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"body": "\n\nWhat is the **summoning of Shikamaru**?\n\nAnd also, can I get some explanation of his chakra nature? I don't get it, as\nKakashi skips it during Naruto's training for rasen-shuriken.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is nowhere mentioned the summoning animal of Shikamaru Nara.\n\n* * *\n\nA mythological mosnter called \"Inoshkacho\" had the body of a boar, a deer's\nantlers, and butterfly wings.\n\nSo it could be assumed that Ino = Boar Shikamaru = Deer Chouji = Butterfly\n\nThe Nara clan's forest is located on the outskirts of Konoha, it is a unique\nforest within the Land of Fire. Many **deer reside here** as the clan looks\nafter them and often times use their antlers in medicines\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNowhere is it ever shown that the Nara family have been using a summoned\nanimal in the anime. So it can only be speculated that they don't use/have a\nsummoning animal. The deer that belong to the Nara clan can be taken as a\nrearing of their clan.\n\nAs far as your answer for the chakra type of Shikamaru Nara is concerned, it\nrefers to the Yin form of release. Now basically, to mould chakra one needs to\nmould the physical and spiritual energies within ourselves in the right\ncombination. The spiritual energy is the Yin form (or Yin release) and the\nphysical energy the Yang release.\n\nHence, the Yin release is nothing but the spiritual energy that Shinobis use,\ncan be used in a wide variety of forms. Good examples of it are (all) the\nGenjutsus used and also the shadow manipulating jutsu of the Nara clan.\n\nThe Yin release can be based on our imagination and also be used to create\nform out of nothingness. It is the same concept coupled with the Yang release\n(used to give life into an object or form) that led to the creation of the the\nNine-Tailed Beasts from the chakra of the Ten-Tails by the Sage of Six Paths\n(called as the Creation of All Things Technique).\n\nIf you want more information, I suggest you go through the Naruto Wiki\narticles on Yin release, Yang release and Yin-Yang release.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUniverse 6 and universe 7 are twin universes\n\nIf Earth didn't have life in Universe 6(Champa's universe). From where does\nTrunks come from? He couldn't have come from other Universe because they\naren't twin universe.\n\nIf Trunks has come from alternate timeline of Universe 7, how did an evil Goku\ncome? He should have died of that heart virus?\n\nEdit: Trunks has come from an alternate timeline of Universe 7.\n\nAnd if Evil Goku is from Universe 6, how does TRUNKS know about him?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Future Trunks Arc hasn't been aired yet, the story hasn't been told, how\ndo we know the plot?\n\nBut since I have a pretty reasonable answer to share, I might just answer it\nanyways. But it also contains spoilers, so... yeah.\n\n> Based on what I know about the next arc, it's all about time travel, and\n> yes, the game _Dragon Ball Xenoverse_ is all about time travel too, and also\n> the game's sequel, it both featured Future Trunks. If you played the game\n> before, or know a bit about the game. [Future Trunks from Xenoverse and\n> Online](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Future_Trunks#Video_game_stories)\n> works for [Supreme Kai of\n> Time](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Supreme_Kai_of_Time) as her assistant\n> and the head of the [Time\n> Patrol](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Patrol), his job is to mainly\n> fixing distorted timelines. \n> \n> [Towa](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Towa) and\n> [Mira](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Towa) were the two major villains\n> that travel through time to destroy the history. Besides that, Towa can cast\n> [dark magic](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Towa%27s_Dark_Magic) on\n> enemies which gives the user pure red eyes and a dark aura, pretty much\n> turning them into demons. \n> \n> So, the _evil / black Goku_ is probably from an alternate timeline (defeated\n> the heart virus) and been cast by Towa's dark magic, and turn him into her\n> pawn to assist her evil plan. Future Trunks from that timeline fought the\n> evil Goku and was overwhelmed, he barely escaped into the main timeline to\n> ask for help once again.\n\nThough, it's just a theory, I might be wrong, or not even close.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching [Big Order](http://myanimelist.net/anime/31904/Big_Order_TV)\nrecently, and when I looked it up I could easily find the op, but I couldn't\nfind that really awesome battle theme. It comes on IIRC once or twice per\nepisode, and usually at the climax of the episode.\n\nSo, does anyone know its name?\n\nI'm pretty sure it's in all of the episodes, but for a specific example, take\nthe latest episode (ep 6). It's in most of the underwater scene, from around\nminute 20.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know the name -.-, but I think this is the song:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfQSLCUVSxs>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7fh_QD6sw#t=33m40s> starting 33:40\n\nIt's called \"决着！\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSage mode Hashirama's technique Shinsuusenju is called a senjutsu, or sage\nart. My question is does Hashirama actually create the titanic wooden budda\nstatue with Moukton (wood style) or is it a creature he summons like Naruto's\nsumons Gamabunta? I always thought he created it, but I've seen many people\nrefer to it as a summons. If any1 could clarify I'd appreciate it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Naruto Wiki Hashirama creates the statue using sage art wood\nrelease: true several thousand hands technique.\n\n> After entering Sage Mode, Hashirama creates a wooden statue of titanic\n> proportions\n\nLink\n<http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Art_Wood_Release:_True_Several_Thousand_Hands>\nfrom the comment of @HappyFace .\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part I Phantom Blood, in the climax ending,\nJonathan sacrifices his life to defeat Dio and save Erina, his unborn child\nJorge and baby Lisa Lisa.\n\nErina manages to save herself and Lisa Lisa by hiding in Dio's coffin, but\nthen in Stardust Crusaders, another coffin with \"DIO\" engraved on it is\nrescued from the bottom of the ocean where Dio had been sleeping for the past\ncentury, having survived by stealing Jonathan's body.\n\nWhere did that second coffin come from? I've came back to this to try and make\nsense of it but I don't know if it's a plot hole or not.\n\nI enjoy JoJo's Bizarre Adventure so much, and there are instances where it\nreally stretches it too far.\n\nLike some bizarre happenings have some kind of explanation in it (see King\nCrimson) but this one is the one that still evades me.\n\nIs there an explanation for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOriginally, Dio did die at the end of Phantom Blood, but when Araki decided to\nwrite Stardust Crusaders, he retconned the ending of Phantom Blood. These\nretcons were applied to the anime accordingly.\n\nAfter retconning, the coffin had a second compartment that Dio hid in while\nErina hid in the top compartment. After Erina got in the coffin, Dio ripped\noff Jonathan's head and got into the same coffin Erina was in. When Erina was\nrescued, they did not rescue the coffin, they let it sank, without knowing\nthat Dio was within the second compartment.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2dpBy.png)\n\nHowever, an alternate explanation is provided in the novel [Over\nHeaven](http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/JoJo's_Bizarre_Adventure_Over_Heaven),\nwhere Erina placed Dio and Jonathan's body along with herself in the coffin.\n\n> **Chapter 79**\n>\n> Dio knows that Nukesaku is falsely guiding the Joestar Group, buying time\n> for Dio, who uses that time to write in his notebook. He tries to recall the\n> last moments before ending up in the coffin, but his memory is hazy. Despite\n> having surely entered the casket, Erina had survived with the child. Dio\n> suspects that the four of them were in the same coffin, but Dio admits that\n> he would never have shared the casket with someone. Yet he did lose\n> consciousness, so who put him into the casket? Saving someone she hated\n> would indeed be in accord with Erina's character. Dio is now sure that Erina\n> took pity on him and pulled him into the casket to protect him, and put him\n> to rest at the bottom of the ocean. Dio's memories become more and more hazy\n> and he ends up confusing Erina with his own mother.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am doing an analysis of Miyazaki's films and am starting with Howl's Moving\nCastle. I have lots of information about the movie, but am having a hard time\nfinding information regarding the inspirations for the film. I am aware that\nthe film is an adaptation of Jones's novel in 1986 and went on to be one of\nthe highest grossing film in Japan. But are there more interesting facts\nregarding the inspirations/history for the film that anyone can provide me?\n\n**Edit:** I am looking to see if anyone knows of what the inspirations were\nfor Miyazaki to direct the film. Or going back a step, the inspirations of the\nauthor to write the novel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor the idea Jones \"very much\" thanked \"a boy in a school I was visiting\",\nwhose name she had noted but lost and forgotten. He had \"asked me to write a\nbook titled The Moving Castle.\"\n\n\\--- \"Dedication and acknowledgment\", Howl's Moving Castle (paperback) (1st\ned.), US: Ace Books, 1989, This one is for Stephen\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think this book has anything about Howl's Moving Castle in particular,\nbut **Starting Point: 1979 - 1996** , written by Hayao Miyazaki himself, and\ntranslated by Beth Cary and Frederik L. Schodt, is a 500 page treasure trove\nof interviews and other works regarding Miyazaki's thoughts and inspirations\non his films. I purchased this book many years ago and only read a portion of\nit, so I can't really attest to how much this will help, but it's a good\nstarting point for your research on his other films (pun may or may not be\nintended).\n\nEDIT: Upon further research on Amazon, I discovered that he has another book\ncalled **Turning Point, 1997 - 2008** along the same series, which _does_ seem\nto contain information on Howl's Moving Castle. You might want to take a look\ninto this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe all know that Devil Fruit users weakness is the sea. But I wonder what is\nthe conflict between sea and devil fruit? Why is the sea became the devil\nfruit's weakness?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> \"I once heard that all the Devil Fruits are the Sea Devil's incarnations. If\n> you eat one you'll gain a special ability, but you won't be able to swim.\"\n> ~Shanks to Buggy in Chapter 19, page 14\n\nIt seems that the Devil Fruits may be a physical manifestation of the devils\nof the sea as they try and give their powers to others, so the sea, in turn,\nhates all that partake in these powers and tries to weaken Devil Fruit users\nwhenever they foolishly fall into its grasp.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is said that the devil fruit if from the sea devil with no further\ncomplications the ocean refuses them and they lose their energy and power to\nswim.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there a complete translation of the \"letters\" used in the world of\nKonosuba? I'm talking like the ones seen on their adventurer cards. I'm\npositive each symbol corresponds to a letter of the English alphabet, but I\nwant the complete list of them if possible?\n\nHere's Megumin's card:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CLpBf.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAn enterprising person [over\nhere](http://www.matolabel.net/archives/53312283.html) has provided a\ntranslation table for the letters and some of the numbers, in multiple\ntypefaces:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jZQ65.jpg)\n\nSomeone somewhere may have put together a more complete version; this version\nis from just after episode 3 or 4, and more sourcetext became available as the\nshow went on.\n\nAs you surmise, there is a simple one-to-one relationship between the English\nalphabet (and related glyphs like punctuation and numbers) and the _KonoSuba_\nalphabet. However, beware: the actual text that is enciphered is not\nnecessarily in the English language - some of it is also in romanized\nJapanese. For example, someone in the linked thread deciphered this part of\nyour image:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5WcmS.jpg)\n\nAs this:\n\n[code]\n\n koumazokunonakademouiitsunotensaimahoutsukai. b\n akurestumahoutoyobarerusaikyomahounomiruyokunimor\n itsukare. soreshikatsukawanaishitukawanai\n \n[/code]\n\nWhich may seem like gibberish, but in (somewhat typo-laden) Japanese, it's\nMegumin babbling about EXPLOSION. Roughly, \"A wunderkind magician, even moreso\nthan the average Crimson Demon. She is enraptured by the mightiest of magicks:\nEXPLOSION. She won't use any other magic, and plus - she _can't_.\" This\nparticular text is cobbled together from various bits of copy about her\ncharacter, as far as I know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Kuroro Lucifer steals the ability of another nen user, does it mean that\nthe original user wont be able to use it anymore? Or is it like a copy-paste,\nlike Ging copy-pasting the punching abilities? Because in the last arc, he was\nusing Shalnark's ability 'Black voice'.\n\nDoes it mean the original user can't use it anymore? Can Chrollo give back the\nnen abilities that he stole?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe is able to give the ability back, or at least he has convinced Shalnark he\ncan, as he asks Shalnark during a phone call whether he needs his ability\n(black voice) back.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNostrade’s daughter lost her ability to tell people’s fortunes after Chrollo\nstole it, so I think its safe to assume that people lose their abilities once\nhe steals them. I am not sure whether or not he can return them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn High school DxD, Issei \"sacrifices\" his arm to get the balance breaker\nform. But what does sacrifice mean here? He still has his arm and he can still\ncontrol it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what i understood, is that his arm is no longer human, it is the one of a\ndragon, that's why akeno sucks the energy from his hand to give it back it's\nhuman form.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBasically what happens is that as you said, Issei gives his arm to the dragon\nin return he get balance breaker. the arm that he traded is now belowing to\nthe dragon, no longer a demon, that is why he was able to hold the cross or\nthe holy water without being hurt in the fight between him and the\nphoenix.afterwards, the dragon power starts to take over his arms which stops\nhim from having his normal arm and akeno had to suck out the dragon energy for\nissei could do whatever and not expose that he is a demon.\n\nlong story short, he has control over his arm but if akeno wasn't there, his\narm would literally be the arm of the dragon Hope this helps\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Bravely Second_ while you end up meeting with most of the Eternian Astrisk\nUsers, seeing what happened to them years after the events of the previous\ngame.\n\nHowever i have noticed some of them are missing mainly\n\n * Vincent S. Court - The Spirit Master\n * Victoria F. Stein - The Anarchist\n * Sage Yulyana - The Conjuour\n * Lester DeRosso - The Vampire\n * Doctor Qada - The Salve-Maker\n\nNow on the one hand Lester DeRosso may no longer exists because he gave up his\nlife to stop Lord Ouroboros's regeneration however there is only 1 Lord\nOuroboros and there are multiple Luxendarc which means only 1 Lester DeRosso\nsacrificed himself.\n\nWith Sage Yulyana in a sidequest in _Bravely Second_ if you side with Mephilia\nVenus and defeat Nobutsuna Kamiizumi she says something about how Sage Yulyana\nmay no longer be of the world after fighting a Ba'al (i assume it was\nDiamante) however it is hinted that it was Sage Yulyana who told Ominus Crow\nabout Femto Flare being a weapon to stop a Ba'al and in the past no one knew\nabout Ba'als until Diamante decimated the moon and crashed on Luxendarc\n\nSo i am wondering what has happened to the other Eternian Astrisk Users1\n\n* * *\n\n1: to be honest i could give a crap about Doctor Qada but for completion sake\ni have added him\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nQada and the V's are dead, plain and simple. The V's are a storyline fight and\ncanonically die, Qada's canon ending seems to be the one where you fight him\nbefore Kamiizumi, when he kills the alchemist after his fake death trick.\n\nYulyana is mentioned to have battled Diamante and then vanished, but it's\npossible he may have either died, hid himself for some reason(maybe recover\nhis strength), or ascended to the plane Yoko mentioned in the castle.\n\nMeanwhile DeRosso is mentioned to be alive in the bestiary entry for the bats\nyou battle in the castle he lived in, but nothing more. Given we see another\nversion of him post-Ouroboros and that only W-0 DeRosso sacrificed himself,\nhe's probably alive but wasn't brought in for not having his asterisk\navailable.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Unmarked spoilers for _Bravely Default_ and _Bravely Second_ below.**\n\nNot accounting for the alternate reality versions, of which there are several\nfor each character, this is the status of each of the listed characters by the\ntime of _Bravely Second_ :\n\n * **Victor S. Court** \\- [killed by the party](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Victor_S._Court) in Eternian Central Command back in _Bravely Default_ (you listed Vincent S. Court, which is actually Victor's father. Vincent was [killed by Victoria](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Vincent_S._Court) before the events of _Bravely Default_ )\n * **Victoria F. Stein** \\- [killed by the party](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Victoria_F._Stein) in Eternian Central Command back in _Bravely Default_ , along with Victor.\n * **Sage Yulyana** \\- [killed in the battle with the Ba'al, Diamante](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Yulyana). He managed to seal Diamante into the Kustra Archipelago before he died.\n * **Lester DeRosso** \\- [disappeared from Luxendarc](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Lester_DeRosso). This one is slightly more vague. The DeRosso we see sacrifice himself against Ouroboros in _Bravely Default_ is the one from that \"final world\" and not from the original world that the characters originate from. After the events of _Bravely Default_ , the original DeRosso helped Yulyana hide the weapons that Yulyana had previously stolen from the Crystal Orthodoxy (the OP weapons in the blue chests, if you played the game) in small pocket dimensions under [Centro Keep](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Ruins_of_Centro_Keep) and [Mount Karka](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Underflow). He vanished after that, no longer being found in Vampire Castle (occupied by [Yōko](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Y%C5%8Dko_\\(Bravely_Second\\))) nor anywhere else in Luxendarc.\n * **Qada** \\- [killed by Kamiizumi](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Qada). He intended to overthrow the Duchy after being defeated by the party in _Bravely Default_ , but was overheard and struck down by Kamiizumi. According to the wiki, his ghost remained there, and was unaware that he had been killed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've noticed this a lot in many manga I've read. The character (usually the\nprotagonist) is named after their mother's family name and not their father's.\nSome examples I have found of this are as follows:\n\n * In Special A, Kei Takashima is named of his mother's family not his father's. Unless the parents were cousins, it seems the dad changed his name to Takashima, too.\n * In Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki is named after his mother Kushina Uzumaki. I know that this may be a plot device to hide who Naruto's father is at the beginning, but still why name after the mother? Why wasn't he named Namikaze?\n * In Shokugeki no Soma, Saiba Jouichiro changes his name to his wife's: Yukihira. Why doesn't he keep his name? It's possible that he wants to stay out of the public eye, but is it common for the man to take his wife's name?\n * Another example from the same manga as above, Azami Nakamura. He changed his name to Nakiri after marrying into Erina's mother's family. It could have been for prestige, but isn't it normally the wife who changes the name and not the husband? And Erina is named from her mother's family too.\n\nSorry for all the examples, but I really would like it if someone could help\nme understand. I know it could be because of a plot device, but it has\nconfused me for a while.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nExpanding my comment into an answer.\n\nIn Japan, it’s uncommon, but not unheard of, for [a man to take his wife’s\nname after\nmarriage](http://www.makikoitoh.com/journal/men_taking_their_wives_last_names_is_not_uncommon_in_japan).\nIt can happen for any reason, but a common reason is when a man marries into a\nfamily with no sons and his wife’s family wants to keep their name going.\n\nIn modern Japan, married couples are required to pick one partner’s family\nname for both of them. From [a Time article](http://time.com/3940094/maiden-\nmarried-names-countries/):\n\n> In contrast, Japan requires that married couples take one of the spouses’\n> family names, which, unsurprisingly, means that 96% of married Japanese\n> women assume their husband’s last name.\n\nAny children of the marriage are given that last name as well, so if the\ncouple chooses to use the wife’s name, the children will have their mother’s\nfamily name.\n\nIn anime, of course, this is used as a plot device, and the exact reason\ndepends on the show. For instance, in Evangelion, Gendou takes Yui’s last\nname, Ikari, to try and distance himself from some of the unsavory things he\ndid in the past. So Shinji gets his mother’s name, which might have various\nmeanings, given all the Freudian subtext in the show.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI shall talk about Uzumaki Naruto as such..Since, it is a special case..\nUzumaki clan at the time of Naruto birth(and later) were a few in number..\nMostly scattered throughout the world. Also, many decided to change their\nnames fearing for their lives( the Uzumaki clan is quite noted for its Sealing\njutsus; which was feared a lot, especially during the wartimes such as Shinobi\nWorld war 1,2 and 3). The seal which binds the Kyuubi(Nine-tailed fox) in\nNaruto is itself a Uzumaki Clan's jutsu. Also, since it was not given of any\nother person from Namikaze clan except for Minato, we can fairly assume\nNamikaze clan too was dwindling in numbers. Now, why was Naruto named after\nhis mother? Interesting, right (since both clans had less members)? This is\nbecause of the fact that Minato Namikaze was the 4th Hokage, meaning he had\nhis enemies. Thus, naming Naruto after his father's clan was quite dangerous.\n(Note that the enemies pursuing Uzumaki clan dwindled once peaceful times\nstarted after the world war 3, except for people like Orochimaru that is. )\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a problem with the manga Bleach. When Ichigo became shinigami for the\nfirst time, it was said that his soul cutter is so big because of his\nspiritual powers, which means that your soul cutter is a reflection of that.\nBut when they go to soul society it is clearly hinted that the shinigamis\nthere choose their soul cutters and that the soul cutters they have have\nexisted for generations before them. Can someone help explain this to me?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**This answer can only be explained with a big spoiler. Those who hasn't read\nBleach till the latest chapter and wish not to be spoiled might better avoid\nreading this altogether.**\n\nNote: the way I understand it, there are 3 questions you asked.\n\n 1. The correlation between spiritual powers and Zanpakutou's size.\n 2. Zanpakutou existed even before the Shinigami.\n 3. Did Ichigo's Zanpakutou existed before him.\n\n## Answer to Question 1\n\nA Shinigami's Zanpakutou's (soul cutter in English dub) size reflects the\nShinigami's spiritual powers. The more spiritual power it unleashed, the\nbigger it becomes. This is generally true.\n\n**Example 1**\n\nRenji's Zanpakutou's [normal\nshape](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ep16RenjiStandsOver.png) is a normal\nKatana. When the released into Shikai form\n([Zabimaru](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zabimaru.png)), it unleash more\nspiritual power and its shape got bigger. It gets even bigger when Renji is in\nBankai state ([Hihio\nZabimaru](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ep52Hihi%C5%8DZabimaru.png)) and\neven his body is covered by his power in form of the furry cloak.\n\n**Example 2**\n\nZaraki Kenpachi's Zanpakutou's [normal\nform](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:36Kenpachi_unsheathes.png) is a long\nkatana with chipped blade. When released into\n[shikai](http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/bleach/images/d/dc/577Nozarashi.png/revision/latest?cb=20140417055411&path-\nprefix=en), his Zanpakutou changed form into a chopping axe shape.\n\n**Example 3**\n\nMadarame Ikkaku's Zanpakutou's [normal\nform](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ikkaku_237-122.jpg) is a normal\nkatana. It's shikai form\n([Houzukimaru](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ikkaku_releases_shikai.jpg))\nis a spear, it's bankai form ([Ryuumon\nHouzukimaru](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ikkaku_Bankai.jpg)) is a huge\nblades linked with chain.\n\n**Example 4**\n\nSoi Fon's Zanpakutou is a [short\nkatana](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Soifon_Yoruichi_battle_2.jpg).\n[Shikai form](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Suzumebachi.jpg) changed it\ninto a smaller shape, but it's\n[bankai](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/File:Soifonbankai.jpg) changed it into a\nbig rocket launcher like thing. Notice how its shikai form is smaller that its\nnormal form, unlike the previous two examples, which is why I said that\nZanpakutou's size reflects the spiritual power is generall true. Also, so far\nshe has never been see using her Zanpakutou in its normal, unreleased state.\n\nAnother exception to this is Kurosaki Ichigo. Kurosaki Ichigo's Zanpakutou is\nalways in its shikai form. But its bankai form actually made the blade\nsmaller, and denser, unlike bankai in general, which was noted by Kuchiki\nByakuya during their fight. Byakuya also said that he don't believe that such\na small sword (compared to Ichigo's shikai and bankai in general) can be his\nbankai.\n\n**Edit:** As mentioned by Ryan and Memor-X, Zanpakutou's size can be\ncontrolled. This was mentioned by Kurosaki Isshin to Grand Fisher, that if\nZanpakutou's size is not controlled, those with huge Spiritual Power like the\nCaptains, would literally have skyscrapers on their hands.