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"body": "\n\nMioko (voiced by Kana Hanazawa) uses some kind of unusual speech pattern which\nthe subtitles translate into vaguely US Southern dialectal English:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dy6E3m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RGtBTm.jpg)\n\nSpecifically, I can hear her using _ora_ to refer to herself and ending her\nsentences with _de gasu_ instead of _desu_.\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pronouns) says _ora_ is an\ninformal pronoun with rural connotations, and [this Google Books\nresult](https://books.google.com/books?id=-3kBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=japanese+de+gasu&source=bl&ots=abdOz6W0KP&sig=GwbxhTaltjTLAQotu5mYzg0D8lk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw6YSIvYLMAhUYzmMKHZyrDHsQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&q=japanese%20de%20gasu&f=false)\nsays _de gasu_ is a contraction of _de gozarimasu_ , a very polite form of _de\naru_.\n\nYou can hear it for yourself in [Episode 7](http://www.crunchyroll.com/ojisan-\nand-marshmallow/episode-7-mioko-and-marshmallow-692327) starting around 24\nseconds in.\n\nIs Mioko's accent a specific regional accent, or is it just one of those made\nup bizarre speech patterns that anime specializes in?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe dreaded TV Tropes has some pretty [good notes on Japanese\ndialects](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects).\nThe use of _ora_ instead of _ore_ and being used by women in particular is an\nelement of the Tohoku dialect. It also compares the dialect to US English\n'hillbilly' accents, which matches with the subtitling.\n\nIt does not list the use of _de gasu_ in place of _desu_ , but the notes are\nhardly comprehensive. Or it could be a personal thing for Mio5.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to know how large the anime and manga industry is in each\ncountry. I think US, Japan, and China are the three largest country for anime\nand manga, but want to know how big they are with the approximated figures.\n\nI searched for it but couldn't get to it. Can I know maybe the top 10\nrankings?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Episode 10 - Crimson Killing Intent_ it is revealed that Kuradeel is a\nmember of Laughing Coffin.\n\nIn _Episode 8 - The Sword Dance of Black and White_ during Kuradeel's and\nKirito's Duel there was a member of Laughing Coffin in the crowd watching the\nthe fight.\n\nI am wondering if Kuradeel joined Laughing Coffin before or after this Duel.\nif it was after was there any other reason for him to join aside from him\nwanting to get back at Kirito?\n\nIf it was before what purpose was there to have a member of Laughing Coffin\ninside the Knights of the Blood Oath?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Noragami, somethings are still not clear to me. Bishamon was first\nintroduced as a god of war. In fact, Yato said that she was the mightiest god\nof war. But in the second season, she is said to be one of the seven gods of\nfortune.\n\nThe question is what exactly is Bishamon a god of. Is it common for gods to be\nfor two entirely different things?\n\nSame goes for Yato. He was said to be a god of war and also a god of calamity.\nAnd why is there a need of two gods of war if Yato is a god of war?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nhe's both, kinda. on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishamon) it\nsays\n\n> **Bishamon** is the Japanese name for Vaiśravaṇa, a Buddhist deity.\n\nfollowing the link for\n[Vaiśravaṇa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai%C5%9Brava%E1%B9%87a#In_Japan)\nand looking at the In Japan section it says\n\n> In Japan, Bishamonten (毘沙門天), or just Bishamon (毘沙門) is thought of as an\n> armor-clad god of war or warriors and a punisher of evildoers. Bishamon is\n> portrayed holding a spear in one hand and a small pagoda in the other hand,\n> the latter symbolizing the divine treasure house, whose contents he both\n> guards and gives away. In Japanese folklore, he is one of the Seven Lucky\n> Gods.\n\nthe reason why i say kinda is because wikipedia says Bishamon is the god of\nwar _or_ warriors, however another site says he is a god of warriors but not\nof war\n\n> Bishamon is the god of warriors (but not of war) and prayed to for victory\n> prior to battle. He is also a god of defense against foreign invaders, a\n> deity of healing with the power to save emperors from life-threatening\n> illness and to expel demons of plague (details below), to keep personal\n> enemies at bay, and to reward followers with riches, good fortune, and even\n> children. Around the 15th century, he was enlisted as one of Japan's Seven\n> Lucky Gods owing to his association with treasure and wealth.\n\nSource: [Overview (Second\nParagraphg)](http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/bishamonten.shtml)\n\nso technically he is a god of warriors but since the definition of a warrior\nis\n\n> a brave or experienced soldier or fighter.\n\nand are soldiers are generally used for wars it's probably common for people\nto think that a god of warriors is a god of war as well\n\nthe above quote also indicates he's one of the 7 lucky gods because of his\nassociation with treasure.\n\nit's not unheard of for gods to be associated with more than one thing, for\ninstance [Amaterasu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaterasu) is seen as the\ngoddess of the sun, but also of the universe and [Ame-no-Uzume-no-\nMikoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto) is the goddess\nof dawn, mirth and revelry.\n\ni don't know much about Buddhism so i'm not sure about their deities but it's\npossible some could be associated with more than one thing since some of the\nkami in Shintoism are like Bishamon and are also Buddhist Deities.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**In short:**\n\n * Bishamon is both, the **God of War** and the **God of Fortune**.\n\n * Yato is not only given the title of the **God of War** and the **God of Calamity** , but is also a self-proclaimed Delivery God. Besides these:\n\n> • In Chapter 40, Fujisaki Kouto revealed that Yato is a \" **God of\n> Depravity** ,\" meaning that Yato only knows how to steal and not to give,\n> and that those people around him will suffer terribly. \n> • He has also decided to become a **God of Fortune**\n> now.[Source](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Yato)\n\n* * *\n\n**In detail:**\n\nFirstly, a God of Fortune is the title given to a God who brings good luck or\nuses his/her special abilities/powers to guard or enhance one's everyday life,\nand is, for the most part, not directly related to their powers (so as to say,\nthey do not cast a spell which causes good fortune to come to someone).\n\nNeither is one \"born\" a God of Fortune, or if one is, he/she may be stripped\nof the title should they bring dishonor to their kind (Similarly, other Gods\ncan also be given the title of the God of Fortune.\n\nAs mentioned on the\n[Wikia](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Seven_Gods_of_Fortune):\n\n> The Seven Gods of Fortune (七福神 Shichi Fukujin), commonly referred to in\n> English as the Seven Lucky Gods, are the seven gods of good fortune in\n> Japanese mythology and folklore.\n>\n> They are some of the most widely worshipped, prayed to and wished upon\n> Japanese gods in modern times, with figurines or masks of them being\n> especially commonplace in small businesses.\n\nLike for Kofuku, it's almost impossible (if not completely impossible) for her\nto become a \"God of Fortune\", given that she is the Goddess of Poverty.\n\n> As the Goddess of Poverty, Kofuku has always been hated and scorned. She was\n> never allowed to own her own Shinki, possibly since it would augment her\n> powers of disaster and create further destruction and\n> chaos.[Source](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Kofuku)\n\n* * *\n\nSecondly, a God doesn't have any \"occupation\". They are given the title based\non their powers and how they use it. For example, Yato is technically only a\nGod of War. The other titles were given to him based on how he used them. In\nthe past, he used to be merciless and cruel, using his powers to kill other\nGods in the battle, giving him the title of \"God of Calamity\".\n\nSimilarly, there is no reason why a God cannot be given two or more titles.\nThis trait can be seen in real-life Gods and Goddesses as well. For instance:\n\n> Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge,\n> music, arts, wisdom and learning.\n> [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraswati)\n>\n> Parvati (IAST: Pārvatī) is the Hindu goddess of fertility, love and\n> devotion; as well as of divine strength and power.\n> [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati)\n\nThese are just two among many Gods and Goddesses who are believed to have more\nthan one power for themselves.\n\nI do not know much about Buddhism, however since the Gods of Fortune are based\non real-life counterparts, of which you can read in detail\n[here](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Seven_Gods_of_Fortune), it is not at all\nfar-fetched for the Gods to wield more than one power or for more than two, or\neven ten Gods to share the same title. Even if their Buddhist counterparts in\nreal life wield only one power or even none, the concept of the Gods having\nmore than one title is nothing new.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust in latest episode of One piece (Episode 736). There was one scene which\nshows that Kidd/Hawkins/Apoo alliance are planning to take down Shanks.\n\nSo my question is, Why Shanks? I mean there has to be some sort of reason\nbehind this. Why didn't they choose someone else. What's the main reason\nbehind this?\n\nNote: I follow Anime rather than Manga\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason why they target him hasn't been revealed yet, so only assumptions\ncan be made so far. Mine is that they don't have any specific reason to do so\nin-universe, as all Emperors seem to be roughly equal in strength (Or if they\naren't, there is nothing yet that can reasonably show us who is stronger and\nwho is weaker) and their target just happened to be the only Emperor who isn't\nantagonistic towards Luffy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JUAM0.jpg)\n\nCredits for the image goes to Saji D Ahsan\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we can see Blackbeard who killed WhiteBeard and even get his Devil Fruit ,\nKaido who is a known Pirate who have a Devil-Fruit Army and Big Mom who have a\nlarge army and Island under his name. Considering the power of Kid Alliance it\nis impossible for them to take down this Emperors unlike Shanks who is a non\nDevil Fruit user (as of now) would likely be their target.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know the suspense build-up song being played at the end of episode\n20 when the military enters the courtroom? Thanks!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is called \"HYPNOTIK\" by Ken Arai.\n\nYou can listen to the song [here on\nYouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUwGFVeN04). In addition to being\nplayed at the end of episode 20, it's also played throughout the show in other\nepisodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter a long time of hard work, most ninja get a second Nature element. While\nNaruto's first one is wind, I don't recall his second one being mentioned.\n\nWhat was Naruto's second nature ability?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto's natural affinity is **Wind Release** , which he learned from _Asuma\nSarutobi_ to flow into his weapons to increase their offensive might.\n\nVia _Six Paths Sage Mode_ , Naruto can utilize all **Five Nature\nTransformations** , as well as **Yin–Yang Release**. He can make perfect use\nof the latter to revitalise life-forces, heal whomever he touches, and even\nrestore missing organs. This ability, however, has its limits as he was unable\nto fully restore _Might Guy's_ leg after his use of _Night Guy_ , or save\n_Obito Uchiha_ from _Kaguya's_ _All-Killing Ash Bones_.\n\nWith chakra from the _Tailed Beasts_ , Naruto can also use _Kekkei Genkai_\nsuch as the **Magnet Release** , **Lava Release** , and **Boil Release** from\n_Shukaku_ , _Son Gokū_ , and _Kokuō_ , respectively. \n \n\n**TOP-LEFT** : **[Sage Art: Magnet Release\nRasengan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Art:_Magnet_Release_Rasengan)** \n**LOWER-LEFT** : **[Sage Art: Lava Release\nRasenshuriken](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Art:_Lava_Release_Rasenshuriken)** \n**RIGHT** : **[Boil Release: Unrivalled\nStrength](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Boil_Release:_Unrivalled_Strength)** (\n_Naruto uses in Manga only as of 4/11/2016_ ) \n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEvery ninja has at least two elements; Kekkei Genkai and Tota excluded as\nthose have elements that combine to make a release form.\n\nNaruto's second element while training with Yamato and Kakashi before learning\nsage mode, my guess would be water. Water beats Fire, wind beats lightning\nwhich is why in their clash on the rooftop the Rasengan did more damage than\nthe Chidori, putting aside the fact the Chidori was meant to be a one-hit kill\nas lightning enhances your speed and striking power while wind enables you to\ncut better as with Asuma's knives cloaked in wind chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that Rasengan is a wind technic. To learn Rasenshuriken, Naruto has\nto focus on life energy.\n\nSo I believe there are two basic elements; one which Sasuke hiers the eyes\nwhich includes lightning and fire techniques, and Naruto's which is the body.\nHe has more control over his physical strength, but if Naruto's second ability\nwould be anything, it would be the life energy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, the Kurama is inside of Naruto, and Kurama's chakra natures are Wind and\nFire, so I guess it would be fire.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring his time of Obito being with Madara, the White Zetsus told him that Rin\nand \"Stupid Kakashi\" were in trouble. Obito hurried as fast as he could to get\nto where Kakashi and Rin where. Once he got there, he saw that Rin was already\ndead and that Kakashi was the one who killed her. At the same time, Kakashi\nand Obito awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan which made Kakashi faint and Obito\njust sad/mad. Obito got so mad he went on a rampage. He killed all the other\npeople that were around Kakashi and Rin. Once he finished, he went to Rin and\nhugged her. After that, he looked back to see Kakashi who was on the floor.\n\nAt that time, Obito had a huge chance of killing Kakashi, but for some reason,\nhe did not want to kill the person who took the love of his life away from\nhim.\n\nWhy did Obito spare Kakashi? Why didn't he kill him instead? Did he just feel\nbad for killing someone who was defenseless, or because he was going to feel\nbad for killing his old friend? Is there another reason for this, or is there\njust none?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor Obito, Kakashi was a victim just as Rin was. He didn't blame Kakashi for\nkilling Rin but rather for \"letting her die\" and not being able to keep his\npromise. He was aware of the fact Rin had the 3-Tails inside her and chose to\ndie by Kakashi's hand.\n\nHence, he never resented Kakashi himself but rather the world that created\nthis situation and forced Rin to commit suicide.\n\nIn chapter 600 of _Naruto_ , Kakashi asks Obito if he blames him:\n\n> Kakashi: Aren't you going to blame me?\n>\n> Obito: With this insignificant reality, what good will blaming you do?\n>\n> Obito: I hold no interest in the affairs of this world that's about to\n> disappear.\n>\n> \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot of people don't know why Obito didn't choose to kill Kakashi when he had\nthe chance. Obito chose not to kill Kakashi because they had been lifelong\nfriends.\n\nBefore that, Obito knew about Rin having the three tails placed in her, and he\ncouldn't bring himself to doing it. When Kakashi \"killed\" Rin, Obito and\nKakashi developed their Mangekyou Sharingan. As Kakashi fainted on the ground\nbecause of it, Obito got mad and killed all of the mist ninjas around.\n\nI believe he didn't kill Kakashi because he knew he was defenseless.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot of the RWBY characters are based on or made similar to popular storybook\ncharacters. eg:\n\n * Ruby Rose - Red Riding Hood\n * Weiss Schnee - Snow White\n * Cinder Fall & Salem - Cinderella & her Fairy God Mother\n * Sun - from Journey to the West.\n\nAre there any other characters that were based on other stories?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This isn't a perfect\nanswer](http://rozalynpaige.tumblr.com/post/96151576797/who-rwby-characters-\nallude-toare-based-on) but most of these seem fairly accurate.\n\n> Basically, for some reason, I thought it’d be fun to list the current known\n> characters/stories that characters are based on thus far. So, yay?\n>\n> First of all, before the break, just gonna point out…\n>\n> Neo: Not the Cheshire Cat. That’s all I know. Not the Cheshire Cat, but\n> apparently someone else might be Cheshire.\n>\n> Team RWBY’s theme is fairy tales.\n>\n> Ruby Rose: Little Red Riding Hood\n>\n> Weiss Schnee: Snow White\n>\n> Blake Belladonna: Belle/beauty, of Beauty and the Beast\n>\n> Yang Xiao Long: Goldilocks\n>\n> Team JNPR’s theme is people who dressed as the opposite sex.\n>\n> Jaune Arc: Joan of Arc\n>\n> Nora Valkyrie: Thor (Apparently once crossdressed to get Mjolnir back.)\n>\n> Pyrrha Nikos: Achilles (Apparently once crossdressed as a red-haired woman\n> named Pyrrha. Pyrrha Nikos has been noted in volume 2 to be nicknamed The\n> Invincible Girl.)\n>\n> Lie Ren: Mulan\n>\n> Onto other peeps.\n>\n> Cardin Winchester: Henry Beaufort, the Cardinal of Winchester, who was\n> responsible for Joan of Arc being burned at the stake.\n>\n> Velvet Scarlatina: The Velveteen Rabbit\n>\n> Ozpin: Oz, from the Wizard of Oz (duh?)\n>\n> Glynda Goodwitch: Glenda the Good Witch, from Wizard of Oz (duh??)\n>\n> Ironwood: Tin Man, from Wizard of Oz (Apparently?!)\n>\n> Penny: Pinocchio\n>\n> Peter Port: Peter, from Peter and the Wolf\n>\n> Bartholomew Oobleck: Bartholomew, from Bartholomew and the Oobleck\n>\n> Adam Taurus: Probably Beast, from Beauty and the Beast\n>\n> The White Fang: White Fang, from… White Fang, by Jack London\n>\n> Cinder Fall: Cinderella (Confirmed by Miles and Kerry)\n>\n> Roman Torchwick: Lampwick/Candlewick, from Pinocchio\n>\n> Mercury Black: Mercury/Hermes (note his symbol is a shoe with a wing on it)\n>\n> Sun Wukong: Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West\n>\n> Neptune: Neptune/Poseidon\n>\n> Junior (Hei Xiong): Baby bear, from the tale of Goldilocks (His name\n> literally means Black Bear)\n>\n> (Bonus: Characters who we don’t know the basis of but have some ideas)\n>\n> Emerald Sustrai: Maybe Aladdin or Cleopatra\n>\n> Summer Rose: The poem The Last Rose of Summer\n>\n> Winter Schnee: Perhaps the Snow Queen (on which Frozen is based)\n>\n> Fox: Tod the fox from The Fox and the Hound, or Inari the fox god\n>\n> Qrow: Scarecrow, from The Wizard of Oz\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn reply to Chrono D:\n\nActually, Qrow and Raven Branwen are based off of Odin's twin Ravens, Hugin\nand Munin. Scarecrow will most likely be the Vacuo headmaster, as Lionheart,\nthe Minstral headmaster, was based off the Cowardly Lion.\n\nThere's also a theory that team RWBY double as versions of Dorothy and her\ncompanions as well (weiss as the tin man, blake as the cowardly lion, and yang\nas the scarecrow). The difference is the headmaster's weve seen so far were\nthem without what they searched for, while weiss blake and yang have found\ntheir heart, courage, and brains by journeying with Ruby. The headmasters\nlikely had no \"Dorothy\" to help them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf someone eats a devil fruit, they can get some power depending on the fruit\nthat they eat. The side effect for eating this fruit is that the user cannot\nswim.\n\nHow about the artificial devil fruits that are made by Dr. Vegapunk? Is it the\ncase that people that eat artificial devil fruits also can't swim and are\nweakened by the sea?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes they cannot swim!\n\nThis fruit grants the general weaknesses a natural Devil Fruit would, as shown\nwhen Momonosuke could not swim.\n\nYou can find it on the Wikia:\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Devil_Fruit>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, artificial devil fruit users suffer from the same weakness has the\n\"natural\" devil fruit counterparts: they cannot swim. This was shown in\nChapter 795, page 6:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZitMg.jpg)\n\nI would like to add something in response to Namikaze Sheena's comment. First\nof all, to be precise, it is not that devil fruit users cannot swim, but\nrather they become **powerless** when their body is submerged in water. As a\nconsequence, they cannot swim or even move at all.\n\nNow, if Vegapunk were to feed a devil fruit to a boat, I think (this is pure\nspeculation) it would not sink: the boat floats because wood is lighter than\nwater, which is a physical property that it would keep even on top of water.\nIt would lose strength, but maybe not completely as we have previously seen\nLuffy retain control of his body if only a fraction of it is submerged (e.g.\non their way to fishman island, Chapter 605, page 11).\n\n**EDIT:**\n\nOn the above picture, we can somewhat see Brook and Momosuke (in dragon's\nform) drowning. Here is a picture of Momosuke is his Zoan form:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7He0p.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome people say he is Shen Yen, but how? They don't look alike at all, and\nShen Yen should have been dead by then. So, who is this boy?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnX30.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe boy is Wei Shan, Kong Que's son who we have all forgotten about.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zWpvt.jpg)\n\nHe is said to be the next Shen Yen for two reasons:\n\n 1. He is a firm believer of Shen Yen's ideals. Also, he has a crystal clenched in his fist and a pair of eyes burning for revenge in the last pages.\n 2. The five white marks above his eyes, likely the source of power for the five different rays of light possessed by [Kong Xuan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong_Xuan) (whom Wei Shan is modeled after), look oddly like Shen Yen's eyes.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LnNCo.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1(5:15) Itami hits his head and while on the floor he sees the 3\ngirls he is going to hang out with in the future. But how does he see that? Is\nit something the Rory did, or Lelei or Tuka? Or is it something else?\n\n<https://youtu.be/_ZMVaU89xLQ>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is not known if he really saw them or if it was a flash shown only to the\nviewers. Itami never acted on these visions, not did he mention them or even\nshowed any _deja vu_ towards the girls.\n\nMy bet is on the **something else** hypothesis:\n\n1:\n\n> The gate main function is to bring different species into the special\n> region. It is revealed when they visit the wizard's cities, and the grand\n> master delivers her report to Ruri.\n\n2: There are gods in the world of Gate, and several of them are very powerful.\nRori is a (probably old) demigod, you can put the gods' powers a level of\nmagnitude above Rori's.\n\nFrom 1) and 2), we can speculate that:\n\n> some deity linked the gate to Japan, for some undisclosed purpose. That same\n> deity could have sensed Itami and sent these visions to him, to guide his\n> path.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am just wondering, what is migi made of i just was watching parasyte and was\nwondering.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Parasytes are alien organisms, made of alien cells that have similar\nbiochemistry to ours (they feed off of our food - or us).\n\nThese cells have several properties (powers if you may):\n\n * All of them work as brain cells. The intellect of a parasyte is varied, but directly proportional to its size. It is shown when Migi divides, the divisions are dumber. \n * All cells can differentiate freely. They can work as muscles, elongate and become hair, stiffen and harden as much as metal, work as sensory organs, etc. This is the source of the morphing power of parasytes.\n * Generate telepathic/empathic signals. Parasytes can communicate empathically with one another, by sending signals. When previously agreed on, they can coordinate actions to great efficiency.