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"body": "\n\nI'm looking forward the name of the song played in the 6 episode at 16min30s.\nIt's when Migi explains that She has to sleep for 4 hours as She has healed\nhim. This song appears regularily in the episodes, and it is not in the OST\n(or I didn't find it).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song you are looking for is the Migi Theme by [Ken\nArai](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Arai)\n\n[You can listen to it here](https://youtu.be/pcScX2Rh6qM)\n\nThis song does not seem to be included in the currently released OST\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo in my Collectors Edition for _Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3_ it came\nwith a sheet which can be made into this paper figure:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LFc4I.jpg)\n\nI have also seen similar things on eBay of the Puella Magi from _Puella Magi\nMadoka Magica_.\n\nAre these figures Origami, or is there a different name for them which one\ncould use for finding similar products?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think they can be considered\n[Papercraft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_model). Also called Pepakura,\nfrom \"pepa kurafuto\", I guess.\n\nIf you search google for pepakura models, you can find sites with lots of\ndesigns to print and assemble.\n\nSince you will need scissors and most times, glue, they are not considered\norigami.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm confused as to why Supreme Kai paralyzed Gohan for his energy to be\ndrained.\n\nCouldn't they have just eliminated Babidi so that Buu wouldn't be resurrected?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly the reason was because the Kai didn't know where\nBabidi was hiding. He used Gohan as bait, and then was able to follow Babidi's\nhenchman back to the wizard's ship. If he hadn't done that, who knows how the\nstory would have unfolded from there.\n\nAlso, it wasn't just Gohan's energy that restored Majin Buu, but also energy\ntaken from the fights within Babidi's ship.\n\nKnowing the characters of the Saiyan Z-fighters, they wouldn't have stopped\nBuu from resurrecting anyway. They would just want to fight him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs jphager2's answer points out, they needed to know where Babidi was hiding.\nThe Supreme Kais were willing to let Gohan's energy be drained because they\nnever thought he, and the other Z fighters, were so strong. Maybe if they knew\nthat Gohan's energy would fill half of Buu's energy need they would not have\ntaken the risk.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the early episodes of Tokyo Ravens, Natsume is seen wearing a boy's\nuniform. It is said that this is due to some customs in their family. As\nquoted from Wikipedia\n[here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tokyo_Ravens_characters):\n\n> As a family tradition, she has to present herself as male in front of other\n> onmyouji families, a tradition that was created to hide the true identity of\n> Yakou's reincarnation.\n\nBut why didn't anyone notice that she is actually a girl? Everyone except\nTouji and Harutora who already knew her, assume that she's a boy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are several reasons why no one noticed that Natsume was a girl:\n\n 1. She was dressing as a boy, therefore no one should suspect her.\n 2. On the novel, an onmyouji can identify whether you're a girl or boy based on your aura. Boys naturally have yang aura and girls have yin aura. \n \nNormally, when a practitioner has a shikigami, the shikigami's aura should be\nthe opposite so that their compatibility will be in harmony. \n \nHowever, Natsume's prideful shikigami which is Hokuto have a yin aura,\ntherefore it made conflict in their auras, thus negating the yin aura and\nmaking it a yang aura. In result, anyone would assume that Natsume was indeed\na boy.\n\n 3. It is rumored that Natsume was Yakou's reincarnation, since she was the next heir of the Tsuchimikado family, they preconceived that she is a boy.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7V8y2.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter _finished watching the anime's first season_ (hoping for a 2nd one), I\nhave now an answer to my own question.\n\nJust to clarify things, ( **SPOILER on hidden text** )\n\n * Natsume being a girl was revealed on [Tokyo Ravens episode 17](http://tokyo-ravens.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ravens_Episode_17) and her being a boy was explained then from [episode 18](http://tokyo-ravens.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ravens_Episode_18), [19](http://tokyo-ravens.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ravens_Episode_19) through [episode 20](http://tokyo-ravens.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ravens_Episode_20).\n\n * Natsume being a girl was exposed when Shaver was out of control and [started attacking them](https://www.funimation.com/shows/tokyo-ravens/videos/official/_darkness_emerge_--razor-) after a spirit disaster was unleashed.\n\n> Shaver tore Natsume's clothes apart which revealed the truth.\n\n * Jin Ohtomo Sensei and the principal of the onmyouji academy as well as the Yakou fanatics and the twin horned syndicate never noticed that Natsume was a girl, until it was revealed to them. According to Jin Ohtomo, a **B-Grade Spell** was used and, although noticeable, if carefully examined via one's aura, it was never revealed. This can be linked to [catzilla's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/28294/2516):\n\n> However, Natsume's prideful shikigami which is Hokuto have a yin aura,\n> therefore it made conflict in their auras, thus negating the yin aura and\n> making it a yang aura. In result, anyone would assume that Natsume was\n> indeed a boy.\n\n * On [episode 20](http://tokyo-ravens.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ravens_Episode_20), it was revealed that Natsume's father told her about the family tradition when she was in junior high. After that, the times that Harutora came to hang out drastically reduced.\n\n> That was when Natsume decided to make the familiar Hokuto to continue\n> hanging out with Harutora. although this was a secret even to Harutora.\n\n * The cross-dressing was endorsed by Yasuzumi Tsuchimikado **to hide the identity of the reincarnation of Yakou** (Polaris King)\n\n> The real reincarnation was not Natsume but Harutora Tsuchimikado. It was\n> also to conceal Natsume being a fake as she was a girl. From the moment they\n> were born they switched Natsume and Harutora was set on the branch family.\n> Harutora who has tremendous aura and energy, was put under a curse to hide\n> this and also concealed of his abilities one of is being a spirit seer. The\n> curse was confirmed by Kakugyouki the one-hand ogre.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've just finished reading _Clannad_. While I was browsing for another visual\nnovel to read, I saw the _Tomoyo After_ (after story of Tomoyo's route) visual\nnovel.\n\nNow I'm wondering whether maybe the other heroines also have an after story\nbut they have different titles.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTomoyo is the only one who has a separate visual novel.\n\nIn general, whenever you have questions about how visual novels are\ninterrelated, a good first stop is the VN's relationship diagram on VNDB -\n[here's the one for Clannad](https://vndb.org/v4/rg).\n\nYou'll notice in this case that there appear to be other related VNs like\n\"Kyou After\" and \"Clannad: Lost Winter\", but note that those are indicated by\ndotted arrows on the diagram. This indicates that the relationship is\n\"unofficial\", which typically means that one of the two things linked by the\narrow is a fan-produced work.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan you help me find the name of an anime film? I do not remember very much\nabout it but here is what I recall:\n\n 1. It's a movie not a TV-show.\n 2. It's probably in the genre of horror because it includes monsters, blood and maybe some people dying.\n 3. It was made before 2005.\n 4. There is a boy who lives in a cave in the mountains with an old lady and he decides to go to the city (I don't know why).\n 5. A girl is run over by a bus and her blood is everywhere, but somehow she is not dead (like it was only a vision or time went backwards).\n 6. The girl has an older brother and I think they are orphans.\n 7. There is a young girl with three eyes.\n 8. There is a very large monster that resembles Ryuk from Death Note and maybe a bird monster.\n\n",
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"body": "\n * **The anime you're looking for is[3x3 eyes](http://myanimelist.net/anime/300/3x3_Eyes)**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HppRK.jpg)\n\n> **3X3 Eyes is the story of a young man named Yakumo Fuuji, who through a\n> strange series of events becomes the immortal slave of the last of a race of\n> 3 Eyed immortals. The immortal absorbs his soul to save his life, making him\n> immortal in the process. Now, he begins a journey with the female immortal\n> in an attempt to find a way of becoming human. Of course, there are many\n> complications along the way, not the least of which being that the immortal\n> is a female with a split personality, one achingly cute and the other being\n> no-nonsense destructive power, and the romances that develop between.**\n\n * The anime satisfies all of the points you mentioned except for \n\n> It is a movie not a TV-show\n\nI think you may have mistaken it for a movie. It's an OVA collection of 4\nepisodes having a\n[sequel](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1225/3x3_Eyes_Seima_Densetsu) of 3\nanother OVA episodes.\n\n * The boy is [Yakumo Fujii](http://myanimelist.net/character/7160/Yakumo_Fujii), the three eyed girl is [Pai Sanjiyan](http://myanimelist.net/character/5492/Pai) and the large monster is [Benares](http://myanimelist.net/character/14075/Benares)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I was to start watching all the series of Yu-Gi-Oh! (the orginal one), what\nshould I start with first?\n\nThe books or the movies? And can you please list them in order too?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you want to start watching the series you should better start from the\nfirst anime adaptation of the manga with the same name released in 1998.\n\nsee [Yu-Gi-Oh! (1998 TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-\nOh!_\\(1998_TV_series\\)) It is based on chapters 1-59 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga\nseries. here is a list of the first 59\n[episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_\\(1998\\)_episodes)\nin the anime.\n\nYou should check this post. [What's the correct order in which to watch the\nYu-Gi-Oh!\nseasons/episodes?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/11248/whats-the-\ncorrect-order-in-which-to-watch-the-yu-gi-oh-seasons-episodes)\n\nFor the Movies here is [5\ntitles](http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Movies). source:\nyugioh.wikia.com\n\nHonestly I am a fan of the Anime and its [Card-game\ngameplay](http://www.yugioh-card.com/en/rulebook/). I even attended\nConventions here in our country where dual matches were held and participated\nby trading card enthusiasts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would say this is a fairly opinion-based question, since some people will\nsay the anime is superior to the manga, while many others will say vice versa.\nI would say the manga is a better place to start; it is its most faithful\nform, without fillers and without card games shoehorned into every available\nopportunity.\n\nIt should be noted that unlike the anime, the manga takes a while before\nfocusing on card games. Also, in terms of the anime, there are two separate\nones, the first made by Toei and the second made by Studio Gallop, though the\nsecond continues where the first lefts off. These follow the plot of the manga\n(although the Toei one is fairly loose about it.) though with noticeable\ndifferences (e.g. fillers).\n\nAs for the movies, the first one, simply titled \"Yu-Gi-Oh!\" Is based on the\nToei adaptation. The Pyramid of Light movie is only possibly canon to the\nGallop anime, and even then ambiguously so. It takes place shortly after the\nBattle City arc. \"Bonds between time\" is sort of commemorative, and it crosses\nover with GX and 5Ds; I do not recommend watching it before watching GX and\n5Ds.\n\nAs for the manga, there is also a short series called \"Yu-Gi-Oh! R\" which also\ntakes place after the Battle City arc, and is also disputed in its canonicity.\n\nThe other works, such as GX, 5Ds, Zexal and Arc-V, are, unlike the original,\nAnime first before manga, instead of the other way around. These certainly\ndoes not encompass the \"original one\" as you mentioned in your question.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter I have read this\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/24274/how-was-kakashi-\nhatake-able-to-survive-and-become-the-next-hokage-after-losing-h), I remember\nthat Kakashi's epithet is _Copy Ninja_ because he has a Sharingan in his left\neye that was given to him by Obito.\n\nBut I can't think of another Sharingan user who can also copy other jutsu. So,\nis that the only special technique that Kakashi's Sharingan had, or there's\nanother Sharingan user who also can copy other jutsu?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSharingan literally means _Copy Wheel Eye_. The _Eye of Insight_ and the _Eye\nof Hypnotism_ are the two abilities of the Sharingan.\n\nThe Eye of Insight has different abilities in itself. One of the abilities,\nlets the user copy any jutsu and utilize with maximum achievable perfection.\n\n> The user is able to copy almost any jutsu they see, memorising ninjutsu,\n> genjutsu, and taijutsu with near-perfect accuracy. They can then either\n> perform that jutsu or modify it to suit their needs, as when Sasuke Uchiha\n> bases his Lion Combo on Rock Lee's Front Lotus. Again, Sharingan users need\n> the prerequisite abilities before they can mimic a jutsu they have seen, and\n> for that reason they cannot, for example, reproduce kekkei genkai abilities\n> they do not have or nature transformations they haven't learned to perform.\n>\n> source: [Sharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan)\n\nTherefore, every Sharingan user is capable of using the Eye of Insight's\nability of copying other jutsu, provided, their Sharingan are matured enough.\nIt is not, therefore, exclusive to Kakashi. Every Sharingan user has this\nability. Although, Kakashi is the only non-Uchiha able to perform it\nsuccessfully.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto, I have seen that to create summoning contract and to use summoning\njutsu, the user uses their own blood.\n\nWhy is this required? What is the significance of using blood here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n 1. It will recognize the contractor/summoner through moulding their chakra with hand seals, and with their own blood that they signed the contract with.\n 2. The contract insures an everlasting validity for summoning the creature.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can read in the [Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning_Technique)\nthat\n\n> The Summoning Technique is a space–time ninjutsu that allows the summoner to\n> transport animals or people across long distances instantly and **uses blood\n> as a sacrifice.**\n\nIn more detail:\n\n> * The contract comes in the form of a scroll, **on which the contractor\n> uses their own blood to sign their name** and place their fingerprints and\n> once signed it is valid even after the contractors death as long as the\n> contract itself remains intact. After this, **they need only offer an\n> additional donation of blood on the hand they signed the contract with** ,\n> mould their chakra with hand seals and then plant the hand they signed the\n> contract with at the location they wish to summon the creature.\n>\n> * **It should be noted that anyone can summon a contracted animal as long\n> as they have the blood of someone who has made a contract** , the seal of\n> the summoned creature and a source of sufficient chakra that the summon will\n> accept.\n>\n>\n\nSo basically, **the blood serves as a means of identifying the summoner for\nthe summoned and also acts as a price (sacrifice) for calling them.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Thriller Bark Arc Lola mentioned to Luffy that her mother is in the\nNew World and indicates that she is a extremely powerful pirate. She even left\nLuffy a vivre card that if ever he runs into any trouble he could ask her\n'Mama' to help him out.\n\nWho could possibly be this extremely powerful pirate Lola's mother?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**We know nothing about that as of this writing, but there has been a widely\ncirculating theory for a while now that Big Mom is Lola's mom.** You can read\nabout it on various sites. I'll list a few points made in support of the\nargument on\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/20d6jr/expanding_on_the_lolas_mom_theory_tinfoil/)\n\n> Firstly, for those that don't already know the theory, it is that Big Mom is\n> Lola's mother. Back on Thriller Bark Lola gave Nami a vivre card with Lola's\n> signature, saying her mother is a pirate in the New World. People believe\n> this mother is Big Mom because:\n>\n> * Big Mom's name is Big Mom, ie, she is known as a mother.\n> * **Big Mom is in the New World**\n> * **Big Mom's jolly roger has big red lips and the same colour hair as\n> Lola**\n> * **Nami who has Lola's vivre card just happens to be on the ship that is\n> being attacked by the Big Mom pirates**\n> * Nami is likely to eventually pull out the vivre card that Law gave her\n> and accidentally pull out Lola's card instead.\n>\n\nHere is the similarity between Big Mom's jolly roger and Lola's face: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BV9ar.jpg)\n\nAnother few points made in the\n[Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Lola's_mother_is_definitely....)\nare:\n\n> * **Big Mom is in the New World and thats where Lola was born**\n> * **Lola's crew also said that her mother was an extremely powerful pirate\n> which is another connection between the two**\n> * **Luffy will definitely meet Lola's mother on account that the crew was\n> given her vivre card and it only makes sense that Luffy meets all members of\n> the Yonkou**\n>\n\nLola's crew stating that Lola's mom is an amazing pirate:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8zljY.png)\n\n* * *\n\n**Another popular theory recently is that her mom is[Miss\nBakkin](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Bakkin)**\n\nThe arguments in support of these [here](http://www.onepiecelove.com/lolas-\nmother-is-miss-bakkin-theory/) are:\n\n> * **Miss Bakkin is the first pirate woman to be introduce for a while and\n> she is a mother which is really rare in One Piece, since all mothers are\n> dead.**\n> * **Miss Bakkin and Lola have the same hair style, Weeble has the same\n> type of hair braids, Lola’s mouth looks similar to that of Miss Bakkin.**\n> * **Bakkin also claims to be Whitebeard’s lover, while Lola has been\n> desperate to find a lover herself. Is she possibly trying to imitate her\n> mother?**\n> * **The other connection to Lola is Thriller Bark itself. Lola’s reason\n> for being in Thriller Bark could have been a search for Hogback. Maybe\n> Weeble needed a doctor and they thought Dr. Hogback could help them. This\n> would explain the stitches on his face, around his neck, and his arm.**\n>\n\nSimilarity between Lola, Miss Bakkin and Weeble:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LUtBp.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\nObviously, t **his is all speculation at this poin** t and we won't know who\nher real mom is unless revealed by Oda himself. Although, based on these\ntheories, it's likely that it's either going to be Big Mom or Miss Bakkin.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's Big Mom, confirmed in chapter 835\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nManga chapter 835 page 20\n\nChapter 835 shows both parents\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/inkAM.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of the Thriller Bark Chapter 490 in manga and episode 381 in anime.\nI noticed strange giant shadows with glowing red eyes at the background. What\ncould it be? \n\n_Check this image in manga:_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSuDO.png) \n_In Anime:_ [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RczqJ.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs stated in the comments, it's an entity related to the [Florian\nTriangle](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Florian_Triangle).\n\n> * According to Kokoro, many pirate and commercial ships mysteriously go\n> missing every year and, sometimes, a ship will be found sailing without any\n> people aboard. It has also been said that there are many haunted ships with\n> dead bodies sailing across the sea (though, it is revealed that all this is\n> attributed to Brook).\n>\n> * Though, some of the disappearances that have happened in the Triangle\n> can be attributed to Moriah's scheme. Ships have been disappearing\n> mysteriously in it for a long time before he came on his ship, Thriller\n> Bark, ten years before the series. **This mystery is confirmed by an unknown\n> ominous entity larger than Thriller Bark that was barely seen by Captain\n> Lola through the fog. It is so large that it completely dwarfs Thriller\n> Bark, the world's largest pirate ship, in sheer size, possibly making it the\n> world's biggest creature to appear in the series thus far.**\n>\n>\n\n* * *\n\nIt **may** also be possible that it's the trope \"[Real After\nAll](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealAfterAll)\":\n\n> If an episode revolves around a haunting (or alien visitation) (or lake\n> monster sighting) (or whatever) that turns out to be a hoax, the episode\n> will end with a shot of a real ghost/alien visitor/lake monster/whatever.\n\nHowever, knowing Oda, that is highly unlikely. I just stated it as **it is\npossible** that we may never get to know what those entities were.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that these shadows are other elephants like Zunisha\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zunisha>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that the triangle is related to Enel. My theory goes like this:\n\nBirka is exactly over the triangle and because of the deepflying Sky Island,\nthere is always that mist. The shadows in the background are people of that\nSky Island who survived Enel's genocide. Enel came to Skypiea 8 years ago (10\nafter time skip) — maybe he left Birka around the time when Moria arrived.\nBefore that, Enel killed with his Devil Fruit all travelers either to train\nhis power or by mistake (with attacks like Raigo's). That covers the 3\nproblems:\n\n 1. the mist\n 2. the shadows at the end, and \n 3. the missing people before Gecko's arrival.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKuzan/Aokiji was once an Admiral of the World Government. After he lost in the\nbattle for the Fleet Admiral position he left the marines and wander around on\nits own. And eventually a shocking news shock the World Government. Kuzan\njoined forces with\n\n> Blackbeard pirates\n\nwhich is regarded as a traitor to the government when he abuses his position\nas a Shichibukai. \n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uH5y5.png) \n> \n> **Question:** Why did he joined forces with the pirate group which is a\n> traitor and a threat to the government? Does he not believe in justice\n> anymore in the World Government?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAokiji might have his own self justice principles. As he has previously seen\nthe unjustice rendered by the present fleet admiral to the innocent people of\nOhara when Aokiji and Akainu are fellow comrade Vice Admirals in the buster\ncall operation, he might feel indignant to work under a person (Akainu) who\nhas the pretence of killing innocent in the name of justice as they contradict\nwith his own self justice principles. So he might have decided to join hands\nwith Black Beard who proclaims his evil intentions to the world rather than\npretending to be someone.\n\nBut why he joined hands with Black Beard is the mystery. Maybe Black Beard\nmight have given him an approbation of making Aokiji the Fleet Admiral after\nhe himself took the world dragons under captives and make Black Beard himself\nthe new World Ruler. Simply a cruel, arrogant person is more detestable than a\ncruel, friendly person. Or he might be sick of the marines' overall cruel\noperations to safeguard the world government who follow tyrannical measures.