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"body": "\n\nThe Team Rocket Motto starts off like so:\n\n> **Jessie** : Prepare for trouble! \n> **James** : And make it double! \n> **Jessie** : To protect the world from devastation! \n> **James** : To unite all people within our nation!\n\nI've never understood why is their motto so positive? It seems strange for a\ncrime organization to want to \"protect the world from devastation.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is an ongoing joke in the Pokemon series. Jessie and James memorized the\nmotto incorrectly because they aren't the brightest, as explained by Cassidy\nand Butch in Episode 86.\n\nThe real motto as said by Cassidy and Butch:\n\n> **Cassidy** : Prepare for trouble \n> **Butch** : And make it double \n> **Cassidy** : To infect the world with devastation \n> **Butch** : To Blight all peoples in every nation \n> **Cassidy** : To denouce the goodness of truth and love \n> **Butch** : To extend our wrath to the stars above \n> **Cassidy** : Cassidy \n> **Butch** : Butch \n> **Cassidy** : Team rocket circling the earth both day and night\n\nA YouTube video of this part is here:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5sgp2sn0Wg>\n\n* * *\n\nIn Japanese, the Team Rocket motto that Musashi and Kojirou (Jessie and James)\nrecite goes like this:\n\n> **ムサシ** : なんだかんだと聞かれたら \n> **コジロウ** : 答えてあげるのが世の情け \n> **ムサシ** : 世界の破壊を防ぐため \n> **コジロウ** : 世界の平和を守るため \n> **ムサシ** : 愛と真実の悪をつらぬく \n> **コジロウ** : ラブリー・チャーミーな敵役 \n> **ムサシ** : ムサシ \n> **コジロウ** : コジロウ \n> **ムサシ** : 銀河をかけるロケット団の二人には…… \n> **コジロウ** : ホワイトホール、白い明日が待ってるぜ \n> **ニャース** : にゃんてにゃ\n\nWith a translation of (non-localized):\n\n> **Musashi** : If you ask us this or that... \n> **Kojirō** : The pity of the world is what responds! \n> **Musashi** : To prevent the destruction of the world! \n> **Kojirō** : To protect the peace of the world! \n> **Musashi** : To stand by the evils of love and truth! \n> **Kojirō** : The lovely, charmy villains! \n> **Musashi** : Musashi! \n> **Kojirō** : Kojirō! \n> **Musashi** : The pair from Team Rocket soars through the galaxy! \n> **Kojirō** : A white hole, a white tomorrow awaits us! \n> **Nyarth** : Something like that!\n\nA YouTube video of Jesse and James performing their original motto can be\nfound here:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7CNNYFhqdk>\n\nInterestingly enough, this joke doesn't seem to happen like it does in the\nEnglish version. While they do claim to have the _correct_ motto in Episode\n86, their motto does not have the same tone the English version does.\n\nYamato and Kosaburou's (Cassidy and Butch) motto in the Japanese version is as\nfollows:\n\n> **ヤマト** ：何だかんだと聞かれたら \n> **コサブロウ** ：答えないのが普通だが \n> **二人** ：まあ特別に答えてやろう \n> **ヤマト** ：地球の破壊を防ぐため \n> **コサブロウ** ：地球の平和を守るため \n> **ヤマト** ：愛と誠実な悪を貫く \n> **コサブロウ** ：キュート でお茶目な敵役 \n> **ヤマト** ：ヤマト \n> **コサブロウ** ：コサブロウ \n> **ヤマト** ：宇宙を駆ける ロケット団の二人には \n> **コサブロウ** ：ショッキングピンク桃色の明日が待ってるぜ\n\nAnd the translation:\n\n> **Yamato** : If you ask us this or that... \n> **Kosaburou** : We usually don't respond \n> **Both** : But we'll make an exception this time and answer! \n> **Yamato** : To prevent the destruction of the Earth! \n> **Kosaburou** : To protect the peace of the Earth! \n> **Yamato** : To stand by evil with love and sincerity! \n> **Kosaburou** : The cute, mischievous villains! \n> **Yamato** : Yamato! \n> **Kosaburou** : Kosaburou! \n> **Yamato** : The pair from Team Rocket soars through the universe! \n> **Kosaburou** : Shocking pink, a pink tomorrow awaits us!\n\n* * *\n\nAdditionally, I wasn't able to understand the joke about the \"White Hole\", so\nI've posted that as a question here: [Why does Kojirou say \"white hole\" in the\nJapanese version of Team Rocket's\nmotto?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/30203/17758)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTorisuda mentioned he'd be interested in how the joke went in the Japanese\nversion of Pokemon on my\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/30201/17758) about why Team\nRocket's motto seems so nice. This prompted me to listen to the Japanese\nversion of the motto on\n[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7CNNYFhqdk).\n\nI came across this line in the Japanese version of Team Rocket's motto where\nKojirou says:\n\n> **コジロウ** : ホワイトホール、白い明日が待ってるぜ\n\nWhy does he say \"Waito Hooru\" (White Hole) here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere used to be an interview about the production of Pokemon and they did\nexplain it. The phrase translates to \"white hole, white future awaits us\".\nSometimes, however, it can also translate to \"bright future awaits us\". That's\nwhy they wanted to use white, and the hole part of it is because it's a pun.\nTeam Rocket and white holes, rocket and space which has black holes in it, get\nit? Rocket goes into space and there are black holes in space, but we need the\ncolor white so it became white hole. If this doesn't make sense, then leave a\ncomment and I'll try to put it into other words. Unfortunately, I can't find\nthe interview anymore, but hope this helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome anime and movies feature and are shown with real world locations.\n\nFor example, [this post](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=575775) gives\nsome of the real world locations involved in anime such as _5 Centimeters Per\nSecond_ (Shinjuku and Tanegashima) and _Kiki's Delivery Service_ (Visby, a\ntown on the Swedish island of Gotland).\n\nI was wondering: where does _D.N.Angel_ take place? Is it based on a real\nworld location?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe real world location for the events in the anime D.N. Angel was based on\n\"Azumano District in Tokyo\"\n\nAccording to [this Post](http://www.angelfire.com/anime5/smnewera/dark.html)\nabout Dark Mousy:\n\n> Dark Mousy was the greatest phantom thief. Last appeared 14 years ago,\n> disappeared suddenly, and then now he's out wreaking havoc around the\n> **Azumano District of Tokyo** as he did for centuries. Nobody knows where\n> he's from, nobody knows who he really is, and nobody knows what his real\n> purpose is behind stealing all the artwork from various museums. Dark is\n> some what immortal since 14 years ago. He was intiated in a ritual with\n> Daisuke Niwa 14 years ago to become immortal. The bad part of the ritual was\n> Dark would be in a coma state inside Daisuke's body till he turned 14.\n> Dark's rabbit, Wizu, watched over Daisuke till he was able to transform into\n> Dark. Dark is Daisuke half the time, to protect him and vice versa.\n>\n> Likes: Ramen, Flying Dislikes: People who don't know how to shut up, Pets\n>\n> Home\n>\n> A small cozy apartment **near the shores of Azumano**.\n\nWhen you search about \" _[Azumano clock\ntower](https://www.google.com.ph/webhp?sourceid=chrome-\ninstant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF%208#q=azumano%20clock%20tower)_ \" Clock\ntower is in the first episode.\n\n**Spoiler**\n\n> (Remember the first episode where dark returns after 40 years and steals the\n> bird symbol on the clock tower)\n\nYou would see google search results about D.N. Angel FanFics (Fan Fictions)\n\nYou'll notice that most of these talk about the Azumano District in Tokyo (or\nsometimes Azumano City)\n\nHere's an [example](https://www.wattpad.com/174217691-the-only-way-i-could-\nlive-chapter-2-the-black), although this is more like a retelling of D.N.\nAngel instead of a Fan Fiction\n\nAlso a comment on [This\nPost](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366004/reviews?start=0) about D.N. Angel\nalso states that:\n\n> The location of where D.N. Angel takes place is hard to figure out, but it\n> is revealed in the last episode, on a box (that was as late as I noticed\n> it); if you translated the small bit of Kanji and Hiragana written on the\n> side of it, it came out to be \" **Azumano District Reception** \", meaning\n> that the town or area that the anime took place in would be **Azumano**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched the pilot episode of D.N. Angel. The first episode explains that\nDaisuke, when fourteen, learns that whenever he sees the person he loves/likes\n(in this case Risa Harada) or even just a picture of her, he turns into Dark\nwho was a thief last seen 40 years ago. Why is it that sometimes in the first\nepisode he doesn't turn into Dark even though he sees Risa, especially at\nschool?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe it is because he turns fourteen later on in the episode; the curse does\nnot pass until the guy is fourteen(yes, one does count the entire day as the\nday for celebrating birthday, but was born at one particular hour). That's why\nI think Daisuke didn't turn into Dark.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am wanting to buy season 1 and 2 of code geass on DVD because its a great\nshow and I have never bought anime before so I was definitely not expecting to\nfind like a million dvd's for this 1 show that had 50 episodes total. I am\ngoing through ebay and amazon and am finding a combination of volumes and\ncomplete series however it seems that even some of them that have the complete\nseries are different. Some of them have the marking (2011) and some have the\nmarking (Anime Legends) and they have different cover art although they all\nsay the complete first season 3-6 discs episodes 1-26. Is there any real\ndifference when it comes to two dvds that say they are the entire first season\nwith both English and Japanese or is the cover art the only difference?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo my knowledge there shouldn't be too much difference. Japanese originating\nDVDs will have less-episode per disk but this apparently means the video\nfootage wont be as compressed (though have never had a compassion to confirm\nthis)\n\nWhen looking on eBay you should be careful of bootlegs where the seller just\ngets downloaded episodes, burns them to disk, whips up a quick DVD Menu and\ncover and tries and sells it as legit. [This post in Madman's Entainment\nKnowledge\nBase](http://www.madman.com.au/actions/knowledgebase.do?method=browse#47) can\nhelp you sort out the bootlegs from the real ones\n\n> There has been a recent increase in these DVD sets being spotted and these\n> are most certainly not real products but rather an illegal bootleg copy,\n> usually imported from South East Asian countries and contain extremely bad\n> subtitles and are of low quality. Easy signs to tell if they are real or not\n> include:\n>\n> * Region 0 or All\n> * Very low disc count for entire series - eg. 26 episodes on 3 DVDs\n> * Anything with the company logos 'Anime Cartoon', 'AniDVD', AV, 'Manga\n> Cartoon' and other companies with similar names usually linked to crime\n> syndicates as well.\n> * A web based email address printed on the DVD cover such as addresses\n> ending with @yahoo.com or mail2000.com.tw etc\n>\n\n>\n> Should you come across any of these products do not purchase them and if you\n> feel this isn't right report it to the authorities or to\n> [email protected], please include the store's name and if possible get\n> details of the distributor, the closer we get to the source of the problem,\n> the eaiser it is for us to stop the flow. The Pirate Anime FAQ site also has\n> a lot more useful information regarding these illegal bootleg DVDs as well\n> as other knock off anime merchandise and how you can avoid them.\n> Alternatively you can also report it to the newly setup Anti-piracy task\n> force. Remember the more reports that are reported the more likely something\n> will be done about this problem. Piracy hurts the industry and you can help\n> by spreading the word and reporting these illegitimate practices.\n\nSome of my own tips would be\n\n * By from official distributors like [Madman](http://www.madman.com.au/) or [RightStuf](http://www.rightstufanime.com/) depending on where you live\n * if you need to buy from ebay check out the sellers past feedback and look out for any claiming pirated products\n * pay with Paypal because then if you get a bootleg you can go through paypal to get your money back. if you go though ebay this process is made a bit easier\n * generally Amazon sells legit products as i havn't gotten bootlegs from there once so if you can buy from them then do so\n * the average count for episodes per disk is 6-7 in Australia for regular DVDs, i've seen up to 9 episodes on one BluRay (which was Katanagatari from the US), 3 disks for 24 episodes should only work if they are BluRay\n * Covers can be different depending on their release, first release of Black Cat in Australia had 4 episode/disk in 6 volumes, the second release included all 6 disks in one cover and the cover was that of the reversible one from Volume 1. also Limited Editions may have a different cover. when in doubt google it or post the image up on an anime forum or chat room to get clarification \n * a cover wont have characters that appear in a different media, my mum one got a complete collection of Fullmetal Alchemist but on the cover of one of them had a couple of characters from the video game\n\nafter you buy and receive the anime if you didn't get it from an official\ndistributor you can generally tell right away if the anime was downloaded\n\n * if there are subs they wont be in comic sans MS\n * they wont have any tv network watermarks\n * they will have the appropriate copyright information and company slash animations before the menu appears (ie. all Hanabee released DVDs/Bluray will have Hanabee's animation, Fate/Zero will have Aniplex and Unfotable. Speed Grapher from Australia will have Madman, Gonzo and i think Funimation's)\n * generally all episodes will have the Opening and Ending and you will be able to skip these with one button press on the DVD remote (as they are set as a separate scene).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nModel sheets depict characters in their front view, side view, behind, and\nfacial expressions, etc. In anime production animators use these, but what\ndoes it contribute in trying to animate?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iaa8v.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OOoid.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OYv0f.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike I already guessed in the comments, model sheets are used to guarantee\nconsistency in character design.\n\nThey are a concept art to define the character design. In big teams, you have\nthe problem that everyone sees the character a bit different, so they try to\nstandardize the design by creating a model.\n\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_sheet#Purposes)\n\n[Another site](http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonplan/model.htm)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGol D. Roger said that one piece treasure is there and anyone can claim it due\nto which it started the \"Great Age of Pirates.\" After that moment, every\npirate set sail to find that treasure and that's how everyone began to explore\nso many things. During this adventure many fights began and many incidents\nhappened.\n\nSince Marine are the military sea forces and their duty is to maintain law and\norder. But then I was wondering that:\n\nAre they also trying to find one piece so that they can stop this chaos of\nfinding one piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore I begin to answer please let me state that I only watch the anime, I do\nnot read the manga which is far ahead of the anime.\n\nSo the short answer is yes it is a possibility, however the likelihood I\nbelieve is very doubtful.\n\nGol D. Roger started the infamous age of pirates by saying his treasure was up\nfor the taking and ever since then the military has been falling all over\nthemselves trying to round up those pirates; it got to be so bad that they had\nto recognize some of the stronger pirate groups as \"Warlords\" who they would\nnot go after for the piracy crimes in exchange for the Warlord pirate group to\ntake care of the lower class pirates running rampant. Admiral Fujitora is\npersonally against the notion of allowing the stronger pirates such as Don\nQuixote being allowed to do whatever they please and he wants to bring an end\nto the entire Warlord system.\n\nThe show is centered around the Straw Hat Pirates who have taken the world by\nsurprise time and time again for how rowdy and badass they are. They went from\ndefeating a small marine base to taking on the warlords, they went from\nwarlords to storming Enis Lobby and giving a middle finger to the world\ngovernment, and is if that wasn't bad enough they then took on the Celestial\ndragons who are considered gods compared to everyone else and then Luffy went\nand broke into and out of Impel down which just pub stomped the Marines\nreputation for being able to control the order. The straw hat pirates have\nmade the warlords, the world government, and the pirate emperors their\nenemies, it is quite literally them vs the entire world.\n\nThe government is so busy trying to regain their diminishing reputation that\nthey cant afford to waste time looking for pirate treasure. Remember the war\nof the great? Remember Whitebeard's last words? Whitebeard reminded everyone\nthat One Piece exists to spark the flame once again because the government\nrefuses to accept One Piece even exists. Imagine the government turning up\nwith One Piece after all of this, it would bring humiliation on them; they\nwould much prefer One Piece never be found and people losing faith in its\nexistence as to make people lose interest in being pirates because the second\nthey get One Piece and word gets out it'll just cause an even bigger wave of\npirates but this time they will all be hell bent on going after the Marines\ndirectly and before you know it we have another war of the great.\n\nAgain this is all speculation and I have just as much evidence to support my\ntheories as does the next guy to reply who says that I'm entirely wrong. From\nthe way the series is going I expect that the main focus will be taking down\nKaido and Big mam but we cannot forget about Luffy's wrath for Blackbeard;\neither way we all know the marines aren't even in the picture, its the pirate\nemperors that own this series. All it took was Shanks saying stop for an\nentire war to end, that's how terrified everyone is to piss off an emperor,\nand Luffy has made it his goal to piss them off. At this point the marines are\nrelics of a lost age.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, after researching a bit I came to this conclusion that is: In\n[Episode 485](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_485):\n\n> Whitebeard tips backward, inhales, gathering his last breath, and bellows at\n> the top of his lungs, \"ONE PIECE... DOES EXIST!\" His words echo throughout\n> all of Marineford, and are heard over the Visual Den Den Mushi and\n> transmitted straight to the viewing public at Sabaody Archipelago. Knowing\n> what impact his final revelation is going to have, Sengoku curses\n> Whitebeard.\n>\n> **Sengoku showed great fear and he was furious with Whitebeard because he\n> revealed to the entire world about the existence of One Piece.**\n\nThis shows that Sengoku don't want that one piece treasure should be\ndiscovered. He knew that after what Whitebeard said all the pirates will go\nmad and start searching for one piece and everyone will believe in Whitebeard\nwords. But why he cursed him ?\n\nLet us see the ideology of [Sengoku](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sengoku)\nregarding one piece:\n\n> Though he may appear to be stern because of his duties as a Marine, he is\n> actually kind and compassionate. His drastic actions at the Battle of\n> Marineford were motivated by the desire to protect innocent civilians from\n> getting embroiled in conflict out of fear that **when the secrets held in\n> One Piece are discovered, it would turn the world on its head and lead to\n> total war.**\n\nSo actually, he wants to protect innocent civilians from pirates. He knew that\nif one piece will be discovered then it will lead to war and only innocent\npeople will suffer. So by that he actually want one piece to be not discovered\nat all.\n\n**So in short for the sake of innocent people they didn't try to find one\npiece and focused on protecting them from pirates.**\n\nAccording to my hypothesis, if they will be able to find one piece and if\npirates come to know about this news that one piece is with marines then for\nsure every pirates of that world will charge against those Marines just to get\none piece and then you can just think how drastic situation it will be. There\nwill be a huge battle and again innocent people will suffer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan anyone explain the reason why Frost of the 6th Universe was able to\ndisable or paralyze Goku? I didn't get how that was possible!\n\nIs there any sort of cheating or is there any ability of Frost that can\nparalyze the opponent somehow?\n\nBy the way, I am talking about Dragon Ball Super, episode 33.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid Naruto get both halves of Kurama after fighting Sasuke, or did the other\nhalf of Kurama die when Minato was killed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Madara receives his right eye from Zetsu, he stuns all the Tailed Beasts\nand began the process of sealing them up into the Demonic Statue. Yang Kurama,\nknowing that he will be pulled out of Naruto for certain, contacted Gaara to\nhave Yin Kurama (within Minato's body) sealed into Naruto.\n\nBut just as Minato was transferring Yin Kurama into Naruto, Black Zetsu (in\nObito's body) interferes.\n\nObito regains control of his body and prevents Zetsu from delivering the left\nRinnegan eye and Yin Kurama to Madara. Obito then teleports the gang to Kamui\ndimension. There, Yin Kurama was successfully transferred into Naruto.\n\nAfter the epic fight with Sasuke, Yang Kurama rejoins Naruto. The Yin and Yang\nhalves merge together and formed the complete state of Kurama.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found B Gata H Kei a pretty boring, mediocre series and never finished it,\nbut apparently some people got very worked up about it: [Anime News Network\nreported in 2010](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-02/b-gata-h-\nkei-studio-writers-get-multiple-threat-letters) that the studio and writers\nresponsible for it received \"multiple threatening letters\" demanding \"changes\nin the anime's content and presentation\".\n\nThose who have watched the show know that it really has very little sexual\ncontent and is overall very tame; like its protagonist, it's all talk and no\naction. This makes it a curious target for such passion. The comments on the\nANN story have a lot of speculation, and [this Reddit\nthread](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1uouqp/just_finished_b_gata_h_kei_yamadas_first_time_not/)\nposits the senders were angry over the dirty things being spoken by Yukari\nTamura, but I'm curious if any details were ever released. Do we know what\nkinds of changes these letters were demanding, and what it was in the show\nthat made people angry enough to threaten its creators with physical harm?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom quick research, the person who sent the letters are not arrested. So we\ndon't know the real reason. Also the studio didn't disclose the details of the\nletter. (They just say they won't change anything.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 1, Iri and Student 0 have the following conversation:\n\n> **Student 0** : There's no future to it (the War) at all. Why only one team,\n> Instructor? I think everyone should just share it (the Grail).\n>\n> **Iri** : There are DDD circumstances behind that, so I'm sorry. I'd like to\n> tell you in greater detail, but it won't happen. It's still too early for\n> you to experience the adult world.\n\nOn the chalk board behind her, it shows Dark, Dirty, Dandy.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7GLx.jpg)\n\nSince this entire mini-series is cluttered with references to the Fate series,\nI'm wondering what this DDD means in relation to the Fate series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI belive it's referring to _Decoration Disorder Disconnection_ , AKA _DDD_ ,\nwhich is another title written by Kinoko Nasu which was published in Faust\nmagazine\n\n> Arika Ishizue lost his left arm in the A-syndrome related accident and\n> hospitalized. After he left the hospital and went back to Shikura, he met a\n> beautiful boy named Kaie Karyou who has no limbs and is living in a dark\n> basement. The boy asked him to exorcise the \"Demons\" possessing A-Syndrome\n> patients. Arika was involved in the bizarre cases and the fights with the\n> \"Demons\".\n\nSource: [DDD on Typemoon Wikia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/DDD)\n\nAs the Wikia also states there are no connections between DDD and the rest of\nthe Natsuverse, even though [Mitsuru\nKamekura](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mitsuru_Kamekura) from Kara no\nKyoukai is refernced in it as the wiki states\n\n> it is simply a gimmick included by Nasu to cause readers of both to do a\n> double-take while reading. It is actually a pseudonym taken from a character\n> in a book in the DDD world.\n\nHowever i do not know how being able to share the Holy Grail or not is related\nto DDD or how explaining it is \"too adult\" for Student 0. however given the\ncase with Mitsuru Kamekura this could be the same thing with it being a\ngimmick by Kinoko Nasu and/or Gen Urobuchi to cause those who have read DDD to\ndo a double take\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlmost all teams in Naruto have 1 female and 2 male members. For example,\nKakashi's team (Kakashi, Obito, Rin) and Jiraya's students (Nagato, Konan,\nYahiko). Is there any rule behind this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think there is any rule behind this because the main motive behind\nthis is to **test the dynamics of teamwork** but there is one rule that is to\nhow to team-up [Genin](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Genin):\n\n> Genin are put in four-man cells, or squad, consisting of three genin and a\n> jōnin-sensei, in order to learn teamwork and experience true ninja life\n> under the supervision and protection of an elite shinobi. **The make-up of\n> these teams is based on the individual skills of the genin, so that there\n> will be a balance between the teams.