\n * Information transfer \n * > Gotou gestalt of parasytes can freely transmit information from one another, including granting control of one's own body to another parasyte. Migi \"downloaded\" several parasyte-bytes of information while in Gotou's collective, and thinking on that information is one of the reasons he went into final hybernation.\n\nParasyte cells also have several weaknesses:\n\n * Do not reproduce: parasyte cells cannot reproduce (mitosis). This makes the size of parasytes fixed and limited. Any permanent damage permanently reduces the size of the creature, with some side effects, as\n\n * > Migi's hibernation after he used part of his cells to heal the chest wound Shinichi receives from the Parasyte that killed his mother.\n\n * > Chemical vulnerability: Parasytes do not have the same immunities granted by specialized cells such as lymphocytes and chemicals like antibodies, and their chemistry is rather simplistic. This makes them vulnerable to several chemicals and pollutants. \n\n * > This is what caused Gotou's death, infection from a rusted metal object + pollutants.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe can use it to hurt people sometimes but, conveniently it doesn't hurt\npeople when he does it on accident. Do they explain how this works at all?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn ep. 2 of season 3 of _Sailor Moon Crystal_ , Mamoru says that the amusement\npark Chibi-Usa is going to is in Sankakusu, which is on reclaimed land. Later,\nArtemis tells Luna that there are three reclaimed sites that comprise\nSankakusu: Tenohzu, Kaiohzu, and Meiohzu.\n\nIt struck me that the romanised forms of these three sites can be produced by\nappending \"-zu\" to each of the surnames of the Outer Senshi (excluding\nSaturn). (The civilian names of the Guardians concerned are Haruka _Tenoh_ ,\nMichiru _Kaioh_ , and Setsuna _Meioh_.) After some experimenting with\nromanization schemes (`tenohzu`, which is the official romanisation, does not\nproduce useful search results, but `tenouzu` produced a lead) and running some\nsearches, I found\n[someone](https://web.archive.org/web/20160413011900/http://galaxycosmos.tumblr.com/post/49479674510/christianity-\nin-sailor-moons-infinity-arc) who claims that these three sites have the kanji\n天王洲, 海王洲, and 冥王洲 respectively. In each case, the first two characters\ncorrespond to the surnames of the Senshi that I named earlier.\n\n**Is there any in-universe reason for this correspondence between the names of\nthe sites and these Senshi's surnames?** (I might shrug away \"Kaiohzu Park\",\nwhich appears in ep. 7 of _Sailor Moon S_ as a one-off coincidence, but it\nwould be unlikely if _all_ three names matched up by chance.)\n\n * It makes sense that Haruka and Michiru have helicopters that are named Tenohmaru and Kaiohmaru, _since they own these helicopters_ , but it seems doubtful that they would have plots of land named after them.\n\n * Perhaps their identities are completely made-up, and the surnames came _after_ the sites were named? (Perhaps they chose their new identities based on the names of the sites?) However, at least in _Sailor Moon S_ , the identity \"Haruka Tenoh\" seems to have existed even before Haruka became Sailor Uranus (per the characterisation in the flashback of ep. 17 of _Sailor Moon S_ ), even if it makes sense that Sailor Pluto would need a new identity (not being from the present).\n\nAs an aside, with slight spoilers for _Sailor Moon S_ :\n\n> It makes sense that Saturn is excluded. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto\n> consistently work together in _Sailor Moon S_ , whereas Saturn only appears\n> towards the end of that season. I imagine that this might also be the case\n> in the manga and _SMC_. Moreover, it's clear that at least Saturn has a\n> real-life identity that has not been falsified.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Chimera Ant Arc, Reina and Brovada return home and Brovada says he did\nit for a favor. What was the favor and who did he do it for?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIkalgo (the octopus) had a chance to kill him when they were beneath the\npalace, but couldn't bring himself to do it. It was never clear if they\nactually had this discussion but I'm guessing bringing Reina home was\nreturning the favor for not killing him. That's what the flash back showed as\nhe said he returned the favor, too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Yuru Yuri San Hai! episode 6, there was power outage. Later, the building\nwhere Yui lives was shown.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yFaFd.jpg)\n\nWhich makes me think that (based on the center of the picture), Yui's room is\nthe one on top right corner with the lights on. However, later on it was shown\nlike this.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OUAtc.jpg)\n\nWhich one is Yui's room?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the movie _Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova Cadenza_ , at 38:30 mark, Iona\ngot attracted to a pendant in shop.\n\n\n\n... which lead to another event where Iona met Musashi.\n\n\n\nI, myself, feel that these events are so connected. Going to town, the\npendant, Musashi. However, I have no clue why.\n\nCould anyone provide me with solid argument and evidence?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fairy Tail, the anime, do you have to be born a wizard in order to learn to\nsummon and wield magic? Or is summoning and wielding magic energy something\nanyone has the potential to do if they choose to learn how?\n\nIt states that people use it for everyday life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, you have to be born with the ability, although there seem to be a few\nexceptions thanks to Lacrima infusions with the body.\n\nFrom the [Fairy Tail Wikia](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Magic)\n\n> Every Mage has a container inside their body that determines the limits of\n> their Magic Power. In the case that it becomes empty, Ethernano comes from\n> the atmosphere and enters the Mages' body and, after a while, their Magic\n> Power is returned to normal.\n\nWhether you realize you have the magic within you is a different story. You\nmay be magical and not know until you tap into it, such as in the Tower of\nHeaven arc where many characters realized their magical abilities (Erza,\nMilliana etc). Similarly, mages can also realize their Second Origin to\nincrease their power further, but it must already exist within themselves.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt says that Training and Competence is needed.\n\n`The competence of a mage defines if they can use a magic or not`.\n\nthis manga excerpt somehow explains this.\n\nIn fairy Tail Volume 28 chapter 233,\n\n> \" _Those who are atuned to the flow of magic can process and use any magic\n> in existence._ \"\n\n[Fairy Tail's Plot entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Tail#Plot) in\nWikipedia says that:\n\n> The fictional world of Earth-land is populated by wizards who coalesce into\n> guilds to hone their magical abilities and apply them to paid job requests.\n\nHowever this might be due to the status of Wizards in the Land, as we can also\nsee townspeople who **can't** or maybe **doesn't use magic**\n\nAccording to FairyTail Wikia: <http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Mage>\n\n> Mages (Madōshi), also known as Wizards, are individuals who can wield Magic\n> of any kind.\n>\n> Mages are wielders of Magic, using their Magic Power to cast spells and\n> employ magical objects. **They comprise only 10%** of the living population\n> of Earth Land, with **the remaining 90% being either incapable or unwilling\n> to use Magic**.\n\nAlso, There is a note in the end of Fairytail's Wikipedia Entry:\n\nIn the references section, it is stated that,\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Tail#References>\n\n> According to the Fairy Tail Volume 2 Del Rey edition Translation Notes,\n> General Notes, **Wizard** : So this translation has taken that as its\n> inspiration and translated the word _madôshi_ as \"wizard\". But _madôshi_ 's\n> meaning is similar to certain Japanese words that have been borrowed by the\n> English language, such as judo (the soft way) and kendo (the way of the\n> sword). **_Madô_ is the way of magic, and _madôshi_ are those who follow the\n> way of magic**. So although the word \"wizard\" is used in the original\n> dialogue, **a Japanese reader would be likely to think not of traditional\n> Western wizards** such as Merlin or Gandalf, **but of martial artists**.\n\nAnyone Can learn Martial arts, but those who continue to learn and train can\npractically use it. There are also people who doens't want to.\n\nIn this [answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/22066/15276) to the\nquestion \"[What dictates who can use what magic in Fairy\nTail?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15235/what-\ndictates-%20%20who-can-use-what-magic-in-fairy-tail)\"\n\n> I think to be able to use a type of magic, one has to learn it. There are no\n> requirements as to who can learn which magic.\n>\n> In one particular episode, **Mirajane teaches Natsu, Lucy and Happy the\n> transformation magic** and Natsu was able to transform into Lucy (even\n> though that was not perfect, but **that shows that you need to practice a\n> particular type of magic** ).\n>\n> And as have been mentioned in other answers that many characters are able to\n> use more than one kind of magic.\n\n**And also Learning and WillPower**\n\n> Magic has to be learned. When Erza was still a child, she was able to learn\n> magic without actually practicing it. If you have knowledge of how to use a\n> certain magic, you can use it. I guess it may depend on the user's\n> willpower, or it may actually be inside them all along. By the way, there\n> are a few characters who can use more than one type of magic like Ultear,\n> Jellal, Zero/Brain, and Hades.\n\nSo to sum it up, one person might be able to learn Magic thru extensive\ntraining and practice of a certain particular kind of magic, has knowledge and\nunderstanding of it, Competence or Either he chooses to learn Magic or Not\neven if he/she is capable of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Fairy Tail ZER0 Arc, Zeref said to Mavis and her friends that you need\nto concentrate to get Ethernanos (magic particles) in your body, then you can\ntrain and eventually be able to wield magic! That's how Yuri, Warrod, Precht,\nand Mavis can proform magic!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd say yes because clearly if you have magic you can enter a guild, but\nsaying you can also use magical weapons. So it depends on what type of wizard\nyou would want to be. Of course, you can get trained by a dragon like the\ndragon slayers, but also you can also get the weapon to your liking.\n\nLucy had gotten her powers from her dad or from her mom even with a bit of\ntraining. Of course, since she's a celestial wizard, she needs her keys.\n\nSo yes, I'm pretty sure everybody is able to become a wizard.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomething I noticed while watching a lot of popular anime based on Light\nNovels that focuses on slice of life for the most (Oregairu, Haruhi Suzumiya,\nOreimo, etc.) is that they never stated where in Japan is the story actually\ntaking place. In a lot of cases I noted that these settings tend to be a non-\ndecrepit small to medium sized town with a school, and yet at other times,\ndespite this ambiguity, the characters visit an identifiable real life locale,\nsuch as Oreimo with the Akihabara district, which seems to imply that the\nseries happen around Tokyo. I can understand if the anime adaptation would not\nbother mentioning the setting, but is this ever touched upon in the original\nLight Novel source or has it always been sort of a case of the\n\"[Springfield](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhereTheHellIsSpringfield)\"\ntrope in play? Is it possible that there is some kind of general assumption by\nthe Japanese populace that all series happen in Tokyo or something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _Haruhi Suzumiya_ series is mainly set in [Nishinomiya,\nJapan](http://haruhi.wikia.com/wiki/Nishinomiya).\n\nThe _Oreimo_ series is mainly set in [Chiba,\nJapan](http://oreimo.wikia.com/wiki/Chiba).\n\nIt's quite obvious by the mentions in the _Oregairu_ series novel and various\nepisodes that the main setting of the series is based in [Chiba,\nJapan](http://www.ikimap.com/map/oregairu-anime-pilgrimage-map-chiba) as well.\n\nEach author has their own reason for explicitly stating, excluding, or\nobscuring the main setting (just like the writers of the _The Simpsons_ ).\nThere is no set rule in literature about whether or not the main setting needs\nto be explicitly stated, especially if it's fiction. A lot of fiction writers\nlike to base their story on familiar settings, so that it's more easily\nrelated to readers (the Japanese audience being the primary readers) or give\nthe author a easier time when they are world building. There is no trope in\nplay, how much an author is willing to reveals about the setting of their\nstory is up to them. Sometimes it's not the modern-day Japan as most would\nknow it as, but such embellishment are implied and accepted by most readers of\nfiction.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDevil fruit users gained their powers by eating the devil fruit. But how did\nthese inanimate objects gain their power?\n\nThis is Luffy, eating a devil fruit before he became a rubber man.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eNRyy.jpg)\n\nAnd this is Lassoo, one of Mr.4's guns that became a dog. How did a gun ate\nit?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZsvZJ.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned in the comment, Dr. Vegapunk's scientific expertise is the logic\nbehind an inanimate object being able to \"consume\" a devil fruit.\n\n> Dr. Vegapunk covered exactly how Devil Fruit powers are transferred over to\n> a user, and was the scientist behind the method of adding Devil Fruit powers\n> to inanimate objects, such as swords and\n> guns.[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Vegapunk)\n\nThis is the only known research paper of his related to this experiment:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IlwFQ.jpg)\n\nThe inanimate objects who have eaten Devil Fruits are:\n\n * [Mr. 4](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._4)'s gun, [Lassoo](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Lassoo)\n\n * [Spandam](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Spandam)'s sword, [Funkfreed](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Funkfreed).\n\nIt is also notable that the only Devil Fruits shown to be capable of achieving\nsuch a feat are Zoan devil fruits. It may be because Logia and Paramecia only\ngrant the users supernatural powers, which would not bring the objects to\nlife.\n\nThis is all that is known about the matter.\n\n> According to Oda, a \"certain professor\" will explain the complex mechanisms\n> behind all of the Devil Fruits in the series in the near future.\n> [Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit#cite_note-0)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode of the new anime _\"Koutetsujou-no-Kabaneri\"_ , the first\ntrain had to stop before they let it enter the station. (which can be seen in\nthe following picture)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D20fk.jpg)\n\nWhy was the bridge already down before the second train even arrived? This\nmade it easy for the Kabane to invade the station. (here you can see that the\nbridge was already down before the train even arrived)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QHlDl.jpg)\n\nWas this an error? Or is it a part of the plot, to let the Kabane enter the\nstation?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not clear as of now why Koutetsujou (the first train) had to wait before\nentering the station whereas Fusoujou (the second train) didn't.\n\nHowever, a likely reason is that they were expecting Fusoujou to arrive on\nthat day whereas Koutetsujou was to arrive on the next day, but was running\nahead of its schedule.\n\nMoreover, I don't think they expected the whole train to be filled with\nKabane. They most likely only expected a few to be bitten and planned to get\nrid of them at the station, like they did with Koutetsujou.\n\n> Why was the bridge already down before the train even arrived?\n\nIt wasn't. The bridge was lowered when they saw Husoujyou coming, as can be\nseen here:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qTCdr.gif)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think, it is rather dangerous to keep train staying outside for some long\ntime, since it is easier for Kabane to get on it, so getting bridge down right\nto the train arrival seems pretty logical to me. That's why bridge was lowered\nfor second train.\n\nOn other hand, first train arrival was not scheduled. I think, that's why\nbridge was not lowered in time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1, it is implied that there is a strict schedule to when trains\narrive. I think as long as you arrive according to schedule, the town will\njust lower the bridge beforehand, as staying outside in a potentially kabane-\ninfested zone is very dangerous.\n\nHowever, Mumei's train was said to be out of schedule and arrived early. Thus\nnobody is aware that it is coming and thus they don't lower the bridge.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm trying to find lists of anime by genre in plaintext. Basically, the issue\nis that every anime list I can find online (MAL, ANN, Anime Planet) is\nstylised in some way, which isn't conducive to copy-pasting. I'd like the\nlists in plaintext.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Wikipedia to the\nrescue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anime_and_manga_by_genre)\n\nI'd start from here. Each genre has the list of Anime/Manga that are tagged\nfor that genre. Seems like the thing you want\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wrote a small script that operates on the [Wikipedia\npage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anime_and_manga_by_genre) that\nArcane provided.\n\n[code]\n\n var anime = \"\";\n \n $('#mw-pages li').each(function(key, value)\n {\n anime += ($(this).text() + '\\n');\n });\n \n // Credit to: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18197341/3571997\n function download(filename, text) \n {\n var element = document.createElement('a');\n element.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(text));\n element.setAttribute('download', filename);\n \n element.style.display = 'none';\n document.body.appendChild(element);\n \n element.click();\n \n document.body.removeChild(element);\n }\n \n download($('#firstHeading').text() + '.txt', anime);\n \n[/code]\n\n**How to use:**\n\n 1. Start a browser that can inject JavaScript into a page (I will use Google Chrome for this demonstration).\n 2. Navigate to a category on the Wikipage (e.g. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fantasy_anime_and_manga>).\n 3. Open the developer console (`F12`) and click on the console tab.\n 4. Copy and paste the script in there and press `Enter`.\n 5. You should now receive a text file with all of the anime of this genre.\n\n**Remarks:**\n\n * It also lists manga, visual novels etc.\n * Not user friendly.\n\nI shall try to update (and turn it into a userscript) whenever I have more\ntime on my hands.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAniDB has api with their titles in single xml <https://wiki.anidb.net/w/API>\n\n[code]\n\n <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n <animetitles>\n <anime aid=\"1\">\n <title type=\"short\" xml:lang=\"en\">CotS</title>\n <title xml:lang=\"fr\" type=\"official\">Crest of the Stars</title>\n <title xml:lang=\"en\" type=\"official\">Crest of the Stars</title>\n <title type=\"official\" xml:lang=\"pl\">Crest of the Stars</title>\n <title type=\"syn\" xml:lang=\"cs\">Hvězdný erb</title>\n <title type=\"main\" xml:lang=\"x-jat\">Seikai no Monshou</title>\n <title xml:lang=\"x-jat\" type=\"short\">SnM</title>\n <title type=\"syn\" xml:lang=\"zh-Hans\">星界之纹章</title>\n <title type=\"official\" xml:lang=\"ja\">星界の紋章</title>\n </anime>\n \n[/code]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy copy has subtitles on it but it drastically changes from million to\nbillions between games, which makes me believe the subs aren't correct. Could\nanyone here point me somewhere or tell me how many outs/runs and what\nmultipliers are on which game? I just need this for the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [One Outs Fandom](https://oneouts.fandom.com/wiki/Toa_Tokuchi),\n\nVS | Sum Earned (yen) \n---|--- \nBloomers | 105million \nFingers | 135m \n\\-- (Unknown) | 30m \nEagles | 150m \nMariners | 135m \nMariners | 180m \nMariners | 1400m \nBugaboos | 2065m \nBlueMars | 160m \n**Total** | **4360m**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nStarted watching Yu Yu Hakusho on blu ray now, about 10 years after I first\nsaw it as a kid. Wondering what happens to Yusuke's various power equipment. I\nrecall in the first few episodes he needs some kind of ring/band that helps\nrecharge and focus his spirit engergy for spirit gun... then it just goes\naway, at least in season 1. Does he still have them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey're still around. Botan mentions both the [Communication\nMirror](http://yuyuhakusho.wikia.com/wiki/Communication_Mirror) and the [Demon\nCompass](http://yuyuhakusho.wikia.com/wiki/Demon_Compass) during the Chapter\nBlack Saga.\n\nThe devices start to lose their usefulness as the series turns into a fighting\nseries. Being able to track a demon or [have X Ray\nvision](http://yuyuhakusho.wikia.com/wiki/Psychic_Spyglass) aren't terribly\nuseful in a fight against Toguro or Sensui. As for the ring, apparently it\n[makes Yusuke severely\nexhausted](http://yuyuhakusho.wikia.com/wiki/Concentration_Ring) after he uses\nit; I recall him passing out after he uses it against Gouki and needing to be\npicked up and brought home by Boutan. He needed it early on when his own\nspirit energy was fairly weak, but later on, after he trains with Genkai and\nstarts to gain power, the tradeoffs of the ring become more of a liability\nthan a benefit. Presumably he still has it, though, he just doesn't use it\nbecause it's not helpful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been trying to look for it but they are all bad quality and have too\nmay add or are not English.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe have a list of [Legal Streaming Sources\nhere](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/923/1587). considering that\nAniplex licensed Magi for the states their streaming channel has [Season\n1](http://aniplexchannel.com/show-page/magi) and [Season\n2](http://aniplexchannel.com/show-page/magi-2), assume that the Magi you have\ntagged is the same as the one you mention in the title. (as Season 1 is called\n_Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic_ and Season is is called _Magi: The Kingdom of\nMagic_ )\n\nI am unable to confirm whether or not these episodes are dubbed in English as\nGeo-blocking prevents non US users from viewing the videos (i am in\nAustralia), however considering [DVD Set\n1](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Magi-The-Labyrinth-of-Magic-DVD-Set-1-Hyb)\nhas English listed as a spoken language and it's publishing is listed as\nAniplex of America i would suspect that the episodes on their streaming\nchannel are English Dub\n\nEDIT: Thanks to [senshin's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/31435/does-anyone-know-\nwhere-i-can-watch-a-good-quality-of-magi-adventures-of-\nsinbad-e/31438?noredirect=1#comment43780_31438) i have come to realize that\nthe series and Aniplex of America has aren't what you are looking for. looking\non [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magi:_The_Labyrinth_of_Magic) and\n[Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16497)\nneither lists any english distributors/companies/licencees for the either the\n2014 OVA or the current _Adventure of Sinbad_ [anime\nadaptation](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=17687)\nof the manga of the same name. this leads me to suspect that it is not\nofficially released outside Japan at this time (17/04/2016) so i would suspect\na dub for these does not exist.\n\nThat being said generally when a company like Funimation or Aniplex gets the\nlicenses to stream/distribute a series there is a high chance that they will\nalso get any new season (though there are some exceptions). so at this time\nit's probably best to keep an eye on Aniplex of America for if/when they post\nup the dubs for the series your looking for. checking the other sites in the\nlist i posted wont hurt either just incase\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am just curious about which volumes the anime occurs in...\n\nMy guess is up to vol 5. or something\n\nI want to start reading the LN series already but my problem is I don't know\nwhere to start... Yes, I know that I should start from the first volume up to\nthe last but I get bored when I do that. I am not really sure about my guess,\nso please, help me...