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think aokiji is part of the revolution army and went in to the navy to spy\nalso I dont think aokiji really lost the fight,cause just because he lost the\nfight doesn't mean he would leave the navy, also when he showed at punk hazard\nhe was pretty calm and told the navy not to tell anyone that he was there. I\nthink aokiji purposely losed the fight to join blackbeard and spy that is all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've watched the _Vampire Knight_ anime. I really like the story so far but\nfind it frustrating that the anime doesn't finish off the story. I'm trying to\nfigure out if it is worth reading the manga.\n\nDoes the manga contain more story than the anime? Does it finish the story\noff?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou watch the anime 3 times but try to figuere out if the manga is worth it?\nIf you like it its always worth to check out the other.\n\nAs far as i remeber it has an open end but finishes the story.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on [Manga Updates' page of Vampire\nKnight](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1679):\n\n> **Status in Country of Origin** \n> 19 Volumes (Complete) + 2 Bonus Chapters \n> 10 Bunkoban Volumes (Complete)\n>\n> **Anime Start/End Chapter** \n> Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 \n> Ends at Vol 10, Chap 46\n\nIf you wonder why there are two kinds of volume above, in Japan, usually\n\"volume\" as we know it called tankoubon, and bunkouban is a tankoubon with\nmore pages, thus why bunkouban has less volume. [Further reading in Wikipedia\nabout those formats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%C5%8Dbon).\n\nSo, to answer your question:\n\n> Does the manga contain more story than the anime?\n\nShould be, because the anime only caught up to vol. 10 and when all season of\n_Vampire Knight_ anime ended, the manga was still ongoing. You can see it\nbased on the year the anime and manga ended at [Wikipedia's page of _Vampire\nKnight_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Knight).\n\nFurther, I didn't watch the anime and only read its manga till the end, but\nseeing Wikipedia's page of [List of _Vampire Knight_\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vampire_Knight_episodes),\nseeing the story of the last episode of _Vampire Knight: Guilty_ , I can tell\nyou that's not how the manga ended.\n\n> I'm trying to figure out if it is worth reading the manga. Does it finish\n> the story off?\n\nWhether it's worth or not, it's up to each reader. But if you want to know the\n\"official\" ending (I said \"official\", because the manga is the original\nsource), then it's recommended to read the manga, because the manga did finish\nit off.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Does the manga contain more story than the anime?\n\nTo be exact, the anime deviated from the manga slightly near to the end as\ninstead of Zero and Yuki being on a roof, Zero is standing on a platform made\nentirely of the thorn vines from Bloody Rose. Also, Kaname killed all the\nVampire Senate, not just Ichijo and the guards at the very end. After that,\nthere is a time skip until Cross Academy is rebuilt and running again and\nKaname is now living with Yuki.\n\nPretty much from the small discrepancies at the end of the anime, you can\nstart reading from Chapter 49 (Volume 11 - 49th Night) and not really miss\nout, though I would just start reading from chapter 1 again to read the\nBonus/Extra stories that most volumes came with (I don't know how much they\nadd, but I seem to recall a small story of Kaien caring for little Yuki)\n\nSince the series continues on after Yuki leaves Cross Academy with Kaname,\nthere is more information as we learn more about Purebloods and what happened\nbetween Kaname's Parents and Rido, particularly why in the anime Juri says\nthat Rido \" _already killed one of her children_ \" when Kaname never mentions\nanother sibling apart from Yuki.\n\nWe also learn more about the Vampire Hunters and why their weapons are so\neffective against Vampires, and finally learn that Kaname's real end goal is\nfor his past actions (killing Shizuka Hio, wiping out the senate, making Zero\nwhat he is)\n\n> Does it finish the story off?\n\nYes, and according to [this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/5548/1587), the manga finished in\n2013 in Japan with the English translation done the next year. It's probably\nsafe to assume that after volume 19 (Chapter 93), that's it.\n\nOf course, whether or not you accept that it's the end is another matter.\nSince there have been no new releases afterward, there doesn't seem to be any\nplans to continue after Chapter 93. There's probably fan fiction and doujinshi\nfloating around, but these wouldn't be considered as canon (e.g. Yuki making\nSayori a vampire and becoming a couple forever)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo a couple years ago I was read this manga, then I finished, because it was\nan incomplete series, but then I lost it.\n\nBasically, what I remember is that there was this girl who wanted to join the\narmy after she finished school to help support her mother, and she meets this\nvery weird girl who thinks she is a mermaid and constantly drinks water out of\na huge bottle. The girl has weird marks and bruises on her skin, but she\nbrushes is off as \"mermaid burns\" or something else.\n\nThen, a celebrity comes to the town, who was super famous and the army girl\nliked him a little bit. Some stuff happens, and then in the end, it turns out\nthat the celebrity was the \"mermaid girls\" father and he was abusing her. The\nseries finished after that.\n\nPlease help, it was a very sad manga!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga you are looking for is: [Satou Kashi no Dangan wa\nUchinukenai](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai)\n(Sugar Candy Bullets Can’t Pierce Anything).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qlj7D.jpg)\n\nThe following summaries are included on the website:\n\n> When a strange new girl by the name of Umino Mokuzu transfers in from Tokyo\n> and declares that she is a \"Mermaid\", she quickly becomes the center of\n> attention. Noticing that Nagisa is the only classmate that seems to have no\n> interest in her, Umino quickly decides that they should become \"precious\n> friends\". Despite Nagisa's objections, Umino begins to follow her wherever\n> she goes.\n\nand\n\n> Umino's rockstar father is shown to be aloof towards her at best and\n> emotionally abusive at worst, once leaving her behind in a grocery store\n> parking lot simply because a defective shopping cart made him angry and\n> that's only the tip of the iceberg.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G3QVY.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBobobo-bo Bobo-bo (ボボボーボ・ボーボボ) is certainly a strange anime, but does the\ntitle mean anything?\n\nThe main character's name is also Bobobo-bo Bobo-bo (Bo-Bobo for short - but\nnot Bo).\n\nSome of the other names in the series are jokes - there is someone called\nBeauty and another called Don Patch (a pun on \"donpachi\", the Japanese sound\nof machine gun fire).\n\nIs there some joke in his name (apart from the obvious absurdity)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Black Butler_ , Sebastian has a symbol on his hand and Ciel has the same\nsymbol on his eye.\n\nI swear I've heard of it, but what's the name of this sign and why is it\nsignificant?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy do they tend to occur so often in anime?\n\nI'm not really a fan nor knowledgeable, but just curious is there any\nbackground behind this.\n\nHere are some examples of what I mean:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swylpHp8gs>\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9N-BuufhyU>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile your question is poorly qualified and given no bounds, it is probably\nfalse. However, in the interest of answering the question, we shall assume you\nare talking about the subset of **_Shounen_** / ** _Action_** anime.\n\nI'd like to expand @ToshinouKyouko's points of _Budget_ and _Genre_ and\ninclude several other considerations for your question.\n\n * **Default subject matter for the genre**\n\nThe default subject matter for Shounen is fighting. When fighting, something\nis bound to give. Explosions are therefore commonplace, especially when the\nmain concept of the show is a super power, mecha, or magic, etc. All these\ntend to use some kind of power or powerful weapon to destroy the opponent.\n\n * **Solution for elimination**\n\nIt is a \"clean\" solution for killing an opponent. There is no blood/gore and\nthere are no corpses to clean up. Note that the default audience for the genre\ntends to be younger. There is no problem with having less questionable methods\nespecially if the audience may be squeamish or if they are considering\ncensorship issues. Either way it is the most basic and clean solution, to make \nthem disappear.\n\n * **Power Creep**\n\nAs the story goes on, enemies get more powerful, and so does our hero. The\neasiest way of showing that when they fight is increasingly bigger explosions.\nThe fact that our hero is stronger, means that he should be able to make a\nbigger Fireball, for example. A bigger fireball makes a bigger explosion as it\nstands to reason, does it not? The stronger enemy would also be capable of\nsuch feats of the same scale, and clashing with them would of course yield an\nexplosion that is at least twice as big! This can be easily observed from\nanime where the fights can destroy worlds.\n\n * **Anime as a medium**\n\nAnime is freeform storytelling. They are able to achieve more things than a\ntraditional movie would because they can. Anime just need to animate something\nout and it exists. Movies are increasingly moving towards a lot of CG scenes\nbecause of this. Even explosions are getting done in CG more often too.\nBecause it is so free, so unbound, they can do whatever they want. In the case\nof Shounen, this results in explosions, even on a scale of universes, if they\nso choose.\n\n * **Popularity of explosions**\n\nOf course one cannot exclude the fact that their target audience may simply\nlove seeing an explosion. Fireworks are simply popular, some even like to see\nstuff explode in real life. It is also popular for movies. If it is so\npopular, why not include it in anime, from the previous point, they can do it\nbetter. They can control the look and the size and make it however their\naudience may like it. I'm sure as a shounen anime watcher, perhaps nothing\ncould please them more having the \"bad guy\" blow up and destroyed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just saw two clips of a movie (I am not sure, because it was short) of\nBardock.\n\nOne shows the destruction of the Saiyan home world, where he gets the power to\nsee the future and psychic powers while fighting on a different planet.\n\nThe second one starts at the same place just after Frieza uses his powerball\nto destroy Bardock and the planet Vegeta. It starts from the blast and Bardock\nis sent back in time to his own planet where Frieza's ancestor arives and\nfights Bardock and where he becomes a Super Saiyan.\n\nDoes this mean he is alive? Or that his future would be different in the same\nway that Dragon Ball Z usually explains that every time you time travel and\nchange history a different parallel dimension is created?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first clip is from the TV special, [**Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father\nof Goku**](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z:_Bardock_-\n_The_Father_of_Goku). Bardock and his crew are sent to the Planet Kanassa\ndestroy all life there.\n\n> [...] Bardock and crew rest up and celebrate their victory... Until one\n> remaining warrior catches him off guard and decides to give him the \"gift\"\n> of seeing the future. This gives him the ability to see the destruction of\n> Planet Vegeta, and almost the entire Saiyan race along with it, at the hands\n> of their master, Frieza. Also, he sees the salvation of the planet Earth\n> through his son Kakarot.\n\nBardock supposedly dies along with Planet Vegeta when Frieza uses his\nSupernova. The disintegration of the planet happens and is shown on screen.\n\nThe second clip you mentioned is from the film, [**Dragon Ball: Episode of\nBardock**](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball:_Episode_of_Bardock).\nIt's scenario is set after the events of _Bardock: The Father of Goku_ and is\nbased on the game, **Dragon Ball Heroes**. In this storyline, Bardock doesn't\ndie from Frieza's Supernova, and is instead teleported to the past. He time\ntravels to the timeline of Frieza's ancestor, _Chilled_. Bardock's\ntransformation into a Super Saiyan happens in this special. He defeats\nChilled, who is badly injured and devastated. Chilled then informs his people\nof the Super Saiyan power and the fear was created there.\n\nNow, both of the mentioned works are non-canon. So canonically, Bardock is\ndead. But non-canonically, he had survived his demise and survived by going\nback in time (unclear if he's still alive).\n\nAnd as for the future, it remains unaffected. Bardock's actions and Super\nSaiyan transformation in the battle against Chilled created the long felt fear\nof Super Saiyans in the hearts of Frieza and his species. This fear led to the\ndestruction of Planet Vegeta. There's continuity in the plot and it doesn't\nchange anything. The future/history of Bardock himself, is however not\nrevealed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBardock is dead according to the series and according to canon, but according\nto the game Dragon Ball Xenoverse he was sent to an alternate timeline.\nNothing is said about where he was sent, though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed even in the Englished Dubbed version of One Piece many of the props\n(flags, signs, etc) use Japanese symbols rather than alphabetical words, and\nnow, watching on the Subbed version, I notice some things are actually written\nin English. For example an island entrance says \"Punk Hazard\" and \"Danger\" in\nEnglish, even though they're speaking Japanese.\n\nI've noticed this kind of inconsistency elsewhere too, for example, even in\nthe Subbed version, you hear many English words and names, such as their\nshipwright saying \"Super!\". I've nopticed more things like this throughout the\nentire series, having watched many episodes in Dubbed and Subbed versions.\n\nSo, is there an explanation for why English and Japanese are intermingled so\nheavily in One Piece? it seems odd for the text to be inconsistent. Maybe they\nproduced a few different versions with different text forms, but that would be\nodd since it's not even an English dubbed version in some cases.\n\nWas the writer bilingual? Or was it perhaps a strategy to please English and\nJapanese viewers equally? Or some other reason?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAshishgup mentioned general aspects of [English in Japanese\nanime](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/835/why-do-some-anime-in-\njapanese-contain-english) and\n[conversely](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14725/why-do-some-\nenglish-dubs-leave-untranslated-japanese-text) in his comment.\n\nBeside that, note that English is an obvious feature of One Piece. The name of\nthe manga itself is \"One Piece\" in Japanese, not ワンピース !\n\nLooking at the Japanese version of the manga, you can quickly notice that shop\nsigns, some brands, city signs and even some fight moves are written in\nEnglish. All important characters are introduced with their name dubbed in\nEnglish in the background.\n\nIt seems then consistent that the anime keeps this feature (the anime being\nderived from the manga and not the other way around).\n\nAs for why it is so: mixing languages is more than ever a trend in all\nlanguages. Some mangaka will do it more than others. Eiichiro Oda does it\nquite a lot.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCulturally English seems to show up in anime and manga a lot. However, for One\nPiece there is an additional reason. This story takes some inspiration for\ncharacters from real-life pirates (and other individuals) which were primarily\nEnglish, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. The characters are generally not\nJapanese.\n\nJust focusing on Straw Hats:\n\nSanji, Robin, and Brook use french for their attacks. Robin also mixes in\nSpanish while Brook mixes in German. Franky is obviously an American and keeps\nspeaking American English. Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, and Nami seem to be mostly\nEnglish speaking. Basically, Oda sometimes borrows words from the languages he\nthinks are appropriate for that character whenever he wants to for emphasis.\nZoro is thoroughly Japanese despite not being from Wano. Instead of languages,\nhe names otherworldly imagery for emphasis.\n\nInterestingly, this doesn't line up well with the nationalities in the SBS.\nOtherwise, Robin would speak Russian, Luffy would speak Portuguese, Usopp\nwould speak an unspecified African language, and Nami would speak Swedish.\n\nThe Doflamingos use Spanish. The World Gov. uses English. This does not\nexplain all uses of English and it does not explain them at all in universe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's a fantasy manga and there's a girl who has two bodyguards who may have\nbeen brothers. They spend all of their lives together and even sleep in the\nsame bed.\n\nBut then one night one of the two bodyguards kisses the girl in her sleep\n(which is not allowed) and so one of them confesses and is going to be put to\ndeath or punished and it's all very sad until you find out the one who kissed\nher was actually the other bodyguard and that he knew the other guy would try\nto defend him and take the blame\n\nI think the to guards are orphans, also there's some element of magic I think-\ndemons may or may not be involved- I'm not 100% sure on that\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know but it also kind of sounds like Heart no Diamond. It's about a\ngirl who has a heart of a diamond and will hurt if anyone touches her. Then\nshe befriends these two boys and they protect her when some body threatens to\ntake her heart. You probably already found out what it was, so sorry that I'm\nlate\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read this manga called **Sasurai Emanon** (a.k.a. Emanon's Wanderings)\nabout a girl who possesses all her ancestors' memories.\n\nIn some of the first few chapters a characters called Hikari made her\nappearance: she seems to be an acquaintance of the main character, but at a\ncertain point (Chapter 7) there is this conversation:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D6JZM.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QWVzR.jpg)\n\nIt suggest that Hikari is some sort of time traveler, but it has never been\nexplained and after this moment the character never appears in the story\nagain.\n\nThe story seems to follow some series of novels: does the author explain\nsomething more about this character in these novels (or somewhere else)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBibidi sealed Buu away after Buu absorbed the Grand Supreme Kai. The\n[Dragonball Wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Majin_Buu#Pre-Dragon_Ball)\npage for Majin Buu notes that he becomes easier to control after he absorbs\nthe Grand Supreme Kai:\n\n> Of note, absorbing Grand Supreme Kai granted Majin Buu the ability to speak\n> fluently, although he usually refers to himself in the third person. **Buu\n> became calmer and easier to control** after absorbing the Grand Supreme Kai,\n> and Bibidi then decided to seal him in a Sealed Ball.\n\nWhy would Buu need to be sealed up if he had become easier to control?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of episode 1 of Digimon Tri, we see glimpses of the second\ngeneration Digi-destined (Davis, Yolei, Cody and Ken; sorry I only know their\nEnglish dubbed names) being destroyed by what looks like Alphamon.\n\nHikari and Takeru are technically also 2nd generation Digi-destined, so why\nweren't they with Davis and the rest when they confronted Alphamon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of episode 1 of Digimon Tri, we see glimpses of the second\ngeneration Digi-destined (Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken; sorry I only know their\nEnglish dubbed names) being destroyed by what looks like Alphamon.\n\nSeveral (in universe) days have past since this event, so why has nobody\ninquired about what happened to them? I would imagine that they would be\nmissing and somebody would notice.\n\nAre the 2nd gen Digi-destined even alive after their defeat?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the first _Tri_ movie, it's mentioned that it had been a year since the\nclose of the digital gate, and that it had not opened since. If anyone\nremembers during _Adventure 02_ , the premise was that the loss of the Destiny\nstones caused the digital world to merge, but BlackWarGreymon sealed the gate.\n\nIt's at this point that time becomes alternate for _Digimon Tri_. Rather than\nthe dark spires reappearing, Himekawa is trying to get her digipartner back,\nmuch the same way that Oikawa had lost his partner. She sent Ken, Youli,\nDavis, and Cody back to the digital world, but they lost to Alphamon. As in\ndead, both they and their digital partners.\n\nThis is why Himekawa is aware that these kids are 'offline' as shown in the\ncomputer screen. She purposefully infected Meicoomon with the dark power that\nKen as the Digital Emperor had used in the form of control bands. The\nassumption is that she figured if she corrupted the digital world, it would\nforce a reset to create homeostasis between the digital and real world. But\nshe also has to deal with the original DigiDestined.\n\nThe other possibility is that Himekawa intended to get her partner back by\nrecreating a digital partner, but instead got Meicoomon who wasn't a perfect\ndigital creation, hence the infection, figured out that she would have to\nforce a reboot and began eliminating the DigiDestined, starting with Ken,\nDavis, Youli, and Cody, and it was in fact Meicoomon who killed the kids.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking to get a tattoo of the gate depicted in episode 63, but I don't\nknow what it is that I'm looking for. I know that there are two gates, and one\nof them is \"The Tree of Life\".\n\nI'm looking for the other one, depicted in this screenshot from episode 63 at\n16:46:\n\n\n\nWhat is depicted on the second gate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMustangs door is from his flame alchemy which is also the seal of\nsolomon\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems farfetched that Akihiko Kayaba would be able to sneak in all that\nmalicious code into Sword Art Online without anyone knowing. Surely it would\nhave been a big project with many developers. Furthermore, it seems like it\nwould be difficult for him stop the other developers from fixing Sword Art\nOnline. Even if he destroyed the source code or something, they still had a\nwhole year to figure something out. Do the light novels shed any more light on\nKayaba's scheme?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read the Light Novels and it doesn't really cover any more than the anime\non how he managed it. And in all honesty, its entirely possible that he was\nable to slip all that coding in. My father is a programmer so I have a rough\nidea on how much code goes into a lot of projects and there are actually very\nfew times that people get to view the code as a whole, with each person or\ngroup working a small part and then sending it in to add to the bigger\nproject. With this knowledge in hand, being able to work that much code in\nwouldn't be too far fetched even if Kayaba wasn't top dog, but since he is it\nis very conceivable that it could happen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Kayaba is known as someone with a high position for the development of\nthe game and the NerveGear, he's probably highly involved with the development\nand he could have had some backdoor program or an admin level access to the\nsystem.\n\nThat way he can just remove the Logout option in the database as well as\noverwrite the program on the nervegear (as it's also connected to the internet\nvia the pc) to fry the player's brain when attempted to be taken off (assuming\nhe hid an extra \"feature\" in the hardware design that of the nerve gear that\ncould amplify the voltage/ampere).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShould I watch the movie first or the start with the first season?\n\nAnd if I start with first season then should I watch the movie and then the\nresurrection?