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"body": "\n\nWhich anime's female character was the most famous across the internet from\n**JAN-2015** to **MARCH-2016** (Winter 2015 to Spring 2016)?\n\nFor clarification purpose:\n\nMy question is focused on data such as polls, internet page hits, imageboard\nposts or any other method that proves to be accurate. _(Meaning: This is not a\nopinion based question. If you want to leave a opinion do so in the\ncomments.)_\n\nAs an example, when the TV Show \" _Amagi Brilliant Park_ \" aired, the main\ncharacter Isuzu Sento was all over the internet, with several doujinshis, fan-\nmade images, and uses of this character in anime sites.\n\nFurther exemplifying: Suzumiya Haruhi (SHnY), Hatsune Miku (idol), Asuna\n(SAO), Mikasa (SnK) are used a lot over the internet and all are easily\nrecognized faces, and this is what I'm looking for, but from the latest year\nonly.\n\nWhat I want this for: I'm making an app which will use the female character.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are a few different ways of interpreting your question. Interpretation\n#1 is \"among all characters who appeared in anime from Jan 2015 to Mar 2016,\nwhich of them is most popular on the internet by metrics X, Y, and Z\".\nInterpretation #2 is \"among all characters who appeared in anime from Jan 2015\nto Mar 2016, which of them is most popular on the internet _as a consequence\nof their appearing in the anime_ by metrics X, Y, and Z\". Interpretation #2 is\nconsiderably more difficult to measure, but it may be more relevant to you.\n\nIt also matters whether by \"the internet\" you mean \"all of the internet\" or\n\"the English-speaking internet\", because Japanese viewers tend to have\nsystematically different tastes than non-Japanese viewers.\n\n## #1 / all\n\nUnder interpretation #1 and \"all of the internet\", the answer almost surely\nhas to be someone from _Kantai Collection_ , which is the biggest thing since\nsliced Touhou. Take your pick from Shimakaze (an early character who achieved\nhigh popularity and has maintained it since); Fubuki (brought to prominence by\nthe anime); Kashima (the newest high-popularity character from the franchise);\nor any number of other shipgirls. (I think Shimakaze wins by most metrics,\nincluding pixiv illustrations - [24000 as of\nnow](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E5%B3%B6%E9%A2%A8); [this pixiv poll from\n2014](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9nejC.jpg) by a large margin; etc. But she did\nhave a considerable head start, being ship #10.)\n\n## #1 / English\n\nUnder interpretation #1 and \"the English-speaking internet\", sites like MAL\nare good places to look.\n\n * On MAL, the [top-ranking female characters](http://myanimelist.net/character.php) from anime that aired during the time period in question are Senjougahara Hitagi ( _Monogatari_ ), Suzumiya Haruhi (via _Nagato Yuki-chan_ ), Saber ( _Fate_ ), and Erza Scarlet ( _Fairy Tail_ ). \n * On [Anime-Planet](http://www.anime-planet.com/characters/top-loved) (which I think skews to a more casual demographic than MAL), the list is Erza Scarlet, Hyuuga Hinata ( _Naruto_ ), Suzumiya Haruhi, and Lucy Heartfilia ( _Fairy Tail_ ). \n * [AniDB](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=characterlist&orderby.rating=0.2&orderby.name=1.1&orderbar=0&noalias=1) is a bit more difficult to work with since they have ratings rather than just \"likes\", but the toppers by raw rating (without adjusting for confidence based on number of ratings) are Miyauchi Renge ( _Non Non Biyori_ , twice!), Kongou ( _KanColle_ ), Cure Beat ( _PreCure_ ), and Cure Moonlight ( _PreCure_ )\n\n## #2 / all\n\nUnder interpretation #2 and \"all of the internet\", the answer may not be\nsomeone from _KanColle_ , because the anime, while still very popular, was not\nquite as ridiculously popular as the game on which it is based.\n\nIdol shows are another common source of super-popular female characters.\nWithin the time period under consideration, _Love Live!_ and _Idolmaster_ both\naired, and both of these shows derive more of their popularity from TV than\n_KanColle_ does. I know that _Love Live!_ has (had) periodic character polls,\nbut I can't find many of them at the moment. [Here's one from Jan 2016\nish](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2142631062822870101) which has Nico at the\ntop (see, Japan has weird taste), and [another one from back in\n2013](http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/otonokizaka/sp_election.html) that has Maki\nat the top (okay, not _that_ weird). No idea whether _Idolmaster_ does them\ntoo.\n\nOther than that, I don't have any good data, but my impression is that the\nvarious female leads from _Saekano_ , _Fate_ , _Oregairu_ , and _Monogatari_\nare also potential contenders under this interpretation.\n\n## #2 / English\n\nFor the English-speaking internet, interpretations #1 and #2 are actualyl\nmostly the same, since most of the English-speaking internet's exposure to\n\"otaku culture\" is through anime, with virtually no non-anime media achieving\nprominence anywhere near the most popular anime. (Contrast Japan, where\n_KanColle_ , the game, is very much a thing.)\n\nPerhaps the key exceptions are a select few visual novels like _Fate/stay\nnight_ and _Muv-Luv_ ; and wildly popular manga like _One Punch Man_ and\n_Shingeki no Kyojin_ (though these things pretty much always get anime\nadaptations eventually). But I'm not aware of any non-anime properties like\nthis during the time period under consideration, so I expect no real\ndifference between interpretations #1 and #2.\n\n# Miscellaneous notes\n\nOne other well-known source for this kind of thing is _Newtype_ magazine's\nmonthly character polls. But I warn you in advance, their polls skew in very\nstrange ways. For example, Kira Yamato is almost perpetually ranked, despite\nnot having been on TV since 2005. Anyway, I found most of these for the time\nperiod in question, and it turns out that Saber tops about half the polls and\nplaces in the top 3 in the rest.\n\n# My personal take\n\nIf you choose to include _KanColle_ , I think the obvious answer is Shimakaze,\nor possibly Kongou, given that you want a character with high recognizability\nin the vein of Haruhi/Asuna/Mikasa/etc.\n\nIf you choose to exclude _KanColle_ , which may also be reasonable depending\non your target audience, I would recommend a character from _Monogatari_ ,\nwhich has had 7 years to stew in the minds of people, yet is still putting out\nnew animated content. Senjougahara is probably the most recognizable of them,\nbut Shinobu/Kiss-Shot is more topical, given that _Kizumonogatari_ is\nliterally happening this year. The other reasonable option I see is Tatsumaki\nfrom _One Punch Man_ , too, given the broad popularity of that show with\nEnglish-speaking audiences.\n\nAlternatively, you could just use Mikasa. _Jiyuu no Tsubasa_ (recap movie #2)\ndid premiere in June 2015, after all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Ep 22, an analysis is mentioned by Nakahara, saying that we have 10% happy\nmoments in our life, and other 90% is in misery. Is this related to a real\npsychological study? If so, how can I find the related work, any reference?\n\n### The scene at 18:20 in Ep22\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3wje.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Sword Art Online (season 1) episode 9, at about 16:00, someone with blue\nhair woke up Kirito. When he regains consciousness, it was Asuna. But she\ndoesn't have blue hair!\n\nHere are some pictures.\n\nThis was just before he woke up:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HXIh0.jpg)\n\nThen:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UR4TP.jpg)\n\nWhat's going on here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat would be Sachi. She's umm.. you know. big spoiler. As you can see from\nthis screen shot, her hair is blue.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7MS93.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe it may have been Suguha over Sachi. if we look at a younger image of\nSuguha we see she has Blue-ish hair\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jo2p5.jpg)\n\nalso Sachi's sidebangs are longer going past her chin\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JeXw7.jpg)\n\nwhile with Suguha, despite the fact in the image bellow they are behind her\nears we can guess her hair length of these side bangs to when she was young\n(in the previous image they are the bang just before the flower clip) and\nprobably isn't nearly as long as Sachi's\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BuYxz.jpg)\n\nAlso the fact the they are trying to wake Kirito up makes more sense that it\nis Suguha as she would be wanting Kirito to wake up, maybe some sort of feed\nfrom reality. there isn't much reason for Sachi, or her ghost, to be wanting\nKirito to wake up so urgently while with Suguha, someone she loves is still\nalmost wasting away in a coma like state.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe face and the hair colour of the girl trying to wake him up looks similar\nto Sachi, the girl from the guild of which Kirito was the member long time\nbefore this scene.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3Ysn.jpg)\n\nI'm pretty sure this is Sachi and not Suguha because of two reasons. Firstly,\nat that moment, Kirito wanted to be apart from Suguha because he found out the\nfamily he lived with was not his real family (I mean not his true parents and\nSuguha was not his sibling) since the age of 10. Secondly, Kirito joined that\nbattle (the scene before your illustrations) because he did not want any\nfriends and guild members ended up disappearing in front of him like the death\nof the \"Moonlit Black Cats\" of which Sachi is the member, so maybe he saw the\nblue haired girl due to his guilty feeling.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI had always thought that it was Sugu, Kazuto's sister. That, somehow, Kirito\nbriefly glimpsed the real world. But, in retrospect, it was Asuna.\n\nFirstly, it cannot be Sachi: Sachi is dead, and other than the strange\noccurrence of Griselda's brief appearance, the dead do not reappear. If Asuna\nhadn't seen had Griselda, too, then I would be apt to think that this was a\nhallucination. For now I will call it an anomaly or glitch in the system. I am\nsure there could be many considering Yui, Asuna defying paralysis, and\nKayuba's surprise when Kirito refused to die before issuing the fatal blow,\njust to name a few.\n\nAs I said above, the first time I saw the episode and the black-haired girl, I\nwas certain it was Sugu. I thought that Kayuba had lied and you didn't really\ndie when your HP hit zero, he had just said that to give a more realistic and\nfinal feel to the game so that the players would take it more seriously. After\nKirito finished it and Kayuba confirmed that everyone who had died in-game was\nreally dead, episode 9 left me confused. How had Kirito then been able to see\nhis sister?\n\nHad Kirito, being so near to death, briefly viewed his sister crying over him\nin the hospital? But, then, why would she call him 'Kirito'? She did not know\nhim by that name. In fact, based on her reception of Kirito in Alfheim online,\nshe had never heard the name before. So, why would Sugu be calling Kazuto by\nthe name of his avatar? And why would she be using -kun if she knew she was\naddressing her brother? As the younger sister she would use the honorific -san\nor -sama, but not -kun. Understanding this he can only be hearing Asuna\ncalling him, which is evident in the next blink when it is Asuna's face before\nhim and not the black-haired girl. But, who was the black-haired girl and how\nhad Kirito seen her in the first place?\n\nAgain, I can only fall back on the anomaly or glitch in the system theory and\nwell as the strength of Kirito's own character. Only someone of extraordinary\nstrength of character would have the capability of defying the system. Yui was\nattracted to both Kirito and Asuna because something about them was different\nfrom every other player in the game. Was it their love? Their strength? Their\nlife-force? Something within their character is strong and Yui sensed it. And,\nas previously mentioned, Asuna also showed an anomalous ability by defying\nparalysis in order to protect Kirito. Was this strength enough to bypass the\nsystems parameters so that in a near death experience Kirito could momentarily\nglimpse the real world and see his sister? Yes, I think it was.\n\nBut, as to who woke up Kirito - while I think he may have glimpsed Sugu, I\nbelive he was still hearing Asuna for the reasons mentioned above, and that it\nwas Asuna that actually woke him up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is definitely Sachi. This is evidenced by the mole just below her right\neye.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RcFWx.jpg)\n\nIn your image, the mole appears in roughly the same spot.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EQykz.png)\n\nThis is also backed up by the fact that, at the time of this particular scene\nbeing shown, [out of all of the other female characters\nintroduced](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Female) \\- that\nbeing Lisbeth, Asuna, and Silica - **none** of them have a mole on their face.\nThe only other one that could come _close_ would be Lisbeth, but she has\nfreckles on her face.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been seeing some posts on Facebook recently with Piccolo yelling at\nGohan to dodge. I do not understand the reference behind it.\n\nWhat incident is being referred to?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt comes from the Team Four star parody of Dragon-Ball, and it occurs during\nthe part where Piccolo trains Gohan to fight the Sayans\n\nOne of the things Piccolo does is tells Gohan to dodge, and then hits him.\nIt's a running gag throughout the series.\n\nYou can watch the parody at <http://teamfourstar.com/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a reference [Team Four Star's](http://teamfourstar.com/) [DragonBall Z\nAbridged](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EC7B047181AD013) series.\n\nIn it, [Picollo is teaching Gohan to\ndodge](https://youtu.be/P6P_sXbQtgc?t=5m31s). However, [he ends up conditioned\nto freeze in fear of the word instead](https://youtu.be/GXeOlcctd9g?t=5m7s).\nThis becomes one of the most popular running gags in the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy friend recommended me to watch _JoJo's Bizzare Adventure_ , but when I\ngoogled it I found there are many series.\n\nWhat is the order of the anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe JoJo's Bizzare Adventure series (as in, the manga) as a whole is devided\ninto 8 story arcs. 3 of these have been animated so far. I'm going to list\nthese in order of release, but as far as order of viewing goes... Well, let's\nget to that when we get to that. \nAlso, it should be noted that all of these arcs, while sharing chronologial\nconnetions (to a point), are rather self sustained and can be enjoyed even on\ntheir own.\n\nThe [1993 6 episode\nOVA](http://myanimelist.net/anime/666/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken) starts at the\nmiddle of the 3rd plot line. \nThe [2000 7 episode\nOVA](http://myanimelist.net/anime/665/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_2000) presents\nthe beginning of the 3rd plot line, up to where to pervious OVA starts. \nBoth of these are are a bit of a relic, differ grately in animation style and\nproduction as a while and, well the first one just oozes early 90s anime\nstyle. As a whole (and even on their own) they tell a rather self sustained\nstory, but only a small part of it.\n\nThe 2012 television series is the one that actually starts the story from the\nbeginning. The first 26 episode season covers story arcs [1 and\n2](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14719/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_TV).\nAfterwards, starting at 2014, the series covered the [3rd arc in 48\nepisodes](http://myanimelist.net/anime/20899/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Stardust_Crusaders).\n(So, basicly doing what the OVAs did in third of the episode count.) The next\nseason, apparently starting at April 2016, is palled to start covering the\n[4th\narc](http://myanimelist.net/anime/31933/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Diamond_wa_Kudakenai).\n\nSo, where to start... If you want to get the whole story, I suggest the\ntelevision series. It follows the manga quite faithfuly and is quite coherent\nin its presentation. \nHowever, if you want to get a quick feel for what you'll be getting into, I'd\nsuggest either of the OVAs (depending if you perfer the 90s style, or a more\nmodern style). These OVAs cover the (arguably) most popular story arc in the\nseries in a relatively short time. If you decide you want more, the TV series\nshould still be enjoyable as it covers a lot of things (not limited to the 2\nfirst story arcs) that the OVAs skip.\n\nThere's also an [animated\nmovie](http://myanimelist.net/anime/3603/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Phantom_Blood)\ncovering the 1st story arc. But it was apparently so bad that it was never\nofficaly released outside theatres. From what I understand, there isn't a\nknown, complete copy of the movie _anywhere_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the order of the events in the series it goes like this:\n\n 1. [JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (TV)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14719/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_TV) (This covers the Battle Tendecy Arc and the Phantom Blood Arc.)\n\n 2. [JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders](http://myanimelist.net/anime/20899/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Stardust_Crusaders)\n\n 3. [JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders 2nd Season](http://myanimelist.net/anime/26055/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Stardust_Crusaders_2nd_Season)\n\n 4. [JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Diamond wa Kudakenai](http://myanimelist.net/anime/31933/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Diamond_wa_Kudakenai)\n\n 5. [Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai](https://myanimelist.net/anime/33191/Kishibe_Rohan_wa_Ugokanai) (OVA)\n\n 6. [JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze](https://myanimelist.net/anime/37991/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken__Ougon_no_Kaze)\n\nAll of the above are the main TV series. This anime also has the 90's version\nsome movie, and an OVA.\n\n 1. [JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (2000)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/665/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken_2000)\n\n 2. [JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken](http://myanimelist.net/anime/666/JoJo_no_Kimyou_na_Bouken)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe order of the series is:\n\n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Phantom Blood\n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency\n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders\n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable \n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Vento Aureo\n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean\n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run\n * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure JoJolion\n\nPart 9 isn't out and the creator says it might be the last JoJo series because\nso yeah\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe cast of heroines of the Grisaia no Kajitsu visual novel / anime series are\nsome of the most deranged of the last decade.\n\nDo all of them suffer from some sort of PTSD?\n\nThey surely have reasons to:\n\nAmane:\n\n> Surviving the bus crash, starvation, the death of classmates, the cannibal\n> circle and the guilty for her best friend's sacrifice. Not to mention\n> crawling for weeks eating bugs and leeches before reaching civilization.\n\nMakina:\n\n> Tied up in front of her dead father's decomposing body for days.\n\nMichiru:\n\n> Best friend committed suicide in front of her.\n\nSachi:\n\n> Getting her parents killed by a runaway truck because she was a bad girl.\n\nYumiko:\n\n> Rejected by family. Watching her mother mentally decay in front of her.\n> Being treated as less than a person by her father.\n\nBonus: Chizuru:\n\n> The kidnapping?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only one we know for sure is **Sachi Komine**.`\n\n> Witnessing this event gave Sachi a serious case of **Post Traumatic Stress\n> Disorder (PTSD) and Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)**. She blame herself\n> and believes that she needs to be a good girl to make up for her sins.`\n\n<http://grisaia.wikia.com/wiki/Sachi_Komine>\n\nIt is shown that the other girls have or had a kind or another of mental\nwound.\n\n**Yumiko Sakaki**\n\n> His son had died, and Yumiko was being spoon fed false kindness to shape her\n> into the next head of the company, Michiaki’s own puppet. This shook\n> Yumiko’s foundation to the core and she was on the verge of a **mental\n> breakdown**.\n\n<http://grisaia.wikia.com/wiki/Yumiko_Sakaki>\n\n**Amane Suou**\n\n> The incident leaves Amane with a **strong case of survivor's guilt** , which\n> is only compounded by media speculation that she survived by engaging in\n> cannibalism. Years later, when Yuuji arrives at Mihama, she recognizes him\n> as Kazuki's brother, and attempts to \"atone for her crimes\" by helping him\n> in any way she can.\n\n<http://grisaia.wikia.com/wiki/Amane_Suou>\n\n**Michiru Matsushima**\n\n> After that incident, Michiru gets sent to a **mental ward** and there she is\n> prescribed a medication to suppress the \"other Michiru.\" A little while\n> later she got released from the **mental hospital** and enrolls in to Mihama\n> academy as the third student after its establishment.\n\n<http://grisaia.wikia.com/wiki/Michiru_Matsushima>\n\n**Makina Irisu**\n\n> Makina used to be the successor of Irisu family but her inheritance was\n> transferred to her younger sister, Sarina Irisu , after she suffered a\n> **mental shock** in an incident.\n\n<http://grisaia.wikia.com/wiki/Makina_Irisu>\n\nAs for **Chizuru Tachibana** , I didn't find in the wiki or in the anime\nanything that would indicate the fact that she would have some kind of mental\nscar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs stated in the title, I want to know what the major differences between the\nmanga and the anime adaptation are. From what I've read online, the anime\nadaptation diverged from the manga. So where does this diversion occur? Does\nit start from a particular chapter of the manga or has it been taking its own\ncourse gradually from the very beginning?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> ⚠ **The answer below contains spoilers.**\n\n 1. The manga skipped a chapter which took place before the first Revival in the anime. This chapter concentrates on the bond between Airi and Satoru, when he saves someone's (I won't spoil) life with her help.\n 2. When Satoru and his mother meet Airi in the parking lot, in the anime, he uses Revival only once to spot the difference. In the manga, he uses it 3-4 times.\n 3. In the scene where his mother is killed, he doesn't meet with the culprit in the hallway. In the manga, he catches a glimpse of him in the garden and pursues him, during which he is seen by the landlady.\n 4. The manga narrates the background story of Yashiro, which the anime skipped. The scene in the anime where Satoru decides whether or not to push Hinazuki's mother is altered. In the manga, he has a homemade taser with him.\n 5. In the manga, in 2003, when the photographers take pictures of him and Kumi (the leukemia girl), they are stopped by Airi instead of Yashiro, and Satoru recognizes her. Then he falls in coma again for another 2 years (the numeric details may have a 1 year error).\n 6. After he can walk, he goes in town and he sees Airi from afar. However, he decides to not talk to her in order to keep her away from the killer.\n 7. The end of the anime is dramatically changed. In the manga, the story follows a bit of a longer period of time after he can walk. He has a strong big brother relationship with Kumi. The ending takes place in a holiday camp for patients who undergo recover such as Satoru and Kumi. There, the death match takes place between Satoru and Yashiro and is more complex as compared to the anime. Sawada and Kenya having a bigger role as well.\n 8. In the manga, Hinazuki indicates to Satoru that Misato is alone instead of the glasses boy.\n 9. When he was little (younger than the 4th grade), Satoru had a female friend two years older than him, whom he used to play with. When she said that he is her second best male friend (or something of the sort), he goes with a stick to the group where the first \"male\" was, to remove him from her life, doing nothing in the end. A few days later she goes to a building attracted by something. She comes out with her hands full of pictures for kids when she is called by Satoru. It was another kidnap attempt by Yashiro, stopped unknowingly by Satoru.\n 10. The reasons for which his mother stopped being a TV anchor are hinted in the manga. The reason is the fact that the TV station director wanted to have an intimate relationship with her (most likely). She refused, resulting in cuts on her palms (probably obtained when she refused him).\n 11. The job of Hiromi Sugita is changed. In the manga, he is a physicist while in the anime, he is a doctor.\n 12. The identity of the culprit is more hinted in the manga with more small panels concentrated on his reactions on Satoru's and his friends' actions and dialogues in the school grounds (about saving the victims).\n 13. In the last showdown scene, Yashiro intends to kill Satoru and himself on a bridge set on fire. Satoru escapes and Kenya and Sawada save Yashiro's life, an event present only in the manga.\n 14. In the anime, it is skipped that Yuuki went to continental Asia and married a woman from there (her and their son having black skin are visible for a few seconds in the last episode of the anime and in the manga as well).\n 15. In those 15 years, in the manga, Yashiro kidnapped and killed around 15-30 other children, leaving some clues for Kenya and Sawada which led to him. He is charged for those murders in the manga. On the other hand, in the anime these crimes are not mentioned and he is only charged with attempted murder of Satoru.\n\nThere may be other changes which I didn't notice or forgot. The changes were\nless visible in the first half of the anime and were more prominent in the\nsecond half of the show, due to the anime having a short amount of screen time\nleft to portray all of the manga content.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat are the names of the dance moves used by Mabuchi Kyōma in the opening\nsong of Season 1 of Dimension W?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4tGqP.gif)\n\nYou can see a bigger version of the png at this\n[link](http://giphy.com/gifs/mabuchi-kyma-dance-moves-in-dimension-w-\nxThuWvxpHQH7Zaadws)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDancing is a form of art where one expresses them self so not all dance move\nare going to be identical.\n\nThe links for each move are examples how each dance.\n\nThe first move is called [Top Rocking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toprock).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZbAf6.jpg)\n\nThe second move is a variation of the [Indian\nStep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDwSu2nfSXw).