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"body": "\n\nI need an elaborate answer to this question. After one of the answers I got\nfrom another question where a particular film jargon (\"plotless story\") was\nused, I read a [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_\\(narrative\\))\nand found that plot (narrative) means the chain of events which are linked to\neach other. In every show which is made for entertainment, there must be a\nlink between events otherwise it would make no sense to watch it. Imagine a\nhypothetical \"plotless show\" where two characters completed unrelated to each\nother, die because of completely unrelated reasons, it'd rather be called a\nset of random events rather than a show.\n\nWhen people say \"this anime has no plot\", what do they actually mean? Are they\ntalking about two episodes not connected to each other?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n@torisuda has it correct:\n\n> It means a story that lacks an overarching narrative\n\nFor an example of a _plotless_ show, see Lucky Star.\n\nThe characters are the same in each scene, but every scene is **distinct**\nfrom each other. In one scene they might be talking about how to eat a\nchocolate cornet, another they might be talking about video games.\n\nThere are jokes that are referred to again - for example how Kagami is a\ntsundere. But this isn't a **narrative** or simply put - a story.\n\nYour definition of narrative is correct:\n\n> the chain of events which are linked to each other\n\nbut, it fails to contextualize the **links**. the links are items that further\nthe plot's progression - for example: a hero beats a villain who was blocking\nthe path, the girls perform in a concert that raises their fame, etc.\n\nLinks like reusing jokes, same characters - or generally things of **no\noverall consequence** do not contribute to the story/plot.\n\nIf we have no links like we described, the show can be called **plotless**.\n\nFeel free to comment if you want me to expand on something.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEven thought in the first episode, Ikaros used her cards to accord every\nsingle desire of Tomoki, bringing to what looks like the end of the world,\nthen the use of those is reduced to 2 times (I may have forgotten one or two\noccurrence(s)).\n\n> * Episode 2 : Not intentionnaly when Tomoki wishes to make Sohara's\n> underwears fly away unless it is the underwear Tomoki wants;\n>\n> * Episode 4 : Sohara borrows a card from Ikaros to bring all the panties\n> in Tomoki's house to explode, Tomoki should look at them or touch them.\n>\n>\n\nWhy didn't Tomoki use more those cards to grant him what he wished?\n\nEven if you take apart the opportunity of destroying/neutralizing Chaos by a\nsingle wish, he could have used it in some similar issues of the one\nmentionned above. Just as an example :\n\n> In episode 9, Tomoki spots an erotic DVD at a booth, but cannot afford it\n> because Ikaros broke some other item.\n\nIt would be logical from Tomoki to use a card to get this DVD.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, I think many can agree that SoraOto is a series which displays a comedy\nside and a serious side, and sometimes (many times actually) the comedic\nparts, like the first episode for example, serves, in the best case, for\ncharacter development and, in the worst case, just for laughs. Most of the\ninformation thrown at us in the comedy parts aren't really used on the serious\nparts, especially when it comes to plot solving. I personally think it is just\nthe author's decision NOT to do this.\n\nAlso, I think that at the end of episode one, Tomoki learned that he shouldn't\nuse the cards for trivial stuff, especially after everything that happened in\nthat first episode. Maybe that was actually the author stating why everything\nshouldn't be solved by a deus ex machina-like device.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2 Tomoki can't use the cards to stop it because, a masters choices\nare absolute. Cards can't undo what other cards have done. And in the manga it\nsays you can't use the same Transport twice, thats also the reason why tomoki\nhas a limited amount of money, even though he got so much in the first\nepisode.\n\nAnd if you're thinking now that in the first episode this was not like it,\nwell they made it a dream, they didn't undo the card.\n\nEpisode 4: the same reason, and Tomoki hadn't any cards near him to teleport\naway or something like that.\n\nEpisode 9: Even though Tomoki is a pervert, he would never wan't Ikaros to do\npervertet Stuff, so he doesn't wan't her to get the dvd for him\n\nThe autors actually thought about this things, but you only see it if you read\nthe manga, because in the anime there are to many scenes witch don't exist.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for the scene where Luffy, Usopp and Chopper (maybe someone else\ntoo, I don't remember) are singing 'Ta-ko-ya-ki, Tak-ko-ya-ki\" and so on, and\nso on.\n\nI thought it was around the time Hachi was kidnapped by the Flying Fish Riders\nbut Google doesn't give me any relevant results. I do remember that there was\nanother scene about Takoyaki, back in Going Merry times, but I don't know\nanything more specific about that part.\n\nIf someone would be able to tell me what episode this scene is from I would be\nso happy :-)\n\nThanks in advance!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think you are referring to [this](https://youtu.be/a0IF0KoWJ6Y?t=9m32s)\nshort gag in **Episode 386** when Luffy & Co. decide to save Hatchan so that\nthey can get free Takoyaki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to buy a present for an old anime fan and since he likes UFO Robot\nGrendizer I decided to get him a manga of it. I found something called UFO\nRobot Grendizer Manga Kanzenban / Complete Edition on eBay. It says that the\nrelease date is 2012 but there is no other information.\n\nDoes anybody know what's in this book? Is it a collection of old manga\nchapters or just random artwork? Also, is it drawn by Go Nagai or not? I\nreally appreciate your help...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA kanzenban (完全版) is similar to a viz big edition or 3 in1 edition, or the\nEnglish equivalent, a omnibus. This means it will contain several chapters in\n1 edition of the magazine. This is done to be cheaper in production etc.\n\nIf I recall correctly the Kanzenban edition is already the 4th edition,\npublished by Manga Shop. Yet it still contains the original art work of Go\nNagai and Yū Okazaki. As do the other 3 versions. All tough there might be\nsome slight change when buying translated version, the french version is known\nto have allot of changes _(Speaking from experience.. I have a copy over\nhere)_\n\nThe kanzenban edition did get released in 2012, and is listed under\n\n**ISBN: 9784775914533 4775914537** or **OCLC-nummer: 788225116**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm currently rewatching _Haibane Renmei_. In episode 4, we see this exchange:\n\n> **Kana's employer:** Hey, is Kana going away?\n>\n> **Rakka:** Oh, not at all. I didn't come to replace her. I'm just visiting\n> everyone's workplace because I'm new. Kana loves it here. I can tell.\n>\n> **Employer:** I see. Well, with those wings of yours, they make me think she\n> might just fly away on me one day.\n>\n> **Rakka:** They look fancy, but they don't actually work at all.\n>\n> **Employer:** I see. That's good, then.\n\nIt's quite clear from this exchange that Rakka does not know about the Day of\nFlight, which is probably to be expected, as she's a newcomer who does not\nlearn about it until Kuu leaves.\n\nHowever, what struck me as strange was that Kana's employer (who looks\nrelatively older and who isn't a Haibane) seems to have no knowledge of it (as\nmight be inferred from his question). It would appear that he is old enough to\npossibly have seen other Haibane disappear in the past. There are two obvious\nways to explain this for me. However, I'm not sure if either of them is\ncorrect:\n\n 1. Beyond the trading that the Communicator does with the Toga, the normal townspeople don't have many personal interactions with the Haibane, so they wouldn't notice if one disappeared one day. The townspeople might have a basic understanding of how Haibane life works (so wouldn't be surprised to see the teenage Rakka appear as a \"newborn\" one day) particularly if they often interact with them, but they wouldn't be aware of the specifics.\n\nHowever, given the limited number of places where Haibane can work (in episode\n3), I'm not sure how true this is, since the people who work _there_ would\nprobably be slightly more familiar with things, even if the townspeople seem\nto outnumber the Haibane.\n\n 2. The Haibane are seen as somewhat separate: the employer earlier tells Kana:\n\n> The clock tower in your home. Go repair that yourself. [...] We're not\n> supposed to meddle too much in the Haibane's lives.\n\nThis might mean that the townspeople might not delve into the _specifics_ of\nthe Haibane's lives, and that the Haibane are responsible for themselves.\nHowever, this is more of a general statement than anything, as we see in\nepisode 3 that the housemother isn't a Haibane. Moreover, this would only mean\nthat the townspeople might not bother inquiring after the Haibane who have\ndisappeared (even if they might not know _why_ they've disappeared): it does\nnot mean that they do not necessarily know that the Haibane -- or at least the\nHaibane outside of the Federation -- eventually \"go away\".\n\nIs there a more satisfying explanation for Kana's employer's ignorance about\nthe fact that the Haibane eventually \"go away\" than these? Or do I already\nhave the best explanation we can get? (Again, I wouldn't expect him to know\nthe exact specifics about the Day of Flight beyond that the Haibane eventually\nleave.) Alternatively, am I possibly just misinterpreting the exchange? (I\ncould see the first line as implying that the boss does indeed have the Day of\nFlight in mind, but what he says afterwards seems slightly out of line with\nthat.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 7, Reki states that she was despondent after Kuramori's\ndisappearance. Nemu tried to cheer her up by doing research at the library to\nfind an explanation for the disappearance. This explanation ends up being the\n\"legend\" about the Day of Flight at the library. **Thus, information about the\nday of flight must be openly accessible.**\n\nIn the same episode, Rakka tells the cafe owner that \"Kuu has left us.\" In\nresponse, the cafe owner asks if Kuu has disappeared. After that is confirmed,\nhe says, \"But that's how you Haibane are, right?\" **Thus, Kana's employer is\nnot an anomaly if he knows about the Day of Flight and other details about\nHaibane life.** With the rest of the content in the exchange with Rakka then,\nit looks like\n[Torisuda's](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/7579/torisuda) suggestion\n(that the employer is aware of the Day of Flight on some level and simply\ndidn't want to explain in detail) is relevant here. (After all, the details in\nhis exchange seem too accurate for mere speculation.) **It's still possible\nthat he doesn't actually know, but what I'm trying to assert is that the\nscenario where he does isn't improbable at all.**\n\n**However, it's worth noting that not all of the townspeople are familiar with\nHaibane life.** In ep. 5, Sumika tells the presumably teenaged Rakka that she\ndoes not look like a newborn, despite being good friends with Nemu. Similarly,\nin ep. 8, a woman in the thrift store treats Rakka in a somewhat objectifying\nway, which might be grounds for assuming a lack of familiarity with the\nHaibane.\n\n**Thus, it must be then that the Haibane are \"separate\" enough that a number\nof people get by without ever having any meaningful interactions with them,\nwhile a small number do (and thus might be more familiar with Haibane life).**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've found this image by coincidence, but it immediately attracted my\nattention because I never saw such a scene in the anime.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cnoFI.jpg)\n\nConcerning the drawing style/animation (from the looks of it I doubt it's fan-\nmade, it seems to be more like a screenshot), the sunset, Welkin's clothes (he\nwears them very rarely and if I remember correctly, he wears them only at the\nvery end of the anime) and progression of the story (they end up together in\nthe last episode (26)), this image has to be from the very end of the anime,\nbut I couldn't find anything like it.\n\nI've also watched it on different websites, but they all end with Alicia and\nWelkin holding hands in the sunset on a hill in front of their village.\n\nWhere is this screenshot from? Does that scene really happen in the anime or\nis it from the game?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat picture of Alicia and Welkin is from **_OVA 9_** , or the epilogue from\nthe story.\n\nIt's a screenshot of this OVA where the summery can be found on the official\nwikia page from Valkyria Chronicles\n[here](http://valkyria.wikia.com/wiki/Valkyria_Chronicles_Anime)\n\nIt's marked as episode #35 at the bottem of the page\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been looking for an anime movie I saw a long time ago for many years\nnow and would be grateful for any help. It was a fairly bloody and graphic\nmovie in a dark style and included female nudity (exposed breasts) and at\nleast one scene with an attempted rape.\n\n 1. The movie was probably from the 80s or 90s\n\n 2. The protagonist was a woman with some sort of magical power symbolized by the metal bronze. The main villain had the 'gold' power and there was a male character with the 'silver' power who helped the main character in the final battle.\n\n 3. There was one scene where another woman is about to be raped by a guard/warrior and the main character runs in without her top on, kills the guard with some sort of blade and then takes something from the room for clothing.\n\n 4. In her initial battle with the gold villain the main character is killed or at least badly injured but then is revived by some power and goes to fight him again.\n\n 5. The gold villain could change his form and in the final battle turned into some sort of giant dragon like monster before the silver and bronze characters killed him working together.\n\nI saw this movie on DVD and I believe it was dubbed. It was probably rented\nfrom blockbuster so it had some sort of American release.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Is it Saint Seiya?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Seiya) The time\nperiod matches, the article mentions dragon transformation, and of course\nbronze, silver, and gold linked powers.\n\n> Ages ago, the goddess Athena was served by fighters called Saints who\n> channeled the power of the Cosmos within them. Now a youth named Seiya has\n> trained to become a Saint himself by earning the mystical Cloth of Pegasus.\n> He is joined by other Saints with Cloths of their own to fight for Athena.\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4046V.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Could you be thinking of Legend of Lemnear?\n\nThis is a 45 minute OVA that has a female protagonist who is a a champion of\nsilver, there are two other champions as well, one of gold and one of bronze.\n\n* * *\n\nFrom\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/434/Legend_of_Lemnear:_Kyokuguro_no_Tsubasa_Valkisas):\n\n> The young and beautiful Lemnear's home village is destroyed and her brother\n> is taken away. Lemnear swears to kill the evil wizard Gardin who is\n> responsible for the disaster. With her allies Lemnear goes on a journey to\n> take her revenge. She doesn't know, though, that there is someone above\n> Gardin...\n\n* * *\n\nCover:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XWeeH.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRight now, I think it is Tsunade, but is there anyone else who has bigger\nbreasts than Tsunade?\n\nIt seems in Leaf village, Hinata is 2nd. From _Road to Naruto_ , Chapter 1,\npage 11:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0rrGp.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOnly Tsunade's measurements were revealed in the series ([courtesy of\nJiraiya](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18999/how-did-jiraiya-find-\nout-tsunades-breast-size)). And I don't think the databooks include details\nlike bust measurements. So the comparisons would be based on the appearance\nsolely. Visual comparison isn't a good way of getting the right answer.\n\nBut if you're looking for another character who has noticeably big oppai,\nthere's [Samui](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Samui) of Kumogakure:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DgMYe.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto_ it us shown that Tsunade is Hashirama's granddaughter. Does that\nmean she is the daughter of Hashirama's son? So who is Hashirama's son ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki did have an offspring. But it wasn't\nconfirmed officially if they were male or female.\n\nAlso, the series doesn't give importance to Tsunade's parents, as a result of\nwhich, they were never revealed. It mainly focused on the relationship Tsunade\nand Hashirama had between them and her life later on.\n\nFrom [Hashirama's](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hashirama_Senju) and\n[Tsunade's](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsunade) Wikia articles respectively:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a3pMgm.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cx3g0m.png)\n\nSo yes, Tsunade is Hashirama's granddaughter. But it is not known if it was\nTsunade's father or mother who was Hashirama's child. And, nothing is\nofficially declared about them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk so The first hokage is married to Kushina’s mother so Kushina is the\ndaughter of The first hokage which means kushina has a sis who had lady\ntsunade so naruto is technicality lady tsunades cousin but I doubt it\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs it possible for the Tailed Beasts to produce offspring of their own? Both\n'male' and 'female' type Tailed Beasts exist.\n\nThe offspring would be hybrid, but still, would it be possible?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no canon answer to your question. The tailed beasts as they currently\nexist in the Narutoverse are chakra creatures, not biological, and came into\nexistence because one entity (the 10 Tails) had its chakra separated from its\nbody (which became the Moon), which was then artificially split into a number\nof separate beings. There is no indication that any of these creatures (or\nchakra based entities in general) can reproduce themselves in any way similar\nto organic sexual reproduction.\n\nIf you're asking about the _kitsune_ as a concept in actual Japanese folklore\n(which is the basis for Kishimoto's tailed beasts), then the answer is: the\n_kitsune_ are considered a type of _yokai_ or _kami_ , who can if powerful and\nwise enough, take the form of a human being (usually but not limited to a\nbeautiful woman). There are many stories of foxes in the guise of a beautiful\nwoman falling in love with and marrying a human and producing offspring.\n\nThe real-life Sengoku general Takeda Shingon's wife Suwa Koi was believed to\nbe a malevolent fox-spirit, and she bore him Takeda Katsuyori. Abe no Seimei\nin the Heian period was also considered a child of a fox.\n\nSources:\n\n * Ashkenazy, Michael \"Handbook of Japanese Mythology.\" 2003.\n * Hearn, Lafcadio \"Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.\" 2005.\n * Turnbull, Stephen. \"Nagashino 1575.\" 2000.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDanganRonpa: Ultra Despair Girls came out today in Europe and there's\nsomething I noticed about the 3D model of Toko Fukawa.\n\n> A.K.A Genocider Jack\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/os6Fzm.png)\n\nThere's something cut into her leg. I'm not sure that picture is an official\nmodel from the game, but I have definitely seen it while playing (screenshot\nbelow):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CB4Qf.jpg)\n\nIn the other games, we mostly see her waist-up - or in an uncut skirt, so I've\nnever noticed it before:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hhk2S.png)\n\n**What has she got carved into her leg?**\n\nI've only been playing the games - is there another source that describes how\nit got there?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe mark seen on Genocider Syo is the Japanese Kanji 正\n\n[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A3) has a page on this\ncharacter explaining its use as a tally mark by the Japanese.\n\nGenocider Syo uses the tally to count the amount of victims she has killed.\nThere is also a small section on this on the\n[Wikia](http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/Genocide_Jack).\n\nSince each one represents 5 kills, you can see she has killed quite a few!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7PMWw.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Gangsta, while in Bastard, Alex recognizes a song she knows from\nher childhood. Later in the anime, by the end of episode 8, she sings that\nsong to entertain the guests in Bastard. What is the name of that song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [MAL](http://myanimelist.net/anime/25183/Gangsta.), the track is\ncalled `With You (featuring Alex Bendetto)` by `Mamiko Noto`.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is a known fact that Yukihira Soma is the son of one of the world's most\nfamous chefs, Yukihira Joichiro.\n\nWhen did Nakiri learn that Yukihira Soma's father was Joichiro? In which\nchapter?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the most recent chapter,\n\nSoma's relationship to Jōichirō is inadvertently revealed to her when she\nwalks in on a conversation between her father and Sōma. At first she was in\ndisbelief, but realized it was true after seeing the two next to each other in\na recent photo. She became greatly shocked after realizing that she had been\nhostile towards the son of the chef she always admired.\n\nIt's been updated even on the wiki page. Go read under the Erina Nakiri\nsection. Beware of spoilers though :P\n\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Food_Wars:_Shokugeki_no_Soma_characters>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom last page of chapter 150, \"Board Game\", Erina overheard Souma revealed\nthat Jouichiro is his father.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I8uH6.jpg)\n\nAfter that, on chapter 151, \"The Outbreak of War\", Erina saw a picture of\nSouma and his father.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cQPAF.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is did they add the letter Z in this series of Dragon Ball? It seems kind\nof odd to throw that letter in there for no reason. I know that the Z is\nsymbolized a lot in Dragon Ball Z (ex. The Z Sword, The Z Fighters, Zenie,\netc.) but what does the Z literally stand for, and for what reason Akira\nToriyama decide to use this letter in the title?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter episode 4, the opening song for Rokka no Yuusha changed from \"Cry for\nthe Truth\" by Michi to \"Black Swallowtail\" by Uroboros and Tom H@ck.\n\nWhy did Passione (the studio) change the song? It seems weird since the\nvisuals in the intro are the same and it's still the first season of this\nanime.\n\n_Update: Episode 12 seems to use the first opening again._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe track is played again at the end of the same episode when Kaneki is on the\nrooftop with Nishio and Tsukiyama.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe all know that Lelouch erased Shirley's memories of him, during the Mao\ncase. But why? Couldn't he just have erased her memories of him being Zero,\ninstead of erasing _all_ memories about him?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt first I thought it was just glowing from the others' Ki but her hair\nremained yellow after all the Ki glowing stopped. So did she go Super Saiyan?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qau5J.