of solving this problem. It\nworks reasonably well when you have a show with a fairly strong sense of\ncontinuity, meaning the episodes can't be stretched, combined, or swapped, and\nyou don't want to do an entirely new story. Logan's answer gives other reasons\nwhy the staff might choose this method.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo give more perspective on a character or event that wasn't able in the\nwritten work. Not all characters have time to develop or exist in the book.\nFor instance we know that the Bleach has 13 Squads but only in the anime do we\nreally get know the background of characters that is meaningless to the plot.\n**This question stem from book vs TV.**\n\nThere's will always be more details (qualified in words) on average in books\ncompared to on TV. Though there will always be more details (qualified in\nimages) on average on TV compared to Books. **Simply this means that these Two\nseparate have a different purpose, one is display visual perspective while\nother is two display written perspective.**\n\nThe translation of media and purpose allows more freedom on the priority of\nthe perspective. In the Book a Fight scene may take fight chapters( Ex.\nShura's Wrath) while the Tv may online give it half an episode ( 15mins). Of\ncourse, this decisions on perceptive can affect the continuity of the series\nleading to the negative feelings of \"filler episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, Nicolas cannot speak properly due to his disability. He has to\nuse sign language in order to communicate with others. Is the sign-language\nused in the anime authentic? Which sign language is used if it is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe sign language used in the anime is the [Japanese Sign\nLanguage.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Sign_Language) For example:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ddhqL.gif)\n\nMeans \"thank you (ありがとう) in JSL. The ITEC website, which teaches JSL to\nEnglish speakers, details [how to make this sign](http://www.kyoto-\nbe.ne.jp/ed-center/gakko/jsl/zen_jsl05.htm):\n\n> The left hand is held palm-down in front of the chest, fingers pointing to\n> the right with the open right hand's blade edge touching the back of the\n> left hand, fingers pointing toward the interlocutor. The left hand's\n> position is held, while the right hand is lifted to chin height.\n\nOne thing to keep in mind is that the setting implies that the characters are\nall speaking English or some kind of European language. The language used in\nthe newspaper and currency for example, is English. The sign language used in\nthe anime is authentic, but it may not be consistent with the setting of the\nanime itself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1YPg.jpg)\n\nI have numerous pics of this character and she seems to be a performer. I\ncan't find any information on it. I have tried Google's reverse image search\nand had no luck.\n\nWhat anime/visual novel/etc. does this come from?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qxO6U.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's from an old VN called [**Missing ~Itsuka\nKitto~**](https://vndb.org/v18035) (Missing ～いつかきっと～). VNDB says it's\npublished in 1998.\n\nTake a look at the girls' uniform. The red-haired also wears a choker and has\nsome kind of antenna (ahoge) at the side of her head.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EcNfH.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode we learn that the PM (Peace Makers) are used to check if\na citizen is using blacklisted words.\n\nCouldn't they just take take the device off when they aren't in public instead\nof having to use some cellphone to disrupt the PM's surveillance?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FKW2s.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 12 of the first season, after Shinku repelled Suigintou's fire\nattack back at her and her clothes burn off we see her torso is missing. after\nShinku finish explaining how Suigintou was unfinished Suigintou's upper half\nfalls to the ground.\n\nWhy it only when her clothes have been burned off does the reality of her\nfloating upper half take effect? what was keeping both halves together as if\nshe did have a torso?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are quite a few differences between the anime and manga in Rozen Maiden.\n\nSuigintou's torso is one of those.\n\nIn the anime, she has no torso connecting her upper and lower halves. [Rozen\nMaker Wikia](http://rozenmaiden.wikia.com/wiki/Suigintou) tells that it is\nshown in the two episedos of [Rozen Maiden\nOuvertüre](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1719/Rozen_Maiden:_Ouvert%C3%BCre)\nthat she was left incomplete and unassembled, not even receiving a Rosa\nMystica. Her love for her father makes her able to move her upper body only.\nShe is awarded a Rosa Mystica later.\n\nThere are no explanations to how she could move her both halves of her body\nwithout the connecting torso.\n\nIn the manga, Suigintou does have her torso. But she is ashamed of it, because\nit is defective, with cracks that cover most of her back, and through which\nher wings come out.\n\nSo the manga also does not offer an explanation, since the problem itself does\nnot exist there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn original season, _Träumend_ (season 2) and _Ouvertüre_ (prequel OVA) each\nepisode has a strange name such as _Fräulein Rose_ (Season 1 Episode 1),\n_Rozenkristall_ (Season 2 Episode 1) and _Ewigkeit_ (OVA Episode 1). About the\nonly ones I understand are from Season 2:\n\n * Episode 2 _Enju_ which is when I think Enju is introduced\n * Episode 12 _Alice_\n\n> being the final battles to determine Alice\n\nI am wondering what is the meaning behind these names?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have not seen the OVA and do not have acess to any of the episodes. So I\ncan't really help connect the meaning of the titles to theyr episodes.\n\nThose names are in german, and perhaps not very good german.\n\n_Fräulein Rose_ being composed of _Fräulein_ , which is an outdated word for a\nyoung or unmarried woman (Wikitionary says the word in now avoided and\nconsidered disrespectful and sexist) and the word _Rose_ , which does means\nrose, meaning something like \"Young Lady Rose\" or \"Young lady of the Rose\".\nProbably meaning Shinku.\n\n_Rozenkristall_ is a result of the word _Rose_ being turned into an adjective\nfor _kristall_ , which means \"crystal\". The word would mean \"Crystal Rose\".\nWhich is the meaning of \"Barasuishou\".\n\n_Ewigkeit_ means _Eternity_.\n\n_Träumend_ means _Dreaming_.\n\n_Ouvertüre_ is _Overture_ , no secrets, as the OVAs are a prequel.\n\nI suggest using google translator for any other german title you find in the\nseries, as it seems to be the theme used by the producers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, none of the names are truely _strange,_ they are merely German ;) Going\nby the episode lists on [AniDB](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=2386) which I remembered to be consistent with\nthe titles I saw on-screen the titles and translations are:\n\n * _Fräulein Rose_ — _Miss Rose_ or _Lady of the Rose;_ likely a reference to Shinku. Her appearance.\n\n * _Kleine Beere_ — _Small berry,_ Hina-ichigo’s translated name as far as I remember. Her appearance.\n\n * _Mercury Lampe_ — This is nonsense in German. A _mercury lamp_ (also [Suigintou’s translated name](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/26829/13532)) would be _Quecksilberdampflampe._ But that is long and doesn’t sound poetic, (as nothing containing _Quecksilber_ does) so they probably decided to just translate _lamp_ to _Lampe._ The reference is, of course, Suigintou’s appearance.\n\n * _Jade Stern_ (should be _Jadestern_ in proper German) — _Jade star._ Suiseiseki’s translated name and the episode in which she appears.\n\n * _Die Treppe_ — _The stairs._ You remember that horrific filler episode, don’t you?\n\n * _Tränen_ — _Tears._ Contrary to the earlier episodes I don’t quite know what this refers to.\n\n * _Träume_ — _Dreams._ Because of the dream Shinku is in.\n\n * _Lapislazuli Stern_ (should be _Lapislazulistern_ in proper German) — _Lapis lazuli star._ Souseiseki’s translated name and the episode in which she appears.\n\n * _Die Gefängnis_ — _The prison._ They got the article wrong, it should be _das._ I don’t know why none of the production crew could look the word up in a dictionary when they did so well with everything else (even umlauts). But whatever. The title of course references the prison the dolls and Jun are in in Souseiseki’s master’s dream.\n\n * _Abschied_ — _Farewell,_ preparing for Shinku’s departure into the N-field.\n\n * _Schicksal_ — _Fate._ Because of all the fate that is involved.\n\n * _Reiner Rubin_ — _Pure ruby._ Shinku’s translated name.\n\n> Because it is all about Shinku, repairing her and her intermediate win\n> against Suigintou.\n\n[Rozen Maiden Träumend](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=3169): ( _träumend_ is _dreaming_ )\n\n * _Rozenkristall_ (should be _Rosenkristall_ ) — _Rose Crystal._ As was said, this is Bara-Suishou and her appearance episode.\n\n * _Enju_ — Erm, yeah, it’s a proper noun. We get to know him.\n\n * _Kanarienvogel_ — _Canary._ This is the episode where we get to know the canary yellow doll Kanaria.\n\n * _Vereinbarung_ — _Contract._\n\n> Because Suiseiseki enters one with Jun.\n\n * _Der Brief_ — _The letter,_ because both Hina-Ichigo and Suiseiseki copy Souseiseki in writing letters of thanks and the episode centres around this.\n\n * _Engel_ — _Angel._ This is the episode where Suigintou meets Megu.\n\n * _Teegesellschaft_ — _Tea company_ (could be both the people around you and the firm — like in English). Kanaria manages to ‘persuade’ the other dolls to join her master for a tea party.\n\n * _Puppenmacher_ — _Doll maker._ This is where Jun starts visiting Enju to watch how dolls are made.\n\n * _Der Tadel_ — _The reproach._\n\n> There’s quite a lot of criticism going on from one side to another — it’s\n> practically the first Alice game episode. I’ll let you choose who is being\n> reproached.\n\n * _Tomoe_ — well, okay ;).\n\n> The one where Hina-Ichigo gets to be with Tomoe one last time.\n\n * _Rosengarten_ — _Rose garden._\n\n> A reference to the dolls’ fighting grounds.\n\n * _Alice_ — yeah, you got that.\n\n[Rozen Maiden Ouvertüre](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4772): ( _Ouvertüre_ is _overture_ )\n\n * _Ewigkeit_ — _Eternity._ I don’t quite know why this name was chosen, but maybe just because it sounds cool.\n\n * _Eitelkeit_ — _Vanity._ Possibly because this episode shows us the source of Suigintou’s pride in herself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI may have missed this in the manga somewhere, but what does W.I.S.E. stand\nfor in Psyren?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe organization's name W.I.S.E is not an acronym. It is simply called WISE\n(ワイズ) in original Japanese.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iMErr.jpg)\n\nNote the missing dot at the end, suggesting that the dots between the letters\nare only used for decoration.\n\n* * *\n\nNote: I have researched on English sites\n([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyren) &\n[Wikia](http://psyren.wikia.com/wiki/WISE)), and also Japanese sites\n([Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSYREN_-%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3-),\n[atwiki](http://www23.atwiki.jp/psy_ren/pages/73.html),\n[NicoNicoPedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/psyren)), and no sites mention the\nfull form of W.I.S.E\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChrollo, the leader of the Phantom Troupe possess a book which contains all of\nthe abilities that he has stolen from other Nen Users. When he opens the book\nto a specific page where an ability is, he can use that ability.\n\nWe know that some conditions are needed to be complete before a certain\nability can be activated.\n\nMy question is 'what are the rules that Chrollo needs to complete before he\ncan steal the ability?'\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, when Tsumugi is moving around in the space, she creates a Higgs particle\njet just like a Gardes. Now, Gardes clearly creates the jet from its engine,\nbut how about Tsumugi? Does she... _fart_? Is that it? Does she fart Higgs\nparticles to jet around?\n\nThe reason I asked this is that a human's fart contains methane which is\ncombustible. And since Tsumugi is shown to produce a blue jet of Higgs\nparticles from under her dress... Does a similar mechanism apply here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTsumugi is a human-gauna hybrid and has the same Placenta that the gauna use\nas an all-purpose organ. It is capable of shapeshifting into whatever form is\nneeded at the time, as seen when the gauna begin to have heigus, or Higgs,\nparticle cannons of their own.\n\nSimilar to the Benisuzume, Tsumugi has a portion of her body dedicated to\nkeeping a heigus particle engine. Heigus particles appear to exist everywhere\ngiven how energy is passively collected. Sidonia and its gardes have heigus\nparticle collectors that can be deployed like solar sails.\n\nSo Tsumugi is using the heigus particles she collected to propel herself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 678, why did Madara suddenly turn into Kaguya? Was this all planned\nfrom beginning?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMadara was used as a middle for Kaguya’s revival as black Zetsu was an\ncreation of Kaguya then sought revenge after Hagoromo And Hamura Sealed\nKaguya. Black Zetsu Manipulated Indra into fighting his own brother and then\nthere was a clan created called the Uchiha’s and Madara was an Uchiha\ntherefore he was an perfect suiting for Zetsu’s plan and was tricked into\nbelieving that black Zetsu was helping him but found out when he had absorbed\nthe victim Shinobi’s chakra who were affected by the Infinite Tsukuyomi And\nthen was tricked by Zetsu by getting pierced by black zetsu and then being\nused as a middle for Kaguya’s Revival.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis has been something that has been bugging me for a while:\n\n**Why are there so many llamas in anime and in anime fan culture?**\n\nSome specific anime examples:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aoaeam.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Chv3vm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ubtAn.jpg)\n\nYou can buy alpacas at conventions too:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPAJ8m.jpg)\n\nWhere is this coming from? **Why do I keep seeing llamas?!** I don't believe\nllamas/alpaca are even native to Japan? (Although I did find [a farm in\nNasu](http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_Review-g1121057-d1723782-Reviews-\nNasu_Alpaca_Farm-Nasu_machi_Nasu_gun_Tochigi_Prefecture_Kanto.html))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n@ChenOrihara's link seems to be correct - it's not just an anime thing, there\nis an overall trend in Japan that sees alpacas being included in unlikely\nsituations.\n\n[There's even a company that leases alpacas for\nweddings:](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3163656/New-\ncraze-Japan-sees-couples-hiring-ALPACAS-witnesses-wedding.html)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4J5BC.jpg)\n\nTheir popularity may have been triggered when the [alpaca farm in\nNasu](http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_Review-g1121057-d1723782-Reviews-\nNasu_Alpaca_Farm-Nasu_machi_Nasu_gun_Tochigi_Prefecture_Kanto.html) was built\nin 1999 - [bringing 200 alpacas into the\ncountry](http://en.japantravel.com/view/the-largest-alpaca-farm-in-japan).\nSubsequent farms have been built also. The Nasu farm currently has [>400\nalpacas](http://kaorisquarefeet.blogspot.ie/2014/08/the-alpaca-farm-in-\nnasu.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm watching the _Hunter x Hunter_ series and I'm also a fan of the _One\nPiece_ anime. I notice that the power that exist in these two anime is\nsomewhat similar.\n\nI notice these similarities:\n\n * **Ko** in _Hunter x Hunter_ is somewhat similar to the **Armament Haki** in _One Piece_ which enables the part of a body to become much stronger.\n\n * **Gyo and En** is also similar to the **Observation Haki** in which enables the user to saw life energy, like Usopp saw, and detect/sense people around you within a certain range.\n\n * **Ren and also En** is likely similar to the **Conquerors Haki** which can knock down an intended opponent. In _Hunter x Hunter_ , Ren and En did break some will of the characters in the series, i.e Killua.\n\nIf Nen is related to Haki, then is there a real world explanation for these\ntechniques?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt would depend on your definition of related.\n\nSo although the two are similar, there are differences:\n\nArmament Haki is close to Gyo, focusing aura on a certain part of the body. In\nHxH, characters can see/detect/sense people around them without gyo and en (an\nexample of this would be Gon vs Gido, where Gon 'sensed' the spinning tops\naround him through concentration), however both techniques are used to detect\nconcealed aura, through zetsu or In.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gPjsb.png)\n\nConqueror's Haki is a technique used for the purpose of knocking down people\nby dominating their will. In contrast, malicious intent behind strong aura\nwill scare an enemy, intentional or not, like with bloodlust (Gon was scared\nof Hisoka's bloodlust in the Hunter exam arc, even though Hisoka was not aware\nof his presence).