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"body": "\n\nIn _Hunter x Hunter_ , at first Knov's appearance was pretty bold and looked\nsmart. But after knowing the fact that their enemies are stronger then he got\nscared.\n\nFirst change: His hair got white and he was a little bit skinny.\n\n\n\nSecond change: Hair loss and lack of physical fitness.\n\n\n\nBut being a Hunter, why he undergoes such a huge change in appearance? I mean\nhow come his whole physical body changed? They knew that the mission they are\ngoing into is really scary, but what was the reason behind his complete\nchange?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHis appearance changed because he was so terrified. The idea was that he was\nso scared of the beings they were exposed to that his hair went white and he\nrapidly lost weight.\n\nStress can cause rapid weight and hair loss. I don't know if hair turning\nwhite from fear is real but it is a common belief (see crash test dummy's\nMMM). That is what you are seeing exaggerated here. What you are supposed to\nnote as remarkable is how he continues to aid the group and stick with it even\nthough he is so debilitated. He is more scared but somehow the bravest GD\nperson there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe same thing happens to Welfin when he's in the precense of the King. For\nNen users, Nen is an expression of their physical and mental condition so it\nmakes sense that if their Nen gets disrupted, or if they're under a lot of\nstress, both the quality of their Nen and the appearence of their body can\nchange. This also happened to Gon when he was so enraged and determined that\nhe made an unconcious covenant with his Nen and his physical apperance\nchanged. Knov is the same thing but more similar to Welfin than to Gon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he was using his nen to keep his appearance good and to look young\ncompare to his original age.\n\nThere was an episode where they talked about how you could use nen to stay\nyoung. Then when he met with the royal guards' aura, he got really scared that\nit hindered him to use his nen properly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he got so scared or something, that he stopped eating, sleeping, and\njust moving. Which probably made him that way.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs for the reason why Shinji choked Asuka, I stick with [the translation of\n\"Kimochi warui\" card from Eva card\ngame](http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/mdwigs/KimochiWarui.html), but I'm\nwilling to accept other theories,\n\n> Shinji renounced the world where all hearts had melted into one and accepted\n> each other unconditionally. His desire... to live with 'others' -- other\n> hearts that would sometimes reject him, even deny him. That is why the first\n> thing he did after coming to his senses was to place his hands around\n> Asuka's neck. To feel the existence of an 'other'. To confirm (make sure of)\n> rejection and denial.\n\nBut I have no clear explanation of why did Asuka caress Shinji when he is\nstrangling her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, so many possible reasons. I refer to movies like _End of Evangelion_ and\n_Madoka: Rebellion_ as \"make your own ending kits\"; due to their constant use\nof symbolism and ambiguous dialogue, combined with a pathological aversion to\nexplaining themselves, you can basically interpret them to mean whatever you\nwant them to. If I may be allowed a bit of shameless self-promotion, I\nrecently [wrote a blog post](https://metatris.blogspot.com/2016/06/evangelion-\niii-end-of-eva.html) doing just that. I didn't specifically analyze why Asuka\ncaressed Shinji, but going by the interpretation I adopted in my post, along\nwith the mentioned card game translation, there are a few valid reasons why\nshe did that.\n\nThis scene echoes one earlier in the movie, during Instrumentality, when\nShinji and Asuka are arguing with each other about whose fault it is that they\nnever managed to get close. I summarized the scene on my blog:\n\n> [Shinji] zeros in on Asuka in particular, isolating her in a dream version\n> of Misato’s kitchen and fighting with her as Pen-Pen looks on, responding to\n> her accusations that he didn’t know her at all that he couldn’t possibly\n> know her, because she never talks about herself, and how unreasonable it is\n> for her to expect him to know her when she won’t tell him anything. Rei\n> appears and asks if he ever tried, and Shinji responds that he did, but\n> couldn’t. Asuka asks how she could like someone who doesn’t even love\n> himself. Shinji responds that maybe he could learn to love himself if she\n> tried being nice to him, gets angry and smashes a chair, then wraps his\n> hands around her neck and strangles her.\n\nShinji, who has spent a large part of the series being passive and self-\nloathing, finally gets angry and blames Asuka (and by proxy the other people\nin his life) for his inability to get close to others. Asuka and Rei respond,\nwith some justification, that Shinji also has to take some blame; he avoids\ngetting close to anyone because he fears being rejected and abandoned by them,\nas he was by his father.\n\nIn the end, Shinji manages to get over his fear of rejection and chooses to\nreverse Instrumentality and go back to the world where people are separate and\ncan choose to reject or abandon each other. The card translation says that\nShinji started to strangle Asuka because he wanted to confirm that rejection\nand denial exist once more. By going back to a world where rejection and\ndenial exist, Shinji has admitted that he feared them, and faced that fear. He\nhas confessed that Asuka's and Rei's accusations in the earlier scene were\ntrue, that he locked people out too tightly because he feared abandonment.\n\nAs Shinji strangles Asuka, she reaches up and caresses him, countering that\nalthough rejection and denial exist again, acceptance also exists again—people\nhave the choice to accept others into their hearts, just as they have the\nchoice to deny others. And with this, Asuka confesses that Shinji's\naccusations in the earlier scene were true: Asuka resisted, at every level,\naccepting Shinji (and by proxy, everyone) into her heart, by yelling at him,\ndemeaning him, and violently rejecting the rudimentary efforts he did make to\nget closer to her. But now that Shinji's managed to stop fearing rejection\nfrom everyone, Asuka's learned to stop rejecting everyone. Shinji knows he\ncan't passively wait for someone to accept him; Asuka knows that she can't\nkeep rejecting everyone.\n\nRealizing that Asuka intends to stop rejecting him, Shinji breaks down in\ntears. Asuka responds \"Kimochi warui\"; to accept someone feels weird, foreign,\nand disgusting to her, because she's always resisted it. At various points in\nthe series, Shinji and Asuka almost manage to get closer—in Episode 15, Asuka\ncompliments Shinji on his cello playing and then forces him to kiss her, but\nthen violently rejects him by feigning disgust and running to the bathroom to\nwash her mouth out. Shinji doesn't realize that Asuka was sincerely trying to\nget closer to him, or he realizes it, but won't follow up because he's afraid\nof being rejected. In Episode 22, after seeing her talk on the phone with her\nstepmother, Shinji tries to have a real conversation with Asuka about family,\nbut Asuka is all pissed off because Shinij surpassed her sync ratio. In the\nfinal scene of _End of Evangelion_ , they both realize their own culpability\nin the situation and decide to start trying to become people who are able to\naccept one another.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI like all that analogy on [Torisuda's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/34187/2516), but there seems to be\nmissing a piece of information.\n\nWhile during the instrumentality, all beings become one no matter how brief it\nis. All of them experienced what it was like to be one entity and because of\nthat oneness, everyone experienced the flaw that comes with being wholesome\nbeing. Since everyone became one, there were no secrets to be hidden.\n\nThe reason why Asuka said \"disgusting\" because while they were one, she found\nout and knew what he did to her unconscious body. Because of that, the first\nthing she said when she saw him was \"disgusting\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI rewatched the series after 19 years and just saw End of Evangelion for the\nfirst time.\n\nMy theory is that Shinji is actually attempting to do something for Asuka\ninstead of reacting in a way to avoid conflict and pain. The first time he\nchokes her, she goes limp and the scene ends. But we can see in many scenes\nthat Asuka's mother choked the doll she was pretending to be Asuka, asking her\n(the doll) to die together. Asuka is tormented by the fact that her mother\nrejected her so Shinji choking her is a reenactment for Asuka's sake, which\nwas hinted that that's what she subconsciously desired from the first time it\nhappened.\n\nIt doesn't mean that she really wants to be choked to death, it's just a deep-\nseeded irrational desire she had that her mother had choked her instead of the\ndoll, because at least her mother would be paying attention to her.\n\nThat's pretty messed up, but it's a very good illustration of the irrational\ndesires people harbor due to insecurities embedded from different\ndevelopmental stages in their lives.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhere does the title \"Charlotte\" come from? I don't remember a character or\nconcept with that name. I don't remember the word even being spoken during the\nseries itself. Do we know where it comes from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis contains a little bit of a spoiler, so I'll give a little warning....\n\n> Charlotte is the name of the comet that passes over the earth every 75 years\n> and gives everyone their super powers. They mention this in Episode 11:\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vWuTl.png)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XJa0j.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBy the end of the Substitute Shinigami Arc (Fullbring Arc), Ginjo was said to\nbe dead, since Ichigo came to the captains' meeting and asked for Ginjo's\nbody. Yet in chapter 681, Ginjo came with Tsukishima to help Ichigo. Does this\nmeans that the Ginjo in chapter 681 has turned into a 100% Shinigami, that is,\nhe no longer is a Substitute Shinigami like he once was, but a 100% Shinigami\nsince he is already dead and is a soul now?\n\n(I guess 100% Shinigami is not a very good term to describe Ginjo since he was\nalso a Fullbringer...)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [Wikia](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/K%C5%ABgo_Ginj%C5%8D) states that he\ngained his powers by stealing them from other soul reapers (according to Suì-\nFēng). He had to steal Ichigo's powers to get himself a Bankai. Simply going\nto Soul Society wouldn't mean that he would gain soul reaper status, since\nunlike Ichigo, it is not indicated that he had innate soul reaper family\nhistory and has not been given soul reaper powers after Ichigo got his back\nfrom him. However, the [Wikia](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami) also\nstates that\n\n> When souls with exceptional spiritual energy train their bodies, they reach\n> the level of Shinigami.\n\nso since Ginjo is already trained and has exceptional spiritual energy,\ntechnically he should be a soul reaper as a soul. So, humans need to have soul\nreaper family history or someone to give them their powers to become soul\nreapers, but souls are innately able to become soul reapers with training and\nstrong spiritual energy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGinjo was the first fullbringer in the series, his fullbringer is the ability\nto steal or take, he killed many shinigami and took their powers, a substitute\nshinigami doesnt need to be a actual shinigami, ginjo acted as a subtitute\nshinigami for SS but he himself did not have a shikai nor bankai as he was not\na shinigami but a fullbringer, he obtain shikai/bankai when he took ichigos\npowers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is said that in order to release Final Getsuga Tenshou, Ichigo has to be\nGetsuga himself. But, what does it mean? How this Getsuga mode worked? Is it\nonly Zangetsu exclusive? Is it cancelable and be reused?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnfortunately, There are no solid answers yet, just theories. As it currently\nstands, it seems unlikely that we will ever find out either, as the Manga is\nonly a few chapters from ending, Though it may make a return to defeat the\nfinal villain and we may get to learn something about it then.\n\nTheory 1) Ichigo fused with his zanpaktou sword spirit. This one does not make\nmuch sense, since the zanpaktou is already a part of its wielders spirit, but\nhis sword did disappear, so it has some merits.\n\nTheory 2) It was some kind of Shinigami, Quincy, Hollow, or unique technique\nto the Kurosaki Family (specifically on his fathers side), a lot like what\nUryu did when he fought Miyuri, since both lost their powers after the fact.\nThough there are several big differences depending on where you place it, we\nonly know that Isshin could supposedly do it as well, but cross species\nabilities are not explored much outside of Vizards/Arrancars.\n\nTheory 3) The most likely theory as it stands, is simply that Kubo wrote\nhimself into a corner. He made Aizen too strong, So he had to come up with a\nway to make Ichigo Stronger.\n\nTheory 4) This one is the newest, but also spoils a lot from the last Arc in\nthe manga, Some very big plot points are revealed about Ichigo spoiled here:\n\n> Ichigo is in some way partially all 4 of the main races, and as we find out,\n> His quincy part suppressed his Shinigami part, and then somehow used some of\n> its own power and the Hollows power to give him his regular powers that we\n> all knew and loved. Eventually, Ichigo is able to fully access all of his\n> powers, and we see his new regular strength is well beyond Yamamoto's and\n> Aizen's, with his reatsu being visible to the naked eye in just his shikai\n> form. This theory is simply that Ichigo used a technique that forced any\n> limiters to be removed, and accessed his absolute power. Like Uryu again,\n> The removal of the limiters caused damage to his Spiritual power network,\n> and he could no longer produce more Reatsu, so he slowly drained it all away\n> until he was human again.\n\nLets hope in the next few chapters we find something out, but as it stands, If\nwe don't, we probably never will.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo understand how Final Getsuga Tenshou (FGT) works, we need first to\nunderstand what happened with Ichigo when he wanted to learn it.\n\nIchigo and Isshin was in the Dangai (Precipice World) a tunnel that connects\nLiving World and Soul Society. Isshin stopped Ichigo and noted that the train\nwas not there and that while it usually is a bad thing, it was a good thing\nfor them since because the flow of time is different in the Dangai than that\nin Real World or Soul Society, it is a good time for him to teach Ichigo the\nFGT. Isshin then told **Ichigo** that he **can only attain the technique by\nasking his Zanpakutou to teach it to him**. He then told Ichigo to sit\ncrossing his legs and start communicating with his Zanpakutou, which is\n**similar to** what **meditation** is.\n\nWhat happened with Ichigo when he entered his inner world is that he found\nthat all the tall buildings are under water. He was surprised but then Tensa\nZangetsu shows up and tell him that he can breathe just fine even under water\nsince its just his inner world. Ichigo asked Tensa Zangetsu to teach him, but\nTensa Zangetsu refused. **Hollow Ichigo shows up and then fused with Tensa\nZangetsu** and then fight Ichigo, claiming that if he persist on trying to\nlearn the technique, Hollow Tensa Zangetsu will kill him. They fought, but\nIchigo keeps getting beaten.\n\nThen Ichigo realized that there is something wrong with the fight. Hollow\nTensa Zangetsu could have killed him from the first strike, yet he didn't do\nit. He then understands how he can **learn the technique** , that is **by\naccepting Hollow Tensa Zangetsu's blade**. Thus he let the blade pierce him.\nHollow Tensa Zangetsu then told him that that is the right answer for **Hollow\nTensa Zangetsu is Ichigo himself**. Ichigo then proceeds to fight Aizen using\nhis newfound power.\n\nNow what does all this means? This means that to learn (to use) Final Getsuga\nTenshou, Ichigo needs to understand himself and accept it as is. That's why it\nwas said that to use Final Getsuga Tenshou, he needs to be Getsuga itself.\n\nHow does it works? If we see how he attained it, he **probably** need to enter\na special state of mind, which he can reach by meditation. In **Zen\nteachings** , there are some **special states of mind** , namely, [**Shoshin,\nFudoushin, Mushin, and Zanshin**](http://www.roadtoepic.com/the-four-zen-\nstates-of-mind/). **Mushin** in sports is often called as **\"Zone\"**. If you\nwatched Kuroko no Basuke (The Basketball that Kuroko Plays) you will see that\nwhen in the \"Zone\", all abilities goes up drastically, which in Ichigo's case\nwould be his reiatsu goes up so high that even Aizen no longer able to\ncomprehend it.\n\nIs it Zangetsu exclusive? Maybe. That question cannot be answered with exact\nanswer. The only thing that we know is that Isshin knows about the technique,\nand quite possibly has used it before, and that Ichigo was able to learn it as\nwell. If we go by how Ichigo attained it, then it is very possible that others\nmight be able to learn similar technique although it won't be called Final\nGetsuga Tenshou since they only ones who has been shown to be able to use\nGetsuga Tenshou are Isshin and Ichigo.\n\nIs it cancel-able and reusable? If we go by what Kise Ryouta did during the\nmatch between Kaijo and Seirin in the semi-final of the Winter Competition,\nthen yes, it can be canceled, assuming that FGT works by entering a \"Zone\",\nand that it works the same way in Bleach universe. What we know for sure is\nthat Isshin/Tensa Zangetsu (I forgot which one) said that once he used the\ntechnique he will lost all his powers. He will turn into a normal person. This\nmeans that it is not reusable.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the end of Death Note, Near would've been lost if Mello didn't help him.\nThat makes me think why Near who is always be careful (isn't like L or Mello)\ndidn't find out about the possibility of fake death note, meanwhile Mello had\nfound out about that.\n\nFor Mello, after he found out that Kira helped Japan Police, he would found\nout that Kira was there being watched by others. In order to keep killing\npeople, he would need X-Kira (Mikami) to do the killings and a spokeperson\n(Takada) to help him communicate with him. Until then, Mello's and Near's\nthinking were the same: find the x-kira (Mello investigated Misa too). Mello\ncould easily assume that Near had found the x-kira and been stalking him.\n\nWhat makes it weird is Mello thought that this person who was being\ninvestigated by Near was using fake death note, and assumed that Near wouldn't\never found out about this unless he kidnapped Takada.\n\nSo, would Near have never found out about the possibility of fake Death Note\nwithout Mello sacrificing himself? If it was really that hard to find out, how\ncould Mello know? Doesn't it sound like Near would get easily be tricked by\nLight, while Mello outsmarted the two of them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember that Halle Lidner, SPK member, always kept in touch with Mello,\nkeeping him up-to-date with Near's latest theories concerning Kira case. It's\npossible that he also knew about Near's plan and his appointment with Kira.\n\nHowever, Mello, with Matt, decided to kidnap Takada that made the real Death\nNote location revealed.\n\nBefore that, Mello's movements are unknown since the story focus on Takada and\nMikami investigation. His reason to kidnap Takada is also unknown whether\nbecause he realized the possibility of fake Death Note or other reason.\n\nBut in the end, Near acknowledged Mello that he wouldn't have won without his\nsacrifice.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main point here are the differences between N, M and L. L was able to stay\nmostly calme while solving a case and had the ability to assume information\nwrong to not come into his own way. N is absolutely apathic, calm and logicly\nthinking. He can solve every \"fair riddle\" but lacks the ability to question\nthe scope or to empathize with others (e.g. his \"opponent\"). M is the exact\noposite, he is quick tempered but he is able to think like his opponent and he\nboth cheats and plays assuming the other one cheats. He knew - like N - that\nKira was aware of the investigations but unlike N he theorized that Kira would\nset a trap like he did. After he herad of N's plan and that \"Kira to be\nprooven\" accepted, he assumed a trick-in-trick and started the kidnap to\nensure that the right DN is used by X-Kira and that N would take notice of it.\n\nThat's the anser: N solves a case like a puzzle, assuming that he just have to\nfind every pice an it's place. M would allways assume that there are pices\nmissing or extra or faked.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat's because Lidner told Mello's plan and what made it weird was how Mello\ncould find out there was a fake death note prepared by Mikami and thought to\ntrap nearby? in my opinion because x guess (mikami) succeeded in knowing by\nnear and near was increasingly focused on investigating mikami and light\nknowing near was investigating mikami light knowing near a genius then light\nplanned a fake death note trap prepared by mikami to trap near from a month\nago, now Mello could find out there was a fake death note because Mello\nthought the light smart person would definitely use the trap given to near\njust as Mello faced with Japanese police forces Light set a trap against Mello\nfrom there Mello had a thought that Light would put it trap to near so that\nmello thought there was a fake death note, now that I observed from all the\ncomments of death note fans why did Mello sacrifice herself for near? all fans\ndon't know it yet so I spill my knowledge here\n\nbecause mello always said he wanted to be number one in the world because he\nsacrificed himself so that death note fans think that if mello doesn't\nsacrifice himself then near will die meaning that mello is superior to near\nmello smarter than near even though near is the successor of L That's\nimpossible because Mello has sacrificed herself only, Mello did it only to\nguide .\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've not seen the show, but I used to play the video games. In Pokemon Go\nthere is a secret way to get Pikachu by walking away from the starting\nPokemon. People on the internet say Ash did so in the anime. Is that true? If\nnot, how can this be explained with anime's events?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1 of the anime, Ash overslept and was too late to get Bulbasaur,\nCharmander or Squirtle. Professor Oak then gives him Pikachu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn other anime some characters get nicknames like in Yuru Yuri Akari = Akarin\nand in WataMote Tomoko = Mokochii.\n\nI can understand how these names get created but in _Hyperdimension Neptunia_\nNeptune calls Broccoli Puchiko. where does Puchiko come from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHasirama is one of the most OP characters in the Naruto series. No one could\nmatch his strength, even Madara, and he had crazy regenerative abilities.\nBasically, he had no weaknesses. Narutopedia sums it up pretty well:\n\n> Hashirama was famed as the strongest shinobi of his era, reputed as a God of\n> Shinobi ... His body was brimming with vitality, granting him considerable\n> regenerative powers that could mend most injuries with no residual effects\n> ... Hashirama was proficient in all five basic nature transformations, along\n> with Yin and Yang Release ... [It goes on and on]\n\nSo how did someone like him die in the First Shinobi World War? He alone has\nthe same power as an entire village, and so long as he is careful, no one can\neven scratch him. And if he gets hurt, he can just heal it and shrug it off.\nSo how could he so carelessly die?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the show it's classed as an elite international culinary school, but given\nthe graduation rate (less than 10%) and the idea of study behind it, is it\nrealistic? Is there a real life equivalent?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just want to ask, in Naruto Shipuden when Madara extracted all the Tailed\nBeast by using the [Gedo\nStatue](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Demonic_Statue_of_the_Outer_Path). It is\nsaid that when the tailed beast is removed from a Jinjuriki the Jinjuriki will\ndie.\n\nI just want to ask, why was killer bee not dead and was able to have a dream\nunder the infinite tsukoyumi. How is it possible?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Bee used a tentacle escape pod. It's using the same rule that allowed the\n> Jubi to be revived in reverse. As long as there was a portion of Gyuki's\n> chakra, be was able to survive.\n\nas stated [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:137687)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to this [link](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gy%C5%ABki)\n\n> Madara then proceeded to chain them up and prepared to remove Yang-Kurama\n> and Gyūki from their jinchūriki. Struggling against its confines, Gyūki\n> apologised to B as it was extracted and sealed within the statue along with\n> the other tailed beasts, **but not before cutting off one of its tentacles,\n> letting B survive through the chakra within it.**\n\nSo in short he was having chakra worth of one tentacle which was cut off from\nGyūki and just because of this he was able to survive.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cqMjW.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo yall know how naruto survives from getting the yang 9 tails removed, well\nits kinda the same thing that happened only he only had a little of the tailed\nbeast's chakra inside him. B had one tentacles worth of chakra remain inside\nof him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy do fansubbers merge video and subtitle into one file?\n\nSometimes its an mkv file and I can just extract the sub.\n\nOn some sites they hardcode it into the video frames as image overlay.\n\nThis is so silly. Why not just have the one video file which several languages\nor translation versions (corrections) can **share** , instead of re-encode and\nre-upload? And if someone wants a sub they can download **just** the sub.\nDistributing subs must also be easier because the subtitle files are smaller,\nso no wasted **bandwidth** , and it might not even be **illegal** to share\njust the sub. Plenty of reasons!\n\nDo they have some reason which I do not realize?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure about the whole scope of hardsub usage, but here is at least one\nwidely used case:\n\nThere are tons of sites where people can watch anime online. And most of these\nsites are using really primitive embedded video players, which are usually not\ncapable of any manipulation with subtitles, like switching between subtitles\nof different languages, or even enabling/disabling subtitles. So, the only\nviable method to include subtitles in such cases is hardsub.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n2011 release of Hunter x Hunter (Chimera Ants arc):\n\nIn the episode where Gon and his friends enter the castle of ants through the\nhole made by Knov , everything goes like a slow mo and an epic music hits. I\napologise for not mentioning the episode number. This music is repeated\nseveral times during the arc after the inception.