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVidel is clearly a human, not a Saiyan. She doesn't have Saiyan blood inside\nof her, she has human blood genes. Pan is inside Videl's womb, giving her\npower to her grandfather, Goku to become a Super Saiyan God. But we might\ngoing to see Pan going to transform into a Super Saiyan later in the Dragon\nBall Super series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to add that she only _turned Super Saiyan_ in the cartoons. In\nchapter 4 of the comics, she stayed the same old Videl. If Akira did not\nparticipate in the making of the cartoons I would have said that Videl turning\nSuper Saiyan would not be canon, but he does participate. So now it just is\nconfusing why they chose to approach it differently.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NtWeP.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI get that Madoka would have to be a fundamental law of the universe\nconsidering that she's overwriting the concepts that the universe is based\nupon, but her only wish was that to erase all witches before their creation.\nHowever, somehow, Madoka now suddenly knows everything about the universe,\nincluding how Homura worked hard to save Madoka throughout all those different\ntimelines. How does she have access to that information? How was she given\nvision of the entire universe and all events within if her wish didn't reach\nthat far? She only had one goal and that's all she wished for, but she was\ngiven sight of the whole universe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's a known fact that Beerus was asleep for 38/39 years.\n\nWhen he wakes up, Whis tells him that a Saiyan defeated Frieza.\n\nI know 39 years is a long time however Buu was also on rampage throughout the\nuniverse way before that (fighting the Supreme Kaihous and so on).\n\nHow come they know about Frieza and don't know about Buu?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super, as well as Battle of the Gods, Beerus did not know about\nMajin Buu. The manga has not given a definitive answer as to why they don't\nknow each other, but we can narrow down the potential answers.\n\nIn an interview, Akira Toriyama has stated that contrary to Supreme Kai's\nstatement about Bibidi creating Buu, Buu has actually been around since the\nbeginning of time. Bibidi just knew how to wake up Buu from his long slumber.\n\nWe also know that gods aren't born as gods in Dragon Ball. They obtain the god\ntitle after training and fulfilling their duties. Thus we know that Buu\nexisted before Beerus became a god.\n\nThis means that Beerus not knowing Buu can be attributed to any of the\npossibilities below -\n\n 1. Beerus and Buu never met each other - possible due to the excessive amount of time they spend asleep.\n\n 2. Beerus might have met Buu, but in kid Buu form. He has never seen Mr. Buu before.\n\n 3. There was no reason to meet. Beerus destroys planets to maintain the balance of the universe. With Buu also destroying planets, he essentially did Beerus' job for him.\n\nWe also know that Beerus sealed Old Supreme Kai into that sword. During that\ntime, Buu was also asleep, so there was no chance for Beerus to meet Buu\nduring that time.\n\nWe should also note that Old Kai described Buu as more evil than Beerus while\nBeerus was more powerful than Buu. It's possible that Beerus didn't need to\nseek Buu for a challenge if he was already stronger than him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe beerus did know buu just didn't care about him only wanted pudding plus\nthere's no real way to destroy buu so they could have met before and that's\nthe reason buu didn't want to share his pudding cups, buu isn't really that\nself-centered, beerus could have beaten buu to a pulp once upon a time and\nthat's how bibidi discovers him or beerus could have delegated his destroying\nresponsibilities to him but I c this unlikely because kid buu seems unruly,\nproof that they met I believe is in the fact beerus knew to block his candy\nbeam probably because he seen it before or it was used on him and also beerus\nis forgetful, all the ancient people n the universe knew buu and feared him\nand beerus from king cold to the kias\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is possible that they have met before. And you who are saying Buu is\nindestructible, he kind of is. If they battled for millions of years,\neventually Buu would win. Remember when Beerus fought Goku, used one super\nmove, and then after that he had run out of energy. If Buu, and I am talking\nkid Buu, has instant transmission, he could teleport away and have Beerus\nwithout any energy left. Goku only did not teleport away because then it would\nhave hit the Earth. Kid Buu could not have cared less about if the Earth or\nany planet was destroyed. He destroys planets.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMajin Buu or Kid Buu was stronger than Beerus 75 million years ago, so even if\nBeerus knew about him, he'd be helpless against him. Beerus attained his\nstrength by training with Whis for 75-85 million years.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know manga is usually read right to left, top to bottom, but this panel\nconfuses me a bit.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VuMUe.jpg)\n\nThe guy on the right looks all annoyed and \"!\" first, and then we have the\nblonde sliding in like 'are you guys on a date too?', but chronologically\nisn't this a contradiction? Shouldn't we have seen the main character ask his\nquestion first and then spiky guy's reaction?\n\nOr is this panel showing things simultaneously?\n\nIf someone could show me in what direction/chronology I'm supposed to\nread/understand this, it'd really help.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis would be a personal answer based on my own experiences: in cases like\nthese I interpret the height of the speech bubble as order. The left bubble is\nhigher up than the right one, so that happens first. There's nothing stopping\nthe right one to be placed higher up, as it wouldn't hide any important\ndetails or anything in the art. Therefore I would read the bubbles in this\npanel left to right.\n\nThe following image is from <http://shadow.randomfandom.com/gh/styles.htm> and\nshows reading order. Look at number 4 and 5, that's how I interpret the two\nspeech bubbles in your example.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GtUsy.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow does detective Kagami's sister get killed? And I guess I'm looking for\nspecifics, like did the killer break her legs, etc? From what I saw, her body\nwas dangling, and it looked as if her arms were cut off.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor those who have read the Tartaros Arc.\n\n> In the Tartaros Arc we learn that the Dragons were hiding within the Dragon\n> Slayers since the year 777. Hence, why Natsu and Gajeel could not leave the\n> guild during the battle of Fairy Tail. We learn that they were hiding to\n> build antibodies to prevent Dragon Slayers to turn into Dragons once again\n> and were waiting for a moment to defeat Acnologia. Yet they had their chance\n> to defeat Acnologia on Tenrou Island. Why did they not seize their chance\n> then and there? With Makarov, Gildartz, Laxus around, they would have had a\n> much better chance of defeating him. So why did they not attack on Tenrou\n> Island?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, in my opinion, because the other dragons of Rogue and Sting (Skiadrum &\nWeisslogia) weren't really \"around\" I should say. And they didn't make enough\nantibodies for them to make sure that they themselves wouldn't turn into\ndragons themselves. It's not the best answer, but at least it's something\nright ? :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause the dragons inside dragon slayer's bodies were waiting for The Dragon\nKing festival as that would be the time for them to take action and by then\nenough antibodies would have generated to prevent Dragon Slayers form turning\ninto dragons\n\nSource : Fairy Tail Manga Chapter 400 Pages 12-18 and Tartaros arc summary in\n<http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Igneel#Synopsis>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAdding onto this question, right after Madoka recreated the entire universe to\naccommodate with the Law of Cycles, why was everybody placed back in time\nright after the event where Sayaka gets killed in battle? Why were they placed\nspecifically there in time? Also, do all magical girls join the Law of Cycles\nafter they die? If they do, then what is the point? Madoka's wish was to erase\nall witches with her own hands, so anybody else in the Law of Cycles wouldn't\nhave a job to carry out since Madoka would be doing it all herself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Right after Madoka recreated the entire universe to accommodate with the Law\n> of Cycles, why was everybody placed back in time right after the event where\n> Sayaka gets killed in battle? Why were they placed specifically there in\n> time?\n\nI don't think it's quite accurate to view everybody as having been placed back\nwhere Sayaka gets killed in battle. In this rewritten universe where the Law\nof Cycles exists, the entirety of history plays out differently, probably\ndiverging whenever the very first magical girl's Soul Gem turns dark. Every\nscene involving witches or Madoka personally probably plays out differently;\nit just so happens that we only get to see one particular scene from this new\nhistory of the world - the scene where Sayaka dies. Why? Well, it's an\nimportant scene, particularly given how that same scene was something of a\nbloodbath in episode 10's timeline 3. And plus, it helps us understand how the\nnew universe works.\n\nI find it more likely that everybody was \"placed\" back at the same instant\nthat Madoka made her wish in the main timeline. (I don't have any strong\nevidence for this; it just seems to be the most parsimonious option.)\n\n* * *\n\n> Also, do all magical girls join the Law of Cycles after they die?\n\nI'm guessing you haven't seen Rebellion.\n\n> Rebellion strongly suggests that the answer is yes, based on Sayaka's\n> comments at the beginning of the final segment (shortly after Homura turns\n> witch). Magical girls do indeed become part of the Law of Cycles when\n> they're touched by Madoka when their Soul Gems go dark.\n\n* * *\n\n> If they do, then what is the point? Madoka's wish was to erase all witches\n> with her own hands, so anybody else in the Law of Cycles wouldn't have a job\n> to carry out since Madoka would be doing it all herself.\n\nAgain, I'm guessing you haven't seen Rebellion, since in Rebellion, we learn\nthat:\n\n> At minimum, Sayaka and Charlotte/Nagisa both sort of exist in the same\n> metaphysical space as Madoka. Sayaka herself notes that the two of them are\n> sort of like \"secretaries\" to Madoka. They both play a key role in Madoka's\n> scheme to extract Homura from the Incubators' barrier; it seems unlikely\n> that Madoka would have been able to effect her scheme without their (or at\n> least _somebody's_ ) assistance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst, note that at the end of the last episode, magical girls are said to\nfight wraiths (instead of witches), and Kyubey is still around (albeit with no\nconfirmed knowledge of the alternative universe Homura is aware of). So the\nmain things that have changed are:\n\n 1. What the magical girls fight. (Homura even states that humanity still faces certain \"monsters\", which just happen to not be witches.)\n\n 2. What happens after their soul gems become too \"polluted\". (In the new universe, Kyouko laments that Sayaka used up a little too much energy in their fight against some wraiths, and thus was absorbed into the Law of Cycles, just as they were getting closer.)\n\nSo magical girls are around, and it's simply that they don't become witches.\nThere are thus no witches in this continuity.\n\nAfter Madoka's actions, we see history rewritten entirely: in the beginning of\nthe episode, we thus see her interact with the various magical girls who have\ncome up through-out history, showing up to take them (which contrasts with the\nearlier scenario, where they were shown as girls who would later become\nwitches). This also strongly suggests that yes, all magical girls join the Law\nof Cycles in this continuity.\n\nAs [senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin) notes,\nshowing Homura in the \"new\" universe at the specific point where Sayaka dies\nserves as a good contrast with Sayaka's original fate. From Homura's\npossession of Madoka's ribbons at that point, it seems possible that _Homura_\nis placed back at that specific point in time in the new universe, but this is\nonly in the sense that it's possible her consciousness was transferred to that\npoint (unless, like with the numerous other universes Homura has experienced,\nshe \"arrived\" when she was still in the hospital or at some other point, and\nit's just that she keeps the ribbons on her person). However, no one else\nknows who Madoka is, so we must conclude that Mami and Kyouko are merely part\nof the rewritten universe -- they aren't really \"placed\" into it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's an answer to my own question that I thought up.\n\nSince Madoka recreated the entire universe, it was probably her own decision\nto place them back in that moment of time. She wanted them all to still be\ntogether as friends and to help each other fight the wraiths, so she recreated\nthe new world in that way to let their friendships still last and not have\nabsolutely EVERYTHING be rewritten. It was placed right after Sayaka's death\nsince Sayaka wanted to join Madoka in the Law of Cycles, so she joined Madoka\nafter her death.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter seeing how Madoka instantly transformed into her witch form after\nkilling Walpurgisnacht in one shot in the 4th timeline, it makes me wondering:\n**How do Soul Gems become corrupted?**\n\nI assumed that over time the magical girls would lose hope and fall into\ndespair, which then clouded their Soul Gems. However, Madoka instantly turned\ninto a witch, without any real reason to despair.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo we know that Grief Seeds are former Soul Gems that became too polluted.\n(This can be confirmed in Wikia-type sources such as\n[here](http://mahoushoujomadokamagica.wikia.com/wiki/Grief_seed).) So the\nquestion is also about how easily Soul Gems can become polluted. As it seems,\nthere are several ways for this to happen:\n\n * Despair and pain. This I believe happens with Sayaka and is shown to us in episode 8.\n\n * Normal use of magical abilities:\n\n * This is why Mami's Soul Gem becomes slightly polluted, and why in what should be the second episode, she shows Sayaka and Madoka her use of a Grief Seed she collected to clear it up.\n\n * Notably, we also see Homura use her Soul Gem to improve her eyesight and get rid of her glasses, when she decides to take more drastic action to save Madoka -- so in some sense, maybe the Soul Gem contains some sort of energy or vitality.\n\n**In the case of Madoka in the timeline you mentioned, the second scenario\nseems more likely, due to the amount of energy that would be required to\ndestroy a witch so easily.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSoul Gems do indeed gradually darken over time, even if a magical girl doesn't\ndo anything magical. I'd imagine this is because the gem still needs to\nmagically sustain her body, or something like that. But they also darken for\nother reasons - the emotion of despair causes a Soul Gem to darken, and so\ndoes the use of magical powers.\n\nIn the 4th timeline, after defeating the Walpurgisnacht, Madoka had no reason\nto despair... but she _did_ expend an enormous amount of energy to defeat the\nWalpurgisnacht in one shot. Apparently, that was enough to cause her Soul Gem\nto blacken completely, thus resulting in her becoming Kriemhild Gretchen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm assuming you meant how Soul Gems gets corrupted over time. Grief Seeds\ndon't fill up after a Soul Gem is destroyed. In fact, they only exist after a\nSoul Gem is destroyed. A Puella Magi does not have a Grief Seed, they only\nhave a Soul Gem. [Soul Gems gets corrupted after its owner uses their magical\npowers.](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Grief_seed#Grief_Seed)\n\nAs for why Madoka became a witch immediately after making her wish in the most\nrecent timeline, it is because the miracle she wants out of her wish is simply\ntoo great. [It requires a great amount of magical powers to fulfill as she\nneeded to change nature itself.](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Episode_12) Thus\nher soul gem became spent and she became a witch.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy does Kyoko come to the city in Madoka Magica?\n\nThere is probably a very simple answer for this, but I'm too lazy to go back\nand rewatch or to skim through a wiki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Why does Kyoko come to the city?\n\nWe learn quite a bit about this in The Different Story, a sidestory manga that\nbasically tells us about Kyouko and Mami prior to the events of the series\n(mostly before the point where Homura wakes up in the hospital, meaning that\nmost of what we learn is timeline-agnostic).\n\nThere is an informal system among magical girls whereby each one has their own\n\"territory\", so to speak, within which they and they alone can hunt witches.\nThis is because having multiple magical girls work together in a given area\nrequires them to split the proceeds (the Grief Seeds) amongst each other,\nwhich nobody really wants to do.\n\nUpon learning that Mami has perished, Kyouko ― who, until that point, had the\nneighboring city of Kazamino as her territory ― presumably saw this as a good\nopportunity for her to expand her range.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been to Japan and saw all these doujinshi manga which all look really\ninteresting just by their cover. But how do Japanese people actually figure\nout the content of these books? There is no plot written anywhere, and you\ngenerally cannot open them.\n\nFor example, I have been reading 孤独のグルメ (Kodoku no Gurume) and I saw doujinshi\nbased on it. Should I think \"the manga was good so let's try this version\"? Or\nis there somewhere to look at to find out the content?\n\nDoes it work only by word-of-mouth or are there any resources on the internet\nwe can check to have more information on the different authors and their\ndoujinshi?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the FMP light novels, the ultimate plan of the Big Bad Leonard Testarossa\nand the organization he heads, Amalgam, is to\n\n> remake the _entire world_ into one more to their liking, along similar lines\n> to other anime villains such as Seele, Madara, etc. To that end they take\n> over Merida Island and install a system built by Kaname.\n\nHow exactly were they planning on achieving this?\n\n> How exactly Amalgam's technology was supposed to rewrite history and change\n> the world is unclear to me. From what I can make out, it somehow involved\n> time displacement that was related to the Whispereds' abilities (i.e. they\n> were telepathically receiving information from the future).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 6 of the _Ushio to Tora_ anime, Asako and a boy she meets at the\nbeach (Tatsuya) find themselves swallowed by some sort of giant sea serpent\nmonstrosity. In the anime, Asako calls her grandparents' beach house using her\ncell phone, and that's how Ushio learns that she's in trouble.\n\nBut the manga was written back in the early '90s, before cell phones were\ncommonplace (the anime has been relieved of some of the trappings of the '90s\n[much as _Parasyte_ was] in the interest of appealing to modern audiences).\nHow did this scene play out there? How did Ushio find out what had happened to\nAsako and Tatsuya?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn both the manga and anime, Tatsuya had a precious gift from his mother. In\nthe anime, it was referred to as a toy phone. In the manga, it was a\nfunctioning walkie talkie (referred to as _transceiver_ in the English\ntranslation). There just happened to be someone on the beach with another\ntransceiver who was listening on the right channel. Asako's call for help was\nheard by Ushio.\n\nWhat I found difficult to understand is why Asako's plea was even needed as\npart of the plot. The sea-protector yokai had already informed Ushio that Tora\nneeded his help and had been swallowed by a giant serpent. That could have\nbeen sufficient cause for Ushio to help.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid Ryu have the affair and that's why Maki wrote \"Liar\" to Ryu? Or did Ryu's\nfriend make that up?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is Saitama, the main character of _One Punch Man_ , looking so plain,\nwhile everything in his world is so amazingly drawn? I mean even everyday\nthings are so detailed to the point that we can consider it an amazingly\npainted masterpiece, while his design is like being tutored on how to draw...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JnSW7.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause that's just how it is.\n\nSaitama is SUPPOSED to be boring and silly looking by design as part of the\ncomedy. Instead of a \"cool\" looking hero like Genos, who in any other work\nwould be a shoe-in for the main character, the story ultimately revolves\naround Saitama.\n\nNow...Murata's version does give Saitama his due when he's being serious or\nintense, but generally he's just so bored or disinterested in the fight it's\nnot worth the effort to put out that kind of appearance, so the crude or low\nquality drawing is simply to emphasis how little effort or attention he's\ngiving to the situation.\n\nIn the original verison (with art is done by author himself and is VERY\ncrudely and lazily drawn in most cases), his design never really changes that\nmuch and he's always plainly drawn throughout the series, while the other\ncharacters are generally given more detail. (the lazy-mode Saitama is a\ncleaned up version of the original version Saitama).\n\nHe's not the only one though...there's another character who occasionally\nshifts into their original form when Saitama finds them annoying as we see\nthem from his perspective.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRecently got done watching the [_Skypiea\nArc_](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Skypiea_Arc), and it has just been\nbugging me constantly, but in [_Episode\n167_](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_167) Usopp goes to the bathroom\nand sees someone fixing the Going Merry. No where else is this addressed in\nthe Arc (at least anime-wise): was Usopp just seeing things because he was\ntired or was there really someone fixing their ship for them?\n\nHere is a picture of the scene I am talking about:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U7NUC.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was fixed by a\n[**Klabautermann**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Klabautermann).\n\n> A Klabautermann is said to be a water spirit (or fairy) that dwells on ships\n> and is basically an incarnation of a ship that has been well cared for. It\n> is a merry and diligent creature that is said to warn sailors when a ship's\n> in danger and help in bigger ways sometimes. They are normally considered to\n> be only a legend among seafarers.\n\nIt is explained later in **Episode 247** (Chapter 351 of the manga)\n\n> Franky hears by Usopp about what happened to the ship and in particular to\n> the fact on Skypiea you mentioned and explains him about that creature he\n> knows from legends.\n\nFor more information about the klabautermann folklore itself you can look at\nits [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klabautermann).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n<http://fictionalomniverse.forumotion.com/t845-vegito-vs-gogeta>\n\nThis post basically stated Vegito is 100% Canon and that Gogeta is semi-canon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVegito is canon because he exists in the Manga (main canon of Dragon Ball).\nGogeta doesn't exist in the Manga and only exists in the Anime and Movies\nwhich are considered alternate versions of Dragon Ball from the Manga\ntherefore not canon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGogeta may not be canon but he can technically. The fusion dance is canon\nsince goten and trunks do it in the majin buu saga and even in dragon ball\nsuper. That dance (obviously) fused goten and trunks into gotenks\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**What's the meaning of the 'Out' suffix in \"[Mental\nOut](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Mental_Out)\" and \"[Skill-\nOut](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Skill-Out)\"?