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CfFjm.gif)\n\nThe third move seems to be similar to the finger snapping in [West Side\nStory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ClSABkDp8).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rmxz1.jpg)\n\nThe fourth move is a variation of a [Kick\nCross](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHGYYAuaZ4U).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1l3oO.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy question is if Akamaru is a pet or a comrade to Kiba. I'm wondering this\nbecause he fights alongside Kiba and Kiba treats him like he was another human\nbeing (most of the time), but at the same time he also treats him like a pet.\n\nExamples and or clues that he's a pet:\n\n 1. Teaches him tricks\n 2. Takes baths with him (not a lot of people do but a lot of little kids do)\n 3. Calls him \"boy\" (Like, \"Here boy!\")\n 4. He was given to Kiba at a very young age by Kiba's mother (something that happens a lot in real life)\n 5. They lived together for (you could say) their whole life so they're like family (something that also happens in real life)\n 6. They play together (something you will do with a friend or pet)\n 7. Kiba cares a lot about Akamaru that he will do anything to protect him (something that a lot of people do for their pets)\n\nThe list goes on and on. I've been looking up stuff, but haven't found\nanything that says he's his pet. It only says he's his partner, comrade,\nfriend, etc.\n\nWhen I look up, \"Kiba and his pet\", then go to images, it shows (at least the\nfirst couple of pictures) Kiba and Akamaru.\n\nSo is Akamaru Kiba's pet or comrade? To better put it, is Akamaru a pet or a\ncomrade to Kiba?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe this will depend on how you define a pet and comrade, dictionary.com\ndefines a pet as any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion\nand cared for affectionately. And it defines a comrade as a companion who\nshares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization/a fellow\nsoldier or member of the armed services.\n\nBy the first definition he could be considered a pet, though he is clearly\nmore than that. The entire clan use collaboration techniques with their canine\ncompanions, drawing strength from their combined and coordinated techniques;\nthey have a symbiotic relationship on and off the battlefield, protecting each\nother and playing together, as well as fighting fiercely together.\n\nIn the real world hunting dogs are probably the closest comparison we have to\nthe battlefield interactions we see between the Inuzuka clan and their\ncompanion animals. Training a hunting dog requires asserting yourself as an\nalpha in their pack, and maintaining that controlling position constantly.\nTreating a hunting dog as a pet as well frequently blurs the lines on what\nbehavior is and is not allowed from the animal and can undermine its hunting\ntraining. <https://www.southernstates.com/articles/training-hunting-dogs.aspx>\n\nIn the case of the Inuzuka clan we see more than just a working relationship\nthat leads to optimal performance of hunting dogs. Akamaru makes suggestions\nduring fights. He even bites Kiba in the fight against Sakon and Ukon\ninsisting that they use a risky technique. This clearly indicates that Kiba is\nnot an alpha to be obeyed regardless of circumstances and they have a more\nequal relationship more akin to sworn brothers.\n\nIn conclusion, Akamaru is more than just a pet and its probably most accurate\nto call them true partners.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Akamaru a pet or a comrade?\n\nThat's the question and my answer to that...\n\nWell in my limited knowledge about it I say that Akamaru is not just a pet to\nKiba, but more as a comrade/friend/family. When you watch Naruto, in some of\ntheir scenes you will see no pet-to-master relationship but a bond of\nfriendship between them like comrades. You will see that Kiba treats Akamaru\nmore than just a dog or a pet, but treats it like a comrade that he wants to\nprotect and cherish... ^__^\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Azula does her firebending the flames are blue rather than red/orange\nthat every other firebender has. we know that the fire is only blue when it''s\ncame from her firebending as when she is fighting Aang and Zuko in that\nabandoned town (shortly after Toph joins when Appa is molting) she uses her\nfirebending to set the walls of a building of fire but the flames are only\nblue for a moment and return to the normal colour.\n\nSo i am wondering what Azula is doing differently with her Firebending to make\nher flames blue?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I'm going to get all physics-y here, but bear with me.\n\nThinking in terms of real world physics, some flames will burn blue depending\nin what it is that you're burning. Certain elements burn blue, other burn\ngreen, etc. The reason for this is a little bit long, so I won't write it\nhere. This wouldn't be the case with Azula, since we can almost definitely\ninffer that she's burning the same thing every other firebender burns: the\nparticles in the air.\n\nSo why are her flames blue? Basically, the color of something you see relates\nto the frequency of the light coming from the object, which is directly\nproportional to how much eletromagnetic energy that thing is emitting.\nBasically, red light has low frequency (low energy) and blue light has high\nfrequency (high energy). So if something burns blue, it means it is being\nburned with lots of energy: AKA it's really fucking hot.\n\nSo to summarize: Azula's fire if blue because it burns hotter, which follows\nalong well with the whole \"she's a genius\" thing.\n\nYou can also think of it from an emotional view point: since lightning is\ncalled \"fire without heart\", maybe you could think that Azula's fire being\nblue relates to that. Since she is quite heartless and mentally deranged, her\nemotional state is shown via her flames' colors.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthird answer of the day. i'm answering this because you don't have an accepted\nanswer. the first answer is technically correct. in again the avatar wiki, it\nwas stated that she is a prodigy who can bend more powerful flame: the blue\nflame. exact words: Blue fire: Only Azula has demonstrated blue firebending.\nWhile not to be confused with lightning, blue fire also seems to possess more\nphysical force and produces a combustive effect that is more intense than that\nof normal fire. so basically, the fire is blue because it's more powerful than\nthe red/orange/yellow flames.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell I already watched the first season, finished it's OVA last year, and read\nthe manga... But I have heard some rumors of having a **season 2** of _ONE\nPUNCH-MAN_... Well I don't know if it's true but if it is true when will it be\nrelease?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is not officialy announced . Is too early for it to be released for various\nreasons.\n\n> As noted in Youth Health Mag, the sophomore run of the anime may not be\n> arriving anytime soon since the manga is not even finished yet, which means\n> that there **isn't sufficient content to be adapted as of now.** \"One Punch\n> Man\" manga is currently at chapter 86 titled \"Garou Arc.\" It can be\n> remembered that the first season closed with episode 12 wherein Saitama\n> fought with Lord Boros. In manga, it happened around chapter 37. The Bit Bag\n> also noted that it **usually takes six to nine months or one to two years to\n> develop a whole new season.**\n\n<http://www.christianpost.com/news/one-punch-man-season-2-update-no-expected-\nrelease-date-yet-creator-hard-at-work-to-bring-follow-up-153981/>\n\nHowever, there are some hints:\n\n> There is some good news for fans of the anime, of course, as creator Murata\n> Yusuke has already informed and promised fans that the team behind the hit\n> anime series **is hard at work in coming up with a definitive second\n> season**. In fact, if things go well, there would be a pretty good chance\n> that \"One Punch Man: Season 2\" would be released around November or\n> December, according to Christian Today.\n\n<http://www.hngn.com/articles/177338/20160209/one-punch-man-season-2-news-\nrumors-next-cover-hero.htm>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found this in [Clannad visual novel diagram](https://vndb.org/v4/rg) website\nthat there are a lot of side stories, partner stories and other things what\nare those I'm confused.So is there an order to play this games.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo i watched a review on Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 on Good Game SP. Hex\nand Bajo said it was the last in the series which probably finishes where the\nmanga finishes.\n\nI have been wondering if the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series contains all\nthe manga plot and also if they include any of the fillers from the anime\nseries (considering the anime hasn't caught up to the end of the Manga)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe game franchise did cover the whole story, but not in detail. What I'm\ntrying to say is, they basically give a small flashback for each story that\nled to each problem that needs to be solved by Naruto and his friends. That's\nhow the storytelling works in the game.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLooking at the extras menu of Sword Art Online Bluray Set 1, I was reminded\nthat there is a Sword Art Offline segment. Disk 1 has Episodes 1-4 of Sword\nArt Online and Sword Art Offline 1 and 2.\n\nI am wondering, after what episode of Sword Art Online was each Sword Art\nOffline episode expected to be viewed? (not just Set 1 but all of Sword Art\nOnline 1, Ex and 2)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, this \"anime\" is from China and there're no subtitles for the\ninformation shown during the openings and endings. I've already searched a lot\non google to find any traces, but I didn't succeed.\n\nDoes anybody know the name of the first ending and second opening song?\n\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UahrVMd2vAY&list=PLSkNsC52FdsoLUmxU_vdK1_x2wvic9qgr&index=1)'s\nthe link (it redirects you to a YouTube video) for the **ending song**\nstarting at _13:01_ and **second opening song** starting at _1:56_.\n\nEdit: the video on YouTube seems to have been removed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince you are watching this show, I assume that you know Chinese and can read\nit. Therefore, I consider it unusual that you did not just google the name of\nthe show and look for its Baidu Baike Page, China's Wikipedia equivalent.\nAnyway, here is the page for that show.\n[LINK](http://baike.baidu.com/subview/9363221/17967316.htm?from=qqvideo#10_1)\n\nThis page has the name for all the show's openings and endings, even the\ninsert songs.\n\nHere are Youtube links for each OP and ED. Btw, OP 1 really is just 1.30 long,\nit is already the full version.\n\nOP 1: [爱You Ready爱我 Ready](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAKzj6U6rwA)\n\nOP 2: [梦回还](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtMJq74xbk)\n\nED 1: [東流](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfVUUGxdi_A)\n\nInsert Song: [相聚万年树](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xac7QWg3gQE)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I'm understanding the first one is called, \"If The Afterlife\" in\nEnglish and the second translates to, Dream Back Also.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the past 2 years or so I've became a big Japanese anime fan, and I've\nprobably watched 50 **movies** by now (the only series I watched was Neon\nGenesis Evangelion). In every movie I watched (and NGE for that matter) there\nwas always some scene in a train - which is way more common than in other\ngenres. I've read about how advanced the trains are in Japan, and I can accept\nthat the average Japanese guy uses the train more than non-Japanese people,\nyet most of the train scenes are more than just \"traveling\" scenes and they\nare usually very emotional.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of the song that starts at 19:10 in episode 28 (\"Eat Or Be\nEaten, Panic In The Forest\") of normal Naruto?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf the time you're referring to is from an episode not including the opening,\nthat song starts when Naruto stops Orochimaru when he is about to attack\nSasuke. It's [Naruto Main Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daPo6q4FXDw),\nfrom the first OST of Naruto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was wondering, is the anime ending and the manga ending the same for `Boku\ndake ga Inai Machi`? Or is there going to be a sequel for the anime version?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is dramatically changed as it is mentioned in [What are the differences\nbetween the manga and the anime adaptation and where does the anime\ndiverge?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/30817/what-are-the-\ndifferences-between-the-manga-and-the-anime-adaptation-and-where-do)\n\n**⚠ The answer below contains spoilers.**\n\n> The end of the anime is dramatically changed. In the manga, the story\n> follows a bit of a longer period of time after Satoru can walk. The ending\n> takes place in a holiday camp for patients who undergo recover such as\n> Satoru and Kumi. There, the death match takes place between Satoru and\n> Yashiro and is more complex as compared to the anime. Sawada and Kenya\n> having a bigger role as well.\n>\n> In the last showdown scene, Yashiro intends to kill Satoru and himself on a\n> bridge set on fire. Satoru escapes and Kenya and Sawada save Yashiro's life,\n> an event present only in the manga\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe all know Mangekyo Sharingan will blind its user over time right? And the\nonly way is to transplant a set of new eyes from a close Uchiha into them and\ngains Eternal Mangekyo.\n\n*So, I'm wondering if the new set of eyes isn't from Uchiha bloodline. I mean , a normal person without kekkei genkai? What would happen then? *\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI suppose he should be able to see but no longer be able to use the Sharingan.\nIt is not explicitly known what activates the Sharingan in an eye. But it is\nhighly likely that it is hard coded in an Uchiha eye balls, since using those\neyes, a person who is not from the Uchiha clan is able to use the Sharingan.\nJust like Kakashi and Danzo for instance.\n\nFrom the same logic, an Uchiha should be able to see using normal eyes from\nanother person but no longer be able to use the Sharingan. The ability is hard\ncoded inside the eyes. The weakening of the sight in case of excessive use of\nMangekyo Sharingan would also be nullified in case of normal eye transplants.\nJust like a normal eye transplant to a blind person.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, it was said in anime by reanimated Tobirama Senju that the Uchiha's\nbrains released a special type of chakra upon experiencing a sad moment. So I\nfeel that the eyes don't really matter here.\n\nI think that if a skilled medical nin is able to transplant an Uchiha brain\ninto a rabbit, have it reproduce and then kill the baby rabbit a few days\nlater, the rabbit should awaken the Sharingan and then further a Mangekyou\nSharingan. This could be a way to cultivate multiple Sharingan (Sharingan\nfarm).\n\nThen the rabbit's eye should be taken out and replaced with a normal eye\n(probably from the person who wants the Sharingan). Finally, transplant the\neye into the normal person and he gets a free Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSatoru Fujinuma has the \"Revival\" ability, which allows him to go back in time\nbefore a life-threatening incident happens. We do know that he is not able to\ncontrol this power (even if he can somehow help to summon it sometimes), but\ndo we learn at any point how he obtained it ? Or did the author mention\nanything about this ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**⚠ The answer below contains spoilers.**\n\nIt is never stated in the anime nor in the manga how he obtained this ability.\nWe know that after the events in the last episode, he loses it and it never\noccurs again.\n\nAs the Boku Dake Wiki says:\n\n> Revival (再上映 (リバイバル), Ribaiburu, lit. \"Rerun\") is an **involuntary special\n> phenomenon exclusive to Satoru** that allows him to jump back in time in\n> order to rescue someone from a fatal encounter within his proximity.\n>\n> Empirically, Satoru's capable of responding to Revival, **as it occurs\n> involuntary and often at random times.** Fujinuma described his experience\n> as a deja vu.\n\n<http://bokudakegainaimachi.wikia.com/wiki/Revival>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo me, there are two explanations for this.\n\nOne is that, like Kenya said, Satoru imagined the entire sequence of events,\nbut not just when he was in his vegetative coma, but also before Kayo is to be\nkilled by Yashiro. It could be that Satoru suffers from dissociative identity\ndisorder and his intuition was acting as 'Revival' Satoru the entire time.\n\nOr, it could be that Satoru was given this ability so as to protect others\nfrom the same fate Kayo fell to, but ended up being used by Satoru to save\nKayo instead, which would eliminate the ability's reason for existence,\nallowing the events of the second, parallel 2005 to occur.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRecently read a review on this anime that made me want to cry on this ability,\nwhile it isn't how he got it, it is a lot like Butterfly Effect, the movie.\nBasically, the skill becomes chaos theory embodied in him as the anime goes\non, but is never explained how it starts. We just never see the results really\nuntil the end.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSorry, I can't agree with the existing answers. If this was some sort of\ndream-like dissociative disorder, then the final events would never have\noccurred. The coma occurred because the teacher tries to kill him and he\nsurvived the coma because the teacher escaped and killed many other children\n(or in the anime, he just waited for him to come out). Regardless, it was\nproved that the teacher did attempt those kidnappings before and was prevented\nby Satoru, hence why the teacher tries to kill him once he's out the coma.\n\nMy take on the reasoning behind the \"Revival\" is less a sense of guilt and\nmore a sense of hopelessness and despair. Satoru never truly get guilt over\nwhat occurred because he never tried to befriend or knew about what was\nhappening to Kayo. However, the events clearly took an emotional toll and that\nculminated as an adult when he now felt dead inside. That loss of emotion\nseemingly triggered the \"Revival\" and brought about a feeling is self-worth,\nwhich coupled with the return of the teacher and the death of his mom triggers\nwithin him the need to return back to where it all began. This also is hinted\nat by the first time he fully uses the \"Revival\", he could never control\n\"Revival\" however after being cornered by police and the overwhelming feeling\nof loss from the death of his mother he begs \"Revival\" to occur to save her.\nThis is a full \"Revival\" and is the only way to save his mom.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSimple he is in a coma and his braining is dying so he has flashes of his life\ngoing forward where people in life die , his brain then starts to go into a\nseize like state which makes his brain repeat flashes (the illusion of going\nback in time) then because he is being revived after dying his brain repeats\nthe flashes from the start of life to the end of it.) His brain is creating\npersonalities, memories as his life is flashing before his eyes. Hence the\npersonalities , people etc all all fabrications of his mind which is screaming\nas it dies. The human mind can create entire humans and personalities that\ndon't exist by piecing information together.\n\nThis is one theory only.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have just finished the anime version of The Irregular at Magic High School\nand I would really like to read the light novel. I've been trying to find a\nlegal way to do that but to no avail.\n\nI've tried to search for the books in Amazon but typing \"Irregular at Magic\nHigh School\" into the search box didn't really give much (it only shows Volume\n1 and Volume 2 of the light novel series but I think it has until Volume 17\nnow). A simple Google search only resulted in (I assume) unofficial (or\nillegal) translation of the original Japanese light novel series e.g. its\nWikia page.\n\nI am also having a hard time finding updates of translated materials for the\nlight novel i.e. as in which volumes have been translated and which have not.\nMAL is the only source that I found useful for anime-related stuff, but it\ndoesn't have much info on light novels.\n\nTo all masters of anime out there, is there an official site that allows\nnewcomer like me to check about the official English translation updates of\nJapanese light novel series (especially the novel in this question)? Or is\nthere a website out there that can direct me to the correct place to purchase\nthe book? Thanks!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Yen Press has the license for the light\nnovels](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-09/yen-press-licenses-\nirregular-at-magic-high-school-light-novels-manga/.85777). As of this moment,\nthere are exactly zero volumes translated, but [volume\n1](http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tsutomu-sato/the-irregular-at-\nmagic-high-school-vol-1/9780316348805/?yen) is scheduled for April, and\n[volume 2](http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tsutomu-sato/the-irregular-\nat-magic-high-school-vol-2/9780316390293/?yen) is scheduled for August. I\nadvise you to check their [New Releases](http://yenpress.com/new-releases/)\npage for future updates about when they release additional volumes.\n\nThere is not really an \"official\" site for this sort of thing in general, as\nfar as I know. Your best bet is probably to identify the licensor for\nwhichever series you're interested in (check\n[ANN](http://animenewsnetwork.com/), or just Google), and then look at the\nlicensor's website.\n\n(Yes, this is significantly behind Japan, which is actually at volume 19 as of\nMarch 2016. This is perfectly typical for English-language light novel\ntranslations. Compared to manga, there is relatively low demand for light\nnovels, and they are relatively more labor-intensive to translate, so,\nhonestly, you're lucky if you can even get a licensor to translate an entire\nseries rather than stopping half-way through.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost of the shots in Erased its opening are references to events events or\ncryptic imagery like when Satoru's refers to himself as Grim Reaper that tries\nto put things back the way they were, but the more he acts the more other\npeople involved suffer (see the last bit in episode 6).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ANLmT.png)\n\nHowever at around 37 seconds into the opening this shot of a large amount of\nwater in the school shows up. I don't remember this happening in the anime.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wh0ey.png)\n\nWhat is the meaning of this shot? Does it bear a cryptic message to something\nin the show?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**SPOILERS:**\n\nThere's no objective answer that I've encountered, however this is my\ninterpretation;\n\nLiteral: Satoru being drowned.\n\nFigurative: Satoru's old life being \"washed away\" after nearly being drowned\nand losing his memory.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I know, the English versions of tankoubon volumes for most manga\nseries seem to be released within several months, if not years, of their\noriginal release in Japanese.\n\nEven very popular mainstream series like Naruto and Fairy Tail have their\nEnglish tankoubon counter-parts released months after their initial Japanese\nrelease.\n\nWhy is this the case?\n\nIf you consider the time it takes for subbed anime to be released, or even the\n(legal) translation of individual manga chapters done by companies like\nCrunchyroll or Shonen Jump, which happens on the order of days from the\ninitial Japanese release, it doesn't make much sense to me that releasing an\nEnglish translation of tankoubon volumes would take so long, especially in the\ncase of individual translation of the chapters, since all the companies would\nhave to do is just compile them together.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI got the answer but it's in the Indonesian languange and it's from an\nIndonesian publisher's perspective. Feel free to edit and improve my answer.\n\n[Elex Media](http://elexmedia.id) is one of the most popular publisher\ncompanies for a manga/manhwa in Indonesia who licensed many popular manga\nseries for decades such as _Naruto_ , _Doraemon_ , _One piece_ , _Toriko,\nHayate no Gotok_ u and many others. Elex Media has a [discussion\nforum](http://www.elexmedia.co.id/forum/index.php) which allows manga\nreader/enthusiasts in Indonesia who want to see the progress of the manga that\nwould be sold in Indonesia (planned/on-going/etc).\n\nThe admin who took control of the forum is also the editor who works for Elex\nMedia, that means, the answer that are all in in this discussion website are\nmostly a **fact**. Apparently, the admin always got the same question from\nusers, similar to:\n\n> **When will Manga B available in bookstores?**\n>\n> **Why did Manga C take forever to have a next volume ? It's been years since\n> the last volume (e.g D-Grayman, Katekyo Hitman)**\n>\n> **Why didn't Manga B that \"was\" popular back in Japan get licensed yet? It's\n> been 10 years since Japan had published this manga.**\n\nSo they made a FAQ page for answers to all of those similar questions. Some of\nthem are able to answer the OP's question.\n\n**FYI: an Indonesian edition for a manga is around Rp 20.000 - Rp 50.000 ($1.5\n- $4.5), while in Western edition it costs as far as I know around $10, but\nthe Western quality is better than Indonesian edition.**\n\nThe publisher also mentions about \"ILLEGAL\" scanlations:\n\n> **PS: Never compare with mangascan that circulated ILLEGAL on the internet\n> because**\n>\n> (1) Illegal means without a permit process, obviously faster than the legal\n> sources.\n>\n> (2) Mangascan (illegal sources) is the usual source of comic magazines, not\n> tankoubon (see paragraph 3 above on the length of the process from comic\n> magazine to tankoubon).\n>\n> # TL;DR\n>\n> # New comics can be confirmed as soon as they get their license from the\n> original publishers.\n\n* * *\n\n> [**QI.01: When does Manga A release in\n> Indonesia?**](http://www.elexmedia.co.id/forum/index.php?topic=14103.msg601650#new)\n>\n> **A : If it is not listed in the weekly schedule (Forum or Blog), it means\n> that it is still in process, either in Japan (in its comic artist / Japanese\n> publisher) or in Indonesia, therefore the exact date can not be accurately\n> informed.