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know you're not here given that you've been away for 8 months but still:\n\nThe anime is such a mess...\n\nEpisode 1: volume 3\n\nEpisode 12: Original\n\nThe rest: It goes from volume 1 to volume 6 chapter 5\n\nNotes: The Athena and Voban arcs are almost faithful to to the light novel.\nPerseus is semi-faithful. Ena has lots and lots of original content.\n\nI read the light novels and saw the anime\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhere are the quotes that show Albedo hate other supreme beings other than\nMomonga? (which vol, which chapter)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn ep. 1 of _Joker Game_ , we see this shot of a statue (that resembles a\nperson on horseback) before a large Western-style building. Does this\ncorrespond to a real-life location?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nYG0N.jpg)\n\nThe first episode seems to take place in Tokyo, so I tried searching for\nstatues on horseback in Tokyo. The main result I got was for a statue of\n[Kusunoki Masashige](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusunoki_Masashige) in the\nImperial Gardens, which looks similar in stance, but the photographs that I\nhave seen (such as [this one](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gx3Ss.jpg)) do not\nseem to have such a building in the background.\n\nI also tried searching for the Imperial Palace to try to see if any buildings\nmatch up with this one, however, and I discovered that most of the Palace was\ndestroyed in firebombings in the Second World War. It seems plausible then\nthat this indeed is a statue of Kusunoki Masashige, and that the area around\nthe statue has simply changed from when the anime is set (1937).\n\nIs this actually the Kusunoki Masashige statue, or is this some other location\nin the Tokyo area?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe it's the [Imperial General Staff\nHeadquarters](http://www.oldtokyo.com/the-headquarter-staff-tokyo-c-1910/).\n(Photo from [Geospatial Information Authority of\nJapan](http://www.gsi.go.jp/MUSEUM/TOKUBE/KIKA7-tokyo2.htm) for comparison\nbelow. Similar images in the postcards scanned in the link.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J5EAV.gif)\n\nAs for [the statue](http://wako226.exblog.jp/20746160/) it seems to be of the\nfounder of the General Chief of Staff, Prince [Arisugawa\nTaruhito](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Arisugawa_Taruhito#Legacy).\nWhile the current statue is now currently located in [Arisugawa Memorial\nPark](http://www.arisugawa-park.jp/english/) in Minami-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo,\nthe General Staff Headquarters was located across the palace moat as seen in\none of the links.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iXUCz.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a song in _Naruto_ episode 13, around 17:11 when Haku uses Crystal Ice\nMirrors. It's really somber.\n\nI have been searching for this forever.\n\nWhat is the title and the OST of the song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song you are looking for is [Haku's\ntheme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYLF6E2ivQ)\n\nHaku's theme never made it to an OST, and is therefor an unreleased\nsoundtrack. And judging by how long ago it has been used, I am assuming it\nwill not be released as one either.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAjin is originally [a manga](http://myanimelist.net/manga/49865/Ajin), that\nhas subsequently had a few adaptations into anime. In November 2015, it seems\nto have been adapted into a movie: [Ajin Part 1: Shoudou (Ajin: Demi-Human -\nCompel)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/30868/Ajin_Part_1__Shoudou). MAL's blurb\nfor the movie reads:\n\n> For high schooler Kei—and for at least forty-six others—immortality comes as\n> the nastiest surprise ever.\n>\n> Sadly for Kei, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both\n> the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be\n> hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life—a\n> demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.\n\nThe movie lists two yet unreleased sequels: [Ajin Part 2:\nShoutotsu](http://myanimelist.net/anime/30869/Ajin_Part_2__Shoutotsu), set to\nbe released in May 2016; and [Ajin Part 3:\nShougeki](http://myanimelist.net/anime/30870/Ajin_Part_3__Shougeki), set to be\nreleased in Seprember 2016. The blurb for these two is the same as the one for\nthe first movie.\n\nThe manga was also adapted into an anime series,\n[Ajin](http://myanimelist.net/anime/31580/Ajin), released between January and\nApril 2016 (the Winter 2016 season). This one lists the three movies as\n\"Alternative versions\", and its blurb reads:\n\n> Where there is life, there is death... or is there? What would you do if you\n> could never die? The possibilities are endless.\n>\n> Seventeen years ago, the existence of a special species called Ajin was\n> discovered in Africa. They are said to be immortal beings, with several\n> supernatural abilities, that look just like any other human being. Are these\n> Ajin just random phenomena of nature or were they purposely sent to Earth to\n> destroy it?\n>\n> Since their first discovery, several other Ajin appearances have been\n> reported worldwide. For the majority of citizens though, these creatures are\n> less reality and more of something you see every once in a while in a\n> textbook or on the news. This is how it was for the young protagonist of the\n> series, Kei. That was until a sudden turn of events changed his life\n> forever...\n>\n> Ajin is a supernatural anime full of complex ideas about life and death, as\n> well as the dark side of human nature. What does it mean to truly be human?\n\nIt's not entirely clear to me whether the first movie covers the anime series\nand the other two are new content, or whether the three movies are supposed to\nbe recaps of the whole series (maybe there are supposed to be three anime\nseasons of Ajin, and each of the movies recaps one of them?).\n\nWhat's the relation between the manga, the anime series, and the movies (given\nthat two of the three movies haven't been released yet, that part may be\nharder to answer)? Are the adaptations faithful to the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the opening sequence of Anne-Happy, Hanako and Botan are both shown holding\nomikuji, those little papers that Japanese people draw at shinto shrines that\nforecast their luck.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S4hkLm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WoBeQm.jpg)\n\nI know that omikuji have different types and levels of luck, and given that\nthe theme of the series is unlucky moe girls, I assume Hanako and Botan are\nboth getting bad luck. But just how bad is it? Which exact classes of omikuji\ndid they draw?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNeither of them are traditional omikuji results. Hanako has \"hazure\", which\ntranslates roughly as \"miss\" or \"fail\". Botan's is \"sune\", which I can't find\na useful meaning for. \"Sune\" is Japanese for shin, or leg, and the only other\nmeaning I can find is in reference to being a shin-biting bug, which is slang\nfor being a mooch, which doesn't seem to fit.\n\nEDIT: In episode 3, Botan does shout out \"sune!\" when her shin cracks,\nalthough she also breaks about three other bones in the same episode so I'm\nnot sure why the shin would be singled out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode before the last one, why does Suzuha disappear when travelling\nback to the \"present\"?\n\nFrom what I've read, going back in a time machine always changes the world\nline, and in the world line where Okabe saves Kris the time machine no longer\nexists therefore time travelling Suzuha doesn't exist.\n\nHowever I don't see this explanation working without her disappearing as soon\nas they appear back in the past. It is not their returning to the future that\nchanges the outcome (and subsequently the timeline), it's their actions in the\npast.\n\nHow can this be explained with consistency with the rest of the rules of time\ntravel we've encountered in this show? If any assumption I've made is\nincorrect I'd love to hear it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would love to just write this off as \"the writers wanted a good goodbye\nscene\" since **quantum teleportation in the temporal dimension** (time travel)\nis really not my forte when it comes to quantum mechanics. However, by the\nnature of this site, I will try to answer your question. This is going to be\nlong, bear with me. I have included several questions you might have after\nreading it, if I missed out anything, feel free to clarify.\n\nBefore I re-answer, let me tell you a short story. After a few hours of\ndiscussion with my colleagues, we could not arrive at any conclusion despite\nbringing in several plausible theories. Then, out of the blue, our professor\n(who is like nearly 60 but still an avid anime watcher) just walks over and\nproceeded to blow our minds with one sentence \"It's a cross-time temporal\nloop.\" Then we proceeded to face palm ourselves for our stupidity in over-\ncomplicating the situation when it was really so simple. Side note: my\ntheories were not wrong, but the factor I inputted into them were wrong.\n\nFirstly, you need to understand how their time machine works, cause we\nunderestimated its capabilities before. Their machine is not a linear time\ntravelling device, it is a trans-spatial time machine. When they travel\nthrough time, they possibly travel to another universe as well. Believe it or\nnot, it is actually theoretically easier to make this type than a linear time\nmachine cause time flows relatively, thus theoretically, in a 'space pocket'\nbetween universes, time would pass differently for separate universes.\n\nBut I digress, thus, Suzuha did not actually travel from the future, but\ninstead from a potential future of the Steins Gate World Line. Now, Okarin\nnever actually needed to go to the Steins Gate World Line, he left it as he\nsaw Kurisu dead. But in reality, he was there in the beginning, he then\nproceeded to send himself all over the time lines with his microwave oven when\nhe sent that mail to Daru.\n\n> What is the loop? The time loop created works like this:\n>\n> 1. Okabe sees Kurisu dead, send mail to Daru, enters other timelines\n> 2. Okabe spends 3 weeks in alternate timelines, gets back to Steins Gate\n> 3. Time machine shows up with Suzuha saying they have to stop WW3\n> 4. Okabe goes back to past, fakes Kurisu's death, burns thesis, stops WW3\n> 5. Past Okabe sees Kurisu dead, goes back to step 1 and repeat\n>\n\nRemember the Attractor Field-World Line theory employed by the show, now\nimagine 2 lines intertwined but splits like a split hair at a certain point.\nTo both these splits, their past is the same, but some event split this time\nline. This event was Okarin gaining the knowledge that he saved Kurisu.\n\nDespite the aim of going back to the past was stopping WW3, we can never\nreally say that WW3 was fought over Makise Kurisu's Time Travel thesis\ncompletely cause we have too little details. A more likely reason would be\nOkarin built the time machine based on her thesis using the knowledge he\ngained from the other World Lines and this information was obtained by world\npowers and they started the war to obtain this thesis to built their own time\nmachine as Okarin was already dead in 2025.\n\nThe motives for WW3 was effectively instigated by Okarin. Okarin built the\ntime machine to save Kurisu and thus as long as he does not know he saved her,\nthe time machine would still be built, WW3 would still occur. That is\nessentially why Suzuha cannot disappear until the Okarin that knows he has\nsaved Kurisu appears in the present again, or Okarin would go on to create the\ntime machine to save Kurisu and start WW3.\n\n**But, to save Kurisu, the time machine is necessary, if Okarin did not have\nthe motive to make it, where did it come from?**\n\nThis is where the cross-time part comes in. Remember that I said Suzuha came\nfrom a possible future of the Steins Gate timeline, a split in the World\nLines. This is where quantum causality comes in, as long as there is a chance,\nWW3 can still occur despite the thesis being burnt as Okarin can still make\nthe time machine. The core reason for this as I mentioned is because he thinks\nKurisu is dead. Remember that the first time he went back to the past, he\nstabbed Kurisu himself, no World Line change occurred, that means that they\nwere still connected to a timeline that leads to WW3. However, when he saved\nKurisu and burnt the thesis, still nothing happened.\n\nThat is because at this point, the two timelines still share a common past,\nand Okarin still wants to save Kurisu as the him that saved Kurisu is still in\nthe past, future cannot affect them and they cannot affect the future yet as\nthey are in a state of temporal uncertainty by being in the past. Same as the\nfirst answer but this time the factor is not the burning of the thesis but\nOkarin returning to the present with the knowledge that he saved Kurisu and\ndoes not want to create the time machine anymore, thus completely erasing any\nminuscule possibility for WW3 to occur. This leads to Suzuha disappearing as\nthe two futures no longer have a common present. This returning of Okarin to\nthe present is the diverging point of this two timelines. Thus, Suzuha can no\nlonger stay in Steins gate as this is not part of their shared past.\n\n**Then what was the point of faking Kurisu's death?**\n\nSimple, it was to keep the loop going, if he broke the loop, the him that is\ntrying to save Kurisu would definitely disappear for he never spent even a\nsingle moment with Kurisu. No matter how far quantum causality goes, it most\nlikely does not extend into separate timelines for his knowledge is not from\nthe universe he is in. Thus, the loop has to occur, he has to keep the past\nsomewhat constant until his return to the present with the knowledge he saved\nKurisu, only then will the timelines diverge properly.\n\n**What would have happened if they stayed in the past?**\n\nThis depends on which travel they stayed in the past.\n\nIn the case scenario where they failed to save Kurisu, Okarin would disappear\nat the divergence point. Since this Okarin never returned to the divergence\npoint with the knowledge that he saved Kurisu, it would go the WW3 route, the\npast Okarin thinks Kurisu dies and went on to create the time machine,\nstarting WW3. This allows Suzuha to exist. Since Okarin traveled to the past\nfrom the Steins Gate timeline, he disappears since that is no longer his past\nnow.\n\nIn the case scenario where they managed to save Kurisu and stayed in the past,\nSuzuha would disappear at the divergence point. Despite Okarin never returning\nto the divergence point with the knowledge that he saved Kurisu, they would\nstill arrive at the divergence point where they will witness themselves going\nback to the past and thus arrive at the same case where even without a time\nmachine returning them to the present except that the moment they witness\nOkarin going back, Suzuha disappears.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe story after Mayuri is saved, and before Makise Kurisu is saved, happens in\nthe beta world line. When they go back to the past, they were still in the\nbeta world line. Hence Suzuha doesn't disappear. And by saving her, then\nreturning to the future, they have successfully moved to the Steins Gate world\nline.\n\nSuzuha is not supposed to have existed in the Steins Gate world line until 7\nyears after. Because it will cause a paradox to have her exist, she is simply\nerased from existence. This is the law of Steins Gate - paradoxes simply\ncannot happen even if you try to cause one.\n\nNeither the show nor the visual novel has explained it scientifically enough\nso I'm afraid I don't have a quantum mechanics-related answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter watching [**_One Piece Film:\nZ_**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece_Film:_Z) it was stated during\nthe movie that a pirate cut off\n[**_Zephry_**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zephyr)'s arm and killed most of\nhis crew of Marines in trainging. This pirate was later invited to be one of\nthe Shichibukai. Is there any source that states which one of the Shichibukai\nthat it was? I was unable to find anything on his wiki page I thought that\nmaybe Oda might have stated it somewhere else.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6K2x7.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer hasn't been officially stated, but we do have elements that allow\nus to narrow the Shichibukai down.\n\nAccording to Volume 1000, the pirate who cut off Z's arm was promoted to a\nShichibukai \"one year ago\", which means during the timeskip. This rules out\nany of the original seven as well as Blackbeard, and only leaves Buggy,\nTrafalgar Law, and Edward Weevil.\n\nFrom there, only speculation can be used, as no further official details have\nbeen revealed. Since Buggy is relatively weak even in the present day,\ncompared to Z who was already Admiral-level when his arm was cut, it can be\nassumed he didn't do it, unless he got extremely lucky.\n\nStill according to Volume 1000:\n\n> Zephyr became an Admiral at age 38, during Gol D. Roger and Edward Newgate's\n> golden age. By this time, he had become very popular with his subordinates.\n> He got married, and a year later, his son was born.\n>\n> Zephyr's happiness was ended prematurely when a pirate murdered his wife and\n> son three years later. Zephyr wanted to resign from the Marines, but he was\n> eventually persuaded to stay as an instructor. He trained many cadets, most\n> of whom would ascend the Marines bureaucracy in both power and status.\n>\n> Twenty-three years after the death of his loved ones, Zephyr's arm was cut\n> off by a pirate who had a Devil Fruit power, and his entire division was\n> massacred with only Ain and Binz surviving.\n\n(Source: [One Piece Wikia article on\nZephyr](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zephyr))\n\nThis means Z's arm was cut off nine years ago, which means in turn that Law\nwas around 17 years old. While it is likely Law was strong even back then, it\nis unlikely that he was the one who did it, as Z was already a former Admiral,\nand Law couldn't defeat Vergo until present day, after Vergo became Vice-\nAdmiral.\n\nThis leaves Weevil, whose past is still largely unknown and whose strength is\nimmense, as the most likely man to have cut off Z's arm, but until there is\nofficial proof to confirm or deny anything, it can only remain speculation at\nthis point.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe haven't met the Warlord that took Zephyr's arm yet. These are the Warlords\nafter the time skip:\n\n 1. Dracule Mihawk\n 2. Donquixote Doflamingo \n 3. Boa Hancock\n 4. Trafalgar D. Water Law\n 5. Buggy The Clown\n 6. Edward Weevil\n 7. ???\n\nHowever, as of chapter 908, it's revealed that,\n\n> Bartholomew Kuma lost his Shichibukai title during the time skip and became\n> a slave to the Celestial Dragons. Since Doflamingo & Law have both lost\n> their titles as well, there are only 4 Warlords we know of.\n\nI'm guessing Oda did things this way so that no one can narrow down the answer\nonce we meet the 3 remaining Shichibukai.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it should be Doflamingo. Doflamingo's powers can easily cut of Z's\nhand and the government wouldn't want someone who cut off an admiral's hand to\nbecome a shichibukai. And Doflamingo had threatened the government to make him\na shichibukai, hence I think it most likely would be Doflamingo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am talking about the song that happens whenever shinichi and migi fight a\nparasyte. In episode 17, the organ song name at 6:35. Thanks\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWould you happen to be looking for the track called \"Full Moon\"?\n\n[Click here to listen to it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGy45tGyDCA)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNear to the finale of _The Legend of Korra - Book 2: Spirits_ when Vaatu rips\nRaava from Korra's body and destroys her, Korra says to Tenzen that the Avatar\nCycle has too been destroyed and she is the last Avatar.\n\nAt the end Korra confirms that Raava is back inside her however her connection\nto the previous Avatars is still gone.\n\nI am wondering, does this mean that the Avatar can no longer be reincarnated?\nor is Korra like Wan where he had no previous past lives to turn to for advice\n(unlike Aang who could turn to Roku, Kyoshi and those other 2 Avatars he spoke\nto at the end) and thus can still be reincarnated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKorra lost connection with the past Avatars. It is still possible for Korra to\nget in the [Avatar State](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/The_Avatar_State)\n(which is the unified state with Raava) but she can not talk with Aang or\nother past Avatars and use their knowledge.\n\ntl;dr\n\n> Korra became the first Avatar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActual Avatar reincarnation means Raava accepts part of current Avatar soul,\nleaves its body, and finds new Avatar. Communication with previous Avatar\nincarnations was exactly communication with parts of their souls inside Raava.\nSince Raava got itself destroyed, and then resurrected, it is in \"clear\"\nstate, without souls of previous incarnations.\n\nBut while Raava exists in this world, it can find new vessel to become next\nAvatar incarnation. The only consequence of its temporary destruction is that\nKorra is now much like Wan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just learnt that Korra's connection to past lives was severed completely and\nit also gets worse.\n\nAccording to her letters to the next Avatar in _The Legend of Korra: An\nAvatar's Chronicle_ (book), Korra states that even the next Avatar may not be\nable to connect with her for guidance. It's like every Avatar that will come\nnext will no longer have a connection to the past life before.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read Death Note for the first time about 10 years ago. I remember of a\nspecial chapter at the end, which I was not able to find, even in the manga (I\nown them all - or I think I do):\n\n> Some of that chapter takes place in the Deathgod's world. After Light's\n> death, we see him atone for every single name he wrote in his Death Note.\n> After a while, he tells Ryuk the exact number of people he's killed with his\n> Death Note. Then, he asks Ryuk to bring bring to the Deathgod's King: his\n> world has gone to waste and Light would like to make it prosper once more.\n> The chapter end with Ryuk being impressed once more of Light's tenacity and\n> mental strength.\n\n**Answer:**\n\nAnki Sharma's answer is correct. The chapter I was looking for is indeed\nfanbase, I found a youtube [link\nhere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8fM2FBL_A&feature=youtu.be).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last episode of _Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou_ , part \"High School Boys\nand Lies\", Motoharu asks Yoshitake about different things to which Yoshitake\ngives absurd replies (with the exception of the last one):\n\n> * What's \"Twitter\"?\n> * What's \"KY\"?\n> * What's \"Tsundere\"?\n> * What's \"Doyagao\"?\n> * What's \"Agepoyo\"?\n> * What's an \"MMORPG\"?\n>\n\nAn example of the absurdity of the answers:\n\n> **Motoharu:** What is Twitter?\n>\n> **Yoshitake:** It's Italian food.\n\nI understand all of them except `Doyagao` and `Agepoyo`. Tried googling but\ndidn't get it. Can someone explain them simply?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are so many situations where the Fairy-tail guild gets into really tough\nfights and in serious trouble!. Gildarts is extremely strong, how is that he\nis not very involved in fights??\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs said before Gildarts is a class S mage and he is almost always adventuring.\nFor example there was an episode when Gildarts came to the Guild and everyone\nwas doing a party.(I don´t remember in which episode it happened thought).\nEven if he wanted to join the fight´s he would need some \"days\" to reach the\n\"battlefield\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n<http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Gildarts_Clive> The above link is a\nbibliography about Gildarts Clive and it also mentions why he doesn't fight\noften, not in a more clear way though. One of the reasons why I think he\ndoesn't fight like he used to be, after the casualties he faced in the battle\nwith Achonologia which nearly killed him. Yeah, but if you want more info just\ntake a look at the link above.