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy were Sayaka and Kyoko fighting in the beginning, and what caused them to\neventually end up as friends?\n\n(Related: [Why exactly does Kyoko attempt to save\nSayaka?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/8954/why-exactly-does-\nkyoko-attempt-to-save-sayaka))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Kyoko overloaded her soul gem to kill Sayaka's witch form, does Kyoko\nthen also become a witch? Or since she overloaded her soul gem, does she just\ndie \"normally?\" If the latter is true, then why don't all magical girls just\noverload their gems before they become completely tainted, that way they don't\nbecome witches?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> When Kyoko overloaded her soul gem to kill Sayaka's witch form, does Kyoko\n> then also become a witch? Or since she overloaded her soul gem, does she\n> just die \"normally?\"\n\nKyouko didn't become a witch, since she died in battle, rather than suffering\na blackening of her Soul Gem.\n\n> If the latter is true, then why don't all magical girls just overload their\n> gems before they become completely tainted, that way they don't become\n> witches?\n\nWell, if they _knew_ that they would become witches upon having their gems\ncompletely tainted, I'm sure many would opt to make sure they die \"naturally\"\nrather than risk becoming witches. This is exactly the \"solution\" Mami opts\nfor in episode 10's timeline 3, where, shortly after seeing Sayaka turn into a\nwitch, she kills Kyouko by destroying her Soul Gem, and is about to do the\nsame to Homura.\n\nBut there's the whole problem. Nobody (among the cast) knows this until they\nsee Sayaka turn into a witch in timeline 3, and Homura doesn't tell anybody\nabout this in the main timeline, so everybody else (including Sayaka) lacks\nthis knowledge in the main timeline, too. I'm sure they figure they'll just\ndie when their Soul Gems turn completely black (which is, in fact, what\nhappens once the Law of Cycles is in effect), which means they have no reason\nto opt to kill themselves beforehand.\n\nAnd, keep in mind what we know about how magical girls generally operate (from\nthe show, but moreso from The Different Story) - magical girls usually work\nsolo. The large number of magical girls working together that we see in the\nshow is highly unusual. Consider the outcome: this means that nobody ever\nfinds out that magical girls turn into witches when their Soul Gems blacken -\nif a magical girl, alone by herself, turns into a witch, who notices? Who's\ngoing to survive to tell the next generation of magical girls about the\ndangers of blackening their Soul Gems?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf they killed themselves, there would be nobody left to kill the witches. If\nthey kill all the witches and then kill themselves that way, there could be a\nworld with no witches. They would want to keep some alive to guard and tell\nnew magical girls about that.\n\nNot that it's relevant anyway, cause they weren't close to killing all\nwitches, and the witches give birth to more witches.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty confused about this. I know that Frank is Yuri, but are the other\naliens also fragments of Yuri?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 11 of the first season of the anime, there was a flashback where it\nwas shown that little Toshinou Kyouko was nothing like the current Toshinou\nKyouko — she was quiet, shy and even had less presence than Akaza Akari. Yet,\nthe current Toshinou Kyouko is nothing like that.\n\nWhat happened between the time when she was shown as a quiet and shy little\ngirl and the current her? Has the author ever being asked about this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that because Kyouko was being bullied, she became shy and wary of\npeople and her true personality was being suppressed.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lHWSum.jpg)\n\nOnce Akari came to stop the bullying, Kyouko would have been able to have more\nconfidence in herself, letting her express herself more, becoming the Kyouko\nwe know and love today.\n\nAs for an official statement, I can't seem to find one on the author's Twitter\naccount, or from googling - but I'm fairly certain it would be a similar\nanswer to the one above.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe newly released manga _Smokin Parade_ is said to be very similar to\n_Deadman Wonderland_. Are the authors the same or related in some way?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Smokin Parade does have the same authors as Deadman Wonderland. Both\nmanga are written by Kazuma Kondou and illustrated by Jinsei Kataoka.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 21, Misa Misa killed Kaneboshi with the help of Rem. Why didn't\nanyone question how she did it? Or did everyone assumed Higuchi did it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs a One Piece fan who doesn't read the manga I must ask this:\n\nIn this [flashback](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAF4Yq1mIdo) when Ace\nmeets Shanks, Ace says:\n\n> \"My brother was always talking about you as his lifesaver\"\n\nAs you are aware, Shanks lost his arm when he saved Luffy. However, at 0:43\nyou can clearly see both of his arms.\n\nDoes this happen in the manga or is it just an animation mistake?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe meeting between Ace and Shanks does happen in the manga, but according to\nthe [One Piece Wiki on Episode\n461](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_461) where this happens, Shanks\nhaving two arms appears to be an error in the animation.\n\nPersonally, I do agree that it was an animation fail, since it was long after\nShanks saved Luffy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there any Zoan Akuma No Mi that gives the user the ability to transform in\nfish (Fish-Fish No Mi)? If so can the user swim in the sea?\n\n@Edit: I don't read the manga, so I don't know if anything like this has\nalready happened or not\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo answer your question: **Currently there is no fruit known as Fish Fish no\nmi, or similar in effect as you describe.**\n\nThere has, however, been a question pretty similar to this before ([Would a\nwater manipulating Devil Fruit user be able to\nswim?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5041/would-a-water-\nmanipulating-devil-fruit-user-be-able-to-swim)) which will provide a bit more\ninsight in this, although it is still speculative.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe have not yet seen a Fish Devil Fruit user. They will not be able to swim\nunderwater due to the Devil Fruit curse, but they will be able to breath\nunderwater due to the Fish's abilities.\n\nSeeing as there has not been a Fish Fruit user thusfar, this statement is\nspeculated on the very similar case that we have seen, where a fishman had\neaten a devil fruit. [Vander Decken\nIX](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Vander_Decken_IX#Devil_Fruit), a Japanese\nbullhead shark fishman, ate the Mark Fruit. In chapter 615, Vander Decken IX\nexplains that [due to the Devil Fruit Curse, he is rendered unable to\nswim](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YLfGr.png). We can later see him in chapter\n631, where he has [put an air-bubble around himself to retain his\nenergy](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ktMm6.jpg) and not to make him able to\nbreathe. This last part is confirmed at the end of the arc, because even after\nthe air bubble had been removed from Noah, Vander Decken IX did not suffocate\nand was seen alive, being arrested, instead of buried.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on a leak for chapter 999,\n\n> Kaido has one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA large portion of the _InuYasha_ manga and anime series deals with the\nemotional issues surrounding the primary love triangle of\n\n> Inuyasha, Kagome, and Kikyo, particularly from Kagome's point of view.\n> However, it is revealed that Kagome is, in fact, a **reincarnation** of\n> Kikyo, so they actually share the same soul, albeit from different time\n> periods!\n\nIf that's the case, then this appears to remove all of the tension and\nunderlying conflict, in effect Inuyasha is in love with\n\n> the same person (in two forms, one of which is even a vengeful spirit of the\n> dead who wants to move on the afterlife)!\n\nHow exactly was this love triangle supposed to work, narratively? While I\ncan't speak for the mangaka's inner thoughts, perhaps there are cultural\nnuances or tropes that I'm not aware of at work here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe mechanics work like this:\n\nInuyasha is in love with Kikyo. She is the first human since his mother that\ntreats him well. Despite Kikyo killing him and sealing him to the great tree,\nhe still loves her.\n\nKagome falls in love with Inuyasha at first sight, but he doesn't like her at\nall. When he firsts revives from death, he thinks it is Kikyo, but once he\nfigures out she is someone different, he doesn't care for her.\n\nDue to framing plot reasons, Kagome and Inuyasha have to work together to save\nthe world. Inuyasha slowly starts to warm up to Kagome over time, as she\novercomes the dead Kikyo's shadow. Then Kikyo gets resurrected (as a walking\ndead corpse). This causes Inuyasha's cooling love for Kikyo to flame strongly\nagain, and causing him to be torn between his first love (Kikyo) and has new\ngrowing love (Kagome). However, his loyalties are first to Kikyo, so Kagome\nalways loses out when he must choose between them.\n\nInuyasha's first loyalty is what prevents Kagome from being able to \"seal the\ndeal\" with him, and is a hurdle she can never overcome as long as the animated\ndead Kikyo is around. No matter how close Kagome and Inuyasha become over time\n(in the main series), he will desert Kagome to run off and save Kikyo if he\nthinks Kikyo is in danger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nReincarnation is tricky business and there are so many opinions what changes\nwhen a soul returns in another body. The gender or character can be different\nfrom the previous version, so no wonder Inuyasha treats the two girls as\ndifferent entities. Also there are shared history and memories between\nInuyasha and Kikyo which are very precious to him. There is also guilt that he\ncouldn't protect her and a promise he made and intends to keep, while Kagome\nat first is a complete stranger.\n\nSaying that, I am not sure Kagome being and looking similar wasn't a\ncontributing factor for Inuyasha falling for her. She even had the same\ntalents: both women have miko powers. Maybe on same level he did preceive\ntheir relationship as some kind of second chance with Kikyo. He shows no\nromantic interest in other females, but he does with Kagome pretty early on,\neven saying she smells nice and when Kagome says\n\n> \"I thought you didn’t like my scent\"\n\nInuyasha replies with 'I lied'. Which is curious, especially as at their first\nencounter he confuses her with Kikyo based on her scent. He says:\n\n> \"Who else would give off a scent like you?\"\n\nInu is a dog hanyou, so olfactory perception is extremely important for him,\nand if his nose senses that Kikyo and Kagome aren't that different then maybe\nhe did preceive Kagome as Kikyo. But then the 'real' Kikyo returned, which\nmessed Inuyasha up quite a bit.\n\nMy impression was that in some instances he'd preferred to stay with Kagome\nand not, say, die with Kikyo, but he felt that abandoning her wouldn't be\nfair.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHonestly, yes, it is true that Kikyo and Kagome share a soul, but they have\ndifferent personalities. Kikyo was someone Inuyasha once trusted and grew\nattached to her because of her personality (not just because she held the\nsacred jewel).\n\nKagome, on the other hand, is from a whole-another world. Inuyasha grew\nattached to Kagome for her personality and many other aspects. Inuyasha forgot\nabout Kikyo until she was resurected from clay and bones.\n\nYes, it's a very confusing triangle of love.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI agree with the existing answers, except Kagome isn't just Kikyo's\nreincarnation. If you go deeper, you'll find that she is a multi-\nreincarnation, though it appears Inuyasha goes after Kagome because she has\nsome similarities to Kikyo.\n\nPart of that is true, he also likes her because she is herself. Kagome has\nconvinced herself of this, thus she has proved that she does not live in\nKikyo's shadow, she actually surpasses Kikyo in some way.\n\nIt's true that Kikyo is the first human besides his mother to treat him\nkindly, but she also only loved his human-side since that was the first side\nshe met him in, so she suggested that he become a human and that they live\ntogether.\n\nHowever, in the second movie, Kagome clearly states \"to be who you are\" and\nthat \"she loves him as a half demon\", and she even chose to stay with him when\nhe was having trouble with his full demon side.\n\nKagome loves Inuyasha the ways he is, but Inuyasha at times still sees her as\nKikyo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile in the beginning and through the series, Inuyasha does tend to break\nKagome’s heart more than once, she always comes back. And again, it's true\nthat he loved Kikyo.\n\nFrom my point of view though, it was companionship that he mistook for loving\nKikyo. With Kagome, he didn’t like her at first, but as time went on, she\nbecame his friend, then in _InuYasha: The Final Act_ , she becomes his wife\n(and possibly mate).\n\nIf we rewind to the Band of Seven when Kagome, Sango, and Miroku were\npoisoned, Inuyasha cried thinking he lost Kagome, and if we rewind again to\nthe previous episode, then we can clearly see that he’s worried she ain’t\ngonna make it causing him to use the wind scar to extinguish the fire getting\nthem out of danger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the big things divides Kagome and Kikyo, particularly after Kikyo's\ndeath, is Kagome's selflessness. She goes out of her way to help those that\nare in distress, even when she might benefit from letting them die instead-\nparticularly in the scene where Kagome jumps into the pond to purify Kikyo's\nspirit. She was never thanked for it, and she didn't gain from it, but she did\nit anyways.\n\nThe thing they share is their courage- even when faced with adversity, you\ndon't see Kikyo and Kagome backing down- and if Kikyo does, it's more of an \"I\ndon't wanna do it\" thing than it is \"I'm too afraid.\"\n\nKikyo is dignified and introspective, whereas Kagome is gregarious and\nspirited. Inspecting Inuyasha's demeanor, he is the kind of person that likes\nto portray himself as careless and tough, but has a gentle heart (like when\nKagome says \"I hate you\" after saving Kikyo's life when Naraku's evil energy\nhad begun to taint her, and Inuyasha admits that it hurt him, whereas Kagome\nbarely remembered saying it) which he reveals through his willingness to step\nup to the plate and defend others.\n\nThe love Inuyasha and Kikyo was brief and hot-blooded, sweet and transient\nlike daylight in an Arctic winter. On the other hand, the bond he built with\nKagome was something they built via adversity, blood and tears shed together,\nproviding and caring for one another, and TIME.\n\nUltimately, while Kikyo before her death was a lively person, post-mortem she\nis only quite literally a shell of herself, as she only has a tiny fragment of\nher and Kagome's shared soul stored inside of a clay body (from when the witch\nbrought her back from the dead and Kagome's body absorbed most of the soul\nback into herself).\n\nIt's notable, however, that Inuyasha was with Kikyo out of choice, and went\nback to her out of choice, as when he followed her tree to tree, spoke with\nher, and agreed voluntarily to meet her at the Tree of Ages to give up his\ndemon half. He has no choice where it comes to Kagome- she was thrust into his\nlife and even uses the Beads of Subjugation around his neck for vengeful and\nimmature purposes and to restrain his wild nature- they were something that\nKikyo ultimately decided she didn't need for him.\n\nInuyasha and Kikyo were two lonely souls, Kikyo out of the solemn duty to the\nShikon Jewel, and Inuyasha because neither the community of demons nor humans\nwould accept him as one of their own. They found kinship, community, and\ncompanionship in each other.\n\nKagome accepted Inuyasha unconditionally. She shows open affection and worry\nfor him, like when she ran toward him in the episode where Inuyasha plummeted\nover the cliff and she was unsure if he'd been able to survive the fall. The\nexperiences they have shared are numerous, diverse, and impactful- the battles\nthey've been in, the lands they've traveled, and the arguments they've had and\nresolved. You guys have seen it.\n\nThe whole love triangle thing makes me mad sometimes, too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nInuyasha was in love with Kikyo and when you truly love someone, a bad\nexperience from that person can't make the feelings just go away --- BUT that\ndoesn't mean that it won't be tainted.\n\nWhen he met Kagome, he hated her because he thought she was Kikyo who sealed\nhim to the tree. It's actually possible to hate someone you love. Love ignites\nhatred.\n\nOver time, Inuyasha was slowly forgetting Kikyo and became close with Kagome.\nFriendship is the foundation of their relationship. And friendship is a strong\none.\n\nUnfortunately, didn't take long, Kikyo was resurrected by Urasue. Yes,\nInuyasha got confused. But still, Kagome was in good standing because Inuyasha\nwas already fond of her the time they first discovered that Kikyo was still\naround using dead souls.\n\nAnd Kikyo was a changed woman. Her behavior had nothing to do with the little\namount of soul she got from Kagome. Remember she reclaimed it in full but\nshe's still very angry. It's normal because she thought she was betrayed by\nthe only man he loved. And change happens all the time to every woman who felt\nbetrayed.\n\nAfter resurrection, she wasn't the same Kikyo that Inuyasha once loved.\n\nImagine that in real life.\n\nYou only know the person's face and name but everything including her actions\nand the way she talks was unrecognizable.\n\nInuyasha remembers the past. The way it felt. Nothing more, nothing less.\n\nRemembering is different from what you actually feel. You may jump back to\nmemory lane at times but it will only last a few moments.\n\nHe will never leave Kagome.\n\nBUT, Inuyasha is a good person. He must've felt guilty every time he remembers\nKikyo suffered living, died and still suffering alone --- while he isn't,\nanymore.\n\nHe tried to cut tie with Kagome, because he thought he owe Kikyo his own life\nbut can't fully decide to do it. He was hesitant. Then he met Kagome and\nadmitted he shouldn't be having fun because Kikyo is suffering.\n\nCoz he's not suffering. Means he was over his love for her.\n\nEveryone knows the feeling of loneliness when you and the one you love are\napart? But he wasn't lonely.\n\nInuyasha is not suffering.\n\nHe is having fun with his new friends, especially knowing that Kagome's around\nand safe.\n\nOne thing I'm sure is he'll be really lonely if it's Kagome who's gone.\n\nHe loved Kikyo. It's a thing from his past and a part of him that can never be\nerased. He wants his first love to be remembered a great woman. He wants to\nprotect her, including her memories.\n\nAnd watching Inuyasha over and over again made me realized that the 3 of them\nare all good people --Kikyo, Inuyasha & Kagome.\n\nKikyo didn't talk much about her feelings but you'll see through her actions\nthat she later made up her mind and decided to not do anything about her\nfeelings with Inuyasha, but instead serve other people.\n\nAlso, Kikyo doesn't want Kagome gone. She doesn't want Kagome to replace her\nas Inuyasha's past as she can't be his future either. She thinks rationally.\nShe and Kagome are the same on that manner. And she love Inuyasha too much she\ndoesn't want him to be lonely.\n\nOn the other hand, Kagome gets jealous and all because she's only human but\nstill saved Kikyo a few times. She respect her as the first woman in\nInuyasha's life. 1\\. Kagome didn't let Miroku carry Kikyo to Mt. Hakurei\nbarrier's boundary. 2\\. She let Inuyasha leave to look for Kikyo's remains.\n\nShe's the perfect version of Kikyo. She's exactly what Kikyo subconsciously\nwished to be. Both nice girl.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure how much of what follows was actually intended to be part of the\ntriangle/show's narrative and how much is just my own takeaway, but:\n\nGiven that a person's soul is essentially the actual person: Kagome as\nKikiyo's reincarnation is basically the same person as Kikiyo. Now, why does a\nsoul reincarnate? To evolve. In many ways, Kagome is the Kikiyo-who-should-\nhave-been: she is a natural evolution and extension of Kikiyo's development\ntowards being a better person.\n\nTherefore, Inu Yasha is in love with the same person: Kagome and Kikiyo are\nthe same. Kagome is Kikiyo evolved while Kikiyo post-ressurection is an\nartificial construct of witchcraft that shouldn't actually exist. Think of it\nlike: your current self and your toddler self somehow existing at the same\ntime. The two of you are certainly the same person...and yet, so different. It\nwould be such a quandary wouldn't it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you have already read the manga from start to finish, then the answer\nshould be clear: Inuyasha’s true love is Kagome. Some of the people on here\ncomplaining are still bitter that Kikyo died and that Inuyasha ended up with\nKagome instead of their emotionless princess. Look at the facts: Kagome is the\nonly one who makes Inuyasha feel at ease, cheerful, and comfortable; Kagome is\nthe one who taught him to shed tears and show kindness to others; Kagome is\nthe one who helped him make friends and ended his life of loneliness; Kagome\nis the one who accepted him 100%; Kagome is the one who changed him; etc. The\nlist goes on and on. More importantly, most of these facts were pointed out by\nInuyasha himself, who at the end stated that he was born only for her and she\nfor him. Kikyo is strictly a drama device. The entire purpose of her character\nis to cause drama between Inuyasha and Kagome. She never actually propels or\ninitiates Naraku’s death.\n\nRegarding the triangle, Inuyasha had feelings for her, and after her rebirth,\nthose feelings mostly transitioned to guilt. He felt responsible for her\ninitial death and pity for the fact that she has no one but herself while he\nhas a new crew to be with. During the later part of the series, this and the\ngoal to learn more about Naraku are two reasons he runs to her. The other\nreason is Kagome lets him. He almost always goes only after Kagome tells him\nto. If he senses she’s not comfortable with it, he stays by her side, simply\nbecause he values Kagome more. That’s also why he always stays by her side. At\nfirst it was for jewel hunting, but later it’s for the peace, serenity and\nlove she gives him, a level of happiness he never felt with Kikyo. If we had\nto break it down further, Inuyasha and Kikyo’s relationship could be viewed as\nlust while his and Kagome’s represent love.\n\nAnd now the triangle is settled because Kikyo’s dead for good and was never\nmeant to be with Inuyasha no matter how much people try to convince themselves\nof it. What he doesn’t realize is that he no longer needs to feel guilty. He’s\nsuffered far more than her, since his whole life he’s been shunned by two\nspecies. The only person who loved him died when he was a child, and\neverywhere he goes people judge him by his looks, while she’s revered as a\nbeautiful priestess and hero nearly all the time.\n\nAnd no, Kagome and Kikyo are not the same person. Mangaka Rumiko Takahashi\nmade this statement several time throughout the series yet people still don’t\nget it. These two share a soul. That’s it. It wouldn’t even be fair to\nconsider their love for Inuyasha as equal since Kagome has made it quite clear\nthat she loves Inuyasha way more. She consistently puts his needs above hers.\nThat’s what an unconditional love is. She also handles many situations\ndifferently than Kikyo, and that’s because the two have polar opposite\npersonalities and backgrounds. Kagome even develops different powers than\nKikyo later, and treats Kikyo differently than Kikyo treats her. She could\nhave any soul placed in her and she will still retain these different traits,\nso no: Kikyo and Kagome are NOT the same person.