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"body": "\n\nWhat is the song played in the beginning of episode 13 of Parasyte: the Maxim\nat 00:00:29? Please be specific. It's quite close to \"Next to You\", and has a\ntune that was played when Kana first saw Shinichi in and got freaked out, in\npure piano (synthesizer), but with a different tempo/speed/etc. And I'm sure\nit's not \"Next to You\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that the tune you are looking for is [Next to You-Anime\nVersion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvCPNy3USaU). This one is different\nfrom the [Original One](https://youtu.be/DVl9XNs8jqw) in the aspects of being\nslower and softer, and with a totally different instrument playing it and from\nthe other [Anime Version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RRQjhlSUIg) in the\nsame terms.\n\nUnfortunately, I haven't been able to find it in any of the OSTs. It might be\nan unreleased track for an unreleased OST like Krazer said, but that's\nanyone's guess.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I remember from the anime series and the games, after beating one of\neight Gym Leaders in a region, some leader said something about the next Gym\nLeader.\n\nLike they know who, where, or what specialist-type the next Gym Leader is.\n\nBut, I watched the current XY series, Clemont, the Gym Leader of Lumiose\nCity's Gym who travels with Ash, always wonders about the kind of next Gym\nLeader that Ash will face.\n\n**UPDATE**\n\nEach region has 8 Gym Leaders, and they give a badge after being defeated. We\nneed all 8 badges to enter the Pokemon League to beat the Elite Four and the\nChampion.\n\n**I just want to know if they, as Gym Leaders, must have known each other or\nnot?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou mention both the games and the anime. Well, the answer depends on the\ncanon referred to.\n\nThe _Pokemon Adventures_ manga depicts how the Pokemon League is organized\nmore clearly. The League sponsors gym leaders to run their gyms, challenge\ntrainers, and give out badges. They are occasionally called together for\nmeetings. In the manga we see the gym leaders gather together on several\noccasions. For instance, in the Gold and Silver chapter, there are a set of\nexhibition matches between the Johto and Kanto gym leaders. And since the gym\nleaders are considered the elites, they are often called upon when calamity\nstrikes. Basically, the gym leaders are all part of the same organization and\nare likely to know each other.\n\nContrast this to the anime, where how the gym leaders and Pokemon League are\norganized is less clear. From observation of the gym leaders, it seems there\nis little reason for them to know each other. If they're not hanging with Ash\nor on a training journey in the next town, they mostly just seem to stay in\none place. So then, we get gym leaders like Clemont who only have heard rumors\nabout other gym leaders. Of course, post-XYZ, Clemont will have met all of the\nother gym leaders of Kalos.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**No there is no reason to. As some of the strongest trainers of the region,\ngym leaders may know each other but there is no necessity.**\n\nCase in point, Misty didn't know Brock was Petalburg's gym leader even though\nshe was at that time not the Cerulean's leader. But throughout the journey\nBrock doesn't recognise most of the gym leaders. On the other hand several\nleaders know each other as well as the Elite Four. The reason for this is\nprobably gyms are taken over strong trainers who went to the league or the\nElite Four.\n\nThe reason why this is not a necessity that there is no set order for you to\nfight the gym leaders. There is no prescribed order to fight the gyms in an\norder. Even in the first generation games you could possibly battle Fuchsia,\nCeladon and Saffron gyms in different orders. In future games the HMs can only\nbe used by defeating a gym and that HM is usually required to reach that next\ngym and thus the need of order of a particular gym. Or sometimes its locked,\ngym leader missing etc. other side quests.\n\nIn the anime, the current gym leader would realistically know which gym is the\nclosest and leaders are usually helpful enough to pass it on to the trainer.\nBut he is not required to fight the gym and may chose to proceed to another.\nExample: Ash _skipped the Petalburg gym_ because Vigoroth was too powerful for\nhis team and came back later. (As I remember, been a long time since I last\nsaw Pokemon)\n\nAlso it is conclusive there are _more_ than 8 gyms in any region of pokemon.\nRefer to: [Does each Region only have 8 gyms in\npokemon?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/35645/does-each-region-\nonly-have-8-gyms-in-pokemon/35652#35652)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Anbu, the people have to wear masks. I was wondering what Kakashi's\nmask represented. To me it looks like a cat, but other people say it looks\nlike a fox.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKakashi Hatake's Anbu mask resembled a dog's face with red and black markings\naround the eyes, sides, and mouth.\n\nSource:[Naruto Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lICoS.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PCrmv.jpg)\n\nThis will help you differntiate between a cat, fox and dog\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRitsu was great when she was first introduced, but as I go on with the series,\nshe seems to be a little less useless every time I see her, and then in the\npast few chapters, she was just gone. Is she truly a great help? When they\nwent to that one place to make a major Assassination attempt, I noticed that\nRitsu didn't take part at all. So what I'm asking: is she a necessary\ncomponent of the class?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBear in mind that there are a lot of students in E-class, and as such the\nauthor has the tendency to rotate characters in and out of focus. Ritsu has\nher moments in, for example, the Assassination Island Arc and the God of Death\nArc (not gonna discuss in depth to keep the answer spoiler free.) The only\nstudents that have more of a consistent focus are Nagisa and Karma.\n\nTo answer your question, her necessity as a component of E-class is more or\nless equal to any other supporting character, for example Ryouma Terasaka.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter seeing this anime I was kind of confused if it is over or if there is\nmore to come. Has a second season of this series been announced? I am asking\nthis because I am interested in knowing that how this series will end. So do I\nhave to wait for the next season or do I have to start searching for this\nmanga and start reading it. (Actually I have never tried reading manga ever so\nI always see Anime)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no news at current time that hints to a second season. [Anime news\nnetwork link\nhere](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13899). The\nmanga was completed years ago so i doubt that the anime is getting any\ncontinuation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the information I could find, nearly all known members of the Einzbern\nfamily are (female) homunculi (Justeaze, Irisviel, Illyasviel and all the\nmaids), the only exception being Jubstacheit, who is supposed to be an A.I.\ncontrolling an array of humanoid golem bodies.\n\nIs there any information on Einzberns who are actually human beings? Are there\nany alive at all at the time of the events of Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night?\nIf there is not, can the Einzberns actually be considered a \"bloodline\" in the\nstrict sense of the word, or are they more like an army of self-cloning\nhomunculi?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 8 at 10:40, when Shinichi throws the dog in the trash, a song plays\nthat I have not been able to find anywhere on the internet.\n\nI know the song is basically \" _next to you_ \" with a different instrument\nplaying it, but I want to know where I can find the whole song played with\nthat specific sound.\n\nThe original \" _next to you_ \" OST just does not give the same sad feeling as\nthis other song.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the last two episodes of _Freezing Vibration_ (2nd season of _Freezing_ ),\nwe could see Kazuya, Rana, and Satellizer fighting Chevalier's Pandora and\nStudent Council President Chiffon Fairchild.\n\nIn this fight, although set as 2 against 1, Satellizer and Rana were badly\nwounded and beaten.\n\nI was wondering, Kazuya was there and he has this powerful Freezing field he\ncan generate on his own. So why did Kazuya not use his freezing ability\nagainst Chiffon?\n\nEven though fighting against a \"True\" Pandora, two Pandoras working together\nwith activated stigmata and a very powerful Freezing can mean a lot.\n\nHe used it in other episodes when he was fighting beside Satellizer against\nother tough pandoras. So why didn't he use it against Chiffon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, Kazuya doesn't know how to control his powers. This can be seen\nevery time he uses them. It is always in the last second and only if somebody\nis in danger, especially Bridgette.\n\nIn this fight, he is unable to use it, because he does not want to hurt\nChiffon. Also he sees that Rana and Bridgette have no chance of winning any\nway. Rana's arms were ripped off in a second and after she transformed and\nbeat up Chiffon, Chiffon just stands up as if nothing happened.\n\n> Also, Kazuya's powers are needed a bit later and he tends to overexert\n> himself. So it would be impossible to solve the problems which arise later.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2 of Arpeggio of Blue Steel anime. I-401 had a battle with Takao,\nas he charged the super-gravity cannon he suddenly decided to not aim for\nTakao after seeing Takao's mental model.\n\nHas there been any explanation on his decision?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDisclaimer: This is just my speculation but I will try to support it with\nfacts.\n\nThe history of humankind is full of war. As time progressed, [we\nlearned](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuUW9i-mHs) that waging wars, i.e.\nkilling our enemies is not always the best way to get what we want. Waging war\nis expensive, and we learned that negotiating and coming into agreement is far\ncheaper and results in less bloodshed.\n\nGunzou is a rational thinker. He is a tactician too. He knows from history\nthat killing your enemy after you have defeated them is not really a good\nchoice. The moment Gunzou was successful in charging the super gravity cannon\nand aiming it at Takao, he already achieved victory and defeated Takao.\nHowever, he decided, as per the reason I previously mentioned, to spare her.\nSure he may have made a bad choice and Takao might come for revenge. But as\nyou have watched in that episode, Iona and the crew were against overwhelming\nodds, and yet they still managed to achieve victory. This indicates to us, and\nto Takao probably, that she really stands no chance against Gunzou.\n\nSparing Takao also aligns with Gunzou's belief. He believes that there is a\npossibility of humans and the Fleet of the Fog _coexisting_ in peace. The\n[wikia](http://aokihagane.wikia.com/wiki/Chihaya_Gunzou) says:\n\n> He's also one of the few people in the world that sees the possibility of\n> the \"Fleet of Fog\" and humans coexisting (relatively) peacefully.\n\nIt is a step towards the future that he was hoping for.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I read [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/29732/is-\nthere-a-single-member-of-the-einzbern-family-who-is-a-human-being), where it\nsays:\n\n> the only exception being Jubstacheit, who is supposed to be an A.I.\n> controlling an array of humanoid golem bodies.\n\nI've never read this before, so I looked it up on Jubstacheit's [Wikia\npage](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Jubstacheit_von_Einzbern), where it says:\n\n> Jubastacheit is an artificial intelligence made to control the Einzbern\n> Castle, Golem Jubstacheit (ゴーレム・ユーブスタクハイト, Gōremu Yūbusutakuhaito?). It\n> manufactures humanoid golem terminals, and Acht is the eighth generation.\n\nHowever, this was not the case as on [June 11,\n2015](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Jubstacheit_von_Einzbern?direction=prev&oldid=79740),\nthe same paragraph said:\n\n> Declared the eighth head of the Einzbern family, Jubstacheit was not around\n> during Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern's era, but kept himself alive for\n> nearly two centuries by continuously prolonging his life.\n\nThis part started to change on [January 13,\n2016](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Jubstacheit_von_Einzbern?direction=next&oldid=68427),\nand this new information had not been cited, as the only reference on the page\nis the Fate/Zero Season 1 Boxset - Drama CD 1, which has been there for quite\nsome time.\n\nSo I am wondering, what Nasuverse title/material book says that Jubstacheit is\nan A.I?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Japanese fan-\nwiki](https://typemoon.wiki.cre.jp/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B3),\nthe Fate/Zero Blu-ray Disc Box I's Drama CD 1 only tells a story in which\nJubstacheit has a major appearance.\n\n> 長い間殆ど設定上の人物に近かったが、『Fate/Zero』Blu-ray Disc Boxの特典ドラマCDにて、ようやく出番らしい出番が与えられた。\n>\n> After a long period in which his character has been described as such, he\n> finally appeared in Fate/Zero Blu-ray Disc Box special Drama CD.\n\nHowever, according to [a summary of 2channel posts (in\nJapanese)](http://blog.livedoor.jp/uaru/archives/46505335.html), his true-form\nis explained on **Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Blu-ray Disc Box\nII**.\n\n> **Fate/stay night[UBW]Blu-ray\n> DiscBoxⅡにて明らかになるアハト翁の正体とアインツベルンの成り立ちとは【ネタバレ注意】** \n> **Old-man Acht's true-form and Einzbern' rising becomes clear in Fate/stay\n> night[UBW]Blu-ray DiscBoxⅡ (Spoiler alert)**\n>\n> 9: ＵＢＷのＢＯＸが密林から届いたで。 アインツベルンとアハト翁の正体とかかなり意外だった \n> 9: The UBW Box from _mitsurin_ ( _jungle/dense forest_ , net slang for\n> Amazon) has arrived. Einzbern and Old-man Acht's true-form was quite\n> unexpected.\n>\n> 17: アハト翁はアインツベルンの城の中枢制御用に作られた人工知能ゴーレム・ユーブスタクハイトの8代目人型端末。[...] \n> 17: Old-man Acht is the 8th-generation humanoid-form terminal of Golem\n> Jubstacheit, an artificial intelligence in charge of Einzbern Castle's\n> operation. [...]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Another anime most of the students started to kill one another because\nthey wanted to find the dead in order to stop. Even the cook was involved in\nthe killings.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DtqJs.png)\n\nWhat's the motive behind her killings? Did she kill the manager and start the\nfire? Any clue?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell that [lady](http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Keiko_Numata) (her name is\nKeiko Numata by the way) turned into a killer because of her grandson [Ikuo\nTakabayashi](http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Ikuo_Takabayashi) who Died boringly\nby having heart attack. She were emotionally depressed by it and become\nmentally insane. That why she started killing everyone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell like the question says, Did Kakashi ever love Rin or feel anything for\nher?\n\nI'm wondering if Kakashi ever loved or at least liked Rin. I'm wondering this\nbecause he got the Mangekyou **after** he killed her. The Mangekyou is\ninitially awakened by the trauma suffered from witnessing the death of someone\n**close** to the user. Meaning someone you love deeply.\n\nAlso in the flashbacks that either Minato, Kakashi, or Obito have it shows\nthat Kakashi was never rude or mean to Rin. Every time Kakashi was mean to\nObito, Rin always tried to make him go easy on him. Than Kakashi always\nreplied nicely to her, calming down his tone and speech pattern.\n\n> When the people from the Rain village captured Rin and made her into\n> Isobu's, Three-Tails, jinchuriki Kakashi went to rescue her. After he\n> rescued her they tried running away. At one moment Rin told Kakashi to kill\n> her. He quickly denied saying he promised Obito he was going to protect her.\n> Later on, he was going to kill an enemy with his Chidori Sadly she jumped in\n> front of him killing herself and traumatizing Kakashi. This made Kakashi and\n> Obito, who was watching them, awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan.\n\nSo my question is if Kakashi ever feels anything for Rin, either loves her or\nat least cared for her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you already mentioned in your question,\n\n> Mangekyo is, indeed, initially awakened by the trauma suffered from\n> witnessing the death of someone close to the user. However, Uchiha have\n> historically misunderstood this criteria as the user needing to be\n> responsible for the person's death, and for that reason they developed the\n> practice of killing their closest friends in order to gain the Mangekyō\n> Sharingan.\n\nBut, it depends upon each individual and the amount of trauma felt by him/her\nwhether the Mangekyo is \"completely\" activated immediately, as in the case\nwith Obito, or after some time, as with Sasuke and Kakashi.\n\nObito loved Rin deeply, and thus the trauma suffered by him, on watching her\ndie, was catastrophic. Thus, he \"completely\" activated the Mangekyo\nimmediately. Rin was not just a team-mate of Kakashi but also a dear friend to\nhim who remained with both Obito and Kakashi since their childhood. So Kakashi\ntoo had a good bonding and a feeling of friendship with Rin, but he did not\nlove her in the way as Obito did. That's why, Kakashi too activated the\nMangekyo at the time Obito did, although \"momentarily\", and also because of\nhis Sharingan's resonance with Obito's Sharingan (as both the Sharingan\nbelonged to Obito originally), as is shown in Episode No. 345 of Naruto\nShippuuden:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D92r5.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9tGX0.png)\n\nAfter this scene, Kakashi loses his conciousness owing to the stress put upon\nhim by the activation of Mangekyo. However, Obito goes on to kill the\nAmegakure Shinobi (Ninja of the Rain village) because of his drive of emotions\ndeeply centred around Rin, and his complete activation of Magekyo.\n\nThus, you can say that Kakashi had feelings of friendship towards Rin, but not\nthe same as the feelings of love that Obito had.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw a picture from the parts when Franky visits the Future Kingdom (I\nhaven't reached those parts of the series actually, so I don't know the\ncontext), with his metallic skull, chest, and other body parts exposed, as\nlacking skin coverage.\n\nIt was also visible on the way to Enies Lobby that his hip can be attached in\nlength (reversed Centaur ability), but in the post-EL episodes people were\ndisgusted by him running around naked, meaning he's likely not different from\na typical male in this aspect.\n\nConsidering these and a lot other moments (such as the cola fridge replacing\nhis stomach), it's pretty hard and almost impossible to determine how much of\nhim remained human.\n\nIs there anything we can know for sure? What I could judge so far is that his\narms are _entirely_ replaced (which is obvious seeing his post-TS appearance),\nbut I was surprised that even his skull isn't original anymore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that because Franky couldn't reach his back when he first reconverted\nhimself into a cyborg, that part still remains organic; and according to Senor\nPink in chapter 775, Franky's back is still made of flesh after the timeskip.\n\nRobin also managed to squeeze his privates at the end of the post-Enies Lobby\narc in an attempt to get him to join, so these parts remained organic as well.\n\nWhile his head is now partially robotic, as shown with his steel nose and the\nexposed circuitry from the injuries he suffered from his fight with Senor\nPink, it can still bleed, showing that it remains at least partially organic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring Water 7 and Enies Lobby, Galley-La worker Paulie could be seen\nperforming a huge variety of roping attacks and abilities - including the save\nof almost the entirety of Franky Brothers team when they were attacked at the\nentrance of the island and saving Luffy, Nami, Zoro and Chopper from the\nflood, when Aqua Laguna striked on W7.\n\nNeedless to say, a lot of these actions need excessive amount of ropes, that a\nhuman (even a very, but not supernatually strong one) could barely keep at\nhimself. This led me to the assumption that Paulie had something \"extra\" - not\nnecessarily Demon Fruit power (since it's extremely unlikely), but something\nelse that may or may not have been explained.\n\nIs there any source regarding this matter?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere has been some speculations that Paulie had a DF power. I do not have a\nsource for this, as I have only seen this in One Piece related forums back\naround the Enier Lobby arc (10 years ago?).\n[Wikia's](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Paulie) page actually talks about\nthis as well:\n\n> The amount of rope he carries is absurd, (which led some to speculate it was\n> the power of a Devil Fruit) measuring hundreds, if not thousands of meters,\n> as he was actually able to make a huge, complex rope-work in a split-second\n> to keep not only himself, but also the entire Franky Family, their\n> Kingbulls, Oimo, and Kashi from falling into the huge pit in Enies\n> Lobby.[10] The amount of rope that he uses as a weapon and brings with\n> himself all the time never seems to run out, since he has been known to pull\n> out yards upon yards from time to time.\n\nFrom the OP:\n\n> Needless to say, a lot of these actions need excessive amount of ropes, that\n> a human (even a very, but not supernatually strong one) could barely keep at\n> himself.\n\n**Some came to speculate Paulie had a DF power** not because of his superhuman\nstrength, but rather **because there is no way he could physically store all\nof his ropes on himself**. Paulie is one of Galley-La Company's main\nshipwright, which were all revealed to posses superhuman strength (even before\nKaku and Lucci revealed they were part of CP9).