**\n>\n> Relevant Image: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gde1I.jpg)\n>\n> Explanation about the relevant image : **_Why it takes forever for Japanese\n> to decide: This is based on true story from my Japanese friend, that they\n> need meetings to discuss when to hold the next meeting! Consensus from\n> everyone is important but this delays making decisions..._** \"\n>\n> Taken from : [Evacomics](https://www.instagram.com/p/BCqBr2IQQHa/)\n>\n> The process of publishing comics is relatively long because many of the\n> processes require the approval of the original publishers, either from the\n> process for each chapter. in Japanese comic magazines or tankoubon forms\n> (comic units), especially if the comics are published in \"Comic Magazine,\n> Indonesia version\", then the process will be a little longer ( In indonesia,\n> the title that \"soon\" would be licensed were included in Comics Magazine.\n> Indonesia have their own comic magazine that published once a month. The\n> content of this comic magazine were a bunch collection of many manga title\n> that appear one chapter only per one comic magazine ). (This is why it's\n> sometimes informed that the title pauses are published in Japan, to\n> illustrate the density of comic and publisher activity against the title).\n>\n> In Japan itself has a break between the volume, normally an average of 4-8\n> months, sometimes more. Depending on this series how many pages per chapter\n> are published in Japanese comic magazines and depending on the Japanese\n> comic magazine is published weekly, biweekly or monthly. If 1 chapter of 32\n> pages and 1 comic takes approximately 200 pages, then 1 tanko (short for\n> tankoubon / comic unit) takes 6 chapters. If 1 comic magazine only published\n> 1 chapter / month, then at least 6 months new enough material collected for\n> tankobon version; and the fastest 1.5 months if the magazine is published\n> weekly. And remember, that if 1 chapter 32 pages, there are some comics that\n> the number of pages less than that.\n>\n> Then after that, this material will be their new process of licensed as a\n> tankobon in Japan. Note that This new comic status in Japan are currently\n> on-going manga series\n>\n> **Trivia 1: Do you know that there is a publisher requesting to submit\n> approval repeatedly simply because the comic-panel retouch should be done in\n> such a way that it should not be about the objects they specify a\n> semilimeter?**\n>\n> In Indonesia, after the Japanese tankobon is issued, the raw material is\n> sent to Indonesia and then still processed here, including the process of\n> permitting the contents to be printed which must get Japanese permit every\n> volume (which is the MOST LONG process, ie waiting for the print / approval\n> of contents & cover from Japan). Because once the permit is there, all will\n> be done smoothly, Elex Media just takes 2-3 weeks process and your favorite\n> comics are already spread nationwide to all bookstores.\n>\n> **Trivia 2: Do you know that there is a publisher who can request to submit\n> approval repeatedly only for color control of only one certain illustration\n> image?**\n>\n> In addition, the Japanese publisher representative agency and the\n> responsible editors in Indonesia do not only handle the 1 title or 1\n> publisher only, but there are so many other series & publishers handled. So\n> the handling of manuscripts and the preparation of the published schedule\n> also lapse with other series. Elex publishes 50-90 titles each week, just\n> imagine .. more than 200 titles are published every month! ^^\n>\n> **Trivia 3: Do you know that there are editors who have to outline around\n> every single comic strip, just to check the comic edges should be a distance\n> of a certain millimeter size, so that the results can meet the standards of\n> one of the Japanese publishers?**\n>\n> Sometimes there are also comics that are stagnant in Japan itself for one\n> reason or another, for example a vacuum comic for research (such as Naruto,\n> One Piece, etc.), comic artist / injury (such as Crayon Shinchan, Princess,\n> etc.), internal problems (such as Topeng Glass, etc.) and so on.\n\nFor the western Audience, they have discussed on this\n[thread](http://www.elexmedia.co.id/forum/index.php?topic=261.msg567817#msg567817)\n(Indonesian language).\n\n> > Anon: ... let alone see a neighboring country that can release the latest\n> one piece volume in just 2 months after japan releases its latest volume,\n> with price below 20 thousand rupiah and thicker paper which somehow how\n>\n> for this one seems to have been discussed on the previous page. The greatest\n> possibility can be analyzed from this\n> [thread](http://www.elexmedia.co.id/forum/index.php?topic=4851.msg566355#new).\n> There it is seen that in Indonesia, either because of online pirated read\n> prefer or what, the sale of the results received by the Japanese publishers\n> to the OP (One piece) as a condition of publication is not as good as in\n> other countries. In the thread it's even clear OP does not even reach his\n> 1/2 of Naruto's report card and is still far behind compared to Detective\n> Conan's report card.\n>\n> The usual practice is that the better his report card (after being sent to\n> Yen, so the exchange rate also affects), the fair is increasingly\n> prioritized in Japan. So if you compare the other titles with other\n> publishers that you call, it would be much the opposite is also the titles\n> in Elex licensed is faster than other country.\n>\n> It is also possible that in other countries, the comic title published by\n> the publisher is not as massive as Elex, which currently publishes about\n> 15,000 comics with its current cycle of about 100-150 comics every month. If\n> the info on [this website](http://comicsdirectory.com.my/shop-by-\n> publisher/comics-house), the number of titles dealt by the publisher is much\n> less (only 8.5% of Elex) so reasonable that the bureaucracy, the total title\n> held by the editor, and the process at the publisher is slimmer, a little\n> queue.\n>\n> FYI if before the permit process, there are many other processes that must\n> be passed such as the process of payment of royalties, taxes, sales\n> proceeds, delivery of materials, etc., where the process is not all per\n> title but there are per batch. :D\n>\n> For example the process of permission of comic title I can not be processed\n> because waiting process X which processed in batch Y along with title of\n> comics II, III, IV, etc which still queue up in other process.\n\n[Elex Media F.A.Q\npage](http://www.elexmedia.co.id/forum/index.php?topic=14103.msg601699#new)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the interesting and weird things I saw in One Piece was the mermen and\nmermaids in the Fishman Island Arc. But one of the biggest confusion I have is\nthe relation between Shirahoshi and Otohime. I don't know how Shirahoshi can\nbe a real daughter of Otohime. Otohime having such a small body and Shirahoshi\nbeing huge even in baby stage. Anyone has any ideas?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LtkMY.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don`t remember where I saw this, probably in some SBS or databook, but there\nare two separate species of fish-human hybrids. One of them is the\nfishmen/fishwomen, which are the ones that walk on humanoid legs like Arlong.\nThe other species is the merpeople (mermaids and mermen), wich are the ones\nwho need bubbles to move when not in the water, such as Caimie and Shirahoshi.\n\nSo Oda said FISHMEN are mammals, but he didn't say anything about merpeople.\nMeaning Shirahoshi could have been born from an egg, and some real-life fish\neven fertilize eggs externally so maybe Neptune didn't even need to copulate\nwith Otohime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk, I'm wondering . If Uchiha and Uzumaki have a child together, there are\npossibility that the child inherited Sharingan right? Since Uzumaki have ties\nwith Senju then, can the child awaken Rinnegan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMadara Uchiha did state that you need both Senju and Uchiha chakra to awaken\nthe Rinnegan, but it's actually the fusing of Indra and Ashura's chakra that\nawakens a Rinnegan.\n\nAccording to the wiki:\n\n> It is possible to awaken a new Rinnegan by obtaining Hagoromo's chakra,\n> either by combining the chakra of his sons, Indra and Asura, to recreate his\n> own, or by directly receiving it from Hagoromo himself.\n\nAs for the Sharingan, there is a high chance of the child awakening it, as\nSarada, Sasuke's daughter (Half Uchiha and Half Unspecified Clan w/ Unspecific\nAbilities) still managed to awaken the Sharingan. Also because the Uzumaki\nClan and Uchiha Clan are distantly related by blood (no longer closely because\nthe clans previously continued to expaned, causing blood ties to become\nslimmer). But, there is still a high chance of the child getting the Rinnegan.\n\nThis child would most likely be very powerful as they have two of the\nstrongest clans blood running in them!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll Uchiha have Indra's chakra and all Senju (Uzumaki related) have Ashura's\nchakra. Now, Madara/Sasuke and Hashirama/Naruto are special because Indra's\nand Ashura's reincarnated into them.\n\nTo answer the question, **yes, the child will be able to obtain Rinnegan.** He\nwill be most likely like the Sage of the Six Paths before he obtained\nSharingan and Rinnegan.\n\nThe sage wasn't born with Rinnegan. He started with nothing, his eyes were\nalmost like a Byakugan. When he lost his lover, he obtained the Sharingan.\nAfterward, learned how to control sage power and went fight his mother. His\nmother made him kill his brother (he healed him a few moments after, ain't got\ntime to explain all) which allowed him to awaken the EMS. He had the EMS and\nsage powers and he ended up with the Rinnegan.\n\nUchiha possess the Sharingan. Senju possess the Sage Chakra.\n\nOf course, if they have a child, he will be able to obtain the Rinnegan.\nAlthough he will have to overcome hardships like losing a friend (Sharingan) a\nlover (MS) and take sibling eyes (EMS) and since he already has Sage Chakra\nfrom Senju's parents, the Rinnegan will be awakened.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe correct answer is IT DEPENDS.\n\nRinnegan, as multiple users have pointed out, can be obtained by combining\nchakra from Indra and Asura. In each generation, one descendant of the\nbrothers inherits their Chakra.\n\nThus iff the \"chosen\" descendents of both Indra and Asura have a child\ntogether, their offspring would inherit both Chakras and would have a Rinnegan\nnaturally. Since both Uchihas and Uzumakis have the potential to inherit the\nChakra from Indra and Asura, it MAY be possible for an offspring to inherit\nRinnegan naturally.\n\n**Disclaimer** : The above scenario is hypothetical and is intended to point\nout that Natural Rinnegan may be a possibility. However, its highly likely\nthat all \"chosen\" successors are male from what we've seen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Rinnegan is a mutation of Otsutsuki chakra and nature chakra which\nexplains Kaguya's own Rinne Sharingan on her forehead. Hagoromo is more of the\nwatered-down version of her powers and prowess on it, just continue to go down\neven more so through generation after generation.\n\nNow if an Uchiha and an Uzumaki had a child, then yes it is possible.\nMoreover, if that child unlocks the Mangekyo Sharingan, the side effects will\nalso be negated due to the dense chakra of the Uzumaki which you can compare\nto Obito's situation with the Senju DNA.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a few questions about the ending of Ousama Game:\n\n> Doesn't Chiemi have a twin sister? \n> How does her existence play into the ending of this manga? \n> If his wish is to have Chiemi back, then won't the twin sisters existence\n> come into play? \n> What about Chiemi's Father? He was the sole survivor of the 1st Ousama Game\n> too!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end Nobuaki is the last one alive and is told he can make any wish he\nwants and after that it flashes to where he asks Chiemi out. This is not a\nflashback but is actually the power of the wish turning time back to when he\nasks Chiemi out before the ousama game happened. Nobuaki is the real ousama\nbut he does not realize as he time has reversed and therefore everything that\nunfolds is as a result of the power of suggestion from Nobuaki. He simply\nthinks it and it happens. The dream right at the start is his vague memory of\nthe events that occur\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChiemi's twin sister Natsuko is the real ousama, but Nobuaki does not realize\nit since he wished for the Ousama Game to never come about, because of this\nChiemi was forced to switch places with her twin (in the new dimension his\nwish created) and thanks to that Natsuko wasn't angry at her father for\nabandoning her and her curse never comes about and thus remains dormant within\nher system.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TnFBR.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mBgJg.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pRHpC.jpg)\n\nSince in Ousama Game-Kigen it is implied that strong negative emotions are\nwhat trigger the virus to emerge, remember the scene (with the original\nNatsuko) where she was in the shed crying because her mother and the village\nwere tormenting her due to the fact that she was in love with her own cousin?\n\nThat HUGE AMOUNT OF STRESS is what caused her immune system to weaken enough\nfor the virus to enter her.\n\nConsequently Nobuaki is unaware of this so he continues to go about his daily\nlife and ask the twin Natsuko to be his girlfriend without knowing it's not\nChiemi.\n\n(NOTE THE PAUSE & THE EXPRESSION ON HER FACE BEFORE SHE TOLD HIM YES)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/A3WIs.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ep8OV.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3bnP1.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/94xct.jpg)\n\niN the end the virus will be laying in wait until a future generation triggers\nit to the point where another King's Game begins.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the [official trailer of _A Lull in the Sea_ by NIS\nAmerica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rukiDx9hYDM), there is a song playing\nin the entire trailer.\n\nWhat is the title of the song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is _凪-nagi-_ by Ray. It's the 3rd track in the album _ebb and flow_.\n\nIt's streamable on the\n[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/track/4w5dun5ufA2bO6RUio9mUv)\n\n[The lyrics](https://yumehokori.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/nagi-no-asukara-ray-\nnagi-lyrics/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDo you mind telling me if there is a shop in Greece that sells School Days HQ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n<https://www.jastusa.com/catalog/product/view/id/327>\n\nYour best bet would be buying it digitally from the official website above. I\nhighly doubt there are shops that stock a decent selection of eroge visual\nnovels in Greece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's quite a few different types of technology (and computers) referenced\nin the world of Serial Experiments Lain, while some of them are easily\nmatched, some of them aren't. In addition, some of the technologies weren't\navailable at time of production (for example: speech recognition).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Familiar technologies:\n\n* * *\n\n# The Wired\n\nThe Wired is similar to [The Internet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet)\nand runs on IPv4.\n\n# Tachibana Industries\n\nBased on their naming schemes and designs, they're most likely a reference to\n[Apple Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.)\n\n# Alice's Navi:\n\nAlice's Navi looks like the _bubble_ [iMac\nG3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3):\n\n\n\n\n# Lain's original Navi\n\nLain's original Navi is based off the [20th Anniversary\nMacintosh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Anniversary_Macintosh):\n\n\n\n\n# C Language\n\nThe Navi systems run\n[C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_\\(programming_language\\)):\n\n\n\n# Common Lisp Language:\n\nThe Navi systems also run [Common\nLisp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp) (A dialect of Lisp):\n\n\n\n# MIPS-ASM\n\nDuring one of the scenes where Lain is on her Navi, [Assembly\ncode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language) identified to be [MIPS-\nASM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_instruction_set) flashes across the\nscreen.\n\n# Copland OS:\n\nThe OS that the Navis run, _Copland OS_ is based on a [failed Apple\nproject](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_\\(operating_system\\)) from two\nyears prior.\n\n# PHANTOMa\n\nPHANTOMa is similar to dungeon games like [_Might and\nMagic_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_and_Magic) and [_Dungeon\nMaster_.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_\\(video_game\\))\n\n\n\n\n# HandiNAVI\n\nThe HandiNAVI is similar to the [Apple Newton\nline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton).\n\n\n\n\n# Protocol Seven\n\nProtocol Seven is [Internet Protocol version\n7](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-iab-ipversion7-00) (drafted in\n1993) an RFC that was never implemented in favour of [Internet Protocol\nversion 6](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2460), whose RFC was drafted in\nDecember 1998, after the series had finished.\n\n* * *\n\n# Unfamiliar:\n\n# Psyche chip\n\nIn Layer 02, Lain gets a chip that lets her interact with the Wired without\nstandard input devices. This is similar to the concept of [Virtual\nReality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality), yet is beyond today's\ntechnology.\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n# Unavailable at time of production:\n\n# CU Mail\n\nIn Layer 11, Alice is in a video call with Juri. This is similar to today's\nvideo calling services like [Skype](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype) and\n[Google Hangouts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hangouts).\n\n# Navi's speech recognition:\n\nLain is seen controlling her Navi via speech recognition. This is similar to\ntoday's [Cortana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_\\(software\\)) and\n[Siri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe too late but I'd be willing to chime in and note that Mac OS had speech\nrecognition with assignable actions (Speakable Items) back in Mac OS 9 if not\neven earlier, and, though a bit limited, it could not only wait for a\nkeypress, but constantly listen for a keyword that designates a command will\nbe said after it.\n\nSo, in fact, this was, not as idealistic, but a reality of that time.\n\nAnd for video chat there was a program called iVisit also in the times of Mac\nOS 9 which was a bit limited yet could provide some entertainment :-)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Naruto is training with Jiraiya. It's the Leaf's plan to protect Naruto\nfrom the Akatsuki. Why didn't the whole team of Akatsuki attack them. I'm sure\nthey can finished them off. Plus Black Zetsu is a sensory type, which means he\ncan easily detect Naruto's whereabouts. So, why doesn't the Akatsuki as a\nwhole attack Naruto directly while he is training with Jiraya?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYour question is a tad bit hard to understand, but I believe you're asking\n\n> \"Why doesn't the Akatsuki as a whole attack Naruto directly while he is\n> training with Jiraya?\"\n\n**WARNING: SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!**\n\nBefore I explain my research, I will provide a tl;dr below:\n\n**TLDR: They did not have the manpower, people and structure to perform the\ntask at the time.**\n\n> The answer to this is because of how the Akatsuki operate. In the anime when\n> the Akatsuki have their meetings after capturing Gaara, it is said that each\n> member has a job of finding and retrieving a Tailed-Beast from the separate\n> ninja clans. It is also shown that once a beast has been retrieved, a lot of\n> chakra is required from all of them together to actually remove and contain\n> the beast's power. When Deidara (Akatsuki guy with the clay bomb technique)\n> captures Gaara and then targets Naruto, he is called out by other members as\n> being called greedy for taking \"more than one target\". It is also shown that\n> the Akatsuki hunt in pairs as they have always been shown. My answer to your\n> question has many points. The first is that the Akatsuki are a conglomerate\n> of rogue ninja, therefore they do not want to operate as a huge team as\n> there is a great deal of tension amongst the characters. Second, the person\n> who was supposed to get Naruto's beast was Itachi, but he was staving off\n> due his confrontation with Sasuke.\n\nLastly, as stated\n[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/1yy6mz/eli5_why_didnt_the_akatsuki_try_to_take_the_nine/),\nit would have been **IMPOSSIBLE** to do this when he was younger because the\n3rd and 4th Hokages could and would have killed them all, no question.\n\n> Even when Tobi attacked Naruto at birth, he failed to steal the beast\n> because Minato was too OP for him. And even when he was in training with\n> Jiraiya they weren't that powerful because Jiraiya had been tracking them,\n> and speaks about them getting bigger learning new techniques but nobody knew\n> their motives back then so they weren't a threat.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was noted in Chapter 353, page 5 that using the [Sealing Technique: Phantom\nDragons Nine Consuming\nSeals](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sealing_Technique:_Phantom_Dragons_Nine_Consuming_Seals)\nthat Akatsuki use to seal the bijuus in the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path,\nthe bijuu needs to be sealed in order from Ichibi/One-Tail (Shukaku - Gaara)\nto Kyuubi/Nine-Tails (Kurama - Naruto) based on their number of tails.\n\nBecause of this, rather than unable to attack Naruto while he is training with\nJiraiya or **they did not have the manpower, people and structure to perform\nthe task at the time.** like Hikari claimed, it is more because they don't\nneed to get Kyuubi at that time as they are still hunting the other bijuus.\n\nGoing with the time-line, Gaara was captured when Naruto finished his\ntraining. Which means that at that time the Akatsuki has not sealed even one\nbijuu since Gaara's Shukaku should go first to the statue. Thus, once again,\nno need for them to hunt the Kyuubi at that time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot of people (including me) have noted a lot of similarities between\n_Aldnoah.Zero_ (AZ) and _Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans_ (Gundam).\n\n * Mars vs Earth conflict (albeit different sides -- AZ is Earth trying to be liberated from Mars while Gundam is Mars seeking liberation from Earth).\n * The mechs from Mars, while using older technology, are more advanced than the Earth mechs\n * The main characters both end up losing their sight in one eye in the respective 1st season finales (Inaho gets his eye shot out, Mikazuki loses his sight and use of the right arm due to overusing the Gundam Barbatos (and can only regain function while connected to the Gundam).\n * Both have blonde haired political princesses as potential love interests in Season 1 (Elysium in AZ, Kudelia in Gundam).\n\nIs this more than coincidence? Do we know if Gundam took these elements from\n_Aldnoah.Zero_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think both series are just drawing upon many common tropes and most\nprominently ∀ Gundam, which sports a very similar plot to both series and also\npredates both. Although in that case it's the Moon instead of Mars and it's\nmore about an ongoing invasion than trying to be liberated from anything.\n\nMore examples include, the majority of the rest of the Gundam Franchise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs title says, Looking for name of song at time stamp. It also plays again at\n7:20\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song you are looking for is Choisies, produced by SuperSweep. It's the\n11th song in the OST list of the anime.\n[Here's](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YMcOOEMSPY&list=PLTfki024aB5c6e_GMyr3yu0OoPnuu4Omv&index=11)\nthe youtube link for the song and the rest of No Game No Life's OST.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter episode 277 (counting from the 2014 restart, around episode 102), there\nare no listed episodes in list of Fairy Tail episodes [on\nWikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fairy_Tail_episodes). It's\ndue to have some new OVA as well, but the anime did not give a clear\nindication like the last time that it is going to hiatus.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n 1. Is it on hiatus right after episode 277 (counting from 2014, episode 102)?\n 2. Did Hiro Mashima gave some indication (like last time) that it will be back and when it will be back?\n\n",