\n\nI have listened to various OST's from Hunter x Hunter but I don't think any of\nthem are the one which I am looking for...\n\nCan someone Identify the music that was playing??\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay after quite a bit of research, I think I may have found some stuff that\nmay help you.\n\nThe episode that you are looking for is [Monster x And x\nMonster](http://www.crunchyroll.com/hunter-x-hunter/episode-112-monster-x-and-\nx-monster-646069) (ep. 112). The slow motion part is largely the first half of\nthe episode.\n\nThere are a number of tracks that play during the slow motion scenes.\n[Here's](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_3rJhzHvq5GJ_FATfhk4_lUNIs9zBuxR)\na playlist of tracks from the Chimera Ant arc (30 tracks), of which I think\nyour best bets are either [Hegemony of the Food\nChain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDTGFaC9SZA&index=30&list=PL_3rJhzHvq5GJ_FATfhk4_lUNIs9zBuxR),\n[Kingdom of\nPredators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q43wzP6A1CM&index=29&list=PL_3rJhzHvq5GJ_FATfhk4_lUNIs9zBuxR),\nor [Legend of the Martial\nArtist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYS1PjTkHIQ&index=14&list=PL_3rJhzHvq5GJ_FATfhk4_lUNIs9zBuxR).\nOf the three, I think Legend of the Martial Artist is the song you are\nreferring to, but you can go through the playlist to find the specific song\nfor which you are looking. Keep in mind that multiple tracks were playing\nduring the time you are referring, so it might be a mix of a few different\nsongs in that playlist.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs the series canon or is the game that counts as canon? I've had a growing\ninterest in the franchise since Wright became an Marvel vs Capcom 3 character\nand I just started the anime. I was wondering if the anime depicts the actual\nstoryline of Wright's progression as a lawyer or if a story line even exists\nfor the series at all.\n\nCan anyone let me know for sure if the series is canon or not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban games are the original works, and as such are\nsignificantly older, and cover a longer story, so they would be considered the\ncore cannon.\n\nThat said, there are not a lot of differences between the two - the cases\ncovered in the anime are the same as in the games (so far the anime is up to\nthe second case of the second game, although it skipped the first case of that\ngame since it was more of a tutorial and not particularly important in the\nscheme of things), and the plots are pretty much the same. The anime does add\na few details here and there, and in particular episode 13 gives some\nbackground to a big event when the main character was very young that does\naffect how one side character is portrayed slightly.\n\nThat said, if you just watch the anime, you will get the same story, you'll\njust have to wait longer to run into certain characters and plotlines.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Bleach, why does Yhwach/Juhach call Ichigo his son?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYhwach is Ichigo's father in spiritual meaning. He was the first Quincy and he\nhas the ability to give a part of his power to others. By giving that power,\nthe other person would turn into a Quincy as well. Long story short, those\nQuincies married, and had offsprings. Since Yhwach was the one who made them\nQuincy, it can be said that Yhwach is the one who created them.\n\nIt was said that the name [Yhwach is taken from the name of Israelites God,\nYahweh](http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Yhwach#Trivia). In Abrahamic religions,\nGod is said to have created man from dust and made them according to his\nimage. In Christian and Catholic belief, man are said to be children of God.\n\nThe same thing is applied to Yhwach's case. Since he was the one who created\nthe Quincy, all Quincies can be said to be his children, that is in spiritual\nsense. Since Ichigo's mother was a Quincy, Ichigo too is Yhwach's son.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs _Boruto_ published in _Weekly Shonen Jump_? It seems to come out monthly\nbut it was on the cover of and in _Weekly Shonen Jump_ recently.\n\nSource: [Weekly Shonen Jump Rankings - Crunchyroll\nforum](http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-809337/weekly-shonen-jump-\nrankings?pg=115) (find for \"Boruto\" keyword)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, _Boruto_ is serialized in _Weekly Shonen Jump_ and yes, it is published\nmonthly, despite being in a weekly magazine. [ANN article on\nit.](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-14/naruto-spinoff-manga-\nboruto-launches-on-may-9/.99797)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't seen the movie yet, but I finished the show multiple times and have\nnever seen either Ikaros' or Nymph's ears. Why is that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe protruding robotic wings on Nymph's head and Astrea's head are their ears\nbecause they have been used to communicate. Following this principle whereby\nthe bell-shaped objects on Ikaros's head receive speech, those wings are their\nears. I have never seen actual ears but those seem to fill the job. Also it\nshows that Ikaros uses those as ears which I hope provides some of the answer\nyou are looking for.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey're almost never seen but Ikaros' ears are behind her hair.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6jo5v.jpg)\nFrom manga chapter 28\n\nBut Nymph probably doesn't have ears\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ufzBg.jpg)\nFrom manga chapter 25\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI thought the corpse helped provide him use of his legs midway through the\nseries. However, the entire corpse is taken by Valentine near the end and\nsealed in the vault, so how is Johnny Joestar still walking?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's in D4C at the end of that arc, when Gyro uses Scan to find where in the\nsewer Johnny was hiding after being shot. He tells Gyro he was able to move\nhis legs but didn't have the strength to stand yet, and Gyro then tells him\nhow to use the stirrups on a horse to further enhance the spin since it\ndoesn't take much strength to do, he just needs control.\n\nHe then admits when he's about to board the ship that he'd been building his\nleg strength up ever since discovering Act 3, and had just barely gotten to\nthe point where he could and walk with some difficulty by the time he was\nboarding the ship at the end. And was somewhat disappointed that it was so\nslow and mundane, rather then a suddenly miracle.\n\nAs for the mechanics of how. He learned how to use the Spin to transfer nerve\nsignals around the damage in his spine and into his legs, by-passing the\nissue, though it took time to build his leg strength back up to take advantage\nof it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Ar Tonelico Qoga_ , in the glossary under the Necrohouse of Ayatane, it\ntalks about that some of the Teru Clans began to hate humans after something\ncalled the Seven Blood Stains Incident that was caused by Sol Ciel. It was\nthis event that led to the Necrohouse allowing Garthnode Infiria to occur\nhoping that humans would destroy themselves.\n\nBut I don't know what this incident is. The only incident involving the Teru\nTribe in Sol Ciel I am aware of was when Bourd kidnapped Misha from the\nCrescent Chronicle resulting in a battle between the Teru Tribe and Tenba\nwhich resulted in the destruction of Aurica's hometown Skuwat. But this was\nway way way after Garthnode Infiria so this can't be it.\n\nThe way it's worded seems as if this Seven Blood Stains incident is supposed\nto be matter of fact for players of the previous game (since it also clarifies\nthat Mir's Son Ayatane is unrelated to the Necrohouse of Ayatane). So I am\nwondering where was the Seven Blood Stains Incident detailed? Was it in a\ndrama CD or manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was detailed in the setting encyclopedias for AT1 and AT3. You can read\ntranslations for both of them here:\n\n<http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/ARM_Backup/Settei_book_translation>\n<http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/ARM_Backup/Settei_book_3_translation>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Saiyan Saga (don't recall which episode, but I believe it was when he\nwas with Nappa on another planet), Vegeta mentions that Saiyans who were born\nfrom humans and Saiyans are more powerful than pureborn Saiyans. This makes\nsense when you see moments of Gohan surpassing Goku in power level when he\ngets angry, such as when he fights with Garlic Jr. or Raditz.\n\nLater, we see him being a teenager and surpassing Goku definitely by becoming\nSSJ2 first, but we don't see anything of this sort with Trunks. Trunks\napparently surpasses Vegeta in a fight with Cell, but then we know Vegeta\nwasn't using the buff form because it makes you slow. And Gohan surpasses\nTrunks even more when he's 10 and Trunks is chronologically 19 or more (2\nyears in the time chamber). Later, Gohan doesn't train and Goku surpasses him,\nbut then again when his hidden power is released he becomes the strongest\ncharacter for a while again.\n\nGohan doesn't train much, but if he does he becomes the strongest. Why doesn't\nTrunks have this \"hidden\" power, or is able to surpass Vegeta when he gets\nenraged or after a hard training, as Gohan does with Goku? Trunks is also a\ndescendant of a human and a Saiyan, so shouldn't he be much more powerful than\nwhat he is?\n\nEdit: Now things have changed with the new Dragon Ball Super episodes where\n\n> Trunks can surpass Gohan, Vegeta and Goku in power when he gets angry, and\n> it seems to have as much hidden power as Gohan. He also, when enraged, gets\n> a new transformation no other Saiyan has obtained before.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen you say Trunks, I'm assuming you are talking about Future Trunks.\nHowever, the answer really boils down to training. In the Android Saga, Future\nTrunks mentions that Androids 18 and 19 are much stronger than the ones in his\ntimeline. Future Trunks never got the training of Goku, everyone was already\ndead, and training was virtually impossible, though he did get a little in.\nPotential for great strength, then achieving great strength are two different\nthings. Had Trunks went through gravity training like Gohan and the Saiyans,\nhe WOULD have been MUCH stronger. As it is, present Trunks only does gravity\ntraining in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and only for a little bit.\n\nAnother point to see is that present Trunks (kid version) is stronger than\nFrieza when Goku first fought him. His Super Saiyan form is already equal to\nif not stronger than Goku's power against Frieza in that fight, so he IS super\nstrong. Everyone else is just that much stronger. This is the reason he never\ncaught up to Gohan/Goku/Vegeta—they already achieved his strength (much later\non), and KEPT GOING. If he had grown up fighting/training only, he would be\none of the top fighters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is probably a really stupid question, but is the Rinnegan completely\npurple from the front to back, or is it just the iris that's purple? Pictures\nwould help.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs for as i searched with google.There are 3 versions of the Rinnegan:\n\noriginal with tomoe, thus with \"Sharingan\" powers is the grey one\n\ndevolved tomoe-red Rinnegan that has not evolved fully.\n\nHybrid 6 tomoe - Sasuke's rinnegan. it's power is in between Kaguya's and\nMadara's rinnegan.\n\n> Sasuke Uchiha's left Sharingan became a Rinnegan when Hagoromo's spirit gave\n> half of his chakra to Sasuke.[12] His Rinnegan contains six tomoe split\n> between its first two ripples and retains all of the abilities of his\n> Mangekyō Sharingan.[13] If Sasuke overuses the power of his Rinnegan, the\n> tomoe will disappear until it has fully recharged, a process which takes a\n> considerable amount of time. During this time, he is unable to use the\n> Rinnegan's full power and apparently cannot even activate the Mangekyō in\n> his other eye.[14]\n\nI searched in these places of the internet\n[link1](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:142695)\n[link2](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan). And i have attached a picture\nof the three rinnegans\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KfWzu.png)\n\nThe power of the eye is based on the number of Tomoe inside , just like it was\nwhen comparing Sharingan.\n\nThe color of the Rinnegan is said indicate the current mode of the Rinnegan.\n\nOnly Red can cast the infinite Tsukuyomi\n\ngrey is to absorb jutsus and purple is to use them i think.\n\nI'm not so sure of the color part .\n\nPlease correct me if i'm wrong. I'm also interested to know about this. Sorry\nfor the bad English.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this [link](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan) there is one statement :\n\n> The Rinnegan is characterised by a **ripple pattern that spreads over the\n> eyeball**.\n\nSince it spreads over the eyeball then in conclusion we can say that it is\ncompletely spread from front to back as it covers the whole eyeball.\n\nAlso there is no evidence which proves that Rinnegan purple color is limited\nto that pupil area only.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUp until Digimon Tri, only two people from the original Digi-destined were\nable to evolve their Digimon to their Ultimate/Mega form (and even go beyond\nthat, see [Omegamon](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Omnimon)). All the other\ncharacters were stuck with Digimon that could only go up to Perfect/Ultimate\nform. I get why, it's explained in episode 38 of season 1.\n\nBut why has that changed in Digimon Tri? How can Joe and Mimi evolve their\nDigimon into Ultimate/Mega forms so easily? What made it possible for them in\nTri that wasn't possible for them in the original season?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWarp digivolution and mega digivolution are the same thing bc agumon and\ngobumon weren't able to achieve mega forms till they got hit with the\ncelestial arrows\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUltimate evolution and Warp evolution are two different evolutions. However\nthey both reach the same outcome of a ultimate level digimon. Ultimate\nevolution allows a perfect level digimon to evolve to a ultimate level. Warp\nevolution allows a digimon to jump stright from a child to and ultimate\ndirectly advioding the intermidate stages.\n\nthe reason in the first series on Taichi And Yamato was hit with hope and\nlight arrows to preform a miracle. fullfilling a prophecy.\n\n**_warning Spoilers Ahead_**\n\nIn Digimon Tri second movie we see kourshiro recieve an anynomous message\nstating a new prophecy \"know the darkness and go beyond\" as shown the other\ndigidestend faced a darkness of their own allowing there digimon to go beyond\nthe perfect level to ultimate. mimi- over coming her \"darkness\" being the\nfaith in herself allowing palmon to reach ultimate joe overcoming his\n\"darkness\" being his insecurities to fight allows gomamon to reach ultimate\nkourshiro - overcame his darkness in wanting to protect tentomon but he\nunderstands why tentomon refused and that allowed tentomon to reach ultimate\nsora - overcame darkness of piyomon hating her after the reboot and wanted to\nstill protect piyomon even if she hated her which allowed piyomon to reach\nultimate takeru im not completly sure what he overcame maybe it was loosing\nhis partner agian im not completely sure hikari - overcame the fact that she\nwould have to destroy her friend to save the world allowing her to evolve\ntailmon to ultimate _theory no confirmed_ and even the propehcy could possibly\nbe the reason for omegamon further evolution. as mieko overcame her darkness\nof miecoomon being killed which inturn allowed omegamon to shinka furth\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAround the early and mid 2000's we saw the spawning of a large collection of\nlong running anime series, such as Naruto, One Piece, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!,\netc., all of which still are continuing today in its original series, or\nthrough some spin-off. Nowadays, we are left with mainly 12 or 24 episode\nanime, most of which will never see a second season.\n\nWhy is it so rare to see new long running anime series these days? What caused\nthe shift in the anime industry to a more \"agile\" (borrowing a term from\nsoftware development for lack of a better word) production rate?\n\nMy first guess is that the producers base their decision for a long-running\nanime series on the success of its source manga. However, this is not entirely\ntrue, as we see Attack on Titan is a 25 episode series, even though I believe\nthat its manga sales overtook that of One Piece at some point.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy guess is that in most cases the studios do not earn much profit. These\ndays, rather than purchasing DVDs or watching the shows on TV, we simply\ndownload it for free. Without DVD sale or any TRP, where are they supposed to\nget any profit?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are a variety of reasons for this. Some may apply and some may not.\n\n**The anime series catches up to the Source Material** This is by far the most\ncommon problem, faced by long running Anime. Once the source material ends\nthere are two options. Fillers or hiatus. Anime like Naruto and Bleach went\nthe filler route. Bleach ended before the final saga which is still\npublishing. Naruto has finally ended but for some reason Anime is still\nprolonged by random fillers (Maybe to increase profit). Shows like Fairy Tail\nand One Piece experimented. Fairy Tail abandoned the filler model and went on\nhiatus. Toei has screwed up One Piece with barely showing 5 minutes of new\nmaterial and now again on fillers. So these long running shows have had their\nown problems and have overcome them only if the viewership and manga sales\ncontinue.\n\nNow why more anime are not in the same model and going at 250+ episodes?\n\n 1. **There aren't just that many popular series which can be adapted for hundreds of episodes** For a long running perennial series several factors have to align. Not only the series, but its other products should also be popular. Bleach, One Piece and Naruto had Mangaka's which constantly worked hard to put out new chapters and manga sales were good. Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh's trading card games were very popular. Their viewership numbers also didn't fluctuate. Take Hunter x Hunter for example. It had the potential to be right there with the big three, but due to inactive Mangaka its source material was finished way too soon. Even the remake could only adapt a couple extra arcs. More such examples are covered in Ryan's answer below.\n\n 2. **The anime is adapted in a bad way.** \n**Kingdom** has 470+ Manga Chapters. It is great source material and decent\nManga sales. Its first season had such a bad animation that 90% of people who\npicked it up dropped it after second episode. Still it has over 70 episodes\nover 2 seasons. A call for reboot is there but I don't have my hopes up. \n**Tokyo Ghoul** was given a second season where the writers completely went\naway from the source material. Even though Season 1 was received well its\nwriters had made several unwarranted changes which led to many plotholes.\n(MadHouse's **Parasyte** though got it right. A great short Anime)\n\n 3. **Seasonal Structure is less Risky.** This is primarily the main reason from the departure from the perennial episodic structure from the big three. This method has lots of benefits with no obvious drawbacks. The studio only needs to commit to next season IFF it made profit the previous season. It also gives source material to continue ahead and some breathing room for the anime scriptwriters without lowering quality or pacing of the anime. The long running anime have many ups and down with the pacing. \nTbh this isn't exactly new. **Major** for example ran over 6 Seasons consisted\nof 150+ Episodes between 2004-2010. \n**JoJo's Bizarre Adventure** has plenty of source material written from\n1986-2004. But instead David Production went with a Seasonal model which is\ncurrently on part 3. So it is infact going to be a long running series. \n**Haikyuu** and **Kuroko No Basuke** are a couple of other sports shounen\nwhich got subsequent seasons. KnK ended with season 3. Haikyuu is renewed for\nits 3rd season.\n\n 4. **People prefer shorter anime** This may or may not be true. But being from India and an Anime/Manga fan for over a decade, I didn't expect the sudden fad/growth of the Anime community. Naruto ending and its social network buzz seems to have given people a stimulus to pick Anime. Most of the people who ask me for recommendations want the Anime of lengths 24-25 episodes only. \n\n**Tl;dr** As the market became more money oriented and people moving on too\nquickly. The seasonal structure of Anime production gave the studios and\nproduction houses more flexibility to hedge their risks by producing more\nanime but only prolonging the release of the more profitable and popular\ntitles. This also seem to orient with the requirements of the newer generation\nof fans who seem to prefer the shorter, high paced and high quality of anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn addition to what Arcane said in their answer, I think there's another major\nfactor:\n\nA lot of anime shows are based on manga, which themselves may or may not be\nbuilt for a long-running series. Some of the things published as manga are\nsimply not created to be an open-world for exploring stories.\n\nFor example, consider _The Green Mile_ written by Stephen King (I know, not a\nmanga but go with me here). It is a _wonderful_ novel which was originally\npublished as a series. I mention this because it was a serial novel, but it\nwasn't a long-running serial novel—which is similar to many manga. Each piece\nin the series plays its part, but it decidedly reaches an end, and that's\nthat. There's no room to expand on the story of _The Green Mile_. The author\ntold the story he wanted to, and there's nothing left to talk about. If they\ncontinued to produce 'episodes' of the series that talk about other prisoners,\nor other events in the same prison, I feel it would sort of lessen the story\ntold in the 'original'.\n\n(Side note: if you like the movie for _The Green Mile_ , but haven't read the\nbook, then I can't possibly recommend the book enough. It is _by far_ one of\nmy favorite books/movies of all time.)\n\nSome mangas are like that—they have a story to tell, they tell it, and then\nit's done. There's no more. Things like _Death Note_ come to mind in that\nregard. The manga series has ended, and the story has been told. I don't know\nthe chronology of the releases for the movies, TV episodes, and manga, but\nit's all 'done' at this point in time. It's a good read and a good story, but\nI think it would be lessened if they had tried to crank out episodes that fit\nthe universe, just for the sake of making episodes.\n\nSome shows are great for regular, periodic episodes. Others just tell a story,\nand when the story ends there's nothing left to do but move on. In fact, I\nkind of hate it when they 'test the waters', like Arcane mentions, and season\n1 ends on a cliffhanger because they were seeing if season 2 would be a thing.\nThen you get a story that's left unfinished, and you may not get the end at\nall (from the show or written material). If it's one thing I hate about a\nstory, it's an unfinished story.\n\nJust imagine if a show like _Breaking Bad_ had just continued until viewership\nfell below a certain threshold, and then the next season doesn't come out just\nbecause it wasn't approved by the network. That would be _horrible_ , and the\nending that _Breaking Bad_ had was some of the best TV I had seen in recent\nyears. Sometimes getting that complete resolution to everything is the best\nthing for the show, series, and audience.\n\nSo, to bring this all back to your question: I think part of what you're\nseeing is a lot more authors trying to tell a specific story, and doing it\nwell enough to become really popular, but then the story is done. There is a\n_lot_ of manga out there these days, so the market is saturated with really\ngreat stuff to read/watch. Getting a long-running series going then hits the\nissues that Arcane mentions, so what we end up seeing as 'successful' end up\nbeing the short/limited run series which may only run for 13-25 episodes, but\nthey reach their conclusion and the audience is happy. And we consider an\nattempt at being long-running to be a 'failure' when it doesn't make it past\nthe first or second season even though the episode count is the same as the\nshort/limited series.\n\nAnd there are only so many hours in a day, so at some point that comes into\nconflict with how much people can watch. If we all end up watching really high\nquality anime that is 1-2 seasons long, then we simply don't have time for\nthat 5+ season series. Perhaps there are such series out there that just\nhaven't reached your attention yet, or maybe if you _did_ see such a series\nyou would think it's 'too childish' and let it pass you by.\n\nSmall note about _Attack on Titan_ : there are still more episodes coming, but\nit seems to have a long cycle to create, much like _Rick and Morty_. Perhaps\ncontinued support and revenue will allow them to hire more people to speed\nthings up, but that's an issue with their business/development cycle more than\nit is with the content. You could have a super awesome business idea that\nwould make you billions, and let your descendants live in luxury for\ngenerations to come, but it doesn't mean squat if you can't get it to market.\nUnfortunately, there are likely many great untold stories that fall into that\ncategory for one reason or another.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile I personally believe that animation has become more in-line with the\noriginal author's wishes and has largely elected to follow the original\nauthor's storyline, which doesn't always equate to a very long running series,\nI'm going to take this from a slightly different angle and pick on a notorious\nlong series that you mention, Pokemon. I do this for a couple reasons:\n\n * The manga and anime are divergent; the characters are largely similar but the plot is nowhere near the same. This gives everyone - including mangaka and studios - liberty to create a new story in the same universe as opposed to following the one universe.\n * The games largely drive the manga _and_ anime, and one generally sees a new season of Pokemon around the same time they see a new Pokemon game. This keeps the theme and releases relatively consistent, with the same goal roughly in mind.\n\nIt is my belief that we don't see longer-running anime because we don't have\nuniverses that allow this kind of freedom. Naruto had come _close_ , but not\nquite on the same scale as Pokemon.\n\n* * *\n\n## Divergent storyline between manga and anime\n\n[There is a list of different\nmanga](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_manga) in regards\nto the Pokemon franchise, and not all of it is done by the same author, nor\ndoes it follow the same storyline as any of the rest of them. The environment\nand some of the characters may be _similar_ , but the storyline doesn't line\nup.\n\nThe more important point here: **it never has to.