\n\nMany characters in OP have superhuman strength without the use of a DF power.\nThe most obvious example that comes to mind is Zorro.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned on the [Wikia article on\nPaulie](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Paulie):\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p64Wd.jpg)\n>\n> The amount of rope he carries is absurd, (which led some to speculate it was\n> the power of a Devil Fruit) measuring hundreds, if not thousands of meters,\n> as he was actually able to make a huge, complex rope-work in a split-second\n> to keep not only himself, but also the entire Franky Family, their\n> Kingbulls, Oimo, and Kashi from falling into the huge pit in Enies Lobby (\n> _as seen abov_ e). The amount of rope that he uses as a weapon and brings\n> with himself all the time never seems to run out, since he has been known to\n> pull out yards upon yards from time to time.\n\nHe seems to pull the ropes out of\n[**Hammerspace**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_satchel):\n\n> The term hammerspace describes the seemingly invisible place from which\n> fictional characters, such as cartoon characters, pull out very large\n> objects, such as mallets.\n\n**As for an in-universe reason/logic behind him being able to pull out so many\nropes, there is none.** Oda was asked this question in [SBS\n39](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_39):\n\n> D: Oda-sensei, hello!! Umm, where does Paulie's rope come from? And where\n> did he come up with the names for moves like Rope Action \"Half Knot\"?\n> They're not just random, are they? Tell us!\n>\n> O: Paulie's ropes come shooting out of the bottom of his sleeves.\n> Apparently, there's a whole bunch of rope hidden in the lining of his coat!\n> [...]\n\nTherefore, it's not that he has a Devil Fruit, but that the matter wasn't\nreally paid attention to. It works because Oda wants it to work. There _is_\nalways a possibility that he may have gotten a Devil Fruit power after the\ntimeskip (although it's unlikely), but even if that were the case, it\ndefinitely wouldn't explain the infinite length of rope he had on him before\nthe timeskip. So no, he doesn't have any devil fruit power and/or additional\nabilities which allow him to store such a length of rope on him, except for\npossibly wearing a coat whose lining allows him to pull out such ropes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 17 Makishima is handed Gu-sung Choe's phone with a video that shows\nthe the Sibyl system's true form.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PIDe1.png)\n\nAn episode earlier Gu-sung Choe said that if this video were to go public it\nwould be the end of the country.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XEZiQ.jpg)\n\nAfter Makishima escaped the aircraft he could have uploaded this, why didn't\nhe? It would have been much easier instead of trying to poison all food\nsupplies.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPeople would have gone so crazy about this (if it wouldn't be immediately\n\"debunked\" as fake by Sybil), and then everybody would be targets for\nexecution or imprisonment.\n\nOr it would not do anything at all. Remember how people sometimes would decide\non their own that something that looks horribly wrong can't be real, because\notherwise the above would happen, and so they just go on along, like it's a\nprank or something that doesn't deserve a second thought.\n\nSo the more effective way of thinking would not be a risky revolution attempt\nlike this, but a behind-the-scenes action that would definitely do something,\nwithout relying on people's thoughts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly, the underground levels wäre tge Sybil system is\ninstalled are compleatly isolated from the outside world, so the Video most\nlikely couldn't be uploaded, and the dwvice in qhich it was stored was\nprobably destroyed by sybil.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Ar Tonelico 2: Melody of Metafalica_ in the final episode of Frelia Binary\nField when Miwa and Miora face off it appears Miora calls Miwa Mir\n\n> Miora: Hey! Mir! That's not fair! you didn't convert this story again, did\n> you?\n>\n> Miwa: Hehehe... Who knows.\n>\n> Miwa: Talking Trash, I found some nostalgic data. why don't i input it into\n> my system?\n>\n> Miora: what are you up to!?\n>\n> Miwa: Hehehe... you'll cry out og nostalgia, too. Now, let's go\n\nAt this point the background becomes that of Shadow Mir. the final boss or _Ar\nTonelico: Melody of Elemia_ and Miora seems to recognize it.\n\nit almost seems to me that Miora, who has the same image as that of Shurelia\nwhen Mir connected to Shurelia's tower with Raki, became Shurelia as she seems\nto be referencing what Mir did her Binary field in the first game when Lyner\ndove into her.\n\nHowever when Mir suggested that they enter Frelia's Binary Field she said that\nonly 4 would be diving into her, that would be Croix, Mir, Luca and Cloche.\n\nSo i am wondering, is Shurelia, Misha and Aurica diving into Frelia as well?\nif so how?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy are the ANBU agents the easiest to kill off in Naruto and Naruto\nShippuuden?\n\nNaruto's team was shown to be stronger than a team of ANBUs.\n\nI'm just so confused why would they say that the ANBU are the best of the best\nwhen they are the easiest to kill off\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**In simple words because the enemy forces were seriously STRONG that ANBU\nagents were not able to defeat them (as said by Happy Face in the comments).**\n\nAccording to me, Naruto's team is an exceptionally very strong.\n\nKyuubi's Chakra + Sharingan + Healing = STRONGEST\n\nSo there is no doubt that they are stronger. They are exceptionally strong, so\nwe might say that they are stronger than ANBU agents.\n\nWhen some strong enemies come to their village let's say Nagato, aka Pain,\nthen it's quite obvious that ANBU agents won't be able to defeat him because\nNagato is really strong, but Naruto did because he is exceptionally stronger\nthan the ANBU agents.\n\nAccording to [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Anbu) :\n\n> One of the Fifth Hokage's ANBU bodyguards attributed his chakra supply to\n> the Rinnegan. Nagato could also constantly alter the nature of his chakra to\n> prevent him from being located by sensory type ninjas.\n\nThis is also written in [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Anbu_Commander)\nthat:\n\n> ANBU commander is very observant, seen when he recognises that Pain's\n> chakra-levels must be immense and that he is controlling the bodies used to\n> destroy Konoha by chakra alone.\n\nBut that doesn't mean that all anbu agents are nothing. For example\n[Yamato](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yamato) is also an ANBU agent, and if\nyou have seen him then you may have know that he is not easy to be defeated by\nenemies just because he is strong.\n\nThere are many ANBU agents which differ from each other. They are responsible\nfor carrying out assassinations, tracking, surveillance, and missions\nrequiring specially trained ninja. Also some ANBU serve as interrogators. All\nANBU agents have their own skills.\n\nBut there's a point that we must note:\n\n**ANBU are expected to destroy their bodies when they are badly injured on a\nmission like that they won't be captured.**\n\nWhich might explain why they kill themselves every time they are badly hurt.\n[Source](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Anbu)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe problem with the Anbu is that because they all wear masks, they are always\nessentially anonymous. They have a reputation for being very strong, but\nbecause no-one wants to see five anonymous men beat up one budding villain,\nthey never win any fights, only ever being defeated, sometimes by the dozens,\nto show how strong some other ninja who actually has a name really is.\n\nComparing Naruto's team to the Anbu doesn't really make a lot of sense, at the\nbeginning of the series their power is basically Kakashi, one of the top jonin\nin the leaf village, and Naruto sometimes being pretty helpful when his fox\nchakra comes out. Sasuke is very talented, but is still just a kid, and\nsignificantly weaker than any named jonin. As time goes on, Naruto becomes far\nmore powerful, first defeating Nagato which the entire Leaf Village was unable\nto do, and then becoming basically a God by the end of the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne word, **Teamwork** , AMBU agents are able to eliminate their comrades if\nthe mission requires them to, The other teams work together & protect each\nother, this simple aspect makes any team stronger than AMBU.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhilst Light Yagami's answer makes the plot hold itself together, I believe\nhe's being naive.\n\nIs more likely that they suffered the same fate as Stormtroopers did in Star\nWars. They're the elite squad, but they can't take away the protagonists\nchance to save the day.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 462, Hondo Eisuke says, \"I think I stood up on the wrong leg as a\nchild.\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bglPh.png)\n\nI tried searching for this idiom online but couldn't find anything, most\nlikely because I was searching the english text that the translator put and\nnot the Japanese. However, the Japanese is quick for my beginner ears, so I\nwasn't able to write it down.\n\nHondo is a rather unlucky guy, and this happened right after getting coffee\npoured on him, so from the context I'm assuming it has to do with bad luck but\nI'd like to know if there is more info I can read about this idiom.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe translation is incorrect but was probably trying to convey a joke on Hondo\nEisuke's bad luck in this show since every time I see him, he seems to suffer\nfrom some sort of event.\n\nAnyway, what he said here was \"Bou to tsutate ita boku ga doji de noruma data\ndesukara.\" which translates to something like \"Me standing here and\ndaydreaming being careless and slow is at fault here.\" if I do it without\ncaring for English Grammar.\n\nHowever what I would translate it as would be like \"It was my fault for\nstanding here daydreaming and thus being a careless idiot.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the latest episode, we see a pure purple color at the tips of the string\nattack. I've never seen this before. What is it?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a1swG.jpg)\n\nI didn't think it was Busō-shoku no Haki, because that's black:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XWOXf.gif)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit's Busō-shoku no Haki (should be black but Toei since Punk Hazzard have\ncolored the CoA with that color).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor one it could be blood. Second, it can be armament haki since it varies\nfrom person to person. Just like how Vergo's was purple in color and Luffy's\nis black. Since we don't know much about them, I think it's safe to assume\nthat the color matches the person's power or personality.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's Busō-shoku no Haki. Most Busō-shokus are black because they are on\nsomething that's not light colored (skin or Doflamingo's strings). \nThe only exceptions I've seen are Luffy and Chinjao. Doffy's shoe is Busō-\nshoku'd so it's black, Vergo's staff is Busō-shoku'd so it's black, Vergo's\nskin is Busō-shoku'd so it's purple. \nIt may be that the color underneath chooses whether it's purple or black. It\nmay even just be the concentration of Haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChecking some [Youtube videos about censorship in Yu-Gi-\nOh!](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yugioh%20censorship)\n_(especcially[this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6g6c_FxVTI))_, it\nseems that the motives for censorship are based mainly on:\n\n * Sexual content/innuendoes\n * Violence\n * Religion references\n * And others (offensive language, stereotypes, [political matters](http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Artworks:Psychic_Commander), etc.)\n\nThere is a [entire list of modified\ncards](http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_modified_card_artworks), but I'm\nlooking for Kazuki Takahashi's words about this subject that covers censorship\nin his anime, manga and cards1.\n\n* * *\n\n1 The linked sources shows the reasons for censorship _(i.e changes made in\nscenes and artwork card modifcations)_ , but none of them mentions Kazuki\nTakahashi's opinion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the flashback some people have and or Kakashi, we find out that\nNamikaze Minato, Naruto's dad, was Kakashi's teacher, and that Kakashi had a\nbig respect for him. Also, Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin were his teammates. We\nalso find out that in one of the flashbacks Kakashi has, it shows that when he\nwas in the ANBU Minato buts him to guard and protect his wife, Kushina until\nshe had about nine months of being pregnant. After Minato let Kakashi free for\na couple of days, he went to visit Rin's grave and then Obito's engraved name\nto tell them that their sensei was having a child. I think a couple of days\nafter that Naruto was born, and Kyuubi rampaged around the village. Minato\nrisked his life to seal away Kyuubi inside Naruto to protect him and the\nvillage.\n\nMinato and Kushina died and left Naruto all alone, so why didn't Kakashi take\ncare of Naruto. I mean I know the Third gave Naruto money every month or so,\nbut why didn't Kakashi at least watch Naruto from the shadows like he did with\nKushina. Was it because he was too busy with his ANBU work, did he just forget\nhis sensei had a child or was he too young to be taking care of kids. I mean\nhe was just what 14 or something, he could have still managed to look at him\nor something. Or did he just feel it was wrong to get close to Naruto?\n\nOne of my cousins and me were talking about this a couple of days ago and it\ngot me wondering. I didn't know how to respond to my cousin, so I just decided\nto ask you all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBeing Anbu and a guardian to Naruto doesn't seems like a great idea. And\nNaruto was in the care of the Third, so it might not seem necessary. It is\nalso to be noted that, Kakashi has a hard time connecting to someone\nemotionally too. And as per his past, he wouldn't want to get attached to\nanyone and wanted to be only an Anbu. It was the Third who removed him from\nthe Anbu and assigned him with various teams as tests, as shown in the anime\nfiller, and in the end assigned with Team 7.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs other people have said, he was doing his own thing. Also, when children are\norphaned, they are cared for by the village in its entirety, so there is no\nneed for one specific person to care for a child. Furthermore, the fact that\nhe was close to Minato is a much bigger reason for him not to get close to\nNaruto, as they were keeping the fact that he was Minato's son a secret,\nprobably for his own protection.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause everyone of the adult leaf village are terrible people. Both Kakashi\nand Hiruzen knew that Minato sacrificed himself and the future of his baby boy\nto protect the village and yet left Naruto to fend for himself both\nemotionally and materially.\n\nIn Shippunden Ep 480 Naruto meets Hiruzen for the FIRST TIME while gathering\nwild mushrooms and fishing to supplement his diet, he didn't have enough money\nto buy ramen. At the time Naruto seems to be about 5-6 and he didn't know what\nTHE SUN was! There was obviously a serious lack of support and education up\nuntil then.\n\nAnd Kakashi didn't do ANYTHING, as far as we can tell he just avoided Naruto\nlike the plague. Sure he had no formal relationship with Naruto but you\ncouldn't help out an orphan? Much less the orphan of your beloved student?!?!?\n\nNaruto was being neglected by the entire village so obviously he needed\nsomeone to step in and help him out. That someone ended up being Iruka sensei,\nsomeone without any connection to Naruto.\n\nIf i was Minato's ghost I would be rolling in my grave if i knew how Kakashi\nand Hiruzen just left my orphaned child to suffer the abuse of the ignorant\nvillagers, loneliness of having no family, and lack of financial support (the\npoor kid was hungry and had to scavenge for food) after I died to save the\nvillage.\n\nThe writers wanted to isolate Naruto and portray his growth by having him\nestablish relationships with everyone so he couldn't have any support at the\nbeginning. But the set up was just too unrealistic. Ninja welfare services\nwould have been called years ago.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**[Definition](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique)** :\nSimilar to the basic Clone Technique, Shadow clone technique creates copies of\nthe user. However, these clones are corporeal instead of illusions.\n\nAccording to me when Naruto uses Shadow clone technique then his whole dress\nalso get cloned to other user, so there might be possibility that item inside\nbag might get cloned too. And it can also be proved as he uses All direction\nshuriken technique where \"Naruto and his shadow clones throw shuriken all at\nonce.\" - [Source](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/All_Directions_Shuriken)\n\nSo the quesion is: How non-living object get multiplied because according to\nwiki definition about Shadow clone technique : \"The user's chakra is evenly\ndistributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the\nuser's overall power.\" but non-living object has no chakra so how come ?\n\nIf it is possible to use it which is true, then let us say that those cloned\nuser threw kunai on the target then for sure it will get hit on that target.\nBut if that cloned user (which uses that kunai) got vanish then :\n\nWill that kunai too vanishes at that same time or it will be there as it is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Short answer** : If you enjoyed it, don't question the logic.\n\n**Longer explanation** \nThis is an example of [Artistic\nLicense](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicense), which\nmeans the author is allowed to ignore logic if it makes the story more\nenjoyable. The trope of a character's ability extending to their equipment is\nknown as [My Suit Is Also\nSuper](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MySuitIsAlsoSuper) on\ntvtropes.1\n\nCloning techniques in Naruto require this trope due to how it is usually used:\nto confuse, distract and deceive the opponent. Cloning based techniques would\nbe useless if the opponent could tell the original apart from the clones by\nsimply looking at who has a shuriken in hand!2\n\nArtistic License requires [Willing Suspension of\nDisbelief](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief)\nfrom the audience. This is acceptable to the audience since they want the\nstory to entertain, and do not necessarily want it to be logically accurate.\nThe author should maintain a balance between the Artistic License and the\nWilling Suspension of Disbelief that the audience is willing to give.\n\nIf he uses too much Artistic License, the audience cannot take him seriously\nanymore. For example, if Naruto had awakened Mangekyou Sharingan, and it was\nexplained with \"an Uzumaki can awaken Mangekyou Sharingan by repeatedly using\nShadow Clones and Rasengan\", then the audience will lose interest in the\nstory.\n\nIt he uses too little of it, an opportunity to make the story more\nentertaining is lost. The author would have had to exclude a lot of techniques\nand events from the story, which would make it too boring.\n\n* * *\n\n1 The trope of cloning techniques extending to the user's clothes is [Magic\nPants](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicPants) is used mainly\nfor censorship reasons, as otherwise the clones would end up naked. It is too\nmuch trouble for the author to keep dealing with all the time. Given how often\nthe cloning techniques are used in the story, it would also get annoying for\nthe audience after a while.\n\n2 Interestingly, in a much later battle, Kishimoto plays with this trope\ndifferently. Naruto makes one of his clones carry a certain thing which fools\nhis opponent into thinking that clone is the original. See the below spoiler\nfor details.\n\n> During the battle against Kaguya Otsutsuki, Naruto deliberately places the\n> Gudodama behind the back of one of his clones, which tricks Black Zetsu into\n> thinking that clone is the original.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Tokyo Ghoul, Rize's organs are transplanted into Kaneki causing\nhim to become a half-ghoul half-human. However, the organs transplanted are\nsituated in his abdomen region and his tongue remains the same.\n\nLater, we see the ghoul researcher Ogura Hisashi say that ghouls cannot digest\nhuman food due to a particular enzyme in their body and because their tongues\nhave a different structure, food tastes different to them. However, Kaneki's\ntongue had remained unaltered so he should have been able to eat and taste\nhuman food but not be able to digest them.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/URY1o.jpg)\n\nInspite of this, we see Kaneki say that food tastes bad to him and he uses\nadjectives such as ash to describe the taste. My question is, even though his\ntongue is unchanged, why is he unable to taste human food?\n\nThis\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/TokyoGhoul/comments/3mymhc/spoilers_kaneki_and_food)\nthread partially answers the question. However, most of them were guesses and\nI didn't find them satisfactory. The highest upvoted answer goes against the\nshow (tongue does not change.)\n\n* * *\n\nI've only watched the 2 seasons of the anime, so I request you to keep the\nanswer as spoiler-free as possible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe ghoul DNA \"infected\" his whole body (look at his eyes) so it´s not too far\nfetched it changed the tongue as well.\n\nApart from physical change there is also a mental change. There is a\nphenomenon where patients who obtained an organ transplant notice effects on\nwhat they like or dislike, e.g. if the donor was a pianist the patient might\nlike listening to piano more than before or even want to learn it. Kaneki's\ntongue could still have the same structure as before but different\nassociations to food based on his digestive system.