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"body": "\n\nIn Chain Chronicle, Fatima, one of the Three Sages, didn't wear any clothes as\nshown below. I tried to reread the part one, chapter three, story two about\nthe Three Sages but they never really tell the reason.\n\n> Dilma\n>\n> [ Fatima has a reason for dressing as she does, so don't bother her about it\n> ]\n\nWas it ever explained anywhere? Maybe from side story or her character story?\nShe's available on Japanese version\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1r3xM.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause she is a witch. There's a lore that says witch maintaining her magical\npower by avoiding anything that touch her body (yes, including clothes).\n\nFrom developer commentary (taken from _SEGA NETWORKSの全て_ \\- 2013.12.9)\n\n\n\n(Image courtesy of [an anonymous Chain Chronicle Japanese Wiki user\nNo.76956554](https://xn--\neckfza0gxcvmna6c.gamerch.com/%E6%83%85%E5%A0%B1%E6%8F%90%E4%BE%9B%20%E9%80%A3%E7%B5%A1%E6%9D%BF/comment_76955831))\n\n> ファティマは魔女という存在の象徴として用意しています。 \n> そのため、女性の魔法使いはたくさんいても、魔女という称号を持っているのは彼女だけなんです。 \n> それから魔女というのは、生まれたままの姿から体を一切いじらないことで魔力を保つという話がありまして。 \n> そんな話をしていたら、HACCANさんから全裸のラフが来たんです。 \n> 服を着ているものもあったのですが、魔女のバックボーンを生かす究極だなと思ったので、この姿に決定しちゃいました。\n>\n> I prepared Fatima as a symbol of witch's existential. \n> For that reason, even though there are many female magic users, Fatima is\n> the only one bearing a title of 'witch'. \n> After that, regarding the witch itself, there's a story about them\n> maintaining their magical power by avoiding anything that touch their body. \n> With that background, there's a rough draft of her naked coming from HACCAN\n> (the artist). \n> There's also one with clothes on, but since I needed to specially make use\n> of witch's backbone(?), I decided to use this (naked) one.\n>\n> (Translated by myself, feel free to improve it)\n\n* * *\n\nReference: [Golden Witch Fatima - Chain Chronicle Japanese Wiki](https://xn--\neckfza0gxcvmna6c.gamerch.com/%E9%BB%84%E9%87%91%E3%81%AE%E9%AD%94%E5%A5%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%9E)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto, apart from Sai and Danzou, which other characters were members of\nthe secret subdivision of Anbu, Root?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt one point, [Yamato](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yamato) was a member of\nRoot. This is true in both anime and manga. Kakashi was also a member of\n[Root](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake), but this is only true in\nthe anime. [Yamanaka Fuu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/F%C5%AB_Yamanaka) and\n[Aburame Tatsuma](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tatsuma_Aburame), the two ninja\nDanzo brought to the Five Kage summit was also member of Root. For a full list\nof Root members, see the [wikia page](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Root).\n\nCredits to Ero Sennin for pointing me the Root wikia page.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 3, Kousei and a little kid play the happy piano, playing \"Twinkle,\nTwinkle, Little Star\". Kousei then changes the tune.\n\nWas what he played a real piece of music? And if so, what was it called?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMozart's Twelve Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je maman' (Twinkle Twinkle\nLittle Star).\n\n[Listen to it on Youtube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BTvoqVK420)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe has not shown that she is not a ghost. For example, in one episode she\nsaid she had to go to the bathroom and in another episode, she tried to sit\ndown and she fell taking physical damage from the fall.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMajor spoilers ahead, be warned. Like suggested by Omry, maybe reading the\nmanga or watching the anime if it closes up, maybe also Fairy Tail Zero, would\nbe better than reading my answer. But anyway here it comes:\n\n> Mavis is, like Zeref, burdened with the Ankhseram Black Magic curse. This\n> happend because she casted the magic \"Law\" in an incomplete state. The\n> curse's direct effect - immortality - is the reason she didn't mature\n> anymore, afterwards. \n> After the death of a guild member (Rita, Makarov's mother), which was most\n> likely caused by the second effect of the curse (the more she cares about\n> life, the more people would die), she fled and wandered around, trying to\n> kill herself by starving. \n> After one year Zeref found her, of course still alive because of the curse.\n> They came to love each other (another story), but their kiss caused Zerefs\n> curse to kill Mavis, though she should be immortal. \n> But the curse still affected her, so she didn't die completly. Zeref\n> brought her \"corpse\" to Precht, who sealed it inside the giant Lacryma after\n> noticing there was still magic energy inside the body. And that's the reason\n> she can still interact with the world in her ethereal body.\n\n* * *\n\nEdit: \nIf the question was, whether her \"body\" is really a ghost, the answer should\nbe yes. Ethereal bodies like her do not exist physically, so it's basically a\nghost like we'd normally think of it. She created the body on Tenryou island\nafter the S-Class exam using magic, so she has kinda shown that it's not real. \nI don't think she really took phyiscal damage when falling, it's just that she\nwas interacting with the physical world because she liked to. That's pure\nspeculation, though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Ar Tonelico 2_ when Zodom appears in Lekra after EXEC_HIBERNATION was\nstopped Mir comments how it's cuter than other ones and that she wouldn't have\nmade one so immature.\n\nThere are 2 things i can think of that Mir has created in the past, Song Magic\nand Viruses. so does that mean Zodom is a Virus and the song she sings is her\nversion of EXEC_PAJA? if not then what did Mir create in the past which is\nlike Zodom (only more mature)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey are similar (lifeforms created by taking data or feelings from the Binary\nField and giving them form through Flip-Flop Conversion), but Mir is comparing\nit to the Shadow Mir virus she made and summoned for the final battle in AT1.\n\nAnd the song Mir used there is EXEC_HARMONIOUS_FUSION/., a variant of her\nHarmonious song that underwent a Hymmnos Fusion that she made especially for\nquelling down the negative feelings Zodom was formed from. Plus, it should\nhave been very obvious from the fact its beginning sounds very similar to the\nHarmonious Misha sang during AT1's final battle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember bits of this movie and I liked it.\n\nThe mushroom shaped towers were very big, and the cybernetic being had\ntentacles or cords infused into its body. Just like in the pictures below...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mn9Wt.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9yvGd.jpg)\n\nI thought the name was willow or wind. Any help?\n\nOh and this was around 20 years ago.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a bit of a long shot, but perhaps is it Nausicaa: Valley of the\n**Wind**. This was a really big title, released in 1984. There was also a US\nrelease called \"Warriors of the Wind\".\n\nWhile I don't remember any large mushroom houses, there's a lot of large\nnatural features in the landscape of the world, and the main protagonist does\na lot of travelling, so at one stage she may have flown through a similar\narea.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pt0Oxm.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2Q7lRm.jpg)\n\nThe tentacle person isn't in this, but some of the creatures do have tentacley\nthings that reach out:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUjUX.jpg)\n\n> One thousand years have passed since the Seven Days of Fire, an apocalyptic\n> war that destroyed civilization and created the vast Toxic Jungle,[Note 1] a\n> poisonous forest swarming with giant mutant insects. In the kingdom of the\n> Valley of the Wind, a prophecy predicts a saviour \"clothed in blue robes,\n> descending onto a golden field, to join bonds with the great earth and guide\n> the people to the pure lands at last\". Nausicaä, the princess of the Valley\n> of the Wind, explores the jungle and communicates with its creatures,\n> including the gigantic, armored trilobite-like creatures called Ohm.[Note 2]\n> She hopes to understand the jungle and find a way for it and humans to co-\n> exist.\n\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_\\(film\\)#Plot)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a really long shot based on the similarity to the Ghibli aesthetic\nmentioned above:\n\nCould it be Tree of Palme?\n\n<https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=928>\n\nIt's from 2002, so it's a little earlier than you specified, and I would be\namazed if this was ever shown on broadcast TV. It did get a dub and a DVD\nrelease though, so who knows?\n\nMushroom structures - check (sorry for the angle - I couldn't find much on\ngoogle images) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cqcYM.png)\n\nGirl with cables everywhere - check [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZVY1m.jpg)\n\nwoman AND boy who merge, transform into a monster and are engulfed by\ntentacles (it's complicated) - check\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/toDXK.png)\n\nSo, do any of these characters ring any bells?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Orcse.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've just read all the way to the most recent manga chapter which is chapter\n466 of fairy tail and Natsu has just used, and seemingly lost, the Dragon King\nMode. It seems that all hope is lost for the fairy tail mages since natsu has\nnow depleted the Dragon King mode and the guild has lost their trump card to\ndefeat zeref.\n\nHere is my question. Can Natsu theoretically combine the Dragon Force with his\nlightning flame dragon mode in sort of a stacking kind of way? From what I\nunderstand about Dragon Force it is the most powerful transformation that a\ndragon slayer can take and puts their overall power on par with an actual\ndragon. It increases their strength, speed, power, senses and their overall\nmagic power to unimaginable heights. Now from what I know about Lightning\nFlame Dragon Mode it increases the strength of natsu's attacks as well as\ngrants him the ability to use Laxus' lightning to increase the power of his\nmagic related attacks.\n\nHere's the thing, it seems to me that Dragonforce is a full on transformation\nthat can be utilized by the dragon slayers but it seems as though Lightning\nFlame Dragon Mode is more a power up that Natsu can use to finish a fight\nquickly rather than being a full on transformation. So it seems that it would\nonly be logical that Natsu would be able to enter Dragonforce and then power\nup utilizing LFDM to end a fight with zeref quickly. If he could utilize both\nwould this put him on par with the Dragon King Mode and would it be enough to\ndefeat zeref who was almost critically wounded by the Dragon King mode?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is possible as Lightning flame dragon is an extra skill that he picked up\nfrom Laxus whereas Dragon force exists within all Dragon Slayers which needs\ntremendous amount of energy for natsu to tap into it. However the author has\nnot shown him doing both at the same time. It is possible in future.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Sting vs Larcade fight, Sting was able to utilize Rogue's Shadow to enter\nWhite Shadow Dragon Mode and at the same time activated his Dragon Force.\nNatsu hasn't been shown doing it but I'm sure he could do it too, and once he\npulls it off, it'll be the end for his enemies.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Bleach manga-volume 57, chapter 502, page 56-you see\n\n> Byakuya on a wall with blood splattered everywhere, and a man with white\n> hair (sorry for me not knowing his name; I have yet to actually read the\n> manga, besides the first three volumes) says, \"It seems Byakuya Kuchiki is\n> dead.\"\n\nMy question is: is Byakuya _really_ dead, here, or does he come back and\nwhatnot? This scene _looks_ as though he is, but we've seen desperate\nsituations-like this-in the past chapters (or episodes) of Bleach where the\ncharacter isn't **truly** dead; they come back later making a dramatic\nentrance, looking even more badass than before. See what I mean?\n\nThis **_CAN'T_** be the end for Byakuya Kuchiki. It just can't!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou should probably just live with the dramatic tension as you keep reading\nthrough the series. That being said...\n\nThe short answer:\n\n> He gets better.\n\nThe slightly longer answer:\n\n> He gets better. And gets a power-up.\n\nThe longer, more detailed answer:\n\n> He hangs on by a thread. And then Squad Zero--recall we heard about them\n> during the Turn Back The Pendulum arc--shows up when the Quincies leave. One\n> of them takes Byakuya and a few others with them up to the Royal Palace.\n> Byakuya and a few others then get healed up, equipped, and trained in the\n> Royal Palace.\n\nI left a fair amount of details out of the above, so some things won't be\nspoiled, but it still spoils a fair amount even in its vague brevity.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKuchiki Byakuya didn't die here.\n\n> He was saved by the zero division.\n\nAnd he shows up in chapter 655.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lVrXj.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Yamato is sent on a trip to Iskendar, 183,000 light years away. Their goal\nis to reach Iskendar and return to Earth before a year has elapsed. Due to the\ndistance from earth, this will require faster-than-light travel to make it\nback in time. However, taking into consideration of how fast they are\ntravelling [time dilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation) would\ncause their return to be thousands of years later, after the invasion has\nalready completed and earth has been terraformed.\n\nHow can they make it to their destination and back within their one year\ndeadline?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, Kenshin appears to be about 17 (at least to my western,\nCaucasian eyes). Consider that the revolution was 10 years in the past, and it\nmust have taken years during the war for him to develop his skills and\nreputation as _Battosai the Man-Slayer_. At a minimum, I think he's got to be\n31, and that is if he got started in the revolution while still a mid-teen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKenshin was born June 20th, 1849. Sold into slavery at age 6 (1855) Trained\nuntil his departure at age 14 (1864) when he began his Hitokiri days, obtained\nthe first vertical Half of his trademark scar. By 1868 he abandoned his\nassassin role for guerilla swordsman duty protecting Imperial officials. 1869\nBoshin War Ends (Kenshin Age 20) Proliferates his wandering days for nearly a\ndecade til he arrives in Tokyo in early 1878 (Age 28) OVA: reflections: 5\nyears later, dies at age 33 of unknown disease (Presumably either Leprosy or\nMeningococcal disease)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTitle says it all. Does Akatsuki Kojou's imouto (little sister) knows that his\noniichan (elder brother) is the Fourth Progenitor? If yes, since when she\nknows that? In the 24 episodes of the anime, it doesn't seems like Nagisa\nknows. What about the light novel?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Hatoful Boyfriend_ , Okosan is the only ~~person~~ bird to not receive a\nhuman drawing.\n\nWhy is that?\n\n\n\nwhereas every other character:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been looking for the song which plays at around 10:37 in episode 9 of\nParasyte the Maxim. I couldn't find it in the OST.\n\nHere's the episode I am talking about [on\nCrunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/parasyte-the-maxim-/episode-9-beyond-\ngood-and-evil-662599).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOK, I found a playlist someone posted on Reddit with the song I was looking\nfor. <https://youtu.be/CdOc3BAOKHo> track 4, titled \"LIZARD\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFunimation has released DVDs for Sgt. Frog covering episodes 1-78. Everything\nI have read on-line leads me to believe Funimation will not be releasing any\nmore episodes.\n\nIf those of us in the USA want to watch episodes 79-358 of this show subtitled\nin English (or dubbed, although I find that unlikely) what options are\navailable? I have seen a few DVDs with confusing titles like \"Keroro Gunso 4th\nSeason 6\", but when they specify the region, it is region 2, and I don't think\nthat will work in my home entertainment PC.\n\nI am not interested in any answers relating to unlicensed copies or derivative\nworks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nZoro confessed that he got defeated by Dracule Mihawk using his \"Three\nThousand World\" attack in the Baratie Restaurant, when he first met him. I was\nwondering if he used this attack anytime after that before we see him use it\nagain on Pica in Dressrosa. If so, in which fight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, he does. Zoro first uses uses his secret move \"Three Thousand Realms\"\nagainst Mihawk on the Baratie to little effect, and it isn't used again for\nhundreds of chapters until being used successfully against Oars to give him\nthree very large scars and a lot of damage when the Strawhats successfully\nincapacitate him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs Qiri mentioned, he did use it against Oars in thriller back. This takes\nplace in chapter 480. Below is a picture showing the attack, with the \"Three\nthousand worlds\" editor's translation.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LLNlr.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI bought Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 for my PSVita awhile back, and now\nI have Re;Birth2. _And_ I've seen a few of the episodes, but I really want to\nknow: in what order do all the games occur, and where does the anime fit in?\n\n[code]\n\n -I know how the Re;Birth games go:\n *Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1\n *Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2 Sisters' Generation\n *Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generations\n \n[/code]\n\nBut I know that there are a lot more than that, especially with the new ones\ncoming out, and then there's the animation to consider.\n\nThe Hyperdimension Neptunia franchise is very confusing, seeing as\n\n> When you meet IF in Re;Birth1, Compa has no idea who the f*** she is, but in\n> Re;Birth2, in a small lily-rank-raising event, Compa states that her and IF\n> knew each other since they were babies.\n\nThis information that Compa gives us is false when considering the events of\nRe;Birth1, so I'm not even sure if there **_IS_** a way to put the games in a\nchronological order.\n\nBut if anybody knows the order (if there is one), please tell me how it goes,\nand, if not, tell me that there isn't.\n\n",
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II/Re;Birth 2: Sisters'\nGeneration_ , _Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory/Re;Birth 3: V Generation_ ,\n_Megamdimenstion Neptunia VII_\n\n> Histoire isn't as powerful as he is in the first instead being one of 4\n> Oracles. in Mk.II IF seemed to have a crush for Nepgear rather than Vert. in\n> the True Route the party goes to where one of the former Goddesses of\n> Planeptune are buried who they speak to about DOS.Arfoire.\n\nAlso aside from the first game/Re;Birth i believe all games which refer to the\nHyperdimension are set here as according to the Wikia page of the\n[Hyperdimenstion](http://neptunia.wikia.com/wiki/Hyper_Dimension)\n\n> The Hyper Dimension is a dimension of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series and\n> appears in every title of the main series since Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2.\n\nalso while i haven't found where VII links with with Mk. 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In this dimension,\n> residents who typically are not from this world such as the Four Felons\n> exist as well as numerous others.\n\nSource: [Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection -\nSetting](http://neptunia.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperdimension_Neptunia:_Producing_Perfection#Setting)\n\nthe 4 Felons it's referring to are ASIC's Criminals of the Free World,\nCFW.Magic, CFW.Judge, CFW.Trick and CFW.Brave\n\n### Gamarket - _Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart_\n\n> Unlike previous titles of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. 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The geography is entirely the same and\n> is comprised of floating continents; each having one of the four nations:\n> Planeptune, Lastation, Leanbox, and Lowee.\n\nSource: [Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed -\nSetting](http://neptunia.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperdimension_Neptunia_U:_Action_Unleashed#Setting)\n\nwhile the Wikia says _\"much like\"_ this could be because it may be missing\nCelestia. i have yet to play it to determine this\n\n### MegaTagmension? (Currently unknown) - _MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS\nZombies_\n\n> The game's setting is very different to the previous games. In this game,\n> set in another alternate universe, the girl are not CPU/Goddess but instead\n> high school students. They try making a zombie movie when they accidentally\n> summon zombies to their world.\n\nSource: [MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies -\nSetting](http://neptunia.wikia.com/wiki/MegaTagmension_Blanc_%2B_Neptune_VS_Zombies#Setting)\n\n### Zero and Heart Dimensions - _Megamdimenstion Neptunia VII_\n\nThe Zero Dimenstion is an alternate dimension nearing destruction where\nNeptune and Nepgear end up first.\n\nAs for the Heart Dimension it is,\n\n> An amalgamation of both Zero Dimension and Hyper Dimension. 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"body": "\n\nThe Sharingan was mainly used for casting Genjutsu, following an opponent's\nmoves, which could be the hand signs they make, and to imitate the opponent.\nSasuke couldn't just \"copy\" the Rasengan, he would of had to master it too.\nAnd if you remember when Naruto was practicing to master the Rasengan he had\nto go through 3 **hard** steps. Which were with a water balloon, a rubber\nball, and an air balloon.\n\nAs I stated earlier the Sharingan can imitate the hand signs of an opponent\nbut the Rasengan did not require any hand signs so it would have been hard for\nSasuke to \"copy\" it if he did not know what to do. Also to master the Rasengan\nthe ninja requires extremely refined chakra control, something that very few\nninja naturally possess. That's why the Rasengan is difficult to master. In\norder to help others gain the necessary chakra control, learning to use the\nRasengan is broken into three steps:\n\n> 1. Rotation - the user learns to spin their chakra in multiple directions\n> at once. To help in this regard, users may be given a water balloon so that\n> they can mark their progress by the churning water; this step is complete\n> once the users is able to burst the balloon with their chakra. It is\n> important for the user to know which direction their body naturally spins\n> its chakra for this step.\n> 2. Power - the user must increase the volume and density of chakra they\n> output. To help in this regard, users may be given a rubber ball: there is\n> no water inside to help them burst the exterior and the rubber shell is\n> thicker than a balloon's.\n> 3. Containment - the user must combine the first two steps into a\n> contained sphere. To help in this regard, users may be given a balloon to\n> help them visualize the intended shape; if the balloon is popped or\n> otherwise moves, mastery is not yet achieved.\n>\n\nI'm not sure if Sasuke has refined chakra control, but if he didn't it would\nhave been really hard to master it, like Naruto.\n\nThis is kind of of my opinion but I don't think Sasuke would of wanted to\nlearn something that is hard and takes time to master. He would of wanted\nsomething quick but powerful, like the Chidori, to master like that he could\nget ready to kill Itachi.\n\nAlso an addition to your statement in your question Sasuke did not copy Lee's\nmoves he just mimicked them. I know this because Lee uses Taijutsu, something\nthat requires no hand signs nor chakra, and Kakashi one time stated that the\nSharingan can **NOT** copy Taijutsu.\n\nSources:\n\n * [Rasengan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rasengan)\n * [Sharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan)\n * [Taijutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Taijutsu)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlot-holes. I love Naruto but if there was ever a real Akatsuki, Kishi would\nbe in it as a S-class plot hole creator. Anyway Sasuke could copy the Sasengan\njust as Kakashi did; plus he made Boruto learn it so that he can master shape\nmanipulation at it's best. Before thinking why Sasuke didn't go to learn the\nRasengan is due to:\n\n 1. Two contrasting teachers (Jiraiya - work hard type & Orochimaru - genius type)\n 2. Sasuke's god complex (thinking he's right in everything)\n 3. Sasuke intent from the beginning was to kill Itachi and Chidori is the best type for him with his speed and Sharingan.\n\nBut if we consider all this criteria and as Boruto learns from Sasuke, we\nmight as well assume that as both has six paths power they (both Naruto and\nSasuke) can use Rasengan and Chidori.\n\nAssumption of course but it is plausible considering they have mastered\nyin/yang styles and five elemental natures.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have not seen the curse mark on Kabuto. (I have watched till episode 120).\nWhy didn't Orochimaru give the curse mark to Kabuto? Is it because Kabuto is\nalready powerful?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause Kabuto was not his experiment but a partner. It can be clearly seen\nthat he showed affection to none of his experiments and even Sasuke was\nsuppose to be his next body. But on the other hand Kabuto was his partner,\nfriend or companion. Even it can be argue that Orochimaru revival to the good\nside was due to the action of Kabuto. So he didn't give him the cursed mark\nbecause he never wanted to use him as a pawn as much as he done with others.