**\n\nWhat happened in _The Electric Tale of Pikachu_ doesn't apply to [_Pokemon\nMonsters\nReBurst_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Monsters_R%C3%A9BURST), and\nsomeone new to the franchise can read either of these and enjoy them as they\ncome, without having to wade through days or weeks or even months* of\nbackstory.\n\nThat's actually been one of the franchise's major strengths in that the anime\nisn't inherently tied to the manga, thus filler is mandatory. We've seen\nand/or live[d] through that with the Dragon Ball franchise, Bleach, Naruto,\nand others, in which a major plot line in the anime is blocked by the manga,\nwhich slows the pace of the anime down and adds more filler, making it harder\nto keep pace without knowing which parts it's \"safe\" to skip watching.\n\nTo tie this to my main point, the vast majority of series today are driven by\ntheir predecessors in manga; the story is being created generally by one\nperson and generally they have their thoughts on how the story should\nprogress, but the network and executives have to continue the series somehow.\nWith Pokemon, one of the longer-running anime series, **this issue is largely\navoided** by not requiring the anime to be based on manga.\n\nThis isn't new in entertainment; most, if not all of DC and Marvel comics are\nbeing written in new and exciting ways by people who grew up enjoying the\nseries, and they may involve certain people, or cut out entire plot lines from\nother universes. The main point there: it all stays canon, and none of that\nwork has to rely on anyone else's to sustain it.\n\n## Predictable series storyline; generally focused around regions\n\nI will say that Pokemon does kind of suffer from a bottleneck in that its\nseries [largely depend on a new game\nrelease](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_anime). However,\nthis doesn't mean that the anime strictly follows the events of the game at\nall; the writers are free to interpret the world as they see fit with some\nidea that Ash/Satoshi progresses through to collect all of the badges and\ncatch some unique 'mons.\n\nStudios in charge of the more popular anime series don't really have this\nliberty; generally, one of these things could happen:\n\n * The author treats it as non-canon and progresses forward (ignore it)\n * The author incorporates it into canon (think Hayate no Gotoku and the addition of Kayura Tsurugino after the movie) (embrace it)\n * The author decides to reboot the series entirely, which _may_ include some components of the original one and may not, with the liberties largely removed (Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood vs Full Metal Alchemist) (allow both to exist)\n\nDepending on the series, this may be a risk worth taking, or may wind up\nbackfiring. There are plotholes in Bleach due to this; given that [there was\nan entire arc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_\\(season_7\\)) in Season 7\nin which a soul reaper was surviving in Hueco Mundo, and given the events that\nhave happened recently, has either died or been completely forgotten about.\n\n*: Assuming reading or watching media for 18 hours straight per day, 6 days per week. Y'know, binge watching.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's because the TV slots for long running series are already filled. To get\nsomething new one of the existing ones would have to stop, otherwise it would\nhave to compete with what is already there for viewers. Shorter anime run at\nnight lots of the time or in the early morning hours. Not much of a chance to\nreach a broader audience in those slots and even if they do, more often than\nnot the story just isn't made to go on indefinitely.\n\nAlso, maybe they save long running source material for when one of the\nexisting long running series eventually stops.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLength of the anime highly depends on who sponsors (提供) the series.\n\nThere are 3 common sponsored types.\n\n## Sponsored by TV station\n\nExample: [Case Closed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Closed),\n[Pokemon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_\\(anime\\)) or many [NHK\nanimes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_broadcast_by_NHK)\n\nThis business model is: TV station pay money to anime studio and get money\nfrom commercial. The copyright of anime is held by TV station.\n\nIn this model, TV station can decide to continue current series or not. But\neven if they stop the current series, they need to find a new series. In most\ncases, they decide to continue the current series because they don't want to\nget risk that the new series can't get enough attention.\n\nThen many anime in this business model have very long series like more than\none years.\n\n## Sponsored by one (or few) company.\n\nExample: [Pretty Cure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Cure),\n[Gundam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam), [Cardfight!!\nVanguard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardfight!!_Vanguard) or [Sazae-\nsan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san)\n\nThis business model is: One company pays money to an anime studio to create an\nanime and also pays money to a TV station to air it. Usually, the copyright of\nthe anime is owned by the company instead of the TV station.\n\nThe reason why company does it depends on case, For example,\n[Gundam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam) from\n[Bandai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai), the main goal of the company\nis selling toys (plastic model). They create the anime itself for commercial\npurpose.\n\nFor the case of [Sazae-san](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san) from\n[Toshiba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba), they just want to sell the\nname of the company, but they keep the anime series for more than 50 years.\n\nIf they create an anime for commercial purpose of toy, they finish the series\nbased on the renewal of toys. Usually, they renew the series each year.\n\n## Sponsored by committee (制作委員会)\n\nExample: most 12-24 episode anime.\n\nThis business model is pretty new, but become very common these days.\n\nMultiple companies create and join a committee. Each company has different\ninterest area, like: one company want to sell music CD, one company want to\nsell manga, etc. They agree to create one anime series. Companies then pay\nmoney to create the anime and share the copyrights.\n\nIn this model, the committee doesn't need to air the anime by default. But\nusually, they try to air for commercial. For commercial aspect, shorter is\nbetter because the committee needs to pay by miniatures to the TV station.\n\n# Conclusion\n\nSo, the length of the series depends on business model and length for each\nmodel is not changed. But the ratio of the business model was changed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, you have to think about how much time money and effort it takes to make\nan anime. It's like a manga, only with more pages, and it has to be coloured\nin and edited to fit smoothly into a video format. It has to have voice-overs\nand for people who can't speak Japanese, they need to either dub it or sub it,\nmaking it take a good couple of days and you have to pay everyone. Plus, they\nhave to have inspiration to build something from, because let's be honest,\nsome of the long anime have filler episodes like in _Yu-Gi-Oh!_ when they have\ncertain flashbacks that recap recent events instead of unknown information.\n\nSome people say it's just that my generation has a short attention span (and\nI'm one of the ADHD members so mines even shorter). My sister says, with short\nanimes, you can watch more, but if there are only say 5 animes in existence\nwith 12 half-hour episodes, even if you watch only the recommended 2 hours of\nTV a day, that's only 4 episodes a day and you would run out fast.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGoten and Trunks in the current Z timeline are very powerful, but even the\nFused SSJ3 Gotenks can't be compared to Mystic Gohan. He was more powerful\nthan even SSJ3 Goku.\n\nEven though Gohan didn't train for around 10 years between the Cell and Buu\nsaga, he was able to surpass all Z characters except Vegtito and BuuTenks in\npower.\n\nSo, why is Gohan more powerful then other half-saiyan children?\n\nIn [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/422/how-did-\ngoten-and-trunks-become-super-saiyan-so-easily), the most upvoted (not\nnecessarily correct) answer says that since Goku/Vegeta were more powerful\nwhen Trunks/Goten were conceived they were more powerful. Hence why Future\nTrunks was weaker. But, this doesn't explain why Gohan was the strongest of\nthe lot when Goku was at his weakest in Z when Gohan is born. And, this\ndirectly contradicts the answer given above.\n\n[This question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/34246/why-trunks-\nisnt-as-powerful-as-gohan-when-they-are-both-humans-saiyans-hybrids) may be\nrelated, but I believe that Gohan has a hidden power which was released by the\nElder Kai answers the question. However, I can't find any source or the reason\nfor the hidden depths to Gohan's power. So, that question may build on the\npremise of this question.\n\nHow does Gohan inherit his \"Mystic\" power when none of the other half-children\nsuch as Future Trunks, Trunks and Goten have it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRemember the Namek Saga? Dende upgrades both Gohan and Krillin. Gohan got 2\nfull magic upgrades in the DBZ timeline. That first upgrade unlocked his\npower, the second enhanced it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome context before answering the question.\n\n> Gohan vs. Future Gohan (F-Gohan)\n\nF-Gohan was never shown to be nearly as strong as Gohan SSJ2 vs cell, even\nthough he was much older. This seems logical to me as Gohan trained for three\nyears by Goku and Piccolo and then again for a bit less than a year in the\nhyperbolic chamber by Goku again, who was much stronger than him. F-Gohan\nnever trained before the cyborgs arrived and probably spent his time studying\nas his mother always wanted him to. Then, after the death of most of the\nZ-fighters, Gohan trained by himself for years. This I think is the key point:\n**when training with someone much stronger, one's power increases a lot more\nrapidly.**\n\n> Gohan vs Future Trunks\n\nSame reason as stated above. In Dragon Ball super, we see F-Trunks's power\nincrease exponentially and close to reaching SSG, probably just by fighting\nalong side Goku and Vegeta.\n\n> Gohan vs. Trunks and Goten\n\nTrunks and Goten reached SSJ very young. Who's to say they wouldn't become\nstronger than Mystic Gohan much younger if they followed similar training?\nThey both reached their current level with barely any training, so I'd expect\nthem to become the strongest Z-fighters if they actually trained everyday with\ntheir fathers. However, one thing to take into consideration is that they had\na nearly-perfect childhood, on the contrary of Gohan. Even when going up\nagainst Buu, they had a hard time taking him seriously, maybe never truly\ngrasping the seriousness of the situation.\n\n**Answer:**\n\nI think there are three major deciding factors for the power of a hybrid\nhuman/sayian:\n\n 1. How strong the father is when he conceives the child.\n 2. How much pain he has gone through up to a certain point. This may have more effect the younger one experiences that pain\n 3. Training, and the power level of whoever you train with.\n\nThe potential you've mentioned in the comments is just in my opinion a\ncombination of the above three points. Trunks and Goten lead in point 1 but\nare truly behind Gohan and F-Trunks in points 2 and 3. Compared to Gohan,\nF-Gohan certainly leads in point 2 but lacks even more in point 3.\n\nThe Great Elder on Namek says he's never seen such dormant potential before\nbut he never encountered a Sayian before, let alone a hybrid human/sayian.\n\nAlso, Gohan's power-up against Raditz is not random at all. He sees his father\ngetting beaten up, gets very mad which fuels his power. Raditz then mentioned\nhuman/saiyan hybrid may be more affected from rage than regular sayians.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, the reason is simple, the only reason gohan achieved it is because the\nOLDER KAI unlocked it, and if trunks did it or anyone else they could unlock\nthe power as well ok bro\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that if you open the 8th Gate, you will get enormously powerful but at\nthe end you will die.\n\nIn that case, how did Guy know Jutsu that can be performed in that state,\ngiven that against Madara was the first time he ever opened it? You can't just\ninvent new Jutsu on the fly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough this is a bit dissapointing, we do not fully know the truth. We do know\nfor a fact that Guy's Father [Duy](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Might_Duy) was\nin the same situation as he was, but was weaker (the eternal genin). He\nlearned the [Eight gates](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Eight_Gates) from an\nunknown source. Duy claims it took him 20 years to master the eight gates. The\nonly piece of knoledge we have on the subject is simply summarized to:\n\n> By undergoing intense training, one can learn how to open these gates\n> allowing the user to surpass their own physical limits at the cost of\n> extreme damage to their own body.\n\nIn the same paragraph on the wiki, the Gates\n\n> limit the overall flow of chakra within a person's body. The basis for the\n> idea of the chakra gates comes from the body's limits on the functions\n> within it. This makes the body much weaker, but it keeps the body from\n> expiring too soon.\n\nSo we know that the Gates are simply, Literally, Chakra limiters, and Chakra\nflow increases strength, speed, and other physical traits. In the anime, it is\nshown that to open the gates, you need only Overload them, which forces them\nopen. Therefor, it does make sense that one who spends years if not decades\ntraining intensely, like Duy or Guy, would eventually accidentally overload\nthe first one. it is also possible to do so if they are in battle in a\ncritical moment. Either way, Knowing there are gates (sharinan and byakugan\ncan see chakra flow, so they can probably also see the gates) and learning\nthey can be opened through force is probably all you need to open at least the\nfirst 7. Guy has been shown to open several at once, and for the first 7 only\never had to clench his muscles to do so. The first 7 can probably just be\nopened by sheer force which can be learned and mastered by training.\n\nThe problem then is simply the 8th gate, which is shown to require a puncture\nto the gate itself, which is located in the heart. The issue is simply how\nthey could figure that out. As we know, there has only been one master of the\ngates at a time, so there are 2 likely senarios, either 1, they watch their\nmaster use it (Guy knew his dad was going to use the 8th gate against the 7\nNinja Swordsman) and witnessed it, realizing that was the key to opening the\ngate. The second idea is simply that they cant force it open, either through\nlack of training (to not risk accidentally activating it) or its just locked\nthat hard, and the puncture works to make it easier to open. If you know about\nopenin the first 7, it is completely understandable that you would figure out\nhow to make it easier to open, though I doubt you want to puncture yourself\nevery time, except when you do not expect to live long without doing so.\n\nThe last thing to think about is the Moves he uses. Well like almost every\nmove besides Rasen Shuriken were invented off screen. By who and what we do\nnot know, But what is clear is that Guy can not use Ninjutsu, as well as Lee.\nEvery Jutsu they used was some kind of Taijutsu, usually a simple punch or\nkick, sometimes enhanced with the power of the Gates.\n\n[Morning Peacock](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Morning_Peacock) was simply\npunches so fast that the air friction alone set them ablaze.\n\n[Daytime Tiger](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Daytime_Tiger) merely used the\nstrength to compress a massive amount of air into a very small point, then\nrelease it in a massive shockwave.\n\n[Evening Elephant](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Evening_Elephant) was to\ncreate air cannons with your punches\n\n[Night Guy](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Night_Guy) Was nothing more than a\nChakra enhanced Super kick.\n\nIn the end, all these moves are Simple punches or kicks, which could be\nperformed at lower or any level, with or without gates, but with reduced\neffectiveness. Like most forbidden Jutsu, They were also likely written down\nin scrolls, recorded as useful/effective moves, but with high risks attached.\nIt only takes one time to test a move, and one survivor to record it. We also\nknow Might Duy had reached all 8 gates, so he could also have had time to\ninvent some of these moves. Beyond that, We are just looking at fairly simple\nmoves, for a guy that is undeniably a Genius Taijutsu specialist, and only 2\nof them are doable in the 8th gate, both of which are just a punch and Kick,\nsimple moves in principle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, it's hard to explain, and i might not even be right, but I'll try my\nbest. Sadly, there's no tldr.\n\n**What's different?** Guy didn't invent the jutsu in the sense that Kakashi\ninvented the Chidori. Kakashi spent years perfecting it. It's something he\ninitially needed to use hand signs to perform every time.\n\n**Why?** \nThe jutsus (more specifically taijutsu techniques) Guy used — Evening Elephant\n(Sekizo) and Night Guy — are byproducts of attacking with all eight gates\nopened. It's not something you have to learn; it's something you are just able\nto do with that much power flooding from your body.\n\nThe jutsu are just names he used to describe the phenomenon of having\nincredibly OP punches and kicks that can also generate a dragon-like aura (for\nsome reason). He didn't actually know what would happen, unless he witnessed\nhis dad do the same thing and he told Rock Lee what it was like.\n\n**Evidence From Narutopedia\n([Sekizo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Evening_Elephant), [Night\nGuy](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Night_Guy)):**\n\n> The Evening Elephant ... can be performed by those users who have opened all\n> Eight Gates.\n>\n> The Night Guy ... can only be performed by opening all Eight Gates.\n\n^ They imply that it's something that you can naturally do with the eight\ngates opened.\n\n> When Guy initiates the technique, he emits an enormous amount of chakra ...\n> the blood vapour of the Eighth Gate manifests into a red, flickering dragon-\n> like aura ... He then dashes forward at such an extreme speed that the space\n> within the immediate vicinity of the technique is distorted, making it\n> impossible for the target to defend against it. Guy then deals an immensely\n> powerful kick which carries such force that it is capable of obliterating\n> the target's body...\n\n^ Essentially, Guy is gathering power, running really fast, and kicking really\nhard. That's not really something that you have to practice and invent, like\nthe Rasen-shuriken.\n\n**Examples:** Kinda like when Obito and Madara became the Ten-tails\nJinchuriki. They could do all this fancy truth-seeking ball stuff. Not because\nthey spent time learning it, but because they were just able to, with the help\nof Ten-tails and huge sage power. Or when Naruto was able to heal people and\nSasuke was able to teleport as soon as they got Hagoromo's chakra.\n\n**Sigh...** Nevertheless, there are too many caveats and exceptions in the\nNaruto universe. Everything they say isn't necessarily true (e.g. Gaara's\nabsolute defence is not absolute, Hashirama's unique wood release can be used\nby several other people). I mean, your first sentence is refuted by the fact\nthat Guy actually survived (thanks to Naruto). So it's quite hard to make\nsense of anything.\n\n**More info -** If you're not satisfied, look at this guy's explanation, which\nis good in the sense that it uses common sense: [How do you train in a jutsu\nthat kills you if used?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/20957/how-\ndo-you-train-in-a-jutsu-that-kills-you-if-used)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo understand how Guy managed to master the Hachimon Tonkou (Eight Gates\nRelease Formation), let us take a look to how jutsus are learned in\nNarutoverse.\n\nThere are 3 ways a jutsu can be learned.\n\n 1. Learn it from a teacher.\n 2. Learn it from a scroll/book.\n 3. Learn it yourself (a.k.a. invent it).\n\n**Learn it from a teacher**\n\nThis might be the easiest way to learn a jutsu. You have a teacher teach you\nhow to perform a certain jutsu. Most ninja learn jutsu this way through the\nacademy. Example of jutsus learned through this method: Bunshin no Jutsu,\nKawarimi no Jutsu, Sasuke learning Chidori from Kakashi, Naruto learning\nRasengan from Jiraiya.\n\n**Learn it from a scroll/book**\n\nThis is a method that is harder than the first method. You learn it from a\nbook. I no longer have the copy with me but my father used to have a book that\nteaches kungfu moves. In that book there are explanations and illustrations on\nhow to perform certain moves. You learn the techniques by performing as the\nbook says. Example of jutsus learned through this method: Naruto learning Kage\nBunshin no Jutsu, Orochimaru learning various jutsus using scrolls he stole\nfrom the library.\n\n**Learn it yourself (a.k.a. invent it)**\n\nThis method might be the hardest of the 3. You learn the jutsu by creating it\nyourself. You can invent it through seeing natural phenomena or other people\nperforming a certain jutsu, copy it and change several aspects of it to make\nyour own jutsu using the same principles. Example of jutsus learned through\nthis method: Minato learning Rasengan, Kakashi learning Chidori/Raikiri,\nNaruto learning Rasen Shuriken, Tobirama learning Kage Bunshi no Jutsu.\n\n**How does Guy knows how to perform jutsus in the Hachimon Tonkou?**\n\nTo answer this we need to identify how Guy learned the jutsu and his training\nmethod. Guy learned the jutsu from Might Duy, his father. Guy's training\nmethod consists of **extreme physical training** , such as walking around the\nvillage for 500 laps using his hands, thousands sit ups and **image\ntraining**. The image training was mentioned in the manga (and perhaps the\nanime as well) as one of methods he used to train himself with the reasoning\nbeing training his ability to predict enemy movements. Guy also trains by\nsparring with Kakashi to enhance his **fighting senses**.\n\nSince Hachimon Tonkou is a taijutsu, let's talk about real life taijutsu\ntraining. Taijutsu in real world, such as Kungfu, Karate, Kendo are mastered\nthrough training the said moves. A complete newbie can perform Iai Slash, but\nthey would perform it badly as they only copy the movement in general. What\ndifferentiates a master from those newbies is that they **perform the same\nmove over and over through training** until they can use the move with super\nprecision (perfect foot-steps, sword drawing timing, slashing direction,\npower, speed).\n\nMight Guy **might learned** the jutsus used in Hachimon Tonkou by learning the\nmoves itself **in normal state or 7th gate release state** , which is the\nclosest he can get to without killing himself. He learned the jutsu by\ntraining the moves over and over in the 7th gate release state while also\ndoing image training since he can't perform the jutsu for real. Combining that\nwith the points I bold above and fighting sense honed through experience of\nreal combat and sparring with one of the best shinobi ever (Hatake Kakashi),\nit is very possible for him to perform the jutsus splendidly despite that\nbeing the very first time he used it for real because he already mastered the\nbasics to perform that.\n\nIt is the same as when you do a chemistry practical test at school despite\nknowing only the theory (including the steps). Can you do it? Yes, but it\nmight be a bit sloppy since you never do it for real. If you have practiced\nthe movements (pouring the chemicals, measuring it, using the pipette) using a\nsubstitute liquid (like water for example) you would be able to perform it\ngreatly even if that was the first time you use the chemicals.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Resurrection of Freezer, Goku, when transformed in Super Saiyan\nGod Super Saiyan, is almost killed by a laser beam from Sorbet. Now how could\nthis happen? Was his ki so low even when he was a SSGSS? Later in the Dragon\nBall Super series this seems to be corrected because he isn't transformed when\nhe is hit. But then again, I don't know which is the version that counts,\nsupposedly the manga is over the movie and series but between something that\nhappens in the movie and series I don't know.\n\nThen the question of this topic is: can a transformed Saiyan (Super Saiyan,\nSuper Saiyan God, etc.) lower his ki to base-human level when transformed? Was\nthis just a mistake or what?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are kind of multiple issues wrapped into one here. Firstly,\n\n> Can a super saiyan their ki to the point that it is human level?\n\nNo that is impossible. Why? Because it takes a great amount of energy to\nundergo and sustain a physical transformation. If you drop your ki below a\ncertain point. You revert to your base form.\n\n> Goku death by beam?\n\nYes that can also happen. It seems almost impossible in theory but remember\nsaiyans are in fact humanoid aliens and as such they can fall vulnerable to\nbeing shot in the back if they lower their ki sense. Whis warns Goku of this\nwhen he tells him during their training and in the manga that he gets too\noverconfident easily and lowers his guard and that is his weakness which is\nthe polar opposite of Vegeta who is too on-guard and thus gets slowed down. (I\ncan link the manga panel later).\n\nThe point is. Goku was confident of victory which is why he was able to be\nshot.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe comment marked as answer is WRONG. Re-watch the Cell Saga, especially\nafter Goku and Gohan leave the time chamber. Whether or not their powered down\nsuper saiyan form is to the level of a \"human\" is debatable, but the\ncharacters did mention Goku and Gohan seemed like normal people. Later on, we\nsaw that for Gohan to get to SSj2, was to make SSj1 feel like your normal\nstate.\n\n*removed the word Necessary. There are the DBZ encyclopedia books out there, it said you needed more anger to reach SSJ2 from SSj1-so I apologize for that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat I'm trying to say is should Light tell Teru that killing from scrape\npaper is possible, then if Teru kept a real deathnote paper with him 24/7,\nsurely that in the final showdown, whoever names written on that piece of\npaper they surely will die, won't they?\n\nThat way you don't even need to worry about the book switching scheme.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhole point of Teru was to be a decoy. If SPK had seen Mikami using a seperate\npaper of the real death note would be a give away. For example. Instead of\nvisiting the bank to retrieve the real Deathnote, Megami might have used the\npaper. Which would still give him away.\n\nLight made sure the Mikami had NO access to the real DeathNote and explicitly\nsaid him to only take it out on the D-Day.\n\nThis is basically an speculative question containing the What-if Scenarios.\nYou can plausibly say that something might've worked out, but as I have just\nsaid above... Chances are it would have blown up more easily. Because SPK\nwould have been dead if Mikami had trusted Light and not gone to retrieve the\nReal DeathNote from the bank.