** For instance, Naruto Uzumaki, who\n> passed with the lowest grades, was put in a team with Sasuke Uchiha and\n> Sakura Haruno, who passed with the highest grades and highest written exam\n> scores, respectively.\n\nSo there is nothing states that there has to be one girl in every team. But to\ncreate a perfect balance between all teams they might have assign one girl in\nevery team.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo expand on the answer that was posted by Light Yagami, if there is any such\nrule in Konohagakure (hidden leaf village) it certainly is not universal, Team\nSamui from the hidden lightning had two woman and one man. Team Shigure and\nTeam Oboro from the hidden rain were both all male. These deviations from the\n2 men 1 woman structure even exist inside the hidden leaf on occasions. Team\nIno–Shika–Chō was made up of Inoichi Yamanaka, Shikaku Nara and Chōza Akimichi\nwas an all male team.\n\nIn episode 361, the third Hokage discusses why he assembled team 7 the way\nthat he did, and he has a flashback of an incident with the Sannin back when\nthey were Genin; where the underachieving Jiraya is motivate to try harder in\nan attempt to attract the attention of Tsunade in the same way that the over-\nperforming Orochimaru had. In the subtitled version he says \"Talent attracts\npeople, men notice women and rivalry matures both, so they say.\" Kakashi then\nreminisces of his own experience with Obito being desperate for Rin to notice\nhim.\n\nSo while it appears there is no solid rule that all teams should be two guys\nand a girl, both Kakashi and the third Hokage clearly believe there are\nbenefits to this arrangement in at least some groups and it is likely the\npreference of the third Hokage to make teams in this structure whenever\npossible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the opening episode of _Digimon Adventure_ , Taichi was attacked by\nKuwagamon. Now, I'm wondering whether if that was just the Kuwagamon feeling\nterritorial or did it see Taichi and Koromon as food? As we know from the\nepisode where Taichi, the other Digi-Destined, and their digimon ate dinner at\nthe mansion, they eat meat too: which means we can assume that other digimon\nmight exhibit the same dietary manner.\n\nIn _Digimon World_ (PS game), it was shown that meat in the digimon world is\nproduced from farms in a fruit-like manner. While digimon that live in a\ncommunity and have a farm can surely meet their dietary needs from those\nfarms, what about those who don't? For example, would Leomon in Digimon\nAdventure hunt other Digimon to eat?\n\nI have never watched any Digimon anime other than _Digimon Adventure_ 1\n(Agumon & co.) and 2 (Veemon & co.) So, I'm not sure whether the digimon that\ncome later in the series would exhibit the same dietary manner, or even have\nneeds to eat at all. Digimon in _Digimon Adventure_ 2 should exhibit the same\ndietary manner since the story takes place in the same digimon world.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat you need to understand is that\n[Digimon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digimon_\\(creature\\)) are almost\nbiologically the same throughout all the series and thus they should share the\nsame dietary habits as each other despite being from different series. Also,\ndo not treat food in the digital world really as food, they are data.\nTherefore, when a materialised Digimon eats human food, they can taste it and\nenjoy it, but not grow from eating it.\n\nFor a Digimon to grow/digivolve, they consume data and train, which in turn\n'upgrades' their own personal data, gain experience and level up if you will,\nas demonstrated by Tactimon in [When Worlds\nCollide](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide) saying that he\ntrained in order to evolve and grow and when he absorbed the data from the\nhuman world, he grew more powerful.\n[Keramon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Keramon) from Digimon Adventure also\nacts like Tactimon to a certain degree, consuming data until he digivolves\ninto [Chrysalimon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Chrysalimon).\n\n> Digivolution for Digimon is similar to aging for humans—it is generally a\n> one-way journey whereby a Digimon will grow into a new form as they age and\n> gain battle experience and data. However, moving from one form to another\n> becomes progressively more difficult. Therefore, very few Digimon will ever\n> naturally digivolve into their final most powerful forms.\n\nThis establishes the premise that in order for a Digimon to grow, they need\ndata and since their whole world is made of data, they can just eat their\nsurroundings, but of course, this is rather useless as small bits of data does\nnot provide any use in growing as shown by\n[Beastmon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Beastmon_\\(Fusion\\)) consuming\n[Tyutyumon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Tyutyumon_\\(Fusion\\)) but not\ndigivolving. But of course, if you eat enough, like\n[Lucemon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Lucemon_\\(Frontier\\)) from frontier,\nwho consumed the whole digital world and all its inhabitants, you become all\npowerful. However, not all data are edible in Tamers as shown by Guilmon in\n[Goliath](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Goliath).\n\nSorry if I digressed too much but in conclusion, YES, Digimon do eat other\nDigimon for their data in order to grow more powerful as all the data you\nconsume from the other Digimon upgrades your own data. The reason why Digimon\nopt to eat other Digimon as a Digimon provides more data then eating regular,\nmore common forms of data, such as grass.\n\nSmaller Digimon are incapable of preying on other Digimon effectively as\nhatchlings contain very little data and are often protected by powerful\nGuardian Digimon so the most common predator species are at least Champion\nLevel or higher. Some examples include\n[MachineDramon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/MachineDramon_\\(Fusion\\)#MachineDramon)\nand\n[Arukadhimon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Arukadhimon_\\(Fusion\\)#Arukadhimon)\nfrom Xros Wars.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think senshin makes a lot of good points in the comments, but I can also see\nwhere you're coming from with this; from a certain perspective, it does seem\nlike it would be better to try and stay in purgatory forever.\n\nI would give two major reasons why the kids decide to pass on anyway, both\nbased on senshin's comments:\n\n 1. It's philosophically, culturally, and narratively necessary that they don't squat in purgatory for all eternity;\n 2. They can't really stay there anyway, because the place is constructed as a giant trap for exactly that kind of thinking.\n\nRegarding point 1, think of it this way: in a Christian setting, God would not\nallow people to just live fantasy lives in purgatory with no intention to pass\non. It would go against the philosophy of the Christian religion; in\nChristianity, either you go to Heaven, or you go to Hell. God sends people to\npurgatory to give them a second chance at Heaven, and if they don't take it,\nthey go to Hell. The very construction of the universe forbids people from\npermanently living in purgatory. It's kind of like being someone with no\ncitizenship in any country; purgatory is like an airport, where you can stay\nfor a while but not forever.\n\nAngel Beats uses more of an Eastern-style religious philosophy, but the same\nidea applies. Who knows what happens to them if they don't take their second\nchance, but in the Buddhist philosophy, escaping from the cycle of rebirth\nthrough some backdoor like remaining permanently in purgatory is just as\nunfathomable as escaping both Heaven and Hell by the same mechanism would be\nin Christianity.\n\nThis is simultaneously an in-universe and out-of-universe reason. Out of\nuniverse, the writers would have written it like this because that's what\ntheir cultural background would lead them to. In universe, the characters\nwould want to pass on for the same reason: their culture is telling them that\nit's unthinkable to just linger in purgatory forever, ignoring their problems.\n(Since some kind of afterlife explicitly exists in the Angel Beats universe,\nthere probably _are_ safeguards of some kind to prevent permanent squatters in\npurgatory, but we never see proof of this in the series since no one tries to\nremain in purgatory with the express purpose of remaining in purgatory.) They\ndo all seem to decide, very quickly and suddenly, that they're ready to face\ntheir problems and pass on, but the latter half of the show had all kinds of\npacing issues, so I count that more as a writing problem than an actual\ninconsistency in the universe.\n\nRegarding point 2, it's not only becoming model students that will cause them\nto pass on; it's becoming fulfilled, in any way that allows them to move past\nwhatever was haunting them. This is abstract enough that it seems like no\nmatter how you tried to avoid it, you would eventually become fulfilled and\nend up passing on. The SSS didn't because they were purposely holding on to\ntheir rage, turning it over and over in their minds, dragged on by the\ncharisma of Yuri. But how long could they have actually stayed like this?\n\nAs we saw in Episode 3, all it took to send on Iwasawa was a really great\nperformance. She had no idea it was coming and didn't consciously seek it out\nat all; she just happened to stumble on something that made up for whatever\nshe'd missed out on in life, and it sent her on. The things we saw send the\ncharacters on in the last few episodes probably aren't the only things that\nwould have worked. For each of them, there is most likely a wide spectrum of\nevents that would have caused them to become fulfilled enough to pass on. Even\nlocking yourself in a windowless room might not have been enough to prevent\npassing on; for all we know, if Yuri had sat in a dark room and thought long\nenough about what happened to her siblings, she would have eventually come to\nthe same conclusion she reaches towards the end of the series, and would have\nbeen contented enough with it to pass on. It's entirely possible that becoming\nsuperheroes with all the food and Internet they wanted would be enough to\ncontent them and send them on. There are traps everywhere for someone who's\ntrying to enjoy themselves in purgatory without passing on. The only surefire\nway to stay in purgatory is to stay tormented and miserable, and where's the\nfun in that?\n\n* * *\n\nTo end with, I'll address a few of the specific points mentioned in the OP:\n\n * \"You won't be humiliated by others for being dumb.\" Yuri does quite a lot of humiliation of the dumb. They don't mind because they like her, but bullying and social ranking can still exist in this world. I guess you can at least settle your differences in a sword fight or gun fight, though, since no one can die. The pleasure of repeatedly stomping down the people bullying you, though karmically a little iffy, might even be enough to send you off into the next life. \n * \"You can become a super hero.\" Sure, but to what end? There's no one to save and no one to fight. You could have fun leaping around the buildings for a while, until you think \"This is so much fun! I love being a superhero!\" and then poof, off to your next life.\n * \"You can play video games and program your own. You could create and share videos on sites or social networks like Youtube and Facebook.\" We don't know how much of an Internet actually exists. There might not even be an Internet; you might be limited to desktop apps that you burn to discs made from dirt. Even if there is, there might not be any Facebook or YouTube, and you'll have to make them yourself. Then you'll feel all satisfied that you recreated YouTube, and then poof, off to the next life. On the other hand, the only operating system available is [Macrosoft Winding](http://angelbeats.wikia.com/wiki/Winding), which seems to be based on Windows, so using the computer might be a good way to stay angry and miserable so you don't pass on.\n * \"You could reincarnate into something or someone who is way worse off.\" I actually think this is pretty unlikely. In Buddhist philosophy, what the kids are really doing when they come to terms with their bad memories is getting rid of a negative karmic seed and ridding themselves of an attachment to the physical world. These are good things in Buddhism; they help you reincarnate into a better state and bring you closer to breaking out of the cycle of rebirth. So if anything, they would probably reincarnate into a better life than the one they left. (And the \"terrorist in Gitmo\" scenario is unlikely because reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism starts you as a newborn, so even if you began as a newborn Yemeni villager, you would still have the choice _not_ to be a terrorist.) \n * \"You're probably going to lose your memory.\" They probably _were_ afraid of this when they chose to pass on. Kanade and Otonashi certainly were, anyway. But the other reasons for passing on were persuasive enough that they overcame this fear. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAngel and Otonashi's actions were not derived from logic, but rather from\ntheir beliefs and convictions. They believed that people were not supposed to\npermanently stay in the afterlife dimension. Their beliefs were probably\ninfluenced by their religious/spiritual beliefs from when they were alive.\n\nTheir beliefs were supported by evidence in that world. For instance, the way\npassing on works supported their belief. A person passed on when his/her\nregrets had been eased. From this and other evidence, it was apparent that the\nwhole purpose of the afterlife dimension was to ease people's regrets and to\nallow them to be reincarnated, rather than to provide a permanent paradise for\nthem.\n\nAlso keep in mind that staying in the afterlife dimension means that a person\nhas to hang on to his/her regrets. This means that anyone who stays there is\nlikely still suffering from his/her past memories, whereas anyone who leaves\nhas made peace with his/her regrets, and can forget them in his/her new life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answers so far gave good reasons why people would not stay there but\nmissed one point I want to add:\n\nPeople **did** stay in that world!\n\nThe unknown programmer (=other timeline Otonishi?) stayed for eons. The SSS\nstayed for - who knows - maybe decades, maybe centuries, living almost the\nlife you described. They lived their affections, they played war with their\nfavourite weapons, and they did have their own little Utopia. They just did\nnot know about \"Angel Player\" and were not able to program the world like you\nproposed. Kanade on the other hand understood the world as what it was\napparently meant to be and tried to help the others to move on (even by\nforce). Otonashi wanted to help people since he lost his sister and so both of\nthem wanted to help the others to move on.\n\nBTW: Almost every one of the SSS did not move on until the shadows came and\nthreatened their bare existence so they had nothing to lose. Plus, it is part\nof human nature to want catharsis. The only people who really had the choice\nwere the last five, and what should they do after every human and NPC was\ngone? They had mostly made peace with themselves anyway.\n\nEDIT: Plus it is likely that there are mechanics to repeatedly give people the\nchance to go on - like the baseball match where the NPCs played exactly the\nway Hinata needed to remember and make peace with his real life failure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I was young, approximately 1998-2001, I watched the original Digimon\nAdventure. I also later (approximately 2003) watched Digimon Tamers, but I\nnever did watch more than a few episodes of Digimon Adventure 02.\n\nFor nostalgia's sake, I'm interested in Digimon Tri, but I have no interest\nright now in going back to watch Digimon Adventure 02, since it's really long\nand only available as an unfaithful dub. I know basically who the characters\nare, but I don't know any of the main plot arcs. Will I be able to understand\nDigimon Tri without this knowledge?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEach of three routes has a different series of events and endings. I’ve read\nthat the first few days are the same but then they all diverge. What causes\nthem to diverge exactly? For example, why is Shiro with Saber in \"Fate\" route\nand not with Rin? Why does Archer not enact his \"kill Shiro\" plan in \"Fate\"\nand \"HF\"? likewise, the HF events are vastly different from the first two.\nWhy?\n\n**Botton line:** What event or lack therof causes the storyline/plot to branch\noff into three seperate ones: Fate, UBW and HF\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> What event or lack therof causes the storyline/plot to branch off into three\n> seperate ones: Fate, UBW and HF\n\nIn UBW, Shirou commands Saber not to attack Archer on the first night; in\nFate, he doesn't do that. In HF, Shirou accompanies Sakura to her home on the\nfirst night; in UBW and Fate, he doesn't do that. Broadly speaking, UBW\ndiverges against Fate because Archer does not suffer injury, allowing him to\nmaintain a more active role in the early stages of the war. HF diverges\nagainst Fate/UBW because (spoilered because it sounds like you haven't read\nit)\n\n> this puts Sakura into a more active role in the war, causing that whole mess\n> with the shadow. Also, Zouken.\n\nHow does this lead to the vastly different outcomes in each of the three\nroutes? We can posit some explanations, but it's important to keep in mind\nthat any explanation is likely to be somewhat contrived, simply because it's\nunlikely that Nasu wrote F/SN from the perspective of \"if I change this one\nsmall thing, what would the logical outcomes be?\". That is, the routes are\npresumably the fundamental things that Nasu wanted to write, and the\ndivergence points exist to make them plausible. (The alternative would be that\nthe divergence points are the fundamental thing in the narrative, and the\nroutes are just logical consequences thereof. See footnote 1 for an example of\nwhat I mean.)\n\nAnyway, let's posit a bit.\n\n* * *\n\n> For example, why is Shiro with Saber in \"Fate\" route and not with Rin?\n\nLet me reverse the question: why is Shirou with Rin in UBW, and not with\nSaber? Well, in UBW, Shirou spends relatively little time with Saber,\ninitially because of her abduction by Caster, and later because Saber re-\ncontracts with Rin through the end of the route.\n\nIn Fate, Shirou isn't deprived of interaction with Saber, and so he develops a\nrelationship with her (and hence not with Rin). I think it's uncontroversial\nto say that Saber is the \"main heroine\" of F/SN (given Last Episode, if\nnothing else); in the absence of barriers to them developing a relationship, I\nfigure they would, in fact, get together. Note that in HF, the barrier is that\n\n> the shadow ganks Saber on day 3.\n\n* * *\n\n> Why does Archer not enact his \"kill Shiro\" plan in \"Fate\" and \"HF\"?\n\nIn HF,\n\n> Archer subordinates his desire to get rid of Shirou to the need to deal with\n> the shadow, which poses an existential threat. The shadow existing is an\n> indirect consequence of the divergence point for HF - Shirou walks Sakura\n> home; Zouken sees this and thrusts Sakura into a more active role in the\n> war; the shadow is the result of that.\n\nI don't have any good explanation for why Archer doesn't do that in Fate.\nMaybe we can write it off as Archer being injured (because of Saber on the\nfirst night) and not really in a position to deal with Shirou.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Well, this is a spoiler for a non-F/SN thing, and telling you what it's for\nis would be a spoiler too, so hover if you dare.\n\n> The various timelines of _Madoka Magica_ do quite a good job of exploring\n> the outcomes that result from Homura effectively causing divergences by\n> changing the way she acts after she wakes up in the hospital on day one.\n> It's not a perfect analogy to F/SN, since the timelines don't all start from\n> exactly the same place (Homura gains additional knowledge in each successive\n> timeline), but it's close.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Golden Den Den Mushi is used for ordering the Buster Call and seems to be\nmade of rigid gold. It's strange and unusual for the rest of the species.\n\nIs it an actual living being, or (unlike regular Den Den Mushis) some kind of\nmechanically improved, or purely mechanical device?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGolden Den Den Mushi is the variation of normal Den Den Mushi, as stated\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Den_Den_Mushi#Golden_Den_Den_Mushi).\nHowever, this Den Den Mushi is immobile and entire body are made out of gold.\n\n> The Golden Den Den Mushi (ゴールデン電伝虫 Gōruden Den-den Mushi?), Golden\n> Transponder Snail in the Viz Manga, is a **special kind of Den Den Mushi**\n> which is only held by the Marine Admirals. It is used to summon the Buster\n> Call attack. **The Den Den Mushi is immobile and its entire body appears to\n> be made out of gold.**\n\nIt's also said that Golden Den Den Mushi is a very rare type of normal Den Den\nMushi\n\n> **It is a very rare type of Den Den Mushi.** After the button on its back is\n> pressed, it sends a message straight to the Silver Den Den Mushi, which is\n> the signal for the Marines to start the Buster Call.\n\nSo, Golden Den Den Mushi is technically is a very rare snail and not a\nmechanical device.\n\n**P.S.**\n\nIf we're talking about \"mechanically improved\" the Den Den Mushi itself just a\nsnail with can communicate with each other telepathically through radio waves.\nPeoples in One Piece world attaching button and receiver to them. So you can\nsay that Den Den Mushi are mechanically improved snails.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Chapter 386 Spandam is holding the Golden Den Den Mushi and mentions that\nit is a precious _species_ , indicating that it is in fact, a living snail.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CRA0A.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the **Vampire Knight anime** it is revealed that Senri Shiki's father is\nRido Kuran and Rido Kuran is Kaname Kuran's uncle. However, Kaname and Senri\nnever refer each other as cousins or family.\n\n**Are Kaname and Senri cousins?**\n\nand\n\n**Why isn't Senri called Senri Kuran?**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSBpom.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HoMm5m.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet me take an instance of one villain: Arlong. Arlong got defeated by Luffy,\nhe wasn't killed. Luffy didn't stay in Kokoyashi village either. So Arlong\ncould have returned to his usual business of enslaving the village. He would\nhave faced ugly humiliating words from Villagers initially, but why would it\nmatter? All you gotta do is gang-up on them. No one in the village was strong\nenough to stop them.\n\nThere are many other pirates who just disappeared after being defeated. It's\nnot like they lived their life with principle or something, they were bad guys\nwho used to loot, cheat, and kill people. Why wouldn't they continue that\nafter being defeated?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn most of the cases, the big villains we've seen have been arrested by the\nMarines after they were defeated, so they would not get such an opportunity.\nWe see most of them in the Impel Down arc, locked up.\n\nSpecifically, in the case of Arlong that you mentioned:\n\n> It is currently unknown where Arlong is being held, since we didn't see him\n> in Impel Down, but he is being held by the Marines somewhere. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y4m3g.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit might be because, if pirate defeat another one usually that village will be\nunder control of the winner, for example white beard had alot of villages\nunder his control and no body ever touch them, because other pirates knows\nthat if any thing happened in that village, it will cause them a lot of\ntroubles with white beard and might start a war if the to side are strong.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI must admit I do agree with both of the other 2 answers, however i think\nthere is also a simple logical approach to the issue; with each successive\nantagonist luffy takes on the antagonists get stronger and stronger and so do\nthe protagonists. Some of the antagonists are important and come back into\nplay later on and some of them had 1 purpose, to be the next stepping stone\nfor the straw hats to overcome and once they played that role they have no\nmore use. Also who knows, maybe Arlong rules once again and straw hat is too\nbusy fighting warlords and emperors to even know that Arlong is back in power.\nWhitebeard kept his islands safe because the threat of his crew hunting down\nenemies and destroying them but the straw hats are too busy progressing toward\nOne Piece to keep tabs on those they defeat. Even if Arlong is back in power\nas long as he doesn't chase after Luffy then Luffy and his crew wont find out\nfor years and years as they search for One Piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe crew escapes from these behemoths shortly before arriving on the island\nchain with Bellamy.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YCpKH.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese are shadows, not monsters. These are explained by the fact that Sky\nIsland is so high up in the air, the distance that the shadow is travelling is\nvery far, making shadows cast very large.\n\nHere you can see the same effect where Luffy's shadow is seen:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/66vYE.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nskypien giants i thing almost the same as the oes from the florian tryangle\nthe spear and there is no way a shadow in the sea and the shadow above is in\nthe air these were throwing spears unless the things at the florian triangles\nwere shadows.but they still may be shadows who knows they had wings.