\nHe might even sympathies with Kabuto for his past from childhood shown in\nAnime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet's begin by analysing people who Orochimaru marked with Cursed Mark and\nwhat they have in common.\n\n**Jiroubo, Ukon, Sakon, Tayuya, and Kidoumaru**\n\nThey are granted the Cursed Mark not because Orochimaru wanted to use them as\ntheir vessel, but rather as an experiment on how far the cursed mark can\nimprove someone's fighting capability and what are the side effects. They are\nalso granted the Cursed Mark as a mean of improving their fighting capability\nso that they can serve Orochimaru better.\n\n**Kimimaro**\n\nHe was supposed to be the container for Orochimaru. He was chosen for he has\nthe Shikotsumyaku Kekkei Genkai which enables him to use his bone as weapon.\nHe was the last one of his clan, which makes his Kekkei Genkai unique.\nHowever, since he was sickly, he lost his position as the next container for\nOrochimaru to Uchiha Sasuke who possessed the Kekkei Genkai Sharingan. While\nSharingan was not as rare as Kimimaro's Kekkei Genkai, Uchiha Sasuke was in\ngood health. Kimimaro was barely hanging alive, having to rely on machineries\nto keep himself alive as long as possible. The thing is, the dojutsu that\nOrochimaru used to transfer his soul to another body ([Furou Fushi no\nJutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Living_Corpse_Reincarnation) or Living\nCorpse Reincarnation in English) has a limitation of 3 years cooldown before\nit can be used again. If during those 3 years the vessel dies out, he won't be\nable to escape death. Thus, Kimimaro lost his position as the next vessel to\nSasuke.\n\n**Uchiha Sasuke**\n\nOriginally, it was not Sasuke that Orochimaru wanted. It was Uchiha Itachi,\nSasuke's elder brother. However, since Itachi is far too strong for Orochimaru\nto handle (Orochimaru did tried to attack Itachi, only to fall to the latter's\ngenjutsu and was unable to break free at all), Sasuke was chosen.\n\n## Now, why is it that Yakushi Kabuto didn't get any Cursed Mark?\n\n**First** , at that time, Kabuto was Orochimaru's assistant. He is necessary\nfor Orochimaru to help with his research, and to help him prepare the next\nvessel for his Incarnation jutsu. Orochimaru needed **his brain more than his\nbody**. Of course if Orochimaru was in a dire need of a new vessel right away\nand no one else was around for him to transfer to, undoubtedly, he would have\nconsumed Kabuto for the sake of his own survival and Kabuto would definitely\ngive his body gladly, seeing how devoted he is to Orochimaru. However, such a\ncondition was never the case for Orochimaru, and thus there is no need for him\nto give Kabuto a Cursed Mark since Cursed Mark only increase fighting ability\nand not intelligence.\n\n**Second** , while Kabuto were said to be around Kakashi's level (Kakashi is\nin Special Jounin level and the fact that he was nominated to be a Hokage\nmeans that he was one of the strongest in Konoha), Kabuto possessed no Kekkei\nGenkai. In other words, he was not a potential vessel as far as Orochimaru is\nconcerned.\n\n**Third** , based on the [trivia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sound_Four),\nthe seal that was given to the Sound Four was based on cardinal direction.\nSince all 4 of the basic cardinal directions was filled, and that Heaven and\nEarth seal was used on Sasuke and Kimimaro, there is no other seal for\nOrochimaru to use on Kabuto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Alvarez empire arc, she is shown to have materialized in spirit form\nonce again to help out Lucy. But we all know the key that belonged to Lucy is\nbroken.\n\nWhat does this mean? are there 2 keys? I'm happy she's back though\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer was revealed in the following issue\n\n> The key to summon Aquarius has been reborn somewhere in the world and the\n> gate was opened by the Celestial King so that Aquarius could deliver a\n> message to Brandish and Lucy\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that One Piece is the goal for Luffy to become pirate king, but I want\nto know about One Piece itself.\n\nDid One Piece named after Gol d. Roger discovered it or its already One Piece\nwhen he discovered it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI always believed that he said he left his treasure in \"one piece\" (which is a\nphrase that means intact/complete/undamaged/undivided). As so little is known\nand that is the only decription, it became the defacto name.\n\nThis implies that the popular name was created after Gol's death.\n\nHowever, the nature of the One Piece treasure and specifically what he meant\nis not fully clarified yet. This means we don't know if he said \"one piece\"\n(intact) or \"One Piece\" (name for something or a play on words).\n\nTo fully answer this properly if this is a pun, you may need to find the\noriginal untranslated wording and someone who understands English and Japanese\nwell. Alternatively, wait until it is revealed (in several years hopefully).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe whole story wouldn't be if it wasn't for the Gol D. Roger's assurance that\nhe really has his treasure unharmed and out of danger. He let people know that\nif somebody wants it, he can has it as long as he finds it. It's assumed that\nit is in the last island,Raftel, (so the \"King of Pirates\" could only have it\nI guess) having in mind that he surrendered voluntarily so he could have\nhidden it anywhere but the most difficult place, is the one that's hard to\nreach.\n\nFrom [One Piece](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece)'s wikia page:\n\n> One Piece (ひとつなぎの大秘宝（ワンピース） Wan Pīsu?, kanji read as \"Hitotsunagi no\n> Daihihō\", **translating to \"The Great Treasure of One Piece\"** ) is a\n> legendary treasure said to be of unimaginable value.\n\nIt could be either the treasure itself, or the place that treasure lays. Both\noccasions leads that One Piece is something that Gol D. Rogger created by\ngathering his treasure and leaving it somewhere.\n\nSo One Piece is just another big treasure (probably the biggest) of the seas,\nbut **Gol D. Roger gave it's name since he is the one who made it**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne Piece could also refer to the Pony-glyphs, being the Pony-glyphs main\npiece that connects all the others and makes sense out of all the others.\n\nWe know that Roger could read the Pony-glyphs as he signed the bell fry in\nSkypeia. Robin comes to the understanding that all of these are connected,\nsome with information, some telling the location of the ones with information.\n\nThis could mean that One Piece is either a Pony-glyph, one of the great\nweapons mentioned in the Pony-glyphs, or it could be whatever the person who\nfound it wants it to be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPower levels are so confusing throughout the DBZ series.\n\nFor example: \n \n\nKaioken = x2 base \nKaioken x3 = x3 base \nKaioken x4 = x4 base \n\nand so on...\n\nSSJ = x50 base \nSSJ Grade 2 = ? \nSSJ Grade 3 = ? \nSSJ2 = x100 base \nSSJ3 = x400 base \nSSJ4 = ? \nSSJG = ? \nSSJGSSJ = ? \nLSSJ = ?\n\nFusion = ? \nFusion Dance = ? \nPotara Fusion = ?\n\nFrieza form 1 = 1x base \nFrieza form 2 = ? \nFrieza form 3 = ? \nFrieza form final (full power) = ? \nFuture Frieza = ? (Same with final form?) \nGolden Frieza = ? \n\nSuper Buu's Absorption = ? (times the victim's power level) \n \n\nThe unknown factor ( _\"?\"_ ) makes me confuse about their power levels. Any\nideas? Thanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_power_levels) wikia page\nsummarizes the known power levels from the original Dragon Ball series up to\nDragon Ball GT. According to the wikia page:\n\n> All of the levels on this list are taken from the manga, anime, movies,\n> movie pamphlets, Daizenshuu guides, video games and stated mathematical\n> calculations. After the Frieza Saga, the only power level stated by a\n> scouter in the series is that of Future Trunks. In the 2000s, V-Jump\n> revealed the official power levels of Cooler in his Final Form, Broly in his\n> Legendary Super Saiyan form, and Gogeta in his Super Saiyan form.\n\nTherefore, we only have the power levels up to SSJ1, with the exceptions\nlisted above.\n\nThe concept of numbered power levels was introduced in the Saiyan Saga. My\ntheory is that Akira Toriyama quickly realised that this was a dangerous path:\nit is not easy to keep the same consistency throughout the series, especially\nwhen we know how forgetful the author can be. After the Frieza saga, no\nadditional power levels were introduced. I will be very surprised if they make\na come back in Dragon Ball Super.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust to add some new information, Vados mentioned in Dragon Ball Super, the\npotara fusion turns the fused fighter created \"tens of times\" stronger than\nthe original fighters. I couldnt find a video to show it to you, but you can\nsee in Google many users in different websites commenting on this\n\n[fusion tens of times dragon ball\nvados](https://www.google.com/search?q=fusion%20tens%20of%20times%20dragon%20ball%20vados%20&biw=1366&bih=657&ei=lODxYfb4Ap3A5OUP9aeSiAQ&ved=0ahUKEwj2kqyI0ND1AhUdILkGHfWTBEEQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=fusion%20tens%20of%20times%20dragon%20ball%20vados%20&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BwgAEEcQsAM6BwghEAoQoAE6BAghEBU6BQghEKABSgQIQRgASgQIRhgAUJoEWMgLYNQNaAFwAngAgAHGAYgB8QWSAQM0LjOYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=gws-\nwiz)\n\nAccording to the Dragon Ball wikia, in Dragon Ball GT the metamor fusion (the\nother fusion) also turns the fighter ten of times stronger\n\n[Gogeta](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Gogeta)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the fight of Team Asuma and Kakashi vs Kakuzu and Hidan, Naruto eyes\nchanged. It's like the Fox's eyes but still in blue.\n\n> This is before he mastered Kurama's, the Nine Tails, chakra.\n\nWhen Kurama possesses him his eyes color would change to red, but during this\nfight his eyes were blue. Is there a explanation for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think there is an accurate answer for this, but I think he might have\nbeen using the Kyuubi's, aka Kurama or Nine Tails, chakra without it taking\ncontrol over him. He has done this a lot of times in other episodes, but his\neyes turn red. What I mean by this is that every time Kyuubi lets Naruto take\nsome of his chakra, Naruto's eyes turn red then (sometimes) Kyuubi's chakra\nstart to surround him. This only happens when Naruto gets taken over by his\nemotions. Also notice that his whiskers get darker.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xCfcB.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/evTA9.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IRNpR.jpg)\n\nAlso every time Kyuubi gets mad his eyes reflect on Naruto's. Kyuubi said this\nhappened before when Naruto was in Sage Mode when he was talking with Nagato.\nHe said that he was so mad some of his chakra \"accidentally spilt\", so his\neyes were mixed in with the Sage Mode in Naruto's eyes.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZnFCF.jpg)\n\n> Before Obito put the other half of Kyuubi back in Naruto (during the war\n> Naruto kinda died, but before that he got to tame Kyuubi), Naruto finished\n> talking to Hagoromo, The Sage of Six Paths, and came back to life than he\n> went to rescue Gui. When he did he turned around to see Madara. His eyes\n> were in Sage Mode but had Kyuubi's eyes mixed in there. (Notice in the anime\n> Naruto's eyes were not red but orange unlike when he was talking to Nagato.)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JK2Ae.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tdJj1.jpg) \n> In Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring one of the Shins\n> staves Naruto in the stomach. That makes Kyuubi mad, but Naruto tells him to\n> calm down. I'm not sure if his eyes turned red or not because of the manga\n> only being black and white, but I'm going to say they did. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aTqTu.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t6hrU.jpg)\n\nAll of the information I gave says that Kyuubi gives Naruto some of his chakra\nwhich makes his eyes turn red, but when he was fighting Kakuzu and Hidan he\ndidn't seem mad. But maybe like [@Ayase\nEri](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/7866/ayase-eri) said in the\ncomments the studio could have just messed up and put blue instead of red in\nhis eyes, or they just didn't and it supposed to be like that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe the different colors of narutos fox eyes means how much the fox is\npresent like how much the fox is possessing him when his eyes were fox blue it\nwas him but eather he was borrowing chakra but had more control of him or the\nfox was just present like looking out thru naruto eyes keeping an eye on the\nbattle\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anybody have any idea what these are called?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhGn2.jpg)\n\nI've only seen them referred to as blue lines so far.\n\nI've seen them represent depression, sadness or disgust before but could\nsomeone clarify this also?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTV Tropes lists this as [\"Blue with\nShock.\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueWithShock) This and\nother exaggerations originate in Manga where the lack of motion and detail\nmakes it hard to portray a variety of emotions. To overcome this limitation\nauthors use various simple effects to express the same meaning. This is\nreferred to as [Manga\nIconography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_iconography).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSorry to answer a question that has already an accepted answer this late, but\nI felt like giving more information in addition to CuddleBunny's answer.\n\n* * *\n\nThese lines are called 垂れ線 ( _taresen_ , drooping lines) or just 縦線 ( _juusen_\n, vertical lines). They are a type of 効果線 ( _koukasen_ , effect lines) that\nare used in manga/anime/games, such as the \"[speed\nlines](https://t4.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/74/22/93/240_F_74229346_WdV7aWyjNVGKpitoTw6YXSAVJFn2kvB6.jpg)\"\nused to emphasize action or speed.\n\n_Taresen_ , and by extension, all _koukasen_ , are a type of 漫符 ( _manpu_ ,\nsymbols used in manga to denote emotions or actions). Although the term\n_taresen_ doesn't seem too popular, the term _koukasen_ (and _manpu_ ) in\ncontrast is widely recognized, and it is one of the drawing notions a person\nhas to know in order to become a mangaka.\n\n_Taresen_ is similar to another _manpu_ , the [horizontal\nlines](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/oekaki/649797.png), in that they both emphasize\nthe surprise one character feels. However, where _taresen_ emphasize shock,\nhorizontal lines emphasize rather stupefaction.\n\n_Taresen_ often exaggerates the image of a shadow being cast on the face of\nthe character when it is hanging his head. In some other cases, the lines are\ndrawn under the eyes, to denote dark circles or eye twitching, on the side of\nthe head where it can be assimilated to the \"[cold\nsweat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Ase.PNG)\" _manpu_ ,\nor even on the back of the head.\n\n_Taresen_ was first introduced in manga, in black and white, a support where\none could easily build a parallel between the lines and what they were\nsupposed to represent in reality. Instances of _taresen_ were\n[seen](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1311132483) in\nmanga going as far in time as 1971 (in a manga of Moto Hagio). _Taresen_ are\ncommonly used to denote, as other people said, depression, disgust and\nimpatience.\n\nThe lines can come, depending on the case, with another _manpu_ : the face\nbeing replaced by shadows of various colors, like black, dark purple, or blue.\nBlue color often denote a feeling of cold. This can be associated to cold\nsweat, or just plain cold. For example, it can often be seen when characters\neat too much ice cream and feel the cold rising to their head (brain freeze).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe title says it all.\n\nPersonally, I am not fond of reading and when it comes to this, I'd prefer to\nwatch the anime rather than read its manga. However, there are some who prefer\nreading the manga.\n\n_Why is that so?_ Are there any differences or is it just that one is better\nthan the other at times?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile the preference to read the manga over watching the anime may be opinion-\nbased, there lies within that some facts readily understood outside the\nanime/manga community.\n\n * Some people prefer to read the book _instead_ of watching the movie. \n * Perhaps they don't have access to the anime/movie.\n * Perhaps they prefer manga/books as a medium, maybe avoiding their experience of the manga/book being \"corrupted\" by watching an anime/movie adaptation of it.\n * Perhaps they feel the need to enjoy this hobby in private and they can't watch an anime/movie with adequate privacy. \n * Some people prefer to read the book _before_ watching the movie. \n * Perhaps they prefer to know the manga/book to educate their anime/movie experience.\n * Perhaps they have greater access to the manga/book than the anime/movie.\n * Perhaps they couldn't wait to read the manga/book before there was an anime/movie adaptation.\n * Some people prefer to read the book _after_ watching the movie. \n * Perhaps they were unaware of the book/manga before watching the anime/movie.\n * Perhaps they use anime/movie adaptations to educate their selections of manga/books. \n\"If they can't make an anime/movie adaptation, is it worth it for me to read\nthe book/manga?\" \n\"That anime/movie had an interesting concept. I wonder how the book/manga\ntreats it.\"\n\n * Perhaps reading is difficult (learning disability, non-native language, *et al.*), so watching an anime/movie adaptation reduces the learning curve and gives them greater access to the manga/book.\n * Some people prefer to watch the movie _instead_ of reading the book. \n * Perhaps they don't have access to the book/manga. \n\"I have trouble reading because I have dyslexia.\" \n\"I'd rather read the manga in Japanese, but it's hard for me to find it.\"\n\n * Perhaps they prefer anime/movies as a medium.\n * Perhaps they feel the need to enjoy this hobby in private and they can't read the book/manga (or store it) with adequate privacy.\n\nWhen the material is in my native language (English), I prefer to read the\nbook before I watch the movie. However, when the material is in a non-native\nlanguage (Japanese), I prefer to read the manga _after_ I watch the anime,\nusing the anime almost like one would Cliff's Notes. But those are _my_\npreferences and their justifications; they may not be yours or your friends'.\n\nThis isn't an exhaustive list of justifications or reasons. Feel free to add\nto them if you want.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is highly subjective, but as someone who enjoys reading manga (even when\nI'm also watching the anime) I'm sure a number of people have reasons similar\nto mine:\n\n * For a long runnning series, the manga is usually farther ahead, so you find out what happens next sooner.\n * For a long running series, the manga avoids the filler that the anime can sometimes be forced to resort to.\n * The manga is the original source material, and the anime adaptations are not always faithful. By reading the manga, you are getting the 'real' story.\n * Similarly, some manga run far longer than the anime adaptations (Claymore, for example.) so the manga is the only way you can get the rest of the story.\n * Not all manga are given an anime, so by avoiding manga, you may be missing out on a good series.\n\nAnd of course, there's the obvious one: I enjoy reading.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the case of monster musume there are noticible differences between the\nmanga and anime As is the case of many series so perhaps people watch for the\ndifferences\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy favourite Bleach song is the eleventh opening: _Anima Rossa_ by Porno\nGraffiti. My sister, who is a big fan of Bleach, says it's a male who sings\nit. I, who is only on episode 86, believes it is a female. It just sounds like\none.\n\nDespite the song _sounding_ as though a female sings it, I too have reasons to\nbelieve it is sung by a male. My reason is because, I remember noticing that\nFullmetal Alchemist's (2003 series; not Brotherhood) first opening theme-\nMelissa- is also by Porno Graffiti... but the singer is audibly male. You can\njust **_tell_**. Although, I don't want to believe a **MALE** sings Anima\nRossa.\n\nI need to know, because I imagine certain characters singing my favourite\nanime songs (but the character has to be from the same anime as the song :P ),\nand I imagined Rangiku singing it. I have no idea why; I just did (and still\ndo). But if it's a male who sings it... I have to change that.\n\nI'd appreciate it if you could give me unquestionable evidence.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porno_Graffitti)\n\n> Porno Graffitti (ポルノグラフィティ Poruno Gurafiti), also known as Porno (ポルノ\n> Poruno) is a Japanese **male rock band** from Innoshima, Hiroshima\n> Prefecture, Japan.\n\nCurrent and Past Members only lists 3 names and Wikipedia only has a link to\nthe past member [Masami\nShiratama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masami_Shiratama) which says:\n\n> After leaving the band in June 2004, **he** released the album Great\n> Pleasure in December 2005.\n\n[Akihito Okano](http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Okano_Akihito) (who does vocals)\nand [Haruichi Shindō](http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Shindo_Haruichi) (who does\nbackground vocals) have profiles on generasia and both lists to have wives.\nConsidering that same-sex marriage [is not legal in\njapan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Japan) and their\nimages on generasia look like men, I would conclude that your sister is\ncorrect and that it is a Male singing it.\n\nIf you are still in doubt, I checked to see if I could find a live performance\nof Anima Rossa on Youtube and [here is the\nLink](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhhPUV_ckvc)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[As mentioned in this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28437/what-does-the-disk-\nthat-fell-on-the-ground-contain), I am wondering why the writer or the creator\nof the anime _Chobits_ didn't reveal a crucial thing such as the contents of\nthe disk in question.\n\n[According to this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/28763?noredirect=1), the manga\nrevealed the contents of the disk in the late chapters. Why did they not do so\nin the anime?\n\nAs I am not very familiar with finding writer's or creator's comments on their\nworks, I am having a hard time understanding this.\n\nAny reference linked to the subject matter or facts referring to the creation\nof this anime is very much appreciated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring [**Vegeta Saga**](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Vegeta_Saga)\n\nAs I know, Bulma has asked Shenlong to kill the saiyans before they reached\nEarth. But, Shenlong said that the he couldn't do that because the Saiyans are\nstronger than him.\n\nI am just wondering.. Since saiyans couldn't live in outer space. Why wouldn't\nthey wish for destroying their space ships instead of resurrecting Goku?\nWhat's your opinion about this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**TL;DR : God is not strong enough to destroy those ships, therefore Shenron\nisn't either.**\n\nFor the same reason why Shenlong can not kill the Saiyans, he may not be able\nto destroy the ships.\n\n[On the Dragon Ball\nWiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_%28object%29#History) :\n\n> Shenron can grant a wish within its powers as long as it does not kill,\n> create love, repeat a wish he previously granted, **surpasses its creator's\n> power** , and a few more restrictions.\n\nWe do not know the resistance of those ships, but we know two things\n\n * It was built with really higher technology than the one present on earth\n * It is strong enough to resist a fall and crash from space\n\nConsidering those, we can assume that God, which is as strong as Piccolo at\nthis moment of the manga, is not strong enough to destroy it\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is taken from chapter 6. What are they talking about?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs Goku said, they are talking about their wives being strong willed,\ndetermined, and being able to put up with them. In other words, they are\ntalking about the qualities of their wives.\n\nGoku made this comment after he saw Bulma slapping Jaco and telling him to\nhurry up.\n\nGoku then says that he loves that about Chichi. He knows that she has to do\nall the things alone, since he's training all the time. Staying alone most of\nthe time, looking after the family, earning, doing the household chores alone\nis a lot to ask from one's wife. He understands this and the statement can\nalso mean that if she wasn't so strong willed, he wouldn't be able to train\nall the time and would have to help out with the chores... The fact that he's\nable to train 24x7 means a lot to him.\n\nVegeta's statement can also be explained by the fact that Bulma has had to go\nthrough a lot with Vegeta. She has had to put up with his ego and pride. If my\nmemory serves me right, there used to be many quarrels between them during the\nCell Saga in DBZ. But now, he even took out time from his training schedule\nand took Trunks and Bulma to the amusement park. This signifies that he has\nchanged. To change someone to this extent is a great feat. And if Bulma wasn't\nstrong willed, we may not have known Vegeta's family as we know it today,\nneither would have Vegeta changed to become so human.\n\nMeanwhile, Piccolo is wondering whether that's the reason that Goku-Chichi and\nVegeta-Bulma are together.