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is noteworthy that the Kagune Sac is the primary source of RC Cell\nmanipulation and such for a Ghoul. Much like certain glands in the human body\ncontrol Hormones for the entire body, the Kagune Sac does so for RC Cells in a\nGhoul, as well as giving them their Kagune, and depending on where it is, it\neven determines [which of the 4 kind](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Kagune)\nof kagune they get. It is clear the Kagune Sac is a control organ from that,\nand it probably can not only deal with RC cells, but also release other Things\ninto the entire body. It would not be out of the ordinary if these things\ncould also affect the rest of his body. It could have created and spread these\nGhoul Hormones and other chemicals through the blood which gave him his other\nghoul traits, like the Ghoul eye, regenerative ability, and reinforced his\nbody's Strength and toughness with the RC Cells he now has an abundance of. So\nof course it could also hit his tongue and brain to alter not only his taste\nbuds but how his brain interprets the signals, as well as his stomach to not\ndigest other food properly. All of this is not actually described anywhere in\nthe manga, and is just a guess, But the Kagune Sac is not some normal organ.\nHormones can change a lot about a human already, just look at Testosterone and\nEstrogen. If the Kagune sac also creates Ghoul Hormones, they could easily\naffect a human, since Ghouls are Basically humans in almost every other way,\nand the 2 can reproduce together to create natural One eyed Ghouls, meaning\nscientifically, they are very close on the Family tree.\n\nI have heard of a fun Fan theory that the Kagune was originally a Parasite\nthat formed a symbiotic relationship with its human hosts. The source is\nprobably from the fact that the Kagune sac is one of the only differences\nbetween Ghouls and Humans, and Kaneki receiving a sac gave him every other\ntrait of a ghoul.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat happens to gods without a regalia? I am writing a blog and want to know\nfor details. I know Yato mentions it but i can't remember!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think this as been addressed in the anime, but I imagine gods have to\nfight off things to stay alive and uncorrupted. Remember that purple painful\nskin after a god touches a monster? Well, that needs to be avoided.\n\nWithout a weapon (regalia), if fast enough, a god can just run away or dodge\nattacks to avoid any danger. Yato was pretty strong on his own and his\nopponents were surprised by his personal abilities on multiple occasions.\n\nBut it is a god's duty to protect the human world (Near Shore) from the\ncreatures of Far Shore, and only running away makes them pretty useless for\nthis cause. Bad creatures will be left to trouble people and other gods, which\nmight result in bad reputation, and furthermore additional hostility from gods\nand humans. People's prayers would not be answered (at least those involving\nbad creatures) and remember that \"supergod commitee\" which got pretty pissed\noff at one point and tried to destroy a fellow god for doing what they thought\nwas wrong without investigating too much. Wouldn't wanna risk that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBasically, for a god, a regalia is like clothes. Without a regalia, a god is\nconsidered \"but-naked\". A regalia is necessary for a god's survival as the\nregalia is a god's sole weapon to protect themselves from blight (pain caused\nby darkness either dark-thoughts of their regalias or physical contact with\nphantoms).\n\nIn the time of war (Yato being a war of god or god of calamity), the only\nmotive was \"to kill or to be killed\" and that's why a regalia is important to\nprotect their master's (god's) life. Most of the times (for calamity gods), it\nis necessary to kill to fulfill wishes, therefore a weapon i.e. regalia is\nneeded. Plus, there is a need of regalia to kill phantoms too, to fulfill\nwishes.\n\nA god with no regalia cannot survive for long in the world.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 337, Robin is shown using her Demon Fruit ability to save Usopp\nwhen he is hunting octopus in the aquarium of the Thousand Sunny, but I can't\nremember, whether it has ever been used in a similar manner, so I assume it's\npossibly an exceptional case.\n\nWas it shown at any other points of the series if she could do it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough there may be others, so far I've only been able to think of one other\ntime where she used her powers in a similar manner. The picture below is taken\nfrom the Strawhats' trip to the Fishman Islands (Chapter 605). The ship is\ncoated with the resin from the Yakuriman Mangroves in order to withstand the\nvery large hydrodynamic pressure. There is therefore a \"impassable but\ntransparent obstacle\" as the OP puts it between Robin and her use of her DF\npower.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ryYsv.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode, someone threw the crane in order to kill Rize, however\nthat also prompted in having to save Kaneki from totally being devoured/killed\n.\n\nThat was the point from where everything basically took off.\n\nWas the fall of crane just a coincidence or was it deliberately caused by\nsomeone in an attempt to kill Rize and if so, who could have it been?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Manga near the very end Tokyo ghoul, Kaneki remembers the incident, and\nit was shown that\n\n> The Ghoul Group called the clowns did it as One of them, Souta, was there.\n\nThe specific incident summary on the\n[Wiki](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Steel_Beam_Incident) confirms this.\n\nThe reasons why are not clear yet in TG:RE, as there are several groups that\ncould have been the reason why it happened, or it could have been spur of the\nmoment.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not new to the Naruto franchise. I'm also up to date with what's currently\ngoing on (Madara vs Naruto & Sasuke). But I want to know the details of how\neverything happened. From which episode should I start watching? I want to at\nleast start after the whole Pain storyline and around where the Fourth Ninja\nWar starts. Anyone got an idea on where I should start?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTaking a look at the [Naruto arcs](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Arcs)\nwiki articles I found [Fourth shinobi world war:\nconfrontation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Fourth_Shinobi_World_War:_Confrontation)\nto be the arc you are looking for.\n\nAs this is the point where the 4th ninja war starts.\n\n> It spans through volumes 55 to 59, or more specifically, covers chapters 516\n> to 559 of the manga and episodes 261 to 270, and also picks from 272 to 289\n> of the Naruto: Shippūden anime and later picks up from episodes 296 to 310,\n> and 312 to 321. The six episodes of the Power arc, along with two others,\n> were shown in the interim. This arc is preceded by the Fourth Shinobi World\n> War: Countdown and followed by the Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax.\n\nSo you can either start at chapter 516 or if you prefer the anime, start at\nepisode 296 of Shippuuden to skip the pain arc, and jump straight into the\nwar.\n\nI would however advice you to just watch it all. If you do not wish to watch\n[17325 minutes of non-stop\nanime](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/10076/1458). You can also take a look\nat the [What can I skip](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8788/1458) guide\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recommend starting at the beginning. If you try skipping around, you'll miss\na lot of the key dynamics between the characters... even if there's a lot of\nfiller, sometimes the filler episodes contain more backstory than you'd\nexpect.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have recently started watching the _World Trigger_ anime and I have liked it\nso far. I read that the manga was way better so I'm thinking to switching to\nthat.\n\nHowever, I've been wondering: are there any big differences between the anime\nand manga?\n\nFor what it's worth, with the anime, I have just finished the second large\nscale invasion part.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the midway of the 12th episode the #35 Diclonius failed to use her vectors.\nAlso just before she failed to do so, she was attacking Nana or #7 at the edge\nof the bridge. The #7th saw something at the #35th's chin/neck and one of the\n#7th's vectors attacked and took #35 by surprise. Soon after the attack the\n#35 was no more able to use her vectors. So my question is what did #7 do to\nstop #35 from using her vectors? Because nothing was shown as to what was\n#35th's weakness and how did #7th find that weakness.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe vectors are unable to be used when the Diclonius is in pain. That's why\nthe scientists keep them in pain. They won't be able to use their vectors to\nescape. The reason why #35 can't use her vectors after #7 hits her in the head\nhas a lot to do with this weakness. Maybe the blow affected her frontal lobe\nin some way.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the [Phantomhive Manor Murders\nArc](http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Phantomhive_Manor_Murders_Arc), in the\nManga, when the murders were happening, the characters who were investigating\nspecifically mentioned that there were no footprints of anyone from outside\nwho might have come from storm or might've been wet because of rains near the\ncrime scenes.\n\nBut later\n\n> when Sebastian was explaing that he was behind everything and that he\n> switched corpse places from outside windows. Also he was shown wet a number\n> of times. But no footprints were found? There were no footprints of the wet\n> Sebastian? How?\n\nWas mentioning the \"no traces of footprint\" thing a mistake or was it ignored\nwhile sebastian was explaining what had actually happened?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Manga, in [The Ship Voyage\narc](http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Ship_Voyage_Arc), the corpses on\nCampania are blinded by a cloth. Ciel speculates that they can't hear or see.\nBut if the cloth is removed, will they be able to see? Or is it just for show?\nTo depict that the corpses can't see? Any particular reason? Or the Mangaka\njust wanted to design the characters that way?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKaido Yuji sometimes seems to hum a song (which said in the anime was a\npopular song before the \"Blue\" incident)\n\nYuji first hummed this \"song\" when he was first awoken by soldiers from second\nearth (the scene with a soldier who maintains his armored shrike) in Episode 3\nor 4 I think.\n\nYuji said that this \"song\" he was humming reminds him of his best friend who\nhad promised to see him after a \"cure\" has been found for his disease (episode\n21)\n\nIs this a real song, or is it just a fiction? Do anyone know the title of the\nsong?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat does Kaoru mean when he says \"Cursed the Carriage\" in episode 21 season\n1? He said it was his private joke, but I think it has more meaning to it.\nPlease answer with least spoilers as possible!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the genjutsu called that Madara is trying to use to mind control the\nwhole world?\n\nHe needs the ten-tails to be able to activate it.\n\nI know it's been mentioned frequently in the series but I watch it over a very\nlong period of time mixed with lots of other shows. The name eludes me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's called [Infinite\nTsukuyomi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Tsukuyomi)\n\n> The Infinite Tsukuyomi is a genjutsu that traps the entire world in an\n> illusion, enslaving them in a dream so that their chakra may be drawn upon.\n\nTelling more will be full of spoilers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Alkahestry is used via the [dragon's\npulse](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon's_Pulse) while alchemy used in\nAmestris was powered by the philosopher's stone, could Edward learn and use\nAlkahestry after he had given up his gate of truth and lost his ability to use\nAlchemy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## In all likelihood, he can learn it but not use it.\n\nI say this because Alchemy and Alkahestry mainly differ in their sources of\npowers. As mentioned on the [Wikia article on\nAlkahestry](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alkahestry):\n\n> Alkahestry refers to the slightly different form of Alchemy used in the\n> country of Xing. Alkahestry differs from Alchemy in both its practice and\n> its goal. Whereas Amestrian Alchemy claims to have its roots in the energy\n> of tectonic shifts and practices manipulation of matter toward\n> scientifically practical ends, Alkahestry is centered on a concept called\n> the \"Dragon's Pulse\" which speaks of the Earth itself having a constant flow\n> of chi (life energy) which flows metaphorically from the tops of mountains\n> down to the land, nourishing everything it passes with that energy as does\n> blood coursing through the veins.\n\nAlthough never explicitly stated, it is very likely that both Alkahestry and\nAlchemy make use of the Gate, and their difference lies only in their source\nof power and their practices. The above excerpt even mentions it as a\n\"different form of alchemy\".\n\nIt may also be noted\nthat:[1](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alkahestry),[2](https://www.reddit.com/r/FullmetalAlchemist/comments/201sj6/alchemy_vs_alkahestry/)\n\n * Alkahestry uses energy flows of the planet to open the gate. The energy flows and has many different exit points and thus they can use ranged alchemy. The concept of Chi is that the human body has an energy flow and that it also has many different exit points. \n\n> Using this concept, Alkahestrists are capable of a higher level of medical\n> transmutation than Amestrian alchemists - transmitting chi through the\n> pathways of the human body to cure mild ailments as well as minor injuries -\n> and can even project their transmutations over long distances and wide areas\n> by accessing and guiding that current to their own means with Purification\n> Circles and Alkahestric markers, a function of which Amestrian Alchemy is\n> altogether incapable.\n\n * Amestrian Alchemy uses tectonic rifts as their source of power. \n\n> But really Father's Philosophers Stone is limiting that source of power. Its\n> the reason why Father could amplify the Freezer's Alchemy (Episode 1), turn\n> off Alchemy (but not Alkahestry) and why Scar's transmutation (after Bradley\n> died) gave everyone increased power (it stopped the inhibitor of Father's\n> Philosophers Stone).\n\nBecause of the country's history of war, their alchemy was developed with\ncombat use in mind. Some medical alchemy was developed (proof being Marco and\nothers) however it was never specialized and Alkahestry's medical alchemy was\n\"better\".\n\n**In conclusion** : Since both of them make use of the same concept/power, the\ndifferent lying in their sources and their specializations, it's possible for\nhim to learn Alkahestry but not use it. It's similar to what happened with\nAlchemy. Ed can't use it at the end, but there's nothing stopping him from\nlearning it. He even departs to the West to learn more about alchemy. As\nsomeone on\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/FullmetalAlchemist/comments/2anq3c/can_edward_learn_alkahestry/)\nput it:\n\n> He can still physically do the motions for both, it's his body that can't\n> make the final connection. To draw an analogy, it's like someone who is\n> paralyzed: Their legs are still there and the nerves are still there, but\n> they aren't connected anymore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I've understood alchemy and principles behind it correctly, then - no.\n\nAlchemy in any of its forms is science of changing world around you. The\nquestion is - how you change it. If you remember island episode, answer is\ngiven there. Everything in world is connected. You change one thing - it\nchanges everything connected to it in chain reaction. Obviously, human is part\nof this mechanism. Alchemy transmutation is basically some sort of change\ninside of human itself, which then leads to changes in real world. Circles,\ntattoos etc are just a method to concentrate on change you want to do.\n\nNow, about gate of truth. As I see it, it is actually representation of\nconnection between human and world. Once human undergoes change in result of\ntransmutation, gate translates it to the world.\n\nEdward destroyed this gate, effectively removing his own connection to the\nworld (in terms of alchemy). So, I think, it is not possible for him to do any\ntype of transmutation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo if I remember right, there was this bad guy that has power to control\nblood, was the main villain, and I think dressed in white. He's like a\ngangster or something like that.\n\nI remember that one of the first episodes was that he went to retrieve his\ncash that was lent to some guys and they didn't want to pay him, so he told\nthe guys that were with him to cover their eyes because he didn't want them to\nsee his power. They then covered their eyes and he killed all the guys that\nwere protecting the guy who was in debt with him.\n\nOther episode I remember is that the same guy went to retrieve cash again from\nother guy, and he had it all but his son took like $10 or something like that\nand then the kid went back to return the money. But when he went home, the\nblood-controlling guy already killed his dad and he told the kid something\nlike \" _If you wanna kill me, buy me first_ \" or \" _Get the money to buy me,\nthen kill me_ \" or something along those lines.\n\nOther episode was that again he went to retrieve his money from a guy in debt\nand the guy didn't have all the money, and he was about to kill him. But his\nlittle girl showed up and gave him some monopoly money and he said something\nlike \"*Looks like your daughter just saved you\".\n\nAnd the last episode I remember is that he wanted to get all the money to burn\nit and cause an economy crash or something like that.\n\nAnyway, I hope that this is enough to help me identify this anime, thanks!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is most definitely [Speed Grapher by studio\nGonzo](http://myanimelist.net/anime/198/Speed_Grapher). That scene with the\nboy taking a banknote to buy a ball is a dead giveaway.\n\nThis is the bad guy and his top henchman:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/On5yx.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eeu11.jpg)\n\nAnd this is the good guy and his camera:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nU8nB.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been wondering when I watched code geass years ago, there were several\nmodels of knightmare frames shown in the anime and it's 2nd season.\n\nI noticed that Kallen Kozuki's knightmare - Guren has a different seat from\nthe other nightmare frames.\n\nIf you Zoom in , you could noticed the differences of the design in the\nknightmare frames' seat (at the left is Guren S.E.I.T.E.N and at the right is\nLancelot, Lower right is Zero's Shinkiro)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YEmJL.jpg)\n\nThe picture was taken from _\"The Original Picture of the Opening movie and\ninstallation Book\"_ which was with the Original CD of the opening Theme Music\nsung by Flow.\n\nThe Guren's seat was somewhat modeled after a motorbike as seen in the picture\nbelow.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VzzY6.jpg)\n\nThis is a screenshot from the anime were we can see how Kallen is leaning\nforward like riding a motorbike.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/j17P0.jpg)\n\nAre there any explanation on this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn FMA Brotherhood, Alchemy's limits were very well defined but the limits of\nAlkahestry are never mentioned. Is this ever described outside of the TV\nseries, perhaps in other media or interviews? If so, what are these\nlimitations?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan Natsu use his flames to grab things still? He used it that one time in\nfighting the wind guy when he fell off the railroad tracks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPresumably...yes.\n\nThese has been nothing to indicate that he lost the ability to 'grab' things\nwith his fire...he just hasn't done it since then. The same as how he hasn't\nmade use of his abilities with basic Transformation Magic since he first\nlearned how to do it (by turning into Lucy while tutored by Mirajane).\n\nAs for why he hasn't used it since...either the author forgot about it or, as\nan in-universe perspective, he hasn't needed it. The main reason he pulled\nthat ability out during his fight with Erigor was because he was falling off a\nbridge and needed to get back. Since then, he seems to have figured out how to\nuse his fire as a form of Jet Propulsion, meaning he can sort-of-fly. Not much\nneed to pull yourself back up onto a bridge by grabbing it with fire, when you\ncan just use your hands as rocket engines.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEven though it's said by other heroes he should rank up, he refuses as he\nfeels it is his duty to remain in the number one spot of A-Class to prevent\nthe unworthy from becoming S-Class heroes, except for those whom he sees\nworthy like Genos, fitting Sweet Mask's philosophy about \"heroes needs to be\nbeautiful too\"\n\nBut how does he plan to stop? Had he not approved of Genos, what power does he\nhave to stop him from climbing to class S. Isn't that the decicsion for the\nassociation?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned in [this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/28397/15542) answer,\n\n> When heroes are ranked #1 in their class they can choose to stay at the top\n> of their class or start at the bottom of the next class.\n\nThere is no other way than being #1 to rank up. Therefore, as long as you are\n#1, no one in your class except yourself can rank up to the next class.