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"body": "\n 1. **Yes, _Fairy Tail_ is on hiatus after episode 101**\n\n> After making its premiere in April 2014, this season is finally **coming to\n> an end** after 101 episodes, with the **final episode** to be released on\n> March 26.\n>\n> (Emphasis added)\n\n 2. **Hiro Mashima didn't gave clear indication that it will be back or when it will be back** , but fans speculated a 1-year long hiatus just like the previous.\n\n> The current season of the anime may be nearing its end, but reports suggest\n> that a **new project is in the works** , with the publisher of the manga,\n> Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, slated to officially **reveal the rumored\n> project** in its 17th issue of the year on March 23.\n>\n> <http://www.hngn.com/articles/190587/20160319/fairy-tail-anime-reportedly-\n> new-project-store-fans.htm>\n>\n> Kodansha did not hint at what the new project will be, but **this is not the\n> end for the Fairy Tail anime.** This is most likely a hiatus, similar to the\n> one that was taken in 2013.\n>\n> <http://goboiano.com/news/4176-the-current-fairy-tail-anime-is-ending-on-\n> march-26>\n>\n> They stopped airing the anime in the year 2013 and came back in the year\n> 2014. So majority of fans expect this Hiatus **to be a year long.**\n>\n> <http://www.otakuvines.org/2016/03/fairy-tail-anime.html>\n\nOne of the reasons that may have caused it is the fact that the anime is close\nto the manga and in order to avoid changing the story (see _Fullmetal\nAlchemist 2003_ and _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_ ), they've chose to let\nthe manga go ahead in order to have the original source material.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn depth 37 (chapter 37), Zordan Stark and U-2501 plans to sink Takao.\nHowever, I am not clear on what the purpose of this act was.\n\nCan anyone explain clearly to me? It would be great if you have any evidence\n(from the manga).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring Pain's destruction of Konoha, he fought Naruto. When fighting Naruto,\nPain hurt Hinata which made Naruto get mad. After a couple of seconds of being\nmad Naruto started to transform into Kyuubi.\n\nHow many tails did he transform to? I've heard and seen people say that he\nonly got six tails, but I always thought he got all nine of them. Or almost\ngot nine, until his dad stopped the transformation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe see Naruto reaching six tails and fighting Pain, that much is certain. \nThe wiki claims that after that, we see eight tails, here: \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3cwb.jpg)\n\nAnd we later on see Yamato's hand with the number nine, to which he says he\nwas too late. \nHowever, due to Minato's interference, we do not see Naruto with nine tails.\n\nSo, yes, Naruto has gone onto nine tails (He in fact wanted to remove the\nseal), but we do not see it, and Minato stops it very quickly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Naruto's fight with Pain reaches it's peak, Pain uses one of the Sage of\nSix Paths move called **_Chibaku Tensei_** and to overcome the Heavenly body\nthat traps him, Naruto while in 6 tails form is tempted by Kyubi who offers\nhim complete power of the 9 tails in exchange for ripping apart the seal and\nNaruto does that\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QGgRx.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/liecY.png)\n\nNow keep in mind that he hasn't torn apart the seal completely it might be 99%\nbroken, that is the seal is still in place and before Naruto breaks the seal\n100% his dad appears and reseals Kyubi by means of his own Chakra that he had\nadded to the seal before he passed away at the time of Naruto's birth.\n\nSo he reaches 8 tails completely and 9 tails to about 99%, also we can confirm\nthat Naruto almost completely reached 9 tails during the fight because\nYamato's palm has the sign for 9 appear, and he says that ' _it's too late_ '\nsee :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TUDbu.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto fight with pain cause him to get nine tails. But when he got all nine,\nhe didn’t die or turn into the Kyuubi, instead he was being controlled and\nforced to break the seal. Fortunately, minato sealed his remaining chakra into\nNaruto as a baby just in case for this specific situation so he’d reseal the\nKyuubi. Same as when he sealed kushina chakra into Naruto to help with the\nfight Naruto had with the Kyuubi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 494 around 7:47, there's a song playing when Luffy starts to\nexplore the Gray Terminal.\n\nWhat is that song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis song is called _Heey!_ from _One Piece Movie 5_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of _Bakemonogatari_ episode 2, Araragi claimed his normal weight is\nsupposed to be 55kgs, but on the weighing scale, it showed 100kgs. He then\nsaid something about the crab and the episode ended. There was no sign as to\nwhat happened to the weight difference in the entire series.\n\nI've only watched _Bakemonogatari_ , so is there an explanation or something\nin the later series? Or the anime has mistaken it or ignored the fact of\nAraragi overweight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched all of the _Monogatari_ series until the one before\n_Owarimonogatari_. I can tell you that Araragi's weight difference in episode\n2 was never mentioned again. Throughout the entire series, only a few of the\nepisodes (or maybe just one episode, not sure, it's a very long series)\nmentioned about the crab but only very briefly, didn't even talk about the\nweight problem.\n\nThat said, I don't think the anime made a mistake or ignored that fact. This\nis just how the _Monogatari_ series is by nature. It tends to leave some stuff\nopen-ended in kind of a humorous way. Though I watched back that episode and\nin the end, it did say that the reason for his weight increase was because the\nGod was careless (as they don't really care about human's emotions, etc).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, in _Nisemonogatari_ ep. 09 (Tsukihi Phoenix arc), there is a scene\nwhere Araragi and Karen-chan play Janken, and when Karen-chan loses, she has\nto carry Araragi on shoulders as a punishment. You can see that he feels\nuncomfortable by knowing his weight and doesn't want to let Karen-chan know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe words have a dual meaning.\n\nIn the case of Senjougahara, when they talk about the problem of weight and\nfeeling, it is interesting because in Japanese, _omoi_ means \"weight\" and\n\"feeling\" at the same time.\n\nAbout Araragi, that new weight that he won is a metaphor for his new feeling\nfor Senjougahara.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt’s one of those things he’s just living with. A metaphor come to life or\nlike in jujutsu kaisen patch face says the body is actually shaped by the\nsoul. I honestly love it, I’m doing a rewatch and just tugging all\nheartstrings.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the _Bakemonogatari_ light novel, Mayoi Maimai part 5, Araragi narrates:\n\n> Senjougahara and I had gone to [Oshino] just last Monday about her problem--\n> as well as on Tuesday, to deal with loose ends.\n\nLater, in _Koyomimonogatari_ , Koyomi Flower part 2:\n\n> With Oshino's help, we'd more or less taken care of her aberration-based\n> malady--that had been just last night, and today we'd gone to see him again\n> to tie up the loose ends, or to deal with the final cleanup, or to take care\n> of the last few minor issues that had cropped up.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Incidentally, I'd ridden my bike to the ruined cram school the night before,\n> but that day I walked there and back with her.\n>\n> Circumstances--or inconveniences stemming from the previous night's\n> resolution had ruled out my bike.\n>\n> Happily, those inconveniences had been taken care of once and for all, so\n> starting the next morning I'd be riding my beloved mountain bike around town\n> again, the thought of which made me want to skip all the way home.\n\nWe can conclude with some degree of certainty that the extra weight made\nbiking prohibitively difficult, and that Oshino Meme then cured it some way or\nanother.\n\n* * *\n\nMy original, anime-only answer:\n\nOriginally was going to be a comment on @Euzones' answer, but it may fit\nbetter as an answer of its own.\n\nIn _Nisemonogatari_ episode 9, Araragi states that he weighs 56kg. The extra\nkilogram could be some kind of residual effect, entirely natural, or a\nsomewhat silly lie.\n\nAlthough he attempted to back out of riding on Karen's shoulders on the\npretense of having gained weight from \"studying too much\", he was quite\nenthusiastic about this only ten seconds prior, with his second thoughts\ncoming after she squatted down in order to pick him up. In light of the\ndirector's choices of camera angle, the events of the previous episode, and\nher later complaint of such, it seems likely that his hesitance is instead\nbecause he has suddenly gained an erection which he would prefer not to press\nagainst the back of her head. (Perhaps the light novel could clarify this?)\n\nWhen he does run out of excuses, he awkwardly proceeds to willingly mount her,\nwhich would contradict his ongoing concern with protecting his sisters from\nknowledge of aberrations if he were exceptionally heavy.\n\nIn conclusion, at that point he no longer bore most if any of the extra\nweight.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the topic/question says, what is the meaning if the name of the anime. I\nwant to tell you that I watched the series because of its peculiar name. But\nafter watching the entire series, I could not decipher the relation between\nname and the series itself! Am I missing something? Surprise me!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI take it to be the main character being thrust into a conflict against his\nwill while also providing him an overpowered power he never really wanted,\ni.e. his Guilty Crown.\n\n> \"The right to use my friend as a weapon. That is the sinful crown I shall\n> adorn. I accept this 'guilt.'\"\n\nEDIT: Seemed a bit of confusion and adding the detailed comment by Hikari to\nthe answer verbatim.\n\n> in guilty crown the protagonist is only able to wield his power by pulling\n> the soul of another person. If he breaks that soul they die and he carries\n> that guilt and shame of not being able to do anything alone. Just like a\n> king may \"technically\" rule a country but only on top of the shoulders of\n> the people who believe in him and the soliders who die for him. And typical\n> of the shounen genre all of this is thrust on the shy,wallflower like boy\n> with no confidence. That is where the title came from. It is more like an\n> allude as to what the whole series portrays. – Hikari\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit could be understood as 'crown' meaning the power that the main protagonist\nhas because someone with a crown is usually the king or queen, in this case,\nit's a king. he has a lot of power to use and is the leader of the\nrebellion/survivors as well which would suggest that he is like a king ruling\nover his people and trying to protect it. 'guilty' is because he uses people's\nsouls and ask people to use their souls for him without telling the people\nwhat it will do to them. the person with the glasses (forgot his name) was\nalso hiding the fact that if the soul is destroyed, the owner dies as well and\nwhen the protagonist realizes that he feels guilty for everything he's done.\nand add these together can give you the name Guilty Crown.\n\nHope this helps\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I saw the genres of Gintama and I found this:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/les3U.png)\n\nIt's a shogun-era (Edo-period) animé and they use katanas instead of huge\nweapons; there are also some mobile-phones, etc. But what’s so 'Sci-Fi' about\nit, except for the fact that there is inter-space travelling, which is obvious\ngiven the plot of aliens invading? I don't know why it is categorised as a\n'Sci-Fi' animé.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhenever dealing with _futuristic stuffs_ , _technologies_ , _extraterrestrial\nlifes_ , it is categorized as **\"sci-fi\"**. If you ever watched Gintama\nbefore, you should aware that almost every episode has a short prologue. You\ncan see tons of _futuristic stuffs_ going on, like spaceships and aliens.\n\n\n\nStill not convincing enough? \n \nHow about **Space Scene**?\n\n\n\nSome **Weird Looking Aliens and Robots**?\n\n\n\nOr **Futuristic Technologies**?\n\n\n\nKeep in mind it's just a _minor & background_ settings for the whole series,\nthe main genre is still _Action_ and _Comedy_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat was Itachi's mysterious illness? Do you think Tsunade could have cured\nit? I'm aware that it is a terminal illness. And when did Itachi get this\nillness?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTobirama said in one episode that the Uchiha develop their Mangekyo Sharingan\nfrom knowing despair and great pain, and that their despair is reflected in\nhow strong their eyes are.\n\n_Basically his illness is a rebound of his powers on his body; his body isnt\nable to handle the power without a new power to help control his eyes._\n\nYou can refer this link to learn more about Itachi\n\n<http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi_Uchiha>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe disease is never named.\n\nThis is actually quite common in manga/anime. It's often said that a character\nhas some disease without the name of the disease ever being stated.\n\nIn some cases, the disease may be implied, such as in the case of said\ncharacter suddenly being bald, in which case cancer is being implied. This can\ngive a story some realism\n\nIn other cases, no symptoms are given or the symptoms are very generic, so\nthat it's impossible to determine what disease the character has. This is done\nbecause it means less work on the author's part if they're not familiar with a\ndisease that has the symptoms they want and means less time has to be spent\ndeveloping things that don't have any relevance to the story.\n\nIn this case, very little information is given about Itachi's illness other\nthan that it's terminal. It's likely that the author did this simply because\nwhat Itachi had didn't really matter to the story in any way. The only\nimportant thing is that it forced Itachi to speed up his plan, knowing he\nwould die.\n\nThere is one other thing we know about his disease. According to\n[Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi_Uchiha), this disease had an\neffect on Itach's chakra. Because of this, it is reasonable to assume that\nthis disease either isn't real or it's based on a real disease with this\nfictional characteristic attached.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo be honest, i think that itachi may have never fully recovered from 8\ntrigrams attack he received from Kohinata Mukai as an anbu (itachi\nshinden,book 2,page 30) in that novel, itachi got hit with at least eight od\nthe 64 palms technique. We dont know if hus internal organs or chakra flow\never fully recovered after that,and the tremendous strain from using mangekyo\nand other techniques was probably a bit too much with a deficient chakra flow.\nEvery time he used chakra probably affected his vital organs somehow. This\nseems unlikely,simce i cant see him being unable to be treated, since hinata\nwas able to recover after neji tried to kill her,but its the best theory i\nhave.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo Genos has been a \"cyborg\" since he got that surgery. But is he really a\ncyborg?\n\nTo me, a cyborg is a human with robot parts attached to their body, but I have\nseen no human part in him. His face doesn't count since it has mechanical\nparts. So is he a cyborg or not?\n\nDoes he just say he's a cyborg because he used to be a human? Or he does have\nlittle human parts in him, but we can't see them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the One Punch Man Wiki, the page about Genos says:\n\n> Genos is a 19 year old **cyborg** and the disciple of Saitama. He has an\n> **entirely mechanical body** in the model of a handsome young man. His face\n> and ears look like that of a normal human, made of an **artificial skin\n> material,** and his eyes have black sclera with yellow irises.\n>\n> <http://onepunchman.wikia.com/wiki/Genos>\n\nNow, if we look at some definitions for the word **cyborg** :\n\n> **1.** \"a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent\n> upon a mechanical or electronic device.\"\n>\n> <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyborg>\n>\n> **2.** \"a person whose body contains mechanical or electrical devices and\n> whose abilities are greater than the abilities of normal humans\"\n>\n> <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyborg>\n>\n> **3.** \"an organism, often a human, that has certain physiological processes\n> enhanced or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices, especially when\n> they are integrated with the nervous system.\"\n>\n> **4.** \"a living being whose powers are enhanced by computer implants or\n> mechanical body parts\"\n>\n> **5.** \"a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by\n> electromechanical devices; \"a cyborg is **a cybernetic organism** \"\n>\n> Source for definitions **no. 3, 4, 5**\n> :<http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cyborg>\n>\n> **6.** \"a cyborg (short for \"cybernetic organism\") is **a being with both\n> organic and biomechatronic body parts**.\"\n>\n> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg>\n\nBased on definitons **no. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6** we can positively say that Genos\n**is not a cyborg** for **\"he has an entirely mechanical body\"** (first\nparagraph) and **does not contain any human flesh or tissue** , contrary to\ndefiniton **no.6** : \" **a being with both organic and biomechatronic body\nparts**.\"\n\nIn definition **no. 5** it says \" **in whole** or in part\" giving a small\npossibility to say that he is a cyborg but it is rather an affirmation without\na solid base.\n\nI think that he says he says he is a \"cyborg\" because it sounds better and\ncooler than \"robot\". His name in the Hero Association \" **Demon Cyborg**\n(鬼サイボーグ, Oni Saibōgu)\" sounds better than \" **Demon Robot** \". Or maybe it was\nan action made deliberately by the author himself.\n\nIn the end, it is the right of everyone to call him as they wish, this fact\nnot being such an influential aspect of the story.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough In this [List of One Punch Man\nEpisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_One-Punch_Man_characters)\n\nGeno's Description in one of the [Main Character's\nentries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_One-\nPunch_Man_characters#Main_characters) states that:\n\n> Before meeting Saitama, Genos was a normal, happy boy who lived with his\n> family. One day when Genos was 15, a crazy cyborg destroyed Genos' town,\n> killed his family, and left Genos alive and severely wounded. **Professor\n> Kuseno** , a doctor of justice, found Genos and **modified him into a cyborg\n> at Genos' request**. From then on, Genos fought for justice while searching\n> for the cyborg who destroyed his town. After the defeat of Boros' army, he\n> was warned by Drive Knight to be careful with Metal Knight and notes that\n> Handsomely Masked Sweet Mask reminds him of his former-self prior to having\n> met Saitama.\n\nIn the anime it is explained that Genos requested to be turned into a cyborg\nto get revenge against the crazy Cyborg that destroyed his town and killed his\nfamily.\n\nHe also Eats with Saitama.\n\nBut In his Battle against Mosquito Girl where he is severely damaged and saved\nby saitama, He said that he can reconstruct / repair himself as long as there\nare parts around.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAq5a.jpg)\n\nI Agree with [Karkoh51](http://Karkoh51)'s Answer that Geno's **`\"has an\nentirely mechanical body\"`** and his CodeName as **\"Demon Cyborg\"** sounds\nbetter than **\"Demon Robot\"**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGenos is a human turned into an android. Even though he claimed to be a\ncyborg, because he was a human at one point, he does not have any organic\nparts that we know of. So technically he is an android.\n\nAn android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a\nhuman, especially one with a body having a flesh-like resemblance.\nHistorically, androids remained completely within the domain of science\nfiction where they are frequently seen in film and television.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn what we have seen he is no longer a cyborg, given that as previously stated\nhe can repair himself if the parts are around. This implies to me that he\nstarted off as a human then became a cyborg and as he started to battle he\nlost more and more of his anatomy due to damage. Making as we are unsure if\nhis brain is still there we cannot be sure but we should guess that he isn't\nanymore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan we not state that Genos is a cyborg due to the fact that the person who\ncreated said character states that Genos is such?\n\nYes, we can clearly apply Real World logic and reason to One Punch Man, and\nstate that he is clearly an android, such as the androids in the Alien\nfranchise, but his backstory is that he once was human and is now cybernetic.\n\nAn argument against the android argument is Ghost in The Shell, where Motoko\nKusanagi has a fully cybernetic body and brain, and is stated to be a cyborg.\nMotoko herself started human, but became fully cyberized at the age of 6:\n<http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Motoko_Kusanagi>\n\nMaybe it's time that the older definitions cyborg and android were reexamined\nbased on how science fiction has evolved since Asimov.\n\nOh.........and mosquito girl was HOT.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the fight with the Deep Sea King, when he gets hit by acid, you can see\npart of his ribcage and spine. Also, later on, after he fights G4, part of his\nface gets broken off and you can see what appears to be a brain. So yes,\nreally a cyborg. Also I do realize that this thread is really old, but nobody\nwas saying this, so I figured I would.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe's a cyborg, because in episode 5 he eats food with Saitama, and after\neating he says he has to \"digest the food\". So if he digests the food, he\nneeds to have a human stomach\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Season 1 Episode 22, during the KOOGY complaint scene, their full name was\nmentioned. Hattori Yuujirou and Hattori Akira. Are they siblings or mere\ncoincidence that they share a surname?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is not stated in neither Yuujirou's or Akira's Bakuman Wiki pages nor MAL\npages that they are siblings, the conclusion being that **they are not**. It\nmay be a pure coincidence. I am not very informed regarding this anime though.\n\n[Akira Hattori wiki page](http://bakuman.wikia.com/wiki/Akira_Hattori)\n\n[Yuujirou Hattori wiki page](http://bakuman.wikia.com/wiki/Yujiro_Hattori)\n\nalso\n\n[Akira Hattori MAL page](http://myanimelist.net/character/18914/Akira_Hattori)\n\n[Yuujirou Hattori MAL\npage](http://myanimelist.net/character/23485/Yuujirou_Hattori)\n\nAs you can see their biographies do not say anything about them being blood-\nrelated in any way.\n\nAlso in **Akira Hattori's** wikipage it says:\n\n> **Personal Status:**\n>\n> **Marital Status Single**\n>\n> **Relatives Unknown**\n>\n> **Education Unknown**\n\nIf one of his relatives would have been mentioned (including Yuujiro) they\nwould have been written in the wiki. Thus we conclude that they are not blood-\nrelated.\n\nMoreover this quote:\n\n> The editors in Bakuman are based off of real editors, so the names used just\n> relate to the editors real names. The two aren't related.\n>\n> <http://bakuman.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Yujiro_Hattori>\n\nshows that they are based on real editors and is a common thing in real life\nfor 2 individuals to have the same family name and to not be blood-related.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth the Towers in Sol Ciel and Sol Cluster has at the top the Reinkernator\nbut in Metafalss the tower was initially hidden and when it reappeared it's\ntop was Sol Matra which was always there from the begining.\n\nI am wondering if Sol Matra is the Reinkernator for the Ar Tonelico Tower in\nMetafallss. if not then where is it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the final episode Tyuule said to herself that she did what she did to get\nrevenge for her fallen country. But what was that made her sad? The actions\nthat she took, or that she fell in love with the prince Zolzal?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe what Tyuule wanted was **total destruction and disintegration** of\nthe Empire, as she blames the Empire for destruction of her homeland, and the\nhatred the warrior bunnies now have for her. However, due to Itami's\ninterference, all that happens is that Zorzal is peacefully overthrown and\nPīna is able to return as the Princess, the Empire remaining intact, and now\nwith a Japanese Alliance. Therefore, her unhappiness probably stems from only\nbeing able to throw the Empire into a civil war, which Pīna will easily win\nwith the help of Japan, but not being able to see her die at excecution and\nsee Zorzal become a POW(Prisoner Of War) or see him capitulate at all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo yesterday I way talking to my mom about SAO. I'm really bad at explaining\nstuff so I think I might have confused her when I was talking about it. I was\nalso jumping around from the story. For example I was talking about the\nbeginning then went to the end, then to the middle, back to the end, then back\nto the beginning. After struggling to explain it to her I tried to summarizing\nit, but I'm also bad at that so I had a hard time doing that too.\n\nCan someone please summarize it for me like that I can explain it better to my\nmom. I told her the main point of the first season, Sword Art Online 1, which\nwas that people got stuck in a game and to get out they had to clear out\nlevels. I also told her that if you die in the game you die in real life. I\npretty much told her the main point of the the first season, but didn't get\nthat into the second one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHereby an attempt for a simple summary of the franchise for somebody that does\nnot usually read/watches manga or anime, in a simple yet understandable way.\n\n_All though it is a short summary, it does contain implicit spoilers, read at\nyour own discretion._\n\n> In the year 2022 A gamer named Kirito gets stuck in a very anticipated\n> Virtual reality game called Sword art online, or SAO for short. Due to a\n> evil twist of the game developer, players can no longer log out and have to\n> for their lives as death in game means death in real life.\n>\n> The story revolves around Kirito as he struggles to survive, together with\n> the friends he made and lost on the way to finding a way out.\n>\n> The story is followed up by other games called Alfheim online(alo) gungale\n> online (GGO) and underworld (UW). The story progresses from Kirito the\n> gamer, to Kirito the developer. As his interests shift more and more towards\n> the virtual reality hard and software.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's difficult to summarize the entire franchise (through season 2) in a\nsingle sentence, so I'll split it up by arcs, ignoring the small arcs. These\nmay have slight spoilers, but I try to keep it limited to the introduction\nelements of each arc. It's not as short as Dimitri's, but it helped when I was\nconvincing my friends to watch. ¯\\\\_(ツ)_/¯\n\nSeason 1, Arc 1:\n\n> A technology has been developed that allows users to fully insert themselves\n> into a video game to the point where they cannot sense the outside world at\n> all. During the first release and testing of this technology, the developer\n> changes the program so that the players are trapped and the game becomes\n> their life. In order to leave, they must beat the game but with one deadly\n> twist: if they die in the game, they die in real life.\n\nSeason 1, Arc 2:\n\n> At the end of season 1, the game is completed and most players are released,\n> but some of the players have still not woken up from their game-induced\n> coma. The main character from the first arc (Kirito) notices that Asuna\n> (another teammate from the game) is one of those who hasn't woken. More\n> games are created using the same immersion technology, and eventually a\n> picture circulates for one of the more popular ones. In this picture, there\n> appears to be a girl trapped in a cage. Kirito believes that girl to be\n> Asuna and joins the game to save her.\n\nSeason 2, Arc 1:\n\n> Another immersion game goes wrong. A player appears to have the ability to\n> kill players in the game and to have them die in real life. Kirito, with his\n> vast experience with these games, is asked to join the game to do\n> reconnaissance and to try and stop the killer.\n\nSeason 2, Arc 2:\n\nI really need to rewatch this one, and it's my favorite, so I don't want to\nspoil anything.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile browsing through\n[**tvtropes**](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/MobPsycho100), I\nfound the following thing:\n\n> The Verse: ONE has implied this and One-Punch Man share a verse **(He was\n> asked and answered a question on who would win between Mob and Tatsumaki\n> from said series)**.\n\nEmphasis mine.\n\nUnfortunately, tvtropes does not elaborate on this any further. There are no\nlinks or sources pointing to the discussion mentioned, and now I am very\ncurious to know what answer ONE gave.\n\nAccording to ONE, if Tatsumaki and Mob were to fight, who would win?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the [One Punch Man Wiki](http://onepunchman.wikia.com/wiki/Tatsumaki) at\nthe Tatsumaki page, it is stated :\n\n> ONE has said that Tatsumaki is stronger than 100% Mob, the protagonist of\n> ONE's other work, Mob Psycho 100, but against ???