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't figure out what's going on at the end of episode 4 of the OVA. When\nSatoshi, Naomi and Ayumi finally preparing the ritual to go back to their own\nworld, Satoshi told Naomi that he knows she took other person's paper scrap.\nThen, he gave her his paper scrap because he had Yuka's (his sister) one.\n\n\n\nAnd then, at the final scene, they made it without Satoshi. What's wrong here?\nIf they can't use other person's paper scrap, then why Naomi still alive?\nWait, I guess they **can** use other person's paper scrap but **can't** use\ndeceased one ( _like Satoshi use his dead sister's one_ )? If so, does Satoshi\npurposely sacrifice himself to let Naomi escape? It's confusing though, well,\nI watched the OVA but didn't played the game before.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFinally found a screenshot of the other student's ID.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S5k2B.jpg)\n\nSatoshi was using [Yuuya](http://corpseparty.wikia.com/wiki/Yuuya_Kizami)'s\nscrap, not his sister's; this resulted in his death on trying to return to his\nworld. This is due to Yuuya not being a part of the ritual that Class 2-9\nheld, so his scrap could not bring Satoshi back.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRecently finished this and after thinking about it for a while, I think\nSatoshi lied about the paper being his sister's.\n\nIf you go back and check, his sister didn't even participate in the ritual.\nAnd it was pretty weird that Satoshi gave Naomi his own paper instead of just\ngiving her the extra charm. So the only explanation that makes sense is that\nSatoshi lied in order to bring Naomi Nakashima back safely while knowingly\nputting himself in jeopardy.\n\nSatoshi gave Naomi his own charm to bring her back safely but maybe it wasn't\nsuch a selfless motive. He knew he couldn't live on in the real world again\nwith the memory of his tortured little sister dying in his arms after stupidly\nleaving her behind alone with the girl with the red dress. We all saw the\neffect all of these memories had with Naomi, after she survived, she basically\nwent insane.\n\n(Note: In the Corpse Party game it's revealed that anyone that dies in the\nelementary school, memories of them are completely wiped out in the real world\nhaving them be completely forgotten by their loved ones)\n\nAlso worthy of noting, the ending when Naomi's mom is talking to her doctor\nabout how Naomi keeps talking about \"her friend\" and how \"she\" doesn't exist\nbrings us back to the scene of Naomi killing her best friend (Seiko Shinohara)\nwhile seemingly possessed. For Naomi, being one of the only survivors in her\ngroup of friends, and not to mention killing and watching her her best friend\ndie drove her to insanity.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty much this guys that he used was the guy who killed Yuka named Kizami\nYuuya, so Satoshi was sent to Kiazami's school but since he was holding hands\nwith Naomi and Ayumi they were sent to their school with his arms and the rest\nof Satoshi was sent to I think it was called Byakuden or something. He then\ndied of blood loss.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis question is regarding **One Piece**.\n\nI have **three** questions to ask. Since they are interrelated, I'm asking\nthem as a single question on this site.\n\n* * *\n\nAs I was reading about the prominent people in the One Piece universe, I came\nacross [**Roger's\npage**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gol_D._Roger#Personality). It has been\nmentioned there and in many other places that Luffy is quite similar to Roger\nin character. Theories on some\n[**forums**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Luffy_%26_Roger) have gone\nso far as to state that Luffy is Roger's reincarnation. So,\n\n**1\\. Could anyone list ALL the similarities between Roger and Luffy?**\n\nThis question might seem too broad and ambiguous, but when I say similarity,\nwhat I'm mostly referring to is\n\n * A common something that the two share\n * An instance where Luffy says or does something that reminds someone of Roger\n * Parallel life events\n\nI came across [**this**](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ymbus) video and\n[**this**](http://forums.saiyanisland.com/showthread.php?t=9486) link that\ncover a few of them. I'll post the relevant ones here.\n\n * **_A common something that the two share:_**\n\n * [**Will of D**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Will_of_the_D.)\n\nGol **D.** Roger \nMonkey **D.** Luffy\n\n * [**The Straw Hat**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Straw_Hat#Monkey_D._Luffy)\n\n> In the manga and anime One Piece, Monkey D. Luffy's straw hat is the main\n> symbol of the entire series and is the origin of his nickname \"Straw Hat\n> Luffy.\"\n>\n> Much later, during the Straw Hat Pirates' departure for Fishman Island, it\n> was revealed by Silvers Rayleigh that this straw hat originally belonged to\n> Gol D. Roger.\n\n * [**Both can hear Sea Kings**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sea_King#Poseidon)\n\n> Besides the Mermaid of legend, the only other people who seem to be able to\n> hear the Sea King have been Monkey D. Luffy and Gol D. Roger. The latter was\n> said to be able to \"hear the voice of all things\".\n\n * **Both their first mates have a scar over one eye**\n\nThis is probably pure coincidence, or not.\n\n[**Silvers\nRayleigh**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Silvers_Rayleigh?file=Rayleigh_Wax.png) \n[**Roronoa\nZoro**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Roronoa_Zoro/Gallery?file=Zoro_Outfit_Punk_Hazard.png)\n\n * **Both are from** [**East Blue**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/East_Blue#Birth_and_Death_of_the_Pirate_King) **(?)**\n\n> Loguetown, the city in the East Blue located closest to the Grand Line, was\n> the birthplace of the late Pirate King, Gol D. Roger.\n>\n> Dawn Island: home island of Monkey D. Luffy, where he was raised in the\n> peaceful Foosha Village and where he trained on Mt. Colubo.\n\nIt is mentioned that Dawn Island is Luffy's home island, but is it mentioned\nanywhere that he was born there?\n\n * [**The Supernova title**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Supernova) **(?)**\n\nLuffy is a Super Rookie, but was Roger one? In the video link above, Brook\nsays\n\n> Gold Roger? There might have been a rookie by that name, or maybe there\n> wasn't...\n\nIs there any solid proof that Roger was a rookie?\n\n * **_Instances where Luffy says or does something that reminds someone of Roger:_**\n\n * [**Luffy's smile when Buggy tries to execute him reminds Smoker of Roger**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Smoker#Monkey_D._Luffy)\n\n> Smoker saw the smile Luffy gave off to mirror that of Gol D. Roger's twenty-\n> two years ago, and considered Luffy to be a potential danger to the world.\n\n * [**Luffy's answer to Rayleigh when he's asked how he intends to conquer the Grand Line**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Silvers_Rayleigh#Sabaody_Archipelago_Arc)\n\n> Luffy replied that he does not really intend to conquer it, but that the\n> person with the most freedom in the ocean would be the Pirate King. This\n> brought a smile to Rayleigh's and Shakky's faces, seeing the unmistakable\n> likeness to Roger in Luffy just as Shanks saw.\n\n * [**Luffy's words to Raoul that he will be the next Pirate King**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Raoul#Loguetown_Arc)\n\n> He was deeply shocked at hearing Luffy saying he will be the next Pirate\n> King and noted that the young boy was similar to Roger in his presence.\n\n * **_Parallel life events_** :\n\n * **The first person that Roger and Luffy ask to join them on their journey refuses to do so, but eventually accept the offer. Coincidentally, that person also become their crew's first mate.**\n\n[**Rayleigh**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Silvers_Rayleigh#Past) **:**\n\n> At first Rayleigh declined, but some time later, he formed a bond with Roger\n> and became his first mate.\n\n[**Zoro**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Roronoa_Zoro/History#Meeting_Luffy)\n**:**\n\n> Luffy asked Zoro to join him but he flatly refused to become a pirate.\n> Refusing to die, Zoro accepted Luffy's invitation and revealed his unique\n> fighting style.\n\nCould anyone list other similarities and when doing so, state where the\nsimilarity is mentioned: manga, anime or both? Also, could you prove or\ndisprove the East Blue and Supernova cases?\n\n* * *\n\nThe similarities could just mean that the two are extremely like-minded\nindividuals or it could mean that they are related.\n\nWhile in prison, Roger asks Garp to take care of his unborn son, Ace. From\nthis, it is obvious that there's a strong bond between the two. Is the\nrelationship based only on deep trust or are the Gol and Monkey families\nrelated? Basically,\n\n**2\\. Is Roger related by blood to Garp, and in turn, to Luffy?**\n\nA search on the web doesn't yield much, but from threads like\n[**this**](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/324oi4/monkey_d_garp_and_gol_d_roger_relation_relatives/),\n[**this**](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/1hsk27/one_piece_monkey_d_garp_is_the_father_of_gol_d/)\nand [**this**](http://www.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=28925), a few likely\npossibilities(barring all supernatural theories) are:\n\n * Roger is Garp's brother or brother-in-law.\n * Roger is Garp's son or son-in-law.\n\nIf the relationship had been revealed explicitly, Wikipedia and Wikia would\nhave the answer. Since it's not, has it ever been implied indirectly, anywhere\nin the manga/anime that Roger and Luffy are blood relatives?\n\n* * *\n\nSince the answer to the above question might possibly be 'no' (at least for\nthe time being), the ages of the people involved will be helpful pointers to\naccord with or negate theories about how Roger and Luffy could be related, to\nform one's own theories, or to refute the very idea that they are related. As\nof now, only [**Luffy's and Ace's\nages**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/User:Yatanogarasu/Age,_Height,_and_Birthday)\nare known, which leads to my third question,\n\n**3\\. What are Garp's, Roger's, Rouge's and Dragon's ages?**\n\nAs with the second question, there's no answer in any online encyclopedia.\n\nBut some statements found on the Wikia pages are:\n\n> * Thirty years ago, he* fought Chinjao and earned his hatred after denting\n> his pointy head and robbing him of the means to acquire a certain treasure.\n>\n> * It would seem that he** had been around for some time, considering that\n> Brook refers to him as a rookie, more than 50 years before the current\n> storyline.\n>\n> * Twelve years before the current storyline, Dragon returned to his home\n> in the Goa Kingdom and witnessed the burning of the Gray Terminal.\n>\n>\n\n*Garp \n**Roger\n\nHave there been other time related statements in the manga/anime in relation\nto these four people that could be used to make a rough estimate of their\nages?\n\n* * *\n\nMy apologies regarding the lengthy question.I put in all the facts that I know\nso that if anyone answers this question, the things I already know will be\nskipped. A hardcore One Piece fan will probably be able to answer. Also, my\nknowledge about the series is mostly limited to the Wikia and Wikipedia pages.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**1.** You answered question yourself.\n\n**2.** No, they are not related. As Garp hunts Roger across the sea and visits\nhim in prison as an old rival and not as a relative, it is safe to say that\nthey are not relatives. I am not sure when but I think when Aces story is\ntold, it says that Roger asked Garp - because of the 'D.' - to save his son\n(Ace) from the marine trying to kill all relatives that may have Roger's\ntalent to make trouble.\n\nThis again shows that there is no known close relative alive. They are however\nrelated in some way because the 'D.' is passed from one generation to the\nother and it is likely that there were one family or (less likely) people with\nthe 'D.'. That is the closest we can be sure and the closest that is likely if\nwe want to speculate - what is not the purpose of this site.\n\n**3.** The Ages of the ones carrying the 'Will of D.' can be found\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Will_of_the_D.#Carriers.27_Profile):\n\n> Luffy: 19 \n> Dragon: unkknown \n> Garp: 78 \n> Roger: would be 77 now \n> Rouge: unknown \n> Ace: would be 22 now \n>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCould Roger and Luffy's mother be siblings. Luffy's mother is likely deceased.\nShe may have had that similar disease that Roger died from. If they are\nrelated, it would explain why Dragon was present for Roger's death. It would\nexplain why Luffy has alot of similarities with Roger why Garp had a personal\nrelationship with Roger, why Raleigh felt a connection with Luffy. That would\nmake Luffy and Ace cousins or brothers using Hyuga Clan logic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ALTCP.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NGAkW.jpg)\n\nIn the above pictures, his blood is of two colours. Before Dragon Ball Z, his\nblood was red but later on in the series it became purple.\n\nWhat is the reason behind this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis has been an item of discussion between Dragon Ball fans for a\n[long](http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3704) time. Most of\nthe information I've come across concludes that this is simply an animation\nconsistency failure.\n\n* * *\n\nFrom [Dragon Ball Neoseeker\nWiki](http://dragonball.neoseeker.com/wiki/Dragonball_Manga):\n\n> The vast majority of the manga was produce in black and white, with a few\n> chapters being colored minimally. There were also an even smaller number of\n> chapters in full color.\n\nSince Dragon Ball was originally black and white, the animation studios likely\ndid not know that Piccolo's blood was supposed to be purple until much later.\n\nIn fact, this [Reddit\ncomment](https://www.reddit.com/r/dbz/comments/2rctif/was_the_original_manga_in_black_and_white/cneoj1h)\npoints out that it happens with [Frieza's\nblood](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GqxbE.jpg) too, discoloring it from blue to\nred.\n\nWhile some arguments have been made wondering if this could be censorship, the\nblood changes were in both international and Japanese versions of the show.\nThere are [several cases of\ncensorship](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Censorship_in_the_Dragon_Ball_series)\nthat involve the Dragon Ball Z anime but I do not believe this is one of them.\n\nHowever, there was some censorship on some international releases of Dragon\nBall Z involving Piccolo's blood. These changes turned Piccolo's blood\n[green](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7cg8y.png).\n\nA fact that points towards this color change being a blunder is that Piccolo's\nblood is recolored to purple in the first episode of Dragon Ball Kai, during\nthe recap of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai. This screenshot is from Piccolo's\nreaction when Goku headbutts him. Interestingly enough, this scene also\nreceives some censorship in international releases, recoloring the blood yet\nagain to white.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kN8Vc.png)\n\n* * *\n\nAs an aside, it is likely that not even Akira Toriyama really _knew_ what\ncolor Piccolo's blood was supposed to be. In an\n[interview](http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/daizenshuu-4-akira-\ntoriyama-super-interview/) with Toriyama, he states that he was originally\nunsure that Piccolo would even be an alien; he originally just created Piccolo\nto be demon-like.\n\n> Q: Speaking of Piccolo, did you think from the beginning of his background\n> as a Namekian alien?\n>\n> A: Of course, I didn’t think that at all (laughs). The Saiyans were like\n> that as well. When I thought up Goku’s tail and the Ōzaru, I didn’t think\n> Goku was an alien or anything. Piccolo either. Because I thought that up\n> when God came out. Mostly afterwards, I thought it through so that it would\n> be consistent. For example, there’s the chair that Planet Namek’s Eldest sat\n> in. That was mostly the same as the chair that Piccolo Daimaō had sat in\n> when he first appeared. It was just missing the skulls.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese two pictures are taken from _Attack on Titan_ **Chapter 77** :\n\n>  \n\nIn the first picture, the Beast Titan says:\n\n> '...the coordinate from _here_ '. Does this mean there are other colonies\n> with people like those from the Reiss family who can control titans?\n\nIn the second picture, can we conclude that there are other titan shifters who\nfight against humanity?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo answer your first question,\n\n> **Does this mean there are other colonies with people like those from the\n> Reiss family who can control titans?** \n> \n> It would be enough to state that you don't need to be a member of the royal\n> family to use the power of the Coordinate. You need to be a member of the\n> royal family to use the coordinate's power optimally. \n> \n> The reference being in chapter no. 50, Eren, while still in human form, used\n> the power of the Coordinate to order titans to eat the Smiling Titan and\n> attack the Armoured Titan. \n> \n> In fact, any one can control the titans, as done by Eren, the royal family,\n> using the coordinate, or by Zeke (beast titan), his method remaining unknown\n> yet. \n> \n> So, no, there doesn't need to be a colony with other people who know how to\n> control the titans. But I won't be surprised if the mangaka came up with\n> one.\n\nFor your second question,\n\n> **Can we conclude that there are other titan shifters who fight against\n> humanity?** \n> \n> We can say that there are certainly many titans fighting against humanity,\n> many of them have a certain level of intelligence, as shown by the quadruped\n> titan carrying the goods, informing Zeke, Reiner, and Bertolt of the Survey\n> Corp's advance in chapter 77. \n> \n> As of now, there isn't enough information to definitely end the question by\n> saying that there are no more titan shifters, the reason being that they can\n> create one at any moment by devouring one of the existent titan shifters.\n> The list of known titan shifters can be seen\n> [here](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_Shifter). \n> \n> So, as of now, I shall say that there isn't any other titan shifter\n> shown/mentioned in the manga, other than those mentioned in the list.\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> Edit 1: According to the latest chapters, chp nos. 86-89 to be precise,\n> there can be a total of 9 Titan shifters with special powers, whose powers\n> can be transferred from one person to another by consuming their nervous\n> system. Out of those 9 powers (8 people), 6 people fight against humanity.\n> The two people in humanity's favor are Eren (Attack Titan, Founding Titan)\n> and Armin (Colossal Titan).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to chapter 86 **(major spoilers ahead)** ,\n\n> Total of 9 shifters can exist simultaneously. At least seven of them can be\n> enemies to \"humanity\" (not really correct word, according to recent info) at\n> the moment. But controlling titans is also not really common ability. Eren\n> has it, since most likely it is \"ultimate titan control\" ability, while Zeke\n> has it due to heritage of royal blood.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor your first question,\n\n**Does this mean there are other colonies with people like those from the\nReiss family who can control titans?** The conversation you showed only\nimplies that there is another colony (or colonies) outside of the Walls that\naims to recover the Founding Titan. It does not immediately imply that said\ncolony (or colonies) can control titans, only that they know of the Founding\nTitan and possibly its abilities.\n\nContrary to an earlier answer here, you _need_ to be of royal blood to use the\ntrue power of the Founding Titan. In **Chapter 106** , it was mentioned that\nEren was only able to use the Titan Control when his hand came into contact\nwith the titan Dina Fritz. [Not just anyone can control titans as the power is\n'locked' unless the possessor is of royal blood or is in contact with a person\nof royal blood](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Founding_Titan). Also,\nnot just anyone can inherit the 9 titan-shifters as [only Subjects of Ymir can\nbe turned to titans via\ninjection](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Titan_injection) and possess\nor inherit them. Even if a titan-shifter dies, [they are inherited by another\nperson born after the previous possessor who must also be a Subject of\nYmir](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/49496/what-happens-to-a-titan-\nshifter-if-they-die-without-being-eaten), and not just by some random person.\n\nFor your second question,\n\n**Can we conclude that there are other titan shifters who fight against\nhumanity?** This matters depending on the perspective. Based on that\nconversation, you can only conclude that there are other people which seem to\nhave the same objective and goal as Zeke and the other honorary Marleyans sent\nto recover the Founding Titan. _For Marleyans, they see Eldians as a threat to\nhumanity because of the suffering they experience in the past_ under the\nEldian empire, hence there desire to take away the titan-shifter powers from\nthem. _For Eldians, they see Marley as a threat to humanity because of how\nthey keep on trying to kidnap Eren, their biggest hope in fighting back\nagainst the titans_. Are they really fighting for humanity or are they just\nfighting for their own survival?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan we order the _Naruto_ manga in India? I am a big fan of _Naruto_ but\nAnimax stopped it. I am watching the series on YouTube, but I also want to\nread the manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne site you can use is\n[Amazon.In](http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_10?url=search-\nalias%3Dstripbooks&field-\nkeywords=naruto+vol+1&sprefix=naruto+vol+1%2Caps%2C115&rh=n%3A976389031%2Ck%3Anaruto+vol+1),\nalthough I'm not sure of the range of Naruto volumes they seem to have most of\nthem for about ₹299.00 each.\n\nThese are in English rather than Hindi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBesides Amazon mentioned in Toshinou Kyouko's answer, Naruto volumes are also\navailable online on [Flipkart](https://www.flipkart.com/books/fiction-\nnonfiction-books/pr?sid=bks,fnf&q=Naruto&otracker=categorytree),\n[Snapdeal](https://www.snapdeal.com/search?keyword=Naruto&categoryId=364&sort=rlvncy),\n[Sapna Online](https://www.sapnaonline.com/general-search?searchkey=Naruto).\n\nNaruto volumes are also available at a few (offline) bookstores, but this is\nmostly limited to the major Indian cities. I have seen Naruto volumes on sale\nat two locations of [Landmark\nStores](http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/page/store-locator/) when I\n~~teleported there~~ visited them. I expect to see them at their other store\nlocations, and maybe also at some other large bookstores.\n\nBuying from offline bookstores will offer you a few benefits.\n\n * Get a look and feel before buying them. \n * Bargain for a better discount, especially if ordering multiple volumes. \n * Place a custom order for any missing volumes.\n\n* * *\n\n_Manga volumes on sale at Landmark,[Forum\nMall](http://www.theforumexperience.com/), Koramangala Bengaluru_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aRs18.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tMond.jpg)\n\n_Manga volumes on sale at Landmark,[Orion\nMall](http://orionmalls.com/#/Orion%20Mall%20at%20Brigade%20Gateway),\nMalleshwaram Bengaluru_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZCb3.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo add to the other answers, there is also the Comic Con India, where you can\nprocure different types of anime merchandise including Manga Volumes.\n\nGoing from personal experience, you can purchase multiple volumes for \"good\"\ndiscounts/offers at such conventions (Though most popular volumes may be sold\nout). They also allow you to place order, which will be later shipped to the\ngiven address.\n\nTypically these happen once a year in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad\nand Bangalore.\n\nCheck out below for more details and events. <http://comicconindia.com/#>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat anime is this? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wOcJP.png)\n\nI was watching some random akira videos and I found this easter egg that I\nnever noticed before. I remember seeing an opening of an 80s or older anime\nabout some old police trio or something like that.Could it be possibly based\noff of this? [Manga Mito Kōmon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f4TbHji8II)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's almost certainly an outright reference to the well-known live-action show\n[Mito Komon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mito_K%C5%8Dmon).\n\n> The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-shogun\n> and retired second daimyo of the Mito Domain. In the guise of Mitsuemon, a\n> retired crêpe merchant from Echigo, he roams the realm with two samurai\n> retainers, fun-loving Sasaki Sukesaburō (Suke-san) and studious Atsumi\n> Kakunoshin (Kaku-san). An episode typically starts with some injustice\n> perpetrated by a corrupt official, wealthy merchant or gangster; the\n> travelers arrive incognito, discover the injustice and quietly investigate\n> it; and the episode concludes with a brawl in which the unarmed, disguised\n> protagonists better a crowd of samurai and gangsters, culminating with the\n> presentation of the inrō that reveals the hero's identity.\n\nI wasn't aware there was an animated version. Mito Komon has been around for\ndecades (1969-2011, over 1200 episodes), like their own version of Doctor Who.\n\nSince it's a well-known part of pop-culture, the show is often referenced or\noutright parodied, [like in Samurai\nChamploo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPqA0Mobwc) (Mugen, it'll be our\nlittle secret....).