\n\n## Answer to Question 2\n\nNormally, a shinigami is given an Asauchi, a blank Zanpakutou created by the\ncreator of Asauchi, [Ouetsu\nNimaiya](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/%C5%8Cetsu_Nimaiya). This blank\nZanpakutou will develop along with its wielder and make itself unique. This is\nhow Shinigami normally got their Zanpakutou. Therefore, since all Zanpakutou\n(with the exception of Zangetsu) was an Asauchi, it can be said that it\nexisted generations before the current generation of Shinigami).\n\n## Answer to Question 3\n\nKurosaki Ichigo's Zanpakutou, Zangetsu, is special since Ichigo is a son of\nShinigami and Quincy. His father, Kurosaki Isshin is a Shinigami and his\nmother was a Quincy. What he used to fight until his fight with Aizen Sousuke\nwhere he lost his \"Shinigami\" powers due to the use of Final Getsuga Tenshou,\nwas later revealed to be his Quincy powers. It was confirmed by Zangetsu (old\nman form) himself. Zangetsu also said that the reason his figure is so similar\nto that of Ywach was because Ichigo also has a Quincy blood in him. His power\nis in his blood, thus it can be said that his Zanpakutou existed from the very\nmoment he was born.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is quite complicated to be fair, and the explanation has many spoilers...\n\nSo Ichigo's powers come from a combination of\n\n> his mother, a Quincy, so indirectly from Yhwach, and from his father, a\n> Shinigami.\n\nHe originally got this large Zanpakuto from Rukia.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jBym5.jpg)\n\nThis was Rukia's power, with the sword made large by his own enormous Reiatsu.\nHe lost this power after Byakuya cut his chain link and soul sleep. Urahara\ntrained Ichigo, and he became a Shinigami with his classic Zanpakuto.\n\nLots of stuff and things happen, then he loses this power when\n\n> he uses the final Getsuga Tenshou to 'defeat' Aizen.\n\nHe gets a real Shinigami power back when a few captains come and give it to\nhim. Later on, he's fighting against Jugram Haschwalth who\n\n> cuts his Zanpakuto in two, forcing Ichigo to have to go to the Soul Palace\n> to get it reforged, where he has to go through the process all Shinigami do\n> to get a new Zanpakuto, by fighting a Asauchi. After this, he speaks with\n> Hollow Ichigo in his soul, who reveals he is Zangetsu, and the original\n> Zangetsu was his Quincy powers, and Zangetsu (Hollow Ichigo) is his true\n> Zanpakuto. He then creates his current two sword Zanpakuto when he grabs the\n> Asauchi.\n\nSo yes, Ichigo's current Zanpakuto has existed before him, like all other\nShinigami, and was fully created when he imprinted his power onto it.\n\nAnd now in the most recent manga issue, we finally see\n\n> Ichigo's true final form (maybe... up till now at least!) when Zangetsu has\n> brought out his Hollow powers and Ichigo has the horn on the side of his\n> face:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/omXhm.png)\n\nI think... lol it's damn complicated, I probably missed something or made a\nmistake...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe fat version of Buu, or simply [Innocent / Good\nBuu](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Innocent_Buu#Pre-Dragon_Ball) is the\nresult of [Kid Buu's](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Kid_Buu) absorption of\nGrand Supreme Kai and the Supreme Kais. Does the Supreme Kais still staying\ninside Good Buu's body?\n\nI know if they remove the Supreme Kais, he will become the original Buu again.\nBut, since the Good Buu and the [Z\nFighters](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Team) were already removed\nfrom [Super Buu's](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Buu) body, turning\nhim into Kid Buu, then the Grand Supreme Kai and the Supreme Kais are\ndefinitely still inside Good Buu's body! But wait a second, if they remove the\nSupreme Kais from Good Buu, doesn't it mean that he will become Kid Buu again?\nOr he will split into the Supreme Kais and not having back the \"Buu\" body? Or,\nthe Supreme Kais were just simply not exist inside Good Buu?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRemember that Fat Buu was removed from the Fusion/Super Buu. Both of the\noriginal Kais had long since been fully absorbed/consumed, and Fat Buu was the\nonly thing left. Once Goku removed Fat Buu (also Supreme and Ultimate Kais),\nthen Kid Buu (original) is what we are left with. If they had still been\ninside of Super Buu, then Goku/Vegetta would have seen them near Fat Buu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've looked through the soundtrack but I haven't been able to find this song.\nIt plays in episode 38 \"Louise of the Holy Ground\" at 13:54.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's \"Distress of Decision\", track 22 of the [Zero no Tsukaima ~Futatsuki no\nKishi~ Soundtrack](http://vgmdb.net/album/45062).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7WJ0o.jpg)\n\nWhy are there religious symbols in the design of _Mangekyou Sharingan_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe association of these images towards some religious symbols or to the\nIlluminati are a clear sign of over interpretation. Your issue is primarily\nwith the _Mangekyou Sharingan_.\n\nThe left picture is Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan. It depicts a\n[pinwheel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_\\(toy\\)) with three curls.\nHere is an image of one with four curls, but the 2D representation would be\nroughly the same.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fl3U1.jpg)\n\nWhen I read Naruto in the past, I thought it was a _Shuriken_.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUURe.jpg)\n\nThe second one is Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan. According to\n[Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangekyou_Sharingan#Overview), it\nalso resembles a pinwheel, only with six curls.\n\nBut the first thing I saw when I looked at it was a model of an atom.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LA2uL.png)\n\nIt could also be a six-petaled lotus blossom.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9INgH.jpg)\n\nAccording to\n[Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangekyou_Sharingan#Overview), all\n_Mangekyou Sharingan_ resemble pinwheels. So no religious symbols and no\nIlluminati at all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of the series (both 2003 and Brotherhood) Cornello takes way\nEd's pocket watch in order to prevent his circle-free transmutation (which is\nlater revealed to be pointless). From this, it was implied that the pocket\nwatch has some sort of effect on a State Alchemist's transmutations. I seem to\nalso recall that in the 2003 series, when Ed became a State Alchemist and was\ngiven his watch, he was told it could boost his alchemy.\n\nHowever I don't recall any instance in either series where this was the case.\nIt's not used as a mobile circle as each combat State Alchemist had their\nTransmutation Circle with them (Roy's ignition gloves, Gran's gauntlets,\nArmstrong's metal knuckles, Kimberly's own hands) and Shou Tucker was never\nshown to use his (and I doubt that he used it for producing the Alexanina\nChimera because he was capable of doing this from the start, having done a\nsimilar transmutation before becoming a State Alchemist).\n\nI recall at one stage the chain was used to bind someone, but what I would\nlike to know is if there was any situation, in either series, in which the\nboosting capabilities of the State Alchemist pocket watch is shown to have\nbenefited an Alchemist's transmutation (without the addition of Red\nStones/Fake Philosopher Stones as per the Lior Rebellion in the 2003 series).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is somewhat difficult to answer this with complete certainty without\nanalysing every single transmutation that appears in _Fullmetal Alchemist_.\nHowever, I will give an answer based on my memory and impressions of the\nseries.\n\nIn the manga-based continuity, the watch appears to serve largely as a marker\nof identity; there is never any comment about the watch's powers. We never see\nthe watch invoked or made reference to as a source of power when State\nAlchemists transmute substances.\n\nI do not know the 2003 series as well, but my impression is that while the\nclaim that the watch amplifies transmutations is reasonable, we are never\nactually shown an instance where it is _explicitly_ used in a transmutation.\nIt is entirely possible that the State Alchemists we see are drawing from the\nwatch's power anyway, when they attempt transmutations, but we do not ever\ndirectly see it.\n\nThe current revision of [the FMA\nWikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/State_Alchemist) appears to support my\nconclusion:\n\n> Although the manga does not describe the pocketwatch as anything more than\n> official proof that the carrier is a State Alchemist, the 2003 anime\n> suggests that each pocketwatch is an alchemical amplifier. The 2003 anime\n> also depicts the watch's silver chain as extendable, as in the instance when\n> the Strong Arm Alchemist, Major Alex Louis Armstrong uses it to tie up a\n> target.\n\nIn particular, were there actually an instance where the watch is explicitly\nused, I would expect there to be a note of it here, seeing how rare such an\ninstance would be in the course of the anime.\n\n* * *\n\nSkimming over the early Lior arc in the manga, incidentally, I cannot find any\ninstance where Cornello takes Edward's watch from him. The watch also does not\nappear in this part. (I was only able to tell that Edward had his watch\nbecause I could see the chain.) This also does not occur in FMA:B.\n\nAs might be expected then, the section of the Lior arc in the 2003 anime where\nCornello takes Edward's watch is not in the manga-continuity. (This is after\nEd and Al have escaped from the fight. Cornello turns a mob on them, and they\nare captured again. The watch is then taken.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think I didn't watch _Naruto_ carefully because I can't understand one\nthing: After the third Hokage died, the fifth was chosen. Why did they skip\nthe Fourth Hokage?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Sarutobi Hiruzen (the third hokage) stepped down, Namikaze Minato\n(Naruto's father) became the fourth hokage. Minato died during the kyuubi\nattack during which it was sealed inside Uzumaki Naruto. Konoha now lacking a\nhokage, they chose to bring back Sarutobi into office.\n\nSo they didn't skip the fourth hokage, they just reinstated the third one\nafter the fourth...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere was a 4th Hokage when the 3rd Hokage stepped down.\n\nBut then the 4th Hokage died prematurely, meaning that the 3rd Hokage had to\ntake up the position as Hokage back (becoming the fifth).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have followed Naruto only via its manga and, barring a few episodes, I\nhaven't seen much of the animated series. Considering that the manga ended\nalmost a year ago, I am very much out of the Naruto universe.\n\nFew months ago, I came across some posts that mentioned Itachi getting a\nseparate anime series of his own, with trailers of the series uploaded on\nYouTube. Today I saw some amvs titled Itachi Shinden and a part of the episode\nwhich has Shisui and kid Itachi fighting the ANBU.\n\nA few internet searches yielded that Itachi Shinden is actually an animated\nadaption of the novel of the same name. However, I couldn't find whether it's\na separate series that was being talked about or part of Naruto Shippuden\nfillers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nItachi Shinden is in fact a part of the Naruto series. The myth is that Itachi\nShinden will have its own anime, this is not true. Itachi Shinden will be an\narc attached to the current Naruto Anime. In the current anime of Naruto,\nItachi's life has been shown while he was active in the ANBU, however, the new\narc introduces a new look to Itachi's life, his personal life. Not much is yet\nknown but it's definitely an arc of Naruto seeing as it was also created by\nMasashi Kishimoto.\n\nAnyway, I hope this helped you find your answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the section of the soundtrack used in the second episode of R2 at 8:00,\nafter Kallen defeats a Knightmare and Lelouch gives new orders, called?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it sounds like a version of Sensibility, only piano only: [OST on\nYoutube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKK6QsilgqI&ab_channel=GriffionLiBritannia)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFound it. It's called Turning the Tide. It's an unreleased OST. There are some\nedits on youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh8CS8PM7vk> and\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRL6tTLYQwU>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's unreleased album, the #9 song Knightmare Assault. Unfortunately I\ndon't have a download link because I haven't found one myself =/.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEK28DBU2_I&index=9&list=PLb4mticUuCmQSnQpXJDttkzbhOxAdnGWf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEK28DBU2_I&index=9&list=PLb4mticUuCmQSnQpXJDttkzbhOxAdnGWf)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched most of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z up to the culmination of\nthe Frieza arc and bits of other DBZ episodes. I'm passively familiar with the\noverarching story line/details for some reason, but have not watched much\nDragon Ball GT.\n\nDo I need to catch up before jumping into Dragon Ball Super, or does the new\nshow sufficiently explain things if you're not fully up to speed on the\nfranchise?\n\nI skimmed this stack exchange and did not see related questions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHaving watched every Dragon Ball Super episode as they came out, I would say\nthat so long as you have watched at least Dragon Ball Z, you are good.\nEverything important in Dragon Ball is roughly glanced over or built upon in\nDragon Ball Z; the same is true for Dragon Ball Super. Dragon Ball GT is\nofficially not canon material thanks to Super, so it is completely\nunnecessary.\n\nThat being said, at least knowing everything that happened in Dragon Ball Z\nbeyond the Frieza Arc is pretty important. There are numerous very important\nevents that happened in the Android, Cell, and Buu arcs that are quite useful\nto understand what is going on in Super. The main story of Super is not based\non those events though, because Super is about Gods. It will make it very\nconfusing to understand a lot of what they talk about and do. It is not\nsufficiently explained. Many things can probably be inferred in some way, but\nI guarantee that almost everyone who is not caught up in Dragon Ball Z will\neither be confused or spending a lot of time on the wiki and YouTube watching\nclips, thanks to Super.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 83, two or three episodes after Hidan and Kakuzu capture the Two\nTails, Nagato says that only 4 beasts are left. But in the anime, only two\nbeasts were shown to be captured (Shukaku and the Two Tails). So 7 beasts\nremain. Are there any movies in between or did I miss any episode?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Timeline as figured by me** \n1.Kokuo(Han) was captured BEFORE shipuuden start \n\n> Kokuō, after living in an unspecified forest, eventually fell into the\n> possession of Iwagakure and was sealed into Han, but was captured and\n> extracted by Akatsuki.\n\n2.Gyuki was captured BEFORE shipuuden starts \n\n> In the anime, during a joint Chūnin Exams between Konohagakure and\n> Sunagakure, Fū attempted to stop the Suna-nin Hōichi from extracting Shukaku\n> from its host Gaara. Her failed attempt caused her to draw the attention of\n> Hōichi, who also began extracting Chōmei from Fū.[6] Ultimately, the\n> extraction was stopped by the intervention of Neji Hyūga, who used his\n> Gentle Fist to block the chakra points from which Chōmei was being\n> extracted, thereby repelling the chains.[7] Fū was later captured by\n> Akatsuki members Kakuzu and Hidan, leading to Chōmei being extracted from\n> its jinchūriki and sealed within the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.[8]\n\nShipuuden Starts \n \n3.Deidara (and Sasori) capture Shukaku (Gaara) - Naruto Returns \n\n> During Gaara's time as the Fifth Kazekage, Deidara and Sasori from the\n> Akatsuki were assigned to capture Shukaku.\n\n4.Hidan and Kakuzu capture Matatabi (Yugito) - Akatsuki Suppression; Asuma\nDies \n\n> Soon after her introduction, Yugito was captured by two Akatsuki members,\n> Hidan and Kakuzu.\n\n5.Tobi and Deidara capture Isubo the three tails - Naruto starts his wind\ntraining \n\n> In the manga, Tobi and Deidara confronted the beast around the same time\n> Naruto Uzumaki had begun his Wind Release training, to which it responded by\n> beginning to chase Tobi. With the Three-Tails distracted, Deidara moulded an\n> explosive clay fish in an attempt to capture it. \n> This was a filler arc in the Anime, wherein Leaf tried to capture the beast\n> and failed\n\n6.Kisame capture Son Goku(Roshi) - Itachi is pursued; Sasuke Vs Deidara \n\n> After an unseen and difficult battle with Kisame Hoshigaki, Rōshi was\n> defeated and captured by the Akatsuki member\n\n7.Anime only: Saiken (Utakata) is captured by Pain \n\n> In the anime, in an attempt to stop the Fury technique from causing untold\n> destruction, Utakata went into his full Six-Tails form to shield the blast.\n> Later, Utakata was confronted and captured by Nagato's Six Paths of Pain.\n> Afterwards, Saiken was extracted from Utakata's body, being sealed into the\n> Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, thus killing the jinchūriki in the\n> process.\n>\n> So 2 beasts were captured before anime started. The 4th Mizukage's beast was\n> roaming alone for some reason and Utakata's beast I am not sure about. In\n> Anime, its shown after Roshi, need a rewatch to confirm. As I remember\n> Utakata was captured while Sasuke fought Itachi and Jiraiya, Pain.\n\n8.9.Gyuki and Kurama capture failed by Kisame and Pain.\n\nEDIT: Added relevant quotes for all the beasts from the wikia (Source)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n1 tailed deidara 2 tails hidan 3 tailed without host because tobi manipulated\nyagura and deidara capture 3 tails without host 4 tails kisame 5 tailed never\nshown in anime so manga only, there a chance it must be deidara. 6 tail 6\npaths of pain 7 tail kakazu and hidan when the chunin exam was finished 8 tail\nwas sasuke but failed 9 tail six path of pain and nagato but later on died.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**_Spoilers_**\n\nIn Naruto when a tailed beast is sealed in the Gedo Mazo (or Demonic Statue of\nthe Outer Path) a pupil shows up in one of the eyes. We can use this to\ndetermine the order that the tailed beasts were sealed in.\n\nIn the beginning of Naruto Shippuden 2 tailed beasts were already sealed.\n(Manga ch.256 p.16) These tailed beasts are never confirmed but I believe they\nare Kokuo (5 tails) and Chomei (7 tails). In the anime Chomei was captured\nduring the joint Chūnin Exams between Konohagakure and Sunagakure. This\nhappened before Shippuden started. (Hopes Entrusted to the Future, episode 413\nof Naruto: Shippūden) As for Kokuo I have evidence of when every other tailed\nbeast was sealed so he has to have been sealed before Shippuden.\n\nThe next one sealed was Shukaku (1 tail). The picture is low quality but you\ncan see for sure in Manga ch.261 p.17. If you compare this picture with Manga\nch.256 p.16, you can see that there was two beasts sealed before Shukaku and 3\nbeasts sealed after.\n\nThe next time we see the Gedo Mazo is in chapter 329, when it has 4 tailed\nbeasts sealed inside of it. This is where it gets confusing because Saiken (6\ntails) is the only tailed beast that could have been sealed in this gap.\nHowever, the wiki says he doesn't get sealed until after Sasuke fights Itachi.\nSaiken gets captured during the Six-Tails Unleashed arc, which covers episodes\n144 to 151. I don't think there is anything in these episodes that say this\nhas to occur after Sasuke fights Itachi, so we can say this happens after\nGarra was captured and before Asuma dies.\n\nThe next tailed beast is sealed right after Asuma dies. This is Isobu (3\ntails). You can see this in chapter 331 p.13.\n\nThe next tailed beast is Matatabi (2 tails). Most people think she was sealed\nbefore the 3 tails because she was captured before the three tails. I don't\nknow why Akatsuki waited to seal her. Maybe because the three tails didn't\nhave a jinchuriki so they decided to seal it first. Anyway you can see this in\nch.332 p.6.\n\nThe last tailed beast Akatsuki seals is Son Goku (4 tails). He is sealed in\nch.354 p.11. The picture isn't great here but if you look at ch.332 p.6 when\nMatatabi was sealed you can see there is only 3 tailed beasts left.\n\nGyuki (8 tails) and Kurama (9 tails) are not sealed in the Gedo Mazo until the\nfourth Great Shinobi World War. At which point Akatsuki is pretty much no\nlonger around. I do want to point out that some of Gyuki was sealed in the\nGedo Mazo in ch.419 p.11.\n\nThis is the order that the tailed beasts were sealed in: *I added not\nconfirmed for the ones that the manga does not explicitly state.\n\n 1. Kokuo (5 tails) - not confirmed\n 2. Chomei (7 tails) - not confirmed\n 3. Shukaku (1 tail)\n 4. Saiken (6 tails) - not confirmed\n 5. Isobu (3 tails)\n 6. Matatabi (2 tails)\n 7. Son Goku (4 tails)\n 8. Gyuki (8 tails) - kinda\n\nIn the war Madara seals them all in the correct order. Including Kurama.\n\nThe order that the tailed beasts were captured is similar to the order they\nwere sealed:\n\n 1. Kokuo (5 tails) - not confirmed\n 2. Chomei (7 tails) - not confirmed\n 3. Shukaku (1 tail)\n 4. Saiken (6 tails) - not confirmed\n 5. Matatabi (2 tails)\n 6. Isobu (3 tails)\n 7. Son Goku (4 tails)\n 8. Gyuki (8 tails) - kinda\n\nIf you are curious who captured each tailed beast:\n\n 1. Kokuo (5 tails) - unknown\n 2. Chomei (7 tails) - Kakuzu and Hidan\n 3. Shukaku (1 tail) - Deidara\n 4. Saiken (6 tails) - Pain\n 5. Matatabi (2 tails) - Kakuzu and Hidan\n 6. Isobu (3 tails) - Deidara and kinda Tobi\n 7. Son Goku (4 tails) - Itachi and Kisame\n 8. Gyuki (8 tails) - Team Taka - Sasuke, Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre there any sites like [crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/) that offer\nlots of manga that are available in Germany? I don't want German translations,\nbut the crunchyroll stuff is mostly not available in Germany and many manga I\nread aren't available there.\n\nSome mangas I read:\n\n * Aka Akatoretachi no Monogatari\n * Akame ga Kiru!\n * Ana Satsujin\n * Radukai Kishi no Eiyuutan\n * Dungeon Ni Deai O Motomeru No Wa Machigatte Iru Darou Ka\n * Freezing\n * Gokukoku No Brynhildr\n * Big Order\n * Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo Dorei Majutsu\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll though there are not a lot subscription based sites like\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga), The following sites do\noffer a broad variety of digital manga editions, which should have a lot less\ngeo limitations. Which streaming sites like Crunchyroll do tend to have\n\n * [Bookwalker](http://global.bookwalker.jp/)\n * [Kodanasha](http://kodanshacomics.com/)\n * [Comicwalker](http://comic-walker.com/)\n * [Viz](http://www.viz.com/)\n * [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Comics-Graphic-Novels-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=4367)\n\nConsidering that [breaking the terms of\nservice](http://gizmodo.com/5901339/its-not-a-crime-to-break-a-terms-of-\nservice-agreement-so-keep-on-not-reading-them) is not necessarily illegal. You\ncould also buy yourself a VPN, and read the manga from a region where it is\navailable, making it a semi-legal solution as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 1 of _Nodame Cantabile_ , it is implied that Chiaki is playing some\nBeethoven in preparation for the school concerto competition. We also get a\nsnapshot of a score, which presumably contains what he is playing.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SkCnv.png)\n\nDo we know what piece Chiaki is playing? In the anime, he is playing\nBeethoven's Piano Concerto no. 5 (\"Emperor\"), and it is easy to recognise as\nhe starts from the beginning of the first movement. However, the score here\ndoes not correspond to any section of the concerto that I can recognise, and\nin any case, we are not explicitly told what piece he is practising.\n\nI tried skimming through [a copy of the piano\npart](http://imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/f/f8/IMSLP33972-PMLP03875-Beethoven-\nOp073soloPeters.pdf) of _Emperor_ and could not find a section that matched.\nInputting part of this score into the Musipedia search engine also did not get\nany useful results.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is the first movement of Beethoven's _Piano Concerto no. 1_ , which is\nnot the concerto being played in the anime. Examining the section where the\npiano begins to play, we can see a correspondence between the [orchestral\nreduction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_\\(music\\)) (as shown in a\npiano part) and the bars of top line shown in the manga. The lower line\ncorresponds to the opening of the piano part, although a couple notes at the\nvery beginning are missing.\n\nFor comparison, here is the relevant section of [the piano\npart](http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9f/IMSLP33362-PMLP04230-Beethoven-\nOp015PSptrs.pdf). The orchestral part (i.e. the first line) is marked with\nyellow brackets; the piano (i.e. the second) with blue. (Note that the score\nChiaki is using has a different format from the one I found; his includes the\norchestral reduction even when the piano is playing, and the reduction\noccupies a separate line.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t9d5L.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last couple of seasons of anime, I've noticed quite a few shows being\nset in or using characters from the Touhoku region, especially around Aomori.\nExamples of shows include Kumamiko: Girl Meets Bear (set in Kumade Village\nsomewhere in northern Touhoku); Flying Witch (set in Aomori) and Wake Up,\nGirls! (set in Sendai), while characters include Megumi Tadokoro from\nShokugeki no Soma.\n\nIs it just coincidence? Or a desire to pick a setting other than Tokyo or\nOsaka? Or some kind of reaction to the Touhoku earthquake?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnohana goes from being the most bloodthirsty, sadistic warrior in the Soul\nSociety to being a kind, motherly person who goes out of her way to heal and\nhelp others, even enemies, and who tries to avoid and prevent fights. Is this\nall an act?\n\nI understand she was waiting around for Zaraki, but she could have done that\nwithout becoming the equivalent of Mother Teresa. Did she really have a change\nof heart about others, and if so, why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnohana was the `First Kenpachi` several members of the 11th Division fear\nher, and so do a few of her fellow captains, according to the former captains\nof the 5th and 7th Divisions.\n\nNo captain wants to get on her 'Bad Side' as -\n\nSpoiler -\n\n> Retsu Unohana (卯ノ花 烈, Unohana Retsu), formerly known as Yachiru Unohana (卯ノ花\n> 八千流, Unohana Yachiru), was the captain of the Fourth Division in the Gotei\n> 13. She was one of the oldest and most experienced captains, and was the\n> Soul Society's best healer, as well as the first person to wield the name\n> Kenpachi.[2] Her lieutenant was Isane Kotetsu.\n\nsource - <http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Retsu_Unohana>\n\nAnd there's no information to be found about wether or not she's faking her\ncompassion, however I was able to find -\n\nSpoiler Alert -\n\n> However, after the revelation of her past as the first Kenpachi and Shunsui\n> Kyōraku calling on her to draw on her experience from then, Unohana's\n> personality reverts to her original violent and bloodthirsty nature; once\n> she meets with Kenpachi Zaraki, she comments how the scar left on her chest\n> was causing her pain just from the sound of his voice.