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"body": "\n\nThis is kinda an interesting topic, we often hear in the manga how certain\ntypes of Devil Fruits are rare (Logia, Mythical Zoan etc.)\n\nBut when Ace died, we had to wait for his fruit to reappear. This would\nsuggest that his fruit is only one of the kind in the entire world. But at the\nMarine War arc, when Marco transforms into his pheonix form, it is revealed\nthat his fruit is rarer than Logia.\n\nSo far I have yet to see 2 persons in OP that have the same DF, and are alive\nat the same time. So what does rarity of fruit mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBasically each fruit only exists once at any given time, when it's consumed by\nsomeone. Then the fruit **will only reappear when the consumer has died**.\nWith the Ace situation, it took a long time to reappear because the fruit took\nlong to find.\n\n## **Now let's talk about rarity.**\n\nThe rarity that you spoke of is based on the characteristics of the fruit.\nThis mainly comes down to: **Zoan, Paramecia and Logia.**\n\nMost of the Devil Fruits are either Zoan or Paramecia, making Logia a very\nrare and very strong fruit. Now there's the Zoan class, which have sub-\nclasses. There's the regular beast that you can pretty much see in a zoo which\naren't that rare, and can even be made artificially with the use of Smile.\nThere are however 2 subgroups which are very rare because as in normal life\nyou dont see those beasts, these are the **[Ancient\nZoan](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zoan#Ancient_Zoan)** , for example X\nDrake's Theropoda dinosaur. The other is the **[Mythical\nZoan](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zoan#Mythical_Zoan)** , which indeed\nincludes Marco's Phoenix. The reason as to why these are so rare is because\nthey share characteristics with both Paramecia and Logia. Making them\nextremely powerful.\n\n## **Why are the Mythical Zoan fruits rarer than Logia?**\n\nWell that's rather simple to be honest. The number of elements that you can\nturn into Logia are much more than the amount of mythological beasts that can\nbe formed.\n\nSources:\n\n * [Zoan Class](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zoan)\n\n * [Devil Fruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit)\n\n * [Articificial Devil Fruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Devil_Fruit)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI agree with the other answers that it is obviously related to type and\nquantity. But I think there is more going on than that. I think the rarity\nadditionally stems from the rarity of the actual fruit it respawns in and the\nstrength and the value the actual Devil fruit gives its user.\n\nThere are 11 (canon) Logia fruits, 29 (canon) Zoan fruits and 62 (canon)\nParamecia fruits. **Going by numbers the Logia fruits are indeed rarer** and\nit is assumed that many more Zoan fruits are out there, compared to Logia\nfruits. The same logic can indeed be used among the sub-classes of Zoan\nfruits. There is 1 confirmed Artificial Zoan fruit (with many more to come), 2\nMythical Zoan fruits, 1 Ancient Zoan and 25 other Zoan fruits. Going by\nnumbers the Mythical Zoan and Ancient Zoan fruits are extremely rare.\n**Though, before we can link rarity to numbers, we should wait until Vegapunk\nexplains how they came into existence.**\n\nAdditionally to type quantity, I do think the type of the actual fruit plays a\nbig role as well. For example, there are many apples in the world. So when\nSmiley died and the [Axolotl model Salamander\nfruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sara_Sara_no_Mi,_Model:_Axolotl) was\nreborn in the nearest apple, it showed that that specific fruit will most\nlikely be discovered pretty soon, seeing as apples are so ubiquitous around\nthe world. While if you compare that to the [Operation\nFruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ope_Ope_no_Mi), which is shaped like a\nheart, it is safe to assume that when Law dies it will be only able to be\nreborn in a small part of the world, seeing as there aren't too many fruits\nshaped like a heart. **This would in turn make it difficult to find, making it\nmuch rarer** than the Axolotl fruit (apple), Giraffe fruit (banana) or String\nfruit (pear) for example.\n\nFinally, I had found the same question on\n[reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1yvikx/how_is_one_devil_fruit_more_rare_than_another/),\nat which [one of the\ncomments](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1yvikx/how_is_one_devil_fruit_more_rare_than_another/cfo9m5n)\nmentioned that the rarity could also be related to the strength of the\nspecific fruit. Stronger Devil fruit powers, inherently make it less likely\nfor the user to die. Considering the fact that many fruits are still unknown\nin the One Piece universe even today, certain fruits might even be unknown due\nto their low spawn rate. **The less frequently it respawns in different place\nover the world, the less likely people come in contact, making it seem rarer**\n, then it might be. For example it took Blackbeard many years to find his\ndesired fruit, making it seem a very rare fruit (which it is).\n\nRelated to previous paragraph, I believe that the value of a certain fruit\nadds to its rareness. This does not necessarily mean strength, as we have seen\nwith the Operation fruit. This fruit does not inherently make someone strong.\nThe power is not magic as mentioned by Corazon and requires a lot of\nknowledge. The World Government priced it at 5 billion Beli, seeing how much\npower it holds as **it is considered the \"Ultimate Devil Fruit\"**. Compared to\nthat we have the [Revive\nfruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi), which has an extremely\nlow spawn rate, yet nobody seems to care much about this fruit, seeing as it\nisn't that desired by the majority of people.\n\n* * *\n\nOn a side note, it is indeed confirmed that only a single instance of any\nDevil Fruit can be around at the same time. Usopp confirmed this in [chapter\n447](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BH1DI.jpg) and Oda double confirmed this in\n[the SBS of Volume 48, Chapter\n467](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_48#Chapter_467.2C_Page_166).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BH1DI.jpg)\n\n> **Reader** : Excuse me!! May I pose a serious question to the typically-\n> vulgar SBS?? In Volume 46, Usopp said that the same power doesn't exist\n> twice. But this doesn't make sense with what you said in the Volume 45\n> SBS... If the Gomu Gomu no Mi was in a book of fruits, then Luffy HAD to\n> have eaten at least the SECOND known example of the fruit! Now, most\n> beautiful and intelligent Ei-chan, explain it all! ✩ P.N. Takafi\n>\n> **Oda** : Very sharp of you. But I'm cool. I haven't made any mistakes. As a\n> hint, let me rephrase what Usopp is saying. \"The same powers don't exist\n> twice AT THE SAME TIME\". How's that? For more detail, you'll just have to\n> wait for a certain professor to make his appearance in the story, and\n> explain exactly what the Devil Fruits REALLY are... Eventually.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not the Phoenix is more rare then the leopard but the mystic zoan is more\nrare then a normal zoan because there are a lot more different types of animal\nthen mystic that's what they there is one of any power of a devil fruit but\nthe classes of devil fruit can be more rare example let's say there a total of\n20 logai devil fruits and 5 mystic zoan you have a high chance of logai over\nto mystic zoan because there is only 5 different mystic zoan over the 20 logai\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI dont get how no one has mentioned, some are more rare because the user takes\nway longer to die because of their op fruit. But yeah if there’s only 1 of\neverything, rare isn’t neccisarily true\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough this question might be a naive thing to ask, I believe that I would\nget an much detailed answer to this question keeping in mind all my simple\nquestions answered wonderfully by people in the past. I read the wiki page on\nTsundere but there's not much, I understand the broad definition where a\nperson has a combative attitude towards a particular protagonist in any anime.\nWhat I am looking for, is an all-encompassing criteria/concept of a 'tsundere'\nand the highlights of their social behavior.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [KnowYourMeme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tsundere)\n\n> The word tsundere is a portmanteau of the japanese terms **tsun-tsun**\n> (turning away in disgust) and **dere-dere** (lovey-dovey feelings).\n\nTypically _tsundere_ characters are characters who _aren't honest with\nthemselves_ about loving another character. They'll often say things like;\n\n\"It's not as if it I did that for you, dummy - don't get the wrong idea!\"\n\n\"It could have been anyone else, it's just because you were there\"\n\nEtc.\n\nGenerally, its obvious they have feelings for someone - they're just too shy\nto admit it, so they cover it up with insults, physical attacks or making it\nseem that something isn't a big deal (even though they really think it is -\nlike an indirect kiss for example)\n\nWhen closer friends point it out, they'll often blush and stutter:\n\n\"W..what?! There's no way I could love J-Jony, where d-did you get that crazy\nidea from!?\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Out-of-\nuniverse](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto#Creation_and_Conception),\nNaruto's day-glo orange costume was chosen to make him \"pop.\" In-universe,\n[it's hard to imagine a less efficient color for a\nninja](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighlyVisibleNinja),\nespecially in a wooded area.\n\nHas there been any in-universe explanation for why Naruto wears that color,\nand was allowed to continue doing so even during missions? Failing that, has\nthe absurdity of it at least [been\nlampshaded](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SY9Mh.png)\n\nFirst of all, I think its obvious what Naruto's _favourite_ colour is. From\nGenin to Kage, he maintains his signature orange colour.\n\nThe poppy orange colour was not only focused to make Naruto's appearance pop\nto the readers/viewers. There were several other factors:\n\n * Naruto's appearance was a tribute to the _Dragon Ball_ series by Akira Toriyama. Masashi Kishimoto ( _Naruto_ creator/mangaka) was deeply inspired by Toriyama's works. Naruto's colour scheme was designed with respect to that of Goku's.\n\n * From [Naruto Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki):\n\n> Naruto's mother was nicknamed the \"Red Hot-Blooded Habanero\" while his\n> father was famed as the \"Yellow Flash\". Naruto's appropriate self-styled\n> title of \" **Konoha's Orange Hokage (木ノ葉のオレンジ火影, Konoha no Orenji Hokage,\n> Literally meaning: Tree Leaves' Orange Fire Shadow)** \" refers to the fact\n> that the colour orange is a mixture of red and yellow.\n\nThe fact that Naruto's signature colour is a result of the mixture of the\nsignature colours of his parents, is a significant reason for its\nimplementation.\n\n * Naruto's childhood was a very rocky one. The villagers used to isolate him and ignore him. Due to which, Naruto would put up acts so he would be noticed or appreciates or be cared for. The poppy orange plays a crucial role here. Combining the two logic, i.e., orange pops out and Naruto wanted to be noticed, his dress code makes sense. \n\nSome _other_ factor(s):\n\n * Due to the Kyuubi being orange in colour. Kishimoto purposefully made Naruto and Kurama's colour scheme similar so they would look more related. This is something that I read a while back. It makes sense, but it's just an unsourced info. \n\n * Here's another factor I found while going through the post, [Why does Kakashi Hatake always wear a mask?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2912/why-does-kakashi-hatake-always-wear-a-mask) (credit to @InfantPro'Aravind'):\n\n> @user1526, adding to starPilot's, color orange signifies ENERGY, a will to\n> be sportive and always ready .. that's the character of Naruto .. –\n> InfantPro'Aravind' [Mar 17 '13 at\n> 13:23](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2912/why-does-kakashi-\n> hatake-always-wear-a-mask#comment2199_2913)\n\nAs for in-universe talks about his dressing, I couldn't find any reasoning or\nquestioning references.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've finished the 1st and 2nd (√A) seasons and I wanted to start with the\nmanga. So I want to continue it from the part where the anime left off, since\nI don't want to waste time reading what has been already done in the anime,\nassuming all the episodes are canon. If they are, which chapter should I start\nfrom? Or should I start from the beginning? And one more question, is it a\nweekly or monthly published manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nStart from the beginning, they've changed some things in the anime. \n(Not to mention that the 2nd season deviated from the manga completely) \nIt's weekly, and do note that after Tokyo Ghoul, there's Tokyo Ghoul:re.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI also suggest you start from the beginning, not only because they changed\nsome things storywise but because a lot of the small details of the story were\nomitted in the anime. Those small details will help you to understand the plot\nbetter but also play a big role in bringing the characters to life.\n\nAlso if you want to watch the Tokyo Ghoul Re anime there are references and\nparts of the story that you wouldn't be able to understand well without\nreading the manga. For example, in the Re anime, Tsukiyama makes reference to\nactivities such as\n\n> playing a match of Squash (a sports game) with Kaneki which was in the manga\n> but omitted from the 1st season of the anime. The fact that Tsukiyama wanted\n> to play Squash also reveals details about Tsukiyama's character: He believes\n> exercising is essential but more importantly it emphasizes Tsukiyama's\n> obsession with contrast in things (food, emotions, activities) since he\n> wants to do something upbeat like playing sports before going to a relaxing\n> cafe. After that, the manga also shows that he likes to drink a cold\n> beverage first and then a hot one which reemphasizes the theme of obsession\n> with contrast.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not a luck or co-incidence, of all people Zoro sensed first that their\nShip isn't moving (when they entered Calm belt for the first time)\n\nIn episode 385 he sensed (along with Nami) change in climate before Serpent\nCurrents emerged.\n\nThere are several incidences he has sensed changes in Climate and motion\nbefore all (or along with Nami, who's a navigator) in the series\n\nIs it zoro's Kenbunshoku Haki, which was active all time? or does he have any\nspecial ability? Isn't it noteworthy? I don't see any sources highlighting\nthis ability of his (even in Wiki)!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's a case of Zoro always being cautious and alert much like a\nSamurai as opposed to him subconsciously using haki.\n\nWe see evidence of this in Whiskey Peak where Zoro doesn't put his guard down\nagainst the villagers and ensures limits his drinking when the crew were\npartying which pays off when we find out they were bounty hunters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs per [One Piece wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Kenbunshoku_Haki)\n\n> Kenbunshoku Haki, also known as Mantra on Skypiea, is a form of Haki that\n> allows the user to sense the presence of others, even if they are concealed\n> from view or too far to see naturally.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f83e8.png)\n\nThis is the aura which is seen through Kenbunshoku Haki.\n\n> The user can also use this Haki to predict an opponent's moves shortly\n> before they make them, thereby making the attack much easier to evade with\n> enough skill. This prediction appears to the user as an image or brief\n> \"premonition\" of what the opponent will do in the user's mind's eye, and the\n> damage the user will take if the attack actually \"hits\". It appears that the\n> more killing intent the enemy has, the easier they are to predict. Although,\n> more skilled users can predict future moves whether there are ambient\n> murderous intents or not.\n\nHence, Zoro detecting the change in climate can't be a consequence of his\nKenbunshoku Haki, because it's inanimate and has nothing to do with a living\nthing. It's not possible to detect the \"aura\" of climate either.\n\n> Though the power allows the user to predict most attacks, it can be\n> circumvented by various means. It cannot predict inherently random attacks;\n> for example, Luffy managed to bypass Enel's Mantra by bouncing his fists off\n> a nearby wall, to prevent himself and thus Enel from knowing where they\n> would land.\n\nAs for Zoro sensing the halt of the ship in the Calm Belt, it's highly\nunlikely that it was his Kenbunshoku Haki as well because the Straw Hats had\nmerely begun their journey then, and noone was aware of their Haki, or even\nunconsciously used it. Not to mention, the halting of their ship was not\nintentional (a result of the action of another living thing).\n\nI think it's more of Zoro keeping an eye out for changes in the surroundings\nthan it being his Haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do agree with Ashish Gupta's answer. Also would like to add some more points\nto it:\n\nEvidently Zoro is given a duty of Monitoring the surroundings, generally\nsits(or sleeps) on top of the ship. \nThis Duty, however was never announced. And shown to be shared by other\nstrawhat members too. So not sure if he chose it himself or his team members\nacknowledged his ability. But the SHP team does depend on his observation\nskills.\n\nAs Ashish noted, it's definitely not an \"Observation Haki\" but could merely be\na presence of mind and cautiousness, perhaps a sign of a true swordsman..\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm catching up on Gundam: G Reconguista and they keep talking about Kuntala.\nThe brief discriptions so far were that they are lower class citizens and that\nthey used to be raised as food.\n\nCannibalism? For serious? Humans would make the worst stock. You'd have to\nwait 16 years to get a decent amount of anything to eat. Cows mature in less\nthan 5 (2ish maybe?), and sheep and goats are fast to raise. And they eat\ngrass, which is usually everywhere.\n\nI found a blurb on a [Gundam\nwiki](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Kuntala#cite_ref-1), and a [reddit\nthread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/2lxba9/several_questions_about_kuntala_in_greco/)\nasking similar questions, but not much for answers.\n\n * Why were people being raised as food?\n * If such a people were freed from bondage, how and why are they still second class citizens and discriminated against?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been thinking that if Natsu can't eat his own fire, can he set some\nobject on fire using his magic and then eat that fire??\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs per the [Fairy Tail\nWiki](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Dragon_Slayer_Magic)\n\n> In addition, the user can consume external sources of fire to restore their\n> body to a healthy state and regain their reserves of strength, something\n> that also makes them immune to most types of fire, due to their capability\n> of nullifying fire-based attacks by sucking them in and eating them; the\n> consumed fire also seems to possess a different “taste” according to its\n> “quality”. **However, the user can’t eat their own flames, or things set on\n> fire by them, to reinvigorate themselves.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Kuroshitsuji, most of the time Mr. Tanaka is drawn in chibified form and\nsays nothing but \"ho ho ho\". At certain times, however, he reverts back to his\nnormal form for a short amount of time, like when he returned to his former\nrank of head butler following Sebastian's absence. Is there any significance\nto this? Does it has any meaning for the story?\n\nEdit: I mean like how Finny was a kaizo-ningen (he underwent an operation to\ngain inhuman strength) or how Mei Rin was an assassin and Bard was a soldier.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist manga series depicted the duels during the Duelist\nKingdom arc with the players sitting at dueling tables that were surrounded by\na box which projected holographic images of the battles, whereas the Yu-Gi-Oh!\nanime series depict Duelist Kingdom duels on the large field-sized platforms\nwhere the players stood a very large distance apart.\n\nIs there any reason why the anime producers decided to make such a noticeable\n(but non-impactful) change to the way the duels took place?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSitting down in an enclosed box that displays holograms of a small size\ndoesn't spruce up the intense battle scenes that the manga wants to convey to\nthe audience. Also sketching huge monsters as holograms in manga comics is\ndifficult keeping in mind that the dueling field needs to showcase both the\nmonsters and the duelists. It would take up a large space on the page.\n\nAlso when the anime was being created, the emphasis was made to make duels\nmore interactive than just showing monsters screaming. Like monsters could now\nbe launched from canons, Gaia the Fierce Knight could now gallop and much\nmore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe biggest most likely reason is that the Yu-Gi-Oh series was actually\nheavily based on the manga back in 1998-1999. The show lasted 27 episodes.\nHowever in 2000, Nihon Ad Systems and Studio Gallop did a second adaptation\ntaking the anime down a different path, tying it in with the trading card\ngame. Since they were tying it in with the card game and that the target\nmarket was children they probably thought that it was a fun and inventive way\nto experience the duels in the show similar to how you would experience a real\nduel in real life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm quite confused and I'd like to know what's the difference between\n**Fate/Stay Night** and **Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works**?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned by senshin in his answer to the question [What is the viewing\norder of Fate-related\nworks?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/12832/what-is-the-viewing-\norder-of-fate-related-works/12835#12835)\n\n * [_Fate/stay night_](https://vndb.org/v11) is a visual novel originally released in 2004. The story has three routes: **Fate** , **Unlimited Blade Works** , and **Heaven's Feel**.\n\n * The first TV anime series by DEEN in 2006, titled [_Fate/stay night_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/356/Fate/stay_night), mostly adapted the **Fate** route.\n\n> However, Caster's plan to prematurely summon the Grail was taken from the\n> **Unlimited Blade Works** route, and Sakura and Rin's fight was taken from\n> the **Heaven's Feel** route\n\n * The movie by DEEN in 2010, titled [_Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6922/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works), adapted a highly condensed form of the **Unlimited Blade Works** route.\n\n * The second TV anime series by Ufotable in [Fall 2014](http://myanimelist.net/anime/22297/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)) and [Spring 2015](http://myanimelist.net/anime/28701/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)_2nd_Season), also titled [_Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/22297/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)), is another adaptation of the **Unlimited Blade Works** route.\n\n * There are plans for [a movie/series of movies](http://myanimelist.net/anime/25537/Fate/stay_night:_Heavens_Feel) by Ufotable which adapts **Heaven's Feel** route.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNagi has his vocal cord removed during his back story. In the majority of the\nstory, however, he talks freely. Some deadmen show extreme healing abilities.