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Saber died, she should have lost both Excalibur and Avalon. The Einzbern\nare able to locate the latter in the present time, which they used as catalyst\nto summon her. Why is it that Saber still had Excalibur on her person when she\nwas summoned as HS? (IIRC, it is sheathed by invisible air). The sword itself\nshould have been left behind in the real world like Avalon was.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFate/side material (2004-1-30), p.056 defines _Heroic Spirits_ as:\n\n> Heroes who achieved great things in life, and became objects of worship\n> after death.\n\nSaber is actually a special case in this matter. Saber did not die. When Saber\nwas on the brink of death she made a contract with the world to become a\nheroic spirit after her death. Since the stories we see are in a time much\nlater than the time Saber is in, she can of course be summoned, since Heroic\nSpirits are timeless. However, at the time of making this contract, she was\nnot in possession of Avalon.\n\nFrom Fate/complete material III World material:\n\n> In the civil war that raged at the end of Artoria's reign, she and her son\n> Mordred mortally wounded each other. At that moment, she made a pact with\n> the World to serve as a Heroic Spirit after death. In exchange, she wished\n> that the Holy Grail would redo the selection of the king.\n\nSaber had lost Avalon before her death, and its loss had been engrained into\nthe legend of King Arthur. While she did have Bedivere throw Excalibur back to\nthe Lady of the Lake, it was with her until soon before she would pass away.\nIt was then that Saber made the contract with the world, requesting she be\ngiven an opportunity to seek the grail in exchange for her becoming a Heroic\nSpirit.\n\nAlso from Fate/complete material III World material:\n\n> In legend, the loss of this sheath cast an ominous pall over the life of\n> King Arthur, eventually cascading into the collapse of the kingdom. In\n> modern times, the Einzberns excavated Avalon at Cornwall and passed it into\n> the hands of Emiya Kiritsugu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is because according to the Arthurian legends, the actual scabbard is\nstolen by Morgan le Fay and thrown into a lake, never to be found again. So\nthe Einzberns must have found it somehow.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKaido is called the strongest creature in the One Piece world. Hence, he must\nbe immensely powerful.\n\nMy question is: What is his power? Is he a devil fruit user?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe short answer is that we currently don't know.\n\nHowever, Kaidou is often referred to as the \"strongest creature in the world\"\n(Chapter 697, page 4), insinuating that he might not be human. This might\nrefer to a special devil fruit that he has eaten (devil fruit eaters have\npreviously been referred to as \"monsters\"), or just to the fact that he has\nhorns.\n\nAnother possibility is that he is so strong, so powerful and so impossible to\nkill (as he's been tortured, captured and even tried to kill himself by\njumping from 10,000 meters to the ground) that people just call him a\n\"monster\", as they did for Whitebeard.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe still don´t know if Kaidou is a devil fruit user or if he as any kind of\npower but [his Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kaido) page says the\nfollowing:\n\n> Perhaps the greatest sign of Kaido's strength is his inability to die. He\n> has been caught and tortured 18 times, and people have attempted to execute\n> him 40 times. However, he mysteriously survived every single attempt because\n> every single execution weapon has broken when being used on him. Kaido also\n> managed to singlehandedly sink nine huge prison ships. Most notably, Kaido\n> has jumped from 10,000 meters in the sky onto the ground, creating a massive\n> shockwave strong enough to sink a large ship nearby, and emerged without a\n> single injury. It has even become a hobby for him to attempt suicide only\n> for it to fail.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just realize something from this statement From _One Piece Wikia_ , here:\n\n> Perhaps the greatest sign of Kaido's strength is his apparent inability to\n> die. He has been caught and tortured 18 times, and people as powerful as the\n> Marines and other Yonko have attempted to execute him 40 times. However, he\n> mysteriously survived every single attempt because every single execution\n> weapon broke when being used on him. Most notably, Kaido has jumped from\n> 10,000 meters in the sky onto the ground, creating a massive shockwave\n> strong enough to sink a large ship nearby, and emerged without an injury; it\n> has even become a hobby for him to attempt suicide, only for it to fail.\n\nIf he had any Devil Fruit power, then it should be easy to commit suicide,\njust drown yourself in to the bottom of the ocean.\n\nSo the answer is no, he just super strong like Shanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Devil Fruit's name is not yet stated, but based on his appearance and\npower, probably a Dragon Devil Fruit (Ryu-Ryu no mi?). Most likely a mythical\nZoan since he has a fiery aura reminiscent of Marco's phoenix form. It also\nexplains how he managed to burn down Owen castle single-handedly and why he\nhas horns, and the dragon scale tattoo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**SPOILERS AHEAD**\n\nIt has been confirmed in Chapter 921 of _One Piece_ , that Kaido has a Zoan\nDevil Fruit ability (mostly Mythical). His Devil Fruit lets him change into a\nhuge\n\n> Dragon\n\nReference:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/akGpE.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Nagato an Uchiha or an Uzumaki? I don't know - I am asking this question\nbecause their names sound alike and Nagato has red hair like Kushina Uzumaki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime production nowadays is now pretty much complicated and technologically\nadvanced.\n\nI'm curious as to how was anime production back then back in the old days when\nit was still obscure?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe very first anime ([see\nmore](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3408/what-is-the-first-ever-\nproduced-anime-and-manga)) - [Katsudō\nShashin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsud%C5%8D_Shashin) was sketched onto\na celluloid strip using a _kappa-ban_ for a [Magic\nLantern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern), adjusted for continuous\nplay.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/utlQI.gif)\n(Arthur Mee and Holland Thompson, eds. The Book of Knowledge (New York, NY:\nThe Grolier Society, 1912))\n\nPreviously, the magic lantern had been occasionally been used to tell stories,\nbut none in a fluid manner like Katsudo Shashin. It's claim to be the 'first\nanime' is still debated due to many things, including its length.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GojmK.jpg)\n\nThe basic principle of the Magic lantern is magnification through a convex\nlens. This meant however, that slides were put in upside down in order to be\nprojected at the correct orientation.\n\nThe origins of the Magic lantern are estimated to lie [in the 17th\ncentury](http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/Magic_Lantern),\n\nWhilst Magic Lanterns fell out of use, celluloid sheets continued to be used\nfor many years, until they were eventually replaced by digital methods.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that when young shinobi in traing graduate from the academy and become\nGenin they are places in 4 man cells, 3 Genin and a Jonin Sensei.\n\nAt the beginning Naruto inital failed the exam and wasn't going to be a Genin\nuntil Iruka graduated him. had Iruka not passed Naruto the Rookie 9 would have\nbeen the Rookie 8 and Sasuke and Sakura would be without a third person for\ntheir team.\n\nSo i am wondering, if the number of new Genin is not a multiple of 3 does a\nvillage or academy do anything to correct the numbers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn One Piece notorious pirates have a bounty on their heads with Luffy getting\nhis after defeating Arlong.\n\nIt seems obvious to me that the Marines would be the ones who do the payouts\nsince they are the one who produce the wanted posters, but what happens when a\nMarine like Smoker goes after a pirate? Do they get the bounty or some other\nreward?\n\nAnd what about other pirates such with the case when Buggy and Alvida were\nabout to kill Luffy in Roguetown, would the Marines pay out the bounty to them\nif they came to claim it (considering that by killing or bringing in another\npirate is doing the Marine's job for them)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n 1. As we see Luffy first got a bounty of 30.000.000 Beli after defeating Arlong. He got this especially because he beat this marine guy who had deas with Arlong (don't remember the name) and that guy wanted Luffy `Dead or Alive`. So the marine checked Luffys enemys - Buggy (15 Mio), Don Creek (17 Mio), Arlong (20 Mio) - based on them he got his 30 Mio.\n\n 2. Sure, I think, the marine has to pay that bounty because they are obvisously the good ones and want them to imprison.\n\n 3. Marines guys won't get the price, the will get some promotion or a title - like we saw after defeating Crocodile with Smoker.\n\n 4. Since Pirates and Marines are the biggest foes and the marine want to destroy all piracy they would catch the pirates instead of being thankful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think they did not get the bounty on pirate head. They are working under\ngovernment. They must salary and get promotion on the basis of their success\nand the power they got like coby.\n\nThe pirate hunter get the bounty when the caught the pirate or kill the\npirate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo if a sichibukai kills a pirate will he get the bounty.Sichibukai aren't\ntargeted by the marines so will they wait for the marines to come and collect\nthe bounty.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe haven't yet seen the details of a bounty being collected, but it seems\nincredibly unlikely that the marines would pay a pirate the bounty for\ndefeating or capturing another pirate, as all pirates are by definition wanted\ncriminals who are to be arrested on recognition, as in the world of One Piece,\nmerely flying a black flag and declaring yourself a pirate is a crime. This\nseems backed up by when Blackbeard captured Jewellery Bonney and tried to\nexchange her with the world government, they responded by sending a warship\nwith an angry Akainu on board.\n\nIt also seems unlikely that they would give the bounties to marines who are\ncarrying out their duties, and would have different rewards in place, but it\nis perfectly possible that marines can and do earn bounty rewards.\n\nThe main groups that seem eligible to receive bounties seem to be:\n\n * Bounty Hunters\n * Mercenaries\n * Armies and soldiers who report to a single nation instead of the world government\n * Assassins\n * Warlords\n\nObviously for the average concerned citizen in One Piece, capturing or\ndefeating someone with a large bounty is impossible, as bounties tend to be at\nleast somewhat correlated with strength. A notable exception is a young Nico\nRobin, who had a large bounty long before she had any significant combat\nstrength, so was always on the run and fearing being turned in.\n\nAnyone not considered a criminal who has the luck/power to capture or kill a\nbounty holder while not working for the world government seems to be\nguaranteed the bounty, so almost anyone except for marines, revolutionaries,\npirates and other criminals.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEdit:\n\nI found this to be called: [Not blood\nRelated](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotBloodSiblings)\naccording to an article in TVTropes.\n\nhere are some examples:\n\n> In the anime Happy Lesson, Chitose's sisters aren't really related to him\n> and are clearly invoking a Big Sister Instinct and Cool Big Sis.\n>\n> KissXsis runs on this trope. Keita's twin step-sisters compete with each\n> other for his affections, much to his dismay. His parents not only are aware\n> of this, but actively encourage him to go for one of the girls, constantly\n> reminding him that ' **it's not by blood, so it's OK!'**\n\nIn KissxSis, Ako and Riko literally loves their little brother Keita (related\nby marriage of their mother and keita's father) and they keep competing for\nhis _Love_ on almost every episode.\n\nFreezing also has this, a 2nd year Pandora has to choose a 1st year limiter..\neventhough the limiter calls his pandora a sister (but not blood related) they\nperform an initiation \"baptism\" or also know as \"first room visit\"\n\nOther examples: kanokon\n\nWho started this? and what is its inspiration?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Hindu mythology, [Asura](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura) are the bad\nbeings. Asuras always try to steal the place of Devas because they didn't get\nit. [Indra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra) is a king of Devas/Suras.\n\nSo in short Indra (Deva) is depicted as good being in Hindu mythology and\nAsura as bad beings and\n[Naruto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Naruto_episodes) is inspired\nfrom Hinduism/Buddhism, so why is the adaptation of Indra and Asura made\nopposite to their real self? Have the makers explained it ever?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike I mentioned in my comment to your question, Asuras are shown to be\nstronger than normal human beings although they lack intelligence (Like\nNaruto). Devas on the other hand lack physical strength but are believed to be\nwitty and skillful (Like Sasuke). Your argument that Asuras _always_ try to\nsteal the place of Devas is not entirely true. Example is\n[Prahlada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlada). He is an Asura but still\nis described as a saintly boy in the Puranas. His name's literal meaning is:\nfilled with joy. (Just like Naruto).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, I don't know if Sensei Masashi has given any explanation. But my guess\nis that, Naruto wasn't intended to be a history series, they probably\nintentionally made it different or reversed the version from the real one.\n\nWhy? Maybe for creative purposes. Maybe they didn't want it to be like a real\nversion of the otherwise religiously influenced story, to avoid any claims or\nto avoid any offensive feelings that may occur because of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can easily, and legally, stream anime for free from services like\nCrunchyroll, Hulu, directly from the licensing companies (such as from\nFunimation), and whatnot.\n\nBut the catch to that free access to the content is that it is subbed, not\ndubbed; you have to pay an actual fee if you want to watch the anime dubbed.\n\nWhy is dubbed anime considered a \"premium\" that you have to pay for?\n\nI ask this because a fairly substantial amount of the anime fan population\nactually prefer to watch subbed anime anyways, even to the point of inciting\nsome ridiculous subbed vs dubbed arguments in Youtube comments sections and\nother internet forums...\n\nWhy charge for just dubbed anime when you can also charge for subbed as well?\nWhat makes dubbed so special that you have to pay for it, but not for subbed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCreating anime [costs a **_lot_** of\nmoney.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4179/102) I admit that the numbers\nin that answer are more than likely ballparks, but you get the gist - per\nepisode numbers are in the neighborhood of 11M yen (or ~$97,200).\n\nAdd on top of that the work that has to go into localization for release:\n\n * Certain scenes may ~~have to~~ be omitted, cut, shortened, censored or removed due to the difference in what is acceptable to broadcast in that country. (I'm thinking of DiC for their [creative dub of Sailor Moon](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DubText), and 4Kids for just about everything they touched. There were also scenes from various other series that had to be removed; you can read more about that [over here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DigitalBikini).)\n\n * Certain jokes just don't translate well, no matter what you do.\n\nThe cost to do this adds on top of the original production costs, since there\nis the very strong likelihood that it's not just voice actors and actresses\ncoming in and doing the work.\n\nAbove all, the series actually has to be doing sufficiently well in order to\nearn a dub, or there has to be sufficient demand to deem it profitable to do\none. One of the best examples that comes to mind is\n[Toradora!](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2014-03-12/toradora-\nto-be-released-with-a-full-english-dub-and-on-blu-ray-in-premium-and-standard-\nedition-formats-this-july), which had its original version broadcast and\nreleased back in 2009, and had its dub come out about **five years later**.\nIt's safe to say that yes, there was enough demand for this series to come out\nwith a dub.\n\nSuffice to say, the cost to produce the non-dubbed, often subtitled series is\nsufficiently less than hiring more staff to do essentially the same thing.\nThis is why dubbed anime is definitely at a premium - because the work being\ndone _is_ a premium service for non-native Japanese speakers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVanishing Rasengan is a miniature Rasengan which was originally developed by\nBoruto as seen in Boruto: Naruto the Movie. In that movie, when Boruto was\ntrying to learn Rasengan in front of Sasuke, it was observed that his Rasengan\nusually vanishes into the air but the effect of Rasengan is still there.\n\nHow was Boruto able to make the Rasengan vanish? How does Vanishing Rasengan\nwork?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Vanishing_Rasengan) said, Boruto create\na miniature of Rasengan then he inject the Rasengan with Wind release nature,\nso the it can be thrown.\n\n> The user creates a miniature Rasengan, to the size of a big grape, which is\n> capable of being thrown due to the Wind Release nature transformation that\n> is applied. While gliding in the air, the sphere disappears and hits the\n> target.\n\nAbout your question how Boruto was **able to vanish** the Rasengan, I think\nbecause it's so small, slowly vanishing while thrown but still hits the target\nbecause his Wind Release nature. But it's only my opinion of course.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is because he (unknowingly) puts a small amount of wind chakra in it and it\nsomehow absorbs nature energy. That is how the Vanishing Rasengan works. It is\nstill much of a mystery though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe vanishing rasengan is small and when it explodes it looks like it's only\nas big as a regular rasengan.But when Naruto creates a rasengan it explodes to\na big hole therefore the regular rasengan is more powerful than the vanishing\nrasengan\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll of that is in fact wrong Borutos vanishing rasengan is not wind style at\nall. Sasuke states in the canon episode of the Momoshiki fight that Boruto\nunconsciously adds a lightning nature to his rasengan which is what allows it\nto move at such speeds and disappear. I assume it disappears because of the\nspeed and lighting's tendency to disappear quickly. Well anyway Borutos\nrasengan is a lightning style.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSasuke said that boruto when infusing chakra to make a rasengan adds little\namounts of lightning style unintentionally which creates vanishing rasengan\nand the techniqur i presume isnt fully developed. The theory of the vanishing\nrasengan being wind style is wrong because Naruto has already made wind style\nrasengans which has a different effect\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI enjoyed the anime a lot. Most of the time, no main character made bad\ndecisions in fights or at progressing. However, in the Chimera Ants arc,\nwouldn't it be easier to trap the Chimera Ant King in one of the special rooms\nin Knov's Nen dimension? Are the rooms to weak to keep him in there?\n\nThey could just let him starve there. I know Knov was scared of the Chimera\nAnt's Nen, but he created those rooms before the battle, so one of the others\ncould move the King there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that GATE: thus the JSDF fought here is a novel which has been then\nadapted into both a manga and two anime series. Since I am currently reading\nthe manga I was wondering where I was with respect to the anime version and\nthe novel.\n\nI have reached the point where they fight the fire dragon, and I would like to\navoid spoiling myself by watching the last episode of the season is currently\nbeing aired.\n\nSo, which chapters of the manga/volumes of the novel were adapted by the first\nseason and which by the second?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last episode of Code Geass R2, after Lelouch died, Nunally touched his\nhand and she suddenly knew what he did and what the Zero Requiem was. Was this\na power of Geass?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis has something to do with the Geass. In episode 11 of Code Geass, Lelouch\nsaw C.C.'s memories when he touched her. Though it wasn't the first time that\nhe had touched her, seeing her memories was a first. It is left unclear under\nwhat circumstances does a memory leak like this one happens.\n\nWhat happened to Nunnally was something similar. She saw his memories when she\ntouched him. It is probably some anomaly related to the Geass.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Light got the Death Note, he started writing criminals' names and\nkilling them. Even after L made his first appearance and said that he would\nfind Kira, then Light was thrilled up and accepted that as a challenge.\n\nAs we all know Light was the 1st performer in his academics from the start.\nBut when he got the Death Note, then he was certainly spending a lot of time\non planning how to kill, and also observing how the Death Note works. But even\nafter all this pressure of killing and L coming to find him, he maintained his\nacademic performance.\n\nSo does that mean Light was so talented that even without studying he was able\nto come first in his academics, or was he spending enough time in academics as\nwell? Is there anything specified in the anime or manga about how he was\nmanaging his time between his studies and by writing names in the Death Note\nso that he would not get caught?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLight was the top in his class is academics and also in tennis, which just\ngoes to characterization to express the point that he is the all around A+\nstudent. On top of all that Light also works as a civilian consultant for the\npolice and he employs his amazing logical deductions to help him solve crimes.\nAgain this goes to show that Light is extremely intelligent, very hard\nworking, and can multi-task exceptionally well. There is a scene where L has\nLight's room bugged and Light is using one hand to do his math home-work while\nhis other hand writes names to kill people, as if it were nothing. Light was\nable to keep up his grades because the tests and work he was doing was beneath\nhis intelligence and might as well have been \"what is 2+2\" because that's how\neasy Light's classes were to him.\n\nOver time Light starts to go psychotic as the stress finally gets to him and\nhe's trying to get all suspicion away from him as he tries to kill L and I\nbelieve that's because Light has never really been challenged or stressed\nbefore; for the first time ever Light is having a hard time controlling the\nsituation and at first he enjoys having to actually try but as the series\nprogresses he fades into madness as he can't control the situation and he\nrefuses to accept that as an answer because he is used to being on top of\neverything and never getting over-whelmed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI also think that in one episode, he tells Ryuk that he cannot just keep\nwriting names in the notebook. He has to study also to keep up with his\ngrades, and I think he tells Ryuk that he spends part of the day on academics\nand uses the rest of the time for writing the names. It's been some time since\nI watched _Death Note_ , but I guess that this is what he did, and that he\ncould not let his grades drop since that would also lead to suspicion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs above, is there a special reason why digimon names end in mon?\n\n[This](http://withthewill.net/threads/8345-Why-Digimon-have-quot-Mon-quot-at-\nthe-end-of-their-names) thread says its for marketing but the guy also has the\ntheory of:\n\n> Digimon are digital lifeforms, and are made up of computer data, right? As\n> we know, every kind of data file has an extension, or file format, for\n> example a Microsoft Word document has \".doc\" as its extension, a web page\n> has \".html\" and an image has \".jpeg\", \".png\", \".gif\" etc, so perhaps the\n> same thing applies for Digimon.\n>\n> by _wildwing64_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDigimon is like Pokemon where _**Pokemon**_ is short for _**Pocket Monsters**_\n, that said _**Digimon**_ is short for _**Digital Monsters**_\n\nthis is visiable in most logos for Digimon\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hv0YU.gif)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eRtWY.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3j7gJ.png)\n\nAlso in the first episode of the 4Kids dub of Digimon Adventure when the Digi-\ndestined come back together after finding their Digimon Partners the Digimon\nsays in unision ([after Bukamon jumps off Joe's\nshoulder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4fRE_OK48E&t=11m00s))\n\n> **Bukamon** : we are.....\n>\n> **All** : Digimon! Digital Monsters\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust like what [Memor-X](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1587/memor-x)\nanswered:\n\n> Digimon is like Pokemon where Pokemon is short for Pocket Monsters, that\n> said **Digimon** is short for **Digital Monsters**\n\nThe suffix **-mon** means monster as what the title also means.