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe credits for each episode of _Kowabon_ feature credits for the positions\n\"CA\", \"TK\", and \"AP\". For example, from episode 11:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dlXUH.png)\n\nWhat are these positions? The official website for _Kowabon_ doesn't list\nthese positions on [its staff page](https://www.kbc.co.jp/kowabon/staff/), and\nI don't believe I've seen them in the credits of any other anime I've watched.\n(With these being two-letter acronyms, I have no idea how to search for them\neffectively.)\n\nI suspect that they might have something to do with _Kowabon_ being rotoscoped\n(note: the topmost position in the screenshot above is \"cameraman\", which is\nsomething you're only likely to find when rotoscoping is involved). Though,\nthen again, I had a look at the credits of an episode of _Aku no Hana_ , and\ndidn't see these particular positions credited (though they could've been\nthere under some other name).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime _Sekko Boys_ , the members of the idol group at the center of the\nshow are all sculpture busts:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/thhEc.png)\n\nWhere exactly in the real world do those busts come from though?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Medici\n\nMedici is a bust originally sculpted by Michelangelo dating 1526-1516.\n[Giuliano de'\nMedici](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano_de%27_Medici,_Duke_of_Nemours)\nlived from 1479 - 1516.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jnBI2m.jpg)\n\n[Michelangelo and the\nMedici](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_and_the_Medici)\n\n> Michelangelo, had a complicated relationship with the Medici, an Italian\n> noble family of prominence in the 14-18th centuries. The House of Medici\n> rose to prominence as Florence's preeminent bankers, amassing a fortune to\n> be used for patronage of the arts.\n\nYou can see this sculpture in the Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E4pu9.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\n# Hermes\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IavUUm.jpg)\n\nThis statue is a bust of [Hermes and the Infant\nDionysus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_and_the_Infant_Dionysus).\nDionysus was the Greek god of wine and theatre\n\n[Wikipedia Reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes)\n\n> Hermes is considered a god of transitions and boundaries. He is described as\n> quick and cunning, moving freely between the worlds of the mortal and\n> divine. He is also portrayed as an emissary and messenger of the gods: an\n> intercessor between mortals and the divine, and conductor of souls into the\n> afterlife. He has been viewed as the protector and patron of herdsmen,\n> thieves, oratory and wit, literature and poetry, athletics and sports,\n> invention and trade, roads, boundaries and travellers.\n\nYou can see this sculpture at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Elis.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WZfewm.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\n# Mars\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/55FP0m.jpg)\n\nMars is a Roman god, who is thought to be an adaption of Ares - the Greek god\nof war. This bust is from the statue [Ares\nBorghese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_Borghese) and it can be seen in\nthe Louvre, Paris.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I0OqI.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\n# St. Giorgio\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YjdwAm.jpg)\n\nAD 275–281 to AD 303\n\nKnow as [St. George](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George) in English,\nhe is a christian soldier who, according to legend, leashed a dragon and slew\nit in front of the townspeople after they swore to baptize themselves.\n\n[Read the legend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon)\n\nDonatello's St. George Sculpture can be found in Orsanmichele, Florence.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xah4bm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Chapter 507, Rayleigh was talking about the power 'To hear the voice of all\nthings' that Gold D. Roger has. It seems to explain how he was able to write\nin the ancient language on the Sky Island's Poneglyph. What is that\nphenomenon?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wADYG.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is not only Roger who has this ability, but also\n[Momonosuke](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kozuki_Momonosuke#Zunisha) and\nLuffy in weaker form (he could not answer to Zunisha). There is little\ninformation about it but, since Momonosuke has this ability, it is unlikely\nthat it has something to do with \"D\". It may even be nothing more than an\nextremely rare form of, or just extraordinary strong Haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe voice of all things seems to be a special power which hasnt really been\nexplored a lot by oda sensei yet . One major encounter with it although has\nbeen in the case of momonosuke who could hear and command zunisha to do\nsomething . Luffy has shown traits . This power apparently also allows people\nto decipher poneglyphs. Taken from the one piece wikia :\n\n> This power grants the user the ability to understand and gain information\n> through creatures and inanimate objects who do not speak the same\n> language.So far, this seems to be an ability gained from birth.\n>\n> Some people use this ability to read the Poneglyphs.\n>\n> The Three-Eye Tribe is rumored to have access to this ability through\n> utilizing the power of their third eye.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we have seen Luffy being considered as successor of Pirate King. One of the\nmost important fact that support it is the voice of all things. Though in case\nof Luffy this ability is somewhat incomparable with Gold D. Roger, it allows\nLuffy mainly to interact with ancient beings. The instances where Luffy was\nable to used this power was:\n\n 1. Understanding Ryuuji(Green millennial dragon from east blue)\n 2. Understanding the sea kings from fishman island\n 3. Hearing from Zunisha in Zoe island\n\nAlthough Roger was able to interact with poneglyph Luffy has not shown this\npower so far.\n\n**From above instances, this power is somewhat like voice of heart and seems\nto be used by fated ones**.\n\nThough Momonosuke talked with Zunisha it is only limited to it and not more.\n\nSo, sit back and wait for history of world to unfold then only we will be able\nto know what exactly it is. **As of now it is highly related to successor of\nthe kingdom of D. (who is fated of course) for controlling the treasures and\nweapons of the kingdom of D**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomewhere around episode 7, we learned that the average power user has about\n**160** talents, and we were even introduced to someone with **215** talents\n(the diamond head guy).\n\nBut as far as I understood, you start out with **10** and lose one whenever\nyou beat an innocent person and gain one when you beat a power user.\n\nThere are also only **100** participants. And to get 215 talents you would\nneed to beat 205 people.\n\nSo is there another way to gain talents?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhere is the Akiba Dome that is mentioned in Love Live! School Idol the Movie?\nAt first since it says Akiba, I thought it would be in Akiba, Japan. But then,\nconsidering Ootonokizaka High's location (near Akiba), it doesn't make sense\nthat they would go there on plane. Later on the Statue of Liberty was shown,\nso the Akiba Dome should be somewhere in New York, right? But where exactly in\nNew York is that, because when I Googled, there is no such a thing such as\nAkiba Dome.\n\nIf it is actually a fictional place, what real world place is it modeled\nafter? I guess the Madison Square Garden, just a guess though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime (Episode 133), when Naruto turns into the Nine Tailed Fox for the\nfirst time during his fight with Sasuke, Sasuke comments that the chakra has\nits own mind.\n\nWas he controlled by the beast or was it the other way round?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring his fight with Sasuke Naruto is seen to be in his Version 1 of the Nine\nTails cloak. According to the [Naruto\nWiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki), Naruto has very little\ncontrol over his actions. It is not until he enters the Version 2 form of the\nNine Tails cloak that he loses complete control.\n\nThis is Naruto during the fight with Sasuke at The Valley of the End in the\nVersion 1 form:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VSeJb.jpg)\n\nThis is the Version 2 form where he loses complete control:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pofu7.jpg)\n\n> In Version 1 transformations, Naruto had only the briefest of control of his\n> own actions. If he fell deeper into a rage, Naruto could slip into Version\n> 2, losing himself to Kurama's negative influence and going berserk,\n> requiring outside help to suppress the fox's chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he is not controlled by the kyuubi, he just loses his mind for the\nrage, like anyone that gets really really angry. Kyuubi just speeds up the\nprocess of getting angry and will take control over Naruto just after he gets\nthe nine tailed and complete kyuubi's form.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been trying to find out their age when they died. I'm not really sure but\nI think they were in their twenties.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI really love this anime and usually only buy manga if I really like it.\n_Akagami no Shirayukihime_ or _Snow White with the Red Hair_ , is just an\namazing story that I must have the manga of! But I can't seem to find a place\nto buy the English edition of the manga.\n\nSo is there an English edition out there for sale?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShamefully, there does not seem to be an English version of [akagami-no-\nshirayukihime](/questions/tagged/akagami-no-shirayukihime \"show questions\ntagged 'akagami-no-shirayukihime'\") right now.\n\nBut as the series is still ongoing, and already has been translated to several\nother languages as well. Besides the\n[Japanese](http://www.goodreads.com/series/59407-akagami-no-shirayukihime)\nversion, it is not unlikely that an English translation will still follow.\n\nThe other languages that have been released (partially) are\n\n * German: [Die rothaarige Schneeprinzessin](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11062261-die-rothaarige-schneeprinzessin-band-01)\n * Indonesian: [Red Haired Snow White](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4863706-red-haired-snow-white-vol-01)\n * French: [Shirayuki aux cheveux rouges](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13607521-shirayuki-aux-cheveux-rouges-tome-1)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes Bakuman explain the life of a mangaka realistically? Is the way shounen\nJack works the exact same as jump?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**I'll highlight the main points made in[this article by Justin\nSevakis](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2010-10-15):**\n\n * > Well, the thing is, Bakuman. presents a very romanticized, very clean-cut, idyllic perspective on the \"manga industry.\" And it works in that sense - it's goal, as a manga itself, is to make you care about the dreams of these young Shonen archetypes and hope that they will achieve all their hopes and wishes through hard work and many tough battles - but it is far from a realistic portrayal.\n\n * > I'll admit that Bakuman. gets a lot of the specifics right, and it succeeds at presenting an otherwise dry, self-referential premise in an entertaining way, but it is far from realistic.\n\n * > And, the other thing is, I dunno how many conventions you've been to recently, but take a good, honest gander anywhere around Artist Alley and you're likely to find several eager young artists proudly hawking their most recent Graphic Novel. Granted you won't see as much of this stuff at anime-focused cons like Otakon or whatever, but if you're ever in the vicinity of any all-purpose Nerd Convention near your home town, you'll be able to walk by dozens of booths rented by local artists promoting their self-published work. Essentially, there are a lot of people out there who are dying to sell their own graphic novels, outside of the manga realm.\n\n**Another point made on this matter\nis[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakuman):**\n\n * > Jason Thompson referred to Bakuman as \"a love letter to the manga industry done in old-school shonen manga style.\" He felt that while it can be \"text-heavy\" on the process of making manga, it is ultimately a \"heroic story of self-improvement, friendship and striving to succeed.\" \n\n**As for your other question, Shounen Jump is pretty much the same as Shounen\nJack and it was only renamed for copyright issues. As mentioned in an\ninterview with Takeshi Obata, the mangaka of\nBakuman[Source](https://www.facebook.com/Ashirogi.Bakuman/posts/315923248488238):**\n\n * > Ohba Sensei creates characters who have realistic personalities. When I draw them, I slightly reference real-life people that I’ve seen in this industry and exaggerate their qualities to turn them into manga characters.\n\n * > The whole time I was working on Bakuman, I felt like I was drawing about my everyday life\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, so I just recently watched episode 441 of the English sub of Naruto, and\nI was wondering whether I had caught up enough to watch _The Last: Naruto the\nMovie_ and _Boruto: Naruto the Movie_?\n\nCould someone tell me after which episode should I watch them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Last: Naruto the Movie take place after the [Manga chapter\n700](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki!!_\\(chapter_700\\)). And if\nI'm not wrong episode [441](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Returning_Home) is a\nfiller and not part of main manga story that takes someplace after [chapter\n678 of manga](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/My_Will_Is). So you need to read\nthe manga from 678 to 699 before watching The Last: Naruto the Movie, or you\ncan wait for the anime to reach the point of chapter 699.\n\nAfter that Naruto Manga chapter 700 take place, which act like epilogue.\n\nBoruto: Naruto the Movie take place after Manga chapter 700 and [Naruto\nGaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring\n](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Gaiden:_The_Seventh_Hokage_and_the_Scarlet_Spring),\nGaiden is a mini manga series that takes place between chapter 700 and Boruto\nmovie. Gaiden can be skipped but\n\n> You will miss how Sarada Uchiha accepted her family.\n\nBut I will definitely suggest to watch anime till it reaches chapter 699\nbefore both the film, or read the rest of the story in the manga. Skipping\ngaiden is your choice, except about a character mentioned in spoiler.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is actually your personal opinion, but I think you are far enough to\nwatch The Last. You can watch Boruto if you want right now or wait until you\nfinish the series. If you finished the manga then go ahead and watch Boruto,\nbut if you didn't then it will be better to do it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt will be best to wait until after episode 493, I just watched it and now I'm\nwatching The Last and I think this movie goes very well with the times after\nthat episode.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw this movie within the past few years. It was an awesome movie but I\ncan't for the life of me remember the name!\n\nHere is what I remember:\n\n * A boy finds a girl sleeping in a glass pod underwater with thousands of others.\n * He takes her to his village to help her recover. His village is connected by bridges to a dangerous, carnivorous forest on one side, and an industrialized desert on the other side.\n * The boy's father is slowly becoming a tree.\n\n * It turns out that the girl is from the same civilization, the apocalypse destroyed much of the world, and the people of her city were preserved in pods underwater. She came back to life hundreds of years in the future to a low-tech society.\n\n * The people of her time used Ribbon (pronounced Ri-BONE) technology in much the same way we use Apple Watches and Google Glass. It's like a cross between a holographic smartphone and a necklace. Or bracelet(?) I forgot.\n * The girl and anyone else who has come back from that time, is viewed as dangerous and is killed by bounty hunters from outside the village. They collect their Ribbons as trophies, but the bounty hunters can't use them because the Ribbon is bound to its user.\n\nHere, the story gets a little fuzzy:\n\n * The girl ends up riding on a train to the industrial desert city. She is valuable to them somehow.\n * The city has huge steampunk beasts used for war.\n * The boy and girl end up in a volcano base which has mechanical legs and can move.\n * The boy turns into a huge tree to help her escape the volcano.\n\nI really, really liked this movie. Can you tell me what it is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Origin: Spirits of the Past**\n\nI finally Googled \"walking volcano anime\" and found [Origin: Spirits of the\nPast!](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1140/Giniro_no_Kami_no_Agito)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZlEHJ.png)\n\nI kept Googling \"ribbon phone\", \"ribon phone\", and kept getting some other\nanime. I kept thinking it was Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, but the art\nstyles were totally different. Maybe I thought it was a Miyazaki film because\nof the story's environmental message.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile watching One Piece I noticed that Nami's voice sounded different coming\ninto the Little Garden arc. When I looked up info on her character on the One\nPiece wiki I found that during episodes 70-78 she had a different Japanese\nvoice actress, Wakana Yamazaki, before returning to the previous voice\nactress, Akemi Okamura. I can't seem to find any reason or explanation for\nthis. Does anyone have a clue why this would be? It was all part of a canon\narc too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Nami](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nami_\\(One_Piece\\))'s\nWikipedia's page:\n\n> In the Japanese version of the entire One Piece anime series, and later\n> spin-offs, Nami has been voiced by Akemi Okamura. In 2001, Okamura\n> temporarily left the series due to her pregnancy; Wakana Yamazaki acted as a\n> substitute for episodes 70-78.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Bakuman based on the life story of the author himself/the people he knew or\nis it a manga with a fictional story?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBakuman seems to be based on real characters. As listed in the [Cultural\nReferences' article on Bakuman\nWikia](http://bakuman.wikia.com/wiki/Cultural_References_in_Bakuman), with\ntheir similarities mentioned [on the MangaFox\nforums](http://forums.mangafox.me/threads/349669-A-real-life-basis):\n\n * > **Ashirogi Muto appear to be based on Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.**\n\nAkito Takagi and Moritaka Mashiro resemble Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi,\nrespectively. The writer and the artist part being analogous to Ohba being the\nwriter and Obata being the artist, Mashiro's semi realistic style being akin\nto Obata's, the darker themed manga that get better reception (which was true\nfor Ohba whose most sold manga is Death Note) and even Takagi's failed attempt\nat action manga resembles Obata's failure, _Rampou_ , that got cancelled after\nthe second volume. Takagi, according to Bakuman, is best at writing dark and\nelaborate stories; this could be parallel to Ohba's way of writing as an\nauthor (for example, Death Note). There were also chapters that talked about\nserious humor in Bakuman; this \"serious humor\" can also seen in Death Note.\n\nAlso notable is this statement made by a user of the forum link:\n\n[code] At the end of every chapter there's a page that shows a Name made\nby Ohba (with\n\n funny and ugly drawings just like the ones that Tagaki used to do) and a Name made\n by Obata, with better pannels and drawings (just like the ones that Mashiro makes)\n \n[/code]\n\n * > **It's speculated that Niizuma Eiji is based on Eiichiro Oda and Tite Kubo.**\n\nNiizuma Eiji seems to based on Oda, with all the encompassing success of their\nmanga and the rather childlike purity of their love of the artform.\n\n * > **The editors of Bakuman appear to be based on real-life editors.**\n\nAshirogi Muto's editor, Hattori Akira, is based on two real life editors. The\nname is based on Hattori John Batist Akira while the likeness is based on\nSaito Yuu. Aida Souichi, team leader of Hattori in Bakuman, is based on real\nlife current vice editor-in-chief Aida Souichi. He was the editor for Bakuman\nfrom Chapter 1 till around Chapter 91. They basically used the same names\n(even the Kanji are the same) as the real life editors for most of the\nestablished editors.\n\n * > **Hiramaru's comic tendencies with animals, exasperation at his editor, and laziness draw a parallel to Sorachi Hideaki, mangaka of Gintama.**\n\nHe may also be based on Yoshihiro Togashi who is just as lazy and also has a\nmangaka wife: Naoko Takeuchi, the mangaka of Sailor Moon.\n\n * > **Nobuhiro could be compared to Hiroshi Gamo, a real-life mangaka famous for his gag manga and speculated to be Tsugumi Ohba.**\n\n * > **Aoki's specialization in romance manga, along with her experience and popularity with the series, draw a parallel to Kawashita Mizuki, mangaka of Ichigo 100%, Hatsukoi Limited, and Ane Doki.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the fairy tail universe, we see female celestial mages like Lucy, Yukino,\nLyla, Sorano, etc, but we do not see any male characters with celestial spirit\nmagic. So is the celestial spirit magic exclusive to females or are there male\ncelestial spirit mages also?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Celestial Spirit Magic is a type of Magic in which the user summons\n> Celestial Spirits by opening their gates through the use of Celestial Spirit\n> Gate Keys. These Keys are separated into two classes: the more common Silver\n> Keys and the rarer Gold Keys. Keys for Celestial Spirits are counted in\n> Units (collectively without regard of Gold or Silver), and a Celestial\n> Spirit Mage is noted by how many Units they have obtained.\n\nCelestial Spirit Magic is not exclusive to women, although the majority of\nusers shown in the manga are women.\n\nFor instance [Everlue](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Everlue) and\n[Zoldio](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Zoldeo) are two male characters who\nhave used Celestial Spirit magic in the manga thus far.\n\nComplete list of users\n<http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Celestial_Spirit_Magic>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched Dragon Ball Z and want to know why Frieza wanted to kill Goku in the\nfirst place.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Shikamaru's team failed to bring back Sasuke, the Akatsuki members were\nshown for the first time and they waited for 3 years before resuming their\nmission. Why did they wait?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey didn't paused there mission and resumed it later but they continued it\nbehind the curtains. They have to capture tailed beast by an order and Naruto\nfalls in last number and then they needed preparation too for sealing beats\nand location ensuring etc. They also had non-trustable member to deal with and\nmaybe some other background stuff behind the curtains.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI often hear the word gap moe, but I do not know what it means. So what does\nthe word **gap moe** mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet's look at the meaning of the words separately.\n\n[A quick google search](https://www.google.com/search?q=gap%20meaning) tells\nus that a **gap** is _a space or interval; a break in continuity_. It can also\nmean to be a _difference_. [Here is a\npost](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/894/what-does-moe-mean) that\naddresses what **moe** is. If I were to describe it myself, it is the feeling\nyou get when you see someone/something so cute you just want to hug them and\ntake them home.\n\nCombining the two, gap moe is that irresistible feeling you get when there is\na difference in the way someone/something acts and/or looks. When that\ncharacter acts/looks _out of character._\n\n[This article](http://www.japanator.com/survey-says-just-what-on-earth-is-gap-\nmoe--13198.phtml) gives a more technical definition:\n\n> described as \"a contradiction in exhibited characteristics that people find\n> cutely attractive\"\n\nFurther supported by [this article](http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/01/17/gap-\nmoe-alluring-discordance/):(Found this link on [Henry\nZhang's](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/13504/henry-zhang)\n[post](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/20994/2479). Thanks dude!)\n\n> refer to a contradiction in exhibited characteristics that people find\n> cutely attactive in the opposite sex\n\nHere is a [discussion on\nMyAnimeList](https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1345203) supporting this\ndefinition:\n\n> is when a character does something completely contradictory to what their\n> usual habits/personality/character/appearence dictates.\n>\n> **AnimeSukiUser said** \n> Yup, for the gap effect to work, you have to see the person in a completely\n> different light that you never expect.\n\nPictures speak louder than words. So here are a few examples:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/W7Gsq.gif)\n\nThis is [Tohsaka Rin](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Rin_Tohsaka) from the\nFate series, and a\n[tsundere](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/26528/what-are-the-\ncharacteristics-of-a-tsundere).