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSakamaki Laito from \"Diabolik Lovers\": he is wearing the same suit and the the\nsame look on his face also same hair color and eye color. I couldn't find this\nkeychain anywhere but if you look up his name there is the same image on\ntumblr (he is a boy and a vampire by the way) this must be a Halloween\ncostume. Anyway here is his image on zerochan :)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vcj2vm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\non [Fate's Wikia page](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Fate#Powers) it states her\n\n> personal incantation for the set-up of Bardiche is \"Arcus Cultus Aegeas\"\n> (アルカス・クルタス・エイギアス Arukasu Kurutasu Eigiasu)\n\nSeeing as the phrase is written in Katakana, my understanding on Japanese is\nthat Katakana is generally used for either names of non-native words\n\nalso alot of the names in _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ are derived from cars\nsuch as the [Ferrari\nTestarossa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_Testarossa), [Nissan\nPresea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Presea), [Nissan\nTeana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Teana) or the [Subaru Car\nManufacture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru), not to mention\n[Bardiche](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bardiche) is the name of a polearm\nthat was used in medieval and renaissance Europe, especially in Eastern Europe\nand Russia.\n\nSo i am wondering if _\"Arcus Cultus Aegeas\"_ has any other meaning to it, or\nif it's just some made up aria for Fate to use.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 8 of the anime\n[Overlord](http://myanimelist.net/anime/29803/Overlord/), ~10:37, Momonga/Ains\nrefers to a book \"Anyone Can Easily PK\" by Punitto Moe. Is that book a\nfictional work, or is it a real work?\n\nIn other words, does this book exist in the real world (i.e. for use with\nMMORPGS such as World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, et al), or is it something that\nonly exists within the Overlord anime/manga universe?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI got hooked on the lost-in-the-MMO genre with SAO (Sword Art Online), but I\ndidn't even know it was a genre until a few weeks ago. I caught up on Log\nHorizon, and now I'm watching Overlord. Obviously, MMOs are a relatively new\nphenomenon, but approximately how old is this genre of anime?\n\nI am curious because I'm about to go looking for more titles and I'd like to\nknow how far back to search and/or when to stop looking.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched all the anime episodes and Mine dies in episode 22.\n\nDoes she die in the manga as well? I read the last few chapters of the manga\nwhere Tatsumi speaks about her like she is not dead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, she didn't die in the manga. However, in order to defeat General Budo, she\nused all her power in the final attack with Pumpkin and fell in a vegetative\nstate as a result.\n\nThis happened in **Chapter 56** :\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMLkp.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4A1iV.jpg)\n\nIn the last chapter (Chapter 78),\n\n> she's shown to regain consciousness after Tatsumi's return from the\n> battlefield. It is also mentioned that they had children and lived a gentle\n> and peaceful life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn a few occasions throughout the series, we see Sayaka thrusting her own\nsword through her chest, cutting her own heart out:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5IQ0b.gif)\n\nIt looks as though in Rebellion she does this to invoke her own witch form\nwhen the girls are fighting Homura's witch form, but she also does this before\nthen, and before she becomes a witch.\n\nWhat are the reasons for her doing this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll i can find on the Wiki is this\n\n> Kyubey tells Madoka to reveal her true powers in order to save Homura, but\n> Sayaka tells Madoka not to listen to him. She stabs herself in order to\n> summon Oktavia and an army of familiars from other witches.\n\nSource: [Sayaka Miki - Rebellion Story (5th Paragraph)](https://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Sayaka_Miki#Homulilly.27s_barrier)\n\ni can't find anything else on it so i will give my interpretation as to _why_\nSayaka cuts out her own heart.\n\nLeading to Sayaka's downfall in the final timeline pre-Madoka Kami1\n\n * In episode 6 the Puella Magi learn that their bodies are in fact dead.\n * In episode 7 Hitomi tells Sayaka that she has feelings for Kyosuke and out of respect for their own friendship and the closeness between Sayaka and Kyosuke she'll wait 1 day \n * When Sayaka goes to hunt witches that night she confines in Madoka her deeper feelings about now regretting have saved Hitomi and that **because of the state of her body she can't face Kyosuke or be loved by him**\n * The next day we see Sayaka watching Hitomi and Kyosuke. i suspect that this was when Hitomi confessed and despite what Sayaka said to Madoka she was holding out hope that if Kyosuke rejected Hitomi then it might be a sign that he was waiting on Sayaka thus he might accept her condition. however Sayaka knows that Kyosuke has accepted Hitomi's feelings and became her boyfriend\n\nso right now Sayaka has had her heart broken and is giving into despair. some\ninterpretations of this i have seen is having the heart **ripped out of the\nbody**.\n\nCome Rebellion Story i suspect that Sayaka needed something to trigger her\nWitch to come forth so she recreates the feeling of having her heart ripped\nout by stabbing herself.\n\nI would like to say this would be the same for any Magical Girl with access to\nher Witch (recreating the feelings of despair they felt before transformation)\nhowever Nagisa is the only other Magical Girl who became a witch and went back\nto normal2 and she doesn't seem to show a despair trigger like Sayaka. But she\nmay have already summoned her witch form when she took Charlotte's form and\nbecame Bebe\n\n* * *\n\n1: i ignore the other timelines as Sayaka didn't seem to become more powerful\nbecause of them unlike Madoka\n\n2: Homura is something more so she doesn't count\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> On a few occasions throughout the series, we see Sayaka thrusting her own\n> sword through her chest, cutting her own heart out:\n\nOn a few? This happens once, in Rebellion o.ô\n\nWhy she does that ([source](https://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Oktavia_von_Seckendorff#Oktavia_\\(Rebellion\\))):\n\n> The mermaid witch. Once dreamt of love. This witch was cut loose once again\n> from a part of the Law of Cycles. Unlike the witch of sweets, the human and\n> witch's body can act independently. She can appear anywhere as long as there\n> is water.\n\nWhat I assume, after reading this, is that since there was no water in that\nbattle nearby, Sayaka simply stabbed out her heart in order to create such a\nhuge amount of blood, that she was able to summon Oktavia (since blood\ntechnically counts as water). After all, she knows that she's basically\nimmortal, so stabbing herself isn't a huge deal to her, especially since she\ngained a huge amount of wisdom as God's secretary.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHyouma is completely blind by birth. There is no doubt on this. But there is\nan unexplained connection between Hyouma and Gennosuke. With the\norder/granting/permitting of Gennosuke, he becomes able to\n\n 1. see.\n 2. use Gennosuke's ability to control other people's bodies.\n\nWhat is the explanation of this behavior? What exactly is Hyouma's special\nninja technique?\n\n* * *\n\nIt is used in only two scenes which are listed below. Note that, in the both\ntimes, Gennosuke was temporarily blind because of the poison of Hotarubi's\nsnake. His blindness may have something to do with it.\n\n**Episode 11** \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/O1g3r.jpg)\n\n**Episode 17** \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fHyLk.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaturally, the answer contains spoilers.\n\nBecause Hyouma is actually the one who taught Gennosuke his eye technique.\nGennosuke inherited the Dojutsu skill from his mother, and as his uncle,\nHyouma also possesses the same Dojutsu skill. However, Hyouma's case is\nspecial as\n\n 1. In the anime, \n\n> Hyouma's Dojutsu is constantly activated, forcing him to keep his eyes shut\n> at all times to avoid killing the wrong person at the wrong time.\n\n 2. In the original novel and manga, \n\n> [Hyouma] was born with light-sensitive eyes, [and therefore] is only able to\n> open them at night or other low-light conditions.\n\nReference: [Basilisk Wiki](http://basilisk.wikia.com/wiki/Hyouma_Muroga).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere have been only ten chapters and the manga has stopped being published.\nWhy? What about the parts of the plot that have been left unexplained?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring_ is a sequel mini-\nseries of the original Naruto manga, part of the Naruto Project. The Naruto\nProject is a special project to celebrate 15 years of the Naruto series.\n\nThe _Naruto Gaiden_ acts as a prelude for _Boruto: Naruto the Movie_.\n\nIn Japanese literature, a gaiden (外伝) means side story or tale.\n\n> The use of gaiden is commonly used in popular Japanese fiction to refer to a\n> spin-off of a previously published work that is neither officially\n> considered a sequel nor a prequel. However, some gaiden are retold stories\n> in the perspective of a different character, similar to that of a flashback.\n>\n> [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiden)\n\nTherefore gaiden is generally consists of only a few chapters.\n\nThe unexplained elements in the series might (most probably will) be\nelucidated in the upcoming series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am currently watching _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_. I have a question\nregarding the identity of the homunculus inside Selim Bradley.\n\nIs he Pride? Or is he another homunculus?\n\nIn [episode\n42](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood_episodes#Episodes_list),\nwhen Van Hohenheim met Pride in an underground passage in Liore, he said that\nPride shouldn't have been able to reside outside a spherical body.\n\nThis confuses me as to how Selim Bradley can be Pride. Am I missing something\nhere?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPotential spoilers for the manga and Brotherhood continuities. I'm being\nconservative with spoiler markdown, since I can't tell how much you've\nwatched.\n\nWe first get a crucial bit of information after Hawkeye interacts with Selim\n(ep. 37, vol. 18):\n\n> Selim is indeed Pride. Hawkeye gets suspicious about Selim while talking to\n> Mrs. Bradley and then is confronted by him. Hawkeye later passes on a\n> message to Roy stating that he is a homunculus (vol. 19, can't locate the\n> exact episode number).\n\nLater, the information is confirmed after Edward and the others return to\nCentral (ep. 46-49, vol. 21-23).\n\n> Edward, his brother, his father, and some people who joined him while he was\n> at Briggs fight Selim, who they notice is a homunculus. It is clearly shown\n> that he is Pride: I believe he makes some comment about this, and even if he\n> does not, it is clear from the eye pattern his attack comprises of that he\n> is the same homunculus Van Hohenheim confronted while in Lior (ep. 42, vol.\n> 19).\n\n* * *\n\nSo this leaves your question:\n\n> In episode 42, when Van Hohenheim met Pride in an underground passage in\n> Liore, he said that Pride shouldn't have been able to reside outside a\n> spherical body.\n\nHe was referring to Pride being restricted to a specific part of the\nunderground tunnels:\n\n> I assumed that it referred to only the parts of the tunnel that circle\n> Amestris, and the restriction only applied to Pride's real form (not his\n> human container).\n\nIt also appears that he was referring to where Pride's shadows could move (at\nleast when he was outside of Central), not where Pride's \"container\" or body\ncould be:\n\n> After all, Pride is Selim Bradley, and Selim Bradley has a relatively\n> normal-looking life on the surface of Central, where he is probably moving\n> _within_ the borders of the underground tunnels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSelime Bradley is Pride. he is the first Homunculi created by father in\nFather's image. he can travel anywhere with in the nation. the transmutational\ncircle acts as a secondary shell\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has been said that its purpose is to kill gods, but how can it kill gods,\nor a god? I watched the episode, but I just don't understand it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems like you missed (or did not get it yet, I am not sure when this is\nexplained) what [gods](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Gods) stand for.\n\n> The Gods is the term referring to the \"collective human unconsciousness\",\n> C's World, which is the source of the individual identities for all humans,\n> living and dead throughout the Code Geass Universe.\n\nHow it works never really was explained as far as I know. Nobody knows how it\nwas build either. but was 'accidentally' found by the British empire, and is\nexclusively owned by the emperor Charles.\n\nSo all with all it is.\n\n> It is a weapon to destroy CHU, C's world, and with that destroying the geass\n> and its powers all together, and all humans unconsciousness\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe activation chants (聖詠) for the Symphogear relics are somewhat peculiar. If\nyou've heard them, you likely wondered what was being said. If you've _read_\nthem (the \"lyrics\" were provided in the booklets accompanying the season 2 OST\ndiscs), you're probably outright bamboozled.\n\n * **Ame-no-Habakiri** : Imyuteus amenohabakiri tron [OST 1 #10]\n * **Gungnir (Hibiki)** : Balwisyall nescell gungnir tron [OST 1 #3]\n * **Gungnir (Maria)** : Granzizel bilfen gungnir zizzl [OST 1 #6]\n * **Ichaival** : Killter ichaival tron [OST 2 #3]\n * **Airgetlam** : Seilien coffin airget-lamh tron [OST 3 #7 (Serena) / OST 6 #6 (Maria)]\n * **Shul Shagana** : Various shul shagana torn [OST 5 #5]\n * **Igalima** : Zeios igalima raizen tron [OST 6 #1]\n * **Shen Shou Jing** : Rei shen shou jing rei zizzl [OST 5 #5]\n * Also, the **Zesshou** (Superb Song / Swan Song / Climax Song): \nGatrandis babel ziggurat edenal \nEmustolronzen fine el baral zizzl \nGatrandis babel ziggurat edenal \nEmustolronzen fine el zizzl\n\nNow, these don't look like any actual language (though I obviously can't claim\nto know all languages that exist). Yet, sites like the Symphogear wikia claim\n(or at least have, in the past, claimed) to translate the chants - for\nexample, Ichaival's chant [was given the translation \"Evening draws in the\nawakened\nIchaival\"](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Ichaival?oldid=13362#Transformation_Chants).\n\nIs it genuinely possible to translate the chants? If so, from what language or\nlanguages are they translated? (In the context of the show, Sumerian or some\nother old Mesopotamian language would make the most sense, because of Finé's\nconnections to the region.)\n\nAuxiliary question: if, as I suspect, they are not translatable, by what\n[citogenetic](https://xkcd.com/978/) process did these putative translations\ncome into being in the first place?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe symphogear wiki actually has the translation for the zesshou. But if I had\nto say for certain what language it is, I think the most likely is Sumerian.\nKadingir, the tower Fine used towards the end of first season, was said to be\nan ancient Sumerian word meaning gateway to the gods. Fine built the\nsymphogear and the tower, so it would make sense if both involved the same\nlanguage, and there the unified language lost to humanity could very well be\nSumerian.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't watched this show, but I used to be a linguistics nerd, and I'm\nhighly skeptical of the claim that these chants are written in actual\nSumerian. I think they're just a mishmash of English and English-looking\nnonsense.\n\nFirst, the case against the Sumerian theory. Disclaimer 1: I'm assuming that\nthese passages are appearing as the creators intended and we don't have a case\nlike the disaster in the Del Rey release of Negima Volume 6, where we had\nappendices full of complete nonsense being passed off as Greek because the\ntranslators had tried to transliterate the Greek into the Roman alphabet based\non Akamatsu's transliteration of the Greek into katakana. Disclaimer 2: I'm no\nexpert on Sumerian. But these passages don't pass the sniff test.\n\n### The phonology doesn't match the postulated Sumerian phonology\n\nLet's look at a passage of transliterated Sumerian:\n\n> An adab to Bau for Luma (Luma A) \n> 1\\. dumu an-na an gal ki gal-ta šag4 kug-ga-ni im-mi-in-pad3-de3 \n> 2\\. nam-nin kalam-ma-kam bi2-in-tum2-en \n> 3\\. dba-u2 dumu an-na an gal ki gal-ta \n> 4\\. šag4 kug-ga-ni im-mi-in-pad3-de3 \n> 5\\. nam-nin kalam-ma-kam bi2-in-tum2-en \n> 6\\. den-lil2-le e2-kur za-gin3-ta \n> 7\\. ki-sikil ama dba-u2 igi zid mu-un-ši-in-bar \n> 8\\. /en\\ dnin-ĝir2-su gal-bi mu-un-na-an-du7 \n> 9\\. kur gal den-lil2-le e2-kur za-gin3-ta \n> 10\\. ki-sikil ama dba-u2 igi zid mu-un-ši-in-bar\n\n(From [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-\nbin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.2.3.1&display=Crit&charenc=gcirc#](http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-\nbin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.2.3.1&display=Crit&charenc=gcirc#) at [Oxford\nUniversity's Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian\nLiterature](http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/). The transliteration is described\n[here](http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/cuneiformwriting.php))\n\nNotice what's missing? There are no initial clusters, like we see in\n_granzizel_ and _tron_. There are no dipththongs, as we see in _seilien_ and\n_raizen_. There is no _f_ , as we see in _bilfen_ and _coffin_ , or _v_ , as\nwe see in _various_ , or _o_ , as we see in _zeios_ and _shou_ , or _w_ or _y_\n, as we see in _balwisyall_. There seem to be no doubled _l_ 's, like we see\nin _kellter_ , or _c_ , as in _nescell_.\n\n> [...] syllable initial consonant clusters were prohibited by Sumerian\n> phonotactics [...]\n>\n> — [Aleksi Sahala, \"Sumero-Indo-European Language\n> Contacts\"](http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~asahala/asahala_sumerian_and_pie.pdf),\n> page 11.\n\n(There is some argument on this point. Cuneiform is a mixed\nlogographic/syllabic writing system—a little like Japanese, actually. Most\nsources state there were no initial consonant clusters, but [_Encyclopedia of\nLinguistics_](https://books.google.com/books?id=27JOMobauYAC&pg=PA1046&lpg=PA1046&dq=sumerian+phonotactics&source=bl&ots=lUfPx8ALat&sig=M1QWrppiLHSLLjK4Py4pBjc8gVw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQve3R5pHNAhVMRVIKHe1ABtIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=sumerian%20phonotactics&f=false)\nsays that although the cuneiform system \"precludes the writing of initial and\nfinal consonantal clusters, it is quite likely that Sumerian did have them.\"\nWe know this is true of Mycenaean Greek written in [Linear\nB](http://www.ancientscripts.com/linearb.html), for instance—like English\nwritten in the Japanese system, a Greek word like _khrusos_ is written in\nLinear B as _kuruso_.)\n\n> The vocalic system is quite simple: /a/, /e/, /i/, /u/. The possible\n> existence of an /o/ vowel remains unsubstantiated.\n>\n> — [_Encyclopedia of\n> Linguistics_](https://books.google.com/books?id=27JOMobauYAC&pg=PA1046&lpg=PA1046&dq=sumerian+phonotactics&source=bl&ots=lUfPx8ALat&sig=M1QWrppiLHSLLjK4Py4pBjc8gVw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQve3R5pHNAhVMRVIKHe1ABtIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=sumerian%20phonotactics&f=false),\n> page 1046\n\nAnd\n\n> To the best of today’s mainstream science, Sumerian consists of the\n> following consonants: \n> { b , d , g , p , t , k , m , n , ĝ , l , r , h , s , z , š , () }\n>\n> — [Ioannis Kenanidis, \"Yet Another Suggestion about the Origins of the\n> Sumerian\n> Language\"](http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijl/article/viewFile/4107/pdf_31),\n> page 31\n\nBecause Sumerian is incredibly ancient—it's the first known written\nlanguage—and so much of it has come down to us through Akkadian scribes, who\nkept using it after it was dead because they thought it was cool, and because\nof the difficulties with the writing system that I alluded to above, there's a\nton we don't know about it. No one believes the reconstructed phonology is\n100% correct, or even 90% correct. But what we see here is too far off base to\nbe taken seriously as an attempt to write Sumerian according to a\nreconstructed phonology.\n\n### You can see where they cribbed from\n\nWhatever language this is, it includes the English words _various_ and\n_coffin_ , as well as _killter_ , which looks a lot like _kilter_ , as in \"off\nkilter\". The word _baral_ in the swan song looks like it comes from Hebrew בלל\n(balal), which [means \"to confuse\" or \"to\nmix\"](http://biblehub.com/hebrew/1101.htm) and is [apparently the source of\nthe word \"Babel\"](http://www.abarim-\npublications.com/Meaning/Babel.html#.V1SxLZPyuRs). It uses the English form of\n_ziggurat_ ; the Akkadian form is\n[_ziqqurat_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat), while \"ziggurat\" comes\nfrom the Hebrew form [זיגוראט (zygwrʼt)](https://glosbe.com/en/he/ziggurat).\n\nThat doesn't automatically disqualify it as a real language; after all, in the\nAustralian language Mbabaram, [_dog_ means\n\"dog\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbabaram_language#Word_for_.22dog.22).\nBut, combined with the widespread use of English for mysterious and exotic\nthings in anime, this makes me highly suspicious of any claim that the\nsentences are Sumerian or any other language.\n\nAside from that, the sentences conform remarkably well to English phonology.\nAlmost all of these words are easily pronounceable to an English speaker. The\nones that look a little weird, like _zeios_ and _rei_ , show some pretty clear\nJapanese influence.\n\n### Machine systems can't make heads or tails of it\n\nI fed all the activation chants and the swan song to Google Translate and\n[Translated.net Labs's language detector](http://labs.translated.net/language-\nidentifier/), both together and individually. I wasn't expecting it to\ntranslate them, but I was hoping it would detect what language they were.\n\nAs a side note, machine translation still sucks, but this kind of language\ndetection is supposed to be pretty good; Russel and Norvig claim in\n_Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach_ that computer systems can\nidentify languages, even based on short texts like \"Hello world\" and \"Wie geht\nes dir\", with greater than 99% accuracy ( _AIMA_ 3ed., page 862).\n\nNone of these systems can detect Sumerian or Akkadian, but they can detect\nmost modern languages, even some quite obscure ones. The general consensus was\nthat the activation chants have a Germanic flavor (Google Translate pegged\nthem as English, even after I deleted the words _various_ and _coffin_ , while\nanother service took them as Frisian, a Germanic language closely related to\nEnglish), while the swan song was taken as Indonesian. Google Translate\ninsisted that both texts together were English, while Translated.net took both\ntexts together as\n[Sundanese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundanese_language).\n\nFor comparison, I took a passage from Shakespeare's _Titus Andronicus_ and a\nfew lines from The Who's \"Call Me Lighting\", shoved them together, and fed\nthem to Translated.net:\n\n> so, so; now sit: and look you eat no more than will preserve just so much\n> strength in us as will revenge these bitter woes of ours. marcus, unknit\n> that sorrow-wreathen knot: thy niece and i, poor creatures, want our hands,\n> and cannot passionate our tenfold grief with folded arms. this poor right\n> hand of mine is left to tyrannize upon my breast; who, when my heart, all\n> mad with misery, beats in this hollow prison of my flesh, then thus i thump\n> it down.