\n\nEmphasis is mine, source - <http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Retsu_Unohana>\n\n> Some point in the past, she named herself Yachiru Unohana[13] and was known\n> as the most diabolical criminal to ever exist in Soul Society.[14] Genryūsai\n> Shigekuni Yamamoto sought her out and she joined him, becoming one of the\n> founding members of the Gotei 13. Unohana laid the foundations of what would\n> be known as the 11th Division and became its first captain, as well as the\n> first Kenpachi. At some point in the past, Unohana was taught medical\n> techniques by Tenjirō Kirinji as a way of prolonging fights\n\nsource - <http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Retsu_Unohana>\n\nThe quotes above would indicate that, somehow she has had a change of heart\nafter joining the Gotei 13 & founding the 11th Division, but somehow still\nshows her more `menacing` side.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Rukia is rescued and everyone is off fighting battles, during their\nfight Soifon says she developed a new technique which she only just perfected\nand hasn't even gotten a name.\n\nhowever Yoruichi says it does have a name calling it Shunkō, she even explains\nthat the reason why the Stealth Force's attire is designed the way it is is\nbecause of how Shunkō works and that fabric on the arms and back would be\nblown away.\n\nYoruichi is Soifon's mentor and took her place as head of the Stealth Force\nwhen Yoruichi disappeared. if Shunkō was developed between Yoruichi and\nUrahara after they left then the design of the Stealth Force's attires\nwouldn't be so linked to it.\n\nSo how come Soifon didn't know about Shunkō?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer was stated in the same episode that it was revealed. Yoruichi\nexplained to Soifon that she did not want to teach Shunko to her because it\nwas too unstable (if I recall correctly), with Yoruichi stating \"Even I can't\ncontrol it.\"\n\nEdit: I did not read all the comments under your question and did not see that\nyou already knew that much, here is the rest of my answer; This also explains\nwhy Soifon would never have witnessed Yoruichi using the technique, because it\nwas unsuitable for battle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore Rukia's execution, Jushiro Ukitake took some time breaking the seal on\nan item which was later used to destroy the Sokyoku.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3e6jp.jpg)\n\nWhen Ichigo arrives to save Rukia he is wearing a cape which allows him to fly\nwhich Soifon comments during her fight with Yoruichi that the cape came from\nthe Shihoin clan, Yoruichi's clan.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0pjqp.jpg)\n\nThey both have the same insignia on it and I recall when Ukitake appeared with\nthe shield thing someone commented that it had the Shihoin clan symbol on it.\n\nBut why does Jushiro Ukitake have it? Shouldn't it be with the stealth force\nor even Yoruichi's possession? Better yet, since it is able to destroy the\nSokyoku, why is it entrusted to another captain rather than Head Captain\nYamamoto?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know this is old, and I don't know if anyone thought of that before, but\nwhat if there were two conspiracies ongoing at the same time during that arc?\nThe first one, of course, Aizen's, and the second one involving Ukitake,\nKyoraku and Yoruichi.\n\nThink about it, what the hell was Yoruichi doing in Soul Society before\ntraining Ichigo? I think that she went to Ukitake and Kyoraku and let them in\non the plan to stop Rukia's execution. This involved Yoruichi going to her\nclan's arsenal where she got the shield, and Ichigo's flying cape. She gave\nUkitake the shield (how else could he get his hands on a powerful Shihoin\nartifact like that?). My guess is that Ukitake was on board with it from the\nbeginning, but Kyokaru was on the fence, hence why he was still not sure of\nwhat to do hours before the execution.\n\nPerhaps even Unohana was on board with it because once the execution was\nstopped by Ichigo, Yoruichi, Ukitake and Shunsui, she leaves and goes to\nCentral 46 where Aizen is. I'm not saying she knew about it, but perhaps\nUkitake and Yoruichi also contacted her, noticing how odd Central 46 had been\nbehaving. For instance, that type of execution was reserved to captains, yet\nthey decided to use it on Rukia, despite her not even being a lieutenant. Not\nonly that, but they also ordered the execution to happen sooner, and denied\nUkitake's request to cancel the execution, all giving credit to Yoruichi's\nstory.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor example let's say James wrote: \"Bob Schneider gets stabbed at 13:30 by his\nbest friend. Dies of blood loss one hour later.\"\n\nWould the Death Note control his friend whose name isn't written in the Death\nNote, or would it result in Bob having a heart attack?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think his best friend will kill him accidentally or something like that. If\nhe doesn't do that accidentally, then.. he will kill him in any circumstances,\nwith or without his will. I don't know exactly how's going to happen that, it\nwill just happens somehow. That's how death note works.\n\nEdit: Sorry, I didn't understand your question first time. If it is not a rule\nfor this then it will works, his best friend will kill (If I guess right)\nHere's an image with rules: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pyasz.jpg)\n\nP.S.: Sorry for my bad english, I just saw your questions and I wanted to\nreply/respond.. Anyways, if you don't understand something, just tell me.. I\nwill try to rectify that mistake.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer to your question is quite complex and can best be summarized\nsuccinctly as -- \"maybe\". The death MAY play out exactly as you wrote it, it\nmay play out similarly, but with someone or something else causing the\nbleeding, or he may die of a heart attack. Or if certain criteria are met he\nmay not die (but most likely he will!).\n\nLet's dig in.\n\n* * *\n\n### Rules of the trade\n\nA complete list of rules from the comics and manga is [compiled\nhere](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note).\n\nNote, while many share the first 10, there's more rules in the canon than\nthat. In total there are at least 66 rules that have been compiled from the\nsource material, many of which are found in the thirteenth manga volume,\n_[Death Note 13: How to\nRead](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_13:_How_to_Read)_.\n\nSome rules that are applicable to this scenario/question include:\n\n`Rule VI.1`\n\n> The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically\n> possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by\n> that human.\n\n`Rule X.2`\n\n> Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident,\n> if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will\n> simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not\n> influenced.\n\n`Rule XXVI.2`\n\n> Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences and\n> causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim's cause of\n> death will be a heart attack.\n\n`Rule XLII.1`\n\n> The use of the Death Note in the human world sometimes affects other humans'\n> lives or shortens their original life span, even though their names are not\n> actually written in the Death Note itself. In these cases, no matter the\n> cause, the god of death sees only the original lifespan and not the\n> shortened lifespan.\n\n`Rule LV.1`\n\n> In occasions where the cause and situation of death is written before the\n> victim's name, multiple names can be written as long as they are written\n> within 40 seconds and the causes and situations of death are not impossible\n> to occur.\n\n`Rule LV.2`\n\n> In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but the situation is\n> not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the\n> cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will die of heart\n> attack.\n\n`Rule LVIII.1`\n\n> By manipulating the death of a human that has influence over another human's\n> life, that human's original life span can sometimes be lengthened.\n\n`Rule LVIII.2`\n\n> If a god of death intentionally does the above manipulation to effectively\n> lengthen a human's life span, the god of death will die, but even if a human\n> does the same, the human will not die.\n\n`Rule LIX.1`\n\n> A human death caused by Death Note will indirectly lengthen some other\n> human's original life even without a specific intention to lengthen a\n> particular person's original life span in the human world.\n\n* * *\n\n### Basic rules precluding death\n\nSo let us assume a couple things:\n\n * Bob Schneider isn't going to die otherwise within the next 12 minutes\n * \"\" hasn't been targeted with a different death scenario from another Death Note.\n * \"\" is older than 780 days (~2 years) and is younger than 124 years old.\n * \"\" does not own a Death Note.\n\nIf any of the above are false, additional rules preventing the death would\nkick in.\n\n* * *\n\n### General feasibility w/ example from the source material\n\nNow the Death Note allows people to write in a situation, perhaps even with\nfamiliar characters (this aspect is somewhat unclear). A good example is the\ndeath of [Matsushiro\nNakaokaji](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Matsushiro_Nakaokaji), a robber and\nmurderer who is killed by Light who writes that the target bleeds to death at\n1:30 p.m. He was stabbed by a store employee and winds up dying at the\nprescribed time.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/M5fIS.jpg)\n\nThis establishes that, yes, assuming the conditions are feasible (see in\nparticular LV.1-2), you can use the Death Note to manipulate someone other\nthan the victim into killing them.\n\n* * *\n\n### Death by a best friend stabbing\n\nSo what does this mean in practice?\n\nWell, likely Bob's best friend has to have considered stabbing him, which\nseems fairly likely, based on the lose definition of potential outlined in the\nrules regarding suicide. Also, the friend likely has to be physically present\nand have an accessible knife to ensure feasibility (most homes would meet this\ncriteria as they have knives in the kitchen).\n\nIf it is feasible, the next question is whether the attack will somehow result\nin the friend dying as well. If so, Rules X.2 and XVI.2 clearly state Bob will\ninstead die of a heart attack, to prevent additional deaths. Note that Rule\nXLLII.1 state that it's fine to short the characters lifespan (let's say Bob\nfights back and stabs the friend with a non-life ending injury that\nnonetheless shortens his life, i.e. laceration of the spleen or kidney).\n\nNow let's assume that it's not feasible for that best friend, either because\nthey're not capable of harboring such thoughts, are physical incapable (maybe\nthey're paralyzed), or would die in the process of the attack. Then that\nfriend will definitely not commit the attack.\n\nDoes Bob have multiple best friends?\n\nIf so, likely the above criteria repeats. If one best friend would die from\nthe stabbing, perhaps the situation will pass to a friend that meets the\nfeasibility criteria and wouldn't die. So maybe best friend 1 is a nerd and\nbest friend 2 is a gym rat... the note would likely avoid the nerdy friend who\nwould die of the counterattack, and instead pick the gym rat, who could carry\nout the deed without dying himself.\n\nUnknowns include which best friend is chosen first and how/why, assuming\nthere's multiple \"best friends\" of Bob capable of killing him.\n\n* * *\n\n### Death by someone else stabbing him or some accident causing bleeding\n\nNow if no friends are capable of killing him, than the next question, per\nLV.1-2 is whether someone else would be capable of stabbing him. Say he's at\nthe store at 13:30 p.m. and no friends are around, but other people are and\none of them has a knife.\n\nAgain, assuming no one else but Bob will die as a result of the attack and the\nattacker has considered stabbing a random stranger (or casual acquaintance if\nthey happen to know Bob), then the stabbing may still occur, just not the\nwritten situation.\n\nOr something else will happen to Bob (i.e. a piano falling on his leg) that\ncauses him to bleed out at the specified time. The requirement of no\nadditional deaths, however, would precluding many accidents that might satisfy\nthis end, though (think massive highway crash, etc., which would likely\nproduce multiple fatalities).\n\nIf there's multiple possibilities to fulfill the cause of death, if the\nsituation was deemed infeasible or would lead to additional deaths, it's\nunclear which would be picked (as with the question of which best friend would\nkill him if multiple are capable). Perhaps it's random. Perhaps there's some\nunknown rule.\n\n* * *\n\n### Final fall-through: death by heart attack\n\nIf there's no way he's going to get stabbed or otherwise maimed in such a way\nto bleed out (say Bob is in an underground bunker, far from friends and other\ndangers) -- or if ALL such circumstances would lead to additional deaths --\nthen he will die from a heart attack at the ascribed time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne incident that I think is relevant to this question is (spoiler for those\nwho haven’t seen it):\n\n> Kiichiro Osoreda is killed during the bus hijacking, however the written\n> cause of death is simply \"traffic accident\"\n\nWhilst this is entirely possible and likely on any road even without being\nwritten, the face that the written instructions are carried out (the realistic\nrule) implies that even in a minor way, the Death Note has exuded influence on\na driver for a car to be there at the exact time, not swerve etc, and\ntherefore accidentally cause a death.\n\nUnder this thinking, it would be entirely possible for Bob to be stabbed by\nhis friend, either on purpose or accidentally, if in a situation where it\nCOULD happen.\n\nHowever:\n\n> Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident,\n> if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will\n> simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not\n> influenced.\n\nmakes things a bit tricky. Say Bob is stabbed accidentally, and the friend\n(Steve or whatever)'s life is influenced by this, either a jail term or\ndepression that WOULD (hypothetically and assuming no further changes) lead to\nhim committing suicide. This is a direct link, and therefore could be seen to\ncause 2 deaths, and as a result Bob would die of a heart attack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the interest plot constructs in the _Priest_ (manhwa) series by `Hyung\nMin-woo` is the antagonist\n[Temozarela](http://priest.wikia.com/wiki/Temozarela).\n\nHe is summarized as:\n\n> Temozarela is an arch-angel who fought on God's side in the war against\n> Lucifer. However, this war caused God to lose faith in the angels and prefer\n> humanity instead.\n>\n> Temozarela, bitter at this, took twelve angels to Earth to prove to God how\n> flawed humans are. He set up a cult for the fallen angels which involved\n> human sacrifice. However, this only made God angry and caused Temozarela to\n> be banished to earth and imprisoned there.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kax8k.png)\nLeft to Right: Temozarela as angel, human, and crippled human\n\nObviously there's some similarities to the whole angels parts of the\n_Preacher_ comics, or various other fictional works, but all the similar ideas\nI found were still substantially different from `Temozarela`.\n\nI did some Google searching as I was curious whether this character\n(`Temozarela`) was a wholly new creation of the author. I could find no prior\nsource material, not under that name at least.\n\nDoes prior fictional or religious source material for `Temozarela` exist under\nthe same name or alternate names?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 7 of _Koutetsujou no Kabaneri_ brings up the point that nobody in\nJapan eats rice anymore, since the rice paddies are outside the stations, and\nhence overrun by the _kabane_.\n\nThis makes a lot of sense, and is a splendid bit of worldbuilding. But if they\ncan't grow rice, what staple food(s) do they grow and eat instead?\n\n* * *\n\nOut of all the common staple foods currently eaten, it seems that potatoes (or\nsweet potatoes) can provide the most calories-per-unit-area, clocking in at\nabout 4-5 times as much as rice. But at just 4-5 times rice's calorie/area\nyield, they'd have to have lost no more than 75-80% of their arable land to\nmaintain the same calorie output. Judging from the sizes of the stations we've\nseen, it doesn't seem plausible that they still have that much arable land -\nwe see the railforts driving through days of outside-station land between\nstations.\n\nPerhaps the resolution here is that Japan's population has dipped so\nprecipitously in the face of the _kabane_ menace that the meager amount of\nland enclosed by the stations does suffice to grow enough of some other staple\ncrop to feed the people?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn 1996, Mami Asakura was the extra student. She was also a student of 1993\n(and she died that year). When she joins Yomiyama Junior High, Her name from\nthe 1993 record disappears and everyone who knew her, loses their memory about\nher. After she disappeared, her name from 1996 record gets erased and it\nreappears in the 1993 record. **Am I correct?**\n\n**Also, will her friends remember that she was in 1993?**\n\n**How did chibiki identify that Mami Asakura was the deceased if a person's\nmemories are altered?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, you are correct. After the calamity ends, the records are restored (even\nphotographs), and some (maybe all, maybe none) of the memories.\n\nTatsuji keeps careful records of all classes 3-3. Since he reveals the truth\nabout Mami in 1998, the data was already restored.\n\nIt is not shown, but he probably also tracks the deaths.\n\nIt is not shown if Tatsuji's memories were erased or not. We know that the\nrecords both written and graphical (photographs) are edited and the extra\nremoved - and later repositioned - name and image. But the memory of the\ncalamity is not erased. People know that deaths occured. For someone tracking\nthe calamity for as long as Tetsuji, and that know of the phenomena around the\nextra's records could spot a blank where something **should** be there. The\ncalamity does not prevent discovery of the extra through sleuthing.\n\nHe could restore the information by crossing data from the records. The\n\"extra\" would be evident because there is no enrollment papers, no admission\nexam score, etc. Also the duplicate name.\n\nAs people remembering, it is blurry. People involved in a calamity class\nusually die or won't want to remember or keep themselves involved with the\nschool.\n\nSo probably when Mami returned (or anyone else, for that matter) nobody that\nonce knew her in life was there to remember.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI really like the \"Meitantei Conan\" anime, but I've always wanted to know, why\nis was the name translated to \"Case Closed\" when it was localized?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor starters,\n\nConan is a name in the US that is closely associated with Conan the Barberian,\nand Conan is a name that sounds rather odd, the main reason why Japanese names\nare almost always changed in the US, e.g Kudo Shinichi to Jimmy Kudo. I\nbelieve the main reason other than that is probably for a more eye-catching\nname than simply Detective Conan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat other people said is correct but I also believe they mention the phrase\n\"Case Closed\" in multiple episodes of the TV show/Anime so I guess whoever\ntitled was like, that would make a pretty good title.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 27 of _Ushio to Tora_ (2015-16 version), we come to learn that\nHakumen no Mono has used memory-altering _hiyou_ to make almost everybody\nforget about Ushio and Tora (Jie Mei, Saya, Hyou, and Tokisaka/Tokijun are\nspared for various reasons).\n\nIn particular, in episode 27, we specifically see Kirio having lost his\nmemories of Ushio and Tora. Then, in episode 29 (he doesn't appear in episode\n28), we see that he's regained his memories of the two of them.\n\nHow did that happen? (The anime seems to be eliding a bunch of details in\norder to fit the rest of the story into this cour, and this seems like one of\nthose things that would've been cut.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fairy Tail, Erza can use Requip, but I wanna know how she gets her weapons\nand armor there in the first place? Her ability in Fairy Tail is **not** to\nput and leave items there, it's only for switching, so how did she place all\nher weapons and armor there in the first place?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nErza's [Requip](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Requip) magic is where she\nstores armor and weapons in a pocket dimension and puts them on whenever she\nwants. Fairy Tail wiki direct quote:\n\n> This Magic allows the users to store items in a pocket dimension so they can\n> easily summon it at any time, even during battle, which gives them a high\n> level of flexibility in combat. However, there is a limit to how much the\n> pocket dimension can store. Reequip can be used for simple or combat-related\n> purposes. Some users may just choose to use it to change their clothing.\n> More skilled users are able to Reequip different weapons in battle, and it\n> is even possible to Reequip armors in the midst of battle, although the only\n> Mages to ever do this are Erza Scarlet and Coordinator.\n\nIn my memory, I do remember that there was an OVA or a special episode or\nsomething where Lucy took a job where she dressed up as a cat girl and was\nlooking for treasure for an old lady who turned out to be the person who\nraised Erza and some other children. In there, Lucy went to Erza's room in a\nscene and Erza showed her her other armor and explained her magic (my memory\nmight be wrong though, but Fairy Tail wiki is correct). The special came out\nwhen there were only 77 episodes of Fairy Tail, I think.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLets see what wiki has to say about this.\n\n> Requip is a type of Spatial Magic and Erza's signature form of Magic, over\n> which she possesses great mastery. It is a type of Magic that allows her to\n> swap weapons, armor and clothes at will. Her particular form of Requip is\n> called The Knight.\n\nLets look at what spatial magic means.\n\n> This Magic revolves around the manipulation of space, which can allow the\n> user to harass the asset for battle, travel, accessing alternate dimensions,\n> and so on. This Magic is also used in conjunction for summoning concrete\n> material or extraterrestrial beings to their stead, such as being able to\n> conjure up armor and weapons or allow Celestial Spirits access to the human\n> world.\n\nThis means her ability is to manipulate that space. So you're wrong to suggest\nshe can't put items in that space. This means Erza can store, as well as take\nback armors, swords etc using her spatial magic. Her Armors disappear after\nbeing damaged supposedly back to the same space.\n\nI would like to address that the size of the pocket Dimension is limited. So\nErza can infact put weapons and the rest are stored in her house. Again from\nthe wiki\n\n> Erza owns over 100 different types of armor, and over 200 different types of\n> weapons. \n> This Magic allows the user to store weapons and armors in pocket dimensions\n> and summon them during battle.[...] \n> The only known user, Erza, stated that there is a limit to how much the\n> pocket dimension can store, and as a result, she leaves some of her armors\n> in her room in Fairy Hills.\n\nI don't know how Erza creates new or repairs damaged armors. From a different\nquestion it was answered\n\n> Erza is an user of requip magic, in other words, she can summon weapons and\n> armors during the battles, but she does not create them. \n> [Answer Source](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14015/how-many-\n> sets-of-armor-does-erza-have/14020#14020)\n\nOther Sources on the Wiki: [Erza\nScarlet](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Erza_Scarlet) [The\nKnight](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/The_Knight) [Spatial\nMagic](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Spatial_Magic)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the anime and the manga, the author refers to Midori as green-skinned,\nin fact, even her name means green. But she doesn't look obviously green:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/L4fpVm.jpg)\n\nI would expect a name like Aoi instead if there was some leeway -\n<http://www.omniglot.com/language/colours/japanese.htm>\n\nIn the manga there is a panel with RGB codes, I thought I'd color her in just\nto make sure it wasn't an anime adaption problem & I removed the shading:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kbzYrm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VAKiZ.png)\n\nMidori's skin is hex value #85D8D0 or RGB (133,216,208). The green component\nof her skin is only 8 units larger than the blue component. Thus, even without\nmy subjectiveness, she can't be considered green-skinned. Several color-\nfocused websites classify the color as Cyan, not a shade of green.\n\nIs there some reason for this - [maybe based in\nlanguage](http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17970)? Why didn't they just\nsay she was cyan / aqua / turqoise? or even, blue?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJapanese has multiple words for the color _turquoise_ :\n\n * ターコイズブルー (turquoise blue) this is used for dominating blue or neutral\n * ターコイズグリーン (turquoise green) this is used for dominating green.\n\nThe green part in ターコイズグリーン isn't 緑 (midori), but Midori is a common girl's\nname.\n\nAnd she is probably called green-skinned, because turquoise-green-skinned is\nway too long. So they only use the last part.\n\nSource for Japanese words:\n[Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThink of it this way, Midori is what the Japanese would refer to as a\n\"[Gyaru](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru).\"\n\nOne of the more popular styles of gyaru is\n\"[Ganguro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro)\", characterized by their\ndeeply artificial tan and dyed/bleached hair.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SVuDg.jpg)\n\nGreen skin might refer to her natural skin color. It's likely that she chose\nanother hue as the bronze shade of typical ganguro gyaru is too similar to her\noriginal color. After all, ganguro gyarus are not only into radical fashions\nradical fashions, but also radical makeup. So some order more radically\ndifferent shade makes sense in this context.\n\nYou make the mistake in thinking \"midori\" can only refer to the kanji\n[緑]{midori}. If your are unaware the kanji [青]{ao} refers to both the color\nblue and green (more commonly the former nowadays). Another way to write this\nkanji is 碧. While typically pronounced \"ao,\"\n[many](http://midorinohappa.wix.com/midori)\n[people](http://www.midorikomachi.com/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E/)\n[take](https://www.lessismore.co.jp/staff/MidoriNishimura)\n[it](http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/%E7%B5%A1%E7%B9%B0%E5%B8%AB%E3%81%A8%E7%A2%A7_\\(Karakurishi_to_Midori\\))\nas a given name and pronounce it as \"Midori.