\n\nSweet Mask is \"supposed\" to be way too powerful for the A-Class (from what he\nsays, as we never saw him fight), so there is no way anyone in the A-Class\nwould ever be stronger than him. Therefore, no one can take over the first\nplace of A-Class as long as Sweet Mask doesn't rank up.\n\nThe only limitation of his system is that he can not decide on who can\ndirectly start as a S-Class, as it is only decided on the tests. This is why\nSweet Mask could not influence Genos' rank\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't remember the name of an anime I watched a long time ago (approximately\n20 years). In this anime the main antagonist is a woman who can hypnotize\npeople by getting naked and then drawing out some eye projectors and when\npeople look at these projectors they go insane. I remember two main scenes\nfrom this anime, I hope this can help.\n\n * In the first scene, two people look at a security camera, then the woman stands in front of the camera and manifests her eye projectors. Then one of the two men goes insane and jumps off the building and dies. \n\n * In the second scene, the main protagonist drives in his car and then the woman jumps on top of a truck which is just in front of the protagonist's car. During the time the woman manifests her eye projectors, the main protagonist stabs one of his eyes so that he won't get hypnotized. I remember that after that the main protagonist's eye is replaced with a powerful bionic eye which gives him some super unnatural powers where he can control distanced vehicles by using mind control. \n\nThanks in advance for anyone who is willing to help.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe name of the anime is **[Midnight Eye:\nGokuu](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1879/Midnight_Eye__Gokuu)**.\n\nThe actual scene differs a bit from your description: the two people were\nactually police investigating the baddie whose minions include the woman of a\ndifferent biology with \"peacock feathers\" extending from her body who can mind\ncontrol people. One of the police was observing a room through a telescope\nwhen the woman walked into his vision and hypnotized him into pushing his\ncomrade off the balcony and following suit. Here's a screenshot of the woman:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eUE4cm.jpg)\n\nThe rest is as you have described, but the bionic eye not only can control\ndistanced vehicles, it can control every electronic device in the world.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nInstantly, _Pokemon_ 's [team rocket](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KUqY1.jpg)\ncomes to mind when I think of characters blasting off after losing a battle,\njust to become a twinkle in the\nsky[tvtropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ATwinkleInTheSky).\n\nHowever, it has become rather popular in lots of shows!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rSuaR.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/McU2E.jpg)\n\nI'd like to know what was the first anime that featured characters blasting\noff and if possible, whether or not the first instance of this was in Anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I understand this trope actually dates all the way back to Greek\nmythology. Apparently, Hercules did this to someone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, the title is pretty clear. I was wondering and came up with some\nideas like that it sounds like \"killer\" in Japanese. Or does it have a special\nmeaning or anything?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you surmise, \"Kira\" is how a Japanese speaker would pronounce the English\nword \"killer\". I seem to recall somebody explicitly pointing this out early on\nin the manga, though I don't remember where exactly.\n\nThat's pretty much all there is to it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, at around 12 minutes, Light explains that the name Kira was\ntaken from the English word \"killer\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KG921.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWatching Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai, I noticed Dekomori has one of those\nanime character speech patterns. In her case, she ends every sentence with\n\"desu\". That I understand, but then I noticed that some subtitles would\ntranslate her \"desu\" to the English word \"death\".\n\nMy question is, is she saying one or the other, or is it just a translator\nreading into her mannerism/personality too much?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the time that Red Magic was down, directly after her door was opened, I'm\nassuming Dr. Magata was able to get on to the roof without leaving any trace\nof her access to the doors and elevators, since the system was temporarily\nswitched over to UNIX. However, we see her come back in with Nishinosono and\nthe others from the roof. How does she get back on the roof without leaving\nany logs, in order to kill the director?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jUHvp.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[spoiler]\n\n> He was already stabbed by the time Nishinosono and Professor Saikawa greeted\n> the Director and Miki. The Director already has a knife stabbed at his back\n> and he's acting like nothing is happening while talking to Nishinosono. This\n> was shown on the latter episodes of the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, Yamane Yukihiro explains that the network on the island is\ncompletely isolated, a protected network.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VDiwQ.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6lAdY.jpg)\n\nIf that is the case, why are they surprised when they cannot send e-mails or\ncommunicate with the outside world when the system goes down later in episode\n3?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Nzhx.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA network **doesn't have to be public**. **Network** is just a bunch of\ncomputers that are able to share their content between each other.\n\nSo they weren't able to communicate within their network nor with the outside\nworld.\n\nThey probably could communicate to the outside world **before** through a\nproxy server that is within their control only.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OzShl.png)\n\nImage and further explanation on\n[wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server#Bypassing_filters_and_censorship)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, Yamane Yukihiro tells Nishinosono and Professor Saikawa that the\ndirector isn't there, he's off picking up Dr. Magata's younger sister, Miki.\n\n> Nishinosono: Where did the director go?\n>\n> Yamane: He went to get Dr. Magata's younger sister.\n\nHowever, we later learn that Miki was actually Dr. Magata all along. This\nmeans that the director was aware this is the day he would die all along. How\nthough, was this plan between Dr. Magata and the director communicated? I\nunderstand that all communications were recorded. They also said multiple\ntimes that no one had gone in to Dr. Magata's room for 15 years, except they\n_did_ open the door anytime they had to put a large package in.\n\nWhat was the method they used to communicate this plan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Freezing, Gengo Aoi tries to build a relationship between two characters,\nbut this relationship would be incestuous. Did any one of these characters\nconsider the nature of this relationship?\n\nI ask this, because in no argument is incest mentioned.\n\nThe characters that should be shipped are:\n\n> Ryuuichi Aoi, Gengo's son with Maria\n\nand\n\n> Cassandra, an incomplete clone of Maria.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Attack on Titan, we know what happened to many people:\n\n> they became Titans.\n\nBut what happened to people with different skin colors, e.g. black?\n\n> Did they turn into Caucasian Titans? Or were they simply killed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo we know that throughout the whole Naruto series Hinata is **in love** with\nNaruto, and Naruto is oblivious to it. We also know that Naruto like Sakura,\nsomehow. Later on two years after the war, Hinata is still in love with him.\n\n# Spoiler below about The Last: Naruto the Movie\n\n> Hinata, Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Shikamaru are sent on a mission to rescue\n> Hinata's sister. At one moment they had to go through something to get to\n> this one place (sorry I can't recall what it was.) When they went through\n> there they fell in a Genjutsu without knowing. In that Genjutsu Naruto is\n> seeing a flashback of Hinata and him, but mostly Hinata. Naruto starts\n> seeing some moments where Hinata as a kid wrote his name on a piece of paper\n> and started to get happy, then after he fought Kiba she gave Naruto that\n> healing cream, when he was on the ground when he was fighting Pain she\n> protected him and confessed her love for him, Hinata talking to Sakura about\n> Naruto, etc. After seeing all that, Sakura is able to break the Genjutsu on\n> him and he is able to wake up. After that, they continue to look for\n> Hinata's sister. Hinata and Naruto have to share one of Sai's painted birds\n> to fly on. Naruto starts to look at Hinata different. Is it because he feels\n> sorry for being oblivious of her love for him? Then after feeling sorry, did\n> he start feeling something for her as well or what because after that guy\n> (sorry I forgot his name) took Hinata with him, Naruto tried to get her\n> back. He ended up losing and getting so hurt he kinda fell in a comma. After\n> he woke up Sai and Shikamaru told him that Sakura was all awake day and\n> night trying to bring him back and that he was saying Hinata's name over and\n> over. He went to see Sakura because Shikamaru and Sai said she was really\n> bad. When he was with her she said, \"So you finally noticed\", or something\n> like that. Then at the end of the movie, he takes Hinata and starts blasting\n> his Rasengan like that they can move faster. They end up really high in the\n> sky, then he kisses her. When the credits are on we see that they got\n> married, then after that, there is a short scene that shows her knitting a\n> scarf and his training outside in the snow. A couple of seconds later their\n> two kids are shown, then they all start a snow fight.\n\nSo my question is if Naruto did quickly fall in love with Hinata after the\nGenjutsu in the movie, or did he slowly start to feel something for her after\nit?\n\nAlso, in between that blank timeline of those two years, did Naruto figure out\nthat Sakura was never going to fall in love with him and stopped liking her or\ndid he stop liking her after being in that Genjutsu?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere is a [very good post](http://chennyyeo.tumblr.com/post/111771933631/my-\nanalysisthoughts-about-the-last-naruto-the) by chennyyeo that may answer your\nquestion about _The Last - Naruto The Movie_.\n\nHer theories and explanations\n\n * proves that the movie does not contradict the manga (and it is actually a canon material) and\n * to explain Naruto’s feelings (that he DID NOT fall for Hinata in the movie, rather, he **realized** his romantic feelings for her)\n\n> Hinata as a kid wrote his ( _Naruto_ ) name on a piece of paper and started\n> to get happy\n\nIn this scene in the movie: (spoiler)\n\n>\n[code]\n\n> ' Iruka Umino tells his students to write down the name of a\n> person they would want to be with if the world was to end that day.\n> Though\n> Naruto tries to act tough towards Sakura Haruno, she ignores him for\n> Sasuke.\n> While Hinata is unsure who's name to write, she sees Naruto making a\n> paper\n> plane with his paper, which leads him to be scolded by Iruka. 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Pain even said that love breeds hate. No, he’s not talking about\n> Hinata’s feelings, he's talking about Naruto's. Pain assumed that the girl\n> he attacked was special to Naruto. That’s why he said “ _Do you hate me\n> now?_ ”\n>\n> The movie guidebook also confirms this moment. “Naruto reads feeling of\n> weakness reflected in Hinata’s eyes…. The two were connected so strongly\n> that they could communicate in their eyes”\n>\n> In chapter 615, Naruto held Hinata’s hand. That only means one thing.\n>\n> **Naruto did all these romantic moments with Hinata subconsciously**. He’s\n> just stupid or dense that’s why he didn't know it was romantic love, and The\n> Last movie explained this (that he cannot distinguish the difference between\n> love of ramen and loving a person).\n\nAbout your question here:\n\n> So my question is if Naruto did quickly fall in love with Hinata after the\n> Genjutsu in the movie or did he slowly start to feel something for her after\n> it.\n\nAnd to much elaborate the Movie\n\n> > One of the many complains in the movie is the pacing. For just a day or\n> so… the relationship between Naruto and Hinata changed. Let’s look closely.\n>\n> Mission timeline: Day 1: The team goes to a snowy place, goes to the\n> genjutsu lake, Toneri ask Hinata’s hand, Naruto became bashful, and Naruto\n> saw Hinata knitting the scarf.\n>\n> Day 2: Naruto did not wear Kushina’s scarf, Naruto and Hinata flirting,\n> Otsutsuki monument, and Hinata request Naruto to leave her alone for a\n> moment.\n>\n> Day 3: Hinata tries to stay away from Naruto, then in the night Naruto\n> confessed, then Hinata goes to Toneri.\n>\n> Yes… Within 3 days… I want to focus on day 1 and 2. This is when Naruto\n> knows his own feelings.\n>\n> So quickly, he acted different towards Hinata. What reason? The answer is of\n> course love.\n>\n> But is it possible to fall in love within days? The answer is, no. Because\n> love is not an instant thing.\n>\n> Does that mean the relationship between Naruto and Hinata is forced in the\n> movie? No. Why? Because Naruto did **not** fall for Hinata in the movie.\n> **he just realized he loved** HER ALL ALONG.\n>\n> Remember, he did not know the meaning of loving someone until the Genjutsu\n> trap. This gave him a context of Hinata’s feelings. After that, he examined\n> his own feeling. Actually, this is elaborated in the last light novel.\n>\n> Thanks animecontinuum for the translation:\n>\n\n>> “So if that is a Genjutsu… Then, what are those things I saw about Hinata?\nWere all those part of my memories? No, I don’t think those are just ordinary\nmemories. It’s more like my dreams and memories were mixed together. And so\nabout Hinata, does that mean that I also…” Naruto blushed involuntarily and\nfor an instant, he looked at Hinata.\n\n>\n> Clearly, the trap does not forced Naruto to love Hinata.\n>\n> It just triggered something within Naruto’s heart.\n>\n> Just think about it. When a person confessed to you. You would not fall for\n> him/her instantly. Unless, you also have feelings for him/her all along.\n>\n> And another thing… Why do you thing Sakura encourage Hinata in the first\n> place. If she thinks that Hinata will just get rejected? (as what UgamyRain\n> said before)\n>\n> While Naruto was unconscious and Sakura’s healing him.. She said “you\n> finally got it. Blockhead” (cause Naruto repeatedly said “Hinata”)\n>\n> This only means one thing: Sakura knew that Naruto loved Hinata all along.\n>\n> Sakura’s statement not only meant that Naruto finally understands Hinata’s\n> feelings. Also, he understands **his own feelings**. (Actually, the latter\n> is more appropriate because of the context of the scene. Remember, Naruto\n> kept repeating Hinata’s name, before Sakura said he finally got it)\n>\n> When/how did Naruto fall for Hinata? Well it is in the manga. I already\n> explained that.\n>\n> Conclusion: the movie does not contradict the manga. It actually supported\n> our theory before: Naruto had feelings for Hinata all along.\n\nAlso In the last part of your question...\n\n> Did Naruto figure out that Sakura was never going to fall in love with him\n> and stopped liking her or did he stop liking her after being in that\n> Genjutsu.\n\nIn \"Naruto: the Last\" there's a scene where Sakura explains this to Naruto.\nSakura also helped Naruto to understand that he actually loves Hinata , not\nher.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe didn't fall in love with Hinata during the movie, but instead he fell in\nlove with her throughout his whole life! He just realized he was in love in\nthe movie.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto didn't fall in love with Hinata in The Last: Naruto the Movie. Naruto\nis in love with Hinata throughout the whole story of Naruto, he's so stupid he\ndidn't realized it as \"love\" since those flashbacks happened in their mission\nin the movie. Started when Hinata was saved by Naruto since they were young it\nstarted there. I can't tell if it was Naruto being dense back then, or he just\ncan't tell what really is love, well he is stupid. Relating this to his\nconfession to Sakura when they were on the Iron Land, that confession was to\nat least waver Sakura's eagerness to follow and rescue Sasuke since it was\ndangerous.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto Shippuden, when Naruto is fighting Pain, Naruto sees Hinata coming\nand Hinata sees that Naruto can't move so she fights Pain, but he wins. Before\nthat, Hinata tells Naruto she loves him, but Naruto already knew since they\nwere kids. He used to look at Hinata sometimes, and he knew she felt something\nfor him.\n\nIn The Last: Naruto the Movie, Naruto told Hinata he loved her, but truly he\nhad feelings for her. Then he kissed her, he did fall in love together forever\nand lived happily ever after.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto didn't fall in love with Hinata in the movie, he was actually already\nin love with her. He just didn't know it was \"love\" since he's dumb. He always\nthought that loving ramen and loving a person was the same thing, so he never\nreally thought much about it.\n\nWhen Naruto saw the flashbacks, he realised he was in love with Hinata and\nlearned loving food is different from loving a person.\n\nHe never really \"loved\" Sakura, he only liked her because she was pretty.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy two cents:\n\nWhether or not a character in a given story universe \"REALLY\" had a change of\nemotional feelings in any direction, is something only the writer/creator\nknows, unless specifically stated otherwise in print, in words that cannot be\nmisinterpreted.\n\nAside from that situation, we as viewers have to go on our feelings and views\non the development of the character over time, in order to make what amounts\nto an educated guess of their true feelings. And this goes for\nbooks/manga/life/anime/live action.\n\nMy belief is this: When you have love for one person, that never really dies,\neven if said love is unrequited. So in the case with Hinata, he may truly love\nher, but he likely still loves _cough_ other girl too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he was in love with her all along. Starting with their childhood, in\nthe academy, and in the chunin exams. That love was so obvious. He swore with\nher blood that he was going to win, and he did.\n\nAlso, in episode 151, in the original Naruto series, the mission with Hinata,\nKiba, and Chino, when the Hidden Stone shinobi abducted Hinata, Naruto was so\nnervous he even showed Kurama's eyes, and one of the kidnappers said that she\nmight be his girlfriend.\n\nIn the Pain arc. this love of Naruto's was like the sun. He was going to\ntransform completely into the Nine Tails. but his father came and renew the\nseal again.\n\nIn the war arc., we saw that one of Naruto's clones can see and read Hinata's\neyes.\n\nNaruto: The Last was evidence that Naruto has always loved Hinata. In the\nGenjutsu lake, Naruto went to the deep of his heart and brought back all the\nmemories of Hinata. Why specially Hinata? Sai said that he was dreaming about\nhis brother. We already knew he was precious to him. The same goes for Naruto.\nThis movie is also an evidence that Naruto is really dumb who can not make the\ndifference between loving a person and food.\n\nThe last thing I would like to say is that these two have a very very very\nspecial sort of love. They are the best.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen it comes to Naruto and Hinata, he loved her, but because of the fact that\nhe had no parents, he couldn't understand his feelings for her because he had\nnever seen people interact like that before (his parents did all the time, but\ndied while he was only an infant so he never got to learn from them).\n\nIn _The Last_ the Genjutsu only helped Naruto see his own feelings towards\nHinata, and realized she had acknowledged him and cared for him more than\nanyone else ever had. His denseness is a result of never knowing or\nexperiencing it first hand.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the 2003 series, we see on different occasions that the red stones are used\nas an unstable alternative to the philosopher's stone despite the fact that\nthey do not have any souls entrapped in them. They're just artificially\nsynthesised.\n\nIf so, why was prophet Cornello able to apparently bypass equivalent exchange\nusing the red stones? More controversial is the revival of birds by alchemy\nusing a red stone. Why are homunculi fed with red stones as a source of souls?\nIt all just doesn't add up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this story line, a Red Stone does indeed have the power to bypass the\nnatural laws of alchemy such as[1](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Stone):\n\n * The requirement for transmutation circles\n * The Law of Equivalent Exchange\n * The required alchemical knowledge to perform alchemy\n\nThe goal of alchemists was to find a way around the known laws of alchemy,\nwhich is why they had the goal of creating the Philosopher's Stone in the\nfirst place. Red Stones are a result of their efforts at such research and\nthus have similar capabilities as a true Philosopher's Stone. However, while\nthey do not require human sacrifice, they are not as powerful and can cause\nadverse effects to the user in the form of rebound. An example of these\nrebounds is the effect on Cornello's arm when the Red Stone crumbled.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GlY0M.jpg)\n\nAs far as your question about the birds, there has been a [similar\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/5480/17758) already asked here on\nstack exchange.