\n\nPlease tell me what should I watch, in what order and why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfro Samurai movie is basically the summary of what happens in the first\nseason with a flashback of young Afro, whereas Afro Samurai season 2 is a\nsequel to both.\n\nHence, the recommended order of watching is:\n\n 1. Afro Samurai\n 2. Afro Samurai: The Movie \n 3. Afro Samurai Season 2\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI came across this Pokemon API service: <http://pokeapi.co/>\n\nJust want to know is there any API available for Naruto anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI bet you're planning to make a fan-based naruto game, so instead of searching\nfor API, you should first gather information such as character's stats. These\nwebsites provide detailed information about each ninjas:\n\n[Full characters' biography and\nstats](http://www.leafninja.com/biographies.php) \n[Full characters' biography, history and stats (Naruto\nwikia)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Characters)\n\nAnd then, you can apply those stats and info just like <http://pokeapi.co/>\ndo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow do people set up sites like mangareader.net and mangafox.me? Aren't they\nillegal?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**_Just because it's illegal doesn't mean you can't do it._**\n\n(You'll probably have a lot of legal headaches and risk going to jail etc -\nbut you can still do it - killing people is also illegal, yet people do it)\n\nJust as how the [PirateBay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay) is\nstill around, despite many copyright claimers' objections - these site use\nloopholes in the law to get around legal restrictions.\n\n * **Ignoring take-down notices**\n\nUsually blatant copyright infringement will have relevant parties emailing\n[take-down notices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice_and_take_down), but\nmany of these sites will ignore these. The next step for interested parties is\nto file a law-suit - which many smaller groups do not have the funds to pay\nfor.\n\n * **Selectively applying takedown notices**\n\nSome sites simply take down the particular series that have been claimed\nagainst - and no more. Seeing as English companies are the most interested in\npreventing English copyright infringement, series that haven't been licensed\nusually get ignored in take-down lists.\n\n * **Complying with take-down notices, but restarting under a new alias**\n\nThere are several sites that close down after legal pressure, but then start\nright back up again under a new alias - this means legal pursuers have to\nstart the process all over again, for presumably the same result.\n\n * **Hosting tricks**\n\nSometimes these sites will get around copyright laws by hosting their website\nin a country that has a copyright policy that makes this website legal. I\ndon't know of many examples but I do know the Pirate Bay tried to buy the\n[micronation Sealand](https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-buy-\nsealand/).\n\n * **Not actually Hosting the content**\n\nManga readers sometimes don't actually store the content on their servers -\nthey are simply an interface to someone elses' server and consequently, they\ntry to blame that group if anything is contested. Some countries have enforced\n[ISP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider)-level blockages\non some piracy sites to stop infringements in their country.\n\n* * *\n\nThere are some other tricks they use to avoid getting caught, mostly to do\nwith international differences & ambuguity in law.\n\n**I do not recommend you try to set one up yourself.** Firstly for your own\nwellbeing, secondly because in doing so you are taking away from manga\nartists, who [already don't make much money as it\nis.](http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/05/manga-artist-salaries.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe captain of the Silvana, Alexander Row, died heroically after killing\nDelphine with his bare hands. He was buried with a very modest tombstone with\nan epitaph in some language. What does the epitaph say?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J3RkV.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA quick search in wikia tells me that:\n\nAlex's epitaph, \"Κοιμάστε αιώνια,\" means \"eternal rest\" in Greek.\n\n<http://lastexile.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Row>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow many people knows that Kamito was Ren Ashbell?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of the anime only one living person besides Kamito knows that he is\nRen Ashbell, and that's the princess Fianna Ray Ordesia.\n\nEllis's older sister Velsaria Eva Fahrengart found out during the fight in the\nlast episode but dies right afterwards.\n\nEllis and Clair both suspect that he is Ren but both are put off by various\nthings. The principle being that as Ren he fought with a black blade in his\nleft hand and now he fights with Est (a white blade) in his right hand.\n\nWhile the relationship between him and Greyworth Ciel Mais (headmistress of\nthe school) isn't stated in the anime, in the light novels she was the one who\ntaught him how to fight with a sword before the first Bladedance he competes\nin, and so also knows that he is Ren Ashbell.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWARNING SERIOUS SPOILERS AHEAD read at your own risk\n\nIn the anime only Greyworth, Fianna and Velsaria know that he is Ren Ashbell\n(also, Velsaria didn't die after her fight with Kamito. He liberated her from\nthe cursed armament seal implanted in her heart, which saved Velsaria's life\nbut made get unable to use spirits again. She appears many other times in the\nnovels). Meanwhile, in the light novel there are more characters (most of\nwhich aren't introduced in the anime) who know his secret.\n\nSo far, in the light novel the ones who know are:\n\n * Greyworth\n * Restia (his contacted spirit)\n * Fianna\n * Jio Inzagi\n * Claire\n * Velsaria\n * Rubia Elstein (Team Inferno's leader and Claire's older sister)\n * Reicha Alminas (current Fire Queen)\n * Muir Alenstarl (former Instructional School teammate)\n * Lily Flame (former Instructional School teammate)\n * Sjora Kahn (Alphas Theocracy's princess and Team Inferno's witch in the Blade Dance)\n * Lurie Lizaldia/Yggdra (Numbers member and winner of the Blade Dance before Kamito)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of _Ar Tonelico II - Melody of Metafalica_ when Luca and Cloche are\nsinging _EXEC_with.METHOD_METAFALICA/._ Frelia is warning Infel that if Luca\nand Cloche are successful Infel will disappear because of what will happen to\nthe Infel Pira, all the while Infel is saying she knows she's going to\ndisappear because she designed Infel Pira.\n\nBut i am wondering, would Infel had disappeared when she and Nenesha tried to\ncreate Metafalica 400 year ago and succeeded? does this mean Metafalica was\ndoomed to fail back then because it would require someone to sacrifice their\nlife?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter reserching in the [EXA.PICO\nWikia](http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/Infel) about Infel, it seems thatn in\nthe chance the Song was executed properly, no one would have died. As long as\nInfel's calculations were correct. Infel developed METHOD_METAFALICA/. to\npatch the EXEC_METAFALICA/. song, which had requirements to strong, and ended\nup killing any Revaitail who sang it.\n\nSo, is is likely Metafalica could have worked back then, if Infel had not\nclosed of her heart and caused the song to fail.\n\nThe reason Infel will die if Luca and Cloche succesfully sing\nMETHOD_METFALICA/. is because she is now a sublimated consciousness living in\nthe Infel Phira server, and the transmigration of Infel Phira would defragment\nthe server's memory and delete her data.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just finished watching Charlotte and I'm curious as to whether it is\nmentioned anywhere how much time it took him to fulfill his promise?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe lost his powers after using them multiple times per rotation. So, keeping\nin mind he made travel back-and-forth multiple times, and to keep increasing\nhis profits, it might have taken more than 2 years without the powers if we\ntake into account the time he spent traveling. But based on his promise, it\nonly took him around 2 years to increase profits and start the school.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTwo years. He was 16 when he left and he had time until before he was 18,\nbecause he would lose the powers then.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe art for _Subete Ga F Ni Naru_ is much more \"realistic\" that most of the\nanime that's been coming out lately. It seems to me that each character is\nunique enough that they could be based on real life \"models\". Is there any\n**documentation or word from the creators** if this is the case and if it is,\nwho the original models were?\n\nEDIT: in answer to the request to define reality: as you can see below, the\nart does not rely on different hair colors or hair styles to differentiate the\ncharacters. Each character has distinct facial features that reflect reality\nrather than an moefied idealized anime world.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7FTdU.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IAfoo.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DkMgc.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t68Pw.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ucMVm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SqRfu.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JuP9A.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SKemQ.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nk9gR.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONhce.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JwO53.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z80Lf.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZFZik.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I know, this is mostly due to the chara-designer's style, Inio\nAsano. He doesn't take his designs from real people (or at least he doesn't\nsay so), yet his works all have this realistic and very diverse type of\npeople.\n\nAs opposed to many anime chara-designers, he's not an animator, but a mangaka,\nwith a very detailed, realistic style, as you can see below:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QS67v.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0P836.png)\n\nHe drew the original chara-designs and character sheets that were used by the\nanimators at A1-Pictures for The Perfect Insider, and that's probably that\nstyle you noticed. If you're curious, his works are critically acclaimed (and\nnot only for the crazy art), with mangas like _Solanin_ or _Good Night\nPunpun_.\n\nEven though, you can clearly see how his raw style evolved to a more simple,\nand \"round\" style when it wad adapted, but it still keeps this realistic\naspect.\n\nHope it answered your questions, at least partially. Unfortunately, I couldn't\nfind word from Asano on these specific designs.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNico Robin's goal is to find out what happened in void century that written in\nponeglyph, and she must read all the poneglyph to know the history. Poneglyph\nis said scattered around the world, and each poneglyph is connected to another\nponeglyph.\n\nBut can she really read all the poneglyph and reveal the void century?\n\nBecause if I'm not mistaken about the Log Pose, it will point to the nearest\nisland. How about there's some island missed by Mugiwara Crew and possibly\nhave a poneglyph, that's mean Nico Robin can't read the poneglyph and she also\ncan't reveal about the void century.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, it is said that the true history is revealed by the Rio Ponelyph\nalone. According to One Piece's wikia page:\n\n> According to Robin, the Rio Poneglyph (...) is the message carried by all\n> the poneglyphs along the Grand Line. It contains the true history of the One\n> Piece world (including the \"Void Century\" of which research is forbidden).\n> In order to find it, one must take all other passages from the other\n> Poneglyphs with them on their travels, and it is only completed upon\n> reaching the end of the world; in other words, the island Raftel.\n\nTherefore, we can argue that all the Poneglyphs are required to reach Raftel\nin the first place. However, this is probably not true since none of the\nPoneglyphs so far even talked about Raftel. Things may change as the crew gets\ncloser and closer to the end of Grandline.\n\nAlso it is important to note that in her search of the void history, Robin is\nnot starting from scratch. In her flashback during the Enies Lobby arc,\nprofessor Clover shares his hypothesis about the void history to the Gorosei\n(\"Five elder stars\" in Japanese) while Robin is listening. He and the other\narchaeologists from Ohara had already uncovered much and seemed close to the\ntruth according to the Gorosei's reaction upon hearing it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Yes, she can.**\n\nWhat you said about her requiring to visit all poneglyphs to decipher the Rio\nPoneglyph is true and has been stated in the\n[Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Poneglyph) also:\n\n> Only when the stones are read as one will they fill in the Void Century of\n> the world.\n\nHowever, it also says:\n\n> **There are two types of poneglyphs: those that carry information about how\n> to reach the other poneglyphs and those that carry the records of the \"True\n> History\".**\n\n**Hence, even if she were to miss an island, she would be guided there by\nanother poneglyph.** Finding the island is not much of a problem either\nbecause one can use an [Eternal\nPose](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Eternal_Pose):\n\n> Like a Log Pose, it records the special magnetic waves of a certain island\n> within the Grand Line, allowing the user to know which way to go to arrive\n> at their destination. **Unlike a Log Pose, which resets its recordings on\n> new islands, an Eternal Pose always points to the same island, no matter how\n> long it stays elsewhere.**\n>\n> **They appear to be available for purchase, though come at a high cost.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI listened all the soundtracks and could not find it. What music is this?\n\n(I don't mean Sid-Rain. I mean the music before Rain plays)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is \"The Intrepid\".\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_scbziJUEog)'s a YouTube video.\n\nIt is the 7th track of the [Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Original\nSoundtrack\n3](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_Brotherhood_Original_Soundtrack_3).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**_[Haoshoku Haki/Conquerors\nHaki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Haoshoku_Haki)_** by definition is:\n\n> is a rare form of Haki that cannot be attained through training. Only one in\n> several million people have this ability. This type of Haki allows the user\n> to exert their willpower over others. It is said that whoever possesses this\n> type of Haki has the qualities of a king.\n\nAs most have seen watching One Piece this form of Haki has a few displays from\nsmall scale to large. What I am asking is if it is indiscriminate. When\nreleased on a large scale can it spare individuals? I have seen the cases\nwhere single individuals can be targeted by this haki. (i.e. Shanks vs\nSeaking, Rayleigh vs Elephant) I know that it has been shown people\nwithstanding the haki but that seems to be due more to fortitude of the\nindividual than the user sparing those people. So could a conquerors haki user\nspare his/her crew if they know they are weak willed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**No, it isn't indiscriminate.**\n\nIt can be used by the user selectively.\n\nAs stated in the [Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Haoshoku_Haki):\n\n> This type of Haki grants the user the ability to dominate the wills of\n> others. The most common usage of it shown in the series so far is using it\n> exert the user's willpower onto those with weak wills and rendering them\n> unconscious. **Whilst inexperienced users are restricted to merely\n> overpowering the will of one individual or blindly knocking out weak-willed\n> people around them,** **those with more expertise can pick out weak-willed\n> individuals in a large group and knock them out without affecting the\n> others.**\n\nAn instance of this is shown when Camie isn't knocked out when [Rayleigh uses\nit for the first time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM1UCHQFpok).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**How does Mugino Shizuri's Meltdowner beam work?**\n\nI was going to have a discussion on Physics StackExchange about the line\nbetween Pseudo-Science and Real Science in the To Aru series, and I would like\nto start with Mugino's powers.\n\nBasically, I want to make sure I have a good understanding of how her powers\nwork before I discuss the plausibility (or lack thereof) of her powers in real\nlife.\n\nI'd prefer light novel/manga scans or word of God statements for explanations.\nPlease don't link the wiki, since I've already checked and some of it's\narticles are flawed. So primary sources and calculations based off of those\nprimary sources are preferred.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo to start off, a disclaimer: I don't have any qualifications in physics\nwhatsoever, but I have taken elementary physics courses up to quantum\nmechanics, so I have an amateur interest in the topic, being an Index/Railgun\nfan myself.\n\nAs the OP noted, the to aru wiki gives a very vague explanation about the\nMeltdowner ability and they claim it has to do with \"stopping\" electrons. From\na quantum standpoint, this is nonsense, since by the Heisenberg's uncertainty\nprinciple, a \"stopped\" electron would simply be a standing wave that spans\ninfinite space. Clearly this does not match up with the anime depiction of\nMugino's ability. So I thought I would throw all that out the window and start\nwith the assumption that Mugino has the ability to control electrons (more\ndetails on what that actually entails later).\n\nThere are several properties of the Meltdowner we need to explain:\n\nheat: clearly it is very hot, given its name, and how it is seemingly able to\nignite flammable materials\n\npiercing/blocking: In addition, it seems to have the ability to \"phase\nthrough\" metal with a short delay besides actually melting it. She is also\nable to form a shield that instantaneously blocks projectiles (as opposed to\nsimply melting them)\n\nstationary: Mugino is able to hold her Meltdowner in a ball-shaped stationary\nform\n\nbeam: She is then able to fire off beams, while maintiaining the stationary\nform.\n\nSo here is my assumption: Mugino is able to control not just how electrons\nmove, but also manipulate their quantum state. To explain her abilities, I\nwill use the concepts of wave-particle duality of nature and quantum\nsuperposition.\n\nAccording to the wave-particle duality, an electron is both a wave and a\nparticle. From a quantum perspective, \"wave-ness\" and \"particle-ness\" are just\nproperties of the electron. So if we observe an electron in a certain way, it\nmay collapse to either a wave or a particle state, but without measurement, it\njust exists in a superposition of the two. In nature, an electron has very\nlittle mass (the defining characteristic of a particle) and quite a large\nwavelength. The Meltdowner is very clearly not a wave-type attack in the\nslightest; it is either a beam or a ball of electrons.\n\nSo what might be happening is that Mugino forces electrons to behave more like\nparticles than waves to the extent that their wavelength is so long that it\nisn't even noticeable. On the other hand, the electrons become significantly\nmore massive. The massive electrons give the Meltdowner its piercing/blocking\nproperties quite trivially; you can block or break through stuff with more\nstuff.\n\nThe Meltdowner is hot because even though the electrons aren't moving, their\nkinetic energy remains the same. However, as a very large particle with very\nhigh mass and very little wavelength, this means each electron stores\nexcessive energy, which it dissipates by vibrating in place. The green glow of\nthe Meltdowner is not the electrons themselves, but the surrounding air being\nheated up.\n\nFinally, the transition between stationary/beam forms. Heisenberg's\nuncertainty principle states that there is a trade-off between knowing\nmomentum and knowing position. With control over the states of electrons,\nMugino can essentially change the measurement. If she needs the electrons in\nstationary mode, she measures their position. If she needs them in beam mode,\nshe measures their velocity.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe author (Kazuma Kamachi) invented a new particle state.\n\nFrom novel 15 (this is the fan translation, sorry, don't have the official\none):\n\n> With the woman known as Mugino Shizuri at the center, lines of bright,\n> unhealthy-looking light shot out in all directions. They weren’t special\n> electron beams shot out with the force of a lightning strike. Just like\n> light, electrons have the properties of both particles and waves, but Mugino\n> had the power to forcibly control electrons that remained in that\n> “ambiguous” state.\n>\n> When electrons that were fixed in that ambiguous state struck an object,\n> they couldn’t decide whether to react as a particle or as a wave, so they\n> would “stop” there. Normally, electrons had a mass that was incredibly close\n> to zero, but that “stopping” created a false wall that caused a dreadful\n> amount of destructive force to be strike the target at the speed with which\n> it hit that wall.\n\nI am not a particle physicist, but I am pretty sure that nothing in nature\nthat can behave like a particle and a wave at the same time. Therefore, the\nauthor can make up whatever properties of this beam he/she likes.\n\nTL;DR: It's basically scientific magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the OVA Rurouni Kenshin : Seisouhen, there was a scene where Sanosuke and\nKenshin met each other again after a few years. Sanosuke tossed Kenshin a\ngrilled fish on a stick and Kenshin wasn't able to catch it showing that the\ndisease had slowed his speed and reaction time severely.\n\nKaoru seemed to have caught the disease from Kenshin after spending a night\ntogether which means it's some kind of an STD.\n\nIs there any disease that's similar to the aforementioned, in real life?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found this on the\n[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin:_Reflection) page\nfor Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection\n\n> Kenshin eventually becomes ravaged by an unknown disease that is much like\n> leprosy (the writers have admitted there is no medical explanation for\n> Kenshin's condition[citation needed]). To share his pain, Kaoru convinces\n> Kenshin to infect her with the disease through sexual intercourse.\n\nLeprosy is not an std but can be spread through physical contact with a person\nwho is infected. Since it is said that the disease is much like leprosy it\ncould have been transmitted to her when she stayed with him.\n\nAs far as canonicity the story was not written by Nobuhiro Watsuki. I'm not\nsure if this story was considered canon or not but the following is a quote\nfrom the\n[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin:_Reflection)\n\n> Although Samurai X: Reflection was not written by Watsuki, he stated that he\n> \"checked in on the script.\"[5] Watsuki mentioned not having input in it, and\n> let the director \"run wild with it.\" In response to Kenshin's death in\n> comparison to the happy ending in the manga version, he felt that his own\n> work eventually would have reached Kenshin's death had he continued writing.\n> He had not wished to pursue that line because \"Kenshin went through so much\n> crap and deserved a happy ending.\" He felt that neither version was better\n> than the other because \"it's a personal taste thing.\"[5]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat about Meningococcal disease? It makes skin get purple and it was deadly\nin the 1880's until penicilin was discoverd in 1945. Here the link, it's\nspreaded for spending time in the same room with a person who s sick of this\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningococcal_disease>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Eight Tails is still outside (in dream) rather than in Gedo Statue, is\nMadara's Ten Tails Jinchuriki Mode complete?