\n\n**Name**\n\n> The name of a Digimon species is usually based on its form, and **may be a\n> pun**. For example, **Hyokomon** 's name and design are derived from the\n> Japanese onomatopoeia for unsteady steps (「ひょこひょこ」 \"Hyokohyoko\"?), as well\n> as the Chick (Gallus gallus domesticus) (雛 Hiyoko?). The species's name\n> always ends in **\" -mon\"**.\n>\n> Digimon generally **do not have individual names** , and are instead simply\n> referred to by the name of their species. So the word \"Agumon\", depending on\n> the context it's used in, can either refer to the Digimon species or a\n> single individual Digimon of that species. The Centarumon in Digimon\n> Adventure and the Centarumon in Digimon Frontier share the same name because\n> they are of the same species. However, they are not the same individual, and\n> are different in appearance and voice.\n\nSource: [Digimon (creature)\nWikia](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digimon_\\(creature\\))\n\n**Digital Lifeforms**\n\nAs for the data file extension theory, here is a _possible_ connection.\nDigimon have different attributes. We know that Digimon are digital lifeforms\nresiding in the digital world.\n\nFrom [Wikia](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digimon_\\(creature\\)):\n\n> Attribute\n>\n> Most Digimon species are classified into five attributes— **Data, Vaccine,\n> Virus, Free, and Variable**. Most Digimon fall into the first three\n> categories, with \"Free\" being rarer and \"Variable\" exclusive to Hybrid\n> Digimon. Some Digimon either have their attributed by unidentified or lack\n> them entirely.\n>\n> The main three attributes have a Rock, Paper, Scissors arrangement where\n> Virus is generally advantaged against Data, Data is advantaged against\n> Vaccine and Vaccine is advantaged against Virus. However, these attributes\n> don't play a very important role in Digimon fights. A Digimon can generally\n> defeat an opponent regardless of attribute if it is stronger than the\n> opponent in Digivolution level and experience.\n\nAccording to the thread you linked in\n[withthewill](http://withthewill.net/threads/8345-Why-Digimon-have-quot-Mon-\nquot-at-the-end-of-their-names):\n\n> Digimon are digital lifeforms, and **are made up of computer data** , right?\n> As we know, every kind of data file has an extension, or file format, for\n> example a Microsoft Word document has \".doc\" as its extension, a web page\n> has \".html\" and an image has \".jpeg\", \".png\", \".gif\" etc, so perhaps the\n> same thing applies for Digimon.\n>\n> Perhaps there is a file for every different Digimon (as in entire species,\n> rather than singular Digimon), with that file format being \".mon\", for\n> example, the Agumon species filename would be \"Agu.mon\".\n\nThis theory is explained by Kira the Wanderer:\n\n> I think it is what makes the most logic, **something that is not directly\n> explained because it requires you to think**. \"Dra\" always refers to\n> \"dragon\", \"devi\" to \"devil\", \"Vam\" to \"Vampire, \"De\" to \"demon\" and so on.\n> All the others have names that are a reference to something, whether it be a\n> noise (Like Koromon) or otherwise. A file type does sound best and makes\n> sense.\n\nand ukyouluvr's explanation:\n\n> **Grani from Tamers** was very obviously created as some kind of program. I\n> wanna say that there was even a scene at some point that showed a computer\n> display that read ' **Grani.exe** '.\n\nZero ARMS: [Grani](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Grani) is a [ZERO-\nARMS](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/ZERO-ARMS) whose name and design are\nderived from the mythological Grani, the steed of the hero Sigurd. It serves\nas a flying mount for Gallantmon.\n\n> If you want to explore the theory further, that might be a good place to\n> start looking.\n>\n> It could imply what **non-digimon digital lifeforms** are classified as. If\n> **they are .exe filetypes** , then it would imply to me that non-digimon\n> digital lifeforms are literally part of the program of the Digital World,\n> making them something akin to forces of nature like Gravity. It fits well\n> with the idea of Gennai & the Digi-gnomes. The D-Reaper and Grani were also\n> created by programmers, and specifically referred to as 'programs' in the\n> anime.\n\nAngelosTheHero posted...\n\n> It originated from Tamagotchi, which Digimon is born from; every\n> Tamagotchi's name ends in -tchi, a cutesy Japanese suffix. While -mon is not\n> a suffix, they followed the same convention of having something at the end\n> of every creature's name.\n\nThat explains it, but still doesn't really justify the choice. Everyone\nrealizes they're \"Digital monsters\"; not every creature needs a label. Oh\nwell, at least it's fun. Also this might be due to making it more unique that\nin a way when you say a name like **Agumon** or **Greymon** anyone who hears\nit wouldn't say \" _Those are Digimons, right?_ \" but would think exactly that\n\" _Those are Digimons_ \" due to the -mon suffix.\n\nFurthermore, all Digimon names have an **etymology/meaning**. For example,\nBirdramon means \"Bird Dragon Monster\". It also helps make non-Digimon digital\nentities seem even more alien/bizarre to the setting. For example, Eaters feel\n\"wrong\" because they are not even Digimon but an entire different\nthing/monster. If Digimon didn't have the -mon suffix, the effect would be\nlost and Eater would be \"just another Digimon\".\n\n**PS**\n\nAs for my previous comment. It is just stated that the OP is asking about why\nthe names of Digimon ended with -mon. The answer of Memor-X is **correct** ,\nit's just that saying that Digimon is like Pokemon is somewhat not right. We\nknow that Digimon names end with -mon if we're talking about the names, and\nfor Pokemon, they don't. Its just because that Digimon is named with -mon at\nthe end because it **may be a pun** invented by its creator.\n\n**Trivia about Pokémon:**\n\nAt first, it is titled _Pocket Monsters_. However they shortened it to\n**Pokémon** for a catchier name and also because the term Pocket Monsters was\nalready coined in the U.S.\n\n> Pokémon is short for the original Japanese title of Pocket Monsters.\n>\n> The name Pokémon is the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand Pocket\n> Monsters (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?), as such contractions are very common\n> in Japan.\n\nsource: [Wikipedia-Pokemon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRikudou Madara in \"Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4\" activates his\nLimbo Perfect Susanoo, and uses it against Naruto and Sasuke.\n\nCan he activate Limbo Perfect Susanoo in the anime? I think it is amazing to\nsee final battle with Madara before his death.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JayU8.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first episode of _Osumatsu San_ is no longer available on Crunchyroll.\nInstead, a message on the right of the episode page states:\n\n> Due to a decision by the anime's production committee, episode 1 is no\n> longer available.\n\nWhat drove the anime production committee to make this decision?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe series has took liberties with the content included in the episode.\n\nThe entire first episode is about the sextuplets trying to decide what type of\nanime they want to be since they really don't think Showa era anime will work\nanymore. So they change their art style and they go through a number of gags\nparodying anime from recent years.\n\nWithin the first episode we see parodies from _Attack On Titan_ , _Pokemon_ ,\n_Sailor Moon_ , _Dragon Ball Z_ , and probably several others I didn't catch.\n\nAn example of such:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLHXW.jpg)\n\nIn Japan, the [law](http://www.softic.or.jp/en/articles/fordham_sugiyama.html)\nsides heavily with the original creator of a work, and provides no legal\nprotection for parody creators:\n\n> The author shall have the right to preserve the integrity of his work and\n> its title against any distortion, mutilation or other modification against\n> his will.\n\nThus making the parodies shown in episode 1 a liability. Part of the joke of\nthis episode is that they finally figure out what kind of anime they want to\nbe 23 minutes in, when the episode ends, triggering a third animation style\nchange.\n\nAnime News Network has put out an\n[article](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-04/mr-osomatsu-\nepisode-1-to-be-pulled-from-home-video-streaming/.95018) about the first\nepisode. The episode was pulled from all streaming sites and a new first\nepisode was animated and added to the home video release to replace it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 452 of Naruto Shippuden,\n\nItachi used his shadow clone which was in Academy and he was himself training\nin forest. Since he is already very young then how come he was able to use\nShadow clone. According to the teacher of Academy he was so talented that they\ngraduated him but still how we was able to use it.\n\nAccording to Fugaku Uchiha (His father), he has never used Shadow clone and\nalso as per wiki Jutsu section its only states that he used only Fire release\nJutsu.\n\nSince his Father was the only one who teach him various Jutsu then how he\nlearned Shadow Clone? Is it his Father who teach him or Itachi alone was able\nto learn by himself?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was never confimed in the cannon of Naruto-verse. However it can be\ninferred that such a technique can be self taught.\n\n_Naruto did it._\n\nWith a shinobi as good as Itachi, who mastered the art of Sharingan at the age\nof 8, and having joining Anbu at the age of 11 [Itachi\nwiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi_Uchiha), it shouldn't be hard to\nself-teach the **B-ranked** Shadow-clone jutsu.\n\nShadow clone Jutsu not imposing any blood-line limits (kekkei genkei)- and\nItachi being a prodigy above all others- he could have copied the jutsu with\nhis activated sharingan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo as i was playing _Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel_ when someone comments\nthat Sarapatra's name is that of the Goddess of Love, in the glossary an entry\nof deities appear. in it it talks about Elemental Gods such as the God of Aqua\nand the God of Fuero.\n\nConsidering that in Metafalss Luca and Nenesha are known as the Maidens of\nFuero and Cloche and Infel are the Maidens of Aqua, is there a connection\nbetween the Gods of Aqua and Fuero and the Holy Maidens of Metafalss which was\nnot mentioned in Ar Tonelico 2?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere isn't. \"Aqua\" and \"Fuero\" are no more than horrible mistranslations that\nNISA made of the words \"Mio\" and \"Homura\", which translate to \"Waterway\" and\n\"Flame\", and in the case of AT3, that glossary entry refers to the Gods of\nFire and Water.\n\nAs for the Maidens, their names are just references to the roles they have\nwhen it comes to singing Metafalica: the Maiden of Mio is the Maiden that has\nthe role of serving as the waterway that collects the feelings of all the IPDs\ninto one, while the Maiden of Homura has the role of turning these feelings\ninto a flame (energy) with the power necessary to cross the wave flow and\nspectrum requirements that Metafalica needs to be executed successfully.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn vomiting scenes, the liquid is censored by rainbow, mosaics or bright\nlight. Why do they censor puke? Blood shedding, killing, fighting, taking\nalcohol, bad language, nudity (without showing genitals), vandalism, etc are\nalmost never censored. Why is vomiting treated like this?\n\n### Examples\n\nMosaic censor in Gintama. \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/idHs9.png)\n\nRainbow censor from Nichijou. \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aCJrp.png)\n\nWhite light censor from another show. \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zzdc7.png)\n\nOld shows (the ones aired before 2010) usually don't censor vomiting. \nGolden Boy (1995-1996) \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ep7oB.gif)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSimply put, nobody wants to see the vomit of anyone as it is so creepy and\ndisgusting that even children will not like it.\n\nThere can be many reasons behind this:\n\n### 1\\. Gross and disgusting or creepy\n\nAccording to me, no one wants see any character who is simply vomiting and\ntaking out all his food.\n\n### The vomit chain reaction\n\nIt's like when one character vomits then those standing near them also start\nvomiting. Like as shown in this\n[link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VomitChainReaction),\n\n> This is Truth in Television, since vomiting has been known to inspire\n> vomiting, as part of a prehistoric instinct: if someone from your same tribe\n> vomits because he ate something harmful, chances are you ate the same thing\n> and therefore it's best if you hurl it too.\n\nAnd this thing happens in real life. There are many people who really vomit in\nthis situation and there is this [link](http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-\nbody/systems/digestive/why-vomit-when-see-something-gross.htm) which shows why\nwe vomit when we see something gross. Which perfectly defines that there are\nsome people who don't like watching some vomiting scene and for the safety of\nviewers they censor it just because they are creepy and disgusting.\n\n### 2\\. For comedy\n\nSince it is disgusting, that's why to make it a bit funny or comedic, they add\nrainbow puke which looks kind of fine.\n\n### 3\\. For safety viewers and broadcasting restriction\n\nAlso there might be the possibility of broadcasting restrictions as they don't\nwant any unnecessary problem. They might think that vomit scenes might not be\ngood for children, so to make it safe for viewers, they censor it. I am not\nsure but they may have shown vomiting scenes in late night anime.\n\n> Still, there are so many anime which [shows characters\n> vomiting](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VomitIndiscretionShot),\n> like in:\n>\n> 1. Before the deployment in Episode 5 of Attack on Titan, soldiers are\n> shown to vomit due to stress.\n>\n> 2. In the un-edited versions of Dragon Ball Z, Gohan kicks Cell in the\n> stomach so hard he causes him to puke up Android 18, along with lots of\n> acid.\n>\n>\n\n>\n> And there are many more.\n\nAs far as killing someone or blood is concerned, then nowadays these things\nare pretty much common and only few people are afraid of these scenes. And if\nthey start censoring these scenes of blood and killing, then there is no\naction (until and unless it's not harsh).\n\nIf it comes to nudity, then there are some [Vanilla\nseries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Series) anime which don't censor\nanything as they are categorized as adult stuff or late night anime (I am also\nnot sure about anything regarding this). They don't censor late night anime\nonly because no children are watching them at night time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese are all memes, or else a progression and mutation of a single meme.\nThere's no requirement to censor vomit, but it's done both for comedic effect\nand to maintain the aesthetic (no visceral imagery).\n\nThe mosaic barf was an extension of the meme where mosaics are used to hide or\neven just imply something too gross to look at. That meme is still used for\nbad cooking sometimes. That in itself isn't really funny, but eventually\nsomeone came up with colored sparkle barf (I think it was korezom first?) and\nfull on rainbow barf followed very soon after, rapidly becoming a successful\nmeme.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs Himawari was able to awaken Byakugan, is it possible that Boruto will also\nbe able to use it?\n\nI am in doubt because, if we take the Uchiha family as an example, then every\nmember of their family has the ability to use Sharingan. I would guess this\nalso applies to the Byakugan users.\n\nSasuke's child Sarada also awakened her Sharingan even though Sakura was not a\nSharingan user.\n\nSo in that case, is it possible that Boruto will be able to use the Byakugan\nin the future? If not, then does it have something to do with genes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom trivia [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Byakugan#Trivia), it is stated\nthat Masashi Khisimoto forgot to give Byakugan to Boruto and Himawari.\n\n> Boruto and Himawari Uzumaki, despite being children of Hinata Hyūga, do not\n> have the characteristic white eyes inherited by Hyūga descendants. According\n> to Masashi Kishimoto, he simply forgot to give it to them.\n\nLater he corrected this. But so far, only Himawari has Byakugan.\n\n> Kishimoto later corrected his mistake for Himawari by giving her the\n> Byakugan in the Zai no Sho's special chapter The Day Naruto Became Hokage.\n> While activated, her eyes take on the normal characteristics of the dōjutsu.\n> When not in use, she has her original blue eyes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOK, so if any of you have been watching Boruto Next Generations, you already\nknow that Boruto has the Byakugan, since when he's fighting with Kawaki in\nepisode 1, he uses it. Now it's a different thing that he might have it\nimplanted, but when it flashbacks to his academy days, he has the byakugan\nshadow already, since it has appeared numerous times, first with Denki, then\nwith Metal Lee. So yes, I think the answer is, he will get byakugan, whether\njust a shadow or implanted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoruto cannot use the byakugan in the anime Boruto Next Generations he has\nwhat is called Dōjutsu and its only in his right eye. He may obtain it later\nbut seeing as the byakugan is typically in bothe eyes, Dōjutsu is in only one\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think being the Naruto series wanting to give Boruto something special, his\neye may have been somewhat an evolved type of Byakugan. Being a son of Naruto,\nsomeone who has ninetails inside of him that made him special. I think same\ngoes to Boruto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe eye that Boruto has is clearly not a Byakugan, and everyone can agree,\nwhat I find it most likely is a new Dojutsu, no one from the Byakugan family\never married someone with as much chakra as Naruto has, unless you count the\ngrand-son of Kaguya (the dude inside the moon) which already had the Byakugan\nwith an extreme chakra source.\n\nAnother option would be the mix of the byakugan with a descendant of the sage\nof the six paths, but this is denied by the fact that Kaguya never had an eye\nlike that manifested, while she is the original blood of any jutsu, as the\ncreator of the series just said that he forgot to give them Byakugans he may\nhave thought to give Boruto something different, Naruto isn't part of the\nbyakugan bloodline so off-springs that don't have the byakugan are totally\npossible, the \"theory\" I like the most is the mix between the Uzumaki genes\n(the Uzumaki clan) with the Byakugan and the blood of the sage of the six\npaths, there is no recorded or shown eyes like Boruto's, so a bit of diversity\ncould've been expected from the creator.\n\nAlthough this looks like a continuation of the _Naruto_ series, it's not\nreally. If you're someone that never watched _Naruto_ you can live happily\never after and have no need to watch it to watch the _Boruto_ series, and even\nif this was the Byakugan that Boruto inherited it would most likely wouldn't\nmake him have excessive power, he is Naruto's son, not Naruto himself, so he\ndoesn't have the nine tails, and for sure not that much chakra as he has.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think think it's likely that boruto will get the byakugan because as\nyou can see in the manga and the anime that he has a new dōjutsu be as in the\nanime he could see chakra points but he could also open a portal with his new\ndōjutsu and the byakugan can see chakra points and the rinnegan can open\nportals so I say borutos prowess is stronger and better than a byakugan and\nsharingan so it's unlikely from him to have two dōjutsu\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ , Naruto's fight with Toneri is set on the\nmoon.\n\nBut how can he breathe on the moon? Is that because of some technique, or\nsomething else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, in this case we should consider that they're in a world totally\ndifferent from ours, what means that their moon surface and structure are\ndifferent from ours as well.\n\nSome say that their moon was created to keep criminals arrested, but in that\nscenario we do have an atmosphere kindly similar to Earth's.\n\nThis isn't so insane to think of when considering the other movies where some\ncharacters could breath inside the water, or things like that.\n\nAbout Kaguya, she wasn't an alien, she was a common woman that ate the fruit\nand absorbed the tree's power. :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'll preface this by saying that the Naruto universe is not our own, and thus\ntheir moon is different. Also, all the spoilers ahead.\n\nThe moon in the Naruto universe was made by the Sage of the Six Paths,\nHagoromo, when he and Hamura sealed Kaguya. The moon was made via Chibaku\nTensei, which is a gravitational ninjutsu that turns an object into a \"gravity\ncore\", which then attracts the matter around it into a large, circular object.\nYou'll remember Pain using it on Naruto to capture the Nine Tails.\nTheoretically, it's possible that the moon has an atmosphere by capturing part\nof their Earth's atmosphere in the creation of the moon, being attracted to it\nvia the intense gravity/immense power of the Sage's and Hamura's joint Chibaku\nTensei. This would allow him to breath there, and since he didn't instantly\nsuffocate on arrival I'd guess there was enough atmosphere from the formation\nto sustain at least his body.\n\n[Chibaku\nTensei](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Six_Paths_%E2%80%94_Chibaku_Tensei)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n### In short\n\nAccording to wiki:\n\n> The exterior of the Moon is barren, covered with craters and canyons. It has\n> a weak gravity, **but is still able to maintain a breathable**\n> **atmosphere** .\n\nSince it has **breathable atmosphere** , so that's why Naruto didn't used any\ntechnique or something else. Which conclude that the Moon from shinobi world\nis far more different than the real moon which we know.\n\nFor more information regarding this you can see this\n[link](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Moon).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not particularly sure why all of the answers have resolved around the fact\nthat the Naruto universe has a moon that is completely different from our own\n- it's more of a cop out, rather than a fully thought through answer.\nAlthough, I'm not saying it's completely wrong, as it could be plausible.\n\nConsidering it is the Naruto universe, filled with chakra and the abilities to\nuse this chakra to create giant masses of elements, then it's pretty safe to\nassume that Naruto and Toneri were either subconsciously using a jutsu that\ncreated/utilised oxygen and allowed them to breath, or, with the power of the\nnine tails (in Naruto's case) and the large mass of chakra handed down through\ngenerations of the Otsutsuki family (in Toneri's case), allowing their bodies\nto operate fully by using chakra, instead of usual body functions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell , Naruto can breathe on moon because it is anime logic. The creators\ndoesn't want to complicate the situation too much and probably thought that\nthey could just leave out the part where humans can't breathe on the moon.\n\nNormally, we call this anime logic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the party goes after Laude who went into the Moon Culvert with Reisha\nthey come across another Heart of Gaea. Luca then seems to switch to Nenesha\nwith her saying that the Heart of Gaea is her body.\n\nConsidering that Nenesha said it was her that would mean this wouldn't be a\nHeart of Gaea Frelia may have made to create the land of Metafalss, so what is\nNenesha's Heart of Gaea for? and why was it even created as in Infel's diary\nshe wrote that the Divine Messenger killed Nenesha\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNenesha's soul was partially transmigrated into a Heart of the Land because\ndespite Metafalica failing, the EXEC part of it was fully executed regardless\nbecause Raki just killed her and that didn't keep the song from fully\nmanifesting its effects. (ref: Ar tonelico II Setting Encyclopedia, History\nsection)\n\nAnd Frelia couldn't even have created a Heart of the Land because her Tower\nwas made by making the particles in the air vibrate to transform them into the\nmaterials that make up the Tower, which is an inert land made entirely from\nmetal (ref: Ar tonelico III Setting Encyclopedia, Wave Theory section). A\nHeart of the Land proper creates a fully living land and requires far more\ncomplex processes and facilities for its creation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter seeing naruto series we have seen different scroll of various sizes\nwhich are used to summon something or to do something related seal.\n\nIn Boruto: Naruto the movie, Konohamaru used Rasengan and sealed that in the\nscroll. So by that sealing Ninjutsu is possible.\n\nSo my question is that, is it possible for someone to seal enemy Ninjutsu on\nscroll.\n\nFor example\n\nNaruto used Rasengan and throws it towards his enemy. So is it possible for\nenemy to seal that Rasengan simply by opening scroll wide enough so that it\ncan strike right through it and then get absorbed. I mean by that enemy can\nseal Rasengan again and again. So is it possible ?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/688aG.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo answer it simply, **YES** , it is possible. However, only with mastery of\nsealing techniques can perform such ninjutsu and of course, with very precise\ntiming.