\n\nIt's important to note that the information I've provided is only relevant to\nthe 2003 production. In the original manga, Red Stone is simply another name\nfor a Philosopher's Stone, and the stone Cornello used crumbled because it had\nrun out of souls. Ed believed it to be a fake because he was still under the\nimpression that the Philosopher's Stone was a source of unlimited\npower[1](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Cornello).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTitle says it all. When is Miss Monochrome's birthday? Wikipedia only said\nthat she first appeared in Horie Yui's concert in 2012 but mentioned nothing\nof her birthday.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOut of universe, I couldn't find anything except the [Girlfriend Beta wiki\npage](https://wiki.gfkari.com/wiki/Miss_Monochrome) that senshin mentioned,\nwhich puts down her age and birthday as \"???\".\n\nIn the universe of the anime series, Miss Monochrome's birthday/activation\ndate is probably unknown as well. As we see in Episode 9 of Series I, Miss\nMonochrome was created by an advanced human civilization that existed before\nthe beginning of known prehistory. This civilization was wiped out by aliens\nin a human hunt.\n\nAfter the death of her rival, a past-life version of Kikuko, Miss Monochrome\nsits at one spot and waits until her memories fade and her battery goes out\nand she disappears. Life evolves again on Earth, and millions of years later,\nshe is reactivated by a pair of medieval Japanese villagers who luckily have\nan AA battery to put in her power stand.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FzWbLm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3reXfm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZX9jYm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/atELqm.png)\n\nThe important part here is \"her memory faded\". Miss Monochrome would not\nremember her own birthday / activation date anymore, and anyone else who might\nhave known died over 100 million years ago. Even if she did remember, it would\nbe in the calendar system of the ancient civilization. If Miss Monochrome\ndidn't know how to translate this into the Gregorian Calendar, no one would be\nable to, and I somehow don't think that learning the inner workings of the\ncalendar was high on her list of priorities, even before she became brain-\ndamaged.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I've been wondering what Minato's teleportation kunai said, but I have\nfound nothing. I can only recognize the first and second characters. The first\none means Shinobi, and the second one means love. I can't understand the last\ntwo.\n\nSo my question is if anyone knows what Minato's kunai say.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yIGbM.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KmJ8v.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNinkaku Fuzetsu (忍覚符絶, Literally meaning: Endurance Awakening Talisman\nAbsolute). I don't know, maybe that just his signature and didn't have\nanything to do with Hiraishin because Tobirama's seal is in different shape\nand they have same purpose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n忍愛之剣 (にんあいのけん 又は しのびあいのけん)\n\nSword of Shinobi's Love\n\nThat image is not accurate. The person who drew the picture clearly didn't pay\nmuch attention to the characters.\n\nThere is a YouTube video called \"Did Naruto lose his six path sage mode\" The\ncover photo has these four characters\n\nAlso, if you google these 4 characters, you will see there were a lot of\npeople that have asked this question before\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt does says **忍愛之剣** _(nin-ai-no-ken)_. It appears in manga 673 and in anime\nepisode 424. Not quite sure what it mean, and why the talisman changed.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of the song in _Noragami Aragoto_ episodes 11 and 12 when\nBishamon fights? First, against Izanami in the underworld, and then against\nKiun, the Thunder Dragon, immediately after rescuing Ebisu from a direct\nstrike.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn case the question is not very clear, What I want to know is:\n\n * What Dende or Kami must do as the Guardian of Earth?\n * Do they have to _protect_ human being from _evil_?\n * Do they have to create the dragon balls?\n * Do they have to hear and grant (if appropriate) any humans wish (as the comment said they referenced as God)?\n * Do they have to watch over every activity that people on earth do?\n * If they don't have to create dragon balls, do they have to be from Namek?\n * Aside from people safety, in what problems they may or must help humans for fulfilling their job as Guardian of Earth?\n\nBasically, the question is what are their tasks as the Guardian of Earth?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs is mentioned on the [wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Guardian)\nsite,\n\n> Guardian (神様, Kami-sama; lit. \"God\") is the title given to the individual\n> protectors of planets in the Dragon Ball series.\n>\n> Despite their names, the Guardians' role is closer to that of an overseer.\n\nAs the Guardian of Earth (I will be using GE as an abbreviation), Kami or\nDende have to protect the human beings from evil. A few examples being\n\n * Kami training Goku during the Piccolo Jr. Saga.\n * Kami training the other Z Warriors during the Saiyan Saga.\n * > Kami and Mr. Popo spreading the Sacred Water throughout the entire world using the Seven Air Currents located inside Kami's Lookout in order to cure the Earthlings from the effects of Garlic Jr.'s Black Water Mist.\n\nTo expand a bit more on their job,\n\n> Guardians have an indirect reporting relationship to one of the Kais (in the\n> case of the Guardian of Earth, this is King Kai).\n>\n> Another way of looking at this is that Guardians are more supervisors than\n> they are managers.\n>\n> They have many of the powers associated with Gods, including the ability to\n> see and sense events around the world, to travel to and guide souls to Other\n> World, and to be a general protector of the people.\n\nThis concludes the tasks of the GE.\n\nNow to answer your other questions,\n\n * The GE doesn't necessarily have to be from Namek. The reference being that \n * Kami was the first Namekian GE.\n * Kami asks Goku to replace him as the GE after the World Martial Arts Tournament in Piccolo Jr. Saga.\n * As the GE doesn't have to be Namekian, they don't have to create the dragon balls.\n * They do grant human wishes if they are appropriate. An example being when he gave a new life to Shenron on Goku's demand after he was destroyed by King Piccolo.\n\nI believe this answers all your questions...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched the anime up to the Aizen battle and when Ichigo lost his powers.\nWhat chapter in the manga should I read from? (I don't want to watch the rest\nof the anime).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually ended up finding this; in chapter 416, the battle with Aizen ends.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode, when Kirito was showing Klein the ropes of combat, the\nconversation goes\n\n> Kirito: However, there is no magic.\n>\n> Klein: An RPG without magic? That is a bold decision.\n\nHowever later on in the show, Kirito visits Lizbeth's shop in _Temperature of\nthe Heart._. Kirito is in shop for another sword, and shows Lizbeth his\n_Elucidator_.\n\nLizbeth responds with:\n\n> An Elucidator! This is the gnarliest **magic** sword a person can get from a\n> monster drop.\n\nIf magic did not exist, how would there be a magic sword?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is indeed no magic in Sword Art Online.\n\nIn your question, you're misunderstanding something important. Lizbeth doesn't\nsay that. She says that, \"out of all monsters drops, this sword is good enough\nto be considered in a maken (魔剣 cursed sword) class.\" which is like saying the\nsword is in a class of its own. She doesn't say anything about magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou misunderstood the context of Klein and Kirito's conversation. The line\ndirectly preceding what you quoted is very illuminating.\n\n> Kirito: I've heard there are an unlimited number of skills. However, there\n> is no magic. \n> Klein: An RPG without magic? That's a pretty bold decision. \n> Kirito: Isn't it more fun to move your body as you fight?\n\nSince the conversation is about sword skills, Kirito is undoubtedly referring\nto magic spells, such as those that can be cast in Alfheim Online for such\neffects as healing and illusion. He doesn't mean that no magic exists in the\nworld of Sword Art Online, just that there are no magic spells that players\ncan use. As such, the existence of a sword classified as \"magic\" does not\nbreak this rule. Though since it has been noted that the magic sword may have\njust been translated wrong, I'll note a few other magic things in Sword Art\nOnline: The floating castle, certain monsters, Silica's dragon, and the\nrevival item may all be classified as magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn SAO, there are no magical spells that players can cast. However, according\nto the light novel, SAO does have some magical items and aspects. Some of\nthese items include gems which players could use to instantly teleport, heal\nor recover from poison. There is also the [Divine Stone of Returning\nSoul](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Divine_Stone_of_Returning_Soul)\nthat revives a fallen player.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pinRG.jpg)\n\nThis text and the following quotes are taken from the second volume of the\nlight novel.\n\n> The few magic items in this world where had been excluded were all shaped\n> like gems. Blue was for instant teleportation, pink for recovering HP, green\n> for antidotes, and so on. They were all convenient items that produced\n> instant effects, but they were also expensive. So in most cases people used\n> cheaper items such as slow-acting potions after running away from a fight\n\nCertain parts of the game could also be considered magical such as the\nteleportation gates used to move between floors, and the alters found in\nchurches. These altars would allow a player to bless their weapons when facing\nundead opponents. Also, if a player was cursed they could use the altar to\nremove the debuff.\n\n> It was the unmistakable mark of a church, of which at least one exists in\n> every town. And through the altar inside, tasks such as removing the attack\n> unique to monsters, «Curse», and the blessing of weapons to go up against\n> undead monsters with, were possible. In SAO, where magic-based components\n> barely exist, it could be considered a most mysterious place.\n\nAs for Elucidator, the light novel describes this as a demon sword, not a\nmagic sword. However, both the English sub and dub refer to it as a magic\nsword. As discussed in the comments, I believe this is an error in\ntranslation. So there are no magical weapons in SAO, but they do seem to have\nother forms of magic.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DYngs.jpg)\n\n> One is «Player made», which meant weapons made by us blacksmiths. The other\n> included weapons that one gained from adventuring as «Monster drops».\n> Needless to say, blacksmiths don't like drop weapons all that much. I\n> couldn't even begin to count all the names like 'Unnamed' or 'No brand' that\n> were given to them. But this sword seemed to be a very rare item amongst\n> monster drops. If you compared the average quality of player-made weapons\n> and monster drops, the former was better. But once in a while, «Demon\n> Swords» such as this one appeared— that was what I heard.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this [MAL\ndiscussion](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=41342&show=0#msg3935177)\nabout episode 24 of Cowboy Bebop, the user\n[merle_noir](http://myanimelist.net/profile/merle_noir) posts that they have\nbeen to the Merlion seen in Faye's video:\n\n> Faye must be Singaporean... Wouldn't think the Merlion would be anywhere but\n> there (in Singapore), and I even know/have been to the first Merlion she saw\n> - the one in the video.\n\nIs this a real, visitable place? If so, what is the location?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**The[Merlion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlion) is often associated with\nSingapore, so the extrapolation that Faye is Singaporean is reasonable.**\nHowever, the exact location of the Merlion in _Cowboy Bebop_ is less\nimmediately clear to a contemporary viewer not from Singapore. In the ep. 24\nvideo where it appears, there is a waterfront, and a merlion at the end of a\nboardwalk. (Click images for bigger size.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bnn1m.png)\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, there are five \"official\" Merlion statues in\nSingapore; it seems reasonable to restrict my attention to these. **The only\none that could fit the merlion in _Cowboy Bebop_ is the one in [Merlion\nPark](http://www.yoursingapore.com/see-do-singapore/recreation-\nleisure/viewpoints/merlion-park.html) which stands at the mouth of the\nSingapore River.** (The others do not have waterfront views.) The Merlion Park\nstatue is also the oldest merlion statue in Singapore, and possibly the most\nfamous one, so it's likely that this statue would have been chosen for\nreference.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c0UER.jpg)\n\nOne might notice that the location doesn't entirely match up. In Faye's video,\nthere is nothing to the right of the boardwalk the Merlion is on, whereas in\ncurrent images, there is a set of steps and no boardwalk. However, the\nposition in Faye's video matches up with the _original_ position of the\nMerlion. ([\n_Reference_](https://web.archive.org/web/20150813031942/http://www.davidandfamily.com/English/114sg15-river002.htm))\n(The Merlion Park statue was moved in 2002 after construction affected the\nseafront views and the positioning relative to the Singapore River. Seeing\nthat _Cowboy Bebop_ was produced in 1999, there is no reason for Faye's video\nto show the merlion in anything but its former location.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EExKc.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1, how are Ed and Cornello able to make the statues move? How is\nthat alchemy? Is it possible that the revived birds are under same process,\ni.e., they are just moving but not alive?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThroughout the One Piece series, several pirates seem to be based upon real\nlife pirates. Some of which are quite obvious\n\n * Like Blackbeard & Whitebeard. These names combined would be the real name of Blackbeard, [Edward Teach](http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Edward_Teach).\n\nAnd some are a bit less obvious, but still well known\n\n * Like Roronoa Zoro based on: [François l'Olonnais](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_l'Olonnais).\n\nNow my question is:\n\nAre there more pirates in One Piece named after, or based upon real life\npirates?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell this list is not comprehensive but will be covering most of the famous\npirates including most of the supernovas and the worst generation. All data is\nsourced for the One Piece Wikia and the various SBS answered by Oda.\n\n 1. Yorki, the Rumbar Pirates Captain is based on Calico Jack.\n 2. Alvida, the Alvida Pirates Captain is based on the pirate Awilda.\n 3. Thatch, the 4th Division Commander, Whitebeard Pirates' name is based on Edward Thatch.\n 4. Charlotte \"Big Mom\" Linlin, Yonku and Captain of the Big Mom Pirates is based on the pirate Charlotte Badger.\n 5. Scratchmen Apoo, the On Air Pirates Captain is based on the chinese pirate Chui A-poo.\n 6. Basil Hawkins, the Hawkin Pirates Captain's name is based on two pirates. His given name came from Basil Ringrose, while his surname came from John Hawkins\n 7. Urouge, the Fallen Monk Pirates' captain is based on Oruç Reis.\n 8. X Drake, the Drake Pirates Captain is based on the pirate Sir Francis Drake.\n 9. Jewelry Bonney, the Bonney Pirates captain is based on the pirate Anne Bonny\n\nThere might be more but these were all I could find. Blackbeard and Whitebeard\nshare their names with the pirate and are based on the pirate Edward Teach.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere is a list of known references to actual pirates used in One Piece (most\nof which are just borrows names) as mentioned on various sources:\n\n * Alvida - Awilda\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lVu5N.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qh9oo.png)\n\n * Bartolomeo - Bartholomew Roberts \"Black Bart\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sz7yP.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hpCKb.png)\n\n * Basil Hawkins - John Hawkins\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t206Z.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HjD0q.jpg)\n\n * Bellamy - Samuel Bellamy \n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y02Rq.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QzIMl.png)\n\n * Blackbeard - Edward Teach \"Blackbeard\" \n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yVE6J.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lafBz.png)\n\n * Cavendish - Thomas Cavendish:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rOGaA.gif)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/00JwV.png)\n\n * Charlotte Linlin (Big Mom) - Charlotte Badger\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oiWjc.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3oQ4p.png)\n\n * Eustass Kid - William \"Captain\" Kidd:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xu6Nq.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t10Du.png)\n\n * Gol D Roger - Olivier Levasseur:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/twxx0.png)\n\n * Jewelry Bonney - Anne Bonny \n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E05xt.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4dq42.png)\n\n * Lafitte - Jean Lafitte:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmdYw.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vdHjX.png)\n\n * Roronoa Zoro - François l'Olonnais\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1VMQW.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BGKEO.jpg)\n\n * Scratchmen Apoo - Chui A-poo:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cAG7A.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k9qjx.png)\n\n * Silvers Rayleigh - Sir Walter Raleigh:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WxRcN.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HgFhf.png)\n\n * Thatch - Edward Thatch\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lkHR.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GcTzx.png)\n\n * Urouge - Oruç Reis\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/W5cPP.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mvVo7.png)\n\n * X Drake - Sir Francis Drake:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x6AAa.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pxusk.png)\n\n * Yorki - Calico Jack\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oyslx.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R7swO.png)\n\n * Zeff - \"Red Legs\" Greaves\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xmnDt.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWyMB.jpg)\n\nAlthough these are the references to actual pirates which was intended by Oda,\nthere are also coincidental lookalikes to real life people which has been\nmentioned in [this BuzzOtaku article.](http://buzzotaku.com/2014-04/one-piece-\nreal-life.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to add Hordy (sometimes spelled Hody) might be a reference to\nVice Admiral Horthy Miklos. He was the leader of Hungary during world war 2\nand fought in the Autro-Hungarian Navy during world war 1.\n\nWhile the real life Horthy wasn't really racist, I can imagine that a Japanese\nAuthor would look at an Admiral who allied with Hitler as a convenient name-\nreference for the leader of a racist Fishman army. Tho it is just a slight\nname reference, nothing more.\n\nI have written a book and know the pain of inventing names, cuz it needs to\nsound real and memorable and not just some gibberish. Often times when I need\na new name I google a real life person who has a certain trait or\ncharacteristic connected with the fictional character (successful businessman,\nexplorer, murderer, general, pacifist, poet, you name it) and then just edit\nthe name slightly to make it a bit different. I'm sure other Authors do that\ntoo and as we can see above (like Alvida) the author of OP does it as well. I\nam sure there are many character names, places etc. that are slight references\nto real life people and places. Water 7 is obviously a reference to Venice,\nImpel down is Alcatraz, Head Warden Magelan is a reference to the explorer of\nthe same name etc. etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlot of people say Thatch is edward thatch. But its actually edward teach aka\nblackbeard. Teach/blackbeard is based on teach/blackbeard. Thatch has no\nrelevence to any real world pirate that im aware of\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Haru mentions that Takeshi has a interesting sense\nof naming.\n\nNow I were wondering, is this only because he added the 'Ko' character to the\nname? Or is there a deeper, under-laying joke/reference made there?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hQu9c.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf noticed it in several manga now. A extra page added in a fully covered\noverlay, usually followed by the identical page in either full color or normal\ncolorless.\n\nThey tend to be red(ish), blue or green. But I have seen a purple one a while\nago as well.\n\nWhy are these pages included and where are they coming from?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ucJ5k.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WssSp.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tEYsk.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese pages are using [spot coloring](https://www.visiondesign.com/printing-\ncmyk-vs-spot-color/):\n\n> This type of printing consists of printing with 1 or more pre-mixed colors\n> (generally 1, 2 or 3 colors at once). Spot printing uses a color system of\n> solid, premixed colors known as Pantone colors.