\nDid he regrow them? He was being courted by a group in power. Did they pull\nstrings to have them replaced? Note that I have watched the anime but not read\nthe manga. I kind of expect the answer to be there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is from the [Nagi\nKengamine](http://deadmanwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Nagi_Kengamine) Wiki page:\n\n> Equipment - Soundboard: He has a soundboard installed into his mechanical\n> voicebox. It allows him to make special sound effects, including but not\n> limited to: air horns, clapping, and a rape whistle. Due to Genkaku\n> hijacking its system, it also glitches so that all output turns into his\n> moaning, much to Karako's shock and dismay.\n\nSo it appears that he has a mechanical voicebox. That also explains why he has\na robotic voice. The technology is believable when you consider the scene\nwhere he pulls the little cell phone from his tooth in order to alter\nMinatsuki's penalty game to try and convince Ganta to join them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI will try to make this brief. I know Soul Eater ended ages ago and I just\nstarted watching it. I'm at season 3. I'm just curious about how they become\nweapons? I know that one is born as a weapon, but what happens physically? I\nmight be overthinking it, but I am just curious.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe so called _weapons_ are a artificial race, created due to inhumane\nhuman/witch experimentation. We do not know how the actual physical\ntransformation happens. Nor how the experimentation ultimatetly led to this\n_race_\n\nThese experiments known to create these _weapons_ was originally discovered by\nEibon and Death, whilst trying to find a way to create peace between the\nhumans and the witches. Due to the inhumane practices required to create such\ndemon weapons they decided to lock the exact steps away.\n\nBut as you learn later on in the story as well. Arachnid, with her spiders,\nmanaged to obtain this information, and started her own experimentation.\nUltimatly leading to the race currently known as _Demon Weapons_\n\n> The ´weapons´ Race, as a social construct, is a group of people who share\n> similar and distinct physical characteristics\n>\n> This particular race came to be 800 years before the start of the series,\n> during the time Eibon and Death sought a way to create peace between humans\n> and witches.\n>\n> Inspired by the Great Old one (Excalibur) they decided to start human\n> experimentation to create something similar. They managed to find out that\n> by killing a witch and extracting a soul they could create a demon weapon.\n>\n> Due to the inhumanity they sealed away the instructions for doing so. Yet\n> Arachne using her spiders managed to oversee this, and started her own\n> experimentation. Leading her to combining a weapon, and a witches soul. This\n> concluded in a new 'race' now known as the 'demon weapons' or weapons for\n> short. Or as we known them, the humans transforming into weapons. - [SE\n> Wiki](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Demon_Weapon)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat do they call this bar? Is there official terminology for it? Sometimes\nthey add filler text to explain the predicament the heroes are in inside of it\nor surrounding it. It also somewhat seems like a stamp to me.\n\nExamples:\n\nOne Piece\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gVyyI.png)\n\nBleach\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qfbU2.png)\n\nToriko\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9YG4m.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEp25 spoiler\n\n> In the episode where L dies, he mentions wanting to test the 13-day rule. If\n> the 13-day rule is disproven, Light and Misa become suspects again. L dies\n> and then\n\napparently everyone seems to have forgotten about the test. What happened? I\nseem to recall most of the task force disagreed with L and then\n\n> when he died, the majority opinion prevailed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor them to test the 13-day rule the Death Note has to be used. the Task\nForce's disagreeing with L was over the fact they would have to sacrifice\nsomeone for an experiment.\n\nThe Japanese Police were already a bit iffy of L since the Lind L. Tailor\nincident where L had a condemned criminal sacrificed just to test how Kira\nkills and where they may be, and the Police and the Task Force have to keep\nthe moral high ground and not go around killing people for tests/experiments,\nespecially with the Death Note.\n\nAlso remember that the Task Force didn't learn about the Death Note or the\nfake rules until quite some time after Light's and Misa's confinement where\n\"Kira\" was a member of the Yotsuba Group, all the while Light was handcuffed\nto L. to the Task Force this was more than enough to clear Light's and Misa's\nnames without stooping down to Kira's Level, L on the other hand can see\nhimself on the same level as Light as per what he said in Death Note Relight\n2: L's Successors\n\n> There are...many types of monsters in this world: Monsters who will not show\n> themselves and who cause trouble; monsters who abduct children; monsters who\n> devour dreams; monsters who suck blood, and... monsters who always tell\n> lies. Lying monsters are a real nuisance. They are much more cunning than\n> other monsters. They pose as humans even though they have no understanding\n> of the human heart. They eat even though they've never experienced hunger.\n> They study even though they have no interest in academics. They seek\n> friendship even though they do not know how to love. **If I were to\n> encounter such a monster, I would likely be eaten by it. Because in truth, I\n> am that monster.**\n\nSource: [L - Quotes (9th\npoint)](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L_\\(character\\)#Quotes)\n\ntake notice of the lines i emphasized. it forebodes his death but also\ndescribes the kind of person Light/Kira is, and that L himself is just like\nthat so L would have no problem \"testing\" the Death Note\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Death Note 2015 series, some people sometimes speak English. For\ninstance when Raye Penber and Bell talk and when Lind L Tailor comes out on\nTV, it's in English.\n\nThe Death Note anime of course acknowledges the existence of the English\nlanguage, like in the first episode, when people with English names are\nwritten down in the Death Note and when Near says 'Mister' Aizawa, but a lot\nof English speaking people instead speak Japanese.\n\nSo this got me to thinking,\n\n 1. Are [L, Mello, Near, Watari, Beyond Birthday et al Western people](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Wammy%27s_House) (See [here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/26678/do-the-wammys-house-members-speak-to-each-other-in-english) for Wammy's House question) who just so happen to be fluent in or at least sufficiently speak and understand Japanese?\n\n 2. L once adopted the alias Ryuga Hideki. How would anyone think that a Western-looking person has a Japanese name? Is his cover story that he was adopted by a Japanese family or something?\n\n 3. Are they necessarily British just because Wammy's House is in England?\n\n 4. In general, is there anyway to know for sure what language is being spoken between a Western person and an Eastern person in the Death Note anime? For instance, when Light and L talk, are they talking in Japanese or English? How about when Near and Light talk?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n 1. At least for L, his official profile says that he's fluent in Japanese, Chinese, English, German, French and Russian. I wouldn't be surprised if the other high-IQ guys were multilingual as well.\n 2. The author says L is quarter Japanese, and since he has black hair and black eyes, introducing L as Japanese shouldn't be _that_ strange, I guess.\n 3. Again, at least for L, his profile says he's British (イギリス国籍).\n 4. Dunno.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRelated to this: [Death note handwriting\ncheck](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20584/death-note-handwriting-\ncheck)\n\nA lot of DNA must have rubbed off on the Death Notes. Unless the Death Note\nhas a rule about fingerprints or DNA, I don't see how this isn't a plothole.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the Kira Task Force recovered the Death Note from [Kyosuke\nHiguchi](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Kyosuke_Higuchi) there is 2 things\nwhich contaminated any DNA evidence on the Death Note:\n\n 1. The Kira Task Force touched the Death Note to see Rem\n 2. Light was holding onto the Death Note as part of his plan to reclaim ownership (when his memories returned)\n\nTo my knowledge there is no way to tell \"when\" fingerprints or DNA first made\ncontact with an object being tested as such any of Light's DNA found on the\nDeath Note can easily be explained by his interactions with it when the Death\nNote was recovered.\n\nRemember that the idea was to capture Kira and convict him in a court of law\nand DNA on the Death Note would be inadmissible due to how it was handled.\nThis is why the police tend to block of crime scenes ensure that the proper\n[Chain of Evidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_custody) is met. In\nsome cop shows there are times that, when a seal is broken or multiple\nundocumented people handled a particular piece of evidence, it can't be used\nin court.\n\nEven if Light didn't touch the Death Note when it was recovered and L found\nLight's DNA on it, suspecting Light again after the 13-day rule seemed to show\nhis innocence would not help L since up until now Light had been very\ncooperative in aiding the Task Force and they were all on good terms. He would\nfirst need to prove to the rest of the Task Force/Police that the 13-day rule\nis fake thus returning to what I have explained\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/26617/1587) and then rule out any\nother way Light's DNA could have gotten onto the Death Note after it's\nrecovery.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince my answer at the [linked\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/56701/4484) answers this question\nas well, I will only copy it in a quote:\n\n> After handing over the Death Note to Rem in the plan to free Misa out Light\n> says (chapter 54):\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/awxBw.png)\n>\n> In other words, he **tore the pages** out and checked there's **none of the\n> fingerprints or his handwriting** , so it's no surprise that L didn't check\n> out the handwriting since there weren't any other names written beside\n> Higuchi's.\n>\n> All though it didn't mentioned in the anime, **it's unthinkable that Light\n> would missing do such an obvious thing.**\n\nAnd as for _hair_ and _DNA_ as mentioned in the question, I think it's\nobviously.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFinale spoiler\n\n> There's [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j58ZQSf1vA)\n> (alternative [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfy0pU94fLA)) that\n> proposes how Light could have beaten Near. A critical element of the\n> proposition is that Misa is accessible to Light, but was she? I seem to\n> recall Misa was in the custody of the SPK up until some time just before\n> Light et al are about to leave\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMisa would have been released before the text would have arrived. This means\nthat the piece of the death note should have bean hidden in a public area near\nthe building she was being held up. It would have also needed to be in an area\nno one would take the piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## She accessible, but not in the way the video assumes.\n\nFrom the [wikia episode\nplots](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_Episodes):\n\n> **Malice:**\n>\n> Aizawa thinks to himself that the reason this is happening is so that Light\n> can either be exposed or kill Near. As Light accepts, Near lays out some\n> ground rules: all members of the Task Force must be present, as all members\n> of the SPK and Mogi will be there while **Misa will go elsewhere.** Near\n> then gives the meeting location: an abandoned warehouse he purchased known\n> as the Yellow Box, and also forbids the Task Force from leaving the Death\n> Note behind, thinking to himself that this is what Light would want.\n>\n> **1.28** :\n>\n> The day finally arrives, and as Stephen Gevanni is on his way, Near\n> announces that **Misa has been moved to a luxury hotel** , essentially\n> freeing her. After Light confirms this, he asks Near to contact Mogi, who is\n> with Lidner on their way, as to unlock the Death Note from a secure safe,\n> each member has to put in a pin number that only each of them know\n> individually.\n\nMisa at that moment is a normal civilian girl, and there was no way for Light\nto **safely** get [Teru Mikami\n(x-kira)](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Teru_Mikami) contact Misa in the\n_luxury hotel_ **Near himself chose to placed her at** whithout Near knowing.\nWe can safely assume Near has a bug/tracker on Misa's cell phone (or can get a\ncopy of the data). Or Mikami. Even if Misa is completely cleared, there is no\nway Mikami is not completely under electronic surveillance by 1.28.\n\nHaving Mikami contact Misa would have the same effect as not having his name\nwritten on the notepad. Light had very few pieces of DN left, if any by that\ntime. It would be hard to find a piece where all those names could've been\nwritten (specially foreign names, with all those scribbly letters). And even\nif Misa was to text the picture of the names back to Light in 1 hour, it would\ngive Near that much time to check the tracers and shut Misa down before she\ncan forward the picture.\n\nBut the real problem was not assuming that Near would not find the DN inside a\nbank, the video gets that wrong. The unraveling of Light's plan was when\n\n> Mikami broke his character, took the initiative (instead of just doing\n> mechanically what he had always done) and went to the bank **out of his\n> schedule** to [kill Kiyomi](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Kiyomi_Takada).\n> Nobody expected Mikami, a creature of absolute habit, to do something so\n> spontaneous. Had he kept to his schedule, Near would not have found the DN\n> in the bank.\n\n**TL.DR:** He could have done that, but it would give away proof of his alter\nego as Kira to Near all the same.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPeter Raeves\n\n> What the guy proposes in the video is impossible though. Misa has given up\n> ownership of her note and her memories long time ago to Mikami, so she can't\n> write down the names.\n\nBCLC\n\n> PeterRaeves Why exactly can't Misa write down the names? Not sure I\n> understand the relevance of the hypotheses\n\nPeter Raeves\n\n> Misa doesn't know of the existence of the Death Note. Nor does she have a\n> Death Note in her possession, or do you mean Light would give her a sheet of\n> paper and tell her to write the names down Mika would send her?\n\nBCLC\n\n> Um, yes? That was what the video suggested right?\n\nPeter Raeves\n\n> N only released Misa the moment L (and Mikami) were about to leave for the\n> warehouse they were going to meet and he placed her into an unknown hotel.\n> How do you suggest Light gets a piece of the death note there?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read some article that said Eiichiro Oda has drawn and shown Luffy's\nmother in the series. I forgot the source, but is that true or not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe don't know. The only thing we know as\n[Toshino](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1458/toshino-kyouko) mentioned\nin a comment is that Oda had said we would be very pleased with Volume 45 if\nwe were wondering about his parents. Whether he was referring to his father\nDragon alone or both his parents is unknown at this point.\n\nFrom the [SBS of Volume 44 chapter\n](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_44#Chapter_424.2C_Page_106)\n\n> **Reader** : Oda-sensei!! I have a serious question. Will you ever draw\n> Luffy's parents? P.N. Mr. Uni, Age 16\n>\n> **Oda** : His parents? Well, I think you will be pleased with the next\n> volume. Get excited!\n\nVolume 45 consists of the chapters 431, [Fist of\nLove](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_431) through 440, [First Fist vs\nBlackbeard](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_440). Luffy's father was\nrevealed to the crew in chapter 432 and he was shown to the reader in chapter\n440. Whether his mother was beside him in the base or somewhere else in those\nchapters is unconfirmed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Light and Misa were cleared, everyone seemed to just forget about that\nthere's more than one kira. What was up with that? I seem to recall Light\ninstructed Misa to make a response to the task force's kira video, then L\ndeduced that the two kiras have met, then Light and Misa were confined, then\nSoichiro fake shoots them and then they try to catch Higuchi. While trying to\ncatch Higuchi and thereafter, has everyone just forgotten that there's more\nthan one kira? Did anyone find it suspicious that there seems to have been\nonly one kira around? Maybe they thought that the two kiras were acting as\none?\n\nBased on a comment I made here: [Why didn't the Task Force capture Misa\nAmane?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/23695/why-didnt-the-task-\nforce-capture-misa-amane#comment37106_23695)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's nothing to expect from the Task Force. Their main brains were L, Light\nand Near.\n\nL proposed that Misa is the second Kira, but he was proved wrong because of\nthe fake shot scene by Light's father. So inside the Task Force's mind, the\nclaim that Misa is the second Kira became false, thus the claim of second Kira\nwas probably forgotten too by the Task Force.\n\nAfter Higuchi's capture part, L still didn't forget his claim about the second\nKira and Kira = Light, because L wanted to test the truth of 13-day rules.\nUnfortunately he didn't live long.\n\nTask Force is just a group of subordinates who receive the orders and execute\nthe orders. They are not the leader of the team. They just follow their\nleader's instruction. They didn't have insight like L and Near, plus they\nbelieves in Light, so they just did their job according to Light's\ninstructions. Even though Aizawa doubted Light after Near emerges, he still\ndidn't have enough brain to prove Light = Kira, and he just had doubt, not\nconfirmation.\n\nAs part of a team, Japanese values teamwork and harmony in a team, so they\nfollow their leader. As for the guy who doubted Light, he chose to follow\nNear's instruction.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey did not forget that there were possibly two Kiras. The task force stopped\npursuing that objective due to L throwing the theory out after the shot scene\nas posted about.\n\nIf L didn't pursue the theory, then it was forgotten as the task force had\nalready been proven powerless to stop Kira, which is why L was there in the\nfirst place.\n\nPerhaps the individual members still pondered if there were two Kiras or not,\nbut they were not free to pursue their own opinions given their individual\npositions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has been a while since I watched Death Note, but this is my answer from\nwhat I remember.\n\nI don't think they forgot about the Second Kira, at least not entirely. After\nthe fake firing scene, they concluded that Light and Misa are not the Kiras.\n\nLater Light turned out to be Kira, but I don't think they never had any reason\nto suspect Misa again. Also, the task force got hold of one of the Death\nNotes. So, they probably might have thought that since they have one with them\nand Kira has another one, Second Kira didn't have a Death Note anymore and so\nis no longer a threat.\n\nThat's what I think.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have heard rumors he only becomes a death scythe in the manga but it is\nstill unclear. Has it just not happened yet in the anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, in the anime of soul eater a death scythe is more of a conceptual goal\nthan a visible state of progression, however, as the anime progresses a\ncharacter who is an actual death scythe is introduced and it's power is\ndisplayed to reinforce that goal.\n\nKeep in mind that the anime also ends at the internal investigation arc\n(chapters 38-40) as the Kishin arc - Arachnophobia vs DWMA - is anime only. I\nwill leave out details if you haven't seen it to avoid spoilers but I do\nrecommend watching it.\n\nMy source is that I watched the anime fairly recently and recall the details.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime no, however know that the anime **does not follow the manga\nentirely** , as Hikari [points\nout](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/26635/1587)\n\n> Keep in mind that the anime also ends at the internal investigation arc\n> (chapters 38-40) as the Kishin arc - Arachnophobia vs DWMA - is anime only.\n\nis when the anime deviates from the manga as in the manga near the end\n\n> Crona ends up becoming a Kishin and flees to the Moon with an army of clowns\n> similar to the 2 clowns that Kid faced in the anime when he went to obtain\n> the last of Ebion's Tools needed for Death\n\ni havn't read the manga so i don't know exactly when but on Soul's Synopsis\n[Wikia Page](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Soul_Evans/Synopsis#Formation)\nunder Formation, partway though the second paragraph it says\n\n> Spirit hands Soul Arachne's Witch soul and congratulates him on becoming a\n> Death Weapon. The other members of Spartoi join them, as Soul, drooling and\n> with a smirk on his face, consumes Arachne's soul and becomes a Death\n> Weapon, signaling the birth of the elite student group, Spartoi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, the anime very greatly deviates from the manga. In fact, only less than\nthe first half of the anime follows the manga. The rest is completely\ndifferent. Considering the events of the manga: (SPOILERS)\n\n> Soul becomes death scythe after some time after the events of the Baba Yaga\n> castle by killing a witch. Comparing it with the anime, they had to confront\n> the Kishin right after attacking the Baba Yaga castle and the anime ended\n> eventually. So I don't think Soul ever became a death scythe in the anime.\n> He does become a death scythe in the manga in chapter 62.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wonder why Luffy, Zoro, and Usopp (and also Robin) were surprised when they\nsaw the [Dragon from Punk\nHazard](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Animal_Species/Pirate_Alliance_Saga#Dragon)\nwhile the three of them have already seen\n[Ryu](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ryu), the Dragon that they met on Warship\nIsland?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTheir surprise stems from the fact that the Warship Island Arc is a filler\narc. As [One Piece wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Warship_Island_Arc)\nsays:\n\n> It is the first story arc of the series not to be based on any content from\n> the manga by Eiichiro Oda, making it the first filler arc.\n\nAnother reason might be the fact that they had [encountered a\ndragon](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sandora_Lizard#Sandora_Lizard) (if you\ncount it as one) only once before, and didn't expect to meet one on Punk\nHazard.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause it's a filler arc.\n\nIn Canon story, they meet dragon for the first time in Punk Hazard. Having\nsaid that, it's a mythical creature which never existed in Pirate era, but it\nwas an artificial one created by Genius Vegapunk.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of Mayoi Jiangshi, we meet Ougi when she talks to Araragi in\n[the traffic light conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEAMI4igZM)\n(i.e. \"Did you know that there is a time when all lights at an intersection\nare red?\"). I didn't really think much of the fact that it was this random\ngirl talking to him, thinking it was a friend from school.\n\nOnce I saw Ougi in the other ones in 2nd season / tsuki, I realized that that\nwas also Ougi. Now that Owari is out, we see where he first meets Ougi.\nBecause of that, I thought that this part of Owari was at the very beginning\nof 2nd season.