\n\nRen exemplifies aura and with it the effect, and En means the person feels the\naura around them, also with a similar effect.\n\nAn explanation to their similarities could be that it is simply taking the\nmost logical steps forward.\n\nLife energy like things exist in many different series: aura in Hunter x\nHunter, Chi in [Dragon Ball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball), or\n[Tenryoku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beet_the_Vandel_Buster) in Beet the\nVandel Buster. This is probably because it is an easy way of showing the\nstrength of characters in a visual way.\n\nIf there is life energy, then it would useful in a battle to be able to sense\nit. If it can be sensed, then there would be a technique to hide it. For\ndramatic technique, it could be used to manipulate an opponent far away. This\nresults in similar techniques being developed in different series. Therefore,\nthe power in One Piece and the power in Hunter x Hunter are not directly\nrelated.\n\nHowever, some of it could be related to real life:\n\n[Human's are incredibly sensitive to other people's\ngaze](https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-narcissus-in-all-us/201102/how-\nyou-know-eyes-are-watching-you). Even if you are not aware of it, you can tell\nwhen someone is looking at you, which results in the feeling of 'being\nwatched'. This can lead to belief that one can 'sense' other people's\npresence. There are lots of tiny factors that can lead to awareness about\nsomeone's presence, such as sound from movement, or catching them in the\ncorner of your eye.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's some relation like armored haki is like when the body is covered with\nnen like a layer above the body, and for conqueror haki is like when Pitou do\nthat like a field of nen so anyone close to her will sense it and be afraid.\n\nFor the other haki type of prediction, I don't know about it, but the\nsimilarity between the two is both are related to your spirit and your will.\nThe more will, the more powerful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is not Mito obviously.\n\nWhen Gon is listening to the tape that Ging leave him, Gon stop the taped when\nGing ask if Gon want's to know about his mother. I've waited so far but until\nthe last episode of the anime it is not yet revealed.\n\nIf Gon just listen to the tape, then the mistery should already solved. Is\nthere any answer that can be found in the Manga? I'm prepared for spoilers.\n\nIf Leorio was mad about how Ging acted when he knows the condition of Gon, I'm\nsure Leorio will be more mad if he knows that there's a mother to Gon.\n\nIf she is ever alive, then who is she.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, this question cannot be answered right now.\n\nWhen Gon was younger, Mito told him that both of his parents were dead.\nHowever, it is later found out that it was a lie, because his father Ging was\nobviously alive and well.\n\nBefore the Greed Island Arc, Gon got a tape from Ging. At the end of the tape,\nwhen Ging was going to tell him about his mother, instead of listening to it\nto the end, Gon just stopped the tape and stated that Mito was his mother.\n\nThere is a lot of speculation as to whom his mother could be, but until\nTogashi supplies the answer, we will never know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the name of the music track that plays at about 18:28 in One Piece\nEpisode 150 (Jaya Arc) when all of Bellamy's people are shocked on hearing\nabout Luffy's and Zoro's real bounties as told by their drunken member?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song plays around crocodile a lot for some reason. 1:27 into \"Shizuka Na\nIkari\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is called Shizuka na Ikari (静かな怒り). It is from the One Piece Original\nSoundtrack Album \"Music and Song Collection 4\", track number 16.\n\nYou can listen to it [here](https://youtu.be/yWSN--WupdM?t=1m27s).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, say someone in the _Fullmetal Alchemist_ world lost both of their arms.\n\nCould they still preform alchemy with their automail arms? Is there a way to\nadjust the automail so you can use alchemy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy wife is a big fan of Sailor Moon, a series I know little about.\n\nHow many people kiss Usagi in the manga and anime respectively?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the **manga** , Usagi/Sailor Moon/Princess Serenity/Neo Queen Serenity is\nkissed by:\n\n 1. Prince Endymion kissed Princess Serenity (Moon Kingdom, consensual)\n 2. Chiba Mamoru/Tuxedo Kamen kissed Usagi/Sailor Moon (present day, in every story arc, non-consensual and consensual)\n 3. Prince Demande kissed Usagi ( _Black Moon_ arc, non-consensual)\n 4. Neo Queen Serenity kissed King Endymion ( _Black Moon_ arc, the King was asleep so technically non-consensual)\n 5. Sailor Uranus kissed Sailor Moon ( _Mugen_ [ _Infinty_ ] arc, done by Uranus before Sailor Moon could react, so technically non-consensual, but Sailor Moon did not seem to mind). [Tenou Haruka also almost kissed Usagi](https://gallery.missdream.org/albums/raws/japanese/smoon_kan/volume%2005/203.jpg) (consensual) but they were interrupted by Mamoru. Usagi also imagined herself being kissed by surprise by Haruka (her face expression in her mind's eye is one of shock, so she was imagining a non-consensual kiss, but since she is the one who thought it up, it could be that she subconsciously wouldn't mind if it happened).\n 6. Seiya Kou ( _Stars_ arc, done by Seiya before Usagi could react, so technically non-consensual, but Usagi did not seem to mind)\n\nIn the **classic 90s anime** :\n\n 1. Prince Endymion kissed Princess Serenity (Moon Kingdom, consensual)\n 2. Chiba Mamoru/Tuxedo Kamen kissed Usagi/Sailor Moon (present day, in every season, non-consensual and consensual)\n 3. Prince Demande kissed Usagi ( _R_ season, non-consensual)\n 4. Sailor Chibi-Moon kissed Sailor Moon ( _SuperS_ season, during transformation sequence, non-romantic on the cheek, consensual)\n 5. Seiya Kou kissed Usagi ( _SailorStars_ season, on the cheek, Usagi pulled back so technically non-consensual, but Usagi seemed more sad to have to reject him than disturbed by his farewell kiss)\n\nIn **_Sailor Moon Crystal_** :\n\n 1. Prince Endymion kissed Princess Serenity (Moon Kingdom, consensual)\n 2. Chiba Mamoru/Tuxedo Kamen kissed Usagi/Sailor Moon (present day, non-consensual and consensual)\n 3. Prince Demande kissed Usagi (non-consensual)\n 4. Neo Queen Serenity kissed King Endymion (the King was asleep so technically non-consensual)\n 5. Sailor Uranus kissed Sailor Moon ( _Mugen_ [ _Infinty_ ] season, done by Uranus before Sailor Moon could react, so technically non-consensual, but Sailor Moon did not seem to mind). Usagi also imagined herself being kissed by Haruka.\n\nA few examples:\n\nNon-Consensual:\n\n(Tuxedo Kamen kisses drunk sleeping Sailor Moon)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WMG9J.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9GDEh.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/22BVN.png)\n\nConsensual: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/H5YJi.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NMgYK.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know there was one episode where it says how Natsu joined Fairy Tail and\nthen he found some mission and Erza started teaching him reading and writing,\nbut I forgot which one it was....\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, I've been enjoying SAO quite a bit more than I thought I would. My only\nthing is, why has no one in ALO even questioned if Kirito is the same Kirito\nfrom SAO, especially his sister? I'm going on the assumption that there would\nhave been some sort of news when he got out of the game and that his character\nname would have been mentioned. I know that if I see a character with the same\nname in multiple MMOs, I at least ask if they are the same person. I have to\nbelieve that SOMEONE would recognize the name at least.\n\nAlso, thinking back on it, I remember them reading something, seemingly the\ninternet, inside SAO, that listed the news of what was going on in the game.\nSo surely this was available to the outside world as well?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## ALO players\n\nFrom Volume 3, Chapter 1, during the scene where Kirito first logged in into\nALO:\n\n> Next I chose the nickname for my character. I didn't put much thought into\n> it, but entered the name «Kirito».\n>\n> This name was a shortened form of my real name, **Kiri** gaya Kazu **to** ,\n> and there weren't many who knew that. Those who understood included only the\n> rescue team from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and those with a close\n> connection, i.e. Recto's president Yuuki Shoujou and that Sugou. Of course,\n> that also included Egil, and Asuna, who had yet to wake. Even Suguha and our\n> parents shouldn't know of it.\n>\n> In the SAO incident, none of this information had been made public,\n> especially character names. This was because in that world there was\n> frequent fighting between players and the result was often a horrible death\n> in the real world. If unrestricted publication of this information was\n> allowed, it would not be difficult to imagine a large number of lawsuits\n> being filed.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> With a bit of trepidation I realized the name was known to Sugou Nobuyuki,\n> and because it is a rather well-known name I changed it from its romanized\n> form to its kana form. [...]\n\nAccording to the cited paragraph, since character names are not made public,\nthe name Kirito is only known to the rescue team from the Ministry of Internal\nAffairs, Recto's president Yuuki Shoujou, Sugou, and fellow players in SAO.\n\nALO arc [takes place 2 months after SAO is\ncleared](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_Timeline).\nDuring this period of time, I would assume that it's unlikely for any SAO\nsurvivor to play another VRMMO when they had just been through a life and\ndeath experience.\n\nTherefore, it would be natural for almost all players in ALO to be unaware of\nthe identity of the person who cleared SAO and set all players free.\n\nI guess that would clear the question of why no one in ALO ever questioned\nabout Kirito's identity.\n\nHow about Suguha, then?\n\n## Suguha/Leafa\n\nFrom Volume 3, Chapter 2, when Kirito crash-landed as Leafa/Suguha was\nsurrounded by three Salamanders:\n\n> This voice with no tension came from a lightly dark skinned male player\n> while standing up. His black hair stood in natural spikes, and his large\n> eyes gave an impression of mischief. Behind him stretched dark greyish-blue\n> wings that marked him as a member of the Spriggan race.\n\nI guess Kirito's skin color and appearance is a great enough departure from\nhis real life appearance that Suguha couldn't tell that Kirito is actually her\nonii-chan.\n\nApart from the appearance, there is also the fact that Kirito distanced\nhimself from Suguha, after knowing that they are not siblings.\n\nFrom Volume 4, Chapter 7:\n\n> Suguha's accusation that I had distanced myself from her because she wasn't\n> my true younger sister was almost correct. I had searched the net for my\n> family registry, but I had found the deletion notice, so I asked my parents\n> about it. I was ten years-old. I began to put some distance between Suguha\n> and myself, but there was no specific reason.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> [...] By the time I was a 5th or 6th grader, I was already addicted to net\n> games, without a side glance I moved straight forward. Finally I was\n> imprisoned for two years, in that virtual world.\n\nDue to Kirito keeping distance and the SAO incident, Suguha didn't have much\nchance to know Kirito, and there were many sides of him that she didn't know\nabout, especially during the time Kirito was trapped in SAO. I think this\ncontributes to the reason why Suguha/Leafa didn't realize that Kirito is\nactually Kazuto even after traveling together. She only caught on when Kirito\nblurted out Asuna's name after he failed to clear the Grand Quest for the\nfirst time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKeep in mind that this is an anime and so little things like common sense do\nnot really get in the way of story telling. The real problem with this all\nstarts with the question which is based in common sense, and thus can not win\nout against the needs of story telling.\n\nI understand that player information was given out, if it was forget law\nsuits, laughing coffin members would of been gunned down on the streets for\nwhat they did. GGO would never of happened. However, while following the\ncommon sense of things, everything after the end of SAO would of happened\ndifferently. I believe it was stated that 6000 people and change were still in\nSAO when it came to an end. Most of those people woke at the same time. That\nwould of been major news.\n\nMost of those people would not know how they were freed, only that one moment\nthey were in the game and the next that after an announcement that the game\nwas cleared they woke up. However those members of the assault team they would\nknow. The doctors and nurses that cared for them would likely question folks\nas they were seen and checked over. \" It was amazing! Kirito saved us!\" or\nversions of that statement would of passed unfiltered in the first few days.\nIf not from Doctors and Nurses, from player to player. Most of the SAO players\nwere in hospitals when they woke, so it is natural to assume numbers of them\nwere in the same places. The SAO members would of spoken to each other if not\nthe staff.\n\nKirito was well known in the game if not by his name, at least as the black\nswordsmen. Trying to keep the media from discovering the story of how they\nescaped in reality would of been like trying to capture water in your hands.\nYou get some of it, but most pours through. Maybe they never link Kirito to\nhis RL id, but that would only of raised the legend of Kirito that much\nhigher. The hero of SAO humbly keeps his identity a secret?\n\nFor ALO, they used the same model for Kirito in that game that they used for\nSAO for our benefit, so we as anime watchers knew him the moment he was on\nscreen. Asuna looks very different in SAO II from her SAO character and while\nI never forget who she is, it is an attention grabbing difference I never fail\nto notice. So I could almost forgive Suguha for not knowing Kirito in ALO\nright away. Siding with the answers others gave. However I'm not willing to.\nHe does look the same, no matter the reasons. Maybe she does not know for sure\nthat is him, and maybe he never talked about what his character name was in\nSAO with her. However she never questions him about just how very much he\nlooks like Kirigaya Kazuto. That is pure story telling over common sense.\n\nBy the time SAO II comes along and he enters GGO There should of been lines of\nfolks whispering rumors of him being the same Kirito from SAO, hell their\nshould of been dozens of would be fame seekers running names like KiritoSAO,\nKiritoR1, and many others trying to cash in on fame that was not theirs. If\nany thing the only reason Kirito should not gotten much notice in GGO it is\nbecause people would of assumed he was another faker cashing in on the name of\nthe Hero of SAO.\n\nThe answer to this question, pure and short, is Story. The writer of the manga\nand anime needed him to, and wanted him to, have less fame and acclaim then he\nwould of had if something like this happened in our world. They needed his own\nsister/cousin to be utterly clueless about who he was.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSuppose you want to show that three of the characters have a close\nrelationship spanning back to primary school. Then entire point of the\ndialogue is to enforce this.\n\nIs there a name for this type of exchange or dialogue? Dialogue that makes a\npoint.\n\nPS. I remember reading somewhere that there is is a particular type of manga\nwhere you are only allowed to use four scenes to make this type of point. It's\nlike a punchline or a gag.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNow I noticed that this question has been slightly answered before but for\nabsolute clarity, I need to know.\n\nI came across these titles.\n\n * Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!\n * Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Lite\n * Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren\n * Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren Lite\n * Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren Specials\n * Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren: The Rikka Wars\n * Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! The Movie Lite\n\nNow because of my lack of knowledge as far as OVAs, ONAs, base series, and\nmovies go in the anime genre exactly what is the chronological order of this\nlist? And is it missing any titles from this series?\n\nOh, and I just finished the first season and if anything I know that I am\nsupposed to watch the first lite series next right? Then the movie? (Ren\nspecials and Rikka Wars, what order are these in?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst, watch _Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!_ \\- this is the first TV season.