\n\nEDIT: I get the question was why didn't Mikami keep a seperate real piece of\nDN paper for the day of the final D-Day instead of the DN. I answered this\nWhat-if scenario with a plausible explaination that Mikami may have used it to\nkill Takada. Then I went on to explain this was why Light didn't want ANY\npiece of real Death Note with Mikami, to keep the plan full proof.\n\n**Tl;dr Mikami didn't keep the DN paper because Light told him not to. This\nwas because Light just like Near wanted to play complete and full proof game\nbut lost to the external factors of Mello and Mikami**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is the email x-kira should be recieved prior to Jan 28th...\n\nIn exactly 1 month and 29 days from today, the 26th of January. Do not go to\nthe bank to pick up the note. Instead and I suggest sometime in December. Make\n2 copies not one of the notebook. Keep one in your brief case and the other in\nthe bank vault. Keep the original but burry it by using a name to do so for\nyou. That way you cannot be tracked. Then keep a page on you and on the day of\n28th January at 1pm. Use this page to rest on the fake that the spk will use.\nWrite down Nate River first. Then kill the rest except light Yagami.\n\n-LY ;]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI live in Kolkata, India and everyone knows that looking for a manga store in\nthis country is like searching for a needle in a haystack. So I was wondering\nif it was at all possible to purchase manga online from the Kindle eBook\nstore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can buy manga On Amazon [http://www.amazon.in/Comics-Mangas-\nBooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=1318104031](http://www.amazon.in/Comics-Mangas-\nBooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=1318104031)\n\nAlso, Paperback Volumes are also available online and in select bookstores.\nEspecially in Metros.\n\nI for one buy many manga in the annual Comicon. Get promotional discounts and\ngoodies.\n\nSeveral Volumes are available as Kindle Edition. So I think thats what you\nwere asking?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOften in series revolving around wars, you will see a mention of Britannia.\nMore often so, they are depicted as an almighty power which is to be feared,\nor even one which has dominated most or all of the world.\n\nSome of the most known examples would be [code-geass](/questions/tagged/code-\ngeass \"show questions tagged 'code-geass'\") where \"The Holy Empire of\nBritannia\" conquered most of the world, including Japan, which then became\nknown as Area 11. Or a bit more obscure reference in [nanatsu-no-\ntaizai](/questions/tagged/nanatsu-no-taizai \"show questions tagged 'nanatsu-\nno-taizai'\"):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OJQnS.png)\n\nSo why is Britannia often depicted as an almighty power? One who should be\nfeared?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on your comments you seem to be drawing too much of a distinction\nbetween the words Britannia and Britain, as in fact [both mean the same\nthing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_\\(place_name\\)). Britannia is\njust the Latin (and ancient Greek) word for Britain. While there was no Empire\nof Britannia (or Holy Empire of Britannia for that matter), strictly speaking\nthere was also no British Empire. That is just the informal name for what, at\nits height, was more accurately called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and\nIreland and the various dominions, territories, protectorates and so on that\nit controlled.\n\nSo if you take the historical, but informal British Empire, and alter history\nby turning it into a real empire with a real Emperor/Empress and give it a\nmore fanciful name by merging the name of historical Holy Roman Empire with\nthe Latin name Britannia and you get what see in Code Geass. The name \"Holy\nBritannian Empire\" both invokes the might and culture of the British Empire\nwhile also clearly being something else entirely. Similarly, I'd expect any\nother reference to Britannia as a real country in anime and manga as meant to\ninvoke Britain, but not actually be Britain.\n\nMind you can't find much evidence that Britannia, as distinct from Britain,\nbeing a trope in anime and manga. The two series you mentioned, Code Geass and\nThe Seven Deadly Sins, are the only ones I can find that have a \"Britannia\".\nIn the later series, it also doesn't appear that Britannia exists as a\npolitical entity, just a name for the region where the story is set.\n\nIndeed, I'd say Code Geass is actually an example of the [America Takes Over\nthe\nWorld](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmericaTakesOverTheWorld)\ntrope, as, despite the name, the Holy Britannian Empire is centred in America\nand doesn't actually control Britain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually Brittania is Britain in both instances with the The Seven Deadly Sins\nversion even showing a map which is just a copy of real word Britain nowadays,\nIn Code Geass'es sense Britain owned a majority of the world around 100-200\nyears ago, It was the only superpower around as it owned India, Africa, And\neven America what everyone forgets is America was just a British colony the\nlands found by British sailors.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw on \"Tokyo Ghoul RA\" episode 5 on Pinterest, and it is something totally\ndifferent from Tokyo Ghoul regular episode 5. Could someone please explain\nwhat the difference is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRA is another synonym for \"Tokyo Ghoul: Root A\", which is the second season.\n\nIt has 12 episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBones are kept together in the body by muscles and tendons. Since Brook has\nnone of those, how does he stay together and move? Especially with him being\nable to open his skull, how does he not fall apart?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Could it be because of his devil fruit?** Probably not, as it was simply\nallowing his soul to enter his body again in order to live a second life. If\nhe managed to find his body sooner he wouldn't be a skeleton (his soul got\nlost because of the heavy fog and too much time passed before he found his\ncorpse). Funnily, we can wonder what would have happened if he died in an\nexplosion or if his body was dispersed into the sea somehow. It could be\nargued that the DF remained in his soul and fused with his body again in order\nto make it hold together.\n\n**Can we consider it is his soul which keeps his body together?** Edit: found\na source in chapter 643 page 8 :\n<http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/106/65-643.0/compressed/j008.jpg>\n\n==> it is indeed his soul and not his DF which maintains his bones together!\nSo even though his soul can wander outside of his body through out-of-body\nexperiences, it's his soul who maintains everything.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to me his bones are together because of Devil fruit only.\n\nAccording to this [link](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi):\n\n> As long as his bones are not hurt any attacks will not go to his core like\n> when Zeo beheaded Brook, **his soul managed to repair it and connect his\n> bones together again.**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LhAF8.gif)\n\nAlso note\n\n> Also, due to the Devil Fruit powers allowing it, Brook also has the ability\n> to store objects in his skull by opening it along its crack. **While Brook\n> is able to do these things because of his Devil Fruit supported form**\n\nHe has also mastered the energy his soul emits to the extent that he can\nreattach his bones by using this energy **such as when he is beheaded he then\nattaches his head back with the help of it.**\n\nSo because of his Devil Fruit power he managed to master and realized the true\nnature of Yomi Yomi no Mi and because of this only he is able to keep his\nbones together.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBy the time the club was established, Mjolnir Hammer, Dekomori Sanae, was a\njunior high student. How can she join the club? Was it because her junior high\nand the senior high that Tyrant Eye, Takanashi Rikka, attends is an escalator\nschool? Is it common for student of an escalator school to attend club of the\nhigher school in Japan?\n\nIf we don't count Dekomori as an official member of the club, then the club\nwould have only 4 members (Dark Flame Master, Tyrant Eye, Mori Summer, Tsuyuri\nKumin) which is one less than the minimum for a club.\n\nNote: I'm not sure that the school is an escalator school. The uniform is\nsimilar and I think Yuuta once said to Dekomori, \"Oh, you attend our junior\nhigh, huh?\" which suggest that the school is an escalator school, but I'm not\nsure if I remember it correctly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on\n[Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E4%BA%8C%E7%97%85%E3%81%A7%E3%82%82%E6%81%8B%E3%81%8C%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84!),\nThe school is escalator school in anime version only. Dekomori is anime only\ncharacter that problem is not exist LN version..\n\nClub system in escalator school is depends on the school.\n\nSome schools have totally separate clubs. Some schools have shared one club\nbetween junior high and high. Some other school have joint club for cultural\nclub and separate club for sports related club.\n\nI'll try to add some reference about clubs in escalator school. (sorry links\nare in Japanese.)\n\n * From answer of [this question](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1475834509)(Does escalator school have shared club?), most school share the club between junior high and high. (The answer said they also have shared \"seitokai\" Student council)\n * Son of [this blog](http://e-shoshin.com/?p=2578) author \"graduated\" baseball club in junior high, and joined high school club next day. so in this case clubs are separated.\n * [This article](http://logosdivinityguildworks.org/sub07/) said one of good thing of escalator school is share the club. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow strong would robin have to be to be able to pull off all of those tricks\nwith the Hana Hana no Mi since she's using her own arm? I mean like she can\ncreate webs than can stop canon balls, break soldier's backs and use hands to\ncreate huge arms/legs and be able to control them. How strong are Robin's\nmuscles?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet us investigate this. Nico Robin is human, who ate a paramecia type devil\nfruit. She should be as strong as a normal human (physically) Wiki\ncorroborates it so far.\n\n> Robin has no superhuman abilities beyond her Devil Fruit powers but is an\n> above average athlete. While the frequent use of her powers in battle leave\n> much of her physical attributes in question, **it is hinted from time to\n> time that Robin's physical prowess is actually much stronger than her build\n> would otherwise suggest.**\n\nRobin's greater than average feats include (copying directly from the wiki so\nI don't miss any)\n\n> She was seen being able to take on direct hits from both Yama's drop kicks\n> and punches (with the latter sending her flying through a wall, destroying\n> it) and was still able to effectively retaliate after maneuvering the latter\n> away from the ruins of Skypiea. \n> She was able to restrain a powerful zombie like Jigoro (albeit briefly).\n> She was also able to survive being impaled through the chest by Crocodile\n> and remain alive without medical attention from a doctor, until the wound\n> healed on its own. \n> She is agile enough to maneuver (while maintaining her arms' \"X\" formation)\n> her way through a group of Marine captains and commanders before using her\n> powers in retaliation. She has great recovery ability, for example when she,\n> Zoro, Gan Fall, and Wiper were all knocked out by Enel's Devil Fruit\n> ability, Robin was the first person to wake up. Even with a severe injury,\n> she still had enough strength to use her Devil Fruit ability to carry them\n> to safety and had fully recovered without the aid of Chopper. \n> One of her most impressive aspects is her will power; as she managed to\n> recover in mere minutes after having her shadow stolen by Gekko Moriah (when\n> it usually takes a few days for most humans).\n\nThus Robin has above average agility, strength, will power and recovery. \nMoving on to the powers of her DF; Hana Hana no Mi\n\n> The Hana Hana no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to\n> replicate and sprout pieces of their body from the surface of any object or\n> living thing\n\nWe've seen Robin is very intelligent, probably the most, in the Straw Hat\nCrew. She uses her Df in a very effective manner. She doesn't rely on strength\nbut on blocking the movement of the enemies and intelligently using holds and\ndistractions.\n\n> As she claims to Pell, speed and strength mean nothing to her, as she can\n> render almost any foe into submission with ease, even those with superhuman\n> speed such as Hakuba\n\nHowever, her main weakness is,\n\n> The **user will gain damage to their body if the extra limbs are attacked**\n> , and can feel the pain on each one of them. This disadvantage also extends\n> to other Devil Fruits, as if her limbs are affected, then the host body is\n> affected as well, as demonstrated when Sugar touched her limbs with her Hobi\n> Hobi powers, turning her real body into a toy. \n> **The strength of the user is also still limited to their individual\n> strength, meaning that the individual strength in the replicating appendages\n> is no different to that of Robin's actual corresponding limbs.**\n\nThe last line is of the main importance. EACH of the appendage can exert\nstrength equal to that of main body. Thus Robin utilizes strength of multiple\narms to produce the required result.\n\n 1. Breaking Soldier's backs; **Clutch** : Robin doesn't use strength as much as her knowledge. These holds turn the trapped soldiers'strength against them. These type of submission holds are common in MMA, wrestling etc. And can easily dislocate joints or break bones.\n\n 2. Stopping Cannonballs: This is the most contentious. It can be argued that multiple arms work together to stop the cannonballs, but her real body should feel the pain of being hit by a cannonball. But being above average in strength and endurance, Robin can manage. I'll chalk it up to the edge conditions.\n\n 3. Giant Arms and Legs: Robin feels the fatigue from these giant creations. Combining these many arms can have the desired strength but flying shouldn't be possible. Robin explains its more of floating though. But her training in the timeskip allows her to use this technique for longer periods of time due to her endurance and willpower but not the strength.\n\nTL;DR: From what we've seen Robin has above average physical prowess, but its\nher knowledge, effective technique and use of DF, and superhuman Will power,\nrecovery and endurance that allow her to do the feats shown in One Piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Log Horizon, Meow's burger meat come from a real animal, but when the\nanimal is killed, why doesn't its body turn into particles and disappear like\nother monsters?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's true that the meat or other ingredients used in food are obtained by\nkilling monsters. I must clear the assumption that the monsters don't turn\ninto spirit energy and disappear.\n\n**They do disappear.**\n\nThe meat that is used for cooking is actually an item drop from those\nmonsters. Which means that only the monsters that drop such items can be used\nfor cooking. In the first season of Log Horizon for instance, they started\nhunting [Imperial Forest Boars](http://log-\nhorizon.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Forest_Boar) for food. The meat obtained from\nthat is actually an item drop. However, the wiki also says that a chef class\nplayer can also harvest the monster for more meat but how exactly is it done\nis not explained. It might be possible that the monster just drops more meat\nwhen a chef class player kills it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime is currently being released way faster than the manga according to\nmy sources. In most cases of anime production (correct me if I'm wrong). But\nthere is a mangaka (in this case toriyama-sensei) who creates content for the\nstory called canon and releases that content via manga. Once a manga gets\nlicensed and published by a major studio like Funimation or Bandai it becomes\nan anime, gets toys, games, t-shirts etc. But how is it that Dragon Ball Super\nis actually ahead of it's own manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason is that this time around, the anime series is the original work,\nwhile the manga is the adaptation.\n\nThis is of course in contrast with the original Dragon Ball series, which were\nwritten and illustrated by Akira Toriyama and published in Weekly Shōnen Jump,\nand only latter adapted into anime.\n\nThe precedence of the anime in the case of Dragon Ball Super has been widely\nreported, even though the first issue of the manga was published first (June\n20, July 5 the first episode of the anime). Here are some sample sources\n(limited to 2 links for new user, I'll edit later)\n\n * [Dragon Ball Super TV Anime Gets Manga Adaptation](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-05-18/dragon-ball-super-tv-anime-gets-manga-adaptation/.88276) 2015-05-18\n * [Dragon Ball Super getting companion manga](http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/05/19/dragon-ball-super-getting-companion-manga) 2015-05-19\n * [DB Super getting ahead of manga?](https://www.reddit.com/r/dbz/comments/484ea1/db_super_getting_ahead_of_manga/) 2016-04\n\nAlso, the manga series is credited to Toyotarō, both story and art (see for\nexample\n[here](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=18511)),\nwith Akira Toriyama credited variously with original concept/story, or as\noriginal creator. Wikipedia goes as far as to say \"Written by Akira Toriyama /\nIllustrated by Toyotarō\", but that seems to be an overstatement. The cover art\nof chapters 1 reads: \"Manga by Toyotarō. Created by Toriyama Akira\".\n\nThis means that it is unlikely that the manga has any particular input from\nToriyama, other that the one that goes to the storyboard and the animation\nteam.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a previous [question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/34308/how-\ndoes-dragon-ball-supers-anime-release-before-the-manga), I asked about Dragon\nBall Super being released before its manga. My question here is about the life\ncycle of a manga becoming an anime.\n\nFrom my understanding, an artist or mangaka creates their comic called manga\nand it gets published by a major studio if it's deemed worthy. From there if\nit cultivates a big enough fan-base it becomes licensed by a studio like Viz,\nFunimation or Bandai. And from there it becomes a game, movie, t-shirt, toy,\netc.\n\nIs that the way most anime's come into play? If not, what is the proper life\ncycle from drawing to manga to anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime might be produced based from many types of different stuff, not limited\nto manga, but also other stuff, like light novels. There are also some anime\nthat aren't based on any manga.\n\n> From my understanding an artist or mangaka creates their comic called manga\n> and it gets published by a major studio if it's deemed worthy.\n\nYes, this is pretty much correct. The mangaka can release their own manga too,\nbut it is less likely to be as popular.\n\nThe mangakas usually work together with magazines like Jump where they have\nsomeone they can show their ideas, drawn simply. If their idea gets accepted,\nthey start on producing it with more details.\n\n> From there if it cultivates a big enough fan-base it becomes licensed by a\n> studio like viz, funimation or bandai. And from there it becomes a game,\n> movie, t-shirt, toy etc.\n\nYes, this is also correct. The mangakas license their manga with some\ncompanies to make it an anime, and swags of it.\n\nI really recommend you to read the\n[manga](http://myanimelist.net/manga/9711/Bakuman) or watch the\n[anime](http://myanimelist.net/anime/7674/Bakuman) of \"Bakuman.\" which tells\nthe story of 2 teens producing manga (and aiming to get one produced into an\nanime), with very good amount of details on every part of the production\ncycle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere were events that happened in _Tokyo Ghoul:re_ but didn't happen in the\noriginal show, like:\n\n\n\nIs _Tokyo Ghoul:re_ different from the original _Tokyo Ghoul_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Tokyo Ghoul:re_ is the sequel manga to _Tokyo Ghoul_. The [_Tokyo\nGhoul_](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ghoul_\\(manga\\)) manga ended in\nSeptember of 2014 and was adapted into the first 2 seasons of the anime,\nthough the second season, _Root A_ , greatly diverged from the manga with\nsignificant differences but still attempted to have the same major events as\nthe manga.\n\nYou can read about possibilities of why they did so in this question (be wary\nof spoilers in all the links here): [Why did Tokyo Ghoul √A completely deviate\nfrom the manga?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18391) and for more\ndetails on the differences, you can read [my\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21249/what-are-the-\ndifferences-between-the-tokyo-ghoul-anime-and-manga) or [this post on\nreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/TokyoGhoul/comments/2tm0y1/differences_between_anime_and_manga/)\nasking about the same thing.\n\nBoth the anime and the manga ended with spoiler:\n\n> the ambiguous death of Ken Kaneki at the hands of Kishou Arima (as in he is\n> believed dead, but it's not fully confirmed, though in the manga it leaned\n> significantly heavier on the dead side with multiple holes in his head)\n\n_Tokyo Ghoul:re_ picked up 2 years after the events that ended _Tokyo Ghoul_.\nIt's about Hiase Sasaki, a ghoul investigator and leader of the Q's squad,\ncurrently low ranking investigators that underwent a very special surgery. It\nfollows Hiase, his squad, and his superior/supervisor Akira Mado (daughter of\nthe investigator that was Amon's superior and partner investigator in the\nbeginning of the series), and shortly after all that begins expanding on stuff\nfrom the original manga, as well as filling in the 2-year gap.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Tokyo Ghoul:re_ is the continuation of _Tokyo Ghoul_.\n\nIf we follow the original age of Kaneki (in the first chapter of the manga it\nlabels him as 18, but somehow we all decided that he was 20 at the end of the\nmanga), then it should have picked up 3 years later, seeing as he is 21 or 22.\nWhich it does. A lot of people say that it picked up 2 years later, because\nKaneki's new personality, Haise, has been an investigator for 2 years, but if\nyou read it all the way through, Kaneki spent about a year in Cochelea before\nbecoming Haise.\n\n_Tokyo Ghoul:re_ is supposed to be what happens next, but we aren't sure if it\nwill be in the anime, as season 3 has not been released yet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA person and I had a chance to discuss DBZ over this weekend, and they weren't\none of the few people that grew up watching it, but were trying to catch up.\n\nHowever, they were very put off from the length of the fights with major\nprotagonists, and I for one don't blame them. I can't recall specifically were\nthey were starting, but the phrase [\"are they still on\nNamek?\"](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-they-still-on-namek) has already\nreached meme status.\n\nSo, I'd like to know if there was any official reason as to why these fights\nwere dragged out as long as they were. This also includes the fight with Cell\nand the fight with Majin Buu (although I don't recall watching the end of that\none).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think there's largely two reasons for these fights being so long and dragged\nout:\n\n 1. There were points when the anime was being released faster than the manga was being published. This is a common issue in the anime industry. When this happens, the producing studio has two choices. They can either add in filler episodes (like DBZ did, also see [Naruto](http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto-shippuden)), or they can veer from the original plot of the manga (see [Fullmetal Alchemist](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/55/whats-the-difference-between-the-fma-and-fma-brotherhood-series)). Thus, when the anime was caught up with the manga and had to release a new episode before the next chapter of the manga was published, they'd simply drag out the plot of the fights or add in other filler content to give the manga some time to get ahead.\n 2. It makes the studio more money. This reason probably had less of an effect on the 'dragging out' of episodes as the first reason, but it is still viable. Making fights longer means making more episodes, which in turn makes the producing studio more money. It's more of a secondary reason, or an effect of the anime being released faster than the manga, if you will.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy answer is quite contrary to what people think in general here.\n\nThe very author Akira Toriyama is talking\n**[here](http://ameblo.jp/yumo-p/entry-10000858093.html)**\n\n> －－ 『ドラゴンボールＺ』というタイトルは先生の発案と聞きましたが。\n>\n> The interviewer : The title \"Dragonball Z was created by you, sir, is that\n> correct? ( asking Akira )\n>\n> 鳥山 あ、そうですね。\n>\n> Toriyama: Uhm, yes.\n>\n> －－ ウワサで、「Ｚ」が名前につく精力剤からタイトルをつけた、って聞いたんですが。\n>\n> Rumor says, you sir put the last word Z borrowing the name of an energy\n> enhancement medicine with the name Z.\n>\n> 鳥山\n> 違いますよ～（笑）。「Ｚ」はアルファベットの最後の文字じゃないですか。で、当時からもう、本当に原作を終わらせたくて（笑）、だから「これでもうおしまいだよ～」って意味でタイトルは「Ｚ」にしたんですよ。精力剤なんて、一言も言った覚えないですよー、もーウワサっていい加減だなぁ（笑）。\n>\n> Toriyama : Where did you hear that! lmao. You know, the end letter of the\n> English alphabet is Z, right? At that time I really wanted to end the series\n> so that I put the word Z. Energy enhancement medicine? Come on, I haven't\n> uttered a word such never. Rumor always walks alone. lmao.\n\nWhat about\n**[Wiki?](http://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%ABZ)**\n\n>\n> 番組タイトルの「Z」は鳥山明本人によって命名されており、鳥山によれば「ドラゴンボールを早く終わらせたくてアルファベットの最後の文字である『Z』にした」とのことである[3]。本作放映直前のジャンプ1989年18号収録の『ドラゴンボール』ピンナップポスター裏に書かれた特集記事の見出しでは、『Z』とは「究極」「最強」と説明されていた。\n>\n> The title of the program Z was named by the very author Akira Toriyama, and\n> according to him \"I wanted to end the Dragon Ball series ASAP so that I took\n> the last letter of the alphabet. On the caption of the special article\n> written on the back of the last Dragonball, 18th published in 1989, before\n> it went into broadcasting, \"Z stands for the \"ultimate\", \"the strongest\".\n\nSo on the contrary? to the first intention of the author, the story became\neven longer than the original. I think that happens sometimes, see how many\nsequence Matrix or Star Wars has.......\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe back stories of Naruto, for example how danzo has so many Sharingans.\nThese are only found in the wiki pages. Why aren't they made into anime or\nmanga? OR are they already included in anime and manga? In my opinion, They\ncan be made as new anime episodes instead of those fillers that don't have any\nconnection with story.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA lot of these backstories are covered either by the filler episodes or the\nNaruto games. They are not necessarily canon, or legit. Only stuff from the\nmanga are true to the series.\n\nAll the wiki info of course comes from the manga or anime. So if you see it in\nNarutopedia, it's in either an episode or chapter.