\n\nHowever, [this\nsite](http://bakemonogatari.wikia.com/wiki/Monogatari_Series_Timeline) puts it\n_after_ Mayoi Jiangshi. How is this possible?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe soundtrack that plays when Fujitora makes his first appearance. Episode\n630 13:30-14:00 I have heard the soundtrack many times before. This soundtrack\nrelates to a swordsman, that's how I feel.\n\nThanks\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe name of the OST is \"Greeting Swordsman\" and is from [One Piece Movie 7:\nThe Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri\nCastle](http://myanimelist.net/anime/465/One_Piece:_Karakurijou_no_Mecha_Kyohei)\n\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBm9M-2vds) is the link to the OST and\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJwz7cY8Sk8) is the extended version.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, the producer has a list of idols/groups scheduled for events,\nand pens the Hacka Dolls into one of the slots to fill space.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0PjkJ.jpg)\n\nI suspect that all of these are references to other idols or idol-like\nentities. Going down the list:\n\n * まつだひじりこ \"Matsuda Hijiriko\" → [Matsuda Seiko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Matsuda) (kanji pun on 聖)\n * \"u's\" → [μ's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Live!)\n * \"Sit Down Girls!\" → [Wake Up, Girls!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Up,_Girls!)\n * 美少女ハリウッド \"Bishoujo Hollywood\" → [Shounen Hollywood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen_Hollywood)\n * **でんじは組,etc \"Denji wa Kumi, etc\" → ???**\n * ミス・カラフール \"Miss Colorful\" → [Miss Monochrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Monochrome)\n * スーパーソニ男 \"Super Soni-o\" → [Super Sonico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sonico)\n * (Hacka Doll)\n * 珂那ちゃん \"Kana-chan\" → [the fleet's idol, Naka-chan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcB8SaORxBA)\n * **ワン子クラブ \"Wanko Club\" → ???**\n * **長森明菜 \"Nagamori Akina\" → ???**\n * ゆりかおる \"YuriKaoru\" → [YuiKaori](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YuiKaori)\n * **Square → ???**\n\nI haven't managed to figure out the referents of the four ones I've bolded\nabove. Who all are being referred to here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first animated _Garo_ series, _Honoo no Kokuin_ is set in some sort of\nmedieval Iberian-looking place. The second animated series, _Guren no Tsuki_ ,\nis set in c. 10th-century mid-late Heian Japan. (We can pinpoint this fairly\nwell, since one of the nobles in the palace in episode 1 is identified as\nreal-life person [Fujiwara no\nMichinaga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Michinaga), who lived c.\n966-1028 CE).\n\nNow, there's likely going to be no overlap of characters (aside from non-\nhumans like Zaruba and Garm), since these two shows appear to be far apart in\ntime (I'd peg _Honoo no Kokuin_ as being closer to the 14th century or so).\nBut, in the first place, are these two series even set in the same continuity?\n\n(If so, that would mean that Raikou would have to be some distant relative of\nLeón, which would be quite an interesting state of affairs.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGuren no Tsuki (Garo Animation 2) so Eastern and locate in Japan\n\nHonoo no Kokuin (Garo Animation 1) so Western & locate in somewhere not Japan\nor Eastern Country\n\nNumber doesn't tell about sequel, it telling about second production\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first season of _K_ , we're introduced to the red, blue, and colorless\nclans early on, and later on are told about the silver and gold clans. In the\nmovie, we come to know of the green clan.\n\nBut there are seven clans, and that only amounts to six. What is the color (or\nnon-color?) of the seventh clan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\ni think it is the brown clan. because in the chamber slates at Mihashira tower\nyou see the colors of the 6 known clans and the brown color\n<http://k-project.wikia.com/wiki/Mihashira_Tower?file=Dresden_Slate_Room.png>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the first to last clans, they are White Rice Party, Tokijikuin, Homra,\nScepter 4, Jungle, Cathedral, and Colorless. Cathedral was COMPLETELY\ndestroyed in the kagutsu crater incident, therefore the only one in the series\nthat has any resemblance to the powers of the Gray clan, is the Gray King\nSeigo Ootori. (Tenkei Iwafune) And any sort of information given on Cathedral\nis little to null on even the Wikipedia, other than the interesting insignia\nof their clan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first season is an introduction to the Silver, Gold, Red, Blue and\nColorless clans and only mentions the Green clan. The movie K: Missing Kings\nintroduced the Green clan, and the second season K: Return of Kings finally\nintroduces the Grey Clan, a clan devastated by the Kagutsu Crater Incident.\nThe only surviving member was the Grey King Seigo Ootori, which rescued the\nGreen King and went into hiding, until the Green Kings plan to steal the Slate\nfinally came.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nactually it is the Grey clan.\n\nsilver, gold, green, red, blue, colorless, and grey. as Tenkei Iwafune is the\n6th King, The Grey king.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRelated to this question: [Questions about nationalities and languages in\nDeath Note](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/26614/4484)\n\nIt seems the Death Note 2015 series tries to incorporate the English language\nwhen appropriate, but even though Watari, L and Near are supposedly Western,\nthey speak Japanese to each other. I guess it would be weird if they were\nplayed by Western actors even though their characters are supposedly Western.\nArtistic license and all that.\n\nIn the anime and manga (or Hell even in the films or series), is it safe to\nassume that the Wammy's House members speak to each other in English?\n\nI guess it's obvious that when Mello and Near hear about L's death, they speak\nin English to each other and w/ the person who informed them about L's death.\n\nWhat about for instance when Mello and Near were talking in the SPK place or\nwhenever L and Watari talk privately? It's in English right?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems safe to assume they're speaking English. This most likely is an\nexample of a [translation\nconvention](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranslationConvention).\nAs the first two paragraphs of that TV Tropes page put it:\n\n> When a group of people whose native language is not English are together,\n> away from any English speakers, the audience may nonetheless hear them\n> speaking perfect English.\n>\n> This is not a case of Translator Microbes, in which an in-universe device is\n> performing actual translation: We are meant to assume that the characters\n> are really speaking their own native tongue, and it is being translated\n> purely for our benefit (or the benefit of the casting director who is then\n> free to hire English-speaking actors), like the dubbing of English dialogue\n> onto foreign-made films.\n\nMost of the time, when a translation convention is employed, the writers don't\nbother indicating that the characters are actually speaking another language,\nbecause the audience most likely doesn't care; the audience just wants to know\nwhat they're saying.\n\nFurther down the page, Death Note is discussed:\n\n> In the Japanese version of Death Note, the scenes at which Interpol convenes\n> and speaks with a British detective, as well as Near's dealings with the\n> American SPK and Mello's conversations with the US Mafia are all presented\n> in Japanese; presumably, they're actually speaking English.\n>\n> However, in the live-action movie, Lind L. Tailor, L's decoy, was voiced by\n> an American, while a Japanese translator made a voice-over.\n>\n> This is how it was done in the manga as well, although only the voice-over\n> is shown. This is assumed to be in effect for Wammy's House as well, unless\n> we are to believe that all the residents of an orphanage in England speak\n> Japanese as their default language.\n\nThere's probably no real evidence anywhere in the series that the characters\nare speaking English (I certainly don't remember any in the manga). The\naudience can assume they're speaking English because they're at an orphanage\nin England. However, as part of the translation convention, we see them\nspeaking Japanese on screen. It's presumed that the audience doesn't care that\nmuch to hear them actually speaking English, so the writers just cut to the\nchase and show them speaking Japanese.\n\nNote, this is different from the situation where L, Near, et al. speak to\ncharacters whose native language is Japanese. There, we have to assume they\nare speaking Japanese (or everyone is speaking English--unlikely, as\ncharacters like Misa and Matsuda who probably don't speak English are seen\ncommunicating effortlessly with L). But when the Wammy's House members are\nspeaking among themselves, it seems safe to assume they're actually using\nEnglish and we see it as Japanese under a translation convention.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the _Kamisama Hajimemashita_ manga, how does a tengu reproduce if females\nare forbidden on the tengu mountain? The mountain only consists of male\ntengus!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the background music from Hajime no Ippo in Episode 50 from\n16:10-16:36?\n\nThis is where Ippo is declared winner, if you are looking at different\nsources.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Song is called \"[Stand\nProud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtIhuKn2No).\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw a post about \"Creating your own Devil Fruit Powers\".. Most OP would be\nhaving two abilities. Then I remember that eating Two Devil Fruits = your body\nto explode.\n\nSo.. I was thinking, What would have been the Result if Brook (Alive) would\nhave died by eating a second Devil Fruit? Would his Yomi Yomi no Mi powers\nactivate and revive him and if so, he is a person that was able to eat two\ndevil fruit and live which means, two abilities?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom my interpretation of your question I believe that according to what we\nknow about what happens to people who eat two fruits. I will reference a few\nthings as I go about answering your question.\n\n**First**\n\nThe Revive-Revive Fruit that Brook possesses, also called the Yomi Yomi no Mi,\nis a Paramecia class that can bring the user back to life after death. But\nlater in the series it is declared that the fruit has \"further\" capabilities\nand can enable several other things as referenced\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi). Brook uses these\nabilities in later episodes after the timeskip. As he found the \"true nature\nof his fruit\". Now whether or not that means he **awakened his power** or not\nis still up to speculation at this point, but I suspect we will see more at\nthe next arc.\n\n**Second**\n\nAs shown [here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22090/what-will-\nhappen-if-one-person-eats-two-devil-fruits) and\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9953/can-blackbeard-consume-\nmore-than-one-devil-fruit), there are a few special exceptions where a\nparticular person can have more than one fruit, so it is **theoretically**\npossible for Brook to have multiple fruits.\n\n**Conclusion**\n\nGiven that most folks can't have more than one Devil Fruit and that Brook's\npower **IS NOT** \"used up\", and referring\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5261/can-brook-have-another-\ndevil-fruit) I will follow the fact from\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mythbusters/Misunderstandings_and_Mistranslations):\n\n> Myth: When you eat 2 Devil Fruits, the second fruit will replace the first\n> fruit's power.\n>\n> **Fact:** Eiichiro Oda stated in one of his SBS that you cannot transfer the\n> fruit's power to another person, if you take one bite of it the fruit\n> becomes normal. This caused fans to think he meant if you eat the second\n> Devil Fruit it will replace the first fruit but in Enies Lobby Arc, Lucci\n> and Blueno said if you eat the second fruit after eating the first one, your\n> body will explode and you will die.\n>\n> Fact: An exception to the rule stated above is Marshall D. Teach, user of\n> the Yami Yami no Mi fruit, who stole the power of the Gura Gura no Mi fruit\n> through some currently unknown means not related to eating it.\n\nI believe that if Brook ate a second fruit, his body would explode. Upon which\nthe Revive Fruit which is there would try to activate returning his soul to\nhis body, but due to no longer having a body via an explosion his soul would\nbe trapped in the physical world but without a body to be in. Therefore he'd\nlive but without a second ability, body or any method to do anything. He'd be\na mass of floating \"conscience\". That is unless his fruit enables a possession\ntechnique of sorts which we have not seen yet. I hope I either answered your\nquestion or provided enough to read to help you arrive to a better one.\n\n**TLDR** Brook would die, revive and not have a body or a second power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is a good thinking but it is not how the Yomi Yomi no Mi works. It can\nbring you soul back to the human world but the sould must find the body.\nEating two DF makes you explode so there is nothing left to find. At least the\nskeleton has du be intact.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore the second Time Skip after Maria and Mamoru fled Saki had a dream about\na faceless boy who said Maria had to die.\n\nAccording to the Wikia this faceless boy was Shun\n\n> After his death, he appears in her dreams as a faceless person, as his name\n> has been forgotten by her and the rest of Group 1\n\nSource: [Saki Watanabe/Relationships - Main Characters -\nShun](http://shinsekaiyori.wikia.com/wiki/Saki_Watanabe/Relationships#Main_Characters)\n\nConsidering that even if Missiah's apparent age [on the\nwikia](http://shinsekaiyori.wikia.com/wiki/Messiah) is out by 2-3 years there\nwas no way Maria was already carring Mamoru's baby when Saki had that dream.\n\nSo why did Shun want Maria to die? She was one of his friends and also Saki's\nbeloved. as a Karmic Demon could he also see the future and Missiah's birth?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Shun became a Karmic Demon, he realized that his powers were always\nleaking and affecting the world around them, mutating animals such as sea\nslugs into\n[Minoshiros](http://shinsekaiyori.wikia.com/wiki/False_Minoshiro#Forest_Minoshiro).\n\nConsidering that the sign that a child has gained their powers is the presence\nof a Blessing Spirit, this would be an indication that their powers are\nalready leaking at this point.\n\nSo does this mean the Blessing Spirit is just another mutant? If so, what\ncreature was originally a basis, and did they all end up looking the same?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second part of the series after the first time skip, Saki learns that\nshe did have a sister called Yoshimi. According to the comments made by her\nmother, Yoshimi was killed by an Impure Cat.\n\nYoshimi showed signs of having gained her powers early but didn't seem\ncontrolled because of how her name looked in the mirror Saki found.\nConsidering that she didn't look all that much older to Saki,\n\n * Was Yoshimi really that much of a threat to have developed her powers so early that she had to die?\n\n * Isn't the purpose of the Unified Class to help children and teenagers control their powers? \n\n * Why couldn't Yoshimi just be a child prodigy who could one day take Shisei Kaburagi place? \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wondered the same thing. Is it possible that perhaps she never graduated\nelementary?\n\nSaki's mother was very excited when Saki's spirit came to her finally.\nThrowing herself into her, it could be from feeling another failure for her\nlast chance as a mother.\n\nOr perhaps she moved up quickly but then became stuck in a rut like Shun.\nMaybe she was a student much like their 5th partner who didn't last long.\n\nHer inability to gain any traction on her powers may have been looked down on.\nMaybe it depressed her sister and had an opportunity to bring rise to a demon.\nPerhaps the child seemed too problematic and posed a threat to become the next\ndemon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's an answer in the book. She had an eyesight problem (astigmatism +\nshort-sightedness) that was misinterpreted as a defect of her cantus. Her\neyesight problem is the reason her name in the mirror looked the way it did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGiven that in the series, Tokyo is visited, I assumed that the districts\nmentioned have real world locations.\n\nAccording to the [Wikia Page](http://shinsekaiyori.wikia.com/wiki/Kamisu_66),\n\n> Although Kamisu 66 is the only district that appears in the actual story,\n> there are other district names known, such as Shiroishi 71 in a location\n> called Tohoku, Tainai 84 in Hokuriku, and Koumi 95 in Chuubu.\n\nso I tried plotting them on a [Google\nMap](https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zZtRgpmVI-\nxE.ktMcCUs3vuUc&usp=sharing) ([static\nimage](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qz4ow.jpg)), but when I tried and search for\nTohoku, Hokuriku and Chuubu I didn't get a single place/prefecture to be\nconfident that it is the district, and Shiroishi 71 to me seems a bit too\nclose to Tokyo.\n\nSo I am wondering: what are the real world locations of the districts?\n\nNOTE: I won't be allowing people to edit the map I have linked to as I have\nand plan to add other points which only are useful to myself. You can use\n[Google My Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/d/) to plot out the locations for\nyour answer if it helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty simple question. How many total BDs and DVDs did The Virgin Witch Maria\n(Junketsu no Maria) sell? I wanted to know how well it sold and I don't really\nknow where to find that kind of information, so I decided to ask it here :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know the song title in **K: Return of Kings** episode 1, at the\nfirst scene where Scepter 4 and HOMRA meet on the rooftop of a building, from\n00:06 to 03:20?\n\nI tried to google it but the result was only the opening and the ending of K.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe official audio is not yet released but someone made a piano cover in\nyoutube. Here's the link:\n\n<https://youtu.be/cu7qN-_80w0>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nApparently, the name is Prelude by Mikio Endo\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn many manga and anime involving modern schools, there is a scene on or at\nleast showing the rooftop of the building. It is a place students can freely\ngo to, often depicted with having a bust-height railing along the edge and the\ntypical 'small building' from which you leave the school building, often also\nhaving a ladder to get up (nonetheless being a popular 'hiding' or 'being\nalone' spot even without one).\n\nI wanted to ask: is this one of many clichés about Japanese culture that\nappear throughout the whole media type, or are they a common thing in Japanese\nschools?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am sorry, but they look like just a cliché....\n\nFrom this Quora answer (yes Quora!):\n\n> While many Japanese schools do have flat rooftops, they are usually off-\n> limits and properly locked. So, eating your lunch on the roof or confessing\n> your love at sunset up there... not gonna happen.\n\nSource: [Quora](http://qr.ae/R4wrwo)\n\nAnother source directly from our own Anime and Manga StackExchange: [AM\nStackExchange](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6461/16344)\n\nA quick Google search also reveals this (unfortunate) truth.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat I found directly on [One Piece\nwiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Void_Century) is the following:\n\n> Gol D. Roger's crew appears to have followed the poneglyphs all the way and\n> figured out exactly what the missing history is. When queried by Nico Robin\n> on the Void Century and the Will of the D., Silvers Rayleigh replied to her\n> that he would tell her the history if she wanted to know.\n>\n> Whitebeard also knew about the truth behind the Void Century and the Will of\n> D., as Roger told him before he died. It is unknown whether Whitebeard\n> shared this information with any of his crew.\n>\n> The [Gorosei](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gorosei) have shown to have at\n> least a basic knowledge of the occurrences of the Void Century, according to\n> their shocked reactions to Professor Clover's statements.\n\nIs there anyone else who knows what happened in the Void Century?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a very interesting question. As you state in your answer, Gol D Roger\nknew what happened in the Void Century, as did Whitebeard, whom he told,\nClover and presumably some of the others on O'hara knew at least a little, and\nit is very likely that the Gorosei and perhaps some others at the top of the\nWorld Government knew.\n\nBut it isn't very obvious who else knows. When Rayleigh is asked whether he\nknows the truth of the Void Century, he replies that they do, but isn't clear\nwho exactly he is talking about. At least he and Roger knew, but it's possible\nonly a few other officers did, and it's also possible that the whole crew\nknew, meaning Buggy, Shanks, Crocus and a whole load of others. However, I\nthink this is unlikely. The Roger pirates weren't like the Strawhats, Buggy\nand Shanks were two cabin boys, so it's likely that the crew was pretty large,\nand if all these pirates knew the truth, then it seems likely that some of it\nwould be out by now.\n\nIt doesn't seem likely that the Gorosei have told any others, and neither did\nClover, but Whitebeard could easily have told Marco and some of his other\ntrusted sons what Roger told him. Rayleigh was willing to tell the Strawhats,\nbut preferred not to, and had already been pretty impressed by Luffy, I doubt\nhe would have told the secret to anyone else on a whim, as he preferred to\nkeep his head down after the dissolution of his crew.\n\nIn summary, the only living person we have confirmed to know the truth behind\nthe Void Century is Rayleigh, but it's strongly implied the Gorosei know,\nthere is a reasonable chance that some other world government leaders, Roger\npirates and Whitebeard pirates know, and I would also expect Dragon to know at\nleast some of the truth, as he leads a very powerful organisation fully\nopposed to the World Government.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Is there a reason why Black Jack charges exorbitant fees for the surgeries\nand operations he performs?\n\nIn the series I often find Black Jack to be inconsistent due to the amount of\nfree surgeries he performs while maintaining a reputation of charging insane\nmedical fees. Are his ridiculously priced operations merely to get his\npatients to question the value of their (loved ones) life?\n\n* * *\n\nPerhaps the only consistency about his fees, besides their high price, is that\nif he feels he failed he will cancel the fee. The pricing seems totally random\nand he charges high amounts even for people that appear to be poor. I\nunderstand that as an unlicensed doctor he has no obligations to save someone.\nHowever, part of my reason for asking is that the reason Black Jack is alive\nis entirely due to the fact that a doctor took responsibility and saved his\nlife. Normally, people would feel a sense of debt to this fact and try to\nrepay this debt by doing the same in turn to those they meet in life. I don't\nthink as a doctor he needs to give away surgeries or operations, especially\nwith his level of expertise, but doctors are already well paid and it seems\noutrageous to charge as much as he does.\n\n* * *\n\nIs there anywhere in the manga or anime that solidly explains _why_ he charges\nas he does, or are there any convincing arguments about this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't believe there was ever a solid statement in the Manga for Black Jack's\nhigh prices. However recently I came across two interesting stories in\nVertical's volume #2 that might shed some light on Tezuka's intent.