\" The name here might be use in an\nironic sense (character design wise), like calling a black cat \"White.\"\n\nCyan is a greenish-blue or a light blue color. This fits her character and\nname in two ways:\n\n * When tanning your skin color you have to take into account your natural tone, unless you are painting over it completely\n\n * Her name is a bit of a pun on her complexion, she's both green (underneath) and blue (outside)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn many times we are viewing a story without paying. It can be an animation\nbroadcast on television. It can be comic or light novel that is only\ntranslated by volunteer online and one is forced to view the pirated version\nas this is the only way to view it. So there should be times we feel that want\nto have some ways to pay some money back to support the comic / light novel\nwriter or the animation company.\n\nCurrently the most common way to do so is to buy some products, like Blu-Ray\nDisk, poster, figures, toys and video games etc. However, when the comic /\nnovel / animation is so rare that you are forced to view a pirated version, it\nusually means it is also impossible to buy these products. Even if it is\npossible, it feels odd to buy unnecessary stuff just to show my support.\nSometimes it is just not environmentally friendly, and sometimes (think of\n_Strike Witches_ ) you really need to be brave enough to just possess the\nproduct itself.\n\nThen I think of the donation page or the \"Buy me a beer\" button in many free\nsoftware site (like [this\none](http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute)). So I am thinking if\nthere are similar things for\n[ACGN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACG_\\(subculture\\)) ( **A** nime, **C**\nomic, **G** ames, light **N** ovel)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSimple answer is no. Anime are created through [production\ncommittees](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-03-05). How they come\nabout can vary. The best way to support a commercial work is to purchase the\nprincipal media (discs) behind them or the source material (novels, manga).\n\nThe crowd funding, Patreon-type model is not very well-known or accepted in\nJapan, but they do exist. The most notable recent one is\n[Nekopara](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/nekopara-anime-\nova). However, these happen fairly infrequently, and typically only happen for\nsmaller or self-published work instead of bigger IPs from established.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost of episode 34 of _Ushio to Tora_ (2015-16 version) is devoted to\nrevealing Tora's past. We learn that his attendant, named Rama, had an older\nsister. Twice, Rama's sister mentions (perhaps half in jest) how she should\nlike to take refuge inside Shagaksha's mouth should battle ensue.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zbcArl.jpg)\n\nThere's clearly some sort of mythological allusion going on here, and it's\nalmost certainly something either Indian (since they quite apparently are from\nthere) or Japanese in nature, but I can't pin it down. What's going on here?\n\n(Initially, my thought was that this was going to turn out to be some sort of\nweird irony and Shagaksha would end up eating her, but that didn't happen,\nwhich is why I suspect there's an allusion I'm missing.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin _Shin Megami Tensei Persona 2: Eternal Punishment_ in Kei Nanjo;s route,\nwhen you talk to him in the Velvet Room he talks about how he used to use it\nquite often.\n\nHe also says that Persona are useful for not only fighting saying that a\nfriend of his, who has become a salesman, is using his Persona to succeed in\nhis career commenting that if only Reiji Kido was that clever.\n\nI assume since Reiji and Kei are both Persona Users from _Shin Megami Tensei\nPersona_ i assume it's either the slient nameable protagonist or Masao Inaba\nbut not sure who. i am wondering who Kei is referring to and just how they are\nusing their Persona to succeed in their career?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Spoiler alert for those who haven't finished the manga or the anime\n\n> After the Naruto and Sasuke fight (in Naruto volume 72: Uzumaki Naruto\n> chapters 694-698), both of them lost one of their arms above the elbow.\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bnJjV.jpg)\n> After a while, Naruto got a fake arm (I think Sasuke didn't) which was\n> wrapped in bandages (it was shown in the rest of the mangas, The Last:\n> Naruto the Movie, and Boruto: Naruto the Movie). [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MUK94.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SyHLS.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjfIF.jpg)\n\nIt was shown in the movies and in the manga that his arm can move and act like\nhis arm used to before he lost it, so he can use it for eating, writing,\ncarrying things, holding things, waving hand signs, releasing jutsus, etc..\nBut how does it work? I know it was created by Tsunade, and since she's an\nexcellent medical ninja she could have found a way or something, but was it\never mentioned of how it worked or anything? I mean, I know the Naruto\nUniverse evolved over time and stuff, so I guess they found a way to create\nbody part that works like they used to.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki) :\n\n> Naruto loses his right arm after the Fourth Shinobi World War, though it is\n> later replaced by a fully maneuverable prosthetic arm made of Hashirama\n> Senju's cells, wrapped completely in bandages\n\nI'm not sure it makes sense that it is prosthetic and made up of Hashirama's\ncells, since a prosthetic limb is, by definition, artificial. The definition\nfor prosthetic on [Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-\nwebster.com/dictionary/prosthesis) is\n\n> an artificial device that replaces a missing or injured part of the body\n\nPerhaps there are both organic and artificial components.\n\nWell, regardless, Narutopedia states that the arm is fully maneuverable. I\ncould be wrong on this point, but I don't think Naruto has any trouble moving\nthe arm. So with the arm moving the same as a normal arm and with it having\norganic components (Hashirama's cells), I think it is reasonable to assume it\nis connected to his nervous system, thus allowing it to function as a normal\narm.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it is mad of completely hashirama cells and because of that it is\ntechnically not a prosthetic arm. If you want to know why it glows continue\nreading. I think Naruto's arm glows because of chakra absorbing cloths that\nare on it (examples of it glowing are when he puts his arm in Hinata's body\nand undose the jutsu that Toneri Ōtsutsuki put on Hinata) Toneri Ōtsutsuki is\nthe second person to have the Tenseigan the first person was Hamura Ōtsutsuki\nbut all of that is another story that you can find here on Narutopedia!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA recurring story element that I've noticed is the accessibility of certain\nevil/dark devices at midnight.\n\nA few examples:\n\n 1. In the [third episode](http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mysterious_Sleeping_Illness!_Protect_the_Girls'_Hearts_in_Love) of _Sailor Moon_ , girls listen to a midnight radio show that is hosted by the antagonists illegally. Girls that wrote into the show and are read on air receive a brooch which steals their energy. \n 2. In _[Persona](http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Midnight_Channel)_ , there is a midnight channel which broadcasts the shadow of the person that is currently missing.\n 3. In _[Jigoku Shoujo](http://myanimelist.net/anime/228/Jigoku_Shoujo)_ , there is a website that is only accessible at midnight, which will allow the user with a grudge to send someone to hell. \n\nWhy do all three of these anime use midnight as a time for evil? What is\nspecial about midnight that sets it apart from any other time?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is an example of [pathetic\nfallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy), more specifically an\n[empathic\nenvironment](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmpathicEnvironment).\ni.e. giving an environment a percieved emotion. It is a common literary\ntechnique.\n\nSome other examples include:\n\n * Rainy scenes when a character dies / delves into depression.\n * A calm breeze after turmoil has subsided.\n * A big storm buffets the castle walls as the evil king rages\n * The sun appears from the clouds as the characters see a new path to follow after being downtrodden\n * It snows and the land is harsh when a man is exiled from the city. \n\nIn this case, midnight - is commonly associated with spookiness, feelings of\nunease and the supernatural.\n\nIt also conjures images of darkness, which is commonly associated with evil -\nwhere light is usually a good force.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSaitama, who trained for three years only doing 100 push-ups, 100 squats, 100\nsit ups, and ran 10 kilometers every day, became a \"superhero for fun\", but\nwhat does he mean by that.\n\nIs he really only doing it \"for fun\" or did he have motives but then forgot?\nBecause **normally** a hero does it for a reason like to protect the ones they\nlove, to defeat all evil, to prove that their strong, to protect something\nlike humankind, etc.. Or is he really just doing it \"for fun\" because he's\nbored. Or is there actually a deep meaning for those words?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not really sure what the confusion is here. Before he is a licensed hero,\nhe was a literally a superhero by the sheer virtue of him both being a\nsuperhuman and a person who does benevolent deeds. [A simple definition taken\nfrom Mirriam Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hero) shows\nthat a hero is:\n\n * a : a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability\n * b : an illustrious warrior\n * c : a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities\n * d : one who shows great courage\n\nHe meets B, C, and D. He is a warrior because, well, he fights things as his\ntrade. He is admired by Genos. He shows great courage by shrugging off his\nopponents.\n\nWe can theorize that he also wanted recognition for his work since that is his\nwhole reason for joining the Heroes Association.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSaitama's real reason to be hero was intended to be satire over common cliche\nreasons of most heroes.\n\nIf you think about it, it can be literally rephrased as \"Does one really needs\nreason to help another people\", which itself is actually nice idea for manga\nto show, if you are looking for some deep meaning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe is a hero for fun or at least Saitama thinks like this but what he really\nwants is the appreciation as well as respect from people.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe became a hero to help people, not for someone's appreciation. He joined the\nhero club just for fun. He had a desire inside him to help people, not for\nname or something. He just needs to help people that are helpless. He is\nsomeone who thinks about problems of people and helps them, but he will not\ntell anyone about it. He knows what he was doing. He seems as funny, but deep\ninside him, something let him do it for no matter what.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the world of _One Punch Man_ , we see the many different types of heroes:\n\n * We see Amai Mask, an idol, a person who sees the world as black and white, a hero nonetheless but not in the sense of virtue.\n * Genos, a person who seeks vengeance against evil, young but still learning.\n * Silver Fang, an old but strong martial arts master. They are \"heroes\" because they fight monsters but with a sense of self-purpose. \n\nThen we have the heroes like Saitama and Mumen Rider:\n\n * Mumen Rider went all out and never quit fighting the Deep Sea King. He was not afraid of the monster, and he always does his best regardless of the odds. He knows he could die but still helps.\n\n * BUT THE MOST NOTABLE IS SAITAMA. He was originally a \"hero for fun.\" He originally did it to become stronger. But when you take away the fun we see the bald Saitama. He is still a hero even though there was no one left to give him a thrill. He saved a little girl's life. He saved a suicidal man who was gonna jump off the roof (manga) even though he was bored, gave the police the credit for his own actions. In the theme song, it says, \"I'm not here for fortune and fame. Instead, I'll fight knowing nobody knows my name.\"\n\nTo me, that says a lot. The heroes in _One Punch Man mostly_ fight for\nsomething, a purpose. Saitama has none, but he still does good things. He's\nnot seeking attention like Amai. He has no vengeance unless you steal his\nfries. He is just a man, not trying to find purpose, but hanging with his new\nfriends is slowly giving him one. He's a hero because many of the other heroes\nwho crave some form of attention seeking. While he genuinely does it for\nothers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn most 4koma manga, the panels are about half as wide as the page, and there\nare two strips of four panels on each page. Take K-On as an example:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/K6BbEl.jpg)\n\nHowever, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun has panels that are about as wide as two of\nK-On's panels, and each page only has one strip:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LhvY7l.jpg)\n\nIs there any particular reason for this? Is it the magazine it was published\nin? Is it a shoujo vs. shounen thing? Is it just a random whim of the author?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember that the actual way that I learned to be fluent in English were by\nwatching a lot of English movies. Since, I stepped foot on Japanese anime and\nI wanted to learn Japanese in the same way. Since English was a compulsory\nsubject I could compare and learn, but Japanese is not. How I learned English\nwas memorizing the fun dialogues and I want to do the same for Japanese. Since\nJapanese is not so easy to pick up and having Kanji to search for is\ndefinitely informative.\n\nHow can we get the subtitles for a specific anime? If it were lyrics it\nwould've been easy, but I didn't find any sites that would give subtitles of\nthe dialogues of anime. Are there any? If not, what can be done so that we can\nlearn dialogues of the anime, since songs and dialogues are definitely easier\nto memorize.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDepending on how you get your anime fix...\n\n**DVD/BD**\n\nIn my experience, while most Japanese DVDs do not have subtitles in Japanese,\nsome do. It is usually easier to find movies than TV series subtitled though.\n\n**Streaming**\n\nOnline streaming services such as\n[Viki](https://www.viki.com/explore?language=ja&country=japan) have some\nJapanese shows with Japanese subtitles. Most of them non-animated TV dramas\nthough. But perhaps you can find some anime with the services available to\nyou. Or you could watch a TV drama based on a manga/anime... (Below a\nscreenshot from the [Sherlock Holmes puppet\nshow](https://www.viki.com/tv/27556c-sherlock-holmes-puppet-entertainment) on\nViki.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfQ5D.png)\n\n**Other online resources**\n\nAround the millennium shift some websites offered fan translations of Japan-\nonly anime shows. That is, you could try to get the Japanese VHS/DVD and\nfollow along with the translated script. If I remember correctly at least one\nof those websites had the Japanese script as well. This was before the fansubs\nfound a home online. Maybe something similar exists today. I am not aware of\nany such resources though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was under the impression that Kisuke's shop is where it is in order to stay\nout of the eyes of the Soul Society. Yet during the start of Season 4, Renji\nis \"mooching\" off the Urahara Shop, and it doesn't seem like Renji was in need\nto help at any time which would lead to Kisuke offering help, unlike with\nRukia where it was shown that after she lost her powers she was approached by\nKisuke.\n\nSo I am wondering if the Soul Society knew that Kisuke was set up in Karakura\nTown and thus directed Renji to seek his aid. If not, then how did Renji end\nup there?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe simple answer? Yes. However, the arc you are speaking of does not exist in\ncanon. It was a filler arc.\n\nNow, to expand upon the actual answer to your question. The Gotei 13 does know\nwhere he is, in-fact, they even know where his shop is. The reason they don't\narrest or execute him is because he is still a useful asset to them. Now, if\nhe was useless or ended up causing too much trouble, they would likely dispose\nof him, especially after he helped Ichigo and the others to gain entrance into\nthe Seretei (sorry if I misspelled that).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe last episode in the RWBY-verse so far seemed to paint the picture that\nCinder Fall shot Pyrrha Nikos, taking Pyrrha's aura. But the question I'm\nasking is: Is Pyrrha really gone for good? Me and my friends have been coming\nup with good but still questionable theories, but one theory makes sense to\nme: Jaune still hasn't unlocked his true Semblance, so maybe Jaune's Semblance\nhas something to do with Pyrrha's resurrection. I hope so. Please put my\nthoughts to rest!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, it could be possible that: after absorbing some of the Fall Maiden's\npower, she gained a Shadow Form, Cinder absorbed her and will be released once\nCinder is dead, or that Cinder faked it (with Emerald/Neo's help) so she could\nkidnap her or do SOMETHING without being targetted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Sword Art Online_ Season 1 in ALfheim, when Asuna escapes from her cage to\ntry and log out, we see 2 researchers who have taken the form of slugs.\n\nIs there a particular reason why their character models are different? Sugou\nuses a normal fairy character model (though it's Oberon) and considering that\nthe 2 researchers we see are just monitoring the captive SAO players, extra\nappendages won't be any use for them. Not to mention in a game where you can\nfly, their slug forms would force them on the ground.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe researchers \"virtual space\" and the game world of Alfheim Online are\n(conveniently, I'd say) hosted on the same server, but the researchers are not\nplaying the game, nor are supposed to exit the facility (i.e get at ground\nlevel).\n\nApart from monitoring the SAO players, those two guys are actually\nexperimenting with sensory expansion (as they mention it in their dialogue)\nand to do so they have a different model because of the mapping of the\nadditional/expanded senses to tentacles and such.\n\nBecause of their increased sensitivity they appear easier to harm, as Asuna\ndoes after some time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the story, some people refer to Mutsuki as him/her. Additionally, in the\nwiki, it stated that Mutsuki's gender is male, sex is female.\n\nIs Tooru Mutsuki male or female?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs to the last part of OP's post I can easily address that part.\n\nGender is the internal sexual identity of male/female/neither, while sex is\nthe external bits you got at birth. So this character is one with some degree\nof gender dysphoria.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is a girl as she doesn't see herself, nor think like a man:\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CRbZh.png)\n\n\"It's not that... I think like a man\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is a girl, her past causes her to dress like a man. Though, in the second\nseason of the _Tokyo Ghoul:re_ will reveal the answer why she dressed like a\nman.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough Ishida's planning for this character to be trans ended up limited to\nabuse rather than just gender dysphoria, Mutsuki has mentioned that he wants\nto be referred to as a man.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's my updated answer, with facts _from the manga itself_ , since the manga\nhas long been over and the answers here might still confuse someone,\nespecially since the anime skipped some of the facts I'm about to present.\n\nTo start with, the difference between sex and gender is that the former is\n[biological](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex) (male or female) and the\n[latter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender) 'can refer to either social\nroles based on the sex of the person ([gender\nrole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role)) or personal identification\nof one's own gender based on an internal awareness ([gender\nidentity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity)).'\n\n**Is Tooru Mutsuki male or female?** Tooru Mutsuki is, biologically, a female.\nIn the early part of the story she prefers to be identified as a male but\n**later on, she seems to accept herself and her feelings as a girl**.\n\nIn **Vol. 1 Chapter 4** ,\n\n> Torso rips open her shirt inside his cab, revealing what her sex is\n> immediately: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DkkpV.jpg)\n\nIn **Vol. 1 Chapter 5** ,\n\n> a flashback is shown where people from the CCG Academy Junior school is\n> talking to her and she tells them that **she does not want to be a girl**\n> and that from that moment on, **she wants to be a guy**.\n\nIn **Vol. 7 Chapter 73** ,\n\n> it was revealed that she was constantly abused by her father, and it was\n> hinted that his father may have sexually abused her since he focuses his\n> gaze on Tooru's wet clothes: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWaXU.png)\n\nIn **Vol. 10 Chapter 100** ,\n\n> Toruu reveals to Saiko that she is a girl but Saiko remarked to herself that\n> she already knows: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cVBof.jpg)\n\nFinally, in **Vol. 15 Chapter 155** ,\n\n> Tooru was seen naked as Sasaki walks in, implying that Haise knows that\n> she's a girl but chose not to say anything about it to the squad: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5eUMq.png)\n\nWhile she initially prefers to be identified as a guy, in the later part of\nthe story, however:\n\n> after the Rushima Landing Operation and towards the end of the manga, she is\n> more open towards her feelings and I think **she accepts that she is a\n> female**. In **Vol. 12 Chapter 126** , she reveals to Urie that she loves\n> Haise. And from the events that happen throughout the rest of the manga, it\n> can seen that she is somewhat like a\n> [yandere](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yandere), going so far as to want\n> to kill Haise and Touka. One time, she was seen stripping down, getting on\n> top of and [embracing a corpse of someone representing as\n> 'Haise'](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Tooru_Mutsuki#Clown_Siege) after\n> killing it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEach season of _Symphogear_ comes with a rather amusing sub-title.\n\n * Season 1: \"Meteoroid-falling, burning, and disappear, then...\"\n * Season 2 (G): \"In the distance, that day, when the star became music...\"\n * Season 3 (GX): \"Believe in justice and hold a determination to fist.\"\n\nWhen, if ever, are these lines uttered in-show?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Meteoroid-falling, burning, and disappear, then...\n\nThis is just the title of S1E13 - 「流れ星、堕ちて燃えて尽きて、そして―」. This refers to how,\nafter Hibiki/Chris/Tsubasa attacked the chunk of the moon knocked loose by\nKadingir, the resulting fragments fell to Earth as shooting stars, i.e.\nmeteors. (Really, the title should probably have \"meteoroids\" plural.\nCrunchyroll wisely titles S1E13 as \"Meteoroids Falling, Burning, Disappearing,\nand Then...\".)\n\nI'm not aware of this line actually being uttered anywhere in-universe.\n\n> In the distance, that day, when the star became music...\n\nThis is a direct translation of 「遥か彼方 星が音楽となった…彼の日」, which is the first line\nof the second and seventh verses of \"Gyakkou no Flugel\", the Zwei Wing insert\nsong from S1E01.\n\nNaturally, this line is also part of the lyrics to \"Niji-iro no Flugel\", the\nreorchestrated version of \"Gyakkou no Flugel\" that was used as the ED for\nS2E13 and S3E13.\n\n> Believe in justice and hold a determination to fist.\n\nThis is almost certainly an attempt at translating the title of Hibiki's first\ninsert song from G, 「正義を信じて、握り締めて」 \"Seigi wo Shinjite, Nigirishimete\". A more\nnatural translation would be something like \"Believe in justice and hold it\ntight\". I haven't the slightest idea how \"determination to fist\" came about,\nand I'm happy to award a bounty to anyone who comes up with a compelling\nexplanation of how they bumbled their way into this translation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is someone who is protective of another character enough to get hurt for\nthem called? Pretty much all MCs in anime with fighting but I wanna know a\nspecific name. Like Naruto protecting his friends or Thor from Absolute Duo\nprotecting Julie and vice versa.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is what they call, a [hero](http://tvtropes.org/Main/TheHero). Or as not\nall MC's are hero's the\n[Protagonist](http://tvtropes.org/Main/TheProtagonist). They tend to [take the\nbullet](http://tvtropes.org/Main/TakingTheBullet), make the [heroic\nsacrifice](http://tvtropes.org/Main/HeroicSacrifice) and until their [plot\ndriven armor](http://tvtropes.org/Main/StoryDrivenInvulnerability) worn out,\nthey will keep doing so.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe sea stone, which is the weakness of devil fruit users, was said to have\nthe same power as the ocean, and it was said that the sea rejected the devil\nfruit users. I understand that devil fruit users can't swim, but if they were\nstanding in a river or fresh water of any sort, would they still lose all\ntheir strength and be unable to do anything? I tried to search for it, but\nthey closed it and archived it, so can anyone help please?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to wiki there is a nice explanation about weakness of [Devil\nfruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit). I would like to highlight\nfew points which might help you.\n\n> Oda stated in an [SBS](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS) that Devil Fruit\n> users are susceptible to all types of water, not just seawater.\n>\n> This includes the white sea surrounding Skypiea. He elaborated on this,\n> saying that \"moving\" water, like rain or waves, does not weaken Devil Fruit\n> users, while standing water does. This was also shown first when Monkey D.\n> Luffy was in the Dance-Powder induced rain and did not feel his power\n> slipping away, and again when on Zou, the sea water that Zunisha used to\n> shower did not affect him despite being sea water as it was \"moving\" water.\n\nSo the main conclusion which is given in wiki that:\n\n**Devil Fruit user will not be restricted in the water if he or she is not\nphysically touching the water.**\n\nSo according to me it might affect as long as devil fruit users are physically\ntouching them.\n\nPhoto\n\n### Luffy and Brook losing strength as a result of being submerged in water.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mFDnD.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been looking for the name of the song that appear in 15:02 on episode\n717 when Kyros and Rebeca were reunited after the fight versus Diamante.