\n[Tsunderes](http://myanimelist.net/featured/412) are probably the most common\nexample of gap moe. To put it simply, tsunderes are characters who act all\n_tsun_ around the one they love. Then they suddenly act all _dere_. If you\nfeel moe when a tsundere starts acting all deredere, THAT is gap moe.\n\nSpeaking of tsunderes...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LEjOZ.jpg)\n\nIn Love Live!, [Nishikino Maki](http://love-\nlive.wikia.com/wiki/Nishikino_Maki) is probably the most mature among the\nfirst years. However, she still believes in Santa! That gap between being\nmature and believing in something a child (and child at heart) would only\nbelieve, if you feel moe about that, THAT is gap moe.\n\nThe linked discussion gives a few more examples:\n\n> A tomboy showing off feministic characteristics (Ex: Tsugumi from Nisekoi) \n> A tough guy who is actually a pacifist (Ex: Cromartie High School) \n> A stubborn perfectionist who finally admits defeat (Ex: Sasuke from Naruto) \n> A character that almost always dresses flashy but decides to dress normal\n> (Kuroneko from Oreimo)\n\nSo tldr; **Gap moe** is that moe feeling you experience when a character acts\nand/or looks in a way that contradicts the way they usually do.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnother reason gap moe is used is because it allows the reader/viewer to see\nthe character as more than just a one dimensional figure, as in reality it is\nentirely possible for people to be caught off guard by people who act\ndifferently than expected.\n\nThe contradiction, when handled properly, makes perfect sense as the story\nprogresses because while it does SEEM contradictory, it makes sense in\nhindsight when the given character's story and personality is explored\nfurther.\n\nThis is because there is something behind that seemingly contradictory action\nperformed that strikes an interest - which is to say a story. It is through\nthis story that we are able to learn more.\n\nThus, gap moe is basically a product of a \"hook, line, and sinker\" that was\nexecuted to not only make a character attractive, but provides the writer a\nmethod of delving deeper into that character (as the reader/viewer's attention\nis piqued and thus is unlikely to quickly reject the writer's attempt at\nfleshing out the character).\n\nGap moe doesn't have to be all about what lies underneath, but as an\ninteresting fact about that character.\n\nHumans tend to think logically one way or another (which is why we are able to\nanswer some questions without thinking too much or with little thought such as\n\"what's your name\", \"what city are you from\", \"what's your favorite color', et\ncetera) and tend to try and find answers (some more than others) because it is\nthe pursuit of finding the answer that interests us - and depending on the\nstory, the end result is just as fascinating.\n\nTL;DR Gap moe is a way of the author saying \"here's something interesting\nabout this character that is going to be fleshed out later on\" or \"here's an\ninteresting fact\" which generates interest as it makes the character more\nrealistic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo put it very simple, is commonly said when a character that is serious, or\nintimidant, or even ugly, does someone that is adorable or kind, and that\nmakes them cute/moe, because its not something you expected from that\ncharacter, both because their personality and appearance.\n\nActually, its currently more used for male characters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've finished the 12 One Punch Man episodes and the OVA.\n\nAs far as I know there aren't any more episodes. Is there any news from a\nconfirmed source about a second season coming?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, there has been no official announcement as to a second season right now.\nBut the manga artist however did tweet the following [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qbEpN.png)\n\nWhich does seem to hint to working hard on the second season, of the anime\n\nOne punch man was a great hit and got pretty good sales figures, in both\nmanga, anime and figurine sales. So the second season is almost set in stone,\nbut until the actual announcement is made, don't expect to much!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI made [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28849/spoiler-whats-the-\nactual-plot-in-revolutionary-girl-utena) before but since a single answer\nwon't suffice, I have broke it down into different post as suggested by other\nusers. **TL;DR:** I'm tring to understand the story, **not the analogies.**\n\nSo, What is the power to bring revolution? Is it actual power (like the type\nyou see in shounen animes) or is it just an analogy about making the world\naccept behaviors like homosexuality and incest (as seen in events related with\nAkio & Touga or Akio & Anthy)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy interpretation of the series was that every candidate had their own\nimpression of what it meant to \"revolutionize the world\". When Utena finally\nmanaged to do it, I understood that she had created an alternate reality,\ngiven Anthy the opportunity to follow her there, and left Akio oblivious to\nits existence. This changed the world completely for all three of those\nparties, getting Utena out of a situation she didn't care for and offering\nfreedom and friendship to Anthy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Touga's explanation in the manga\n\nIn the third volume of the manga, before their second duel together, Utena\nasks Touga:\n\n> Why do you want it so much? \"The power to revolutionize the world\" … I've\n> never understood it.\n\nTouga's response to this is:\n\n> Oh. That's easy. Tenjou, have you ever felt that you were an outsider? That\n> this place we look down upon … It's like _another_ world, far away from the\n> _real_ one? Our _true_ world exists someplace _else_. We _all_ want to get\n> that world back so we can finally return to our _deepest_ selves. This world\n> we inhabit — it's like an egg … A small world encased in a _hard_ shell. The\n> chick will _die_ , unborn, if it doesn't _break_ through that shell … Die\n> without ever knowing that it's a _bird_! If we don't break the _world's_\n> shell, we'll die without beyond _born_ , without knowing we can _fly_! And I\n> _want_ to fly. _That_ is why I will revolutionize the world … So that I can\n> be _myself_!\n\n(Italics are from original text. Some of the punctuation is my own.) This\nimplies that in the _Utena_ manga, this \"power to revolutionize the world\" is\nnot necessarily about physical power. Rather, it is about being able to make a\nproper place for oneself in the world.\n\n# Can a similar interpretation apply to the anime?\n\nThe anime diverges from the manga somewhat in plot, but this interpretation\nhelps clarify the anime's own discussion of the \"revolution.\" We often are\nshown a sequence where the student council members say:\n\n> If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. We\n> are the chick. The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we\n> will die without being born. Smash the world's shell! For the revolution of\n> the world!\n\nThis is very similar to the second half of what Touga says in the manga. There\nis the same notion of self-realization and overcoming the world here.\nFurthermore, Mikage's response in the anime after students recount their\ntroubles — \"Your only choice is to revolutionize the world.\" — shares the\nelement of \"revolutionizing the world\" for _personal_ reasons.\n\nWhen Nanami substitutes for Touga, she introduces a variant in the sequence:\n\n> If it cannot break its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. The\n> chamber of freedom and the cage of freedom. Without revealing the vastness\n> of the sky, both care for the chick. Smash the world's cage! For the\n> revolution of the world!\n\nThe meaning of this is less immediately clear, but it does not seem\ninconsistent with the interpretations earlier.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's instrumental music playing in episode 5 of season 1 of _Tokyo Ghoul_\nat around 19:50 when Kaneki, Touka, and Nishiki are fighting Tsukiyama.\n\nWhat is the title, and the name of the album if it exists?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe sound track you are looking for is [東京喰種-\nトーキョーグール-](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S1NmtWDVYk) Or [Licht und\nSchatten](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S1NmtWDVYk) by [Yutaka\nYamada](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=128448)\nWhom created most if not all of the music in tokyo ghoul.\n\nThe track is 4:15 long, and the instrumental part that can be heard around\n19:50 into the 5th episode can be found at\n[3:48](https://youtu.be/3S1NmtWDVYk?t=228), The instrumental part that is\n\nThis track was included as 25th track on the 1st OST cd. The 2 ost CD's can be\nbought as a bundle from [cdjapan](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MJSA-1158)\nfor around 28$\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is the end card for episode 11 of _Owarimonogatari_. (Click for larger\nimage.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gp3rv.jpg)\n\nWho is the guy left of Shinobu, in some sort of uniform?\n\nI tried searching, but the most information I got was from\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/01/02-1/monogatari-\nanime-site-offers-a-look-back-at-owarimonogatari-end-cards), which seems to\nhave only listed the _artists_ and _other_ works they are famous for. (In the\ncase of ep. 2, the title associated with the author is obviously related to\nthe content of the end card, but this isn't true of most of the others. I did\ntry looking up _Human Crossing_ , but wasn't able to find a character who\nlooked blatantly similar to the guy I'm curious about. This might be, however,\nbecause I don't know anything about the series.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is [a reference](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8tlM3.jpg) to a college-aged\nKosaku Shima, the titular character of Kenshi Hirokane's [_Student Kosaku\nShima_](http://evening.moae.jp/lineup/340) series.\n\nCollege students in the [Showa\nera](http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/waseda-university-department-of-\nengineering-mobilized-news-footage/505527691) wore uniforms like this. This\nuniform and emblem is specific to Waseda University, Kosaku Shima's alma\nmater.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pDFLs.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/soMJl.jpg)\n\nThe public Twitter for the series even made a tweet about the end card:\n<https://twitter.com/shimakosaku1966/status/675702573433663488>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently bought a Hideyoshi Kinoshita figure on ebay, when it arrived I\nnoticed that the seller had included a small figure of a loli girl in a blue\nuniform with yellow ball looking badges on it, white shoes red hair with a\nlong cowlick and sword with a cat charm on the handle. Can anyone tell me\nwhere she is from? It's been driving me nuts for days! it would be much\nappreciated. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qtO70.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe female character in the above picture is [Kurogane\nHayate](http://hayatexblade.wikia.com/wiki/Kurogane_Hayate) from [Hayate x\nBlade](http://myanimelist.net/manga/4145/Hayate_x_Blade).\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ycn1p.jpg)\n[code]\n\n> Kurogane Hayate's appearance in the Manga\n> \n[/code]\n\nThe Manga currently does not have an anime adaptation. You can find the\nfigurine\n[here](https://myanimeshelf.com/figures/308540_Dengeki_Daioh_Collection:_Kurogane_Hayate).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo episode 305 came out recently, therefore **spoiler alert**.\n\nMost of it is concerning the past...\n\n**In the past episodes' flashback it was shown clearly that ..**\n\n * in this [video](https://youtu.be/mHTGbtz-NXY?t=119),Takasugi lost his eye in a fight with alien. \n * Shuoyou, teacher, is taken from his school and then his is returned to gintoki who cries helplessly.\n * Shuoyou finds gintoki on battlefield and bring him to class with katsura and takasugi in it.\n\n**However in episode 304-305, this all contradicts**\n\n * Takasugi loses eye by attack of Oboro\n * Katsura, Gintoki, and Takasugi are brought as prisoners and Gintoki is given choice to kill either students or teacher, on a top of mountain. Contradictory, to what been shown before many times: which is soldier hold gintoki down as teacher is taken prisioner and then on the same place his head returned and gintoki cries.\n * In this version, gintoki is already part of the Shuoyou school and it's infact katsura and takasugi who join later on. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBack then it's a fake trailer. Gori-sensei didn't write that. Ep.305 however,\nis canon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMuch like @Akaik mentioned in his answer, the main reason for the\ninconsistencies is entirely down to both Sunrise and Gori-Sensei not entirely\nknowing the details of these events as they go head first into making\neverything.\n\nThey pretty much admit to this using Gintoki to explain at the end of episode\n306, where they include another Ginpachi-Sensei segment. They even use the\npoint you mention that previously it looked as if Gin joined Shuoyou's school\nafter Katsura and Takasugi, when in the latest episodes it appears to be the\nreverse. They make a joke about it not having a script at the time and that\nsomething entirely different is happening.\n\nThis is probably as close to an offcial answer that we'll get.\n\nThere may be other mentions to why the other points you make out have changed\nin-between episodes but no mention of this (even as a joke) has appeared in\nthe manga as far as I remember.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike mentioned by @Gorp, this inconsistency is mentioned in the Ginpachi-\nSensei section of episode 306 and answered by Gintoki. Here's the chronology\nof what happened, starting from the foundation of the school.\n\n 1. Shouyou found Gintoki in a battlefield.\n 2. Shouyou created a school with Gintoki.\n 3. Katsura and Takasugi joined the school.\n 4. Shouyou and Gintoki entered the class with Shouyou giving Gintoki a book to wipe his ass like shown in the Ginpachi-sensei section of episode 306.\n 5. Shouyou's school was labeled as teaching children to overthrow the Bakufu.\n 6. As shown in episode 306 flashback, Shouyou stopped some patrol from drawing their swords against Sakata Gintoki, Takasugi Shinsuke and Katsura Koutaro.\n 7. Shouyou got arrested but was later released, probably with strict warning that this is his last chance and he must stop teaching. This is where Gintoki is shown crying upon his return.\n 8. Shouyou ignored the warning and continued to teach as shown in the flashback where Gintoki said that the Bushidou Shouyou taught and they follows won't be bend by such a thing (the threat).\n 9. Shouyou teach again for some years and was then arrested again. This fits with he fact that when Gintoki and friends fought in the war, they are older than when they are in school.\n 10. Gintoki and other Shouyou students formed a rebel group to save Shouyou.\n 11. The Dragon of Katsurahama, Sakamoto Tatsuma joined the group and act as the fund raiser.\n 12. As shown in the flashback where Sakamoto and Gintoki crash landed in a desert planet (it was in the first or second season of the anime, I forget which episode), Sakamoto said that he thinks that fighting is not the only way to protect things he deemed precious. He left the group and formed a trade company.\n 13. Sakata Gintoki, Katsura Koutaro and Takasugi Shinsuke got arrested and brought to a hill where Yoshida Shouyou is.\n 14. Gintoki chose to kill Yoshida Shouyou, his teacher, to save Takasugi and Katsura. His head was indeed returned to Gintoki. The setting might differs but the essence of the story is the same.\n\nAs for Takasugi losing his eyes to Oboro, it indeed differs from what shown\nbefore. Most likely it is because of both Sunrise and Gorilla-sensei didn't\nthink about it when the scene was made. Which is also confirmed by Gintoki in\nthe Ginpachi-sensei section of episode 306.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the _Love Live!_ series, UTX High School's [A-RISE](http://love-\nlive.wikia.com/wiki/A-RISE) is the first school idol group featured. But, is\nA-RISE the first school idol group ever featured in the history of anime? If\nnot, who is the first school idol group?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\"School idols\" aren't a real thing; the notion was invented for the _Love\nLive!_ franchise.\n\nHence, it must be the case that the first school idol group in anime is\nwhichever one is first featured in _Love Live!_ \\- and as you point out,\nA-RISE is that group.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's been 3 months since the question existed, well, if you still haven't\nfound the answer yet, here it is.\n\n> **1983**\n\n**[Magical Angel Creamy\nMami](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1284)** is the\noldest _Idol_ anime I could find. It has 52 TV epsidoes + 4 OVA aired back in\n1983. It's a school idol group, but unfortunately I can't find the name of the\ngroup.\n\n> **Creamy Mami** is about a young girl, Yuu, who after seeing a spaceship is\n> given the power to use magic for one year. She is also given 2 cats, Poji\n> and Nega, to watch over and guide her. Using her magic powers to transform\n> into the idol Creamy Mami, Yuu must work hard at acting, singing, helping\n> her parents at their crepe shop, fighting aliens and bad guys, going to\n> school, plus try to get the affections of her childhood friend Toshio.\n\n \n\n> **2003**\n\n**[Wandaba\nStyle](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2533)** is\nthe possible oldest _Idol_ anime with a group name, yes, finally, but wait, it\nis not a school idol!\n\n> A J-pop group named **Mix Juice** consisting of four girls: Ayame, Yuri,\n> Sakura & Himawari attempt to make it big by playing the first concert on the\n> moon. Bankrolling this endeavor is the 13 year old billionare Susumu Tsukumo\n> and his android, Kiku 8 who propose to go to space in an eco-friendly way.\n\n \n\n> **2006**\n\n**[Lemon Angel\nProject](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6095)** is\nabout a group of high school girls forming a new Lemon Angel Idol Group, I\nthink that is it, I'm surprised that the first school idol group was created\nonly 10 years ago.\n\n> **Lemon Angel** was once the greatest girl band of Japan, but then it broke\n> up and most of its members vanished. When a music producer decides to put\n> together a new Lemon Angel, average high schooler Tomo Minaguchi is\n> approached to audition for the group. Little does she know of the mystery\n> behind the original Lemon Angel...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know this is years late, but the first idol anime ever is Sasurai no Taiyou\n(1971).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA while ago, I learned that the author of a manga I loved died but that its\nartist (Katou Yoshie) was still in business. One of the manga he/she's working\non is named _Majo x Kamikakushi_ , but I haven't had luck finding anywhere to\nbuy it.\n\nCould anyone help me figure out where I buy it? Apparently it's serialized in\nGangan magazine.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am sure most of the fans of _One Piece_ agree with me on this one. The\nentire story of Dressrosa is progressing slowly. If you follow the anime like\nme, rather than the manga it's a very painful wait for something to happen.\n\nIs there any particular reason behind it? Do the decision makers want _One\nPiece_ to go on another 15 years. Some facts I know which might answer this\nare:\n\n * Previously one episode was made up of 2-4 chapters of manga, now its 1-2 chapters per anime episode.\n * Character Introduction: The amount of character introduction in this arc is too much which I think we can safely assume that they have some purpose in the upcoming arcs. (Similar to how so many pirates were supporting Whitebeard in the war)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> ⚠ **The answer below contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.**\n\nAs of this writing, the 10 longest arcs with their respective number of\nepisodes are:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LGrhR.png)\n\nClearly, Dressrosa is roughly double the length of the second longest arc\nuntil now.\n\n**The major reasons behind this are:**\n\n 1. **Character Introduction/Development:** As you point out, the number of characters introduced during this arc are far too many as compared to any other arc. To list the major ones:\n\n * Admiral Fujitora\n * Bellamy is revealed to be alive and has visited Skypiea\n * Buggy is confirmed to have joined the Shichibukai during the time skip\n * CP 0\n * Colloseum Fighters (Mainly Rebecca and Kyros)\n * Dwarves\n * Kaido (seen for the first time, as opposed to the silhouette we have been seeing)\n * Kuzan is revealed to have become associated with the Blackbeard Pirates\n * Revolutanaries such as Sabo, Koala and Hack\n * Rob Lucci, Hattori, and Spandam have joined CP-0\n * Many characters make their first appearances after the time skip. The characters (in the order they were reintroduced) are: Jewelry Bonney, Brannew, Sakazuki, Bellamy, Jesus Burgess, Bastille, Sabo, Koala, the Gorosei, Urouge, Capone Bege, X Drake, Sengoku, Tsuru, Rob Lucci, Spandam, and Hattori.[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dressrosa_Arc)\n 2. **Plot development:** A lot of plot was covered in this arc, from introducing new story lines to filling in the gap that was left after the timeskip. To list a few of the things covered[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dressrosa_Arc):\n\n * Law's backstory and history with the Donquixote Pirates is shown.\n * Luffy activates a new technique called Gear Fourth.\n * Luffy fights and defeats Doflamingo with the other crew members having their own fighting scenes with their respective opponents.\n * More information about Haki is revealed during this arc. According to Law and Luffy, if Haki is overused, it will not be able to work for a certain period of time until it recharges.\n * The gladiators and dwarves who allied with Luffy offer him an alliance with 7 representatives of each crew, giving a total of about 5,640 pirates. He refuses the offer but they choose to pledge their allegiance to him even if he refused, forming the Straw Hat Grand Fleet.\n * Trafalgar Law is revealed to have the \"D.\" in his name. It is also revealed that anybody that is a part of the Will of the D. is considered \"an enemy of God\". \n 3. **Slow Pacing:** As you pointed out, the pacing of One Piece has been slow during this arc. As mentioned in [this article](http://thedailyfandom.com/one-pieces-dressrosa-toei-wrong/): \n\n> TOEI has decided to translate 1 manga chapter to 1 anime episode. Which is\n> something that doesn’t really always work since narrative in comics and\n> audiovisual pieces is not the same. We’ve also seen too many unnecessary\n> reaction shots. For example, recently we got nearly a quarter of an episode\n> of just toys transforming back to humans. Or hundreds of panning shots of\n> Sabo (without showing his actual face until last week’s episode). Or\n> repeated flashbacks, like Rebecca and her father.\n\nThis is happening because the manga and the anime are pretty close at the\nmoment. Usually, an anime makes fillers in cases such as this. However, One\nPiece fillers are rare, and the one that we did get prior to the Dressrosa\nArc: _Caesar’s Retrieval Arc_ , was only 3 episodes long. We also got the 3D2Y\nSpecial, but it still doesn’t seem to be\nenough.[Source](http://thedailyfandom.com/one-pieces-dressrosa-toei-wrong/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith the popularity of all things made by Miyazaki, has Future Boy Conan ever\nbeen licensed for US release?\n\nI know it wasn't created by Studio Ghibli; are there some legal issues that\nmight be preventing it from being released in the US?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## No, _Future Boy Conan_ has not been licensed within the US.\n\nAlthough, there has been plenty of speculation as to why this never happened.\n\nReasons people speculate include:\n\n * being too expensive to produce\n * fear of it not selling\n * it being too old \n * general licensing hell\n\nApart from these speculations, there has never been a conclusive answer, nor\nhas it ever been said that it will never happen.\n\nSo it might still happen some day.\n\n[Answerman](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2015-07-14/.90419) from\nAnime News Network also stated the following:\n\n> We have no idea what's holding back the show from the US. I used to think a\n> show like this would be a slow seller -- it didn't exactly blow up the\n> fansub scene back in the day, either on VHS or via Bittorrent. But then\n> again, Discotek just hit a home run with their Castle of Cagliostro Blu-ray\n> so who knows -- it might do OK. Regardless, it's not going to happen in the\n> foreseeable future. Throw another one on the \"licensing hell\" pile, and hope\n> that, someday, something might change.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHas an official Japanese release date for **[Evangelion:\n3.0+1.0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion:_3.0%2B1.0)** been\nannounced?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's no official announcement, any date not published by Khara is only\nrumor. The most recent news related to this is that Hideaki Anno was working\non Godzilla and in Decemeber, [Khara was recruiting more\nstaff](http://www.khara.co.jp/recruiting/). The recruiting could be related to\nother projects, like the Animator Expo. In other news, Shuichi Iseki posted\nsome pictures that looks like Khara is moving to a new location (maybe).\nThere's no confirmation that all the recruitment and perhaps moving to a\nlarger space has _anything_ to do with the Evangelion movie. So some\nspeculation:\n\n 1. It has to do with Eva, so maybe the movie isn't done yet\n 2. It has to do with something else that's not Eva, so maybe the movie isn't done and they're not going to finish it or \n * The movie is done but delayed for some other reason.