\n\nSide note: Danzo's Sharingan arm is actually surprisingly covered by the\nmanga. [Read Naruto chapter 700 Special\n2](http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Naruto/Naruto-700-Special-002?id=290936).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was starting _Naruto_ and noticed the Hokage using a crystal ball to watch\nNaruto.\n\n1) How does the crystal ball work?\n\n2) What's its range?\n\n3) What are its limitations?\n\n4) Does any of the other characters in future episodes use it (tag spoilers)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMuch like many of the original concepts of the series (See, the Kawarimi no\nJutsu), most of the \"magical\"-like aspects of the world has been scrapped,\nprobably in hopes of the fans forgetting about them because they made no sense\nand had no explanation.\n\nThe Third Hokage's crystal ball is like that.\n\nNot much had been explicitly explained, but it could be argued that the\ncrystal ball is a display for surveillance cameras or other similar sensors,\npre-set all over the village. This is only a wild theory though, it has no\nbasis in the series whatsoever.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was searching on the third hokage crystal ball. I happen to come across this\nlink [here on a wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Telescope_Technique)\n\n> A technique that uses a crystal ball to track a particular individual\n> anywhere they are. There are a few restrictions about the person that is\n> subjected to pursuit. The user must know that person's chakra pattern. If\n> someone can be targeted for pursuit, they may be very far away, the crystal\n> ball will be able to confirm their position. As this technique is infallible\n> for intelligence purposes, the Third Hokage used it to maintain public order\n> in the village.\n\n<http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Telescope_Technique>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI personally find this to be one of the major plot holes on dragon ball which\nmakes any intention on defining their real powers pretty hopeless, although if\nthere's something that explains it, which I'm not aware of, then it's not a\nplot hole.\n\nI mean, depending on the situation if their ki based attacks hit something the\neffect can greatly change according to the situation, it can destroy just some\nlandscape, a huge amount of it, a planet, a solar system, a galaxy...\n\nIf their energy attacks just destroy some landscape then there's no point in\nusing them against enemies that could stand to something that would destroy a\ngalaxy, so there's no reason for them to be used and it would be pointless. If\nthey cannot control their destruction output everytime that there's a fight\nwith their current power level the whole universe would be destroyed if some\namount of ki based attacks are used in the fight and don't exactly go directly\nto one of the fighters.\n\nBut maybe they can control it according to their will of how much destruction\nthey want them to cause.\n\nIs there something that explains that seemingly relative destructiveness of\ntheir ki based attacks?\n\nThank you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do not think they are any in-universe explanations for that. I have actually\nnoticed some inconsistency in the damages the Z fighters can generate when\nfighting.\n\nHowever, it is important to note that Dragon Ball is an old Shonen manga\n(first chapter was released in 1984). Back then, authors were not so rigorous\nand consistent with the plots and power levels as in other more recent mangas.\nAkira Toriyama regularly (and casually!) admits he has introduced many plot-\nholes in the Dragon Ball series.\n\nOn a side note, when Goku defeats Frieza, he is about 150,000 times stronger\nthan when he fought Raditz. How much stronger is Goku in Super Saiyan Blue\nform? I reckon it can be difficult to be consistent when such exponential\nstrength growths are involved.\n\nFrom the latest Dragon Ball Super episodes, I suppose it is safe to say Akira\nToriyama has not changed his approach to mangas and does not pay much\nattention to such minor inconsistencies.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis could all be wrong, but I have a theory based on previous information.\n\nRemember Videl and when she first formed an energy ball, how she could barely\nadd energy to it. The same thing applies here, except that everyone else is\nripped. No one ever measures how much energy they put into Ki-based attacks,\nbut we can easily assume it will be only as much energy as they can use, at\nmost. In order to measure how much, we have to consider how strong everyone\nelse is, in comparison to Videl. If she were put at the bottom of the scale,\neven above Hercule Satan, then based on everyone else's current power level,\nwe can measure how much energy they all have.\n\nTo determine how much energy is pumped into any Ki-based attacks, therefore\ndefining if each amount is different and determining if Z fighters control the\npower of their Ki-based attacks based on which attacks they use in the 1st\nplace, we would need to use Videl's attack as a basic scale, assuming she is\nthe weakest above Hercule. It would require a measurement system based on\nweighted power, but it would help accurately measure the attacks' power, based\non what does how much damage to whom in particular.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know Satoru and Airi didn't get together in the anime. Do they get together\nin the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/30817/what-are-the-\ndifferences-between-the-manga-and-the-anime-adaptation-of-erased-an?rq=1)\ndiscusses, in the manga Airi shows up a few times while Satoru is recovering\nafter his coma, although they never really directly interact. While the ending\nof the manga is quite different to that of the anime, the very last scene is\nthe same:\n\n> Satoru goes back to the spot under the bridge where he hid from the police,\n> and as he hoped Airi shows up there as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on the anime and the manga, the last scene is Satoru going under the\nbridge where he hid with Airi after he was accused of murdering his mother.\nThere he used his hands to form a rectangle, and as he saw through the\nrectangle, he saw Airi.\n\nThere is no continuation of this story, but considering that Hinazuki Kayo\nends up with one of their friends (Sugita Hiromi) and is living happily, it is\nimplied that Satoru seeing Airi there means that his own love story will\nfinally start (with Airi). It wasn't explicitly mentioned, so I believe it was\nintended to be left open to fans interpretation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this case, it remains to be seen. Airi does stand up for Satoru several\ntimes, but they never really are seen engaing in any actions that would quite\nsum up to a 'romance', more of a relationship built using mutual trust and\nhelp.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the reason behind most anime being dubbed in American English and not\nBritish English? Does the control of a country over the world market have\nsomething to do with this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm going to distill [this\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/34331/american-english-vs-\nbritish-english#comment47278_34331) to an answer.\n\nIt largely depends on what region the dub is intended for, and also who is\npaying for it. There are a lot of differences [between the two English\nstyles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY), and it's important to\nensure that the market which the dub is intended for receives the correct-\nsounding audio.\n\nI've personally noticed a trend with dubs in that America is its principal\nmarket. This doesn't exclude any other English-speaking countries, but given\nthat America is one of the larger markets for dubs, it makes sense to go that\nroute.\n\nIf a dub is not localized to British English, then either there is no budget\nto do so, or the differences in localizing the audio wouldn't be quite\nsignificant enough to justify the effort, and the American English version is\n\"good enough\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode when Koga first appears, his wolves attack a human village and\nkill Rin. Were those regular wolves or full demons like Ginta and Hakkaku, and\nsimply preferred their wolf form?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn my opinion they were regular wolves.\n\nFirstly, because they look like regular wolves. Since, Koga never transformed,\nI cannot be sure about what a wolf demon's transformation would look like. But\ntaking the example of Sesshomaru, Inu no Taisho and even Naraku, we can say\nthat a demon's transformation looks much different from the actual form of the\nbeing. I mean, they definitely don't look like a normal dog or a normal\nspider. So, a wolf demon probably couldn't transform into such a normal\nlooking wolf. This point counters the argument that they were wolf demons\ntransformed into their wolf form.\n\nSecondly, as far as I can recall, there have not been any appearances of\ndemons that look like normal beings. Here I do not include the demons that\nwere in disguise. The weaker demons that InuYasha's group encountered in those\nrandom villages never looked like normal beings. They were bigger and looked\nmore fierce. It wouldn't be very wise to think that those 'wolf demons' were\nalways in disguise as normal wolves. So, they couldn't even be wolf demons\nthat do not have the power to transform into a human-like form. This point\neven counters the argument that they were demons.\n\nThus by this reasoning, I conclude that they were just normal wolves. But\nthen, this is just my opinion. I guess it's only Rumiko Takahashi who knows\nthe correct answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, Fairy Tail, I know Natsu is well known all around as the Fairy\nTail guild's Salamander. However, I've also heard Natsu and Happy refer to\nIgneel as \"The Salamander\", specifically in the first episode. Is this a\nnickname for both of them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nReal world salamanders have been associated with fire in mythology for\ncenturies. Their tendency to live in old logs sometimes used for firewood led\nto the belief that salamanders were immune to fire or even born from fire.\n\nLeonardo Da Vinci notably wrote that salamanders only fed on fire.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough IG_42's answer is essentially correct, it is complete.\n\nFrom memory the conversation went something like this. Very simplistically.\n[Please edit if somebody has the subs handy :)]\n\n> Lucy: I am a mage, looking to join a guild \n> Natsu: I am looking for Salamander, Though he turned out to be human I am\n> looking for a dragon \n> Lucy: (All surprised) \n> Happy: **Salamanders are fire lizard so we thought it might be Igneel**\n\nNatsu and Happy are very simple minded. It never occured to Natsu that someone\nelse might be using his moniker to fake people. They heard rumours of\nSalamander and thought it might relate to Igneel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust wonder from beginning, Ururu and Jinta are looks like a child. But as we\nknow they're also have some super strength as a human and a child.\n\nSo, how old exactly they're before and after time skip? Are their age ever\nmentioned in anime or manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow was the Kaguya clan related to Kaguya and when was the clan formed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe when and how the clan came to be are fairly unclear through out the\nseries. But we can make a guess as to when very roughly.\n\nAccording to [this\ntimeline](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/User%3aTimeel39/Timeline),\n[Gamamaru](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Toad_Sage) was born in 984 BK\n(before nine tails attack). Which was said to be the same generation as\n[Hagoromo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hagoromo_%C5%8Ctsutsuki), the first\nson of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. Meaning that the creation would be in one of the\nyears to follow\n\nThe clan was named after the first known user of the [Tomogoroshi no\nhaikotsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/All-Killing_Ash_Bones). As their power,\nthe [Shikotsumayaku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shikotsumyaku) was a\nderivative power of it.\n\nThis derivative power was obtained through descendants of [Kaguya\nŌtsutsuki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kaguya_%C5%8Ctsutsuki), indirectly\nmaking her the creator of the Kaguya clan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n### How was the Kaguya clan related to Kaguya?\n\nBy Kaguya clan, I'm guessing that you're referring to the one mentioned in\n[this link](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kaguya_Clan). Well, they were\ndescendents of Kaguya, which is why some of them gain the rare kekkei genkai\n\"[Shikotsumyaku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shikotsumyaku)\", which gives you\nsome of Kaguya's \"bone powers\". If you remember Kimimaro manipulating his\nbones when fighting against Naruto, you know what I mean.\n\n### When was the clan formed?\n\nWell, we're not sure, since it wasn't mentioned in the anime or manga. But we\ndo know that they were descendants of Kaguya, so maybe they existed a long\ntime ago, maybe even not far after Ashura and Indra's death (unless they came\nfrom Hamura's lineage). We also know that they were extinct after their attack\nagainst Kirigakure and Kimiaro's terminal illness, but that's about it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that neither Hagoromo nor Indra or Ashura used the bone Kekkei Genkai,\nso it might have gone to Hamura's children. Hagoromo's eyes went to Indra and\nhis chakra went to Ashura. Hamura's eyes went to the progenitor of the Hyuuga\nclan. Maybe Hamura's chakra manifested in the Kaguya-clan as bone-\nmanipulation. This hypothesis is bolstered by how Hamura was closer to Kaguya\nthan Hagoromo, so maybe he gave one of his children the name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Highschool DxD new Episode 10, Akeno showed her wings to Issei and told\nthat she have both Devil and Fallen Angel wings. But when I was watching\nHighschool DxD Born then in Episode 1 during one fight it showed that she has\nboth Devil wings.\n\nSo is it possible that it is some kind of mistake or there is any explanation\nbehind this event ? I am not sure but there are few other events too which\nshows that she has both devil wings in previous episodes too. But how it is\npossible ?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pdCd6.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no mistake. She has both Wings of Devil & Fallen Angel. She just hate\nit as she thinks her mother died because of his father who is fallen angel.\n\nShe afraid of reveling that she is half angel & half devil that's why she\nnormally show devil wings. ( That's what i think.) & She afraid if\nanyone(issie) know about it, He will hate her but \"He tells her that he never\ndisliked the gentle side of her and knowing her past does not change his\nfeelings.\"\n\nSource <http://highschooldxd.wikia.com/wiki/Akeno_Himejima>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Spoiler alert\n\nQuoting Volume 4 of the light novel,\n\n> different from the usual two wings of devils, one wing was of a devil and\n> the other one was the black wing of a fallen angel.\n\nThis is the basis for the scene you saw in High School DxD New.\n\nNow, the background story of Akeno is that she originally possess only fallen\nangel wings. She was born of a Miko and a fallen angel. However, due to\npersecution from her mother's family, she ran away and then met Rias, who\nturned her into a devil, causing her to own both devil wings and fallen angel\nwings.\n\nThe cover of the novel shows her with demon wings. DxD BorN also shows her\nwith devil wings.\n\nSo, a logical conclusion that we can draw is that\n\n 1. Akeno has both a pair of devil wings.\n 2. She can make a pair of both. For example left wing is that of a devil and right is that of a fallen angel or vice versa.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike I said in the title, how old are they when they are imprisoned in DG 1\nand in other games and anime? Also, what is the age of warriors of hope and\nKomaru?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fruits Basket, is Sohma house an actual house where all of the families\nwith a member cursed by the zodiac live, or is it more of a gated community\nsituation where the families all live together, but they're in separate houses\nnear each other? The exception being Shigure, who lives in an isolated house\nthat still happens to be on Sohma property.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode, d'Eon asks a woman about the \"nqm\" motif and is directed\nto go to a church to read the \"Psalm of Vengeance\" in the \"ancient tongue\"\n(i.e. Hebrew). While he is there, we see two seven-branched candelabra on the\ntable.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EtKiI.png)\n\nThis was strange to me, since the menorah, a _Jewish_ symbol, was the first\nobject I associated with \"seven-branched candelabra.\" My internet searches did\nnot clarify this:\n\n * [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_\\(Temple\\)#In_other_cultures) suggests that the Orthodox church uses the menorah in liturgy, but _Le Chevalier d'Eon_ takes place in France, where Western Christianity predominates.\n * While I found a number of results that mentioned menorot in churches, I was not given much reason to believe that this was _traditional_ practice. \n * I did find [this forum post](http://web.archive.org/web/20160720055638/http://www.catholic-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?59615-Milan-Cathedral-Menorah). The Google Translate version of [the Wikipedia page](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candelabro_Trivulzio) linked suggests that ornate versions of such candelabra were common in the medieval period. However, I cannot tell from this whether they were still common by the period in which _Le Chevalier d'Eon_ is set or whether smaller versions were ever at all common.\n * I searched for images of seven-branched candelabra; the results were largely Judaism-related.\n\nIs there any in-universe reason (whether specific to _Le Chevalier d'Eon_ , or\nrelated to its setting) why such candelabra are being used?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll throughout the series, specifically, within the second Arc of the story,\nthere are references to Subaru smelling like the **Witch's Scent** , Giving us\nthe knowledge that he is Definitely connected to her.\n\nWhy is this? It's well known that Subaru was pulled from modern day Japan into\nthis Fantasy world, as well as that he has the ability **\"Return to Death\"**\nIn which he has the ability to _Respawn_.\n\nThese things most likely have things in common with his relations to the\nwitch, though... What exactly is the relationship? How are they connected?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis isnt a fact but a theory but I am starting to learn towards the idea that\nEmilia is Satella. Subaru is the flugel. Hence the flugel tree and why he\nplanted it. I think Emilia will take the witch genes from Subaru possibly to\nsave him from the insanity? Maybe all 7 witch genes was too much. This also\nmay be why Satella says he loves Subaru. I think that guy might be right about\nthe time travel. Satella said something about Subaru showing him the\nworld,kissing her etc. Anyways yea. Subaru and Emilia somehow travelled back\nto the past which may be the authority of envy- Time? This also explains why\nEchidna hates Emilia. Echidna hates Satella. So much deetailsss gah. Anyways\nwe'll know soon enough. Lets be patient :) if Im right. Subaru is in for some\ndeep shit. Is he gonna kill Emilia this time to free her or is he gonna seal\nher again? Will he save her this time?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z growing up. I read the mangas. I am\nfamiliar with the stories. I've read in wikis and articles that the GT story\ndoesn't originate from or follow the original Dragon Ball story.\n\nI didn't watch GT but recently I watched the final episode. There, Goku, at\nthe end, makes the rounds and visits many characters from his childhood,\nbefore disappearing into the dragon.\n\nJust from that episode, everything seemed like it was a continuation of the\nprevious series and based off the original stories.\n\nSo how does it not follow the original Dragon Ball series? What is different?\nAre there aspects that contradict the original work?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDragon Ball GT actually is a direct sequel to Dragon Ball Z; it takes place\nseveral years after Dragon Ball Z ends. It was not based on a manga by Akira\nToriyama. It was an original story created by the anime studio. As far as I\nknow (I never finished watching it), it was completely compatible with the\nstory of Dragon Ball Z.\n\nRecently, Toriyama worked with Toei on the movies Battle of the Gods and\nResurrection F, which as far as I know take place between the end of Dragon\nBall Z's final battle with Kid Buu and its ending where Goku goes off to train\nUub. These movies, like all the movies, are considered non-canon by fans, but\nToriyama later adapted these movie stories into a new manga, Dragon Ball\nSuper.\n\nSince (a) GT was awful, and (b) Dragon Ball Super takes place after Dragon\nBall Z but before GT and somewhat contradicts GT (e.g. Mai, Shu, and Emperor\nPilaf are elderly in the first episode of Dragon Ball GT, while they're\nchildren in Dragon Ball Super after a bad wish on the Dragon Balls; also,\nthere are characters like Beerus and Whis that I believe are nowhere to be\nfound in GT, and new powers that are never seen or mentioned in GT, like the\nSuper Saiyan God Form), most fans treat GT as non-canon. GT does actually\nfollow the original Dragon Ball Z storyline, but it isn't compatible with\nDragon Ball Super, and Dragon Ball Super is considered more authoritative\nsince it was written by Toriyama himself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe previous answer is completely wrong. Dragon Ball GT is NOT a \"direct\nsequel\" to Dragon Ball Z. While it does take place several years after the\nending of DBZ, Toriyama himself stated that it was nothing more than a side-\nstory. It's basically a \"what if\". It is not compatible with DBZ. In fact, it\nconstantly contradicts both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. DBGT nullified\nitself. It's not considered canon because A). Toriyama had little involvement\nbeyond some character concepts. It was Toei's baby. And B). Toriyama is making\nSuper, which is his official continuation of Dragon Ball, and it's already\nintroduced so much content that contradicts GT. Toriyama wrote the story for\nboth Battle of the Gods _and_ Resurrection F. He didn't just adapt it into a\nnew manga, it was his baby. Unlike GT, which Toriyama flat out stated that it\nwas nothing more than a side-story, and that DB Super is his sequel to DBZ.\n\nAs far as the deviations to DB and DBZ, there are simply too many to name. As\nwas previously mentioned, it even went so far as to negate itself. Watch\nDragon Ball, then watch GT and you'll figure it out. It's not that hard to\npick out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn my opinion, GT is Non-Canon, but is a direct continuation of DB and DBZ. It\nhas all the characters from the two shows, all its transformations and all the\nprevious dragon ball's wishes had been made (the shadow dragons list them\noff). One of the previous answers said that GT contradicts the original Dragon\nBall, but I've watched GT twice now and can say that it does not. GT Krillin\neven reminds Goku of their race to find Muten Roshi's rock (and its outcome),\nan event that was so specific, even the slightest change in the story would\nerase this from ever happening.\n\nAlso, Super was not written by Toriyama, the manga is written by Toytarou and\nthe anime writers only get some notes from Toriyama about basic plot points,\nthey are allowed to make up most of the story. In other words, the manga is\nlike his kid that's actually the mailman's and the anime is like the child\nthat comes from his donated sperm that he's never met.\n\nBoth shows are separate timelines, one where Beerus woke up and one where he\ndidn't, it also has the difference of the shadow dragon concept. So that's my\nopinion, an educated one though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm guessing _himouto_ (干物妹) is some kind of pun on _imouto_ since Umaru lives\nwith her brother. But what's the joke? Googling the term in either kanji or\nromaji just returns results about the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy doesn't Ash uses any of the Pokemon he caught in previous regions, apart\nfrom Pikachu? We only seem him use Charizard in Best Wishes and a few examples\nin Diamond & Pearl (only so far though because XY&Z haven't finished). I get\nhow he wants to start fresh with each new region and use new Pokemon to beat\nthe league (to make it more adventurous), but is there a specific reason for\nwhy he doesn't use them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom producers point of view, Ash using new Pokémon means that those Pokemon\ngot time to shine. Sure they can have Ash use his old pokemon, but there are 2\nproblem with this. First is there will be less time for new pokemon to show\ntheir skills which translates to less time for them to attract people to buy\ntheir merchandise. Second is that if the old pokemon lose to the new pokemon,\nold fans would get upset.This was the case with Kamen Rider tokusatsu series\nwhere fans of Kamen Rider Kabuto would get upset at Kamen Rider Decade (the\ncharacter and the series) due to Kabuto losing to Decade.\n\nFrom Ash's point of view, he collects the pokemon. In battle there is always\nthe risk of his pokemon getting injured or worse killed. Sure he can just go\nback to the previous area to catch it again. But this will cost money and\ntime. Using new pokemon that live in the region he is in means that supposed\nthat the pokemon got killed in combat he can capture another with less time\nand money spent.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom S05E275 (\"Gotta Catch Ya Later!\", second to last episode of _Master\nQuest_ )\n\n> _Ash_ : Professor! I've decided to start a new journey too, and only take\n> Pikachu with me. I want it to be just like the first time I left Pallet\n> Town.\"\n>\n> _Pikachu_ : Pikan~~\n>\n> ...\n>\n> _Tracy_ : And you can count on me to take care of your Pokemon for you!\n>\n> _Ash_ : Really? Thanks a lot, Tracy.\n\nAsh wants to experience the thrill of discovering the wonderful world of\nPokemon all over again- a feeling he knows he won't experience if he only\nrelies on his old Pokemon. He remembers how much he loved the experience of\nbeing introduced to a whole new realm, and how he had to work at leveling his\nPokemon and growing with them to be able to eventually win the Orange League\nChampionship. He decides to leave his Pokemon so he is forced to level native\nPokemon, knowing he will grow as a person during this process. He leaves his\nPokemon at Professor Oak's Laboratory because he knows they'll be well taken\ncare of.\n\nThroughout the Pokemon series, Ash only ever brings Pikachu with him to each\nnew region, as Pikachu is his best friend and they are inseparable. The are\ntwo execptions to this rule: the Johto region, due to behind-the-scenes\nexpectations (Pokemon was originally only going to have Gen I and Gen II), and\n_Diamond & Pearl_, where Aipom sneaked aboard the boat Ash took to the Sinnoh\nregion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Ash returns to Pallet Town in the first series, I think after he got all\nthe badges and was preparing for the Pokemon League Championships. When they\nwere in Professor Oak's lab, Oak showed off Ash's extra pokemon that was sent\nto him pointing out that most were Tauros caught in the Safari Zone.