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNew World One Piece ost - the time of promise (dressrosa) That's what i have\nfound\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the left image, you can see that Luffy and Brook have their powers drained.\nHowever in the right image, both Hancock and Luffy are in standing water but\nseem to keep their powers.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mFDnD.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dcTEX.png)\n\nSo, does the amount of power they lose depend on the water level?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the water level is not important, just because when some water is\ntouching them they start losing their power. I think the most important think\nis the time they are being in contact with it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on what I read and what I remember:\n\n * Rain normally doesn't have an effect.\n * If the Devil Fruit user's body is mostly out of water, then they get weakened a bit.\n * If the user is totally/mostly in the water, they normally can't move.\n * Seastone has an effect like that of being totally in water.\n\nThe difference of the above pictures: on the left, Luffy and Brook are mostly\nin water, so they are very weak; on the right, Boa Hancock and Luffy are only\nstanding in knee-deep water, so they don't lose too much power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Blackbeard touches a devil fruit user, it is as if they don't have\npowers. Unlike the sea, when he drains your power, even physical property\nchanges to your body are cancelled out.\n\nThe [Wikia on Yami Yami no Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yami_Yami_no_Mi)\ntalks about this:\n\n> This was shown when Luffy's stretching powers were canceled on touch, unlike\n> the effect of a body of water or seastone, both of which just inhibit a\n> person from controlling their powers. It was shown earlier when Luffy was\n> stuck underwater that his neck could still be stretched above the water's\n> surface, and that Busoushoku Haki would simply nullify the defensive aspects\n> of a Devil Fruit such as intangibility and the malleability of rubber.\n\nThe episode they are talking about is episode 447. In this episode, Blackbeard\nuses vortex to pull in Luffy and smashes Luffy into the ground. Crocodile\nnotes that there was blood. This is strange since Luffy, being rubber, should\nbe immune to the physical damage caused by being slammed into the ground.\n\nAnother use of the Yami Yami no Mi allowed Blackbeard to permanently remove a\ndevil fruit user's power and give it to himself. When Whitebeard died his\npower was still active in Blackbeard, thus causing the fruit to not regrow.\nThis is proof of the permanent transference of power.\n\nIn either of these cases, either the case where the devil fruit user has their\npower drained temporarily by touch, or permanently like in the case of\nwhitebeard, would the drained user regain their ability to swim?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf the devil fruit was not reborn then Yami Yami no Mi does not just take\npowers, it takes the whole thing, like the person has actually ate another\nfruit. Hence, I surmise that yes, a person would be able to swim again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't quite understand the point of such questions. Its clearly never been\nmade clear the extent of BB's powers. (Logia intangibility, Removing other\nDF's powers etc. etc.) Unless Oda decided to make this a plot point somewhere\ndown the line, I wouldn't really care how the DF mechanics work for the Yami\nYami no Mi. But fans are really passionate about it So here's my answer. There\nis no real point in it.\n\nIt is shown quite clearly that BB needs to be touching the user to negate the\nDF powers (Whitebeard and Ace fights). So in order for a DF user to swim,\n\n 1. BB sits in a boat, holds one arm or touches the body of DF user. The boat has to follow the same exact path and speed of the swimmer and the instant BB loses the touch DF user drowns and BB can't save him. Unless the boat can just have 1 pirate on it, I'd rather just row.\n 2. BB himself can't swim being a DF user. He will lose strength and from what I know the Yami Yami no Mi power is not auto triggered.\n\nThus only plausible scenario is\n\n 3. That BB can maintain his DF fruit power even when he is submerged in water, and then a DF fruit user can carry him across water.\n\nI think 3 is improbable since Crocodile did say that he has trained himself to\nturn into sand. Similarly BB needs to concentrate to hold his DF power and\nwouldn't be able to do so if submerged. Thus this power is imho\ninconsequential.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think that Blackbeard can remove the power of Devil Fruit permanently\nand the victim can't regain the ability to swim.\n\nJust like stated [here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yami_Yami_no_Mi)\n\n> The most unique and frightening advantage of the fruit is that **the user\n> also has the ability to _nullify the powers of other Devil Fruits by simply\n> touching the user and draining them of their abilities_.** All types of\n> Devil Fruit, be it a Paramecia, Zoan or Logia, are affected by this, though\n> Logias are most affected as they can no longer become intangible by\n> transforming into their respective element. This nullification truly seems\n> absolute, as though the Devil Fruit users had never gained their powers at\n> all.\n\nAnd also this\n[part](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yami_Yami_no_Mi#Weaknesses) stated that\nBlackbeard can nullify the power of other Devil Fruit users if he touch them.\n\n> In addition, while the ability to nullify Devil Fruit abilities is very\n> powerful, **the user must actually touch and remain in contact with the\n> victim for the effects to remain constant, meaning that _if the victim is\n> somehow separated from the user's physical touch they will quickly regain\n> their Devil Fruit abilities_.**\n\nSo, the victims can't regain their ability to swim if Blackbeard doesn't touch\nthem to nullify their Devil Fruit power.\n\nThey can probably, swimming by carrying Blackbeard on their back.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoubtful. I think to completely rip off powers from another Devil Fruit user\nlike Whitebeard, he probably needs to be dead or will die in the process.\nThink about it if that weren't the case, then Blackbeard would have extracted\nthe Mera Mera no Mi's power from Ace when he initially captured him. The thing\nwould've killed Ace and that wouldn't allow for a situation where Whitebeard\nwent to war with the World Government.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Volume 7 of Hidamari Sketch, the girls decide to play The Game of Life.\nThey're bored with the generic jobs and events in the regular game, so they\ndecide to customize their copy of the game using their art skills and\ncreativity.\n\nThe first thing Yuno does is paint the license plate on her car game piece\nyellow, saying it's because the car is a light vehicle.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3kVaAl.png)\n\n> Nori: What are you painting? \n> Yuno: I changed the license plate to yellow to indicate that my car is a\n> light vehicle. ♡ \n> Nori: You have a very conservative life from the start...\n\nWhat is she talking about? Why did she do this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japan, the color schemes used by license plates are standardized at a\nnational level. Plates with black text on a yellow background are used for\n\"light vehicles\" (sometimes glossed in English as \" _kei_ car\" from 軽 _kei_\n\"light\"). For example:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sCgVu.png)\n\nA three- or four-wheeled vehicle is deemed a \"light vehicle\" if its engine\ndisplacement is 660 cc or less and meets a few size and weight restrictions.\n\nI don't know much about cars, but it seems that 660 cc is quite small. The\nfive [top-selling cars in the U.S. as of January\n2016](http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2016/02/usa-best-selling-cars-\njanuary-2016-sales-figures.html) were the Toyota Camry (2500+ cc), Honda Civic\n(1500+ cc), Toyota Corolla (1800+ cc), Nissan Altima (2500+ cc), and Honda\nAccord (2400+ cc). And these are all reasonably-sized sedans, not Hummer-esque\nmonstrosities (6000+ cc).\n\nThese cars are fairly popular in Japan ([as of Mar\n2015](http://www.zenkeijikyo.or.jp/statistics/ken_share/1503ken_share4.htm),\n39% of all vehicles in Japan were light vehicles; this is up from 26% [in\n1998](http://www.zenkeijikyo.or.jp/statistics/ken_share/9803ken_share4.htm)),\nfor reasons apparently having to do with how Japan taxes and regulates\nvehicles. They also sell reasonably well in South/Southeast Asia.\n\nI would agree with Nori that light vehicles are conservative, primarily\nbecause they're often [rather boxy and\nunattractive](https://www.google.com/search?q=%E8%BB%BD%E8%87%AA%E5%8B%95%E8%BB%8A&tbm=isch)\n(because of the size restrictions) and because they accelerate slowly and\ngenerally have poor \"performance\" (because of the small engine). They seem to\nhave many benefits, especially in urban environments (easier parking and\nmaneuvering; lower taxes and cheaper insurance; better gas mileage; and\napparently [there's less bureaucracy involved in registering\none](https://www.kuruvia.com/articles/knowledges/17/)). But you're not going\nto impress almost anyone with a light vehicle.\n\n* * *\n\n(Semi-related plug: if the minutiae of Japanese motorcycles interests you,\ncheck out _Bakuon!!_ , which is basically _Top Gear_ , except with cute girls\nriding cute motorcycles.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth Teru Mikami and Light Yagami write Kiyomi's name in their death notes the\nonly difference being the time of death they specify. But in what way does\nthis help Near to prove that Light is Kira?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9J1N.jpg)\n\nThis was a page from Teru Mikami's death note shown by Near to Light.\n\nDoes Near identify that Kiyomi died a minute earlier than the time specified\nby Teru?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn actual Light have killed Kiyomi. For reference,\n<http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Kiyomi_Takada>\n\n> \"After killing Mello with the piece of the Death Note, her name is written\n> into the Death Note by Light, using a piece hidden in his watch.\"\n\nAlso if you want to know to know exactly how near got to know about kira you\ncan take a look at , [How did N come to the conclusion that Light Yagami was\nKira?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21879/how-did-n-come-to-the-\nconclusion-that-light-yagami-was-kira)\n\nAt the time when Light have written the name Light have written the name of\nKiyomi, Teru had also written thinking that Kira is in some kind of\nconstraints and it his duty take care of Kiyomi so that nothing is\ncompromised.\n\nHowever from this Near didn't proved that Light is Kira. It was just to make\nLight realize where the things went wrong. It was because this mistake that\nthe Near's officer get to follow Teru and end up obtaining the death note and\nfrom there everything went to south for Kira.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFact 1: Death Note exists.\n\nFact 2: Mikami wrote Kiyomi's name.\n\nFact 3: Kiyomi died.\n\nFact 4: There are more than 1 Kira.\n\nFact 5: First Kira was a student.\n\nFact 6: First Kira lived in Kanto area.\n\nFact 7: Light lived in Kanto area and was a student when Kira first surfaced.\n\nFact 8: The Kiras are working together.\n\nWas Light Kira? Possibly yes considering the facts above.\n\nIs it definite that Light was Kira? No. It could have been another student and\nit was Mikami who wrote the Kiyomi's name (IIRC piece of death note Light used\nto write Kiyomi's name was never discovered).\n\nFact 9: Light said, \"victory is mine\".\n\nFact 10: Light's name is the only one not written on the Death Note by Mikami\nTeru.\n\nFact 11: Mikami Teru has the Shinigami Eyes.\n\nFact 12: Mikami Teru called Light \"God\".\n\nIs Light Kira? Yes, definitely.\n\nSo, it's not directly because Takada Kiyomi's name is in Teru's Death Note.\nIt's because Mikami called Light \"God\" and Light's name being the only one not\nwritten in the Death Note.\n\n[Takada Kiyomi's wikia\nentry](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Kiyomi_Takada#Plot) said that\n\n> Kiyomi is forced to commit suicide by fire (presumably using the fuel in\n> Mello's motorcycle and equipment), burning herself, Mello's body, her\n> belongings, and everything around her.\n\nThis is exactly like what was written by Mikami Teru in Death Note hold. This\nmeans that Mikami Teru has the same power as Kira and can be considered as\none. Whether Light wrote Kiyomi's name in his own Death Note or not does not\nmatter, because it is [impossible to determine time of death down to the\nminutes unless you are there at the\nscene](http://www.practicalhomicide.com/Research/LOmar2007.htm).\n\n> However, it is utterly impossible to fix the exact hour and minute that life\n> ceased unless you were there at the moment of death.\n\nWhat matters is that Mikami Teru wrote Kiyomi's death and cause of death and\nit conforms to the her death. Mikami also write down the names of those in the\nwarehouse, all except Light's name. Why would a Kira let one person stay\nalive? Because that one person is also a Kira, which is confirmed by Mikami\ncalling Light \"God\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShowing Kiyomi's name written in the notebook doesn't help Near proves that\nLight is Kira. Instead, **it helps Near explains how he win** by realizing the\npossibility of a fake notebook, which he previously not realize and would have\nlead to Light's win.\n\nHere is the conversation on Anime:\n\n> Near: \"On the 26th, after the report featuring Takada's kidnapping, Mikami\n> headed for the bank.\"\n>\n> Gevanni: \"According to my investigation, Mikami only goes to the bank on the\n> 25th of every month. For someone as punctual as Teru, going to the bank\n> twice in two days is pretty unusual. I followed him as he headed for the\n> deposit box. I was able to get into the deposit box, and inside, was the\n> real notebook, with Takada's name written in it.\"\n>\n> Near: \"Even though you could kill someone with a piece of the note, you\n> weren't aware that Mikami had done something on his own. **It was then that\n> I realized the possibility of a fake notebook**.\"\n\n`P.S.: The detailed (i.e., time specified) written by Light and Teru doesn't\nmatter here since both match with how Kiyomi died.`\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLight Yagami gets back his memory when he touches the death note. But Misa\ndoes not get back her memories when removing touches her with a piece of paper\nfrom the death note. Why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn short: Unlike Light, Misa never owned that death note.\n\nNow the relevant timeline:\n\nRyuk dropped a death note that became Light's - the one with the rules so we\ncall it the rulebook. Rem handed a death note to Misa - without written rules\nso we call it the blank book.\n\nLight and Misa met and touched each other's death notes. At this point, they\nwere both able to see either shinigami. Also, Misa allows Light to keep the\nblank book but does not transfer ownership.\n\nMisa gets caught and tortured by L and forfeits the ownership of the blank\nbook so it is owned by Rem or the first other human to touch it (aka. Light).\n\nAt this point, Light is the owner of both death notes and knows that whenever\nhe touches or get ownership of one of them, he regains his memories. Misa\nhowever only ever held ownership of the blank one.\n\nLight makes the Shinigamis switch the death notes so that the blank note is\nnow accompanied by Ryuk and the rulebook by Rem. Light hides the blank book\nand gives the rulebook to Rem.\n\nThan Rem returns to the Shinigami's world searching for someone to give the\nrulebook while Lights gets himself incarcerated before finally giving up the\nownership of the blank book (to Ryuk who returns to the shinigami world).\n\nRem finds a human who would abuse the death note (Higuchi) and hands the\nrulebook over to him.\n\nRem finds Misa in trouble and wants her to know that Rem would support her so\nshe makes Misa touch a snipped of the rulebook - that is accompanied by Rem\nbut never was owned by Misa so Misa gets the ability to see Rem but does not\nregain her memories.\n\nAfter they defeated Higuchi, Light touches the rulebook and temporarily\nregains his memories so he kills Higuchi and assumes ownership of it, thus\npermanently regain his memories. After meeting again, Light orders Misa to\nfind the blank book (that has been originally been given to her by Rem) so\nthat Misa would finally regain her memories too. Note that since the shinigami\nswapped the notes, Ryuk now accompanies the blanc book.\n\nIf Misa would have remembered L's name, she'd have killed him right away but\nsince she didn't, she makes the deal with Ryuk again what Rem would never have\nallowed.\n\nSince Rem is connected to Light and sees the task force haunting Kira (Misa),\nRem kills L and Watari as she realizes that this is the only way to safe Misa\nfrom being captured and sentenced to death.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the chapter 482, Neinhart started to realize that he has heard the name\nErza before, nonetheless, he knows that she is the Erza Scarlet that he has\nheard of. He started figuring out that there might be some connection between\nLady Eileen and Erza scarlet.\n\n“Hair…and this magic power…”\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Grvw.png)\n\nSO I want to ask are those two really related?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime/manga itself hasn't confirmed it, so technically they currently are\nnot related and the idea of them being related is a theory (doesn't mean its\nwrong). If the anime/manga DOES confirm it, then yes, they are related.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYeah, there is a hint that they might be related. The guy on the pic sees\nsimilarities between the two (both are way too scary not to be related, lol)\nand then we see that Eileen is red-haired. Naturally we all think, 'Oh wow,\nErza's mom is badass' but it should be confirmed soon in the next several\nchapters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou have already linked the entirety of the evidence for and against their\nrelationship. As of right now in the manga, it is Hinted that they are\nrelated, but nothing has actually been said. There does seem to be a\nresemblance between Eleen and Erza, the power and hair, as well as looks, but\nthat one panel you linked where Neinhart noted these things is all we have to\ngo on. So until we dredge further into the manga, we will not get any answers\nto that question. I would fully expect for it to be true, but we are pretty\nmuch guaranteed to find out if it is or not eventually.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe Eileen IS Erza, in fact the future Erza. Look at the scar she has: it's\nlike the injuries Erza has in her battle against her Historia. More, in the\ncurrent chapter (489), Eileen says it's a magic form \"the new era\"! With the\nEclipse Gate, time travel is certified possible in FT...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPersonally I think that Eileen is either Erza's mom or like, Erza from the\nfuture or something. The reason I think she is Erza's mom is because of the\nfew hints that they are related here and there in the manga. Some of you\nreading this might say that this is not possible since Erza and Eileen don't\nhave the same name. The fact is we don't know if this is true or not. Your\nresponse might be saying that it is because Erza's last name is Scarlet and\nEileen's last name is Bersilion. Well Scarlet is not Erza's real last name. If\nyou didn't skip or if you remember in previous chapters of the manga/ previous\nepisodes of the anime you will know that when Erza was enslaved and were with\nJellal, Simon and the others she introduced herself as just Erza. Jellal is\nthe one who gave a Erza her last name when she was a child. The reason I think\nthat she is Erza from the future is because in the end of chapter 507 it ends\nwith Eileen saying to Erza \"I am you and you are me\" But I am more for the\nEileen being Erza's mom. These are just my personal theories, more likely than\nnot we will know the answer in upcoming chapters but for now we have to wait\nfor these chapters to be released,\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have completed watching the Monster anime. One thing is not cleared to me:\n\nJohan eliminated all Schuwald's close friends just to get close to him. Once\nhe became the secretary, his plan was to kill Schuwald. However, he changed\nhis plan and set fire in that ceremony. My question is why Johan was so\nconcerned with Schuwald. Why he even changed his plans on killing him?\n\nIf we look at the connections between them, we know that Johan's mother and\nMargot Langer were friends. Schuwald was aware of it. He even approached\nJohan's mother to search Margot. There he saw the twins. And that's it\nprobably.\n\nSo, does Johan wanted to kill Schuwald initially because he saw Johan as a\nkid? In the end, he destroyed the books as it would be more painful for\nSchuwald?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe quickest answer to your question is that Johan \"awakened\" in the midst of\nhis scheme. After reading that book from his childhood, his character\nessentially reverted back to being one who simply wanted to be alone.\n\nIn other words, it became a cop out that transformed into a plot point for the\nfinal arc of the story.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLight Yagami gives a death note to Rem and asks Rem to give it to Ryuk. Then\nRyuk drops the book according to Light's order. Light then takes back Misa's\nbook while doing something similar with his own book.\n\nWhy did he do this?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zxv0K.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I recall correctly it was a part of Light's grand scheme to fully exonerate\nhim as being Kira in the eyes of the task force and to kill L.\n\nOnly Light's Death Note had the rules written in English (see comments) and he\nadded the fake rules in the back about needing to write a name very 13 days\nand if you destroy the Death note all those who touched it will die.\n\n> The Fake Death Note Rules are two rules that Light Yagami persuades the\n> Shinigami Ryuk to write into the Death Note as part of a plan to clear him\n> of suspicion. These rules ultimately lead to his downfall.\n>\n> 1. If the user of the Death Note fails to consecutively write names within\n> 13 days of each other, then the user will die.\n>\n> 2. If a person makes this notebook unusable by tearing it up or burning\n> it, all the humans who have touched the Death Note will die.\n>\n>\n\nSource: [Fake Death Note\nRules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Fake_Death_Note_Rules)\n\nOwnership of this Death Note had to go to one of the Shinigami to then go to\none of the Yotsuba Group (or any big company) and trusting L's detective work\nhe would find the new Kira and recover the Death Note.\n\nTo do this Light had to have a second Death Note on him as he gives up\nownership of his in order to retain his memories and claim ownership of the\nnew Death Note when it's ownership is given up by one of the Shinigami. his\nnew one he can give up ownership when he wanted to \"get rid of this pride\"\nwhile in imprisoned (ie. get rid of ownership and erasing his memories).\n\nNow it was important for Rem to be the Shinigami of this Death Note that L\nrecovered because if Rem didn't play along Misa's life would be in danger as\nsuch the fake rules wouldn't be exposed. Of course Light knew L well enough\nthat L would still pursue Misa and seeking her execution by proving she was\nthe Second Kira, forcing Rem's hand to then kill L. L would then be killed by\nthe Shinigami everyone knew about and not by Kira and it would also kill Rem\nhaving intervened in Misa's death.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis actually changed the Shinigami attached to the notebook. Rem left with\nLight's original notebook. And Light buried Misa's notebook that Ryuk became\nattached to.\n\nWhy he needed Rem to be attached to his notebook really wasn't clear. Ryuk\nwould have never given up the fake rules, and since Misa went and got her\nnotebook back as well she had Ryuk following her.\n\nThe only thing that really made the difference I think, is that when Rem wrote\ndown L's name in her death note, everyone saw that Rem was dead. (Maybe that\nwas the point.) Light needed his notebook to be the one that was recovered so\nhe could write someone's name quickly and get his memories restored fully.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLight Yagami shuffles the death notes between himself, Rem, and Ryuk so that\nwhen he and Misa regain their death notes and their memories they will have\nswapped shinigami, leaving himself with Rem and Misa with Ryuk, so he can have\nRem with him in the investigation room so Rem will discover that Misa is in\ndanger and kill L, dying in the process. Rem plays right into his hands, even\nsurpassing Light's expectations and killing not only L, but also Watari before\ncrumbling to a pile of dust. Light then takes over the positions of L and\nWatari (as planned) and gains control over the investigation squad. He then\nhas his father hide the death note that was used to kill L, knowing he won't\nneed it because he has the other death note, and he and Misa move in together.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin _Final Fantasy Type-0_ in The Nameless Tome 14:7 it says\n\n> \"I will become Agito. I will sound the knell to shake all the world. \n> When nine and nine meet nine, the depths of reason shall stir. \n> When the seal of creation is broken, a voice like thunder shall sound, \n> And thou shalt know—we have arrived\" \n>\n\nI get the part about Agito sounding the knell to shake all the world relates\nto how\n\n> if the Agito is found Tempus Finis is stopped and the fal'Cie have someone\n> to find the gateway to the unseen realm\n\nSeal of Creation is to do with the Balance of the 4 Crystals and the Voice\nlike thunder is the voice of the Rursus.\n\nBut the part i don't really understand is what it means by _\"When nine and\nnine meet nine, the depths of reason shall stir.\"_. what exactly does nine and\nnine meet nine refer too?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the process of getting an anime for example onto CrunchyRoll? Let's\nsay a new original anime airs in Japan and a lot of the viewers on the west\nwant to watch it too. What reasons does a streaming site consider before\nacquiring licenses to stream anime? How does a streaming site know what\nresults to expect from streaming each title?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWithout going into specifics, the process is the same for anime as for any\nother product in the world:\n\n 1. Is there an interest in the product? This can be measured in many different ways in case of streaming sites: polls, data analysis (who watched what, what do forums/discussion boards say), etc.\n\n 2. If yes, can a profit be made? (in terms of new subscribes, income from ads, etc)\n\n 3. If yes, is the product legal in the country you wish to sell it in? (If not, can it be made legal? Think pixelating private parts, etc)\n\n 4. If yes, can a license be obtained? (eg. are there no import/export restrictions)\n\nThe answers to all these questions, and a few others (technical feasibility\nfor example - what if a series is _only_ made in 4K and the distributor insist\non not downscaling?) will enable a streaming site to make a proper business\ndecision and either move forward with actually acquiring the license, or\ndrop/shelve the matter.