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre Ainz and his servants still leveling up the same way they were when they\nwere killing monster to get exp in Yggdrasil?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLvl 100 was maxed level in the game, but the New world has different laws and\nsomething from the game manifest differently. This is because the new world\nisn't a game, but instead, an actual world that is trying to make sense of the\ngame mechanics.\n\nIn the game, the minimum amount of experience a monster could give is 1 and\nalso Ainz had 100% experience to level if the game allowed him to become level\n101.\n\nAinz should have leveled already if he was gaining experience points, the only\ncaveat is that what if the New world is giving humans or other monsters less\nexperience. For example, if the new world gives humans 0.001 experience then\nit could still be possible, but there isn't anything that suggests that Ainz\ncan level.\n\n**Last note, the author himself said Ainz is maxed level and he won't be able\nto level.**\n\nReference to the translation, which has a reference to the original.\n\n<https://www.reddit.com/r/overlord/comments/6fcxi6/kugane_maruyama_interview_kono_light_novel_ga/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was reading the books and Ainz is clearly saying he should have leveled up\nbut didn't feel anything different so he concludes he can't level up. But I\nthink he is wrong. He is a better fighter and he is doing things no spell\ncaster would be able to do. Meaning he has obtained some fighter levels.\n\nAt smaller \"levels\" it is easy to see an increase in power but when you have\n100 \"levels\" getting 1 more is not so evident. Also I think that in the new\nworld there is no fix levels. In games you only get skills when you level up\nbut now I think you learn the skill step by step for example at the middle of\nyou leveling from lv2 to lv3 you can do the skill that you gain at lv3 but not\nas good.\n\nThere is an example that goes against this when Neia Baraja uses divine power\nfor her archery it seems like an instant gain unlike Hamsuke constant training\nand step by step level up.\n\nOf course a reason he would be able to be better at fighting but not level up\ncould be because he is getting used to his powers and learning how the world\nworks. Also gaining power from flavor text with no mechanical gain in game but\ntrue now. If that is true then it would look like leveling but only\ndiscovering his powers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith regards to the Denizens of Nazerick leveling it's hard to tell. Obviously\nas the author has said, the level 100 characters have reached their level cap\nand are subsequently unable to level.\n\nThe more interesting question is wether the sub-lvl.100 characters are able to\nlevel (i.e. the Pleiades and the area-guardians). It is difficult to be sure\nwether or not these characters are able to level since we don't often see\nthrough their perspective and they (with the exception of Narberal) haven't\nhad a lot of combat experience yet.\n\nWe know that _Players_ from Yggdrasil can level as evidenced by the strongest\nof the \"13 Heros,\" who came to the New World between lvl.10-20, started out as\nthe weakest of the heros, and ended as the strongest of them. We can also be\nfairly confident that the New World Natives can level (albeit, likely with a\nracial/personal level cap, as evidenced by the fact that the Godkin are\ntechnically a different race and are much stronger than normal humans), due to\nthe existence of Adventurers, humans who, through combat, have become stronger\nthan the average human. Also the Nazerick trainees, (i.e. the Lizardmen and\nHamusuke, since it's been stated that they're getting stronger)\n\nThe real question is wether or not the _NPCs_ can level. There isn't a lot of\ninfo on it, but I'm fairly certain that NPCs were not able to level naturally\nin Yggdrasil, if that carried over into the New World then whatever level they\nwere when they transitioned from Yggdrasil is effectively their level cap.\nIt's difficult to say wether or not this is the case even if they _could_ grow\nto lvl.100. As I mentioned earlier the Denizens of Nazerick haven't really had\nany challenging battles so far and they haven't been doing any\nleveling/grinding, which at their levels and considering the relative weakness\nof the New World, they would need to do quite a bit of in order to see any\nreal results.\n\nPersonally I don't think that any of the original Denizens of Nazerick can\nlevel in the New World. However, that does leave one avenue for them to still\nget stronger, that being Martial Arts and new Spells.\n\nThough leveling up does provide a stat boost, it appears that one of the\nprimary ways it increased players strength back in Yggdrasil, especially at\nhigher levels, was through the gaining and improving of skills/magic. If Ainz\nand the Denizens of Nazerick are able to learn new Spells and/or Martial Arts\nit could provide a lot of room for growth, especially at their levels,\nconsidering that most of these abilities seem to scale with the user's\nstrength. Though frustratingly there hasn't been any development on that front\nbecause none of them are actually _attempting_ to learn anything new (mostly\nbecause they're all already strong enough to whup just about anybody's ass in\nthe New World) The closest they get is the Death Knight training with\nHamusuke, who is a created undead, so who knows if he even counts?\n\nThe closest we get to a confirmation or denial is shortly after Nazerick\narrives in the New World. Ainz tries to get one of the maids (a homunculus\nmaid, not one of the Pleiades) to cook a steak, like, three times and the maid\nfails in the same way each time. If I remember correctly, because of this Ainz\nassumes that the NPCs can't learn new skills. However this was still while\nNew-Nazerick was in its infancy and the NPCs were just getting used to the New\nWorld and its freedoms. It could be that the issue with the maid was one of\nmindset. I don't belive the LN provides any details on how the steak was\ncooked, but there's a chance that the maid, being used to Yggdrasil where\nwithout a skill in something one could not do that thing, and being entirely\nnew to cooking, didn't know what was going wrong and just did the exact same\nthing all three times. If she had been instructed on how to cook and had had\nsome more practice, maybe she could have learned.\n\nThough this is all just a bunch of speculation. Even if the Denizens of\nNazerick _can_ learn new skills, there likely won't be any effort/development\nput forward in that department until/if they encounter an enemy who is\nstronger than they are, (maybe another guild will transfer over from Yggdrasil\nor something) which definitelywon't be happening in the story for some time\nyet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes \"バルス\", which is popular in [tweeting](http://kotaku.com/5868320/how-an-\nold-japanese-anime-broke-twitter-records/) during Laputa, have any meaning or\netymology, or rationale for being in katakana?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you recall from the movie, the word \"BALS,\" is the Laputian incantation the\ncollapses Laputa. In the Laputian language it means \"to close.\"\n\nAccording to [various](http://sugoitokyo.com/en/?p=184)\n[online](http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/japan-breaks-record-for-\ntweets-per-second-again-with-bals.html) accounts this originated from the\nworld record setting number of tweets that happened during a public re-airing\nof the movie on Japanese Television:\n\n> On the night of August 2 (2013), during the \"Friday Roadshow\" airing of the\n> Japanese anime film Laputa: Castle in the Sky on Nippon Television Network,\n> Japanese netizens renewed the world record of Tweets Per Second (TPS) at\n> 143,199 TPS by all (simultaneously) tweeting the magic spell \"BALS\" at the\n> same time as the protagonists Princess Sheeta and Pazu read the spell\n> together during the film. In the story, the magic spell \"BALS\", meaning\n> \"close\" in the language of Laputa, is a spell of destruction that destroys\n> the city of Laputa. The spell is said to have derived from the Turkish word\n> \"barış,\" meaning \"peace.\"\n\nThe sheer amount of tweets wound up overburdening Twitter's servers, resulting\nin the appearance of the the well-known \"Twitter Whale.\" The overwhelming\npopularity and notoriety of the tag (it's said that \"BALS\" was the ironic\ncause of the sever collapse), it stayed and eventually became a fixture in on\nthe Japanese side of Twitter due to this event.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKatakana are used for words that are not actually japanese.\n\nSince Balse is a word in Laputian language it has to be written in katakana.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe show I am trying to identify shares some characteristics with _The Girl\nWho Leapt Through Time_ , namely the elements of time travel and romance. The\nplot of the show that I am trying to identify involved a girl who was in love\nwith a boy in her class. One day, she overheard the boy jokingly say to his\nfriends that he preferred older women. The girl, not realizing this statement\nwas a joke, somehow goes back in time in her current form, and subsequently,\nthe rest of the world's people are a few years younger.\n\nWhen the girl finds the boy's whereabouts, she realizes that he does not\nrecognize her, in fact, the boy cannot sense her presence at all, if I recall\ncorrectly. She realizes that she has become a mere observer of the world of a\nfew years past. Years pass, and it is revealed that the boy is still\ninterested in pursuing a relationship with the girl, but is not aware of her\nwhereabouts. I think, after high school, he goes abroad to study. The girl is\nunable to communicate to the boy that she is the person he is searching for,\nfor the fear that the rift in space-time caused by her attempting to interact\nwith the past world will destroy her, and thus, becomes heart-broken. She\nleads a sad, regretful life, never getting the chance to tell the boy her\nfeelings for him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe music video you mistook for an anime is called [Owari no Sekai\nKara](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgUIgbRMTSU), written by [Maeda\nJun](http://myanimelist.net/people/2347/Jun_Maeda) and sung by [Yanagi\nNagi](http://myanimelist.net/people/14637/Nagi_Yanagi). Here is a page with\nthe [lyrics](http://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/yanaginagi/owarinosekaikara.htm).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime and manga versions of _One Piece_ usually tell the same story. (e.g.\nlike when Dragon saved Sabo is almost obvious in anime than in manga).\nHowever, there are 2 versions of how Zeff lost his leg in the past:\n\n 1. In manga chapter 58, Zeff ate his own leg to survive.\n\n> What happened.. to your leg...? Did you... did you eat your own leg!?\n>\n> Yes.\n\n 2. In anime episode 26, at around 18:00-20:00, there's a flashback showing Zeff's foot got stuck in an anchor when saving Sanji underwater. And he never said he ate his own leg.\n\nHow did Zeff really lose his leg?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**It depends on what you mean by \"really lose his leg\".**\n\nAs you mentioned, in the Manga:\n\n> He actually loses his leg on the tall, rocky island they wash up on. After\n> giving Sanji all his food and lying to the boy that the larger bag that he\n> kept himself were his rations (knowing that the boy would never accept it if\n> he found out that he had no food with him at all, only treasure), he smashed\n> his leg off with a large rock and ate it to stay\n> alive.[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zeff)\n\nWhereas, in the Anime:\n\n> Zeff's leg caught on debris during the rescue, and he had to cut it off in\n> order to get Sanji and save them both. He does this by wrapping a chain\n> around the trapped leg and letting the force of the ships sever\n> it.[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zeff)\n\n**Since the Anime is adapted from the Manga and not the other way around, if\none of the two versions had to be chosen as the official one, it would have to\nbe the Manga one. Eiichiro Oda meant for Zeff to lose his leg as means of\nsatisfying his hunger, indicating the severity of Sanji and Zeff's predicament\nwhile they were stranded on the island.**\n\nAs mentioned in the [article on Zeff](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zeff):\n\n> The change was due to censorship, as it was considered too much of a shock\n> for young children.\n\n**It is specifically addressed by Oda in[SBS Volume\n15](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_15):**\n\n> D: When I watched the One Piece anime, at the same part of Volume 7, Chapter\n> 57, \"Dreams Have a Reason\" it says the reason Zeff lost his leg got torn off\n> in the shipwreck... did they change that in consideration of the young\n> children watching the show?\n>\n> O: Yes. Hearing \"eat your own leg\" in that episode would be too much of a\n> shock for young children. When you consider that a medium such as television\n> has tens of millions of viewers, to neglect such a consideration would be a\n> terrible mistake. It's amazing that all those animators can continue to\n> create such wonderful shows while still thinking about these things all the\n> time!! If you can feel the love when you watch the show, everyone please\n> send fan letters to Toei Animation. It'll cheer everyone up there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf Kurama is really the living embodiment of hatred (not some self proclaim\ntitle), then what about the other Tailed Beasts? Are they the embodiment of\nsomething else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs per [naruto.wikia.com](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kurama#Personality)\n\n> Long years of receiving humanity's negative treatment caused Kurama to\n> develop intense hostility and distrust against them, even going as far as\n> proclaiming itself to be the living embodiment of hatred.\n\nSo, he was not embodiment of hatred by itself from start but became like this\nlater on. So its not a tailed beast characteristic to represent as embodiment\nof single emotion per tailed beast.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second episode of the first season, at the beginning of the episode,\nwhen Mars calls Ishimoto \"Isshie\", there is the following conversation :\n\n> Ishimoto : Isshie? Really?\n>\n> Mars : Would you prefer Mottie?\n>\n> Ishimoto : Isshie please.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bHHeJ.png)\n\nI get that Isshie is the diminutive of Ishimoto, but I do not get why he would\ncall her Mottie.\n\nWhy does Mars propose to call her Mottie and why is Ishimoto reacting that\nway?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNicknames are often derived from the beginning of names, but they can also be\nderived from the end as well.\n\nSo _Ishi_ moto can become _Isshi_ e, but Ishi _moto_ can also become _mott_\nie.\n\nIn English, you see this with names like Nicholas becoming Klaus.\n\nThe light novel series _Adachi and Shimamura_ has several\nconversations/internal dialogues about nicknames, and I seem to recall \"Mura\"\ncoming up at one point. But there are also points at which two characters use\nthe later part of Adachi's name when trying to form nicknames for her, and one\nof them ends up calling Adachi exclusively by that last part of her name at\none point.\n\n> Addtionally, the fact that she called me \"Chee-chee\" the entire time\n> suggested that she had forgotten what my name was.\n>\n> _Adachi and Shimamura_ volume 7, page 133\n\nAnd to answer the second part of your question: people get very particular\nabout nicknames for themselves and others. In _Adachi and Shimamura_ , Adachi\ncan't bring herself to call Shimamura anything other than Shimamura. She can't\neven call her Hougetsu, which is Shimamura's first name.\n\n> \"Sorry, Shimamura, but I really think Shimamura fits the best.\"\n>\n> \"Yeah, maybe so.\" And likewise--to me, she was just _Adachi_.\n>\n> _Adachi and Shimamura_ volume 7, page 75\n\nAdditionally, Shimamura finds the nickname Shima-chan weird. And Adachi thinks\nit's pointless to call her Ada-chee as a nickname, because that's basically\nher name.\n\nSo the reason Ishimoto rejects Mottie is because she doesn't like that\nnickname. Given the choice between Mottie and Isshie, she chooses Isshie.\nWithout any further introspection from her, we cannot say for certain what her\nactual reason is. My guess is that it's not really that deep of a reason, and\nshe just has a gut reaction of disliking it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA thing that I'd like to know is whether or not the series of light novels for\nChuunibyou has ended. Has anyone read the third volume?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre there any crossovers of SAO and Accel World? Anime, manga, light-novel,\nanything?\n\nI saw this image a long time ago somewhere:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fyGMb.png)\n\nAnd I read about a possible crossover between the two. Does anyone know if it\nhas aired yet or will be? And where I can find the episodes/chapters or find\nmore information?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a crossover, but it is still just a Special Chapter called\n[Versus](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Versus). It is just a fight\nbetween Kirito and Silver Crow, caused by a special dive machine. You can read\na english version [here](https://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Sword_Art_Online:Versus).\n\n> Kazuto (Kirito) was on a part-time job to test out the 4th generation\n> FullDive machine created by Rath. He was told that other users had seen a\n> ghost and so he was there to check if it was true. During the dive he saw a\n> robotic figure. He instinctively grabbed the sword hung on his back, only to\n> discover that he was his avatar from Sword Art Online, Kirito the Black\n> Swordsman. He looked up and saw a timer, health bar, stamina gauge on both\n> sides of his vision, his login ID \"KIRITO\" on the left side and his\n> opponent's ID, SILVER CROW, on the right.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's also [a crossover drama CD](http://vgmdb.net/album/52510). The second\ndisc adapts the \"Versus\" storyline mentioned in [Astral Sea's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/28995/); the first disc is just two\nseparate storylines (one for AW, one for SAO) with no crossing-over.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 2, Zapp Renfro gets an introduction screen which captions 馬鹿 and バカ\nas \"Dick Suck\". At first, I thought this was a troll caption, but it appears\nin official releases such as the [Funimation!\nstream](http://www.funimation.com/shows/blood-blockade-\nbattlefront/videos/official/after-the-phantom-ghost-wagon).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ExU3.jpg)\n\nDoes anyone know why this was captioned this way? Possibly a reason/joke in\nthe anime?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k3zab.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can read [here](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/blood-blockade-\nbattlefront-kekkai-sensen):\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G0IEU.png)\n>\n> Dick Suck is a meme referring to an annotation shown during the introduction\n> to the character of Zapp Renfro within episode 2 of the anime, with one of\n> the introductory annotations referring to him as a “dick suck”. Due to the\n> humorous nature of the comment, the term grew in popularity among fans, and\n> is often paired with fanart of the character.\n\nHowever, it's mostly a pun on _baka_ as mentioned [on\nReddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3296bu/spoilers_kekkai_sensen_episode_2_discussion/cq931ve):\n\n> > I think it actually says \"Baka Baka\".\n>\n> Yep, the kanji is 馬鹿 (baka) and the katakana says \"baka\" too.\n\nAs for the reason of its official translation being that as well, it seems to\nbe for nothing more than humor purposes like senshin points out in the\ncomments.\n\nSomething similar to this is:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QHNTz.jpg)\n>\n> Chain Sumeragi being labelled as a \"shawty\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the main ways people in the United States watch anime these days is to\nstream it online via a streaming service like Crunchyroll or Hulu.\n\nIs the online streaming of anime in Japan as popular as it is in America? I\nknow that the Japanese music industry tries really hard to keep its works off\nthe Internet as much as possible, and they try to get customers to buy\nphysical CDs instead. Is there a similar impact on anime streaming where the\nanime industry tries to avoid streaming and opt for physical DVDs, Blu-rays,\netc. in its domestic domain instead?\n\nAlso, most of the time in America, the subbed Japanese version is available\nfor free viewing for anybody.\n\nDo Japanese viewers have to pay in order to stream anime in Japanese? My guess\nis no, because I wouldn't see why Japanese viewers would be charged to view\nanime in Japanese when U.S. viewers get to stream anime in Japanese for free.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned in the article: [How Is Online Streaming Doing in\nJapan?](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2015-12-04/.96036)\n\n * > In terms of YouTube and Nico Nico, both services are quite entrenched. Nico Nico's growth has slowed substantially, clocking in at about 2.5 million premium members (they had 2 million in 2013), and 50 million registered users. YouTube, meanwhile, is blowing up, with 70% of internet users reporting having used the service -- ranking it #1 social media website in the country, above Facebook, Twitter, and Japan's local (and more popular) social media service, Line.\n\n * > **In terms of premium services streaming professionally made content, Japan is behind English speaking countries in terms of market reach.** Hulu famously launched in Japan back in 2011, but didn't manage to secure much Japanese language content -- most of what they were offering was American TV shows. It also cost a fortune (¥2,000 per month, with no free option). After three years, Hulu sold off the service to Nippon TV, who added some more Japanese content, and reduced the price to a far more reasonable ¥930 per month. In March they announced they had over a million subscribers.\n\n * > Netflix only launched their Japanese service in September, but has been doing groundwork for their launch for some time. Pricing the service at ¥650-1450 per month, the company has been spending heavily on marketing, and local versions of televisions from major manufacturers like Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic got those ubiquitous Netflix buttons added to their controls back in the 2nd quarter. The company even partnered with cell phone company SoftBank to easily add the service to users' monthly bills. It's too early to know how well the service is doing, though.\n\n * > **It's suddenly a very crowded marketplace for streaming services in Japan. What's more, it remains to be seen whether the aging Japanese public at large even wants subscription streaming services. The country is famously old fashioned in how it consumes media (they still buy enough CDs to keep Tower Records in business over there)**. A survey conducted in September by JustSystems showed that, among users of Amazon.co.jp, only 6.3% currently subscribe to a streaming service, while 38.8% knew what they were but weren't interested in them. Another 27.7% didn't know what they were.\n\nYou can check out this [MyAnimeList forum\npost](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=498511), which mentions that you\ncan stream anime for free in Japan, just like you do in other countries,\nhowever, you would be better off not downloading it from the torrents, due to\nthe [Anti-Downloading Law in Japan](https://torrentfreak.com/anti-downloading-\nlaw-hits-japan-up-to-2-years-in-prison-from-today-121001/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKyubey says that it is the fate of all magical girls to become witches. As far\nas I can recall, this - or death - is indeed how _all_ magical girls reach\ntheir untimely demise throughout the series.\n\nExcluding the events of Rebellion, are there any girls who make a contract\n(canon or EU, like the mangas) and go on to live until adulthood or beyond?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt probably depends on when you believe a girl is considered an adult or a\nwoman. If we take puberty as that point, since some describe it as the path to\nadulthood, then [this Yahoo Answers Best\nAnswer](https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090616142510AAEcYKd)\ncan give us the approximate age at which a girl has entered adulthood and\nbecome a woman.\n\n> Growth starts winding down at around age 17, but can continue until your\n> early twenties. Acne can occur at any age, but it usually starts getting\n> less intense at around age 18.\n\nLet us also consider that the Incubators choose girls because of their varying\nemotional states that are needed to produce the energy they need for the\nuniverse. (Kyubey explains to Madoka in Episode 9 that his kind can't make the\nenergy themselves because they don't feel emotions.) The best time to do this\nis when a girl enters puberty, as this is when hormones are released into the\nbody with one of the results being the heightened emotional state.\n\nSo with this in mind let's say the age range for a \"girl\" is [between\n8](http://www.babycenter.com/0_precocious-early-puberty-in-girls_68661.bc) and\n20.\n\nWith this, the closest I can find is one person, [Tsubaki\nMikoto](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Tsubaki_Mikoto) from [Puella Magi Suzune\nMagica](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Puella_Magi_Suzune_Magica) as the Wiki\nlists her age as \"Around 20\"\n\nThe Wiki also says under \"Known Relatives\"\n\n> Suzune Amano, her adopted daughter; she was also the surrogate mother for\n> the Hinata twins.\n\nIf we take the adoption we know Tsubaki is at least 20 or 25 years old\ndepending on the type of adoption Suzune falls under as explained\n[here](https://adopt.com/japan):\n\n> **Age Requirements:** In special adoptions, prospective adoptive parents\n> must be over 25 years of age. In regular adoptions, prospective adoptive\n> parents must be at least 20 years of age.