\nEither at the same time or immediately afterwards, watch _Lite_ \\- these are a\nbunch of short comedic sketches that occur at roughly the same time\nchronologically, but don't have any impact on the plot.\n\nAfter you've watched the first season, watch the episode-length OVA that goes\nwith it (not on your list; you'll probably find it titled \"Kirameki no\nSlapstick Noel\"). Not plot-critical, but fun.\n\nIt also makes sense to watch the _Depth of Field_ shorts for the first season\n(not on your list) sometime after watching the first season; these are fun but\ncompletely plot-irrelevant.\n\nThen, you may or may not want to watch _The Movie_ (not on your list) - aside\nfrom a couple isolated scenes, it's mostly a recap of the first season. The\nadded scenes are pretty fun, though, so you might like to just skim those.\nWhether or not you watch the movie, watch _The Movie Lite_ , which is another\nshort comedic sketch.\n\nThis is the point at which you start watching the second TV season, _Ren_.\nDuring or after watching _Ren_ , watch _Ren Lite_ and _Ren Specials_ (in\nwhichever order), both of which are non-plot-critical and not directly related\nto one another.\n\nFinally, watch _Ren: The Rikka Wars_ , which is an episode-length OVA, like\nits first season counterpart.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring a rewatch of the series, I again made the mistake of watching the recap\nmovie after the second season, which is why I'm interested in writing an\nanswer here. It also seems this question's answer hasn't been updated since\nthe second movie came out. I have the ultimate collection DVD, so I'll be\nbasing my answer on that. Sentai's release does not contain _Depth of Field:\nAi to Nikushimi Gekijō_ or _Heated Table Series: Kotatsu_ , and I haven't\nwatched these, so I'll only be noting them at the end.\n\n# Proper viewing order:\n\n 1. **Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions**. First series/season. Episodes 1-12.\n 2. **Chunibyo Lite**. These are six shorts. You can watch them during or after the first season. If you have the DVDs, you might want to watch them after episodes 1-9 for convenience, as they're contained on the same disc.\n 3. The Christmas OVA: **\" Glimmering... Explosive Festival (Slapstick Noel)\"**\n 4. The first film: **Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions the Movie: Rikka Takanashi Revision**. This is a recap movie, however, the beginning and end contain new content. I can't stress enough that this content should be watched _before_ the second series, as it sets up some of the events. It's not exactly necessary to understanding the second series, but if you're going to be watching this movie at all, before _Heart Throb_ is the right time to do so, not after. There are around three new narration lines contained during the recap part, as well as a song part showing the characters, but feel free to skip the rest of the movie if that doesn't interest you.\n 5. **Chunibyo Lite: \"My Older Brother 2\"**. This is part of the _Lite_ series, but it's contained on the same disc as the recap movie (It was probably shown in theaters with the movie). As far as I can tell, it's the only one with an English dub. There's going to be a third \"My Older Brother\" later, so that's another reason to put in the disc for the recap movie. I'll note, however, that even though I'm saying that, it isn't actually that important to watch them in the proper order, so watch them as 1, 3, 2 if it's more convenient.\n 6. **Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Heart Throb**. This is the second series/season. It contains twelve episodes just like the first.\n 7. **Chunibyo Ren Lite**. A second series of six shorts. You can watch these at any point during or after the second season. Again, they're contained on the same disc as episodes 1-9, so after those might be the most convenient time.\n 8. The second OVA: \" **Playback of... the Wicked Eye's Apocalypse (The Rikka Wars) \"**.\n 9. **Kotatsu Photo Session** shorts. These are the three shorts that go with the second movie. They're a bit lackluster compared to some of the other stuff, so while I think they're worth watching once, you might want to skip them on a rewatch. There's a part in the middle that's always the same, where they're explaining the rules for taking pictures, so you might want to skip that part at least. There is actual dialogue during the still-frame part, so don't skip that (unless you want to, because it is still a bit boring). These are meant to be watched before the movie, but honestly, it doesn't really matter when you watch them.\n 10. **Love, Chunibyo, & Other Delusions: Take On Me**. This is the final movie.\n\nNow for the shorts series you probably won't be watching at all (Though you'll\nwish you could!): **Depth of Field: Ai to Nikushimi Gekijō** , and **Heated\nTable Series: Kotatsu**. These are not contained in the Sentai English\nrelease. If you get a chance to watch these, it'll probably be after you're\ndone watching everything else. They're shorts, so it's probably fine to watch\nthem whenever.\n\n# Chronological Order\n\nIf you're interested in watching in chronological order (not that I'd\nrecommend it for a first time viewing), you'll want to watch these shorts\nbefore even starting episode 1.\n\n 1. From **Lite** : \"Wicked Eye: Daybreak Chapter\" (episode 2), \"My Older Brother\" (episode 3), \"My Older Brother 2\" (episode 7, contained on second movie disc).\n 2. From **Ren Lite** : \"Wicked Eye: Storm Chapter\" (episode 3), \"My Older Brother 3: Camping Chapter\" (episode 5), \"Summoning an Archangel\" (episode 6).\n\nEverything else will be the same as above.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a couple of very closely related questions regarding composer Hiroyuki\nSawano's choices in naming Aldnoah Zero's OST/opening/ending song titles.\n\nI will be referencing the tracklist for Aldnoah Zero's OST (link\n[here](http://aldnoahzero.wikia.com/wiki/ALDNOAH.ZERO_Original_Soundtrack)),\nin addition to some opening/closing songs that are co-composed by Hiroyuki\nSawano including \"aLIEz\", \"A/Z\", and \"&Z\".\n\nFirst, most of the song titles include special/non-alphabetical/non-English\ncharacters (even if the title is clearly meant an actual word like \"robot\" or\n\"breathless\"). Here are some examples:\n\n * R零B零T\n * BRE@TH//LESS\n * Ch19ヲFIRE★\n\nWhy did Hiroyuki Sawano decide to include all the special characters? Is there\nany significance in using them? To me, they are unnecessary, but I hesitate to\nclaim that they are indeed unnecessary because they might actually have some\nmeaning that I am not seeing.\n\nMy other question is why are some song titles seemingly extra-arbitrarily\nnamed? I realize that these are songs, so the composer can name them whatever\nhe likes, but some song titles seem completely out of the blue to me.\n\nI realize that there are explanations for the names of some OST tracks in the\nwiki that I linked.\n\nFor example, the song \"AD2014-7.5/7.9-零・A\" is named because \"2014 07-05 /\n07-09 [are] ALDONAH.ZERO's air dates on Tokyo MX and ABC respectively\".\n\nThe explanation tells me WHAT the song is named after, but it does not tell me\nWHY is the song named after something as arbitrary as an air date for the\nshow. OST track titles usually relate to what the song actually attempts to\nconvey to the listener, or relates to the scene in the animation, but I cannot\nsee how an air date relates to either.\n\nFinally, I do not understand where the openings/ending names come from. What\ndo the names \"aLIEz\", \"A/Z\" and \"&Z\" mean exactly, and why are they named that\nway?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlease see [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/22420/8134) to the\nquestion \"Why do some works [anime, manga, novels] have a trailing dot?\" for\nthe information about **Japanese decorative use of typographical symbols**\nsuch as 「@」,「&」,「/」, and 「★」.\n\n「零」( _rei_ ) is decorative but also accomplishes **a clever play-on-words**.\n_Rei_ means \"zero\" and the number 0 looks like the English capital letter O,\nso the Os of the word \"ROBOT\" have been replaced with \"zeros,\" befitting the\nseries title _Aldnoah Zero_.\n\n[「ヲ」](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wo_\\(kana\\)) is the _katakana_ symbol for\nthe [syllabogram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary) \" _wo_.\" Since\n_katakana_ is the most-often used Japanese writing system used for\nwords/phrases of foreign origin and is the newest of Japan's writing systems,\nit can be used to give **a sense of newness** , trendiness, or forward-ness as\nopposed to a traditional feeling, which suits sci-fi. It is not _terribly_\nstrange to use _katakana_ here rather than _hiragana_ even though the word \"\n_wo_ \" is a native Japanese participle which is usually written in _hiragana_\nas 「を」 as it would be if the phrase 「Ch19ヲFIRE★」 had been written in standard\nJapanese: 「地球を加勢」（ _chikyuu wo kasei_ = \"reinforcements to the Earth\"\nfeaturing **another play-on-words** in which _kasei_ is pronounced the same\nway as _Ka-sei_ , the Japanese word for \"Mars\"\n=[「火星」](http://www.genvid.com/diesgaudii/articles/npf/index.html) in which 「星」\n[pronounced _sei_ , _hoshi_ , or _shou_ ] is a Japanese _kanji_ character that\nrefers to [all celestial bodies — such as planets and\nstars](http://www.genvid.com/diesgaudii/articles/osmanthus/index.html) — and\ncan be tacked onto the end of any planetary body’s name as a sort of suffix to\nindicate that it is a celestial body... and thereby can legitimately be\nindicated by 「★」, whereas in English the words and concepts for \"planet\" and\n\"star\" contain no overlap. Nevertheless, it is not a perfectly-executed play-\non-words since \"reinforcements to the Earth\" is comprehensible but \"Earth _wo_\nMars\" makes no obvious grammatical sense in Japanese).\n\n「A/Z」 is simply an **abbreviation** of _Aldnoah Zero_. I would interpret that\n「aLIEz」 is meant to be read as \"LIE (in between) Aldnoah and Zero\" but I have\nno citation for that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[seijitsu's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/24404/) does a good job\nof identifying what's going on with most of your examples, though I'll add\nthat \"Ch19ヲFIRE★\" is meant to be read \"Chikyuu wo Kasei\" (1 = \"i\", 9 = \"kyuu\",\n\"Fire\" = 火 = \"ka\", ★ = 星 = \"sei\", \"kasei\" = 火星 = \"Mars\", but \"kasei\" also = 加勢\n= \"reinforcements\"), which is something like \"Reinforcements to Earth\".\n\nHowever, this goes a little beyond the recent-ish fad of including arbitrary\ntypographic symbols for stylistic purposes. There's a broader context to this:\nHiroyuki Sawano is a madman when it comes to titling his compositions.\n\nI invite you to consult the track listings for some of his other compositions.\nFor example, [Kill la Kill](http://vgmdb.net/album/42078), which has\nincomprehensible monstrosities like \"寝LLna聴9\" (no, this doesn't make any real\nsense even if you've seen Kill la Kill _and_ know Japanese). Or [Owari no\nSeraph](http://vgmdb.net/album/52144), with \"1hundredknight:Y\" being a number\nof steps removed from \"Hyakuya Yuuichirou\" (the protagonist's name). He's been\ndoing this since at least 2011 with [Ao no\nExorcist](http://vgmdb.net/album/25549), and has only gotten more ridiculous\nover time. My favorite example of this insanity is \"凸】♀】♂】←巨人\" from [Shingeki\nno Kyojin](http://vgmdb.net/album/38626), which Sawano indicates is supposed\nto be read \"Kyojin Shinkou\", meaning \"Advance of the Titans\" - but this is\nactually a pictogram of a series of walls, with a giant (巨人) approaching them.\nMy god!\n\nIt's leaked over into his non-anime work, too - the soundtrack for [Platina\nData](http://vgmdb.net/album/41469) had gems like \"nf壱III\". I haven't seen\nPlatina Data yet, and that probably has no bearing whatsoever on my inability\nto figure out what this is supposed to mean. He wasn't always like this,\nthough - [the soundtrack for\nIryuu](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%95%E3%82%B8%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%83%93%E7%B3%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E%E3%80%8C%E5%8C%BB%E9%BE%8D-Team-\nMedical-\nDragon%E3%80%8D%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-\nTV%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9/dp/B000FDF2IC) (the show that first\nbrought him real recognition) is quite tame, with track titles like\n\"unnecessary words\" and \"Blue Dragon\".\n\nAccording to [one tweet of\nhis](https://twitter.com/sawano_nZk/status/308097466358718465), it's generally\ntrue of his soundtracks that the titles don't really have any deep meaning to\nthem. \"Don't think too hard about it\", he says.\n\nSo, yeah - Sawano is bonkers ([he appears to get a good bit of lulz out of\ndoing this](https://twitter.com/sawano_nZk/status/310615763360833537)), and\nbeyond maybe decrypting his hyper-elaborate punny titles into a comprehensible\nhuman language, there is probably not much more to be said here.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that the title \"Chikyuu wo Kasei\", has a minor meaning to the shown\n\" _Aldnoah.Zero_ \" because they mention \" **19** of the 32 Mars Floating\nCastles are landing.\" So if \" _kasei_ \" is to be read as \"Mars\" or\n\"Reinforcements\" as previously mentioned, then the title could be read as\n\"Mars, to the Earth\", or maybe \"The 19 Reinforcements\". These are just rough\ntranslations from gathering what others have said. I claim no statements as\n100% my own.\n\nAs for \"aLIEz\", that could be maybe how it is telling how the title of the\nshow is meant to be read. \"Aldnoah.Zero\" can be seen as \"AlnoahLIEZero\" or\n\"Aldnoah between Zero\". Just a stupid opinion I thought I elaborate on more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know who composed the original soundtrack for the TV anime\n\"Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo\"?\n\nIt doesn't look like it has been released on CD yet, I can't seem to find it\nanywhere. Can anyone tell me if there is a plan for it to be released? If so,\nwhen?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCDJapan seems to have the cd in stock -\n<http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MBR-30S>\n\nAccording to the webpage it was released in June.\n\nThe composer is [Masaru\nYokoyama](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=67761)\nwho has done songs for several anime series, including Freezing and Your Lie\nin April\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile listening to the _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ Openings I noticed that\nthe first 4 Opening songs (Original Series - StrikerS) were all sung by _Nana\nMizuki_ , the seiyū of _Fate Testarossa_. Looking at her [Wikipedia\nPage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Mizuki) I've also noticed that she's\nalso been the seiyū for _Hinata Hyuga_ in the Naruto Movies.\n\nNow the other groups I know of who did Openings/Endings are FLOW, ALI PROJECT,\nORANGE RANGE, Kalafina and ClariS, but I do not know if any singer of these\ngroups were also a seiyū for any series (particularly ones their music was in)\nbut I am wondering if it is common for a seiyū to also be a singer?\n\nIf so, is it also expected that if a singer sung the Opening/Ending Theme (or\nInsert Songs) they will also score a character role in the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor the first question, the answer is yes. This is especially true with female\nseiyuu. As you noted, Nana Mizuki is also a singer other than a seiyuu. You\ncan check her discography\n[here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Mizuki_discography). She even went\nto a duet with T.M. Revolution. Other female seiyuu's that is worth noted:\n\n * Itou Kanae (Meat - Haganai)\n\n[Albums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanae_It%C5%8D) including Kokoro\nKeshiki and Miageta Keshiki\n\n * Hayami Saori (Shiraishi Urara - Yamada-kun to 7-nin Majo)\n\nReleased her [first\nsingle](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCoQFjABahUKEwin7Jmt68jHAhVIHI4KHWEmBnw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crunchyroll.com%2Fanime-\nnews%2F2015%2F05%2F30-1%2Fvideo-voice-actress-saori-hayamis-solo-debut-single-\nyasashii-kibou-\nmv&ei=d8neVefUKci4uAThzJjgBw&usg=AFQjCNHbGMlnkuxuCpxG49OdS_dJkoMBSA&sig2=VyjnYaEUAWHOil0Pz1GZcQ)\nAugust 2015\n\n * Kitamura Eri (Honoka Sisters - Sidonia no Kishi)\n\n[Has lot of singles and\nalbum.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eri_Kitamura#Discography)\n\n * Toyosaki Aki (Kanzaki Uiharu - Railgun)\n\nDiscography [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Toyosaki#Discography)\n\n * Tomatsu Haruka (Yuuki Asuna - SAO)\n\nDiscography [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka_Tomatsu)\n\n * Uchida Maaya (Takanashi Rikka - Chuunibyou)\n\nDiscography [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaya_Uchida#Discography)\n\n * Nitta Emi (Kousaka Honoka - Love Live)\n\nDiscography [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emi_Nitta)\n\n * PILE (Nishikino Maki - Love Live)\n\nWas already a singer even before debut voicing as Maki.\n\n * Uchida Aya (Kotori - Love Live)\n\nExample single is [Spicaterrible](http://love-\nlive.wikia.com/wiki/Spicaterrible)\n\n * Nanjo Yoshino (Ayase Eri - Love Live, fripSide's Nidaime-sama\n\nShe was chosen to as\n[fripSide](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwjw463p6sjHAhVHUI4KHb75CmI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFripSide&ei=6cjeVbDLGMeguQS-86uQBg&usg=AFQjCNEWciumrwQ_xvAAC9b1CcVeS_O_Jg&sig2=HcVD6VPP-0jNIKLYZJFhxw)'s\nmain vocalist after the first quit the group and go solo. First vocalist was\nnao who voiced 5pb in Hyperdimension Neptunia.