\n\nA more comprehensive list of considerations, not specifically geared toward\nstreaming sites but business in general, can be found on\n[Entrepeneur](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/78778), which is the most\ncomprehensive overview of considerations going into a business decision.\nStreaming sites, as a business, will ask those questions most suited to their\nrespective fields (anime, series, movies, music, etc).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, I pretty much get how Demon Weapons and Death Scythes work. I get how\nKishin's work too. However, on the Wiki, it says that the process of becoming\na Kishin is \"initially exclusive to Demon Weapons\" and requires the \"merging\nbetween a non-Demon Weapon and a Demon Weapon\", which would be a Demon Weapon\neating Kishin Eggs (or souls not on the Shimigami's list).\n\nBasically, you need a Demon Sword before you can have a Kishin.\n\nWe know that Asura _ate_ his Demon Sword and became a Kishin so my question is\nthis: who exactly is able to become a Kishin? What would've happened if\nAsura's Demon Sword continued to eat human souls? Although it was never\nmentioned or seen in the Soul Eater universe, could a Demon Weapon/Demon Sword\n--perfectly capable of killing and eating by themselves-- become a Kishin\nwithout a meister?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**\"Who exactly is able to become a Kishin?\"**\n\nIt has been stated in both the anime and the manga that humans cannot consume\nsouls, only demon weapons. Yet Don Al Capone, a human, was seen eating human\nsouls in the anime. The result of his soul consumption turned him into a\nKishin egg, the first step in becoming a Kishin (to my understanding, first\nyou become a Kishin egg, then a Demon Sword, then a Kishin).\n\nHowever, that only applies in the anime. In the manga, there are no \"Kishin\neggs\" only Shinigami's list of evil _human_ souls that only Lord Death can\ndistinguish to be evil.\n\nIf you are referring to the manga, I'd say only demon weapons can become\nKishin except for Asura who consumed his weapon which was already a Demon\nSword. By swallowing his weapon he gained the ability to eat souls.\n\nHowever, in the anime humans can become Kishin eggs, but it seems unlikely\nthat they would turn into \"Demon Swords\" because they are still humans--not\nDemon Weapons. On the contrary, Jack the Ripper's hands appear to be\ncompletely replaced with claws which, in some way, makes his body a weapon, so\nI suppose it's plausible.\n\n**\"What would've happened if Asura's Demon Sword continued to eat human\nsouls?\"**\n\nIf Asura continued to feed Vajra human souls, then Vajra would have been the\none to become the Kishin, so long as he wasn't eaten first.\n\n**\"Could a Demon Weapon become a Kishin without a meister?\"**\n\nDemon Weapons are fully capable of consuming souls. And, assuming that they\nare able to kill humans on their own, yes, they could become a Kishin without\na meister.\n\nHowever, some weapons such as Nygus or Liz (or Patty but not together as a\nWeapon/Meister pair, individually) are probably unable to turn a specific part\nof their body into their weapon form that can be used effectively like Soul\nand Justin Law. Such people may be incapable of becoming a Kishin solo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen a streaming site decides they want to stream a particular anime series or\nmovie, what steps do they take from start to finish?\n\n * Who emails whom?\n * Does the streaming site hire additional staff like translators, censors/editors to add subtitles and hide/blur nude body parts?\n * Which professional and legal services need to be paid?\n * How much does each step cost?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf a streaming site, for whatever reason, doesn't have a certain anime of\nwhich you're a fan, can you gather enough votes in online petitions or\nfacebook likes to convince the site to start streaming it? \nWhen could this work, and when would this be hopeless? For example: do studios\ndecide not to work with specific streaming sites, regions or audiences of less\nthan N viewers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn most cases: No. They don't care about the fans, and care about profits.\nMost streaming sites have licenses to stream that show, which often enough is\nfor exclusivity, such as with Netflix, or Amazon Prime. The licenses for these\nshows are either expensive from competition for it, or not worth the cost\nbecause of lack of response for the series. In the former case, the streaming\nsite you're petitioning can do nothing about it, considering some other place\nwill most likely already have the license, and in the latter case, can't see\nenough profits coming from it to make it worth the cost.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime _Another_ , the town of Yomiyama is cursed with a calamity that\ncauses the deaths of members of Class 3-3 and their family members living in\nthe town.\n\nThis is obviously a big problem. **So why don't the members of 3-3 and their\nfamilies switch schools?** Wouldn't that be a better choice than to risk death\nin Yomiyama?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe deaths are tied to both members of class 3-3 and Yomiyama. My guess is\nthat if you try to leave either class 3-3 or Yomiyama you'll be killed by\ndoing so, rather than waiting for your turn to die through the normal means of\nthe curse--one death every month.\n\nThis is mentioned in the show due to one of the character's deaths and on the\n[wiki](http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Deaths):\n\n> [Aya Ayano](http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Aya_Ayano) \\- While leaving\n> Yomiyama with her parents in their family car, a rock fell and hit the\n> windshield, causing her father to lose control and drive off the mountain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKouichi asked this same question from Chibiki. Chibiki said consider it as a\ncellphone going out of range. The curse doesn't affect a person if the person\ngoes out of city.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**The Programmer is an unknown student from the anime _Angel Beats_.** He is\nrevealed to exist when Yuri, the leader of the SSS,\n\n> decides to get to the root of what is causing malevolent creatures known as\n> Shadows to manifest in the World.\n\n**The Programmer is widely credited with having created:**\n\n * the Angel Player program\n * The AI\n * The Shadows\n\nIt is likely that he created the Angel Player program, as it existed before\nKanade Tachibana entered the Afterlife.\n\nIt's almost certain that the AI was made by the Programmer, when he states\nthat he is _\"simply obeying the rules\"_ when asked what he is doing with the\ncomputers from PC Room 1.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLFiR.jpg)\n\nOnce love began to take hold in the World, after\n\n> Yui disappeared,\n\nThe AI would have activated the Shadow program, **also manufactured by the\nProgrammer,** to begin wiping out the SSS, Guild, and NPCs.\n\nNow, the Programmer's background is one of mystery. It's a long story, so I'm\ngoing to take a leaf out of the [Wikia's\nbook](http://angelbeats.wikia.com/wiki/The_Programmer) here (with some minor\nedits).\n\n> The Programmer's real name is unknown. But like Otonashi, he was never\n> supposed to have entered the Afterlife, but somehow ended up there anyway.\n>\n> During his time in the Afterlife School, he fell in love with an unnamed\n> girl who disappeared when her regret was fulfilled. Unwilling or unable to\n> accept that, he decided to wait for her to return, which from the Afterlife\n> School rules would require her to:\n>\n> * Die during her teenage years (13 to 17 or so for a 4 year gap)\n> * Have a heavy regret\n>\n\n>\n> **If the girl lived an average of 85 years and reincarnated each time, there\n> would be a 4/85 (teenage years)*9.83/1000(Japan death rate )*1%(Ad hoc\n> chance of heavy regret)=~0.0004% every reincarnation. Each failure to hit\n> this chance would lead to 85 years of waiting. A 10% chance to see her again\n> would require 2.125 million years.**\n>\n> _The above calculations do not consider that the majority of the death rate\n> is actually from the elderly rather than from teenagers._\n>\n> As expected, the amount stunned Yuri, due to the massive time required to be\n> spent waiting. The AI explained that The Programmer lost his grip on sanity\n> after waiting so long, and decided to create a program to turn himself into\n> an NPC.\n>\n> As The Programmer felt that people who had resolved their sadness should not\n> clutter the Afterlife School (much like patients should be discharged when\n> they are cured rather than staying in the hospital), he created a program\n> that kept track of the amount of love in the Afterlife School world. **When\n> the amount of love exceeded a certain amount, a \"cleaning\" program would be\n> activated where NPCs would be changed into Shadows, which would in turn\n> target humans and forcibly change them into NPCs, thus resetting the world\n> into one where no humans existed.**\n\n_(formatting mine)_\n\n# So, who is the Programmer?\n\n### Theories are welcome if they're backed up with facts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat if this guy is the programmer.\n\n\n\nHe's got some tech skills obviously; he was programming the computer so that\nit's functioning when Yuri got in the room. He doesn't realize he is the\nprogrammer because he's an NPC now. So, aside from him being an entirely\nseparate entity which we don't know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe problem lies with the unanswered facts that would they ever age after a\nperiod of time, could adults join them if they were teachers or worked in a\nschool when they were alive and the fact that we don't have confirmation that\ntime is aligned and runs at the same pace in both worlds.\n\nBut if I had to hedge my bets it would first be Otonashi due to the similar\nbackground of the programmer.\n\nOr the A.I. itself since it states the programmer never left. With a regret of\ncreating Angel Player after waiting so long but unwilling to get rid of it\nthat could be why he erased his memories with commands left behind, and\ncreates his own existence as the A.I., and why he disappears when the\ncomputers are destroyed rather than his body laying on the ground.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**5\\. The AI** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLFiR.jpg)\n\nI don't think enough attention is paid to the AI as being the programmer,\nhowever there are some fairly strong factors which suggest it might be him.\n\nFirstly it's important to ask, is the AI an NPC? Well there are differences,\nclearly the AI can think, understand the fundamentals of the world etc\nhowever, it's also in a human body, it has similar traits to NPCs.\n\n 1. We know the programmer went mad and eventually turned into an NPC as confirmed by the AI. If you consider the AI an NPC then it could be him.\n\n 2. The AI knows the programmer's name but said \"you won't know him\", ruling out pretty much everyone she knows. Whilst you might argue he didn't say it's \"Me\" the AI confirmed he \"Didn't know anything\" meaning if he said his own name as the programmer he wouldn't recognise it to be himself since he's an AI since the Programmer has already wiped his memory be becoming an AI.\n\n 3. The programmer was mad, he made some rules before turning into an NPC which the AI follows, who better than to appoint himself of this role and erase his memory so he can forget his love.\n\nSome people might ask why the AI would be so open to letting someone else take\nover the world, well regardless of whoever the Programmer is, he clearly\ndidn't specify a command not to allow this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike already stated the quote was \"About 10 People\" keep in mind the series\nhas changed multiple times. Oda originally planned for One Piece to be around\n5-6 Years and now its past its 20th Anniversary and Oda already stated in an\ninterview they are planning for the 30th. We also been told that the Series\nwas mostly complete which gives us the impression the show may end with its\n30th.\n\nAlot of people stick with the crew of 10, they use Blackbeard as the reason\nsaying there gonna fight at the end. Problem is if you count Blackbeard they\nare 11 and hes been openly seeking new members as seen with Kuzan.\n\nThe most popular theory is that they will end up being a crew of 13. with 4\nmembers joining every milestone of the adventure.\n\nLuffy\n\nStarts in EAST BLUE\n\nZoro\n\nNami\n\nUsopp\n\nSanji\n\nMake it in the GRAND LINE\n\nChopper\n\nRobin\n\nFranky\n\nBrook\n\nHeaded into the NEW WORLD\n\nJinbei\n\n???\n\n???\n\n???\n\nMany comparisons have been drawn.\n\nZoro was first seen chained to a post, Chopper was first seen chained to a\nsled, and Jinbei was first seen chained in jail.\n\nNami was a traitor working for Arlong one of East Blue's Big Three, Robin was\na traitor working for Crocodile one of the Seven Warlords. (Because of this\npeople think Pudding) She was also an traitor who works for Big Mom one of the\nFour emperors.\n\nUsopp is tech based he came with the ship Going Merry, Franky is also tech\nbased and brought along the ship All Sunny. Although we dont think the main\nship will be replaced we assume the pattern will continue.\n\nFinally Sanji and Brook are speedsters, in suits that are known perverts. We\ncan assume the following.\n\nMy personal favorite is the Alphabet Theory and ill also mention the Country\nTheory due to its popularity due to Oda practically confirming it to some\ndegree.\n\nAB - Brook - Austria\n\nCD - Chopper - Canada\n\nEF - Franky - America\n\nGH -\n\nIJ - Jinbei - China\n\nKL -Luffy - Brazil\n\nMN - Nami - Sweden\n\nOP - (Pudding?) - India\n\nQR - Robin - Russia\n\nST - Sanji - France\n\nUV - Usopp - Africa\n\nWX -\n\nYZ - Zoro - Japan\n\nWith the Country Theory that leaves Germany and England\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw an episode of Pokemon. In this episode, the two Pokemon girls Dawn and\nUrsula were talking to each other. They both are rival of each other, Ursula\ntaunts Dawn in that episode; they both have taken part in a Pokemon contest.\nSince I am not a native speaker I could not understand what they actually\nspoke. The conversation was much like this -:\n\n**Ursula:** _Maye! Maye! But you know it isn't sweet as little Dawn._\n\n**Dawn:** _Ursula_.\n\n**Ursula:** I have a less than pleasure of seeing your performance yesterday;\nas usual share dumb luck of yours gone passed. However, I do hope you make it\nto the final round that way when I beat you, you will make me all that much\nbetter.\n\n**_______________________________________**\n\nI don't make sure if these were the actual lines spoken by Ursula.\n\n**_Can you tell me what Ursula actually said to Dawn? The link of the episode\nis given below and the dialogue took place between 4:34 to 4:50 seconds._**\nLink: <https://youtu.be/k_ruXTg9Jfw?t=4m33s>\n\n> The dialogue took place at **_4:34 to 4:50 seconds_** in that video.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUrsula: My, my, what do you know, if it isn’t sweet little Dawn\n\nDawn: Ursula\n\nUrsula: I have the less than great pleasure of seeing your performance\nyesterday\n\n(meaning: I didn’t enjoy your performance very much yesterday)\n\nUrsula: as usual, sheer dumb luck appears to have gotten you pass performance\nstage, and I hate to burst your bubble but you’re hardly capable of winning\nthis.\n\n(your luck have saved you again, I hate to disturb you from your daydream but\nyou don’t have the skills to win)\n\nDawn: What did you Say?\n\nUrsula: however, I do hope you make it to the final round, that way when I\nbeat you, you’ll make me look all that much better, agreed?\n\n(but I do hope you make it to the finals, you’ll make me look so much better\nwith your defeat, don’t you agree?)\n\nDawn: no, I do not!\n\nAsh: Dawn is going to win.\n\n4:34 to 5:04\n\nin the brackets are hopefully what would be easier to understand, if you need\nanything else, leave a comment, hope this helps\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't remember, whether or not it was stated in the anime, where devil\nfruits grow. They always just \"appear\".\n\nThe only thing I know is that they can grow in any weather condition, because\nwhen Luffy meets Chopper he already has devil fruit abilities, but he never\nleft the Drum Island in his life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDevil fruits do not actually grow on trees. They are just normal fruits\ninfused with a Devil fruit power. Based on its [wikia\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit):\n\n> When a Devil Fruit user dies, their ability is reborn into another fruit of\n> the same kind. Instead of growing from a plant, the ability simply\n> regenerates inside another existing fruit, as seen when Smiley \"died\" and\n> the Sara Sara no Mi, Model: Axolotl transplanted itself into a nearby apple.\n> Another characteristic of a Devil Fruit's growth is that the stem becomes\n> noticeably curlier than it was when the fruit was not endowed with the\n> ability.\n\nAs stated, the only time we have seen such a process happen is in Chapter 676:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z9Pwf.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause some people say that Haise is just a new character. I just want\ninformation because I'm confused.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm assuming you are talking about Tokyo Ghoul. In the manga (at the place\nwhere season 2 of the anime ended), Arima kills Kaneki and stabs him in the\neye. Kaneki does \"die\", but as tha manga continues,\n\nPOSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3!\n\n> Kaneki \"comes back\" as Haise Sasaki with little to no memory, so\n> techinically, he didn't comepletely die. In the anime, it never shows\n> Kaneki's fight with Arima at the end of season 2, but if there is going to\n> be a season 3 which continues from where season 2 left off, then we can\n> safetly _assume_ that Kaneki did get killed by Arima.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoilers for those that haven't seen the show.\n\n> When Kaneki was trying to live as a human his hair was black, then when he\n> decided to cross into the world of ghouls, his hair went white. While living\n> amonst the ghouls his hair remained white. Following this, at the end of the\n> series his hair starts to turn black again as he crosses back to the side of\n> the humans. Now, as Haise Sasaki, who lives as something between humans and\n> ghouls, his hair is white with black in it. There is clear visual symoblism\n> that proves they are the same character. Not to mention plot I don't want to\n> spoil.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the rules of the death note says that if someone makes the shinigami\neyes deal they will have excellent vision regardless of their previous vision.\n\nThe rule in question, (listed under the Death Note Wiki as \"How to Use: XXI\"):\n\n> \"Those with the eye power of the god of death will have the eyesight of over\n> 3.6 in the human measurement, regardless of their original eyesight.\"\n\nCould Light or any of the other characters in the series have cured a blind\nperson with this rule? It seems to be a brilliant way to avoid suspicion and\nget a true ally to cure a blind person in exchange for half of their life and\nabuse their gratefulness to make them kill people for you, and who's going to\nsuspect a blind man?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the wording of the rules of deathnote and the way the \"eyes of Shinigami\"\nare explained in the anime this scenario seems plausible.\n\nHowever, as I've said many times in such questions this is meaningless\nspeculation since either scenario is plausible and the rules of DN leave room\nfor speculation. So other than just saying this scenario is possible and\nsaying that some of our better fanfic writers picking this up as a possible\nplot point Idk what else to add.\n\nHowever, to add to the \"suspicion\" on a blind man scenario. There are many\nways this would be a bad idea.\n\n * Suddenly a blind person is cured. Publicity, DN user is exposed. Someone else may have seen them together\n * It is not so easy to hide that you are not blind. Plenty of involuntary actions, such as dodging, moving hands etc give away the fact you're not blind. It would be much tougher for a blind person who has healed to hide these signs.\n\nSo on surface it may seem a good idea, but it has its own pitfalls, pros and\ncons just as another. Also the blind person will lose his sight the moment he\ngives up ownership of the DN. I would like to think that the KIRA will kill to\nget the Notebook back.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend,\n\nI don't understand how she is attracted to him? well she loves to flirt with\nhim and make the other girls jealous on purpose.\n\nFeel free to spoil it for me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episodes 4 and 6 we find out about the history between Utaha and Tomoya.\nTomoya was a superfan of Utaha's book series, and wrote a ton of praise for it\non his blog. Utaha was impressed with how thorough his knowledge of her books\nwas, and developed tremendous respect for his opinion, to the point that she\ntried to give him her unfinished draft. He refused on principle, which led her\nto [start calling him \"Rinri-\nkun\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/19170/7579).\n\nAs she developed respect for Tomoya, Utaha's feelings also deepened into\nsomething like love. She often seems unsure herself whether she loves him,\nthough, and possibly she's afraid of being rejected as she was when she asked\nhim for feedback on her partially finished novel, so she always makes light of\nit and flirts with him playfully so she can back out if she needs to. The\n[upcoming sequel](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-17/saekano-tv-\nanime-sequel-to-premiere-on-noitamina-in-april-2017/.99908) will probably\nexpand on Utaha and Tomoya's relationship.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read the city hunter manga, which has about 193 chapters. But there are\nonly 136 chapters available in my _country_. Did they stop translation and\ndistribution of the rest of the chapters in foreign countries?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[_City Hunter_ on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hunter) says\nthere are 35 Volumes to the series originally running in Japan from 1985 to\n1991/1992.\n\non the [List of\nChapters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_City_Hunter_chapters) the\nfinal volume came out in April 1992 however chapter information stops at\nVolume 26 with Chapter 137 saying _\"(incomplete)\"_ and with the inconsistent\nnumber of chapters per volume it's hard to extrapolate how many chapters there\nwas by Volume 35. this relates to the Japanese release\n\nthe English Release appears to have more chapters per volume with Volume 5\nending at _Chapter 44 - Gambling Queen_ , however judging by the names of\nchapters in the English version it appears some of the Japanese Chapters were\nsplit, such as _Volume 4: Chapter 15 - A Lame Teacher_ in the Japanese version\nappears to match with the English Version's _Chapters 29-31 - The Wacky\nProfessor Part 1-3_. As there are no ISBN numbers for the English Version\nafter Volume 5 one can assume there are no Legal English versions released\nbeyond Volume 5.\n\nOn _City Hunter's_ Wikipedia Page, inside the right side info box under\nEnglish publisher it says\n\n> NA Gutsoon! Entertainment (incomplete, defunct)\n\nlooking at [Gutsoon! Entertainment's Wikipedia\nPage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutsoon!_Entertainment) it says\n\n> On March 15, 2004, Gutsoon! announced that they will be placing their Rajin\n> Comics brand on hiatus. **Raijin Comics ceased publication with its July\n> 2004 issue (issue #46) and the Raijin Graphic Novels line was subsequently\n> cancelled as well.**\n\nthis is also confirmed on _City Hunter's_ Wikipedia Page\n\n> Attempts were made to license the series for the American comic market\n> during the 1980s; however, Hojo insisted the manga should be released in the\n> right-to-left format. In 2002 Coamix created an American subsidiary,\n> Gutsoon! Entertainment. City Hunter was a flagship title in their Raijin\n> Comics Anthology. Raijin switched from a weekly format to a monthly format\n> before being cancelled after 46 issues.\n\nIn these magazine serializations in Japan a Manga Series is generally released\na chapter at a time in each issue so the 44 Chapters of the English Version\nrun close to the 46 Issues of _Raijin Comics_\n\nAs for other countries there doesn't seem to be any data for their release\nhowever the Wikipedia page may only be detailing the original Japanese release\nand English because it itself is in English as [Anime News\nNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1593) list\nother countries that the manga series has been published in, however as i\ndon't know any other languages getting data from another Language's Wikipedia\nwill be a bit harder.\n\nFrom the data we have on Wikipedia for _City Hunter_ we can say that only up\nto _Volume 5: Chapter 22 - The Game's Queen_ was officially localized in\nEnglish as _Chapter 44 - Gambling Queen_. any other chapters in english that\nare floating around on the internet i would suspect to be scanlations.\n\nscanlation status is not on topic here on Anime and Manga as such you probably\nwont find any information here as to any announcement by the scanlation circle\nwhy they have stopped, however possible reasons could be due to\n\n * Lack of access to the Raw Japanese Manga\n * Lack of Staff (scanlation circles shouldn't be profiting so the staff only works when they have the time)\n * Being told to stop by the publishers/mangaka (has happened if i recall, just not sure on the title) \n * Just a lack of interest in the series, this can be combined with Lack of Staff as Staff can leave individually when they lack interest. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's available in Italian up to chapter 193, the full series. It's also\navailable in French. The Italian version has the advantage of being quite\ncheap to buy, so I highly recommend you to do so you should be able to find it\nat any online bookshop, and when in doubt, amazon.it or amazon.fr may do the\ntrick. I understand much of Italian being Spanish, so I could read it using\nthe dictionary from time to time. If you don't know any Latin-based language,\nthough, this may not help you, but at least Italian would be easier to\nunderstand than Japanese.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the first episode of _Gochuumon wa Usagi desuka?_ ( _Is the order a\nrabbit?_ ) Chino's grandfather was depicted as a rabbit (very questionable\nsince he didn't look like a rabbit, but the anime says so, so let's call him a\nrabbit). However, considering that both Chino's father and Chino are normal\nhumans, and that the writer who often comes to Chino's cafe (Rabbit House)\nused to chat with the first owner (Chino's grandfather), there must be a time\nwhere he was a normal human. Otherwise, the writer lady would have noticed it\nwas him when she saw the rabbit. Also since the rabbit has no arms (at least\nthe first season doesn't show it having arms), and considering his size, he\nwouldn't be able to pour coffee. Has it been explained somewhere (anime and\nmanga) why Chino's grandfather turned into a rabbit?