\n\n 1. In the story \"Granny\" , which is about another doctor who also charged a lot and an old woman who worked her whole life to pay off a debt to the doctor, Black Jack says\n\n> \"I thought I was the greediest man ever.\"\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/axhHp.jpg)\n\nThis seems like kind of a joke, so I don't think his prime motivation is\ngreed. In fact Black Jack doesn't seem to spend much of his money ( he\nbasically lives in a shack). Later in the same story he charges the son of the\nold lady a huge sum, but that seems to be a test to see if the son is willing\nto make the same sacrifice that his mother did. It's not clear if Black Jack\nactually charges the son after the son passes this test.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4M1p.jpg)\n\n 2. In the same volume there is a story of Black Jack's recovery from his surgery as a child when a classmate donated a piece of skin to save his face. Black Jack Promises to become a doctor so he can pay this friend back.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Xvi9.jpg)\n\nThese two examples could provide some reason for his fees, but I tend to think\nthat he really just decides the fee based on the character traits of the\npatient, circumstances, or finances of the requestors to either punish,\nreward, or test their worthiness.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen all the Anime adaptations, and read all the Volumes to the Manga,\nand from what I've witnessed in both the Anime & Manga he chargec such mass\namounts in an effort to see if whether or not the patient truly values their\nlife or the life of the one they are requesting he save.\n\n[Kuro himself went through a lot during his\nrehabilitation](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gaWZk.jpg) and because of his\nsurgery (that was Incredibly risky) he was allowed a second chance at life\nthat in itself is worth more than any monetary value.\n\nWhich is what brought about his overall philosophy.\n\nPlus due to how hard he and his doctor fought to preserve his life and regain\nhis physical abilities through rehabilitation [caused a lot of\ndistress](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yCnvS.jpg), he takes patients whom he has\nsaved through surgical means (who threaten suicide personally.) However, if\nthey must go through excruciating rehabilitation and begin to complain or want\nto give up he is a lot harsher and impatient and will be blunt and state that\nhe was himself was blown to bits as a child and still managed to regain full\nfunctionality and success, so they as his patients mustn't lose faith.\n\nHe doesn't seem to spend much of the money and lives, for the most part in\nsomewhat poverty, Pinoko is quick to point this out multiple times throughout\nthe manga and anime, but there are times when he actually won't ask for\npayment or will even take something in exchange that's worth if anything else\njust emotional or even no value.\n\nThere are times when he spends money, like when he makes trips around the\nglobe for his patients, or when he purchases islands in order to preserve\ntheir natural ecosystem and to prevent urbanisation.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Xvi9.jpg)\n\n\n\n^ Which I believe is done in memory of the little boy who donated the skin\ngraft that he has on his face who later grew up to be a environmentalist, but\nwas killed -sadly- during a protest.\n\nHe'll also spend it on spoiling Pinoko, who she herself suffered through an\nexhausting and debilitating physical therapy [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pPswY.png)\n\nPinoko was abandoned by her twin sister, and Kuro was abandoned by his father\nand lost his mother during a bomb explosion, because of this he tends to be\nmore compassionate with patients who come from similar backgrounds.\n\nSince he's unlicensed he doesn't have to limit his skills to the rules that\nthe medical association holds he is far more advanced and is well worth the\nextra dough.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0QMSu.png)\n\nEspecially when compared to the other doctors who are kept on a tight leash\nand consequensly are not as experienced or skilled as our good doctor Black\nJack.\n\nPlus since he ask for so much money, if the patient were to die or he'd fail\nthe operation, those who would have had to pay the impossible fee would feel a\nsense of relief with not having to spend the substantial amount of money, and\nBlack Jack himself may feel less at guilt for having loss a patient.\n\nHowever no matter the circumstance Kuro always goes the extra mile for each\npatient, whether it be because of a promise, the pay, or because Pinoko insist\nthat he help he'll never give less than his 100%.\n\nAlthough in actuality it's his moral code and the fact that he owes his own\nlife to a Doctor who took risks that he himself has become what he is today.\n\nHis goal is to save and preserve life, because nobody ever truly wants to die,\nand at the end of the day you don't take anything with you once you die, so\nthe money itself isn't all that important to Black Jack.\n\n(In the Manga and Anime there's a scene where he goes to a black Smith to\nsharpen his surgical tools and he pays a substantial fee for the job, the\nSmith then proceeds with throwing the money into the very fire and continues\nwith the work. Kuro didn't protest or ask why and it's noticed that the Smith\nmentioned that the last time he preformed this task that he burnt even more\nmoney, so it's evidence enough that money doesn't really matter much to Black\nJack)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/9246/1587) it\nappears that each of the districts are in each of [Japan's\nRegions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Japan)\n\nTomiko, who lives in Kamisu 66 is the head of the Ethics Committee and she\nwanted Saki, who also lived in Kamisu 66, to take her place one day.\n\nI am wondering if the Ethics Committee's Tomiko is the head of control of all\nof Japan, or if each region/district has their own Ethics Committee. If the\nlatter, do they all share the same ruleset (particularly regarding the age a\nchild can be terminated being changed to 17 years)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the novel, each regions doesn't have communication channel each other.\n([Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%82%88%E3%82%8A_\\(%E5%B0%8F%E8%AA%AC\\))\ndescribe it too.) There are no way to control all regions from one ethics\ncommittee.\n\nI think the fundamental rules such as got human rights at 17 years old is\nsame, because it's created by scientist group.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor those who have finished Attack on Titan season one: If you take all that\nyou know into account and rewatch the first episode up to the the first 3\nminutes, you will see that Eren was dreaming about the titans before he had\never met one. Do you think that Eren can live in another world or\nsubconsciousness? Is there any explanation for him seeing this dream?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPeople always say they buy stuff of a certain series to support a certain\nmangaka. Now it made me wonder how much actually goes to the mangaka himself.\nDo mangaka usually work for a publishing company like jump for example or do\nthey work independent selling their copies to the company?\n\nI assume for every Tankobon copy that is sold, the managaka gets a big share,\nbecause it is made by himself, but how does this work for other merchandise\nlike anime, toys, tshirts, games or maybe even events? These things are made\nindependently from the original mangaka by a different company, so does he\nstill get a percentage in every sale of every article sold or how does this\nwork?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is very dependant per mangaka. And all tough there is a thriving\nindependent market for manga, it is rarely a solo effort. Hence most of the\nmangaka start off as either an assistant, or manage to get a contract at a\nwell known publisher. Now, as for how much they earn, lets take [Eiichiro\nOda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichiro_Oda) as an example. He has been\nestimated to earn around [2 billion\nYen](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-12-22/magazine/one-piece-\ncreator-oda-made-2-billion-yen) _($~24 million)_ based on royalties alone.\n\n## Now how is this amount built up?\n\n**_Contract and Royalties_**\n\nMost mangakas don't earn an hourly wage. Instead, they have a contract based\nemployment with partial sales (royalties) agreement. This means that a mangaka\nmakes XX amount of pages per month for a set price. For a starting mangaka,\nthis is around 500$ for 20-40 pages. On top of this, they still earn their\nroyalties, which is around 10-15% per tankobon. These tankobons sell around $5\neach which would make ~$0.50 a tankobon. Given that it takes around 5 hours\nfor a page, we can say that an average starting mangaka earn about 5$ an hour.\n\nThis brings me to the pretty well known fact that mangakas tend to have a\nsecond job. As for a starting mangaka, it is not sufficient to pay the bills.\n\n**_Series becomes an anime_**\n\nLets say the given manga became a success, and became well known enough to\ncreate a anime. This would mean that our mangaka gets roughly ~$660 per\nepisode. So a standard 1 cour anime would earn just under $8000. **But they do\nnot get royalties for the DVD/BD sales**. The royalties for these go to the\nsponsors and publishing companies. Most of the time the mangaka does not even\nhave a say in the production of the anime, and the anime is only made to\npromote the original series and earn the publishers/sponsors money.\n\n**_Character goods_**\n\nNow another profit factor for most mangakas is the sales of character related\ngoods and products. Most of the time, this is also covered in the same\ncontract as mentioned above, meaning that the mangaka also earns 10-15% of the\nremaining anime retail, as most of these products tend to be a lot more\nexpensive.\n\n> Character goods earns around 8.5 times more then sales of movies, DVD's and\n> VHS combined based on the [American market in\n> 2009](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-15/america-2009-anime-\n> market-pegged-at-us$2.741-billion)\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nIt is estimated that a mangaka earns about 10% royalties over their product\nsales, excluding DVD/VHS/Movies/BD. Leading to ~$0.50 per tankobon and ~$0.05\n- $20 for product sales such as figurines, key chains etc,etc. Which, for\nsuccessful mangakas, can turn up as high as **2 Billion yen** (1.29 Billion\ntankobon royalties, 749 million character good royalties).\n\nSources: [crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-853693/ever-\nwonder-how-much-money-mangaka-make),\n[AnimeNewsNetwork](http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-853693/ever-wonder-\nhow-much-money-mangaka-make), [Yahoo\nAnswers](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130828095304AAkjLRo),\nseveral Wikipedia pages.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn \"Akame Ga Kill!\",Lubbock is wielding a very complex weapon (a Teigu\nactually) named Cross Tail,Infinite Possibilities I think...He used it in\ncountless ways,as the name implies,so I was wondering if it would be at least\ntheoretically possible to use such a weapon in an actual fight,with the enemy\nknowing about your presence and intentions. I know that such a weapon could\nonly be used for suffocation (stealthily,from the back) or by setting\ntraps,and I'm not very sure about the second one anyway. Now,I'd like to hear\nsome opinions!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPurely theoretical? Yes, you would be able to apply it in real combat. The\nusage of the weapon would probably be similar to that of a whip or\n[Kusarigama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusarigama). Yet allot harder, due\nto the lack of weights. This would mean that the user requires the whiplash\neffect for this weapon to be even have the slightest effect. And this is not\neven taking armored opponents into account. And in case you were wondering, it\nwould be possible to create such a wire.\n[WorldBuilding.stackexchange](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/19258)\nseems to deem it possible.\n\nRealistically speaking, it would be highly unlikely that a weapon such as this\nwould be used in real life combat, as it would require a tremendous amount of\nskill to effectively use it as a weapon. And most likely wouldn't be feasible\nagainst armored opponents.\n\nFinally, with the above said it is save to conclude that the way Lubbock\nwields the wires would not be realistically possible. With the exception of a\nfew moves.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes \"Soul Eater NOT\" have any \"Soul Eater\" character appearances like Kidd,\nMaka or Soul?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes Kidd, Maka and Soul appear in Soul Eater Not! and they interact with the\nstudents of the NOT class, for example Maka in the first episode:\n\n> Whilst struggling to climb the large amount of steps leading up to the DWMA,\n> Tsugumi is helped out by one of the students, Maka Albarn, who encourages\n> her to reach the top […]\n\nQuote from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Eater_Not!)\n\nThere are several other occasions where they interact but the show is focused\non the NOT class students.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRewatching a few episodes of One Piece made me wonder:\n\nHow much time did the Straw Hats spend with each other **before** the\ntimeskip? _[It's not necessary for all of them to be present. I'm looking for\nthe time span between the Episode 3 (when Zoro joins the crew) and Episode 405\n(when the Straw Hats are separated by Kuma)]_\n\nHow much time has it been **since** the timeskip (till the start of Zou arc)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeveral people have wondered this same thing before, and have done plenty of\nresearch on the topic. Below I've compiled a couple of the more popular ideas\non the passage of time in the One Piece universe.\n\nThere was a [similar\nquestion](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/2j8a0m/how_much_time_has_passed_in_the_one_piece_world/?ref=share&ref_source=link)\nasked on Reddit:\n\n## **How much time has passed in the One Piece world?**\n\nTo which Redditor\n[/u/jaydoubleyoutee](https://www.reddit.com/user/jaydoubleyoutee) responded:\n\n> Time in the East Blue is close to impossible to map out. Grand Line is a bit\n> easier though. Loguetown, Reverse Mountain, and Whiskey Peak are the same\n> day. They leave Whiskey Peak the 2nd day. Then several days pass when they\n> reach Little Garden so I'm guessing it's been a week now. They are attacked\n> by Wapol on the 8th day and reach Drum on the 9th. Four days pass and they\n> meet Mr. 2. Five days til they get to Alabasta. The war breaks out two days\n> later. Luffy sleeps for 3 days. They leave the next day, then get to Jaya\n> the same day. They get to Skypiea the next morning and defeat Enel the day\n> after that. So it's been like a month at this point. Then they reach\n> Longring Longland and stay for four days. Three days later they reach Water\n> 7. The next day is the Aqua Laguna. That night they raid Enies Lobby up\n> until the next day. Luffy rests for two days when Garp shows up. Sunny is\n> built in three days and they leave. Several days later, they reach Thriller\n> Bark. They defeat Moriah at sunrise the next day. They sleep for one whole\n> day when Brook joins. They leave two days later. So all this is between\n> three and four weeks. Several more days pass when they arrive at Sabaody.\n> Luffy is sent flying by Kuma and reaches Amazon Lily the next day. He wakes\n> up from the mushroom after a day and befriends Hancock. Five days later they\n> reach Impel Down. The next day is the war. Two weeks pass when Luffy wakes\n> up at Marineford. So about a month has passed since they left Thriller Bark\n> when Luffy decides to train for 2 years. Post-timeskip, it's only been three\n> days. They reach Fishman Island and stay for a day. They leave and go to\n> Punk Hazard. The third day is now on Dressrosa.\n\n[A\ncomment](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/2n9kfz/how_much_time_has_passed_since_the_timeskip/cmbo18b),\ncoincidentally by the same Redditor, on [this\nquestion](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/2n9kfz/how_much_time_has_passed_since_the_timeskip/)\nexplains the 3 days post-timeskip:\n\n> Day 1: Straw Hats arrive at Sabaody. Go to Fishman Island. Beat Hody and\n> challenge Big Mom. Tea Party in 4 days. Will take Pekoms and Tamago 3 days\n> to get there. \n> Day 2: Camie asks for the day off, so it can't be Day 1 since she had that\n> day off too. Straw Hats leave Fishman Island and make an alliance with Law\n> on Punk Hazard. \n> Day 3: Law says on Day 2 that the paper in the morning will have\n> Doflamingo's resignation. They reach Dressrosa that day. Pekoms and Tamago\n> are still on their voyage to Big Mom.\n\nAnother way that people have tried to pinpoint the amount of time is the moon\ncycles that Oda depicts during night time scenes in the manga. Here is an\nexcerpt from the [One Piece\nWikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mythbusters/Speculations) on this\nmatter:\n\n> In One Piece, Oda has depicted the moon several times, it has been\n> discovered the moon's phases progress with the storyline's own timeline and\n> therefore it can be used as a judge for the number of days that have passed\n> on their journey. However from the first sighting in the Syrup Village Arc\n> (waxing crescent) to the start of the Amazon Lily arc (waning crescent)\n> would work out to be only 21 days by this guide. Although due to certain\n> conditions on one of the phases seen, it could be as much as 42 days.\n\nOne point to be made is that we know the characters have only aged 2 years,\nthe length of the timeskip. So the time spent pre-timeskip is definitely less\nthan a year. Based off the information I've shared above, it's more likely to\nbe just a couple months.\n\nIt definitely feels very strange when you consider how long we've been\nwatching their journey, and I think Oda sensee agrees since he made this joke\nin [SBS Volume 24](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_24):\n\n> Q: It takes while for time to pass in manga, doesn't it? Since it's a weekly\n> thing. So, should we wait like 2 more years for Luffy's birthday?\n>\n> A: No, no, no. He has a birthday every year, just like everyone else. It's\n> just that, in Luffy's case, every year is his 17th birthday. Doesn't that\n> make you jealous?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust look at Coby. Before, he is just a kid when Luffy and Zorro met him. But\nwhen they meet him again in Water 7 arc, he is already a teenager.\n\n",
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All\ncredit to the original commentator, please.\n\n> I tried to go through the Manga...\n>\n> East Blue Saga : about 15 days, Grand Line : About 77 days, New World :\n> about 41 days\n>\n> Total : 2 years 134 days or about 2 years and 4 months\n>\n> ** - (didn't seem to have food to travel for more than a day)\n>\n> Day 1 : Luffy leaves Fuusha Village\n>\n> Day 2** : Luffy is sucked into a whirlpool and ends up in Alvida's base\n>\n> Day 3** : Luffy and Coby free Zoro\n>\n> Day 4** : Luffy and Zoro reach Orange town, meet Gaimon\n>\n> Day 5** : Luffy arrives at Syrup Village\n>\n> Day 6 : Luffy defeats Kuro\n>\n> Day 7 : Usopp joins, Strawhats get Merry, Usopp paints the Strawhat Jolly\n> Roger, Strawhats meet Johnny and Yosaku\n>\n> Day 10 : (Johnny says it takes 2-3 days to reach Baratie) Strawhats reach\n> Baratie\n>\n> Day 11 : (it says 2 days later) Don Krieg attacks Baratie and is defeated,\n> sanji joins, Nami arrives at Arlong Park, Zoro is captured, Nami frees Zoro,\n> Luffy 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"body": "\n\nSomewhere its said that the pre-time skip lasts for about nine months, while\nthe post is still less than two month in. So the post-timeskip is true, but\nthere is more spacing in the events of the pre-timeskip.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhitebeard and Gol D. Roger were friends, they were shown chatting with each\nother, Roger even told Whitebeard that his name really is Gol D. Roger and not\nGold Roger. Whitebeard said before his death that the One Piece is real, did\nhe know that from Roger? And did he know where the One Piece is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll we know about it is from **Chapter 576** (Episode 485) just in the scene\nyou mentioned:\n\n> In a flashback Roger offered Whitebeard to reveals him how to reach\n> [**Raftel**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Raftel) (the supposed location\n> of One Piece), but he replied he was not interested in going there.\n\nSo Whitebeard had the opportunity to know where One Piece but his reply to\nRoger's offer we don't know if he was told the location or not. The One Piece\nwas probably the object of their conversation right before Roger's offer (It\nseems that Roger has just finished to talk about his adventure): so it seems\nthat Whitebeard was told about One Piece directly by Roger, even if it was\nnever shown explicitly.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VI5Cg.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the time skip, Lucy gained the new magic \"Star Dress\" that allows Lucy\nto have the power of her Celestial Spirits.\n\nBut is she still able to call her Celestial Spirits as she did before?\n\nI haven't watched the entire anime series, I just read the manga. Did I forget\nor miss something about Lucy's Celestial Spirits?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes you forgot about a few events. She summoned both Virgo and the Star Dress,\nVirgo Form in chapter 427 for example.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NUXOL.png)\n\nOther examples are:\n\n * Chapter 422 where she summoned both Leo and his dress\n * Chapter 431 where she summoned both Taurus and his dress\n\nIt seems that she always summons a dress and doesn't want to rely on the\nspirits alone any more, but she can still summon them. Seeing as she can\nsummon two spirits at the same time (maybe more by now), she can also summon\nboth the dress and a spirit and I'm assuming she can even summon both the\ndress of one spirit and another spirit at the same time. I don't think they\nmust be related.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt first, Chopper said that he can transform into 7 different forms using his\nRumble Ball:\n\n * Brain Point \n * Heavy Point\n * Jump Point\n * Guard Point\n * Horn Point\n * Walk Point\n * Arm Point\n\nBy the time, he also has Monster Point by eating three Rumble Balls at once.\n\nAfter time skip, he can also transform into his Kung Fu Point. I've so far\nseen Guard, Brain, Walk, Heavy, Horn, and Monster Point after time skip, but I\nthink I haven't or have yet to see Chopper transform into his other forms.\n\nIs Chopper have shown to transform into his Arm Point or Jump Point after the\ntime skip? And is the Kung Fu Point his only new transformation?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of now, the transformations you mentioned are the only ones that have been\nshown in the Manga/Anime and any information about him having a new\ntransformation has not yet been revealed, or even hinted at (although it's\nquite likely).\n\nAs per [One Piece\nwiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hito_Hito_no_Mi#Kung_Fu_Point)\n\n> It seems that Kung Fu Point combines the power of Arm Point and the\n> acrobatic skill of Jumping Point though to a lesser degree than each\n> individual point. In this form Chopper has been shown to possess enough\n> strength to easily break down giant steel doors.\n\nThis _may_ explain why we haven't seen Arm Point or Jump Point after the\ntimeskip.\n\nWe haven't seen new transformations of Chopper (except for Kung Fu Point)\nafter the timeskip, but we can note his improvement as:\n\n> Chopper is now able to produce a new \"Horn Point\" with larger \"Stag Beetle\"\n> like antlers which are useful for digging in the ground at high speeds,\n> along with a new and improved \"Guard Point\" which is now able to grow big\n> and strong enough to protect the Thousand Sunny from one of the Kraken's\n> tentacle's. In addition, he is able to utilize those forms without consuming\n> a Rumble Ball; instead, eating a Rumble Ball now allows him to enter his\n> most powerful form, Monster Point, and fight in it for three minutes.