% Mob, there's no answer.\n\nStill according to [One Punch Man\nWiki](http://onepunchman.wikia.com/wiki/Interviews#Niconico_Interview.5B2.5D),\nONE said this during his Niconico interview.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nONE: Tatsumaki in her best shape could've defeated Golden Sperm. Golden Sperm\nis equally strong as ossan (main protagonist from makai no ossan). Tatsumaki\nis stronger than Normal Mob, if he gets serious, there's no answer.\n\nNormal Mob = Tatsumaki Win\n\nSerious Mob (100%) = Too close to call\n\n???% Mob = Mob\n\nCurrent Mob (Up to 500%) = Mob\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the fight with Enel on Sky Island, the four priests, including Enel\nused mantra. Later on, we learn that Mantra is actually Haki.\n\nLuffy trained with Rayleigh to learn Haki. While Luffy was born with it, he\nwasn't able to use it perfectly. However, at sky island there was a kid called\nAisa who used Haki to to sense people from distance. She wasn't able to\nperform Conqueror's Haki since she was a child, but she was able to use\nObservation Haki since birth. How is this possible when even Luffy couldn't do\nthat?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEVERYONE can train perception and armour haki, it's not a special gift. Only\nthe emperor haki is extremely rare and only one in a million can use it (cf.\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki> ).\n\nQuite clearly some people are more gifted than others, and Aisa just happened\nto be **extraordinarily** gifted with her perception haki, as nobody trained\nher. She naturally mastered it, and at such a young age it's a big feat but\nnot impossible. On the other hand, Luffy had to be trained by Raleigh himself\nand he most probably still isn't as good as her with his perception haki. But\nhis personality goes better with armour and emperor haki so he specialised in\nthose!\n\nSimilarly, to get better at sniping Usopp needs to learn perception haki, but\nhe will probably stay weak in armour haki, while Sanji should get armour haki\non his legs if he wants to be competitive...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode _The Puppetmaster_ when Katara learns that Hama was responsible\nfor the disappearance of people during a full moon Hama then goes to control\nKatara with Bloodbending.\n\nShort after forcing Katara to her knees she is able to get back up on her own\nand fight back showing no sort of resistance or strain as if Hama was no\nlonger controlling her.\n\nIt wasn't like Hama couldn't Bloodbend because she controlled Sokka and Aang\nlater on and it's not that she can't control someone bending because Katara\nstopped her forcing Sokka killing Aang by taking control of her body.\n\nSo why wasn't Hama controlling Katara and instead allowed her to fight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Tl;dr**\n\nOnce Katara understood the technique, Hama would have to overpower her to\ncontrol her. Others who don't know the technique, they're easy puppets. Hama\njust wanted to force Katara to bloodbend regardless of how she accomplishes\nit.\n\n* * *\n\nI imagine it is a battle of focus and skill. It is much harder to combat\nsomeone who has similar abilities because they can nullify it. Aang can water\nbend but isn't a master like Katara, nor does he know about bloodbending. So\ncontrolling him and Sokka, a non-bender, is easier than controlling Katara.\nAnd when you throw actual combat in, it should be even harder to keep full\ncontrol.\n\nYou also have to take into account power level. Katara is young, Hama is not.\nEven if they are both knowledgeable, Katara has a general advantage. Hama can\nonly bloodbend when the full moon is out and has to draw power from it. Once\nKatara decides to draw power from the moon as well, Hama is no longer able to\ncontrol her.\n\nSokka doesn't draw power from the moon. Aang may, but it's likely not as\ninfluential as Katara.\n\nEDIT: Since it people need more proof that Katara couldn't be overpowered,\nhere's a quote from the episode.\n\n> You're not the only one who draws power from the moon! [Assumes a fighting\n> stance.] My bending is more powerful than yours, Hama. Your technique is\n> useless on me!\n\nKatara understands the technique and can overpower Hama. So Hama can't\nbloodbend her, but can still target others.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf we analyse the episode,\n\nHama isn't actually fighting but rather **forcing Katara to willingly use\nbloodbending**.\n\nHama only attacked Katara because Katara refused to learn the art of\nBloodbending. She was horrified to learn the technique and by the idea of\ncontrolling another person's body.\n\nIn Avatar Wikia, [Bloodbending](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Bloodbending) is\nstated as:\n\n> a sub-skill of waterbending which allows a waterbender to hydrokinetically\n> take hold of and manipulate the various fluids within an organism's body.\n> **This technique is referred to as the darkest, most powerful, and most\n> feared of all bending techniques and is the only art known to endanger the\n> user's mental state**.\n\nGoing Back to the [Episode](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/The_Puppetmaster) \" _\n**The Puppet Master**_ \"\n\n**Hama Teaches Katara the Southern Water Bending Style**\n\nThey Meet an old woman in an Inn named\n[Hama](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Hama) which then teaches katara the\nSouthern style waterbending and also a series of techniques in order to obtain\nwater in places devoid of any obvious water sources.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OlxBe.png)\n\n> Following her demonstration, Hama offered to teach Katara a powerful\n> technique that was only possible during the full moon. When Katara expressed\n> hesitance due to the rumors of disappearances, Hama reassured her that two\n> master waterbenders under a full moon should be able to handle anything.\n\n**Hama Reveals Bloodbending and offered to teach Katara**\n\n> That night, Hama led Katara into the forest and told her about bloodbending\n> and its ability to control another living organism. **Horrified by the idea\n> of controlling another person's body, Katara refused to learn\n> bloodbending**. Hama argued with her, stating that it did not matter whether\n> she wanted to learn it or not, because the power to use it existed either\n> way. For trying to wipe out their entire culture, Hama extolled that they\n> must have vengeance upon the Fire Nation. This outburst led Katara to\n> realize that Hama had been causing the villagers to disappear, but the\n> latter angrily stated that the people of the Fire Nation deserved the same\n> treatment that they had given to her and all the southern waterbenders.\n> **Hearing this caused Katara to adamantly refuse to learn bloodbending and\n> to try to stop Hama from further terrorizing the town**.\n\nHama used bloodbending against Katara to temporarily force her into submission\n\n> \" _They threw me in prison to rot, along with my brothers and sisters! They\n> deserve the same! **You must carry on my work**._\" — Hama to Katara.\n\nKatara soon regains control of her body, reminding Hama that she too draws\npower from the moon, and is powerful enough to overcome Hama's technique. The\ntwo begin to battle, each drawing water from the grass and trees surrounding\nthem, but it quickly becomes obvious that Katara is the superior combatant.\nHama's bloodbending is useless on her.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n39mA.png)\n\n> When Katara appears on the cusp of victory, Aang and Sokka arrive to assist\n> her—and succeed in doing little more than providing Hama with an advantage,\n> as she uses bloodbending to control them like puppets to attack Katara.\n> Katara evades their attacks and manages to freeze both Aang and Sokka to two\n> separate trees to stop them, but this proves to be only a temporary\n> solution. Hama frees them both and resorts to sending them flying at each\n> other, with Sokka's sword pointing straight at Aang. At the last second,\n> **Katara desperately uses bloodbending to subdue Hama and protect Aang**.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fwr7z.png)\n\n**Hama succeeded in making Katara use Bloodbending**\n\n> **Hama remarked that her work was done** , as Katara had already willingly\n> used and mastered bloodbending. She laughed maniacally as she was dragged\n> off, leaving Katara in tears.\n\n**Hama surrendered herself knowing that she had now passed her technique\nbloodbending onto another waterbender** from the same tribe (Southern water\nTribe) which is Katara.\n\nWe can Infer that Hama isn't actually fighting Katara but rather **forcibly\nteaching her to use Bloodbending** and to pass her art onto another\nwaterbender, which is against her will.\n\nhere is a [review on the The\nPuppetmaster](http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/28/avatar-the-last-\nairbender-the-puppetmaster-flashback-review) from IGN\n\n> Great aspect of this episode was Hama's origin story, which we saw through\n> flashbacks. In addition to showing us how she (Hama) was captured by the\n> Fire Nation and later developed bloodbending, it also did a good job of\n> making her a sympathetic character. While her actions were clearly out of\n> line -- namely, kidnapping innocent Fire Nation civilians -- you could\n> understand where she was coming from after being locked away for so many\n> years. She even made some good points about the morality of bloodbending and\n> how using it was not a choice but a necessity: \"The power exists, and it is\n> your duty to use the gifts you've been given to win this war.\"\n>\n> Of course, the highlight of this episode was the final showdown between Hama\n> and Katara, which dovetailed nicely with Aang, Toph and Sokka's\n> investigation into the \"Full Moon spirit.\" But I think [the part where] Hama\n> was demonstrating her bloodbending on Katara, and Katara rising above it\n> adding, \"You're not the only one who draws power from the Moon.\" This,\n> followed by Katara's own mastery of waterbending, which far exceeded Hama's\n> amateur skill level. **Regardless, Hama accomplished her mission -- to pass\n> on the art of bloodbending to another waterbender** \\-- thus concluding the\n> episode on a noticeably dark note.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHey remember me? well in the avatar wiki it was stated that blood bending is\nuseless when applied to people who also know blood bending.(Link\n<http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Bloodbending#Limits> ) this is from the page:\nBloodbending seems useless when applied to a fellow waterbender of the same\ncaliber, if not superior, to the user. that's the answer to your question and\nthere is a lot more info about blood benders on the page.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the guy with the Metal Arm and Leg AKA Sparky Sparky Boom Man or\nCombustionman firebends we see something shoot out from his forehead when he's\ntattoo is.\n\nduring the episode _The Runaway_ when Team Avatar is escaping Toph throws a\nboulder at him which he destroys but a fragment of it hits his tattoo causing\nhim pain and when he goes to shoot again it seems to miss-fire. Sokka also\nseems to comment that he is firebending with his mind.\n\nSo i am wondering what exactly is Combustionman's Tatto because it seems to be\nthe source of his bending but no other Bender uses a tattoo to allow bending\nbeyond their arms and legs (like Boomi using his face of Toph tilting her head\nto fix a game)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is [semi-good source](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Combustion_Man) for\nCombustion Man. This is a [good\nsource](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Specialized_bending_techniques#Combustionbending)\nfor special bending techniques in general.\n\nIt states that his tattoo is a focal point for him to trigger explosions by\nfocusing his chi. Seeing as it's a unique use of bending, I wouldn't be\nsurprised if he can only bend from that spot simply due to complexity and a\nnecessity for accuracy.\n\nAdditionally, the idea of the \"third eye\" is taken from Hindu tradition. THe\ncombustion bending tattoo's is located over this Chakra, with the tattoo being\nof the Eye of Shiva. [P'Li's is a more wavy\nversion](http://inkbender.tumblr.com/post/96158399494/p-li), which may be\nrelated to her ability to bend the beam as well.\n\nAll the bending are generally related to some kind of martial art, so if that\ndoesn't answer your question, I'd be glad to do some additional research. Let\nme know!\n\nAlso, thanks to Ryan for the comment. It prompted the extra link and the\ntattoo design section.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf so, then what would be the opposite of Honey Senpai's character? Like\nbetween the ages of 40 years an up?\n\nI read it one time when I was looking at Japanese Shoujo Manga, but I do\nremember encountering it on the site Manga Here.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been searching in different websites but I could only find the short\nversion of kouhaichi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFull anime ED, OP and Soundtracks is always first come in **Bonus CD inside\nBlu-ray Collector Edition**. So, if you want a full version of ending song for\nexample, you need to wait for the release of the Blu-rays.\n\n_God Eater_ just finished airing recently, I don't know the Bonus CD will be\npacked inside which volume of the Blu-ray. An anime with 13 episodes like _God\nEater_ is usually sold separately with 7 volumes, while Vol. 6 is released\njust a week ago, Vol. 7 will be released on _April 21th_. Maybe a week or so\nafter the release of all volumes, some websites might provide contents in the\nBonus CD on their site, not sure whether it's legit or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn occasion during the series there are times where we see Yui, Ui, Nodoka,\nRitsu and Mio as children such as when Mio was remember when Ritsu was giving\nher confidence to speak infront of the class (where Ritsu pretends to be a\nPineapple) or when Yui was drawing and offered Nodoka the Red Crayon she\nhad....before thinking about eating it herself.\n\nI am wondering how long ago these flashbacks occurred?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**These are the 2 scenes you probably mentioning in your question.**\n\n\n\n1) You can re-watch episode 8 of K-On!!, roughly at **07:20** , _Nodoka_\nanswers _Mio_ that she first met _Yui_ in **kindergarten**. (Approx. 12 years\nago) \n\n2) In the same episode, at **12:38** , _Ritsu_ relate her first impression\nabout _Mio_ back in **elementary school**. (Approx. 8 years ago) \n\n3) The actual year is not confirmed yet, maybe plus minus a year or so.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer given is correct, so I am only adding on. You are probably asking\nabout this one (in the comments):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QYUeX.jpg)\n\nThis is when Ui asked for a white Christmas and Yui decorated the tree with\ncotton from a pillow to make it look like snow. This was either in\nkindergarten or very early primary school, because Yui does say that she\nforgot her homework a lot.\n\nOther flashbacks include this:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1H0ZY.jpg)\n\nwhich was during primary school camp where Yui forgot the cooking sachets, and\nthis:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bdO1s.jpg)\n\nwhere Yui forgot to bring octopus to make takoyaki. This was also in primary\nschool during cooking class.\n\nIf you want to check the full flashbacks, they are in season 2, episode 8, and\nseason 1, episode 7.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**1\\. Color consitency**\n\nThe Gelel Life Energy has the same colour with pure Kaguya 10 Tail chakra as\nseen in Ninja Storm 4 used by Obito, Kakashi, and Princess Kaguya herself.\nTenseigan Mode Chakra Color is also related to Princess's chakra color and\nKishimoto is very consistent with colours.\n\n**2\\. Hidden pattern**\n\nThe Galel Stone pattern resembles 10 Tails of Princess Kaguya 10 Tail Rabbit\nform.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gBeH1.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy do people not directly exposed to anime tend to think of it as weird porn?\n\nIt would not be the first time I tell somebody who is not really into anime\nthat I watch it and get questioned as to why I watch animated pornography.\nUntil the point I confront them with the fact that Dragon Ball and Pokémon are\nalso animes.\n\nIt also does not seem to be a Western culture thing, as several people I know\nin India, America, Russia also tend to respond in the same way.\n\nIs there a specific reason as to why this stereotyping came to be?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the 90s, Anime (formerly called Japanimation in some magazines and sources)\nbecame the latest target of alarmist conservative media due to a set of OVAs\ntitled \"Urotsukidōji\" or \"The Overfiend\" in many English translations:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q12Xjm.jpg)\n\nIt's a 3 part series which contained masses of animated gore, demon tentacle\nrape, and horror.\n\nNot only was it offensive to much of the public, it had become very popular -\nnot only amongst hard-core anime fans, but by normal television viewers also.\n40,000 copies were sold in Britain - at a time when 500 people was the average\nattendance for an anime con there.\n\nHaving been leapt upon by the media, this of course only amplified its success\nfor anime title would rarely leave their niche viewership.\n\nSensational journalism by its very nature is intended to elicit a response\nfrom the reader/viewer and talk spreads fast in local communities. When\nfinding another \"Overfiend\"-contender, media outlets are able to remind\nviewers about the previous controversies - or even tangentially related\nevents, such as a normal anime film release, may be tainted by a headstrong\nreporter.\n\nThis anti-anime sentiment started to spring up in casual use, spreading\nfurther propoganda - whether intentional or not. For example, this quote from\nthe British Board of Film Classification about anime :\n\n> In Japan it seems, these films provide sex and violence for men, who watch\n> them after work in male clubs where sexual favours are bought and sold.\n\nWhich is clearly not true - a lot of the Western world did not think of anime\nas separate from hentai, and the hentai stories they had been exposed to were\nselected to be the worst examples. Even now you will see anime being used as\nan example of something immoral:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x3nFi.png)\n[source](http://mashable.com/2016/01/19/trump-supporters-anime-gop-\nstrategist/#QtqpmNbqoGq3)\n\nThe fact that anime is produced in the East played a significant factor also,\nin many people's eyes Eastern people were seen to be different, and weird.\nEven harmless children's titles such as Pokémon were affected with mass\nreports of children choking on pokéballs, having epileptic fits and the like.\nOther popular titles were pounced upon too, like Full Metal Alchemist's use of\nmagic circles or the 'evilness' of the Death Note cast.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o6tjNm.jpg)\n\nOther alarmist conservative media scares include: [Dungeons &\nDragons](http://disinfo.com/2014/03/mazes-monsters-charlatans-satan-suicide-\nshort-history-satanic-panic/), [the Harry Potter\nbooks](http://www.michaeljournal.org/potter.htm) and many other niche areas of\nsociety - some of which embraced it and took advantage of the attention like\ndeath metal bands or ouija board manufacturers.\n\nThere of course are hentai titles that are sketchy, which is where it all\nstarted from, and there is fanservice that targets pubescent teenagers, BUT\nwhat the media has made many people assume that anime is a \"genre\" of film and\nall titles are like this. However, anime is a **medium** that can be about\nanything - and just like normal filmography - a medium can tell be used to\ntell the heart-warming story of a boy reunited with his father - or be used\nfor less savoury topics.\n\n( **TLDR:** Certain controversial titles + echo chamber = reputation)\n\n**References:**\n\n * Schoolgirl Milky Crisis by Jonathan Clements\n\n**Further Reading:**\n\n * [SATANIC PANIC: POP-CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/satanic-panic-pop-cultural-paranoia-in-the-1980s#/story)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think there are two main reasons for the \"anime\" is porn prejudice. The\nfirst that anime porn forms a fairly significant part of the anime market. The\nother is that fanservice in anime is more shocking and often more blatant than\nfanservice in western media.\n\nPorn is a significant part of the anime market today, and probably has an even\nbigger share of illegal downloads. For some people this is the only kind of of\nanime they'll watch, so it's easy for anyone to who knows (or is) such person\nto associate anime with porn, while on the other hand they may not see someone\nwho obsessively watches shows like Naruto or Dragon Ball as an anime fan, as\nthose shows are shown on TV along side other \"cartoons\".\n\nLike with many of forms of new media, porn was an early pioneer in the anime\nmarket in the west. Before movies like Akira (not-porn) and Urotsukidouji\n(porn) were released in the west, anime was pretty much just a cheap source of\nchildren's TV programming. Outside a very small number of fans there was no\nreason to distinguish it as a genre separate from other cartoons. While a\ncausal observer could dismiss a movie like Akira as just another cartoon, a\nmovie Urotsukidouji was definitely something different. So this prejudice\nformed pretty early, and given relative popularity of movies like\nUrotsukidouji, was not entirely unfounded. In the 90's anime fandom was still\ngrowing and it wouldn't surprise me if a large majority of anime watched by\nadults back then was porn. ([Wikipedia notes that\n(NSFW)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai#Term) \"At the beginning of 2000,\n'hentai' was listed as the 41st most popular search term of the internet,\nwhile 'anime' ranked 99th\".)\n\nWhile fanservice in anime doesn't come close to meeting the technical\ndefinition of pornography, it helps reinforce prejudices. More significantly\nit can help form them. Many people use the word porn to refer to anything\nvaguely titillating that they find reprehensible. While fanservice exists all\nover western media, TV shows and movies find all sorts of ways to include a\nwoman in a bikini or have a man show off his six-pack, when that happens in\nanimation its much more likely to be shocking to western viewers. When this\nhappens its probable that only the fanservice scenes will leave an impression,\nand that they'll been seen as perverse or degenerate.\n\nIt doesn't help that anime doesn't usually try to as hard to disguise it.\nWhile a police procedural might connect a murder to a sex club as an excuse to\ninclude scenes with semi-nude actors, and a daytime talk show might have a\n\"serious\" discussion on sexual issues during sweeps, anime fanservice tends to\nbe a subtle as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.\n\nSo unfortunately this leads people to associate the word \"anime\" with porn.\nEven today most people don't see the need to distinguish between children's\ncartoons made in Japan and those made in the west. They rarely see the middle\nground between widely syndicated TV shows and anime porn, and when they do\nthey often see fanservice that makes it easier to connect the it to the later\nrather than former.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike my question is asking, are they marrying their own cousin? I'm wondering\nthis because I remember Obito telling Naruto that Sasuke was his relative in\nvolume 71 chapter 683: I Dreamt the Same Dream. I also remember Madara saying\nthe same thing to Sasuke and Obito, which got my attention.\n\nSo according to what I've read in the manga they are saying their blood is all\nconnected which, therefore, makes them all relative? So if they are relatives\nthat make them cousins or something like that? If they do end up being\ncousins, are they marrying their own cousin? Isn't that kind of disturbing to\nthem or am I wrong and in the Uchiha there are still different family members\nbut have the same last name, which makes them all \"relatives\"?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, they are. They probably know it. And they aren't that closely related,\nanyway.\n\nIt had often been the case, historically, in noble and especially royal\nfamilies to marry within the family (often to fairly close relatives) - either\nbecause marriage to a lower class was too low in status and there just wasn't\nmuch of the higher class, or simply to keep the money in the family. (A\nparticularly silly example is the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.) \nIt even happened in non-noble families too; somewhat famously, the maiden name\nof Franklin Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was also Roosevelt (she was\nTheodore Roosevelt's daughter), though their common ancestor was six\ngenerations away.\n\nIn the case of the Uchiha clan, it actually makes sense - they want to\nmaximize the chance of their bloodline manifesting in the progeny. And given\nhow large the clan is (or, at least, how large it was before Itachi wrecked it\nall up), chances are that, in many cases, there are quite a few generations to\nthe nearest common ancestor. \nI suspect that the Uchiha elders actually did try to make sure not to marry\nespecially close relatives, to minimize inbreeding problems; given how crazy\nmany of the Uchiha members ended up being... for all we know, they still\nfailed, and the last few Uchihas did suffer from inbreeding in their ancestry.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a way, but not necessarily. All 3 of them, Obito, Madara, and Sasuke, Are\nUchiha after all, so they are somewhat closely related, but that does not mean\ntheir parents or grandparents were the same people. It only means that when\nyou go way back they have some lineage to Indra, but that was dozens of\ngenerations earlier. It is entirely possible for Indras kids to spread out\nenough that you could have groups of families whos only connection between\nthem and any other uchiha is Indra. They probably did also sometimes marry\noutside of the Uchiha which would help diversify the gene pool.\n\nReally though, so long as you avoid your siblings and your Cousins, the\nproblem of inbreeding is nearly nonexistent anyway. Based on what was shown,\nthe clan was probably a few hundred strong before the massacre, so there would\nmost likely be plenty of uchiha to choose from without inbreeding being a real\nproblem. Certainly it would occasionally happen, but When it comes to those 3\nspecifically, there is likely no major relation. Madara might be a great great\nuncle to them, and Obito and Sasuke might be direct cousins, but that is the\nclosest we can speculate considering we know Obitos parents are not Sasukes,\nbut not the relationship between either set of parents, And Madara and his\nbrothers had no known children, ending his direct family bloodline.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTechnically yes, but not really anymore than if two British people with the\nsurname \"Smith\" got married. They were a clan (and likely a large one) so as\nlong as they avoided marriages with anyone more closely related than a third\ncousin, they shouldn't have had to worry too much about inbreeding.