\n\nNote: I haven't watched the second season. Please carefully put spoilers if\nthey come up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have recently discovered the Black Butler fandom, and have noticed that\nthere are exclamation marks between 'Butler' and 'Grell', like this:\nButler!Grell. The same is also true for 'Tutor' and 'Sebastian':\nTutor!Sebastian. Is there any significance or meaning behind this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn most fandom the exclamation point is used to indicate a particular style of\na character in a series. It's mostly used when characters have episodes or\neven arcs where they wear a particular outfit like a armor, transformations,\nor even a disguise.\n\nMost fandom is sustained by avid attention from fans for characters that they\nlike so it helps to distinguish from things like tutor, easter bunny and\nclassic sebastian.\n\nDifferent fandoms use different notations. But they overall serve the same\npurpose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, where does Ciel acquire the key to the storehouse that the drugs\nare in?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2\n\n> His butler, Strongest\n\nSeveral characters are portrayed in the pool room and in the tea room in the\nscene after.\n\nOne of these characters a Chinese male named Lau is responsible for oversight\nof the drug trafficking that occurs in London.\n\nCiel being the Earl of Phantomhive, received a mission from the queen to\neliminate a rat who had been messing with Lau's business.\n\nLau gave Ciel the key who baited out his kidnapping and flushed out the rat.\nWhich is why the main focus in the point of this episode was that Ciel likes\nto play games. He could have had Lau or Sebastian handle it but he would\nrather throw himself right in the middle a precarious situation for\nentertainment.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, entitled 'His Butler, Strongest', whose drugs are being kept in\nthe storehouse? Are they actually Azzurro's drugs, or are they someone else's\nand he just wants to get his hands on them to sell them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat would be drugs that do belong to Lau's operation to handle within\nEngland. But since they are being stolen and trafficked it was Ciel's job to\ntrack down and eliminate them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHas the reincarnation of Indra and Ashura ended, after Naruto and Sasuke\nfight? Or will there be new reincarnation of them again, looking for new hosts\n?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI thought that through the series it was going to be explain, what happened\nfor the current incarnations\n[Naruto](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki) and\n[Sasuke](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sasuke_Uchiha), until the end of the\nseries.\n\nAccording to [Naruto wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/):\n\n> _The reincarnation cycle will not start again until both of the current\n> reincarnations have passed away; the brothers would not reincarnate until\n> Madara's death, which would occur decades after Hashirama's._\n\nAlso on top of the [page](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Reincarnation), it\nsays: _Naruto Uzumaki, the current reincarnation of Asura._\n\nThe only thing that differs with Naruto and Sasuke was that they didn't have\nthe same conclusion, as the previous\n[reincarnations](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Reincarnation):\n\n> _Ultimately, Naruto managed to accomplish what all of the previous\n> reincarnations had failed to do: end the rift between the two lines of the\n> reincarnated brothers. Naruto achieved this after defeating Sasuke, who\n> finally accepted Naruto's ideals at the end of their fight. This brought\n> about the end of the bitter feud that had lasted for centuries. According to\n> Black Zetsu, the reincarnations of Indra and Asura were almost always in\n> conflict with each other and rarely worked together. Naruto and Sasuke are\n> one of the exceptions, assuming other exceptions have existed throughout the\n> centuries._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis question is hard to answer with certainty.\n\nBased on Naruto's words before the final fight with Sasuke, the feud would end\nafter that battle. (Chapter 692, pg 17)\n\nSasuke then claims the \"eternal destiny the sage of six paths talked about\n[would] end\" if he dies. Sasuke didn't die, so the \"destiny\" (reincarnation\ncycle) may still be alive. <http://narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/698/18/>\n\nOr maybe Naruto ended it by forcing Sasuke to admit defeat, something the\nother reincarnates of Indra never did. \n<http://narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/698/17/>\n\nBased on what happened when Obito died, there is a soul and afterlife of some\nsort, so one could argue that, with the \"feud\" over, there is no need for them\nto reincarnate again, and they could finally pass on to that afterlife. \n(Chapter 688, page 6)\n\nIn conclusion, I don't think there is a definite answer. You just have to\nchoose what to think yourself on this one. \n(Chapters and page numbers from narutobase)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would argue that the reincarnations end with Naruto and Sasuke. Indora and\nAshura reincarnated probably because they still hadn't ended their feud.\nBecause Naruto was able to end the brother's feud, that probably also ended\nthe cycle of reincarnations. In other words, the brothers _made up_ through\ntheir reincarnations (Naruto and Sasuke), so they have no reason to keep\nreincarnating again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not predicting or giving a direct answer to the above question, but I say\nthat the reincarnation can take place again not for the sake of any dispute\nbetween brothers like before, but for the extension of the family tree or\nexpansion of clan and lineage...it could be now a reincarnation of brothers\nfor the sake of watching over the true will of their dad...and also to\ninnovate a new era with cooperation after long strife...\n\nbesides, in resolving to do dad's will from now on, madara will be free from\nzetsu's deceipt and darkness will not be the way out for the sharingan but\nHagoromo's full powers might certainly enhance the sharingan or again, honest\ncooperation between the brothers can make things to run smoothly (like\nhashirama cells, tailed beasts' chakra ,hagoromo's legacy, etc)\n\ntherefore since there are various clans, the two bothers can incarnate as clan\nleaders (madara, hashirama)...and a new story emerges with their\ncollaboration...and i think that there are still some boss battles...kaguya\nmentioned that she was pursued by some three violent persons and that she\nescaped to the ninja world where she arrived already fierce and\npowerful...this therefore means that madara's story of which he was convinced\nabout kaguya eating a fruit and thus possessing chakra was wrong!?!\n\ni think the reincarnation is possible and can be appropriate in a\ncollaboration context...thus madara indora can be appreciated, cheered and\nthanked for the incarnation idea...i don't know if it will bore or it will\nstill be interesting and have some sense (because previous boss is now walking\nwith actor, what next?)\n\nto be honest, if naruto and sasuke incarnates are in collaboration, with their\nactual power levels (ten tails and rinnegan), i don't imagine a threatening\nboss battle against them...even if they possess the power level below the\nabove mentioned power level, if incarnates of madara sasuke and naruto are in\ncollab, i still think that boss battle has been cleared in advance\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reincarnation cycle definitely ended because indra said a purpose to his\nreincarnation and ashura said he will also reincarnate as to stop him. Every\nreincarnates failed in their purpose, but with naruto and sasuke, naruto\nfulfilled ashura's and hagoromo's wish(indra and ashura working together in\nfull harmony without hatred, but only with love and brotherhood). Sasuke\novercame his hatred and 100% doesn't wish to do what indra wished to do, in\nother words, indra overcame his hatred, and ashura succeeded in helping indra\novercoming his hatred. And thus the cycle of hatred also ended. So there is no\nreason to reincarnate anymore.\n\nAll the other indra reincarnates before sasuke doesn't agree with ashura's\nideologiea, and dies while holding onto indra's ideologies leaving behind a\npurpose for reincarnation. That definitely ended with naru-sasu in their last\nbattle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk. II/Re;Birth 2 - Sisters Generation_ one of the\ncharacters, Cave, was able to nibbly weave though a crowd which kept squeezing\nand crushing Nepgear and in a Chipper event after that she also pointed out\nhow nothing will touch her \"hitbox\".\n\nHow does these 2 things relate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike other characters Cave is a personification of a company, in this case\n[CAVE Interactive Co., Ltd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_\\(company\\)) or\njust CAVE (Computer Art Visual Entertainment).\n\nCAVE Interactive is know for developing Danmaku games, ie. [Bullet\nHell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_%27em_up#Bullet_hell_and_niche_appeal).\nthe same kind of game the majority of Touhou games are. some of CAVE's Danmaku\ngames are\n\n * Mushihimesama Futari\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TscUb.jpg)\n\n * Espgaluda\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dtSLU.jpg)\n\n * Bug Princess\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PRZtv.jpg)\n\nin Danmaku games the player normally has a very small hitbox which allows them\nto squeeze though the tiniest of gaps in the bullet curtain. Cave's mention of\nher hitbox and her nimble abilities getting through the crowd is a reference\nto here where the people of the crowd are like the bullets of a bullet\ncurtain.\n\nit's also worth noting that infact it was CAVE which ended up inventing these\nkind of games from an initial prototype template that initial template that\nwas created by another company that some of CAVE's employees had came from.\n\n> Toaplan's Batsugun (1993) provided the prototypical template for this new\n> breed, with Cave (formed by former employees of Toaplan, including\n> Batsugun's main creator Tsuneki Ikeda, after the latter company collapsed)\n> inventing the type proper with 1995's DonPachi\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCiel Phantomhive's noble title was Earl. In medieval England, an [Earl was the\nsame as a Count in other parts of Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl).\nPhantomhive is his family name; therefore, him being called Earl Phantomhive\nwas understandable. It was like calling Earl Peter Raeves of Wessex \"Earl\nRaeves\", or Earl Ian Hunter of Hwicce \"Earl Hunter\".\n\nMy question is, since Phantomhive is his family name and not the name of a\nregion in England (unless in the Kuroshitsuji universe there is a region named\nPhantomhive, but I've never heard of that), what region/county in England was\nCiel the Earl of?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith what I've read in the manga. Earl of Phantomhive has always been a direct\nservant to the queen. The way the manga seems to portray it. The phantomhive\nfamily is in charge of the entire underground network for all of England.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEarls, Dukes, and Counts can all vaguely be considered the same thing. All of\nthem could either be rulers over a section of the Queen's territory (\"Earl\nPeter Raeves of Wessex\") or it was just a title for a part of the hierarchy\nthat was close to the monarch. I think he's called the Earl of Phantomhive, or\nI suppose you could say Earl Phantomhive, because that puts him in his spot in\nthe hierarchy and as the head of the Phantomhive family. Please correct me if\nI'm wrong but that's how I always understood it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a village connected to the earl's title, and presumably land\nsurrounding that village but it is not named in either manga or anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn some chapters or even as cover art in berserk puck is drawn fully with\ndetail as shown here: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1n0m4.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8wQF.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dqcB1.png)\n\nBut in several chapters he is drawn like this:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pdXHv.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/26gNw.png)\n\nIs there a reason for neglecting detail? I noticed that when he comes in as\ncomic relief he seems to miss alot of detail like so. But is there some sort\nof artistic reason behind this choice that I am not aware of?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is for comic relief purposes only. The technique is known as\n**Deanimation/Cut-Out**. Check more details below.\n\n> <http://www.japanpowered.com/anime-articles/anime-facial-expressions>\n\nHere read the part about Deanimation cut out. Another one of the Top Manga\n(and Anime) which uses this is Full Metal Alchemist. The purpose is the same\nfor i.e. Comic relief especially with the Elric Brothers.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mGhqt.jpg)\n\nSaying this is neglecting detail is kinda offensive to me cause the attention\nto details, the beautiful and horrifying art work is one of the main reasons\nmany people still read Berserk even though it is a disappointment that the\nprogress has been so slow.\n\nAlso google \"Puck's Funny Expressions\". I know it can be jarring but lots of\npeople (me included) find the little humour in the dark and gruesome world\nrefreshing.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9iGh.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> In Bleach chapter 673 it says that Juha is Ichigo's true father, so with his\n> mother also being a Quincy,\n\n...where did Ichigo get his shinigami powers from? (Up until this chapter, I\nthought he got his shinigami powers from Isshin.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer, from his father, Kurosaki Isshin.\n\nLong answer is provided below with history of Ichigo's life.\n\n## This answer contains massive spoilers\n\nFirst of all, you need to understand that Ichigo is unique in that he was born\nfrom a Quincy mother (Kurosaki Masaki) and a Shinigami father (Kurosaki\nIsshin, formerly Shiba Isshin). Because of this, he has the power of both\nQuincy and Shinigami.\n\nDuring her mother's high school age, Aizen was experimenting with\nHollowfication and created a hollow called White, who caused Hollowfication on\nHirako Shinji and other captains of Gotei 13 to turn into hollow. The hollow,\nWhite, was then sent to attack Shiba Isshin (Ichigo's father, his family name\nwas Shiba before he married Masaki and uses her family name). Kurosaki Masaki\nrescued Isshin from the Hollow but was Hollowfied herself. This caused Ichigo\nto have hollow powers in him as shown by White having a similar looks to\nIchigo's Hollowfication form.\n\nIsshin married Masaki and Ichigo was born. It was shown that Ichigo was able\nto see spirits since he was elementary school student where he saw Grand\nFisher's bait and attempted to save it thinking that it was a girl who tried\nto drown herself. This attempt of his caused his mother's death.\n\nYears passed and Ichigo is now 15 years old. A hollow attacked his house and\nKuchiki Rukia saved him by transferring her Shinigami powers to him. This act\nawakens his dormant powers that he inherited from his parents. He later lost\nthe powers Rukia lend him from Kuchiki Byakuya's attack. He regained it after\ntraining with Urahara, but this time it was his own dormant \"Shinigami\"\npowers. Notice the use of double quote there.\n\nIchigo fought the Shinigami to save Rukia, learned Bankai in the process. Then\nhe fought Aizen's Espada to save Orihime, and eventually Aizen himself to save\nKarakura Town. To fight Aizen's godly powers he learned a forbidden technique\nfrom Kurosaki Isshin, called the Final Getsuga Tenshou. This technique caused\nhim to lost his \"Shinigami\" powers.\n\nHe then regained his \"Shinigami\" powers after the captains of Gotei 13 and\nvice-captains Abarai Renji and Kuchiki Rukia transferred power to Ichigo\nduring the end of the Fullbringer Arc. Then the Quincy attacked, lead by their\nking, Ywach (some called him Juha Bach). During the fight his Zanpakuto was\ndestroyed and to forge it he went with the Zero Division to meet the maker of\nZanpakuto, Nimaiya.\n\nIt was during the forging process that it was revealed that the so called\n\"Shinigami\" power he has been using was actually his Quincy powers, which also\nexplains why Ywach looks so much like Zangetsu. Now he awakens his true\nShinigami power which Zangetsu has been suppressing.\n\nSo in conclusion, the **\"Shinigami\" power** that he has been using before he\nbroke his Zanpakuto was **actually his Quincy power** which he inherited\n**from his mother**. His **real Shinigami power** is obviously **from his\nfather Kurosaki Isshin** since Isshin is also a Shinigami. He can use\n**Hollowfication** since his soul was infused with Hollow Kurosaki Masaki\nsealed, **the hollow White** , inside her body.\n\nAs for what it means by\n\n> In Bleach chapter 673 it says that Juha is Ichigo's true father, so with his\n> mother also being a Quincy,\n\nit is more in a spiritual meanings. Just like Odin was called the Allfather\n(means father of all), Ywach is the father of all Quincy since all Quincy's\npowers was born from him. This makes him Ichigo's father in spiritual means,\njust like Odin was father of Norse people.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 6 of _Bakuon!!_ , the Bike Club girls play some sort of strange\ngame to decide who's going to organize the race they're holding for the school\nfestival.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CBjRWm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2bN3im.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QcFuxm.jpg)\n\n> Hane: We're deciding by the popular vote system that Onsa-chan came up with.\n> We each write a character on the palms of our hands, and whoever has the\n> most wins.\n\nRaimu and Hijiri both write 金 (gold) on their hands, which somehow means that\nHijiri wins and that her idea has to involve \"gold\" somehow, which leads her\nto create a betting pool for the winner of the race.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFY4pm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GW2Ifm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ql34cm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nO1wkm.jpg)\n\n> Hijiri: I win with the most, which means...I'll be in charge of this matter. \n> Onsa: But how do you make the race more exciting with gold?\n\nHow is this game supposed to work? According to Hane, \"whoever has the most\nwins\". The most what? It looks like \"the most people writing the same\ncharacter\". But then why does Hijiri win, and not Raimu, who wrote the same\ncharacter? (Aside from the reason that it's hard to organize a race when you\ncan only communicate by writing on a notebook and no one officially recognizes\nyour existence.)\n\nAlso, if you're allowed to pick any character, the odds of any of the [50,000\nkanji in the Dai Kan-wa\nJiten](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/11737/7218), or even any of the\n2,136 Jouyou kanji, getting a majority among five people are quite low.\nInitially I thought the characters were limited to days of the week, but Rin\npicked 銀 (silver), which isn't a day of the week.\n\nSince Hane mentions that Onsa invented this game, I assume it isn't a real\ngame, but maybe it's based on something, or was explained more fully in the\nmanga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a few guesses, I will offer 2 of them. The 1st would be line weight,\nbut 2 people are also tied there. Furthermore, between those who wrote \"gold\",\nthe winner had more line weight, but that does not explain the win, anyway.\n\nMy 2nd guess is money, of which the winner had more \"gold\" than the other had\n\"silver\". In regards to being able to choose from 50000 Kanji used by chinese\nor up to 6000 used by Japanese, all stolen from the Chinese language itself,\nthey had to choose from what they materialistically had, of which the answers\nwere basic. While \"fire\" and \"water\" do not fit well into this theory because\nit could mean either in total or nearby, having more money than just silver\ncoins would work well. Furthermore, between the 2 who chose money, the winner\nalso must have had more.\n\n...Now, why am I referring to \"gold\" as \"money\"? It appears in a word used\nthis way in Japanese. お金 (おかね Okane) means \"money\". The お makes it honorable,\nbut that is barely on point, only beside it. If everyone had chosen \"money\" in\nthis point-of-view and manner, they who had the most, between all of the\nabove, would win. It could have been someone completely different. If everyone\nhad chosen completely different answers, they who had the most,\nmaterialistically speaking, would have won.\n\nOf course, this is just a theory, I could be wrong.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was indeed explained more fully in the manga in volume 3, chapter 18.\n\n### Origin of the \"game\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iV9b2.png)\n\nYes, the most people writing the same character win, and yes, you can\ntheoretically write any kanji character there is, as long as you explain how\nyou could make the race more exciting with the idea represented by that kanji.\n\nHijiri and Raimu both won, but Hijiri was especially excited because in the\nmanga,\n\n> it took the girls 15 minutes to play the game to decide on what to do at the\n> school festival, and Hijiri was the only one who wrote a different kanji\n> character in that first round of vote so she felt kind of a loner.\n\nAnd in the Battle of the Red Cliff, only Zhou Yu was in charge of carrying out\nthe fire attacks because Wu had more military power and was more hard-pressed\nfor survival, just like Hijiri is compared to Raimu.\n\nLastly, I believe it to be an error on the part of the sub group to translate\nwhat Rin wrote as \"silver\" (銀) when in fact she wrote \"bells\" (鈴).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/59RSb.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow do the death scythes work? I know the reapers use them to view cinematic\nrecords of a person's life to decide whether they are to die or not (I assume\nas in if the person gets in an accident, for example, the reaper uses the\nscythe and makes the decision).\n\nBut, the scythes must also have the ability to be used as any other weapon.\nGrell uses his to kill Madame Red and attack Sebastian.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDeath scythes from my understanding have the function of removing ones soul or\nessence of existence. Doing so conventionally kills the victim.\n\nIt should not be used in any other way than reaping people from the list. But\nGrell in particular is not a shinigami that follows the rules as he steps out\noften on a whim for adventure and excitement.\n\nThis is shown in several points in the jack the ripper arc in which case he is\nimmediately brought back to HQ for disciplinary action.\n\nThe more notable thing that occurs is when the scythe is used on demons and\nzombies. But that is thoroughly explored in later chapters of the manga.\n\nIn short spoilers below :\n\n> Demons don't have records because they are darkness, evil beings that were\n> not alive to begin with. And zombies have content even if their record\n> stopped recording. These are noted out towards the end of the jack the\n> ripper arc and in the beginning of the emerald witch arc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust finished reading the chapter 828 and I have to say the germa 66 has me\nblown away.\n\nWho exactly are they? Are they pirates? Are they nobility like the tenryubito?\n\nDid I miss a chapter or something? Can someone fill me in?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_The answer below has pontetial spoilers, because the animated series hasn't\ncatched up with the manga. Proceed with caution!_\n\n**SPOILERS**\n\n> [Germa 66 or Warmongers](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Germa_66) as they\n> have been called is an organization which is controlled by [Vinsmoke\n> family](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Vinsmoke_Family), which recently we\n> found out is [Sanji's](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sanji) family. They\n> have ties with the [Underwold](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Underworld)\n> and recently with [Big Mom\n> Pirates](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Charlotte_Linlin), because of the\n> marriage/alliance of [Sanji](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sanji) and\n> [Purin](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Purin). As for the nobility Vinsmoke\n> family as [Reiju](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Vinsmoke_Reiju) said even\n> though they don't own any land, they are still participate at the\n> [Reverie](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Reverie) *So to summarize, Germa 66\n> is an organization that is under the Vinsmoke Family and has a lot of\n> weapons/technology at their disposal. They are not pirates and they have\n> affliction with the nobles not directly but indirectly through Vinsmoke\n> Family. This is all we know so far.\n\nAnything that you might need to know is in the one piece wikia [Germa\n66](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Germa_66)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy did Lenka's hair turn gold when fighting Pita and afterward it returned\nnormal ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [/r/anime](http://reddit.com/r/anime):\n\n> Golden hair status is supposed to be the effect that the Aragami Cells have\n> on the human body when pushed to extremes.\n\nSo, basically, he was physically maxed out while fighting Pita, and as a\nresult, his hair turned gold.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnless I am mistaken, it seems as if Nori-chan from the anime Kiznaiver has\ntwo different voice actresses. One for the 'young' Nori-chan and one for the\nmain part of the story.\n\n**My question** \\- Who is the voice actress for the 'young' Nori-chan?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FWQZcm.jpg)\n\nThe young voice can be heard in\n\n * season 1 episode 1 at the start of the episode\n * and season 1 episode 10 at around the 21m:44s (timing includes opening song).\n\nI'm sure I've heard this voice before, it is incrediby irritating.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey aren't played by the same person.\n\n> Who is the voice actress for the 'young' Nori-chan?\n\nTeenage Sonozaki is played by YAMAMURA Hibiku, but child Sonozaki is played by\n財前咲良 (probably read \"ZAIZEN Sakura\"). She's credited in episode 1 as \"girl\"\n(少女).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gEzjO.png)\n\nIn episode 9, she's again credited, this time as \"Sonozaki (child)\" (園崎（幼少期）).\nCuriously, her name is spelled 財前咲来 this time. She has barely any internet\npresence, but judging from [this\npage](http://www.theatre.co.jp/school_fukuoka), I think the episode 9 spelling\nis correct. (The same spelling is used when she's credited in episode 10.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nstRC.png)\n\n> I'm sure I've heard this voice before, it is incrediby irritating.\n\nAs near as I can tell, this is her first role in anime, so you probably\nhaven't heard her before.\n\nIt does appear that she [voiced young Cinderella in the Japanese\ndub](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A9_\\(2015%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AE%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB\\)#.E7.99.BB.E5.A0.B4.E4.BA.BA.E7.89.A9)\nof [Disney's 2015\n_Cinderella_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_\\(2015_Disney_film\\)),\nthough, and I imagine she might've had some other minor gigs (commercial\nvoiceovers, etc.) too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI finished watching Arslan Senki and am wondering:\n\n * How much of the manga did it cover?