\n>\n> hey little girl who's dancing so lightly, my xke is shining so brightly, the\n> noose around us is slowly tightening, i'm gonna show you why they call me\n> lightning\n\nEnglish, English, and more English. It defies my suspension of disbelief to\nthink that if these passages were all the same language, there would be so\nmuch confusion about what language that was.\n\nI have no idea what algorithm Google Translate uses; Translated.net seems to\nuse some kind of nearest neighbors algorithm.\n\n### The \"translations\" are absurd\n\nThe translation of Ichaival's chant seems to have been removed from the wikia\nsometime between when this question was asked and now, which probably doesn't\nsay much for its authenticity. But let's take a look at the one in the OP:\n\n_Killter ichaival tron_ -> Evening draws in the awakened Ichaival\n\nSince all the chants end with _tron_ , that has to be something that makes\nsense in every chant. Based on the context, I'm going to say that has to be\n\"awakened\"; it _is_ an activation song, so it makes sense that they would all\nbe \"awakened\". So _Ichaival tron_ means \"awakened Ichaival\". So we can\npostulate that this language puts modifiers after nouns, like Spanish and\nIrish.\n\nThen what does _killter_ mean? It has to mean _evening draws in_. But this is\nlinguistically absurd; it violates [constituent\nstructure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_\\(linguistics\\)). _draws\nin_ is a verb, while _evening_ is a noun. _killter_ can't literally mean\n_evening draws in_ in a real language (if it does, we've got the makings of a\nreal whopper of a paper in theoretical syntax here—it'll be almost to\ntheoretical syntax what those particles that traveled faster than light would\nhave been to relativity).\n\n_killter_ therefore must mean either _evening_ or _draws in_ , with the other\nelement implied or indicated in some way by the morphology. So we have a\nlanguage where you can just say _draws in_ , and everyone automatically\nassumes you meant _evening draws in_ , or a language where you can just say\n_evening_ , and everyone assumes you meant _evening draws in_. Some languages,\nat least in their poetry, do allow you to get incredibly terse like this.\nStill...I'm not buying it. It reminds me too much of [Helge K Fauskanger's\nanalysis of Auld Elvish from _Bored of the\nRings_](http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/auldelv.htm).\n\n### Conclusion\n\nI'm not convinced these are passages from a real language, or even from a\nsomewhat sensible conlang like the [Hymnos\nlanguage](http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/Hymmnos) from the _Ar Tonelico_\nseries. All my instincts are telling me they're just gibberish courtesy of the\npeople who gave us [a determination to\nfist](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/32546/7579). I wish I knew where the\n\"translations\" came from or why they spread around the online anime community,\na community generally obsessed with the minutiae of dead languages, which\n[surprised the Japanese production staff of Madoka](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Deciphering_the_runes#Trivia) with its determination to translate the\nrunes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nInspired by [Evilloli's excellent\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/33555/), I decided to figure out\nwhere these \"translations\" came from.\n\n* * *\n\nAfter clicking through a lot of diffs on the Symphogear wikia, I was able to\ntrace most of the \"translations\" back to [wikia user\nKanade2000](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Message_Wall:Kanade2000) \\-\ndiffs:\n[Ichaival](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Ichaival?diff=8056&oldid=8055),\n[Ame-no-\nHabakiri](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Ame_no_Habakiri?diff=prev&oldid=8054),\n[Gungnir](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Gungnir?diff=prev&oldid=8060). When\nasked [\"I couldn't help but notice you post the translations for the\nTransformation lyrics and the Zessho. If you could, could you tell me how you\ntranslated them?\"](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:3283), the user\nreplied \"using old norse dictionary that I found in my city library.i also\nhave a skandinavian one and a latin one\".\n\nThis answer does not inspire confidence in the user's linguistic faculties,\nparticularly when you notice that the same user [also tried to change the\nromanization of 絶刀 _zettou_ to\n\"zetsukatana\"](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:3821) (only a rank\namateur would consider combining the _on_ -reading _zetsu_ with the _kun_\n-reading _katana_ ).\n\nThese, I think, we can chalk up to a buffoon on the internet.\n\n* * *\n\n[The translation for the\nZesshou](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Zesshou?diff=8328&oldid=8090),\nhowever, comes from [wikia user\nSylphfarn12](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/User:Sylphfarn12) , and linked\n[G keyword 24](http://www.symphogear-g.com/introduction/keyword_24.php) (絶唱\n\"Zesshou\") as a reference. However, nothing in the text of the keyword page\nhas anything to do with the actual text of the Zesshou. I have no idea how\nthis user came up with their \"translation\". Buffoonery seems likely.\n\n(A different buffoon in the comments of the page indicates - with a startling\ndegree of confidence - that [\"Its Basque or Malay can't remember\nwhich\"](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Zesshou#comm-4290). Another user\n[rules out Malay in a\nreply](http://symphogear.wikia.com/wiki/Zesshou#comm-4299). So it must be\nBasque, right? Mission Accomplished!)\n\n* * *\n\nThis, I hope, serves as an object lesson in the dangers of trusting wikias.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nto be honest I believe that the idea was that there use to be a common tongue\nso what the creator ended up doing was combining some random languages to make\na form of common language to fill the gap left by the fact that we couldnt\npossibly know what a common language would even sound like\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure it's a mixture of multiple languages. The main one being\nUrudu. \"Croitzal ronzell gungnir\" In Urudu translates roughly to Calamity,\nRenaissance, and Guns. It makes the most sense out of anything else. Unless\nthey're actually using Dovahzul, Tengwar, D'ni, Atlantian, or some other\nTolkien-esque language that we're unaware of.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I doubt this will be helpful at all, but given the ties to the Tower of\nBabel legend in the first season and the fact that the relics are supposedly\nfrom this pre-Babel civilization in-lore. We _could_ arrive at the assumption\nthat the chants are words from multiple languages pulled together to create a\n\"harmony\" that echoes the \"Original Language\" spoken by the relic's creators.\nThis is not a real-world, this is definitive answer, but just based on what I\nknow of series lore so far and the rather extensive response by Torisuda this\nmakes the most sense to me. Gibberish, but gibberish on purpose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is avery interesting topic, and i bet it's a PUZZLE the anime's lore is\nstrongly related to the called \"balal no noroi\" or \"the curse of balal/babel\"\nso maybe the chants are a lot of different languages, modern, ancient and\nfictional, mixed together...\n\nmy educated guess for some, tron = forced activation, zizzl = natural\nactivation... the names of the relics and some words for what they think of\nthe relic...\n\nfor example, Maria says: seilen coffin = the coffin of Selena, the girl who\ndied using that relic Airgetlam = the name of the relic Tron = forced\nactivation of the relic made by the symphogear\n\nthe zesshou has that 'zizzl' word, which if i'm right, it's an activation\nwithout technology... as in kanade's and maria's gungnir activation... so they\ncould be using fine's power to increase their own, or just the power of the\ncurse of babel...\n\ncertainly all of this discussion is a mystery, but i believe it will be\nrevealed in the anime at some point, since language and songs are very\nrelevant to the lore...\n\nEdit: more than \"natural activation\" i think zizzl is \"wrong activation\" of\nthe symphogear, as if they are not supposed to use it, and they are not\nsupposed to use the zesshou....\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been playing Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls recently and I came across\nthese two pieces of art in game:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3SPHI.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/b9BXb.jpg)\n\nYou can probably tell from the picture, but the pannels are in a zigzag layout\n- and you have to look at it from a particular angle to get the full picture.\n\nThe first picture looks familar, but obviously it has monokumas in it instead\nof the original characters/thing - the second one seems to be a picture of\nTowa City - where the game is set, and might not be related. But seeing as it\nwas the other side of the panels, I thought the text might be relevant.\n\n**What is the original artwork that the Monokumas have taken over?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe it may be a monokuma version of the official 'Danganronpa Girls' /\n'Danganronpa Boys' artworks\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EvQjem.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z6XqAm.jpg)\n\nI'm not sure if the offical-ness of the male version, but both seem to have\nthe characters bunched up on one side, with some small effect in front of\nthem. In the monokuma version, this is replaced with blood.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Little Busters!: Refrain_ , we saw exactly how Kyousuke was able to get\nMasato to fight with only one hand and eventually defeat and befriend him.\nHowever, when it comes to how Kengo was recruited into the Little Busters, it\nwasn't played out in as much detail as Masato's. Specifically, I'm referring\nto this scene:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m7nd8.png)\n\nThere's no doubt that Kyousuke had used some dirty tricks on Kengo's father,\nbut I need more explanation on what was Kyousuke holding and what tricks he\npulled to overcome my disbelief that a kid could defeat a kendo master in a\nkendo match, fair or not. Was it ever explained in more details in the visual\nnovel?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen everyone was making fun of Naruko in class, Ginta turned around and\nrealized that she was writing something in her notebook. What was she writing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHer notes are translated in the fansub version of the episode (click on the\nimages to enlarge):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l9PQB.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LjPsP.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bbd7k.jpg)\n\nHere is my own translation of the notes, since the fansub translation above\nmissed some of the characters, resulting in slight deviation of meaning:\n\n> 違うっての やってねー！！ \n> It's not like that. I didn't do it!!\n>\n> 勝手なこと ぬかすな！！！ \n> Don't just say whatever you want!!!\n>\n> （？）遠に黙れ！！ \n> Shut the hell up!! [Note 1]\n>\n> 死ね！！ \n> Die!!\n>\n> 助けて \n> Help me\n\n[Note 1] A word or two are missing at the beginning, probably 永遠 (forever,\neternity). The translation here is my own preference.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn most anime, the character's names are usually common Japanese names (for\nexample, Yuuki, Yoko, Chiharu, etc.). So, why in Fullmetal Alchemist are the\ncharacters' names more on the English side of things?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main setting of FMA is in Amestris, which is a pastiche of various\nEuropean countries, in particular, England. (See the answers to [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/501/2604) for more details.) We\ncan readily see that English is used in-universe, for instance, when Hawkeye\ncorresponds with Roy, writing in vol. 19 of the manga:\n\n> SELIM BRADLEY IS HOMUNCULUS\n\nNote that many character names are not actually \"English\" or even German,\nalthough fans often posit Amestris to be a parallel of Germany. Some examples:\n\n * Jean Havoc's first name is French -- in English, Jean is more commonly a female name and is also pronounced differently -- and [Riza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa#Name_variants) is possibly a Hungarian name. [Olivier](http://www.behindthename.com/name/olivier) might sound English, but it is not an English spelling of the name Oliver.\n\n * With regards to the suggestion that the names are German, [Hughes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_\\(surname\\)), [Bradley](http://www.behindthename.com/name/bradley), and [Armstrong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_\\(surname\\)) are at most rather English in nature. Similarly, the German equivalent of Jean would presumably be Johann -- see this webpage on the [name](http://www.behindthename.com/name/john).\n\nI remember Arakawa stating she chose names at random from a dictionary of\nEuropean names for more minor characters, on some of manga bonus pages. I\ndon't remember the specific chapter where this appeared, but this is stated in\none of the answers of the question I linked to and also readily comes up in\nsearch results for `arakawa european name dictionary fullmetal alchemist`.\n\n**So in short: the names are not Japanese because the setting is largely in a\ncountry derived from Western Europe of the late 19th or early 20th century.**\nHowever, it is incorrect to say that the names are English or necessarily\nGerman in origin. Of course, it's possible that there's so much ethnic\ndiversity in Amestris that some variation in names isn't entirely unexpected,\nbut well, that supports the \"pastiche of Europe\" view of the setting more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI might be wrong, but I noticed that early anime (80s thru early 2000's) tend\nto have more English names. Not always, but sometimes, yah. I didn't even know\nSerena (from sailor moon) real name was usagi until 2011.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _DBZ: Battle of Gods_ , Goku became Super Saiyan God and he makes Beerus\nuse upto 70% of his energy. So, is it possible for Goku to defeat Beerus in\nhis Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no clear answer. But according to the\n[Wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_God_Super_Saiyan\n\"Wikia\") article on SSGSS:\n\n> The form exceedingly surpasses its predecessor, Super Saiyan God, and all of\n> the other Saiyan forms.\n\nThis source also mentions that SSGSS will appear in _Dragon Ball Super_ , so\nthere might be a chance, but we can't be sure unless we watch Dragon Ball\nSuper..\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs he is right now Goku is weaker than Bearus (it was said in the universe 6-7\ntournament that maybe the 2 of them together could give Beerus trouble).\n\nThe 70% stuff was changed. In the anime Beerus just says he didn't use his\nfull potential (otherwise Goku would already be several times stronger than\nBeerus).\n\nSo yeah, he may reach him by the end of the anime\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Vegeta could defeat Beerus. After all, he did unlock Super Saiyan Blue\nevolution which cuts through the energy of destruction, something Goku hasn't\nbeen able to do yet.\n\nGoku could take on Beerus in Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken times 20 since\nToriyama did confirm SSJBK and SSJB evolution to be at the same level. Super\nSaiyan God? Maybe if Beerus was already at 100 of his power and ran out of\nstamina and stuff and Goku uses it at the right time and beats him somehow. Or\nmaybe even go SSH God Kaio-ken to save stamina since Super Saiyan God Blue\ndrains more ki than the regular Super Saiyan God form.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell now we know the answer is no. In the tournament between universe 6\nagainst universe 7, Hit was at the level of Goku Super Saiyan Blue Kaioken x10\n(Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Kaioken x10) . And Hit was threatened by Champa\nwho is in a similar level than Beerus. Goku wanted to help Hit, because he\nknew Hit likely wouldnt be able to defeat Champa alone (and probably he\nwouldnt be able to defeat him at all). So if Goku super saiyan blue Kaioken\nmultiplied 10 times might not even be at the level of Beerus-Champa, even less\nsuper saiyan blue with no multiplier. Plus in the manga they say Vegito (Goku\nand Vegeta fusion) seems to be in the level of Beerus. And Fusion adds the\npower of both fighters and multiplies it \"tens of times\" (according to Vados).\nSo most likely Super Saiyan Blue is \"tens of times\" weaker than Beerus. Ultra\nInstinct Goku might be in the level or above Beerus, since Beerus didnt master\nUltra Instinct (and Goku sort of did, he could use his full power/abilities\nbut for a while)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo it is not. Since way after the Gold Frieza Saga in the manga, around book\n5, Vegeta and Beerus fought, SSGSS vs Beerus base, and Vegeta lost easily. The\nonly way Goku could beat 100% Beerus is with MUI or some crazy form like\nlimit-breaking Super Saiyan 4.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have 3 _Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Rebellion Story_ soundtracks. they\nare,\n\n * OP Single - Colorful\n * ED Single - Kimi no Gin no Niwa\n * Original Soundtrack\n\nI believed this was all there was and while waiting for an appointment i\nsearched though all 3 looking to see if i could find the _Cake Song_ that the\nPuella Magi sing at the beginning of the movie (when the Nightmare is changed\ninto a cake for Bebe to eat).\n\ni thought i might find it as just before i listened to _wo ist die Kase?_ from\n_Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Beginning Story & The Eternal Story Original\nSoundtrack_, Track 7. if i remember correctly this is the song/chant that's in\nthe background when Sayaka and Madoka enter a labyrinth before Mami saves\nthem, and it only goes for about 40-45 seconds (track file on my iPod/iPhone\nsays 50 seconds however there's a block of silence at the end).\n\nBut after listening to all the songs in The Rebellion Story soundtracks i\ncouldn't find the Cake Song. However i admit i didn't listen to the entirety\nof every song, rather the first couple of second then i skip about a couple of\nminutes to listen to another couple of seconds.\n\nSo i am wondering if the Cake Song was officially released on a soundtrack, if\nso which one?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCake Song from _Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion_ has\n[not been officially released](https://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Madoka_Magica_Soundtrack#Movie_3) as part of [any\nsoundtrack](http://otakuworldsite.blogspot.com/2013/03/mahou-shoujo-madoka-\nmagica-ost.html#.VfdAw5c-h8E) for the anime. Fortunately, there are many sites\nto download the mp3 for free.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the night before Final Battle against Kuromorimine Girls High School on\nepisode 10, all girls from Usagi Team are seen watching a movie, and it looks\nlike a movie about tank.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7QZ1Y.jpg)\n\nWhat movie was it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey were watching [Kelly's\nHeroes.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly's_Heroes) It's an old war movie\nin 1970 about a group of American soldier who tried to rob a bank far behind\nenemy line.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EONaW.jpg)\n\nWhile the original poster looks different, it match with Japanese poster for\nthe movie\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S6yJ5m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QnxStm.jpg)\n\nThe scene they were watching is around 1:56:00 when Oddball and Kelly, the\nmain character, shoot down a Tiger, the same tank with Kuromorimine's tank.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/N4Tpo.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sbGZ7.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\n**Notes:**\n\n * The girls seems to use the same tactic against Elefant, they manages to outmaneuver Elefant, and shoot it down from behind in a narrow road. Initially, they shouted, \"Operation: Kelly's Heroes\".\n * When Yukari infiltrated Saunders, she called herself \"Sgt. Oddball, third class\" from the \"6th Armored Division.\" Which I believe came from Oddball from Kelly's Heroes\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs stated in the title, what are the differences between the two? Are they\nsupposed to be entirely different or is simply the next stage of the previous?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, or simply Super Saiyan God SS is the result\n> of a Saiyan gaining the power of Super Saiyan God and then transforming into\n> a Super Saiyan.\n>\n> This form is physically identical to the first Super Saiyan God form,\n> overall body structure being thinner and slightly taller. The only\n> difference being that the hair is similar to the Super Saiyan transformation\n> but in a blue color. The aura; as opposed to the red-orange aura the\n> previous God form had, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan boasts a vibrant,\n> flame-like blue aura. Additionally, electricity discharges around the user,\n> signifying the power increase.\n>\n> (Source:\n> [dragonball.wikia.com](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_God_Super_Saiyan))\n\nSo SSGSS is the next stage of SSG.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBesides the physical aspects and the power increase already mentioned, super\nsaiyan blue puts more stress in the saiyan body, another difference which was\nshown in the series but not in the movie, it's the super saiyan god (red) has\nregeneration habilities, when wounded by Beerus who introduced half his hand\nin Goku's body and knocked him almost unconscious, he heals the wound\ncompletely after a few minutes. These features if made intentional and not\ncasual are very interesting because it gives room for all kinds of new\ntechniques in the future, one of them is already shown in the last chapter of\nthe manga by Vegeta.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there a correlation between these two characters? I was wondering if the\nsame illustrator drew both characters or if perhaps one of them was sort of a\nhomage to the other. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zZiTU.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XrBdW.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am just referencing [nhahtdh's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/25883/is-there-a-reason-\ngotou-and-menthuthuyoupi-look-so-similar/27893#comment36014_25883) as the\nanswer since it seems he does not want to post it as an answer.\n\nBut the reason that there could be similar character design in two different\nanimes could be due to:\n\n> 1. Author Influence\n> 2. Limit in number of designs([birthday\n> paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem))\n> 3. Tracing(unlikely)\n>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, both characters are rather similar. They both were extraordinry\nbeings, created by not one, but multiple creatures. Both tend to find interest\nin Humanity but wont lose sight of their goals, I'm sure there are even more\nsimilarities between them\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring Chapter 5: Absolute Despair Girls in Danganronpa: Ultra Despair girls,\nwe get to visit Jatoro's room.\n\nI noticed a painting there that seemed like it could be a reference or an\nexisting work.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rQfvs.jpg)\n\n**Is this an original painting, or is it an existing work - or a reference to\none?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a take on **_Woman with a Parasol, turned to the left_** by painter\nClaude Monet. Although in this version the woman has pink hair - possibly\nreferring to Junko Enoshima or Kotoko Utsugi.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fqbYo.jpg)\n\nI'd say it's more likely to be Junko because:\n\n> Firstly the hair length is similar to Junkos, Also Jataro confesses to\n> Komaru and Toko that Junko was the only person who had ever shown him\n> affection and love. It's also implied he has a childlike crush on her.\n\nThe original painting is of Alice Hoschedé\n\n> who was later to become Monet's wife. Possibly a desire of Jotaro's brought\n> out in his painting.\n\nShe was one of Monet's favourite models.\n\n[Reference](http://www.wga.hu/html_m/m/monet/07/1vario03.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls we are told that the people selected\nto be _hunted_ are related to the characters in the original game.\n\nSome of these are relatively straight forward, but it's been a while since\nI've played the first game so some links are lost on me.\n\n**How are the new characters related to the old ones?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot of the links can be found if you go on the wiki. The targets were all\nthe most important person to their corresponding character from the first\ngame. For Example, Hiroko Hagakure is Yasuhiro Hakagure's mother, and Yuta\nAsahina is Aoi Asahina's brother. But, not all of these figures are human.\nCelestia Ludenburg's most important person was her cat, and Touko Fukawa's was\na bug.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Joukamachi no Dandelion_ , there is a character named Yonezawa Sachiko\n(aka \"Sacchan\"). There also exists a real human being named Misawa Sachika.\nObserve the following:\n\n * Sachiko is voiced by Sachika.\n * Their names are curiously similar, sharing three of five characters - 米 **澤紗千** 子 vs. 三 **澤紗千** 香.\n * Sachiko is an idol. While I don't know that I would characterize Misawa as an \"idol\", per se, she is a skilled vocalist, and certainly strikes me as the idol \"type\" of voice actress.\n * Sachiko has something of a resemblance to Sachika (though, granted, this is not a hugely uncommon look for a young Japanese woman to have):\n\n\n\n\nThis leads me to wonder: was Sachiko inspired in some way by Sachika?\nChronologically, it's feasible - _Joukamachi_ has only been in print since\nJune 2012, by which point, Sachika had already debuted (in 2008) and had her\nfirst major voice-acting role (Kuroyukihime in _Accel World_ , in spring\n2012).\n\nHas the author of the manga (or, for that matter, Sachika herself) commented\non this?\n\n(Wikipedia claims that this is indeed the case; however, I would like to see\nsome kind of citation if possible. Twitter, a manga afterword, whatever.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched the first episode of _Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou_. It was a\nthrilling experience. However, it came to my attention that one of the monster\ngirls is, in fact, a spider-girl. My tolerance for invertebrates - and in\nparticular, for those with too many legs - is very low. So I stopped watching\n_MonMusu_.\n\nIn order to help me evaluate whether I will be able to tolerate watching the\nrest of the show, I would like to know how much the spider-girl appears in the\nshow. Answer this however you would like; some parameters that would interest\nme are:\n\n * When does she first appear? (i.e. are the first _n_ episodes safe to watch?)\n * Is the show structured so that each girl gets her own block of episodes (like an \"omnibus\")? If so, which episodes are the spider-girl's episodes? (so I can avoid them)\n * If not, is the show structured in any other way that makes it easy to avoid the parts in which she appears? (e.g. multiple clearly delineated segments per episode?)\n * Roughly what fraction of the show following her first appearance has her appearing on-screen?\n\n",