\n\nWhen I first saw the series I didn't recall it ever showing that Ash went\nthere. So I am wondering if Ash's time in Kanto's Safari Zone was ever\ndetailed anywhere, like why he caught nothing but Tauros or what happened in\nregards to Pikachu (as in the games you aren't allowed to take pokemon into\nthe Safari Zone and I think it was the same in Yellow where you no longer have\nPikachu follow you in there until you leave).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't understand why he drags him off to the bushes to get him to discharge\nand go into derp mode. Bullying? To recharge the expensive night goggles? To\ngive the rest of the class something to laugh at?\n\nCan any easy assumption be made to what he did to him in the bushes to force\ndischarge?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sCb18.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause he wanted to distract the class. That was bagugos money, not\nkaminari’s. He just overcharged kaminari because he was a good and funny\ndistraction while bakougo paid kirishima back. This display of kindness seemed\nweak to bakougo and he didn’t want the rest of the class seeing it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Fruits Basket, what was Akito's motivation behind allowing Tohru\nto live with Shigure, Yuki, and Kyo?\n\nDid he hope that Tohru would reject them, thinking that no normal person would\never care for them, and heartbroken, they'd all return to his side at the main\nhouse?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**This answer is full of unmarked spoilers to the manga and the anime. The\nanime ends maybe halfway through the manga, and further on in the manga it is\nrevealed that Akito is**\n\n> a girl.\n\nFrom the [wiki](http://fruitsbasket.wikia.com/wiki/Akito_Sohma):\n\n> After Yuki left the Main House to live with Shigure, Akito's mother Ren\n> commented that the cursed Sohmas were abandoning Akito, just as Ren always\n> predicted they would. Akito denied this and claimed they would all come back\n> to her because of their inseparable Zodiac bonds. She and Ren made a dare in\n> which Akito was to allow the cursed Sohmas to form bonds with \"outsiders\" to\n> test whether they would return to Akito's side. If they did not return,\n> Akito would have to bow before Ren then leave the Sohma family.\n\nRen is not fully sane. Her obsession with Akira and jealousy of Akito's\nrelationship to him caused her to emotionally abuse Akito. There's a whole\nbackstory on why Ren is so abusive, but I don't think it's entirely relevant.\nDue to Ren's emotional abuse focusing primarily on Akito being unloved,\nAkito's deepest fear is that she ends up alone, with everyone having left her.\nShe recognises the power, as God, she has over the cursed Sohmas so she abuses\nthat to ensure they never break the curse and presumably leave her. When\nKureno, the Rooster, breaks free of his curse (about ten years before the\nevents of Fruits Basket), Akito confines him to the Main House for fear of him\nabandoning her. She even goes so far as to attempt to keep him there through\nseduction, and although Kureno does not fall in love with her, he does have\nsex with her. At the same time, however, Akito pursued a relationship with\nShigure, whom she truely loves. Shigure recipricated those feelings, but Ren\nintervened and convinced Shigure to sleep with Ren in revenge for Akito's sex\nwith Kureno. When Akito discovered this, she exiled Shigure from the Main\nHouse.\n\nYears later, Hatsuharu convinces Shigure to allow Yuki to stay at his house\ndue to the extreme emotional abuse Akito inflicts on Yuki. Kyo also winds up\nstaying at Shigure's as he is forbidden from staying in the Main House. Ren\ncontinues to torture Akito by declaring that all three's departure suggests\nthat they are abandoning her, and, since Ren sucessfully convinced her that,\ngiven the choice, the cursed Sohmas would rather abandon Akito than support\nher, Akito pitifully clings to the belief that the Zodiac bonds will force\nthem to return. In defiance of her mother, Akito allows Tohru to stay to prove\nRen wrong, and reaffirm Akito's conviction that the Zodiac bonds trump all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the movie \"Battle of gods\" Goku doesn't seems to be far from Beerus. Later\nAkira Toriyama said that in Battle of gods if Goku is a 6 Beerus is a 10 and\nWhiz is a 15. Later we see Goku to attain another transformation (probably\nstronger) since in the manga is shown as a next stage (in the manga he uses\nregular god form instead of SSGSS for saving energy probably). In the anime we\nsee Goku using SSGSS Kaioken x10. That would make Goku to be a at least a \"60\"\nwhen Beerus is a 10, unless movie, anime, and manga are all independent\nstories. Then my question is, is Beerus still stronger than Goku in the\nseries, or is he not? Am I missing something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, right now I think we can say almost. Due to Whis' explanation of the\nUltra Instinct transformation. In the battle between Kefla and Goku. Whis\nstates that Goku's attacks are ineffective because he still hasn't mastered\nthe art of the unconcious attack and also states that it is very hard to learn\nand that even Beerus hasn't mastered it's use.\n\nIf Goku is able to complete it then for sure he will be stronger than Beerus\nfor a moment. He still doesn't have stamina to maintain the form (a common\nthing now with every transformation).\n\nBut given the nature of how it works. I think Beerus wouldn't be able to land\nan attack on him at full power even with Ultra Instinct active.\n\nStill it's only speculation at this point.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a number of _Sword Art Offline 2_ episodes in Yui's trivia corner, she\nexplains some of the guns seen during the series talking about their real-life\ncounterparts.\n\nDid the writer of _Sword Art Online_ do a research on guns when writing _Gun\nGale Online_? Did this trivia come after the light novels and used only to\ngive something for Yui to talk about in _Sword Art Offline_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe details of the guns in the game were actually quite basic. Here are three\nspots in novel #5 that mention specs on real guns used in the game:\n\n * Before the title page- Here, it says facts about Sinon's Hecate II, things like the length of the gun and the size ammo it uses. Also the fact that, in real life, the gun has been banned from being used on human targets.\n\n * Page 137- Kirito asks why the assault rifle fires smaller rounds than a sub-machine gun and Sinon explains that it's for higher speed and accuracy, a trait that has been used since the M16.\n\n * Page 140- Sinon recommends the Five-Seven to Kirito for a sidearm to use with his lightsword. She explains that it uses small bullets shaped like rifle rounds. This gives it an advantage of accuracy and penetration.\n\nThe bit in _Sword Art Offline_ wasn't included in the light novels, but the\ntrivia on each of the guns is indeed there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI doubt the writer researched about guns.\n\nIn the first _Sword Art Online_ , he did not research swords at all and it was\nall about swords.\n\nAsuna has a Rapier. However, a Rapier is a blunt edge sword used exclusively\nfor piercing. It is also useless outside 1-on-1 dueling.\n\nKirito also dual-wields using two long swords (one is a rapier and one is a\nsabre if I am not mistaken). Due to the size, dual-sword wielding is only\npossible either with a long sword and a short sword, or two medium-size\nswords. If both are long swords, they are too big to actually wield. Also, the\nwielder should have really strong hand muscles or be ambidextrous. But\nusually, a sword's movement is a circular arch. The bigger the sword, the\nwider the circle. If they have two big swords, either the two paths intersect\nor hit the ground and either case is very dangerous. Moreover, it is\ntechnically difficult there are few records of it actually being used and no\nrecords of being used in battle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Sage of the Six Paths had **Rinnegan** in both in his eyes. He also\nawakened a third eye on his forehead.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l9P40.png)\n\nIs that a **Sharingan** of some kind?\n\nWhat powers does that third eye grant it's wielder?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the Wiki\n\n> After awakening his Rinnegan, he also manifested a red circle marking with\n> two ripples patterns in the centre of his forehead, seemingly a byproduct of\n> his ultimate dōjutsu manifested alongside his senjutsu training.\n\nIt references episode 426 of Naruto Shippuden and suggests it wasn't a true\neye but rather a marking. There's no way to be sure if it gave him any special\npowers, but all\n\n> abilities he exhibited were in line with what we know was possible via his\n> Rinnegan / Mangekyo / Senjutsu abilities so it doesn't seem to have given\n> him anything.\n\nAdditionally it's flat and lacks the depth that Kaguya's third eye had, also\nsuggesting it was simply a marking. The best theory I can come up with is that\nit was an incomplete manifestation of Kaguya's third eye.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, that marking is the Mangekyo Sharingan. When Hagoromo and Hamura\n(both sons of Kaguya Otsutsuki) fight Kaguya, Hagoromo has to kill his brother\nfor he was under the control of Kaguya. But thanks to Gamamaru (presently the\ngreat toad sage), Hamura was saved by sage power.\n\nImmediately after this incident, Hagoromo awakens his Rinnegan and also his\nMangekyo Sharingan. He also thanks his mother (Kaguya) for she was only\nresponsible for the awakening of his Rinnegan and Mangekyo Sharingan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is the Mangekyo Sharingan. When Hagoromo \"kills\" Hamura and gains his\nRinnegan, he also gains the \"third eye.\" It doesn't really look like an eye,\nbut more of a marking representing the Mangekyo Sharingan. When Sasuke gains\nhis Rinnegan, his Rinnegan manifest in his left Mangekyo Sharingan eye. In\nSasuke's Rinnegan, there is tomoe which shows when he is at full power and\nthat there used to be a sharingan in that eye. It also shows that he still has\nthe power of his left Mangekyo Sharingan. Though an issue with this hypothesis\nis that Madara did not have tomoe in his Rinnegan and did not get the Rinne\nSharingan till late in the series. And I'm pretty sure he still had the power\nof his Sharingan, even when both his eyes were Rinnegan.\n\nIn all, the red mark probably represents the Mangekyo Sharingan in order to\nshow that Hagaromo has both the power of the Sharingan and the Rinnegan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could signal the use of his sage of six paths sage mode. Every user of sage\nmode has always had some sort of marking when using their own form of sage\nmode. This could signal his. 6 paths sage power, like naruto's commas and eyes\nand hashiramas markings.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCouple of things it does. Number 1 it has the Chakra that worth ten tails\nwhich is Canon and if that's not enough proof madra absorbs ten tails then he\ngets rinnesharrigan. The other thing it does it does is that it does the\ninfinite tsukuyomi. The last thing it does it typically opens portal for\ntransportation and sometimes in rare instances like kaguya has unique\nabilities like bringing people to dimension instantly or going through half\nthe dimension like an open door.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the Hueco Mundo arc:\n\n> Ichigo has used up all of his shinigami powers to defeat Aizen so he will no\n> longer be able to see spirits, including his shinigami friends.\n\n.\n\n> They share a heartfelt goodbye thinking that they will never see each other\n> again.\n\n.\n\n>\n> \n\nBut couldn't the shinigami come visit in gigai easily? I'm pretty sure Rukia\nhad a thing for Ichigo, so it's kind of weird that she wouldn't come visit at\nall during the 18 months before Ichigo\n\n> gets his powers back (duh).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is Rukia? A shinigami. Renji? A shinigami. I'll exclude the other\nShinigami stince they are not that close with Ichigo.\n\nNow, what is Ichigo? He was a Shinigami (Substitute), but after losing his\npower he is **just a normal human**.\n\nDoes normal human communicate with Shinigami? No, they are **not supposed\nto**. Since Ichigo is a normal human after losing his power, he and Rukia are\nnot supposed to communicate with one another. Sure they can communicate if\nRukia wears a gigai, but being a Shinigami and a Kuchiki, Rukia chose not to.\nRenji is a Vice-Captain, so him using a gigai to visit Ichigo every now and\nthen would set a bad example for other Shinigami. This is the first reason,\nShinigami and human are not supposed to be communicating with one another.\n\nAnother reason is that a that time, the great crisis Aizen \"God\" Sousuke was\novercame mainly due to Ichigo's contribution. He was the one who weakened\nAizen enough for the sealing kido created by Urahara to work. He has\ncontributed more than enough in this battle. So, as a veteran, now that he\nlost his power and considering that he was only 17 at that time, it is\nperfectly understandable that the Shinigami would want Ichigo to **finally\nhave a peaceful life** befitting of a human.\n\nWith those two reasons, it is perfectly understandable that Rukia and Ichigo\nparted ways there.\n\nAlso, do not forget that normally those assigned to the human world are non-\nseated Shinigami. Renji is a seated officer. Rukia was not but she got\npromoted soon after. For seated officers to visit the human world, they would\nneed to pass a certain gate where they would have a seal applied to them which\nwould restrict their power. This procedure requires them to fill a paperwork\nbeforehand. If they were to use this for personal reason (visiting a friend),\npeople would have a bad impression of them, thinking that they are using their\nposition for their own personal needs (nepotism).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the Thousand Year War she visits Ichigo from time to time with Renji,\nand bless the great mind of Urahara, because he invented the Soul Society, a\nworld of living \"Discord\", so now they can talk more often.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAsh is occasionally observed to carry Pokémon besides his 5 kg companion\nPickachu, which most often can be found on top of his head / shoulder.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/23s8n.jpg)\n\nor even heavier\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x6SSe.jpg)\n\nThose are some heavy creatures for are teenage protagonist.\n\nSo has our teenage protagonist been hitting them gym(s)? Or is this all just\ncaused by another perception of weight/strength in the Pokémon universe?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThough I haven't seen an instance where the reincarnate of Asura and Indra is\na girl, I'm still wondering. So the question is, is it possible to have a girl\nreincarnate of Asura and Indra?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm having some trouble following the battle of the Akai squad vs Gauna 487 at\nthe end of Knights of Sidonia episode 3 (which I am clearly overanalyzing).\nI've replayed the scene like five times and cannot figure out how or when Aoki\nis killed, and I can't follow Momose and Midorikawa's demise.\n\nSomething about the animation and visual similarity between characters (as\nwell as similar voices for the men) is making it difficult for me. The only\nway I could really tell who was who was the unit numbers on their helmets\n(001: Akai, 002: Momose, 003: Aoki, 004: Midorikawa).\n\nSo from what I can _tell_ (Netflix timestamps), I've bolded the parts that I\nwouldn't mind some clarification on:\n\n * 19:44 Akai and Momose go in together, Momose gets grabbed.\n * 19:59 Akai slices off the tentacle, saving her. In a heavy-handed sequence, everybody immediately yells \"Akai!\" an Akai apologizes, **although I'm not sure how everybody knew he was about to die** , because from the shot he looked safe and nothing had grabbed him yet. 9 seconds of wondering what he just apologized for follows, until...\n * 20:08 Akai gets grabbed and is soon killed; we see him being pulled in in the following scene.\n * 20:46 We see confirmation on control room screen that Akai is out and Momose is injured (presumably from when she initially got grabbed, but it didn't look like she took any damage?).\n * 20:54 Aoki is told to take command and leave Momose, to which he responds \"but Momose is...\", but **I can't figure out what he means by that or why he was told to leave her at that point or where she even was** , because we haven't seen Momose do anything yet, really.\n * 21:19 Aoki says \"I'm going in\" (I had to pause to read the 003 on his arm to confirm) and closes in on the Gauna, instructing Midorikawa to support fire\n * 21:32 Momose goes flying past (about two frames, needed to pause to catch it and didn't even see this until like the third time I watched it) and Midorikawa yells \"stooooop!\". Momose goes into full blind rage mode.\n * 21:57 Momose gets too close, takes a hit, we hear buckling metal. She is knocked back quickly. Presumably this is what ultimately kills her (she may or may not randomly explode later).\n * 22:07 We see either Aoki or Midorikawa go after her and immediately deduce it is Midorikawa because we see 003/Aoki tell him to stick to the mission.\n * 22:09 Immediately we see Aoki's view of some tentacles coming at him. **Then the camera switches and we don't see anything else.** Somebody yells during the exterior shot of Midorikawa, but can't tell if it's Aoki or Midorikawa.\n * 22:12 Midorikawa grabs Momose as he flies past then soon after loses his grip and clearly dies as he is impaled by a tentacle.\n * 22:25 **Somebody explodes but I can't tell who or why.** This part doesn't make any sense to me because: \n * Ok, so from 22:12 Momose is further from the Gauna than Midorikawa.\n * Midorikawa grabs her. Now they are together.\n * His grip slips and it looks like he throws her further because when he is impaled, he is clearly closer to the Gauna than she is.\n * Exterior shot we see the person closest to the Gauna explode, unprompted (I didn't see any tentacles?), which is where Midorikawa was like a second earlier.\n * But then we see that it wasn't Midorikawa, because we have an interior shot of him floating through space, blood-covered and dead. **So somehow him and Momose switched places then she mysteriously exploded?** Or perhaps it was Aoki that exploded? But he should be pretty far away (and I guess dead) now. Anyways Momose is definitely presumed dead.\n * Adding to this, I later noticed that the explosion didn't appear to be _anybody_ in the squad (see edit below the line below).\n\nI _think_ the final state is: Akai is captured/eaten/absorbed/whatever by the\nGauna. Midorikawa is dead and floating through space. One of Momose/Aoki is\npresumably floating through space too and the other exploded (not sure who;\nupdate: see below, somehow _neither_ of them exploded).\n\nThe whole scene is a little eyebrow-raising because the mistakes they made and\ntactics they used didn't seem to agree with the build-up of their skill and\nconfidence to this point (although on the other hand none of them had fought a\nGauna before and maybe highlighting their break-down and the contrast with\ntheir hyped up skill here was the point). They went down pretty easily.\n\nSo, questions:\n\n 1. Did I get all that right?\n 2. How did everybody (including Akai himself) know Akai was going to die 10 seconds later?\n 3. What was going on when Aoki was told to leave Momose behind?\n 4. When did Aoki actually die?\n 5. Who/what exploded?\n\nI admit I'm overthinking this (and at this point I've spent about 40 minutes\ndwelling on a 3 minute scene where the only thing that's really significant\nabout it is that it's chaotic and everybody dies), but this is the culmination\nof my frustration so far at having a _really_ hard time keeping track of who\nis who (doesn't help that there's like, clones everywhere; at least I assume\nthey're clones - either that or the animators are really struggling to\ndifferentiate the characters).\n\n* * *\n\nUpdate: OK, so two new data points that make this even _more_ confusing.\n\nFirst of all I just noticed that we _briefly_ , for like a half second at\naround 22:31, see _Momose_ floating through space (interior shot, this happens\n_right_ before we see Midorikawa's interior shot):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I2Ukb.jpg)\n\nWe know this is Momose because if you look at the arm band it ends in \"02\",\nand if you look at the status display it's missing 002 (I noticed everybody's\nstatus display displays everybody but themselves). (This also re-raises the\nquestion of how Momose died; at this point only decompression seems plausible\nexcept their skin-suits are airtight)\n\nSo now it seems clear that Aoki was the one that exploded (although how he got\nso close to Momose/Midorikawa I have no idea), _until_...\n\nWe see this map in the control room at the start of the next episode:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4JBfZ.jpg)\n\nSo we see 001 (Akai) near the Gauna, which we already knew, and 003 (Aoki) as\nwell. Momose and Midorikawa are not on the map, not even on the more zoomed\nout views in that same scene. But we know Momose and Midorikawa are both\nfloating through space, we saw them directly after the last battle.\n\nSo that rules out Aoki exploding as well, which raises the question, **what\n_was_ that explosion at 22:25 in episode 3?** Ahhh!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 4 answers your question. Momose was captured by Gauna. Akai came to\nsave her, cutting the tentacle. However, this exposes him to Gauna's attack,\nwhich pierced his Gardes, killing him. **Akai know this, and the fact that he\nwon't be able to avoid the attack, which is why he said sorry to Momose.** The\nGauna then holds Akai's Gardes with its tentacles.\n\nGardes no 3, Aoki, then assume command and hold the Kabizashi. The plan was\nfor him to pierce the Gauna while no 4, Midorikawa, tear open the protective\nlayers. **What was going on when they were told to leave Momose was probably\nAoki taking the floating Kabizashi left by Akai.** Momose, however, came from\nbehind the two and charged head on towards the Gauna, screaming towards the\nGauna to let Akai go. The Gauna easily repelled Momose, slamming her gardes\nwith its tentacle, causing her to go into cardiac arrest due to the shock.\n\nMidorikawa went chasing after Momose who was thrown away. Because of this,\nAoki turned his attention away from the Gauna. The Gauna used this to attack\nthem. Aoki got killed by the Gauna. The tentacles then went after Midorikawa\npierced his Gardes from behind, killing him. **So Aoki was killed before\nMidorikawa.**\n\nWhen Akai's gardes was pierced, it didn't explode. As shown when Momose\ncharged head in, the Gauna hold Gardes no 1 with its tentacles. Since\nMidorikawa died from the same cause, it can be assumed that his gardes too\ndidn't explode.\n\nHow do they know that Akai is dead? The Gardes is equipped with heartbeat\nmonitor. This status is available to both Sidonia and the pilots. Seeing that\nAkai's Gardes was pierced and that he no longer has heartbeat, it doesn't take\ngenius to know that Akai is dead.\n\nAs for **the explosion, I'd say** that it was not the sound of anyone\nexploding, **it is just a sound effect before the ED song**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 15 of Re:Zero Betelgeuse mutilated Rem which should have killed\nher. But that didn't happen. Instead, she survives and crawls to Subaru with\nher last strength, frees him of the chains and finally dies in his arms.\n\nI mean, among other fatal wounds her neck/ cervical spine was torn apart. I'm\nnot a biologist or physician, so correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you dead\nif your neck is torn apart?\n\nAnd according to someone who's read the LN, she had been mutilated by\nBetelgeuse even further i.a. he ripped her in two halves. There's definitely\nno human being who's able to survive this. The only plausible reason I can\nthink of is Rem's demon race. I'm not sure about it, though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRem and Ram are demons.Rem still has her horn so shes still strong and can\nendure that long with those broken bones until her very last breath but that\naint same to Ram since she lost her horn when they were young.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn response to your 'biological knowledge' - In any instance, if a human was\nto have their neck twisted the same way Rem had hers, they would 100% die, so\nyou're correct in your thoughts there.\n\nThe best way to consider this is to think of it as 'Anime/Manga/Novel Logic'\nand accept it, though I know that's not an acceptable answer, so I'll attempt\nto give reason to her survival.\n\nThe idea that she was torn in half should be forgotten when talking about the\nanime, as that wasn't the case, though as for how she survived in the novel is\nbeyond me and I don't want to attempt to guess at how she survived.\n\nAs for how she survived in the anime, that would come down to a few things.\n\n * **Life force**. If she were to have a large amount of life force, which I assume she does, as she is a demon (it's known in multiple novels and such that demons have a much larger life force than that of humans), it's safe to assume she also has this trait.\n * **Willpower**. This one is a bit iffy and is more of a placeholder to further the point, though may not have any relevance. If someone has the will to carry on living, especially with the amount of willpower she shows (she states that the cultists took her \" _reason to die_ \" when they took Subaru, meaning she was willing to die for him), it's not too far a stretch to say she would use any and all abilities to stay alive in order to free him, which she does. It's plausible that she was using magic to keep herself alive, though that's speculation, without proof.\n * **Biology**. We can't say for sure that she has the same anatomy as humans and that she would react the same to the treatment as we would, so we can't rule her dead after the treatment, even if we do see it as logical. We could say that the body contortions that were applied were simply hindering her ability to move and her death came from the damage she sustained on her journey to where Subaru was being held. (We know she had lost a lot of blood, as we witnessed her get a knife lodged in her left shoulder earlier, as well as her arm burned.) Thinking that she would make it to Betelguese and his hideout without receiving further injury is an insult to writing, so we'll assume she took damage (as well as the blood dripping down her head, as well as tattered clothes, it's safe to assume her journey was rough). All that damage could have been the underlying factor in her death.\n\nWe can't really say for sure why she survived as we don't know 100% how her\nanatomy works, how much of a play on her life the willpower and life force\ncome into it, as well as a few unconsidered factors that I forgot to mention.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn question 122 of Mugimeshi-san's question corner, somebody asked whether the\nfairy king's lifespan is longer than the rest of the fairies. Which gets\nanswered with \" _It might be the longest out of all the different species._ \"\n\n\n\nBut how old can these fairies become?