\n\nIn relation to Jiraiya who has been shown to seal Amaterasu, my theory is that\nthe fourth _shared_ his sealing skills to him which came from fourth's wife\n(Kushina) who is known to be skilled with\n[fūinjutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/F%C5%ABinjutsu). An Uzumaki trait\nthat earned them both respect and fear throughout the ninja world.\n\nSee [Uzumaki Clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki_Clan)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wanted to watch Saint Seiya, but I found on Wikipedia that there are many\nseries that make up the Saint Seiya franchise. So what's the order of it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe **main series** is [**Saint\nSeiya**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1254/Saint_Seiya) which is an adaptation\nof first part of the homonymous manga by Masami Kurumada.\n\nThe second part of that manga was later adapted in three different series of\nOVAs which tells about the Holy War fought at the end of the 20th century\nbetween Athena and Hades:\n\n 1. Hades: Chapter Sanctuary\n 2. Hades: Chapter Inferno\n 3. Hades: Chapter Elysium \n\nThis is the core of the story and is set in the 1990s. In the same period of\ntime are set the four OAVs: **Jashin Eris** , **Kamigami no Atsuki Tatakai** ,\n**Shinku no Shounen Densetsu** and **Saishuu Seisen no Senshi-tachi**.\n\nThen there are the **prequels** :\n\n * **Episode G** is set a brief time before the main story and tells stories about the youth of the Gold Saints.\n * **Next dimension** is both a prequel and a sequel (it involves time travel): it is written by the same author of the original story and it tells about the Holy War fought 243 years before the main story.\n * **Lost Canvas** is an alternative prequel (who was adapted by into a two series of OVAs) written by another author, which tells an alternative version of the Holy War fought 243 years before the main story.\n\nThe **sequels** are:\n\n * **Next dimension** (see above)\n * **Soul of Gold** is set in parallel to the ending of the main story and tells about the Gold Saints who are resurrected after their sacrifice at the end of the main story.\n * **Tenkai-hen** an OVA set after the ending of the main story and sees as the main antagonist the God Artemis.\n * **Omega** is set 25 years after the main story and tells about the \"new generation\" of Saints who will have to fight agains Mars and his warriors.\n\nThere is also a **spin-off** , called **Saintia Sho** set more or less in the\nmiddle of the main story, where the main antagonist is the Goddes Eris.\n\nThe following is a scheme showing how the various series are related.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MeWPK.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was searching on the internet and I found [this article on Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-14/hunter-x-hunter-\nmanga-to-return-for-1st-time-since-august-2014/.99778),\n\n> A page on the Shonen Jump+ website announced that Yoshihiro Togashi is\n> resuming his _Hunter × Hunter_ manga in the Ankoku Tairiku (Dark Continent)\n> arc. This year's 16th issue of Shueisha's _Weekly Shonen Jump_ magazine will\n> reveal more details on Saturday.\n\nIs there anyone who knows if this was real, and is there any other news about\nthe return of _Hunter x Hunter_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFinally we got one great news.\n\n### According to this\n[Link](http://www.hngn.com/articles/194561/20160402/hunter-x-debut-adult-\nswims-toonami-starting-april-16-tweet.htm) and\n[wiki](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/News):\n\n> It's been a big past few weeks for \"Hunter x Hunter\" fans. After Shueisha's\n> \"Weekly Shonen Jump\" announced mid-March that \"Hunter x Hunter\" would be\n> making its return to the magazine (confirmed for April 18) after being on\n> hiatus since 2014, fans in America now have even more to look forward to, as\n> Adult Swim's Toonami revealed that an English dub for the series will be\n> aired on the network starting April 16.\n>\n> The announcement was made Friday during a pre-show feature on the Adult Swim\n> website Toonami: Pre-flight. The series will make its premiere on the\n> network starting April 16 at 1 a.m.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pud6J.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Shingeki No Kyojin's latest chapter (chapter 79), beast titan throws a\nstone like he is playing baseball. But the story takes place in a time when\nbaseball wasn't even known. These are the pictures:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yKNI1.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t5lTp.jpg)\n\nIs this a flaw or a problem in the Japanese to English conversion? (Maybe the\nauthor did not intend baseball).\n\nOr could it mean that Reiner, Bertolt, Annie and the beast titan are from a\ndifferent time-line? (I don't think it's possible. If that's the case, they\ncould have just used nuclear bombs instead of titans).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is heavily implied, that world where events are set is our world in distant\nfuture. Remember castle Utgard? There was tuna cans with English writings only\nYmir could understand. It is just residents inside of walls being ignorant of\npossible past knowledge, possibly due to memory manipulation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs it possible that Kakashi and Obito are brothers? Neither of their mothers\nare mentioned, and it would explain how Kakashi awakened the Kamui after his\neyes were taken.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Kakashi is from Hatake clan and Obito is from Uchiha clan so I don't\nthink they can be brothers.\n\nAlso in [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake) it states that :\n\n> Kakashi teaches the importance of teamwork, a lesson he, like the Sharingan,\n> received from his **childhood friend, Obito Uchiha**.\n\nSo its pretty much clear that Obito was Kakashi childhood friend not more than\nthat.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, they are not brothers. Obito's sharingan has the ability to use Kamui.\nSince both Obito and Kakashi share that sharingan, both were able to unlock\nKamui.\n\nObito gives Kakashi his left eye, which has the ability to use long range\nKamui. Obito gets to use his right eye, which can only use short range Kamui.\nThat's why Kakashi was able to unlock Kamui. (Specifically the long range\nvariant).\n\nAlso, Kakashi is from the Hatake clan, while Obito is from the Uchiha clan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**No, they are not brothers.** Obito is from the Uchiha clan, while Kakashi is\nfrom the Hatake clan.\n\n**Furthermore, them being brothers would not explain why Kakashi was able to\nactivate his Sharingan or Mangekyou.**\n\n[Sharingans work even after having been\ntransplanted](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/85/49), and that is why\nKakashi was able to use his — however, it is worth noting that it puts much\nmore strain on him than it would on a \"native\" Sharingan user. As with any\nother Mangekyou users, [Kakashi's and Obito's Mangekyou were awakened once\nthey experienced great loss of someone close to\nthem](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4486/49) (Rin, in their case) — it has\nnothing to do with them being related by blood.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI heard that Tenseigan can be awakened by those having both Otsutsuki and\nHyuga blood lines. Boruto has Otsutsuki blood from Naruto (A descendant of\nHagaromo Otsutsuki) and Hyuga blood from his mother. Can he awaken the\nTenseigan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the moment it is possible, due to the Uzamaki clan being very vaguely\nrelated to Hagaromo (It has been a lot time for dilution of the bloodline). So\nhe could end up with the Tensaigan, but it would be much more likely for the\nTensaigan to appear in the theoretical children of Boruto and Sarada, due to\nSasuke's bloodline having the optical powers of Hagaromo. \nSo to sum it up, Boruto could end up with the Tensaigan some time in the\nforeseeable future.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs I said in comment also nothing is impossible so anything can happen. But\naccording to current information it is not possible for Boruto to awaken\nTenseigan. Let me explain why I said this:\n\n> The combination of the Byakugan and the chakra of an Ōtsutsuki clan member\n> can evolve the Byakugan into the Tenseigan.\n\nSo it pretty much explain that it can **Evolve** Byakugan to Tenseigan by\nhaving chakra of an Ōtsutsuki clan.\n\nSo by current definition of this, it is important to have Byakugan. Since\nBoruto has no Byakugan so we can say that he won't be able to have Tenseigan.\n\nAlso according to this [link](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:160215)\nthere is one answer which really creates a little confusion but also gives us\nhope of some possibility :\n\n> We know that\n>\n> Rinnegan = Asura + Indra (Sharingan)\n>\n> Tenseigan = Otsutsuki + Hyuga (Byakugan)\n>\n> Given that they're the children of Naruto and Hinata, Boruto and Himawari's\n> heritage would thus be:\n>\n> Asura + Hyuga (Byakugan) = ????????\n>\n> So, it's entirely possible that a unique mixture of Hagaromo's and Hamura's\n> chakras will result in these two, awakening a new dojutsu altogether. This\n> could also explain why both of them lack the Byakugan, as well as their\n> teal-colored eyes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is very good reason Boruto could awaken it. However, it requires him to\nawaken or obtain Byakugan as well as have all of the Bijuu chakra from his dad\nimplanted within him somehow. If those conditions were fulfilled, which they\ncould be easily, the Tenseigan should develop from his Byakugan. The nine\nBijuu chakra would fulfill having Otsutsuki chakra since Naruto's chakra is\nSix Paths' chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that Boruto's eye is a completely new ability that we have not seen\nyet. \n\nFirst of all, Boruto's eye is not a byakugan. This is pretty obvious because\nit looks COMPLETELY different from byakugans(no veins, only in one eye,\ndifferent color). It may have similar abilities as the byakugan, but it is not\nthe byakugan. \n\nSecondly, his eyes are not the tenseigan either because it looks completely\ndifferent as well. Sure, both may have blue, but the blacked out portion of\nBoruto's eye indicates a clear separation from the tenseigan. The tenseigan\nalso doesn't have the curse mark like thing around the eye that the older\nversion of Boruto appears to have (see image below). The tenseigan can only be\nacquired by combining the chakra of the Hyuga clan and the Otsutsuki clan.\nBoruto has Hyuga clan chakra but not Otsutsuki clan. Further evidence of this\nis when Boruto speaks with the ghost of Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki after his fight\nwith him. Momoshiki points out Boruto's Hyuga heritage/chakra but makes no\nnote of any dormant Otsutsuki chakra, which he definitely would have if Boruto\ndid have any dormant Otsutsuki chakra. Also, it is stated nowhere that the\ntenseigan is able to see the \"evil chakra\" that Boruto's eye can see.\n\nWhat Boruto's eye can be is a product of combining the chakra of Asura with\nthe chakra of the Hyuga clan. This would yield a completely new kekkei genkai.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Shaman King series, Hao (and later Anna) used to take control of two\nbeasts named Zenki and Goki (or Kouki), which look like this:\n\n\n\nThis immediately reminded me of Zenki and Goki from \"Zenki\":\n\n\n\nSo: Is there a relation between both series? (perhaps authors were friends...)\nOr is Zenki a japanese mythology character? Or... what's the reason behind the\nreference?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have no prior knowledge here, so I'm mostly summarizing Japanese articles\nhere. (English information on these beings exists, but is difficult to find\nbecause it's mostly swamped by _Shaman King_ -related websites.)\n\n[Zenki and\nGoki](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E9%AC%BC%E3%83%BB%E5%BE%8C%E9%AC%BC)\nare, respectively, a male [_oni_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni) and a\nfemale _oni_ (\"ogres\", if you will) who are married to one another. Their\nnames mean, respectively, \" _oni_ of the fore\" and \" _oni_ of the rear\".\n\nThey are said to have been attendants to [En-no-\nOzuno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_no_Gy%C5%8Dja), who is the founder of\n[Shugendō](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugend%C5%8D), a syncretic\nderivative of Buddhism that is indigenous to Japan. Depictions of En-no-Ozuno\nvery commonly feature these two _oni_ flanking him. See, for example, the\npiece \"En no Gyōja, Eight Boy Attendants & Two Demon Attendants (Zenki &\nGoki)\" shown in [this article on\nShugendō](http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/shugendou.html) (by the way,\nthat website is incredibly fascinating if you're interested in Buddhist\nsymbology and art, and is a true wonder of the internet) - Zenki appears to\nthe immediate bottom left of the central figure, and Goki to the immediate\nbottom right. The linked article also includes some narratives about these\nfigures. See [the section titled \"Two Demon Attendants / Servants of Enno\nGyōja\"](http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/shugendou.html#twodemons).\n\nI know nothing about _Shaman King_ or _Kishin Dōji Zenki_ ; anyone who does\nshould feel free to write an answer pointing out any pertinent details about\nhow either of those things relates to the mythological Zenki and Goki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd like to find Saikawa's shirts without printing them myself.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z99zU.jpg)\n\nHave these shirts been made available as licensed product?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was able to find the パン shirt available on Crunchyroll's\n[store](http://www.crunchyroll.com/store/p/174253/Crunchyroll-Exclusive-The-\nPerfect-Insider-Pan-Medium) as a Crunchyroll exclusive product.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DHSKL.jpg)\n\nThey do not have the other shirts available on their store though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, here just a couple of weeks ago, I placed an order for _Code Geass_ season\n1 and season 2 from [Madman Entertainment](https://www.madman.com.au/). This\nis my first time buying anime. I was told that Madman is a great site to buy\nanime from because there are a lot of pirated copies floating around on other\nsites and I wanted to make sure to get an official copy.\n\nMy concern is that I just noticed that they are region 2 and 4 (PAL), and I\nlive in the US (Region 1).\n\nThis all being said, will my computer and PS4 not be able to play them? If\nnot, is there anywhere else to legally obtain these full seasons in my region?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith PC's, if my memory serves me correctly when it comes to DVD Playback they\nare pre-set with the local DVD region. this can be changed but only 5 times\nwhich isn't ideal.\n\nI don't play movies on my PS4 but the PS3 when it came to DVD/Bluray Playback\nthey were pre-set to play local DVDs/Bluray of the country it was made in (ie.\nNTSC PS3 will play Region 1 DVDs and Region A Bluray. a PAL PS3 in Australia\nwill play Region 4 DVDs and Region B Bluray while a PS3 in the UK (to my\nknowledge) will play Region 2 DVDs and Region B Bluray).\n\nWhen it comes to importing anime from another country you have 2 options.\n\n 1. **Use a local distributor** \\- in your case since you live in the US [RightStuf](http://www.rightstufanime.com/) would be one of your best bets. you could try [NISA's store](http://store.nisamerica.com/) but they only sell anime they have brought the licences for and Rightstuf sells this aswell.\n\n 2. **Get a Region Free DVD/Bluray Player** \\- these are DVD/Bluray players which can have their DVD/Bluray Regions chnaged at any time, generally these also allow you to set the DVD Region to 0 (Region Free/Worldwide) but with Bluray there is no equivalent. \n\nI brought a Laser BLU-BD10803D 3D DVD Blu-Ray Player from eBay and with it i\njust input a code while in the menu and i can change the DVD and Bluray\nRegions and it serves me well. problem is the listing is no longer on eBay but\na [search on\nebay](http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=region%20free%20dvd%20player&_osacat=175711&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xregion%20free%20dvd%20bluray%20player.TRS1&_nkw=region%20free%20dvd%20bluray%20player&_sacat=175711)\nwill bring up others. you just need to make you you read into the item\ncarefully as some will say multi-region but it'll only be for one format (a\ncouple i see in that search only do DVDs and are pre-set to Bluray Region A)\n\nGetting a new DVD/Bluray Player which is multi-region isn't cheap. [this\none](http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=region%20free%20dvd%20player&_osacat=175711&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xregion%20free%20dvd%20bluray%20player.TRS1&_nkw=region%20free%20dvd%20bluray%20player&_sacat=175711)\nwhile it would cost me US $169.00 it also costs US $127.20 for international\nshipping to the total cost may vary.\n\nif you're invested in having a DVD/Bluray collection of anime then the price\nyou pay for a multi-region DVD Player is a worthy investment since then you\ncan buy DVDs/Bluray no matter the country. this then means the Anime you have\non order will still be of use to you and you can just order Anime not based\noff where it's coming from but availability, customer service, bonus content,\netc.\n\n 3. **Stream** \\- I add this option in just to complete the answer. you can stream Anime through the internet using [This list of Legal sites](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/923/1587) and in most cases you don't have to worry about regions. my problem with this option is \n\n * some sites can still block you using Geo-Blocking (the act of restricting site access based on where your IP is) such as with Funimation, some Youtube Chanels. Crunchyroll doesn't do this to my knowledge\n\n * you don't actually own any of the anime and are at the mercy of the site's uptime so if the site goes down for maintenace or what ever reason your out of luck. worst case scenario is that the site shuts down for good, then where is your anime collection?\n\n * You are also at the mercy of your internet connection. weather it's working or not, if you have a data limit when you may have breached it, connection speeds etc.\n\nthe upsides to streaming is that Anime tends to be streamed before it's\navailable on Bluray/DVD and the anime isn't taking up physical room but my\npersonal opinion is that this don't outweigh the risks.....also there is a\nkind of glee when you go to show off how you've replaced your Bedroom's normal\nwalls with those made up entire of anime DVD/Bluray, like this\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XUzBa.jpg)\n\nthe above image is NOT my collection but that of a random image i found on\ngoogle which came from [this photobucket\naccount](http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Jorawr/media/DAoC/animeandmanga.jpg.html)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn brief:\n\n(a) There was a US release from Bandai several years ago but that's long since\nout of print and hard to come by (I'm seeing $300 for complete sets).\n\n(b) Funimation rescued the license, but they haven't announced any release\nplans yet; given that there's been a relatively recent OVA release ( _Akito\nthe Exiled_ ) in Japan, it's possible that Funi is trying to get everything\ntogether for a major launch. We're in anime convention season, so keep your\nears peeled...\n\n(c) While your PS4 and your home computer won't be able to play them 'out of\nthe box', there are region-free DVD players available and there are various\npieces of software out there that can allow a PC's DVD drive to play discs of\nany region. Technically there are licensing issues around region-free systems,\nbut those almost uniformly fall on the retailer and not on the owner, and you\ncan find many major independent video retailers (e.g., Scarecrow Video in\nSeattle) that sell region-free hardware.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot of the avenues in regards to regionless players (good investment) have\nbeen covered, but I'll attack the home computer angle.\n\nThere is a chance that you may be able to play the DVD out of the box, but you\nwould have to use [VLC Media Player](http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html)\nto do so. Reports suggest that it ignores the region encoding on your machine\nand will allow you to play it; however, newer models of DVD drives may enforce\nthis coding more strictly.\n\nThat said, **it is possible to change the region of your DVD drive** , but\n**you may only do it up to five times** before it is permanently fixed to that\nregion. Look up instructions specific to your operating system before\ncontinuing1, and I would personally _avoid_ any instructions dealing with\nloading or updating the firmware of your drive unless you feel confident that\nyou know what you're doing.\n\nAs with the other advice, investing in a regionless drive may be the best\noption, since it allows you to buy with more confidence, and reduces the\nlikelihood that you'll worry about these sorts of purchases.\n\nBecause sometimes, just sometimes, your local distributor doesn't have the\nanime you want in the region you need it in. (I'm looking at you, RightStuf,\nand your lack of complete RahXephon...)\n\n1: I wish I could help here, but I only run Linux and have only ever run DVDs\non Linux. I also have a regionless BD DVD-RW.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I've been trying to make one of my friends get into anime. My cousin and I\ntalk about the Naruto franchise and other animes a lot, so my friends wonders\na bit whats the big deal.\n\nI would like to recommend Naruto to her, but she would want me to summarize it\nfor her to see if it sounds interesting or not. The problem is that I don't\nknow how to summarize it. Yes, I can summarize it, but I might get _to_ deep\ninto the story that I might give out some **BIG** spoilers.\n\nExamples:\n\n> Naruto has a demon inside him (which my friend is going to find out either\n> way). Sasuke leaving the leaf village to kill his older brother. Sasuke has\n> an older brother. Kakashi, Neji, Jiraiya, Asuma, Orochimaru, Deidara, Gaara,\n> etc. die in Naruto Shippuden. Asuma and Kurenai have a kid. There's a war.\n> Tobi being Obito all along. Who Obito is. Kakashi coming back from his death\n> after Pain destroyed the Konoha (Leaf Village). Konoha getting destroyed by\n> Pain. Who Pain is. Stuff like that.\n\nSo my question is how to summarize the whole Naruto franchise to make it sound\ninteresting and not give a lot of spoilers out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto is **massive.** There are 220 episodes in the original broadcast\nfranchise and over **450** episodes in _Shippuden_.\n\nNaruto is **in-depth.** Even with the filler episodes, there are niches and\nnuances about the story which take an incredible amount of time to explain.\n\nNaruto has **a lot of things to like** and **a lot of things to hate**. There\nare always going to be some parts of the anime that some people enjoy more\nthan others.\n\nSo, the best way to see if your cousin likes it? Let her watch Season 1.\nThat's enough time for them to get acquainted with the media and let her\nexperience what's going on.\n\nIf they _really_ don't want to go through all of that waiting, then you can\nshow them two of the anime's openings - GO!!! and Seishun Kyousoukyoku\n(ironically both of these were sequential openings for seasons 4 and 5), which\ndo a decent enough job to convey both the action, entertainment, and drama\naspects of the series overall.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto is a coming of age story following the main character learning to be a\nninja, become stronger, and make friends along the way. Naruto grows up\nostracized and accused of being a monster, the nine-tailed fox that devastated\ntheir village, Konoha, when he was born. At first the village trouble-maker,\nNaruto learns to be strong, makes friends, loses friends, and grows up quickly\nto protect everything he cares about.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I wanted to summarize Naruto, I would have to summarize the ideas. You\ndon't want to give out specifics like who dies, any identity reveals, or for\nthat matter just about anything revealed in Shippuden.\n\n\"Naruto is a boy who, on the day he was born, coincidentally had a giant demon\nfox spirit attack his village. Using a special kind of energy called chakra, a\npowerful individual sealed this demon fox inside of Naruto to protect the\nvillage. Naruto's parents however die in this attack, and he resorts to\ntroublemaking for attention, as well as aspires to become the Hokage, the\nleader of the village, for people to acknowledge him. To do so, he must become\na great ninja, someone who uses their chakra to perform special techniques,\nsuch as manipulating the elements to spit fireballs, raise walls of rock, blow\ngusts of wind that can slice through trees, manipulate the body, or create\nillusions and trick the opponent. The story of Naruto is about how he grows\nfrom a 12 year old low class weak ninja with his friends/classmates and their\nteachers, including his training to become stronger, personal struggles as\nwell as the ones with the other villages, and fights with strong opponents. It\nalso has his internal conflict with the demon inside of him as well as his\nattempts to be acknowledged by people as he grows in strength. It constantly\nhas you wondering how things are going to turn out as strategy in combat is\ncritical as they often fight enemies more powerful than they are, and must\ncome up with the strategy to get ahead. Most people find themselves rooting\nfor Naruto as they watch him do what seems impossible as due to his life as an\norphan, as well has his overall complete lack of talent in all but a few\nspecific things, has made him vow to NEVER give up, ever, and allows him to\nsee the truth behind his opponents. Death is there for all sides, but it is\nnot always the only solution because of Naruto.