\n\nUpdate:\n\nI am talking about episode when Madara takes all the beasts into the Gedo\nstatue and become the Sage of Six Paths. The Eight Tails was swapped with one\nof its tails to escape. As Eight Tails is not completely inside the Gedo\nstatue, how can Madara come to Ten Tails Jinchuriki full form?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Madara's Ten Tails Jinchuriki Mode is complete.\n\nThe Gedo Statue drew in all the beasts.\n\nWhen a Tailed Beast is removed from its host, the host dies. To avoid this\nfrom happening, there should be enough chakra of the Tailed Beast left inside\nthe jinchuriki. When Gyuki was being removed, he sectioned one of his\ntentacles, having chakra, to Bee. This was done so to ensure Bee survives\nwithout the majority of [Gyuki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gy%C5%ABki).\n\n> Struggling against its confines, Gyūki apologised to B as it was extracted\n> and sealed within the statue along with the other tailed beasts, but not\n> before cutting off one of its tentacles, letting B survive through the\n> chakra within it.\n\nTherefore, the majority of Gyuki was absorbed into the statue and only a\nportion of it was intact with Bee. That portion served as a source of life for\nBee and it was negligible compared to the intake of Eight Tails chakra into\nthe statue.\n\nTherefore, since the statue contained most of the Eight Tails chakra, Madara\nwas able to undergo the transformation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIm on Episode 685, and while Captain Law runs out of energy after using his\nability to deflect/slice about 4 meteors the size of the Sunny (rough\nestimate), I'm seeing this guy with Flamingo now controlling enough stone to\nbe an actual mountain in a human shaped form, smashing his fists all over the\nplace, with no apparent attempt at conserving energy.\n\nSo are some Devil Fruit powers just lucky, and allow infinite or a massive\namount of usage, for example moving a mountain constantly for a hour or two,\nwhile others are extremely limited? Does it have nothing to do with the amount\nof work being done, for example?\n\nIn other words, is there any gauge or limit for the usage of all DF powers, or\ndoes it vary just completely randomly?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am referring to the filler episode (Episode 200 of _Naruto_ ), where a Trap\nuser named Gennō was on a mission to destroy Konoha by planting millions of\nexplosive tags throughout the village while he disguised as a carpenter.\n\nThe tags were found 30 years after it was planted. Why did they find it now?\n\n**Meanwhile in Konoha, there were the Hyuga clan who were Byakugan users. Why\ndidn't they at least accidentally find one or two in millions of the explosive\ntags that were hidden in Konoha?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne has to take a few things into consideration there.\n\n 1. Explosive tags do have only a bit of chakra compared to the chakra of the average Ninja. Thus with Ninjas all around......it is as if you are not looking for the tree with the eagle sitting upon it while walking through a forest. Even with their Byakugan active there were just so many chakra signatures.....stronger even that if they didn't look exactly for a low signature such as from a tag....they wouldn't really have noticed it.\n 2. The tags were not active at the time being. Thus the chakra was inactive and thus \"stagnant\". Which means that there was maybe a very small chakra signature to see for a Hyuga and others who can feel chakra.....but it didn't do anything. As we know every human produces chakra too. So again it could be explained by just noting that if there is something small that does nothing (a bee sitting on a flower) while you are passing others near you (wasps flying around you) you are not going to really put any conscious notice to the small bee.\n 3. As we know time and again from the series the Byakugan is not infallible. There seem even to be seals that can block their usage. The best example being Naruto himself. If he did not ACTIVELY use the kyubis chakra (aka let it out of the seal).......no Hyuga even noticed something different about him (compared to others that is). Sadly it is not 100% clear if that is the nature of seals in general or if there are special seals which makes chakra that is not actively set free/used invisible to Hyugas (which is more plausible, as the Hyugas then later on in the episode the OP mentioned find the tags).\n\nAll in all it is plausible that the hyugas did not see the tags (small, static\nchakra while big moving chakra sources are all around them).\n\nThe only thing that baffled me about the episode is thus not that it was not\nnoticed.....it was more the MASS of tags he had. As we know they are not THAT\ncheap to buy/manufacture. Thus he almost used a stockpile that must have been\nworth a kages yearly income (or more). And also how he got them into the city\nunnoticed. That much paper probably WOULD have been noticed by someone. But as\nfar as I'm aware there was no reference in that one episode to how he managed\nto do these two things.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre Levi and Mikasa siblings? I've heard Levi being called as Levi Ackerman,\nwhich in Mikasa's backstory, you discover that her last name is Ackerman as\nwell, although no recognition passes between them, and you never see them\ntogether as children.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo they are not siblings.\n\nBelow are some details you may not want to know if you have only seen the\nanime.\n\n> Levi is the son of a prostitute named Kuchel Ackerman who died while Levi\n> was very young. His serial killer uncle, Kenny Ackerman, took care of young\n> Levi growing up to a limited extent but obviously was not a good man.\n> Mikasa's father was an Ackerman while Levi inherited the name from his\n> mother's side of the family. His biological father is unknown. They,\n> therefore, are not siblings. It should be noted that some bloodlines in this\n> series have special abilities and the Ackerman's seem to be one of these\n> bloodlines.\n\nIt is not clear how closely related they actually are beyond that as most of\ntheir family trees are unknown.\n\nThe spoiler below is a quote from the\n[wiki](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Ackerman).\n\n> When Captain Levi Ackerman speaks about Kenny Ackerman, he asks Mikasa if\n> she was possibly related to him. Mikasa retells that when her parents were\n> alive they told her that her father's family, the Ackerman bloodline, was\n> persecuted inside the cities and that her Asian mother's family lost a place\n> to live inside the cities as well, possibly because of her race. Mikasa then\n> states that her parents met as fellow people who had been driven into the\n> mountains and out of the cities and got married. She claims that her father\n> never knew why the Ackermans were discriminated against and that they\n> weren't of a different race like her mother was.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was recently introduced to the screen-tone process. [Here's a short video\nfor reference.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK1qRP_E7Is) Why was this, and\nwhy is this still the prominent technique for coloring manga? What advantages\ndo screen-tones have over grayscale fills? \n\n\n* * *\n\nTo clarify, a fill is when an artist uses a solid color to completely color\none area (with marker, paint, pencil, etc...).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese are called [Ben-Day dots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Day_dots).\nDepending on the size and spacing of the dots, you can create different shades\nusing a single colour - or, with a limited colour palette you can produce\ndifferent shades not available to you.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mFGIe.jpg)\n\nThis is often used to **save on printing costs** , as you can get a wide range\nof shades/colours with a smaller usage of ink and no need for different levels\nof pressure.\n\nBecause manga is often a [disposable medium](http://www.japanator.com/do-\nmanga-magazines-have-to-be-disposable--13724.phtml), keeping costs low is\noften a priority for magazines and such to pull a profit - without increasing\nthe prices for consumers.\n\nYou may see this in other non-manga print mediums as well - like free/low-cost\nnewspapers: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rpbIR.jpg)\n\nIt has become associated with comics both East and West - so often shows will\nuse it for artistic purposes as well.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PljHM.jpg)\n\nOther screentones exists, like speed markings, _shoujo sparkles_ and such -\nand simply, they are used because it is both easier and faster to get your\ndesired effect.\n\nAs well as providing particular aesthetics, it ensures a colour is solidly\nevenly shaded, whereas when colouring manually it is easy to have uneven\nshades by angling or pressuring differently across an image.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's impractical to use a solid colour or shade of grey when printing manga\nand most other forms of printed media. Doing so would require using a separate\nink to render each individual colour or shade. Instead most printing methods\nuse a limited number of inks that are combined with the background and other\ninks using dots (other shapes) to render other colours and shades. For example\na typical ink jet printer combines cyan, magenta, yellow and black dots to\nproduce various colours, while the black and white pages of most manga use\nonly black ink. Different shades of grey rendered are using techniques like\nhatching and screentones.\n\nFor example here's the cover of the first volume of the [Yokohama Kaidashi\nKikou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Kaidashi_Kik%C5%8D) tankoubon by\nHitoshi Ashinano:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fW3lf.jpg)\n\nWhile it looks like the letters of the title are a solid colour, if you look\nclosely they're actually made up of different coloured dots:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iupi2.jpg)\n\nThe cover was probably produced by taking the original artwork, overlaying the\ntitle, and then using some sort of\n[halftoning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone) process to produce\nsomething that can be reproduced the publisher's colour printing presses.\n\nInside, the manga is in black and white, and the use of dots and hatching to\nrepresent areas in various shades of grey is more obvious. When the manga was\noriginally published it was in the manga anthology Monthly Afternoon, probably\non cheap coloured newsprint. The printing process here doesn't support the\nfine, almost impossible to see with the naked eye, halftoning used on the\ncover of the tankoubon volume.\n\n[ \n](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xFY7k.jpg)\n\nYou can see the shadows on the character's arms drawn using a hand drawn\nhatching, while [screentones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screentone) are\nused to shade her pants, her hair and the guard rail in the background. You\ncan also see where hand drawn details were added to the screentoned clouds in\nthe background.\n\nIf solid greyscale fills were used in these areas it would require using a\nseparate ink for shade used. Separate printing plates would have to be\nproduced for each shade, and the printing process would have to ensure that\neach was applied precisely on the page so they don't shift relative to each\nother. This would dramatically increase the cost of printing of what\noriginally was a cheap disposable magazine.\n\nAlternatively, the greyscale filled pages could be halftoned or digitally\ndithered in a fashion similar to the cover. This would allow a single plate\nwith black ink to be used, keeping printing costs the same, but the result\nwould look pretty crude. The dots can't be as fine as used on the cover. On\ncheap newsprint they'd just bleed together to make the entire page black. With\nlarger dots, it would end up looking like a fuzzy low resolution image. It\nwouldn't be anywhere near as good what can be produced through the judicious\nuse of screentones and hand drawn shading.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe see that towards the end of Episode 146 and in Episode 147, Luffy and Zoro\ndon't fight back against Bellamy although they could have easily beaten him.\nWhy is that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs a guy on\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/3vad1p/why_didnt_zoro_and_luffy_fight_back/)\nput it:\n\n> It goes back to Shanks when he was in East Blue. The bandits did the same\n> thing to him and he didn't fight back either. Zoro was simply following the\n> command of his captain. Luffy said don't fight back so he didn't fight back.\n> Luffy however wasn't fighting because there was no need to fight them. He\n> later however did \"fight\" Bellamy when his friends were attacked by Bellamy,\n> similar to how Shanks and crew fought for Luffy when the bandits attacked\n> Luffy.\n\n**Hence, Luffy didn't retaliate because:**\n\n * Luffy was inspired by Shanks' decision to not fight back in the past without a reason\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AeCJq.jpg)\n\n * Bellamy wasn't standing in the way of Luffy's goals or had hurt any of his friends (until later in the series). Luffy being the kind of guy he is, only picks fights when his friends are hurt or somebody stands in the way of his goals.\n\n * He seemed to lose interest in Bellamy when Bellamy claimed that \"The pirates' dream era is over\" and started depreciating pirates who believed in the City of Gold, The Emerald City, and the great treasure of One Piece.\n\n**As for Zoro, as stated, he was simply following the captain's order**.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ni3W.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't agree with [Ashishgup's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/27806). What happened to Shanks was\nthat the bandits talked shit about pirates and poured alcohol on him. But\nhere, both Luffy and Zoro get more than that. When they get back to the ship,\nthey are covered with wounds and blood. And at first, Luffy was about to kick\nhis ass, but then for some reason, he stopped.\n\nIt felt more like nonsensical BS the author came up with, thinking it would\nlook cool and mature. \"Only picks fights when his friends are hurt or somebody\nstands in the way of his goals\"? Zoro was also attacked, why didn't he fight\nthem then?\n\nThere was no deep meaning there. It was just a stupid scene.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Emerald's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/56649) is wrong. That\nscene was the anchor for the rest of the mini-arc on that island. The mini-arc\nis about dreams; it’s about what makes them ethereal and why something you\ncan’t touch is more defining than something you can.\n\nIn episode 151, Nami asks Zoro, “Hey - Zoro, why didn’t you fight those guys?”\nTo which Zoro replies, “They weren’t standing in our way, you know. Fights\nthat leave nothing but sympathy are rough.” What Zoro means is that Bellamy\nand the rest of his crew weren’t hindering Zoro or Luffy’s ambitions (to be\nthe greatest swordsman, or be the king of pirates).\n\n[Ashishgup's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/27806/2516) hits the\nnail on the head. Later on, Luffy calls the old man his friend. The reason he\ngoes back to fight Bellamy is because he knows that the gold city is the old\nman’s dream, and by stealing his gold, the only proof that held the old man’s\ndream together, Bellamy had spat on his dream. It wasn’t about Bellamy hurting\nhis friends. Luffy stood by as he and Zoro were punched and kicked by Bellamy.\nIt was about tarnishing their dreams.\n\nLuffy is an idiot in a lot of ways, but his sense of what is pure is\nincredible. He believes in friendship, dreams, and dying for what you believe\nin. This is just one way the author illustrates that for us. It’s hard to see\nthat if you don’t believe in dreams yourself.\n\nTowards the end of that episode, one of Bellamy’s crew yells to Luffy, “Hey\nStrawhat, where are you going? I’m still here!” _Bellamy is knocked out in the\nbackground by Luffy’s one punch_ Luffy replies, hands bloodied from knocking\nout Bellamy, “Where am I going? To the sky!” This is the point where the theme\nof the mini-arc is brought home: “A person’s dream may not weigh as much as a\ngold ingot, but it’s worth more than any gold ingot.” After all, One Piece is\nan ode to dreams.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause in the same chapter/Mock Town arc, when they are walking through the\ntown, Nami made Luffy promise that they won't fight in this town. So Luffy\nkept his promise and also stopped Zoro. Nami is the de facto Queen of Pirates.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLuffy doesn't consider fighting against one without any dreams worth his time.\nAs for Zoro, he was just following the order of his captain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for a piece of music in _Seven Deadly Sins_ that plays at 5:15 of\nepisode 14, when Gowther explains about the life cycle to the armor beast.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike Gantz for example has characters with realistic faces instead of big eyes\nand hair colors but to use to this can be expensive so why is it cheaper to\nuse anime and manga faces that lack realistic features like characters with no\nvisible lips?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike ton.yeung said, more detail takes more time and thus costs more money. In\ntheory you could make an anime with every single frame having the same level\nof detail as a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, but it would be prohibitively\nexpensive; it took Leonardo years to finish a single painting, and you would\nneed a whole team of Leonardos churning out thousands of them in a limited\ntimeframe.\n\nThat said, I doubt that it was significantly more expensive to animate Gantz\nthan, say, K-On. The question seems to presuppose that cost is the only thing\nkeeping anime from having more realistic facial art, but I believe it's more\nabout artistry and style. The experience that Gantz was trying to create was\ndrastically different from the experience that K-On was trying to create.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vSsT5m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DHqixm.jpg)\n\nThe K-On characters _are_ lacking some facial detail compared to the Gantz\ncharacters (in line with well-known rules of cuteness that, yes, seriously,\nhave been studied and derived by anthropologists). Gantz uses smaller eyes,\nchunkier bodies, and a more subdued color palette; this makes it _seem_ more\nrealistic. However, we can see that both of them are lacking a lot of detail\ncompared with, say, the work of American comics artist Alex Ross.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1RkMtl.jpg)\n\n(I should note that Ross is primarily a cover artist, because of the time it\ntakes him to produce works of such high detail. To create an animated feature\nat Ross's level of detail would be untenable.)\n\nAlso, shows like K-On and Clannad often have very detailed clothes,\nbackgrounds, and other objects. Look at the instruments in K-On.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oditam.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cNbZVm.jpg)\n\nLook at the detail in the background of this random screenshot from Clannad.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tHh3e.png)\n\nSo I don't think the difference in style is primarily about cost. It's about\nartistry. K-On was well enough funded to make its art look like Gantz had the\ncreators wanted to; but that art style didn't fit with the goals and aesthetic\nsense of the series. It's the same reason Bugs Bunny looks like this:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iaz2I.png)\n\nand not like this:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S3H02.jpg)\n\nWhile the typical anime art style may have originally been created as cost-\nsaving measure, that seems to be no longer the case. It is recognized as a\nunique style on its own and appreciated by many people on that basis, the same\nas the highly unnatural\n[Cubism](http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cube/hd_cube.htm) and\n[Mannerism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism) (which produced what\nseems to be the [first known forerunner of the Shaft head\ntilt](https://mydailyartdisplay.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/longneck-\nreduced.jpg)).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mZevg.jpg)\n\nAny help identifying these three female anime figures would truly be\nappreciated. They look like they are from the same series because they are\nwearing matching military-style coats. I've been looking for a long time with\nno leads. Thanks for your help.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll three are from the\n[Galaxy](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=837)\n[Angel](https://vndb.org/v860) Series, in particular the first series\nfeaturing the Moon Angel Troop.\n\nThe figures themselves I believe come from the Limited Edition of the [first\nvolume of the anime](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00018D5PI)\n(which is totally different from the visual novels).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BfunB.jpg)\n\nThey are, as Sigfried666 has [pointed\nout](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/27817/can-anyone-help-me-\nidentify-these-3-female-anime-figures-pictured#comment38889_27817), Milfeulle,\nForte and Vanilla. You seem to be missing Ranpha (blonde hair) and Mint (blue\nhair) and you seem to be missing the stands and Forte's hat.\n\nAnother interesting point is that Mint's clothes can come off, probably so as\nto let her cosplay, but I never found any outfits for her aside from her\nuniform.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGMP4.jpg)\n\nWhy does Jellal have the red tattoo around his eye? Where did it come from? Is\nthere anything special about the shape of the markings?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFun fact, this is actually a reference to Hiro Mashima's (the author of Fairy\nTail) other series \"Rave Master.\" In that show, there is a character named\nSeigrain, who has a tattoo over his eye, which is the same as Jellal's. This\ncharacter also looks very similar to Jellal's.\n\nSometimes Mashima sneaks in stuff from Rave Master. Such as Plue, who he\ndescribes as his own pet who he can use in whatever he likes. So, that's\nprobably why Mashima put it in there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's before the tower of heaven happened. He was in a village or\nsomething and they did a ceremony for the most powerful child (most magical\nenergy) and they gave that child a special mark to note that he is the\nstrongest; maybe they were going to use him to fight wars (until he was taken\nby the people at the tower of heaven).\n\nI know that it's also a reference to Rave Master which was made by Hiro\nMashima, the author of Fairy Tail.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe ceremony thing isn't possible, its likely that he was born with the\nmarkings and my evidence is mystogan/prince jellal of edolas as it's a\nparallel universe where everyone is opposite.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was just rewatching episode 426, and at 10:54, Sarutobi (the Third) called\nYamato by his name. That name was assigned by Tsunade after the Third's death.\nHow did he come to know his name?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**In - universe reason :** Tsunade did gave him the name Yamato but it was\nnever implied that Anbu codename can't be reused. Maybe she used his old name\nand third knows it.\n\n**Out-of Universe reason** : Kishimoto must have forgot it due to complex\nnature of story, this kind of mistake are not that uncommon in any series and\nanime just followed manga and kept it that way.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince last licensed to Aniplex of North America, there has been only one\nEnglish dubbed episode of Valvrave the Liberator. What is the current\nsituation surrounding the English dubbed production of the anime? Will the\nentire series be completed? What is taking so long for the series to be\ncompleted?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo 3rd Generation Reyvateils are originally born as humans but if their mother\nwas a Reyvateil they may develop into one later in life.\n\nFrom my understanding all Reyvateil have an install port surrounded by a\ntattoo and since Gathnode Crystals and Life Extending Agents are Physical\nObjects that get inserted into a Reyvateil with both being somewhat painful\nthis would make it into a hole right?