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of now, there's no official answer, but **at least older than 4200 years**.\n\nSummarizing from the [Wikia](http://nanatsu-no-\ntaizai.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Clan) about Fairy Clan:\n\n> **Longevity** : The average lifespan of a Fairy is between 1000 to 1500\n> years. They do not appear to physically age and they never suffer from\n> illness.\n\nNow, comparing the known fairies' age:\n\n * Invisible: ?\n * Cisca: ?\n * Dahlia: ? (former, 2nd king/queen)\n * Melik: ?\n * Elaine: ±1000\n * Ende: 1000+\n * Puora: 1000+\n * Helbram: ±1300 (deceased)\n * King: 1300+ (current king)\n * Gloxinia: ±1400 (former, 1st king)\n * Gerheade: ±4200\n\nAlthough most of them are mentioned in between 1000-1500 range, Gerheade is an\nexception, and she's not even a king.\n\nThus, assuming there's nothing that prevents their natural aging (e.g. Elaine,\nHelbram), and since they don't suffer any illness, fairy king should even be\npossible to live more than 5000 years.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Assassination Classroom Season 2, episode 8, Tadaomi was fighting with\nReaper, and then there was one incident where he faked his death from blood\nloss with the help of Koro-sensei. And then later it is shown that Koro-sensei\nwas drinking tomato juice, and with the help of his one tentacles he faked\nthat scene and helped Tadaomi.\n\nSo my question is: how did he get that tomato juice? Is it possible that he\nwas keeping it from the start, or did he try to escape and then got one?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/49I7o.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKoro-sensei was\n\n> the legendary assassin called Death God.\n\nIn assassination it is important to know your enemy (name, skill, habits,\netc), and location (geographic, building structure, surroundings) to ensure\nthat the assassination can be do successfully.\n\nIt was revealed later that the current Death God\n\n> was Koro-sensei's first student.\n\nwhich means that Koro-sensei knows perfectly well the extend of his abilities.\n\nThus, it is very possible that Koro-sensei had the tomato juice prepared\nbeforehand. This fits the fact that they are underground, which means that\nKoro shouldn't be able to get tomato juice there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nExplained in the manga:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lweZ4.jpg)\n\nHe bought it beforehand.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the music that plays at the end of ep. 22 of _Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso_\n, when Arima is reading Kaori's letter?\n\nI saw this anime a long time ago and want listen this music now, but I can't\nfind it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe piece is called \"31 - Kimi ga Iru\" It is in the OST album for the anime,\nDisc 1.\n\nFollowed by \"05 - Kirameki ~Kousei to Kaori no Ensou Ver.~\" from the ED single\n\"Kirameki\" album.\n\nSo basically it starts off as Kimi ga Iru, then Kirameki chimes in.\n\nThe piece before that is \"17 - Kouiu Kimochi wo Nante Itta Kana\" if you're\ninterested.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 1 of _Amanchu!_ , Hikari states that her nickname is Pikari. In the\nEnglish subtitles, she offers this explanation\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V9jlfm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fckwIm.jpg)\n\n> **Hikari** : Due to my overly peppy nature, people in junior high called me\n> \"Peppy Hikari\", \"Peppykari\", and finally just \"Pikari\".\n\nWhere does this name come from in the original Japanese?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japanese, Pikari (ぴかり) is one of the numerous mimetic words of the\nlanguage, meaning \"in a flash\"/\"sparklingly\"/\"brilliantly\", mostly associated\nwith thunder and lightning. (Also, Hikari itself means \"light\", but I don't\nreally know if it's related or not.)\n\nGiven the energetic and cheerful nature of Hikari, it's a fitting nickname.\n\nSome references :\n\n * <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_sound_symbolism>\n\n * <http://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%B4%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8A>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 1 of _Amanchu!_ , Hikari bestows the nickname \"Teko\" on Futaba,\nwith the following explanation.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QMd69m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5pziMm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WLhQAm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NL0qBm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RW7Wam.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ngluom.jpg)\n\n> **Hikari** : [Gazes longingly into Futaba's eyes]\n>\n> **Hikari** : Wow! Your eyebrows are so thin. They're, like, one-tenth as\n> thick as the average. One-tenth...Tenth...Teko! An adorable nickname!\n\nHow did Hikari hit upon this nickname in the original Japanese? And bonus\nquestion: the translation I read of the manga translated Futaba's nickname as\n\"Dotty\". Was this completely out of nowhere, or does it have some\njustification in the original?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japanese, Hikari says that Futaba's eyebrows look like _tenten_ , the two\nstrokes added to a kana to change the voicing value, also known as _dakuten_.\nE.g. か _ka_ becomes が _ga_.\n\nYou can see the resemblance in this picture from the manga, at least if you\nimagine Futaba's eyebrows both pointing in the same direction:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fdccp.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JC4KZ.gif)\n\n\"Dotty\" came from a translation of _tenten_ as \"dot\", presumably because\n\"Periody\" or \"Semicolony\" didn't sound good.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Narutopedia, Kakashi did 42 S-rank missions, while Minato did 39\nof them. Itachi only did 1 for some reason. Many of the other jonins probably\ndid S-rank missions too. Do we get to see or at least know about any of these\nmissions?\n\nNote: Naruto and Sasuke have done 0 official S-rank missions (although it's\nfair to say that they've done harder things in their lives).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Bleach, there are times when we see Soul Reapers (and Visoreds) stand in\nthe air. Examples are like when Ikkaku releases his Bankai during Grimmjow's\ninitial attack, when Shinji first reveals himself as a Visored to Ichigo, or\nway back in Season 1 when Ichigo was fighting Sora. This was also mentioned by\nKisuke when he was training Ichigo where in Lesson 2 - Shattered Shaft he says\nthat Ichigo can get out if he flew out and the purpose of Lesson 2 was to\nrestore Ichigo as a Soul Reaper.\n\nHowever when we see Soul Reapers fight in the Soul Society or in Hueco Mundo\nwe don't see this. We don't see Soul Reapers standing in mid air to get a\nheight advantage on Ichigo and his friends when they went to rescue Rukia and\nso far (up to Episode 157) I have not seen Ichigo, Rukia or Renji fly.\n\nBoth the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, as stated by Uryuu, are rich in Reishi.\nSo I am wondering, does a Reishi rich environment prevent flying?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 126 of Gintama, Shimura Shinpachi was seen supervising the Terakado\nTsuu's Imperial Guards dance training. However, seeing μ's concert, none of\nthe fans do such dance in both the anime and in the live concert.\n\nWhere does the dance origin from and does it have a name?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe dance is called Wotagei or Otagei. It is a dance done by Idol Otaku\n(called Wota) to show support for their idol during the concert. Quoting\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotagei),\n\n> Wotagei is particularly associated with fans of Hello! Project and AKB48\n> idols, as well as fans of anime voice actresses, who often perform theme\n> songs for the series in which they appear.\n\nThus, it can be said the the dance Terakado Tsuu Imperial Guard was practicing\nis originated from the real world wota of AKB48 and other idol groups. I never\nwatched idol concert other than the μ's one, but such dance is possibly done\noften by AKB48 wotas, considering that a member of AKB48, Sashihara Rino, has\ndone a [mimic of wota dance during one of AKBingo\nshow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2HeNgjOsn0), suggesting that such a\nthing is common during AKB48's concert. This is further reinforced by the fact\nthat each idol group, and possibly each wota group has their own dance and\nchant pattern as shown [here](http://www.hello-\nonline.org/index.php?/topic/14218-wotagei-chant-guide-for-morning-musume-\nanime-expo-2009/#entry731443) and\n[here](https://www.facebook.com/notes/akb48-overseas-fans-community/wotagei-\nguide-by-melos125-from-stage48melos-no-michi-blog/157874690916780/). Morning\nMusume wota and AKB48 wota has their own chanting pattern.\n\nAs for why μ's wota are not doing wotagei during their concert, it might be\ndue to the seating disabling them from moving too much. It might also be\nbecause among otaku culture itself there are [categories of\notaku](http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/12-types-of-otaku), such as Anime\nOtaku, Idol Otaku, Game Otaku, etc. Since μ's comes from anime, the fans\nattending the concert would be a mix of different types of otaku, thus, the\nwotas might refrain themselves from doing such a dance so that they won't\nbother the other fans. This might also be a rule put by the concert\nmanagement.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Lx3W.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eG2r.png)\n\n**What are Croquembouche?**\n\nThey can speak.They are delicious.Big mom was fed these stuffs by Jinbe. **Are\nthey living beings**?\n\nWiki says:\n\n> 'Jinbe then arrives and feeds Big Mom some **croquembouche _tourists_** ,\n> returning her to normal.'\n>\n> 'Moscato attempted to calm his mother, promising to **get her\n> croquembouche** as soon as possible,..'\n>\n> 'The shocked citizens continue to evacuate, and Jinbe suddenly appears from\n> the Juice River with a pile of the **anthropomorphic croquembouche\n> _tourists_**. He throws the **croquembouche** into Big Moms' mouth,\n> immediately satiating her. The _croquembouche are glad to be eaten if they\n> are found to be delicious.'_\n\n**How are they _tourists_? Are they living sweets?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn whole cake island, everything is alive. So the croquembouche must be some\nkind of candy exist in the island. We still don't know what kind of devil\nfruit that big mom has been eaten but according to many fans, it appears she\ncan extract life from living beings and transfer it to objects like candies.\nBig mom was wrecking havoc to find this special kind of flavor when Jinbe\narrives. So croquembouche must be a candy which big mom gave life to it. That\nis why the candies were happy when big mom eat them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe croquembouche is a french pastry made by piling small pastries called\n'chou' together in a cone and coating them with crunchy caramel. It is often\nserved as wedding or any celebration.\n\nHere they are part of the living sweets populating the whole cake island.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm a little confused about some details of the premise of Aldnoah.Zero,\nparticularly why the Orbital Knights waited 15 years without attacking, why\nthey needed an excuse, and who is on Mars vs. the Moon. I'm about halfway\nthrough season 2, I was patient waiting for clues to be revealed but the\nseries changed focus to Inaho vs. Slaine and the save-the-princess quest.\n\nFirst of all, my understanding is: In 1999 Mars attacked Earth by sending the\nOrbital Knights and a bunch of other soldiers through the Hypergate on the\nmoon. Yadda yadda, the Hypergate exploded, taking most of the moon with it.\nNow the folks who were sent from Mars are stuck here with no way back,\npresumably because Mars is out of range for normal travel. They can still,\nhowever, communicate with home, so they at least maintain contact.\n\nThat means:\n\n * The war stopped because the resulting devastation from the moon's explosion caused a huge number of losses on both sides (Saazbaum, for example, lost his significant other).\n * The Orbital Knights and the remaining original Mars army are stuck here, so they dug in on the remains of the moon and built bases there and throughout the debris belt.\n * The emperor is on Mars (we know this for certain because Slaine comments about being on VERS during his unauthorized use of the audience chamber to warn the emperor).\n\nSo my first question is, **is my understanding above correct**? My remaining\nconfusion is based on that understanding.\n\nThe things that I don't understand, then, are:\n\n 1. **Why were the Orbital Knights waiting for an excuse to attack Earth?** Why assassinate Asseylum in the first place? The knights have both motivation and superior fire power, what stopped them from just... invading with no excuse? \n * The only possible theory I have is the emperor didn't endorse it. But why would these guys care? They're trapped without the Hypergate. They have no hope of returning home nor do they seem to ever attempt to find a way home or even care. The emperor can't touch them from Mars (and the threat of taking their Aldnoah drives isn't valid, we've already seen that once they are activated they don't need any more interaction from people with the Aldnoah factor unless they need to be re-activated, and we know there's at least 2 princesses and 1 terran that can do this, and the princesses can pass on the factor through kisses and blood or something, even unwillingly). It just seems reasonable to me that people in this situation, especially people desiring the Earth's resources so badly _and_ trapped on the Earth/Moon, would go for it out of desperation if nothing else. It doesn't seem feasible for an entire army + 37 orbital knights to sit by and twiddle their thumbs in this situation waiting for some excuse (which they orchestrated themselves with the assassination plot conspiracy). \n * If you have the moral deficit necessary to conspire to assassinate your own princess as an excuse to attack, it doesn't seem so far-fetched to just skip the conspiracy effort and go for the attack.\n 2. **How did the princess even get to Earth?** The OK are isolated due to lack of Hypergate. So she couldn't have been sent to Earth after the fact. She must have at least been there since 1999. She's obviously pretty young, she couldn't have been more than a newborn or toddler in '99. This means the emperor sent his newborn grand-daughter to Earth during the first war? That doesn't make any sense. What was she doing there and how did she get there?\n 3. **Why were the Orbital Knights hanging out on the moon in the first place?**\n * It seems as if it would have been a much more reasonable strategy for the knights and the Mars army to just _go down to Earth and live there_ , or at least build a base on the surface (shouldn't be a problem with their vastly superior strength). We know their primary drive is lust for the Earth's resources (secondary drive is that they're just grossed out by terrans). The more power-hungry ones could just as easily dominate _after_ going down to Earth.\n * \"Because Martians would never be accepted\" isn't a great excuse for this. Inaho or Rayet or somebody early on even remarked on the fact that nobody can tell them apart unless they reveal themselves, since they're all human. There's no test for it. There's no way to tell. There were even Martian spies on Earth, a key point in the assassination plot. The Mars army and the knights could have blended in seamlessly.\n 4. **Where are the Mars army soldiers coming from?** I assume that the only soldiers available are the ones originally sent 15 years ago, as Mars can't send more soldiers in without a Hypergate. So either they're making babies (but all would be 15 years or younger at this point) or the Mars soldiers are a finite resource and _nobody seems to be concerned about this_. They must have just sent a _lot_ of soldiers the first time through? None of the Orbital Knights seem to be concerned at all about the survival of their bloodlines, so either the situation is already resolved (their families are with them and they're having kids) or they just... forgot? \n * For that matter, how are they getting ammunition, supplies, and the materials needed to construct a moon base? Well, that's not a real question, I'm willing to let that one slide...\n\nAnyways, it's very likely that I missed something in one of the episodes, and\nthat's actually primarily what I'm looking for here. I am enjoying this series\nbut in order to do so I have to set aside my questions about the fundamental\npremise, because otherwise nothing that's happening here seems to have any\njustification.\n\nSo the main thing I'm looking for is clarity on how the knights go to where\nthey are and why they behaved the way they did in that 15 year gap, as well as\nwhat the princess is doing there. That is, some clarity on what remains of the\nlink between Mars and the trapped Orbital Knights and army.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**First of all, to clear up some misunderstandings**\n\n 1. The martians were able to travel from mars to earth. It just takes a long time. That is how the Princess Asseyleum and Count Klancain were able to come to earth. (Thanks to Euphoric for the source)\n\n 2. The end of the war was due to the destruction of the hypergate. The war was intended to be waged with constant support from mars. The destruction of the hypergate means the termination of the supply line. The lack of supplies probably lead to the end of the war.\n\nViscountess Orlane and Count Saazbaum was sent as the advance scout to test\nthe Terran's resistance to an invasion. At Tanegashima, during the advance\nscout, the hypergate was destroyed leading to the death of Orlane when the\nmoon's fragments fall onto earth.\n\n* * *\n\n**Why were the Orbital Knights waiting for an excuse to attack Earth?**\n\nFirst of all, not all of the orbital knights want to attack earth just to\nkill. Count Mazuurek for example is merely curious about earth as his name\nresembles some folk song. He attacks earth because everyone else is attacking\nand even when he did, he didnt use destructive means.\n\nCount Cruhteo is another example. He only attacked because Asseyleum was\nkilled by terrans, being loyal to the royal family.\n\nSecond of all, in episode 10 of the first season, Saazbaum explained to Slane\nthat martians were running out of resources as the population grew. Its second\nleader Emperor Gillzeria created a industrial revolution and ignored the\nsuffering of the people. He then directed the people's rage at the Terrans\nwith their bountiful resources. This is the reason why the Orbital Knights\nwere there in the first place.\n\nFrom these evidence, we can come to the following conjecture: There are two\nimportant factions within the Orbital Knights (This speaks only of the knights\nand not their followers):\n\n * Those who had losses and wanted revenge (Count Saazbaum)\n * Those who were loyal to the royal family (Count Cruhteo)\n\nHere are a list of some summarized motivations that the Orbital Knights would\nwant to invade earth\n\n * Curiosity (Mazuurek)\n * Revenge for losses in the war (Saazbaum)\n * Superiority of martians (Cruhteo N1 , Keteratesse N2 and Femieanne and many others) \n\n**Conclusion:**\n\nThe story did not mention any other Orbital Knights on the side of Saazbaum.\nThus, the majority of the knights are either loyal to the royal family or just\nfollowing the actions of others. They did not attack earth until the death of\nAsseyleum because the royal family did not endorse it. Saazbaum plotted\nAsseyleum's death to create a reason for loyalist to attack \"Revenge for the\nroyal family\". The rest of the Orbital Knights just followed suit.\n\nThe reason for not attacking on your own would be obvious. If Asseyleum wasnt\nkilled, she would be the rallying the Orbital Knights to stop the one loner\nthat attacked on his own. It could turn out to be a civil war.\n\n**Notes:**\n\nN1 - Cruhteo and many others didnt attack because he was loyal to the royal\nfamily and the royal family didnt endorse it.\n\nN2 - Keteratesse was seen in S01E02 saying \"Swear Allegiance of be\nannihilated\" which is indication of his superiority.\n\n* * *\n\n**How did the princess even get to Earth?**\n\nTravel was possible between mars and earth and thus the princess was able to\ncome to earth.\n\n* * *\n\n**Why were the Orbital Knights hanging out on the moon in the first place?**\n\nThe orbital knights didnt build a base on earth because they were loyal to the\nroyal family and the royal family didnt want to invade earth. This is probably\nalso because of some treaty between the Martians and the Terrans (You would\nsign one of these after a war wont you?) If any of the power hungry ones were\nto do it out of line, the other loyal Orbital Knights would be there to stop\nhim.\n\nAs for why they didnt blend in, they did infact blend in. The key to\nAsseylum's assassination was the presence of martians on earth. The fact that\nRayet lived her life on earth indicates that they were there for quite some\ntime living the life of Terrans, blending in, given the promise that they will\nbe accepted back as Martians once they killed Asseyleum.\n\n* * *\n\n**Where are the Mars army soldiers coming from? (Also resources)**\n\nMost of the battles were fought by Kataphrakts piloted by Knights and Counts.\nThe presence of advanced technologies mean that not many lives were lost in\nbattles. Not many scenes of the anime show actual martian infantry marching\ndown the streets of earth.\n\nAs for the resources they use to build the moon base and wage the second war,\nit probably came from the moon. The moon's surface composition by weight is 20\npercent silicon, 19 percent magnesium, 10 percent iron, 3 percent aluminum and\nthe rest is other resources. Considering that they had landing _castles_ which\nshould have basic technology to construct and repair itself, they could have\nused that technology to construct a moon base using the raw materials on the\nmoon.\n\n* * *\n\n**Addressing the question of how the knights got to the where they are...**\n\nThe war started because the second leader Emperor Gillzeria brainwashed the\nmartian population that Earth was their enemy. The first war plotted under\nGillzeria's rule and after the destruction of the hypergate, they stayed\naround instead of going back to the barren wastelands of mars.\n\nThe princess's presence on earth was as a symbol of peace, a first step in the\nnegotiation for trade and cooperation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn almost every anime I've watched, they stop producing the anime even though\nthere is more story in the manga, and then to get the rest of the story you\nhave to read the manga.\n\nFor example, I've watched _Maid-Sama_ , _Fruits Basket_ , _Ouran High School\nHost Club_ , _Magi_ and none of them finish off what they started. The only\nshow I've seen that has tried to animate the whole manga so far is _Fairy\nTail_.\n\nWhy don't producers just animate the entire manga, or why do they start\nanimating the manga and never finish? Why don't they finish the anime based on\nthe manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs some of the comments have pointed out, anime is expensive to make and is\noften just advertising for the manga and merchandise. Another important aspect\nis that at the start of a season, the producers have to decide how much of the\nmaterial they're going to adapt. They may be limited by whether the manga has\nalready finished or not, or whether it has a good existing stopping point that\nthey can use for a season finale.\n\nGiven a standard 13-episode season, it makes sense to try to pace the story\nout so that it covers a decent amount of ground before hitting some kind of\nclimax in the finale (compare that to the evergreen series that can have 30\nconsecutive filler episodes before randomly having a massive battle scene and\nthen continuing the story like nothing happened). So if there is enough source\nmaterial, the producers may have a bit of a choice at the start - they can\neither try to cover the length of the material by skipping to the good bits,\nmaking for a solid show with a convincing ending but where things aren't too\nfleshed out. Or, they can take the first 1/2 or 1/3 of the manga, follow the\nstory more closely, work in some of the more interesting small details, but\nfinish on a weaker note.\n\nSo, I guess your question is, why go with the second option most of the time?\nAnd the answer is that by doing so, they keep the possibility of a second\nseason open. The hope is _always_ that they will get to keep going and finish\nthe story. After all, twice the seasons means twice the profits, twice the\naudience who can then go and buy merch, and twice the amount of material that\ncan be turned into merch (well it doesn't mean any of that but it sounds nice\nin theory). Except, as it so happens, for whatever reason these shows don't\nrate so well and hence they get dropped and the producers move on to the next\nshiny new thing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChihayafuru is an anime about card game called Karuta where players compete to\ntouch the right card based on the poem being read. Chihayafuru wikia [lists\nall 100 of the poem](http://chihayafuru.wikia.com/wiki/Ogura_Hyakunin_Isshu).\nHowever, I can't find the dimension of the card they use in the game. What is\nthe dimension of the card used by Chihaya in the matches? Like how many cm x\nhow many cm? If possible, the thickness of the card too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto, the Uchiha clan was wiped out by Itachi, which makes sense why you\ndon't see many Uchihas in the show. However, why do I hardly see anyone anyone\nin the show with the last name of Senju? The last time I recalled, they\nweren't wiped out by anything. What's up with that?\n\nNote: I know that the Narutopedia page for the [Senju\nClan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Senju_Clan) gives a short explanation, but\nI would like further elaboration.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 117 - Thunder Roar at about 7:50 into the episode Zeref regains\nconsciousness and attacks with a technique resulting in the following picture.\n\nDoes anyone know the name of that move? Or what type of magic it is and how it\nworks? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PlmFv.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**MANGA SPOILERS BELOW**\n\n> Orphaned after Dragons killed his parents and his little brother, Natsu, an\n> extremely young Zeref became a student at the Mildian Magic Academy, where\n> he researched the connections between life, death and Magic to revive his\n> brother. After creating things such as the R-System and the Eclipse Gate, he\n> was expelled from the academy for breaching the sacred teachings of\n> Ankhseram, however he was cursed by Ankhseram and then killed everyone\n> around him with his newfound, unwanted Curse of Contradiction. \n> \n> **Thus simply speaking Zeref wants to die, but can't and the Ankhseram's\n> Curse of Contradiction kills everyone around him instead**\n\nSource: Manga. Wiki page: [Only Open for spoilers on Zeref, Mavis,\nDragonSlayers and the\nHeartfilias](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Zeref_Dragneel)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm wondering if Ban stole the Meliodas's power forever when they fight on the\narena for Diane's weapon or just during the battle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBan's ability \"Snatch\" is to steal objects without contact, he uses it to\nsteal strength from his opponent as well. However, the strength he steals is\ntemporary. Basically he can only use the strength until his body reaches the\nlimit and stops to prevent further damage to himself. Therefore, the answer to\nyour question is no, he did not take Meliodas's power forever, it was only\nduring the battle. When the battle ends, Meliodas will have all of his power\nback. here is the [link](http://nanatsu-no-taizai.wikia.com/wiki/Snatch) of\nreference to wikia for details. ([Snatch](http://nanatsu-no-\ntaizai.wikia.com/wiki/Snatch))\n\nHope this helps\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm sure that he didn't die in the anime, but at the end of the manga, it is\nimplied that Yuuko took him with her to the other realm. (Meaning that he\ndied?