\n[She](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEIQFjACahUKEwjD8Yz86sjHAhXTHI4KHeVMDvA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FYoshino_Nanj%25C5%258D&ei=EMneVcOpK9O5uATlmbmADw&usg=AFQjCNGEAd18Y4ePTR9ZBq_4uS-7DuNIsQ&sig2=2Nj8ieMZvhqUyD5-4KMeMg)\nalso released a mini-album and singles in ballad style which is different that\nher usual trance fripSide singing style.\n\n * Hirano Aya\n\n[She](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Hirano) even own her own band with\nwhom she got caught in a sex scandal.\n\n * Hanazawa Kana\n\nDiscography [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana_Hanazawa#Discography)\n\n * Sato Satomi\n\nDiscography\n[here](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDIQFjABahUKEwjViIbH68jHAhUOcY4KHW75DX8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSatomi_Sat%25C5%258D&ei=rcneVZX-\nNY7iuQTu8rf4Bw&usg=AFQjCNHfmsDWeEoYfF2aU0WRZNnf1IWizw&sig2=rNT-\njeGAesMSzcnNcf2ytw)\n\n * Horie Yui\n\nAs pointed by Steven, Horie Yui also owned her own [singles and\nalbums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yui_Horie#Discography).\n\nIt is more rare for male seiyuus to also be a singer although they do sing as\nthe characters they voiced. Some that I remember are:\n\n * Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu Dragneel - Fairy Tail)\n\nOther than singing as Natsu, also released [his own\nsingles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Kakihara#Discography%20\\(as%20a%20singer\\)).\n\n * Ono Daisuke (Sebastian Michaelis - Kuroshitsuji)\n\nDiscography [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Ono#Discography).\n\n * Kenichi Suzumura (Zack Fair - Final Fantasy VII)\n\nDiscography [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_Suzumura#Music).\n\n * Morita Masakazu (Kurosaki Ichigo - Bleach)\n\nHis songs are mostly Bleach songs, that is he sang as Kurosaki Ichigo. As far\nas I know, Morita doesn't own his own singles/albums.\n\n * Hayami Shou (Aizen Sousuke - Bleach)\n\nOther than singing as Aizen, also released some [singles and\nalbums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Hayami).\n\nFor the second question, no. In fact, usually it is not. Only some anime have\nthe singer of OP or ED also fills a role in the anime. Like Kitamura Eri\n(Honoka Sisters) sings Sidonia no Kishi's ED. But most of the time they don't.\nThis is because a lot of anime still have bands and people who's primary job\nis singer perform the OP and ED. The anime Black Bullet's OP was performed by\nfripSide, but Nanjo-sama didn't have any role in the anime, nor Satoshi\n(fripSide's composer and part of the duo and he is also not a seiyuu).\n\nAs an extra, Hyde of L'Arc~en~Ciel and VAMPS also voiced an anime once as\nhimself. But his main profession is a singer and not a seiyuu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell they've (people above) answered your questions already but I'm just gonna\nadd:\n\n•Taniyama Kisho of the band Granrodeo. The band performed most of Kuroko no\nBasuke OP and Taniyama also voices Himuro Tatsuya from the series\n\n• Suzuki Tatsuhisa of OldCodex, the band performed most of the ED of Kuroko no\nBasuke too while voicing Takao Kazunari. They also performed OPs for Free!!\nand Tatsuhisa voices Makoto.\n\n•Ono Kensho who voices Kuroko Tetsuya sung 1 or 2 OP for the series too. He\nhas released his own albums too.\n\n•Osaka Ryouta, Shimazaki Nobunaga, Hanae Natsuki, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Aoi\nShouta, Sakurai Takahiro and other seiyuu of Diamond no ace did a number of\nEDs for the series.\n\n•Teru of GLAY, he's not a seiyuu but made a cameo at an episode of Diamond no\nAce season 2 and another in an OVA. Glay performed a lot of EDs for the\nseries.\n\n•Tomatsu Haruka who voices Yuuki Asuka performed a couple of song (OP and ED)\nfor Sword Art Online\n\n•Sakamoto Maaya voices Tomoyo in Tsubasa Chronicle also sings ending song\n\"Loop\". She had released several albums and a number of her singles got\nfeatured in animes as opening and ending songs weather she got casted or not.\n\n•Morikubo Showtaro who voices a lot of famous characters and a well known\nSinger, gave life to a game character Mega Man X back in 2000 and sings the\nthe theme song of Rockman X6.\n\n•Even Takeuchi Junko (Naruto's VA) did a cover of one of Naruto Shippuden OP\nDistance originally by Long Shot Party.\n\nThere are still others, but I think this list is enough. The band Flow doesn't\nhave any members who do voice acting. I think so does the Ali Project. As for\nthe others you've mentioned, I am not familiar with them.\n\nAs for the seiyuus singing the OPs and Eds, I don't think you have to be part\nof the cast for a certain anime to sing its OP or Ed or You have to sing its\nOP or ED to get a role in the show. I'm taking a wild guess that it all\ndepends on the director and the sponsors. You know for marketing purposes.\nThey're the ones who decide who gets casted after all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one of the anecdotes in _McDull, Prince de la Bun_ , McDull makes a comment\n(a bit after 19 minutes) about how his single mother takes J.K. Rowling's\nsuccess as encouragement for her to continue recounting her stories. Thus, the\n\"present day\" portion of the film must have occurred after the first Harry\nPotter book was published (so at the earliest, post-1997). The mention of 两文三语\n(an oft-used phrase by the Hong Kong government) approximately six minutes in\ncorroborates this (at least per my reading of [this Chinese Wikipedia\narticle](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A9%E6%96%87%E4%B8%89%E8%AA%9E)).\nMoreover, we see at 1:04:48 that the grave plot Mrs. Mak has reserved has [a\nmobile phone\nnumber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Hong_Kong) on its\nsign, which might push the date even later.\n\n**What I'm having trouble figuring out is what years the portions of the film\nthat concern Mrs. Mak's younger years where she interacts with McDull's father\n(McBing) correspond to.** I might expect the section that comes before McBing\nmeets with Mrs. Mak to have a looser correspondence to actual history, since\nit's more overtly fantasy, but the portion I'm concerned with seems to\nexplicitly take place in some older version of Hong Kong.\n\n * About nine minutes in, there is old footage of workers at a factory (with Mrs. Mak's face superimposed on one of the worker's, as this is meant to be a recollection of her younger years), but I can't identify the year of it.\n\n * After 47:00, we see the destruction of a floating restaurant, but I'm unsure if this is supposed to correspond to anything. The boat is still burning when McBing leaves Mrs. Mak, so it would appear that the entire sequence (between him meeting up with her and him leaving) is supposed to take place within a short period of time. (Then again, maybe this is just a fantasy element?)\n\n * There are some posters on the walls (of celebrities I don't recognise) after 47:30.\n\n * At 49:23, we see a member of the police stand atop a raised platform to direct traffic. From what I am aware of, this practice was definitely gone by the 2000's in Hong Kong, and I don't think it was used much (if at all) in the 1990's.\n\n * At 50:49, McBing pays the fortune teller with a bunch of colonial one-dollar notes. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Hong_Kong_dollar#20th_century) tells me that 1 HKD notes were phased out in 1960. (That this is used _at all_ and that there is a copy of _The Little Prince_ on the shelf at 55:45 indicates that this should be post-WWII.)\n\n**Is there a consistent sense of when this period corresponds to, if at all?**\nI'm starting to get the impression that some of the evidence may even be\ncontradictory: if McDull is still in kindergarten in the \"present day\" period\n(see 2:05) and his father is really McBing, it would be odd for McBing to have\nleft before 1990 (which would seem at odds with some of the other details).\nBut it occurs to me that I might just be too unfamiliar with the historical\ncontext to judge properly, so I am looking for confirmation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw this manga in a local bookstore but its name was completely in Hapanese.\nI'm curious about it and want to google it except for the fact that I dont\nknow what the name even is. Has anyone seen it before, or can anyone tell what\nthe title says?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WGzWx.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am curious to know what the song in this\n[video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr2YZU_rtBA) is (the song in the _\"And\nyou will shed tears of scarlet\"_ scene from `Session 25: The Real Folk Blues\n(Part I)`). I have traversed the Cowboy Bebop OSTs but to no avail. I hope one\nof you here could help me out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt looks like I missed a track while scavenging through the OSTs. The name of\nthe song is **_Road to the West_** and is by Yoko Kanno/The Seatbelts (track\n15 from OST 3: [_Cowboy Bebop\nBlue_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Cowboy_Bebop#Cowboy_Bebop_Blue)).\n\n[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmFAJPArhqM) is the Youtube video for\nthe song.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was reading Chapter 401: Illusion of _Naruto_. Page 10:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KnCPy.jpg)\n\nIn the third panel, Obito comments (emphasis mine):\n\n> [Itachi] had killed **his lover** and his father and his mother...\n\nI found this to be a new piece of information, as I never knew Itachi had a\nlove interest. Was anything else mentioned anywhere in the series about\nItachi's lover?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto Manga has ended but there has not been any information about Itachi's\nlover. Kishimoto Masashi has not disclosed anything about Itachi's lover but\nsome speculation can be made.\n\nAs we know Itachi, he entered Anbu at 11 and became captain by age\n13[1](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi_Uchiha). And the massacre of Uchiha\nclan took place while he was in Anbu. So his lover may be from Anbu and the\nhighest possibility that she is an Uchiha otherwise Itachi would have not kill\nher.\n\nMentioning about Itachi's lover, Kishimoto might be trying to show how much\nItachi loves his brother and give strong hold to the plot about Itachi's\nrelationship with his brother Sasuke. Killing whole clan and his own love but\nnot his brother does provide strong proof about how much Itachi loves his\nbrother\n\nI would like to mention about fan fiction here, as anime is progressing with\nlots of filler, within some filler there might appear Itachi's lover. As for\nthe fan fiction her name is **Aya Uchiha**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was not clearly mentioned ever but still Izumi Uchiha can be considered\none.\n\nFrom, Itachi Shinden: Book of Dark Night\n\n> Itachi came to her to begin the massacre with her as he was told by Danzō\n> Shimura that he could only spare his little brother Sasuke Uchiha. Believing\n> that ending her life first would quell his inner doubts, he proceeded to\n> kill her and her mother first. As he lured her mother away, Itachi\n> approached Izumi and placed her in an extremely powerful Tsukuyomi where she\n> lived the entirety of her life in 0.000000001/th of a second. In her dream,\n> she became a chūnin, retired from shinobi life to become Itachi’s wife and\n> raise their children, and lived to become eighty years old before dying of\n> old age alongside Itachi. Because her mind was departed from reality in such\n> a manner, Izumi collapsed into Itachi’s arms dying. Izumi thanked Itachi for\n> giving her the life she wanted with him, even if it was a dream, and Itachi\n> thanked her for loving him as she passed away peacefully. \n> \\- [naruto.wikia.com](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Izumi_Uchiha)\n\nEven in Itachi Shinden: Book of Bright Light, its mentioned how she earned his\nacceptance. So killing her like this proves affection from Itachi's side too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin [Trimmau's Wikia Page](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Trimmau) it says\nshe's developed a fault where\n\n> she rampages around occasionally thinking that she is a \"killer robot from\n> the future\" due to the movie she watched in development.\n\nI am wondering if this is a real movie or a reference to Type-Moon's [2012\nApril Fool's joke](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/April_Fools'_Day#Koha-\nAce_.282012.29)?\n\ni have chosen Fate/Zero as the tag because Trimmau was originally Kayneth's\nVolumen Hydrargyrum Mystic Code until Waver reprogrammed it after the forth\nwar\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince her features resembles a certain [liquid metal\nTerminator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-1000), it's very likely this is a\nreference to [_Terminator\n2_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day).\n\nFrom [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/):\n\n> A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now\n> protect her young son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of\n> liquid metal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy does the Infinite Tsukuyomi work only on the living? (As the Edo Tensei\nHokages were not affected by it)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason why the Infinite Tsukuyomi works only on the living is, **chakra**.\nThe goal of the Infinite Tsukuyomi is to extract chakra/life-force from the\nhost and feed it to the Shinju. By doing this, the Shinju drains the victims'\nchakra pool and in the end, the victims become White Zetsu. The White Zetsu\nare then under the control of Kaguya, making them the ideal mindless slaves.\n\nSince non living things do not have chakra, they obviously are of no use to\nthe Shinju or Kaguya. Since the Edo Tensei shinobi are already dead, the \"life\nforce\" requirement of the Infinite Tsukuyomi isn't not fulfilled.\n\nAlong with non living things, the following are also immune to the [Infinite\nTsukuyomi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Tsukuyomi):\n\n> * Shinobi reincarnated via Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation are not\n> affected by this technique.\n> * Black Zetsu is unaffected by the technique, as is anyone he is attached\n> to at the time — namely Obito Uchiha.\n> * Those who lack a brain or sensory organs, like White Zetsu.\n>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the start of Code Geass Japan has just been conquered by Britannia and\nrenamed Area 11. After Prince Clovis's death we are introduced to Princess\nCornelia, learning that her Knights had just established another Area for the\nEmpire (I do not remember the number) before leaving to take Clovis's place in\nArea 11.\n\nI am wondering what each of the Areas are (ie. Area 11 is Japan), if they were\nconquered in the order they are numbered and if they were all also conquered\nwhile Charles Zi Britannia was Emperor.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 10, around 15:10 mark, just when Leo is about to collapse from\nhunger before they finally agree to settle for the burger place where he\nusually goes, he chants something that appears in the subtitles as:\n\n> Onbutsu sowaka mareba eloim essaza...\n\nWhat's that supposed to mean? \nIs it a reference to something I'm not getting?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xrQy8l.jpg)\n\nI'm looking for the title of this VN. I tried reverse image searching but\ndidn't get anything.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's from [**Clover Day's**](https://vndb.org/v13325). The blonde girl is\nTakakura Anzu, and the black haired girl is Takakura Anri.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RiBEw.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second season of \"Love, Chunibyou and and other Delusions\", Rikka's\npowers start weakening in the 9th episode. I don't get what's going on. Their\npowers are supposed to be imaginary. Then how is it possible for something\nimaginary to weaken unless the person imagines them to be weakening\nthemselves. Rikka doesn't really have any reason to imagine that and\napparently, from her reactions, she doesn't like it. Then what's causing it\nand why is it happening?\n\nFurthermore, Shichimiya also tells Rikka about what once happened to her and\nthat she decided to keep her powers and remain the magical devil girl. Does\nthat mean that if she had fallen in love with Yuuta back then, her powers\nwould have disappeared?\n\nWhat do their powers have to do with Yuuta?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst let's go back to why they develop the \"power\" in the first place. Rikka\ndeveloped her power after she witnessed Yuuta in action as Dark Flame Master\nfrom the balcony of her sister, Takanashi Touka's room. Why do she develop\nsuch power? Because she was lonely. She was very close to her father and her\nfather's sudden death (because Touka and her mother didn't inform her\nbeforehand as they thought she was too young) caused a great shock to her. She\ncan't accept his death and thus, seeing Yuuta's power, she developed her own\nwhere her goal is to find the Unseen Horizon which she believe is the place\nwhere she can meet her father again.