\n\nBut i can't imagine how this hole appears. does the skin just open up one day?\ndoes a Reyvateil have to go under some procedure to have it made (ie. when\nthey get their first Life Extending Agent) or is it a gradual process?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the data the\n[Exa_Pico](http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/Reyvateil#cite_note-11) Wikia\ngathered form the agmes and the\n[Toukoushpere](http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/ARM_Backup/Ar_Portal_translation/Toukousphere)\n(a segment where characters answered questions sent from users), it seems to\nbe concluded that, after a server mistakenly recognizes a 3rd generation human\nas a Reyvateil, it begins a long process of correcting what it sees as a\nsomehow ignored Reyvateil that ended up with irregular development, and starts\nusing this human's memories ands senses to develop a soulspace.\n\nThe process of developing this soulspace takes about ten days, in which the\nhuman enters a comatose state. At the end of the process, the human will have\nawakened as a Reyvateil, with a Install Port appearing in their body.\n\nSo, the Insatll Port appears automatically, after a girl awakens as a\nReyvateil.\n\nUnfortunatley, it is not clear of the Install Port is a hole, but from the way\nit is depicted, the symbol may work as a kind of portal for specific materials\n(data crystals).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that Aurica's is behind her neck, Misha's in just above her breasts and\nShurelia's is above her butt (her words)\n\nDespite Duelithnode Crystals being used for Installing than Gathnode Crystals\nin Metafalse Luca and Cloche would still have an Install Port for Life\nExtending Agents, likewise with Claire being a 3rd Generation Reyvateil. and\nsince Shurelia has one i would assume Frelia and Mir have one aswell\n\nSo i am wondering where Claire's, Luca's, Cloche's, Frelia's and Mir's Install\nPorts are?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCloche has it on her armpits, and Luca has it on the higher part of her back,\nas shown in AT2 itself. Mir has it above her navel, and Frelia has it in the\nsame place as Shurelia. Claire's however, is unknown, and when someone asked\nher in the Toukousphere, she threatened to blast them with her song magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI searched everywhere to find this piece. I even tried the android app called\nShazam.\n\nIt wasn't long enough to be recognized by Shazam. I'm talking about episode\n296.\n\nThe track starts at 21:48 (when Franky shows up).\n[Here](http://www.viz.com/anime/streaming/one-piece-episode-294/5834/sub)'s a\nlink to the episode.\n\nIt's the scene where Franky shoots Chopper.\n\nCould you guys please help me out? This piece really inspires me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Listen here:\n[OnePieceTrackList](http://onepiecetracklist.com/Music/182.mp3)\n\nI believe the track to be \"And Zoro is with Them...\" track #12 of the album\n\"The Cursed Holy Sword\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTenjin agreed to send Yato and Yukine up to Takamagahara to confront Bishamon\nfor taking Hiyori hostage on the condition that afterwards Yato would sever\nties with Hiyori.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HFlSg.jpg)\n\nIn Episode 6, when he returns, Tenjin brings it up and he wields Sekki to cut\nties with her but she keeps refusing. However, it never shows him actually\nsevering ties with her. Regardless of that, I don't think Tenjin would allow\nhim to break his agreement. Later on in the episode, Tenjin and Tomone see\nYato chasing after Hiyori and Tomone says, \"It seems they haven't severed\ntheir ties at all.\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZbyrS.jpg)\n\nNow, I'm sure that they said when a God severs ties with someone from the Near\nShore they lose all memories of that person. It seems like Yato is frantically\ntrying to get her to know him again, and she seems a little more distant than\nbefore. So, it definitely seems possible that he did sever his ties to her but\nthen relentlessly harassed her to get her to know him again as sort of a\nloophole to his agreement with Tenjin. However, if that was the case, I don't\nunderstand why she would have remembered Yato was the one who helped her\nclassmate when her classmate approached her later.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QNt4J.jpg)\n\nSo were her ties severed or not? If they were, how could she remember these\ndetails from the past about Yato?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found the perfect answer to this question on\n[Reddi](https://www.reddit.com/r/Noragami/comments/3sq0w6/did_yato_just_sever_his_ties_in_episode_7/)t:\n\n> **It's supposed to look ambiguous, but if he had, Hiyori probably wouldn't\n> have even seen him in the first place, let alone remember who he is. Plus,\n> she runs away from him in her spirit form and even has a conversation with\n> him afterwards when she looks for him to tell him to back off. Tenjin also\n> confirms that he didn't go through with it.** I think that part is better\n> played in the manga - we really had to wait for the answer, since they\n> changed some of the order of what happens in the anime and the reason Hiyori\n> gets annoyed with Yato as well. If you'd like to see how it goes in the\n> manga: Ch.22 P.31 - P.33, then Ch.22 P.38 - P.42, and finally Ch.23 P.43 -\n> Ch.24 P.7.\n\nI haven't read the manga myself but based on the anime, I can say that Tenjin\nallowed Yato to break his promise since it was Hiyori's own wish to remain\nwith him.\n\nThe last and foremost evidence of her ties not being cut to the far shore is\nthe fact that she can still turn into her spirit form (with the tail).\n\n**In conclusion: If he had indeed cut the ties, she would have returned to\nbeing a normal human who:**\n\n * **Would have been unable to convert to her spirit form**\n * **Would have lost all her memories of Yato**\n * **Would not have been able to see Yato**\n\nNone of the above happened, so luckily, Tenjin let the promise slide.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter watching a lot of \"Ryuusei no Rockman\", I've come to know the word\n\"denpa\" as meaning \"wave\", or \"EM wave\". Though I have heard it used in\nKatekyo Hitman Reborn as well. Is the rough translation of \"wave\" accurate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n電波 (denpa) does literally mean [\"electromagnetic wave; radio\nwave\"](http://jisho.org/word/%E9%9B%BB%E6%B3%A2). Much like in any other\nlanguage however, there are sometimes alternate meanings and slang. Denpa can\nalso mean [\"nonsense\"](http://jisho.org/word/%E9%9B%BB%E6%B3%A2) or event\n[\"individuals who are disconnected or disassociated from the people around\nthem\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpa). It is even used to refer to a\n[type of music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpa_song).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJapanese is a highly contextual language. Often times common words have\nuncommon alternate meanings. It's best if you cite examples for your _Reborn_\ncontext.\n\nIn the case of _Megaman StarForce_ , it is what it literally means. 電波\nliterally means \"electromagnetic/radio waves.\" The former character 電 means\nelectricity. The latter character 波, means wave, as in billows upon some\nmedium.\n\n電波 has some slang usage as well; by itself it can be used to describe nonsense\nor something pointless, in other words, noise.\n\n電波系 (denpa-kei) can be used to describe someone crazy, typically one with\nirregular or wild fantasies or delusions, such as hearing voices. This may\nhave some bearing on your _Reborn_ question, but without sufficient context,\nit's hard to tell.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGohan was the strongest in his mystic form back at the end of DBZ. How could\nGohan have become so weak that he lost the ability to turn Super Saiyan 2 in\nsuch a short period of time? While on the other hand, Frieza was able to\nsurpass Goku's Super Saiyan Blue transformation in only 4 months of training.\nThat doesn't make sense.\n\nTagoma was even able to pierce him with a ki blast. Now he is losing left and\nright in every episode. Most recently Frieza in his base form was shooting ki\nblasts through Super Saiyan Gohan. So Frieza's base form is stronger than\nSuper Saiyan now? How did that happen?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> How could be become so weak that cant even go super saiyan 2 anymore in a\n> short period of time\n\nAccording to the\n[timeline](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_timelin) of dragon\nball, about 5 years have passed between the end the buu saga and the\nResurection of F saga. Gohan hasn't trained at all since then. We can choose\nthe analogy of professional athletes here: they need to train almost everyday\nto maintain their form, let alone get \"stronger\". After 5 years, it is\nexpected than Gohan has become significantly weaker. But again, if he were to\ntrain for a few months, his power would probably go up exponentially. Also\nnote that he did not train much in the Buu saga, much of his power increase\ncame from the help of Supreme Kai.\n\n> ...while frieza surpasses goku SSB in 4 months of training\n\nFrieza states that he never had to train one day in his life because he was\nalready so much stronger than everybody else. If we consider Goku to be a\ncombat genius, imagine how much training and near-deaths experience he had to\ngo through to be able to fight on par with Frieza. In the end, only Krilin's\ndeath helped become super saiyan and beat Frieza. Since he never trained\nbefore, it would make sense that his power would go up exponentially after\nlittle training.\n\n> Tagoma was even able to pierce him with a ki blast.\n\nIn the movie \"Resurrection of F\" Goku in Super Saiyan blue was almost killed\nby a Sorbet's gun. This tells you that no matter how strong of a warrior you\nare, you can be defeated by someone so much weaker than you if you are caught\nby surprise.\n\n> So frieza base is stronger than super saiyan now\n\nYes, when Gohan clearly states than he is no match of Frieza, he is still in\nhis base form. Gohan might be able to sense Frieza's ki beyond his current\nform, but this is just speculation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Gohan was the strongest in his mystic form back at the end of DBZ. How could\n> Gohan have become so weak that he lost the ability to turn Super Saiyan 2 in\n> such a short period of time? While on the other hand, Frieza was able to\n> surpass Goku's Super Saiyan Blue transformation in only 4 months of\n> training. That doesn't make sense.\n\nThe theory acts actually goes like this, Mystic Gohan got his powers without\ntraining (Old Ki awakened his powers). After the Kid Buu incident and Berus\narrival approximately 5.5 years had passed, Mystic Gohan didn't train for 5\nwhole years, he didn't even use his KI for that much time. At first he got the\npower as a given and after that he didn't train so his power drained off in\nthe first place.\n\n> Tagoma was even able to pierce him with a ki blast. Now he is losing left\n> and right in every episode.\n\nTagoma was even able to pierce him with a ki blast, that was due to his body.\nHe hadn't trained in a while making his body dull, your body needs to be\nactivated with a certain amount of KI to deflect energy blasts.\n\n> Most recently Frieza in his base form was shooting ki blasts through Super\n> Saiyan Gohan. So Frieza's base form is stronger than Super Saiyan now? How\n> did that happen?\n\nFrieza had said that he was born so much powerful so he didn't need to train.\nWell Goku was weak as compared to Frieza from the very begenning so it could\nbe that training had different results on both of them, may be frieza had this\nas a natural talent that's why he surpassed Majin-Buu and Mystic Gohan in his\nbase form.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWARNING: THIS ANSWER CONTAINS SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 23\n\nThe amount of time that's passed in Dragon Ball Super is apparently open to\ninterpretation. In BoG, Gohan was probably still the strongest or at least on\nthe same level as Goku before he goes SSJG, hence the reason why they made it\na point to have him step in as if he was the only one who could stop Beerus.\nObviously, that didn't work out too well for him. But he powered up into his\n\"mystic\" form and that's the last time we see it, so far.\n\nI don't see how he could have fallen so far behind Goku and Vegeta prior to\ntheir being trained by Whis, but basically Gohan hasn't trained, like at all.\nNot like the time between when he fought Cell and Majin Buu where he just\nslacks on his training—this time he really did nothing at all. The most\n\"training\" you see him do is when he's play fighting with Mr. Satan as Great\nSaiyaman over baby Pan.\n\nThey do make it a point to show that he hasn't necessarily lost his power, as\nhe's able to easily beat Ginyu (in Tagoma's body) as a Super Saiyan, just the\nability to access all of it at will without seriously injuring or killing\nhimself has been lost. Against Frieza, he may have been able to fight with him\nand at least hold him off till Goku and Vegeta got there, but we all saw what\nbringing out more power than his body can handle did to him. Think Kaioken and\nwhat happened to Goku when he fought Vegeta, except on a much larger scale.\n\nThey also made it a point to show that maybe he wasn't necessarily \"too weak\"\nto face Frieza, just too soft. He lets his guard down while showing mercy to\nGinyu in the same way Goku did with Frieza and pays for it with a ki blast\nthrough the shoulder. Given that he was clearly angry with himself for letting\nhis training go, which made him unable to protect his family, maybe he's\nlearned his lesson about just assuming his dad or Vegeta will always be there\nto protect everyone and will find some motivation to train a little bit. We'll\nsee. My point is that they seem to be putting raw power into a grey area and\nfocusing more on ability, experience and fighting spirit in this series.\nThat's just my opinion based on the fact that Roshi was there fighting when\nYamcha is easily at least still stronger than he is. Anyway, I hope that helps\nanyone wondering what's happening with Gohan. He's not weak, power-wise, he's\njust out of shape and rocking the dad bod.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the scene where Kurona and Nashiro are fighting Juzo in Season 2\nEpisode 4, I noticed some censorship. Juzo ends up stabbing Kurona a lot with\nhis knives, but it's blurred out like this:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8DX4w.jpg).\n\nI thought this was really strange seeing as the series has shown far worse,\nsuch as torture and other extremely gory deaths. Is there a particular reason\nfor this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe whole show was highly censored, as shown in this comparison album\n(Obviously spoilers): <https://i.stack.imgur.com/UpjaQ.jpg>\n\nThe main reason is Japanese censorship laws, which are very different from\nlaws in the West, but some people have mentioned that S2 was airing at the\nsame time as some ISIS attacks took place, thus this might have something to\ndo with TV networks censoring knives.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was told that the reason there was censorship in Tokyo Ghoul was because if\nit wasn't censored, it would have brought the rating up to 18+. You have to\nremember, in certain scenes with body parts, there'd be veins, muscle, etc and\nothers like the knife scene, well, it might have been censored because of the\ncruelty in having several knives stabbing you at once. They might see this\nscene worst than other like the torturing of Kaneki because we never actually\nsaw his toes and fingers cut off, only the blood (and Kaneki's screaming). If\nyou think I'm wrong, I understand that and sorry if I've offended anyone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is it that Naruto get a cloak from the Nine Tails while the other tailed\nbeasts dron't give one to their Jinchuriki?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/31rK3.png)\n\nThis doesn't make sense unless the other tailed beast aren't as powerful as\nthe Nine Tails or is it that we never see the other tailed beasts show\nthemselves in this form with their Jinchūriki. I just want to know if the\nother tailed beasts can grant such a cloak to their Jinchuriki or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany times throughout the series Naruto did manifest a cloak in the same way\nso the other hosts:\n\n * When he fought Sasuke at the Valley of the End, 1-Tail Cloak\n * When he fought Orichimaru after the time-skip, 3 Tail Cloak\n * When he was fighting Pain after Hinata got attacked, 4-9 Tail Cloak\n\nWhat is different for him, is that he is a Sage, and to my knowledge, none of\nthe other hosts are Sages. After he learned Sage mode AND reflected on his\ninner evil, he gained that form; see the fight with Pain, he was using Sage\nmode then.\n\nBased on all of this, I think that this is something 'unique' to him (except\nthat his father can do it too...) because of him combining Sage training and\nKyuubi's power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe cloak is exclusive to Naruto and Minato because they are\n\n> father and son.\n\nThe cloak we see them use is not Kyubi's chakra but their own chakra. Only the\nedge of the cloaks is the Kyubi's cloak. Naruto's cloak is surrounded by a\nsmall whitish edge and Minato's by a blackish edge. Those parts are the _yin_\nand _yang_ halves of Kurama.\n\nWhen Hashirama notes that Naruto and Minato gave a massive amount of chakra to\neveryone, he said,\n\n> Their chakra is almost as much as mine.\n\nthen he continued,\n\n> No, there is Kyubi's chakra here as well.\n\nThis means that most of it was Naruto and Minato's chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as i know....It is because the kyuubi cant manifest itself in the form\nthat the other jinchuriki's can. If u remember... all the other jinchuriki's\ncan convert themselves into the bijou form and revert back at will. But in\nnaruto's case, the kyuubi isn't able to do dat conversion i.e. get into bijou\nand get back to human again. I think I remember der was one episode in which\nthe kyuubi says why, not sure.\n\nSo, I'm thinking to make this up, the best the kyuubi can do is make a cloak\naround naruto. Cloak is just the manifestation of the kyuubi's chakra. For all\nthat we know, naruto could have even had a cap! But to make the semblance to\nminato, they formed the cloak which is very similar to minato's cloak.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRemember that Naruto had to forcefully take Kurama's chakra in order to get\nchakra mode. But after that, my assumption is that after gaining cooperation\nwith Kurama, Kurama gave him an upgrade to chakra mode to make him even\nstronger. So I think all jinchuriki could have a chakra mode if they did the\nsame thing as Naruto. It has nothing to do with the yin and yang sides\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOnly the form shown in the question is unique to Naruto. Killer B has been\nshown to have cloaks similar to Naruto's 1 - tailed cloak (as in the picture\nI've uploaded). The first time Naruto got the Nine Tails Cloak shown in\nquestion was when Naruto was training with Killer B. Naruto fought with the\nNine Tails and forcefully extracted the chakra from it. So, this is a form\nthat appears when Naruto taps into that reserve of chakra he stole from the\nNine Tails. None of the other Jinchuriki have this form because they either\nhave complete co-ordination with their tailed beasts (like Killer B) or don't\nhave any such reserve of chakra. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Naruto wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jinch%C5%ABriki_Forms)\nthese are different types of tailed beast transformations.\n\n 1. Initial Jinchuriki Form : The jinchuriki's body is shrouded with tailed-beast chakra.\n\n 2. Jinchuriki Form version 1 : In this case the chakra starts taking the form of a beast and tails start manifesting.\n\n 3. Jinchuriki form version 2 : In this form, depending on the number of tails, a user' body is shrouded in boiling blood. Bones may also start manifesting if the number of tails increase.\n\n 4. Partial Transformation : The jinchuriki can transform any part of their body into the tailed-beast equivalent of the same.\n\n 5. Full Transformation : The jinchuriki takes the form of the tailed beast.\n\n 6. Nine tails chakra/cloak mode : This form is said to be unique to nine-tails jinchuriki.\n\nMy speculation is that this could be the result of Naruto having only the yin-\npart of Kurama because of which he gets the form. The only other person to don\nthis form is Minato Namikaze, Naruto's father and unsurprisingly he too had\nhalf-tailed beast inside him.\n\nSo either it could be a unique form of nine tails jinchuriki or it could be\ndue to having only half of Kurama inside that led to this form being\nactivated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is late, but it's because of his Eight Trigrams Seal. Only Naruto and\nMinato had the Eight Trigrams, because it was a special seal created and used\nby the Uzumaki clan primarily for such a purpose, Kushina use her Adamantine\nChains, so she never needed it. Also, only Minato and Naruto could manifest\ntheir forms as pure chakra.\n\nGiven to Naruto at birth, the Eight Trigrams seal slowly leaks Tailed-Beast\nchakra to the Jinchuuriki, the longer two chakra flows are in contact, the\nmore in sync they become. Naruto and Kurama are considered perfect sync by the\nstart of the Fourth War, the only thing that held them back was their personal\nfeelings and cooperation. Other Jinchuurikis were either in control (i.e. Bee)\nor taken over by their Tailed-Beast will (i.e. Gaara). Only Naruto and Kurama\nhad everything set up to be a perfect Jinchuuriki/Tailed Beast relationship.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is simple. Bad writing. They just wanted Naruto and Minato to have\na unique look so they gave them a unique look even though this made less than\nno sense and directly contradicted the established world building. We might as\nwell ask why Madara as the 10 tails Jinchuuriki was vulnerable to taijutsu\nwhen jinchuuriki gaining a cloak which makes one immune to all taijutsu is one\nof the main advantages of being a jinchuuriki. Yes, Guy should not have been\nable to harm Madara even slightly because the 10 tails should have given\nMadara a cloak that rendered him invulnerable to taijutsu.\n\nAlso according to Naruto (the original series), the entire 9 tails was sealed\ninside Naruto just as has happened to every other 9 tailed Jinchuuriki. The\nretcon in Shippuden about the 9 tails being split in half was directly\ncontradicted by every other arc. For one thing Kushina had the entire 9 tails\nsealed in her and she was 100% fine. Every leaf village Jinchuuriki before\nKushina also had the entire 9 tails sealed inside them and they were\ncompletely fine. There is no evidence to support the assertion that Naruto\ncould not or did not have the entire 9 tails sealed inside him. Bee had the\nentire 8 tails sealed inside him and he was 100% fine.\n\nIn this case absence of evidence that the 9 tails had been split in half\nbefore the second to last arc is evidence that the 9 tails hadn't been split\nin half and this was a massive retcon which destroyed the internal consistency\nof the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVegeta becomes a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan ( _Super Saiyan Blue_ ) in the\nmovie Resurrection F. How did he become a Super Saiyan God?\n\nWas the ritual performed on him before the Resurrection F event or did he use\nhis own power to become a God? (That's what he tells on one of the Dragon Ball\nSuper episodes)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter reading over the [Wikia\narticle](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Vegeta) on Vegeta, it seems there is\nnot a clear answer on how he gained his Super Saiyan God form.\n\nSince _Dragon Ball Super_ is canon, if in the episode Vegeta said that he\nobtained the form on his own I would assume that he is not lying about it.\n\nIn the Wiki, it is said that Vegeta went and trained with Whis for six months\nbefore Goku came to join him. It is most likely it was during this time that\nhe obtained the Super Saiyan God form.\n\n> After later gives Whis Ramen and he finds it delicious. He takes Vegeta in\n> as his student and takes him to Beerus' planet to train him for six months.