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs others have mentioned, Guildarts isn't always around. You may recall there\nis a special board with S rank jobs for S rank wizards, and those missions are\nintense. So while the guild may be having trouble with one thing, Guildarts is\nlikely far away handling a different job of immense difficulty as well. He\nsimply may be busy and unable to leave.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n1.He isn't around most of the time, doing so called decade or century quests\nas he is a S-Class wizard. 2.Natsu and the guild need to show how strong their\nplot armor and friendship power can be, instead of raw firepower. 3.It's no\nfun to watch OP characters enter mid fight and defeat villains with ease.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell he can't hold back when it comes to his powers and if he did fight like\nthat someone would be dead or severely injured. But there is also that he is\nalmost never at the guild.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause Gildarts uses the magic \"crash\". If he participated in fights, the\nanime would be boring because he would just touch the enemy, and make them\nCRASH.\n\nBasically, he's too powerful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nwell since he being an S class Wizard is busy in far off lands dealing greater\n,maybe he doesn't even know about them or the battles may be finished by the\ntime he reaches and it isn't much interesting if the big guys get involved\nto...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw that the mask changed and she just gave in to her wish to come back to\nlive in her last 'test', so I think she was sent to void, but I'm not really\nsure. Can somebody explain, please?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe went to\n\n> Reincarnation \n> \n>  This scene happens\n> immediately after her elevator door closes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 12, it shows Chiyuki in the chair, but it isn't her because she\nwould've dissolved into dust. It's her mannequin, meaning she was sent into\nthe void.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe was sent to reincarnation. Why I think so? Because we could get to see the\nreincarnation sign over the elevator, right after it closed.\n\nAbout the mannequin that was shown later, it was, I think a fake one that\nDecim made. I am a little bit confused about that, but if we think that she\nwas sent to void, then that sign over the elevator would be shown to be kinda\nmeaningless.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe was sent for reincarnation. However, because Decim had an experience with\nher, he made a dummy to represent her because she was sent to reincarnation\nand her reincarnated body would look different.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe was sent to reincarnation represented by the sign above the elevator. One\nsitting on the chair is a mannequin it has no eye balls.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirstly, in episode 11, in Ginti's bar, when he sent Harada and that girl, it\nwas shown to be the reincarnation mask, but soon enough it changed to the void\nmask. We can always see the reincarnation lift is on the left and the void\nlift is on the right.\n\nDecim sent Chiyuki to the elevator on the right which is usually the void one.\nHowever, there was a reincarnation mask. Here comes what happened in Ginti's\nplace: he switched the masks. Probably Decim would also have done the same.\n\nWell, the mannequin, regardless of whether he sent her to void or\nreincarnation, he merely made it for remembrance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I was younger (2003) I rented a movie which I believe to be an anime,\nthough I do believe it was older.\n\n# The details I remember:\n\n(Space Pirates aren't actually in space, they are just named that for\nconvenience, they just fly about in airships)\n\n * **In the beginning** of the movie, there was a boy, who happened to come across, or see a girl falling from the sky, but she never hit the ground, she was floating. (They were young, by appearance, I would say between the ages of 7 and 14)\n\n * I remember a scene rather vividly, where the girl (from above) was climbing on the outside of an airship, trying to escape what I shall call _Space Pirates_ as to not let them gain an amulet (not sure on whether it was an amulet or something else entirely, I just know she had it, the _space pirates_ wanted it).\n\n * I remember the two of them (Boy and girl, from first point), found their way, somehow onto an island which had a giant tree on it, with a lot of robots which had the ability to fly, it was an old looking place with moss and other overgrowth about.\n\n * The girls amulet, (or other item), had some sort of ability here, and was special to the island. I'm note sure, though it may have been that the amulet woke the robots.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's [Laputa: Castle in the\nSky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky). The story starts off\nwith a girl on a airship that's attacked by \"sky\" pirates. She manage to\nescape both the pirates and the people who held her captive on the airship by\nfalling out of it. The girl's amulet saves her, causing her to float to safely\nto ground where a young boy find her.\n\nUltimately they end up on the floating island Laputa, which is old, overgrown,\nhas a giant tree and is populated by giant robots. I believe the robots can\nfly.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2gs3.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy question is about busoshoku haki or coat of arms as people like to call it.\nUntil the last episode I thought haki was something that required intensive\ntraining to master. But in the last episode\n\nFor those who haven't watched spoilers:\n\n> Sabo was shown wielding busoshoku against a small army at 17.\n\nNow I only started reading the manga in the zou arc so I'm not sure if this is\nfiller or cannon but is it safe to assume then that some people just have an\naptitude for mastering buso quickly? I mean only a small percentage of people\nare capable of using haoshoku so it seems like it makes sense.\n\nBut it took Luffy two years to perfect it and I'm not even sure if Ace ever\nlearned it. Does anyone have any feedback on this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHaki does require intensive training to master, but after being rescued by\nDragon at the age of ten, he presumably started training with the\nrevolutionary army shortly after his injuries healed.\n\nAt this point, Sabo wasn't just your average ten year old, having been\nfighting Luffy and Ace many times every day, he was already stronger than an\naverage pirate or soldier. It seems likely that Dragon or Ivankov or another\nhigh ranking revolutionary saw his potential, and trained him specially, as by\njust the age of 22 he had already risen to the rank of Chief of Staff, number\ntwo in the revolutionary army.\n\nUnlike Luffy, he was in a position where he was surrounded by strong allies\nwho could train him and teach him useful skills like Haki and martial arts, so\nhaving learnt to use busoshoku haki effectively by seventeen isn't hard to\nbelieve. Except for in the New World, haki is a very rare skill, and\nconsidering it took Rayleigh eighteen months to teach Luffy the basics. Luffy\nnever had anyone to teach him growing up in Fusha Village and then setting\nsail by himself, as you would need someone who knows haki themselves, which is\nrare, and is also willing to spend the time to train you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis matter is not mentioned specifically in the manga either, but we can make\na few suppositions about it.\n\nFirst, as ton.yeung mentioned in a comment, by 17 Sabo has been around people\nwho have mastered Haki for a long time now (Dragon, Ivankov, and many more we\nmay not yet know). Therefore, he had time to train and learned how to master\nit by 17.\n\nAnother thing is that we know from Rayleigh that every person is better at one\ntype of Haki than in the other two. Luffy is better at mastering the Emperor's\nHaki. Sabo, who has shown incredible strength in his fingers, may be better at\nBusoshoku than in the other two and therefore that may explained why he was\nable to master it so young.\n\nLast but not least, Ace Luffy and Sabo have shown exceptional physical and\nmental capabilities from a very young age. Common sense may not applied to\nthese three.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm sorry to ask this, but I'm little curious about this picture, here Sengoku\nseem riding on a gorilla.\n\n**I don't know how far in anime, so I put the picture as spoiler.**\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8UZtu.jpg)\n\nWho is this gorilla, is this Sengoku's new pet? I only remember that he has a\ngoat as a pet.\n\nI don't think it's Kong -of course not-\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's the gorilla that was transformed to a\n[toy](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hobi_Hobi_no_Mi).\n\nFrom the chapter 743:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IvdTy.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow badly damaged was sdf-1 after the final space Battle? And why was the\nbridge still visible after IT was supposedly completely destroyed in episode\nto the stars? The bridge seemed intact in this episode . Can anybody please\nexplain this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf by \"final\" battle, you mean the battle against Khyron in episode 36th \"To\nthe Stars\", it was destroyed to the point it became garbage and buried. The\nbridge wasnt intact after that because the SDF-1 was buried and it doesnt\nappear anymore.\n\nIf by \"final\" battle you mean the battle were it was almost destroyed in\nepisode 27th \"Force of Arms\", it was damaged enough that they didnt use it\nanymore until the last episode, when they partially repaired it for it to fly\nagain, they made it fly once last time again against Khyron who finally\ndestroyed it by making his vessel collision with it.\n\nSomething of this info you can see it here:\n<http://robotech.wikia.com/wiki/To_the_Stars>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBack at Marineford War. I noticed something, Gecko Moriah summoned marine\nzombies from nowhere instantly without Hogback around.These marine zombies\nhave stitches which is only done by Hogback back in Thriller Bark. Some even\ntake the form of animals which is another problem in its existence.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ibl7l.png)\n\nSo how did Gecko Moria has done it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHogback was useful for Moria, because he could stitch together different parts\nof separate bodies, thus only using the strongest parts of those bodies. The\nbest example for this is Sanji's zombie. He is essentially a penguin, but\ninstead of the useless mouth, hogback replaced it with a dogs jaw.\n\nIf you look at the marine zombies, none of them has a dog head or bear hands.\nThe closest to this category is the centaur on the left, but\nthat's...\"normal\". A normal marine doctor should be able, to fix those bodies\nup.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo before if i could i would buy Manga from Madman Entertainment before\nlooking at overseas stores like Right Stuff. today however i got an email from\nMadman saying;\n\n> You might've heard the news.... \n> As of May 1st, Madman will no longer be distributing Manga, \n> or books in general - at least, for the time being.\n>\n> But we know you love Manga, so we're giving you one final opportunity to\n> grab a bargain with 60% off all Manga and books* on the Madman web store!\n>\n> Don't miss out. Sale must end April 30 at 11:59 PM.\n\nI am wondering if there are any places/distributors in Australia which still\nsell Manga and have an online store?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany bookstores, such as [Dymocks](http://www.dymocks.com.au), also sell\nmanga, and have online stores where the manga in stock. You may also want to\ncheck [Kinokuniya](http://www.kinokuniya.com.au), since they do imports from\nJapan as well as stocking locally distributed books. Of course the Japanese\nimports are typically in Japanese, but there are some rare bilingual releases\nif you're able to find them.\n\nAdditionally, it looks like Simon & Schuster has picked up the rights to\ndistribute Viz Media titles in the wake of Madman's announcement, so most of\nthose should still be available after May. The other companies, though, might\nbe a bit trickier to track down. Looking at the [S&S\nwebsite](http://www.simonandschuster.com.au), they mainly redirect you to\nretailers rather than selling directly, but hopefully it won't be long before\nthe manga shows up on their site so you at least know where to get them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen When Aang, Katara and Sokka in _The Last Airbender_ visit the Southern\nAir Temple and enter's the sanctuary they find statues of the previous Avatars\ngoing in a pattern. Fire, Wind, Water and Earth.\n\nit was this pattern which Fire Lord Sozin used to predict where the next\nAvatar after Roku would be born and try and stop the Avatar's Rebirth by\nwiping out the Air Nomads.\n\nBut why is it this pattern?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin _Avatar: The Legend of Korra - Book 2: Spirits_ Episodes 7 and 8\n(Beginnings Part 1 and 2) detail the story of the first Avatar Wan. in his\ntime humans lived cities which were on the Lion Turtles who would gift people\nthe power of the elements (what is currently known as Bending) when they\nventure into the Spirit Wilds.\n\nthe Lion Turtle that Wan's home was on gifted people the power of Fire and\nafter Wan was banished for stealing the power of fire Wan was allowed to keep\nit, becoming the first Fire Bender to keep his power (as people would return\nthe power of the elements when they returned).\n\nafter allowing the Spirit of Darkness, Vaatu, to separate from the Spirit of\nLight, Raava and learning of the danger to the world Wan then got the power of\nWind but the power had to be held by Raava who would them swap the elements\nwhen Wan needed it. during training Wan realized he needed the other elements\nso he then sought out the Lion Turles who bestowed Water and Earth, how in the\nepisode in that order.\n\nSo the Avatar Reincarnation Cycle of Fire, Wind, Water and Earth is the same\norder in which the Wan and Raava got the elements.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKym NT's answer is that the cycle follows the actual seasons:\n\n> fire related to summer, air to autumn, water to winter, and earth to spring.\n\nAnd then seasons (summer, autumn, winter, spring) indeed go in the cycle\n(fire, air, water, earth).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Black Bullet all cursed children carry the Gastrea virus, basically making\nthem Human/Gastrea hybrids. It is shown that Varanium harm the Gastrea. Now,\nthe question is are cursed children vulnerable to Varanium, or does their\nhuman side grant them immunity?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVaraniums are used as bullets. So far cursed children aren't shown to be\nbullet proof, albeit their superior physical strength. So of course cursed\nchildren would still get hurt if they are shot using it.\n\nAs for whether the damage would escalate due to the gastrea virus in them or\nnot, it can't be said for sure for there hasn't been any scene that shows a\n**living** cursed children shot by it yet. I said **living** since when\nRentarou shot the type Dolphin cursed children, Kayo, she was already dying\nfrom the damages she received and the amount of gastrea virus in her has\nexceeded the critical value. The bullet used by Rentarou there would\ndefinitely be a varanium bullet as they were in a battle against gastrea and\nnormal bullet don't work against gastrea, which would means that there is no\nreason for him to bring normal bullet with him.\n\nAs shown in the scene where Rentarou received Enju's exam report, the critical\nvalue or the limit of gastrea virus inside a cursed children's body before\nthey turned into gastrea is 50%. Thus, at the time Kayo was shot, she is\nalready more of a gastrea than a human. Because of that, if Kayo received a\nSuper Effective damage from being shot, it would be arguably because she is\nalready more gastrea than human.\n\nJust touching is okay, as shown when Enju touched Rentarou's arm which is made\nof Varanium, although arguably she might be okay since it wasn't a direct\ncontact due to Rentarou's skin.\n\nThe other use of Varanium is as monolith to prevent gastrea from entering the\npopulated area. As far as I recall, there was no scene where Enju or any other\ncursed children touched the monolith.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo after reading the light novel, I can now answer my own question. Cursed\nChildren are in fact vulnerable to Varanium.\n\n> \"But something seems strange...,\" said Enju. \"Ever since coming here, I've\n> been feeling excited for some reason.\" Enju opened and closed her hands\n> curiously. Of course you would, agreed Rentaro silently. The Varanium that\n> Gastrea so hated also had an effect on Enju and the other girls, who were\n> all infected with small amounts of the virus. Most Initiators, when they\n> went outside the Monoliths, felt temporarily better, or even high. Their\n> wounds also healed faster.\n\nSo clearly while inside the Monoliths the Cursed Children feel their effect.\nWhile it is clearly not deadly to them it does have an effect on them. It is\nalso possible for Gastrea to survive inside of the Monoliths, though it seems\nimpossible for them to pass between them. The difference is probably that\nCursed Children only carry a small amount of the Gastrea virus inside them\nwhile a regular Gastrea carries a large amount.\n\nThe following passage shows that Varanium bullets have the same effect on\nCursed Children as they do on Gastrea\n\n> Enju's wound showed no sign of healing and was still oozing blood. Varanium\n> bullets prevented a Gastrea from regenerating after being wounded, and it\n> was no different for Initiators who were able to regenerate thanks to the\n> Gastrea virus. Facing Varanium weapons, the was as vulnerable as a regular\n> human being.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI love the manga, [Black\nJack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Jack_\\(manga\\)), by Osamu Tezuka; it\nis truly a masterpiece.\n\nWell, I want to watch the anime, so I looked it up on Wikipedia.\nUnfortunately, there are multiple animes, apparently. There is a\n\n * [1993 OVA series](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=525), containing 10 episodes;\n * [2001 ONA series](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6193), containing 12 episodes;\n * [2004 TV series](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4408), containing 61 ([ _or is it 62?_](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4408&page=25)) episodes.\n\nFrankly, I'm stumped. I just want to watch the anime adaptation of the manga,\nand I'm unsure which one is most true to the manga, and I don't feel like\nwatching all 3 of these.\n\nSo, which one is most an anime adaptation of the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBlack Jack 2004 Series so far is the most accurate.\n\nI've read up to Volume 5 in the Manga, and so far (I've seen ALL OF THESE) the\n2004 one has more elements of the original story composed by Osamu Tezuka.\n\nWhat I like especially about the 2004 (& Black Jack 21) is that each episode\neven shows (in the introduction) the name of the chapters from the original\nManga that the Anime is based off of.\n\nIf you want to watch something that's most closely related then I recommend\nthe 2004 TV Series.\n\nAlthough, like any other Anime Adaptation, there are bound to be some changes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song starts at 12:34 and is kind of discordant in the beginning. It hits\nthe part of being a real piano at around 14:00.\n\nI am looking specifically for the song that starts at 14:00\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the song itself is called Rize's melody, it has a start with discord\nand has piano throughout most of the song and is about 5 minutes long. the\nname could also be Original Sorrow is this the song you were looking\nfor?[Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3i84IYGJ4)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe name of the song in the intro and episode 12 is unravel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA few episodes after the battle with Hidan and Asuma... :'(. Shikamaru, Ino,\nChoji and Kakashi set out to find Hidan and Kakuzu. When they find them\nShikamaru uses his shadow jutsu to \"paralyze\" the enemies. So far they can\nonly see just Shikamaru. Why doesn't Kakashi use his new sharingan to\ncompletely obliterate hidan while he was frozen?\n\nPlease no spoilers as I am only in mid season 2.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**THAT IS STRATEGY.** When you don't even know a single thing about the enemy,\nwould you go face to face directly? Well, in _Shikamaru's_ case, there must be\na person to be the bait, and once they make sure that the enemies are\ncompletely immobilized, the plan begins. Unfortunately, _Kakuzu_ freed\nhimself, so the plan failed.\n\n**Why did _Ino_ did not use the _Mind Body Switch Technique_ on _Kakuzu_?** \n**There are several reasons why _Ino_ decided not to use it.** \n**1.** If the opponent's will is strong enough, they can force the user to\nleave their body. Apparently the stronger one has the stronger will. \n**2.** If the user's chakra level is low, the technique will be harder to\nmaintain. \n**3.** If any physical injury is inflicted on the victim's body while the mind\nlink is active, it would cause the user's body to also receive those same\ninjuries. This is a good chance for _Hidan_ to kill her by piercing through\none of _Kakuzu's_ hearts, and _Kakuzu_ will still be fine since he has\nmultiple hearts. That is not a good idea to eliminate the target.\n\n**Why didn't _Choji_ , _Ino_ and _Shikamaru_ apply _Formation Ino–Shika–Chō_\nin the battle to distract _Kakuzu_ while _Kakashi_ was aiming at _Hidan_ with\nhis _Mangekyō Sharingan_?** \n**1.** _Kakashi_ initially having trouble to aim at his target with _Kamui_\nproperly, he struggled to hit his target. Recall the episode when _Kakashi_ is\nusing _Kamui_ on _Deidara_. _Hidan_ is shown to be very skilled in melee\ncombat, meaning he could run and jump to dodge _Kakashi's_ aim. \n**2.** It requires some amount of preparation time and has a huge drain on his\nchakra each time it is performed. If he missed, a huge portion of his chakra\nis wasted. \n**3.** _Kakashi_ hasn't completely mastered _Kamui_ yet, so at the time\ntransporting an arm was his limit. Don't forget that _Hidan_ is an immortal\nbastard, decapitation only makes him immobilize. Even though _Kakashi_ was\ncapable to aim at _Hidan's_ head accurately, _Kakuzu_ could reveal his 4 masks\nwith different nature affinity to disturb _Kakashi_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn many shows characters poke their Japanese swords with a soft-looking ball\non a stick. It seems that swordsmen in real life did that too. What's the\npurpose of that? Here's one example from Shaman king E02:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zPjN3m.gif)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis “fluffy ball” is a standard part of any sword care kit (see the red ball\nin the picture below). It contains some sort of powder ‒ I believe chalk ‒\nthat is used gather and bind any fluids on the sword before oiling it again.\n(That powder acts sort of like a sponge.)\n\nWhen cleaning your sword you will usually use clean water to remove any big\npieces of dirt, then distribute this chalk powder all over your sword by\n“poking” the “fluffy ball” on the sword and then use a clean cloth to wipe the\nblade clean before putting the oil on it and distributing it evenly.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QZMhy.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs @almost-time said, plus it helps polishing the blade. If you have rough\nmetal, you start with harsh sandpaper (or stone), then go to finer and finer\nas the metal is more and more polished. (It is work of sword maker on this\nlevel). But when it is polished enough you need to use really fine and soft\nmaterials. At some level you can improve it only with something soft as a soft\nchalk or so. Also the metal is still corroding, even if very little so you\nneed to keep it polished. The finer polishing, the less and smaller scratches,\nthe less of influence of weather and so.\n\nAlso this make some more bond between the warrior and the sword, as it makes\nany repeating caring about something. And the sword is soul of the warrior, so\nthe bond is natural part of his mind. You can have servant to clean your\nclothes and to cook your food, but you take care about your sword personally.