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The only information that you're missing out on by skipping\nthe last few minutes is that\n\n> The man with the camera is selling Rachnera's spider webs as thread for an\n> easy way of making money.\n\n* * *\n\n### Episode 7\n\n**12:53 - 12:54** , **13:18 - 13:25** , **13:29-13:31** , in which\n\n> the MON special forces team raid the house of the director. Rachnera escapes\n> during this time.\n\nplus **14:41 - 15:54** , **15:58 - 16:24** , **16:29 - 17:31** , **17:38 -\n18:20** , **18:34 - 19:58** , **20:23 - 20:33** , **20:36 - 21:00** , **21:04\n- 21:09** and **21:13 - 22:10** for a combined total of **363 seconds** of\nscreentime.\n\nDuring this time,\n\n> Rachnera first torments Kimihito a little, before explaining how she didn't\n> get along with her host family, and ended up moving in with the director\n> from episode 6. Smith and co. surround the building the two are in, but the\n> situation is resolved with Rachnera moving in with Kimihito and the others.\n\n* * *\n\n### Episode 8\n\n**1:52 - 1:55** , **1:57 - 2:04** , **2:08 - 2:45** , **3:32 - 3:35** , **4:00\n- 4:19** , **4:32 - 5:10** , **5:25 - 5:30** , **8:11 - 8:40** , **8:45 -\n8:52** , **8:54 - 9:08** , **9:24 - 9:47** , **9:55 - 10:17** , **10:23 -\n10:27** , **10:33 - 10:35** and **10:45 - 11:21** in which Rachnera\n\n> torments Kimihito, getting Cerea jealous in the process. At the end of this\n> half, she saves Cerea and Kimihito from some thugs by tying them up.\n\nplus **11:26 - 11:32** , **12:34 - 12:46** , **13:00 - 13:07** , **13:30 -\n14:01** , **14:24 - 14:28** , **15:27 - 15:34** , **18:22 - 18:29** , **18:38\n- 18:50** , **20:38 - 20:40** , **20:45 - 20:47** , **20:59 - 21:08** and\n**21:17 - 21:30** for a total of **361 seconds** of screentime. In the latter\nhalf, Rachnera has no major impact on the story.\n\n* * *\n\n### Episode 9\n\n**9:16 - 9:29** , **9:32 - 10:35** , **10:50 - 10:57** and **11:12 - 11:15**\nfor a total of **86 seconds** of screentime.\n\nIn which\n\n> Rachnera and Miia climb up the side of the building the Smith and Kimihito\n> are in, only to discover that the date is a ruse to attempt to lure out the\n> sender of a threatening letter.\n\nThere's a nice Metal Gear Solid reference as Rachnera appears for the first\ntime in this episode, if you can stomach a bit of spider-ness.\n\n* * *\n\n### Episode 10\n\n**14:00 - 14:08** , **14:15 - 14:21** , **14:37 - 14:39** , **19:02 - 19:25**\n, **19:29 - 19:40** , **19:54 - 20:09** , **21:26 - 21:46** , for a total of\n**85 seconds** screentime. Rachnera has no major impact on this episode.\n\n* * *\n\n### Episode 11\n\n**13:52 - 14:06** , **14:29 - 14:35** , **18:28 - 18:41** , **19:35 - 19:41**\n, **20:35 - 20:46** , **21:02 - 21:06** , **21:22 - 21:30** , **21:31 -\n21:36** , for a total of **67 seconds** screentime. Rachnera again has no\nmajor impact on the story here. The only thing you might miss is\n\n> the explanation of the Dullahan being the writer of the second letter, and\n> that Kimihito is \"on the verge of death\".\n\n* * *\n\n### Episode 12\n\n**0:09 - 0:13** , **0:30 - 0:36** , **0:43 - 0:49** , **06:24 - 06:28** ,\n**06:31 - 06:49** , **06:54 - 06:57** , **07:03 - 07:10** , **07:28 - 07:35**\n, **07:38 - 07:43** , **08:01 - 08:07** , **08:32 - 08:35** , **08:43 -\n08:48** , **09:00 - 09:03** and **10:36 - 10:42**\n\nIn which Rachnera\n\n> First ties up Lala the Dullahan to allow Kimihito to escape, before changing\n> her outlook on the situation, siding with her to 'put Kimihito out of his\n> misery without making him suffer more than he has to'. Naturally, the\n> situation is resolved peacefully with no real harm coming to Kimihito, and\n> the Dullahan being placed under his care.\n\nAdditionally, (notes on the Dullahan specifically)\n\n> It's revealed that Lala doesn't really see Kimihito as one marked by death,\n> but is instead intrigued by his ability to live through the countless near\n> death situations from the previous episodes. The first half ends ominously,\n> with Lala stating that while Kimihito may be safe for now, Dullahans are\n> still omens of death.\n\nplus **12:04 - 12:12** , **12:23 - 12:32** , **15:01 - 15:16** and **20:24 -\n20:27** for a total of **118 seconds** of screentime. In the second half of\nthis episode, Rachnera has no major impact on the story.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe title of Plastic Neesan is clearly refering to one of the characters and\nto the fact that they are doing plastic models. When looking at the anime,\nNeesan isn't more of a main character than Sakamaki or Okamoto.\n\nIs there any information about where this part of the title comes from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe title is just referencing the main character [_Iroe\nGenma_](http://myanimelist.net/character/42719/Iroe_Genma). Due to her status\nas the head of the model club and a third year high school student the\nunderclassmen call her Nee-san. It is true that Sakamaki and Okamoto are also\nmain characters but in every synopsis of the manga and anime that I read\nstated something along the lines of:\n\n> Plastic Nee-san is a very short anime that follows a third-year high school\n> girl who likes building plastic models and the wacky conversations she has\n> with her fellow club members.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the\n[Wiki](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Curriculum_Program#Promotion_and_propaganda),\nMikoto was a child prodigy, and started at Level 1 instead of Level 0. Is she\na [Gemstone](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Gemstone) or a [person\nwith\n'idiosyncracies'](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Gemstone_Mining#Early_incidents),\nor neither?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, she is not.\n\nShe has been recognized by the system as someone with high potential, and as\nsuch was given funds and research to develop her powers all the way up to\nlevel 5. Also, Mikoto's own nature and hard-working personality contributed to\nher ascent.\n\nMikoto isn't a gemstone, and wasn't born with any sort of abilities, she got\nthem at Academy City.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nThere is an unusual scene in the [opening of \"The Memories of\nPhantasm\"](https://youtu.be/Ap5910bTGLA?t=2m20s), in which we see Kirisame\nMarisa with some kind of measurement or detection device on her back. Does it\nhave a reference in any Touhou anime, manga or novel?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is probably referencing to a Touhou game which will be later adapted into\nan anime in the series.\n\nA lot of the openings for \"Memories of Phantasm\" incorporate scenes from later\nepisodes. For example, the opening of the first episode has scenes which later\nappeared in the next 3 episodes.\n\nThis scene:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VxAvG.png)\n\nWas in episode 2.\n\nIn the 5 openings so far there's lots of sneak previews of what appears to be\nreferences to other Touhou games: for example, [Subterranean\nAnimism](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Subterranean_Animism) and [Imperishable\nNight](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Imperishable_Night).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JYxue.png)\n\nThe scene with Marisa with a measurement devise on her back is almost\ncertainly another reference Subterranean Animism to as the three characters\nshown - Nitori, Patchouli and Alice - are [Marisa's partner's in the\ngame](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Subterranean_Animism/Gameplay#Character_Statistics).\nIt is also underground which is where Subterranean Animism is set.\n\nFurthermore in the game, the protagonists are given a device that\n[Yukari](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yukari_Yakumo) made:\n\n> But others got worried, and wanted them to go down into the Underworld, with\n> a device Yukari Yakumo made so they could talk even underground.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[_Girl_](http://animatorexpo.com/girl/) may be a visual masterpiece, but its\nmeaning is completely lost on me. Or rather, the meaning of these two scenes:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tHxg6.png)\n\nThe start of the whole scene happens around 7:35. The main character is\nrecreating the world in her own, unique way, and a couple walks by. It does\nappear as if the main character is initially put off or curious about what\nthey're doing so close to each other, but I can't think of anything that\nprovoked her to freak out in the manner that she did.\n\nThe [lyrics near that\npart](https://foregroundnoises.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/daoko-girl-\nside-b-%E3%82%86%E3%82%81%E3%81%BF%E3%81%A6%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%81%82%E3%81%9F%E3%81%97-part-22/)\ndon't really provide context, either.\n\n> 足りないものしかない\n>\n> 足りないものしかみえない\n>\n> あたし以外のすべて\n>\n> きらめいてみえる理由\n\n \n\n> There's nothing but things that aren't enough\n>\n> I can't see anything but things that aren't enough\n>\n> Everything, except for myself\n>\n> Has a reason to sparkle\n\nI sort of understand that the main character is alone and has been alone for a\nwhile, but...the freak-out just doesn't make any sense based on what we'd seen\nup to that point.\n\nCould anyone shed some light on this? I'm...confused.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've just read the newest Detective Conan comic online. There's a case when\nYumi calls Shukichi and Sera call her brother at the same time. When Yumi\ntalks to Shukichi, Shukichi holds their conversation because someone else is\ncalling at the same time. Sera calls her brother but Sera's Brother also stops\ntheir conversation because he is in an important call with someone. So, does\nthat mean Sera's Brother is Shukichi Haneda?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt this time unless and until canon says otherwise, it is reasonable to assume\nthat Sera's brother is Shikichi Haneda. However, Gosho Aoyama certainly knows\nhow to mislead his readers, so it's definitely not a sure thing as far as I'm\nconcerned. See also [Shukichi\nHaneda](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Shukichi_Haneda#Yumi.27s_Love_Story_.28Manga:_847-849.3B_Anime:_731-732.29)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is implied that there were five wars in total, and it's likely that their\nwinners would each have wished for something epic, like immortality or godlike\npowers, but throughout Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night the world doesn't appear\nto have been affected at all by previous wishes. Am I missing something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNote the Holy Grail War was originally a means to get to [the\nRoot](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Akasha), although only the Tohsaka family\nhas retained this goal. (This appears either in \"Heaven's Feel\" or \"Unlimited\nBlade Works\".) The Holy Grail as a granter of wishes is described as \"only an\nexcuse made for outsiders\" in UBW. Thus, in some sense, the wish-granting\ncomponent is very secondary. That said, [the Grail can\nmaterialise](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/132/2604) and grant wishes if\nenough servants have been destroyed.\n\nSomewhat more importantly then, in UBW section of the VN, we learn about the\nEinzberns' failure to complete the Grail. Supplementing this with the\n[Wiki](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Holy_Grail_War), we thus have:\n\n 1. The First Holy Grail War seems to have been a failure: the Wiki states that a conflict of interests among participants ended the ritual before it could be completed. This would make sense, as it otherwise would be odd for all three families to continue in the ritual had they succeeded.\n\n> This is particularly true of [Zouken\n> Matou](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Zouken_Matou), who has been around\n> since the beginning.\n\nThis description is ambiguous enough that it's possible that one of the\nexternal participants had a wish granted. However, it sounds more likely that\nthe entire ritual failed.\n\n 2. The Second Holy Grail War is said to have developed into a murder spree which nobody survived, so there was no winner. (As a result, the Church got involved as a mediator.)\n\n 3. The Wiki states that in the Third Holy Grail War, \"the Lesser Grail was destroyed during the battles before the victor could be decided, so the ritual became meaningless and failed.\" (Also mentioned [here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/20806/2604) \\-- the effect was that the Einzberns started using homunculi to contain the Grail.)\n\n 4. What happened in the Fourth Holy Grail War is obvious if you've seen _Fate/zero_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSymphogear Live 2012 - the concert for the first season - was, sadly, [not\nofficially videotaped](http://zoid9000.tumblr.com/post/102487159552/do-you-\nknow-if-exist-any-videos-of-symphogear-live). This being the case, I would be\nvery interested to know what the program for the concert was. In particular:\n\n * What was the set list? (i.e. which songs were performed? Given the relatively limited number of Symphogear songs in existence as of the end of season one - 13, by my reckoning - I would hope the answer is \"all of them\".)\n * Did the concert feature any segments of particular interest aside from the vocal performances? (talk segments and so forth, say)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw _Angel Beats_ a couple of years ago (can't really remember when), and I\nremember that Tenshi\n\n> created her powers with a software program.\n\nSo why didn't the SSS create powers themselves to fight her, if they were\nlater on shown to be able to create weapons out of dirt?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf they remember how to do it, they can create weapons.\n\nAlso, at some point they can try to create things they don't remember (for\nexample, the cannon at guild basement).\n\nProbably, one or two people from the guild remember weapons, and they instruct\nthe others.\n\nFor creating skills (power, abilities, body weapons), they need to know how to\ncode and have a computer. They can get a computer from the computer room #1,\nbut they also need the Angel Player software and a programmer (and apparently,\nonly Takeyama knows how to do it).\n\nAlso, you don't know if the Angel Player is a software from the afterlife, or\na software created by Tenshi. Maybe, the software itself is more difficult to\ncreate.\n\nLastly, if I remember correctly, Tenshi is the longest afterlife inhabitant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the latest issue of _Shokugeki no Souma_ , Erina's father talks about food\nthat only selected people can enjoy, but didn't really pinpoint what it is.\nI'm kind of confused because nobody from the spectators asked what kind of\nfood it was? He only said that it's some kind of artwork or something like\nthat.\n\nBut because her father has a dark atmosphere around him, I can't help but\nthink that it may be some taboo/forbidden style of gourmet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I'm not mistaken he's not quite talking about \"enjoying\" the food as much\nas he is talking about \"understanding\" the food. I say this because of two\npages in particular. (I believe one is the one that you quoted from.)\n\nFirstly, in Chapter 133 page 12 he states that \"True Gourmet Food, It greatly\nresembles excellent paintings, sculptures, and music.\" Then he goes on to\nstate \"The true worth of all first rate art can only be understood by those\nwho have a certain quality of character.\" I believe he's implying that most of\nthe people in the room (possibly the world also, he is pretty arrogant) are\njust amateur spectators and don't really know, and will never know, what \"True\nGourmet Food\" is.\n\nSecondly, in Chapter 133 on page 13 he states that the only thing that should\nbe called \"Cuisine\"/\"Gourmet Food\" Shoul be the food for the select few that\nunderstand it's worth (The Above Paragraph). Any other food is just fodder.\nWhich further backs my point that I made that says he thinks that majority of\npeople won't know what \"Gourmet Food\" is. I say this because Fodder is a food\nfor livestock and I'm assuming based on his personality that he is comparing\nthe general public to cattle.\n\nIt might be that he is talking about a taboo/forbidden style of gourmet, but I\nthink that it is more likely that he is just talking himself up and talking\nothers down.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRecently my partner has grown very fond of Anime/Manga of all sorts. She has\nseveral applications on her iPhone allowing her to view manga. I would like to\nknow what you all believe the best method is, to perform:\n\n 1. Buy Manga sets in an electronic form, such as Naruto Season 1;\n 2. Have an application (iPhone and Windows preferably) to allow us to categorise the manga; e.g. By Rating, Type, Language etc. ;\n 3. Allow transfer of library between platforms so that we can read on Windows and iPhone\n\nHere is an example:\n\n[code]\n\n I buy Naruto, Season 1 in electronic format and download it to PC as *.mobi, *.pdf\n I then edit fields such as category, author, rating, etc. \n I then sync with my iPhone using App_X \n \n[/code]\n\nNow I understand that there are plenty of online sites where you can read\nManga, but I want to be able to own the manga titles and be able to access\nthem offline, on the road etc.\n\nI had a look for [Book Crawler](https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/book-\ncrawler/id344978094?mt=8) for iOS which seems like a wonderful application for\nbook management in the sense of \"what have I read and what did I rate:, but\nnot for what I need.\n\n[Viz](http://www.viz.com/manga/digital) seems like my best option to own the\nManga. I am not entirely sure if there are any cheaper alternatives on the\nmarket. If I buy via their application then it appears that I am locked onto\nan iPhone to read the manga. Fair enough, she never uses a computer however\nI'd like to be able to edit it.\n\nI've used applications like Calibre to edit and tag my books before on\nAndroid..so I was hoping for some integration with iPhone to PC.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell there are a couple of resources but this review\n[page](http://organizationasg.kokidokom.net/2013/08/13/this-is-how-you-can-\nread-manga-legally-in-2013/) [alternate webarchive\n[link](https://web.archive.org/web/20151226221802/http://organizationasg.kokidokom.net/2013/08/13/this-\nis-how-you-can-read-manga-legally-in-2013/) because it was down] might\ninterest you pertaining to certain uses. I'll just leave it as an answer here\ninstead of the comments.\n\nThe author titles the post :\n\n> This is How You Can Read Manga Legally in 2013\n\nWhile not quite 2013, it has still many relevant links:\n\nFirst the author mentions [E-manga](https://www.emanga.com/)\n\n> Where you can read it: It’s a worldwide service.\n>\n> How you can read it: Bunch of ways: you can download it in 7 formats (PRC,\n> MOBI, EPUB, PDF, CBZ, Apple EPUB, Kobo EPUB), for a bunch of devices, though\n> it depends for some: PC, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Android,\n> Nook 6”, Nook Color, Kobo 6”, Kobo Tablets, Sony Readers, Linux, Mac,\n> Windows, and Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Motorola Xoom, Abode Digital Editions,\n> Blackberry, Bebook, Aluratek Libre Pro, Cybook Opus, Digital Reader 1000, EZ\n> Reader by Astak, Hanlin, iLiad, iRiver Story.\n\nThe author further provides their social media, email and about links in the\nreview page:\n\n> Anything Extra: Registration here\n>\n> Email: [email protected]\n>\n> Social Media: Twitter, Facebook\n\nHe also does a mini-review or commentary of that particular site that he lists\nwhich I found quite nice:\n\n> They have just about every type of manga you want: Shoujo, Shounen, Seinen,\n> Josei, Yaoi, Yuri, Hentai, the works. They are pretty pricey though, ranging\n> from the $9.99 range or higher for a good portion of their titles. As far as\n> I know, most people don’t like to spend that much for physical books;\n> they’ll probably just laugh at seeing the prices here. Otherwise, they’re\n> one of the few publishers that actually allows you to have files for you to\n> keep.\n\nHe goes on in this format, mentioning other sites:\n\n * [MangaReborn](http://en.mangareborn.jp/)\n * [Gen Manga](http://www.genmanga.com/)\n * [Viz Media](http://www.vizmanga.com/)\n * [Weekly Shonen Jump](http://shonenjump.viz.com/)\n * [Netcomics](http://netcomics.com/)\n * [Kodansha USA](http://kodanshacomics.com/)\n * [Yen Press](http://www.yenpress.com/yenplus/)\n * [Vertical Inc](http://vertical-inc.com/)\n * [Dark Horse](http://www.darkhorse.com/Zones/Manga)\n * [Seven Seas](http://www.gomanga.com/)\n * [SuBLime Manga](https://www.sublimemanga.com/)\n * [Rental](http://en-renta.papy.co.jp/renta/)\n * [Amimaru Manga](http://amimaru.com/)\n * [J-Comi](http://www.j-comi.jp/)\n * [Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga)\n\nWhile the sites are directly linked here, if you need more information other\nthan where to buy electronically scanned manga, like the reviews for each\nsite, support the author by going to the site.