\n> After six months has passed, he is waiting for Whis return from Earth. Whis\n> has Goku along with him. Goku notes that Vegeta has gotten stronger and he\n> may have surpassed him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Goku arrived on Whis's planet, Vegeta and Goku had sparring training,\nwhile having hand to hand combat in an attempt to control their Ki. They\nsomewhat triggered a blue aura which Whis pointed out in his mind as God Aura,\nright now Whis has thrown them in another dimension which is more like the\nHyperbolic Time Chamber. I guess that place would grant them the key to attain\nSSGSS form. Do follow the DBZ Super manga for some story ahead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [Wikia\npage](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_God_Super_Saiyan) states\nthat:\n\n> Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, also known as Super Saiyan Blue, is the\n> result of a Saiyan transforming into a Super Saiyan **after absorbing and\n> retaining the power of Super Saiyan God and training.**\n\nThat is, that to achieve SSGSS, one must achieve and master SSG first.\n\nHowever, as it wasn't done before Vegeta went off to train under Whis, the\nonly options left are that either he performed the ritual on that planet, or\nhis training with Whis helped him do so. The SSG form is just another Saiyan\ntransformation, the only thing being different is that instead of normal Ki,\nthere is divine Ki flowing through your body and you can even perceive it now.\nAs a result, you can even absorb energy attacks. As Vegeta said that he\nmastered the SSG form, I would believe it and would further add that by\nmastering the form he said that he mastered the perception and usage of the\ndivine Ki, thus making it flow through his body evenly and unlocking the SSGSS\nform.\n\nThere is reference to this in the anime when he senses the return of Whis\n([watch here](https://youtu.be/rM19sHdnvQU?t=3m7s)), and later the oracle fish\ncomments that he's finally able to sense divine Ki. Goku even states that\nVegeta's Ki had changed a lot during the six months he had spent training\nunder Whis ([watch here](https://youtu.be/rM19sHdnvQU?t=4m42s)).\n\nIt's similar to that incident when Goku and Gohan had unlocked the Full Power\nSuper Saiyan transformation after training in the hyperbolic time chamber in\nthe cell saga. The FPSSJ transformation was the mastering of SSJ1 and making\nit the base form, thus reducing the strain on the body and making it easier to\nraise power levels. What they managed to do can be thought of controlling the\nSSJ1 Ki and making it flow evenly through their bodies, thus mastering the\nform.\n\nThe training both Goku and Vegeta are undergoing, which deals with raising\npower levels, a manifestation of Ki, without letting it leak, or, in other\nwords, letting the opponent know, making each part of the body capable of\nindependent action and also the perception and mastery of divine Ki, thus\nmastering SSG, SBG (Saiyan Beyond God) and SSB transformation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf vegeta had not obtained this form before Goku got to beerus planet then I\ncan only assume that when goku and vegeta were sparring and they triggered the\nblue aura , vegeta must have absorbed some of Gokus god ki, then when they\nwere thrown into the other dimension by Whis vegeta must have transformed\nhence how Goku knows how Vegeta transformed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVegeta gained the Super Saiyan God power the same moment as Goku during Battle\nof Gods. If you pay attention during Dragonball Super while Goku and Lord\nBeerus are fighting in the outter atmosphere, Vegeta is clearly following the\nfight standing on the ship while everyone else is freaking out. Piccolo even\nnotices it I believe. I don't know what episode, but it's on the show. Vegeta\nwas able to follow the fight by being able to sense the God power. He had\nevery credit to become the God himself in the original situation but Goku\nwanted the fight. Vegeta was the only other full blooded Saiyan known left in\nthe anime during Goku's power up. Therefore giving him also the gift to\nsense/control the divine power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Wiki never quite answers it, however several inferences can be made from\nthe Anime (since the Manga for DBS is based on the Anime, not the other way\naround):\n\n 1. When Vegeta first fights Beerus and Bulma is slapped, Vegeta then gains a massive power boost, and fights Beerus off very successfully for some time. What this tells us is that Vegeta himself has the capacity for the sheer amount of power of the SSG form.\n\n 2. While Beerus is fighting with SSG Son Goku, we notice Vegeta closely watching, and as the fight goes on, he seems to almost be able to sense Goku's godly ki. This is the main inference: He has spent so long fighting and training with Goku, that he knows his ki almost as well as his own. As he watches SSG Son Goku, I postulate that he is in fact beginning to sense Son's godly ki, and training himself to be able to not only sense it, but eventually replicate its godly nature.\n\n 3. He trains for around 6 months with Whis, and during this time, he seems to increase his power enough to generate the SSG form himself. We know he has the capacity to, from points 1 and 2, and so, this explains his godhood. Under his own power, and not relying on the charity of the other Saiyans.\n\nThis is how I see it happening, after watching the Anime several times in an\nattempt to understand this.\n\nHope this Helps!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe the reason that they are linked is because when they fuzed with the\npotara earrings. They became one being and then separated and were still one.\nThere is a reason that Vegeta never wants to fuze with Goku and I think they\nshare everything, memory's, power, ect....\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to <http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_Blue>\n\nSuper saiyan blue is an advanced level of the Super Saiyan form that uses\ncontrolled godly ki. This form can be accessed after absorbing the power of a\ngod and then combining it with the Super Saiyan form or through vigorous ki\ncontrol training.\n\nVegeta attains controlled godly ki when he is sent to another dimension along\nwith Goku by Whis. There he says \"I get it. If I control my ki so it doesnt\nleak after having raised it, I can move. Is this what they call God Ki?\"\n\nSo in the other dimension Vegeta learned how to use god ki. Some time after he\ncombined that god ki with the super saiyan tranformation and became Super\nSaiyan Blue. He didnt need to become super saiyan god to be able to transform\ninto super saiyan blue, he needed to use controlled godly ki which he adquired\nby training in that other dimension and combine it with the super saiyan\ntransformation\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think, if I understand correctly, that by training with Whis, he absorbed\nsome of his ki. Like, by training to learn ki control with a deity, he could\nobtain some of his power. That's what I understand from the wiki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet's get one thing straight. Saiyan God (Red) and Super Saiyan God (Blue) are\ntwo separate transformations. Vegeta skipped the red hair form and went\nstraight to Blue. How he did this is simple. He learned how to use Godly Ki\nwhile training with Whis. He then used that God Ki with his Super Saiyan form,\nthus making him a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan (SSGSS / Super Saiyan Blue /\nSSB)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know, this would have been a different story, but when Black Zetsu impaled\nMadara, Madara could have used Izanagi because he still had the Sharingan, as\nI know he can switch.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst, Madara always believed himself to be completely invincible. When Black\nZetsu stabbed him, he could not even realise that he was being betrayed; it\nwas completely out of his expectation. And it only took a very short period of\ntime for Zetsu to gain complete control of his body.\n\nSecond, a huge weakness of Izanagi is that, it has be activated first. It is\nnot a reset jutsu. It only can manipulate everything that happens between its\nactivation and Sharingan going blind\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Madara could have used Izanagi, he still had the Sharingan, as I know he can\n> switch.\n\nHaving the Sharingan alone isn't enough, you need to activate the Izanagi\nbeforehand to perform this jutsu. If you recall from Sasuke against Danzo,\nDanzo had to activate the jutsu each time he had to use a new eye. That means\nthe jutsu needs to be activated beforehand. As an example when Madara was\nfighting Hashirama, even then he activated Izanagi at first when Hashirama was\nabout to kill him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the first episode of One Piece Luffy chants \"Gomu Gomu No\" to start his\nattack, it is also seen in other devils fruit users too. Is there any\nparticular reason for it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of the Sword Art Online anime, episode 2 \"Beater\", Kirito\nacquires the _[Coat of\nMidnight](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Coat_of_Midnight)_ when getting\nthe last attack bonus on the boss.\n\nUp until episode 7, \"Warmth of the Heart\", it appears he is using _mostly_ the\nsame gear. In the beginning of this episode when we first see him, he is\ndaunting a new coat and his Elucidator sword. Lizbeth does say, \"this is the\ngnarliest sword you can get from a monster drop\" or something to that effect.\n\nIs there ever any mention of where/how he acquired his new gear? I haven't\nread the manga series, is there any mention in it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [Elucidator](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Elucidator) was a drop\nfrom \"a boss\" on the 50th Floor. It's not really specified _which_ boss\ndropped it though, as it could have been the main Floor Boss, a Field Boss, or\nmaybe a boss in a dungeon that happened to be on the 50th Floor. At the time\nhe got it, the sword still had too high of a requirement for him to even\nwield, but he still consistently upgraded it.\n\nKirito's coat also changes between most episodes (until they stop changing in\nEpisode 7) and most of his coats are probably either drops, or tailored.\nHowever, it's stated that Kirito's final coat, the [Blackwyrm\nCoat](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Blackwyrm_Coat), was crafted by a\nplayer called [Ashley](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Ashley), which was\nreferred to him by Asuna, during the murder mystery story—though that part was\ncut out of the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, maybe it's in the manga or lightnovel, in the anime has no mention of\nthis, but in a RPG is not uncommon to get new gears and weapons, describe all\nof them and how are acquired takes a lot of time and explanation, and can make\na history loses some fun.\n\nBuuuut, here we go:\n\n> The Blackwyrm Coat (ブラックウィルム・コート, Burakku Uirumu Kōto) is a player-made\n> black leather coat, tailored from black dragon leather, a high grade raw\n> material, by Aincrad's best player seamstress, Ashley, that Kirito wore in\n> the final months of Sword Art Online.\n\nSource: <http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Blackwyrm_Coat>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime City Hunter, I am trying to find the episode where Saeko asks Ryo\nto go out with her. But when they arrived at the hotel she told him to go and\nhad a waiter hand him a note, telling him to wait for her outside. After that,\nshe is taken to a huge ship; while this occurs, Ryo follows her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [the answers here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/782/1587)\nand [this chat\npost](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26044041#26044041)\n\n> there's one sound in Japanese which is somewhere between L and R, though\n> probably closer to R.\n\n * Luffy/Ruffy (One Piece)\n * Lio/Rio (Kara no Kyoukai)\n\n2 of the Vocaloids are the twins Rin and Len, but given the above, their names\ncould be Rin and Ren, Lin and Len, or even Lin and Ren.\n\nSo where did it become known that Rin's and Len's names have different first\nletters, as opposed to the alternatives that I mentioned?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [earliest archived\nrevision](https://web.archive.org/web/20071223223624/http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv02.jsp#)\nof [Crypton's page for the\nKagamines](http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv02.jsp) that\nreveals details about them has their names in both Latin script and in\nJapanese.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIkll.png)\n\nThat revision is from 3 Dec 2007, which is shortly before they were actually\nfirst sold later that same month.\n\nSo I guess the answer to your question is that it was known to people pretty\nmuch from the very beginning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Kara no Kyoukai, Araya comments to Lio saying that he just needed one\ncharacter to be called a lion.\n\nEnglish-wise, this would be very correct, but given that these characters are\ntalking in Japanese, I doubt that Lio needed an\n[ン](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_\\(kana\\)), and according to the\n[Wikia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Lio_Shirazumi), Shirazumi Lio's name in\nJapanese is 白純里緒 not シラズミ リ゜オ.\n\nSo in his Japanese name, what character is Araya saying Lio is missing to be\ncalled Lion?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWeirdly enough, Araya must, in fact, be referring to the fact that \"Lio\" is\none English letter away from \"lion\". This has to be the case because \"lion\" in\nJapanese is 獅子 _shishi_ , which bears no resemblance whatsoever to Shirazumi's\nname.\n\nOf course, Araya should be fluent in English, having lived at the Clock Tower\nin London for some years, so it's not _that_ weird. And Nasu (the author)\nclearly knows enough English to give us silly phrases like \"blue blue glass\nmoon\" and \"heavens feel\", so I wouldn't put it past him to put a touch of\nEnglish wordplay into Kara no Kyoukai\n\n([Some guy on\nchiebukuro](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1334358478)\nclaims that it's actually that リオ \"Lio\" is one Japanese character away from レオ\n\"Leo\" as in the zodiac lion, but I think that guy's claim is dumb.)\n\n(Side note about Japanese: English \"lion\" is pronounced ライオン _raion_ , so you\ncan't actually get Japanese _raion_ from \"Lio\" with a single character in\neither English or Japanese. But you can get English \"lion\", which is why I say\nthat that's what Araya must've been going for.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Wikipedia:\n\n> The first film, Saikai (再会 Reunion?), was released on November 21, 2015 and\n> will be released on region-free DVD and Blu-ray in Japan on **December 18,\n> 2015**.\n\nWhen can we buy this movie, and where can we order the movie franchise online?\nSince this will be released in Japan, is there a company that sells and\nprovides international shipping?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm looking for the source of this girl on this itasha picture I found. I\ncan't see the words on the hood due to the profile aspect of the photo.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xImzb.jpg)\n\n[Original Google\nSearch](https://www.google.com/search?sa=N&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=633&q=itasha%20cars&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSigEahwELEKjU2AQaAAwLELCMpwgaYgpgCAMSKMoNvATMDcQNyw3DDcYNwATBDdYN9iD-\nIOwgoCbOPIom_1SD0IPsg_1CAaMNJCuljINSn9obb9Alw-\nOPCAJqR3AnCBBcRSXNxiSTZX8vJswre3JmVwE2_1Z9LrmuyADDAsQjq7-CBoKCggIARIEdYMB5Aw&ved=0ahUKEwj4nOCA0dDJAhVD1WMKHYfyDO8Q2A4IGygB#imgrc=b3KZkGYe1VhEpM%3A)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're looking for the original character [Sakurako\nMitsuki](http://minkara.carview.co.jp/en/userid/1534925/blog/27356570/).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1rz9G.jpg)\n\nThe car seems to a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII, in case you're wondering.\n\nThat photo was taken at an itasha carshow in the Akihabara UDX parking garage\naround December of 2012.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nZoro recently (in the anime) unleashed an impressive torrent of attacks using\nBusoshoku (Armament) Haki infused blades. This was not all that surprising but\nhis flashback was (to me).\n\nZoro flashed back to both his training with Dracule Mihawk and his fight with\nhim in the Baratie arc. Mihawk's main blade, Yoru apparently, is clearly shown\nto be black throughout this fight and the flashback stresses the fact that it\nis the strongest Black Blade. Yet, the episode seems to say that Black Blades\nrefer to swords turning black when infused with Haki. As Mihawk is the\nstrongest swordsman, it seems guaranteed that the world's strongest \"Black\nBlade\" may or may not have anything to do with Yoru's color itself.\n\nIn addition, you can note that both replicas of Yoru we see (Mihawk's mini\nsword and the one wielded by the Mihawk-like monkey Zoro trained against) have\nsilver blades.\n\nThis all leads to 3 closely inter-related questions:\n\n * Did I understand this right? Does \"Black Blade\" refer to the sword or the technique?\n * Did Mihawk use Haki on Zoro so early in the series?\n * Does Yoru (as we've seen it but in universe) look black, silver, or does it vary from person to person? What if Yoru is not wielded by Mihawk?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor all we, the audience know, the black color we see when people use Haki,\ncould potentially be there solely to inform the audience of when it is being\nused. This is reinforced by the fact that we never saw the black color before\nthe timeskip despite seeing powerful Haki used by various characters. I,\nhowever, wouldn't be surprised if the black color of Haki was acknowledged by\nthe characters in-world, proving that it was actually a thing.\n\n\"Black blade\" refers to the sword, and yes the sword is black. It is likely\nstill black, even when Mihawk is not holding it, just like his coat is still\nred when he's not wearing it, etc.\n\nI kinda doubt that Oda had thought about Haki at the time Zoro fought Mihawk,\nbut It's almost a certainty that Oda would retroactively say \"Yeah, that was\nHaki\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * Firstly, I would like to reply to this:\n\n> In addition, you can note that both replicas of Yuro we see (Mihawk's mini\n> sword and the one wielded by the Mihawk-like monkey Zoro trained against)\n> have silver blades.\n\n**Mihawk's pocket knife, also known\nas[Kogatana](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kogatana) is not a replica of\n[Yoru](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yoru#cite_note-Saijo-0)**:\n\n> **It is an ordinary knife, so bland and small that Mihawk enjoys\n> demonstrating his skill with it.**\n\n**As for the Human Drill having the same sword as Mihawk, it was a filler.**\nThere is no mention of the Human Drills in the manga. Hence, it doesn't have\nmuch relevance to the story, and it's assumed that the sword carried by it is\nnothing but a replica.\n\n * From the One Piece Wiki page on [Yoru](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yoru):\n\n> **The blade itself is pitch-black with a very strong sheen**..\n\nSome conclusive evidence in favor of this is:\n\n * It has been black since the start of the series when the blackening effect of Haki wasn't introduced\n * It is black even when it's on Mihawk's back\n * As you pointed out, if it were Haki, even Mihawk's short knife would have appeared black in color to the audience.\n * It's not the only black sword shown in the series. Zoro's [Shusui](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Shusui) is also shown to be black in color (and in this case, it's definitely not the Haki that makes it black).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/w3V78.jpg)\n\n**Hence, I'm inclined to say that it refers to the sword rather than the\ntechnique.**\n\n* * *\n\nBased on this image:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4p0S5.png)\n\n**It may have been clad in Haki even during the earliest part of the series,\nbut I doubt that he actually used Haki against Zoro during their first fight,\nsimply because he didn't have to. We saw him defeat Zoro using his short\nknife, so there was no need for him to actually worry about getting his sword\nnicked.**\n\nHowever, there's no conclusive evidence on this. It may have been clad in Haki\nor it may have not. I believe that it wasn't.\n\n* * *\n\n**Yuro being a black sword appears black even in-universe. Tashigi even\ndescribes it as a Black Sword, although I don't seem to remember in which\nchapter. Not only that, the name of the sword is \"Yoru\", which means \"Night\"\nand can also be translated as \"Black Sword\".**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Shin Megami Tensei Persona 2 - Innocent Sin_ , after I beat Lisa's Shadow\nin the Taurus Temple and selected _\"I'm glad you feel that way\"_ , everyone is\ncommenting on Tatsuya's own confession.\n\nAfter that Lisa comments on not losing to an older woman and mopey boy. This\nto me seems like Lisa is saying that she won't lose to Maya or Jun in claiming\nTatsuya.\n\nNow I have always got the impression Jun is effeminate or something of the\nlike but I never got an impression that he was homosexual. I am wondering then\nif Jun is homosexual. If not, what is Lisa talking about?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI honestly don't know how much you were paying attention to the game if you\ndidn't figure out Jun is homosexual... He has loved Tatsuya since he was a\nchild; this game is one of few that do not shy away from exposing his\norientation.\n\nIf you look at the demon contact description he has with Lisa, it says they\nare rivals in love (over Tatsuya). In his demon contact descriptions with Maya\nand Tatsuya as well as Lisa and Tatsuya, both are referred to as \"love\ntriangles\" because he is after Tatsuya as well. He even flirts with Tatsuya,\nvery obviously, and both Eikichi and Lisa acknowledge this. In fact it\nwouldn't be at all outrageous to suggest Tatsuya returns his affections, given\nhis behaviour in-game and the word of the creators. In any case, Jun is\nhomosexual and Tatsuya is bisexual, they are both explicitly attracted to men.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Disclaimer: I've only watched the anime._\n\nWhen Yato gave Yukine a name, he immediately started suffering from all his\n\"sins\" and eventually an Ablution had to be performed to save both's lives.\n\nThen why is it that he is not affected by Nora's actions? Unless he un-named\nher, which hasn't been mentioned. Either way, why doesn't he seek to kill her\nand end all these side problems that emerge because of her?\n\nI am not entirely through with season 2, but similarly Kugaha's case confuses\nme too.\n\nIf anyone has answers, I'd appreciate them. Also, I don't care about spoilers,\nrather the opposite, if possible I wanna understand everything beforehand.\nThis show sure is good, but it makes some mistakes in regards to explaining\nbasic logic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs ton.yeung and I have stated in our comments, the\n[Blight](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Blight) forms based on the guilt of\nthe [Shinki](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Shinki), therefore, if the shinki\nwas committing sins under the notion that it was wrong, blight would occur,\nlike in Yukine's case of destroying the school windows and stealing. But in\nKugaha's case, he believed what he was doing to be for Bishamon's sake as\nshown in this scene.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uahin.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0b5T.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vv09d.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U77va.jpg)\n\nTherefore, in [Hiiro](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Nora)'s case, she\nbelieves all the horrible things she did was for the sake of Yato and\ntherefore was justice, so she was not blighted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBlight occurs when Shinki commit a sin and they know it's wrong. Yukine, as\nexample, regardless of how much he screamed in his Ablution that he did the\nright thing, HE knew it was not. That's why Kugaha didn't affect Bishamon in\nall his mad plan.\n\nBut, there's another point: Nora won't hurt their master. Including, that's\nwhy Ebisu used so many in his quest to control the Ayakashi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think what Astral Sea said is true that if the shinki was committing sins\nunder the notion that it was wrong, blight would occur. But in Kugaha's case,\nI don't think that him not blighting Bishamon was necessarily only because he\nthought his action were for Bishmon's sake. I think the reason was that he had\nno remorse because he thought that he was doing the right thing altogether.