\n\nShe then fall in love with Yuuta, the one that she idolized. However, at that\ntime Yuuta was no longer Dark Flame Master. Yuuta has accepted reality and is\nliving in it despite his power coming back occasionally (and accidentally).\nRikka realized that Yuuta wanted her to stop being a chuunibyou (happened in\nthe 2nd season of the anime). This caused her to waver between the chuunibyou\nway of live and the real world and that manifest in her power growing weaker.\n**Her love for him caused her power to grow weaker since Yuuta expected her to\nbe 'normal'**.\n\nAs for Shichimiya, I don't know why her power got weaker when she fell in love\nwith Yuuta since it was only mentioned briefly in the anime and I don't read\nthe light novel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt would have been 100x better if she just showed signs of growing up and\ngiving up that childish act she had going on, it’s really weird watching a\n17-18 years-old act like some kind of edgy chunibyou. I understand if she was\nstill in elementary or middle school or even a high school freshman but after\nthat, it just seems like that person might have a mental disability of some\nsort because that isn’t normal.\n\nI believe the whole reason she acts that way is mainly because she wants to\ncover up her feelings of what had happened to her family. By putting on this\nact of some edgy devil girl with “powers”, it would have been a happier ending\nif she threw it all aside and decided to give up that act and see life for\nwhat it really is.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe entities attacking Nerv and attempting to reach Lilith are universally\nreferred to as \"Angels\" in the English dubs, subs and translations of the NGE\nmanga.\n\nIn Japanese, the opening song (\"Cruel Angel's Thesis\") does refer to _tenshi_\n(天使) which translates smoothly into \"angel\" in English (literally \"heavenly\nmessenger\"), however this term does not seem to appear in the TV series, EoE,\nRebuild movies or manga. So what Japanese term(s) are used to describe them,\nwhat do they mean, and why were they translated as \"angels\" for Anglo\naudiences?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese organisms are categorized as\n**[「使徒」](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%BF%E5%BE%92_\\(%E6%96%B0%E4%B8%96%E7%B4%80%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3\\))(\n_shito_ ) meaning \"apostle\"** in [Japanese\nsources](http://note.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/detail/n157538). _Shito_ is the\nword used in the Japanese translation of the Christian Bible to refer to\npeople who possess the [spiritual gift of\nApostle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_gift#Descriptions) (this\ndiffers from the word used to describe all of Jesus' followers, which is 「弟子」\n[ _deshi_ ], the same word used for disciples of Confucius and other renowned\nhistorical figures).\n\nCuriously, according to [Evangelion\nWiki](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Angel#cite_note-6),\n\n> The collective grouping has no unique canonical name, although the phrase\n> \"Adam's children\" was used by Misato in a preliminary draft for Episode 25'\n\nwritten as\n[「アダムの子供達」](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Angel#Adam.27s_Children) ( _Adamu\nno Kodomotachi_ ), meaning \"children of Adam.\"\n\nAccording to [evageeks.org](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Angels#Translation),\n\n> the word \"Angel\" was retained in the English version of the show at the\n> request of the show's Japanese creators\n\nbut they provide no citation for this claim. They note that in [an early\nproposal\npitch](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Proposal#Apostolos),\nthe word 「アポストロ」( _aposutoro_ ) was suggested.\n\nWhile apostles are clearly human whereas angels are supernatural, the word\n\"apostle\" is derived from the Greek word [ἀπόστολος ( _apóstolos_\n)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle_\\(Christian\\)#Background) which means\n\"messenger\" (broken apart is \"from\" + \"I send\"). The Japanese「使徒」( _shito_ )\nbroken apart is \"messenger\" + \"person\" (same _kanji_ as「使う」[ _tsukau_ ]\nmeaning \"use\" or \"speak\"). The special ability of Apostle allows the wielder\nto go to a new place, preach the Good News there, and plant new church\ncommunities with more ease than another disciple who doesn't possess that\ngifting would be able to do. The English word \"angel\" is derived from the\nGreek [ἄγγελος ( _ángelos_ )](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel#Etymology)\nmeaning \"messenger.\" As you note, the Japanese 「天使」( _tenshi_ ) is literally\n\"heaven\" + \"messenger.\" So etymologically we see that the Japanese\nwords「使徒」and 「天使」 both show the idea of sent-ness for the purpose of\ndelivering a message.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhose autograph is this on this _Sailor Moon_ merchandise (it looks like a\n_shitajiki_ [pencilboard]) from the _SuperS_ season? Is it a _seiyuu_ , or a\nproduction company staff member such as an anime director, a _SeraMyu_ musical\nactress, or is it supposed to be one of the characters' own signatures from an\n[_kigurumi_](http://www.usagi.org/doi/images/kigurumi/stars-nbashi/) live-\naction stage show? It looks to me like \"Amさぎ\" or \"Smさき♡\" but these\ncombinations don't ring any bells...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l5Vzy.jpg)\n\n(Here is a sample from a _kigurumi_ show where the actress signed as Sailor\nMoon instead of her real/stage name in the same way that Disney costume\ncharacters at Disneyland sign as if they were the character) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Up70S.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[nhahtdh's comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/24472/whose-\nautograph-is-this-on-a-sailor-moon-pencilboard#comment35353_24472) is correct.\n\n> I guess it's Usagi, where the A part is actually 月.\n\nA photo of a merchandise from Sailor Moon S shows that the first character\nlooks like 月【つき】 (moon).\n\n\n\nImage taken from [のり's yaplog, a Japanese\nblog](http://yaplog.jp/ladygoround/archive/316)\n\nHowever, the signature seems to be a corrupted version of 月【つき】のうさぎ (Moon\nrabbit), as clearly shown in another photo of SuperS' merchandise.\n\n\n\nImage taken from [ゆかりん's\nTwitter](https://twitter.com/yk_89/status/762198048604729344)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf anyone knows, I would be so grateful. I've been looking for this one song\nin Tokyo Ghoul Root A that I just cannot find. It has very discordant piano\nmusic in the very beginning.\n\nIt plays in Root A episode 5, when Kaneki is Centipede and is fighting\nShirohara and Amon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's called [Die Verwandlung](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIG6tGSdONE).\nWhich is the 3th soundtrack on the Tokyo Ghoul EXTRA CD Vol.2 1st Mini\nSoundtrack\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, the English translations of the manga ends in chapter 37 and I\ncan't read Japanese. I already know that the end of the anime differs from the\nstoryline of the manga, since Yoshino and Hakaze end up together in the anime.\n\nAfter reading some comments about the final chapter of the manga, it seems\nthat they didn't end up together. I also heard that Yoshino rejected her in\nthe nicest way because he thought her feelings for him would dwindle down as\ntime goes by, and he didn't deserve her. However, Hakaze said he was the only\nman for her and she wouldn't give up on him.\n\nThat's why I've looked through the 6 special chapters with the hope of some\nhints that they do end up together in the near future, but I wasn't able to\ninterpret something just by seeing the pictures.\n\nDo these specials or even one of them continue the story after the end of the\nmanga (chapter 44) and are there any hints Yoshino and Hakaze could end up\ntogether?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe end of chapter 6 of the extra story shows that Yoshino starts to open up\nto Hakaze while he was walking her home after her job (Mahiro suggested him to\ndo so).\n\nOn their way, he says to Hakaze, if she has a boyfriend one day she should\nintroduce him to Yoshino and he'll be happy for her from the bottom of his\nheart. But Hakaze replies that those things don't make her feel better at all.\n\nThen Yoshino suggests holding hands as its dark and late and she might get\nlost. Hakaze refuses and says that it only applies to kids. Yoshino tells her\nthat he can't walk as confident as Mahiro, but if there is a one in a million\nchance that he could get lost, he wants to hold her hand. Then both of them\nintertwine their fingers and walk together.\n\nThus, I think it's indicated that they will end up together.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've always been curious about this. It is mentioned that fusion using the\nPotara earings will keep you fused forever. So why did Vegito split inside\nBuu's body? I remember Goku and Vegeta saying they were glad they split, but I\ndon't recall them explaining how it happened.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason behind the splitting back was never explained in the anime.\n\nIn episode 273, _The Innards Of Buu_ , after Goku and Vegeta splits back into\ntheir former selves, Goku asks:\n\n> \"Why'd we separate once we let the barrier down?\"\n\nTo which, Vegeta has no idea about.\n\nIn the original manga, however, Goku tells that it must have been the \"bad\nair\" inside Buu.\n\nThis was confirmed in the Daizenshuu.\n\nDaizenshuu 4, pg 163, entry for Potara Earrings:\n\n> Special Characteristics: To use them, the two people who will merge simply\n> each take one of the two earrings and put in on their left or right ear,\n> respectively. Furthermore, after merging the power is greater than with\n> Fusion. However, the two people will automatically merge as soon as the\n> earrings are put on, and in principle will be unable to ever split up again,\n> so caution is needed when handling them. **The merged person will only split\n> up when touched by the air inside Majin Buu’s body**. Also, while with\n> Fusion the post-merged clothing is the native dress of the people of Planet\n> Metamor, when merging with the Potara not only are the two people’s bodies\n> mixed together, but their clothing is as well. In addition, pathetically\n> enough the East Kaioshin and his attendant Kibito merged together without\n> knowing a thing about Potara fusion.\n\n* * *\n\n**UPDATE:**\n\nAccording to [Episode 66 of Dragon Ball\nSuper](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/The_Climactic_Battle!_The_Miraculous_Power_of_a_Relentless_Warrior!),\nthe official explanation as to why the splitting occured, is given by Gowasu:\n\n> Goku asks Gowasu how come he and Vegeta split before when he was told the\n> effects of Potara are permanent, and Gowasu explains that **those who fuse\n> that are not Supreme Kai will only stay fused for one hour**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason they split was never explained in the original \"Dragon Ball Z\" but\nit was explained in the new series \"Dragon Ball Super\" where it is explained\nthat the fusion is forever only if one of the two people fusing is a Kai.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the wiki:\n\n> The Asura Path (修羅道, Shuradō) grants the user the ability to augment their\n> own body to summon mechanised armour and various ballistic and mechanical\n> weaponry.\n\nTwo questions on this topic.\n\n1) Kishimoto has said there is no technology in the Naruto universe that would\ndefeat the purpose of ninjas, specifically guns and weapons. However, why did\nhe have the Asura Path of Pain equipped with machine guns, rockets, and\nlasers? Here's a quote from him:\n\n> Masashi Kishimoto: Firstly, projectile weapons such as guns aren't allowed.\n> (The one exception is Inari's bowgun.) Guns aren't suited to ninja.\n> Gunpowder is used in the anime, though I don't think it should be there.\n> And, vehicles such as aeroplanes are not allowed. I try to restrain\n> technology that can be used for war... For example, if missiles were in it,\n> it'd be the end. (laughs)\n\nIt turns out when Pain assaulted the Hidden Leaf Village, it pretty much was\nthe end! So why did he say these things would not be in the Naruto universe\nwhen in fact they were?\n\n2) So all the Rinnegan wielders have access to the Six Paths. Does that mean\nthe highly advanced weapons from the Asura Path of Pain originated from the\nSage of the Six Paths himself? In other words, did the Sage of the Six paths\nhave some lesser, technologically inferior form of machine guns, rockets, etc.\nlong ago for his Asura Path powers?\n\nAlso, what exactly are the powers for people who've wielded the Rinnegan at\nsome point, like Obito, Madara, and Sasuke, regarding the Asura Path? Can they\neven use it since it involves constructing your own weapons? Or is there\nsomething they do to summon these weapons?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince your question has two parts, I will do my best to explain them.\n\n(1)\n\n> It turns out when Pain assaulted the Hidden Leaf Village, it pretty much was\n> the end! So why did he say these things would not be in the Naruto universe\n> when in fact they were?\n\nManga and Anime industry are like comics in western culture. Unlike those from\nDC, Marvel and other publishers, most of Manga artist (Mangaka) decides how\nthe show is going on. I assume on Marvel or DC, they would need to discuss a\nlot with plotline for comics.\n\nAlso you may have heard about Naruto pilot Manga, which is quite different\nfrom current implementation of series. What I am going to say is the \"Mangaka\"\nis king of the manga and whatever he says is not planned and will do anything\nas he desire in his manga, without considering things such as plot holes and\nothers.\n\nPlus with \"Boruto\" and Ootuski clan being from outer space will make these\ninto making things like it is planned from beginning of series.\n\n(2)\n\n> Also, what exactly are the powers for people who've wielded the Rinnegan at\n> some point, like Obito, Madara, and Sasuke, regarding the Asura Path? Can\n> they even use it since it involves constructing your own weapons? Or is\n> there something they do to summon these weapons?\n\nWell for this one, I have some scene from a book I read earlier. A guy asked\n\"DO you know how strong is batman?\" and his friend replied \"As far as the\nauthor wants to\". The same could applied here. I rarely doubt Kishimoto would\nreally planned Obito to imitate as Madara at first place. He may have planned\nfor him to be part of an arc, but not this deep.\n\nBack to question, the only Rinnegan user who extensively use Asura path is,\nfor what I believe,Uzumaki Nagato. Other Rinnegan users are listed but I have\nnever seen any of them using such.\n\nFor constructing own weapons, I believe is part of Yin and Yang combined\nrelease, not from abilities of Asura path. With ongoing \"Boruto\" series, your\nquestions will be answered in more detail, so just keep patience. (ง ͠° ͟ل͜\n͡°)ง\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLots of speculations have been made as to the time frame and location using\nclues from within the manga and animation.....but why not just ask the series\ncreator if he gave it much thought or is the story just a mishmash of past and\nfuture technologies. I'm sure much Japanese writing has been done on this\ntopic that hasn't been translated.....or perhaps, we Westerners are more\nconcerned about this than we should be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI always thought of it as a futuristic collapsed society type theme. They were\nforced to build walls and revert back to medieval society but they focused\ntheir technology on their ODM gear to combat the titans. There is reference to\nthe past (our current real life time). Perhaps the biggest supporting evidence\nof this was episode 6 where Misaka's kidnappers are talking about her race and\nthey state:\n\n\"she's exotic. what they used to call an Oriental.You know about all that\nright? back when there used to be different breeds of people, a bunch of them\nfrom the far east came scrambling here for safety. the old perverts in the\ncapital really go for that sort of thing. this little beauty's going to fetch\na mint at auction. it's great business. she's the last of her kind. all the\nrest of her people died out.\"\n\nhope that helps. the year that it starts out on is 845 so the yearly calendar\nreset for some important reason, but it hasn't revealed a lot about the\nhistory yet (just that the titans appeared over 100 years ago.) As far as\nlocation goes it's safe to assume that it is probably German. accounting for\nthe kidnapper's claim that there is currently only one race and we have names\nlike: -Yaeger (german for hunter) -Arlert is old german anglo-saxon, and\nArmin's wiki page trivia section states that \"The name 'Armin' may have\nmultiple meanings, either from an old German word meaning \"whole\", or\n\"Herman\", meaning \"soldier\"\".\n<http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Armin_Arlert> -Erwin - Derived from\nthe Germanic name Hariwini, composed of the elements hari \"army\" and win\n\"friend\".\n\nAdd it all up with a lot of blonde hair (Armin, Reiner, Nanaba, Christa,\nAnnie, Erwin, etc) and it seems that they were leaning toward a German-\noriented character base with names that are literal puns toward the fact that\nthey are soldiers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHans initially accused Adlet of being the fake to escape suspicion.