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure the clans are inbred. When Itachi massacred the whole clan we\ndon't see the sharingan in anyone but people who's names are Uchiha (expect\nKakashi, but he got his from Obito). Females can inherit the Sharingan, as\nseen with Sarada so it's safe to assume they can pass it down to their\ndescendants. Since females tend to take their husband's name and their\nchildren too, those hypothetical non-Uchihas can inherit the Sharingan but\nthere aren't any. Not to mention Itachi's girlfriend was also an Uchiha. They\nmay not be closely related, but they still share common ancestors. It doesn't\nmean that Uchihas only marry in their clan, but likely most do. Same with the\nHyuuga clan, everyone's eyes are blank and pupil-less, but Hinata's kids with\nNaruto have blue eyes. Their kids also have the Byakugan, so eye techniques\ncan likely passed down from females. This also proves the Sharingan can be\npassed down by females too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty much all Uchiha except for the women that marry into the clan are\nrelated. So when an Uchiha marries another Uchiha then he or she is marrying a\nrelative. But take note that since the Uchiha clan and other clans in the\nNaruto universe are quite large many of the clan members are distantly\nrelated, with the most recent ancestor or ancestral pair being generations and\ngenerations before their time, so it's most probably the case that the clans\nfrom Naruto don't suffer the issues of inbreeding since in most cases the\nclosest relative an Uchiha or Hyuga is marrying is a second or third cousin,\nwith more distant relatives being more common marruage partners, which doesn't\ncause the problems of sibling or first cousin inbreeding but does continue the\nprogeny at an almost as steady rate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, a family is a unit consisting of parents and children, a clan is a group\nof interrelated families who share a common ancestor and common goals. before\nBoruto the clan system in naruto was based around feudal japan. in feudal\njapan women marrying into a clan didn't take the clan name. as such before\nboruto anyone with the name Uchiha was Uchiha by blood. the Uchiha like all\nclans with a Kekkei Genkai married almost exclusively with other Uchiha this\nwas to preserve the Sharingan from not only getting outside of the Uchiha clan\nbut to preserve its power and interbreeding with cousins isn't against the law\nin most places because the chances of producing a child with a birth defect\nwith a 1st cousin is at max about 3 or 4%\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTrisha certainly knew.\n\nIn the beginning few minutes of episode 36 \"Family Portrait\", Hohenheim is\nspeaking with Trisha. He calls himself a monster, reminisces about all the\nthings he has seen, how he never grows old, etc. and Trisha seems to\nunderstand what he is talking about. Then Trisha arranges to have their family\npicture taken so they can remember them all together before she and the boys\ngrow old. She also comments to Hohenheim that he isn't a monster, obviously\nknowing why he called himself that. Finally, Hohenheim prepares to leave his\nfamily and is about to walk out the door and Trisha asks if she should wake\nthe boys. Hohenheim responds with a no, telling her he didn't want them to\nknow about his body. So Trisha obviously knew what was going on.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed references to TV shows like `Dr.Who` in the Dub.\n\nAlso to other references to other anime like `The mail which leapt through\ntime`.\n\nI'd like to know all known references to other works of fiction.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDr.Who Reference by Kurisu Makise (牧瀬 紅莉栖) in the Dubbed version.\n\n> Makise Kurisu: Safe to say String theory doesn't jive with the notion of\n> bouncing around through time in a blue police box.\n\nThe past-altering D-mail is shortened from \"Delorean Mail\". Delorean is the\nname of the time-travelling car from the Back to the Future series. The series\nis mentioned by Kurisu Makise and Itaru Hashida in the game.\n\nVarious Nordic mythological terms were used as \"operation names\" by Rintarou\nOkabe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause of God Eater, I got to know that the episodes in the Blu-ray often\ndiffer from the episodes recorded on TV. As the Blu-ray is being released\nafter the series has been completed, the producers often modify the animation\nof certain scenes.\n\n[Here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z2HkC.jpg)'s an example where you're able to\nsee these modifications.\n\nBut are there any legal streaming sites that sometimes or commonly replace the\nTV version of an anime with the improved Blu-ray version once the latter one\nbecomes available? How does especially Netflix, who's recently been publishing\na lot of older animes (that are not currently airing on TV), handle this? Does\nit just publish the Blu-ray version or does Netflix stick with the TV version?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsually, it depends on whether the websites own the rights of the anime's Blu-\nray version, because the TV and Blu-ray versions act as separate entities for\ncommercial rights.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt depends; I do know that Funimation re-uploaded Highschool DxD season 3 to\nthe blu-ray version, as an example; they previously had the censored TV\nversion, and now it's the uncensored version. Meanwhile, Crunchyroll still has\nthe TV version.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember that Aizen kidnapped Orihime but I don't remember if it was\nexplained well why this happened. I have several hypothesis but not sure if\nthey are true:\n\n 1. Was it that the Hogyoku didn't work until Orihime cured it some how? Was there such a scene in Bleach that gives evidence to this? Why wouldn't the Hohyoku work? Wasn't Aizen already giving more power to his hollows even before Orihime? \n 2. Is that why Aizen needed her or was it something else? To Maybe torture her to distract the Shinigami and Ichigo? But it seems that at this point he didn't really thought Ichigo mattered so it doesn't seem convincing. \n 3. Or did he use her to heal his Espadas? \n 4. Or did he do that to lure the Shinigami and trap them to Hueco Mundo?\n\nIs there maybe another reason? Or are there multiple reasons combined? Aizen\nwas smart so I am sure he had a reason to kidnap Orihime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer lies in Ichigo's existence. At the end of the battle between Aizen\nand Ichigo, Ichigo noted that Aizen's sword is filled with loneliness. Before\nIchigo, there was no one of the same level of spiritual pressure as Aizen.\nThis is proved in the conversation between Ichigo and his father, Kurosaki\nIsshin, on episode 301 of the anime.\n\n> Isshin: Let's go (after Aizen) \n> Ichigo: Don't you feel it? There's no way we can fight such monstrous\n> spiritual pressure. \n> Isshin: As I thought, you really can comprehend his powers.\n\nThat wasn't the exact words but is pretty much what they said in that episode.\nAnd previously during the battle between Aizen vs Isshin, Yoruichi, and\nUrahara, Ishin said that when he slashed Aizen, he didn't feel anything. Aizen\nfelt so empty. This is because Aizen's power is far above Isshin, that Isshin\ncan no longer comprehend (Isshin also mentioned this to Urahara after he\nunleashed Getsuga Tensho towards Aizen). This is later proven by Aizen when he\nmade a normal human vanish just by being near him without the man actually\nunderstand that going closer to Aizen will kill him.\n\nWhy Aizen kidnap Orihime? The main reason is once again, Ichigo. Deep down,\nAizen believed that Ichigo can reach his level. And to encourage Ichigo's\ngrowth, Aizen kidnapped Orihime so that Ichigo would feel the urgency of\ngetting stronger.\n\nThe other, less significant (from Aizen's point of view) reason is Orihime's\nability, Shunshun Rikka, which can negates reality. Aizen was curious about it\nwhen he saw Orihime used it to restore wounds.\n\nAs for Ichigo saying Aizen's sword is filled with loneliness, it was mentioned\nin episode 310 at 8:30-10:30 of the anime.\n\nAs for Yamamoto, he certainly was regarded as the most powerful Shinigami, but\nAizen doesn't seems like seeing him as his equal. This is my own guess though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think its just a plot trick. Aizen has a big plan with a good story but the\ntruth is that Ichigo had nothing to do with that. Author, instead of trying\nsomething believable, just pulled that cheap card of kidnapping Orihime so\nthat Ichigo, the guy that has nothing to do there, does all the job and kills\nthe main guy, again, who has nothing to do with him.\n\nI remember that even there is a part where Aizen says that kidnapped Orihime\nbecause he was just curious of her mysterious power, but just that.\n\nAbout the story of the above guy... Its an anime written for 15 year old kids,\nlike Naruto, Dragon Ball, One Piece, etc, and like them, its full of plot\nholes. This is just another one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAizen understands her power and how it can basically reject reality / events\nthat happened. He sees her healing ability as borderline God-like powers. Of\ncourse he values this and wants it to use as he desires. I think the best\nexplanation of this is in chapter 240 page 7. I don't actually think he really\nends up exploiting her abilities past what is in that chapter (healing\nGrimmjow).\n\nKidnapping her also has the added benefit of luring out Kurosaki and his crew.\nBy luring them to Hueco Mundo, Aizen and his men get to fight on their own\nturf.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe kidnapped Orihime so he can wake up the hogyoko since Urahara sealed it.\nThey said that the hogyoko will take a long time to wake up but with Orihime\nit took less time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe squinting face that anime characters make can express a range of\nexpressions. Here are two examples:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/exClE.jpg)\nFrom this alone we might be inclined to call it the \"cute crying face.\"\nHowever, consider the next picture:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qRAfT.png)\n\nThe character (Rokka from Shoujou Yokai) still uses the same face, but does\nnot display sadness. For context, the character was being used as a weapon to\npunch a villain in the manga and was happy to be able to defeat the villain.\n\nFrom sadness to happiness to frustration, it cannot be pinpointed to one\nparticular emotion. They do have cuteness in common, although it's not always\nused to emphasize cuteness.\n\nWhat is this face called exactly? Does it even have a name?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know of a particular name for `>_<`, but if we take a look at the\n[emoticon Unicode\nblock](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%94%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97#Unicode.E3.81.B8.E3.81.AE.E9.A1.94.E6.96.87.E5.AD.97.E3.81.AE.E7.99.BB.E9.8C.B2)\nwe can see the following emoticons with `>` and `<` for eyes:\n\n[code]\n\n U+1F606 SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND TIGHTLY-CLOSED EYES\n U+1F61D FACE WITH STUCK-OUT TONGUE AND TIGHTLY-CLOSED EYES\n U+1F623 PERSEVERING FACE\n U+1F62B TIRED FACE\n U+1F627 ANGUISHED FACE\n U+1F62C GRIMACING FACE\n \n[/code]\n\nI checked these on Chrome and Firefox, but note that not all of them are\nalways drawn with `>` and `<` for eyes. For example, the\n[last](https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%9F%98%A7)\n[two](https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%9F%98%AC) are drawn with round eyes\nfor the Twitter emoji project.\n\nFrom this, we can gather that at least the _Unicode_ name for `>` and `<` eyes\nis \"tightly closed eyes\", although \"persevering face\" is also pretty\nappropriate for some situations.\n\n* * *\n\n_(Side note: reverse image searching the first screenshot causes Google to\nsuggest \"anime sad face\")_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the media/anime-verse, they do not have any specific name for themselves.\n\nThe eyes themselves form a part of the [Wingding\nEyes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WingdingEyes):\n\n> For animated characters, the eyes are the windows to the soul—literally. So\n> literally, that their eyes become their innermost thoughts projected in very\n> clear symbols for all to see.\n\nFor example, the common ones mentioned include:\n\n * > X or +: Dead or knocked out. Comical depictions of corpses or ghosts will have their tongues sticking out as well as this.\n\n * > Spirals: Dazed, confused, terrified, dizzy, or knocked out.\n\n * > Stars: Excitement, determination and dreaming of fame and fortune\n\n* * *\n\nIn the real world, these `>_<`, `>o<`, `>△<` are a part of\n[Kaomoji](http://kaomoji.ru/en/):\n\n> Kaomoji (顔文字) is a popular Japanese emoticon style made up of Japanese\n> characters and grammar punctuations, and are used to express emotion in\n> texting and cyber communication.\n\nAs mentioned on the site:\n\n> Japanese emoticons are extremely diverse. Some of Internet sources state the\n> number of 10000 but, in fact, there are much more of them. Such diversity\n> may be explained by at least two factors:\n>\n> * Unlike Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, which are usually written in\n> single-byte character sets, Japanese writing requires a minimum of double-\n> byte sets with a wider scope of characters;\n> * Kaomoji can express not only individual emotions, but also complex\n> actions, objects, and even whole stories.\n>\n\n* * *\n\n`>_<`, `>o<`, `>△<` and other expressions can be interpreted in different ways\nin the anime, depending on the scene being depicted, the character, the\nWingding Eyes and their combination with the expression put on the characters'\nface.\n\nThe most common uses in anime are to depict:\n\n * Anger\n * Excitement\n * Embarrassment\n * Frustration\n * Jealousy\n * Pain (or to brace yourself against an incoming impact)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it would be more correct to call **> _<** wincing or bracing, based on\nour real world expressions:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cIiZpm.jpg)\n\n> **Wince**\n>\n> make a slight involuntary grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of\n> pain or distress.\n\nIt's usually a face you would make if you are bracing yourself for something\nbad, trying to hold back some pain.\n\nI'd argue that the first face is more like **> △<** which is slightly\ndifferent. This is more of a complaining/moaning face:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XbEOxm.png)\n\nThe subtle difference is that the former is bracing for something unpleasant,\nthe latter is complaining about it.\n\nThere are several other related emoticons for different expressions, such as\nfeeling shifty\n\n**> _> <_< >_>**\n\nelated\n\n**^_^**\n\nor restful\n\n**v_v**\n\nas well as combinations of other eyes and mouths\n\n**^_~**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe symbols you typed are called kaomoji. According to [Symbol\nGo](https://symbolgo.org/kaomoji/kaomoji-x3j2g5x-1), kaomoji are Japanese\nemoticons. These are text symbols, which are different from emojis (e.g., ⛄).\n\n> Unlike emoticons such as :-) kaomoji can be read without tilting one's head\n> to the left; rather, they are read horizontally, such as ( • ‿ • ). Emotions\n> can be expressed by changing how the eyes, mouth, and face are represented.\n> For example, eyes can be represented as ^_^ for joy, O_o for confusion or\n> -_- for shrug or a whatever feeling. Arms and hands can even be added. For\n> example, ᕙ( •̀ ‿ •́ )ᕗ has flexing arms, while ( •̀ ‿ •́ ) does not.\n\nSource: [Symbol Go](https://symbolgo.org/kaomoji/kaomoji-x3j2g5x-1)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo a couple of days ago I was, as usual, on random websites and, for some\nreason, ended up in the [Naruto\nWikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia) on the\n[Bijuu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beast) page. I scanned through the\npage, not really reading anything on there, as I scrolled down. I ended up at\nthe trivia part of the page, which made me start reading. One particular part\ngot my attention, which said:\n\n> While most of the tailed beasts have conventional tails, Chōmei and Gyūki\n> differ; Chōmei has one regular tail and six wings that make up its seven\n> tails, while Gyūki has eight cephalopod limbs that serve as tails.\n\nSo we know that Chōmei has one tail and six wings and Gyūki has eight\ncephalopod limbs that, I guess, count as tails, for some reason. So if Chōmei\nand Gyūki don't really have all 7 or 8 conventional tails (as in not all are\nactually tails) why do they call them \"Tailed Beasts\"? Or do people just\nconfuse the wings and cephalopod limbs for tails? Or are people just,\nnormally, counting the others, which have all tails, and then mistake the\nwings and cephalopod limbs for tails?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Mio falls under an aphrodisiac curse by Maria using the \"\n_Reversed_ \" Master-Servant Pact which is triggered by the servant's\n**Distrust** to his/her Master\n\nOn [Episode\nFive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Testament_of_Sister_New_Devil_episodes)\nof the anime,\n\n> Following Yahiro's defeat, Basara wakes up with Maria lying on top of him\n> while seducing him, encountering Mio naked in the bathroom while getting\n> caught in an awkward position, Yuki offering herself to bathe with Basara,\n> and Mio yet again falling into a pleasure-driven curse.\n\nAfter the scene Basara lift Mio and said going to her room. The scene then is\ncut (eventhough its uncersored version) the nezxt thing they are eating at a\nrestaurant. so what happened in between these scenes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, from my close observations, Basara fondled her breasts to give her some\nsort of \"pleasure\" so that the curse will stop.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Scene you want to see is showed in the restaurant scene as flashback while\nBasara and his friend is talking about the Master- Servant Pact.\n\nAre You sure you have the Uncensored version. I watched the anime and here is\nthe screenshot of scene flashback from the episode following the restaurant\nscene.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ufbZh.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dSFmh.png)\n\nAlso there is also a special Episode, ShinMai Maouno TEstament Special 3 one\nof the Specials included on the Blu-ray/DVD volumes. Chibi versions of Mio and\nMaria narrate Basara's various erotic encounters.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GA0Yb.png)\n\nHere is a Screenshot of the Third Special Episode (Narration of Episode 5's\nErotic Event)\n\nALso Zhi Heng's Observation and answer is quite Correct. Basara did what he\nhave to do to stop the activation of Mio's curse.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was reading a scanlation of the _Evangelion_ manga and noticed that Toji\n_consistently_ uses a lot of informal-sounding speech. I chalked this up to\npoor translation quality — I tend to find this sort of thing distracting — but\nwhen I read a licensed translation to English, I encountered a similar form of\nspeech; for example, from ch. 20:\n\n> Ikari! Yer not allowed ta look!\n\nLater, Asuka accidentally provokes someone at the arcade. Someone, possibly\nSuzuhara, tells Toji to talk to the angered man because both have the same\n\"accent\". Thus, it seems unlikely that Toji's language is similar to, for\nexample, Shinji's, when he asks Toji \"Whadda mean?\" after being asked about\nhis exchange with Rei in the same chapter. In other words, it does not sound\nlike Toji's habits fall within the \"normal\" bounds of variation in how people\nare supposed to talk.\n\nWhat is this \"accent\"? What is Toji's language supposed to correspond to in\nthe Japanese original?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [this quite old Ask John\ncolumn](https://web.archive.org/web/20150714125458/http://www.animenation.net/blog/2001/12/13/ask-\njohn-whats-the-significance-of-the-osaka-accent/), Touji's accent in Japanese\nis Osaka-ben.\n\n> ### Ask John: What’s the Significance of the Osaka Accent?\n>\n> **Question:** \n> Looking at several anime series, and translated Tokyo TV broadcasts, I am\n> puzzled over the references to the Osaka region. In Cardcaptor Sakura,\n> Kerberos speaks with an “Osaka” accent, and in Battle Athletes Victory,\n> Itchan speaks an Osaka dialect. What makes the Osaka region unique, and how\n> does the rest of Japan view the region? Is it like how California (the land\n> of fruits and nuts) is viewed by the rest of the US?\n>\n> **Answer:** \n> Beside the examples you’ve mentioned, a few other anime characters that\n> speak with an Osaka inflection include Li Kouran of Sakura Taisen, “Kitsune”\n> Konno and Koala Suu of Love Hina, Tasuki of Fushigi Yuugi, Kiiro Iijima of\n> Iczerion, Nicholas Wolfwood of Trigun, Tarta and Tatra of Rayearth, Matsuko\n> and Shige of Tonari no Yamada-kun, Touji Suzuhara of Evangelion, Ten from\n> Urusei Yatsura, Tomoko Hoshina of To Heart, Momiji of Yamamoto Yohko, and\n> Aiko of Ojamajo Doremi.\n\nYou can see in the second paragraph that Touji is listed as a character who\nspeaks with an Osaka accent.\n\n[Eva\nwiki](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/T%C5%8Dji_Suzuhara#Manga_adaptation)\nand [TV Tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheIdiotFromOsaka)\ncorroborate this. According to the wiki, the accent Touji speaks with in the\nEnglish manga was supposed to be a New York/Brooklyn accent, which was also\nused to translate Osaka's accent in the _Azumanga Daioh_ manga. In _Abenobashi\nMahou Shoutengai_ and many other shows, a Texas or Southern accent was used.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's Kansai dialect (Kansei-ben), also called Osaka dialect (Osaka-ben).\nEverything is a bit different, but you can generally grasp what they are\nsaying, so there isn't really any need to have him talk to the guy. In the\nfirst place, people with this dialect always speak like that anyway, so if it\nwas like that nobody would be able to understand Touji.\n\nIt's like American and British English. With American being the Kansai one. So\nit's like a British guy asking an American friend to talk to the angry\nAmerican.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime features him only having a son but how did that come to happen? Him\nbeing a superhuman and all, he probably wouldn't settle down for a normal\ngirl, or would he? What is the story there? Did he ever get married?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I can tell from reading the wikia for the show, they have no\nmentioned the mother yet.\n\nThis is less of an answer and more of a \"there is no answer\" type thing.\n\nAlthough I'm all for the idea of him having cloned himself into his son. That\nopens some very frightening possibilities and some interesting conclusions.\nDoes he have more clones? If his son-clone turned out like that, then could\nthe father actually be a good person that was changed by bad circumstances?\nI'd watch that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm wondering if the principal got married, had a son, and went kind of crazy\nfor power. Power seems to be way too important for him. Maybe his wife left\nbecause of that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBeing a fan of\n[掟上今日子の備忘録](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okitegami_Ky%C5%8Dko_no_Bib%C5%8Droku)\n( _Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku_ , or \"The Memorandum of Okitegami Kyouko\"),\nI found the following promotional videos online:\n\n * [Okitegami Kyouko x Monogatari series, collab CM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy_Im1FAeXQ)\n * [Okitegami Kyouko x Monogatari series, second collab CM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXusSjThKk)\n\nThe part I found intriguing with both of these CMs was that Kyouko is animated\nat the end of these commericals, even though (as of writing) there is no plan\nfor an animated version of the series. The animation is credited to Shaft,\nwhich is unsurprising since Shaft is responsible for animating the [Monogatari\nseries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogatari_\\(series\\)) by the same\nauthor. However, the CM stands out in comparison to others like [this other\nKyouko one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNXrtMot7hU) or [this Date A Live\none](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4mtQ8VwUkk) (from before Date A Live was\nadapted into an anime), which feature mostly static images and effects rather\nthan animated characters.\n\nSo my question is this: is it common for light novels to have an animated\ncommercial (especially with original animation created just for the\ncommercial) despite not having plans to adapt the novel into an anime in the\nnear future? Or, at the very least, have there been other instances of this in\nthe past?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wouldn't say that it's _common_ , but it does happen. Here are some\nexamples:\n\n * _Musaigen no Phantom World_ had [a PV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKLB_f-rsiQ) in Jan 2014, which preceded [the announcement of its anime](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-08-14/kyoto-animation-myriad-colors-phantom-world-novel-gets-anime/.91673) in Aug 2015. Likewise, _Kyoukai no Kanata_ had [a PV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdyN0wgaDQ) some time in 2012, prior to [the announcement of its anime](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-04-03/kyoto-animation/kyokai-no-kanata-anime-is-in-the-works) in Apr 2013. I think the same thing happened with _Free!_ / _High Speed!_. However, all of these are published by Kyoto Animation's in-house publishing division (KA Esma Bunko), so they may well have had not-yet-publicized plans for these works by the time they put the PVs out.\n * _Heavy Object_ , _Intellectual Village no Zashiki Warashi_ , and some other Kamachi LNs showed up in [a Sep 2014 PV of Kamachi's various works](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZCp7FnD3w) (the best known of which is, of course, _A Certain Magical Index_ ). Of the non- _Index_ works, only _Heavy Object_ has been animated, and it was not [announced until a month later](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-10-05/heavy-object-light-novels-by-a-certain-magical-index-kamachi-get-tv-anime/.79574) (though, again, it was presumably in planning at the time).\n\nBut after a fair bit of searching, I didn't turn up any other properly-\nanimated PVs (rather than just videos with static images wooshing around the\nscreen). I find this unsurprising: for a properly-animated PV, you need a\nproper animation studio, and without a pre-existing relationship with a studio\nto produce material for the franchise in question, a PV is probably unlikely\nto happen.\n\n* * *\n\nSo why do these few examples even exist in the first place?\n\nThe case of Kyoto Animation is unusual, in that they have a light novel\npublishing house as a subsidiary (or something; I'm not sure what the exact\nbusiness relationship is). Naturally, this provides KA Esma Bunko with ready\naccess to an animation studio. As far as I know, KyoAni is the only animation\nstudio with this kind of very tight-knit relationship with a light novel\npublisher.