\n>\n> After the timeskip, Chopper has gained the ability to keep control of\n> himself and communicate coherently while in his monster form though his\n> voice is significantly deeper.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne Piece is the ultimate treasure, located in the hardest spot to get to in\nthe world, or is it? Recently, the Straw Hats left Dressrosa and arrived at\nZou. Both places are inhabited with some sort of intelligent being (Zou's\npeople may not be humans). If this continues, or even if it doesn't, wouldn't\nit be really easy for these people to check Raftel for One Piece?\n\nI understand this makes for a better story, but isn't that a serious flaw?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the One Piece Wikia article on\n[Raftel](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Raftel), it says that:\n\n> Gol D. Roger and his crew are the only known people to have reached the\n> island. Roger offered Whitebeard the information on how to get to Raftel,\n> but Whitebeard declined because of his own dreams of achieving a \"family\" of\n> crew members instead of reaching One Piece. This also indicates that getting\n> to the island is not as simple as sailing to the end of the Grand Line.\n\nIt has also become much harder because it seems that trying to get to Raftel\nhas resulted in a stalemate between the Yonkou. If one tries to go there, the\nothers will stop him and together could even decimate the Navy, let alone a\npirate crew which tries to reach Raftel without defeating them. We saw what\nWhitebeard and Shanks did during the War of Marineford, and that's only two of\nthem.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yKSRW.png) \n> Cropped from Chapter 804, page 16\n\nThe print on Franky's shirt reads something like \" **I☀HT** \". I Googled about\nit and nothing came up. Also, I have checked the One Piece Wikia page and it\ndoesn't have any details about the logo. What does it mean and does it have\nany significance?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome comments on [a chapter review in\nJapanese](https://web.archive.org/web/20170804185837/https://onepiece-\nlog.com/blog-entry-230.html) suggest that the sun is a reference to the rising\nsun, so \"AM\", as in \"in the morning\"/\"Ante Meridian\". It then becomes \"I AM\nHT\". HT would be the acronym of 変態 (HenTai) or pervert.\n\nSo that would mean the T-shirt is actually subtly saying **\" I am a\npervert\"**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe most relevant abbreviation of \"HT\" I found was \"Hull Maintenance\nTechnician\", which is a US Navy occupational rating.\n\nThough now that I think about it, the \"I AM HenTai\" makes more sense for\nFranky after all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt’s a symbolization of the Haki that’s going to be coming out in the new\nchapters. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be a new type most likely starting with\nthe letter T.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is also another theory that became pretty common online in the light of\nrecent events in the manga that should be mentioned for sake of completion.\n\nspoilers ahead: do not read if you haven't seen the full Wano arc\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UywAL.png) \n> Some argue that the image is an hint to the real name of the Gum Gum fruit\n> and its nature. If you read the letters in an N pattern you get Hito. N\n> would be the initials of Nika, and the sun a reference to his title as the\n> \"Sun God\".\n\nObviously I don't know how realistic this is. \nOn one side many fans see Oda as someone who loves to foreshadows mayor plots\nelements VERY ahead of time: Shanks uses _haki_ in the first issue of the\nmanga, Eneru probably used a form of haki too (and his \"kami\" form was\nprobably an awakened fruit)... Yet other fans also claim that most of these\nare postumous-retcons crafted to give bigger significance to older plot\nelements. And other groups even go as far to claim that Oda is quite toxic and\nwould go as far as rewrite his own plot and trashing entire characters if\nsomeone \"dared\" to make a correct theory on future plot elements (usually\nCarrot/Yamato and the Zodiac crew members theory is mentioned in such claims).\n\nTo put it shortly: **I am not sure at all that the claims in the spoiler can\nbe considered true at all**. Probably it is an intricate case of\n[pareidolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia) \\- an attempt to give\nsome reasoning to something that probably was just a random joke.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gn5M9.jpg)\n\n3D animation could be dominating the anime industry as Knights of\nSidonia(pictured above)is one of animes first 3d television series.So does\nthis mean hand drawn animation is gradually fading?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, I don't believe so. 3D Animation is not preferred over the drawn-out 2d.\n3D is something totally different than anime & cartoon's drawn-out look. When\nthey do work hand in hand, like in Ghilbi films, that's good.\n\nJapan's method of animating is quite outdated. They are one of the only still\nusing cels. The act of drawing out each frame on a cel (Cels, are material\nthat can be drawn upon & stacked for an animation effect). Then digitized on\nto computers to be colored & shaded. Sometimes will still see coloring by\nhand. Mostly for celebration reasons or special occasions e.g: _Little Witch\nAcademia_.\n\nAlthough that could all just be done on computers, they choose not to do it.\nI'm assuming transition period would affect everyone \"now\". Though it would be\ngreat for the future.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are manga/anime called \"something;something\", what for? does it server\nany purpose for identifying it as a series? example: steins;gate,\nrobotic;notes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Wikipedia entry for\n[Steins;Gate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate) begins with the\nfollowing two sentences (emphasis mine):\n\n> Steins;Gate (シュタインズ・ゲート Shutainzu Gēto?) is a Japanese visual novel\n> developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus and released for the Xbox 360 on October 15,\n> 2009. **It is the second game in 5pb. and Nitroplus' Science Adventure\n> series following Chaos;Head and was succeeded by Robotics;Notes.**\n\n* * *\n\nThe entry for [Robotics;Notes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics;Notes)\nis fairly similar:\n\n> Robotics;Notes (ロボティクス・ノーツ Robotikusu Nōtsu?) is a Japanese visual novel\n> developed and published by 5pb.. The game was released on the PlayStation 3\n> and Xbox 360 video game consoles on June 28, 2012, with a PlayStation Vita\n> port released on June 26, 2014 under the title Robotics;Notes Elite. **It is\n> the third game in 5pb.'s Science Adventure series following Chaos;Head and\n> Steins;Gate** and is described as an \"Augmented Science Adventure\"\n> (拡張科学アドベンチャー Kakuchō Kagaku Adobenchā?).\n\n* * *\n\nFinally, the entry for [Science\nAdventure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Adventure) reveals the\nfollowing:\n\n> The Science Adventure series (科学アドベンチャーシリーズ Kagaku Adobenchā Shirīzu?) is a\n> Japanese video game franchise created by 5pb. in collaboration with\n> Nitroplus. **The series currently consists of four main visual novel games;\n> Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes, and Chaos;Child** which have each\n> received various ports, sequels, and spin-offs, as well as various manga and\n> anime adaptations.\n\n* * *\n\nSo, yes, it is as you assumed: They're part of the same series, made by the\nsame company.\n\nAs for why the developers decided to use a semicolon in the name: why not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there any news about tokyo ghouls third season in Anime? I have watched\n**Tokyo Ghoul: Jack**. It seems the episode of the history. Did it has any\nconnection with upcoming season?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, there isn't any official source, at the moment.\n\nYou should not believe any website that isn't credible. Like\nChristianDAILYNews or KPopNews, they are nothing to do with anime. They\nreported on _Attack On Titan_ airing in Summer of 2015 July 26th. That was\nvery illogical for people to believe.\n\nTrusted sources include AnimeNewsNetwork & CrunchyRoll. If no one like them\nare reporting official news, then do not believe someone. Make sure they are\nputting up their resources & credits, to where they are getting this\n\"information.\"\n\n_\"Tokyo Ghoul's\"_ American Licensor Funimation. Their president said there\nwould be a third season. However, he has no ties to the anime's production\ncommittee. It`s a strange thing for him to say, as a head of a large company.\n\nThat's it though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the song that plays in episode 548 at around 5:12? I've been searching\nfor it everywhere, but I just can't seem to find it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song seems to be from the One Piece Original Soundtrack by Kouhei Tanaka\n(田中 公平) called \"Sakusen kaishi ~ osowa reru mura ~\" (作戦開始 ～襲われる村～)\n\nHere is a youtube link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANaEsE5bdI>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Chapter 100 of Billy Bat, we are greeted to a flashback in which the fake\nChuck Culkin meets up with Hitler in his mansion. During a discussion about\nthe bat and the power it wields to change time, when Chuck asks Hitler what\nhe'd want if he had the power to change time, Hitler wishes to be accepted\ninto the art academy in Berlin in that timeline.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRqoi.png)\n\nBut later on, in Chapter 142, on his deathbed the fake Chuck Culkin is\nspeaking to Timmy Sadana (who replaces Kevin Goodman) and makes a cryptic\nreply about a dream the Fuhrer gave up on, and later stating something along\nthe lines of wishing for destruction of the earth.\n\nI'm quite confused and don't particularly understand what this means at all.\n\nWas Hitler wishing for world peace, (by acceptance into art academy he would\nnot become the Hitler we know of), or was he trying to simply end the world,\nas Chuck states when he is dying, claiming it is the \"dream Fuhrer gave up\non\"?\\\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kM0P1.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is more of a reference to achieving your dreams. Although Hitler\nestablished himself as a dictator and as a result gained a lot of power, the\nauthor suggests that he still has a longing and regret for not getting into\nthe art academy. Taking \"Billy Bat\" back into their own hands is more of a\nsymbolism for having the ability to succeed and conquer your dreams. In this\nentire manga, \"Billy Bat\" is viewed as a real thing but I believe that the\nauthor is simply using that as a form of symbolism when he wants to make a\npoint. If you have watched the _Truman Show_ , it is like the giant physical\nbarrier that keeps Truman within but actually is symbolism for being trapped\nin the psyche from all the advertisements, propaganda, and control blinding\nyou from the truth. To clarify, this example is not the symbolism the mangaka\nis using but the idea behind the type of symbolism he is using.\n\nThe only weird part to this is when Chuck says, \"If you can do that, then his\nlegacy...\" Hitler's legacy isn't exactly peachy and it trails off. Because of\nthis, I am not sure if he was going to say something like \"then his legacy\nwould be saved\" or \"then his legacy would be understood\". I believe that this\nwould imply that Hitler's legacy is not actually the atrocities he committed\nbut his ability to follow through on his dreams. However, I cannot confirm\nthis last part.\n\nLet's look at three instances \"Billy Bat\" is shown in a clear and defined\nmanner (whether in a corporeal form or just a symbol). The first is with Neil\nArmstrong ( **Chapter 9: Bat Boy's Great Adventure pages 24 and 25** ). He is\nthe first person to step on the moon and finds a symbol of \"Billy Bat\". This\nis because he had achieved the dreams that he and several other people had and\ntherefore has the \"Billy Bat\".\n\nThe second is with Einstein ( **Chapters 70: Opposing Billies & 71: Time\nTravel and Infinite Earths**) as he apparently met with \"Billy Bat\". Einstein\nwas close to achieving his dream as he delved deeper into theories of time and\nthe like but after meeting the \"Billy Bat\" decides to no longer pursue time\ntravel and admonishes Zofu Sensei for pursuing it instead. Einstein never\nactually has \"Billy Bat\" as he did not succeed but because of his potential is\nable to meet it. Deciding not to complete his dream is most likely because his\nintellect allows him to see that although with the \"Billy Bat\" he can achieve\nhis dream, perhaps that isn't the best thing in the long run. It's also where\nEinstein brings a distinction between the two bats, suggesting that not all\ndreams are always as great as they seem.\n\nLastly, we can look at Hitler himself. He uses the \"Billy Bat\" to realize one\nof the major dreams he had, but upon achieving it, realizes that perhaps that\nisn't what he truly wanted. I believe that the whole \"destruction of the\nearth\" is more of an idea that stems from the terrible power and evil that can\ncome from the same foundation of what is believed to be good. That is why\nthere are two \"Billy Bats\" both with an apparently different agenda. I believe\nthat \" **Chapter 102: Adolf and Hitler** \" puts a lot of what I am trying to\nsay into context. Sorry for this long answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to purchase a manhua titled, \"Yinhe Biduan\" but I am having a\nvery hard time finding here in the States.\n\nCan anyone direct me to an internet store?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJudging by the name, I think it's\n\n* * *\n\n## 銀河彼端\n\n* * *\n\nin Chinese so feel free to copy and paste on Amazon or Ebay, I'm pretty sure\nyou'll get your manga.\n\nDo inform me if this doesn't qualify as an answer, I'll delete right away.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI tried Taobao (Chinese Ebay) and think\n[here](https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.16.7734739dykQ018&id=570108585310&ns=1&abbucket=15#detail)\nis what you want.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nProbably a stupid question but...\n\nI was watching Resurrection 'F' and when 18 appeared on screen this question\npopped into my head. During the Android saga he was pretty much curb stomped\nby 18 right? (Memories are a little clouded) And Vegeta being as prideful as\nhe is would he really let 18 live regardless of how \"good\" he became?\n\nIs it just a plot point that wasn't explored? Is Vegeta's switch to the good\nside cause for this? I just find this one a little hard to believe. I'd\nprobably believe it more that since 18 is important to Krillin and he is\nimportant to Goku, that Goku had something to do with it.\n\nAgain, sorry if this question is dumb.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Android Saga, after the defeat, Vegeta trains in the Room of Spirit\nand Time (aka Hyperbolic Time Chamber) and becomes so powerful he could\nprobably beat 18 in seconds. After fighting much more powerful enemy (which\nalso humilated him), I think Vegeta no longer feels as he has something to\ndemonstrate crushing 18. Everybody knows he is far, far superior.\n\nThat isn't the only time Vegete renounce revenge. He could arguably want to\ntake revenge on the fighters that defeated him in the battle that surely\nhurted more his pride, Yajirobe, Gohan and Krillin, specially when the last\ntwo of them outsmarted him in Namek. But he prefer to focus on his rivality\nwith Goku.\n\nAlso, note that at the end of the Android Saga, Goku was dead, so it wasn't\nhim who stopped Vegeta. On the other hand, Gohan was alive and more powerful\nthat his father.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nProbably because Vegeta only aim is to get stronger than Goku, Beerus, and\nWhis and prove himself at this point in the series. He just ignores all the\nothers since they are weakling to him now and a waste of time also the fact\nthat goku would stop him from hurting any of his friends including 18 who is\nmarried to krillin. Vegeta knows he can spend his time better by training with\nWhis than trying to start a fight with 18. Beerus would also stomp vegeta and\nvegeta needs to still get stronger than beerus. He has alot to work on so\nreally I think he doesnt care about 18 and just focuses on other stuff he does\ncare about. He spend a year IIRC training with whis while goku was on earth\nfarming and doing chi chi work. Vegeta let majin buu go as well after he\nsacrificed himself to kill him. So really it has been a turning point for\nVegeta\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe primary reason that Vegeta tolerates Android 18 is that he has changed.\n\n * He has become more human than a savage who destroyed planets for fun. This change of his is evident and there are many more instances of this in DBS (Dragon Ball Super). For example, in episode 2, he took a day out of his training schedule and went to the amusement park with Bulma and Trunks and the incidents that occur over there also highlight this sea change in his personality. \n\n * In fact, he's in touch with his human emotions, an instance being when he gets angry over Beerus slapping Bulma when she slaps him for ruining her birthday party and makes up his mind to fight him whereas till that point he had been swallowing up his pride and acting like a clown (episode 7).\n\n * It can also be said that he now accepts things as they are. He realized that he isn't the strongest out there, and has shifted his focus to becoming the best. He also has realized that there is nothing going to be achieved by revenge, so he doesn't seek revenge anymore.\n\nThis explains why Vegeta tolerated Android 18.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's because Vegeta's last statement after Cell Games:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ64JXN_3mI>\n\nAt that point Vegeta pretty much lost his pride and a will to fight, so he\njust couldn't pull himself together to go after 18.\n\nSure, he got better after some time, but since his battle against 18 so much\ntime has passed and so much stuff happened, he either no longer cared or even\nremembered about executing his revenge.\n\nAlso, let's not forget, that if he actually tried to do something against her,\nKrillin would just call Gohan and Bulma. I don't think Vegeta would dare to go\nagainst the two of them at any moment between Cell Games and Buu Saga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBasically, Vegeta has 2 goals -\n\na. defeat kakarot.\n\nb. bring back Saiyan planet\n\n 1. Vegeta was always a good guy from the heart but what changed him so much was freeza. I will consider freeza was the person who makes him heartless. he was helpless and weak against freeza. Vegeta loves Saiyan and Saiyan planet and he wants Saiyan race to keep on living so one day he can rebuild the new Saiyan planet. (so he is a good guy he loves his own planet and race ). he knows only Saiyan can defeat Frieza, and freeza destroyed his planet because of that reason only.\n\n 2. Vegeta is arrogant but not bad. As you know Saiyan loves to fight so as Vegeta.\n\n 3. Vegeta considers himself a high-rank Saiyan \"Saiyan price, he wants to lead all the saiyan but as he knows goku is stronger than him, he can't become a leader until he defeats kakarot.\n\n 4. Vegeta considers earth as his new home and loves earth as much as he loves saiyan planet. ( so he is a good guy )\n\n 5. He was once a bad guy but still accepted by everyone and that changed him, so it is ok someone like android 18 to get another chance. even boo is dangerous but boo also got another chance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto: The Last_ , why did Hinata leave Naruto for Toneri? Just when\nNaruto was beginning to develop feelings for her, too. I don't get it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's been said that excessive use of the Mangekyo Sharingan causes blindness\nand eye-bleeding, as demonstrated by Itachi. However, Obito used his Mangekyo\nalmost constantly nearly every time he's made an appearance. How come he has\nshown no signs of pain, blindness or eye-bleeding?\n\nMy own theory on this is that the Senju DNA Madara used to rebuild his body\nhas something to do with it, but I have never seen this explicitly stated. If\nit has, can you tell me where or explain how this works in more detail.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI guess obito's power to make such frequent use of his sharingan comes from\nthe fact that he has hashirams cells embedded him so now that he has the\nphysical energy of the senju clan he shouldn't find it difficult to make use\nof his mangekyou frequently\n\n",