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe powder (and the ball) is called 'uchiko' and, while it is mildly abrasive,\nit is used to absorb moisture and acidic grease (from fingers) on the blade. I\nteach iai, and after each session I will inspect the blade, tsuka etc for any\nloose items, wipe the blade with very soft paper, tap with the ball to coat\nboth sides and the back of the blade with powder, wipe ONCE with paper to\nremove the powder, and then oil\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the recent manga release of One Piece, we all know that Jesus Burgess\ninfiltrated the Revolutionary Army HQ (Baltigo) and reported it to his Captain\nBB.\n\nMy question is how did the World Government know that the Blackbeard Pirates\nwere planning on attacking the Revolutionary Army HQ. we could take note that\nthe one who attack in Baltigo are Cipher Pol, not the Marines.\n\nAs I remember, Cipher Pol is directly serving World Government (Nobles). Even\nif that Information came from marines first. How did they know? Is Aokiji a\nspy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can think of one possible solution. The black den den mushi which can spy on\npeople's conversations. I'm guessing that the world government (CP0 or the\nMarines) were either near Blackbeard or near Baltigo originally spying on\neither Blackbeard or Baltigo (since it is a suspicious country). Once they\ntapped into the conversation, they got confirmation of Dragon's location.\n\nThe other assumption is that CP0 followed Sabo from Dressrosa to Baltigo.\nAfter following them and finding their hideout they planned a full out attack\nbut got there to meet the place in ruins due to the Blackbeard pirates. I\ndoubt that they followed Sabo since the Revolutionary army were secretive and\ncareful about everything they did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Hai to Gensou no Grimgar the volunteer army necklace has two tags. During\nthe fight between Mary's former party and Death Spot, and later during the\nfight between Death Spot and Haruhiko, all of them pulled one of the tags off\nfrom the necklace and let it fall to the dungeon's floor. Why is that? What's\nthe point in leaving the tag there? Does the light novel, the anime is based\non, explains why they do such thing? Considering that the tags doesn't come\ncheaply.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI see that this season, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is being streamed by\nAmazon, which holds exclusive distribution rights to the series and will also\nhold exclusive distribution rights to other series on the same network as\nKabaneri in the future.\n\nEven though I know that Amazon had acquired exclusive distribution rights to\nother non-anime series like Under the Dome, I was a bit surprised to see an\nanime title be subjected to exclusive distribution.\n\nThat led me to wonder: have there been any other anime that have been\nsubjected to exclusive distribution rights in the past? In particular, by a\nparty not dedicated to anime distribution like Amazon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan anyone direct me to a site or does anyone have the full list of all the\nNaruto Shippuden uncut box sets. I have Season 1 box set 1, 3 , 4. I am trying\nto buy all of them. I am hoping to NOT have to buy individual dvd's Thanks for\nany help\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are currently **[26 Box\nSets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Naruto:_Shippuden_episodes#Box_sets)**\nbeen released, the 27th Box Set will be released on July 5, 2016.\n\nYou can hang around on these websites to find the best price.\n\n> [Ebay](http://www.ebay.com/bhp/naruto-shippuden-box-set) \n> [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-\n> alias%3Daps&field-\n> keywords=Naruto+Shippuden+box&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ANaruto+Shippuden+box) \n> [Walmart](http://www.walmart.com/search/?query=naruto%20shippuden%20box)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Death Billiards, the old man is sent to the void and the younger one is\nsent to be reincarnated. But why? What was the basis for this decision? It\neven contradicts other decisions in Death Parade. For example, the one shown\ndarkness was the young man.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was pretty subtle, as is the show's decisions, or perhaps, Decim's\ndecisions.\n\nRight as the old man is about to head up the elevator he flashes an evil grin:\n\n\n\nThis suggests the old man might've manipulated the young man into believing he\nwas a fragile, innocent elderly person when he wasn't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the main series _Death Parade_ , Decim had spoken on more than one occasion\n(episodes 7 and 10) of his respect for people who had lived their lives to the\nfullest (生を全うした人間を尊敬する). It was obvious that Decim considered the young man to\nbe one such person, but what about the old man? The old man cited the reason\nhe must win and leave that place as being\n\n> I've already decided that I'll eat one [pickle] right before I die\n\nand that was exactly what he was last seen doing right before his death.\nCompare that to the young man's motivation:\n\n> I want to get out of here and apologize to her.\n\nIn other words, the young man wanted to do something differently with his\nlife. What good would there be by sending the old man to be reincarnated, if a\nlarge chunk of his life could be summarized in 4 seconds in a boring GIF?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGrMl.gif) \n**_Reaching for the sky_ becomes _blocking a ray of sunshine_.**\n\nThen there was the thrill of being able to beat people up again, the \"been a\nvegetable for the past few years\" fraud, [the fishy\nconversation](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3334/8486) between the old man\nand Decim, the hiss at 22 minutes and 26 seconds, and the evil grin [as\nmentioned by Quill](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/31630/8486). Too many\ndark things about the old man that were only known to Decim.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching the Hellsing Ultimate and I feel like a lot of backstory on\ncharacters is sort of left out. I don't quite get the reason for Walter's\ntreason and why does he want to kill Alucard so bad?\n\nAnd how did Walter go to his younger form in the last fight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile I cannot completely answer your question, I can point to a few reasons.\n\n1) Walter is getting old, and he does not wish to.\n\n2) Walter does not want to become obsolete.\n\n3) Walter wants to defeat Alucard in battle.\n\nBased on this, we can come to a possible answer. After Walter and Alucard\nfought against the Nazi in the Second World War, Walter saw Alucard as a\nchallenge. He wanted to become stronger than Alucard, and thus made a deal\nwith Millennium. He would be made into an artificial vampire, and try to kill\nAlucard.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou have 2 questions here, and so there are 2 answers to provide.\n\nYour first question, Why did Walter want to kill Alucard, has little to no\nreal revealed reasons. The Wiki article for [Walter C\nDornez](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_C._Dornez) Has one quote that\noffers Alucards belief why.\n\n> Alucard goes on to present what he believes is the reason for Walter's\n> betrayal; his fear of becoming old and useless. To prove his abilities to\n> himself, Walter desired to destroy Alucard, and allowed this obsession to\n> consume him.\n\nThis however has one flaw, in that Walter planned to die regardless of success\nor not in the end. proving oneself to not be obsolete, but then becoming\nobsolete instantly afterwards is counterproductive. Why he planned to die is\nunknown, but it was guaranteed for reasons I will mention later. This means\nthat this reasoning was not the truth when Walter attacked, but it may have\nbeen the reasoning when he began. It was heavily hinted that Walter began his\nbetrayal when he was about 14 years old, and first witnessed Alucard's power.\nIt could be that he had that kind of reasoning at that time, but later on\nchanged his mind, wanting to surpass or kill Alucard regardless of his death\nafter success. That would satisfy half of the origional goal of beating\nAlucard, and in his older age allow him to die, at least satisfying his\nobsession.\n\nIt could also be that he saw Alucard as a real monster, a threat, and decided\nAlucard had to die, one way or another.\n\nA third reason is hinted at by one of his quotes\n\n> \"We are the evening's entertainment. And I... just wanted to do something\n> with my time on the stage worthy of applause...\"\n\nif this one is the truth, it could be that he did have an obession with\nkilling Alucard, but it was so that he could have the Legacy of being the one\nwho killed Alucard the Neigh immortal and undeniably evil monster, to feel\nthat his life truly had meaning.\n\nWe never truly got a straight answer out of him though, So this will probably\nforever be shrouded in that mystery unless someone else has stuff I missed.\n\nAs for your second question, How he got younger, it is a fairly simple one. He\nhad the Millennium Doctor perform a special version of the Vampirification\nSurgery on him. He became an [Artificial\nVampire](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Artificial_Vampire) , and\nwhat made it special was that it's modified but flawed regeneration regresses\nhis body as it activates. That tidbit is hidden in the wiki in the third\nparagraph of Walters Millennium Secret weapon part of his history Section. The\ndown side was that it was not a perfected surgery, and was rushed, so\npermanent damage was done to him. He was literally deteriorating as he fought\nAlucard. His deterioration would cause his Flawed regeneration to kick in, and\nhe would heal, and regress in age. As such, the surgery doomed him to only\nhave hours or days left alive, no matter what he did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first comment mentions how Walter already planned to die after he killed\nAlucard, and then goes on to use the quote \"We are the evening's\nentertainment. And I... just wanted to do something with my time on the stage\nworthy of applause...\"\n\nBased on these words, Walter wanted to do something that everyone thought to\nbe considered impossible to become infamous. And as we see in the fight\nbetween Luke and Alucard, everyone thinks Alucard is immortal. Luke tried to\nprove otherwise by killing him but he failed, so Walter stepped in to prove\nwhat Luke Valentine could not. \"Worthy of applause.\" He wants to do something\nhe will be praised for, and he believes killing Alucard will get him that\npraise. It would be something he would be remembered by. Alucard also says in\nhis fight with him that he believes Walter was\n\n> Afraid of becoming old and useless. Maybe [he was] afraid of being\n> forgotten.\n\nI don't think he _originally_ planned to die, seeing as his betrayal started\nwhen he was fourteen years old and he had his whole life ahead of him. But as\ntime passed and Walter grew old, he grew bored of life and was ready to die.\nSo he planned to die after he killed Alucard, which was his life's goal. Or\nperhaps he did want to die after he killed Alucard no matter the age, and felt\nas though after he had completed his biggest goal in life, there would be no\npoint in living. There's really no clear reason why Walter planned to die, so\nthose are just a couple of my theories. But he betrayed the Hellsing\norganisation for a couple of reasons. As Alucard says, he didn't want to be\nold and useless. Walter also confirms that Alucard's theory that he didn't\nwant to be forgotten. He just wanted to do something he would be remembered\nby. Everyone wants to be remembered for something great they did, and Walter\nis no exception.\n\nAs for him becoming younger...well, I believe that question has already been\nthoroughly answered, but I'll give a brief run-down of it.\n\nWalter becomes what is called an Artificial Vampire\n(<https://hellsing.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Artificial_Vampire> That's the\narticle. Forgive me, I don't know how to put the name with the link. I'm new\nto this website and this is my first time answering a question. Until now,\nI've just been reading threads.) Artificial Vampires are made using Mina\nHarker's DNA. Mina Harker is 'The Girl' who was mentioned in Alucard's dream\nin the second episode, and she is also one of the main character's in Brom\nStoker's book. Mina Harker is special because she drank from Alucard\n(unwillingly), and therefore has his blood inside of her.\n(<https://hellsing.fandom.com/wiki/Mina_Harker> Wiki page on Mina Harker. I'll\nfigure out this whole naming the link thing eventually.) The Doktor was using\nher DNA to make vampires, including Walter. He implied that Walter was\nsupposed to be a higher level vampire by calling him an 'Experiment,' which he\ndidn't seem to do with the other vampires he created. In this experimentation,\nhe made Walter younger, and gave him advanced regeneration. However, since the\nexperiment was rushed, it was flawed and also gave him advanced deterioration,\nas well as forced him to regenerate, which turned back time.\n(<https://hellsing.fandom.com/wiki/Walter_C._Dornez> The advanced\ndeterioration is and forced regeneration is briefly mentioned in the 'Post-\nExperimentation' paragraph.)\n\nSo to sum all that up and put it in simple terms, Walter's body is being\nforced to regenerate, which is causing deterioration, and is shown in loss of\nyears.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, I'd like to say, that I **did not** see _Log Horizon 2nd season_\n, so if answer should contain any spoilers, just direct me to watch _Log\nHorizon 2_.\n\nShiroe explained, that new datadisk was released pretty much the same time as\nthe [Apocalypse](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Catastrophe) happened. That\ndatadisk, apart from others, increased level cap to 100. There also were\nguilds, which were buying EXP pots from such bad guilds as\n[Hamelin](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Hamelin) in order to progress\nfaster. But, in the whole season 1, I did not notice anyone having level\nhigher than 90. Is getting EXP such slow (past 90) in Elder Tale, or am I\nmissing something? I did not even see anyone's EXP bar, but leveling is\ndefinitely possible, since Minori's team managed to get few levels in main\nclass.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Elder Tales was first released, the maximum attainable level was 40. It\nwwas gradually increased throughout the expansion packs. Before the\nCatastrophe, the maximum attainable level was 90.\n\nAccording to the [Wiki](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page),\n\n> With the release of the Homesteading the Noosphere expansion pack, the\n> maximum level cap rose to 100. However, this change probably only applies to\n> the Yamato server, as the other servers were not yet implemented with the\n> expansion pack when the Catastrophe struck.\n\nIt is unclear to exactly how many servers was this expansion pack applied\nwhich implies that not all the players trapped inside the game have the\nability to grow their levels beyond 90. But the expansion pack does apply to\nthe Yamato server. Meaning the players in Log Horizon can definitely level up\nbeyond 90. It can be concluded that leveling up beyond 90 is just very very\nslow and requires a lot of EXP points.\n\nMoreover, it kind makes sense too that we don't see any characters above level\n90 since none of them are actually seen grinding for high level monsters.\nShiroe's gang was at doing that at least before Shiroe started working for the\nRound Table Conference. But they had no time for that after Shiroe tried to\nbring everyone together. They have become more \"politics oriented\". Trying to\nset up proper living system in Akihabara, the round table conference and all.\nNone of them is really going all out for EXP. So it seems only logical that\nnone of them were able to accumulate enough EXP points yet.\n\nHere's a link to the [level system](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Level)\nresource from the Wiki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second season of Ansatsu Kyoshitsu, every episode's name appears with a\n\"by XXXXXXXX\", where XXXXXXXX is a student's name:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mycdk.jpg)\n\nThen the same thing happens halfway through the episode, but instead of having\nthe episode's name, it just says \"Assassination Classroom Second Season\", with\na different student's name:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yIpMV.jpg)\n\nAt first, I thought these might be significant to the story being told in that\nepisode, and that the episode was in some way gonna be centred around that\nstudent. However, that does not seem to be the case (unless I'm seriously\nmessing up the students' names).\n\nIs there any significance behind what names appear in each episode, or are\nthey just every student's names picked in random order and have no connection\nto the episode itself?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found a lot of danganronpa manga series and light novel. So what is the\norder of reading Danganronpa manga and LN?\n\nManga\n\n 1. Danganronpa: The Manga\n 2. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc 4koma KINGS The Manga\n 3. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The Manga\n 4. Super Danganronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubou Gakuen: 4-Koma KINGS The Manga\n 5. Super Danganronpa 2 - Komaeda Nagito no Kouun to Kibou to Zetsubou\n 6. Super Danganronpa 2 - Nankoku Zetsubou Carnival!: The Manga\n 7. Super Danganronpa 2: Nanami Chiaki no Sayonara Zetsubou Daibouken\n 8. Super Danganronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubou Gakuen - Comic Anthology\n 9. Zettai Zetsubou Shoujo - Danganronpa Another Episode: The Manga\n 10. Zettai Zetsubō Shōjo: Danganronpa Another Episode - Genocider Mode: The Manga\n 11. Zettai Zetsubo Shojo Danganronpa Another Episode - Comic Anthology\n\nLight Novel\n\n 1. Danganronpa/Zero\n 2. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF\n 3. Danganronpa: Togami\n 4. Danganronpa Kirigiri\n 5. Ultra Despair Hagakure\n 6. Danganronpa 1 ・2 Beautiful Days\n 7. Makoto Naegi's Worst Day Ever\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Why is Senketsu the only Kamui that can\ntalk?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/10047/7579) is a related, but\nslightly different question.\n\nSenketsu is the only uniform that can talk, and apparently he can only talk to\nRyuuko because their brains are connected at some level by Life Fibers. He\nalso seems to be the only uniform that can move and think on its own.\n\nHowever, late in the series, when Ragyo forces Ryuuko to put on Junketsu, it\nseems like Junketsu might have a consciousness--it might be able to think,\neven if it can't speak or move. It seems to have a will; it resists being\nremoved by Ryuuko, and after she tears it off, Satsuki is only able to wear it\nbecause it was infused with some of Ryuuko's blood and Senketsu's Life Fibers,\nwhich changed its \"personality\" in some way. It also seemed like Junketsu\nmight be creating some of the visions in Ryuuko's mind while she wore it, like\nwhen she saw herself at a wedding. But the scene was ambiguous; it could have\nalso been Ragyo and Nui creating these visions and making Junketsu bind itself\nto Ryuuko.\n\nWe never see Junketsu talk or move, and it seems safe to assume it can't. But\ndoes Junketsu actually have a consciousness, or was it just made to behave\nthis way by Ragyo and Nui?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the beginning of the film, it looks that Yubaba is searching for Chihiro\nwith the clear intention to turn her into animal.\n\nWhat reasons prevent Yubaba to do so when Chihiro suddenly comes to her\noffice? While being rude, Yubaba still talks to Chihiro and at the end offers\nto sign the job contract. Looks like Yubaba is restricted by some rules she\nmust follow. Why, and what are these rules?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was two reasons actually: Yubaba's oath and...... Big Baby's tantrum!\n\nIn the English dub, Yubaba said: \" _I cant believe I took that oath. To give a\njob to anyone who asks. Ridiculous! I hate being so nice all the time._ \" So\nyeah she can't turn down a job request but she can intimidate you to change\nyour mind.\n\nYubaba was having fun intimidating Chihiro. Until Big Baby woke up. She\ndoesn't want to deal with Big Baby's tantrum, so she gave in to Chihiro's\nincessant request.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cZtOS.png)\n\nOne thing I find funny during that scene is, she told Chihiro that she doesn't\nwant her because she's a spoiled cry-baby, with no manners. Hey lady, you just\ndescribed your son!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat purpose does the train, pictured in the movie, actually serve in the\nghost world?\n\n * The train does not seem to provide service to and from Yubaba's house.\n * The train's purpose appears to be to transport some dark shadows one way only. Who are they, and where are they going?\n * Strangely, humans used it in the past (Chihiro and her parents use the remnants of the abandoned station to enter the ghost world).\n * It is probably not a joke to use this train, as just doing so proves the true love and earns Chihiro respect from Rin (\"I take my words back\").\n\nThe train is clearly the strong symbol of something. What does it represent?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNikyu-Nikyu no Mi is devil fruit that eaten by Bartholomeo Kuma, this fruit\ncan be translated as Paw-Paw Fruit.\n\nThe power of this fruit are it can repelling any attack, or pain from our body\nas we can see in Thriller Bark arc when Kuma repelling the pain from Luffy.\nThis fruit also can make other peoples flying for few days to somewhere place\nin the world.\n\nWhat I'm ask here is what the reason behind a paw that can \"repel\"? Is there\nany myth or something that make this fruit named as Nikyu-Nikyu no Mi/Paw-Paw\nFruit?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis will sound a bit nutty, but I would add to bot's \"Niku-kyuu\" answer that\nit may be a Disney reference? Baloo the Bear from the Jungle Book sings \"When\nyou pick a pawpaw (fruit), or a prickly pear, and you prick a raw paw, well\nnext time beware!\" Kuma's catchphrase of asking where you would go on a trip\n(and sending people to their personal hell/paradise) I think is likewise a\nreference to Brer Bear as depicted in Song of the South, who got very excited\nabout Brer Rabbit's \"Laughin' Place\" that promises both honey and bees. It\neven lines up nicely with how the final treasure island is called Laugh Tale\n-- everybody's looking for the pot of (liquid) gold...\n\nI'm personally persuaded of the Song of the South reference due to Oda linking\nracialized exclusion from theme parks with a history of slavery on Saobody,\nand foreshadowing this set up with the shadow zombies (ie slaves) in use at\n\"Thriller Bark\", itself a mutation of the phrase Amusement Park (with a\nMichael Jackson reference thrown in for good measure). I'd even argue that the\nDavy Back fight was foreshadowing, the way it had sailors FORCED INTO\nSERVITUDE in the midst of a BIG HAPPY CARNIVAL. They even sold Foxy\nmerchandise like he was Mickey Mouse.\n\nAnd if the other Disney references pan out, I'd guess Aokiji is partly a\nreference to the \"blue bird\" from Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, since they're cracking\njokes about discrimination like 2 or 3 pages into his introduction. Maybe\nWater 7 is Splash Mountain! I could go on, but that's the gist of it\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one of Yui's Trivia Corner Segments from _Sword Art Offline 6_ , she says\nthat Alfheim Online is mainly based off of Norse Mythology, so there are a\nnumber of references to it in ALO.\n\nThe only reference that I know of is that the World Tree in Alfheim Online is\nsupposed to represent Yggdrasil, with the 9 Fairy Nations around The World\nTree being the 9 Realms that are connected to one another by Yggdrasil.\n\nThus, I am wondering what other Norse Mythology references there are in\nAlfheim Online.\n\n",