\n\nThen when Adlet returned, he deliberately let him live in order to maintain\nhis alibi. Because of this, Adlet no longer suspected Hans, which worked out\naccording to his plan.\n\nHowever, Nachetanya still suspected Hans, and pointed out his inconsistencies.\nIs it safe to say Hans is a fake brave or at least a potential fake brave? Is\nthere any evidence proving his innocence?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn light of the recently aired anime episode it's easy to say that the 7th\nbrave is:\n\n> Nachetanya. Her objective is to have humans and fiends live together in a\n> state of absolute peace.\n\nMore info can be found in either the first volume of the light novels, or on\nthe\n[wikia](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Nashetania_Loei_Piena_Augustra)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoilers ahead, read if you really want to know. I came to Japan for a\nbusiness trip last week. So, I went and bought all 6 volumes of Rokka no Yusha\nand started reading though them while slacking on the job, starting Volume 6\ntoday. Therefore, this time, I will put in a brief explanation of each volume\nand prove each Brave's innocence one by one, then prove Adlet is guilty and\nHans is innocent. However, the assumption is that there is only one fake in\nthe Seven existing now.\n\n**Volume 1: Nashetania Arc**\n\n> Watch the anime.\n\n**Volume 2: Mora's Daughter Arc** (Not really called this but I cannot think\nof a better name)\n\n> In this volume, it is revealed that\n> [Tgurneu](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Tgurneu) has held\n> [Mora](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Mora_Chester)'s daughter hostage\n> through getting one of his Kyoma minions which is a parasitic worm to build\n> a nest in Shenilla's chest. Through a letter he forged with the Saint of\n> Medicine, [Toulo Maynes](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Toulo_Maynes)'s\n> handwriting, he invited Mora to an alley to discuss the conditions for\n> Shenilla's release. Mora brought along the Saint of Words, [Marmanna\n> Keynes](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Marmanna_Keynes) and also called\n> out to the Saint of Salt, [Weylynn\n> Coteau](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Weylynn_Coteau), but she did not\n> make it in time. Without Weylynn, the two saints and Tgurneu started the\n> discussion. In the end, they made deals which cannot be overturned as\n> Marmanna's powers forced them to follow the contract or they die. The\n> important deals are as follow:\n>\n> * Tgurneu was to never lie to Mora or he would die.\n> * Tgurneu would command the worm in Shenilla's chest to commit suicide if\n> he was killed or Mora killed one of the other Braves.\n> * If Mora died before she killed another brave or if Tgurneu did not die\n> at the same time, Shenilla would die.\n>\n\n>\n> These deals forced Mora to undergo severe training and implanting a Volcano\n> crystal in her chest as the last resort to kill Tgurneu. She also trained\n> [Rolonia Manchetta](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Rolonia_Manchetta),\n> the Saint of Fresh Blood to be able to revive the dead by letting her test\n> her abilities of blood control on Mora as she was implanted with the\n> crystal. Then they tested her abilities to revive someone on a dying old\n> man. This is Mora's Plan B, where she would kill a Brave, then revive him\n> again.\n>\n> A lot of things happened and Tgurneu, while using the body of the three-\n> winged Kyoma, told a lie to Mora, saying she was the seventh Brave. Tgurneu\n> then escaped through Mora's barrier in a jellyfish Kyoma in order to hide\n> that his host had died due to the lie. This lie caused Mora to switch to\n> Plan B as she believed she was the seventh. Mora knocked out\n> [Fremy](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Fremy_Speeddraw) and\n> [Chamo](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Chamo_Rosso) and his them in the\n> cave in the barrier of the [Saint of the Single\n> Flower](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Saint_of_the_Single_Flower). She\n> then used her power of echo to call for Adlet and Rolonia to head to the\n> cave and asked Goldof and Hans to chase after Fremy, whom she lied that\n> Fremy ran away leading them to a group of Kyoma under her command sent by\n> Tgurneu.However, Hans went instead of Adlet as he saw through Mora's plans.\n> Then, Hans and Mora fought, Mora slit Hans's throat with his knife, killing\n> him. Then she asked Rolonia to revive him as she had trained her.\n>\n> When Hans died, Adlet realised a petal disappeared from his hand, this is\n> the piece of evidence that proves Hans's innocence. Later, Adlet also proved\n> Mora's innocence by proving that Tgurneu was merely using the three-winged\n> Kyoma as a host and only the host died due to the lie. The point is if Mora\n> was fake, the host would have lived. Adlet also revealed Tgurneu was a fig-\n> like Kyouma as his spray had revealed through spraying it on a piece of the\n> fig fruit that the host ate in their encounter when they all entered the\n> [Wailing Demon\n> Territory](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Wailing_Demon_Territory).\n> Furthermore, the author revealed this to us by saying Tgurneu was in a new\n> host in front of the corpse of the three-winged Kyoma.\n>\n> Therefore, in this volume, Mora and Hans were proven innocent.\n\n**Volume 3: Nashetania's arm loss arc** (Also not really called this but I\nthink its funny)\n\n> In this volume, we will prove Goldof and Chamo are real Braves. In this arc,\n> Tgurneu and Dozzu have cooperated in order to kill off Chamo. In truth, it\n> was a plan by Nashetania to use Tgurneu to save themselves from Cargikk,\n> then use the Braves to then save themselves again from Tgurneu. Of course,\n> Tgurneu betrayed them. They did so by getting Nashetania to activate the\n> Blade Gem she implanted in Chamo's stomach though the use of Dozzu during a\n> duel they had a few years back. Goldof's helmet, which is a [Sacred\n> Instrument](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Sacred_Instrument), known as\n> the Helmet of Truth, created by a Saint of Words activated as Nashetania was\n> captured by Tgurneu and held captive in Dark Specialist No. 26's stomach,\n> hidden in a lava area within a 1km radius of Chamo in order to keep the\n> Blade Gem activated. Nashetania got her left arm amputated by Tgurneu in\n> order to attach it to a monkey Kyoma to leak her blood to deceive the Braves\n> into thinking they are chasing the real Nashetania as he tries to buy time\n> until 3 hours passes in order to kill Chamo with the Blade Gem. Goldof hears\n> Nashetania's cries for help and heads to rescue her whilst the other Braves\n> try to kill him as they now think he is possibly the seventh. However,\n> Tgurneu, in a new body, approaches Adlet, Rolonia and Fremy to ask for a\n> truce and cooperate until Nashetania is killed. Of course, they questioned\n> him and tried to kill him after they got information out of him. In this\n> conversation, he claimed that Goldof is not his seventh Brave as his Brave\n> is trying to save Chamo, not Nashetania.\n>\n> Not important stuff occured and Goldof found out Nashetania was held captive\n> by Tgurneu after Dozzu hinted to him of No. 26's ability, which is similar\n> to Nashetania's hiding ability. He found her in the lava area and stole a\n> Saint's needle from Adlet and used it to kill No. 26 to save Nashetania\n> during the scuffle with Adlet, Rolonia and Fremy at the lava area.\n>\n> Important things to take away:\n>\n> * Tgurneu made a deal with Dozzu to respectively not harm Nashetania and\n> Fremy.\n> * Goldof is a real Brave as Tgurneu was toying with him and even told him\n> tons of truth such as the deal Cargikk, Dozzu and him made 200 years ago.\n> * Chamo is a real brave as both Dozzu and Tgurneu tried to get rid of her\n> and they were clearly trying.\n>\n\n**Volume 4: Fremy's mother is an ant arc** (I cannot stop laughing about\nthis.)\n\n> [Raina Milan](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Raina), Adlet's best\n> friend is the main character of this arc, though Rolonia is also proven\n> innocent in this arc. Most of the details about this arc can be obtained by\n> reading Raina and [Nia\n> Grasta](http://rokkanoyuusha.wikia.com/wiki/Nia_Grasta)'s character\n> biography on the wikia. Therefore, the important point is that Rolonia, Hans\n> and Adlet learnt Fremy was the Black Barren Flower and Adlet kept this fact\n> from the other Braves until the next volume and only revealed the existence\n> of the Sacred Instrument and its functions. Rolonia proved her innocence by\n> really trying to save the corpse soldiers and nearly died due to her\n> naivety. In the final chapter of this volume, it was revealed that Fremy's\n> mother was an ant and was ordered to raise Fremy with love, but it ended up\n> really loving Fremy and continued raising Fremy's dog, waiting for Fremy's\n> return. This contradicts what Fremy said in the first volume but this is\n> cleared up in the fifth volume so I will explain it later. Not much to take\n> away in this volume so I will just move on to Volume 5.\n\n**Volume 5: Adlet is fake arc.**\n\n> In this volume, they explore the Temple of Fate that was built by Tgurneu,\n> here they discover the functions of the Black Barren Flower through\n> deciphering the Holy Words carved onto the floor around the mummified body\n> of the Saint of the Single Flower. Here is where they discover that the\n> Crest of the seventh was created using the powers of the Saint of the Single\n> Flower and hence would mean killing the seventh may prove disastrous. Fremy\n> also figured out she is the Black Barren Flower by remembering that she went\n> into the temple and saw the Saint of the Single Flower before. This led to a\n> split between the Braves, where Adlet wanted to keep Fremy alive while the\n> rest wanted her dead, even Fremy wished to commit suicide. This caused Adlet\n> to cooperate Dark Specialist No. 30, who also thought Adlet was the seventh\n> as he was the only one trying to protect Fremy, who would drive them all to\n> death by draining the powers of the Crests. He ordered No. 30 to try and\n> kill Fremy with full force and to swallow a Light Gem that has a secondary\n> functions and find a way to get it to the other Braves somehow, like\n> vomiting it out after being hit or get himself cut up. This is due to him\n> telling a lie that he saw a message to not kill Fremy in one of the rooms in\n> the temple. Of course, Hans saw through the lie when Adlet told it and\n> started the chase in the temple a few chapters ago. The point is that Adlet\n> managed to trick Mora, Nashetania, Rolonia and Fremy into believing Hans was\n> the seventh and it was unwise to kill Fremy to stop the Black Barren Flower\n> as it has a more disastrous secondary function if Fremy was killed. Hans and\n> Chamo split from the other as they believed that Adlet was fake. Goldof also\n> believed so but stayed behind to protect Nashetania.\n>\n> In the last chapter, a flashback to a chat between the three-winged Kyoma\n> and Tgurneu revealed Adlet was the fake and Tgurneu had the power to incite\n> love in someone. Tgurneu used this power to cause the Saint of the Single\n> Flower to fall in love with him, persuading her to give the seventh Crest to\n> him to be given to Adlet. He also used this power to make Adlet fall in love\n> with Fremy in order to ensure he would protect her at all costs. This is due\n> to his belief of, wait for it \"LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING THERE IS!\".\n\n**Volume 6: Tgurneu's death arc**\n\n> In this arc, Adlet discovers he is fake through Tgurneu taking out a petal\n> from his body. This petal contains a message from the Saint of the Single\n> Flower which is played to Adlet through his Crest despite Tgurneu being 2km\n> away from his location. Only a part of the message was played but it goes\n> like this: \"Warrior of a thousands years from now, I hereby bestow you the\n> Seventh Crest to...\". Tgurneu only allowed the message to be played up until\n> here. Through this, Adlet himself realised he was the seventh. Fremy also\n> became a hostage of Tgurneu through him activating a tumour implanted in her\n> chest. This tumour is special in that if Tgurneu was killed, Fremy dies too,\n> he activated it from a distance by stabbing himself with his own vine. He\n> also relayed a message to Adlet, saying that unless he killed the other\n> Braves, the one he loves will die. After this, he switched his plans to help\n> Tgurneu kill everyone but Fremy. He also wanted her to return to the Kyoma\n> since the army have been shouting for Fremy to go back to them.\n>\n> Chamo and Hans appeared in Chapter 3 to stop the Braves. Here, Hans enacts\n> his plan of pretending he was the seventh to lure out Adlet to negotiate a\n> deal with him as he guessed that Adlet was doing everything to protect Fremy\n> and not really on Tgurneu's side. Chamo was unaware of the plans and Hans\n> also stole Chamo's surveillance Juuma in order to use it later. He wounds\n> Chamo in order to pretend he was the seventh and throws knives at Adlet,\n> these knives had messaged written on them to lure Adlet away from the others\n> using a lie that he can kill Fremy through using Chamo. His plan after\n> disabling Adlet and questioning him is: Adlet will lie to Tgurneu that Hans\n> has been neutralised, then tell Tgurneu a fake plan as a cover for his real\n> plan to kill Tgurneu, this plan was the plan that Adlet came up with in\n> Chapter 1, which was to set the forest on fire and get a cheetah Kyouma to\n> report back to Tgurneu after Dark specialist 24, which is what I would like\n> to call \"The Telephone Kyouma\" has been eliminated, thus leading the Braves\n> to him. But, instead of killing Tgurneu, now they will capture him, thus\n> preventing Fremy's death due to Tgurneu's death. Then, out of the blue,\n> Tgurneu appeared as Adlet was deciding whether to use Hans's plan, using the\n> Book of truth to discover that Hans was lying about being able to kill\n> Fremy.\n>\n> In Chapter 4, we discover that Tgurneu desires, he craves to see people in\n> pain because of love. His lust for this has pushed him to create the perfect\n> pair to see these emotions on people's faces. The pair being: the girl that\n> wishes to be loved, Fremy. The boy that has an unbreakable heart to love\n> her, Adlet. Due to his greed to see these emotions, he did not want to come\n> up with more effective strategies to kill the Braves, but just wanted to see\n> Fremy and Adlet suffer. This chapter really is just Tgurneu sadistically\n> torturing Adlet by telling him the reason that he loves Fremy is because of\n> him loving inducing powers, not out of his own heart. Adlet despairs after\n> hearing this and despite Hans's pleas towards him while Hans himself was\n> getting chased around by 40 Kyouma, he was unresponsive Hans also lost his\n> Juuma that he wanted to release to call for Chamo's help (it got stabbed by\n> Adlet's needle and was then tied up by Tgurneu). Fremy, on the other hand\n> enacted a plan to get rid of the tumour in her chest. She would pretend to\n> betray the Braves and purposely get her heart gouged out by Rolonia so that\n> Dark Specialist 14 would heal her, thus ridding her of the tumour. But of\n> course, 14 knows about the tumour and he believes that it cannot be simply\n> 'healed away' as it integrates with the cellular structure of the host. The\n> twist is, Fremy's mother evolved in a way that allowed her to rid Fremy of\n> the tumour after her heart was regenerated. This was done by always rubbing\n> Fremy's chest when she raised her. Adlet, however, was an idiot, after he\n> heard Fremy's fake betrayal through 24, he believed it and told Tgurneu the\n> real plans. Bright side: he found out Fremy loves him. Dark side: he fell\n> into despair after learning that even Atro Spiker was manipulated by him, to\n> groom Adlet into the strongest man to protect Fremy. This causes Adlet to\n> enter an unresponsive state and want to be killed as he had betrayed\n> everyone.\n>\n> Chapter 5, Dark Specialist 13 uses his [Poison\n> Gas](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Poison_Gas_\\(move\\)) attack (\n> **pokemon reference by me** ). He produced toxins that was washed into the\n> underground drainage system of the ruins and used his 'little babies' to\n> vaporise the water and unleash the gas onto above ground. Adlet was\n> swallowed by a Hippopotamus Kyouma so that later, Tgurneu can release\n> control over him and get him to kill Fremy, for him to achieve a higher form\n> of ecstasy by looking at the despair that Fremy will display for him. In\n> order to counter the poison gas, Mora collapses the ground below her,\n> killing 13. After regaining his will to fight though the message:\"I will\n> definitely make you happy!\" engraved on a gunpowder lattice given to him by\n> Fremy, Adlet punched his way out of the Kyouma's stomach and heard Mora's\n> echo message of Fremy has been saved. He looks at Tgurneu and intends to\n> kill Tgurneu after knowing that Fremy will no longer be bound to him. He\n> thought: \"Dawn is coming, when the sun rises, **One shall stand. One shall\n> fall**.\" _That is obviously not what the book said, but it is what it\n> intended to say._\n>\n> Chapter 6, Adlet and Hans cooperate and try their best to not get mauled by\n> the Kyouma. Chamo senses something is amiss and discovers one of the message\n> knives Hans threw to Adlet in Chapter 3, and managed to reason that Hans did\n> not really try to kill her when he wounded her. Mora and Goldof are trying\n> to regroup on the battlefield after Mora exhausted herself to kill 13.