\n\nAs mentioned on that page, the benefits of spot coloring are:\n\n> When using spot printing, colors are more accurate because you have already\n> determined the color by its specific Pantone number. Since the ink is not\n> being mixed, that color will never change from one print run to the next.\n> For example: a Pantone 186 Red will always be 186 Red. Some colors, such as\n> metallics and fluorescents, are only available as spot colors—the same color\n> and effect can’t be achieved using 4-color process.\n>\n> **Spot color is generally more economical if printing is kept to 3 colors or\n> less.**\n\nIt is nowhere explicitly mentioned why spot coloring is used for manga.\nHowever, it can be said that they're used as an eye-catcher. Usually single\nspot color pages are used to make the publication feel more colorful but not\npay the full price of colored pages.\n\n### TL;DR:\n\n**In Japan, where Manga are published in magazines, such pages serve the\npurpose of catching the attention of the reader without costing the publisher\nas much money as it would have cost to publish a full-colored page and nor the\nartist/mangaka extra time to color each part of the page separately.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've finished watching the Anime's First Season and I noticed that every\nepisode in the anime has different ending themes.\n\nAs you can see in this [list of\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Heaven%27s_Lost_Property_episodes).\nHeaven's lost property has different ending sequences and different ending\nthemes for a 12-episode series anime. Is there a significant reason for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has different endings because they are after scenes for each respective\nepisode and shows what is happening after each episodes misadventure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI distinctly remember that scene from the anime where Naruto has just learned\nto control the Nine Tail's chakra. He immediately senses Kisame hiding in the\nsword and goes on to teleport to him and give him a good punch.\n\nHas it ever been explained how he suddenly knows how to use this jutsu? Is it\nmaybe just the body flicker technique that was taken to new heights because he\nnow has all this extra chakra or is it the teleportation jutsu in the same\nvain his father used?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think you are talking about [Chapter\n505](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Nine-Tails'_Chakra,_Freed!!):\n\n> Naruto Uzumaki completes his training of gaining the Nine-Tails' chakra\n> inside of him. Before Yamato, Naruto, and Killer B leave, Naruto senses\n> Kisame Hoshigaki inside Samehada. Samehada springs into action but Naruto\n> used his right hand to smash Kisame.\n\nThere is no way that Naruto has used teleportation technique. But when someone\ndoes jinchūriki transformation, then according to\n[wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nine-Tails_Chakra_Mode):\n\n> The user's physical abilities are enhanced while the mode is active, with\n> greater enhancements coming from using more of the Nine-Tails' chakra.\n\nSo by simply doing a jinchūriki transformation, I don't think he will be able\nto teleport all of a sudden, and there is also nothing in wiki which states\nthat he was able to do teleportation. **So it was his greater speed!**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell you see, naruto was able to use a body flicker technique after he learnt\nto control the kyubii or nine tails he used the teleportation jutsu twice\nagainst rikage and kisame hushigaki although it wasn't as perfect as his dads\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was reviewing my [question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/29942/17758)\nabout how the killer got on the roof and it suddenly struck me how weird the\nscene I posted in that question was.\n\nHere it is again for reference:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jUHvp.jpg)\n\nIn this scene, we see Yamane introducing Miki to her own aunt. We later find\nout that Miki was actually Dr. Magata. Did Dr. Magata really have a sister, or\nnot? I ask because I find that it's weird that the Aunt would not know her\nniece, or at least know if her brother/sister had children. It also seems\nweird that they would not have met. I remember that while Dr. Magata was\nacting as Miki she told Professor Saikawa that she was raised in America, away\nfrom Dr. Magata. However, even that sounds strange as Dr. Magata's parents\nwere not separated.\n\nOn the other hand, it seems ever more odd if she _didn't_ have a sister,\nbecause that would mean the aunt should have known right away that Miki was an\nimposter.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is found in episode 17 of Parasyte -the maxim- at 6:35 when a\nhomicidal parasyte says 'one of us has died'.\n\nThe song is also found in episode 16 of Parasyte -the maxim- at 10:54 when\nMigi says 'shit' and Shinichi says 'no way'.\n\nThank you for your answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song you are looking for would be [Full\nMoon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGy45tGyDCA)\n\nAs [Pratyush](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/19592/pratyush-manocha)\nmentions in the comments, it is available on [special track\ncd](http://vgmdb.net/album/53967).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't fully understand the way Stigmata works and how compatibility rate\nfactors into all of it. Granted, I am only on chapter 25. Does the number of\nStigmata determine how powerful the Pandora is? This seemed to be the case at\nthe start of the manga, where it was stated that 6 is \"elite\" level and how\nall the characters emphasize how Kazuha had 20. But then, we see Rana and\nSatellizer being able to defeat third-years.\n\nI noticed that Chiffon only has 4, but then you have Rana who has 6. Why is\nthe former regarded as stronger if she has less? Is it possible for someone\nwith 1 Stigmata to be stronger than someone with 5? Also, how does the\ncompatibility rate factor into all of this?\n\nI was hoping someone could just clear this up for me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust like [Eumel](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/30039/how-do-\nstigmatas-and-catability-rate-determine-how-powerful-a-pandora-\nis#comment41822_30039) said in his comment, you should just keep reading. This\nanswer will contain several spoilers and most likely will spoil a lot of the\nplot. So you have been warned\n\n**(scroll down to the TL:DNS; if you want a practical answer without\nspoilers)**\n\nTo properly understand how `stigma's` work, you will first have to understand\nwhat the `stigma's` are.\n\n> Stigma's are pieces of Nova's, either obtain directly from a Nova 's core,\n> or from the original Nova Maria Lancelot. They are known for their urging\n> signals of destroying everything.\n\nThe so called 'Compatibility' determines how much of the 'power' stored within\nthe stigma can be used by the Pandora. Theoretically speaking this means that\nsomebody with 10 stigma's with a bad compatibility could be weaker then\nsomebody with 1 or 2 stigma's with a strong compatibility.\n\nHowever in the world of freezing stigmas are not limited to just one type:\n\n> Besides regular stigma there are also the `heroic stigma`, `A stigmatic\n> body`, the `Type-Maria Stigmata`, `injection stigmata: plasma form`,\n> `legendary Stigmata`, `Plasma Stigmata`, `Legendary Stigmata System`\n\nEach and every one of these have their own pro's cons. And even though\ncompatibility still plays a huge role, the type of stigma also does.\n\n## TL;DNS:\n\nYes it possible for someone with 1 stigmata to be stronger than someone with\n5. This can be due to a person having a different type of stigmata, or\nsignificant better compatibility with the stigmata.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5cuc8.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nQmSL.png)\n\nHow much and how did Itachi Uchihaa's personality change after the massacre?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen they are explaining Dimension W, it is represented as the negative side\nof the X axis. Why is Dimension W negative X? Is it not really it's own\ndimension?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n3uZP.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs @NendoTaka has mentioned, it's pretty hard to draw a 4d object on a 2d\nsurface.\n\nHere's how dimensionality work:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dbYRo.png)\n\nwith a single dimension, a point is sent out infinitely, creating a line (See\nX)\n\nin 2d, we add a dimension perpendicular to that (See X,Y).\n\nThen, we go perpendicular again and expand upwards to get the third\ndimension(See X,Y,Z).\n\nBecause 3d > 2d, we can't represent that well on paper without folding the\npaper or adding more sheets on top of it - all really impractical for viewing\non a screen. So, instead we use perspective - how our eyes perceive 3d.\nUsually the angles here are ~30 degrees.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wiexA.gif)\n\nAnd that looks pretty okay, [because our eyes don't see in this traditional 3d\nsense](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/74112/as-3-dimensional-\nbeings-do-we-really-have-3-dimensional-vision), so mimicking that works. But,\nwhen we want to represent a 4th dimension, we don't have something to compare\nthat to. We need to go perpendicular again and this is hard for our eyes to\ncomprehend as we don't have much of a reference.\n\nHere's an example depiction of a 4th dimension:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cm1Kg.png)\n\nThis is a more correct way to display the dimension, but it still relies on\nperspective - also it isn't immediately obvious that it is a new dimension on\nfirst glance.\n\nThe animators probably chose to do something simple that would be easier to\nanimate. Although, if you rotate the above image, the X and W dimensions could\noverlap - and this wouldn't be obvious in the image without arrow pointers.\n\nSo yeah, they are wrong - but there's also not a simple way to represent 4\ndimensions on a single sheet of paper\n\n[Coordinate Image sources & a good\nread](http://eusebeia.dyndns.org/4d/vis/01-intro)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, nostalgia kind of hit me with a force of a thousand suns and I can't stop\nmy brain from remembering anime I've watched when I was a kid. I've pretty\nmuch remembered 90% of what I've seen, but this one anime my brain keeps\ntaunting me with, I just can't recall.\n\nThe things I remember about this anime is the fact that kids had been\ntransported to another world. The reason for this I can't remember exactly,\nbut it had to do with searching for a specific type of girl.\n\nI remember a boy and a girl being sucked up in that world. The boy in another\npart of that alternate world, I think knew kendo since I remember him calling\nout \"men\" when he was ordered to plow a field. I also remember a scene which\nhad him stuck in a hole and someone threw his gruel of food in the floor. He\nstill ate it even when it was mixed with the earth so he can keep his\nstrength.\n\nThe girl I remember because of her circumstance. She was taken to that\nalternate world because she was mistaken for the girl people were searching\nfor. I remember her being given to men in their army when they realized she\nwas not. She was traumatized after an encounter with a large bulky army\nsoldier while another soldier seemed to fall in love with her.\n\nThere was a desert setting (and I think most of the world was desert?) as I\nremember the girl wading through sand when she escaped. She was hoping to die\nthere in the desert, but someone found her. Later, she finds that she is\npregnant and at the end she meets the man who fell for her. He saved her in\nthe end, but I can't remember how or from what.\n\nI saw this anime in AXN and I think it was either a movie or an OVA (because I\ncan't remember seeing a lot of episodes of it at all). It was in my early\nyears, so it may range from 1998-2004.\n\nAnyway, that's all that I can recall.\n\nIt would be much help if anyone can figure out what anime this is.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# [Now and Then, Here and\nThere](http://myanimelist.net/anime/160/Ima_Soko_ni_Iru_Boku)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qSl8G.jpg)\n\nOur protagonist, Shuu, isn't very adept at kendo as he only knows how to\ncharge at his opponent and face them straight on. He accidentally gets\ntransported with Lala-Ru (pictured above) and her pursuers to an alternate\nworld that is mostly deserts. Lala-Ru is much sought after in this desolate\nworld for her powers; previously, Hamdo's soldiers mistook Sara for Lala-Ru\nand abducted her to this world also. Let's just say Sara has to bear with much\nhardship and eventually\n\n> bear a child of a rapist.\n\nNTHT is a 13-episode TV series broadcasted in 1999-2000.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ARHu.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/K5HE3.jpg)\n\nWhat are Tareme and Tsurime eyes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can read about them in detail on [TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/):\n\n**Tsurime Eyes:**\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/14m1F.jpg)\n>\n> A particular style of drawing eyes in manga and anime where the outer\n> corners slant upwards, ending in a distinct sharp point, used in contrast to\n> the traditional Moe soft drooping style, Tareme. Tsurime symbolizes strong\n> will, arrogance, or pride in a character. Most noticeable in female designs\n> (since it plays against the stereotype) and is commonly an attribute of\n> Tsunderes, Kuuderes and particularly Badass Action Girls.\n\n**Tareme Eyes:**\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/F4sYS.png)\n>\n> A style in anime and manga of drawing eyes where they droop or sag at the\n> corners. Typically, a Moe character will have those definitive, sympathy-\n> magnet Puppy-Dog Eyes. It generally represents a kind, quiet, sad, fragile\n> or otherwise soft person. Only really notable if there are more than a\n> handful of characters that are drawn without them.\n\nAs you can make out, Tsurime eyes are the opposite of Tareme eyes. As for\n\"why\" the characters have it, it's a symbolization used to depict their\ncharacteristics which is easily understood by a regular anime watcher.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the 3rd movie, _The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain_ , Aozaki is\nstaring out the window and talking to herself after Shiki leaves. Who is she\ntalking about when she says Ryougi, since she already called Shiki by name in\nthe same sentence?\n\n> **Touko Aozaki** : Shiki might end up being killed instead if she goes\n> alone, Ryougi.\n\nThis happens at around 27:55.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne possible reason is that\n\n> Aozaki may know the existence of \"the Void\", another personality which never\n> surfaced.\n\nHowever I can't find evidence showing that Aozaki really knows about it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching episode 20 and my friend said that they cut a lot of stuff out\nin the scene with Sugawara and Sherry. Could someone provide the details of\nwhat was left out from this scene in the anime adaptation? In other words,\nwhat drove Sugawara to finally give in to Sherry, where in the previous\nepisode he was giving her the cold shoulder?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin _Final Fantasy X_ when Yuna's party is going though the old Blitzball\nStadium in Zanarkand they see a memory of a mother hinting for her child to\nchoose her to become the Final Aeon. then we see a young Seymour crying saying\nhe doesn't want her to.\n\nHowever in the Baaj Temple (where Tidas first awoke in Spira and met Rikku) is\na Fayth which is revealed to be Seymour's mother who choose to become the Aeon\nAnima.\n\nSo is Anima a Final Aeon? If so why didn't Seymour fight Sin? if not then what\nhappened in Zanarkand that prevented her becoming the Final Aeon but instead a\nregular Aeon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnima is his Final Aeon, though he never wanted to challenge Sin until he grew\nup and realized the power Sin had over Spira. After he realized that he\ndecided he wanted to become Sin, and for that he needed Yuna.\n\nAlthough, there is an unpopular theory that, because Seymour never completed\nhis Pilgrimage (that much is stated in the temples) his talents were better\nput to use aiding Spira, rather than journeying.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnima was indeed the final aeon. As for why Seymour didn't use it, well,\nSeymour started the pilgrimage when he was still very young with his mother\nand he was not aware of the final aeon and the final summoning back then. When\nhis mother finally revealed her plan to become the final aeon so for the sake\nof Seymour, it left him devastated. He broke off the pilgrimage there and\ndidn't proceed any further and thus didn't fight sin. This can be verified\nfrom the [wiki](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Seymour%27s_mother) as\nwell.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 7: Civil War Brewing, we are introduced to Dandy 2 Men.\n\nThere is **Man of Conviction: Brutus** :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z7Wpsm.png)\n\nand **Unexpected King of Comedy: Molière:**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sdwDnm.jpg)\n\nI'm familiar with the character of Brutus, but not Molière.\n\nAre these real life statues, [like those of the Sekko\nboys?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28841/what-are-the-original-\nsculptures-of-the-sekko-boys)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## [Brutus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus_the_Younger)\n\n> Marcus Junius Brutus was a politician of the late Roman Republic. He is best\n> known in modern times for taking a leading role in the assassination of\n> Julius Caesar.\n\n[This bust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_%28Michelangelo%29) as\ncreated by Michelangelo and can be found in the Bargello museum in Florence\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mtL93m.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\n## [Molière](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re)\n\nMolière is a french playwriter. He is famous in France for his pieces of\ntheatre he wrote.\n\nAs a side note, Molière **is** really famous in France. We sometimes use the\nexpression \" _The Molière's tongue_ \" to refer to the French langage\n\nThe statue of Sekko Boys is based on a real-life statue, which can be found at\nthe Louvre, in France.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k00aJm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe see that at the end of Boruto:Naruto the Movie,\n\n> Boruto defeats the enemy by hitting him with what it seems a Chōōdama\n> Rasengan (IMHO it looks larger than a Chōōdama Rasengan). I think Naruto\n> infused some of his chakra in Boruto's jutsu to make it that big.\n\nWe see it took time for Jiraiya and Naruto to master the Rasengan, and Naruto\nwas actually the only one to take it to the next level by adding his wind\nchakra (at the time).\n\nSo how can Boruto handle this large amount of chakra? Yes everyone says that\nBoruto can easily beat Naruto if you compare them at the same genin stage of\ntheir lives, but that doesn't mean Boruto is trained to manipulate such an\ninsane amount of chakra. How was he able to pull it off?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet me quote these lines from [wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rasengan):\n\n> The Rasengan does not require hand seals to perform. Once it is formed, it\n> also does not require any additional chakra to sustain it\n\nAlthough it doesn't require any additional chakra to sustain it (so I guess\nonce it is formed it can be used by another person, too), but that doesn't\nalso mean that it will not be difficult; it will be difficult to handle that\nchakra and to perfectly balance it.\n\nIn case of Boruto's Rasengan:\n\n> Though Boruto's Rasengan is initially much smaller, he subconsciously\n> applies wind-natured chakra to it, enabling him to hurl the Rasengan across\n> distances. While it loses its physical form shortly after bring thrown, the\n> wind and force continue on-course unseen, tricking the opponent to let their\n> guard down as sufficient damage is inflicted when it makes contact.\n\nAt first, Boruto really tried hard to achieve this stage so there is no doubt\nthat he won't be able to handle Rasengan. But there is one more point to note:\nBoruto subconsciously applies wind-natured chakra to his Rasengan which\nperfectly defines that he was able to create Rasengan with that much power.\n\nAt the end of the movie:\n\n> Naruto is impressed that Boruto was able to learn the Rasengan and, still\n> unable to move, adds his own chakra to Boruto's Rasengan, making it\n> gigantic.\n\nSo Naruto simply added his own chakra to make that Rasengan much bigger. Since\nBoruto also learns how to perform Rasengan while training from Konohamaru\nSarutobi after extensive practice then that's why he was able to handle Bigger\nRasengan. (Note: that it was his own Rasengan but in bigger size than the\nusual one.)\n\nAlso in Boruto Uzumaki's [wikia\npage](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Boruto_Uzumaki), there is nothing mentioned\nabout Choodama Rasengan (also in movie) in the Jutsu section, so according to\nthe given information, we must accept the fact that it was not a Choodama\nRasengan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only strain Rasengan users show is from the chakra required to create it -\nIt requires a LOT of chakra to create. Manipulating the chakra, while\ndifficult to master, doesn't seem very draining. Even genin Naruto was able to\nspend entire days practicing the chakra manipulation part. Since we've seen\nBoruto make his own Rasengan, we know he understands the chakra manipulation\npart, so he can obviously handle using/attacking with it. He doesn't however\nhave the completely bonkers reserve of Chakra that Naruto has, so he can't\nmake the Giant Rasengan himself.\n\nThere's no reason to assume that the mechanics of the Rasengan change as it\ngets larger, so Boruto's own ability to manipulate chakra flow should be\nsimilarly applicable across all sizes of Rasengan.