\n\nAlso with the surrogacy we can probably assume that Tsubaki only raised the\ntwins as [Matsuri Hinata's page says](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Matsuri_Hinata)\n\n> Tsubaki Mikoto, her deceased surrogate mother; her father and her deceased\n> mother.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Not much is known of Matsuri's home-life. She had a sister, Kagari Hinata,\n> an unnamed father, and a caretaker named Tsubaki Mikoto. Not much is given\n> on how Matsuri relates to her family before the events of Suzune.\n\nSo depending on Tsubaki Mikoto's actual age and when our definition for when a\ngirl reaches womanhood, Tsubaki is probably the only Magical Girl (from whom I\ncan find an age) to become an adult.\n\nNOTE: As pointed out on the wiki page:\n\n> (Note: As all chapters post-volume 1 are currently only available in\n> Japanese, most of the post-volume 1 info below comes from rough translation\n> and interpretation of events. Thus, some of the information may be\n> incorrect, so please do not treat anything as 100% accurate.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't recall the title of _Tokyo Ravens_ being explained over the course of\nthe anime (though it's possible I missed something). Other than the Raven\nCoat, I don't remember any particular references to ravens. Where does the\nterm Tokyo Raven come from and what does it mean? Is there a historical basis\nfor it or is it something the author made up? Is it explained in the light\nnovels?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Where does the term Tokyo Raven come from and what does it mean?\n\nThe correct parse is almost surely `Tokyo [Ravens]` rather than `[Tokyo\nRaven]s`. As in \"ravens in Tokyo\"; not \"more than one of a Tokyo Raven\".\n\n\"But what ravens?\" you might ask. \"I sure didn't see any in the anime!\"\n\n> Is it explained in the light novels?\n\nYep. It turns out that the light novel adorns a number of phrases with the\nfurigana レイヴンズ \"ravens\". For example, from the back cover of the first volume\n(to use the most obvious example, since I don't have this OCR'd and hence\ncan't Ctrl+F through it), there are already two distinct instances of this:\n\n * [陰陽師たち]【レイヴンズ】 (\"shamans\" or something, depending on your translation)\n * [闇に舞う鴉たち]【レイヴンズ】 (\"crows who dart through the darkness\"). \n\nThere's not a one-to-one equivalent of this practice in English, but a\nreasonable approach is to understand it as \"ravens\" being used as metonymy for\n\"shamans\"/etc. And this is true in-universe, too: shamans are sometimes\nreferred to or described as \"ravens\" because of their tendency to don black,\nraven-like cloaks, as Yakou did.\n\nThis furigana thing occurs multiple times in the actual body text of the LN\n(in volume 1, at least), but it'd take me a while to hunt down the actual\nquotes. There are also direct (non-furigana) uses of \"ravens\" (鴉) as metonymy\nfor shamans.\n\nOf course, there are many shamans (i.e. ravens) in Tokyo; and many \"crows who\ndart through the darkness\" (i.e. ravens), if by \"crows\" we mean \"weird shadowy\nsupernatural things\". Hence, _Tokyo Ravens_ \\- ravens in Tokyo.\n\n* * *\n\nBut your confusion is reasonable: this would probably be lost on people who\nhave only seen the anime, since the furigana double-meaning thing obviously\ndoesn't work with the spoken word.\n\n> Is there a historical basis for it or is it something the author made up?\n\nI know very little about real-world onmyoudou, but I'm not aware of the raven\nbeing a motif or symbol there. (Of course, research is made difficult by the\nfact that _Tokyo Ravens_ itself pollutes google results for this sort of\nthing.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been searching for a while but I couldn't find any episode lists, so I\ntried to look up another episode but nothing really came up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha) Inuyasha has\na total of 193 episodes. The first series has 167 episodes and the second\nseries called The Final Act has 26 episodes.\n\n> It was adapted into two anime television series produced by Sunrise. The\n> first was broadcast for 167 episodes on Yomiuri TV in Japan from October 16,\n> 2000 until September 13, 2004. The second series, called Inuyasha: The Final\n> Act, began airing five years later on October 3, 2009 to cover the rest of\n> the manga series and ended on March 29, 2010 after 26 episodes.\n\nHere is a list of episodes for both series.\n\n[Inuyasha](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Inuyasha_episodes)\n\n[Inuyasha The Final\nAct](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Inuyasha:_The_Final_Act_episodes)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched a lot of _Black Butler_. Other than seasons 1, 2, and 3 ---I'm\nnot sure if there's a season 3--- and _Book of Murder_ and _Book of Circus_ ,\nI can't find anything else.\n\nAm I missing something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat you have listed are the only animations with:\n\n * Season 1 containing 24 episodes and 1 OVA\n * Season 2 containing 12 episodes and 6 OVA's\n * _Book of Circus_ containing 10 episodes\n * _Book of Murder_ as 2 OVA's.\n\nRef: [List of _Black Butler_\nEpisodes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Butler_episodes).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Black Butler_ , there is season one & season two. There are also _Book of\nMurder_ , _Book of Circus_ , and _Book of Atlantis_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChihiro was traveling by train to the sixth station in _Spirited Away_\n([YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznqTTkurvw)). When the train\npassed the second station, there was a little girl waiting at the station.\n\n\n\nOut of curiosity, I visited Google for some hints and was surprised to see\nsome people say that the little girl's name is Setsuko from _Grave of the\nFireflies_. She was waiting for her older brother.\n\nIs the girl waiting at the train station in _Spirited Away_ , Setsuko from\n_Grave of the Fireflies_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've tried searching around (in English) for people with this theory: I only\nmanaged to find one or two results that mentioned this when searching either\nfor `spirited away train station girl` or `spirited away train station\nsetsuko`.\n\nThat aside, the girl at the station doesn't _obviously_ look like Setsuko.\nSetsuko generally looks rather small and (slightly) chubby, in a very childish\nway. (After all, Setsuko is only four-years-old or so.) This is the case even\nat the end of the film, where Seita and Setsuko look over Kobe in spirit form:\nthe characters look the same age as they were at their deaths.\n\n\n\nMeanwhile, the girl at the train station is somewhat taller and older in\nappearance. This girl also doesn't have Setsuko's hair (at least not overtly)\nand isn't wearing the sort of clothes we'd usually associate with Setsuko.\n\nAbsent such obvious markers, fan commentary, or any statements (e.g. in the\nform of art-book trivia) by the producers, I would conclude that this most\nlikely _isn't_ Setsuko.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that it's Mei's sister from _My Neighbor Totoro_ , Satsuki.\n\nI've noticed the movies may be linked because it mentioned that Chihiro loses\nher pink shoe in the river, Satsuki finds a shoe in a river thinking it was\nMei's when really it could've been Chihiro's from when she was drowning. She's\nalso seen at a bus stop waiting with Totoro when their father is supposed to\nbe on the train.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpirited Away is a criticism of Japanese consumerism and the loss of personal\nintegrity in compassion for others. Most of the spirits on the train are\nsalarymen who had worked their lives away and who now are arriving at their\nafterlives with no one waiting to greet them. Following the interpretation of\n\"My Neighbor Totoro\" that Totoro is actually a children's spirit guide to the\nafterlife, I think this is Satsuki from that film, possibly waiting for the\narrival of her father. The shoes that Satsuki found and that Chihiro lost also\nconnect the films through water.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI checked the synopsis\n[here](http://myanimelist.net/anime/30276/One_Punch_Man?q=one%20pun) and I was\nwondering about the genre of parody.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NiOM0.png)\n\nI’ve completed the season of One Punch Man and there was no parody of anything\nin the animé. The only parody animé I’ve experienced before is Gintama and the\nparody is altogether at another level! Whereas, One Punch Man had relatively\nnone. Am I missing something or is it an error?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> **TL;DR:** One Punch Man is not a parody of a single manga, it is a parody\n> of the whole shonen genre. It makes fun of its codes and therefore can be\n> seen as a parody.\n\nTo help understand it, I will compare One Punch Man to Dragon Ball. I will use\nthe anime for comparison, but it is pretty much the same for the manga. This\ncan and should be applied to many shonen series and not only Dragon Ball. Its\nuse is only intended as an example.\n\n**Fights**\n\nIn One Punch Man, the fights are over at the moment Saitama punches an enemy\n(except the final fight). The moment where the fight is going on is very\nbrief. In Dragon Ball, the fights can last a lot of episodes. As an example,\nthe famous fight between Frieza and Goku took 10 episodes (see [How much\nbroadcast time did it take for planet Namek to blow\nup](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3701/how-much-broadcast-time-\ndid-it-take-for-planet-namek-to-blow-up))\n\n**Reason to fight**\n\nSaitama fights because he _just wants_ to be a Super Hero. Being a hero is\nconsidered a hobby for him. On the other hand, Goku fights because he wants to\nsave his friends and the Earth, while Vegeta fights to become the strongest\nfighter ever, Gohan wants to save the Earth so he can study peacefully, and so\non. One Punch Man is deconstructing the shonen hero goals: by reading/watching\nit, you have the feeling that **anybody can be a hero, it's not that hard**.\nThis is going even deeper as C-Class heroes are quite casual people.\n\n**Training**\n\nAs mentionned in [this\npost](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28346/what-is-the-source-of-\nsaitamas-enormous-power/28347#28347), compared to the power he acquired,\nSaitama's training is just ridiculous, and it is even more so if you compare\nit to the training in other anime.\n\n**The hero itself**\n\nSaitama is **not** badass. While this can be viewed as primarily opinion\nbased, there are some elements that can help us to understand that he was not\nintended as a charismatic character. Even though every enemy and character are\nwell drawn, Saitama is drawn in a quite basic style and leads us to the\nfeeling that Saitama is _out of universe_. A good example is the\ntransformation of Boros, which is quite similar to Dragon Ball's evolutions\n([this is not even my final form](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-isnt-\neven-my-final-form)). While the transformation itself is very well drawn,\nSaitama's reaction is quite _out of universe_\n\n**And so on...**\n\nThere are a lot other things that could be mentioned, such as the fact that we\nsee the hero doing casual things (groceries, eating in restaurant alone, ...).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would assume, that, the concept itself, of a character that would\nimmediately vanquish any foe, no matter how tall, strong, heavy, experienced,\netc, with just one punch, would obviously be intended as the ultimate parody,\nin itself. My only real question would be: when the OPM video game is\nreleased, does OPM simply throw the punch, or, is there a fourteen button\nsequence that needs to be learned?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs others said it pokes fun at the action/fighting style anime (and\npotentially a few others). It even parodies some specific characters from\nthose kind of anime.\n\nFor example:\n\n * Lord Boros: Based off of Broly from Dragonball Z, a character whose fans think he is the epitome of power.\n\n * Garou: Could be several characters but I find him to actually be based off of Doomsday from Superman. I say Doomsday because Garou was initially a monster and could not be killed. He just kept coming back more upgraded, just like Doomsday.\n\n * Vaccine Man: Parody of Piccolo and Baikinman\n\n * Ancient King: Godzilla\n\n * Bang: Zeno Zoldyck from Hunter x Hunter\n\n * Carnage Kabuto Rage Form: Eva Unit 1 from Evangelion\n\n * Great Philosopher: Father from Full Metal Alchemist\n\n * Lightning Max: Mix of Straight Cougar from Scry-ed and some Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter \n\n * Metal Bat: Potentially a combo of Yusuke Urameshi and Kazuma Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho\n\nAnd there are many more. Just re-watch the series and take note of each\ncharacter. It's amazing how many characters there are parodies of from their\npersonalities to their resemblance and everything in between.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnother thing to consider would be when someone is talking about their\nbackstory or how powerful they are. In Shonen, characters seem to drone on\nabout themselves and OPM tends to get bored of it and interrupts them to get\nto the point of their interaction. He has the attitude of \"shut up and let's\nget to it\" because he'd rather just get it over with and go on with his day.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe question is simple. What is the origin of these vampires? Where did they\ncome from? How did the first **PURE** vampire come into existence?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe oldest known vampire is alucard. He came to be a vampire by drinking the\nblood of the fallen from a battlefieled thus dropping his belief in god and\nturning into an unholy creature.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a picture taken from _Naruto_ manga chapter 385.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZIGj5.jpg)\n\nIs Mangekyou Sharingan capable of controlling only the Kyuubi or is it also\nable to control the other tailed beasts?\n\nAlso, how does Sasuke come to know the nature of the Mangekyou Sharingan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beast_Control#cite_note-18)\nsays that the MS was capable of controlling all the Tailed Beasts.\n\n> The Mangekyō Sharingan has been noted to wield the power to control over the\n> tailed beasts, but only Madara and Obito, have achieved this feat. Sasuke at\n> first also used his Sharingan to suppress a small amount of Kurama's chakra\n> within Naruto's subconscious.\n\nThe MS is gained when a user of the Sharingan witness the death of someone\nclose to them.\n\n> It is initially awakened by the trauma suffered from witnessing the death of\n> someone close to the user.\n\nSasuke got his Mangekyo Sharingan after Itachi's death.\n\n> Sasuke Uchiha awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after the death of his older\n> brother\n\nAlso as a side note, Sasuke is able to use the Rinnegan to control all the\nTailed Beasts at once.\n\n> Sasuke could use his Rinnegan to put all nine tailed beasts under his\n> control with just a glance\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was reading some reviews of this season's new shows, and I somehow happened\nto run across references to \"digi-paint\" twice(!):\n\n> The raw mechanics of producing anime can be a pretty frustrating thing\n> sometimes. Back in the early 00s, technology shifts prompted the move to\n> **digipaint** from traditional cells, and early adopters of the new system\n> suffered heavily for it. Shows like Haibane Renmei had fundamentally\n> gorgeous art design, but looked smudged and indistinct due to the new\n> technology. (from [BBK/BRNK - The Winter 2016 Anime Preview\n> Guide](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/.97400))\n>\n> So this is a forgotten **digi-paint** show that was dug up in a time capsule\n> from no later than the year of our lord 2002, dusted off, reformatted into\n> 16:9, and re-sold as an adaptation of a Masamune Shirow manga from 2010. How\n> else do you explain its hideous color palette, jagged flat designs, and\n> painfully dated obsession with fetishes of yesteryear like catgirls, maids,\n> androids/cyborgs with unusually sexual hardware, and busty scientist onee-\n> samas? (from [Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn - The Winter 2016\n> Anime Preview Guide](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/.97359))\n\nI \"get\" what they're talking about: that sort of crappy look that post-cel\nearly-2000s shows almost invariably have. But I'm not sure what digi-paint\nactually is. Aside from [another post on\nANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2014-04-11) that refers to (but\ndoes not describe) digi-paint, I haven't managed to google up anything\nrelevant.\n\nWhat is digi-paint? When did it come into use (was it immediately post-cel?),\nand what is used nowadays instead?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a general idea of what digipaint is, but I couldn't find a lot of the\nsources that gave me this idea since it was mostly stuff I just picked up in\npassing. I did find [one\nblog](https://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-detailed-\nguide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/) that went over the\nprocess and more or less confirmed what I had thought; scroll way down to\n'Compositing / \"filming\"' to see where they discuss it.\n\nThis is the gist. Up until about 1999-2000, anime was created by drawing line\nart on a clear plastic cel, then hand-painting that cel, with a brush.\nCharacters and backgrounds were drawn on separate cels; character cels were\nplaced on top of background cels and the animators would take pictures of each\nframe, stringing them together into a film.\n\nSometime around 2000, animators started coloring the line art using a\ncomputer. This is basically similar to making art in Photoshop, though\naccording to the blog they use a program called RETAS! Pro. Backgrounds can\neasily be drawn separately and added later on a computer; if you've ever used\nPhotoshop, you know how easy it would be to draw a character and a background\nas separate images and combine them later as layers of a single image. The\nfilming process also started to be done on a computer; the animators create\nthe frames digitally based on the line art, then use the computer to string\nthe frames together into a \"film\".\n\nDigipaint refers to this process of coloring a cel on a computer with a\nprogram instead of by hand with a brush and paint. The blog and [this other\none](http://animetics.net/2013/08/17/3-major-anime-industry-sea-changes-\nexplained-by-their-effect-on-tv-anime-part-2-digital-paint-and-dvds/) discuss\nsome of the effects the new process had on the anime industry: since it was\nfaster and easier to color frames and composite character and background art\non a computer, shows could have more frames, which led to smoother animation\nthat wasn't reused nearly as often. It was easier to add fine details, so\ncharacter art became more detailed. (I assume this was because of zooming and\nthe precision of a graphics tablet, plus the ability to undo mistakes.) It was\nalso easy to add in 3D computer graphics, so things like special effects and\nmachinery, which are much easier to create with CG than hand drawing, started\nto be done in 3D.\n\nOn the other hand, it took a while for animators and art directors to get used\nto the different character of digipaint compared to traditional paint, which\nled to the ugly color palettes, blurriness, and flatness that you see in a lot\nof early digipaint shows (from 1999-2004 or so). These problems are especially\nnoticeable in some of the lower budget hentai from this era, where characters\nand background art look like they exist on two separate 2D planes rather than\nin a single 3D space, making the animation resemble a paper cutout puppet\nshow.\n\nAs far as I can tell, digipaint is still commonly used today; animators have\njust gotten a _lot_ better at using it. _Last Exile_ is another show from the\nearly era that I remembered looking a lot better than it did. Like _Haibane\nRenmei_ , it was a show with amazing, imaginative visuals that ended up\nlooking like hell because of a hideous color palette, rampant blurriness, and\nprimitive CG integrated poorly with the 2D animation. I haven't watched _Fam:\nThe Silver Wing_ , but it would surprise me if it didn't look _much_ better\nthan the original.\n\nSome shows have [moved towards cel-shaded 3D\nanimation](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2016-01-13/.97503). This\nis a technique where everything in the show is created in 3D CG, but through\nthe use of filters and such, it almost kinda sorta ends up looking like\ntraditional 2D animation. Cel-shaded 3D has been around for a while in video\ngames, but it's just now in its early days for anime and suffering from\nproblems just like early digipaint. However, it will probably end up replacing\ndigipaint, since it's cheaper (just render a 3D model from different angles.\nIt's almost like having actors again!) and getting better all the time. (Cf.\n[Arpeggio of Blue Steel](http://www.crunchyroll.com/arpeggio-of-blue-steel).)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Digital painting is a method of creating an art object (painting) digitally\n> and/or a technique for making digital art in the computer. As a method of\n> creating an art object, it adapts traditional painting medium such as\n> acrylic paint, oils, ink, watercolor, etc. and applies the pigment to\n> traditional carriers, such as woven canvas cloth, paper, polyester etc. by\n> means of computer software driving industrial robotic or office machinery\n> (printers). As a technique, it refers to a computer graphics software\n> program that uses a virtual canvas and virtual painting box of brushes,\n> colors and other supplies. The virtual box contains many instruments that do\n> not exist outside the computer, and which give a digital artwork a different\n> look and feel from an artwork that is made the traditional way.\n\nfrom <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_painting>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 13, after Kousei played Love's Sorrow, he played this one song on\nthe piano. What is the name of that song? I've been looking for it for the\npast four hours, but haven't been able to find it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat is Sergei Rachmaninoff - Liebesfreud(Kreisler, arr. Rachmaninov).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm assuming you're referring to the piece Kousei plays at the very end of the\nepisode; this is the only instance where Kousei plays the piano in ep. 13\nafter his \"Liebesleid\" performance. I recognised this as a **Chopin**\ncomposition, possibly a nocturne.\n\nAfter some searching, I found that this was **Nocturne no. 2 in D-flat minor,\nop. 27**. ([\n_Score_](http://imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/9/92/IMSLP115009-PMLP02305-mendelssohn_op16no2_sibley.1802.2379.pdf),\n_[recording](https://youtu.be/SFMgSwcgaRE) by Eric Lu at the 2015 Chopin\nCompetition_.) It should be relatively easy to recognise the piece if you have\nsome prior familiarity with it, since Kousei starts playing at the very\nbeginning.\n\n* * *\n\nOriginally, I wondered if some other piece (such as \"Liebesfreud\", which is\nnamed [in another answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/29083/2604) as the\npiece Kousei plays) might have crept into the soundtrack at some point,\nperhaps in a flashback or in Kousei's reflections. However, after listening\ncarefully to the soundtrack and checking [the \"Liebesleid\"\nscore](http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/scores/rachmaninoff/liebesleid/#/02) and\n[some recordings](https://youtu.be/j97z3ffswd8), I've confirmed that\neverything we hear during the performance segment is from Rachmaninoff's\n\"Liebesleid\". Thus, the only music for piano that we hear being played in this\nepisode is \"Liebesleid\" and the Chopin nocturne.\n\nNote that what viewers hear is a _modified_ , lengthened version of the\nRachmaninoff arrangment. (The soundtrack returns to the beginning of the piece\nright before the first key change, when we see Kousei underwater. This jump\ndoes not exist in the original score. There are similar jumps later, during\nthe flashback with Saki after Kousei has lashed out at her, and when Saki\nreflects on Kousei.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Boruto fires his Rasengan it varnishes. What type of Rasengan did Boruto\nuse?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD6EQNfxPVg) of\nthe Japanese-YouTuber Hikakin beatboxing the first English Pokemon song. It\nmade me wonder: was the English dub theme song more well-known than the\noriginal Japanese opening?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe following answer is based on the results I got on Google [from my country\n(France)].\n\n* * *\n\nKeeping the following elements in mind, one can say that their popularity\nlevel is more or less the same.\n\nThe comparison is made between the [first Japanse\ntheme](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Aim_to_Be_a_Pok%C3%A9mon_Master)\nめざせポケモンマスター (Aim to be a Pokemon Master) and the [first English\ntheme](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Theme) \"Gotta catch\nthem all.\" I take into account only the official versions.\n\n**Google Trends**\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SHD4C.png)\n[code]\n\n> In red : the English, in blue : the Japanese\n> \n[/code]\n\nExcept for the year 2005, the search trends looks to be pretty similar.\n\nSurprisingly enough, the countries which searched the English opening on\ngoogle were the following ones :\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bTovS.png)\n\nFor the Japanese opening, the searches come only from Japan.\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l2WOz.png)\n\n* * *\n\n**Youtube**\n\n[The most viewed youtube video of the Japanese\nopening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Ra3mURKgs) (in my country) views ~1\nmillion views.