\n> Rolonia and Nashetania held off the Kyouma while Fremy headed to Adlet. In\n> this battle in some ruins, Adlet, Chamo, Fremy, Hans, Dozzu face off against\n> Tgurneu and Dark Specialist 1, the Kyouma that is made up of forty Kyoumas\n> and 1 leader bird-type Kyouma that Tgurneu inhabited. This Kyouma is the\n> strongest Dark Specialist as it practically allowed Tgurneu to be in 40\n> places at once and coordinate the perfect attacks. After a game of cat and\n> mouse, Adlet figured out that Tgurneu was controlling all the Kyouma they\n> were battling simultaneously. Thus, he tricked Tgurneu into looking at him\n> by confessing his love to Fremy as he realised that vision is not shared by\n> the Kyouma despite them being controlled by Tgurneu. Adlet charged at\n> Tgurneu but got impaled by Tgurneu. However, he instead spit his blood into\n> 1's mouth, this caused 1 to drop to the ground and roll in pain. Adlet had\n> stabbed himself with the Saint's needle and made his blood poisonous to\n> Kyouma. Fremy shot 1 and forced Tgurneu out of 1. Adlet grabbed Tgurneu\n> while his underlings tried to save him. Adlet was saddened that the thing\n> that groomed him to be the Strongest in the World was such a pitiful\n> existence and said: \"I am not your toy as you had claimed! You existed for\n> me. In order for me to meet Fremy, you were let to live by me!\" Tgurneu, who\n> believed that love was meant to be trampled by him, desperately wanted to\n> reject the fact that he was defeated by Adlet's love, wanted to mentally\n> wound Adlet and Fremy before Adlet killed him. He used the Book of Truth on\n> himself and said to Fremy: \"Your mother truly loved you!\". To Adlet he\n> whispered: \"Your sister was killed by Fremy.\". After Adlet killed Tgurneu,\n> six shots of light flew out of Fremy's crest, one landing each on Chamo,\n> Hans, Mora, Rolonia, Nashetania, Goldof. Only Adlet did not receive this as\n> his seventh crest is very special and did not have its power stolen by the\n> Black Barren Flower, unlike Nashetania's crest, which is a real crest but\n> from the 2nd generation. Adlet passed out after killing Tgurneu and woke up\n> later with the Braves discussing what to do with him as they now have to\n> face Cargikk, who was originally oppressed by Tgurneu and did not attack\n> them. Adlet, released from Tgurneu's control, no longer loved Fremy and\n> returned to the man that wanted revenge on the Kyouma and nothing else.\n>\n> Epilogue: Cargikk wanders through the burnt forest that the Braves faced\n> Tgurneu's army. He roared in despair and apologised to his fallen comrades,\n> expressing his regret in not being able to save them. Meanwhile, the\n> mummified body of the Saint of the Single Flower is released from her\n> chains, presumably by her own powers as the chains just came undone without\n> being touched. She teleported to the roof of the Temple of Fate from Volume\n> 5 and get carried away by a bird Kyouma. She got carried to the Majin, a mud\n> puddle. The mud puddle sprouted tentacles and devoured the Kyouma and slowly\n> dragged the Saint of the Single Flower into itself. As it dragged the Saint,\n> it grew beautiful lips and gratefully said Maon, do not worry, Adlet will\n> bring the Seventh crest made for me and save me. Maon is the name of the\n> Saint.\n\nFinally all done, to be honest this is not a very good series. I originally\nbought and read it just to prove to krikara that Adlet was the fake and Hans\nwas a real Brave. After proving that, I had lost all drive to finish Volume 6.\nHowever, to my surprise, Volume 6 was the best of all 6 volumes and I may\nconsider buying Volume 7 when it is released. Overall rating 5/10, passable\nread.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDisclaimer: I never read past the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, so it is possible that\nmy question may be answered if I had read further. However, I do believe that\nthe Chunin Exam arc, which is what my question is about, is far enough from\nthe Sasuke Retrieval Arc that my question would have already been answered by\nthe time the story arrives at the Sasuke Retrieval Arc.\n\nI will be referencing the part of the Chunin Exam Arc where the characters\ntake the written portion of the exam. This is in volume 5 of the Naruto\ntankoban (which covers chapters 37 - 45).\n\nDuring my trip down memory lane with my re-reading of what I have read of\nNaruto, this question occurred to me: how did so many characters get away\nwith, at least to me, seemingly obvious, cheats during the written portion of\nthe Chunin exam?\n\nHere is a list of cheats in particular that went unnoticed that I would like\nto know how they managed to do so:\n\n * Akamaru was barking the answers to Kiba. We know that dogs are used a fair amount by skilled ninja, including Kakashi himself, so would it not be logical for the proctors to assume that a dog could be used to cheat? I can believe Shino's insect trick because ninja-insect interaction is much rarer than ninja-dog interaction since it is an ability exclusive to Shino's clan and also a fly buzzing is much more inaudible than a dog barking.\n\n * Naruto and Hinata were having a full-blown conversation, it was whispering, but still a conversation nonetheless. How did none of the proctors notice?\n\n * Also going along the lines of communication with other ninja in the room, how did Tenten manage to communicate to Rock Lee to raise his head band to notify her that he was able to see her mirrors in the ceiling/how did she communicate to him that the mirrors were even there without getting caught?\n\n * How did Tenten get those mirrors up in the ceiling undetected in the first place? I cannot imagine that it was done before the exam started, unless she was planning to cheat from the very start, without knowing what the exam was going to be like. I can believe Kankuro and his Crow cheat because it is much easier to set-up Crow as a proctor undetected in the masses of ninja in the room than it is to set-up a mirror system in the ceiling.\n\n * Ino's Mind Body Switch Technique requires hand seals. How did she get away with using it on Sakura without being seen? I would imagine that hand seals would be the very first thing that the proctors would look out for considering it is an exam for ninja.\n\n * Proctor Ibiki himself actually SEES Gaara making a hand gesture that could pass as a hand seal if the next panel had not revealed that he was just using that hand gesture to cover his eye so he could create the sand eye. But even so, Ibiki did claim to count \"anything out of the ordinary\" as cheating, and a suspicious hand gesture resembling a hand seal, I would say, qualifies as \"out of the ordinary\", so why did he not call Gaara out?\n\n * I realize that this last point is a bit too hypothetical and assumes too much, but we do know that there are ninja who can sense chakra usage. I do not recall this directly from the manga, but taking a look at Ino's Wiki page [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ino_Yamanaka), it says that she is one of such ninja (eventually, but that is not the point; I am just linking to show that there does exist chakra sensing ninja). Surely [I know, this is a large assumption here], there must be some proctor in the room who would have such an ability since it is a ninja exam, so why did no one detect the chakra expenditure that was going on in the room? \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched this in the anime recently and this is what I recall. Most of this\nis actually explained throughout the exam or at the end.\n\nFirst, the exam was set up that each person started off with a full 10/10\nscore one the test. For each answer they got wrong they lost 1 point. For each\ntime they were caught cheating they lost 2 points. Anyone caught cheating 5\ntimes failed and he and his team were disqualified.\n\nAs Sasuke realized early on, the questions were so hard that no one would know\nall the answers and that cheating was actually encouraged (this is also\nconfirmed by the fact that there were \"students\" planted in the room who had\nall the answers to cheat off of). The test really wasn't one of knowing the\nanswers (as the end of the exam proves), but rather one of how well they could\ngather information. I don't believe it was expected that they would never get\ncaught, but rather that if they were doing this on a real mission that they\nwouldn't be so sloppy as to get themselves killed.\n\nSo is it possible that someone noticed Gara or Tenten cheating? Certainly. Did\nthey get caught enough to get thrown out? No. And that's the key.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI forget if this is an anime or a manga, but it has a girl who, whenever she\ntries to smile, creeps out everyone around her. However, she can smile when\nnot told to, and this smile is quite nice.\n\nIn her class, there is a male and female top of class (decided by grades), and\nthese people get to wear a silver (I think) clip on their uniform, and this\nclip enables them to get free food from the cafeteria. These people are the\nclass representatives, and they help out with class duties.\n\nHowever, there is another girl who is jealous of her. This girl had been the\ntop of the class for years. At one point steals the other girl's bag. However\nshe trips and falls onto the male MC. She also declares herself the other\nfemale MC's rival, although the female MC does not really notice this.\n\nOne final note is that for the first bit in the anime/manga, the female MC\nwould try to smile at her rival, but because her smile is so messed up, the\nrival would interpret the smile as being condescending.\n\nEDIT: Also, she is quite socially awkward, and she has to look up what it\nmeans when she is experiencing certain emotions...like the heart beating fast.\nShe also sends random emojis as well.\n\nAlso, this is neither Kimi no Todoke nor Watamote.\n\nThanks!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the information you gave, i think the manga you looking for is a\nwebcomic name ReLIFE\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8z0ea.jpg)\n\nThe female MC you talking about is Chizuru Hishiro, and here is her lovely\nsmile\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TBEHAm.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo we all know that [_Luffy_](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy)\nate the Gomu Gomu no Mi Devil fruit and I found in the Gomu Gomu no Mi's\n[_wiki page_](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gomu_Gomu_no_Mi) that Luffy is\nable to stretch a length of 72 Gomu Gomu's. So is there any real way to turn\n72 Gomu Gomu's into a real world measurement of length?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9ja5b.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**No there is not.** At the [SBS of chapter\n30](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_4#Chapter_30.2C_Page_90), Oda\nwas asked how far Luffy's arm can stretch. He humorously replied\n\n> O: Pretty far. Right now it can stretch about 72 Gomu Gomus. Luffy was\n> telling me before how he wanted to try hard and reach 100 Gomu Gomus.\n\nLater at the [SBS of chapter\n47](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_6#Chapter_47.2C_Page_66), he was\nasked how many liters go into 1 Gomu Gomu and he replied\n\n> O: Oh, you've come again! Gaimon's son. In \"1 Gomu Gomu\" there are \"10 Fairy\n> Tale Gomu Gomus\". And in each \"Fairy Tale Gomu Gomu\" there are \"10 Funky\n> Gomu Gomus\" so, in other words Luffy's arm can stretch around 7200 Funky\n> Gomu Gomus. Understood?\n\nWhen reading the SBS's you will see more of these funny replies and\nmeasurements come up, but you will never get a real world comparison.\n\nThe problem is that Luffy moves around too much. Oda was never able to measure\nhow long one Gomu Gomu is. We will just have to trust Luffy's word, that it\nreally is 72 Gomu Gomus and we can only imagine the real world distance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVegeta was able to hit Beerus a few times in his episode 8 Super Saiyan level\nwhile Goku at Super Saiyan 3 was not able to. Canonically, Vegeta has never\ngone Super Saiyan 2 before (unless you consider Majin Vegeta to be Super\nSaiyan 2).\n\nSo which level did he go to in this episode? Super Saiyan 2 or something\nascended?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe was at Super Saiyan 2, as you can clearly see the lightning/sparks around\nhim. His hair didn't change its size. So SS3 is excluded.\n\nThis is probably the reason why Goku said Vegeta had surpassed him (in the\nBattle of Gods movie) at that specific time. Because at SS2, Vegeta was\nstronger than SS3 Goku.\n\nAnd yes, Majin Vegeta was Super Saiyan 2 as well :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have tried downloading all OSTs of Parasyte -the maxim- but couldn't find\nit. Although I didn't listen to every song really carefully and just quickly\n\"walked\" through them, but still I couldn't find it. To be precise, I am\nasking about what OST is played in [this\nscene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA_6M5Yjn4Q).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is called [\"Kill the Puppets\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-\njtpej6eg) and the excerpt from your youtube link probably starts about a\nminute and 10 seconds into the song.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn OP episodes there is a small transition/break mid-episode that shows one of\nthe main characters picking up their most recognized item/weapon (prior it was\na hat floating away or something or there were two of these). I used to think\nthis was done using the character who appears in the main scene(s) for that\nepisode but I just chanced across a few that had had Brooke picking up his\nviolin and Chopper his backpack and no appearance of them. So I ask is it\ncompletely random or does it relate at time?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn every anime I've seen with mid-episode transactions (MT) I've noticed five\ntypes of MTs.\n\n 1. Fixed - The same MT since episode 1 untill the end (very rare);\n 2. Changing by season - It changes depending on the season\n 3. Changing by arc - It changes depending on the arc;;\n 4. Changing by character reference - It focus on one or more characters of the anime (like One Piece);\n 5. Mix of 2, 3 and/or 4 - It is what is is (LOL).\n\nThere isn't any source that comproves this at least I haven't found any. \nHowever, as in One Piece or any other animes that use MTs 3, 4 and 5, the MT\nseems to focus on the \"main character of that specific episode\" or the\n\"Location of the episode\" (this happens a lot in Fairy Tail S2, just an\nexample though).\n\nOne Piece follows the same pattern, and the MT focus on the main character. \nHowever, other characters can't be \"forgotten\" therefore they appear in the\nrespective MTs.\n\nOnce again, I haven't found any official source that confirms this it's just a\npattern I have seen in several animes not only one piece. The fact that there\nisn't any official source might be a proof that it's not that important to be\nmentioned and it's just plain random.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn One Piece Wiki there is [this page about the\n**Eyecatchers**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Eyecatchers), which seems to\nconfirm your guess:\n\n> In One Piece, there are two eyecatchers in every episode, and each one shows\n> one of the Straw Hat Pirates, usually the ones who had the most significance\n> in the episode, accompanied by a short excerpt of their respective themes.\n\nMoreover there are a lot informations, as the number of appearance of each\ncharacter in the transitions and some trivia about the criteria behind the\nchoice of the character, e.g.\n\n> The characters of One Piece get a personal eyecatcher only after they join\n> the Straw Hat Pirates. For example, Brook, despite fighting alongside the\n> Straw Hats for the entirety of the Thriller Bark Arc, had no eyecatcher\n> until his official recruitment. Sanji is the exception, having an eyecatcher\n> just two episodes after his initial appearance, long before joining the\n> crew.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto manga chapter 675, Uchiha Madara attacked Hatake Kakashi and stole\nhis left eye. Soon after Madara left Uzumaki Naruto soon appeared and restored\nKakashi's left eye. It's seems that Kakashi's new eye is not Sharingan.\n\nQ: What did Naruto do exactly?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSs80.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XWs1i.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was thanks to Naruto's new power: [Ying Yang\nRelease](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin%E2%80%93Yang_Release) that he was\nable to restore it. If you remember [ Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki\n](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hagoromo_%C5%8Ctsutsuki) transfer his powers to\nNaruto (and Sasuke). The answer comes from the Naruto Wikipedia:\n\n> _After receiving power from Hagoromo, Naruto Uzumaki gained the ability to\n> use Yin–Yang Release to stabilise life forces and restore missing organs\n> through physical contact. However, there appears to be a limit to the extent\n> to what this power can heal: While he was able to save Might Guy from the\n> normally fatal consequences of unleashing all Eight Gates, he was unable to\n> repair the damage done to his leg as a result of using Might Guy, and Guy\n> spent the remainder of his life wheelchair-bound. Naruto was also able to\n> resuscitate Obito after the Ten-Tails was extracted from him, but both were\n> aware that his death was unavoidable when he was struck by Kaguya\n> Ōtsutsuki's All-Killing Ash Bones._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 11 Keido releases the Apocalypse Virus, Inori stops the outbreak\nand cures all of the infected by singing. If she is able to stop the virus by\nsinging, then why can't she save everyone who is already infected?