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"body": "\n\ni think obito had eternal mangekyou. in his fight against the paper akatsuki\nlady he uses izanagi to rewrite his own death (same thing madara used). this\nis confusing because up until this you think obito only has one eye /\nsharingan since he gave his other to kakashi. izanagi causes one to lose sight\nin one of their eyes. there is a scene where obito is standing over madara's\nbody and behind him there is a wall of hundreds of sharingan, most likely\ncollected from the slaughter of the uchiha done by obito and itachi. i think\nobito replaced his eyes with some of these sharingan, which would explain his\nability to use izanagi and his ability to constantly use his mangekyou\nsharingan without any negative side effects\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the One Piece world, there are so many Devil Fruits having different\nshapes. I'm a little bit curious about the flavour of Devil Fruits: Is it\ndifferent from one to another?\n\nIf I'm not mistaken, there's a fruit that resembles Banana or Apple. Do they\ntaste same as their real counterparts?\n\nIs the taste of the Devil Fruits ever mentioned in the Anime or Manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDevil fruits taste awful.\n\nThis is evidenced by the few occurences we've seen where a fruit has been\neaten.\n\nWhen Law eats his fruit (episode 706): [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/66Uau.jpg)\n\nAnd when Kaku eats Ushi Ushi no Mi Model: Giraffe and Kalifa eats the Awa Awa\nno Mi during the Water 7 Arc (Episode 271):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8NWYB.jpg)\n\nDuring the same scene Jabra was trying to convince them not to eat it by\nsaying that it tasted like crap:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3pGM.jpg)\n\nBased off the several examples of people eating it and saying it taste like\ncrap I can definitely answer your question of how they taste with: Unlike\ntheir normal-fruit counterparts, they taste **awful**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLooking on the [Rozen Maiden Wikia](http://rozenmaiden.wikia.com/) for the\nRozen Maidens, I notice they all have titles\n\n * Suigintou = Mercury Lamp \n * Shinku = Pure Ruby\n * Hinaichigo = Small Berry\n * Suiseiseki = Jade Stone\n * Souseiseki = Lapislazuli Stone\n * Barasuishou = Rose Crystal\n * Kirakishou = Snow Crystal\n * Kanaria = Canary Bird\n\ni get most of them are either a trait they have (Hinaichigo is small,\nBarasuishou attacks with crystals) or their primary color scheme (Kirakishou\nis white like snow, Kanaria is yellow like the general depiction of a canary).\n\nBut I don't understand why Suigintou has the title of Mercury Lamp. From my\nunderstanding, Suigintou's color scheme is black (2013 anime) or purple (2004\nanime) while Mercury as the metal is silver, while I don't think the planet is\nblack or purple. Nor do I get how Lamp fits.\n\nSo how does Suigintou's title match with her?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it refers to the metal mercury (水銀) which is silver as Suigintou's\nhair.\n\nIt is fragile, it breaks easily (think of thermometer) and when it breaks it\nis very poisonous. Just like her. She's not bad, just a bit unfortunate and\nlater became evil and poisonous.\n\nIt's hard to guess why the kanji for lamp is there though, but during the\nvictorian era, there were lamps with mercury glass reflectors, so it would\nemit more light\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know what anime this doll is from?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r3aP3.png)\n\n[Here is the tag on the doll](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iee13.png).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the [tag alone](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iee13.png), we can tell this\nUFO Catcher prize is part of a set from [_Kaitou Saint\nTail_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1567/Kaitou_Saint_Tail). The character is\n[Ruby](http://sainttail.wikia.com/wiki/Ruby), Meimi's brown pet hedgehog.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read this Detective Conan manga Chapter 499-504 there's a case when Conan\nchasing Rena Mizunashi, the CIA agent that disguise as Black Organization\nmember with code name Kir. She along with Korn and Chianti is assigned to kill\nMayor Candidate (I don't remember his name).\n\nIn that time, Conan's tracker is stick to Kir's shoes and he heard the code\nabout the place where the Black Organization plan to Kill the Mayor.\n\nConan realize that the place is Hyde Park, and he said it's not really Hyde\nPark that located in London but in Haido Park. But I'm still not understand\nwhy can Hayde Park become Haido Park, is anyone can explain about this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNames of towns and streets in _Detective Conan_ are excerpts from actual names\nof places and streets in London or the UK in general.\n\nHaido park, once translated into properly pronounced English is going to be\nHyde park which is an actual park in London. Another example is Beika street,\nonce also translated into properly pronounced english is going to be Baker\nstreet which is a street in the UK and also the same street Sherlock Holmes\nlived in.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 13 of Charlotte, there is a ZHIEND song playing about halfway in\nthe episode, just before Yu in insane mode starts stealing other people's\nabilities, such as the bomb ability.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the Charlotte [wiki](http://charlotte-\nanime.wikia.com/wiki/ZHIEND) article on ZHIEND, the song is **「Sinking\nShip」**.\n\nThis track comes from their first Album: **「ECHO」** , released on October 14,\n2015.\n\nThe CD can be bought through [Japanese Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/ECHO-\nZHIEND/dp/B012VTVM5Y) for 3780 yen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to know if Oda has offered any explanation as to what the tattoo\non his face signifies/denotes, or if something has been said about it in the\nanime/manga.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/amURr.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I know Oda sensei has said nothing about it. The tattoo wasn't\npresent in Volume 0 when Roger was executed 24 yrs ago, but present 12 yrs ago\nwhen Dragon saved Sabo. So it is clear that Dragon had it after the Age of\nExploration. Theories exist as to what it means, judging from this fact.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nmaybe its because at one stage in his life for the bloodline of garp dragon\nand luffy is that at one stage of their life they get a mark on their face\nthat represents that they are at the most powerful point at their life but\nwhen their power decreases because of old age, it slowly fades away.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IfG0d.png)\n\nI have been searching for forever to find the name of a anime series/ movie\nthat I saw more than 20 years ago. Here goes nothing!\n\nThe series/ movie is about a little boy monkey (kind of like the monchichi\nmonkeys) with brown fur. He is very rude and I remember that nobody likes him\nexcept for a little female monkey with white fur. Then there is this old wise\nmonkey that puts a golden diadem on the head of the rude little monkey to\nteach him a lesson in humbleness and kindness. He is also put in some kind of\n(tree)cage. The female monkey keeps visiting him and keeps bringing him food,\neven when it starts to snow. He tells her to stay away, even though he kind of\nlikes her, because he doesn't want her to go through all this trouble for him.\nAt the end of the series/movie the little monkey is now more humble and nice\nto everybody and the golden diadem is removed from his head.\n\nThe picture above is how I picture the old wise monkey, but this picture could\nbe from another series/movie.\n\nI also remember that there was another character. He was more human, like a\ntiny childlike demon-boy with a horn on his head. At one point he was riding a\nhorse, but not on the back of the horse, but upside down on the belly of the\nhorse. At the end of the series/movie, this character also became more \"good\".\nI don't remember if there were human characters involved in the series/movie.\n\nOk this sounds like a weird kind of shroomtrip, but this is all I can\nremember. I really hope that someone recognizes some of this stuff and can\ngive me more information about it! Thanks a million in advance!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe right movie/series was not in the answer, but thanks to your information I\ngot a lead on the movie I was looking for!! I put some pictures of the movie\nbelow. One with the main character, one with the main character and the female\nmonkey, and one with the little horned demon kid. Thank you so much for the\nlead!!!\n\nThe movie is called Alakazam the great, It is a 1960 Japanese musical anime\nfilm, based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West, and was one of the\nearliest anime films to be released in the United States.(wikipedia)\n\nPlot:\n\nAlakazam is a young and brave monkey (a macaque) who has been encouraged by\nall the other monkeys to become their king. After attaining the throne, he\nbecomes rude and dictatorial, and does not believe that human beings are\ngreater than he is. Then he tricks/forces Merlin the magician to teach him\nmagic (reluctantly on Merlin's part, who warns Alakazam that the powers he\nacquires now will bring him much unhappiness later).\n\nAlakazam becomes so arrogant that he abuses his magic powers, and chooses to\ngo up to Majutsu Land (the Heavens), to challenge King Amo. He is defeated by\nKing Amo. For his punishment, he is sentenced to serve as the bodyguard of\nPrince Amat on a pilgrimage; in order to learn humility, mercy and to fight\nwith wisdom. Ultimately, he learns his lesson and becomes a true hero.\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T3S1D.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQquL.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zQDWx.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read and listened to anime reviewers rate the art and animation of a\ngiven title, and I'm not clear which is which, nor specifically what they\nrefer to.\n\nI imagine they're referring to the quality of the visuals, but I'm not sure if\nthe backgrounds are the art, the characters the animation, vice versa, or if\nI've got it completely discombobulated. Is there more to the visuals than the\ncharacters and the backgrounds? Conversely, am I oversimplifying it?\n\nSearching DDG yielded a mess since the terms were too generic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Anime reviewers refer to “art” and “animation” separately. What does each\n> one refer to?\n\nWhile I imagine there's variance in how reviewers use words, I would think\nthat most would choose to describe \"art\" as being still imagery (backgrounds,\nclothing design, static pans, color choices, etc.) and \"animation\" as being,\nwell, animated imagery (character animation, CG, combat scenes, sakuga, and so\nforth).\n\n> Is there more to the visuals than the characters and the backgrounds?\n> Conversely, am I oversimplifying it?\n\nDividing the visuals of an anime into \"characters\" and \"backgrounds\" is not\nall that wrong (though it raises the question of how one ought to characterize\nthings like mechas and non-static background elements). But it's a fairly\nartificial distinction, and one that isn't too useful as part of a critique of\nan anime. There are still shots of characters (for example, when the camera\npans over a character), and there are animated shots of characters (facial\nanimation, walking motion, etc). Likewise, there are still shots of background\ndetails... but some backgrounds are animated, too. Take, for example, [this\nsegment from _Nichijou_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8TtD4p98eg).\n\nThe distinction between \"art\" and \"animation\", on the other hand, is, in some\ncases, a useful dichotomy: it is frequently the case that the people who do\nthe animation for a show (keyframers, tweeners, and so forth) are different\nfrom the people who do static art assets like backgrounds (background artists,\n3D modellers, etc.). As such, I think it makes some sense to evaluate the two\nseparately.\n\nIt is probably often the case that the perceived \"quality\" of the art and\nanimation of a given show are fairly well-correlated - a studio that hires or\ncontracts skilled background artists will probably do the same with their\nkeyframers, and a studio that hires bottom-barrel animators will probably hire\nbottom-barrel painters.\n\nBut sometimes, reviewers will observe a marked difference in the quality of\nthe art vs the animation. Consider, as an example, _Bakemonogatari_ (not the\nwhole series; just _Bakemonogatari_ itself). The animation in _Bakemonogatari_\nis frequently _very_ limited (or, in the TV airing, absent altogether,\nreplaced by screens of text instead). But the art is often remarkably\nelaborate.\n\nAnd going the other way, _The Tatami Galaxy_ has fairly mundane-looking art.\nBut when you [see it in motion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7O6eR12oM),\nyou might find that still screencaptures of the show don't suffice to convey\nhow fluidly the show is animated in many of its shots. (The \"mundane\" art of\n_The Tatami Galaxy_ is clearly an intentional artistic choice, unlike the\nlimited animation of _Bakemonogatari_ , which probably isn't. I've used it as\nan example anyway since I can't think of anything better off the top of my\nhead.)\n\nBundling \"art\" and \"animation\" into a single category called, say, \"visuals\"\nloses some of the granularity that would allow a reviewer to discuss the ways\nin which _Bakemonogatari_ succeeds with its art whereas _The Tatami Galaxy_\nfails, and vice versa regarding animation. So I guess that might be why\ncritiquers of anime would choose to evaluate \"art\" and \"animation\" separately.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Art**\n\nThe quality of work and visual glory, that we are basing upon.\n\n**Animation**\n\nThe act of moving frames and motion.\n\n-\n\nThat`s the way, I do things when I review anime on the website, I write on.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI upvoted senshin's answer, but to possibly add a little clarity, here's my\ntake on it.\n\n\"Art\" refers to the visual design of a show: how the characters and\nbackgrounds look; the use of color, lighting, and shading; the way shots are\nframed; the angles and use of artistic concepts like perspective, proportion,\nand depth.\n\n\"Animation\" refers to the process of stacking up frames to create the illusion\nof movement.\n\nWhether a show has good art is subjective. Bakemonogatari is believed by many\nto have good art, because it uses perspective, color, and shading in a unique\nway and has visually interesting character designs and backgrounds. Pokemon,\non the other hand, has very functional art. It uses color and shading in\nsimple, pedestrian ways. \"Simple\" and \"pedestrian\" are value judgments,\nthough; Pokemon is made for children, who haven't typically had as much\nexposure to art, so to its target audience, Pokemon's art is fine.\n\nWhether a show has good animation is not really subjective. We can judge\nanimation according to how well it succeeds at creating the illusion of\nmotion. Shows that reuse a lot of animation or have static backgrounds or\ncharacters that move in unnatural ways have bad animation. Whether the bad\nanimation is a net negative for the show or not is a subjective judgment, but\ndetermining whether the animation is bad is pretty simple and objective. Speed\nRacer, for example, has bad animation, because it has fewer distinct frames,\nless motion, and reuses a lot of sequences as compared with shows like Eva,\nAkira, Fate/Zero, or Cowboy Bebop, which have good animation. This can be\nobjectively determined; hypothetically, we could even write a computer vision\nsystem that could count these things for us and tell us whether a show has\ngood animation or not. We can still love Speed Racer despite (or because of)\nits bad animation, but unlike with art, there's no \"quality without a name\"\nthat can make the animation of two shows incomparable. We can always make\ntechnical, numerical comparisons between the animation of two shows.\n\nThese two things do interact somewhat. The level of detail that things are\ndrawn with is part of the art. But if the level of detail drops in some\nframes, that affects the animation. And although Bakemonogatari's limited\nanimation was not an intentional artistic choice (the production of the show\nwas plagued by scheduling problems, and some episodes were barely finished in\ntime for broadcast), we can imagine that a show might use limited animation as\na deliberate artistic choice.\n\nThe cinematography is another place where art and animation interact. In an\nanimated show, we can consider each individual frame as a piece of art. We\ncould take a frame of an anime and hang it up in a museum between a Monet and\na Gaugin, and consider it as a painting. But we can also consider a sequence\nof animation as film, and judge it on those merits. Cinematography is largely\nartistic, so again subjective. But a show that fails at creating the illusion\nof movement in a convincing way will have a hard time being regarded as a\nserious piece of film.\n\nHowever, for the most part, when anime reviewers say \"art\", they mean the\nshow's use of color, lighting, and shadow; level of detail on the characters\nand backgrounds; and possibly the way shots are framed. When they say\n\"animation\", the just mean \"how well this show succeeds at creating the\nillusion of motion\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLaw makes an alliance with Mugiwara to kill one of the Yonko, Kaido of the\nBeasts. But, why does Law want to kill Kaido? Is it because Law wants to be\none of Yonko?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs per [One Piece Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kaido):\n\n> Trafalgar Law sought out an alliance with Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat\n> Pirates allegedly in order to dethrone Kaido. Luffy agreed to the alliance\n> and even declared that he will defeat all four Yonko. Even though Law\n> suggested that their chances of success are only 30%, Luffy remained\n> undeterred. **However, it is later revealed by Law himself that he only\n> formed an alliance with Luffy because he wanted to use the Straw Hats to\n> destroy the factory producing SMILEs to get Kaido angry at Doflamingo and\n> not as a means to dethrone Kaido.**\n\nThis was revealed in the last page of chapter 724:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/30lbH.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's true that Law wanted to take down Doflamingo - but he ALSO want to take\ndown Kaido. Chapter 667:\n\n> If you want to survive in the New World, there are only two ways to go about\n> it. Either you swear allegiance to one of the Yonkou... or you do battle\n> with them.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T9Gdt.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not true.\n\nLaw has a plan to kill(or defeat) Kaido and the reason is the connection\nbetween the emeperor and Doflamingo himself(smile's factory).\n\nSure he wanted to defeat Doflamingo in the process, but the plan against Kaido\nexist anyways.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid anyone know? It's the scene when Kana looks into the eye of Shinishi, I\nreally love this song, and it's not in the OST.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found it myself, it's Migi Theme.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs the technique Sanji learnt during the timeskip different from the one CP9\nmembers and other Rokushiki users performed to stay in the air? If yes, what's\nthe difference? If no, why did it take so much time for someone so talented at\nfighting with legs to learn it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGeppo translates to 'moon walk'. There's really no difference between Sky Walk\nand Moon Walk.\n\nYou can check [One Piece Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rokushiki/Geppo)\nwhich lists Sky Walk as a variation of Moon Walk. The only difference it\nmentions is\n\n> After the timeskip, Sanji demonstrates this ability by **kicking the air to\n> jump higher** , giving the appearance of flight.\n\nHowever, when we see Sanji using Sky Walk\n[here](https://youtu.be/pUviWOH2F-4?t=1m5s), Robin says that it's the moon\nwalk of CP9.\n\nI guess the only difference is in its naming or maybe the ability to jump a\nbit higher in Sky Walk.\n\nAs for it taking Sanji time to learn Sky Walk, I don't think it took him that\nmuch time. It's not like Sky Walk was the only thing he learned in the 2 years\nhe was on the Momoiro Island. But it's hard to specify how long it took him to\nlearn the technique because nothing about that has been revealed yet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere had been several cases of same techniques but named differently. Skypea\nfor example already had a form of Haki used, but it was called \"Mantra\" the\nability to read other people and their intuition.\n\nI guess culture and ones origin also has something to do with the name. If the\ncrew learned Haki on Skypea they would probably call it \"Mantra\" instead\nbecause the wouldnt know differently. Sky Walk must have been the wording on\nMomoiro Island. Moon walk may also refer to the dark CP9 appearance, used to\nemphazise on the shrouded people of CP9 and the Secret highly trained Assassin\nOrganisation. It probably just helps to give the right feeling from viewer\ntowards CP9.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually I think there is a difference if you remember cp9 said the MOONWALK\ntechnique causes them to become light as a feather making them capable of\nbouncing on air but if you notice anyone that uses this Rokushiki tachnique\nhas to continously stay bouncing but, the SKYWALK technique that Sanji uses\nhim seems different he has the ability to stay a float mid-air. And as you can\nsee he uses the diablo foot so not only floating but also spinning, his\ntechnique is almost as if he is making the sky solid under his feet while\nwalking because if you recall he needs friction to use the diablo foot and\nwith the moonwalk you dont get friction under your feet but the skywalk does.\n\nIts just my observation\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Souma's turn in block A of the autumn preliminaries, the standings were\nthus:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0q2yO.jpg)\n\nAs you can see, there's a tie for fourth between Marui and Ibusaki. It was\nmentioned in episode 23 that if there were to be a tie that affects who passes\nthe preliminaries, the judges would vote to determine who passes and who\ndoesn't.\n\nSo I figure they must have voted on whether Marui or Ibusaki would be the\nfourth contestant from block A - but which one of them won the vote? During\nthe after-party, Yoshino mentions that Ibusaki was probably sulking in his\nroom, so I guess maybe Marui won? But nobody seemed to explicitly acknowledge\nthat Marui had made it through, so I'm a bit confused.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Another contestant](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Subaru_Mimasaka)\nbeat them both with an unrevealed curry dish that scored [91\npoints](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/43rd_Annual_T%C5%8Dtsuki_Autumn_Election#Preliminary_Round_2).\nWho it is was not revealed until later... it would seem that\n[someone](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Etsuya_Eizan) in the Elite Ten\nput him there for a reason.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJudging from the flashback in episode 23, where Shiomi Jun meets a young\nHayama in a spice market somewhere, I get the sense that Hayama was probably\nnot born in Japan.\n\nAnd given that Hayama is\n\n 1. Brown\n 2. A master of curries\n 3. Apparently a fan of tulsi\n\nI have a sneaking suspicion that he's supposed to be some kind of South Asian.\n\nAm I right? What's his ethnicity supposed to be?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe cooks quite a few south Indian dishes, specifically dishes native to the\nstates of Tamil Nadu (kozhi varutha curry) and Kerala, and I haven't noticed\nany of these dishes being very popular or even well known outside of India,\nso..... I'd say he's Indian, probably from South Indian.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs someone who is from Tamil Nadu, I'd say it's very evident that he really is\nfrom South India. Was extremely surprised to see Kozhi Varutha Curry as one of\nhis dishes because it's a purely Tamil-based dish. Even in one of the pages in\nthe manga where they show him living in the slums, I could see a board at the\nedge of the panel that had Tamil writing, I think it's enough proof.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLooking at the ethic side of things, I do agree that he must be of a South\nAsian origin. Doing thorough research into the main spices and dishes he\nspecialises in are from Sri Lanka. So another option for his Ethnicity is Sri\nLankan (Sinhalese). Judging by the amount of detail I gathered up about the\ncharacter clearly states that Yūto Tsukuda did his research. His skin tone is\nfaily light brown which suggests that Sri Lanka may be more of a valid option\nthan Tamils (Indian). Some of his dishes are Indian based however being one of\nthe highest ranks in the school, it is likely he is fluent in a multitude of\ndishes world wide. So my bet is on Sri Lankan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBut during the autumn election where they were fighting using their types of\nfood, they called his sword an \"Arabian Sword\" and he was dressed like an\nArabian prince. He also made common Arabic street food such as the Turkish\nKabob and the Arabic Kebab Sandwich. They also never specified where the slums\nhe is from is and Arabic are known for many types of spices, even many of the\nones he uses.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI feel as though he may be Arabic. The music that always plays when he cooks\nis influenced from Arabic music and the Middle East where many Arabic people\nreside was also quite famous for spices. Just speculation though. There are\nother anime that have similarly designed characters which are speculated to be\nArabic as well such as Sphintus Carmen from Magi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObviously from SOUTH INDIA he was in south Indian slum since I have seen women\nin salwar kameez in background additionally akira is master of spices and\nIndia is known as the land of spices and his background music was influenced\nby Bollywood music which is an Indian film industry additionally cooked many\nsouth Indian dishes, have tulsi patta in his hand always now some may say then\ny he is mastered in kebab it's because in India also kebab is extremely common\nsince it was exported to India during Mogul empire who had some Persian,\nTurkish influence additionally Arabian prince dress is similar to medieval\nIndian prince dress...therefore from all the above proves it's extremely clear\nthat he is from INDIA, SOUTH INDIA MAY BE PARTICULARLY FROM TAMIL NADU...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThroughout the various _Macross_ series the word \"deculture\" is used, like in\nthe [sign off](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWTBr.jpg), \"[see you next\ndeculture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7KJul.jpg)\" and in the [Nyan Nyan\nsong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NmdptpONjE):\n\n> \"Nyan Nyan, Nyan Nyan, Ni hao Nyan, gorgeous, delicious,\n> [deculture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wmul4.jpg)!