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It is referenced in ALO as the cause of change in\nJotunheim, that is the outbreak of ice giants from Nilfheim, which is located\nunder Jotunheim, cause the change in Jotunheim's once green lands to that of\nice and snow.\n\n[Muspelheim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muspelheim) (Norse: Muspelheimr) is\nland of fire. In ALO it is located under Nilfheim.\n\n[Yggdrasil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil) (Norse: Yggdrasil) the\nthree that connects the 9 worlds according to Norse mythology. Out of those 9\nonly Alfheim, Jotunheim, Nilfheim and Muspelheim mentioned in ALO. Out of\nthose 4 only 2 (Alfheim and Jotunheim) are actually shown.\n\n## NPCs\n\n[Thor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor) (Norse: Thor) the god of thunder,\nwielder of the magic hammer Mjolnir, son of Odin.\n\n[Freya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja) (Norse: Freyja) is a goddess\nassociated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death.\n\n[Thrym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Erymr) (Norse: Þrymr) is king of\nJotunheim. In ALO he is a king of Nilfheim who invaded Jotunheim along with\nhis ice giants.\n\n## Weapons\n\n[Excalibur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur) is a sword belonged to\nthe legendary King Arthur of England. It is also one of the sword featured in\nmany video games, mainly Final Fantasy. In Final Fantasy series it usually is\none of the strongest swords. In ALO it is a sword promised by Thrym as a prize\nfor slaughtering the original dwellers of Jotunheim (Tonki's race).\n\n[Mjolnir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mj%C3%B6lnir) (Norse: Mjölnir) is a\nmagic hammer of Thor, capable of summoning thunders.\n\n## Story\n\n**[Thor missing his\nhammer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6tunheimr#How%20Thor%20Lost%20His%20Hammer)**\nis one of Norse legends, where Thor lost his magic hammer Mjollnir. It was\nsaid that his hammer was stolen by the king of the Jotun, Thrym. Thor,\nalthough reluctant, agreed to Loki's suggestion to dress as Freyja in his\nattempt to get the hammer back. Thor later killed Thrym and get his hammer\nback. This is referenced in ALO with Klein finding a female NPC with HP bar\nlocked in a prison made of ice. Later during the fight between Kirito's party\nand Thrym, the said female NPC revealed himself to be Thor. Thor then killed\nThrym much like in the legend.\n\n## Races (Bonus Section)\n\n[Cait Sith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_s%C3%ACth) in its original myth\nstole people's soul before they are collected by gods upon their death. In\nALO, they are beast tamers. Silica and Shinon are [Cait Sith in\nALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Cait_Sith). Cait Sith originated\nfrom Scotland.\n\n[Spriggan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spriggan) are small fairies said to\nbe guardian of treasures. They are said to be mischievous. It has the ability\nto transform into huge creature. Kirito is a Spriggan in ALO. Kirito also used\na transformation magic to transform into The Gleam Eyes which is a reference\nto this ability. [Spriggan in\nALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Spriggan) also known to be very\nuseless in magic due to their magic being mere illusions (reference to their\nmagic being for mischiefs).\n\n[Gnome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome) are small, humanoid Earth\nfairies. [Gnome in ALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome) are known\nto be master miner. Agil is a gnome.\n\n[Imp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imp) are small goblin like creature. [Imp\nin ALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Imp) are not very well explored\nwith the only known Imp is [Konno\nYuuki/Zekken](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Konno_Yuuki).\n\n[Leprechaun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun) in its original myth\nare said to have hid a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Lisbeth is a\n[Leprechaun in ALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Leprechaun).\n\n[Pooka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%BAca) originated from Ireland.\nPooka or Púca means ghost or spirit in Irish. It is not well explored in ALO.\nSasha is a [Pooka in ALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Pooka).\n\n[Sylph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylph) are wind spirits. [Sylph in\nALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sylph) are master in wind magic.\nSylph is also the race that has the most known characters. Lady Sakuya - Lord\nof the Sylphs, Leafa, Recon, Sigurd (Exiled), and Erika (Asuna's alter\naccount) are Sylphs.\n\n[Undine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undine) are water spirits. [Undine in\nALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Undine) are also master of water\nmagic. Asuna is an Undine in ALO.\n\n[Salamander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander) in ALO are known to be\nmaster of fire magic. This is a reference to a type of salamander (animal)\nthat is resistant to fire, called fire salamander. [Salamander in\nALO](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Salamander) is unique in that it is\nthe only race not based on English, Irish, or Scottish myth. 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"body": "\n\nIt’s all timed by years and fits together.\n\nThe order is:\n\nArise, New Movie, Original movie, Innocence, SAC, SAC 2nd Gig, Solid State\nSociety, and SAC_2045\n\nThat’s the literal timeline. They are all dated in their own respected series\nand all make sense time wise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAcademy City seems like a really weird city to me. At first I thought it was\nsome super advanced city that was created with the sole purpose of filling it\nout with educational institutions for science and research, but a lot of\nthings don't seem to make sense.\n\nI watched the first season and it seemed really weird that the government was\nsupporting the experiments for a level 6 esper. Something like that sounds\nlike something the military would want. Why in Academy City?\n\nAnother thing that seems kind of weird is the Enforcement body \"Judgment\". Why\nis there such an enforcing body with such high level espers? Doesn't that\nimply that such weird and dangerous things are normal in Academy City?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAcademy City, also known as Academy City of Science and Technology, is a\nlandlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave\nwithin the Tokyo Metropolitan Employment Area. As the city's name suggests, it\nis a city of several schools and institutions of higher learning from\nkindergarten to university level that learn side-by-side along with the\nscientists who research on psychic powers and higher technology, the latter\nbeing one of the primary reasons for its establishment.\n\nAccording to the Wiki\n\n> **The city was founded by the magician Aleister Crowley to do studies and\n> research on the development of preternatural abilities.**\n>\n> According to Therestina, the students in Academy City are just being used to\n> further the research and development in the achievement of a Level 6. How\n> truthful her words are remains to be seen, however its important to note\n> that both Aleister Crowley and Board of Directors have allowed deaths of\n> students, and have allowed and supported further experimentation and\n> research at the expense of many lives.\n\nAs for your second question...\n\nJudgment is one of the primary peacekeeping forces in Academy City. The other\none being the Anti-Skill; these two groups are composed of trained students\nand faculty respectively which deal with crimes and conflicts with security.\nThey are authorized to retrieve Information from surveillance equipment within\nAcademy City, to check if there are any crimes occurring, in addition to their\nconstant patrol duties. Academy City also has a fire department as well as\nemergency response organization.\n\nAlthough on the surface, it seems like it is only an educational city but\nthere are quite a few sinister things going on on the inside. And the\nadministration is of course at the center of it. Yes, it does imply that there\nmight be other reasons for the founding of Academy City. [Ability Body Crystal\nExperiments](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Academy_City_Level_6_Experiments)\nare another series of experiments that are illegal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nImagine 5 years old Misaka Mikoto living not in Academy City, but in \"normal\"\ncity.\n\n * Misaka touched her friend.\n * Friend got electrified.\n * Misaka was surprised.\n * Friend still electrified.\n * Misaka don't now how to stop.\n * Friend got fried.\n\nThat is just one example. Another would be Shirai Kuroko using her teleport\npower but left her hair and thus shows up bald at the destination point.\n\nThe main purpose of Academy City, is to educate the students with esper powers\nso that they can control it well. It also educates people that want to develop\nesper powers as can be seen when Kamijou Touma attended school with fellow\nlevel 0 or Saten Ruiko's school. As those students can control their powers\nbetter, their level goes up. This is also one of the goals of academy city,\nresearching esper powers. At the very least, this is how academy city shows\nitself to the world.\n\nAs things currently are, the highest level known for esper powers is level 5\nwith only 7 people managed to achieve that. Therefore, for research purpose,\nthey did the experiment to see whether it is possible to achieve higher level\nor not. Of course Accelerator, being the best among the 7 level 5s is chosen\nas the candidate for the experiment. Railgun was chosen as the mob for\nAccelerator to kill as they hypothesized that by killing Railgun 20k times\n(not sure if that is the correct figure) Accelerator would be able to achieve\nlevel 6. This is the dark part of academy city that it doesn't show to the\nworld.\n\n**Judgement**\n\nThe use of Judgement is mainly because one can't be very sure whether the\ncriminal would be a level 0 or a leveled esper. Suppose that it is not a level\n0, then normal means might not be possible to arrest them. Therefore to catch\nthose criminals another esper would be needed. This use the principal of\nfighting fire with fire. Also to be noted, not all members of judgement are\nhigh leveled esper. In fact, in Railgun and Railgun S anime there were no\nlevel 5 member of judgement. Misaka indeed illegally used Shirai's judgement\narmband and posed to be one before but that was illegal. As far as I know\nShirai Kuroko is the highest level member of judgment, being a level 4.\nAnother member, Kazari Uiharu was a level 1. The chief of the 177th branch\n(Shirai and Kazari's boss) is a level 3.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm sorry, but Ayase Eri's answer is completely wrong.\n\nMisaka did not have powers before coming to Academy City. Espers who acquire\ntheir Abilities without the help of Academy City are called\n[Gemstones](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Gemstone), of which we\nonly know of a small handful. (Himegami Aisa aka Deep Blood, Sogiita Gunha the\n7th Level 5, and a couple others.)\n\nGemstones came first. Then Academy City developed a method of artificially\nrecreating this phenomenon (the Power Curriculum Program), allowing them to\nmass-produce Espers.\n\nThe real reason Academy City is so interested in a Level 6 Esper is because\nsomeone who achieved that level would also achieve SYSTEM - the 'knowledge of\nthe the will of the heavens'. Basically, they want a Level 6 so they can\nexperiment with/on them, the same reason they want any other Espers.\n\nAs for Judgement, you actually get a skewed view of the organisation from\nKuroko. Judgement officers actually have [no authority outside the school they\nare assigned to](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Judgment#Duties) \\-\nKuroko keeps overstepping her bounds. Normally, any dangerous incidents are\nhandled by Anti-Skill, the adult-run organisation.\n\n> Overall, the role of a Judgement officer is more like a part-time civilian\n> patrol officer and are often used in community services, such as cleaning\n> garbage from the streets (when cleaning bots are unavailable), helping\n> locate lost objects, traffic duty, etc.\n\nAnd of course there are weird and dangerous things happening all the time.\nHalf the point of the city is to give superpowers to children - you better\nbelieve they have forces to keep them in check.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs stated in the question, is Goku the first Super Saiyan? If not, who was the\nfirst Super Saiyan? Was it:\n\n 1. Goku \n 2. Broly \n 3. Bardock (according to [the Episode of Bardock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBdztZ2jhw))\n 4. Someone else\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first super sayian was Bardock father. He was sent back in time from\nFreza's blast that he sent at planet Vegeta. Where he met Freza's great\ngrandfather (idk how many greats) and that's where the story of super sayians\ncame from. With all his anger at having his planet destroyed, he became a\nsuper sayian. Source: [Bardock](https://youtu.be/pu-WWv11NMw)\n\nMy explanation isn't explained well enough, my bad guys.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Super Sayan was first described in the source material, Vegeta had said\nthat there had once been a super Sayan roughly 1000 years prior to the current\ntimeline.\n\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan>\n\nAs far as I know, this Super Sayan from 1000 years ago has yet to be named.\n\nSo no, Goku was not the first.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Historically, Probably NO.**\n\n**[Original Super\nSaiyan](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Original_Super_Saiyan)** was\noriginally thought to be a legend, until Goku first transformed during his\nfight with Frieza. In a filler scene in episode 66 of DBZ, the first\nappearance of the _Original Super Saiyan_ was shown, it looks like a _Great\nApe_ with _yellowish colored fur_. Apparently Super Saiyan was not in Great\nApe form, unless it's a _Golden Great Ape_ , it was made up by Vegeta's\nimagination.\n\n \n \n \nTalking about _Bardock_ , he was **suspected** as the first Super Saiyan,\nthere is no official information to prove he is the first ever Saiyan to\ntransform into a Super Saiyan. At the end of _Episode of Bardock_ , it is\nrevealed that Chilled's knowledge about Super Saiyans was passed to his\ndescendants. It is not confirmed yet that Akira Toriyama wants Bardock to be\nthe first Super Saiyan.\n\n**But until now, Bardock was the first Super Saiyan in the series with a known\nname and appearance**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNow this question has a definitive answer. This is new information. The first\nsuper saiyan was Yamoshi. Akira Toriyama gave an interview recently and he\nstated the first super saiyan and the first super saiyan god was a saiyan\nnamed Yamoshi.\n\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Yamoshi>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore and usually, characters with wing are shown to have the wing grow from\nhis/her upper back area. Example for angel/light-side characters that have\nsuch wing are Shidou Irina (High School DxD), Ikaros and the other angeloids\n(Sora no Otoshimono), and Musubi (Sekirei, only shown when she initiates an\ninori/prayer limit break). From the dark side we have Ulquiorra Schiffer\n(Bleach), Angela Blanc (Kuroshitsuji). The following picture is of the said\nIkaros.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RgQRil.png)\n\nHowever, there are also characters who has their wing grow from the posterior\narea slightly above the butt, and sometimes called as balance wing. Example\nfrom the dark side are, Rias Gremory and other devils (High School DxD), and\nNaruse Maria (Shinmai Maou no Testament).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hHAbxl.jpg)\n\nAs far as I know, those wings are originated from European stories and\ndepiction of angel and devils. In European classics grows from the back and\nnot the lower back/butt area. For example the following picture is an image of\nArch-Angel Michael from St. Catherine's monastery.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vz7Pgl.jpg)\n\nThis is further reinforced with the fact that in Shinto gods are not depicted\nwith wings. The following is an image of Susano-o-no-mikoto a Shinto god of\nstorm by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Is3A5l.jpg)\n\nWhat is the origin of those posterior wings/balance wing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a lot of anime and anime-styled fan work, anime characters are shown\nstanding on the tops of telephone poles.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJfnJm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d2KYXm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zJmRJm.jpg)\n\nI understand this angle makes it easy to show the character against nice\nscenery, but it's not something that should be as regular as it is. Was there\na particular show that sparked all the pole-standing?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI always felt that it showed martial art skills like in kung-fu films. \nThis skill is a Martial Arts Technique utilizing Mei Hua Zhuang (Plum Flower\nPoles). [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fQdFP.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBest lookout spot without close proximity to other leveled areas. To summarize\na great vantage point. Either that or just looks cool while showing skill.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe to show how awesome they are. I can also relate to martial arts. Mostly\nanimes in which a character stands on things are mostly action or martial arts\nbased.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason the characters stand on poles mostly have to do with the scene\nbeing either dramatic or to make the scene look \"cool\".\n\nThis trope is known as \"[I Have the High\nGround](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IHaveTheHighGround)\":\n\n * > Supernatural, magical, or just plain awesome beings know there's no better place to be effortlessly standing on than tall and usually thin objects, be they pine trees, lampposts or the nearest available tall building. This is flying for people who cannot fly. Or even the ones who can.\n\n * > Less about true strategy and more about looking cool. Expect Dramatic Wind (actually, wind speed increases with altitude, so wind that seems dramatic to those on the ground is ''normal'' at high altitude). In anime and manga this has become a choice dramatic entrance for villains, introduced via a panning away of the camera from a completely every day scene _(see example 1)_ , or the aftermath of a dramatic event, to reveal that said villain was watching all along, and provide a nice segue for the next part. [Example](https://youtu.be/szn-K8tewgU?t=22m35s)\n\nAs is mentioned on the page:\n\n * > This seems to have originated from training techniques that involved standing on bamboo; see, for example, the [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon) and [Teen Titans](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TeenTitans) examples. This is common in [Wire Fu](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WireFu) movies\n\nHence, there is no particular show which sparked the pole standing, but rather\nits gradual adaptation into the anime world taken from real life Martial Art\npractice techniques, which became ever so popular and a regular occurrence\nbecause animation tends to increase the dramatic effect and make it scenic as\ncompared to shows/movies, where the characters would (probably) look weird\nrather than cool, unless it's directly related to Martial Arts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I was rewatching One Punch Man, and when Genos started fighting Mosquito\nGirl, I was really enjoying the music. Is it on the OST, or is anyone able to\ntell me where it is from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes. The name of the song is **\" The Cyborg Fights\"**, or it can be found\nunder the name of **\" Genos Fight Theme\"**.\n\nHere are some links where you can listen the song:\n\n> [One Punch Man OST - The Cyborg Fight (Genos'\n> Theme)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0EERmmlB0) on YouTube\n\nIt is present in the **official soundtrack of the anime** (track #5 [on the\nOST](http://vgmdb.net/album/55383)).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that the inherited Bubuki (Oubu's limbs) change shape to fit the\ntastes of the user. It is evident in Kogane's bubuki, it has a flower pattern\nmatching her hairpins.\n\nIs there any reference that this is indeed so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer really depends on how the Bubuki works. As far as I have seen, they\nseem to be a kind of creature that has a core in the form of an eyeball that\nhas additional armour attached to them. Thus, as long as the core is not\nbroken, they can regenerate. Thus, it would seem that with a core, the\nadditional armour becomes the weapon they desire.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zJ19f.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Svq9X.jpg)\n\nAs for whether the shape is altered by the user, this is relatively easy to\nanswer for other people, but not for Kogane's Bubuki. As seen in the below\npicture, the Four Heavenly Kings used other Bubuki cores to make new Bubuki\nexactly in the form of their old Bubuki. From the Four Heavenly Kings'\nexample, they clearly had to be in contact with the cores to manufacture the\nBubuki or Matobai could have just made it for them instead of bringing the\ncores to them for them to do it themselves. Thus, we can infer that in order\nfor a Bubuki to be altered, contact need to to made.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/211LF.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ToCLy.jpg)\n\nAs for whether Kogane's Bubuki changed shape, it is most likely a **no**. In\nthe following picture, we see Kogane's first interaction with her Bubuki, it\nalready has the flower pins attached. She had not contacted the Bubuki prior\nto that incident. Thus, it is unlikely that the Bubuki had been altered prior\nto her inheriting it.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RYoKJ.png)\n\nMore proof would be Hiiragi's Iwatooshi, where we see it sealed here in the\nbox where he finds it. It already had the shape of a spear he used in the\nfuture, thus he had inherited it as it is without much alteration.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKGpI.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've done a bit of digging but I can't find the track anywhere. It's in\nepisode 7 of return of the kings (the second season). I'd like the title of\nthe track and if possible a link to download it. I really enjoy it's melody\nand would like to listen to it more often.\n\nDoes anyone know who made it or where I can find it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter some more digging I found that the track is called `K vs K` from the OST\na link to the track here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWjCr2bx9XU>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the captains and vice captains gave their powers in Urahara's sword to\nrestore Ichigo's powers, did they permanently lose part of their powers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNope. I believe it's the same case as Rukia. Even though she borrowed her\npowers to Ichigo at the start of the series and couldn't recover her powers\nwhile in the Human World, this was mostly because of Urahara's Special Gigai.\nBy the time she returned to Soul Society, she eventually got all of her powers\nback.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDo the Androids have ki or another source of energy? If so does, Android 16\nhave ki since he is fully mechanical and only living beings have ki?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust watched the first few episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai with the androids\nyesterday: they say that the living people like Goku and Vegeta can't detect\nany ki from the androids (also see\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Android_19>), and that includes both 19 and\n20 who absorb ki from people (although anime says \"energy\" never \"ki\"). Also,\n20 has Dr. Gero's brain, so some part of him is alive I guess, but also isn't\ndetected as ki when people are searching for him in the rocky hills after 19\nis defeated. So, must not be ki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd like to believe she has Ki, because she is part human. At the world\ntournament Goku asks how her and Krillin had a child together and he explains\nthat she was human to begin with and turned into an android by Dr. Gero.\n(Season 7 episode 208 or 209)(I can't remember exactly)\n\n\"The correct term is Cyborg. Human with cybernetic parts, she was human by\nbirth and turned into a cyborg, thus retaining certain human functionality,\nsuch as being able to get pregnant.\"\n\nBut that still raises the question why Goku and the others couldn't detect\ntheir energy. I guess some things should just be left unasked?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough I have to look it back up, a major thing is that their source of power\nwas physical generators in their bodies. I recall there were even claims that\nthey had unlimited power thanks to these generators. This is likely the source\nof their actual power.