\n\nI'd even wager that the manipulation part isn't particularly important, since\nwe see Naruto give his friends Rasengans of their own to use during the Fourth\nShinobi War, implying that it may be a completely self-sustaining jutsu so\nlong as there is a chakra supply.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn One Piece, [Chapter 817: Raizou of the\nMist](http://readms.com/r/one_piece/817/3248/18), there's a scene right after\nLuffy and his crew first encounter Raizou, where they all start asking him to\nperform some stereotypical ninja techniques.\n\nIn this scene, many different characters have requests that mostly parallel\nNaruto and old Japanese lore, seen in this panel:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvikC.png)\n\nZoro asks for a different request, asking that the ninja \"hide in the ceiling\nand get pierced by a spear\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xO57O.png)\n\nThis is the part I'm most confused about; what kind of reference is Zoro\nmaking when he asks for the ninja to hide in the ceiling and get pierced by a\nspear?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a [common\ntrope](https://books.google.com/books?id=MuNLyoXB-8oC&lpg=PA142&ots=MYzxAuD2B6&dq=ninja%20ceiling%20spear&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q=%20spear&f=false)\nin period dramas involving samurais and ninjas.\n\nYou see, when ninjas hide under floors or in attics, they need to be wary of\nspears and swords from samurai. It's routine in many dramas to stab the\nceiling and walls to check for concealed ninja. If you stab and get blood, you\ngot your ninja.\n\nA very [well-known\nstory](https://books.google.com/books?id=tnE8CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT235&ots=bSSPbnYPnr&dq=ninja%20ceiling%20spear&pg=PT235#v=onepage&q=ninja%20ceiling%20spear&f=false)\nis of a figure called 穴九右衛門 (\"Hole\" Kuemon). Kuemon was a ninja sent to\nassassinate the Lord of a castle. In the process of infiltrating, he got\nstabbed in the head by a spear and almost got caught. However, he was able to\nlie still, wipe the blood off, and await another opportunity. Eventually, he\nsucceeded and he returned with a scar on his head, earning him the moniker \"穴\"\n(hole).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that I only ever hear Ranta talking about getting the vice from a\nmonster's kill. I understand that by getting these he is able to level up\nspecial skills related to his demon. Are Dark Knights the only class able to\nacquire vices?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo answer your question, yes. Ranta is the only one who talks about vices as\nhe is the only dark knight in the party. Vices are exclusive to Dark Knights.\nI would think of them as class-exclusive perks found in numerous (MMO)RPGs.\n\nI would provide more information but the only relevant information conveyed in\nthe anime is that:\n\n> When a dark night kills a foe, they can take a part of the enemy with them,\n> be it a toenail or a heart, then they can use these parts to get new perks,\n> like Demon Companion.\n\n(source: <http://hai-to-gensou-no-grimgar.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Knight>)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer: **yes.**\n\nSlightly longer answer.\n\nIn the beginning of the Anime, when the group including Ranta go to get their\nclass specific training, We are greeted with Ranta having a new ability with\nhim. The 'Vice' you mention. This is because, as we know 'Dark' knights, offer\nup sacrifices to some form of a 'Dark lord' and have formed a pact. Just like\nthe Protag (I forget his name) got the ability to see an enemies critical\nlocation, and follow a 'stream' of light with his blade, to reach it. Ranta\ngot his own class specific ability.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to a Crunchyroll [Press Release](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-\npress-release/2016/02/19/combining-two-fan-favorite-brands-loot-anime-\npartners-with-crunchyroll), Loot Crate and Crunchyroll are partnering to\nprovide a better anime themed loot crate. This service will be the replacement\nfor the current Loot Crate anime crate and will feature current products from\nshows that are streaming on Crunchyroll.\n\nFrom the Press Release (emphasis my own):\n\n> Existing Loot Anime subscribers will see no change in price or frequency,\n> but they can now look forward to even better content, **exclusive access to\n> Crunchyroll content and more**. With packages starting at $22.95 per month,\n> Loot Anime’s subscription price will remain the same. Every crate is valued\n> at over $60, making this the most cost effective way for fans to enjoy a\n> diverse mix of premium anime products.\n\nDoes this partnership mean that Loot Crate subscribers will have access to the\nCrunchyroll premium streaming service?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first movie of the series, Digimon Adventure tri. Saikai was released on\n2015-11-21, with a retail release of 2015-12-18. This movie consisted of 4\nepisodes, and is the first part of a 6-movie (or 24 episode)\nseries[1](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-05-06/digimon-adventure-\ntri-is-6-part-theatrical-anime-with-new-cast/.87876).\n\nAccording to an Anime News Network\n[article](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-11-22/digimon-\nadventure-tri.s-2nd-film-to-open-on-march-12/.95659), the second part of the\nseries of movies will premier on 2016-03-12 in Japanese theaters; they also\nlist the Crunchyroll release as March 2016.\n\nOriginally, I had heard that these movies will be released once a year for 6\nyears. However, that would make the final chapter have a release date of 2021.\nIs there any information regarding the schedule of release for this series of\nmovies?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCrunchyroll has released some information pertaining to the Digimon Adventure\ntri. movies.\n\nInformation from [Crunchyroll post](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-\nnews/2016/01/15-1/video-digimon-adventure-tri-part-two-previewed-and-part-\nthree-scheduled):\n\n> Plans are being lined up for the second part of Digimon Adventure Tri:\n> \"Ketsui\" (Determination), which opens for a limited theatrical run on March\n> 12, 2016. Mimi Tachikawa's Hitomi Yoshida and Joe Kido's Junya Ikeda will be\n> presenting a preview at Shinjuku Wald 9 on February 11th. Along with the\n> news is a preview, that revealed the big detail that finale, \"Kokuhaku\"\n> (Confession) is scheduled for summer 2016.\n\nAccording to this post, the finale will be released in summer of 2016.\nHowever, this seems unlikely due to the fact that the second part of this six-\npart series is just being released on March 12th. I will update this answer if\nthey change the date of the finale.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I just got into Naruto a few months ago and have been binge-watching my way\nthrough the entire series. I watch some subbed anime but after watching so\nmany episodes dubbed I just can't get used to subbed episodes. I've gotten to\nepisode 77 and suddenly the dubbing is gone. The dub doesn't start again until\nepisode 140 on Hulu, and I can't seem to find it anywhere online. Did they\njust never dub those episodes or is there something I'm missing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the Anime and Manga Meta we have a list of [Legal Streaming\nSites](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/923/1587). i don't stream myself\nso i wouldn't know if the episodes are on there. do be aware that some sites\ndo employ Geoblocking which, depending on where you live, you may be\nredirected to a local site or prevented from using it all together (as with\nsome Youtube Chanels)\n\nIf the Episodes you are looking to Stream are not there the other alternative\nand legal path is to buy the DVDs. Dubbed wise Collections 6-11 have Episodes\n66-140. this [RightStuf Search\nResult](http://www.rightstufanime.com/category/DVD?keywords=Naruto%20Shippuden)\n[has](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Naruto-Shippuden-DVD-Set-6-Hyb-Uncut)\n[these](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Naruto-Shippuden-DVD-Set-7-Hyb-Uncut)\n[Collections](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Naruto-Shippuden-DVD-Set-8-Hyb-\nUncut) [available](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Naruto-Shippuden-DVD-\nSet-9-Hyb-Uncut) [to](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Naruto-Shippuden-DVD-\nSet-10-Hyb-Uncut) [buy](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Naruto-Shippuden-DVD-\nSet-11-Hyb-Uncut), they ship internationally but the DVDs are Region 1, which\nis fine if you are in the US or have the equipment/programs to use Region 1\nDVDs (ie. a Region Free Player).\n\nif you are in Australia then\n[Madman](https://www.madman.com.au/series/view/15388/naruto-shippuden) list\nsome of these collections but not all of them (no idea why they just stop\nafter Collection 8)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching \"Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo\" again. In episode 12, when the\ngame \"Nyaboron\" ended, it plays a song. Is that song available anywhere, or\njust made for concept of anime?\n\n# SSs\n\n**Ep12 @ 13:32** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BSQpv.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was purpose-composed for the anime, so it's not \"real\", per se.\nNonetheless, you can find the full version of it (4:00 in length), titled\n\"Utsukushiki Ai no Hoshi yo, Eien ni\" as track #5 on [the anime's second\nsoundtrack](http://vgmdb.net/album/35765). 13:32 into the episode corresponds\nto about 0:15 into the song.\n\nHere's a Youtube link (which could go down at any time):\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycmL6Mrpo30#t=13m25s>.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed a few animes in the 00s feature Western opening and closing themes.\n\nFor example:\n\n * Ergo Proxy's ending theme is Paranoid Android by Radiohead\n * Speed Grapher's opening theme is Girls on Film by Duran Duran.\n\nBoth of which are pretty big names.\n\nBut, most anime usually have an artist/group performing the songs that hails\nfrom Japan.\n\n**When did a track from the West first appear as an opening or ending to an\nanime?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# _In your eyes_ by _Samantha Newark_ in Project A-Ko (1986)\n\nThe earliest use of an English song as an opening in the Japanese version of\nan anime I can find is _In your eyes_ by _Samantha Newark_ in Project A-Ko\n(1986), however, English songs were fairly common in versions _dubbed_ for\nNorth America and Europe, often getting complete song rewrites instead of\ntranslations.\n\nSee the differences between Dragonball Z's English and Japanese openings for a\ngood example of this.\n\nLater on, however, when they stopped shipping new openings with anime (around\n2000, for memory), English songs became more common, sporting names like\nRadiohead ( **Ergo Proxy** , _2006_ ) and Oasis ( **Eden of the East** ,\n_2009_ ). An early and particular favourite of mine is **Serial Experiments\nLain** 's opening, _Duvet_ by _Boa_ ( _1998_ ).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLast year I read a manga of which I remember quite some bits. It was an\ninteresting one but I don't remember it's name or characters name please help\nme find it.. here's what i remember-\n\n * the main character is a teen boy in class probably high school thinking about his life and his best friend/classmate greets him everyday.\n\n * the main character develops self awareness & realizes a repetition in everyone's life or everyone is maybe programmed. when he tries to question his classmates they get hostile towards him but maybe go normal after sometime like nothing happened. and his best friend too gains self awareness they realize they can't recall their past or when they spent time together etc.\n\n * their group gets a bit bigger and they find out there is a wall around the city they even get attacked by a robot which main character defeats..\n\n * I also recall scenes like them making a hole in the wall to pass through and main character telling others that they never went out to buy food or anything but still find their necessary items everyday so something must be in charge of them.\n\n * also when they get out they walk a lot and find another city.\n\nhope this much info is enough.. thank you in advance please if you know the\nname of this manga do tell.. :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga your looking for is [Classmate, Kamimura Yuuka wa Kou\nItta](http://myanimelist.net/manga/28537/Classmate_Kamimura_Yuuka_wa_Kou_Itta)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WPn7Y.jpg)\n\n> Shirasaki is incredibly bored by his unchanging daily school life and he\n> ends up falling in with his weird classmate Kamimura Yuuka, who rants about\n> changing the world to his uninterested classmates. However, when she reveals\n> the truth about the nature of their world to him, everything will quickly\n> become stranger than he would ever have expected!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching one piece and noticed that there was a TVXQ name on the\n[credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tIPp1Zhg2gU)\n\nI am somewhat familiar of SM towns Korean Groups and one of them was named\nTVXQ\n\nI googled and found out that it was indeed the Kpop Group.\n\nIt was also found that not only One Piece but also [Inu Yasha's Ending\nTheme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6rMC0AMPQLY)\nsong \" _Every Heart_ \" was sung by a Kpop Artist which is BoA.\n\nAnd [Naruto's theme\nsong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_LQDwv_hQ7U) \"\n_Buterfly_ \" was sung by KARA.\n\nI've Been watching anime since I was a kid (almost 20 years now), and I just\nrecently got hooked in Kpop music. That's when I noticed this.\n\nI was just wondering why are some anime theme songs sung by Korean artists.\nThere are several artists in Japan, and wouldn't it be expensive to get a\nsinger/band from another country? Are there any reasons for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKara were originally from South Korea but quickly branched out into the\nJapanese market and found success there. To cut and paste from\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_%28South_Korean_band%29):\n\n> After finding national success, the group began to expand their music to\n> Japan by signing to Universal Music Japan's subsidiary label, Universal\n> Sigma in 2010. The group's debut was a success as they were dubbed as\n> \"Japan's No. 1 Rookie Artist of 2010\" by Oricon and also receiving the \"New\n> Artist of the Year Award (International)\" from the Japan Gold Disc Awards.\n> In April 2011, the group achieved their first number one single in Japan\n> with \"Jet Coaster Love\", making them the first foreign female group since\n> the creation of the Oricon to rank number one in the first week of release\n> and also the first foreign female group in thirty years to do so.Overall,\n> the group managed to sell over one million physical singles within two\n> years, making them one of the fastest-selling South Korean acts in Japan.\n\nAs they were signed by a Japanese label it is reasonable to assume that they\neither moved to Japan or were frequently there anyway and got the job of\nmaking that music via their labels contacts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think this is related to the [Korean\nWave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Wave) in Japan.\n\nIn the early 2000s, Korean live action dramas and KPop started to come into\nJapan and quickly became massively popular. From [Korea.net's article on the\nKorean Wave](http://www.korea.net/AboutKorea/Culture-and-the-Arts/Hallyu):\n\n> The Korean Wave landed in Japan in 2003 when the KBS TV drama series Winter\n> Sonata was aired via NHK. The drama became an instant mega hit, making its\n> male hero, Yon Sama, a household name, compelling his enthusiastic Japanese\n> fans to visit various film locations, including Namiseom Island, in Korea.\n\nWikipedia states:\n\n> In 2000, the K-Pop singer BoA took off her musical career with SM\n> Entertainment and two years later, her album Listen to My Heart became the\n> first album by a Korean musician to sell a million copies in Japan\n\non the basis of [a Recording Industry Association of Japan page on million-\nselling records in 2002](http://www.riaj.or.jp/f/data/index.html).\n\nKorean media has gotten so popular in Japan that it's even prompted a backlash\namong some, as [this article from The\nAtlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/09/how-korean-\npop-conquered-japan/244712/) notes.\n\nThe period of time when Inuyasha was on the air was squarely in the middle of\nthe Korean Wave. I don't follow Naruto so I don't know exactly which years\nthat particular song was used, but most of the Naruto anime's run has also\nbeen during peak years of the Korean Wave. Since BoA and Kara were already\nextremely popular in Japan, they were tapped to contribute songs for these\nanime, just as any other popular band would be. They were already touring and\notherwise active in Japan, so I'm sure they had contacts that the anime\nstudios could get in touch with to offer them these gigs.\n\nTo address the last point, there wasn't a shortage of Japanese bands; the\nstudios just wanted to use these particular Korean bands because of their\npopularity. Using a foreign band isn't likely to be more expensive; it might\neven be cheaper, if the foreign band isn't well known, because they'll be\nwilling to trade some pay for exposure. With these bands, since they were\nalready popular and active in Japan, hiring them probably cost about what\nhiring an equally popular Japanese band would cost.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've tried so hard to find this song and am drawing a blank. It's killing me.\nI thought it may have been Beethoven but I'm not sure. Please help!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSounds like [Ave Maria](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bosouX_d8Y) to me —\nnot quite Schubert's version, though, I think.\n\nIt sounds more like [Charles Gounod's\nversion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNxz_sUEHLc), which apparently was\ncomposed to be superimposed with [Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV\n846](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC7oxzU3Vc8) — so it may only be the\nPrelude itself?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTake as an example the Body Replacement Technique from the Naruto series.\n\nUsing this technique, any user can replace his own body with some other\nobject, but most of the time ninjas replace their body with a block of wood.\nThis has also been seen in the Naruto series when Kakashi takes the exam of\nNaruto's team.\n\nSo the thing which really bothers me is that they replace themselves with a\nblock of wood, and not something else. I have even seen this type of event\nhappen in other anime. It is quite common for ninjas to replace themselves\nwith a block of wood.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kEe8Q.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn-universe, no reason is given apart from the fact that every time I can\nrecall this happening they were near trees and thus a chunk of wood was\nconvenient. The actual source is never addressed, and we never see trees\nfalling over because they lost a chunk of themselves.\n\nFor the real-world reason...It's a Japanese trope based on the actual legends\nbuilt up around historical Ninjas (probably also _by_ said Ninjas, for whom\nmisinformation was a great tactic). \"Kawarimi\" was a supposed technique\npossessed by the ancient Ninja that used misdirection and split-second timing\nto swap places with something that could easily be mistaken for the Ninja.\n\nThere may be some historical grounds for this, but not to the extent we see in\nNaruto. Instead, this could easily be a trick used by historical ninja to\ntrick and mislead enemies, and build up the mythos they had constructed for\nthemselves. As an example, a Ninja may have previously prepared a wooden dummy\nthat was about his size and dressed it in the same clothing as he was wearing.\nThis dummy could be hidden somewhere convenient for later use. Then, when\nfleeing pursuers, you head back to where you hid the dummy and in a moment\nwhere your pursuers lose track of you (either with natural obstacles or a\nsmoke/flash explosive set off), you set the dummy in your place and go the\nother direction. You could even set it up to go over a cliff. While your\npursuers are distracted by the dummy, you slip away. Thus was built up the\nlegend that Ninjas could 'trade places' with things, and since wooden (or\nstraw) dummies were convenient for those purposes, they likely got used the\nmost.\n\nOver time, this morphed in Japanese culture along with a lot of the other\nmyths of the Ninja. For example, the myth of Ninja dressing in all black\ngrowing out of Kabuki Theater (Stage hands dressed in all black, and so\ntheater goers were used to completely ignoring them...so when one of them\njumped out and drew a sword, it was as if they had appeared from\nnowhere...allowing the theater to have 'super-stealthy Ninjas'). Over this\ntime, the idea of the Kawarimi morphed and changed until it landed on them\nsimply swapping places with a log. Even the particular appearance of the log\nis somewhat standardized in this trope: a short round chunk of wood of about\nthe same thickness, either completely smooth or with a single 'stump' branch\ncoming off the side.\n\nIt turns up in quite a number of places, from other anime and manga to a bunch\nof video games. In short, in Japanese culture, the \"kawarimi log\" is simply\nthe standard thing for a Ninja to swap places with, without regard for where\nit came from. It's the same idea as how, in American culture, if something is\nblindly tossed out a window, there _will_ be a cat down there that yowls and\nknocks over a bunch of stuff over...or how no one questions that saying \"Well,\nat least it can't get any worse\" will instantly make things worse...or how\nsomeone can put on a pair of glasses, and that is considered a solid disguise.\n\nSo, while there is no in-universe explanation...the out of universe\nexplanation is simply \"it's a standard narrative tool in Japanese culture.