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nInori could only delay the effects of the virus. Exactly how long and to what\nextent, it is unknown. She has that ability because\n\n> she is the patient zero of the virus, and the vessel for Mana, and that\n> gives her some control over the virus.\n\nAlso in this episode, she is not quite herself, because\n\n> Mana's consciousness implanted on Inori is beginning to surface. That is why\n> she kills the students attempting to undress her, and why she stabs Arisa.\n\nBut I think maybe you are mistaking ep 11 with the ending, because\n\n> It is Shuu's void power (absorb the problems of the world unto himself) that\n> finally cleanses the world of the virus.\n\nAlas at the very end she goes on and\n\n> by symbolically accepting the \"Guilty Crown\", Shuu shares his fate with\n> Inori, and then she removes the virus from him, along with the king power\n> and the void powers (see note below). Inori then crystallizes and dies.\n\nFootnote:\n\n> Void powers were created by fragments of Mana inside the teenagers, once\n> they were absorbed by Shuu, no one else had voids.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been watching the _Dragon Ball Super_ series from the release date and I\nkeep hating it more and more. I don't know if you guys have noticed it but all\nbattle animations are terrible.\n\nHere's an example:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VXyHe.png)\n\nIs there a logical explanation why a 2015 anime is so poorly animated compared\nto DBZ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime budget does not have anything to do with the year it airs. It's related\nmostly to the main animation studio and to internal decisions inside the\nstudio.\n\nIn the case of Super, I think it's because the studio making it is Toei\nAnimation. I very similar example, if not the same, is the Saint Seiya anime\nwhich is currently airing , Soul of Gold. You can look at several episodes\nwhere the animation quality drops to substandard levels.\n\nEach animation studio has its own characteristics that end up defining the\nbrand, and quality consistency between titles and during a title run is one of\nthem. Toei is just not very good with this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't believe I've ever seen Goten or Trunks with tails, which doesn't quite\nmake sense, seeing as how Gohan had a tail at his birth, and was also half\nsaiyan half human. From what I've read, it's assumed that they were cut off at\nbirth, but I'd like to know officially if that's the case, since the articles\nI read had no sources. And I'm pretty sure Saiyan tails normally grow back. Is\nthere anywhere in DBZ that they mention the permanent removal of Goten's and\nTrunks's tails?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA common theory is that Akira Toriyama just didn't want to / forgot that\nSaiyans had tails. This wouldn't be surprising as Akira makes several other\nerrors/omittances in the series.\n\nHere's an interview segment from him talking about Goku's tail:\n\n[Is it true that Goku’s tail was a\nnuisance?!](http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/full-color-comics-freeza-\narc-vol-5-akira-toriyama/)\n\n> It’s true. (laughs)\n>\n> Goku was originally an actual monkey in the initial sketches, after all. My\n> editor told me, “Without a tail, he has no distinguishing traits,” so I\n> added a tail.\n>\n> That tail I added was such a nuisance when I was drawing, I couldn’t stand\n> it… so I immediately thought up an episode where his tail gets cut off.\n> (laughs)\n\nIt wouldn't be surprising if having gotten rid of the tail that he so hated,\nhe didn't really want to reintroduce it into the story again, so rather he\nleft Trunks and Gohen without one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is very little by way of actual evidence to answer this question (for\nexample, in the manga Krillin asks Bulma why Trunks has no tail, and whether\nshe had it removed; she never gives an answer). There is however a lot of\nspeculation on the internets about it.\n\nThe closest thing to an official answer can be found in the [\"DragonBall\nDaizenshuu 4 – World Guide\" databook (1995, Shueisha\nInc.)](http://www.kanzenshuu.com/databook/daizenshuu/daiz-04/), endorsed by\nToriyama Akira, which has this to say (on the subject of \"Saiyan\"):\n\n> **The tailless second generation are super ultra child prodigies.**\n>\n> Saiyan genes have an extraordinarily good compatibility with Earthling\n> blood. Because of this, when the two races are mixed together children with\n> formidable power are born. Particularly, those Halflings born without tails\n> hide an exceptional battle power. There are many things that they naturally\n> master from a young age, such as the ordinarily arduous transformation into\n> a Super Saiyan. In spite of having such an outstanding battle sense, they do\n> not have a fondness for battle like a pure Saiyan. Instead, it seems that\n> the violent temperament of the Saiyan has been relaxed through their\n> Earthling blood.\n\nThe text doesn't outright say it, but the strong implication is that a\nSaiyan/human hybrid is not born with a tail (or at the very least, some of\nthem are born without tails, and those of this category are notable for being\nextraordinarily powerful).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt may be possible that as soon as Goten and Trunks were born, their tails\nwere cut off right away. (Or, Due to their mother's genes, they didn't have\ntails) Unlike Gohan who most likely took Goku's genes, had a tail.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are a few light novels on Sword Art Online, namely:\n\n * Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad\n * Sword Art Online 2: Aincrad\n * Sword Art Online 3: Fairy Dance\n * Sword Art Online Progressive, Vol 1\n * Sword Art Online Progressive, Vol 2\n\nI've read that Progressive is about Aincrad, but there are also two other\nlight novels named \"Aincrad\", what would be the correct chronological order of\nthese Light Novels?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Sword Art Online 1:\nAincrad](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316371246) tells the story\nfrom the start of SAO until the end:\n\n> after Kirito defeats Heathcliff and wakes up in the hospital.\n\nNotably, it excludes the following arcs that _were_ included in the anime:\n\n * Sachi and the Moonlit Black Cats,\n * Silica and Pina,\n * Lizbeth the blacksmith, and\n * Yui.\n\nIt excluded these arcs, and, as far as I can remember, it didn't add any new\ncontent. (Maybe just described events that happened in the anime in greater\ndetail.)\n\nInstead, the arcs listed above are each detailed in the following book, [Sword\nArt Online 2: Aincrad](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316376817).\n\nIn terms of time, the books do not present information in chronological order\nas the anime did. We know in order of occurrence, the \"side\" arcs are arranged\nas follows:\n\n> Sachi arc -> Silica arc -> Lizbeth arc -> Yui arc\n\nwhere the events involving Sachi happened first chronologically and Yui, last.\n\nNone of these arcs are present in book 1, but they are presented in the\nfollowing order in the second book, which is not in chronological order. I\ndon't know the reason for the author/producer(s) switching the order around\nlike they did, but it is:\n\n> Silica -> Lizbeth -> Yui -> Sachi\n\nThe stories themselves essentially describe events exactly how the anime\nportrayed them. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the light novels, although for\nthe most part, the only thing you'll get out of reading them is slightly\ndifferent wording/description of the same events. One exception that does come\nto mind is\n\n> they include a bit at the end of the Lizbeth arc detailing her reaction when\n> Kirito defeats Healthcliff and she was finally going to be free of SAO. It\n> wasn't very long - a page or two at most.\n\nAdmittedly, I didn't read the Sachi arc because I assumed I wouldn't have\ngotten anything new out of it.\n\nI don't know the ordering for Fairy Dance (have them but haven't read them\nyet), but it's possible it follows a similar idea (for ALO). Here are links\nfor [Sword Art Online 3: Fairy Dance\n(\"1\")](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316296422) and [Sword Art\nOnline 4: Fairy Dance\n(\"2\")](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316296430).\n\nI haven't read the progressives, so I don't know where they fit in.\n\n* * *\n\ntl;dr:\n\nAnime portrays events in near-chronological order, although the Sachi arc is a\nflashback.\n\nSAO 1 LN leaves out a few arcs but tells the main story from the beginning of\nSAO to the end.\n\nSAO 2 LN has 4 sections, each one an arc that was in the anime but not in SAO\n1 LN. These sections are neither entirely in chronological order nor the order\nthey happened in the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently joined this manga and anime forum and stumbled across this term\nnumerous times. People reviewing different parameters of animes and calling\nthat a \"typical\" slice of life anime.\n\nIs this pretty common sort of anime?\n\nWhat does this mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [Wikipedia:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life)\n\n> Slice of life is a phrase describing the use of mundane realism depicting\n> everyday experiences in art and entertainment.\n\nGenerally in anime/manga, _slice of life_ shows are shows about **everyday\nlife**. Usually this rotates around school life in anime - like **Lucky Star**\n, **Nichijou** or **K-On!** but this can extend to other stories such as\npeople living in apartments, working a day job, etc.\n\nSlice of Life shows are usually _plotless_ as they are mostly day-to-day\nhappenings (usually with humourous effects).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis term actually originates outside of anime, but it's rather common for\nanime to have slice of life elements, so it's a common term in the anime\nfandom. Toshinou-san's answer covers the general sense of the term very well,\nso in this answer, I'm going to try and fit it more into a critical framework,\nwhich can be helpful for understanding whether a given individual work is\nslice of life. Like everything in literary and film criticism, this is all\npretty subjective, so people will differ on whether they think an individual\nseries qualifies as slice of life under this definition or not, but the\nconcepts should be pretty universal.\n\n* * *\n\nYou can think of all media as falling on a spectrum between theatrical and\nnaturalistic. Theatrical works use dramatic conflicts, larger-than-life\ncharacters, architected plotlines, and other artificial manipulations of\nevents and causality to tell a story which the audience will find interesting.\nBy contrast, naturalistic works try to tell stories which develop the way\nthings tend to develop in real life. They can still have conflicts, plots, and\ninteresting characters, but those things will all tend to be truer to life and\nless artificed.\n\nHere are some examples. (It's hard to find examples of naturalistic anime\nwhich aren't also slice of life, because, well, it's anime; it's inherently\nunnatural. So I've used American films as examples of naturalism, because I\nwant to be clear that slice of life is a subset of naturalist, not an\nequivalent term.)\n\n * Rurouni Kenshin is theatrical. Although it (for the most part) sticks to the realm of possibility, the characters, their internal struggles, and their interpersonal conflicts, are highly dramatized and expressed through epic clashes that affect the fate of an entire nation. Most other shounen action shows (Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho) are also theatrical.\n * The shoujo manga Hana Yori Dango is also theatrical. The conflicts here are interpersonal and revolve around romance rather than the physical conflicts of Rurouni Kenshin, but the characters are nonetheless larger than life and the plotlines carefully architected. Most other shoujo romances are also theatrical.\n * The American films _The Hurt Locker_ and _The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel_ are naturalistic, despite the former taking place in a war zone. There is no sense of dramatic import or fate behind the events of _The Hurt Locker_ --at least, the film does not attempt to impose one on the audience. The events of the film mean what the viewer thinks they mean; there's no sense of a writer behind it, more of an editor or reporter, who presents certain \"factual\" events for our consideration. In film, the style of _The Hurt Locker_ is called _cinema verit e_; it's also used to interesting effect in the far less realistic _District 9_.\n\nNote that this has nothing to do with genre. Some fantasy and science fiction\nworks are naturalistic. Some works which never reach outside the bounds of\nreal life are nevertheless theatrical, as we see with Hana Yori Dango and\nRurouni Kenshin (to an extent).\n\nSo what does this have to do with slice of life?\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life) defines slice of life\nas \"the use of mundane realism depicting everyday experiences in art and\nentertainment.\" Essentially, slice of life works are naturalist works which\nare about mundane, everyday experiences. They might be naturalist works about\neveryday experiences somewhere where every day is very different from what\naudiences know. That's still slice of life; the important thing is that the\nexperience is mundane to the characters, within the setting. For this reason,\n_The Hurt Locker_ is not slice of life. It is naturalist, and in some sense\nit's about everyday experiences in a war zone, but the war zone setting is not\nmundane to the characters at all. One could argue that _The Best Exotic\nMarigold Hotel_ is slice of life, though I consider it more of a drama. (Pure\nslice of life is vanishingly rare; almost all slice of life shows have drama\nor comedy elements, but they're the kind of little dramas and jokes that arise\nin mundane life, not huge scripted events.)\n\nThe classical examples for slice of life in anime are shows like K-On,\nYotsuba&!, and Ichigo Marshmallow. These are slow-paced shows about everyday\nlife. We see the characters go to school, go shopping, go on trips, spend time\ntogether at home or in a club after school. There are jokes, but they're\neither jokes the characters themselves make, or they're jokes arising from\neveryday situations. Slice of life shows don't usually use high concept jokes\nlike having a Pixxchu pop up and get beaten to death, or having former\nJapanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi suddenly appear above Tokyo on a\nflying saucer, or telling us halfway through the show that the heroine's\ndesire to be an idol stems from her past life in a vanished human civilization\nwhich was exterminated by aliens in the mists of prehistory. Slice of life\nshows also can have drama, but it's quiet, everyday sort of drama; K-On, for\nexample, has some drama around Azusa's feelings when her upperclassmen\ngraduate. Aria (discussed below) has drama around Alice's feeling of\nseparation when she becomes a Prima and doesn't have time to spend with her\nfriends. A slice of life show wouldn't usually have the heroine's ex-boyfriend\nsuddenly back in town and looking to rekindle his feelings just as the heroine\nis about to move her relationship with her new boyfriend to the next level;\nthat sequence of events is just too convenient for the writers.\n\nAria, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Haibane Renmei, and Kiki's Delivery Service are\nusually also considered slice of life, even though the first two are science\nfiction and the last two are fantasy. Much of what we see in these shows is\nmundane and everyday to the characters. There are no dramatic conflicts, no\nepic clashes, nothing extraordinary or unusual (from the characters'\nstandpoint); its just people (and Martian gondoliers, and androids, and grey-\nwinged angels, and witches) going about their everyday lives. Haibane Renmei\nand Kiki's Delivery Service do actually have plots, and some of the events in\nHaibane Renmei are unusual from the characters' perspectives, but all the\nevents of the plot come about in the course of a natural, everyday life in the\nworld of the series.\n\n* * *\n\nIn anime, the concept of\n[_iyashikei_](http://www.animenation.net/blog/2007/11/08/ask-john-what-are-\niyashikei-anime/) is also related to slice of life. _Iyashikei_ is, as far as\nI know, completely unique to anime and rather characteristic of Japanese\nculture in general. Many slice of life anime have greater or lesser elements\nof _iyashikei_ ; Aria and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou are practically the epitome\nof the genre. Not all slice of life is _iyashikei_ , and not all _iyashikei_\nis slice of life; however, the two are closely bound, and the desire for\n_iyashikei_ may have driven the prevalence of slice of life.\n\n",
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