\n\nIn the other two cases - _Okitegami Kyouko_ and the various Kamachi things -\nthe animation studio connection comes through the studios in question (Shaft\nand J.C.Staff) having already animated other cash cows by the same authors (\n_Monogatari_ and _Index_ , respectively). There aren't very many other authors\nin the same position (existing animated cash cow + high productivity on other\nlight novel series); the only one who comes to mind off the top of my head is\nNarita Ryohgo ( _Durarara!!_ , _Baccano!_ ), and I didn't find any PVs for any\nof his other stuff.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo far my impression of Saitama is him holding back his power.\n\nEven when the \"Strongest\" Alien in the universe attacked him, he easily\nfinished him with NORMAL punches. He hasn't unleash his full power and I'd\nlike to know why.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSaitama wants to find an opponent worthy of his power.\n\nHe commonly fights enemies, killing them with one-punch, hence the name. He\nhas found that launching a full punch kills almost everything he face. There's\nno challenge in that.\n\nSo yes, he is pulling his punches. There will be multiple times where he can\neasily destroy his opponent, but does not \"try\" until it has shown to be\nstrong enough.\n\n**He is a hero for fun.** Not to save people, but to enjoy the thrill and be\nhimself.\n\nI've avoided spoilers the best I can, especially since I'm not sure how far\nyou are.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSaitama is a one punch wonder so he often beats monsters with only One Punch\nso till now he is finding an opponent who is worthy of his caliber to bring\nout his 100% of his power until then he feels his normal punches would be used\nfor best to kill any type of human or monster\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEven though manga has lots of different art styles we still have an idea that\ncertain styles are \"manga style\" and other ones aren't. What is it about an\nart style that lets us know it's manga style? What elements reappear across\nmany manga? What distinguishes our idea of manga style from our idea of\nWestern comics style?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZqLhM.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you do research you will find that the Japanese consider animation such as\ncartoons and anime to all be anime but some styles are usually seen\nseparately.\n\nwww.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-807827/the-anime-is-a-cartoon-argument\n\nThe main difference is the age. What we call cartoons are things aimed at\nkids, while anime is usually aimed at older people as well as young but the so\ncalled cartoons pokemon and yugioh are anime.\n\nThe thing is us Americans just separated everything.\n\n[Definition of Anime by Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-\nwebster.com/dictionary/anime)\n\n> a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark\n> colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often\n> with fantastic or futuristic themes.\n>\n> a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously\n> exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.\n> synonyms: caricature, parody, lampoon, satire; More\n>\n> a motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of\n> drawings rather than real people or objects.\n\n* * *\n\nif it helps most of the cartoons we have in america are made in japan.and all\nof this started in japan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure there is a specific answer to this. As you acknowledge, different\nartists have different styles. Both Japanese and western books vary from\n\"cartoony\" to \"realistic\". There are cultural differences seen in the art,\nsuch as in Japanese media adults often smoke, while in American media, they\nseldom do -- definitely not in titles geared to children. (Maybe they do in\nFrench media; that's why I switched from \"western\" to \"American\".)\n\nHell, sometimes an artist has extremes in his own work; consider Yoshiro\nTogashi and his \"bad days\" on [Hunter x\nHunter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter). Here is a\ncomparison of a page that got published in the weekly mag, versus how he\nimproved it for the HxH volume:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQnNK.png)\n\nIs the left even identifiable as manga vs comic book (vs fan art)? On the\nright, the main clue as to being a manga, at least to me, is the eyes of the\nupper right character. Otherwise it could be from a (somewhat dark) American\nfunny-animal comic book, a la \"[Fritz the\nCat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat) visits a jungle\".\n\nLet's look at another page:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gsEC4.jpg)\n\nIs there anything innately Japanese or western concerning [Jack\nKatz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Katz_\\(artist\\))' work on _The First\nKingdom_? If I didn't already know, I could not tell anything except that he\nis a remarkable artist (a mangaka in every sense of the word except his\nnationality). ... Hmm, maybe in Japan they would have to fade-out all the\nnipples.\n\nI myself instantly recognize manga because the pages have to be read from\nright to left. The other instantly recognizable hint is that manga are\ntypically b&w, whereas western comics are usually color.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nwell to me It's more about the lack of details. Be-sided the obvious eyes\n(tough they come in different styles) the main deference to me between comics\nand manga it's the lack of realism. Comics use a lot of details in the hair,\neyes, shading, and body...making the characters look more realistic. But in\nManga for example they gather a bunch of hair into two line strokes and gives\nvolume with shading, a vary cleaner look to the character. Idk, just less\nrealistic I suppose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've started watching _Death Note_ and I'm a bit confused on an aspect of\nShinigami.\n\nIn episode 12:\n\n> Gelus dies because he killed the would-be murderer of Misa Amane. By doing\n> this he extended the life of Misa for which he disappeared into glitter as\n> they aren't allow to extend lives.\n\nIf a Shinigami killed a person at random who was planning to murder a person\nthe next day, he would be extending the life of the victim the murderer was\nplanning to kill. Would the Shinigami die in this scenario?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf the god of death is using the death note was killing at random, it would\nnot result in the god of death dying. See [rule\nXVII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note):\n\n> If the god of death decides to use the Death Note to kill the assassin of an\n> individual he favors, the individual's life will be extended, but the god of\n> death will die.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RMvl3.jpg)\n\nThe killing will only result in the god of death dying if they kill someone\nwho is going to kill an individual the god of death **favors**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust to be clear, there is another rule which states this even more clearly.\nOnly if a shinigami **intentionally** extends someone's life they die.\n\nRule LVIII:\n\n1) By manipulating the death of a human that has influence over another\nhuman's life, that human's original life span can sometimes be lengthened.\n\n2) If a god of death intentionally does the above manipulation to effectively\nlengthen a human's life span, the god of death will die, but even if a human\ndoes the same, the human will not die.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have started reading _Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru_ manga, and there is\nthis title \"OB\" for some kind of teacher or guardian, like I supposed to\nunderstand what it means.\n\nGoogle Translate doesn't know it, googling \" _karate ob_ \" goes to \" _obi_ \",\nand I can't find any translator's note.\n\n\n\n> Well... being an OB, I really didn't want to get involved in such trouble,\n> but...\n>\n> (bottom-left panel)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [Oct.\n1965](https://books.google.com/books?id=BdoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14) issue of _Black\nBelt_ magazine:\n\n> Beginning of (the Second Sino-Japanese War) in 1940, about 30% of Japanese\n> colleges and universities had campus karate clubs allied with one or another\n> of four principal schools of karate, referred to as \"ryu.\" In addition to\n> the club on campus, each of these universities had what is referred to as an\n> \"O.B.\" karate club. \"O.B.\" here stood for \"Old Boys\" and was made up by the\n> particular school's alumni.\n\nThese OB clubs typically served as advisors for the student clubs. So \"OB\"\nhere most likely refers to alumni, a graduate or elder disciple and liaison of\nsorts of that particular school, some of whom might later become instructors.\n\nIt would make sense, judging by the notches on Tachiyama's belt that he's a\nsenior amongst the Judo club.\n\nHere are the original pages for reference:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/00kaj.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZUB5.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy did the Elric brothers set their house on fire? I mean they could have\npreserved their house for future use but they didn't. So why did they do this?\nIs there any main reason behind this which is mentioned in the FMA\nanime/manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey set fire to their house in chapter 24 of the manga:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eh0iU.jpg)\n\nAs you can see, after they set fire to their house Ed says, \"There is no\nturning back.\"\n\nThis is also [stated in episode 11](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MSCcF.jpg) of\n_Brotherhood_ , which is when they set fire to their house in the anime, there\nis a similar statement:\n\n> **Edward:** There is no turning back for us now, huh?\n\nEdward reiterates this in Chapter 42:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Siid4.jpg)\n\nHohenheim tries to convince Ed that he is lying, and that in reality they did\nit to run away from the mistakes of their past.\n\n> **Hohenheim** : Is it for the sake of running away from the horrible images\n> in one's mind brought on by it? Is it to erase the evidence of what oneself\n> had done? . . . It is just like a kid who wet his bed at night and hid his\n> sheets. You are running away.\n\nSo, Hohenheim's interpretation may be the correct one, but Edward does not\nadmit that he was running away to Hohenheim.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf Edward could affix his brother's soul, why not his mother? Did it require\nseeing the 'truth' to do so? Does that mean the other empty armor suits\n(Barry) had another person who had seen the truth affix them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEdward couldn't affix his mother's soul, because she was already long dead. It\nisn't made so obvious, but actually a few years pass between the mother's\ndeath, and then the boys training with Izumi, before they try and resurrect\nher. He was able to attach Al's soul to the armour because it was still\npresent, in the body of the creature they tried to transmute. The mother's\nsoul had long since departed, and couldn't be used in alchemy.\n\nWhen the mother died of her illness, we can assume Ed never considered putting\nher soul into another object, and even if he did he wouldn't have known how,\nand probably would not have had the alchemical skill to do so anyway.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause he didn't know how to at the time.\n\nWhen Ed and Al first tried to bring their mother back and Al was lost in the\n2003 series, when it shows him working to get Al's soul back, he says to\nhimself that he didn't have much time. Later, when someone (probably Winry or\none of Mustang's team) sees the seal on Al's armour and asks if it was blood,\nhe confirms it's his own blood because he didn't have a lot of time. This\nwould indicate that the soul's passing through the Gate needs to be recent, if\nit is to be bound to an object.\n\nSecondlly Ed would eventually learn that the seal is by no means a long term\nsolution\n\n> Although never mentioned in the 2003 anime there is an even greater danger;\n> if one's soul is bound to an inanimate object for too long, the soul and\n> object will eventually start to repel each other. The person will start to\n> experience moments of exhaustion, which cause that person's soul to\n> disappear from the object, as stated by Al, who compares his body to a time\n> bomb. This can lead to the complete destruction of the soul as it slips away\n> to The Gate. This makes the blood rune only a temporarily effective\n> technique.\n\nSource: [Blood Rune - Negative\nEffects](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Rune#Negative_effects)\n\nRemember that in the _Brotherhood_ series the time since Al was bound to his\nArmour is between 2-4 years. (There are 2 years between their attempt to bring\nback their mother and Ed going to Liore, and however long the series\nprogressed until Al compared himself to a time bomb, which I roughly guess to\nbe 2 years.) Thus, this would only give Trisha a couple more years to live.\n\nFinally even if Ed knew the process and accepted the limited time Trisha would\nhave as a soul bound to an object, a soul bound to a suit of armour is not\nwhat they wanted. They wanted their mother fully restored back to how she was.\nRemember that one reason for their search for the Philosopher's Stone was to\nrestore their bodies, and that Ed always said the first person to be restored\nwould be Al, even if Al gained some benefits as a soul bound to armour, which\nGreed (mistakenly) revealed.\n\n> A person whose soul is bound to an inanimate object feels no pain, hunger,\n> or fatigue, thus enabling them to perform immense physical feats. Also, as\n> the person has no body, he or she can sustain more damage than normal\n> humans, placing the person in a state of high invulnerability.\n\nSource: [Blood Rune - Positive\nEffects](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Rune#Positive_effects)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFew thoughts, that were not covered in existing answers.\n\nIt seems, that manipulating souls is actually not common knowledge in alchemy,\nsince it was not even practiced much. Aside of Alphonse, there were only two\nsubjects, whose souls were attached to objects, both created by scientists,\nthat were researching philosopher stone. Even if Ed and Al were able to\nrecover some knowledge of human transmutation, there was no way for them to\nlearn, how to manipulate human soul.\n\nTaking that into account, I'm pretty sure Edward didn't know how to attach\nsoul to object until the very moment they opened Gate of Truth. It was\nactually knowledge he received from Truth, same to his technique of\ntransmuting without circles.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlphonse soul never left the mortal world, it bounced into the creature they\nmade, then ed put it into the suit of armour from the dying body they\ntransmuted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm curious as to why Cross Game is named so. The \"cross\" appears in the anime\nin various forms:\n\n 1. Before the beginning of each episode, when the Tsukishima family advises the viewer to watch the anime in a well-lit room and from a distance, in the form of a cross between clover leaves:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PqqXd.gif)\n\n 2. In the opening song's video, again in the form of a cross between clover leaves:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fi6Bh.jpg)\n\n 3. In the advertisement interval of the episodes, much more prominently:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/suERP.jpg)\n\nHowever, does it have special significance in relation to the plot/story of\nthe anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know jack-all about _Cross Game_ , but I can tell you that the Japanese\ntitle (クロスゲーム _kurosu geemu_ ) is [baseball lingo for \"a close\ngame\"](http://www.sports-rule.com/baseball/words/ku.html) in the sense of \"a\ngame in which both teams are closely matched\". Obviously, this sense of\n_kurosu geemu_ is borrowed from English \"close game\".\n\nWhen altered to fit Japanese phonotactic constraints, both \"close\" /kloʊs/ and\n\"cross\" /kɹɔs/ end up as クロス _kurosu_. So, I guess, for whatever reason,\nAdachi seems to have chosen to make the English/romanized title \"Cross Game\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could also be symbolic, because the clover leaves look like four hearts\nsplit by a cross, so they could be symbolizing the love between the characters\nand the cross the division and also the connection between them. Most likely\nthat wasn't the intention when made, but it's an interesting and fitting idea.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nElizabeth Greenhough-Smith is the daughter of Julian Smith (i.e. Loser) and\nSophia Tyler.\n\nWho is \"Greenhough\", and why does Elizabeth have her name, rather than, say,\nher mother's?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHis full name isn't Julian Smith, it's Julian Tyler Smith, so I assume\nGreenhough is Sophia's maiden name.\n\nHis name tag reveals that he has Tyler on his name:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/57Iy9.jpg)\n\nI'm pretty sure his name was shown as \"Julian Tyler Smith\" at some point on\neither the manga or anime, but I can't remember when.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am guessing that the anime is ended by the way it looks on Crunchyroll's\nEpisode 73 - \"To The Future\" of World Trigger.\n\nIf anyone has seen the anime and read the manga, if the anime is indeed\ncancelled, where would i pick up the story in the Manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to BakaUpdates the anime starts at chapter 1 and ends at chapter 122\nof the manga.\n\n<https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=92323>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere is a pic:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AZb4C.jpg)\n\nI got this sword at the Facts convention in Belgium, and suspect it's from an\nanime, but I am not sure which one. Is there anyone who knows it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat should be [Uchiha Sasuke](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sasuke_Uchiha)'s\n[Sword of\nKusanagi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_of_Kusanagi_%28Sasuke_Uchiha%29),\nfrom the [Naruto series](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_%28series%29):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ptcMu.jpg)\n\nHowever, I'm not sure whether or not [the Uchiha\ncrest](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uchiha_Clan) is ever shown to be on the\nhilt of the sword in the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's safe to assume that [this\nproduct](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00C7A84JA) is what you've\npurchased.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2iwa.jpg)\n\nJNat was correct.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was reviewing Code Geass and a subject came to my mind, that I explain\nbelow.\n\n> In the ending is stated that Lelouch caused the world to hate him on\n> purpose, so it would not engage wars anymore, however, few people knowed\n> this directly (Suzaku, Jeremiah and CC), and is stated that some people\n> discovered Lelouch true intentions by his death. On my first view of the\n> anime, I thought that Nunnally and Kallen discovered the real intentions\n> behind Lelouch's plan, but now, seems to me that Tohdoh, Cornelia, Milly and\n> Kaguya as well found the true ambition of Lelouch.\n\nSo, was anyone else in on it? Am I correct in speculations?\n\n> Who really discovered why Lelouch had to die?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, there are more people involved in the Zero requiem. From\n<http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Zero_Requiem>:\n\n> Aside from Lelouch, Suzaku and C.C., several other key characters knew about\n> Zero Requiem, including Jeremiah Gottwald, Lloyd Asplund, Cécile Croomy,\n> Sayoko Shinozaki and Nina Einstein, while others such as Nunnally, Kallen,\n> Ohgi and Kaguya only realized it during and after his execution.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile watching ep. 9 of _Brotherhood_ , I noticed that when Winry came to\nCentral City railway station and started looking for someone, Izumi and her\nhusband were walking behind her:\n\nPicture from FMA brotherhood.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/21GW7m.png)\n\nAfter that I tried for this scene in the 2003 series, and in ep. 23 I have\nfound this scene where they were reading something at the Central railway\nstation:\n\nPicture from Anime FMA 2003\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R2zIWm.png)\n\nSo my question is: what might Izumi and her husband be doing there? Do they\nusually travel like this, or might there be any sort of work they had to do\nthere? Is it also possible that it is an error (like they didn't want to put\nthose characters there)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the tournament, when it is her turn to fight against the scythe demon,\nhe gives Kurumi a yellow round token she immediately links to Basara, and\nbegins to worry about him, to the point her fighting skill is impaired and she\nloses the duel.\n\nWhat is that token supposed to mean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCrocodile explained that he has trained his Logia to the point he can activate\nhis sand defense off of reflex. Can anyone tell me what chapter/sbs this is? I\ndon't remember and I need it for a video.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [God Eater's Entry in\nWikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Eater_\\(anime\\)):\n\n> God Eater (Anime) is an anime adaptation of the God Eater video game series.\n\nand in GodEater's Entry in\n[myanimelist.net](http://myanimelist.net/anime/27631/God_Eater)\n\n> Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan in the year 2071. The world has been mostly\n> destroyed by mysterious monsters known as the Aragami. An organization known\n> as Fenrir was made to exterminate Aragami using 'God Arcs', weapons made\n> from Aragami cells. Those who specialize in exterminating Aragami are known\n> as God Eaters. Their God Arcs originally could only keep a single form,\n> **however a new type has been discovered that can switch between gun and\n> blade form.** Since then, they have been classified new-types and the\n> previous as old-types.\n\nI have already Played the GE Burst in the PSP up until the last chapter which\nis 10. I've already watched the God Eater Prologue and I plan to watch God\nEater Anime. The anime is said to be based off the video Games.\n\nso does it follow the story of one of the videogames? (i.e. GE Burst)\n\nThe Cast consist of the same characters in the videogame except the New-type\nguy. however, this rather is similar in GEB which you will play as one of the\nnew-types in the game. Is God Eater a remake of the videoGame or does it\ntackle the same story in the videogame.\n\nWould it be a waste to watch the anime if I have already finished the game?\nCould you give me at least a short insight to what I can hope to watch in this\nanime without giving spoilers.\n\nThanks for your time :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw her crying hard after Whitebeard's death.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U0iSw.png)\n\nShe even tried to avenge his death. Given the fact that she encountered\nBlackbeard so soon after the war, it seems likely that she has grudge on him,\nas he was the man responsible for Whitebeard's death.\n\nWhat is her relationship to WhiteBeard?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nStill, it is not clear whether she is crying because of whitebeards death or\nAce death. But as per [this theory](http://opforum.net/threads/jewelry-\nbonneys-relation-with-ace.3762/) she is crying because of the Ace's death.\nAlso you can read [this.](http://www.marineford.com/Thread-One-Piece-Jewelry-\nBonney-Daughter-Of-Akainu-Half-Sister-Of-Ace)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn DBZ, Future Trunks was a Super Saiyan. In DBS, we see his evolution going\nup to SSJGSSJ. When he is prepared to go back in time to save the world from\nFrieza, is he still SSJ? He didn't seem to train enough to attain a new form.\nDoes he lack the potential to be SSJ2 or above that or he just stop training?\n\nWhat happened to him?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe one who appeared and killed Robo Frieza was from a different future in\nwhich the androids destroyed everything so the events of Super can never\nhappen to him.\n\nDuring the Cell Saga when Cell explains how he came from the future he states\nhe already \"disposed\" of Trunks to steal the Time-Machine. I also recall him\npointing out during the Cell Saga that altering the past won't change his own\nfuture or the future of the Z Warriors he was with, but will instead create an\nalternate timeline (I think it was after they found Dr. Gero's lab and Krillin\nsuggested that Trunks go back in time further and destroy it before the\nAndroids are activated)\n\nTo prove this, after Cell was discovered to be an \"Android\" created by Dr.\nGero, Krillin and Future Trunks went back to his lab and destroyed the Laval\nCell who was hidden there and it didn't cause the mature Cell they were\ncurrently fighting to disappear.\n\nAlso on the Wikia for Future Trunks\n\n> Future Trunks (未来のトランクス), referred to in the series simply as Trunks, is the\n> Saiyan and human hybrid son of Vegeta and Bulma from an alternate future. By\n> the time Present Trunks was born, the timeline had been altered by Future\n> Trunks' and Cell's trips to the past. Therefore, the two Trunks had\n> completely different lives (as opposed to those who lived before the Time\n> Machines arrived, they lived exactly the same lives as their counterparts\n> until the point at which the two timelines diverge: three years before the\n> androids arrived).\n\nSource: [Dragonball Wikia - Future\nTrunks](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Future_Trunks)\n\nSo Future Trunks (the one that killed Robo Freeza) probably didn't go beyond\nSuper Saiyan because Goku and Vegeta, who knew of the other levels, are dead\nand most of his time was spent fighting the Androids.\n\nThe Trunks seen in Super probably won't go back in time because there is no\nneed to. And anyway, if the planet is destroyed Beerus will just restore it so\nhe can keep getting desserts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEssentially, I want to know how long it normally takes for soundtracks to be\nreleased after an anime's release. Are the soundtracks always released?\n\nThe main reason I ask is because I want to know when we can expect **K: Return\nof Kings'** soundtrack to release. It came out in 2015, and I still haven't\nheard any news about its soundtrack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis doesn't answer your broader question, but [the _K: Return of Kings_\nsoundtrack](http://vgmdb.net/album/57125) is scheduled for [release on April\n27, 2016](http://www.animate-onlineshop.jp/pn/pd/1384318/).\n\n> Are the soundtracks always released?\n\nNot always, but I'd guesstimate that 80-90% of anime have soundtracks released\nat some point. Those that don't are mostly shows targeted at children, who are\nprobably not likely to buy soundtracks.\n\n> Essentially, I want to know how long it normally takes for soundtracks to be\n> released after an anime's release.