\n\nLook at it this way, Nora was literally manipulating Rabo and Ebisu and as\nsuch not really doing things for their sake. But she never blighted them\nbecause she never thought that she was doing some thing wrong. Thus, she\nwouldn't have blighted Yato.\n\nOf course the theory that Noras can't blight their masters at all could also\nbe true. Because if not, the father will have more ways of hurting others (not\nYato as he already released her), by manipulating Nora into thinking she did\nsomething remorseful, in turn blighting all of her masters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 76 of the manga of Attack on Titan, it appears that the Survey\nCorps. have killed\n\n> Reiner Braun.\n\nI don't understand why they killed him, especially when they needed\ninformation from him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo begin with, it's not certain that Reiner is actually dead, the final frame\nof the manga shows the Armored Titan suffering intense damage, but as we\nhaven't yet seen his corpse, it's best not to draw conclusions - he did just\nsurvive being half decapitated after all!\n\nSecondly, even if he were to die, there is still the Colossal and Beast Titans\nthat would be in possession of the same or similar information. As mentioned\nin Yokhen's comment, Annie too is in captivity and remains a potential source\nof information should she ever awaken. And as mentioned in Astral Sea's\ncomment, it is believed that the information they need is in Eren's basement\nanyway.\n\nThirdly, and maybe most importantly, one of the Survey Corps. major objectives\nis the elimination of the duo that breached the wall in the first instance, as\nall other walls are in danger while they remain free. Therefore, in Erwin's\neyes at this time, the deaths of Reiner and Bertolt are likely far more\nadvantageous than having them alive for questioning:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe latest chapter has Armin explicitly answer this:\n\n> \"There was no room for negotiation. After all, we are the ones with a lack\n> of knowledge. We don't have the power to capture and restrain a human that\n> can transform into a titan... ... And if we can't do that... this... was our\n> only option. This ... was unavoidable.\"\n\nBut please note, there is no proof that he is dead despite the fact there\nshould be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey never say the Reiner is dead . Reiner was saved by Zeke (Beast Titan)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iWAYc.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's about a boy who falls in love with a princess who makes a deal to save\nher life she must lose all memory of him. He has to go and collect memory\nfragments in the form of feathers and each one she remembers more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Dragon Ball Z_ , when Goku was fighting Kid Buu, there were many enemies\nwatching him from Hell.\n\nFrom DBZ Wikia article on [Hell](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Hell):\n\n> In the Kid Buu Saga, during the fight with Kid Buu, the ogres are seen\n> watching the fight alongside Cell, Frieza, King Cold, Recoome, Burter,\n> Jeice, Guldo, Dr. Gero, Appule, and Babidi.\n\nHowever, when Frieza was revived, he didn't know about the fight with Majin\nBuu.\n\nIs there any reason as to why this is so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs stated in the Wikia article on\n[Hell](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Hell) (emphasis mine):\n\n> Hell (Jigoku), or HFIL (Home For Infinite Losers in the edited English dub),\n> is a place in Other World where evil characters (and sometimes, in the case\n> of Piccolo, Goku, and Pikkon, protagonists) go after they die. **Hell is\n> never actually shown in the original manga, but it is shown several times\n> throughout various medias of Dragon Ball.**\n\nHence, it's an anime inconsistency which is not the fault of Akira Toriyama.\nOne can only assume that the scene was not taken into account in _Dragon Ball\nSuper_ because they adapted it from the manga and didn't take into account the\nanime-added filler.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell it could be because of the wish made to Shenron to wipe out the memory of\neveryone about the incident of Majin Buu, this wish might have also wiped out\nthe memories of the people in hell. So that's why Freiza doesn't remember.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrieza was tortured way too much in hell with those tiny cute creatures\nplaying those drums which might have played with his memory and I do remember\nthat after that fight, a wish was made to Shenron to erase the memory of\npeople so no one remembers what happened on earth, or possibly it's an anime,\nanything can happen to make the story look better.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think its probably because of the fact that, when frieza ended up in hell\n(well before kid buu's time), the last \"living memories\" he had were goku an\nSSj and trunks blowing the living hell outta him. For him, as an alien\n\"awake\", dats the last set of memories he had. But once he is revived, the\nlast thing he remembered was his death and before that. Dats why, when that\nunderling tells him about beerus, he says his father always told him not to\nmess with the god of destruction. But at that time he didn't mention cell or\nbuu.\n\nHence it seems like the lapse in memory because of death is what caused the\nquestion to even arise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of the Hunterpedia segments at the end of episodes of the\n2011 Heaven's Arena arc, the opening image contains the English text:\n\n> **Brush Your Teeth.** \n> **Unripe Fruit**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ml0ay.jpg)\n\nThe rest of the writing is in Japanese, I assume there is some sort of inside\njoke. Can anyone provide a context for those two lines?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n'Brush your teeth' is for Killua (so it is blue) and 'Unripe Fruit' is for Gon\n(so it is green).\n\nKillua is such a great sweet tooth. 'Brush your teeth' is meant for Killua. I\ndon't think he has ever brushed his teeth. Or even if he has, (just like a\nparent does) he is just told to put more effort on his brushing.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/X3b1Q.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can think of several anime series with recurring characters who I would\nclassify as \"snot-nosed kids\". Two sympathetic, recurring, characters are Udon\nfrom _Naruto_ and Komugi from _Hunter x Hunter_. Is there an actual trope for\nthis character trait, and if so, what is it meant to imply? To me (American),\nthe trait merely means someone I don't really want to look at.\n\nSurely there is more than that, though. Sort of like a bloody nose often means\nthe character is somehow sexually embarrassed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that she has spent a lot of time with Yato (because they've shown to\nbe together since childhood and Hiiro was his first Regalia) and also really\ncares about him. Yato himself says:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pnBMq.jpg)\n\nThis means that Hiiro does care about Yato and has never done anything which\nshe thought wasn't for the good of Yato. Just before this scene, we also see\nHiiro saying that she wouldn't mind dying in the underworld as long as Yato\nwas with her.\n\nSo why is it that she is a Nora? Why did she allow other Gods to name her?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, to start...let's look at what the title 'Nora' actually means. In context,\na 'Nora' is a 'stray' shinki (Regalia). They are compared to stray cats who\nwander around and beg attention and affection from anyone who will give it.\n(This also gives you a hint as to what the title of the series means...\nNoragami...a compound of Nora Kami...Stray god. Yato, the stray god who\nwanders around and begs attention and remembrance from anyone who will give\nit).\n\nIn short, a Nora is a term for any Shinki with more than one name, used\ninterchangeably with the title 'Stray.' This is seen as a bad thing, first\nbecause the 'name' of a thing is sacred and important in that universe, and we\nlater learn that\n\n> Strays are feared due to the fact that they own more than one name. A Stray\n> cannot be bound using any technique that link to their names easily; unless\n> all names of a Stray is known, other shinki cannot use Restraint or any\n> other binding techniques. Strays can also change hands from one god to\n> another should their names be called, literally betraying the master they\n> were serving at that time. This makes them dangerous, uncontrollable, and\n> unreliable.\n\nAs for Hiiro/Nora herself, In Chapter 47...\n\n> Sakura sees that Hiiro also has the name 'Mizuchi' on her back, in addition\n> to the name Hiiro that Yato gave her. Later we see 'Father' use that name to\n> turn her into a weapon to break Sakura's name and turn her into a Phantom.\n\nThis shows us that even when she was only working with Yato, she was already\ntechnically a Nora. As for why she has so many masters, that's because\n'Father' commanded her to do so. She claims she's been working with other gods\nsimply because Yato hasn't called her in so long...but there might be more to\nit.\n\nAt this point, we are going to stray a bit into speculation as to why he would\nwant that...but it's actually pretty clear once you think about it. The reason\nthat gods will contract with a Stray is that it allows them to wield a\n'disposable' regalia for dirty business that they don't want to involve their\nown Shinki in. This means that Nora is witness to all of that dirty business\nthat gods are getting up to that they don't want their own Shinki exposed to,\nor that may count as a Sin for their Shinki (I'll get to that in a second).\nAnd since her ultimate loyalty is to 'Father,' that means that he is also\nprivy to a lot of the stuff gods are up to that they don't want others to know\nabout. In short, Nora is a spy for him...and no one suspects it because\neveryone assumes she has no true master.\n\nNow, as for the 'never blighted' thing...from conversation with Kazuma and\ndirect evidence from Yukine, we can see that 'sinning' is a subjective thing\nfor a Shinki.\n\nFrom Kazuma\n\n> We learn that he suppresses his emotions and blocks out any sense of guilt\n> when he is doing 'what must be done.' And thus if you believe you are doing\n> the right thing, it doesn't count as a sin. He bluntly says as much in\n> Chapter 52. As a result, he's done stuff that could be considered 'wrong'\n> but didn't blight Bishamonten. For example, when Tsuguha turns into an\n> Ayakashi, he kills her with a boundary line and doesn't sting Bishamonten.\n\nWith Yukine\n\n> When Hiyori was going nuts and turning into an Ayakashi, he believed it was\n> wrong to hurt her...and so hitting her with a Boundary line caused him to\n> sting Yato.\n\nBoth of them did basically the same thing...but it counted as a sin for Yukine\nbecause he felt guilt over it and thought it was wrong...while Kazuma did not.\n\n> And, in Nora's case...we see her commit several attempted murders,\n> participate in countless actual murders, participate in blackmail, and\n> intentionally trigger the insanity/death of several Shinki. All things that\n> are (objectively) sins...but despite being named by Yato, she never stung\n> him with these actions. She can kill innocent people without a\n> problem...while Yukine couldn't even injure a single proto-ayakashi without\n> stinging his owner.\n\nSo, the fact that Nora has never stung Yato may not mean she actually cares\nfor him so deeply that she would never do anything wrong that would sting him.\nInstead, it is more likely the she is a full-blown sociopath who never feels\nguilt over her actions...and since 'sin' in the Noragami universe is dependent\non guilt and feeling like you are doing something wrong...a sociopath with no\nconscience could do whatever they want and never sting their patron god. And,\nagain...this fuels the fact that Nora could be used by any god to do anything\nthey felt they needed to do...because she never feels guilty about it. If a\ngod felt they needed to kill a few innocents, their own Shinki might feel\nguilty about doing so...and thus sting them. But with Nora in hand, you don't\nhave that risk.\n\nSo, TL;DR: Nora is a Stray because Father commanded her to be one. Nora may or\nmay not actually care so much about Yato, but simply never feels guilt, and\nthus never stings anyone. Her personality is pretty much textbook sociopathy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a theory as to why Father was able to name her Nora: because he killed\nher.\n\nThink of it this way: Usually, Regalia are souls of humans. The only stray we\nknow (that I remember) is Nora. What if Nora was a god? And Father killed her\nto take control of her like she was interfering and so he got rid of her and\nturned her into a slave? That would explain why she has no free will like some\nRegalia do. She's jealous of Yukine because something deep inside her wants to\nprotect Yato from Father and from danger.\n\nThis is a weird theory but I bet later in the manga we'll finally get her\nbackstory and discover more about her. Possibly that she is actually Father's\ndaughter and he killed her so he could keep control of her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mdONk.jpg)\n\nSo I printed off this picture probably almost a decade ago, can't remember\nwhere I found it and can't find it again. My question is this: I'm interested\nin the bike, does it actually exist, or is it fan art? If it does exist, can\nyou tell me what episode or issue is from?\n\nI _think_ it's Ryoko Hakubi from Tenchi Muyo, but I know nothing about that\nseries. Thanks in advance!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe current situation of Sanji has not been made clear so far in the manga.\nThe following is a summary of the pointers.\n\n 1. Sanji is the only person in the SH crew who is wanted Alive and not Alive/Dead. \n 2. His bounty has increased only by a 100 million Berries (to 177m berries ) which suggested that he was involved in any earth shaking event at Zou. \n 3. Nami is seen crying when she says to Luffy, \"I'm sorry about Sanji\" and there is nothing added on to it. \n 4. Brook says, \"I'm so sorry about what happened to Sanji san. I can't even face you right now\".\n 5. Strangely Luffy and crew are not at all worried about Sanji and don't feel obliged to go to his aid.\n 6. In the last seen image of Sanji he is seen tacking cannon balls from some ship and before that he defeats the Kaido crew pirate Sheepshed. \n\nConsidering the above, I like to know some plausible theories on the current\ncondition of Sanji.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Note: After reading the A &M rules and a few related questions, it would\nappear that I am not violating the \"back your sources\" rule as this is a\nspeculation question, which appears to be allowed (see [Is a question that\nasks about a future event on-\ntopic?](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2483/)). Either way, my\nanswer is the following:**\n\nKnowing that One Piece is a Shōnen Manga (Main characters not dying easily is\none of the trends) and that Sanji is fairly popular, here's what I can come up\nwith:\n\nMy best candidate:\n\n * Sanji broke his leg(s) with one too many `Diable Jambe`\n * Will probably have a _Miraculous Recovery_ later on\n\nOther possibilities:\n\n * Sirens/Mermaids saved him when the ship fell in pieces, current location unknown.\n * Temporarily Dead\n\nIn the unlikely case that Sanji is dead, here is what could have happened:\n\n * A Kraken (or other _Mysterious Being From The Sea_ ) finished him\n * One of the Kaido crewmen escaped and wanted revenge\n * Ate a devil fruit and drowned.\n * (Comical) Ate a devil fruit, got rescued by a mermaid, but died of nosebleed.\n\nTo answer point #5, Luffy believes in Sanji. Following the Shōnen archetype,\nwhen the main character says it'll be okay, it'll be okay. If sanji broke a\nleg, he'd probably crack a joke about having rubber bones, or something.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSanji was taken from Zou by Capone Bege as per Big Mum's instructions, and\ninvited to his own wedding, a diplomatic marriage between Sanji, the third son\nof the Vinsmoke family and Purin, the 35th daughter of the Charlotte (Big Mum)\nfamily.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore I describe what little more about it I know, let me clear two things\nup. I will be referring to a \"virus\", but I don't know what it actually is. I\nmay sometimes say Gundam instead of mech. That's because I just spent 30\nminutes looking up Gundam, not because it's a Gundam anime (although it might\nbe).\n\nSo, I know it's a mech anime. When they enter the mech, they pass through a\ncircle that applies a form fitting suit that they use to control the mecha.\n(I'm actually not totally sure about this).\n\nOne of the episodes involved a conference and/or other group of people\ncollected together talking about the \"virus\". One of the attendees is infected\n(and there's something about them they have to hide to prevent people from\nfinding this out).\n\nThe \"virus\" bas stages (I think) eventually takes over the infected (while\nthey are in a mecha), and the infected loses control (becomes controlled?). If\nI recall correctly, the inside of the mecha now looks like a fleshy hell pit\ncreated by the \"virus\".\n\nI'm fairly certain it was on Toonami. I'm 100% certain it was on T.V. in the\nUS sometime between 1998 and 2005.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYour anime might be: [Mobile Fighter G\nGundam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Fighter_G_Gundam)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J1qV8.jpg)\n\nFirstly it was **aired in Toonami in 2002** , so it fits the initial bill.\n\nThen in the wikipedia page, The plot section has this one specific fragment:\n\n> As they encounter Gundam pilots who had come in contact with the Dark\n> Gundam, Domon and Rain learn of its unique cellular properties to\n> regenerate, multiply, and **evolve by infecting organic matter and causing\n> violent behavior in living things.**\n\nSo we know that this anime is about mechas and there is a virus thing, namely\nthe Dark Gundam, that has abilities to corrupt organic matter and evolve\nin/with it (or something along those lines).\n\nThen as I searched for footage of the anime, I came upon this video of the\n[first episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CLIHBOCJPM) which in its\nfirst seconds shows the character going through a **circle** in order to wear\na **suit** , just like you also told.\n\nI'm not sure about **the meeting** part, for I haven't watched it, but as for\neverything else you've told, it's a dead giveaway.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHey is it a series called Blue Gender? They had a full series, 24 or 26 eps\nThen later crammed that into a movie-type-event-ization. Here's the trailer\nfor theFunmation dvds. I think u can still get it.\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3k_2jtkvnU>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAny explanation as to why the imaginary friend of Afro was a ninja even though\nAfro was a samurai? Or was it just for characterization purpose?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the latest chapter of the Manga, Chapter 147, Souma beats Eizan in a\nshokugeki. The terms were for Eizan to stop destroying the Polar Star Dorm,\nbut does Souma get to also usurp Eizan's position in the Elite 10 as the no. 9\nspot (I believe Eizan is number 9 but not sure) because he beat him in a\nshokugeki? Or is there not enough information to answer?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Each side must lay out their \"compensation\", or something they must give up\n> if they were to lose the challenge. Both sides must agree that the\n> compensation of the duel equate with each other.\n\n<http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Shokugeki>\n\nI guess the battle will only save the polar star dorm. Originally, whatever\nthey bet before the Shokugeki is what they'll get when they win. This means if\nSouma wants to dethrone him, he'll need to propose another battle asking for\nthe position if he wins.\n\nBut we'll see on the next chapter what would be the outcome.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, Eizan Etsuya is still in Elite Ten, in chapter 153 The Venue of Death,\nEizan actually said that he doesn't care if he was released or even exiled\nfrom the school, however, Azami Nakiri still keep him for now.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3h7dh.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere was a soundtrack piece playing in the episode 722 of _One Piece_. It\nstarted playing at 13 minutes and 54 seconds in. What is the name of that\npiece? It starts playing when Luffy rushes Doflamingo saying that once the\nlatter's defeated, everything will be okay.\n\nP.S. If the name of that song specifically is within another song (an example\nbeing the piece \"Difficult\" being composed of both the songs \"Shichibukai\" and\n\"Mr. Prince\"), please specify the song part specifically.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe name of the OST you're looking for is **Sanji vs Captain Honki** and is\nfrom [One Piece Movie 7: The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri\nCastle.](http://myanimelist.net/anime/465/One_Piece:_Karakurijou_no_Mecha_Kyohei)\n\nIt is **Track 35** in the [Movie 7 OST\nlist](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Movie_7_OST_-_Karakuri-jou_no_Mecha-\nkyohei).\n\nYou can listen to the OST [here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xRXiYuAqjM)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of each episode, there is a preview of the next episode. It also\nplays in the very beginning of episode 15 of the new _Fairy Tail_ 2014, I\nthink that makes it episode 190 in the total running.\n\nWhat is the song that plays when they preview the next episode?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe track that you're referring to is a bit unclear.\n\nThe pre-2014 preview music is different from the 2014+ preview music, and the\nmusic at the _very_ beginning of 2014 episode 15 (the track _before_ the theme\nsong itself) is different from those two.\n\nHowever, I notice that the track that plays immediately _after_ the theme song\nin 2014 episode 15 is the same one as the one that plays during the 2014+\npreviews.\n\nIf this is the track that you are referring to, then the name of the song is\n\n\" **Fairy Tail Main Theme 2014 (FAIRY TAIL メインテーマ 2014)** \"\n\n(The Katakana as Romaji is \"mein teimu\" i.e. \"main theme\").\n\nIt is track 1 on disk 1 of the album \"Fairy Tail Sound Collection\" by Yasuharu\nTakanashi (the fifth original soundtrack for Fairy Tail if you don't count the\nmovie soundtrack).\n\nI believe that I have supplied enough information for you to look up the\ntrack. I am hesitant to link to a Youtube video because I have noticed that\nFairy Tail OST videos get taken down due to copyright violations very quickly\nand frequently so I don't want to provide an invalid link.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPreface: This is coming entirely from the anime’s perspective and yet without\nthe 2013 one, which I've only started watching.\n\nWe are introduced to Shinku, Hina-Ichigo, Suigintou, Suiseiseki and Souseiseki\nin the first season in order of appearance. Bara-Suishou and Kanaria are\nintroduced in the first and third episodes of _Träumend,_ respectively. During\nepisode 1 of _Träumend_ , Shinku explicitly refers to herself as the fifth\nRozen Maiden doll, and Bara-Suishou answers to the seventh.\n\nIn episode 1 of the OVA _Ouvertüre_ , we learn that Shinku then only knew\nabout three Rozen Maiden dolls at the time of _Ouvertüre._ However, for some\nreason, she knows that there should be seven. Also in that episode, Shinku\ngets to know Suigintou for the first time.\n\n> She finds out, that Suigintou is broken and initially does not even have a\n> _Rosa Mystica_ thus concluding that she shouldn’t be a Rozen Maiden. However\n> in the second OVA episode, Suigintou has been restored after defeat and\n> granted a _Rosa Mystica,_ obviously making her a true Rozen Maiden.\n\nIn episode 12 of _Träumend,_ we learn that\n\n> Bara-Suishou was not an original _Rozen Maiden_ but rather an _Enju Maiden_\n> being crafted by a different doll maker. It is not clearly revealed as far\n> as I can tell whether she has a _Rosa Mystica_ but she cannot cope with\n> winning the Alice game and thus the other six girls’ _Rosa Mysticas,_\n> possibly because she is not pure enough. In any case, the situation is\n> restored to a pre-Alice-game situation where only those dolls defeated by\n> Rozen Maidens stay defeated: Hina-Ichigo and Souseiseki (by Shinku and\n> Suigintou). \n> \n> I conclude from these facts, that Bara-Suishou is quite a bit younger than\n> the other dolls.