\n\nAs for why they are undetectable, there is a simple but fairly theoretical\nexplanation for that. Scouters and the Z warriors general ability to sense\npower is not full proof, and in fact they work about the same. The Z warriors\nspecifically learned how to suppress their power, which throws the sensing\nmethods off, even to a point where scouters could not detect Gohan and Krillin\non Namek. In a way, you could say they are leaking power, and that leaking of\npower is what is detectable. By actively containing it, it can't be detected.\nAndroids have a purely mechanical method of generating power. It is completely\nfeasible that because it is mechanical, instead of biological, it does not\nleak power, hence there is no surplus of power around them to detect.\n\nIn that way, all the androids do have some kind of Ki (as it can be used in\nthe same way as Ki), and is undetectable for the same reason that Scouters\nwere ineffective against the Z warriors on Namek.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n16 does not have ki, hence he uses laser eyes and arm cannons. 17 and 18 do,\nthat is why they are able to use ki blasts. Just look at how 18 learned\ndestructo disc. It's really simple, they use the suppression technique so the\nZ Warriors wouldn't sense them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSounds like it was done just to progress the story and to keep it interesting.\n\nThere are a couple things that don't make much sense. Whatever form of ki\nproduction they have should be able to be detected. Even though it's made\nmechanically, it's still energy. Also, the way the Z fighters fight so well is\nbecause they learned to sense their opponents' ki/energy. If you recall when\nPopo trained young Goku, he says there's ki in all living things.\n\nDon't forget about the spirit bomb, and that all living things provide energy\nto it. Also, remember when 17 adds to Goku's Genki Dama when fighting with\n\n> Kid Buu?\n\nLastly, even if they couldn't detect energy from the androids themselves, when\nthe androids 19 and 20 absorb the others' energy, shouldn't they be able to\ndetect their own stored ki?\n\nI jumped around a bit there, but it should still get the points across.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes Saitama know whats going on around him. Like people ignoring him or how\npeople or heroes treat him badly or make fun of him and things like that or is\nhe just an airhead after getting his powers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSaitama does know that people around him usually treats him badly or coldly,\nand he really cares about it: that's why he joins the Hero Association and\ntries to become a hero. In the first few episodes, he cares about how people\nview him, but in later episodes, he just starts to ignore them( tries his\nbest). For more information, visit the link below.\n\n<http://onepunchman.wikia.com/wiki/Saitama>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Puella Magi Homura Tamura spinoff manga follows Tamura, who is actually\nHomura, but no one can ever remember her name and she gets called Tamura\n(among other things) until it sticks.\n\nDuring the series, we find out that there's a bar called Akemi-ya where\ndifferent versions of Homura congregate in between repetitions of the\ntimeline, relax, eat, drink, compare experiences, and do short skits.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tx9ll.png)\n\nSome of the Homuras are radically different from the original Homura in the\nanime. There's a prankster Homura, a child genius Homura, and a princess\nHomura served by a butler Homura, like an all-Homura version of Mayo Chiki.\n\nWhile reading Volume 1, I assumed Tamura, the main Homura, was supposed to be\nthe original Homura from the anime, as in the other spinoff manga. But unlike\nthe original Homura, Tamura is able to reflect on her own actions, recognize\nmistakes, and feel empathy (sometimes excessively). We see in Volume 1 that\nthere are lookalike timeflows that correspond closely to the original, non-\nsilly timeline, so Tamura could actually be a Homura from a lookalike\ntimeline. What evidence is there in the series for or against Tamura being the\noriginal Homura from the anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, after the volumen 1 and 2, we can assume isn't Homura, because in one of\nthe timeflows she find the one of the Mami's who was crazy and try to shot\nMadoka. Beside, Tamura look like she have more empathy than Homura (just\nremember the dog and her new shield or her encourt with Mami) But we can't\nassume nothing until they show us the original timeflow of Tamura\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the dub version of Kirby: Right Back At Ya!, Kirby is depicted as a baby,\nwho can only communicate by babbling. Is this true of the original Japanese\nversion as well, or is it a product of the translation?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe babbling is present in both the English and original Japanese versions.\nFrom skimming the first three episodes, Kirby's dialogue seems roughly the\nsame. Other than the babbling, Kirby is able to repeat some words that others\nsay to him. In the first episode, he is able to repeat the names of Tiff/Fūmu\nand Tuff/Bun in both the English and Japanese versions. In the third episode,\nhowever, Kirby repeats \"sword beam\" in the Japanese version only. The babbling\nis most likely not a product of the translation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nwhile reading [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4067/1587) it\nsaid in one of the quotes\n\n> After the first season of Beast Wars (comprising 26 episodes) aired in\n> Japan, the Japanese were faced with a problem. The second Canadian season\n> was only 13 episodes long, not enough to warrant airing on Japanese TV.\n\nhowever i have a number of series which don't have even 20 episodes like\n_Puella Magi Madoka Magica_ (12 episodes), _Black Rock Shooter (Series)_ (8\nEpisodes), _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha_ (the original series and A's, 13\nepisodes each) and a number of _Monogatari_ series have less than 10 episodes\n\nSo i am wondering if what the quote says is accurate and if so how does a\nseries, like the ones i mention, get aired on TV if they aren't long enough to\nwarrant airing on Japanese TV?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, 13 episodes are enough.\n\n[Wikipedia\npage](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA_%E8%B6%85%E7%94%9F%E5%91%BD%E4%BD%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC)\nin Japanese have different note for it:\n\n>\n> 加えて、この作品と『メタルス』は元々は1つの作品だったが、当時海外では『メタルス』が展開中で日本放送が間に合わなかった。その為、本作（『メタルス』と『リターンズ』を含む）の未来に当たり、日本オリジナルの『ビーストウォーズII』と『ビーストウォーズネオ』を挟み放送することとなった。その為、最終回放送直後、抗議の電話が殺到した。\n\nTranslate:\n\n> Originally this anime (Season1) and \"Metals\" (Season2) are same series. but\n> at the time Season1 finished in Japan, \"Metals\" is not created yet. then,\n> they create and aired original seasons called \"Beast wars2\" and \"Beast wars\n> neo\" before \"Metals\". Many user complain it.\n\nBased on aired date table in\n[wikipeida](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA_%E8%B6%85%E7%94%9F%E5%91%BD%E4%BD%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC),\nIt's always aired weekly in Japan but not in US. Episode 1 in Season 1 is\naired 9/16/1996 in US, and 10/1/1997 in Japan. But Episode 26 is aired\n4/1/1997 in US, and 3/25/1997 in Japan. Japan side needs more episode for\n4/8/1997.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan you guys tell me what the name of the music that plays in Bleach episode\n46 around 19:54. When Aizen and Ichimaru arrive to save the students from\nhollows. I love this song and can't find the name on the internet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's called **BL_16 (Reminiscence - \"Bankai... Senbonzakura Kageyoshi\")**\n\nAlthough it is sometimes also known as **Destiny Awaits - Bankai Version**\n\nAs with most music in Bleach, it is composed by Shiro Sagisu.\n\nIt can be found here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei5UmDyB0i4>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've come across many forums and fan-sites of various anime. It seems that of\nthe 300 million people in America, there's a huge market for anime,\nspecifically in the gaming and streaming industries (as evidenced by the JRPGs\nand Hulu/Netflix having specific anime sections).\n\nWhy aren't more anime that aren't renewed for second seasons in Japan sent\nover to America for investment and continuation?\n\nNote: I understand when an anime is cut off because the Manga is not being\nwritten. At the same time, could the IP of an author not be bought and turned\ninto an American anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet's start by constraining the adjectives \"many\" and \"huge\" in context. Yes,\nthere are a lot of fansites out there that feature discussions around anime\nand manga, and streaming services are definitely picking more of them up.\n\nHowever, that does _not_ mean that the market for this is large. To my\nknowledge, the streaming anime business is still relatively novel; it wasn't\nuntil around 2009 before Crunchyroll [straightened up and flew\nright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchyroll#History), starting to remove\nillegal copies of anime off of its site and getting proper licenses for its\ncontent.\n\n(If you want a list of those places, [this will help\nyou.](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/922/102))\n\nMost other services in the 2000s suffered from similar issues in attaining\nlegal licenses to distribute content, or from the networks of the consumers\nbeing far too slow to reliably stream. Heck, in 2001 most people still ran a\ncopy of Windows 2000. In 2008-2009 there was more prevalence of better\nnetworks in key markets, but the chances of them having decent broadband with\nwhich to stream on was still not as high.\n\nNow, we should start talking about the difference in markets between America\nand Japan. [There's a **_lot_** more expense that has to go into a series for\nforeign distribution](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/4175/102), **and**\nthere has to be a viable and encouraging market to bring a series over. If a\nseries receives a cold domestic reception [like\nNichijou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichijou#Sales_and_reception), the\nchances of it being exported are close to nil.\n\nSimply put, it has to be a good investment for all parties involved. If it\nisn't, you won't be able to see it translated to your locale anytime soon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt may come to a surprise for you, but the anime you typically watch is not\nwhat is considered mainstream in its country of origin, unless of course you\nwatch shows made for children and families.\n\nIn fact, most of the anime that the international community consumes are what\nis called \"late night anime.\" The overall ratings on these TV series are so\nlow that the average Japanese person is likely never to have seen them. In\nother words, they are _very_ niche. To compensate for low rating and\nviewership, these types of anime typically make money from Blu-ray, DVD, and\nother merchandise sales.\n\nSince viewership is low, the budget for creating anime is pretty low as well.\nIt's been mentioned by industry insiders that the average budget for a 1-cour,\n13 episode series is about [$2 million\nUSD](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-08-13/anime-insiders-share-\nhow-much-producing-a-season-costs/.91536).\n\nLow viewership of these anime is the result of a number of factors, the most\nprominent one being cultural. If you're not aware of how things works in\nJapan, office workers tend be expected to work [12\nhour](https://thisjapaneselife.org/2011/03/09/japan-work-ethic/) shifts\n[regularly](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/22/japan-long-hours-\nwork-culture-overwork-paid-holiday-law); students are also assigned large\namounts of work (on top of [any club\ncommitments](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/06/22/issues/consuming-\nschool-clubs-worry-foreign-parents/)) and only get holidays and Sundays off.\nWith all this work, who has time to stay up late to watch late night anime?\n\nYou're probably right, surely foreign investments in these productions can\nbreathe new life into these productions. Unfortunately, the truth is a bit of\na complicated one. As you may or may not be aware, all anime (with exceptions\nsuch as the Noitamina block) are glorified infomercials to promote not only\nmanga, games, and light novel publishers, but also music production companies\n(who do you think profits off of those OP and EDs?), and general product\nadvertisers such as Pizza Hut, and Lawsons. Product advertisers such as these\ndon't care about sales, they're trying to sell themselves to you as opposed to\nthe anime.\n\nSuch promotion and advertising deals don't usually pan out when it comes to\ninternational markets. If you recall the Pizza Hut references in Code Geass,\nthe US versions blurred them out. The exact reason was never explicitly\nstated, but seeing that Pizza Hut Japan was such an overbearing sponsor\ndomestically (as in within Japan), it's possible the negotiations fell through\nwhen Bandai was negotiating with the US entity of Pizza Hut. Despite sharing\nthe same name and brand, Pizza Hut in Japan and Pizza Hut in the US are\nseparate and distinct entities with their own ideals on doing business.\n\nOn top of that, localization rights to [license a\nshow](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115579-Court-Documents-Reveal-\nAnime-Licensing-Costs) don't come cheap and often times these don't include a\n[mechnical license](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_license) to use\nthe music. Most of these licensing costs are paid upfront and if a series is\nsuccessful enough, royalties must be paid to the original production\ncommittees (which can range from [20 to\n30%](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-03-07)). This makes things\nbit cost prohibitive to just bring whatever over, so localization companies\nneed to be picky so they can pull off a product or at least pull even.\n\nWithout actual products to sell, the profit making possibilities of investing\nin new anime are slim. In 2013, the anime industry in Japan brought in over\n[$2.03 billion USD](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-01/report-\njapan-animation-industry-reached-record-high-in-2013/.82767) from Japanese\n_and_ international markets combined. In 2014, the Japanese manga industry\nmade more than [$2.3 billion\nUSD](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-23/japanese-manga-book-\nmarket-rises-to-record-282-billion-yen/.83614) just in Japan. In Japan, the\nsymbiotic relationship of anime and manga works because of the existing\ninfrastructure and relationships. However, in the US, everything is\nfragmented, making coordination between distributors all the more difficult.\n\nAs for the studio, they don't sell the distribution and merchandising rights\nof a IP that no longer is in distribution. Why would they? If you do, you're\nessentially telling the fans that you're abandoning this product, which could\ndiminish their respect for the company and its products. Similar things have\nhappened in the past such as with [Macross and\nRobotech](http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/?showtopic=36541). While there were\nsome good things to come out of such an affair (such as making the US audience\naware of the type of animation known as anime), there were some downsides as\nwell (Macross can never officially be released in the US as long as Harmony\nGold hold the rights). What's to say the owner of the IP won't reboot the\nseries later, like they did with _Sailor Moon Crystal_ , _Dragonball Super_ ,\nor _Osomatsu-san_? For better or for worse the respective IP owners hold on to\nthe rights of their respective IPs to preserve the integrity of the series for\nfor themselves, it's creators, and for the fans. Why sell off something your\npeople toiled for months and years to make to some strangers oversees to do\nwith as they like? You don't have a say once you sell off the right to your\nIP. Who's to say American companies will respect the visions and idea of the\noriginal creators and fans?\n\nHowever, not all is grim. There have been talks of joint ventures with\nJapanese companies to [invest in anime for the international\nmarket](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1441465).\n\n> Streaming video distributor Crunchyroll and Japanese trading company\n> Sumitomo Corporation announced on Thursday that the two companies are\n> establishing a joint venture which will invest in the production of anime\n> for the international market.\n>\n> That joint venture, whose entity name and size of investment have not been\n> revealed, will take part in the production committees of anime titles which\n> will then be distributed by Crunchyroll.\n>\n> Sumitomo Corporation is one of Japan's largest general trading companies\n> (sougou shousha). Its media division distributes content for cable\n> television, terrestrial broadcasters, and cinemas. In recent years, it has\n> increased investments in the business of creative content.\n>\n> In February, Sumitomo partnered with Japanese media company Imagica Robot\n> Holdings and the public-private Cool Japan Fund to acquire SDI Media, a\n> U.S.-based provider of subtitling, translation, and language dubbing\n> services.\n>\n> According to the press release, Crunchyroll boasts 700,000 paying\n> subscribers and more than 10 million monthly viewers. The report notes that\n> international distributors such as Daisuki and Crunchyroll, as well as a\n> number of Chinese companies, are increasingly taking part in production\n> committees.\n>\n> With the rising cost of licensing content for overseas distribution, content\n> providers can ensure that they win distribution rights by investing in\n> production instead of competing and paying high license fees. However,\n> Anime! Anime! Biz also notes that Crunchyroll's aim is not merely rights\n> acquisition.\n>\n> Crunchyroll co-founder and CEO Kun Gao cites the increasing importance of\n> overseas markets in the anime industry. In establishing the joint venture,\n> the company aims to connect fans to the production of anime from the time of\n> its inception. With the joint venture, Crunchyroll, which is traditionally\n> strong in North America and Europe, can also expand its distribution network\n> with Sumitomo, which is traditionally strong in Asia.\n\nThis is not to say only Crunchyroll is pursuing such a venue.\n[Funimation](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2015-07-10/.90197) and\n[Netflix](https://www.yahoo.com/tech/netflix-producing-original-anime-\nseries-224742972.html) are doing the same. How well these new ventures will\nturn out is any one's guess. How well will these companies be able to reach\ninternational fans of anime, how well do these companies understand the\ncurrent international market of anime and what fans want? Only time will\ntell...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wanted to ask if anyone knew what jutsu Minato used on Naruto in episode 442\nof Shippuuden. I understand it is a filler episode but I was curious. Minato\nuses it on Naruto while breaking up his fight with Sasuke. At 6 minutes 33\nseconds Minato places a flat palm against naruto and sends him flying. No hand\nsigns are shown and no rasengan chakra ball is shown either.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nits probably the jutsu he is most known for... the flying rajin jutsu... its\nwhy they call him the yellow flash. bascially this jutsu works by sending\nsomthing minatos chakra is in contact with to another location using a\nspecialy placed seal or marked kunai. minato has already placed several seals\naround the village in case he ever needs to move somewhere quickly and he\nsends naruto to this seal when he places his hand on him... as for the no\nhandsigns minato is a hokage level ninja.... his hand signs are too quick for\naverage ninja to see.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn One Punch Man, all city have some sort of name like A-City or Z-City, is\nthis an alias, a code name, or a real name of the cities?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell the anime and manga never explicitly states one way or the other but\ngivin how all the characters refer to them in that manner I believe that's\njust how the cities are named.My evidence being that normal citizens refer to\nthem as such implying that it is not a code name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Nurarihyon no Mago, when Rikuo uses Kyoka Suigetsu, enemy attacks\nappear to pass through him as if he were an intangible ghost. Is the technique\ncreating illusions or actually making him \"untouchable\"? It is stated that he\ncan \"distort opponent's perceptions\" with the technique, but it is also said\nthat he can \"distort his presence, even when he is still there\". So: are enemy\nattacks passing through illusions, passing through him, or a combination of\nboth these things?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe ability is named moon mirror because as it was explained \"nurarihyon is\nthe reflection of the moon\" a distortion, and I would say that it means he can\nfirst , slow enemy's perception of him to move faster like an after image\ntechnique or second, his body ripples like water to allow him to move around\nattacks. His only weakness like this is cutting the fear which means his aura\nis masking himself but those two options are viable. I believe it is a bit of\nboth because he can slow perception to allow him time to move but the ripple\nallows him invulnerability against weaker attacks because water can only\nripple so much.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre anime OP/ED theme songs original? Is it like after creating an anime, the\nproducer hires a singer to sing a song for the OP/ED theme for that anime, or\ndo they just use songs that the singer already sang for his album or something\nlike that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe vast majority of the time (easily upwards of 95% of the time, by my\nestimate), OPs/EDs are produced specifically for the anime they're used in.\nReuse of existing songs is rare.\n\nThere are counterexamples, though, which by their very rarity prove the rule.\nA few select examples:\n\n * _Erased_ reused Asian Kung Fu Generation's 2004 song \"Re:Re\".\n * _JoJo's Bizarre Adventure_ (2012 version) reused [Yes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_\\(band\\))'s 1968 song \"Roundabout\".\n * _Speed Grapher_ reused Duran Duran's 1981 song \"Girls on Film\". ([Thanks, @ConMan.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/31790/are-anime-op-ed-theme-songs-original/31792#comment44253_31792))\n * _One Week Friends_ reused Sukima Switch's 2004 song \"Kanade\", though in this case, it was re-recorded with Amamiya Sora (voice actor of the character Fujimiya Kaori) as the vocalist.\n * And, of course, _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ uses [a great many different recordings and mixes](http://vgmdb.net/album/19791) of the classic \"Fly Me to the Moon\" as its ending theme. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf a Devil Fruit user has a child with a person or another Devil Fruit user,\nwould said child have a similar power, the same power, or no power and just be\na regular child? Because from what I've seen in a lot of superhero movies,\nwhen they have kids, their kids might have the same or similar power. Would\nDevil Fruit powers be any different from that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer: No, this has not been shown, and there is overwhelming evidence\nto suggest the opposite.\n\nIn the world of One Piece, it is well established that any power gained\nthrough eating a devil fruit will be unique in the world. If there were a\nbunch of kids running around who had inherited the same powers as their\nparents, we would likely have seen someone like that by now or heard mention\nof it. If anyone is shown with some sort of a power, the first reaction of the\nother characters is always \"He must have eaten some sort of devil fruit\" and\nnever any suggestion that the power could have been gained in another way.\n\nIt would also complicate the issue that once the devil fruit user dies, the\ndevil fruit spawns again elsewhere in the world with another fruit, so if this\nwere possible, you could potentially have a family where all the members are\ninheriting a power from some ancestor, and once he died someone else ate the\nfruit and passed the power to his children, and by the present hundreds of\npeople could have the one power.\n\nAs of chapter 824, we have never to my knowledge seen a confirmed devil fruit\nuser who has a child, and there are a couple of possibilities for this. One is\njust chance, the majority of parents we see in One Piece end up dying in\nflashbacks, and devil fruits are reasonably rare, and even if we were to\nbelieve, for example, that Edward Weevil is Whitebeard's son, there is no sign\nthat he has the powers of the tremor fruit. It is of course possible that he\nwas born after his father ate the fruit, so this is not necessarily a counter\nargument.