\"\n\nThe idea of that kind of summary is to bring up every important idea without\nsaying what actually happens. It's important to mention death in some way, as\nwell as his lack of talent and how he is still able to become strong, but that\nhis power is not his ultimate strength, in Naruto, the world is a bad place,\nfull of wrong, and he is trying to change that in a way no one else ever\ncould.\n\nIf it is interesting enough to consider watching a few episodes, then,\nunfortunately, the best summary of the entire series up until the war is the\nentire ordeal with Zabuza, the first real opponent they fight. It's probably\nquite a few episodes in, as it has been a long time since I was back there,\nbut it really summarizes everything until the war in Shippuden. If they liked\nthe Zabuza arc, they will most likely like everything up to at least the war,\nwhere things change a lot, because it's a war, and also really far into the\nseries.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 8, after Tou purchases a kendama it skips to a dramatized scene\nportraying his manliness:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/i3Hur.jpg)\n\nI'm sure this is a reference to some older anime. What is this scene a\nreference to?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAround chapter 100 to 130 of the manga,\n\n> Yoshinaga Hiroko and Urakawa Minori went to Nagoya to attend SKE48 as a part\n> of their role as the international member.\n\nWhile the school knows that Yoshinaga is a member of AKB48 and thus there\nwould be no problem with her skipping class for days, they didn't know that\nUrakawa Minoru is also a member.\n\nSince going back and forth from Nagoya to Tokyo everyday is certainly not\npossible, considering that\n\n> Minoru was performing 3 times a day in the park.\n\nHow did Minoru was able to skip class for a whole month without causing the\nschool to contact his parents?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I know, a movie based on [Itachi\nUchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi_Uchiha) was about to come in\nMarch. \nCan anyone please tell whether it's coming this year or is it delayed?\n\nHere is a Reddit\n[thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/3xfwjg/itachi_movie/) of the\nposter, and here is a YouTube video of the trailer:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl89gnvXcTg>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is not a movie. The _Itachi Shinden_ novels are being adapted to a TV\nrelease, which will air this spring. I didn't see information about it\nbeginning in March.\n\nThe Naruto [twitter\naccount](https://twitter.com/naruto_movie/status/678105786866753536) shared a\nlink to [TV Tokyo Naruto website](http://www.tv-\ntokyo.co.jp/anime/naruto/sp/story/) which has a small trailer and information\nabout the release, which seems to indicate that it will begin airing in Japan\non April 7th.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _Itachi Shinden_ adaptation has already started airing via Naruto\nShippuden episode 451 and onwards.\n\n[Crunchyroll ](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/02/05/video-naruto-\nshippuuden-itachi-shinden-hen-hikari-to-yami-anime-previewed) notes that it\nbegan airing on March 3rd. Episode 451 aired on March 3rd and these episodes\nexactly follow the novels.\n\nIt is set to be aired until May.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSorry if this has an obvious answer, I'm pretty new to the anime community.\n\nI've seen covers of doujinshi for certain pairings/fandoms I like, but from\nwhat I've seen of the contents, most of them get pretty steamy. I really like\nthe concept of fan-published works and seeing certain characters interact, but\nI don't feel comfortable reading something so...explicit? Are there doujinshi\nthat are based around platonic/fluffy romance interactions, or is this\ntypically the standard for doujinshi? (And is there a way I can tell a\nplatonic doujinshi from others?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough it is common for such themes to be done, doujinshi are basically almost\nalways fan made manga/stories, which means they can have any kind of\nstoryline. They are almost never made by professionals or with custom stories,\nand are instead just derived from a popular story, but with a \"What if\"\nscenario, which can be whatever the author of the doujinshi decides it to be.\nOf course, this usually is Pairings, especially when the main manga does\nlittle to satisfy that Romance urge, or even worse, tease it, for those fans.\nSo overall, they do tend to be Sexual, but that is not a necessity for it to\nbe doujinshi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe term Doujinshi is rather broad, encompassing any self-published work.\nSometimes, although rarely, even big name authors have created some doujinshi.\n\nWikipedia has a pretty decent\n[article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Djinshi) which defines it as:\n\n> Dōjinshi (同人誌{どうじんし}), often transliterated as doujinshi) is the Japanese\n> term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels. Dōjinshi\n> are often the work of amateurs, though some professional artists participate\n> as a way to publish material outside the regular industry.\n\nThese self-published works are almost always inspired by work created by\nsomeone else, rather than being original works. Since the authors usually\ndon't have original ideas to write about, instead they want to express their\nlove for a series by writing stories that could have happened, which is why\nyou're often seeing these sexual situations in doujinshi. Sex is popular, and\nit is generally abstained from in source material. Thus writing about it is a\ngood way to make your doujinshi popular easily, since many people will have\nhad similar thoughts while reading the source.\n\nAs far as if there are doujinshi that do not involve sexual situations, the\nanswer is of course. Since we are talking about self-published works, there is\nreally no limit to what kind of stories you could find, just like in any fan\nfiction.\n\nFinally, your question about finding out what is in them ahead of time, has\nalready been asked here: [How do I figure out the contents of\ndoujinshi?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/25708/how-do-i-figure-\nout-the-contents-of-doujinshi) While there isn't an answer to that question\nposted, it seems the consensus from the comments is that outside of learning\nabout the contents from a doujin circle, it is rather hard to know what to\nexpect.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wanted to watch the anime, so I was wondering if the anime adapted the light\nnovel closely. Did the anime skip something or made changes to the plot?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can watch the anime without first reading the LN, but there is a lot more\nstuff after the anime ends. There's not much difference during the anime other\nthan slight changes and some of the jokes in the anime are improvised by the\nvoice actors. The LN and manga go further about the lore and characters more\nthough.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am currently doing both, having watched both series of the anime only last\nweek, and now reading the LNs.\n\nThe LNs have more information in them, but the anime is definitely funnier, as\nthe physical jokes and expressions gain from the visual aspect, and you get a\nVA performance that gets across the tone of the dialogue (there's a lot of\nscenes of characters crying out in comic distress that come across much\nfunnier seen than read).\n\nAs for a close adaptation, the benefits of it being a LN are that the\ncharacter design is straight off the picture pages of the LN; and the dialogue\nwas between close and exact from what was in the LN.\n\nYou will miss out on some extraneous detail - a certain recurring character\nhas their introduction done in a flashback as opposed to the full chapter it\ngets in the story - for example, but very little from the first LNs that the\ntwo series are based off was missed.\n\nIn my opinion, I'd go with the anime first. It won't take long to do, and\nyou'll get the full impact of the visual jokes that you'd know were coming due\nto having read the LN. If you then go back and read the LNs, you'll receive a\nlittle more backstory on certain characters, but you won't have missed out on\nanything important.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was reading about _Dagashi Kashi_ and saw that around 30 chapters had been\nskipped in the anime adaptation of the show. I've heard that the skipped\nchapters focused much more on Hotaru-san than the anime does. Personally, I'd\nlike to read through those chapters if theres some romance introduced between\nthe characters.\n\nWhile the anime consists mostly of gags involving dagashi, there are some\nmoments where we get to learn about Saya's feelings, like in the flashback of\nthem playing doctor. However, it seems to be pretty one-sided, with Kokonotsu\nbeing completely oblivious. What kind of romantic developments or situations\ncan I expect if I read through the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, I'm watching the anime _The Seven Deadly Sins_ and I'd really love to read\nthe manga, but I can't find it anywhere.\n\nI even looked it up and only found one website, but it only published the\nrecent chapters and deleted the older ones.\n\nWhere can I read it legally?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_The Seven Deadly Sins_ is part of Kodansha Comics, which have been made\navailable on Crunchyroll since their manga platform release in\n2013[1](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-26/crunchyroll-to-\nsimultaneously-offer-kodansha-manga-\nin-170-countries),[2](http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFE2600M_W3A021C1MM8000/).\nCrunchyroll has all the current chapters of this up to date. As of today, that\nis chapters 1-167.\n\nYou can read it on their website at:\n\n<http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/the-seven-deadly-sins/volumes>\n\nYou'll need a Crunchyroll premium account to read all but the most recent\nsimulpub release. You can use this [guest\npass](http://www.crunchyroll.com/guest_pass?code=DNG5Z43H8BD) if you'd like a\nfree 48 hour trial.\n\nAs stated on [Wikipedia\narticle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_\\(manga\\)) for\n_The Seven Deadly Sins_ the availability is based on your locale:\n\n> As the series is published in Japan, it is also released simultaneously in\n> English digitally by Crunchyroll in over 170 countries.\n\nYou should be able to read it there without an issue unless you're in one of\nthe few unsupported countries, e.g. Japan, China, France, Germany and\nItaly[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchyroll_Manga).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen this across several different anime, although I don't have a\nspecific example right now.\n\nTypically the attack will be a barrage of projectiles and the defending\ncharacter (e.g. the main protagonist) hasn't landed a hit yet or otherwise\nhasn't revealed how much of a threat he is yet. I understand the translated\nterm \"running away\" is meant as a jeer against the protagonist. However, the\nprotagonist is still engaged in active combat, and I would think \"running\naway\" means attempting to disengage. In this case the taunt has faulty logic.\nI understand taunting does not need logic, it is meant to strike a nerve and\nmake the target more predictable.\n\nIs it that tactical evasive maneuvers are considered cowardly and are\ndisallowed in Bushido? I'm basing this guess off of an example in One Piece;\nWhen Zoro initially duels Hawkeye, gets struck and is about to lose, Zoro\nasserts that taking a step backward is equivalent to breaking his oaths and\nforfeiting his ambitions. This might not be the best example though since the\ncharacters, during combat, including Zoro, have no qualms against preserving\ntheir own life by dodging attacks, which is the context of this \"running away\"\ntaunt.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw this post about [What was the first anime to come out on\nBluray/HDDVD](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/26013/what-was-the-\nfirst-anime-to-come-out-on-bluray-hddvd) on this site, and I wonder what was\nthe first anime that **aired in HD**?\n\nI first thought of it is aired in around 2008. For example:\n\n> _Bleach_ started to air in HD in [season 9 (episode\n> 168)](http://bleach.answers.wikia.com/wiki/What_episode_did_bleach_started_to_air_in_720p).\n> According to\n> [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bleach_episodes#Season_9:_The_New_Captain_Sh.C5.ABsuke_Amagai_.282008.29),\n> the original airdate of episode 168 is **2008**. \n>\n\nBut after hours of researching, I found something about _One Piece_.\n\n> _One Piece_ started airing in HD in [episode\n> 207](https://www.quora.com/From-which-episode-is-the-One-Piece-anime-\n> in-720p-and-1080p). And again, according to\n> [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_One_Piece_episodes_\\(season_7\\)#.22Escape.21_The_Naval_Fortress_.26_The_Foxy_Pirate_Crew.22),\n> the original airdate is way back in **October 31, 2004**. \n>\n\nThe recent answer shows these 2 anime ( _Ghost in the Shell: SAC_ and _Samurai\n7_ ) were the possible first anime to air in widescreen.\n\nFun fact: _Samurai 7_ is aired just 4 months earlier than _One Piece_. Does\nthis makes _One Piece_ the 2nd runner-up? LOL.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou question intrigued me quite a bit, so I decided to try to solve this\nproblem. Here is what I found and I would be grateful if anyone can help me\nimprove my answer!\n\nThe first thing I knew was around 2007-2008 was about the time HD started\ngetting popular in the United States. I used this information to track down a\ncouple of forums on the AnimeNewsNetwork\n[Here](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37235&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)\nand [Here](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29452).\nThese two threads were very useful as they gave the names of \"Samurai 7\" and\n\"Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex\" (aka \"GITS SAC\" as used in the\nthread).\n\nI pulled up the [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_7) page for\nSamurai 7 and one part of it reads:\n\n> The series premiered across Japan on the anime satellite television network,\n> Animax, as an exclusive high definition CS-PPV broadcast\n\nNow I am not sure if you would like to consider it as aired in HD as it was\n\"Pay Per View\" (aka \"PPV\"), but it was created in HD based on\n[this](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3127) page\nabout the series:\n\n> Based on Akira Kurosawa's classic movie, The Seven Samurai. Samurai 7 is\n> being produced in High Definition at a price of $300 000 per episode, more\n> than twice what an average non-hi-def series costs.\n\nNow the reason I also included \"Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex\" is\nbecause in the forums many of the people were also saying that this one was\nalso HD. I was able to find out that it was also aired by Animax, but cannot\nconfirm if it was aired for HD.\n\nIf GITS SAC was not aired in HD then it would make Samurai 7 the first anime\naired in HD (or at least as far as I can find).\n\nNow I am very weary about my research, as I think there may have been other\nanime's aired in HD before these two, and my main concern comes from [this\narticle](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/1998-09-08) written in 1998.\nAnd the way the users in the threads were talking about HD as it was not\nsomething new, also makes me wonder if there have been anime's before these\ntwo that were aired in HD.\n\nI will continue to do more research and improve my answer as I go. I hope this\nanswer can help you.\n\n**UPDATE:** I was able to find\n[this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/25975/when-did-the-\ntransition-from-standard-definition-43-to-widescreen-169-for) question, where\n\"Toshinou Kyouko\" pointed to [this\nthread](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=622815). In the thread \"Zalis\"\nstates:\n\n> First 16:9 TV anime: Betterman (Spring 1999), Vandread (Fall 2000)\n\nI am currently trying to find a source that can verify if these shows were\ncreated in HD 16:9 aspect ratio. (Thanks to \"Ross Ridge\" for pointing this\nout.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn \"Vampire Knight\" ep. 3, entitled 'Fangs of Repentance', Yuki seems\ngenuinely surprised by the Level E vampires she encounters in town. It's like\nshe had no idea vampires could be that awful.\n\nShe never seems to want to believe that vampires are bad, and even tells Zero\nthat she probably should start listening to him and accept that there really\nare some bad vampires out there, only **after** her attack.\n\nWhy does she seem so surprised by Level E Vamps? Her earliest memory is of\nKaname killing a clearly monstrous vampire. She should know and accept how bad\nthey can be right off the bat.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat exactly was the Night Class living on (and for how long) before creating\nthe blood tablets? They obviously lived on campus while working on the\ntablets, and the Night Class has been at the academy for at least 4 years when\nthe anime started.\n\nSo, wouldn't it be kind of dangerous to have them living that close to the\nhumans with NOTHING to help them with their hunger for blood?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost likely each other. we see later on that Vampires can survive on each\nother's blood such as when Kaname was drinking from Ruka (while Yuuki was\npeaking though the door) and later when Rido was resurrected he was feeding\noff Vampires too1. Also i seem to recall some moments between Senri and Rima\nwhen one of them was cut and the other drank from the cut.\n\nHowever keep in mind that the Vampires of the Night Class aren't Level E's so\nthey have a bit more self control. also one of the duties of the Guardians is\nto make sure that Night Class Students aren't feeding on Day Class Students\nwho sneak out at night.\n\nin the worse case scenario Kaname, as a Pureblood, can force their obeisance\nto not drink human blood. also remember that the Night Class is meant to be\nthe foundation for coexistence between Vampires and Humans, as such not only\nare there school rules against drinking human blood (as Yuuki mentions to\nMaria) but also Kaname and Kaien would make sure that the only Vampires they\nadmit to the school would be ones who can tolerate not drinking human blood,\nwhich at the beginning would be Vampires who would want the Blood Tablets to\nbe successful\n\n* * *\n\n1: i suspect they were normal Vampires as some of the women seemed to be\nwanting Rido to drink their blood rather than wanting to drink his blood\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomewhere around forty minutes into _Kizumonogatari: Tekketsu-hen_ , Araragi\nis set upon by the three exorcists who earlier dismembered Kiss-Shot:\nDramaturgie, Episode, and Guillotine Cutter.\n\nAs they advance upon him, they speak to one another - but all we (the viewers)\nhear is a sort of guttural grumbling. Araragi presumably hears the same thing\n(non-speech sounds), given that he says something about trying to get them -\nas fellow human beings - to communicate with him rather than kill him.\n\nWhat's the deal? On the one hand, this was certainly an incredibly stressful\nsituation for Araragi, so he could well just have been on an adrenaline rush\nthat was interfering with his hearing. But then again, this being _Monogatari_\n, it's not implausible that maybe they were speaking some sort of secret\nexorcist tongue.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe was speaking another language.\n\nGoing off the English version of the Kizumonogatari novel, page 81 shows that\nDramaturgy spoke something that Araragi didn't understand. Vertical displayed\nthis by just having a bunch of black boxes in quotations (dunno how Nisioisin\ndid it in the Japanese novel, but I'm sure it's something similar). Page 82\nstarts with Guillotine Cutter reprimanding Dramaturgy for not using \"the\nlanguage of the land you're in\", meaning that Dramaturgy was speaking a\nlanguage other than Japanese.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime series 'Ouran High School Host Club' what's Tamaki's reasoning\nbehind making Haruhi a host?\n\nIf she had continued on as an errand boy, the debt would have been paid off\neventually... even if it took years.\n\nThe hosts don't charge any of their customers, and even if they did... Tamaki\ntells Haruhi she only needs to get 100 customers for her debt to be erased,\nand unless they were charging a fortune 100 customers wouldn't even come close\nto paying off her debt.\n\nSo, what's in this deal for Tamaki? At the time of the 100 customer\narrangement he's not attracted to her, he still thinks she's a boy. So it\ncan't be that he just wants to keep her around.\n\nIs it a personal challenge for Tamaki to see if he can train the \"commoner\"\nwell enough to get 100 customers?\n\nWhat's his reasoning?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe way I see it, Tamaki doesn't care about money at all. He started the host\nclub merely as a form of entertainment for himself. When he noticed how good\nHaruhi looked (even in \"male\" form) he decided that adding \"him\" to the club\nwould only make things even more interesting. While I have found nothing to\nactually support any of this, it's something that I believe is a very\nplausible answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHaruhi is made to join the Host club as its \"dog\" after breaking the vase.\nThey were all initially just going to use her as an \"errand boy\" since she was\njust a commoner, and they used fear and power over her to do this. After\ngiving her a uniform to wear, so that she would be dressed appropriately,\nTamaki becomes so enamored with how she looks that he decides to move her up\nin rank, making her an official member of the club, a host, as well as\nchanging the terms of her debt repayment.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't seen the original series of _Captain Harlock_ , however I recently\nwatched the [movie](http://myanimelist.net/anime/17269/Captain_Harlock) during\nour most recent [Weekend Anime\nExtra](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2767/17758).\n\nI feel like I followed along with the plot pretty well, and understood where\nthe story was the whole time... That is until we got to the last few minutes\nand everything I knew just went out the window. So, it seems everyone just\ncame back to life and the legend of Captain Harlock is going to continue, but\nwhy?\n\nBasically, I'm looking for an explanation of what happened at the end. Why did\neveryone come back to life?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBasically, Harlock activates the detonators each time and he dies, and logan\nis replacing him. At this point if you didn't understood, logan is harlock.\nAlthough this time, he did not activate the detonators by seeing logan (his\nyounger self) eager for life and merelly having the same dream harlock once\nhad for earth and humanity. At this point, he's steping back in command\nallowing logan to lead arcadia and the crew. That's why you see 2 of them in\nthe end, and that's why the crew revived and the dark matter came back.\n\nThe movie gave you a big hint at the start by saying: \"Far, far in the\nfuture... Or perhaps, the distant past...\"\n\nHope it solved the trouble you had with the ending.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end, after the Arcadia has crash-landed on earth, a fleet arrives and\nsignals \"This is the Solar Federation, ...\". The Solar Federation has been\nnon-existent for 100 years in the main plot. This already tells you all you\nneed to know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCurrently, I'm at 52 when Team Kakashi meets Sasuke. I really want to see\nNaruto in sage mode which is somewhere around 150 episode. So which all\nepisodes (fillers) can I skip?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe following episode ranges are filler episodes in Naruto shippuden: 57-71,\n90-112, 127-128, 144-151, 170-171, 176-178, 180-196, 223-242, 257-260, 271,\n279-281, 284-295, 303-320, 347-361, 376-377, 388-390, 394-413, 416-417, 419,\n422-423, 427-455\n\nCanon Episodes: 1-56, 72-89, 113-126, 129-143, 152-169, 172-175, 179, 197-222,\n243-256, 261-270, 272-278, 282-283, 296-302, 321-346, 362-375, 378-387,\n391-393, 414-415, 418, 420-421, 424-426\n\nIf you want to see naruto in sage mode, the episode you are looking for\nepisode 163.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter reading [this review](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-\nreviews/digimon-digital-monsters) about _Digimon_ :\n\n> While the general basis of relationships between the show's kids and their\n> digital companions remained constant over the course of the series, almost\n> everything else went through many **makeovers**.\n>\n> Some seasons **feature seven human visitors to DigiWorld** ; others, **as\n> few as three**. In early episodes, the kids **can't get back home** ; later\n> stories show a new cast of youngsters **effortlessly journeying between the\n> two worlds**. And while in most stories **each kid has his own specialized\n> Digimon sidekick** , a full season of episodes featured **humans who could\n> transform into the digital beings** rather than just summon them for\n> battles.\n>\n> Youngsters will certainly find this lack of continuity confusing, and\n> parents may be wary of introducing their kids to yet another marketing\n> conglomerate looking to rival Pokemon. (Digimon boasts a similar assortment\n> of tie-in video games, trading cards, virtual pets, and other toys.) And\n> it's worth noting that although the show's violence is mostly of the flashy,\n> fantasy variety and battles are reserved for the digital beings, those who\n> are seriously injured dissolve into pieces that are said to regroup and\n> reincarnate at a later date.\n\n(Emphasis added)\n\nAnime titles that have certain rules like _Pokemon_ 's battling system,\n_Bakugan_ , _B-daman_ , and _Yu-Gi-Oh_ 's Trading Card Game; with every season\nor arc, those anime change the concept a lot but not the \"in-universe rules\".