\n\nTherefore, the dolls must somehow know that there are seven of them but not\nwho they are until they met each other.\n\n * Why did they know that they must be seven?\n\n * How and why did they know the how many-th doll they are?\n\n * > How was it possible that _none_ of the six met the seventh _proper_ Rozen Maiden in the over 100 years that they had been living and fighting all over the world, so that they all assumed Bara-Suishou to be the proper seventh?\n\n * > Shouldn’t there have been any clues for the other dolls that Bara-Suishou is ‘non-canonical’? E.g. the scene at the end of _Träumend_ 10 where they meet Enju and call him _father._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 4 minute 1:35 to 1:45 of the Third season of Yuru Yuri, Yui accused\nToshinou of playing dirty after she won against Ayano. From what I understand,\nthey are playing bomberman-like game. What is dirty from Toshinou blowing up\nAyano?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe following anwer is made by assuming that they are playing on a Bomberman\nversion similar to one of those which actually exist.\n\nA proof that this may be similar to a known version of Bomberman is the bonus\nAyano is trying to pick up, which looks really similar to\n[Fire](http://bomberman.wikia.com/wiki/Fire) and [Full\nFire](http://bomberman.wikia.com/wiki/Full_Fire) bonuses\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mxqeU.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/teJZ2.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xyzcu.png)\n\n* * *\n\n### Basic Bomberman knowledge\n\nIn the classic games Bomberman, there are a lot of [power-\nups](http://bomberman.wikia.com/wiki/Power-Ups).\n\nOne in particular, [Kick](http://bomberman.wikia.com/wiki/Kick), gives to the\none who collected it the ability to kick away Bombs. This is the only ability\nthat grants the power to move a bomb after it has been planted.\n\nThis may be used in 2 ways :\n\n * To eject the bomb that would threaten your life;\n * To push an enemy bomb or **your bomb** into the enemy's face.\n\nWhat's more, it is important to know that bomb explose after a determined\ndelay after it has been planted.\n\n* * *\n\n### But what happend exactly?\n\nAyano did plant a bomb in order to destroy a wall and therefore is unable to\nmove (if she does, she may be killed by her own bomb)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p2PKY.png)\n\nAfter the wall exploded, Ayano's first reflex was to leave this dead-end to\npick-up a bonus.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jy9hd.png)\n\nToshino may have anticipated that Ayano would have this behavior.\n\nToshino planted a bomb near to herself, managing to time it so it would\nexplode just a little bit after Ayano's bomb. Then she pushed the bomb with\nthe bonus we talked about earlier (we can be sure of this as long as the\nability to move bombs is unique to this bonus) and killed Ayano.\n\n* * *\n\n### Why is Yui reacting this way?\n\nBomberman is usually meant to be played around strategy, which means placing\nyour bombs in order to force the enemy players' movements, and therefore block\nthem. As an example, placing a bomb on a line will force a player to go to the\nother end of this line. By playing on this kind of _forcing_ , you can \"\n_place_ \" enemies on a dead-end or a really close place where they are more\nvulnerable to bombs.\n\nThe natural reaction of an awared Bomberman player is to spend the less\npossible time in dead-ends. They are deadly because **you cannot go through\nbombs unless you have the[Bomb Pass\nbonus](http://bomberman.wikia.com/wiki/Bomb_Pass)**.\n\nHere, Toshino is just waiting for enemies to destroy walls in order to kill\nthem instead of placing bombs herself.\n\nTherefore, this kind of trick can be seen as unfair or dirty because it is\nplaying on a survival reflex and is not really the part of a global strategy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe question is similar to [this\none](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/27987/what-was-the-name-of-the-\nsong-in-one-piece-episode-722) but the song I'm looking for is different. I'm\nlooking for the song that started approximately at 12:28 in episode 722. It\nbegins when Doflamingo begins speaking. The voices cover some parts, but I\nlike the song a lot.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe OST you're looking for hasn't been released as of yet.\n\nAs of now, it's named \"Doflamingo's Theme\" and you can listen to it\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S3iwvaENc).\n\nI'll update this answer once the OST has been officially released.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nhere it is guys, i found it finally\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6dXdLHj-E0>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there a particular reason why ghouls' eyes are red? (called 'kakugan' based\non my research).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ppYTg.jpg)\n\nThere might be a reason provided by the writer, which I cannot research as it\nmay only be available in Japanese. (I am thinking that it may be due to the\ncolor of blood?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe kakugan are red due to the activation of [RC\ncells](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Rc_cells) in the ghoul's body. The RC\ncells are present in their bodies are when they activate them to use their\nkagune of due to them becoming excited, the kakugan activates as well.\n\n> A kakugan is an influence of activated Rc cells.\n\nThe kakugan are red as the RC cells are red in colour.\n\n> Rc cells (Red Child Cells) are certain cells that exist only in the story of\n> Tokyo Ghoul. The origin of the name comes from how each individual cell\n> looks like a curled up foetus.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is what I do remember about it:\n\n * I saw it either in 2013/2014 on either Anime Network or Funimation Channel. \n * It was a free preview episode.\n * I remember the main character was a guy, and he was fighting/running his way through a corridor that I think was part of a school/academy. \n * The building was brick or stone I think.\n * I'm not sure, but he may have been pulled to the school from another world/dimension.\n * The guy was being chased by different groups of people, and they were all trying to fight him, but I can't remember if they had magic or just weapons.\n * I'm pretty sure most of the characters were male.\n * I remember there was a tall, strong man type guy in one group.\n * The main character runs into a pretty boy type in an outside garden area.\n * For some reason, all of the characters had to fight each other or had to fight the main character. \n * The people chasing the main character were in groups of 3 or 4. \n\nI don't remember much about the plot, only what I saw. Any help would be\nappreciated. ^-^\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the anime you are looking for is [Magical\nWarfare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Warfare), the events you\ndescribed are from the first episode.\n\nThe strong man is Takao Oigami\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wzaPF.jpg)\n\nThe pretty boy should be Kazumi Ida\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m2wBJ.jpg)\n\n> Takeshi Nanase is an ordinary high school boy who has a somewhat dark past.\n> However, one day, he comes across a girl named Mui Aiba, in a uniform he has\n> never seen before, collapsed on the school campus. This encounter changes\n> Takeshi's destiny completely. Mui tells Takeshi that she is a magician, and\n> she apologizes, for she turned Takeshi into a magician, too. What Takeshi\n> once knew as one world is actually two — the world where magicians live and\n> the world where humans live.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI plan on watching 5 Centimeters Per Second and I would like to know if there\nare any prequels I should watch before I start with it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, there are no prequels. There are also no sequels.\n\nWatch the anime (1 hour runtime; sometimes split into three segments, but\nthey're meant to be watched together). Then, if you'd like, read the manga,\nwhich is more or less the same content-wise, but offers a slightly different\nending, which\n\n> some might find less soul-crushing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm currently reading manga and I was thinking to switch to LN or WN so I'm\nwonder to what I should read WN or LN.\n\nI'm current in chapter 15 in manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMushoku Tensei manga is an utter disgrace to the novel. I'd recommend reading\nthe translated web novel. There's not much difference between the web and\nlight novel. But the light novel's only been published till volume 8 right\nnow.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I know, the manga follows the same path as the web novel with much\nskipped content. I don't know about the light novel but I read somewhere that\nthere are some differences. And according to Wikipedia\n([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushoku_Tensei#Volume_list)), there\nexists a whole volume between WN volumes 6 & 7, that covers Rudeus' adventures\nfollowing Eris' departure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime seasons are _generally_ 12/13 episodes long. There are quite a number of\nexceptions though, where more or fewer episodes are fitted into the same\ntimeslots. Most notably, however, a season can have 11,12 or 13 episodes a\nseason. I've seen this discrepancy occur regularly.\n\nI would have thought that keeping the episode amount standard is good for\nkeeping the seasons aligned -- 52 weeks in a year / 4 seasons in a year = 13\nepisodes per season. The variant I see most is 12 episodes at a time or 12\nepisodes with a bonus DVD-only OVA. What do they do with the 1 week gap?\n\nDo stations plan their seasons far enough in advance to make it even out\noverall? What if a show is cancelled?\n\n**Why does this anomaly exist?** Surely it makes it awkward to schedule TV.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis seems to happen in most regions. The typical reasons I've seen given are:\n\n * shows don't all start on the same day or even the same week\n * sometimes airtime slots are occupied by sports, seasonal, or other non-regular programs\n * networks may choose not to broadcast new episodes on holidays with historically low viewership\n * shows are sometimes only given an awkward number of slots [like SuperGirl here](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cbs-adds-7-more-episodes-005636930.html).\n\nI would also hope that some studios choose to show more or less episodes to\nensure they have the right pacing and tell the whole story without an\nobnoxious amount of filler.\n\nI imagine networks know pretty far in advance what their lineup will look\nlike. Pilot episodes or other proposal material is submitted to the network\nfar in advance for them to review before agreeing to broadcast. It is also\nimportant to remember that a large portion of every day's slots belong to re-\nruns so cancellations just call for more of those.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, anime airing is usually divided in 4 \"seasons\" each year, following\nthe earth's seasons. TV schedules get defined only close to the start of next\nseason, and usually there are shows which were supposed to air that won't or\nthey might get delayed.\n\nAlso, most of the time shows don't start airing on the same day/week within a\nseason, and might get a one-week break during the season (i.e. non-planned\nevent on TV, holiday in Japan).\n\nTo answer your question, anime TV scheduling isn't done that much in advance,\nand is honestly a complicated mess. TV networks won't plan a year ahead\nbecause they still don't know which series they are going to air and when they\nwill be ready, so having a different number of episodes per show doesn't\nreally screw up their scheduling.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you say, there are enough weeks in a year for there to be four 13-episode\nparts. This is true, and each of these parts is a season. However, there\naren't always exactly 13 days of each day of the week in season. For example,\nthe summer 2016 season (July-September) will have 14 Saturdays.\n\nAs to why shows go for 12 or 13 episodes, it's generally something the anime\nproduction companies decide early on in creating an anime (a few months prior\nto the show airing). Different studios and shows will have their reasons, but\neither way, there we are. Unless we were there when the decision was made in\nsome board room, we don't know why a show got 12 episodes over 13.\n\nWhen the planned season where the show will be airing is about to start, the\nanime production companies will call the TV stations and ask for time slots.\n(Generally, TV stations themselves aren't involved in producing anime, only\njust putting them on TV.) For example, one will call to say \"we want to air a\nshow on Saturday nights at 24:30 for the next 12 Saturdays\". Another will call\nasking \"we want to air a show on Thursday nights at 24:00 for the next 13\nThursdays\". Whether or not they get the slot depends entirely upon whether or\nnot someone else took it yet (and if the price for the slot is worth it).\n\nAnime TV scheduling is competitive, as is a number of things in the anime\nproduction world. Anime production companies will try to be as quick as they\ncan about getting a TV slot, but it usually isn't until relatively close to\nthe start of the anime season that TV stations get a full schedule figured\nout. TV stations can count on their slots being filled, though, with the wide\namount of anime coming out each season nowadays (and they can always rely on\nreruns otherwise).\n\nSo, to sum it up, anime production companies know from early on how many\nepisodes they want. How they decide that is dependent upon the show. When it\ncomes to the TV stations, they just offer up the time slots, that's it. The\nanime companies take them as soon as they can, for as many nights as they want\nthem.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't remember anything but this one scene.\n\nThere is a shrine or temple and someone is carrying boxes. They trip or\nsomething and these beads fall out. The beads do something that makes the\ncharacter crazy and not too far off is a couple people reading under a tree.\nThen a fight breaks out.\n\nThe Shrine/Temple was not the main setting of the anime and one of the people\nunder the tree was maybe a little girl.\n\nI believe the person carrying the boxes was a girl with purple hair and the\nbeads were some type of jewellery. I think they were absorbed making her angry\nor jealous to the point of fighting someone at/near the tree.\n\nI want to say it was a fantasy type setting but I don't remember monsters or\nsuch however there is more fighting with magic or magic like abilities.\n\nI watched it only a few years back maybe like 2013, but I'm not certain though\nit had a \"newer\" art style.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime you are looking for is\n[Kannagi](http://myanimelist.net/anime/3958/Kannagi), the events you described\nare from [episode\n2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kannagi:_Crazy_Shrine_Maidens_episodes).\nThe purple-haired girl is either Nagi or her sister.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AidRI.jpg)\n\n> Our unlucky protagonist, Jin, uses the trunk of a sacred tree to carve a\n> statue for a school project. When he takes it outside, to his surprise it\n> begins absorbing the surrounding earth and transforms into, hold your breath\n> on this one, a girl! So like all similar setups this guardian deity is\n> pretty pissed that her tree was cut down and lives with Jin while she takes\n> out her anger on squashing bugs....er, cleaning the \"Impurities.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2 of Noragami, we see that when Yato's hand gets blighted, he can\nremove the blight from his body with water from the Shrine he sleeps at.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tpluN.png)\n\nHowever, in episode 9 Hiyori successfully removes her blight with water from\nKofuku house. Are there any criteria for the water that is used for cleansing\na blight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs said on the [Wikia article on\nBlight](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Blight):\n\n> **Blight mark without phantom eyes can be cleansed by washing it away using\n> purifying water obtained from shrines or natural springs.** This method only\n> works for a God that is injured by a phantom’s attack or a soul that is\n> infected from a wounded God.\n\nEven though Kofuku does not have a shrine, I guess the water at her home\nqualifies as \"purified\" owing to it being her abode, and her being as\nfamous/worshipped as the [Seven Gods of\nFortune](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Seven_Gods_of_Fortune).\n\nEither that, or she has stored some \"purifying water\" at her home for dealing\nwith blights like in the case of Yato.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI forgot what episode it is but Daikoku mentioned that the water they get in\nthe house is straight from the shrine.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of the soundtrack that plays just before the end of episode 5\nof Naruto: 'You Failed! Kakashi's Final Decision'?\n\n**It plays after the guitar solo and right before the ending credits play.**\nIt starts when Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke realize they have just passed their\nteamwork test to become Ninjas. Naruto was tied to a tree trunk, Sakura and\nSasuke were eating and decided to share their lunch with Naruto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's [Wind](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_\\(ending\\)) performed by\nAkeboshi.\n\nIt was the first ending song in the Japanese version of Part I of the Naruto\nseries. It was replaced by Harmonia in Episode 26.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe songs name is \"Victory\" from Naruto OST 1. <https://youtu.be/Ls0IE8uPp4g>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know the name of the song from Episode 10 of Noragami Aragoto\nwhich plays at 14:55 when Okuninushi told that lady to move? I really want to\nknow what the name of that song is.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is from Disc 1 Track 15.\n\nIts name is 大国譚 (\"Daikokutan\"), although I don't know if there's any official\nEnglish translation of the same.\n\nYou can listen to it [here](http://www.kuwo.cn/yinyue/6737161/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have come across this term and I wonder who exactly the 7 heroines are?\n\nThey are mentioned here in chapter 132:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/j6qkQ.jpg)\n\nAnd here:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CIG5O.jpg)\n\nCan someone give me a list of them?\n\nI know of Chitoge, Kosaki and Marika. Haru seems not to be one of them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe seven hero(ine)s of Bonyari (凡矢理高校七英雄, bonyari koukou nana eiyuu) were\nconfirmed in a **Nisekoi official Fanbook** released in August 2015 (ニセコイ\nファンブック トクレポ). The fan translation by Red Hawks being released more than one\nyear before, the team probably assumed at the time that the seven people in\nquestion were girls without any solid proof (but they are seemingly right\nnonetheless).\n\n* * *\n\n**Sources:**\n\nThe actual list of the seven heroines is mentioned on [this japanese\nblog](http://ameblo.jp/tuyo9624/entry-12061250189.html), apparently\nspecializing in Nisekoi trivia. The list is given additional credence by [this\nother blog](http://sclpsn.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-1082.html), which reviews\nthe fanbook extensively and mentions, without expliciting all names though,\nthat 5 of the 7 heroines fell in love with Raku, and that the other 2 didn't\nappear yet as of the writing of the review. The same list appears on the\njapanese [wikipedia page of\nNisekoi](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4#cite_note-60)\nas an annotation to the seven heroines entry of the glossary section, and a\nnumber of other pages of people who asked the same question.\n\n* * *\n\n**Trivia:**\n\nThe seven heroines of Bonyari refer to 7 people of Bonyari High, who possess a\nunique talent or incredible popularity among other students of Bonyari. Even\nthough she's not a part of it, Haru is mentioned to be a likely candidate for\na \"future\" list of these seven heroines. The seven heroines of Bonyari seem to\nbe a cute variation of the \"7 wonders of school\" (学校の七不思議, gakkou no nana\nfushigi) in Japanese scary urban legends, which is also a relatively common\ntrope in manga.\n\n* * *\n\n**Onto the actual list:**\n\n * The golden rose princess [golden rose], **Chitoge Kirisaki** (黄金の薔薇姫（ゴールデン・ローズ）)\n * The lovely lily missy [pretty lily], **Kosaki Onodera** (可憐なる百合嬢（プリティ・リリィ）)\n * The noble mountain arrowhead [noble amaryllis], **Seishirou Tsugumi** (気高き山慈姑（ノーブル・アマリリス）)\n * The beloved marigold [lovely gold], **Marika Tachibana** (愛の千寿菊（ラブリー・ゴールド）)\n * The gracious sunrise orchid [grace cattleya], **Yui Kanakura** (優美なる日出蘭（グレース・カトレア）)\n * The melody camellia princess [melody camellia], **Roxanne Kyouko Gotou** (旋律の椿姫（メロディー・カメリア）)\n * The innocent turnip girl [innocent turnip], **Hikari Saegusa** (無邪気な菘娘（イノセント・ターナップ）)\n\nNotes: arrowhead refers to the\n[flower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittaria_sagittifolia), not an actual\narrowhead. Also, brackets denote names written phonetically in english in the\noriginal japanese text.\n\n* * *\n\nNote that, like the japanese review of the fanbook mentions, Yui was not\nintroduced nor a teacher in Bonyari yet when the seven heroines were mentioned\nin chapter 132. It can be speculated that someone else occupied her place in\nthe listing at the time, but it is not known who.\n\nAs for Roxanne Kyouko Gotou (後藤・ロクサーヌ・響子) and Hikari Saegusa (七草光), they were\nmentioned by name and both didn't appear yet in any work as of this writing.\n(Also note that the pronunciation of their names may actually be different\nthan what I wrote. I'm fairly confident about their first names, but their\nfamily names, especially, may have a different spelling; I chose to write\nGotou and Saegusa because they are common pronunciation for these.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy fiance picked this poster up today because it looked cute, we aren't sure\nwere this is from and wanted to know if anyone could tell us where this is\nfrom.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lLw64.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is the [Snow Miku 2015 Snow Bell\nVer.](http://snowmiku.com/2015/sp_chara_en.html) design for [Snow\nMiku](http://snowmiku.com/2016/info_chara_en.html), a Hatsune Miku variant\nmade to promote the Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido.\n\nEvery year there is a new design from piapro (a division of Crypton Future\nMedia dedicated to promoting crowd-sourced content), decided by fans on their\nNicoNico Live Broadcast. The theme for 2015 was 'Plant Life in Winter', and\nthe winning design is designed by Taran (たらん). The rabbit character is called\nRabbit Yukine with variant outfit design by Hayuki (羽雪).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eUNld.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWas the Bar named because of Decim or something? They are spelled same and\npronounced in the same way! Is there a relation mentioned?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe former owner of Quindecim was 'Quin'\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/leKJA.jpg)\n\nShe was then replaced by 'Decim'\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFsLb.jpg)\n\nHence, it's definitely not a coincidence that the name of the bar is\nQuindecim.\n\nAs the [Wikia article on Quindecim](http://death-\nparade.wikia.com/wiki/Quindecim) states:\n\n> **It is likely the arbiters Quin and Decim were named so for working on the\n> fifteenth floor.**\n\nThere is no evidence of this. One thing is for sure though, Quindecim wasn't\nnamed after the arbiters since Quindecim means 15 in Latin and that's the name\nof the floor the bar is on.\n\nHence, it's very likely that Quin and Decim were both named after the bar.\nHowever, nothing was ever stated in the anime or the movie 'Death Billiards',\nso we can never truly know.\n\n",
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