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt might be worth keeping an eye on <https://www.humblebundle.com/books> \\-\nthey've done manga _bundles_ before , and you can download them as .PDF ,\n.mobi , etc.\n\nAlso, a lot of devices have Kindle reader apps, so you could check out\n[Amazon's selection of Manga ebooks too](http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Kindle-\nsBooks/b/ref=amb_link_385559862_1?ie=UTF8&node=156115011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-\nsearch-1&pf_rd_r=0RJFRY5HWXZA3A19V4BP&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1875768182&pf_rd_i=156115011)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Note: The whole post is a spoiler.**\n\n* * *\n\nHow did Koichi come to be in possession of [Aoi\nTsunemori](http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Aoi_Tsunemori)'s ear?\n\nIn Episode 9 of Psycho-Pass 2, [Koichi\nKuwashima](http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Koichi_Kuwashima) gave a present\nto [Akane Tsunemori](http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Akane_Tsunemori) before\nturning himself over to MWPSB. That present was revealed to hold Aoi\nTsunemori's ear.\n\nGiven the circumstances, I assumed that Koichi or [Kirito\nKamui](http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Kirito_Kamui) and company abducted\nAkane's grandmother, but given Akane's reaction I suppose Aoi wasn't killed up\nuntil that time.\n\nHowever, earlier in the same episode [Sakuya\nTogane](http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Sakuya_Togane) ordered [Mika\nShimotsuki](http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Mika_Shimotsuki) to determine the\nwhereabouts of Akane's grandmother. Also, in the scene next to Akane's\nreaction after seeing Aoi's ear, the expressions on Togane's face implied (as\nI saw fit) that he was involved in that brutal act.\n\nIn the last episode, Togane had revealed that he was the one behind the brutal\nkilling of Aoi, whose body was found in Warehouse district (not sure whether\nit is the same district where she was living; an earlier episode revealed that\nshe was living in a nursing home with considerable drones guarding the place).\n\nAll of this doesn't seem to add up to a coherent plot.\n\n * Kirito and company knew where Aoi was living and they were able to hack the drones guarding the place, as witnessed in an earlier episode.\n * Togane came to know about Aoi's home via Mika.\n\nFollowing are the two events that I suppose happened in the story but were not\nrevealed and left to ponder:\n\n * Koichi or friends stormed the house, took away Aoi's ear, and left off. Later, Togane came and killed Aoi brutally -- too many flaws in this plot.\n * Alternatively, Togane first reached the house, killed Aoi and left the body in Warehouse district. Koichi or friends later visited the house or the place where the body was dumped, took away the ear, and went off -- I have high hopes with this theory.\n\nThere are some theories floating in some places on web that Togane and Koichi\nwere working together, so after finishing off Aoi, Togane handed over her ear\nto Koichi since both had the intention to blacken Akane's hue. This doesn't\nfollow any logic in my opinion since Koichi remained a loyal friend of Kirito,\nand Kirito and Togane were enemies.\n\nSo, what really happened? Or, what is the most logical conclusion for the\nstory?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter reading [this\nQuestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/10075/what-is-the-total-\nnaruto-runtime-up-to-this-point) and the ingenious answer from Dimitri mx\n(kudos) and a related comment, I came to wonder how One Piece would compare.\n\nThe anime was launched in October 1999 and is still ongoing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore I start with the actual comparison, I would first like to note that in\nthe current point in time, Naruto and One piece do not differ to much in run\ntime. But taking into account that Naruto is running towards the end, and Oda\nEiichiro said that he is about the half way mark, we can safely assume that in\na near future this will change. With that said.\n\nJust like in my mentioned answer, I have been using\n[Myanimelist](http://www.myanimelist.net/) as a source of times. And came to\nthe conclusion that it would take you \n**18945 Minutes of non stop watching one piece** (excluding cross-overs) \nwhich equals to **315.8 Hours** or **13.2 Days** \n\nmaking the difference in time about **1620 Minutes** \nwhich equals to **27 Hours** or slightly more then **1 day**\n\nThis difference in run time is caused by One piece having:\n\n * 220 more episodes\n * 4 (soon to be 5) more movies\n * 7 more Ova's \n * 1 More special\n\nWhere as Naruto only beats one piece in\n\n * Having a second season\n * Having a spin- off series.\n\n## Actual Serie \n\nOne Piece 710 episodes (currently), roughly 24 minute's/Episode* \n~ **17040 Minutes or 11.8 days**\n\n## Movies\n\n * One Piece **50 Minutes**\n * Nejimaki Jima no Daibouken **55 Minutes**\n * Chinjuujima no Chopper Oukoku **55 Minutes**\n * Dead End no Bouken **95 Minutes**\n * Norowareta Seiken **95 Minutes**\n * Omatsuri Danshaku to Himitsu no Shima 6 **95 Minutes**\n * Karakurijou no Mecha Kyohei **94 Minutes**\n * Jango no Dance Carnival **6 Minutes**\n * Yume no Soccer Ou! **5 Minutes**\n * Mezase! Kaizoku Yakyuu Ou **5 Minutes**\n * Strong World **115 Minutes**\n * Film: Z **107 Minutes**\n * One Piece (2016) **Unknown**\n * **TOTAL:** _777 Minutes or 13.0 Hours_\n\n## Movies (Summary's)\n\nAll tough most of the ones listed under this tab are officially known as\n_specials_ , I still decided to list them in their own sub-category of movies\nas I found it to be more fitting.\n\n * Episode of Alabaster - Sabaku no Ojou to Kaizoku Tachi **90 Minutes**\n * Episode of Chopper Plus - Fuyu ni Saku, Kiseki no Sakura **113 Minutes**\n * Episode of Nami - Koukaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna **106 Minutes**\n * Episode of Merry - Mou Hitori no Nakama no Monogatari **106 Minutes**\n * Episode of Sabo - 3 Kyoudai no Kizuna Kiseki no Saikai to Uketsugareru Ishi **105 Minutes**\n * **TOTAL:** _520 Minutes or 8.7 Hours_\n\n## Ova\n\n * Taose! Kaizoku Ganzack **28 Minutes**\n * Umi no Heso no Daibouken-hen **49 Minutes**\n * Oounabara ni Hirake! Dekkai Dekkai Chichi no Yume! **46 Minutes**\n * Romance Dawn Story **33 Minutes**\n * 3D: Mugiwara Chase **30 Minutes**\n * 3D: Gekisou! Trap Coaster **12 Minutes**\n * Romance Dawn **30 Minutes**\n * Episode of Alabaster - Prologue **15 Minutes**\n * Recap (10 year recap, from start up to Impeldown) **29 Minutes**\n * **TOTAL:** _272 Minutes or 4.5 Hours_\n\n## Specials\n\n * Mamore! Saigo no Dai Butai **45 Minutes**\n * Nenmatsu Tokubetsu Kikaku! Mugiwara no Luffy Oyabun Torimonochou **42 Minutes**\n * Straw Hat Theater _(5 eps. 3 Min/ep)_ **15 Minutes**\n * Episode of Luffy - Hand Island no Bouken **102 Minutes**\n * Glorious Island _(2 eps. 5 Min/ep)_ **10 Minutes**\n * 3D2Y: Ace no shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama Tono Chikai **107 Minutes**\n * Cry Heart _(3 eps. 5 Min/ep)_ **15 Minutes**\n * **TOTAL:** _336 Minutes or 5.6 Hours_\n\nSmall side note: All tough I taught it was said for Naruto fans to wait a\nwhole week, One piece fans had a even harder time having to wait 832 weeks or\n16 years! With the sole exception being Hinati Fujinamai [Ending revealed to\nseverely sick boy](http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/33654/20140818/one-\npiece-ending-spoilers.htm)\n\n> JapNation AniManga reports that Eiichiro Oda was glad to tell the kid how\n> One Piece ends and that he was holding back his tears upon seeing the\n> condition of Hinati Fujinami. While Oda was fine with Hinati Fujinami\n> learning about the One Piece ending, Oda requested to talk to the child\n> alone so that details about the One Piece manga ending wouldn't be leaked\n> while he jokingly pleaded to Hinati to not reveal it to the press. JanNation\n> AniManga noted that at the end of their talk, Hinati Fujinami was reportedly\n> seen smiling but crying at the same time as he told the people that One\n> Piece is \"beautiful\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently watched the anime but in the end I couldn't remember who the\nseventh sin was. He was shown as Escanor in the first episode (about 4:43). Is\nit possible that he isn't showing up in the anime? Or is he impersonated by\nsomeone else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Seven Deadly Sins consist of:\n\n * **Meliodas** , The Dragon's Sin of Wrath\n * **Diane** , The Serpent's Sin of Envy\n * **Ban** , The Fox's Sin of Greed\n * **King** , The Grizzly's Sin of Sloth\n * **Gowther** , The Goat's Sin of Lust\n * **Merlin** , The Boar's Sin of Gluttony\n * **Escanor** , The Lion's Sin of Pride\n\nEscanor is the one that doesn't appears in the anime. He's revealed in a\nspecial side story in the manga called the **Vampires of Edinburgh**. If I\nrecall right, the location of Escanor is unknown which is why he didn't appear\nin the anime\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost probably by the seventh member, you mean Escanor because he was not\nintroduced in the anime primarily. However, if you pay attention closely, he\nappears in the last OVA of the Seven Deadly Sins. At 23:46 in the OVA 4,\nEscanor appears outside a cave carrying a barrel. He will be quite active in\nthe recently announced sequel Seven Deadly Sins 2.\n\nThe members of the Seven Deadly Sins along with their Symbol, Animal Spirit\nand their super powers are as follows:\n\n * **Meliodas** , The Dragon's Sin of Wrath **(Dragon, Full Counter)**\n * **Diane** , The Serpent's Sin of Envy **(Serpent, Creation)**\n * **Ban** , The Fox's Sin of Greed **(Fox, Snatch & Immortality)**\n * **King** , The Grizzly's Sin of Sloth **(Bear, Disaster)**\n * **Gowther** , The Goat's Sin of Lust **(Goat, Invasion)**\n * **Merlin** , The Boar's Sin of Gluttony **(Boar, infinity)**\n * **Escanor** , The Lion's Sin of Pride **(Lion, Sunshine)**\n\nHere is a pic of the seven members for your reference:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h3Eor.png)\n\nHope it helped you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nModern television anime is produced at an aspect ratio of 16:9 -\nwidescreen/HD. But in the past, television anime was more often produced at an\naspect ratio of 4:3 - standard definition.\n\nWhen did the transition from 4:3 to 16:9 for television anime happen?\n\nNow, it's not too difficult to find isolated examples to get a sense for when\nthe switchover was in progress. For example, _Ouran High School Host Club_ ,\nfrom spring 2006, was produced at 4:3, while _Full Metal Panic! The Second\nRaid_ , from summer 2005, was produced at 16:9. Clearly, the transition was\nunder way by 2005, but not complete by 2006. And I'm fairly confident that by\n2011, all television anime were in 16:9 ( _Ninja Slayer_ notwithstanding).\n\nBut what I'm looking for is a more holistic view of how this transition\nhappened. Who were the major players? Can we identify a clear starting date\nfor the transition? And so forth.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to user Zalis on [the MyAnimeList\nforums](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=622815), one of the first\ninstances of widescreen anime was\n[Betterman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betterman_\\(TV_series\\)) **(1999)**.\nHowever, because it isn't one of the better known shows, it often gets\noverlooked and [Vandread](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandread) **(2000)**\nis often accredited with the first.\n\nThe cinema is often the first place for the widescreen transition of visual\nmedia, and early animated (and non-animated) films were sometimes shown in\nwidescsreen at the cinema, and later reshaped for broadcast/dvd. The earliest\nexample I could find for this was Magic Boy ( **1960~** ) This was 2.40:1\nrather than 16:9 though. You can see the difference between the aspect ratios\nbelow:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/L7a7O.png)\n\nI don't think there are any specific _points in time_ that we can point to\nwhere there was a definite switch - just as the transition to digital\nhappened, but the full transition seems to be almost done in 2006-2008, when\n4:3 anime became minimal and even the larger series like One Piece, Naruto,\netc switched over.\n\nReferences:\n\n * [Anime & Manga - Wikipress.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Anime_and_Manga_\\(Shortened\\))\n * [AnimeNation - Ask John](http://www.animenation.net/blog/2001/10/15/ask-john-is-tv-anime-widescreen/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not entirely sure what the criteria are that need to be met before a ninja\nis considered to be of S class. It looks to be some sort of combination of\nspeed, strength, jutsu, etc. Does one additionally need some special\ntechniques or bloodlines? Like Mangekyo Sharingan, Mokuton, Sage Mode, high\nclass summons and/or kinjutsu? Are jonin like Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy S\nranked? If so, at what point would you say they show the skills to be\nacknowledged as such?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 10 of the anime _monster musume no iru nichijou,_ this non-human\ngirl appears here:\n\n\n\nand here:\n\n\n\nShe then appears again very briefly in episode 11:\n\n\n\nNo other mention is made of this character, but the presence she's had has\nbeen too great for this to be a mere coincidence. Who is it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe character in the pictures you've posted is **Polt**. In\n[**this**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monster_Musume_characters#Polt)\nWikipedia link, she's listed under the supporting characters of the manga\n[**Monster Musume**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Musume).\n\n> Polt is a kobold. She is the leader of the local gym, the \"Sports Club\n> Kobold\", and seems to be rather hyperactive. Sport is her life (any and all\n> sports, including fishing) and she strives to provide the best possible\n> experience for her customers. She is depicted as a fur-clad humanoid with\n> tail and ears like a dog—she even wears a leather collar—but with a more\n> flat, human-like face. She usually wear shorts, T-shirt and track shoes.\n> Polt seems to be trusted to a higher degree than other liminals: she has her\n> own business and is allowed to go out on her own. When Draco and Lilith are\n> placed on parole for being out without host family supervision, Polt is\n> placed in charge of them.\n\nThe Wikia [**link**](http://dailylifewithamonstergirl.wikia.com/wiki/Polt) for\nPolt gives detailed information about the character. Her appearance is\ndescribed as:\n\n> While her species is a Kobold, a Germanic sprite that can take many forms,\n> she appears as an almost human woman with a wolfen face, including a muzzle\n> instead of a nose, and a wolf's tail and ears. Her body, in accordance with\n> her occupation, is very athletic; having muscular arms and legs and a trim\n> abdomen. Her breasts are of average size, in comparison to other characters\n> more prodigious breast sizes. In her debut, she wears a midriff revealing\n> black shirt with the sports club's name on it and an unzipped track coat on\n> top; jean hot pants; thigh straps and wristbands; a dog collar and athletic\n> sneakers.\n\n[**This**](https://www.google.co.in/search?q=monster+musume+polt&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMI6-OJi56DyAIVAhqOCh2G5wfk&biw=1366&bih=667)\nis the link for the Google Image Search for Polt.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs has already been mentioned, she is a Kobold named Polt and has rights most\nother extra-species people don't, such as being allowed to go wherever\nwhenever without an escort.\n\nIn the manga version, she is a frequent supporting character, owning and\nrunning an extra-species gym where the girls are trial customers, as well as\nKobold Stadium which is an Olympic scale establishment. She is a complete\nfitness nut who is always trying to figure out how to make her gym useable by\nall extra-species body types and frequently \"volunteering\" to coach people she\nthinks could use more exercise... whether they asked for it or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLee could not use chakra and thus could not perform any of the 3 techniques.\nHowever, Lee managed to pass the academy exam, while Naruto couldn't.\n\nWhy did Naruto fail when he could easily perform the Henge and Kawarimi and\nclearly had too much chakra for the Bunshin?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe Rock Lee was an exception, he excelled in Taijutsu to make up for\nhis lack of skill in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. Naruto on the otherhand initially\nstarted off bad at all 3 types of jutsus.\n\nThere also doesn't seem to be a formal exam, Iruka and the sensei's make the\noverall decisions hence why Naruto became a Genin despite failing the \"true\"\nexam.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRock Lee is not the same year as Naruto. He would have graduated from the\nacademy during the previous year. It is possible that the graduation\nrequirements were not the same the previous year and thus Lee was able to\npass.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn possible INGAME explanation would be that Naruto is the Jinchuriki of the 9\ntailed fox. Aside from the hate of the adults he HAS to pass EVERY test so\nthat he is ready for what is coming for him.....as he out of all others will\nalways be a target for enemy ninjas...a primary target even. That COULD be a\npossible ingame reason there.\n\nHate I would rule out as His most favorite teacher let him fail and that one\ndidn't hate him at that time. _So its more probably the \"you are not good\nenough yet for what troubles await ESPECIALLY you\".\n\nOut of universe that is one of the things that sadly make no sense...at least\nif you don't look at it with the stand that it makes \"a cooler story\". As even\nthough Naruto was abmyssal in EVERY class at the academy and failed every test\nhe should have passed. Why? He REGULARLY tricked anbu and kage with henges, he\nREGULARLY run from ANBU out of all things and managed to succeed! AND even hid\nfrom them with absolute ease! And then we see him sneaking up on and beating\nSasuke into submission....all of that in the first episodes. And that despite\nhim ALWAYS loosing to Sasuke and being said to be abmissal in EVERY shinobi\nclass.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI heard that Aquarion exists/ _Aquarion Logos_ is running. If I were to watch\nall the related series in full, including _Aquarion Genesis_ , _Aquarion Evol_\n, etc., where should I start and what order should I watch them all in?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConsidering that _Aquarion_ is an original anime (i.e. not based from other\nsources), it's safe to say that **the original broadcast time is the\nrecommended order** :\n\n 1. [_Genesis of Aquarion_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_of_Aquarion) (July 2005, 26 episodes): the original story\n 2. [_Genesis of Aquarion_ OVA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_of_Aquarion_\\(OVA\\)) (May & November 2007, 2 episodes) / [_Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis_ movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_of_Aquarion_\\(OVA\\)) (September 2007): an alternative retelling of _Genesis of Aquarion_\n 3. [_Aquarion Evol_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarion_Evol) (January 2012, 26 episodes): takes place 12000 years after _Genesis of Aquarion_\n 4. [_Genesis of Aquarion Evol_ / _Genesis of Aquarion Love_ OVA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarion_Evol#OVA) (July 2015, 1 episode): featuring a crossover between characters from _Genesis of Aquarion_ and _Aquarion Evol_\n 5. [_Aquarion Logos_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarion_Logos) (July 2015, 26 episodes): featuring a new storyline unrelated to the previous 2 series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Rainbow Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin, there is a narrator\nthroughout the series who has the voice of a young female. And in episode 1,\nshe starts the story stating that it all began 50 years ago, implying that she\nis neither Lily nor Meg. So who is the narrator?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know this is kinda late and by now you probably have the answer but I\nthought I should answer it for the sake of other people the narrator is Megumi\nHayashibara\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI bought volume one of Spice and Wolf today, and I read the summary on the\nback. I understand that the main female character is a wolf and the main male\ncharacter is a merchant, but he doesn't _just_ sell spices, right? Is the name\njust meant to sound badass, or was I wrong and he really only sells spices?\nI'm just not getting it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is cannot be explained without spoilers.\n\n> The phrase \"Spice and Wolf\" was used by a merchant to describe the two main\n> characters later on in this series.\n\nIt was also repeated by the author in the afterward of volume 16 on page 299:\n\n> ...But as the world of _Spice and Wolf_ is not about viewing the world in\n> itself, but the \"Spice\" and the \"Wolf\" (Holo and Lawrence) in it , it's\n> actually the antithesis of that universal metaphor , so in other words... et\n> cetera, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the afterward of volume 16, on page 297,\n\n> The title _Spice and Wolf_ is a twist on the French economist Jean Favier's\n> _Gold and Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages_ (translated by\n> Hidemi Uchida). Thinking back to when I read it, I recall thinking I'd love\n> to use things from this, which gave me inspiration for the first volume.\n\nSpices, along with precious metals and silk, are commodities associated with\ntrade (have you ever heard \"spice trade\" or \"silk road\"?). Since this is a\nseries heavily centered around medieval commerce, the \"spice\" in the title is\nmeant to evoke that the series is about trading. As mentioned in the quote,\nthe author was specifically inspired by Jean Favier's book.\n\nThe spice trade was quite important and lucrative in medieval times. Here's\nLawrence's thoughts on the matter from volume 2, page 24:\n\n> Lawrence had bought the pepper for a thousand _trenni_ , so that meant a\n> profit of 560 pieces. The spice trade was indeed delicious. Of course, gold\n> and jewels -the raw materials for luxury goods- could fetch two or three\n> times their initial purchase price, so this was a meager gain in comparison,\n> but for a traveling merchant who spent his days crossing the plains, it was\n> profit enough. Some merchants would haul the lowest-quality oats on their\n> very backs, destroying themselves as they crossed mountains, only to turn a\n> 10 percent profit when they sold in the town. \n> \n> Indeed, compared with that, clearing more than five hundred silver pieces by\n> moving a single light bag of pepper was almost too savory to believe.\n\n## References In-story to the Title\n\nThe other answer to this question uses references of the title in the story.\nThese deserve a place in this discussion, however, these references do not\nactually explain where the title comes from, as I'll explain. I believe the\ncharacter the other answer refers to is Marheit. However, in the English\ntranslation of _Spice and Wolf_ , I could not find an instance of him actually\ncalling Lawrence and Holo Spice and Wolf. Instead, it is the narration\n(Marheit certainly prompted the reference though, and he probably says it in\nother media, like the anime). Here is the quote, at the very end of the first\nvolume:\n\n> It seemed as though the travels of this pair would last a bit longer.\n>\n> That is to say, the travels of the wolf and the spice.\n\nWhile this reference is interesting, it does not explain where the title comes\nfrom. This is because it is in-story content. Unless the author wrote the\nwhole book without a title, then looked at his own story and thought that this\npoint at the end was important enough to make it the title, it cannot be the\nreason the story is called _Spice and Wolf_. And actually, when the play that\nMarheit is referencing is examined, it supports my initial claim that spices\nare linked to trade. The play is a morality play about a merchant trying to\nconvince a demon to eat someone besides him. Here is Marheit's recounting of\nthe end of the play and Lawrence's reaction (Page 227 of Volume 1):\n\n> \"'The most succulent human is before your eyes- he has carried spices day in\n> and day out in his quest for money, and his fattened soul is perfectly\n> seasoned,'\" continued Marheit cheerfully, gesturing expansively as he\n> related the tale. [...]