\nSee _Zoids_ for example. We see different _Zoids_ titles, but they still stay\nconsistent with the rule that there's an MC that has a Zoid as the Mech Pilot\nfighting other Zoid pilots. _Yu-Gi-Oh_ battle with cards, and _Pokemon_ with\nits concept of _Gotta catch 'em all_ , battle with other trainers and wild\nPokemon and compete in a league.\n\nHowever, in _Digimon_ , as a season/title ends, they make these **makeovers**\nin the story's scenarios and mechanics of the rules of battle.\n\nFor example, in the first season of _the Digimon_ series ( _Digimon Adventure_\n), we see 7 Chosen Ones who were transported to the Digital World. In there,\nthey meet their seven companion Digimons (one partner for each).\n\nThe second season continues the first with the 2 veterans and 3 new Digi-\ndestined. Nothing wrong there, then they throw in _Frontier_ in which the\nhumans transform into Digimons (as armor) and they were the ones fighting\ninstead of the Digimons ( _Power Rangers_ style).\n\nAlso, in _Digimon Adventure_ and _Digimon Xros Wars_ , the \"Chosen Ones\" were\nhaving difficulties returning to the Real World, but the other titles can\ncross easily between worlds.\n\nIs this because they were being called _Pokemon_ 's \"rip-off\"? Or is it a\nmarketing strategy because like _Pokemon_ , they also sell merchandise and\ntrading cards? Is there any detailed explanation for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am incapable of giving a very good answer for this question, but I will try\nmy best. As I have mentioned in my comment, the Digimon series is rebooted\nevery title except for the Adventure series. The reason for this is most\nlikely due to the fact that they feature a ageing cast instead of a [Sazae-\nsan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san) type of show, where the\ncharacters never age, Pokemon falls into this category, so they follow Ash\naround for nearly 20 years.\n\nAfter a little more thought, there is actually a very logical explanation for\nwhy Digimon was rebooted every time, it is mainly to keep it fun. For example,\nPokemon has kept Ash at 10 so it is relatable to the children of every\ngeneration and thus keep it running for years and years, however, the defect\nis that Ash can never mature beyond a certain extent. Introduce Ash to new\nregion, tell same story.\n\nIn Digimon's case, it is different, in every series, a large world threatening\nevil appears and the children grow and mature into near adults in their\njourney that spans the entire Digital World, the entire part is important as\nthat means they are exhaustive, unlike Pokemon, which can just give a new\nregion. Therefore, if it was Taichi and his group just going around defeating\nworld threatening evil in a new region as they age, how horribly boring and\nawkward will that feel. Imagine a 20 year old jumping around shouting: \"Me and\nAgumon will solve this with friendship!\"\n\nTherefore, to keep the Digimon series interesting while keeping the part of a\nworld threatening evil and a journey that covers the entire world still\nexistent and thus attract its audience, innovation is needed, so it is\nrebooted.\n\nTherefore, with every series, they only thing that remains the same is\n\n * Main character: Stereotypical Hot-blooded Shounen Guy\n * Problem is solved through friendship and all that other rubbish\n * Main Digimon is also a Stereotypical Hot-blooded Shounen Guy that follows main character's ideals\n\nWith every reboot, a new creation mythos is made for the show, therefore, each\nseries features a different [Digital\nWorld](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digital_World) with its own unique\norigins. The traversing part about between the worlds in the shows is actually\nfixed, the main thing is you need a key or a great enough power in the form of\na portal is required to traverse between the worlds.\n\n * Adventure 01: Portals\n * Adventure 02: D-3 Digivice + digital platform such as a computer = Portal\n * Tamers: Portals\n * Frontier: Trains + Portals\n * Savers: Portals\n * Xros Wars: Xros Loader + Power = Portal\n\nThe thing about Frontier is different only in the form of having Humans as the\nDigimon instead but this is most likely to be an innovation for the show in\norder to attract a larger group of audience, a cheap market trick.\n\nOne more thing, the concept of the\n[DigiDestined](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/DigiDestined) is not present in\nthe other series, it is only in Adventure that this concept exists as a plot\ndevice. The children in the other series is still referred as such mostly in\nthe west only. Therefore, the point is do not think the other main characters\nare \"chosen\" like Taichi and his group. They are just a bunch of random\nshounen-esque children that had a meeting with the Digimon that forever\nchanged their lives.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Digimon_ seasons past the first 2 ones (unless when it's _Tri_ and perhaps\n_Adventure Reboot_ ) are more willing to give any human superpowers (Matrix\nDigivolution in _Tamers_ , Spirit Evolution in _Frontier_ , and so on) as well\nas having Digital lifeforms when making Digimons no longer only Superpowered\nBeings that exists in these digimon seasons.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Kantai Collection, as the subtitled says, \"Combined Fleet Girls Collection\"\nhave all their fleet depicted as girls, known as \"Fleet girls\", or kanmusu.\n\nIn anime, and probably in game as well, the only guy is the admiral, and he\ndoesn't look like one of the fleet at all. Out of universe, the admiral is the\nplayer, so he is not one of the fleet.\n\nSo, is there any in-universe canon explanation, why all the fleet are girls?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is shown that Pokemon eat fruit, PokeBlocks or some random eatables.\nHowever, I have never seen a Pokemon being eaten by another Pokemon. Also,\ntheir trainers don't seem to eat meat. As there are only Pokemon in that\nworld, eating fish would be equivalent to eating a Magikarp or other fish\nPokemon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the games you make poke blocks out of berries ground together. Therefore I\nbelieve that they do eat vegetables but if Pokémon can kill each other in the\nManga then surely they can eat each as wild Pokémon but I don't know of any\ncertain points.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHorray for\n[Bulbapedia](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_food#Eating_other_Pok.C3.A9mon)!\n\nThe most commonly referenced mention of Pokemon eating other Pokemon is the\nentry about Pidgeot.\n\n> \"When they hunt, Pidgeot fly on the surface of the water at top speed to\n> catch unsuspecting Fish element prey like Magikarp.\"\n\nIt is also referenced in Shipwreck, where Meowth attempted to eat James'\nMagikarp.\n\nFarfetch'd also has an entry about how delicious it is.\n\nThe general consensus from my research seems to be that, while pokemon are\nlikely eaten by other pokemon and occasionally humans, it is rarely if ever\nportrayed because Pokemon is aimed towards a child audience.\n\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION:\n\nIt should also be noted that [normal animals exist in\npokemon](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world).\nThere are multiple references to them, although they are rare.\n\n> In both Raichu and Gastly's FireRed entries, Indian elephants are mentioned.\n>\n> In several of Bellsprout's Pokédex entries, Bellsprout is said to prey on\n> insects.\n>\n> Victreebel is mentioned to use the Sweet Aroma of its honey to lure prey\n> such as bugs, as well as large animals.\n>\n> Horsea is said to prey on bugs in several of its Pokédex entries. Some\n> entries also mention that Horsea uses coral as an anchor to avoid being\n> washed away, as well as for shade to build its nest in.\n>\n> Lickitung's Red, Blue, and LeafGreen Pokédex entries mention that it can\n> extend its tongue like a chameleon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _Pokemon Alpha Sapphire_ Pokedex entry for\n[Wurmple](http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-xy/265.shtml) states:\n\n> Wurmple is targeted by Swellow as prey. This Pokémon will try to resist by\n> pointing the spikes on its rear at the attacking predator. It will weaken\n> the foe by leaking poison from the spikes.\n\nAnd the entry in _Pokemon X_ :\n\n> It loves to eat leaves. If it is attacked by a Starly, it will defend itself\n> with its spiked rear.\n\nThese two entries show us how Wurmple is targeted as prey by Swellow and by\nStarly.\n\nWhile _Pokemon_ is targeted a younger audience and darker subjects like death\nare almost always avoided, we can conlude that the pokemon universe is not too\ndifferent from our own in that pokemon, like animals, eat other pokemon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNumerous pokemons are stated as carnivorous, through generations. Some\npokemons even use appearance as tool for hunting, e.g. Victreebel having shape\nof trap plant, or Mawile, having cute appearance in front to lure prey, and\nlarge jaws on back to grab it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nStarting out, we see that there is a pretty significantly sized hole in\nKaiba's chest. Later on we see in a flashback that the hole was much smaller\nwhen he first showed at the Issoudan base.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HWSmK.png)\n\nThe collector of Warp's clones mentioned that the hole is one of the\nindicators of a _true_ clone, and we see that the clone in the final battle\nalso has one. Why would the hole in Kaiba's chest have changed sizes over\ntime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't say for sure, but IMO, the hole size probably varies depending on a\nKaiba/Warp's mental state — the worse he feels, the wider it gets.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 8, Warp visits the headquarters for Issoudan in order to view\nMantle's collection of clones. It seems very strange that Warp would willingly\ngo into the Issoudan headquarters, since this is his enemy's base, especially\nsince this fill-in Warp was not an inheritor of Warp's powers. Why would he\nwillingly walk into enemy territory?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty early on we find out that Dada, the leader of Issoudan, is actually\nthree different clones of Warp. These clones are failed attempts at recreating\nWarp, and thus they do not have Warp's powers.\n\nIt seems like it would be really dangerous to walk into your enemy's base,\nespecially without any kind of special powers or defense. However, Warp was\nnot worried about this because this fill-in Warp was actually working with\nDada to secure heaven. He didn't feel any danger because he was working with\nthe very leaders of the organization he was marching into!\n\nWe find out that Dada is working with this fill-in Warp clone in episode 11,\nwhen it is revealed that the fill-in Warp was not killed by Dada.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cB1Oc.jpg)\n\nFinally, Warp did not have fear of Mantle, the collector, but why?\n\nWarp was arrogant and originally was going to kill Mantle after finding out\nwhat he had in his collection. However, even though his plan failed, Mantle\ndid not kill Warp. The reason behind this is simple: Mantle did not want to\nrule. This was the case throughout. Mantle merely wanted a slice of the\nrewards, not to actually rule.\n\nI've drawn this conclusion off of two events, one in episode 8, and one in\nepisode 11.\n\nIn episode 8, Mantle says:\n\n> Don't you want this body? I want to be your helper. I can transfer your\n> memories to this body. Once you're in this body, you'll be the true king.\n\nWe can see some more proof of this in episode 11 when Mantle has the\nopportunity to kill everyone but only attacks Popo and then asks Dada to make\nhim a regent.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sVCDO.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there material (films, written stories, manga, etc) on the story of Laputa\nfrom Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky _before its fall_ , that is endorsed\nby Miyazaki himself or by Studio Ghibli?\n\nOr is the content about Laputa in Castle in the Sky all the content about\nLaputa that is ever going to be released?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTobi/Madara aka the masked man was revealed to be\n\n> Obito Uchiha.\n\nThis was revealed in the Fourth Great Ninja War but I cannot how the masked\nman could control the nine tails? At that time, Kakashi, Guy and his other\npeers were 15 years old more or less, he should also be around that age. Why\ndo we see that the masked man is around Minato's height? \nNote: Minato was at this time a full grown adult in his 20s.\n\nEven for a very skilled shinobi, I believe it's impossible to learn so much in\njust 2 years. Obito was about 13 and a mediocre ninja when he was presumed\ndead in Konoha and encountered Madara. Now, I know many of you might say that\nhe was taught by **Madara** but at that time Madara was himself and his 80s,\nvery weak, and his life was attached to the Gedo statue. Now in the battle\nbetween the masked man and Minato we clearly see that when Minato hits the\nrasengan to the masked man a whitish DNA sort of thing drips from his arm.\nThat could have been Obito's senju DNA as his original right body was crushed\nbut now I couldn't agree to this because of the first paragraph. Perhaps I am\nmissing something else.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObito had a part of zetsu attached to him , that explains the immense chakra\nto summon nine tails and also the height . When the cave collapsed and the\nboulder fell on obito ,half of his body was under it and the other half was\nnot after which he decided to give kakashi his sharingan . From the manga-599\nonwards upto 605 , we see the entire incident happen , from the cave\ncollapsing to obito meeting madara for the first time , he is also not able to\nsupport his own weight and hence part of zetsu and attaches himself to him and\nthey train together since the attachment is not entirely stable . Another\nreason for obito being able to summon the nine tails fox could be because he\nactivated the mangekyou sharingan at such an early age .\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSummoning is a technique which is used to summon creatures. Most of the time,\nmany of them were able to summon only 1 type of creature only (like, for\nNaruto, it's frogs).\n\nBut Sasuke is able to summon snakes and hawks. So my question is, how he is\nable to summon 2 different types of creatures?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell officially, only Pain and Sasuke are able to summon more than one\ncreature. Pain's ability seems more realistic since each summoned animal had\nthe black rods (he may have gotten control of their dead bodies and utilized\nthem during battles with his vast chakra).\n\nSasuke is a different issue. There's no evidence that he ever signed off a\ncontract with the hawks. Seems like Kishimoto pulled it off just to blend with\nthe 'Taka' group name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough it's never mentioned the possibility of having two contracts, it's\nalso never mentioned that it is impossible to do so. I wouldn't call it a plot\nhole, because it wasn't contradictory with pre-established rules.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is possible that his snake summons died after his fight with Deidara making\nit possible for him to make another contract.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSnakes could be the summoning that Orochimaru taught him but hawks could be\nhis own summoning. His snake summons also didn't die after his fight with\nDeidara because he was shown using Aoda during the Fourth Shinobi War.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that Sasuke's contract with the Snakes ended after his fight with\nDeidra and he signed with the Hawks.\n\nI don't know how he get the scroll but that's what it looks like.\n\nIn _Boruto Series_ , we might get to see his summoning jutsu again because\ncurrently he is Boruto's teacher now.\n\nWe will get to watch him teach Boruto how to do the summoning jutsu and other\nmore things. So all we can do is wait.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs everyone who's seen _Evangelion_ knows, the alternate-reality segment in\nthe last episode (of the 1995 TV series) prominently features a scene where\nRei, mouth entoasted, runs into Shinji on her way to school.\n\nTo those of us living in the year 2016, this is an obvious cliche; countless\nmany anime have portrayed the same thing in the two decades since (episode 1\nof _Nichibros_ has [my favorite\nrendition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNsuvpiXb7M)). But would viewers in\n1995 have seen this as a cliche?\n\nIt seems plausible that _Evangelion_ could have been using the toast-collision\ntrope as a touchstone to really drive home the prototypical-slice-of-life\nnature of the alternate reality. But then again, it also seems plausible that\nthe toast-collision was only an incidental feature of the segment, and that\nthe trope's present-day status as a cliche is a _consequence_ of other shows\nimitating _Evangelion_. I don't really have enough of a pre- _Evangelion_\nknowledge base to discern which is true.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes. It has been around for a long time...long before Evangelion.\n\nIt's hard to track down any real info, but I ran across a [reddit\npage](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3nhm6t/the_secret_origins_of_girls_running_with_a_slice/)\nthat pointed me in the right direction.\n\nAs it stands, it looks like the earliest instances of the 'running late to\nschool with a slice of toast in your mouth' grew from 'running late to school\nwith a roll in your mouth' that I could find a first confirmed instance as far\nback as 1968 in the manga \"Patty's First Love.\" Some suspect that it was\npulled from some 1950s Soap Opera, originally.\n\nAt any rate, that page went on to talk about how the book \"Even a Monkey can\nDraw Manga\" that was published 1990 to 1991 or so (4 to 5 years prior to\nEvangelion) considered the 'running late to school with a piece of toast in\nyour mouth and crashing into someone' such a cliche that it parodied it on\n[this page](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IV7HY.jpg)\n\nSo, I'd say that's pretty darn conclusive...it is definitely significantly\nolder than Evangelion, and was already a running joke to the level of parody\nby that time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCould the Transmutation Circle in Xerxes be reused even if it wasn't partially\ndestroyed? I understand that Transmutation Arrays, the circle on Mustang's\ngloves, etc. are capable of being reused. But does the same physics stand for\na large scale transmutation circle used for sinister acts? And also, what\nabout the Nationwide Transmutation Circle in Amestris?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile not explicitly declared, we have every reason to assume that\ntransmutation circles are reusable...assuming a few things. I base this off of\nobservations of all of the (as you called them) transmutation arrays that we\nsee tattooed onto people or stitched onto their clothing, or carved into their\nmetal equipment. I'm further connecting it to the fact that there is\napparently not anything too special about these 'permanent' circles, as\n\n> Mustang carved one onto the back of his hand and was able to use it just\n> fine.\n\nSo, here are the assumptions.\n\n1: Your transmutation circle is not destroyed when the surface it is marked on\nchanges. For example, in the original anime, Ed gets himself out of trouble by\nscratching a circle into a set of restraints. When the restraints change into\nsomething else, the circle is destroyed because he morphed the material it was\nmarked on. Or any of the times Al uses a circle to launch chunks of Earth at\nenemies.\n\n2: Your circle is marked in a way that is not easily disrupted. A lot of the\ntemporary transmutation circles we see, such as the ones that Al uses, are\ndrawn with chalk. Chalk smudges easily, and the transmutation reaction may be\nenough to smudge it. And, as we have seen, transmutation circles need to be\nvery precise in order to function properly...so a bit of smudging should be\nenough to ruin it. Another way this could be messed up is if a liquid is\nspilled on the chalk...like the mess made at the end of Ed and Al's very, very\nfailed human transmutation attempt.\n\nI can't find an example of this actually happening with a 'drawn' circle,\nbecause Ed and Al have a tendency to use Alchemy that destroys their\ntransmutation circle...and the times that they haven't (see: repairing the\nradio in Lior) they only intended to use that circle once. However, in that\ncase, the circle remains intact and appears to be completely unchanged...so I\nsee no reason it couldn't be used a second time.\n\nFurthermore, in the 2003 anime, we see transmutation rooms set up that have\nthe circles painted onto multiple walls. If the circles only worked once then\nhad to be repainted...there'd be no sense in using paint in the first\nplace...chalk is much cheaper and quicker to work with.\n\nAll told, there isn't any reason to think that transmutation circles are\nsomehow less re-usable because you didn't stitch them onto the back of your\nglove or engrave them onto a gauntlet. As long as you don't mess up the\ncircle, we have every reason to believe that they could be re-used.\n\nIn the case of the Xerxes circle or the Nationwide Transmutation Circle...we\nhave every reason to believe that they could have been re-activated, assuming\nthe two things I stated before are true. Naturally, I assume this means that\none of the first things that they set about doing after the final battle was\ndamaging the array so it wouldn't work any more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I read the Manga and also watched the anime. There is an arc in the Manga\nthat is not in the anime, the Illuminati arc where Izumo is kidnapped and\ntaken to the Illuminati lair.\n\nThose fox spirits, even if they hate her are like family to her. She considers\nthem as her brothers. They went so far to lay down their lives for her then.\n\nI don't get why would they attack her like that in the earlier episodes of the\nanime during one of the exorcist exams. Izumo was with her friend in the\ngirl's bathroom where they were attacked and on summoning the spirits, they\nturned on her. It makes no sense.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFamiliars in the manga are actually tamed demons. If the user is not properly\ntrained in controlling them or have a disturbed state of mind then the go out\nof control. Before Izumo was attacked by ghouls, Paku said she was going to\nquit the course. Hence she was in a disturbed state of mind. So the familiars\nattacked her. According to wiki about her foxes\n\n> White Foxes appear to be very proud, even willing to turn against those\n> they've been raised with if they sense weakness.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was stated in an episode (I don't remember which, or the exact quote) That\nany sign of weakness in the owner would result in hostility from the summoned\nfamiliars.\n\nThis is because the familiars, which all happen to be demons, do not wish to\nhave the dishonour of serving and being under command of a \"weak\" ruler. Thus\nthey attack when they sense weakness, removing the contract between owner and\nfamiliar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis may not be the appropriate place to ask this, but since you guys are the\nmost intimately familiar with the anime, I thought I'd ask here.\n\nI'm designing an anime database for a personal project (not unlike MAL or\nAniDB), but unlike those two, I have a much stricter definition of the two\nterms. I define them as:\n\n * **sequel** : a work produced after the original story _and_ continues or expands upon the original story.\n * **prequel** : a work produced after the original story _and_ is set chronologically before the original story.\n\nThis means that all prequels are implicitly sequels, which is what a\n[prequel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prequel)\n[means](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Prequel).\n\nNow, the situation with F/Z and F/SN:UBW is tricky. Everyone and their mother\ntends to see F/Z as a _prequel_ to UBW, because the F/Z visual novel actually\n_is_ a prequel to the F/SN VN.\n\nHowever, when it comes to the anime, F/Z was produced first, and then UBW\nafter. In this case, would the UBW anime be considered a _sequel_ to the F/Z\nanime? Some have argued that UBW was not intended to be a sequel to F/Z at\nall, but then what would their relationship be? Spin-off?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause the Fate/SN UBW anime is an adaptation of one of the UBW route in the\nF/SN VN, it cannot be a sequel to F/Z as it is not its own original work. You\ncan think of it as a remastered version of the work itself.\n\nYes, the F/Z anime came before the F/SN UBW anime, but the F/SN UBW route\nitself already existed long before F/Z. The Wikipedia article that you linked\nstates:\n\n> A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film,\n> theatre, television, music, or video game that continues the story of, or\n> expands upon, some earlier work.\n\nHaving both played the VN route and watched the anime, I can say that the\nanime did not fulfill the definition. The anime itself isn't adding anything\nmore to the story that we didn't already know in the VN. It merely adapts the\nVN. Although, I suppose you can argue that the last episode of Fate/SN UBW is\na sequel as it portrays Emiya and Rin's life at the clock tower, which the\noriginal VN only alludes to. I would call it more of a reinterpretation of the\nending than a full-blown sequel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer to this question depends on whether you're talking about a literary\nanalysis, or an analysis for data modeling purposes, which is what the post is\nactually asking for.