\"\n\nHow is it used? What is its history? Where did it come from? (both in and out\nof universe)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pViCO.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\"Deculture\" (pronounced de-kult-cha) is a Zentradei expression of shock and\nsurprise. In the early days of the Zentradi/human conflict it was a negative\nterm used often by the Zentradis to denote their shock and disgust at the\nhuman-only concepts of culture, music, love and sex. For instance, in the\nmovie _Macross: Do You Remember Love?_ Zentradis reacted with a surprised and\ndisgusted \"Yak Deculture!\" when they saw a kiss for the first time.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/i65cz.png)\n\nHowever, since the war ended and Zentradis became assimilated into human\nculture the meaning of the word started to shift. Zentradis have come to love\nthose very things they used to see as alien and deplorable, so the word\n\"deculture\" started to get a more positive connotation of pleasant surprise\nthat is commonly used by non-Zentradis as well. For instance in the series\n_Macross Frontier_ (set 47 years after the events of _Do You Remember Love?_ )\nRanka Lee sings the theme song for the Nyan Cafe:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3q2sK.png)\n\n> Haochii rai rai, Meikuunyan, Nyan-nyan, nyan-nyan Nihao-nyan, Gojyasu!\n> Derishasu! Deculture!!!! (Good Eats, come, come, Pretty Girls too! meow meow\n> meow meow Hello meow Gorgeous! Delicious! Deculture!)\n\nThe tone of the song and usage makes it clear that it now means something\nalong the lines of \"Awesome!\" or \"No way!\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nToday I stumbled upon the [Kotaku](http://kotaku.com/anime-actors-cocaine-\narrest-proves-you-should-never-\ndo-1739139309?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow)\npost regarding Ai Takabe's arrest in regards to drugs.\n\nBesides her being erased from the credits, Bandai also announced that it’s no\nlonger streaming Kill Me Baby as well as the 2009 anime Sweet Blue Flowers and\nthe 2011 anime Wandering Son. Which are both animes Takabe had a voice in.\n\nHas something like this happened before? Or is it considered normal to erase\npeoples existences from created products in Japan like has happened here, when\na member of it's team commits a crime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the rules is, that he has to make direct eye contact. Yet he's able to\ngeass about twenty people at the same time in Episode 1 from Season 2. He even\nis able to do it later, too. So how can he do this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSanji's fighting style is using his leg and his epithet is also called\nKuroashi no Sanji / Black Leg Sanji. He learnt this style of fighting from\nAka-Ashi no Zeff / Red-Leg Zeff.\n\nAs far as I remember, Okamas also use (at least) their legs to fight, like\nBentham and Emporio Ivankov.\n\nMy questions are :\n\n * besides Sanji and Zeff, is it only Okamas that using Leg Style for fighting?\n * are there any other Leg Style combatants other than Okamas, Sanji and Zeff?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**1.** The [Longleg Tribe](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Longleg_Tribe) uses\ntheir legs to fight.\n\n> **The incredible long legs of the Longleg tribe endows them with not only\n> height but incredible leg strength as well, and those that are hit by the\n> legs of a Longleg fighter consider them to be like metal whips.**\n>\n> As acknowledged by fighters in the Corrida Colosseum, t **he legs are the\n> most important part of the tribe's fighting form**. Therefore, aiming for\n> them seems to be their most vulnerable weakness. However, due to the speed a\n> trained Longleg fighter can move their legs at, landing just a single blow\n> is not always possible to do\n\nThis includes:\n\n• [Blue Gilly](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Gilly) : You can see him\nuse his legs for fighting in\n[this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqGn0bS21vs) video. He is also a\npractitioner of Jao Kun Do.\n\n> Jao Kun Do is a close range attack-based fighting style which involves leg\n> motions so swift that foes cannot predict where a kick will land.\n>\n> The only known practitioner of this art, Blue Gilly, has leg movements so\n> rapid that they create afterimages that confuse opponents. He can then\n> attack with force comparable to that of a steel whip.\n\n• [Baron Tamago](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Tamago) : We haven't yet seen\nhim fight in the anime but it's implied that his key fighting strength lies in\nhis legs. As One Piece Wiki says:\n\n> As a member of the Longleg Tribe, his long legs are considered to be the\n> main point of his combat strength\n\n**2.** [Inuppe](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Inuppe), the zombie penguin who\nhad Sanji's shadow uses the [Black Leg\nStyle](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Leg_Style) fighting techniques as\nwell.\n\n> In the Thriller Bark Arc, **Inuppe, the zombie who had Sanji's shadow also\n> used the Black Leg fighting style due to the Kage Kage no Mi's powers.**\n\n**3.** [Vergo](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Vergo) can be considered a\nstrong leg fighter as well, although he does far from only using his legs. You\ncan see his fight [here](https://youtu.be/xjj7OV79uoY?t=2m57s) with Sanji\nwhere he uses his legs for fighting for most of the part.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn general there are plenty [martial\nartists](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Martial_Artist) in One Piece, in\nparticular there are some styles which _include also_ leg techniques.\n\nFor example [**Rokushiki**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rokushiki) includes\nthe following techniques\n\n> * The **Geppo** allows the users to actually jump off the air itself,\n> allowing them to stay in the air for much longer than usual. CP9 members can\n> use this technique to cross great distances without ever touching the\n> ground, or set themselves up for swift, aerial attacks.\n> * The **Rankyaku** is a powerful projectile technique, in which the users\n> start by kicking at very high speeds and strength, sending out a sharp\n> compressed air blade that can slice objects and greatly damage a human\n> body.[2](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rokushiki) However, it has been\n> shown that almost any length of appendage (such as a tail or neck) at high\n> velocities are also capable of this move.\n> * The **Soru** allows the users to move at extremely high speeds in order\n> to avoid attacks, as well as to attack at higher speeds and with greater\n> power. It was revealed that the principle of this move was to kick off the\n> ground at least ten times in the blink of an eye.\n>\n\nAlso [**Hassoken**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hasshoken) can be adapted\nto leg-combat, in particular [**Sai**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sai)'s\ntechniques.\n\nAs you mentioned some [**Okama\nKenpo**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Okama_Kenpo) users are specialized in\nleg combat, e.g. [**Bentham**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Bentham).\n\nMoreover you have **[Blue Gilly](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Gilly)**\n(style: Jao Kun Do) from Longleg Tribe, who was shown fighting in Dressrosa\narena.\n\nAnother leg-combatant is\n**[Dellinger](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dellinger)** , from Donquixote\nfamily.\n\nIf you consider also not-canon character you should take into account also\n**[Hotdog](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hotdog)** (who appeared in the\n[third\nmovie](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chopper%27s_Kingdom_on_the_Island_of_Strange_Animals))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy company runs a card game in Europe, but we want to start including manga\nand anime characters. How would we start going about obtaining licences?\n\nWe want Akira, Fist of the North Star, Ako, Tank Police, Appleseed, etc.\n\nIt's just one image character per card. Does anyone have any details on doing\nthis legally and respectfully, with links, etc?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe can't really help you with the process licensing (since we have no\nexpertise on it, so it's off topic), but we can tell you who the primary IP\nholder are for their respective media.\n\nAkira, [Kodansha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha)\n\nFist of the North Star, [Shueisha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shueisha)\n\nProject A-ko,\n[Seishinsha](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1609),\n[A.P.P.P.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.P.P.P.)\n\nTank Police, [Hakusensha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakusensha)\n\nAppleseed, [Kodansha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha)\n\nEssentially you'll have to contact the IP holder directly to work things out.\nYou might be able to contact your local license holder to get the contact\ninformation of the IP holder. Additionally, if you can reach out to the series\ncreators, they can better refer you to the right person.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have completed watching all the currently released Naruto Shippuden\nepisodes. I have completed the Naruto original series, and am on episode 436\nof the subbed Naruto Shippuden series. My question is, when should I watch\n**The Last: Naruto the Movie** and **Boruto: Naruto the Movie**? Should I wait\nuntil I am completely done with the Shippuden series, or do I watch them now?\n\nI have seen other answers, but none have been definitive for me. I have not\nread any of the Manga, nor do I plan to at this point. However, I do not want\nthese movies to spoil any of the plot lines from the Shippuden series for me.\nHow many episodes are left in the Shippuden series? Can someone please give me\nsome guidance and/or information on these topics? Thank you so much!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn \"The Seven Deadly Sins\", after the Sins were branded as traitors and the\nholy knights took over, they each went their separate ways and into hiding.\nBan was imprisoned eventually. He stayed there for years even though he could\nescape. He only got out when he got the word the Meliodas was out and looking\nfor them.\n\nEver since he came out, he's been trying to look for a way to revive Elaine. I\nwas wondering why he stayed in the prison for so long if he still had such an\nimportant thing to do. Why waste all that time when he could have looked for\nfinding a way to revive her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Ban escapes from prison he explains that he allowed himself to be\nimprisoned because back then he craved pain. This gave him, in a twisted way,\npleasure but he grew tired of it. When he heard Meliodas was nearby, he\nescaped because following him would be more fun than being locked in a cell\nwith bars through his limbs barely being fed.\n\nIt takes visiting the after life, having his team fight the resurrected\nHelbram, and fighting with Captain to decide to go out on his own to resurrect\nher. He is obviously more than willing to take any opportunity to bring her\nback (even betraying his team) if he observes an opportunity. This seems to\nindicate that he gave up for a while and did not pursue that goal because he\ndid not know how to bring her back. He didn't seem to have a known way to\nbring her back but since going off on his own, he has started to search\ndesperately. I would expect he did the same before going to prison.\n\nKeep in mind that, for an immortal man and long-lived fairies, 5 years isn't a\nvery long time (even though it took much less time to fall for each other).\nThis was almost like taking a (pleasant?) vacation when he had no clear time\nconstraint on his project despite it's obvious importance to him. I would\nassume their was some guilty and self-contempt involved too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI guess it ties in with the fact that he wasn't looking for a way to revive\nher back before they were disbanded. It seemed as if he was looking for a way\nto keep her off his mind, while we tries to keep himself together. I agree\nwith you though, it does seem a bit out of character if he were to be relaxing\nand slacking off. I believe at some point he does mention that being with\nMeliodas did help him keep his mind off of Elaine and helped him get himself\ntogether.\n\nAlso as a side note, being part of the 7 Deadly Sins was a huge time\ncommitment. He probably did not have enough time to go looking around for the\n\"Horn of Cernunnos\". It would also make sense that he avoided the Horn if he\nknew it was in the Capital since he is wanted. As for why he locked himself up\ninstead of looking for alternatives ways? It could just go back to getting\nhimself together and being in the right mental state to cope with his loss.\nBan is surprisingly very nonchalant when it comes to all of this, and it could\nbe an effect of him training himself during this time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm curious as to why in almost every Detective Conan case there are always\naround three suspects? Even when there are cases with many suspects, Conan\nalways narrows it down to three or four suspects. When there is a case\ninvolving a serial killer there are at least three suspects at the end.\n\nIs there any explanation from Aoyama Gosho about this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThree is a number that would make the story go more smoothly. If there were\nonly 2 suspects, the evidence would continuously weigh one one another, making\nthe case go for 5 chapters compared to the usual three. If there are four, or\nmore than such, it would be like watching longer replays of the 50 million\nsuspects case, but these are fillers with no specific information that is\nimportant to the timeline, so they should not go longer than 3 chapters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith the anime _Desert Punk_ despite the fact that the anime is animated, the\nOpening is in fact live action. To me this seems kind of odd.\n\nSo, I am wondering if there are any other anime which are animated yet use\nLive Action Openings/Endings, and if it's significantly cheaper or more\nexpensive to produce a Live Action OP/ED rather than doing an animated one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo looking at the back of the game manual of Bladestorm, I noticed that there\nis a Dynasty Warrior's game but using Gundams, titled _Dynasty Warriors:\nGundam_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iwBei.jpg)\n\nNow I am wondering, what Gundam Series, if any, I should watch/read before\nplaying _Dynasty Warriors: Gundam_? It would be to get a better understanding\nof things, considering that I have not seen/read anything about Gundam before\n(with the exception to Gundam Force SD, which I think might be an alternate\nuniverse)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first game features the mechas from only the first three Gundam series\n(namely Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and Mobile Suit ZZ\nGundam), the OVAs published that takes place within this time frame (Mobile\nSuit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket and Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust\nMemory), Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Turn-A Gundam.\nIn all, that's 6 shows and 2 OVA series total, a rather daunting task to watch\nthrough.\n\nHowever, just like in Dynasty Warriors proper, the game's \"official mode\"\nfollows closely to the anime's plotline, albeit a heavily condensed, somewhat\ninaccurate version (the first game is especially bad at this, with official\nmodes starting in the middle of the actual show or an appearance from a\ncharacter not introduced yet at that point, for instance) and only for the\nfirst three Gundam series. Still, I would say Dynasty Warriors: Gundam is a\ngreat way to catch the basic plot of the anime. If I am not mistaken, they are\ndone in a character-based manner ala the earlier Dynasty Warriors. To play it\nin chronological order, you should do it in order of Amuro Ray, Char Aznable,\nKamille Bidan and finally Judau Ashta.\n\nThe \"original mode\" on the other hand follows an original plotline, so some\nknowledge of the aforementioned series may be needed to fully appreciate it.\n\nEDIT: I've honestly only played through the PS2 version of the second game,\nand I realise now that it is fairly different in the first game. In the first\ngame, Char, a major antagonist from the first series Mobile Suit Gundam, is\nnot unlocked initially, and there are also official modes for the antagonists\nof the next two shows (Paptimus Scirocco and Haman Karn). In this case, I\nwould recommend playing through all the heroes first before the villains. I\nalso just realized that in DWG2, Char's official mode includes his Zeta Gundam\nrole; I would say then to leave Char for last from the original four. Beating\nAmuro's and Char's official mode also unlocks their Char's Counterattack\nstorylines, which should definitely be played last.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn One Piece during the dressrosa arc, it is shown that members of the world\ngovernment's CP 0 were present on the island.\n\nWhat exactly is CP 0? Does this mean there is a CP 1 - 8 as well?\n\nAnd if they were stronger than CP 9, how did some of them end up turning into\ntoys?\n\nI am current on the anime and manga and don't mind spoilers. I'm just confused\nabout this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know what city or country the anime _Gungrave_ takes place in? I\nviewed the wiki and read a couple of forums and could not find an answer.\n\nI know it's mafia-based but the anime shows a town similar to how Roanapur is\nportrayed in _Black Lagoon_ as a lawless Thai city.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime _Gungrave_ was made off a game from what I can tell, it doesn't have\nmuch thought into its original setting or a place.\n\nBased off of how the anime is set up, I'd anticipate 70's or 80's era in some\npart of Japan or Italy, but there isn't a real answer to this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is an old anime where the main character is a girl with red hair.\n\n * She is able to use fire but quite clumsily I think \n * Her sidekick is a blonde guy who uses an invisible sword \n * They were collecting some crystal balls or runes that can be put into a sword to manifest the power \n * The setting is in the middle ages? \n * They usually wear black armor with the girl wearing a red shirt underneath and the guy a blue shirt\n\nSorry if it's very vague, I can't remember much \nthanks\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be [**Slayers**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/534/Slayers) (1995\nanime series)\n\n> Lina Inverse, a wandering sorceress and bandit-killer, joins forces with\n> roving swordsman Gourry Gabriev in what's supposed to be a quick union of\n> convenience. Instead, an artifact Lina \"liberated\" from a gang of thieves\n> turns out to be the key to the resurrection of the demon lord Shabranigdo.\n> Urged on by the mysterious Red Priest Rezo, the pair has no choice but to\n> fight the dark lord and his servants, accumulating new allies and enemies\n> along the way.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XhDhV.jpg)\n\nThe red haired girl could be **Lina Inverse** who is a sorceress, while the\nblonde guy could be **Gourry Gabriev** a wandering swordsman, wielding his\nfamily's magical blade, the Sword of Light.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI live in Norway. Is there a site where I can read _Bleach_ online legally? I\nhave tried to look, but I have not found a suitable site yet.\n\n",
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"body": " \n \nYou can buy digital version of Bleach on a per-volume basis.\n\nAccording to Viz Media's site, digital versions should be avaible from:\n\n * Amazon\n * Google Play\n * Nook\n * iBooks\n * VizManga\n\nI'm not sure about the region restrictions of these though, as you are living\nin Norway - Viz may not have the licensing rights for the regions (They\nusually prioritize the US first). You may have to import physical books if\nnoone owns the licensing rights.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that nobody can enter or exit the birdcage without being cut, so how\ndid Jora get inside the birdcage?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Giolla was in the birdcage since its erection.\n\nIn episode 656 of One Piece, Trafalgar Law has Giolla as a hostage.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2l0p6.jpg)\n\nAfter Law realized that Doffy would have sacrificed Giolla if necessary and\nthus holding her hostage held no benefit, he decided to release her. She tried\nto stay but Doffy told her to leave so she ran back to Dressrosa.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MxcWz.jpg)\n\nThe birdcage was not surrounding Dressrosa until episode 680.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs I watch the shows I am constantly noticing the patterns in the head designs\nof the mobile suits.\n\nAny true Gundam, or otherwise important mech, will always have two eyes and\nusually the V horns. Any generic suit, or one belonging to a more shallow\nvillain, will only have one eye.\n\nIs this any kind of cultural reference?\n\nEDIT\n\nIn Unicorn characters say that a mech becomes a Gundam when the horn opens\ninto a V. As if the V horns are something very specific.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthe gundam head design is supposed to be a homage to samurai helmets: designed\nto intimidate opponents (which is why a lot of characters get scared seeing a\ngundam head).\n\nprettymuch all gundam head designs have a V shaped antenna on the forhead\n(barring the turn A gundam, which reminds me of world war 1 german\nnobility/soldier); two vents on the moutpiece (barring zeta, exia, 00 Qan[t]\nand a few others); generally have white as the main colour, a red/black small\nbeard, blue/green/yellow eyes, and a square element atop the head quite\nbizzarely a lot of japanese car designers pay homage to gundam for their car\ndesign\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[According to Kunio\nOkawara](http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Simplicity-key-to-\nsuccessful-design-30259167.html), the mecha designer for the series:\n\n> \"I also put the form of the\n> [chonmage](http://haircutpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Chonmage), which is a form of\n> Japanese traditional haircut worn by men, and\n> [kabuto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuto), which is a type of helmet\n> first used by ancient Japanese warriors, into the design of Gundam. They are\n> my inspirations that are concealed behind the creation of Gundam.\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tD2MCm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uy7JNm.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sdkNY.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSurely the act of abbreviating an anime title to three syllables has a\nname...? And what is that name?\n\nFull Name | Shortened \n---|--- \n_Kodomo no Omocha_ | Kodocha \n_Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu_ | Hareguu \n_Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai_ | Oreimo \n_Fruits Basket_ | Furuba \n_Japanese Animation_ | Anime\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe name for the abbreviated word resulting from the combination is a\n[Portmanteau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau)\n\n> A portmanteau is linguistic blend of words in which parts of multiple words,\n> or their phones (sounds), and their meaning are combined into a new word.\n\nA very common type of portmanteau that is used within the Japanese language is\nforming one word from the beginnings of 2 other words.