\n\nThe other interesting possibility is that eating a devil fruit might leave the\nuser sterile, as I said, we have no confirmed cases of an ability user having\na child after they gained their powers, and in many characters case such as\nLuffy, Magellan, and all Logias and Zoans, there must have been huge changes\nto their bodies as a result of them having eaten the devil fruit.\n\nTwo more possiblities are that eating a devil fruit has no effect on your\nchildren, or that it significantly lowers your fertility without reducing it\nto zero. If Superman had a son, you would expect that man to have super\npowers, as he is genetically an alien, however if someone like Spiderman, who\nwas born a normal human but later gained his powers through an event that\npotentially didn't alter his DNA had a child, you would expect that child to\nbe biologically a normal human. If it is that eating a devil fruit lowers your\nfertility massively, then it is also possible that eventually a devil fruit\nuser will successfully have a child who will inherit their power, and\npotentially lead to a dynasty of ability users.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately no. When a devil fruit user dies, the fruit will respawn two\nyears later at a random place (not really, the devil fruit power will transfer\nto the nearest fruit available and the ordinary fruit will become a devil\nfruit. We really don't know how long it takes to respawn.) The only exception\nthat I can think of but not confirmed is that Blackbeard can transfer devil\nfruit from people to people. I don't know how he does it but I have two\nspeculations. One is that his darkness darkness fruit can pull out a devil\nfruit from a person (most likely who is close or is dead like how Whitebeard\nwas) and passes it to others. Otherwise he might be having a fully matured\nordinary fruit with him after killing the devil fruit user. That way the\npowers move to the fruit since it is closer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDefinitely not, and the easiest counter example would be Big Mom. If devil\nfruit powers were hereditary, then at least one of her 85 children would have\ninherited it. Yet clearly, that was not the case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime series K-ON! there is a BGM used quite frequently but I can't\nfind it anywhere. It appears a lot throughout the anime but not in the movie.\nHere are some examples:\n\nSeason 1\n\n * episode 8: 8:17 ~ 8:48\n * episode 9: 10:47 ~ 11:16\n\nSeason 2\n\n * episode 1: 14:20 ~ 15:55\n * episode 2: 13:55 ~ 14:57\n\nThese are selected at random and the time might vary a bit depending where you\nwatch it. The hyperlink:\n<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1ew48VGOQPZRzN4Zl8zUmVjYWs/view> leads to\ngoogle drive which has the BGM. The file is an abstract from season 2, episode\n1. Please help me find this song.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the BGM you're looking for is titled Pinch Daisuki, it's on album\nK-ON! Original Soundtrack, track #33\n\n[youtube link K-ON! - Pinch Daisuki\n[EXTENDED]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybHA2x-TFM)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1 of _Bakuon!!_ , around 20 minutes in, Onsa indicates that she is\ngoing to borrow from John F. Kennedy, and says what Crunchyroll translates as\nthe following:\n\n> In exporting motorcycles throughout the world, our nation of Japan has\n> brought liberty and justice to all. And yet, could you say to your heart,\n> \"Freedom, except for Suzuki riders,\" that we are all equal before the Lord\n> except for Suzuki?\n\nWhich Kennedy oration is she taking that from? Also, here is a picture of\nanime JFK.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEJk6.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy best guess is that Onsa is rather loosely adapting the following paragraph\nof Kennedy's 1963 [Civil Rights\nAddress](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-\nresources/jfk-civilrights/):\n\n> We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our\n> freedom here at home; but are we to say to the world, and, much more\n> importantly, for each other, that this is a land of the free except for the\n> Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have\n> no class or caste system, no ghettos, no master race, except with respect to\n> Negroes?\n\nThe \"except for...\" language used by Onsa roughly matches that used in\nKennedy's oration, but that's about as far as it goes. If you have a look at\nthe [Japanese version of the address](http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Historic-\nSpeeches/Multilingual-Address-to-the-Nation-on-Civil-Rights/Multilingual-\nAddress-to-the-Nation-on-Civil-Rights-in-Japanese.aspx) (which, miraculously,\nexists), you'll find that the sentence structure is not even parallel to\nKennedy's. There are also no references to religion in Kennedy's speech, so\nI'm not really sure what it's doing in Onsa's.\n\nGoogling for fragments of Onsa's speech that one would expect to be lifted\nunaltered from their source (e.g. 「自らの魂のもとに自由」) gets you nothing but\n_Bakuon!!_ results.\n\nIn summary, I'd like to quote one of America's greatest presidents:\n\n> \"Methinks some intern was crunched for time and ended up passing off random\n> inspirational-sounding quotes as excerpts from Kennedy's speeches.\" \n> ―Abraham Lincoln\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Pokémon franchise (I'll accept answers from any canon source, whether\nthe anime, manga, games or anything else I can't think of), Poké Balls are\nused to catch Pokémon. Could you, in theory, use them to catch a human being?\nIs there any canon example of someone attempting it (I suppose it has probably\noccurred at some point in the anime for example)? Is there any canonical\nfactor that makes it technically impossible (such as \"Humans and Pokémon are\nfundamentally different\", but I think I remember that this isn't true) or is\nit possible in theory but simply not done in practice?\n\nEDIT : My question is different from the general \"How does a Poké Ball work\"\nquestion because I'm specifically asking whether / why it can not catch\nhumans. The answer to the other question does address this, but in passing,\nand it does not provide any sources, and links to a page that may have been a\ngood source in the past, but is now devoid of any relevant content (or canon\nquotes) so it doesn't really answer my question.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Pokemon Black and White_ , Ash tried to catch Iris because at an angle she\nlooked like a Pokemon. He fails to do so.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one pokemon game there is the possibility to catch a human, but even a\nmaster ball fails, so to answer your question. No its not possible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode in the first series of the show where Ash is in Pokemon Tower\nin Lavender Town to catch a ghost Pokemon to fight Serena, he sees Jessie's\nhair on fire and he assumes that it's a Pokemon on fire and proceeds to throw\na Poke-ball at her. And no it doesn't open but it just hit her face.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere was an early episode in which Ash, Misty, and Brock go to an old city\ncalled Pokemopolis. There was some mumbo jumbo with giant Pokemon(long story).\nAt on point, our Trio, Team Rocket and the scientists were trapped in an\nancient object which might have been a Pokeball.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one Episode of the Anime, Ash throws a Pokeball at an Mankey/Primeape. The\nPokemon throws a riceball at the ball and instead of the pokemon getting\ncaught, the riceball was caught. So in theory it would be possible to catch\npeople in a pokeball.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the new _Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!_ and _Let's Go, Eevee!_ , in the post\ngame, after you catch\n\n> Mewtwo,\n\nyou battle\n\n> Green.\n\nAfter you battle her, she tries to catch you by throwing pokeballs at you. But\nit's really hard to tell if your character actually goes inside the thrown\npokeballs. So maybe it is possible to catch a human in a pokeball. She seems\npretty serious about trying to catch you though. :)))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn every attempt at catching a human, it has failed. (at least to my\nknowledge). In the TV show, it just hits people. in the games Pokemon Lets Go\nPikachu/Eevee you encounter a trainer that attempts to catch you five times\nand fails. the screen whites out every time she tries. It's quite terrifying.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn all games except \"Pokémon: Let's Go\" if you use a Pokéball against a\nTrainer's Pokémon, The Trainer jumps in front of the Pokéball. You can say\nthat he/she actually goes inside the Pokéball and then escapes, but if you use\na Master Ball; The Trainer would still jump in front of it, and there's no way\nof escaping the Master Ball.\n\nso...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Pokemon White/Black 2 in the Pokestar Studios where the player can \"make a\nmovie\" there's a movie the player can make that called \"The Giant Woman\", in\nthe story the Character (played by the player) buying a cursed Pokeball, once\nhis girlfriend touches it, she's sucking into it the Pokeball. it does not\nneed to say that the movie called \"the Giant Woman\" since when she's out of\nthe Pokeball, she's giant.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9zsKA.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/At3a1.jpg)\n\nAnother movie I think called Timegate Traveler features a story where in the\nfuture Pokemon controls people, using Pokeball to use them.\n\nIt may be suggested by the game that it is not possible for a Pokeball to\ncatch a human since it is laughing at the idea.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've watched Sun and Moon and it is shown that Pokeballs do not work with\nhumans. For example, the episode \"The Long Vault Home!\" (SM85), Ash and his\nfriends try to capture Stakataka. But the Ultra Beast keeps dodging the\nPokeballs. Lillie has an idea which is four people throw a Pokeball from each\ndirection at the same time. Ash, Kiawe, Mallow and Lana attempt to do so but\nthe Pokeball hit their own faces. Nothing happened to them except for being\nhurt.\n\nHowever, in \"Dummy, You Shrunk The Kids!\" (SM83), Faba accidentally shrinks\nAsh, Sophocles and Lillie with a machine that uses the same principle as a\nPokeball. He also explains that Pokeballs shrink Pokemon and keep them inside.\nSo, technically Pokeballs can catch people except you have to malnipulate it\nso it'll catch anything.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a6Gi5.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of every episode of Yuru Yuri San Hai! (third season of Yuru Yuri),\nthere is a cross-review section (right before the preview of next episode)\nwhich features an item used in the main section of the episode. For example,\nthe shirt that Toshinou Kyouko bought that says I am AHO (AHO is Japanese,\nmeans stupid).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TzqZR.jpg)\n\nI can find that shirt being sold in the Internet, though I'm not sure which\none comes first, the shirt or the anime. This makes me curious, are the items\nfeatured in the cross-review section are actually based on real world items,\nor this t-shirt is just a coincidence? By coincidence, I mean it just happen\nto be famous and thus was created or the shirt got featured because when the\nseries creator browse the Internet for idea he/she thought that it is funny.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt plays on episode 24 at 9:00, been trying to find it for the past half hour\nand can't maybe someone can help me?\n\nIt should be from the original OST (japanese)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe soundtrack which was played for first 199 episodes in DGZ was Cha-La Head-\nHa-La by Hironobu Kageyama. Just check. if this is the one you are searching\nfor. The link is right below.\n\n<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hironobu_Kageyama_-_Cha-La_Head-Cha-\nLa.ogg>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy did Sting and Rogue kill their father dragons? Is it to become third-\ngeneration dragon slayers, or what?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn many martial arts, Asian culture films, anime and stories, you see the\nstudent always trying to beat their master, proof they have surpassed the\nteacher. In this case they go one step further. It's a tradition of sorts and\nusually the troubled or evil will go that extra step. Always tradition in\nthese stories or a variation of tradition.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMASSIVE SPOILER ALERT\n\nI apologize for not able to give any specific details or chapters of where\nit's from, but in the manga of Fairy Tails, when Natsu's team first faced off\nSting and Rogue, they were informed that Sting and Rogue killed their dragons\nto become a proper Dragon Slayer. Later on when it's the crisis of magic\ndisappearing (with all the giant faces), 5 Dragons showed up and saved the\nday. It was then that\n\n> Shadow dragon and the white dragon told everyone that they encouraged Sting\n> and Rogue to kill themselves because 1. they were sick anyway, 2. to hide\n> their existence from Acnologia (the Dragon Slayer who became a Dragon\n> himself), 3. hopefully they would become stronger and more confident from\n> killing them.\n\nChapter 413 shows the dragon destroying the faces and if you read from around\nthere you should be able to find what you're looking for. The information I\nhave given might be a bit off but hope it helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOriginally born four hundred years ago, Sting, an orphan, was raised by the\nDragon Weisslogia, who taught him Light Dragon Slayer Magic; Sting\nsubsequently became a host for his foster father's weakened soul, which\nallowed his Dragonification process to be halted due to the presence of new\nantibodies in his body. To ensure that Sting did not remember any of what had\nhappened, Weisslogia implanted the memory that Sting had been forced to kill\nhim and the results he would have actually achieved had such a thing been\ndone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\naaron stewart's answer is more to the point as per the manga, according to the\nmanga , all the dragon slayers are orphans and came back from past i,e; around\n400 years with the help of lucy's mother who then opened the eclipse gate ,\nthat's how they come to the present and when they do i.e, the day all the\ndragons disappear and during the tartaros arc it's mentioned that the dragons\nhid them under the slayers so they could stop dragonification(sort of) and\nbecome something like acnologia .here both of them killing their dragons is\njust a memory implant maybe...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just binge watched all 25 episodes of the berserk anime and I am curious to\nif Griffith knew that the Beleith was activating when the eclipse started?\nWhen they were in the river he thought to himself\n\n> Stay away from me... If you so much as touch my shoulder we can never go\n> back.\n\nDid that have any significance?\n\nI haven't read the manga and from what I've researched there is no second\nseason to it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're thinking of chapter 72-73 of the manga, if you want to look it up\n(Volume 12).\n\nGriffith sits in the lake, picks up the Behelit and remembers what Zodd and\nWyald told him. \"Use it. Call them. Our guardian angels!\". As the solar\neclipse happens, he most definitely realizes.\n\nHe then crawls backwards, away from the rest of the Band, hoping to not draw\n~~them~~ **Edit** : Guts into the eclipse.\n\nOn the matter of sequels, the actual series has no second season. There are\nthe 2013 movies (Berserk: The Golden Age) or the 2016 series (\"Berserk 2016\").\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Rukia was explaining how Mod Souls were created for Project Spearhead,\nshe said the project was scrapped because forcing corpses to fight was\nimmoral.\n\nBut why weren't Gigai considered? Unlike corpses, Gigai are created so they\nare more readily available and a Mod Soul would inhabit a corpse in the same\nway as a Soul Reaper inhabits a Gigai with the exception that a Gigai was\nnever alive to begin with.\n\nSo why wasn't it considered to use Gigai instead rather than scrap Spearhead\naltogether?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTwo words: Plot armor.\n\nAll jokes aside, this is never really explained. It is touched upon, however,\nin the anime during the non-canon Bount filler arc. The three special mod-\nsouls created by Urahara to help Ichigo regain the power of his bankai, all\nused their own custom made Gigai. Once again, this arc is non-canon and so are\nthe characters.\n\nThis one may never have a satisfactory answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen we see Rukia use Soul Candy to leave her Gigai, the Sub Soul, Chappy,\nappears to have a very distinct personality.\n\nSo when a Soul Reaper leaves their Gigai leaving it to the Sub Soul, what\nhappens to the Sub Soul when they take it back over? do they get ejected like\na Mod Soul or are they simply destroyed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 6, when Rukia went to replenish her supplies from Kisuke, she asked\nabout her special order in which Kisuke sent Ururu to look for it. After\nlooking at it, Kisuke said that the one Rukia got was the only one he could\nget as it was hard to get. Later, he finds that the box was marked as\ndefective.\n\nWhat I don't get is how no one knew it was defective. If Kisuke's supplier\nmarked it as such, firstly wouldn't they have had it destroyed because of Soul\nSociety's orders to destroy Mod Souls? If they ignored the order, then Kisuke\nshould have known because he would have seen the box and opened it, checking\nwhat it was because he knew it wasn't Chappy which is what Rukia said she\nwanted when Ichigo was complaining about it being a duck. If the box wasn't\nmarked as defective before it arrived, then Kisuke must have done it and was\nfully aware it was defective in the first place.\n\nHow did no one notice that Rukia's special order was defective before she came\nto pick it up?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> **_What I don't get is how no one knew it was defective._**\n\nKisuke Uruhara **knew** that the container contained _Kon_.\n\nAccording to Kon's [History](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Kon) entry in Bleach\nWikia:\n\n> Kon was one of the last Mod-Souls ever created for Project Spearhead, an\n> operation which made Artificial Souls designed to enhance Human physiology\n> to be placed in dead bodies in order to help the Shinigami fight Hollows.\n> Shortly after his creation the project was deemed inhumane by Soul Society\n> and was shut down, and all of the existing Mod-souls were to be terminated.\n> [Manga: _Chapter 16 page 15_ ]\n>\n> **Kon** , however, **made a lucky escape and wound up in the storage room of\n> the Urahara Shop, inside a Soul Candy dispenser**. Kisuke Urahara placed the\n> tainted dispenser in a box designated as \" _poor merchandise_ \" and **had\n> intended to dispose of it, but never did**. [Manga: _Chapter 14 page 3_ ]\n\nHe knew that the contents of the soul candy dispenser is actually a mod-soul.\nHowever, He did not dispose it, maybe because of his _nature_ , being a\nscientist or so, he might have thought of experimenting on it just like what\nhe did to Ichigo to bring back his powers.\n\n> **_If the box wasn't marked as defective before it arrived, then Kisuke must\n> have done it and was fully aware it was defective in the first place._**\n\nIt was, actually...\n\n> When Rukia asks if her order of some Soul Candy has arrived, **Kisuke tells\n> Ururu to bring the order from storage**. Searching for a box marked \"new\n> stuff\", she finds a box and brings its contents to Rukia. Urahara later\n> discovers that the box is actually labeled \" ** _poor merchandise_** \", and\n> contained Kon. [Manga: _Chapter 13 page 10-11, 19_ ]\n>\n> Jinta asks her to read the writing on the box. When Ururu struggles to\n> pronounce it, Jinta corrects her and tells Ururu that she sold a poor\n> quality item to a customer and starts pulling her hair. Kisuke tells him to\n> stop, **saying that it is his fault for not disposing of\n> it**.[source](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Ururu_Tsumugiya)\n\nLike [Ryan said in the\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/31835/how-did-no-one-\nnotice-that-rukias-special-order-was-\ndefective?noredirect=1#comment44273_31835), it was on a different box.\nHowever, because Ururu struggles on reading labels, she accidentally gave the\nwrong item to Rukia.\n\nKisuke already knew what was inside: a mod- soul. He admitted it, **saying it\nis his fault for not disposing it**.\n\n> _**How did no one notice that Rukia's special order was defective before she\n> came to pick it up?**_\n\nThey noticed that the item given to Rukia is defective **after** she came to\npick it up. The Order was in fact okay. However, the one who handed the item\nhad a misunderstanding. Because she struggles on reading labels, Ururu mistook\nthe box with a label of \" _poor merchandise_ \" as the box with a label of \"\n_new stuff_ \", which Uruhara ordered her to bring, so it was the one labelled\n[defective] given to Rukia instead.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rdh7L.png)\n\n> Jinta asks her to read the writing on the box. When Ururu struggles to\n> pronounce it, Jinta corrects her and **tells Ururu that she sold a poor\n> quality item to a customer** and starts pulling her hair. Kisuke tells him\n> to stop, saying that it is his fault for not disposing of it. Tessai says\n> that regardless of who is at fault, it could be trouble.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3AkFD.png)\n\n> Ururu apologizes to Kisuke, saying that it was her fault and asks him if he\n> is mad. Urahara reaches out to her, causing her to recoil. He places his\n> hand on her head, and tells her that it is no big deal and asks why she is\n> crying. He says that they are a team and not to worry about it, as he will\n> take care of it. Kisuke comforts her as she continues to cry.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3K9Ga.png)\n\n> Tessai informs Urahara that they are ready, and the four set out to recover\n> the merchandise, with Ururu carrying her\n> cannon.[source](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Ururu_Tsumugiya)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the final chapter of Volume 9 of the Yuru Yuri manga, Sakurako was feeling\nsleepy in the student council room. At that time Himawari stepped in,\napologizing for being late. But Sakurako, who was in dreaming mind, saw\nHimawari's face as Akari's and shouted out 「あかりちゃんの裏切り者！！」. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iGRIZ.png)\nAs I understand it, she is either calling Akari a betrayer, or saying \"Akari's\nbetrayer\", but neither of these interpretations makes any sense to me. What is\nthe real meaning of these words? Why did Sakurako say that? I know this manga\nis not meant to be difficult to understand but I just cannot get my head\naround it. So please explain that to me if you know the answer. I would really\nappreciate your help!!\n\np.s. This is the only one place in this chapter where Akari is mentioned. So I\nguess the answer may lie in previous chapters? But I do not have access to all\nvolumes from 1 up until 9.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer for this is actually funny: because Akari and Sakurako are both\nflat chested, and in anime, girls (particularly flat chested ones) sometimes\nidentify other girls as either friends or enemies depending on their breast\nsize. In this situation, Sakurako thinks Akari is a friend. When she mistakes\nHimawari for Akari, she thinks that Akari grew big boobs and left her alone\nbeing flat chested, and she yells \"You Traitor!\"\n\nIf you don't believe me (it is a bit hard to believe) watch some harem anime.\nFor example, the same situation happens in Negima.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's the note from the last chapter:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nYISs.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Utter this incantation! \n> If you don't, you won't be able to see mermaids.\n>\n> ↓\n>\n> Mermaid, mermaid \n> I beg of you \n> Make my love come true \n> For me, [do something with] blood and flesh\n>\n> (end of incantation)\n\n(I know nothing about this manga. The last line of the incantation has an\nimplied verb; one would need context in order to determine what verb should go\nthere.)\n\n",
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