\n * Are there any differences between the manga and the anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI’m a great fan of Arslan Senki and read the novels in Japanese twice. Sorry\nit’s been almost 2 years since you posted your question, but I will answer all\nyour doubts.\n\nThe anime took the art style from the second manga adaptation when telling the\nstory of the novels. The anime character designs belong to Shingo Ogiso as\nwell. The story itself was quickly taken directly from the novels as the only\nsource as the anime caught up with the manga.\n\nThere were 19 chapters published when the anime started running (5th April)\nand also when it ended (27th September).\n\n<https://bookstore.yahoo.co.jp/shoshi-417773/>\n\n<https://bookstore.yahoo.co.jp/shoshi-522005/>\n\nThe first link corresponds to volume 3, which includes chapters 11-19 and was\npublished in Japan on February 9, 2015.\n\nThe second link corresponds to volume 4, which includes chapters 20-27 and was\nreleased in Japan on October 9, 2015. It is important to note that the anime\nhad already ended before this date though.\n\nJust so that you know, episode 9 from the anime covers up to chapter 19 from\nthe manga, and episode 10 covers up to chapter 23. So it would be something\nlike that more or less.\n\nAfter that point, episodes 10-25 from season 1 as well as all episodes from\nseason 2 could not take the manga’s adaptation into account while adapting the\nnovels as there was no manga to begin with. The manga’s pace is incredibly\nslow. Even now, 2018, it still hasn’t started dealing with what season 2\ncovered (the latest manga Chapter 57 is adapting the last part from novel 3,\nwhereas the anime’s season 1 covers novels 1- 4).\n\nI’ll explain this later in more detail, but the manga’s adaptation is faithful\nand respectful to the novel source material. The anime’s adaptation not so\nmuch.\n\nThe difference between the manga and the novels is minimal. The manga adapts\nthe novels in a consistent and faithful way. The anime, however, is less\nfaithful. Yet again, I’ll explain this later.\n\nNow, these are the 2 issues that the OP has. I’ll explain all of them:\n\n> How much of the manga did it cover?\n>\n> Are there any differences between the manga and the anime?\n\nThose questions are answered in these points. I'm adding a few more details\nfor context as well.\n\n## 1\\. What should I read?\n\nArslan Senki is a Japanese novel series written by Yoshiki Tanaka. There are\nsixteen novels written between 1986 and 2017. A manga adaptation by Chisato\nNakamura started running in 1990 and finished running in 1996. It had an\noriginal ending as it caught up with the novels. Because of its popularity, a\nsecond manga adaptation illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa debuted in 2013. An\nanime adaptation was made in 2015.\n\nThe novels are praised as a masterpiece in Japan, which is the reason they\nreceived adaptations in the first place and people kept up with them for 31\nyears. I would very strongly advise you to read the novels over every Arslan\nSenki adaptation. However, there is no official translation as of now, and not\nmuch content has been fan-translated for the past 31 years. So… if you don’t\nknow Japanese, I recommend you read the second manga. It is the most faithful\nadaptation you’ll find, and it’s in English.\n\n## 2\\. Where should I start?\n\nDepends on what you want to do and your situation.\n\n-If you’ve just watched the anime and you want to read the novels (as I said, they’re regarded as a masterpiece) I would advise you to start from the very beginning. The novels are very long and complicated, so starting from the very first volume is the best option. \n\n-If you can’t read the novels for language reasons and want to read the manga instead, I would advise you to start from chapter 19. The differences between manga and anime increase after chapter 19-20 (end of episode 9) and keep increasing ever since (for example, chapter 29 doesn’t exist in the anime).\n\n-If you’ve read the manga and want to delve into the novels, you can start where you left off on the manga. Unlike the anime, the manga follows the original material quite faithfully. To further help you understand the overall situation, I’m also going to tell you what the current situation is. 2.2 Current situation The very first season of the anime covers novels 1-4. The anime caught up with the manga when only 3 manga volumes had been published. Those 3 manga volumes cover the first novel. The second anime season covers the last part of novel 4 (as in the novel, Andragoras's escape from the dungeon is written before the funeral in St. Emmanuel) as well as novels 5 and 6.\n\nThe manga currently has 57 chapters and is now in the middle of novel 3’s last\nchapter where Sam reunited with Kubard and convinced him to fight for Hilmes\nand it is just before Arslan circulated the manifesto all around Pars. As you\ncan see, the manga has already covered (as of March 2018) half the novels\nseasons 1 and 2 from anime did. It took almost 5 years though.\n\n## 3\\. Would I miss anything if I start where the anime ended?\n\nYou would most certainly do. The anime starts making more changes from the\noriginal novel source material after episode 10 from season 1, so I would\nsuggest you start reading from chapter 19 or 20 (start of episode 10). This is\nobvious, but when the anime makes changes while adapting the novels, it also\ndeviates from the manga’s faithful adaptation.\n\n## 4\\. Are the manga and anime adaptations faithful to the original source\nmaterial? Are there any differences between the manga and the anime?\n\nAnime: It has added quite a few scenes. Some of them seem to be very\nimportant, but don’t exist in the novels. For example:\n\n * The fact that Arslan saves Daryun from Arzang, the sorcerer, just before reaching Peshawar Fortress\n * The fact that Bahman gets killed by Hilmes\n * *The fight between Daryun and Hilmes at the end of season 1\n * *The fact that Bodin's men take the sacred sword Ruknabad \n * *The fact that Hilmes gets Ruknabad. In the novels, no one can take the sword except the chosen one who will take over the will of Kay Khosrow, the ancient great King.\n\nAnd lack, among others, the following events from the novels:\n\n * The fact that Narsus defeats and kills Arzang. They even skipped Narsus saving Alfarid for the 2nd time, which made Alfarid fall in love with Narsus.\n * The fact that Daryun apologizes to Gieve for considering him an untrustworthy person. This event takes place after knowing that Gieve had saved Arslan.\n * The fact that Hilmes murders Kishward's very loyal subordinate and Azrael's brother.\n * Hilmes valuing Zandeh’s skill of gathering information by using his men.\n * The fact that Bahman accompanies Arslan to Sindhura and fighting bravery as a marzban.\n * The fact that Bahman dies in Sindhura\n * The fact that Salima, daughter of Mahendra, lets Rajendra arrest Gadhevi, who is Salima's husband.\n * The fact that a sorcerer tries to steal the secret letter of Bahman and Narsus cuts off his arm. \n * The fact that Andragoras tells the secret of Hilmes's birth to Sam.\n * *The fact that Daryun captures Etoile before the battle in St. Emmanuel.\n * *The fact that Merlain and Kubard defeat a Lusitanian troop together.\n * *The fact that Jimsa and Zaravant escape from Andragoras's forces and they start searching Arslan together.\n * *The fact that Zandeh throws Ruknabad into a crack in the ground, and pursuades Hilmes to once forget about it at the time when Ruknabad refused Hilmes and made a large earthquake hit.\n\n(\"*\" refers to scenes from parts of the story that have yet to be reached in\nthe manga as it’s still behind the anime)\n\nWhereas in the manga, all the events I remember that were added are just\n(Note: this list should be quite decent. Unlike the previous 2 ones, here I\nmade a big effort to gather all the differences I remember having noticed when\nI read the manga):\n\n * The first chapter (which was also in the anime)\n * One short fight between Arslan and Kharlan (which was also in the anime). I wouldn’t really call it a fight, but in the novels Arslan and Kharlan don’t have that short crossing of blades before Kharlan fights Daryun.\n * The fact that Etoile hands a small religious book to Arslan close to a river and the conversation with his companions about it (the anime added the act of giving the Bible, though under different conditions and there was no chat about it between Arslan’s companions when they go to Hodir’s castle)\n * The sentence “one in one hundred million” used by Daryun (I think the anime used it once during the first half of season 1) as well as Arslan’s famous word “delicious” when referring to delicious food (the novels also use that word, but it’s more frequent in the manga. The anime used the word as well).\n * Farangis usually dresses like a man in the novels, whereas in the manga there’s fan service. The anime took the manga’s character designs, so obviously it includes such fan service.\n * The fact that Elam has a memory of Narsus praising his cooking skill\n * The fact that Kishward already has a wife and a son, whereas in the novels his wife and son appear much later. \n * When Daryun reveals Arslan identity to him, Daryun holds his hand. The revelation part is the same, but them holding hands at sunset is new.\n * The fact that Montferrart's brother is among Bodin's soldiers who were killed by Hilmes when Lusitanian soldiers were fighting over the sacred flag. In the novels, he wasn’t present there.\n * Jaswant (this character debuts in chapter 43 of the manga) sees Narsus painting, whereas in the novel it’s not described that she takes a glance at his painting. \n * The fact that the story of how Daryun got hold of his polearm is more detailed in the manga.\n * In one of the latest chapters of the manga (+55), Hilme’s secret is more explained than in the novels.\n\nAnd not much content from the novels has been cut down. Obviously, the novels\nwill have more details, but the important events are told faithfully, and the\nstuff that gets removed is the kind that is unnecessary and overdetailed for a\nmanga (the manga format is quite different from that of a novel). To name a\nfew examples of the events that the manga didn’t include while adapting the\nnovels:\n\n * Once Vahriz asks Daryun what his impression of Arslan's features is at Atropatene, there is a line that Daryun says (\"He has a handsome features. I guess young ladies all over the capital city will talk about him in two or three years, but uncle...\") right before Vahriz tells him that he was actually asking which one of the prince’s parents looks more similar to him. That line I quoted is not included in the manga.\n * The reason why Narsu’s father died is because he fell down the stairs right before he was about to leave his land and help Andragoras. This led Narsus to go to the capital city and made him famous for the first time as a tactician.\n * Amidst the sorcerers who have served the master sorcerer, Gundhi frequently appears in the underground room to receive instructions. In case you don’t remember it, he is the one with an incomplete mask that doesn’t cover the right side).\n * The fact that Narsus has been rumored to have love affairs while working at court. Furthermore, Daryun has fallen in love with the princess of Serica. (Just 2 months ago, the author mentioned they are no longer a couple**)\n * When Daryun fights with Bahadul in Sindhura, Daryun gets bitten by a jackal and he chops the jackal's head and even makes its eyes come out.\n * About Pars legends, there exists a deep tradition of not eating sheep brain. Nevertheless, right when Arslan and his friends are in Sindhura, they inadvertently eat it in the food they’re given. It is stated that Daryun loses his appetite after that, yet Farangis is fine.\n\n** Refers to an event that Tanaka has stated to have happened, but it doesn’t\nappear in his novels. He tends to do this sometimes, and his words/messages\nadd new canon material not mentioned in the novels themselves (sometimes these\nnew details/facts said by Tanaka are actually included in the second manga’s\nadaptation). This time it was mentioned on 18th January 2018, where we get to\nknow that situation I explained before and exactly how it happens. If you\ngoogle 31年目のヤシャスィーン you can see it on nico video website, but you need to have\nan official account and it’s raw Japanese as no English subtitles exist. In\nthat conference he also mentions unimportant stuff like the fact that he had\nalready decided the ending even before the second half of the novels had\nstarted, that while writing dialogues he says them out loud to make sure it\ndoesn’t sound weird, that Daryun is dressed in black because he was reading\nthe historical and psychological novel The red and the Black…\n\nAlso, the manga has more violent scenes that are in the novels but the anime\nskipped, like:\n\n * The fact that faKishward makes one of Sindhuran’s soldier swing his boss's head from his neck.\n\n> Conclusions: The anime changes and skips events a lot, whereas the manga\n> sometimes adds an element/detail to the story rather than change it. The\n> manga adds very little, and when it does it is unimportant stuff, it doesn’t\n> remove much content and it doesn’t change things, making the manga a good\n> adaptation of the novels. The scenes and even dialogues have been following\n> Tanaka’s original work.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 10 of Kabaneri, Biba (aka. the Liberator) visits the local lord. He\ntakes his Kabaneri with him, including Mumei.\n\nAs soon as they arrive, Mumei claims she needs to go to the toilet, then uses\nthat excuse to run all the way back to the station's gates and open them.\n\nWhat I didn't understand was why Mumei needed to accompany Biba in the first\nplace. Since opening the gates was part of a grander plan devised by Biba\nhimself, wouldn't it have been simpler to just leave Mumei behind?\n\nEven from a purely political point of view, there doesn't seem to be any\nreason for Mumei to act. Unlike Biba, she's not a particularly important\n(political) figure; she wasn't born in a particularly rich or notable family,\nand although she calls Biba \"brother\", the two of them aren't officially\nrelated. Her absence would likely have gone unnoticed by the lord and his\nretainers. And even if her absence had drawn attention...\n\n> all of the witnesses would've been either murdered or kidnapped by Biba.\n\n* * *\n\nWhat was the point of taking Mumei along, then have her make up an excuse to\nrun all the way back to the gates, instead of leaving her behind?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause it would be weird if she separated from Biba at any other point. They\nwere closely followed and in open while going in. So it would raise an alarm\nif they tried something funny.\n\n> And even if her absence had drawn attention... all of the witnesses would've\n> been either murdered or kidnapped by Biba.\n\nThe point was not to draw attention until gates are open. If someone like Biba\nwas just walking around it would definitely raise alarm. Someone like Mumei\ncan easily stealth around and stun anyone who sees her. There is also added\nbenefit of Biba staying with the \"governor\" distracting him.\n\nAnd because only women and children were allowed to follow him inside (I\nassume because they believed women and children won't be a threat to\nsoldiers), Mumei and the other woman were clear choices.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile watching the Death Note anime, I noticed that there was one incident\nwhen Hideki Ryuga told Light that he is the real L. Well, at that time Light\nwas not sure if he was the real L because he thought that it might be a trap\nfrom the real L to catch him.\n\nSo my question is: how he was able to deduce that Hideki Ryuga is the real L\nand not a fake?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHis father confirmed it.\n\nL when tells Light his real identity, he made it in such a way that Light\ncouldn't kill him.\n\n 1. If Light tries to kill \"Hideki Ryuga\", he is not sure if he is the real L. If the fake imposter dies (Like the one on TV), Light confirms he is Kira\n 2. He might kill the real \"Hideki Ryuga\" by mistake and not gain anything while exposing himself.\n\nBut he plays L's game and finally ends up in the HQ of L's team where his\nfather confirms he is the real L. Later when L realizes about the Shinigami\neyes, he tells Light that he has made arrangements with his Father that if he\ndies in the next few days that Light is Kira.\n\nThus he didn't get a chance to kill L until he was able to manipulate Rem.\n\nEDIT: Found the source. Light's father confirms this in hospital in Manga\nChapter 22. Here is the screenshot. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LLBfM.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [local](https://www.animeevolution.com/programming/contests/cosplay-\ncontest/cosplay-skit-pre-registration/)\n[performances](http://www.a-kon.com/Explore/Cosplay/Cosplay-Contest-Rules) to\nbigger contests like\n[EuroCosplay](http://www.abunaicon.nl/programme/competitions/euro-cosplay-\ncompetition-eurocos/), many cosplay performances require you to prerecord your\nmusic and dialogue.\n\nUsually it is part of the rules for participation. What is the reason for this\nrequirement? Surely a 'live' dialogue would make the act seem more convincing\n- rather than cosplayers having to lip sync.\n\nI understand mic's aren't great if you have giant lobster claws or something -\nbut microphones can come pretty small now and could fit in a helmet. Even\nstill, why restrict **all** cosplayers?\n\nWhy does this rule exist?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that it is a primarily time-management strategy. From the Oyahocon\nCosplay Competition rules (bold text mine):\n\n> The music and/or prerecorded dialogue must be ready to go as soon as it is\n> put the CD player (this means the participant must edit the music and/or\n> prerecorded dialogue before the convention and put it on a CD). **Audio file\n> must be exactly three (3) minutes or less. There are NO exceptions to the\n> rule. If the audio file is longer than three (3) minutes, it will be stopped\n> when time is reached (even if it cuts the performance).** Please have files\n> recorded exactly as you wish them to be played.\n\nFrom Anime Midwest competition rules:\n\n> The pre-recorded music/dialogue submitted to the Masquerade staff must be 2\n> minutes and 30 seconds or less. **There will be no exceptions to the \"2\n> Minute\" rule, unless you request permission prior to the convention. Any\n> entry over the 2:30 mark will be stopped at that point.**\n\nFrom Anime-Expo Performance competition rules:\n\n> **Adhere to the 2 minute time limit.** MC and video introductions will not\n> count towards the performance time. Audio: Any sound necessary to express\n> your performance (i.e. music, pre-recorded dialogue, sound effects). Must be\n> comparable to a PG rating– no profanity or offensive language. Bleeps or\n> other forms of censoring are acceptable. **Should not exceed 2 minutes.**\n> Must be MP3 format. Must have minimum 192 bitrate. Try to avoid audio\n> quality defects (audible distortion, overdriven levels, low sample-\n> rate/bitrate).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that after Rurouni Kenshin (1995), there are more stories. But I\ndon't know what to watch because it shows that Kenshin and Kaoru has a baby,\nKenshin's past and also that Kaoru was kidnapped by some guys hiding a grudge\non Kenshin.\n\nBut I'm not sure if there is a movie or different part of the series like\nseason two or something.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe final arc of the _Rurouni Kenshin_ manga is indeed about a man, Enishi,\nwho has an old grudge against Kenshin. **However, the final arc of the manga\nwas never put into the anime.** There do exist two OVA series that adapt this\npart of the anime.\n\nThe [_Trust and\nBetrayal_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin:_Trust_%26_Betrayal)\nOVAs adapts the backstory of the final arc, and the\n[_Reflection_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin:_Reflection) OVAs\nadapts the final arc, though it only appears as a lengthy flashback. The main\nstory of _Reflection_ takes place after the manga.\n\nBoth sets of OVAs are drastically different in style and tone from the manga\nand anime, and lots of content from the manga is not present due to the\nbrevity of the OVAs. That being said, they were highly praised. They were\nreleased in English under the _Samurai X_ name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNow there are also 3 recently new live action movies made in Japan:\n\n[code]\n\n Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan (2012)\n Rurôni Kenshin: Densetsu no saigo-hen (2014)\n Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto taika-hen (2014)\n \n[/code]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere were several OVA's. \"Trust and Betrayal\" The Kyoto arc (condensed ova)\nand the live action adaptation. The manga resumed in the \"Hokkaido\" arc,\nhowever Nobuhiro Watsuki was arrested for facing child pornography charges,\nbut the series is back on in 2018......\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've watched all 148 episodes of the Hunter x Hunter anime, and even the movie\n\"The Last Mission.\" Now I want to know if there is anything else to watch? Are\nthere any more movies, or maybe some new episodes coming out?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 2011 series covers roughly chapters 1 to 339 of the manga, as documented\nin [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14410/27935) by Frosteeze.\n\nSince then, **21 new chapters** have been released (as of september 2016, see\n[here](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_360) or\n[here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter_chapters#Chapters_not_yet_in_volume_format)).\n\n_Update_ : As The Pickle Tickler\n[mentions](https://anime.stackexchange.com/revisions/36191/2), \"it has been\nannounced that the manga is getting a continuation in 2016, as stated\n[here](http://www.jobsnhire.com/articles/38365/20160319/hunter-x-hunter-manga-\ncontinuation-2016.htm).\"\n\nIn addition to \"The Last Mission\", another anime film was released in 2013,\n**\"[Phantom\nRouge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter:_Phantom_Rouge)\"**.\n\n [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m7HiC.png)\n\nOther than that, you have [the original 1999\nseries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter_\\(1999\\)_episodes),\na [set of 30 OVA\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter_OVA_episodes),\nand a 1998 short film, \"Jump Super Anime Tour 98\". None of them include\nmaterial not covered by the 2011 series, as far as I know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found in [Manga Updates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=118201)\nthat there are Web Novel and Light Novel versions of _Re:Zero_.\n\nSo are there any differences in them, like plot, characters etc.?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn any adaptation of a story from one version to another, there are going to\nbe some edits. Originally, _Re:Zero_ is a web novel and it is always the\nfurthest along in the story. The story gets edited a bit as it gets\ntransferred to the \"official\" light novel publication, and even more as it\ngets drawn as a manga.\n\nAs far as my experiences though, the overall story does not really change\nbetween these mediums. It seems mostly just a case of how much content makes\nit through to each. This is, of course, the most visible between the manga and\nanime adaptations, since the studio is limited to certain time constraints.\n\nFrom what I've heard from the community regarding _Re:Zero_ , the light novel\nis what is considered the most canon/official.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I recently watched the first movie in the Kara no Kyoukai series, but it\njust started without any explanation whatsoever. For the people that have seen\nthe whole movie series, will they explain what is going on and why stuff is\nhappening?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, yes (...mostly). It wouldn't be a particularly good series if it didn't.\n\nThe big thing to note is that the movies aren't in chronological order - movie\n#1 is set after some of the later ones. It starts _in medias res_ , in other\nwords.\n\nIf you really want to find out what the chronological order is, see the\nanswers to this question: [How do I watch Kara no\nKyoukai?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8619/). But I wouldn't recommend\nit - each movie tells you where in the timeline it falls, so you can piece it\ntogether yourself as you watch.\n\nIn the spoiler block below, I list some mysterious aspects of movie #1 that\nare explained later. I do _not_ list the actual explanations, so this is only\nlightly spoilery.\n\n> What's the deal with Shiki's left arm? Who is the girl with Touko at the\n> end? Why can Shiki kill ghosts? How do Shiki, Touko, and Kokutou all know\n> each other? Why does Fujou Kirie have those supernatural abilities? What's\n> all that magico-babble about \"records\"?\n\nThere are, however, some things that won't make sense even after you've seen\nthe entire series (7 movies + epilogue). This is a mostly because _Kara no\nKyoukai_ is set in the so-called \"Nasuverse\", a near-legendarium written\nprimarily by Nasu Kinoko (the author of _Kara no Kyoukai_ ). There are some\ndetails in _Kara no Kyoukai_ that only make sense in the context of other\nworks in the Nasuverse. That's a whole 'nother rabbit hole for you to delve\ninto if you like what you see in _Kara no Kyoukai_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember this one episode in Naruto when I was a kid, where Naruto's\ninstructor, who had the cloth over one of his eyes throughout most of the\nseries, looked into this one enemy's eyes and got teleported to a dimension\nwhere time passed _really_ slowly. The person who he looked into the eyes of\nwas there with tons of clones just repeatedly stabbing him with katanas.\n\nI apologize for my lack of knowledge in the subject concerning names, but I\nvividly remember this one scene and I'd like to know more about it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe character who did that was Itachi, Sasuke's brother.\n\nThe name of the move was [Tsukuyomi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukuyomi).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * Naruto's sensei is Kakashi (the guy with the eye patch).\n * Kakashi was under a Genjutsu called Tsukuyomi, casted by Itachi.\n * Tsukuyomi means the world of the moon god, in Japanese.\n * Kakashi actually doesn't go into any other dimension, Tsukuyomi just made him feel that way.\n * Once under Tsukuyomi, the caster controls all the senses of the victim, including that of time.\n\nJust being precise. :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a song at around 11:32 that I really want to know but can't find.\n\nI've looked at the sound track and can't find it. I've looked nearly\neverywhere but to no source!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure this sound track does not actually have a name. You can find\nit by googling ~ BLEACH OST - Shiro Sagisu - BL_86. I think BL_86 was the\nofficial title of this sound track.\n\n[Youtube video with soundtrack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfjYk0UK2ec)\n\nEdit: Upon further diggin. BL_86 is the offical title of this soundtrack. It\nappears in Bleach 5th Anniversary Box CD 1.\n\n",
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