\n\n> A Sino-Japanese example is the name 東大 (Tōdai) for the University of Tokyo,\n> in full 東京大学 (Tōkyō daigaku). With borrowings, typical results are words\n> such as パソコン (pasokon), meaning personal computer (PC), which despite being\n> formed of English elements does not exist in English; it is a uniquely\n> Japanese contraction of the English personal computer (パーソナル・コンピュータ pāsonaru\n> konpyūta?). Another example, Pokémon (ポケモン?), is a contracted form of the\n> English words pocket (ポケット poketto?) and monsters (モンスター monsutā?). A famous\n> example of a blend with mixed sources is karaoke (カラオケ karaoke?), blending\n> the Japanese word for empty (空 kara?) and the English word orchestra (オーケストラ\n> ōkesutora?). - [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau#Japanese)\n\nAs for the act of abbreviating, it is sometimes revered to as [linguistic word\nblending](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_word) or word contracting and\nmore commonly known as\n[abbreviating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation). The amount of\nsyllables has no effect on the terminology used to describe this act.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor what it's worth, in Japanese, you would call this particular sort of\nabbreviation a 略称 _ryakushou_ or 略語 _ryakugo_ , both of which basically just\nmean \"abbreviation\". There isn't an anime-specific term for this sort of thing\nor anything.\n\nI should mention that abbreviated names of anime are more commonly four\nsyllables than three-syllables, at least in recent years. \"Hareguu\" is Ha-re-\ngu-u (actually, these are\n[morae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_\\(Japanese_prosody\\)) rather than\nsyllables, which is why this may not be obvious if you're unfamiliar with\nJapanese); \"Oreimo\" is O-re-i-mo; and _Fruits Basket_ is frequently \"Furubasu\"\nFu-ru-ba-su in Japanese. There is a nice table of these [on\nNicopedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB%E3%81%AE4%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%95%A5%E7%A7%B0%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7)\n(JP).\n\nAs a side point of interest, [this blog](http://aniotakaigi.com/) (JP)\ncollates abbreviated names for anime of recent seasons - for example, 2015\n[winter](http://aniotakaigi.com/2015-winter/anime5w/326/),\n[spring](http://aniotakaigi.com/2015-spring/anime5s/1494/),\n[summer](http://aniotakaigi.com/2015-summer/anime5su/2105/), and\n[fall](http://aniotakaigi.com/2015-fall/anime5f/5400/). (Obviously, machine\ntranslation is going to fail spectacularly for this sort of thing, so this is\nonly relevant if you can read some Japanese.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Detective Conan World's\nWiki](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/List_of_characters_who_know_Conan%27s_identity),\nthere are a few people who know Conan's real identity. I checked out the list\nand found [Hajime\nKindaichi](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/List_of_characters_who_know_Conan%27s_identity#Hajime_Kindaichi).\n\nI am a fan of _Kindaichi_ series so I would like to know how did Kindaichi get\nto know Conan's real identity? Obviously Conan wouldn't have told Kindaichi\nhimself. Kindaichi must have figured it out.\n\nSo is there any special episode or a manga chapter where Conan and Kindaichi\nwork together?\n\nI know about the game.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of current writing, there's no special episode/manga chapter featuring the\ncrossover of Detective Conan and Kindaichi Case Files.\n\nThe only real crossover is the Nintendo 3DS game (as you already mentioned),\ncalled \"[Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Meguriau Futari no\nMeitantei](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Detective_Conan_%26_Kindaichi_Case_Files:_Chance_Meeting_of_Two_Great_Detectives)\"\n(or \"Detective Conan and The Young Kindaichi Files: The Chance Meeting of the\nTwo Great Detectives\").\n\nOther than the game, there's a collaboration between Weekly Shōnen Sunday\n(Detective Conan) and Weekly Shōnen Magazine (Kindaichi Case Files) to\ncelebrate 50th anniversary of Sunday Magazine by publishing a twelve biweekly\nmagazines _consisting of chapters from both series_ (full list of the chapters\ncan be read [here (in Japanese)](http://conan.aga-\nsearch.com/501-33-14withkindaichi.html)). It's only a collection of chapters\nfrom both series, not a crossover though.\n\nOther than that, there are [canned coffee featuring both\ncharacters](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S6sxS.jpg), and a [Game of Life\nfeaturing both series](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001B1T0P8).\n\nReference:\n\n * [Ho-Ling's Blogspot](http://ho-lingnojikenbo.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html)\n * [Wikipedia article on _The Kindaichi Case Files_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindaichi_Case_Files)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am curious to know who the copyright holder to a manga is: is it the\nmangaka, or the publisher (such as Kodansha, Shonen Jump, etc)?\n\nWho do you have to contact to obtain a license for streaming it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs I mentioned in my answer over at [How is an anime based on western-\nliterature made?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/42309/1458)\n\n> Usually if somebody wishes to obtain said rights, they would hire a lawyer,\n> as obtaining the rights, setting the terms and options, and the costs that\n> come with it are surrounded by a lot of legal rump slump\n\nBut this depends quite a bit on what your 'end goal' is.\n\nI would advise the above in almost any scenario, as the lawyer can keep you\n'save' can help you set up the license, prevent loopholes, etc.\n\nHowever, if you prefer not to use a lawyer, or find it too much of a hassle/\nexpensive _(in which case you might just stop here, a license does not come\ncheap)_ you can use the following steps to obtain it:\n\n**_Determine the copyright licensing company_**\n\n[LoganM's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4365/1458) on finding\nreliable information regarding licenses for anime/manga is a good starting\npoint to determine this.\n\n**_Call the copyright owner to order the copyrights_**\n\nTake note that it might take a few calls, as the 'mentioned' authority may not\nbe the authority to give you a license in the country you wish to stream\nfrom/live in.\n\n**_Complete payment, and store your license somewhere safe_**\n\nRetain paperwork from your copyright licensing in your files to enable you to\nprove that you purchased a license for the public showing.\n\nFor some more 'detailed' insight in these actual steps, you can take a look at\nthe [Anime News Network\npost](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-06-11) which covers the\nabove points quite in-depth.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently discovered a cover for the song \"Kokoronashi\" on SoundCloud, so I\ntried to find the original version of the song, or at least information about\nwho the original artist is, on YouTube.\n\nHowever, this song seems to have been covered by so many different people so\nmany times that I cannot find out who sang the original as some singers who\ncovered it cite conflicting original versions/artists of this song.\n\n(The search queries that I performed on YouTube were \"kokoronashi\",\n\"kokoronashi original)\n\n\n\nI noticed that the picture above was almost always associated with this song\non YouTube and it had an anime art style, so I imagine that it might be some\nanime song, but upon performing a reverse image search, all the results simply\nbrought me to the YouTube covers that contain the picture instead of pointing\nme to an anime where I can find the original song.\n\nDoes anybody know who sang the original version of this song and/or what anime\nit comes from, if any?\n\nI realize that this is a very vague description of a song since I only provide\nthe name, but I guarantee that if you search \"kokoronashi\" on YouTube, you\nwill find many covers of the song that I am referring to without trouble on\nthe very first search results page.\n\nIf it helps, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-6fHqXvig) is a link to\na fairly popular English cover of the song. I did not link to a Japanese cover\nbecause they tend to be more likely to be taken down by YouTube due to\ncopyright violations than English covers, but the English melodies are very\nmuch the same as the Japanese covers that I have seen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a original Vocaloid song featuring GUMI, with music and lyrics by\nChouchou-P,\n[心做し](http://vocaloidlyrics.wikia.com/wiki/%E5%BF%83%E5%81%9A%E3%81%97_\\(Kokoronashi\\))\n(same name).\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SkNrZnoK5w>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been thinking of intermittently watching the original _Sailor Moon_ anime\n(with subtitles) to get a sense of the plot (and to have _something_ decent to\nwatch).\n\nSince I've already seen _Sailor Moon Crystal_ and I've noticed that the first\ntwo seasons of the original anime seem to more or less cover the same material\n(and since _Sailor Moon_ isn't a high priority series for me), I'm thinking of\nstarting from _Sailor Moon S_.\n\nIf I start from Sailor Moon S, will there be any important plot points /\ncharacter details that I will not know of because I won't have seen the first\ntwo seasons?\n\nI did view the final recap episode of _Sailor Moon R_ (and I could follow what\nwas going on), but there wasn't enough detail that I'm completely certain I\nwon't miss anything.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlot-wise the only big thing you'll be missing is the \"Hell Tree\" arc, which\ncomprised the first 13 episodes of Sailor Moon R. This storyline doesn't exist\nin the manga or Sailor Moon Crystal. Character-wise you'll be missing a lot of\ncharacter development that happens in the original anime. Sailor Mercury,\nVenus, Mars and Jupiter are all pretty much bystanders in the reboot. In the\nTV series they had much bigger roles.\n\nBut no, you don't need to see any of it before watching Sailor Moon S. It was\na TV series aimed at preteens. It's not very deep and is meant to be\naccessible. It's not the sort of show that assumes you've watched the show\nreligiously since episode 1.\n\nSailor Moon S is also, in my opinion, the best season of the original anime,\nso it's not a bad place to start watching even if you haven't seen any episode\nof Sailor Moon before and don't know anything about it. On the other hand the\nnext season, Sailor Moon SS, I'd consider to be the worst. It has its moments,\nbut there are a lot filler episodes. After watching Sailor Moon S, you might\nwant to consider skipping back and watching one of the first two seasons.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRecently, I started to watch Noir and right now I am on the 10th episode. But\nit seems that there is a strong connection between Noir and Phantom. Indeed,\nthey have both amnesiacs and they are assassins as well. My question is:\n\nWhich anime was influenced by another one first?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have noticed something rather strange: Why do devil fruit users abilities\nnullify when they are knocked unconscious but not when they fall sleep?\n\nTake Moria for example. Moria had control of all the shadows when Luffy\nknocked him out, allowing the shadows to escape, so why does sleeping not do\nthe same? Certainly he had to have fallen asleep at some point in time before\nLuffy had knocked him out.\n\nSame is the case with Sugar. She was scared unconscious by Usopp and all the\ntoys turned back to their human forms. Is there something about being knocked\nunconscious and falling asleep that is different in the One Piece Universe?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNot all Devil Fruit powers stop working when the user is unconscious.\n\nLuffy was knocked unconscious and nearly drowned during the Arlong arc when he\nwas submerged in Arlong's pool. Despite this his neck was stretched far enough\nto give him air. This was also seen when he was on Amazon Lily. There...\nparts... of him were stretched by the tribe while he was unconscious and that\nis all I'll say on that.\n\nIt would appear that if conscious or reflexive control is required to operate\nthe user's power (such as Robin or Crocodile), the power will not work if they\nare unconscious. If the power causes a permanent change in the physiology of\nthe user, the ability probably still works while they are unconscious.\n\nSugar is the perfect example of all of this because her fruit also makes her\nlook very young. This is not reversed when she is knocked unconscious because\nthat is not consciously controlled.\n\nHowever, if it were that simple, Moria (or others) could never sleep. We are\nforced (whether it makes sense or not) to assume that the limited awareness a\nperson has when asleep keeps some activated powers active. Specifically, ones\nthat generate some conscious minion. In Perona's and Sugar's cases though,\nthis obviously doesn't work if they are knocked unconscious. This makes sense\nas when someone is unconscious by force or alcohol, they do not dream (until\nthey are mostly recovered) and sometimes lose control of subconsciously\ncontrolled faculties (such as bowels or, more seriously, breathing).\n\nAll of these rules seem to change fruit to fruit so it is impossible to tell\nif, say, Law's body switches or Van Decker's marks would revert if they were\nknocked unconscious.\n\n_Please note: Moria did not lose control of his zombies because he was\nunconscious but because he took all of their shadows into himself at the end\nof the fight. He did, however, lose control of the shadows when he was knocked\nunconscious. Most likely though he would have lost control of zombies in this\nsituation anyways. You didn't make this mistake but I did several times while\nwriting this._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn simple terms, Paramecia and Zoan type devil fruit users lose control over\ntheir power when they are unconscious. Losing control means powers no longer\nwork while unconscious.\n\nLogia type devil fruit users don't lose control over their powers even when\nthey are unconscious just like Luffy. Logia users don't take much physical\ndamage except for Haki because they have their body's materialistic structure\nchanged like Fire Fist Ace [fire], God Enel [electricity], Luffy [rubber],\nSmoker [smoke].\n\nBut users like Nico Robin, Trafalgar Law, Boa Hancock, Foxy of Foxy Pirates,\nBrook, Chopper, Rob Lucci of CP9 are Paramecia and Zoan type respectively.\nZoan type can only transform but can't change the materialistic structure of\nthe body. Paramecia type can create elements like hands, room, stone, door\n[door door fruit] but their body structure is the same.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe name of Captain Jack first appeared in [Chapter\n801](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k6Rlb.jpg) when Doflamingo was escorted by the\nNavy to Impel down following his defeat by the StrawHats in Dressrosa.\n\nCaptain Jack seems ready to take on the might of a Marine Admiral Fujitora and\nformer fleet admiral Sengoku in order to rescue Doflamingo. Captain Jack again\nappears in the most recent [chapter 805](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jla48.jpg).\n\nIs anything known of Captain Jack? Is he one of the unknown shichibukai?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNot much is known about Jack. Thus far, **Jack has only been mentioned three\ntimes**.\n\n 1. In chapter 692 during [the failed experiment by Caesar](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z4Lin.jpg)\n 2. In chapter 801 during the escort of Doflamingo\n 3. In chapter 805 during the explanation of the destruction of Zou.\n\nThe only thing we seem to learn from this is that **he is related to Kaidou**\n, but we don't know the reason he was send by Kaidou to Doflamingo and why he\ndestroyed Zou. My personal guess would be that Kaidou sent Jack to Doflamingo\n(as was seen in number 1) to prepare for _[the last\nbattle](https://i.stack.imgur.com/M5HqN.jpg)_ as Kaidou said in chapter 795:\n\n> Goddamn it, hurry the hell up, Joker! Get everything ready for our last\n> battle! A world this mundane isn't worth keeping around! Time to light the\n> match to the greatest war this world has ever seen!\n\n**Jack probably came by Zou and destroyed it** , because that seems to be what\nhe does. Kaidou's underling seemed to have warned Kaidou something bad would\nhappen if they send out Jack.\n\nFinally, **he isn't one of the 7 warlords**. The five remaining confirmed\nwarlords are Mihawk, Kuma, Hancock, Buggy and Weevil after Doflamingo and\nWater Law were stripped of their title. There has been no mention of a new\nwarlord ever since Fujitora apologized for such a system even being in place.\n\nMy personal guess would be that **there might not even be more warlords**. It\nseems many of the Marines dislike the system (eg: Sengoku, Fujitora, Smoker,\netc) and they might want to take this opportunity to get rid of it. Especially\nseeing 3 out of 6 ex-warlords blatantly abused the system to get away with\ntheir evil deeds and did more harm then good by being a warlord (ie:\nCrocodile, Doflamingo and Teach)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLets say you write \"some dude dies of a heart attack at 3:00 PM if it is\ncloudy out\". Does the dude die? What if you said \"some dude commits suicide by\ngun at 3:00 PM if it is cloudy out\", so that it is just up to him whether or\nnot to decide to die.\n\nAny idea what would happen in these cases?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nProbably not. This would imply that the death note could control people\nwithout killing them which Light would definitely have found out and abused.\n\nTo elaborate, imagine someone writing: Do X, then if 1+1=3, die from a heart\nattack. 1+1 is never equal to 3, so the death note could be used to control\nanyone without harming them. That would contradict it being a notebook of\ndeath, also it's unlikely that light wouldn't have tried and done just that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**If you write someone's name in the Death Note, they die.** You can write the\nconditions of their death if they are possible and if they are not possible\nthey die the default way (heart attack). If you could do this, it would mean\nyou wrote his name in the Notebook and he could survive. That is impossible.\n\nThere may, however, be a way to do a conditional statement in a limited way to\nget information. \"Bob dies of a heart attack at 12:00 PST if he cheated on\nKimmy. He dies of a heart attack at 1:00 PST if he did not.\" It is not clear\nif this would work or not. You clearly can do \"Bob writes L's real name on the\nwall and then chokes\" which would have him die of a heart attack if he doesn't\nknow. In any of the possible cases though, Bob would die and probably is\ndependent only on what Bob knows or observes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was recently reported that [Matsuki\nMiyu](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=444), a voice\nactress, has [passed\naway](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-01/voice-actress-miyu-\nmatsuki-passes-away/.94904), perhaps from [pneumonia or related\ncomplications](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-07-14/voice-actress-\nmiyu-matsuki-goes-on-hiatus-due-to-pneumonia/.90429) (RIP). She voice-acted\nkey characters in as-yet-incomplete shows, including at least _Prisma Illya_\n(Sapphire).\n\nThis surely can't be the first time this has happened. What is typically done\nwhen a voice actor for an ongoing series (ongoing either in the sense of a\ncontinuously-aired show like _One Piece_ or a show with future scheduled\nseasons like [currently] _Prisma Illya_ ) passes away?\n\n(I see three main options - put in a new voice actor for the character; write\nthe character out of the show; or, worst case, cancel the show altogether. But\nall three options are imperfect. Historically, what has been done in these\nsituations?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA similar thing happened with [Tomoko\nKawakami](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=526), who\nvoiced Soi Fong while Bleach was still airing. While she went on hiatus due to\novarian cancer, she was replaced by [Houko\nKuwashima](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=281).\nOnce the news of her death broke, Kuwashima assumed the role until the end of\nthe series.\n\nIt's a sad day when a seiyuu passes, but the general trend has often been to\nkeep the production going. Characters are seldom written out of the anime if\nthey are based on an existing media (Bleach, One Piece, etc), so anything that\nwould involve the character not showing up during critical, canonical pieces\nof content wouldn't be feasible.\n\nThe only times I've heard of series being _cancelled_ is when a major player,\nsuch as the mangaka, passes away. This was done in the case of _Kaze no\nStigma_ , as [Takahiro Yamato had passed\naway](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-19/kaze-no-stigma-novelist-\ntakahiro-yamato-passes-away), leaving the series incomplete.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd pretty much say that they just find someone else to fill the role. A\ndecent number of voice actors audition for a role, but of course only one gets\nthe part. If something unfortunate like that happens, the production companies\ncan, without much difficulty, find someone else to fill the slot.\n\nIt's kind of heartless to say that yeah, our favorite seiyuu is replaceable,\nbut unfortunately, it's how business works.\n\nAnime production companies generally won't change how they do a story or\ncancel a series because of something like this. When a voice actor passes\naway, an anime studio may already have the next 2, 3, or so episodes already\nanimated in some form, and even more with a written script; to go back and\nchange all those drawings/animations to write out a character is time-\nconsuming and expensive. Frankly, it has to be someone much more crucial to\nthe show's production to die for the companies to begin even considering these\noptions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsopp is the sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates and also a craftsman who created\nweapons like his fake 5 ton hammer. He also created a sort of a \"magic\"\nweapon, Clima Tact that he made for Nami.\n\nI wonder why Usopp did not create another \"magic\" weapon for himself? He can\nmake one for himself, right? I know he has [Pop\nGreen](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Pop_Green) which he uses frequently, but\nit's more of an ammunition for him than a weapon. Why doesn't he create some\nweapons for himself?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was wondering if it had ever been shown in the manga or anime of Blackbeard\npossessing the iconic tattoo of the [Whitebeard\nPirates](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Whitebeard_Pirates) on his back. I\ndon't remember if it was required of the crew to get the tattoo but it does\nseem like a lot of them do possess it.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HG47z.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhitebeard's pirates got the tattoo of Jolly Roger out of respect or to prove\ntheir association to the pirate crew. It is safe to assume that Blackbeard\ndidn't sport the tattoo as it wasn't compulsory for everyone to get the\ntattoo. So that would mean Blackbeard hasn't been seen with Whitebeard tattoo.\n\n> Whitebeard's flag is that of a standard Jolly Roger with a large mustache\n> and a cross behind it. Many high-ranked crew members bear the Whitebeard\n> flag symbol on them, including Ace who is seen having it tattooed on his\n> back and being extraordinarily proud of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I've seen the fleet commanders have the tattoos and blackbeard\ndidn't want to even be a fleet commander. As taken from the wiki: -having\nspent a few decades on their ship, even turning down the chance to be a\ncommander amongst the crew, although that was most likely a measure not to\nmake himself infamous before he was ready to reveal his plans.-\n\n",
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] | 27020 | null | 35672 |
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