\n\nThis can range anywhere from \"before the show is even done airing\" (e.g.\n[_Shokugeki no Soma_ 's first soundtrack album](http://vgmdb.net/album/52352))\nto \"not until season 2\" (e.g. [_Nisekoi_ 's first soundtrack\nalbum](http://vgmdb.net/album/52068)) to \"yeah, we were _going_ to release it\nsoon, but lolno too bad\" (e.g. [_Tokyo Ghoul_](http://vgmdb.net/album/46608)\n\\- granted, they did put out [an actual album](http://vgmdb.net/album/50263)\nhalf a year later).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome examples:\n\n * Absolute Duo took about a little less than 6 months\n * Fairy Tail Original Sound Collection 2 came in about 4 months after\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nToday a friend of mine proclaimed that around 70% of the world's cartoon\nanimation entertainment consists of anime. So according to his statement, for\nevery 3 non anime animation series, at least 7 anime series should exist.\n\nAfter looking through his proclaimed source\n[wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#Industry) I could only find\nout that about 70% of DVD sales are made by anime, which sounds reasonable,\nbut does not back up his 3 to 7 cartoon to anime series ratio at all.\n\nNow I know that anime is well-known, even around the world. But claiming that\naround 2/3 of all cartoon animation series is anime sounds a bit of an\noverkill to me.\n\nThis however made me wonder, what is the ratio of non anime cartoon series to\ncartoon series, or how much do anime series (roughly) make up of animation\nentertainment series overall?\n\nAlthough the first few animes were already observed as far back as\n[1907](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3409/1458), anime really launched\naround 1960 after/during Astro Boy, and as new series are made just about\neveryday for both anime and non-anime alike, I would propose a time limit of\n1960 till 2015.\n\n**TL;DR** What is the ratio of anime series versus non anime series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCounting by \"number of series\" is rather silly. It has its uses (e.g. it can\nhelp answer the question \"does Japan produce a wider variety of animated\ntelevision shows than the rest of the world?\"), but it is not a particularly\ngood metric for answering the question \"does Japan produce more animated\ntelevision shows than the rest of the world?\".\n\nAnyway, I deem this claim implausible. IMDB lists [1937 TV series tagged with\n\"Animation\" from the US from\n1960-2015](http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=us&genres=animation&release_date=1960-01-01,2015-12-31&title_type=tv_series).\nIt lists [2265 TV series with the same search terms from\nJapan](http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=jp&genres=animation&release_date=1960-01-01,2015-12-31&title_type=tv_series).\nWe get another [557 titles from\nFrance](http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=fr&genres=animation&release_date=1960-01-01,2015-12-31&title_type=tv_series);\n[171 from\nGermany](http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=de&genres=animation&release_date=1960-01-01,2015-12-31&title_type=tv_series);\nand so forth.\n\nWhile IMDB is probably systematically biased in favor of having more complete\ndata on US shows than Japanese shows, and also does some weird things like\nlisting [\"Kimba the White Lion\"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058817/) as a US\nshow, I do not think that the numbers we're looking at support the claim that\nJapan produces 70% of the world's animation by series count. (I would agree\nthat Japan probably does produce at least a plurality of the world's animation\nby series count, but series count is a lousy metric, so.)\n\nIncidentally, there's also a very nice [whitepaper by the\nMLIT](http://www.mlit.go.jp/kokudokeikaku/souhatu/h18seika/01anime/01_sousei_09honpen3.pdf)\nthat I happened upon that doesn't answer this exact question but otherwise has\nvery nice data about the anime industry.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs I remember during Fourth Shinobi war, when Ten-Tails attack the shinobi\nwith Biju-dama, Shikamaru had some idea to block it with some weak Earth\nRelease that create wall (I don't remember the name of this technique).\n\nSo he asked Ino to connect him with some Iwagakure shinobi, (also forgot his\nname) to teach all of them to use the technique. After the shinobi teaches\nthem how to perform the technique, all the shinobi use this technique to block\nthe Ten-Tail's Biju-dama.\n\n**But how were shinobi who never seemed to have Earth Release able to perform\nthis technique?** Just like Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji, who I've never seen use\nEarth Release technique before, were able to perform this Earth Release\ntechnique.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**How can people perform some Earth Release without having Earth Release as\ntheir chakra nature?**\n\nBecause Earth Chakra Affinity is not the requirement to do the earth release\ntechnique but it gives you edge if you have the respective Affinity.\n\nSo if paper test prove you to be have Affinity to Wind Release that doesn't\nmeans you can't do non wind released Jutsu.\n\nFrom\n[naruto.wikia.com](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_transformation#Affinity)\n\n> Shinobi have an easier time learning to create and control chakra natures\n> that match their affinity, although even then it may take any number of\n> years. Shinobi are not limited to the nature they have an affinity for, and\n> it is in fact common for jōnin to have mastered two natures. Although it is\n> technically possible to master all five natures, it is very rare because of\n> how much of training is involved; Madara Uchiha, Hiruzen Sarutobi Hashirama\n> Senju, Tobirama Senju, Mū, Kakashi Hatake, and Orochimaru are the only\n> shinobi known to have done so via normal means.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHigher level character can use more than two element, like first, second,\nthird hokage (Because they are the hokages). Uchiha clan people like Madara,\nItachi, Sasuke and also Kakashi sensei can use all element because of the\ncopying technique of the sharingan. Other people can also use more than two\nelement but not as good as their own nature element.\n\nFor example: using chakra to control or manipulate element is also ninjutsu\nsame like shadow clone jutsu. Sasuke can create max of 3 clone but Naruto can\ndo multi clone jutsu.\n\nIn a battle its a matter of life and death.so ninja try to use the weapon that\nthey are trained and mastered with..so only they use only two nature element\nin which they are strong in.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed that Crunchyroll appears in the end credits of Ojisan and\nMarshmallow:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mz3bW.jpg)\n\nWhy? Did Crunchyroll play some role in the production other than just\nstreaming the show?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI looked for the kanji on top : 海外協力 it means foreign/abroad\ncooperation/collaboration.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the most simplistic answer is that before the Anime production was to\nbe aired, the studio had tied up with the production houses Crunchyroll and\nbillibilli.\n\nOn 5th Jan, Anime News Network had the following article\n<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2016-01-05/ojisan-and-\nmarshmallow-credits-list-crunchyroll/.97209>\n\n> The official website for the television anime of Rekomaru Otoi's web manga\n> Ojisan and Marshmallow (Ojisan to Marshmallow) lists media distribution\n> service Crunchyroll and Chinese streaming site bilibili as being in charge\n> of foreign business for the project.\n\nThe next day, crunchyroll confirmed this news.\n<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2016-01-06/crunchyroll-confirms-\nojisan-and-marshmallow-anime-streaming/.97283>\n\nAs @NatG has noted, the Show credits CrunchyRoll and BilliBilli for Foreign\nCollaboration. This doesn't mean they have contributed to the show. It just\nprovides them most probably with exclusive rights for the show as well as the\nresponsibility of Marketing etc. in other countries. Such deals usually take\nplace after the anime has started or even finished airing in Japan for foreign\ncountries.\n\nThis step is inline with other Global Production houses which tie up with\nforeign media houses to increase their base. For Example, US TV Channels\ncollaborate with Indian Channels to air the show on the same day/next day\nbecause the market for such shows is increasing in India.\n\nSo this is just a move by the Production team to collaborate with other media\npartners to take the anime to a wider audience.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAn announcement came at the annual One Piece Super Stage Event last December\nthat promised to change all that. The staff and Sir Eiichiro Oda assured fans\nthat Sanji will return in 2016 with an origin story. Sanji's voice actor\nHiroaki Hirata will also return. But still nothing for Sanji he is still\nmissing.\n\nWhy this will be? Is it possible that he is a weak one amoung straw hats?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**TL;DR: Sanji is busy with other stuff, but the next big arc is about him.**\n\nIt is very simple why Sanji went missing.\n\nChapter 812:\n\n> Sanji is told, that he has to marry some chick and he has to leave the straw\n> hat pirates.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xinJy.png)\n\nChapter 814:\n\n> The crew gets a letter from Sanji, telling them that he has to meet with\n> that girl.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o5mAz.png)\n\nChapter 822:\n\n> The crew starts its journey to save Sanji.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVjJY.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter playing _Strider_ on PS3, and using Strider Hiryu across all _Marvel vs\nCapcom_ games, I have become aware that he, like most game characters, have\nmanga that delve into his past and life in his world outside the game.\n\nAre these manga considered canon? Or are the games the only canon materials?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, the _Strider Hiryu_ manga is canon.\n\nThe manga series was created by the artist group, Moto Kikaku, in\ncollaboration with Capcom. Since Capcom is credited with the game's creation,\nthe collaboration result with the creator is considered canon.\n\nThe manga was serialized from **May to October 1988** , while the first\nStrider Hiryu game, Strider (CPS-1) was released in **March 1989**. The manga\nserves as an _origins_ story of the lead character Hiryu.\n\nSource: [Strider Wikia](http://strider.wikia.com/wiki/Strider_Hiryu_\\(Manga\\))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan explain to me the fight between Sasuke and Naruto? Naruto had the nine-\ntails inside him and showed vigorous power, but how did Sasuke end up being so\nstrong? How did he turn into a bird-like thingy?\n\nMy overall question is: What monster is inside Sasuke that makes him this\npowerful? That isn't a tailed beast ... I guess?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHis overwhelming power stems from the [Cursed Seal of\nHeaven](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Cursed_Seal_of_Heaven) that Orochimaru\ninflicted on him. While we see the curse mark causes him pain, he is able to\nuse it to drastically increases his power.\n\nThe Naruto Wikia notes this:\n\n> Like all cursed seals, the user receives increased chakra levels and\n> physical capabilities when the seal is active, to the point where with the\n> second level, Sasuke was equal in power to Naruto's one-tailed form when he\n> first used it.\n\nThere is no monster inside of Sasuke, nor a tailed beast like the jinchuuriki.\nThe transformation is caused by activating the second level of the curse mark.\n\n> When Sasuke activated the second level of the seal, his skin turned dark-\n> grey and his hair grew and turned dark blue. His eyes also turned dark grey.\n> Additionally, he grew webbed-claw-shaped wings from his back which he could\n> use to fly and glide, and a dark, star-shaped mark appeared across the\n> bridge of his nose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause he seems like he could be either/or, or in between. Because his body\nturns into actual wax like a Logia type would turn into their element. So far\nas I have seen Luffy's body stretches like rubber but not actually turn into\nrubber.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMr.3(wax) is a Devil Fruit user classified as Paramecia because his body\ndoesn't become that substance but rather gives them an ability to create and\nmanipulate wax. So Mr.3's body doesn't actually turn into wax, he creates and\nmanipulates wax. He doesn't/can't become intangible like Logia users can\n\nI think the wiki will support it. And why would Mr3 need a wax Armor if he was\nintangible\n\nLuffy's Paramecia because he has a superhuman ability thats odd and again no\nintangibility\n\n> Luffy's body is completely rubber but he can't manipulate rubber (Yet!) \n> He can use gears because his body is that of rubber (Blood Vessels(2),\n> Bones(3), Muscles(4))\n\nAnother such user is seen in Impel Down Arc who has a fruit which may seem as\nLogia first but is in fact Paramecia\n\n> Magellan (Doku-Doku no Mi aka Venom Devil Fruit). He also can't become\n> intangible and Luffy can hit him without Haki. However, his poison can seep\n> through the skin when hit and poison Luffy. Luffy counters this by using\n> Mr.3's wax to go into CHAMPION mode :p (Almost as cool as Nightmare Luffy).\n\nEdit: From the wiki, Trivia\n\n> This fruit ( _About the Doku-Doku no Mi_ ) is often one of the few Paramecia\n> confused as a Logia-class Devil Fruit, because it seemingly produces an\n> \"element\". However, it is not a Logia because the user cannot transform into\n> the said element, but rather just control it. Despite this, in the anime,\n> Mr. 3 seems to literally melt due to the intense heat of Level 3 in Impel\n> Down, though it is probably intended as a comic effect to get across how\n> much Mr. 3 dislikes hotter environments.\n\nAs I said, Wiki basically says the same thing. Mr.3 is not intangible since he\nis not made of wax and thus not a logia.\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Doru_Doru_no_Mi>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Tokyo Ghoul: Root A_ , after the wing-type Kagune of Touka was devoured by\nher own brother, she was not seen to use it again.\n\nDid she become a human after that incident?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, she is still a ghoul.\n\nGhouls can regrow their Kagune sacs, which is exactly what they did to Rize.\nRize was kept restrained and bearly alive while they harvested her Kagune sacs\nand implanted them into dozens if not hundreds of humans, with only 3 known\nsuccesses including Kaneki. You may also recall The fact that Jason had his\nsac eaten by Kaneki, but (I do not recall if the anime showed this) he still\nattacked Juzo before his death at Juzo's hands. His Kagune and body were\nturned into Juzo's Scythe, named after its source, Jason.\n\nTouka is also shown to be still a ghoul in _Tokyo Ghoul:re_ , the sequel to\n_Tokyo Ghoul_. So, rather, she just rarely actually uses her Kagune. She\nusually avoids fighting, and being an S-rank Ukaku type, she rarely needs to\nactually use her wings.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've noticed that on Kill la Kill that Goku Uniforms can only be made from\n10%, 20%, and 30% life fibers. But later on, it is revealed that a Kamui is\nmade of 100% life fibers. That seems like a major gap to me. How come a\nuniform can't be made of 40%-90% life fibers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo characters we see can wear 40%-90% life fiber uniforms who cannot also wear\n100% life fiber uniforms.\n\nThe only people who can wear 100% life fibers are not 100% humans (they have\nlife fibers experimentally infused into their bodies). No pure humans have\nbeen shown to be able to wear more than a 3 star uniform.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, a normal person can not handle above 40% life fiber, even student\ncouncil had pre-training to wear them and they are also selected few to wear 3\nstar regalia (above 30% to 40% life fiber) from the entire school.\n\nWe can see what happened to people who wear 100% life fiber: it gives a huge\namount of strain to their bodies. Remember when wearing Junketsu or Senketsu,\nKiryuin Satsuki had to maintain great will power, discipline and great amount\nof physical strength. Even so, Kiryuin Satsuki can not gain the full benefit\nof Junketsu because she is just a human.\n\nSo in short, generally, normal humans can not wear 100% life fiber, but if you\nkeep on building up your physical and mental strength around long period of\ntime, you might have a chance to wear one. Still, you won't get to have full\npower set or full benefits of it due to inhuman strain on your body.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPeople with the D are often very influential.\n\nInfluential people we know off:\n\n * Gol D. Roger (Pirate King)\n * Portgas D. Ace (First Mate of Whitebeard Pirates)\n * Marshal D. Teach (Former Pirate, Pirate Hunter, Shichibukai)\n * Monkey D. Dragon (Leader of the rebels)\n * Monkey D. Garp (Vice Admiral of the Marines)\n * Monkey D. Luffy (Pirate, defeated multiple Shichibukai, broke into Enie's Lobby, broke out of Enie's Lobby, defeated CP9)\n * Trafalgar D. Water Law (Pirate, former member of the Quichotte family)\n * Portgas D. Rouge (mother of Portgas D. Ace, little is known)\n * Jaguar D. Saul (former Vice Admiral, helped saving Nico Robin)\n\nSo, many people the government hears of, that contain the D, often cause\ntrouble for it.\n\nLike starting a fight between the government and the pirates.\n\nOr letting hundreds of criminal organize themselves.\n\nOr starting an all out war against the government.\n\nAnd so on.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Alabasta arc when the crew was crossing the desert, Luffy, Zoro and\nChopper fell down a hole which led to a big dome-like structure. In the dome,\nthere was a huge stone with Poneglyphs written on it. None of them knew what\nit was much less its meaning. It was dismissed. What I'm wondering is if those\nPoneglyphs was important and whether or not it had some clues about the Void\nCentury?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you can see from this [list](http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/one-\npiece), episodes\n[101](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_101)-[102](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_102)\nwhich Luffy, Zoro and Chopper find the Poneglyph it's actually a [filler\nepisode](http://urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=filler).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n7AaG.png)\n\nSo this Poneglyph wasn't introduced in the manga, so that means that whatever\nwas wrote on it doesn't matter.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have one speculation.\n\nIn Alabasta, there are 2 Poneglyph. One was at the Tomb of the Kings and the\nother in the desert. Tomb of the Kings has the info about the location of\nPluton according to King Cobra, but if you re-watch and re-read the arc\nclosely, you will notice that Alabasta has two Palace. The current one and one\nwhich is destroyed due to age and the desert not being inhabitable (or some\nother cause).\n\nMy speculation is that the former Palace was surrounded by domes due to it\nbeing the former capital city. If I remember right, Alabasta was the only\ncountry that the King did not leave for Marijoise which is really suspicious.\nI'm guessing that the King was entrusted with one of the key Poneglyph that\ntell or is a part of the Rio Poneglyph. But since the world government we\ngoing on a hunting spree for any book or memory about the Void Century, the\nKing decided to move his capital city to its current position and leave the\nother Poneglyph in the desert where no one will find it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince the Poneglyph in the desert was a non-canon episode, there is no meaning\nin its existence.\n\nThere is only one Poneglyph in Alabasta that Cobra showed Robin. The capital\nwas moved because of the war and destruction. So, in the end, there is no\nconfusion, as according to the creator of _One Piece_ that is Oda, only one\nPoneglyph exists in Alabasta and the anime makers just did a filler to hype\nthings up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey might be Pluton as they say later in the show, because they didn't know\nwhat it is and they said that \"someone\" was trying to hide it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that this Poneglyph might contain some real information, not about\nweapons but about Void Century. Then someone from Wano must have made another\nPoneglyph as a decoy for Alabasta King after moving the capital while only one\nor two persons would have had the knowledge of the existence of that\nPoneglyph, making it hard for World Government to locate and destroy real\ntreasure and after some generation of the family, the secret must have lost.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis was actually addressed shortly after this episode came out by the anime\nteam, and I quote \"What was that Poneglyph in the cave where Zoro, Chopper,\nand Luffy fell into?\" Kōnosuke Uda \"How did that get there, Zoro's luck led\nhim to the Poneglyph that tells the history of Alabasta\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFunny thing is, when you put the writings in a Google Translator, it only\ntranslates one letter and it gives you \"machine\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _One Piece_ , it seems like little to no people knows what happened during\nthe Void Century.\n\nHow is this possible?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe World Government is heavily protective of whatever happened during the\nVoid Century, and actively seeks to keep people in the dark about it. They\nburned every book they could find that contained info on the subject, and\nkilled everyone they found who knew about it while preventing as much info\nfrom leaking as possible. The Ohara incident is a direct example of that; its\ninhabitants knew too much about the Void Century to be allowed to live.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are 2 factors that contributed to the fact that no one knows what\nheppened during the Void Century; Time and Effort.\n\nThe more important out of those two is Effort. Specifically, it's the Effort\nof the World Goverment. The WG has spent centuries hunting and killing anyone\nwho knows anything about what happened. Ohara is one example of this; it was\nburned to the ground in order to destroy whatever they knew.\n\nThe other part is Time. A full 800 year has passed, 800 years during which the\nWG has hunted/killed anyone who knows anything about the Void Century. It's\neasy to think that some people here and there would have kept the information,\npassing it down to their children to safeguard it, but think about the risks\nof doing so! If you knew that telling your kid about it would see them killed\nif the WG ever even suspected it, then wouldn't you at least consider keeping\nsilent to protect your children? Over the course of 800 years you have **a\nlot** of generations that had to face this question.\n\nI find it likely that there were scholars and \"old families\" that knew stuff\nabout the Void Century for several centuries following it. There were\ndefinitely people who knew stuff after 100 years had passed, most likely after\n200 years, probably after 300 years, but after 400 years it'd probably gotten\nrather rare and we're still only halfway to \"current time\" in One Piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Tokyo Ghoul, Jason claimed, while torturing Kaneki, that a ghoul's skin can\nnot be pierced by any ordinary metal. If so, then:\n\n 1. How could Rei wound Kurona and Nashiro by knives?\n 2. Why don't the Doves use ordinary rifles and swords instead of Kagune to attack ghouls?\n\nThese instances are **contradictory** and **paradoxical**. Please give an\nexplanation which makes all these instances reasonable.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know the programming and computer references present in Steins;Gate.\n\nFor example, I noticed the SQL database is referenced.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UpQ0C.jpg)\n\nSQL is mentioned, as the question suggests. They even used company and\ntrademarked names:\n\n> MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, SQLite, Access, ANSI\n\nOf particular interest is the fact that Oracle, the company that owns Java, is\npresent. It's rare to find original trademarks in anime.\n\nA book for \"Goodle Endroid\", a clear reference to Google Android, can also be\nseen:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lu6kV.jpg)\n\nA book on SSH, the protocol used for remote administration, is shown, as well\nas a book that mentions Unicode, JIS (essentially the Japanese equivalent of\nASCII), Java, Ruby 1.8/1.9, and Windows:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/24sfL.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAside from what's mentioned in Wally's answer, following programming and\ncomputer-related items appear:\n\nIBN 5100, a clear expy of IBM 5100 that was featured in the original John\nTitor forum posts: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0hVhp.jpg)\n\n@chanel textboard, very likely a reference to real-life 2channel: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YtO37.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the company that they were fighting against,'SERN', is an obvious\nreference to the company CERN. SERN is known to operate the largest particle\nphysics laboratory in the world, the same goes for the real CERN.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KOejV.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Code Geass, particularly in the original Japanese version, we can see there\nwas something like a product placement exchanged (as shown in [this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4259/1587)) between the series and\nPizza Hut.\n\n\n\n\nLater in the series, C.C. starts having stickers and a giant plush of what\nappears to be Pizza Hut's mascot, named Cheese-kun.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HKwYU.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/di4fs.jpg)\n\nNow, back when Code Geass first appeared in the west, I did not notice Pizza\nHut having anything like Cheese-kun in Australia, but then again it appears\nthere was an attempt to remove Pizza Hut references from the series when it\nwas localized in the west.\n\nSo I am wondering, does Cheese-kun exist in Japan? If so, did it exist before\nor after Code Geass? Who created it, the author of Code Geass or Pizza Hut?\nAnd does it still represent Pizza Hut now?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNear the climax of the movie, the grandmaster gives up his right to\nreincarnate to Kumatetsu. This right allows Kumatetsu to be reborn as a God.\nLater, we see that the grandmaster can no longer reincarnate into the god of\ndecisiveness as he had finally chosen earlier.\n\nI originally thought that all you had to do to reincarnate was become the\ngrandmaster, but that would make becoming a god too easy. As you could keep\nthe line moving pretty quickly if everyone became a god as soon as they became\ngrandmaster.\n\nSo it brings up the question: once you become a grandmaster, what must you do\nto earn the right to reincarnate as a god?\n\n",
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