\n\nThe Wikipedia page linked in the OP gives the literary definition: a prequel\nis a sequel whose timeline is earlier than the original work. In this sense,\nFate/Zero is a sequel to Unlimited Blade Works because it expands on the\noriginal work, the VN which had UBW as one story route. In this sense,\nFate/Zero is also a prequel to UBW because it takes place earlier in the\ntimeline than UBW.\n\nBut you don't really need the literary definition: you want to model\nrelationships between series in a database of some sort. Using a literary\ndefinition for this will be a nightmare, because literary definitions are\noften imprecise, sometimes vague, occasionally contradictory, and usually\nfuzzy around the borders. The Wikipedia page gives some good Western examples\nof this; I'll here list some anime examples:\n\n * Deen Fate/Stay Night and Unlimited Blade Works take place in the same universe at exactly the same time, both being adaptations of story routes from the Fate/Stay Night visual novel. You can't really say that these shows are either prequels or sequels to each other in the usual sense. In the visual novel, Unlimited Blade Works does expand on the Fate arc (adapted in Deen Fate/Stay Night), but it occurs neither before nor after Fate; it occurs _instead of_ Fate.\n * Yuru Yuri and Rewrite happen in the same world, at the same school, and involve several of the same characters, but it's vague where they actually sit relative to each other in the timeline. \n * Owarimonogatari, despite being the most recent series, takes place after Nisemonogatari and concurrently with the first arc of Second Season.\n * If you include manga, then all the Madoka manga except the first one (which directly adapts the anime) occur in alternate timelines. You can sort of order them because Homura experiences them in a certain order, but it's usually impossible to tell where they go relative to each other. Also, _The Different Story_ Volume 1 is a prequel--its events take place before the anime and hold for all the alternate timelines--but Volumes 2 and 3 are yet another alternate timeline.\n\nI would just throw out the prequel/sequel jargon altogether. It's somewhat\nuseful for literary analysis, but it's too coarse-grained to make for good\ndata modeling. There are two important things with anime: the in-universe\nchronology, and the order in which to take in the various parts of a\nfranchise. The second one usually corresponds to production order, though it\ngets weird when you don't have the original work to fall back on (as is the\ncase with the Fate series). The in-universe chronology is clear: Fate/Zero is\nbefore Unlimited Blade Works. It's also clear, when you include the original\nwork, that you were meant to experience the visual novel, then the Fate/Zero\nnovel or anime, then the Unlimited Blade Works anime. When you take the visual\nnovel out of the equation, there's no clear answer, as [this old question of\nmine shows](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/12832/what-is-the-\nviewing-order-of-fate-related-works). But you will drastically simplify the\ndata modeling by treating these two separate things as separate pieces of\ndata.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children_ is a 3D anime movie I watched more than\nsome years ago and it's been a long time I've been searching for it's\ncontinuation story.\n\nIs there such a continuation to it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFinal Fantasy VII, as you probably already know, originally started as a game.\nThere have been several installments as either games or animes. With regards\nto story in chronological order, there is a game set a year after the events\nin Advent Children. It's called [Final Fantasy VII - Dirge of\nCerberus](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Dirge_of_Cerberus_-\nFinal_Fantasy_VII-). [Vincent\nValentine](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Vincent_Valentine) is the main\nprotagonist in this game. The story is indeed connected overall to the series,\nbut it isn't exactly that much relevant to Advent Children.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just completed the show, and I loved it. There are only two questions in my\nhead. And I think there are no definitive answers to them, they can be mere\nspeculation, but still I would like to read those. I searched a lot but\ncouldn't find answer anywhere so I came here.\n\nFirst, why was Todo so hell bound interested in creating a witch that can\nrestore witches race? He was human and as much as it is shown, he wasn't madly\nin love with Maria (she was just a test subject for him, said by Father\nJuliano).\n\nSecond, why was Solomon so afraid of witches? Because witches were more\npowerful? Fine but if they despised witches so much, then why were they having\nconflicts with Zaizen? Zaizen wanted to eradicate witches completely, and so\ndid Solomon. Just their means were different. And even the means could be\njustified because they hated witches, so creating Orbo was legal from their\npoint of view.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to definition of Sharingan:\n\n> When an Uchiha **experiences a powerful emotional condition** with regards\n> to a person precious to them, their brain releases a special form of chakra\n> that affects the optic nerves, transforming the eyes into Sharingan\n\nSo my question is that how Sarada Uchiha was able to awaken Sharingan? I mean\nis there any event occured to Sarada due which she was able to awaken\nSharingan. Is it mentioned anywhere in anime or manga which tells how Sarada\ngot his Sharingan or about any emotional event she faced?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the wiki,\n\n> The excitement of getting to be in the same room as him (Sasuke) causes her\n> sharingan to awaken\n\nSo the fact she would finally get to meet her father causes such a powerful\nemotional response her Sharingan awakens\n\n<http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sarada_Uchiha>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Ed got Al's body back, their father Van Hohenheim is shown at Trisha's\ngrave, where Pinako later finds him dead. Did the boys find out that he had\ndied or did they not even know what happened?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**There is never a point either in the manga or the _Brotherhood_ adaptation\nof it where the brothers are _explicitly_ told of Hohenheim's death. Note,\nhowever, that it would be odd for Pinako to never tell the brothers of\nHohenheim's death.** Unlike with the Maria Ross incident, there is no reason\nfor the brothers to not know, and it seems unlikely that Pinako would lie\nabout the death (in the way Mustang lied about Hughes to Edward) and _never_\ntell the truth.\n\n**There is additional evidence at the end of the manga, where there is a\ncompilation of post-manga photographs at the end. In one of them, we see\nHohenheim's grave next to Trisha's.** There is [a similar\nphoto](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZURq.jpg) at the end of _Brotherhood_.\n(Click link for anime screenshot. I am not cropping the images, since it\nshould be easier to get a sense of where they are from this way.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R69Zk.png)\n\n**With this, we can infer that the brothers probably know of Hohenheim's\ndeath.** That a _marked_ grave was constructed for Hohenheim, who died shortly\nafter Promised Day (and thus, before the brothers leave Resembool two years\nlater), and placed at a meaningful position suggests that there must have been\n_some_ level of ceremony put into his burial. Being Hohenheim's sons, the\nbrothers then might well have been given the chance to be involved with the\nburial, and they would probably know of the death that way.\n\nMoreover, even if Pinako quietly buried Hohenheim, it seems unlikely that she\nhave buried him _alone_ , without help from anyone, so word would probably\neventually get out that he was dead. Additionally, the brothers probably\nperiodically visit graves in the area -- for instance, Edward decides to visit\nthe Rockbells' graves at the end of ch. 41, after hearing about their work in\nIshval -- so they would be \"forced\" to know once they visited their mother's\ngrave at some point.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have read a manga called _Dragon Ball AF_ by Toyble and I wonder if it is a\ncontinuation of the _Dragon Ball_ series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, it isn't included in actual series. It is as you can say a fan-made\nbecause _DBZ_ was off for so many years and fans were excited for any new\nglitch that this universe makes. The latest series is _Dragon Ball Super_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, it's fan made, it's not supported by any of the official owners of the\nDragon Ball franchise, and it's been denied by 2 owners as well. Along with\nthe lack of merchandise, and lack of advertising, I think that is enough\nevidence to say it is fake.\n\nproof/support for claim: <http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_AF>\nmore proof/support : <http://thedaoofdragonball.com/blog/fans/dragon-ball-af-\nexplained/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is it that females can pilot IS and males cannot? Is there a special\nreason? Also, why is it that Ichika can pilot IS?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust of out curiosity, do we ever get to see the same sea monster that ate\nShanks's arm way back in the beginning of One Piece?\n\nI have only kept up with the series until Impel Down, so please no spoilers\nbeyond a \"yes/no they did/did not re-encounter the sea monster\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Luffy did. It isn't shown in the anime, but Luffy reencounters this Sea\nKing, the Lord of the Coast, later in chapter one of the manga. Immediately\nafter setting out from Foosha village Luffy is attacked by the Sea King, and\nis pleased to have a chance to show it what he has learned in the ten years\nsince their last encounter.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NN0Z2.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs Qiri stated, Luffy does encounter the Lord of the Coast again. This part\nactually is animated during a flash back. You're not there yet if you're only\nat the impel down arc.\n\nThis happens at the end of the [episode 504](http://www.crunchyroll.com/one-\npiece/episode-504-to-live-up-to-the-promise-departures-of-their-own-658839) at\naround 20:40 when he is first setting off on his journey.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rxSwj.jpg)\n\nWhen he encounters it he says:\n\n> **Luffy:** You don't know who you are messing with. Look at this technique\n> I've been perfecting for 10 years!\n\nHe then hits him with his Gomu Gomu no Pistol just like he does in the manga\nchapter.\n\nThe [One Piece Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_of_the_Coast) notes\nthat while this scene of Luffy knocking the wasn't depicted in the original\nbackstory segment of the anime, you can see Luffy hitting the Lord of the\nCoast with his Gomu Gomu no Pistol in the very first episode of the anime,\nduring the original opening song, _We Are_.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0zo47.jpg)\n\nYou can see a YouTube video of the first opening here:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mgdyZQ_wzA>\n\nThe scene is replayed in episode 737 at 22:10.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Siege on the North Pole Zhao mentioned that Iroh had went to the\nSpirit World which would explain why during the Winter Solstice Iroh saw Aang\nand Roku's dragon fly over when they were in the Spirit world.\n\nSo i am wonder if there is any more information Iroh's visit to the Spirit\nworld like how he got there, why he went there, how he got out and what other\nabilities he gained aside from being able to see people who are in the Spirit\nWorld.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are multiple posts I found\n\n[This description of Iroh](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Iroh) mentions him\ndeparting to the spirit world, but it doesn't sound like anything fancy. Just\nhim simply deciding to leave the physical world behind and being accepted into\nthe spirit world. Considering he has a stronger connection to spirits than\nanyone else in the series, short of being the avatar and a partial spirit,\nthis isn't too surprising.\n\n[This other stack\nexchange](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10024/when-and-why-did-\niroh-visit-the-spirit-world) mentions how he had time to visit the Spirit\nWorld to search.\n\nAnything else I found was a repetition of things you already know.\n\nAs for abilities he has gained, I would assume nothing changed. He gave up his\nphysical body to live in the spirit world where bending doesn't work (without\nusing the portals, which he can't use anyway anymore). Traveling to the Spirit\nWorld has yet to provide anyone with additional skills, just knowledge.\n\nAlthough, if you want to stitch some things together, given the previous\ninstance of the Winter Solstice and Jinora's spirit projection abilities, I\nwouldn't be surprised if he could appear in the physical world under optimal\nconditions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Aang was in the Spirit World during the Winter Solstice he refereed to\nRoku's Dragon as Roku's Animal Guide like how Appa is to him.\n\nI am wondering what are the Animal Guides for the other Avatars? do each\nElemental Tribe have a single animal (ie. Air Avatars have Sky Bisons, Fire\nAvatars have Dragons) do does each Avatar have their own one regardless of\nelemental origin?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's impossible to say whether the other avatars had Animal Guides. The only\nones we see are Korra's, Aang's, and Roku's. Kyoshi, Kuruk, Yangchen, and Wan\nwere never seen with one. Of those, Wan was the only one we really got a lot\nof backstory for and he was never seen with an animal guide, though it seemed\nRavaa may have been the equivalent for him.\n\nWhile the earth kingdom avatars are never seen with an animal, **_if_** the\nother three avatar animal guides we've seen are indicative of their respective\nelements' animal guides then it would be:\n\n * Dragons for Fire Avatars\n * Air Bison for Air Avatars\n * Polar Bear Dogs for Water Avatars.\n\nThere isn't much information that I could find on this subject, so this is the\nbest answer I was able to come up with\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWan and Yangchen did have animal guides, wans was that leopard with antlers,\nin not sure exactly what it is, but it was around that, and he traveled with\nit, the animal guide was a gift for wan making a bond with the spirits, so\nthat’s why the avatar gets animal guides in general, and yangchen got 2 flying\nleagues, pik and pak I think their names were, it’s been a while okay?? Kuruk\nand Kyoshi kept theirs a secret, even from their closest friends, and avatar\nsetzo probably did the same because his wasn’t mentioned ♀️\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDidn’t Kyoshi have the bison too from the book?\n\nThe previous avatar’s friend’s bison that stuck around after the Airbender\ndied to help Kyoshi\n\nHis name was pongpong\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the opening of _Avatar: The Last Airbender_ when we see Benders of each\nelement we see that\n\nAir = Aang \nFire = Azula \nWater = Pakku\n\nbut i don't seem to recall who the Earth Bender is. they look too manly to be\nToph and loo too young and sane to be Boomi. so i am wondering who is this\nEarth Bender\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHis name is [Sud](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Sud)\n\nJust compare this images\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1EzgM.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7nbjY.png)\n\nbtw he was the first result in google search :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning_Technique) in\nSummoning Technique it is written that:\n\n> It should be noted that **anyone can summon a contracted animal as long as\n> they have the blood of someone who has made a contract** , the seal of the\n> summoned creature and a source of sufficient chakra that the summon will\n> accept\n\nMeans anyone can summon a contracted animal by having blood of someone who has\nmade a contract. So my question is:\n\nIs there any event mentioned in anime or manga which shows this type summoning\n?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can see this in episode 95 (\"Long Time No See: Jiraiya Returns!\") and\nepisode 96 (\"Deadlock! Sannin Showdown!\") of Naruto. In this Kabuto uses\nOrochimaru's blood to summon Manda.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Chapter 363, _Sasuke's Death...!!_ (episode 125 of _Shippuden_ ), Suigetsu\nsummons Manda using Sasuke's blood. This was right after Deidara used his C0\ntechnique.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xMzsZ.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the opening sequence of _Samurai Champloo_ , when Mugen and Jin are shown,\nthe background is composed of pictures of roosters and aquatic animals,\nrespectively.\n\nMugen has roosters for background:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pg2GU.jpg)\n\nJin has fishes and octopus in his background picture:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fz4Qh.jpg)\n\nWhat is the symbolism behind such background depiction?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRoosters are a traditional symbol of Shintoism, associated with the sun\ngoddess Amaterasu. Shinto is a philosophy indigenous to Japan, and therefore\nthematically related to loyalty & nationality, like Mugen.\n\nJin's main fish is colored like a koi, the Japanese word for \"carp\". Koi are\nobviously symbols of Japanese culture, associated with love & friendship.\nAquatic life is from the ocean, the realm of the storm god Susanoo,\nAmaterasu's sibling & counterpart.\n\nCheck out the story of Amaterasu & Susanoo, as it has obvious parallels to\nMugen & Jin's relationship. Interestingly enough, they have a third sibling,\nTsukuyomi, the god of the moon, who acted as a foil, kind of like Fuu. And\nTsukuyomi's falling out with Amaterasu resulted from a conflict with the\ngoddess of food... \"Her stomach is like a cosmos unto itself!\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDefinitely their fight styles, Mugen is more energetic and wild, Jin flows\nwith the water like a fish, Mugen learn some flow in the series when he fights\nthe samurai killer\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know if there is any city/country or culture that has banned any\nmanga/anime because it opposes their beliefs? \nI have read articles that say Pokemon is against Christianity; however, are\nthere any more?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHa ha ha ha ha OH YES.\n\nChina: Death Note, Code Geass (temporarily), Blood-C, Psycho-Pass, Attack on\nTitan, Deadman Wonderland [and\nmore](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-06-09/china-blacklists-attack-\non-titan-death-note-36-more-anime-manga/.89055) and anything with yaoi content\n\nFrance: Temporarily banned Kinnikuman for having a heroic character that wore\na swastika\n\nIran: Basically everything is banned unless the Ministry of Islamic Culture\napproves it (unlikely to happen with anime/manga)\n\nJapan has even banned a few: \"Barefoot Gen\" and \"Midori (Shoujo Tsubaki)\"\n\nNew Zealand: Highschool DxD and Puni Puni Poemy were banned for 'objectionable\nmaterial' (To be fair, they also banned Power Rangers, because parents\ncomplained that their kids got hurt trying to imitate the show)\n\nSingapore: Anything with yaoi content\n\nAnd that's just a sampling....\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, I like to state I find your claim `I know of Christianity and\nPokémon.` fairly weird. All though I know in some streams of Christianity it\nis frowned upon _(speaking as somebody with a religious up-bring)_ it never\nhas been out righteously banned for religious reasons, and most likely not by\na country/culture as a whole.\n\nMost series don't get banned for opposing religious beliefs. They don't even\nget aired at all! An example of this would be Iran.\n\nIran first gives a thorough screening to everything that is aired on\ntelevision by the Ministry of Islamic Culture. All though they do not allow\nmost anime content, it is not a `ban` _(the act of prohibiting by law)_ , but\n`censorship` _(the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and\nsuppressing unacceptable parts)_ , which sometimes is the series as a whole.\n\n> Any form of media in Iran needs the permission of the Ministry of Islamic\n> Culture for distribution, which sets an arbitrary array of rules subject to\n> change at any time by the government. These rules include any form of\n> pornography or sexual imagery (particularly centered on the display of the\n> female form, which in the Islam religion, is taboo), political material not\n> in agreement with the government's goals, and any form of communication\n> criticizing Islam. These restrictions are often circumvented by physical and\n> internet piracy, use of satellite dishes and illegal used book markets.\n> [Source -\n> TvTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BannedInChina)\n\nAll though there are plenty of censors due to religious reasons. I were unable\nto find any that out righteously banned a series due to religions reasons.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Galaxy Express 999 (the movie) was the purpose of Tetsuro's pendant ever\nexplained? We see at the end that Maetel was holding one that embodied her\ndad's soul and it is what she uses to destroy planet Maetel, but Teturo's is\nnever really explained. Or did I miss something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been watching the _Fairy Tail_ anime, and I'm noticing a large number of\nnautical references, from the logo, to the music, and others that have slipped\nmy mind.\n\nThe logo itself features the tops of the letters forming a wave-like pattern\nand the top of the \"T\" resembling an anchor as well as the final \"L\" has a\ntail that appears to be in the shape of a fish hook. This hook shape also\nappears in the guilds logo along with a harpoon.\n\nAs for music, I cannot help but hear the repetition of the _Can-Can_ music as\nwell as once what sounded like _Land of Hope and Glory_.\n\nIf anyone has any information on why there is the inclusion of such things I\nwould graciously appreciate it. I may however be hallucinating in which case\nI'm sorry to have wasted your time\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**I think you're hallucinating**\n\nConsidering the HUGE cast size, the various other logos and the 20+ opening\nsongs of different styles, and some variations of the logo, it's hard to say\nthey have a single theme.\n\nThe logo itself, btw, it just a fairy with a tail. [This\npicture](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100803104709/fairytail/images/c/c5/Fairy_Tail_former_building.jpg)\nof a different version of the logo seems to help people with seeing it.\n\nBut if I have some time later, i'll check out the music and such to see if i\ncan find some themes between them. Let me know if you have any more specifics\nthat point towards that theme.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Luffy was young, Shanks saved him from the Lord of the Coast, who nearly\nate Luffy. This cost Shanks his arm. Then we see the Lord of the Coast [still\ninhabits the area 10 years\nlater](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/30750/17758).\n\nWhy was this dangerous sea king not dealt with by Shanks or Garp during this\ntime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a bit of a strange question, but basically for the same reason any\nshark or bear is allowed to live in the real world. The Lord of the Coast\ndidn't just bite Shanks' arm and scare Luffy, he killed and ate Higuma the\nbandit, and probably others as well. But because he lives in the water, he's\nnot easy to find and kill, and neither Garp nor Shanks are the kind to want to\nput Luffy in a completely protected environment.\n\nEven if someone did find and kill the Lord of the Coast, they've hardly made\nthe ocean safe for children, there are plenty of other Sea Kings and sea\ncreatures out there, and it's even possible the Lord of the Coast was actually\nmaking Foosha Village a little safer by occasionally eating some unpleasant\npirates headed to the island.\n\nIt's also worth noting, Luffy almost certainly didn't kill the Lord of the\nCoast, just punched him out of his way and moved on. He is probably still in\nthe area, traumatizing or killing the crews of other small boats.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTooru Amuro or Rey Furuya is the Black Organization member nicknamed Bourbon.\nHe actually something like secret police agent (I can't remember the\norganization's name) who is working undercover in BO. He as Tooru Amuro works\nat Poirot Cafe, and become Kogoro's apprentice.\n\nI remember a case when Amuro, Conan, Ran and Kogoro are at the hospital and\nthere's a case where a posion is used in a tea.\n\nAfter Amuro and Conan realise who the suspect of the cases is, there's a kid\nwith her mother counting the lift that coming from the upper floors. When the\nkid counts to zero (they are on the ground floor), Amuro hears that and he\nseems surprised about it. He also has a flashback to when he was a kid and was\ncalled \"zero\" by a woman.\n\nSo, who is she? Who's the woman who speaks to with young Amuro? What is their\nrelation? And also why he called \"zero\" by this woman?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou are talking about episode 771 of the anime (chapter 892 in the manga) The\nwoman was Elena Miyano, the mother of Shiho Miyano (Ai Haibara) who created\nthe first prototipes of the APTX-4869 for the BO.\n\nAcording to [DC world\nwiki](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Elena_Miyano#Rei_Furuya):\n\n> While the true relationship between them has not been revealed yet, We know\n> that they knew each other when Rei was younger. Rei got into many fights and\n> it seems that Elena would bandage him up after the fights. However, one day,\n> Elena had to move and could no longer bandage\n\nAmuro's real name is Rei Furuya and \"Rei” (零) means “zero” and that is\npossibly the reason why he is called zero.\n\n",
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