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObviously they can't replace a body with another body. That won't be ethical\nat all with ninjas also as humans. Most importantly the wooden log they use to\nreplace is almost proportionate to the size of ninja using that body, it is\nhard to soak up any effect of kunai and also stop it's movement. And those\nlogs are easily forgettable and generic to emphasise more of the fact that the\nninja has used \"body replacement jutsu\" to successfully dodge the attack on\nhimself. So there is a very little chance for the viewers to ask \"why only\nwood\" except for your case here. Now there will be more controversy if instead\nof wood, ninjas use human dummies or stone because most of ninja fight scenes\nsettings have trees around. No dummy laying around. Also the rock of size\nproportional to ninja himself will use more of chakra and rock might harm a\nlot more than wood in case jutsu goes wrong.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn older ninja movies this substitution is not limited to a block of wood,\nwith straw dummies, nearby vases or chairs or other objects substituted in the\nplace of the infamous ninja log. The use of logs has simply become a cultural\nnorm much the way that any TV trope gets reused over and over; just like how\neveryone who gets fired on TV has a convenient file box of items to carry out\nas they leave, or every ghost is visible in a nearby mirror but the character\ncannot see them, or my personal favourite, every abandoned car has the keys\nstashed up in the visor for the protagonists to find.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is a trope of old ninja movies to substitute oneself when aware of an\nimmenent attack.\n\nAs for in universe explanation, the main cast all live in the Village Hidden\nin Leaves, the first Hokage grew the huge forest surrounding the village, an\nabundance of wood allows for ninjas to substitute their body for a block of\nwood, allowing them to avoid the attack and manuevuer behind the enemy to\nstrike back.\n\nGaara is seen using a sand decoy in Shippuden to replicate this technique as\nobviously not a lot of trees in the Village Hidden in the Sand.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter reading Senshin's\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/15566/17758) about why _Sidonia\nno Kishi_ has such low framerate, I wondered: is there not a way to improve an\nanime's frame rate on our end, similar to the way HDTV's do?\n\nWhat are some ways to improve the frame rate of a low FPS anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned, HDTV's achieve this effect as described by using [Motion\nInterpolation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation) to generate\nintermediate frames, reducing the choppiness of the movement. If you are\nstreaming the show to your TV, ensure you have such a feature (Motion Plus,\nTrimensionDNM, Motionflow, etc.) on and you should notice an increase in frame\nrate.\n\nIn case you're wondering if there is really a difference, here is a video\nshowing 24 FPS and 60 FPS anime side-by-side. Ensure that you set the YouTube\nplayer to to 1080/60FPS to be able to notice the difference.\n\n<https://youtu.be/kHPVDXwMxiA>\n\nThis video highlights Motion Interpolation generated by [Smooth Video\nProject](https://www.svp-team.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page) on a Windows\ncomputer. The free version of their software will allow us to increase the\nframe rate of our shows from 8/12/24 to 60FPS.\n\nIt is important to note in general, anime production companies do a good job\nat creating smooth action scenes without the need of more frames. The cases\nthat SVP is useful is generally limited to computer generated imagery. Anime\nthat consists of mainly CGI and 3D visuals benefit from this interpolation\nespecially well in cases where the background imagery is rendered in 2D, as it\nwill make the character movements appear much more fluid. While maybe\nanecdotal, I personally tested it on _Sidonia no Kishi_ and feel like it did a\nnice job to resolve the choppy animation in that show.\n\n* * *\n\nFor information on setting this up, refer to their [manual](https://www.svp-\nteam.com/w/index.php?title=SVP3:User_manual&redirect=no). SVP requires the\ninstallation of additional software, ffdshow and LAVFilters in order to\nprocess video. SVP is not a video player, [this page](https://www.svp-\nteam.com/wiki/SVP:Video_players) has a list of compatible video players.\n\nAdditional reading on FPS in anime: [What does it mean for animation to be\ndone “on ones” or “on twos”?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/15568/17758)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the music that plays when Trafalgar Law turns up at Marineford in\nepisode 487? I can't seem to find it anywhere online.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe track when law appears is called \"Luffy vs Ratchet, Round 1\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1 of Gundam Wing, after Wing Gundam was sent crashing down with a\nLeo on the bottom of the ocean, Relena sees Heero unconcious lying on the\nshore. When Heero woke up his helmet was removed and he immediately covered\nhis face while asking Relena _\"Did you see my face?\"_ as shown in this\npicture.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bx8Li.jpg)\n\nHe then _punched_ a button attached to his spacesuit and something on his\nchest exploded.\n\nSee in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW4dY7w8Mz0) (sorry I just\nincluded Gundam Abridge-ning episode 1 dub parody of Gundam Wing)\n\nWhat actually did Heero do?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [wikia](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Heero_Yuy) the suit had\na built in suicide bomb but it was damaged by the salt water. I would guess\nthat this is to prevent the pilots from being captured. This would be similar\nto fighter pilots during [War](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_pill)\ntime using cyanid pills to keep from being interrogated for delicate\ninformation.\n\n> Washing up on the beach, Heero's unconscious body was found by Relena and,\n> in an attempt to kill himself, pounded his chest detonator triggering the\n> flight suit's built-in suicide bomb. However, the saltwater damaged the\n> explosive which caused only his detonator to fire, knocking Heero over.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn ep. 2, the entrants to the competition are shown playing extracts from the\nfirst movement of [Beethoven's sonata no.\n9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No._9_\\(Beethoven\\)) (often\nreferred to as the Kreutzer). This is most likely the only movement played,\ngiven the portrayal of Kaori's performance and the length of the Kreutzer.\n\nIt would not be appropriate to show a performance of the entire movement. (It\ncould bore viewers, and it could easily take up half the episode.) We can thus\njustify an abridgement of the piece or the removal of some of sections. The\nomissions I have found so far, however, do not make sense.\n\n 1. At the beginning, the section after the violin opening and before the statement of the theme [(m. 5-18, mvt. 1)](https://youtu.be/xzOPZZtAstM?t=21s) is [omitted](https://youtu.be/sVYVcNt8F9k?t=52s). The continuity of Kaori's movements might with the soundtrack imply that _in-universe_ , she did not play those omitted bars, but it is unclear.\n\n 2. [Later](https://youtu.be/sVYVcNt8F9k?t=1m30s) after the piano finishes its reiteration of the theme, there is a pause (which exists in the original score). Kaori then jumps to a later section (the _adagio_ shortly after), which is merged with the ending of the first movement. It seems that this jump also occurred in-universe.\n\n 3. The \"bland\" part that the other violinists were shown playing, which should have fallen after _adagio_ mentioned above, is skipped.\n\nThis leaves me with the following question. **Is there any suggestion that the\nmovement is actually being played with these omissions and discrepancies in-\nuniverse? If so, why would this be the case?** Are these instead just badly\nexecuted (in that they are misleading) cuts? After all:\n\n * For the purposes of a performance used to assess musicians, certain omissions, particularly skipping repeats, could be acceptable. The sections involved do not fall into such a category.\n\n * Surely if all the violinists are playing the same set piece in the same competition, there should not be any _obvious_ variation in what is played, even if some parts are removed for length.\n\n * The movement seems to be a reasonable length for a short performance, particularly if the one repeat that appears is taken out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs requested, while this is not a conclusive answer, we might never know\nunless there is more information released.\n\nThe manga only specifies the piece, but never details the performances of the\ncharacters musically. The characters might gush over how \"lively\" or\n\"beautiful\" it sounds, but nobody ever talks in technical terms, much less\ndescribe sections of music.\n\nChapter 6 page 30-32 : The extent of description of Kaori's Performance.\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xRPIH.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QzFTA.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zDuQ3.jpg)\n\nThus, we can conclude that your observations about the discrepancies in the\nmusical pieces stem solely from the anime production. There could have been\nartistic/directional decisions for the eventual editing of the said pieces,\nsuch as time constraints or perhaps wanting to get a feeling across because\nthat section or piece of music only fits that part. We might not know more\nunless more information is released (AFAIK) from the studio, such as\ninterviews with the director/staff.\n\nHowever, this stand does not exclude the author collaborating with the studio\nand affecting the said pieces. It could well be what the author had intended\nto portray in the first place. Again, we do not know the extent to which he\nhas influence over the production, notwithstanding that the plot of the anime\nis pretty filial to the manga.\n\nIn my opinion, the \"cuts\" as you describe are not noticed by the general\naudience, and serve more as a mood setter and a plot driver than an actual\nportrayal of a performance. Only a more discerning and a informed listener\nwould be able to tell that there was something amiss.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe purposely jumped to different parts of the song - not to make it shorter -\nbut to instead show us that she will play the music the way she wants to.\n(This is stated in her letter to Kousei.) She is a very intense person and\nthis is shown through her performance by her playing the intense parts of the\npiece. (I also think that she may have avoided the slower and calmer parts of\nthe song because slow/calm music can be associated with the sadness that she\nsecretly feels about her illness) Kaori plays the upbeat and loud/exiting\nparts of Kreutzer because she wants to portray the loud and exiting parts of\nherself and not show her vulnerable side.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPer my knowledge, Princess Tutu's anime adaptation came first and was remade\ninto a manga later on. Does the manga of the show remain faithful to the\nanime, or are there differences between them? Does it add anything to the\nstory?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [wikia](http://princesstutu.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Tutu_manga) :\n\n> The entire story of the manga is different from that of the anime with\n> absent characters, too. Focusing more on the ballet side of things rather\n> than the fairy tale elements that appeared in the anime, the manga brings\n> with it a fresh look at the setting of Princess Tutu.\n>\n> We could have listed all the differences between the manga and anime but\n> there are so many that it would serve no point and result in telling the\n> entire story.\n\nSo even though they share same name and have similar themes, they are so\ndifferent as to be considered two different things.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat happened to the animation quality in the anime _Gangsta._? Everything was\nso detailed and \"perfect\" to the last detail in the first couple of episodes,\nbut it substantially seemed to drop its quality. Any reason for it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs said @ton.yeung said and as stated in [this\narticle](http://www.idigitaltimes.com/gangsta-samurai-champloo-anime-studio-\ngoes-bankrupt-rip-gangsta-season-2-479790), the studio producing Gangsta,\nManglobe Studio, went bankrupt :\n\n> According to animeanime.biz , Manglobe Studio began procedures for\n> bankruptcy on Sept. 29th after months of insolvency. The news of Manglobe\n> Studio’s bankruptcy proceedings wasn’t common knowledge.\n\nTherefore the quality dropped.\n\nFor the same reason (obviously), you should not expect a second season or\nanother content related to Gansta, but there can still be a chance that\nanother studio produces it if the Intellectual Proprety of Gangsta get sold.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 11, Rory determines Yao's age by merely looking at her. Is there a\nrule on how to determine a Dark Elf's age? Besides her hair color, Yao appears\nto be somewhere in her twenties.\n\nA translation of the light novel covers this part with:\n\n> At a glance, she seemed to be a Dark Elf female.\n>\n> She looked to be roughly 300 years old, but on the surface she resembled a\n> human in her late twenties.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DW7iU.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust like in our world, Westerners might have problems telling Asians apart,\nthe same can be said about humans and elves.\n\nHumans live and grow up looking at other humans. So they learn to tell them\napart and categorize them much more easily. Now, this assumes that you can\ntell elves age from their appearance, it is just that humans don't learn that\nskill, because they either haven't seen an elf or haven't seen enough to\ncreate big enough sample to learn differences due to age.\n\nRory is over 900 years old and travels a lot. So she must have met quite a few\nelves in her lifetime. Also, she could have met the same elf multiple times in\ntheir lives, noting their changes in appearance.\n\nThe second thing that comes to mind is precision of her guess. Us humans are\nable to tell age with precision of +-5 years. It is safe to assume that elves\nappearance changes much slowly with age compared to humans, so the precision\nmight be as low as +-50 years. So if Rory estimates Yao's age at 300, she\ncould very well be between 250 to 350 years old. That is huge timespan. It is\nlike saying an adult 40 year old man \" _is around age of toddler_ \".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was writing a story so I was wondering if there is a statement anywhere on\nthe temperature, exact or estimated, of the heat released by the Colossal\nTitan? Thank you so much if you answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFound by googling \"attack on titan temperature\", from [_Kūsō Kagaku Dokuhon\n(空想科学読本, literally “fantasy science reader”) is a series that addresses,\nqueries and explains the science behind popular Japanese anime and manga_\n:](http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/08/06/the-science-of-attack-on-titan-\nexplained-finally-a-titan-tie-in-that-looks-kinda-cool/)\n\n> A 60 metre high Titan would have a body temperature of 602 degrees.\n\nYou can [buy the source in Japanese on\nAmazon.](http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4063770400/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching anime clips on YouTube and I stumbled upon an abridged version\nof an anime. The process of dubbing an anime using the same scenes but with a\ndifferent voice and script, they were changing the dialogues of characters to\nmake it funny.\n\n[This is an example video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW4dY7w8Mz0)\n\nIt was Gundam Wing (Entitled _\"Gundam Abridged-ning\"_ )\n\nSo how did this kind of voice dubbing and making it more funny get started?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDeidara uses the mouths in his palms to prepare clay for his explosion\nrelease. How did he get these mouths? Was he born with them or did he acquire\nthem some other way?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BSGpl.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first thing to say is that he was not simply born with them, after he lost\nboth arms fighting gaara and then naruto and kakashi, he had replacement arms\ngrafted on and the donor arms also had the mouths. [Naruto\nwikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia) has this to say on the\nsubject:\n\n> Deidara also possessed special mouths in the palms of his hands and on the\n> left side of his chest as a result of stealing and using a powerful kinjutsu\n> from his village on himself. Deidara was forced to leave Iwagakure when he\n> stole a kinjutsu to develop his passion for art.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomewhat contrary to the other two answers, it is actually unknown how Deidara\ngot the mouths in his hands, as it is not revealed in canon.\n\nThe [Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Iwagakure_Kinjutsu) does mention the\nhands in their Iwagakure Kinjutsu article, however it's important to note that\nthe part talking about the hands is merely speculative.\n\nQuote from Wikia (emphasis my own):\n\n> It is **likely** that the mouths on the user's palms and chest are the\n> result of using this technique\n\nThe technique he stole from Iwagakure is talked about in the third databook:\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BjSgf.png)\n\nIn this Data Book article, it mentions the technique that he steals from\nIwagakure is the ability to fold his chakra into clay. It can be guessed at\nthat this is where the hands come from, but it's possible that he got the\nhands elsewhere and can merely use that ability through those mouths.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently rewatched [Pokémon episode 273 - _Gotta Catch Ya\nLater!_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP273), and was wondering\nabout the vocalist behind Misty's goodbye song during the flashback; I can't\nseem to find the name of the artist anywhere.\n\n**Note** : This is exclusive to the dubbed version. The original Japanese\nversion uses unreleased background music from the movie _The Power of One_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's unofficially called 'Misty's Goodbye'. It's an unreleased song, it was\nplayed only in that flashback and it was never given an official name. There\nare no details about the vocalist and there is no full version of the song.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCharlotte is a very interesting show featuring people with powerful abilities,\nbut all of them have limitations. For example, the \"time jump\" ability makes\nthe user's vision fade, and the \"high speed\" ability causes the user to move\nat an uncontrollable but very fast speed. The \"plunder\" ability is introduced\nlate in the game, and it\n\n> allows the user to steal other ability-wielder's abilities.\n\nHowever, as far as I can remember, there was never a limitation for this\nability explicitly declared. Did I miss something? Are there no limitations?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe direct repercussion of using the plunder ability is that the user is\nknocked out for 5 seconds.\n\nHowever, if the ability is used many times, it indirectly causes the user to\nlose their memory. As mentioned on the [Wikia article on Yū\nOtosaka](http://charlotte-anime.wikia.com/wiki/Y%C5%AB_Otosaka):\n\n> Over the course of his journey, Yū's abilities, as well as the constant\n> danger he faces, begin to take their toll on him. He shows signs of PTSD and\n> is unable to sleep, and if he does sleep he sleepwalks and attacks enemy\n> ability users as well as innocent civilians. Gaps in his memory start to\n> form, and he finds himself unable to remember either his past or his goal.\n> He isn't even able to remember Nao, but he is able to remember their\n> promise.\n\nIt is also explicitly mentioned there as:\n\n> Although \"Plunder\" has a side effect. The more people he loots abilities\n> from, the more memories he loses.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's two side effects. The first is immediately noticeable: he cannot\ncontrol his own body when he is controlling someone else's. This results in\nhis body slumping over awkwardly.\n\nThe second effect is less obvious. The more he uses his ability, the more\nmemories he loses. This is likely due to the sheer amount of the brain all of\nthese abilities are taking up.\n\nThis second effect can be seen gradually increasing as he forgets his mission,\nhis friends, and eventually everything in the last episode.\n\nIt seems reasonable that he gets two negative side-effects like this since his\nability lets him control people's bodies and steal abilities.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of episode 8 we see\n[Wiz](http://myanimelist.net/character/123868/Wiz) for the first time but Aqua\nand Kazuma already know who she is. They have a short flashback to how they\nmeet, but it doesn't go into very much detail.\n\nSo I was wondering what happened between episode 7 and 8. Why did they agree\nto take over her task of sending the lost souls to heaven?\n\nAlso was there anything else from the source material that was skipped in the\nanime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the manga, it wasn't her quest. Wiz took pity in the souls of the\npeople who hadn't enough money to pay the priest to cleanse the souls of their\nfriends and relatives. These souls would wander around. So she cleansed them\nfor free.\n\nKazuma and the rest just took the quest to cleanse the cemetry, because the\nparty thought, it would be the ideal job for Aqua to level up. After defeating\nsome undead, they notice Wiz and want to fight her. But then they hear her\nstory.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oxhOw.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GKaQU.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GVCb3.png)\n\n",
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