\n\n[The most viewed youtube video of the English\nopening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVp-zIONsrs) (in my country) views ~1\nmillion views\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn North America, the English Theme is more popular, but in Japan, the\nJapanese one is. This is because Japanese people hear the Japanese theme on TV\nand Americans hear the English one. In Germany, the German version of Gotta\nCatch Em All is most likely more popular.\n\nFurthermore, people prefer the one they can understand. For English speakers,\nit is Gotta Catch Em All. For Japanese speakers, it is Mezase Pokemon Master\nor Aim to be a Pokemon master.\n\nEnglish is more widespread so more people will prefer English. I am a native\nEnglish speaker and prefer the Japanese theme. This is because I got sick of\nthe English one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsing the same methodology that [Ikaros did when they answered the\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/29074/102), I can definitively say\nthat **the North American version of the song wins by a country mile.**\n\n# Changes from original approach\n\nInstead of just searching on a few key parts of the katakana, I chose to use\nめざせポケモンマスター as the full search text, and \"Pokemon Theme\" as the other one.\nThis way, we narrow it down to what people are more likely to search for when\nlooking up Pokemon songs.\n\n# Graphed results\n\nThis data goes back all the way from 2004 to the present day. It's not even\nclose.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hGXOG.png)\n\nOn average, for every 1 person looking up the Japanese song title, 14 people\nlook up the NA version.\n\nThe map doesn't change much; the majority of people looking at the JP version\nare based in Japan (also Taiwan, surprisingly enough), and the NA version is\nsignificantly more prominent world-wide.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MgJO1.png)\n\n# Additional information\n\nGrowing up I recall hearing a Norwegian version of the song. On reflection,\nthe lyrics of the song were different but the melody was preserved, which is\nalso notably different from the JP version.\n\n[Bulbapedia maintains a list of these\nthemes](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Theme#In_other_languages_2),\nand this particular theme was likely dubbed across all of these listed\nlanguages.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Oreimo 2_ Episode 15, Meruru sings a song with the line \"Red, blue and\nyellow, magic of many colors\". I can't find the title of the song. It sounds\namazing! Does anyone know it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat song seems to be called \"Planet ☆ Burst\", \"Planet ☆ Bust\", or \"Planet ☆\nBuster\". Here's the screenshot from the ending credits where I got that name.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WK8X0.png)\n\nThe hiragana say \"Puranetto ☆ Baasuto\". It's not clear to me exactly what the\nsecond word is supposed to be. My first thought was either \"burst\" or \"bust\",\nbut I found [a Reddit\nthread](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1znbup/looking_to_id_a_song_from_oreimo/)\nthat refers to the song as \"Planet ☆ Buster\". This is also the name given on\n[the Youtube video of the song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qd7LXwCPS8)\nlinked by the Reddit thread. However, I would have expected \"Planet ☆ Buster\"\nto be written \"Puranetto ☆ Basutaa\" in hiragana.\n\nKanako is singing this song in Episode 15 when Kyousuke enters the concert\nhall, just before she confesses her love to him.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JMLXtm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n5t6em.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm referring to characters whose eyes are constantly like that (Red hair girl\nin the picture) and don't change for a brief moment as a depiction of\ndisappointment, most of these characters talk really slow and quietly.\nExamples include Tooru from A-channel, Renge from non non biyori, Chihaya\nMegumi from servant X service some of the common traits of the aforementioned\ncharacters is the monotonous way of talking and that they nearly never smile\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5zDtj.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're probably talking about jitome. (ジト目)\n\nUnlike tsurime or tareme, (which are traits particular characters have,) it's\nmore of a facial expression.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince I can't comment yet... adding to puzzlet's answer:\n\nJitome is \"when the top of the eye is drawn with a flat line perpendicular to\nthe rest of the eye. Used to effect a bored, expressionless, or scornful\nface.\"\n\nThis effect is frequently used with background characters that don't move or\nreally add much except scenery to the current narrative, as the expression is\nusually neutral and doesn't influence the scene much. In the particular\nexample you used I'd say it's being used to show mild disbelief and/or\ndisinterest. If the character is always drawn that way, it's more of a\npersonality trait of always showing disinterest in the world and what's\nhappening around them. Basically they're stand-offish or non-sociable.\n\nSee this wiki entry on an NSFW (the link itself is safe, just don't wander too\nfar) site for more examples: <https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/27181>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[**\" _Hanmoku_ \" (半目, half[-closed] eyes)** is drawn the same way or similarly\nto \" _jitome_ \" (ジト目, staring\neyes)](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%88%E7%9B%AE), but is not\nidentical in intent. \" _Jitome_ \" is a facial expression where the person\nexpresses negative feelings, which are mainly from among, but not limited to,\nthe following: contempt/scorn, disbelief, distaste, resistance,\nappalled/scandalized (you can see Google's image search results for \"jitome\"\n[here](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%82%B8%E3%83%88%E7%9B%AE&tbm=isch)).\nThe difference between \" _hanmoku_ \" and \" _jitome_ \" is that \" _hanmoku_ \" is\nused for characters who always have eyes drawn in this way regardless of\nwhether or not they harbor any negative feelings at the moment.\n[Ichijō](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pani_Poni_characters#Ichij.C5.8D)\nfrom _Pani Poni_ and\n[Hiiragi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanamaru_Kindergarten#Kindergarten_students)\nfrom _Hanamaru Yōchien_ are examples of \" _hanmoku_ \" characters. Also, if you\ndo a Google image search for [\" _hanmoku_\n\"](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%8D%8A%E7%9B%AE&tbm=isch), you find\nthat, outside of anime, the word is used simply to describe having one's eyes\nhalf-closed for whatever reason (such as being half-asleep or not ready to be\nphotographed).\n\n[\" _Hosome_ \"](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%E7%B4%B0%E7%9B%AE)\n(細目) is similar to \" _hanmoku_ ,\" but is a [squinting that can be applied to\nanime characters whose eyes always look\nclosed](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%E7%B4%B0%E7%9B%AE%20%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1)\neven when the plot clearly portrays that their eyes are open and they are able\nto see just fine.\n\nExtra Background:\n\nThe word \" _jitome_ \" is derived from the onomatopoeia \" _jito_ \" (じと), which\nmeans to \"stare hard at.\" \" _Jitto_ \" (じっと) is a similar word meaning to\n\"stare without moving\" or more generally \"remain motionless\" or do something\n\"fixedly.\" \" _Jitome_ \" has been used at least since 1978, where it was used\nin the screenplay for the film _[9-gatsu no\nSora](https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=7oFEAQAAIAAJ)_ (『 九月の空 』), in which\na parenthetical remark directed the actor to \" _jitome de mite_ \" （ジト目で見て）.\nThe script was published in 1979. In the 1980s, the word appeared in the\nshoujo light novel _[Oka no Ie no\nMickey](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%98%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%B6%E3%81%AE%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC)_\n(『 丘の家のミッキー』) by Kumi Saori, published by Shuueisha's Bunko Cobalt Series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Gungnir Symphogear that was used by Kanade shattered, and splinters\npierced Tachibana's chest right next to her heart (so close that the doctors\ndid not attempt to remove due to the risks). This gave Tachibana Hibiki the\npower to summon the Gungnir Symphogear. Supposedly Kanade's pendant dissolved\nwith her physical body, or Tsubasa would surely have retrieved it.\n\nIn the second season, when Maria summons the black Gungnir, everyone is\nsurprised that there could be two Gungnir Symphogears, pointing out that\nKanade's pendant was supposedly destroyed.\n\nHow can Maria have an intact Gungnir pendant? Is it explained how she came to\nobtain such an artifact?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI specifically want to know which manga or anime started the trend, so I can\nreason from there to the how question, in order to not make general\nassumptions.\n\nThere was a time in manga/anime where blue hair was abnormal. For example,\nfrom the short clips I've seen of the anime \"アタックNo.1\", it contains mostly\nblack-haired girls, a couple of brunettes and a sparse blonde. No one there is\npink/red/blue-haired. Same with Princess Knight.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the time skip of 18 months in season 1, the Terrans' knowledge of\nMartian cataphracts has suddenly increased, so much so that they are able to\nidentify the name of the cataphract and its owner as well.\n\nWhat led to this intel for terrans?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched _The Knight in the Area_ , but I'm curious as to what has\nhappened since the end of the anime until the latest chapter in the manga.\n\nMy questions are as follows:\n\n * Do Nana and Kakeru ever get together? \n * Do they win a championship?\n * Is there a better understanding as to why Suguru can take over Kakeru? \n * Does Kakeru become the best scorer/forward in the nation?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn \"The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya\" and the following book, can the\ncharacter Yasumi Watahashi be considered a slider? (I'm not naming her in the\ntitle because she's not in the anime).\n\nSince she essentially travelled between the two timelines and her purpose was,\nif I remember correctly, to reunite them. I read these books a few years ago\n(in a fan translation) and while I was pretty convinced she was the long-\nawaited \"slider,\" most of the fanbase seemed to think she wasn't. I couldn't\nfind any good reason why she should or shouldn't be or, in fact, any canon or\notherwise generally accepted definition of what a slider is - I've always\nassumed it was someone who travelled between alternate timelines.\n\nI'm rereading the beginning of Dissociation right now and Kyon reminds us that\na slider has yet to make their appearance, reminding us that we should\nnaturally expect one and, IMO, maybe foreshadowing the end of this arc and\nimplying that Yasumi, even though we learn later that she is not a real\nindividual, is \"the\" slider we've been looking for.\n\nI'm aware that the series has been left unfinished and we will likely never\nknow if another slider was planned.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only character which can be considered an actual Slider\n(<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_being>), albeit temporarily,\nis Kyon. He was the only character (an actual person, rather than a temporal\nconstruct made by Haruhi as Yasumi was) who experienced first hand existing in\ntwo different dimensions during the events of the 4th novel(the disappearance\nof haruhi suzumiya).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs **Steins;Gate 0** a sequel to **Steins;Gate**? If not, what is common\nbetween the two and where do they deviate?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sxfPO.png)\n|\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cSy9E.png) \n---|--- \nSteins;Gate | Steins;Gate 0\n\n",
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"body": " \n \nAs mentioned by [one of the official translators](https://ask.fm/SciADV) that\nhas worked on most of the Sci-fi Adventure\nseries:[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/steinsgate/comments/37kkqi/a_question_about_steinsgate_0/crqger3)\n\n> Steins;Gate Zero will not be a direct sequel, no. Remember when Okabe\n> stabbed Kurisu and lost his resolve? Only to be revitalized once he received\n> the Operation Skuld D-Mail from his future self? The Okabe in Epigraph and\n> Zero is the Okabe that did not try again after killing Kurisu, the Okabe\n> that gave up and resigned himself to misery.\n\n * _Steins;Gate 0_ , in spite of being marketed as the \"true sequel\" to _Steins;Gate_ , does not take place after the ending of _Steins;Gate_. Even though it is canonical, it \"takes place\" just before the ending of Steins;Gate. Although, because it is about time travelling, all events in the narrative are relative, making the concepts of \"before\" and \"after\" somewhat meaningless. The events fit in a _logical sequence_ before the \"ending\" of _Steins;Gate_ , but in a casual sense rather than temporal.\n\n * The story between the two is exactly the same upto (and including) Episode 22. It diverges in Episode 23 with the original story being covered in [Episode 23: Open the Steins Gate](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_23:_Open_the_Steins_Gate), and the alternate version, a _Steins;Gate 0_ OVA, being covered in [Episode 23(β) Open the Missing Link](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/SG0_OVA:_Episode_23\\(%CE%B2\\)_Open_the_Missing_Link). As mentioned [on the Wikia](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/SG0_OVA:_Episode_23\\(%CE%B2\\)_Open_the_Missing_Link):\n\n> In this story, after killing Makise Kurisu, Okabe Rintarou gives up and\n> accepts her funeral fate. \n> \n> The main difference between this and the original episode 23 is that this\n> Okabe does not receive the Video-Mail from himself. **He** will go on to\n> eventually create Operation Skuld and the Video-Mail, helping S;G Okabe\n> thwart world line convergence and successfully avert both Kurisu's death and\n> WWIII in order to enter the Steins;Gate world line of 1.048596% divergence.\n\n* * *\n\n**TL;DR:** In concise, as put on\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/steinsgate/comments/37kkqi/a_question_about_steinsgate_0/):\n\n> It follows the world where Okabe tried to save Kurisu, but stabbed her\n> instead. It is the worldline in which Okabe doesn't get the \"deceive\n> yourself\" message from himself, but it is most likely the one that sends\n> that message.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Symphogear every move except Tachibana Hibiki's have a name and a \"poster\"\nanimation.\n\nWhy only hers do not have names?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHibiki is not having her attacks in a \"poster\" as (due to S1 events) she was\npart-Gungnir. Hence, her attacks are by itself is the attack of the gear\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow is Orochimaru able to use his arms? Didn't the 3rd hokage cut them out of\nhis spirit? \nSo even if he did jump between bodies, he shouldn't be able to use his hands\nbecause it wasn't his physical body's arms that were cut but spiritual ones.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOrochimaru prior to he 4th Shinbo War\n\n* * *\n\nIf you are referring to Orochimaru before the war he was unable to use\nninjutsu. Hiruzen used the reaper death seal to take the part of Orochimarus\nsoul that contained his arms.\n\n* * *\n\nOrochimaru during the 4th Shinobi War: This answer contains spoilers.\n\n> [Orochimaru](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Orochimaru) regains the use of his\n> arms after he summons the shinigami ?>! and cuts open its stomach releasing\n> the trapped part of his soul. \"Orochimaru proceeded to don the mask which\n> invoked the Shinigami to possess his body. Orochimaru then proceeded to cut\n> open the Shinigami's stomach, a wound reflected on his own body, to release\n> the trapped contents inside the Shinigami.\" \n> \"With his arms restored as well.\" \n> Also before the Shinigami was able to trap Orochimarus soul he switched\n> places with a white Zetsu allowing him to escape. \n> \"To escape death, Orochimaru transferred his being in the White Zetsu\n> Suigetsu was holding down\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been hearing/reading a lot of news about a second season of Shingeki no\nKyojin since 2014. All the sites said that the release date would be in the\nend of 2015 or the first months of 2016. \nWe're in 2016 and there's still no season 2.\n\nIs there any official source about a accurate release date? If so, what's the\nexact date?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately right now, **No there is not an official source with a release\ndate for the second season** and as a result there is no exact date (as of\nyet).\n\nA post on [Cross Map, ](http://www.crossmap.com/news/attack-on-titan-\nseason-2-spoilers-release-date-rumors-news-updates-24210) **_an unofficial\nsource_** , (By Yumi Redfield On January 17, 2016) explains that:\n\n> There have been rumors claiming that Attack on Titan season 2 will be\n> released in February, but it is already mid-January, and still no\n> confirmation for an Attack on Titan season 2 has been released by Tetsuro\n> Araki, the Attack on Titan director.\n\nA given ( ** _unofficial_** ) explanation is:\n\n> The major reason why Attack on Titan season 2 has taken years to release is\n> because of the (very well thought of) agreement between Attack on Titan\n> manga writer Hajime Isayama and the Attack on Titan anime director Tetsuro\n> Araki that the manga should always be 4 arcs ahead of the anime adaptation.\n> This agreement would ensure that the anime would not get ahead of the manga\n> and end up deviating too much from the source material.\n\nThis answer is based on sources available on 19/01/2016 at 17:10pm BST.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqvRF.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 2nd season of Attack on Titan is currently planned for Spring 2017 season\n!\n\nSource: <http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-07-03/attack-on-titan-\nanime-2nd-season-premieres-in-spring-2017/.103914>\n\nSo, that means the 1st episode of season 2 should be released around the\nbeginning of April 2017.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> If so, what's the exact date?\n\nThe [second\nseason](https://myanimelist.net/anime/25777/Shingeki_no_Kyojin_Season_2) of\nAttack on Titan was released as of April 1, 2017. It aired until June 17,\n2017. It contained a total of 12 episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of the resurrected people like Sai's brother were freed from the jutsu\nalthough Kabuto told Tobi that the resurrected people can't be killed. This is\na pic of a conversation between Kabuto and Tobi.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nMg7g.jpg)\n\nSimilarly, Sasori also disappeared after telling Kankuro to use his puppet\nparents.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DZN1V.jpg)\n\nHow can the souls be freed from the bodies even if the user who resurrected\nthem did not release them? And why didn't this happen when the third hokage\nwas fighting his predecessors during the chunin exams?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe souls can be freed from the[ Impure World\nReincarnation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning:_Impure_World_Reincarnation)\nif they are given closure. Experiencing a emotional change allows them to\nbreak out of the jutsu and the soul can ascend.\n\nOrochimaru\n[stated](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning:_Impure_World_Reincarnation)\nthat Hashirama Senju could break the summoning jutsu if he wanted. I'm not\nsure why he chose not to during the fight with Hiruzen Sarutobi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe was not killed, but his soul was freed. the [Impure World\nReincarnation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning:_Impure_World_Reincarnation)\nSummons the souls to a body and binds them to the world of the living. Hence,\nthey can not be killed by normal means. However, the Control is not perfect,\nand can be dialed up and down, as shown when Kabuto removes all emotion from\nthe Third Raikage. He left most with their regular personalities for\npsychological warfare, but forced the bodies on autopilot to kill. It could\nhowever be broken by someone strong enough, Like Madara did and Hashirama\ncould do the 2nd time he was summoned (note the first time he was\nsignificantly weaker and his personality was suppressed). If their Personality\nis intact, they can also break it by experiencing emotional closure Which is\nwhat happened to Sais brother. Its the same principal as a restless soul\nfinding peace and moving on, the new found peace/closure of the Summoned\nbreaks the binding and the soul is free to ascend back to the land of the\ndead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe bracelet is made by jam home made. There is a gold, silver and other\neditions. I need silver or whichever is closest to the real color. I need a\nwebsite that isn't Japanese or at least ships to America. Thank you.\n\nAlso please be sure to specify if they are sold out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter looking around a bit on the jam site itself and plenty of other sites\nthat offer the bracelet. Which by the way can be browsed in English using the\nO so lovely google translate engine [for\nexample](https://translate.google.nl/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamhomemadeonlineshop.com%2Ffs%2Fofficial%2FJEA-\nBR003). I found out that most of them are out-of-stock, and marked the product\nas the following.\n\n> Release date 2012 SS [spring and summer release items]\n>\n> The item is sold out already, and it is no longer in production. It won't\n> become available again for orders.\n\nleading me to believe that this is a [special/limited\nedition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_edition) collectors item by\nnow, which is not obtainable through online stores any more.\n\nMost likely you have to find somebody that already owns one, and wishes to\nsell it if you really want a original. If you just want it because of how it\nlooks or for a cosplay, you could most likely get a jeweller nearby you to\nrecreate the actual bracelet, after which you probably only have to rope it\nyourself. Unless off course the jeweller also can do this for you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter time skip, the appearance of characters in One Piece are changed.\nSeveral of them change significantly like Nami with her long hair, Robin with\nbrighter skin, Chopper with all of his transformation different before time\nskip, even Usopp have more muscular body and longer hair, he also have goatee.\n\nBut I want to know what happened with this goatee. Beside Usopp, other\ncharacters also have goatee after time skip like :\n\nSanji\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QZzdf.jpg)\n\nCapone Bege\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oGL2I.png)\n\nWell maybe I'm not sure who's the others, but why many of them have goatee?\nFirst I think it's for make them more mature or to shows that time has passed\nseveral years, but when I see (maybe it's bad example) Pokemon, in the latest\ngeneration they have another \"evolution\" called mega evolution, in this mega\nform, many Pokemon changes their appearance with some goatee like attributes.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaJbN.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2Kp3.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7ytz.jpg)\n\nIs this goatee is trend in Japan or what?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Shinsekai Yori episode 10, Saki encounters a Tainted Cat which attacks her\nin the neck, but fails to damage her due to a necklace she's wearing. While\nthe cat is biting the necklace, she mumbles some words and after that the cat\nis killed.\n\nThe first impression I had was that she was defending herself. So she probably\nchanted something related to the way the cat was killed. But re-watching the\nscene, the cat had blood on its mouth despite not being able to damage Saki.\nWhat's the meaning behind this scene? What is Saki mumbling? Did SHE kill the\ncat or was it somebody else (like Shun)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Saki used her skill - restoring object. She was seen training earlier\nfixing vases and stuff in school. This ability allowed her to fix the broken\nnecklace (for a while), during the attack and heal herself.\n\nI believe that the point was to strengthen the reference that Saki has the\nsame (unique) ability as Tomiko Asahina and is capable restoring own cells and\neven their telomeres. This is only made clear later by Tomiko Asahina herself,\nsaying that she plans to make Saki her heir, somewhat base on her ability.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWatching Dagashi Kashi will surely make you want to try some of the snacks\nthat the characters portray to be very yummy. Do all of the snacks featured in\nthis series have real life versions?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll of the products featured in the show are at least representative of real-\nlife product that have existed, _in Japan_.\n\nThe products featured in the titles of the first two episodes are:\n\nEpisode 1:\n\n * [Umaibo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umaib%C5%8D)\n * [Potato Fry](http://news-act.com/archives/36831531.html)\n * [Coffee Milk Candy](http://dagashido.arriveatonce.co.jp/boxsell/gumsbox/1A10802box.htm)\n * [Young Donuts](http://miyataseika.co.jp/index.php/young/)\n\n* * *\n\nEpisode 2:\n\n * [Kinako-bou](http://ewatari.jp/?pid=5685170)\n * [Namaiki Beer](http://www.excite.co.jp/News/bit/00091158603586.html)\n * [Flute Ramune](http://www.coris.co.jp/products/cat01/)\n * [Menko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menko), a game akin to [Pogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs).\n\nMuch of the culture and novelty of Dagashi is rooted in Japanese culture,\nmaking it very hard for those out of Japan to appreciate.\n\n",
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