\n>\n> \"It's a religious play that the church uses to preach moderation in\n> commerce,\" he explained. \"[...] Pepper is surely appropriate for a merchant\n> about to make his fortune, I think.\"\n>\n> Lawrence couldn't help smiling at the amusing tale and Marheit's praise. \"I\n> hope I soon have a body suffused with spices myself!\" he said.\n\nRather than an explanation for the title, this merely highlights the author's\nunderstanding of the connection between spices and trade.\n\nFurther reading on Wikipedia: [Spice\nTrade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_trade)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat does \"W.C\" mean? My guess was \"water closet\" - basically toilet slippers.\nIf my guess is true why does she wear it? Is it a popular thing in Japan or\nGermany for housewives to go out with toilet slippers?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/00v4N.jpg)\n\n[]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe user Tombow on <http://www.fullmetal-\nalchemist.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t12824-450.html> stated:\n\n> W.C. = Water Closet. = toilet.\n>\n> In Japan, in Inns and other places like that sometimes they have public\n> bathrooms (toilet) and some of them have slippers to be used inside that\n> bathroom, often with W.C. written like that, and, yes, some of these\n> bathroom slippers are exactly like what Izumi is wearing. (I saw them in\n> some other anime and manga, too, but I got these pics form Google. XDD)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched a clip many years ago, and I'd now like to try to find the anime it\nwent with. Unfortunately, I lost the clip in a computer transfer, so here's\nwhat I remember:\n\n * The clip was downloaded around 2005-2007. So the anime would have been made before then. The art was polished enough that it would have been made in the 80s at the very earliest. Probably 90s or early 2000s.\n * The scene had two people standing near the gate of a castle. They were being attacked by an army, and one of the two people charged into battle. I believe he attacked with a polearm for a few moments first, but the most memorable part of the scene was his transformation into a giant animal (a bear, I think). The transformation didn't get any special scene, it just happened quickly as part of the action. After transforming, he began to wreck the battlefield, including flipping a siege engine.\n * The animation was more realistic than cartoony (more like Steamboy or Attack on Titan than Azumanga Daioh! or Soul Eater).\n\nI realise this is very little to go off of, but if anyone has any ideas or\nhalf-remembered memories, let's see if we can't figure this out, shall we?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is from the anime of [The Twelve\nKingdoms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Kingdoms).\n\nThe 'bear' you're thinking of is a _hanyuu_ (those able to turn to human and\nback), Kantai:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u86pm.gif)\n\nThe memorable scene of him flipping the siege engine occurs late during the\nthird arc, _A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn_ (unfortunately, I\ncan't recall the exact episode, but it's almost certainly 37-39.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am not familiar with the contents of any of the movies. Keeping this in\nmind, can anyone tell me if Naruto ever gets the promotion to chūnin (or Jōnin\nfor that matter). Since he is clearly the Hokage in the last chapter of the\nmanga, I wonder if he was made such while officially still a genin.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo Naruto never becomes chunin in the series nor is he ever chunin. After the\nwar and Kakashi becomes hokage, Naruto studies to become straight to jonin\n(anime) bypassing the chunin stage. It obviously makes sense that Naruto never\nbecomes chunin as he is well over jonin level by the end.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe transition to high-definition DVD players isn't fully complete yet, but\nit's been in transition for a long time now.\n\nWhat anime was the first to produce a High Definition release for purchase -\nwhether that be the eventual winner of the [HD Media\nWar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_definition_optical_disc_format_war)\nBluRay, or the loser HD-DVD?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the _Puella Magi Madoka Magica_ Movies first came out, they were only\nJapanese with English subtitles, but the DVD/Blu-ray menus were animated. I\nremembered that they had small clips from the movie and the background music\nwas that of the music that plays when Sayaka turns into a witch at the end of\nthe first movie.\n\nWhen the English dubbed version of the movies came out I got them too and\nafter watching the first 2 movies I've noticed they have a totally different\nmenu. This time, it's just a static image, and the background music is\ndifferent.\n\nI am wondering why this is. Would it not have been easier just to use the same\nmenu? Also, is this a common practice when an anime is first released subbed\nbut is then later re-released dubbed that the movie menu is remade (and\npossibly made less dynamic/flashy in the English dub release)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid Monet's Yuki Yuki fruit turn her into a harpy or was she part of Caesar's\nexperiments that turned her into a harpy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was Law who turned her into a harpy. The Yuki Yuki no Mi had nothing to do\nwith it. Much like the pirates who lost the use of their legs became centaurs,\nit was Law who turned Monet into a harpy; the only difference is that the\nchange happened willingly in Monet's case; the reasons weren't explained as\nfar as I can remember, but it was most likely to make her stronger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCheck this out:\n\n> I know this has been pointed out before in the flashback that Monet had\n> normal human limbs, but I still like to think that there is a harpy race out\n> there.\n>\n> Perhaps harpies have a similar aging system to mermaids.\n>\n> *She could be switching between human and harpy form like Kokoro does. We've\n> learned that mermaids over the age of 30 can do that. That could possibly\n> also correlate to harpies. After all, we don't know Monet's age. *First you\n> start as a normal human, then when you reach a certain age you grow wings\n> and a tail. But you can change back and forth freely from human to harpy\n> limbs. *To me, Monet's wings seem too similar to Lafitte's wings for it to\n> be a coincidence, so Lafitte might be a Harpy too. I also don't know how\n> sure I am since there might be some sort of angel devil fruit that Laffitte\n> could have ate to explain his wings.\n>\n> But when I checked I found something. Monet's picture in volume cover, her\n> legs look normal. While when you look at her other pics, her legs are in\n> form of limbs of a harpy/bird.I have provided the pic below. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UUEUC.jpg)\n>\n> So ,I think Monet is able to transform her normal limbs to Harpy limbs\n> whenever she wants. Similar to that of mermaids.\n>\n> Another thing to note, the tips of her wings match her hair color which\n> would not really make sense if those wings were not hers to start with. Yeah\n> it looks more like genetic relation between wings & hairs, both being green.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a6bCb.png)\n\n> Furthermore, the word \"Happy\" on her t-shirt could be a play on words with\n> harpy, too much like Oda.\n>\n> Just, speculating that she might belong to a Harpy race .:D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis question is regarding **One Piece**.\n\nAs I was going through the design of the **Thousand Sunny** on Wikia, I came\nacross\n[**this**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand_Sunny?file=Thousand_sunny_boys_room.png)\nimage of **The boys' room** , which I've posted below:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yX81N.png)\n\nAs can be seen here, there are six hammocks in the image, verified by\n[**this**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand_Sunny#Men.27s_and_Women.27s_Quarters)\nlink.\n\n> Suspended from the ceiling like wooden hammocks are **three double-decker\n> bunks** , which the men sleep in.\n\nIt also adds that\n\n> Behind these bunks, at the back of the room, are **six** lockers where the\n> men can store their clothes.\n\nSince there are seven male members in the Straw Hat crew, there must be one\nperson who doesn't get to sleep in a hammock and who doesn't have a locker. My\nquestion is, who is it?\n\nI came across [**this**](http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=810848)\nand [**this**](http://feriowind.deviantart.com/art/OP-Daily-life-on-\nSunny-1-132802881) link which pose a similar question. The answers which seem\nto be valid are\n\n * Sanji sleeping in the kitchen \n\nI don't think Sanji sleeps in the kitchen, but there is a couch to the right\n[**here**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand_Sunny?file=Thousand_sunny_kitchen.png),\ndoes Sanji sleep there?\n\nI think Sanji does have a locker to himself.\n\n * Zoro sleeping in the crow's nest \n\nThe [**crow's\nnest**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand_Sunny?file=Thousand_sunny_crows_nest.png)\nseems to have wooden benches, but I doubt Zoro sleeps there.\n\nI think Zoro has a locker to himself, too.\n\n * Brook not sleeping \n\nIn an SBS question, Oda has said that Brook sleeps for five hours.\n[**This**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Straw_Hat_Pirates/Miscellaneous#Typical_Hours_of_Sleep)\nis the link.\n[**This**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_74#Chapter_737.2C_Page_126)\nlink gives their sleep timings. So that eliminates the possibility that Brook\ndoesn't sleep. Maybe he doesn't sleep in this room though?\n\nI can't guess if he has a locker or not.\n\n * Chopper sleeping on the bed in the Sick Bay \n\nThis seems like the most plausible solution, since Chopper considers the\n[**Sick\nBay**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand_Sunny?file=Thousand_sunny_sick_bay.png#Kitchen.2C_Dining_Room.2C_and_Sick_Bay)\nas his personal room, provided the bed isn't reserved for patients.\n\nHe might be the one who doesn't have a locker, since he can keep his stuff in\nthe infirmary.\n\n * One of them is on night watch, so there are enough hammocks for the rest\n\nThis is possible, but is it true? If it is, was there any rare occasion when\nnone of them was on watch? I highly doubt it, but if the answer is yes, how\ndid they sleep then?\n\nEven if they did manage to sleep somehow (one of them on the floor, for\nexample), there are still six lockers though, so who doesn't have a locker to\nhimself?\n\nThe following image provides a pretty nice solution, but this is an image from\nwhen the Straw Hats were on the _Going Merry_. Do they use the same solution\non the _Thousand Sunny_ too?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z9Vaj.jpg)\n\nA person who has seen the anime or read the manga, or done both, might\nprobably know the answer. Any help is highly appreciated.\n\n* * *\n\nI apologize for the lengthy question. I haven't watched or read One Piece. I\ncame across it about a month ago and it drew my attention greatly. My\nknowledge is mostly limited to the information I gained by reading the\nWikipedia and Wikia pages of One Piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBrook was the newest official member of the strawhat crew and therefore the\nSunny was not modified yet to showcase his own personal space.\n\nThis is mostly in part to the 2Y timeskip that occurred when the crew got back\ntogether there hasn't been a real revamp of the Sunny. The crew just bought\nstuff with them and added it to the ship.\n\nSo the person who doesn't have a space is Brook.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**TL;DR:** If a 7th bed was needed Franky would have build one, but it doesn't\nseem like any of them should sleep on the floor against their will even if\nthey only had 6.\n\nTo begin with, the pictures you showed were after Franky had joined. So\nwhether he built a pirate ship for 5 male crew members and added a bed for\nhimself after he joined or he put it there from the beginning considering a\nnew crew member might join, **Franky would easily be able to just build a 7th\nbed if needed**. Heck, he could build a pretty sturdy bridge just on the spot\nin Thriller Bark.\n\nAdditionally, Oda confirmed that there should always be two crew members awake\nat all time. In the [SBS of Volume 74, Chapter\n737](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_74#Chapter_737.2C_Page_126),\nOda mentioned the Strawhats' daily schedule. He also said that **at all times\nthere should be two crew members awake**. One should guard the front of the\nship and another should guard the back of the ship.\n\n> D: I would like to know the Straw Hats' bed times and wake up times! -\n> Penname fujiyama\n>\n> O: I see. A very interesting question indeed. These people don't really\n> follow much of a schedule but. In general.\n>\n> And thus, even during instances where they have to navigate through the seas\n> during nighttime, there will always need to be **at least two people awake\n> at all times** in order to keep an eye out in both the front and back\n> directions of the ship, hence every member alternates every 2 hours to stay\n> on the lookout. It isn't too uncommon that these people don't get sufficient\n> sleep.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/64Pu5.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KoR7t.png)\n\nOn top of that, from chapter 699 it looks like they have enough beds as it is.\nChapter 699 is the only chapter I could find where you could actually see the\nStawhats asleep. At that time Sanji and Kinemon couldn't sleep jealous of\nMomonosuke and Usopp and Chopper couldn't sleep afraid of Doflamingo. Despite\nthe fact that most of them were empty, you can see **Luffy and Brook share a\nbed**. Finally you can see Law and Caesar sleep outside. We can also see\nFranky sleepy, but outside guarding the ship as Oda mentioned. So whether\nBrook and Luffy always share a bed or it was just a coincidence, it looks like\ndue to their random way of sleeping and with beds and couches all over the\nplace, **they don't even need al 6 beds to begin with**.\n\nFinally seeing Zoro sleep in a bed, **it is safe to assume like you said that\nthey all sleep in their beds as much as possible**. Sanji does not sleep in\nthe kitchen, Zoro does not sleep in the crow's nest, Chopper does not sleep in\nthe infirmary bed, which is supposed to remain clean and sterile, and Brook\ndoes indeed sleep. Despite them sleeping in their beds mostly, they still\ndon't need all 6 as mentioned earlier where Luffy sleeps in random places most\nlikely and two need to be awake to guard the ship anyway.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's a working ship, so the crew will be split into watches, e.g. First/morn,\nafternoon/middle, last dog.\n\nThis means that at all times a portion of the crew is awake and on duty, so\nunless the crew drastically increases in size, six bunks for the men is more\nthan adequate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn monster musume, Papi the Harpy confuses the word \"deport\" for \"incest\" a\ncouple of times in the English subtitles. I could see \"arrest\" and \"incest\",\nbut I am aware the work is not natively English, so jokes like that might come\nthrough a bit sideways. Is there a similar sounding pair of words for these\ntwo terms to explains Papi's malapropism?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japanese, \"incest\" is 近親相関 _kinshin soukan_ , while \"deport [to one's home\ncountry]\" is 本国送還 _hongoku soukan_. These two terms are not similar enough for\na reasonable human being to confuse. But for a birdbrain? I'd say it's\nplausible.\n\nThe _soukan_ in the two items are unrelated; they just happen to be\nhomophones.\n\n(She makes this error twice in episode 2 - at 04:12 and 09:01.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy was everyone who knew Johan, so convinced that he was a superior figure or\nsomeone special, especially from the time that he was a kid?\n\nThe show gave a lot of instances where everyone who knew Johan, was rather\nimpressed by him and regarded him as a kind of leader never seen before. In\nfact, many, like Baby, wanted him to become the next Hitler.\n\nBut what was so special about him? \nDid the show really give any reasoning behind this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read somewhere that Kazuki Nakashima writes manga, but I don't really\nbelieve that.\n\nI mean, as shown in the ending credits for Sword Art Online, the man did the\ncolour setting (read it and weep, but that's what it says).\n\nI also know that he plays big roles in the making of the two animes Tengen\nToppa Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill.\n\nWith that being said, I saw the guy as more of a anime type person than a\nwriter of manga.\n\nBut, my thoughts aside, **does Kazuki Nakashima** **_really_** **write manga**\n, or is it not true?\n\nAnd if it is true, please name a few of his works. I know I could just \"Google\nit\", but I'd rather you just answer my question, rather than question it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe is a Japanese playwright, novelist and anime screenwriter. [His work on\nanime mostly as writer.](http://myanimelist.net/people/3328/Kazuki_Nakashima)\nBut according [this\ninterview](http://www.performingarts.jp/E/art_interview/0611/1.html) he did\nwrite a manga before.\n\n> You mean the kind of action stories with bright, outgoing, handsome and cool\n> heroes like in the youth mangas rather than stories full of darker emotions\n> like grudges and pathos? **Did you write mangas yourself**?\n>\n> I did. At university I was in the manga club, and when I got a job at the\n> manga publishing company Futaba-sha (publisher of the Manga Action, also\n> publishes numerous literary books) after university I took my original\n> mangas to the job interview along with my persona vitae with the intention\n> of being hired either as a manga artist or an editor.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen advice on the internet indicating that one should start watching\nGungrave at episode 2, and possibly come back to episode 1 at some later point\nin the series.\n\nBefore I start watching this show, I would like to know whether this advice\nmakes sense. In a spoiler-free way, can someone explain why I should skip\nepisode 1? (Feel free to include more detailed explanations in a spoiler\nblock.)\n\nAnd should I come back to episode 1 at some later point in the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first episode is almost exactly like the eighteenth episode. What it does\nis confuse the viewer with out of context content in addition to spoiling a\nlot of the anime.\n\nMany animes like to show an ambiguous later scene in the first episode, and\nthen build towards that story line, like in Psycho-pass. Gungrave is an\nexample of where this failed miserably. The episode is detailed to the point\nwhere it is just plain confusing and spoiled.\n\nIt's best to watch episode 1 after episode 17.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have heard of these things called \"character songs\", but I don't know what\nthey are. Is a \"character song\" just like a theme song for a character? Can\nyou give me some examples of character songs?\n\n(This question is inspired by [this reddit thread](https://redd.it/3lp86u),\nwhere a good half of the participants seem not to get what a character song\nis, despite OP providing an explanation.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Is a \"character song\" just like a theme song for a character?\n\nNo!\n\nA \"character song\" is emphatically _not_ the same thing as a \"theme song\".\nWhile there is probably no clear definition of what constitutes a \"theme\nsong\", the term \"character song\" has a straightforward definition. That is: a\n\"character song\" is **a song whose vocals are credited to the _character or\ncharacters_ singing the song**.\n\nTypically, this means that the song is sung \"in-character\" - by reading the\nlyrics of the song, we ought to be able to glean something about the\ncharacter.\n\n> Can you give me some examples of character songs?\n\nSure thing, person asking this question!\n\n[\"Inside Identity\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/35216), the ending for the first\nseason of _Chu2Koi_ , is a character song. Why? Because it is credited to\n\"Black Raison d'Etre\", which is a fictional group consisting of four\ncharacters from the show (Rikka, Nibutani, Dekomori, and Kumin).\n\nBut not all character songs are used as openings/endings. Some are used in-\nshow, as insert songs. For example, [\"Fuwa Fuwa\nTime\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/23146), performed by the characters in _K-ON!_ ,\nis a character song that is used as an insert song in some of the episodes.\n\nStill others will never appear in their corresponding anime at all, instead\nbeing released as bonus goodies for sale. See, for instance,\n[\"you\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/49529), credited to Kasumigaoka Utaha from\n_Saekano_ , which never appeared in the anime.\n\nCharacter songs need not be original to the anime they are used in. For\nexample, [\"Tsubasa wo Kudasai\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/19816) is a character\nsong in _K-ON!_ , since it is credited to the characters. Yet, \"Tsubasa wo\nKudasai\" is not original to _K-ON!_ \\- rather, it is [a popular folk song in\nJapan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubasa_wo_Kudasai). Nonetheless, since\nit is credited to the characters in _K-ON!_ , it is a character song _in that\ncontext_.\n\n> Okay, so what _isn't_ a character song?\n\nI'm glad you asked!\n\nConsider [\"Synchrogazer\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/30989), which is the opening\nfor the first season of _Symphogear_. It is sung by Mizuki Nana, who voices\nthe character Kazanari Tsubasa in the show. But it is _not_ a character song,\nsince the song is credited to Mizuki Nana (the real human), rather than to\nKazanari Tsubasa (the fictional character).\n\nAnother common misconception is that vocal theme songs may, in general, be\ncalled character songs. For example, a common belief is that [\"Before my body\nis dry\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/42078) (a.k.a. \"DON'T LOSE YOUR WAY\") from\n_Kill La Kill_ is a character song for Matoi Ryuuko. Certainly, it plays\nwhenever Ryuuko does something awesome - but is it _really_ a character song?\nNo! The vocals are credited not to Ryuuko, but rather to Kobayashi Mika (who\ndoesn't voice Ryuuko, anyway).\n\n> Well, gosh, that's a lot of information. Is there anything _else_ I should\n> know?\n\nWhy, yes, there is.\n\nOne potential point of confusion is the notion of an \"image song\". In some\ncases, \"image song\" and \"character song\" are used interchangeably, as in [this\n_K-ON!!_ album](http://vgmdb.net/album/22405).\n\nHowever, in other cases, \"image song\" has a distinct meaning. Like a character\nsong, an \"image song\" (in this sense) is a song that is meant to evoke a\n\"sense\" of a particular character. _Unlike_ a character song, however, an\nimage song is not sung _by_ the character, and hence is not \"in-character\".\nInstead, the image song is merely evocative of the character. Image songs in\nthis sense may either be sung by a different vocalist (as with [this\n_Steins;Gate_ album](http://vgmdb.net/album/25569), on which \"Yakusoku no\nParadigm\" is an image song for Makise Kurisu), or be altogether non-vocal (as\nwith [this _Accel World_ album](http://vgmdb.net/album/35824), on which \"re-\nIncarnate\" is an image song for Arita Haruyuki).\n\nThe _Tokyo Ravens_ album [\"Reincarnation\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/45821) is\nanother example that's full of image songs in the latter sense, with vocals\ncredited to Kurosaki Maon (who does not play any of the characters in the\nshow).\n\nI find that image songs (in the latter sense) are relatively rare as tie-ins\nto anime. They do appear rather frequently as tie-ins to visual novels,\nthough. I'm not sure why.\n\n",
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