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n....just read the epilogue, in case you don't want to...\n\nIt's just basically what happened in the anime, Yuuko is back with him and she\nis now able to go everywhere, France, Italy, the MC house, the MC bathroom,\netc...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Sword Art Offline 2 7 when Yuuki learned that Asuna was married in-game and\nshe and Kirito had Yui as their daughter, she started saying how she would\nwant to marry Asuna and make her happy and have many babies with her (not\nknowing how babies are made). This also seems to spark a rivalry between her\nand Kirito in Sword Art Offline 2 7.\n\nI remember reading that Yuuki in real life is also female and there is some\nfanart of an Asuna x Yuuki pairing\n[here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SavwD.jpg),\n[here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBzvc.jpg) and\n[here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/geErE.jpg).\n\nNow I know that like any other pairing, fanbase shoujo ai/yuri fans would jump\nat Yuuki's comments in Sword Art Offline. However i am wondering if there is\nany evidence that indicates that Yuuki is bi/homosexual and that her comments\nin Sword Art Offline are sincere, that she would want to marry Asuna and (with\nher limited understanding of hwo) have babies with her.\n\nEDIT: by bi/homosexual I am referring to if Yuuki would have deeper feeling\nfor the same sex.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs someone who's only ever watched the anime series, and someone who's\nactually consulted some outside help to better explain this, I can reasonably\nanswer:\n\n# No.\n\nIt isn't uncommon for two girls or two women to hold some kind of affection or\nlevel of respect for one another in some capacity. From my sources, to suggest\nthat they would consider \"making babies\" with each other implies an opinion\nthat this woman is indeed attractive.\n\nHowever - and this is a point my source _**thoroughly**_ stressed - this does\nnot, in _any_ way, imply any form of sexual orientation.\n\nFurther to this, given the interactions that Yuuki had with Asuna throughout\nMother's Rosario, my impression is that Yuuki held admiration, respect, and\nlove - the kind of love that you'd get from a close family member. The rivalry\nbetween her and Kirito can be seen as more friendly than her trying to one-up\nKirito in an effort to win Asuna over.\n\nI also sense a level of admiration and respect from Yuuki of Asuna, given that\n\n> Yuuki is terminally ill and can't really explore the world, which prompted\n> Kazuto to develop technical equipment to allow her to see the world in which\n> she previously existed in, with Asuna's help. This helped her gain more\n> closure with her situation and, in my assessment, feels more like something\n> an older sister would take on.\n\nWith that, I can safely and reasonably conclude that there's no implication\nwhatsoever of Yuuki's sexual orientation. Respect or admiration of someone who\nseems awesome from their perspective seems more plausible.\n\nOh, and don't read too deeply into what fanart depicts. Give 'em an inch and\nthey'll run to Jupiter with one or two fleeting glances.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Sword Art Offline 2 episode 7, Asuna comments that Yuuki not only is a rare\ntomboy female player but also talks like a boy.\n\nNow, I watched the English dub and didn't pick that up so I guess it is\nsomething you'd only hear when you watch the sub with Japanese audio, but even\nin Sword Art Offline which was never dubbed (only subbed with Japanese audio),\nI didn't get an impression that Yuuki was talking like a boy.\n\nSo how is it that Yuuki talks like a boy?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japanese, there are multiple words for \"I\", the most common being _watashi_\n, _atashi_ , _boku_ , and _ore_ (I'll transliterate to romaji thoughout). Most\nof these pronouns are definitively gendered, and it would be quite the social\n_faux pas_ to use an improperly gendered pronoun.\n[This](http://www.yutaaoki.com/blog/how-to-say-i-in-japanese) video does an\nexcellent job explaining the subject.\n\nFrom S02E19\n[_Zekken_](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_II_Episode_19)\n\n> _Yuuki_ : Boku wa kore dake, dakedo ne.\n>\n> _Translation_ : I'll just use this, though.\n\nIn SAO, Yuuki uses _boku_.\n\n_Boku_ is generally a male pronoun. However, in anime (not so often in real\nlife) excessively tomboy type girls will use _boku_ in an attempt to sound\nmasculine. This is something that is generally impossible to accurately\ntranslate into English in an acceptable way, so most official translations\nsimply ignore the distinction, but most fansub groups will add a translator's\nnote demarking this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 616, you can see Law cutting the entire island and Vergo with his\nHaki on full power in half, using only 'room' which is his Devil Fruit power,\nand it doesn't seem like Law was using Haki because his sword didn't turn\nblack. But Zoro had to use Santoryu Ogi Three Thousand Worlds to cut Pica in\nhalf with Haki on all of his swords. Does that mean that Law is stronger than\nZoro skill-wise?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, this is rather an odd question as your are comparing apples with\noranges. Let's recapitulate.\n\nLaw is using his Devil fruit power to cut through anything which reside inside\nhis room. On the other hand, Zorro uses only his skill.\n\n> In episode 616, you can see Law cutting the entire island and vergo with his\n> haki on full power in half only using 'room' which is his devil fruit power\n> and it doesn't seem like Law was using Haki because his sword didn't turn\n> black.\n\nIf you are asking whether Zorro could cut the entire Island like Law did, with\nhis current set of skills, the answer is probably **NO**. As the OP already\npointed out, Zorro had to gather a great amount of concentration in order to\ncut Pica in half, a feat which would be a piece of cake for someone able to\ncut an entire island in half.\n\nNow for the speculation and deduction from what we've seen in the manga/anime.\nAs it has been pointed out in the comments, Zorro is solely relying on his\nskills while Law on his devil fruit power. Zorro's goal is to become the\ngreatest swordman in the world. He has dedicated his life to the sword in\norder to refine his skills indefinitely.He also has previously refused any\ntools or cheats in order to upgrade his sword technique, as seen in Chapter\n301:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/THVh9.jpg)\n\nHowever, Law never shown such ambition or dedication to the sword. Therefore,\nit is safe to assume that **in terms of skills alone, Zorro is far better than\nLaw.**\n\n**EDIT:**\n\nIn the fight between Law and Vergo, Law seems to cut through Vergo's Haki with\nhis DF powers alone, as his sword is not black as we have seen when Zorro uses\nit for example. Intuitively, one would think that a DF power is useless\nagainst Haki, which does not seem to be the case. Maybe Law's DF powers\noverpowers Vergo Haki?\n\nThis reminds me of when Luffy was using Buggy to protect himself from Mihawk's\nsword during the Whitebeard vs Marine war. Mihawk, being the best swordsman in\nthe world, is an expert in Haki. Yet, he does not yield any damage to Buggy.\nIs this because he was not using it (Haki was not _painted_ back then) or\nbecause Buggy's actual power is that he cannot be cut?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on sword techniques, he is not.\n\nWhen he cut the mountain he used only his devil fruit power. Also while using\n`armament haki` weapons or hands don't always turn black.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Pokémon anime and manga, the Poké Ball seal and ball capsule allows the\nPokémon to get a fancy entrance, it is mainly used in contests but can be\nbought and used for fun. Is there any explanation of how these work?\n\nHere is a complete Poké Ball with capsule and seal:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndNiQ.png)\n\nHere you see Dawn choosing the seal she wants:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1mY33.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no canon information on how they work so far, but I've always thought\nthat it was something to do with light manipulation. If a pokemon is released\nfrom a pokeball then there is a bright glow that is also emitted at the same\ntime. The ball capsule alone has been seen used without a seal and the release\nis normal. I believe that is because the light was able to pass through the\nball capsule without being impeded by a seal.\n\nHowever when a seal is used the light has to travel through the seal on the\nway out and therefore takes on the appearance designated by the seal, similar\nto how holograms are theorized to work. This effect fades when the pokemon\nappears because that when the light usually fades. As I said though this is\nall theory and personal opinion. Hope this helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto anime episode 468, Asura is shown to be using a Rasengan based jutsu\nagainst Indra. If I'm not wrong, the Fourth Hokage Minato invented Rasengan\nseveral years later. Am I missing something here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt may not have been rasengan, but just gathering chakra and rotating it for\nmore power. My defense of this would be Indra's using a similar jutsu to\nchidori in this filler arc. Both jutsus are similar to the modern day jutsus\nwe know, but not quite the same\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne hypothesis that can be presented is that a large no. of jutsus had been\ncreated in the past but their knowledge and techniques might have got lost\nwith time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it was just to show how Indra and Ashura are similar to Sasuke and\nNaruto. Like how Indra's sharingan is the same as Sasuke's. And that Ashura\ninherited the Truth Seeker Orbs like how we see Naruto with them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think there are different variations and people just didn't know about the\noriginal origins of the Chakra so alot of information must be stored somewhere\nunknown or lost in time explaining alot of the past wish it was kept to humans\nand the ninja world instead of aliens etc though\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes Law have a particular goal with going after the one-piece? I'm not sure\nif he or the other major players in the running for the one-piece have had\ntheir motivations put front-and-center yet.\n\nBut so far everyone that is member of the straw-hats has had their goal\nexplained. But aside from wanting to crush Doflamingo does Law have an actual\ngoal?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo one is after the One-Piece in the straw hat crew, not even Luffy.\n\nAs it was explained many times, each member has a different motivation to go\ntrough the Grand Line:\n\n * Luffy wants to conquer the Grand Line to be the pirate king, because the pirate king has the most freedom in the world\n * Nami wants to draw the map of the entire world\n * Sanji wants to get to All blue (wich supposedly is close to One-Piece)\n * Zoro wants to be the biggest swordsman in the world (aka.: He need to defeat Hawk)\n * Chopper wants to find the cure every disease\n * Robin wants to learn the void century's history\n * Franky wants to be on the Sunny Go when Luffy becomes the pirate king, so he can complete his dream\n * Brook wants to meet Laboon when they finally get back to the beginning of the grand line\n\nThis is why they seem to be better than most of the pirates as they don't want\nto get to the end of the Grand Line to get rich.\n\nLaw only wants to find the One-Piece to become the Pirate King and because\nthat's mostly treasure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Naruto franchise has been going on for long enough now that it should be\npossible to get some actual numerical values on chakra reserves and how much\nchakra is regenerated over time. Before I start trying to work this out using\nvarious incidents from the anime, I'd like to know if there are any pre-\nexisting \"studies\" or creator statements regarding this subject?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched both series of _Magi_ ( _The Labyrinth of Magic_ & _The Kingdom of\nMagic_ ) and am eager to see how the series carries out. I found the manga and\nwant to start reading it from where the anime left off, but I know that\nsometimes the anime leaves things out.\n\nIf I start reading the manga from where the anime left off, will I miss\nanything?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I've seen the anime and manga follow almost identical story for\nMagi. In the end of season 1 they made a few changes in Ali Baba's\npersonality. Some people argue it was a screw up. However, this reddit user\nsums it up perfectly ( **Spoilers** )\n\n> At the end of the first season of the anime, Alibaba falls into depravity.\n> This event doesn't actually happen in the manga. Aside from that there are\n> no significant differences between the two mediums. People argue that one is\n> better than the other, however they both tell a nearly identical story.\n> Somehow some people think that it messed up Alibaba's character, however it\n> still goes along with his personality. The idea that the anime used to\n> portray his fall was that he couldn't handle that the world was so cruel to\n> let so many others fall to darkness. This goes along with his general\n> portrayal as seen throughout the series where Alibaba does cares deeply\n> about other people. This can be seen as early as the first arc wherein\n> Alibaba decides to save the child who falls into the desert hyacinth despite\n> his previous arrangement with Budel. There are numerous other examples of\n> how Alibaba cares for others, even if they aren't directly affiliated with\n> them throughout the series. **The anime only addition simply helped give a\n> seemingly large climax for the series that would have otherwise been\n> underwhelming considering it was the final arc of an anime that may or may\n> not have gotten a sequel.**\n\nSource: Reddit : [Magi : Anime and Manga\ndifferences](https://www.reddit.com/r/magi/comments/1y14hq/do_the_anime_and_manga_follow_the_same_story/) \nRelated: [Differences between anime and manga versions of Magi: The Labyrinth\nof Magic](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4957/differences-between-\nanime-and-manga-versions-of-magi-the-labyrinth-of-magic)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis season there are 2 simultaneous Danganronpa shows, both of which are\nprefaced with \"Danganronpa 3\". The first series in the franchise is\n\"Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei\".\n\nI'm not clear on if there is a second series anywhere, or if the number 3 was\njust added to the names of both the new series.\n\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danganronpa) says\n\n> A second anime series, titled Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High\n> School, began airing in July 2016. The series is split into two\n> simultaneously airing parts; Side: Future, which serves as a conclusion to\n> the \"Hope's Peak Academy\" storyline, and Side: Despair, which serves as a\n> prequel to Danganronpa 2\n\nwhich is clear as mud. I am unable to find information on \"Danganronpa 2\",\nthough I would expect one to be a prequel to the first series, and the other\nto maybe be a side story or a post story.\n\n * What order should I watch Danganronpa in?\n * For the current series, does it matter which episode I watch first from each of the simultaneous ones (the \"Future Arc\" started airing before the \"Despair Arc\")?\n * Does the Wiki page confuse \"Danganronpa 2\" with [the manga/LN material](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/31650/order-of-reading-danganronpa-manga-and-ligh-novel)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think what is being missed here is the second game in the series,\n[Danganronpa 2: Goodbye\nDespair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danganronpa_2:_Goodbye_Despair).\n\nFrom the Wikipedia article:\n\n> It is the second installment in the Danganronpa series, and a direct sequel\n> to the 2010 game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.\n\nIt's the sequel to Danganronpa 1, adding to the DGR universe beyond the events\nof Trigger Happy Havoc, complete with a whole new set of characters, scenery,\nand more.\n\n[Danganronpa: The\nAnimation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Danganronpa:_The_Animation_episodes)\nis an anime adaptation of DGR1, AKA Trigger Happy Havoc, AKA THH. THH is the\nbasis of the entire DGR story/franchise; it is the first game, but not the\nfirst event of DGR chronologically. Essentially all other canon media in the\nDGR universe builds upon the events of THH, so you'll want to start here.\nEither the show or the game will suffice, though I recommend the game.\n\nDGR2's story is critical to both sides of the DGR3 animes. As per the wiki\narticle,\n[Despair](http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/Danganronpa_3:_The_End_of_Hope%27s_Peak_High_School/Despair_Arc)\n\n> tells the backstory of Hope's Peak Academy's 77th Class\n\nwhich is the same class featured in DGR2. Even though 3/Despair happens\nchronologically _before_ DGR2, I recommend playing DGR2 before watching\n3/Despair. DGR2 tells the story of the 77th class, which is then given more\ncontext/backstory in 3/Despair. DGR2 does not have an anime adaptation, but it\napparently has [a\nmanga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danganronpa_2:_Goodbye_Despair#Other_media_and_appearances).\n\nThe Future and Despair arcs aired simultaneously in an alternating fashion,\nstarting with Future. Chronologically, Despair happens entirely before Future,\nbut the intended watching order is actually the order in which the episodes\nare released; so, also in an alternating fashion starting with Future (source:\n[wiki](http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/Danganronpa_3:_The_End_of_Hope%27s_Peak_Academy).)\nIn other words, Future ep. 1, then Despair ep. 1, then Future ep. 2, then\nDespair ep. 2, so on and so forth.\n\n* * *\n\nSo, to hopefully answer your questions:\n\n * **All Series Watch Order:**\n\n 1. DGR1/THH/Danganronpa: The Animation\n 2. DGR2: Goodbye Despair (game or manga)\n 3. [DGR Ultra Despair Girls (game)](http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/Danganronpa_Another_Episode:_Ultra_Despair_Girls)\n\n> A few characters from UDG appear in Future, so it may benefit you to play\n> this first, but it's not a dealbreaker like not playing DGR2 is.\n\n 4. Alternate watching DGR3/Future and DGR3/Despair episodes, i.e. F1 -> D1 -> F2 -> D2... etc.\n 5. DGR3/Hope\n 6. [Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danganronpa_V3:_Killing_Harmony)\n\n> IMO, V3's only _strict_ prerequisite is DGR1 to get the full picture, but I\n> recommend experiencing the whole series to be safe, if you can.\n\nThe DGR subreddit also has [a good FAQ/writeup on this\ntopic](https://www.reddit.com/r/danganronpa/wiki/series), including\nSupplementary Material.\n\n * **DGR3 (Anime) Series Watch Order:**\n\nAlternate watching Future and Despair episodes, starting with Future.\n\n * **A Note Regarding DGRv3:**\n\nThe branding can be slightly confusing between Danganronpa 3 and Danganronpa\nV3. _Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony_ is the third installment of the game\nseries (and features a brand new cast separate from DGR1/2), and _Danganronpa\n3_ , as discussed above, is the anime split into two parts (Despair/Hope) and\nthe last episode, Hope.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure it's like this: Danganronpa 3: Despair Arc first. Then the\nremnants of despair (students in Danganronpa 3) ruin world while Danganronpa:\nThe Animation/Trigger Happy Havoc is going on. Niegi and others escape and\nsuccessfully capture the remnants. While they are, the events in New Despair\nGirsls are taking place. As Danganronpa 3: Future Arc starts, the remnants are\ncurrently in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. When Danganronpa 3 ends, Niegi,\nKirigiri, and Byakuya head into Danganronpa 2 to help the former remnants.\nThis isn't the order to watch or anything, but it is the chronology.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo be honest, the correct order of watching it is: (From top to bottom)\n\n * Future Arc\n * Despair Arc\n * Hope \n\nBy watching alternately, it makes more sense but the proper way to watch is:\n(From top to bottom)\n\n * Future \n * Despair\n * Hope\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, so this actually gets a little complicated.\n\nInstead of watching the anime for the first game, I would watch a let's play\nor pick it up on Steam when it's on sale (it's worth it, trust me). As far as\nan actual order to get the most out of the story the order I would go is:\n\n * **Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc**\n * **Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair**\n * **Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls** (this has spoilers for SDR2)\n\nAll of this is pretty standard so far. But here is where things get\ncomplicated. After 2 comes **Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy**\nwhich is set during 2 different timelines that are two different complementary\nseries. The idea is that you alternate between the two of them starting with\n_Side Future_ , then _Side Despair_ so your order would be F1, D1, F2, D2,\netc...\n\nAfter that you'll be all caught up for the release of **Danganronpa V3:\nKilling Harmony** this summer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime are actually pretty much a secondary product to the DR games.\n\n> In order to watch the Danganronpa series, you should play the games before\n> watching the Danganronpa 1 and Danganronpa 2 anime. The games are called:\n>\n> * Danganronpa 1\n>\n\n>\n> and\n>\n> * Danganronpa 2\n>\n\n>\n> After that watch Danganronpa 3 anime and then play the Danganronpa 3 game.\n\nNo matter how you look at it, the story doesn't really make sense unless you\nplay the games, as the anime was made for the people who have already played\nthe games. **(At least the Danganronpa 3 anime was, the Danganronpa 1 anime is\njust an adaptation of the first game.)**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n 1. Danganronpa 1/trigger happy havoc (danganronpa: the animation?)\n 2. danganronpa 2: goodbye despair\n 3. Danganronpa: ultra despair girls\n 4. danganronpa 3: future , despair , hope. (< in order)\n 5. danganronpa: the end of hope’s peak academy(?)\n 6. Danganronpa V3: killing harmony\n 7. danganronpa anime(?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I just read [The Promised\nNeverland](http://myanimelist.net/manga/100128/Yakusoku_no_Neverland) and the\ngoriness is kinda jarring for me (and it's in Weekly Shonen Jump). It's a not\nalone there, actually. HxH has its own share of goriness. Shingeki no Kyojin\nis also formally a shonen title even though I personally treat it as a seinen.\nAnd there are other similar titles too many to mention here.\n\nSo what's the matter with the Japanese audience? Do they tolerate such level\nof violence (even though it's only fictional) especially for the kids? Isn't\nit kinda messed up to prematurely expose them to such vulgar things?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't seen firsthand proof that shounen manga are getting more violent,\nbut let's say it's true. It does happen; popular media seem to follow weird\ncycles where the average level of violence rises steadily for a while, until\nyou get to peak violence, and then there's a violence recession and things\ncalm down for a while. In American film, the major peak was in the 1960s-1980s\nwith movies like [_Night of the Living\nDead_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Controversy) and\n[_Cannibal\nHolocaust_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust#Controversy). In\nanime, peak violence was achieved in the 1970s and 1980s with titles like [_MD\nGeist_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Geist), [_Violence\nJack_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Jack), [_Wicked\nCity_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_City_\\(1987_film\\)), and\n[_Urotsukidouji_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urotsukid%C5%8Dji). It's\nentirely possible that anime is headed for another violence apex. It does seem\nlike Western media might be heading that way too; the most popular Western\nworks are violent stories like _Game of Thrones_ and _Breaking Bad_.\n\nThese violence apexes have complex cultural and production causes at their\nroots. For instance, OVAs were an extremely common format for anime in the\n1980s. Since OVAs are direct to video, they catch a lot less heat from censors\nthan stuff that broadcasts on TV where anyone can see it, and it's probably no\ncoincidence that many of the extremely violent anime of the 1980s were OVAs.\nIn the West, cable TV and streaming have made it easier to get violent shows\nout there.\n\nYou could write whole books about the cultural side of this (and I'm sure\nsomeone has), but I lack the expertise to go into it too deeply. But there are\na few social trends that seem to correlate with increasing violence in popular\nmedia:\n\n * Widespread societal cynicism. This was true of America after 9/11; _Saw_ came out in 2003, and _Hostel_ came out in 2005. This was also true of America in the later years of the Cold War; _Cannibal Holocaust_ came out in 1980.\n * Widespread influence of militaristic groups. This was also true of America after 9/11, and in the 1970s and 1980s. In modern Japan, there [has been a rising trend towards militarism](http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/23/the-rise-of-japanese-militarism/); you can see the effect of this in anime like _GATE_ , which glorifies the JSDF. The JSDF even [tried to use moe as a recruiting tool](https://news.vice.com/article/the-japanese-military-is-getting-offensively-cute) in the same way that [the US military uses first-person shooters](http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-02-02-the-military-recruitment-of-gamers).\n * Fear of military, cultural, or economic invasion by enemies. True of America in the late Cold War and after 9/11, and also true of modern Japan, which [fears the rise of China](http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/japan-fears-chinas-growing-power-here-what-do-about-it-12735) as an economic and military power.\n\nSo it does seem plausible to me that newer shounen manga is more violent than\nolder material. But let's keep in mind that older shounen manga isn't\nnecessarily as clean and wholesome as we remember. I haven't read _The\nPromised Wonderland_ or _Hunter x Hunter_ , but even the older stuff that I\nhave read got pretty violent at times. _Yu Yu Hakusho_ in particular had some\npretty graphic sequences (and it's probably no coincidence that _Hunter x\nHunter_ is also violent, since they share an author). _Rurouni Kenshin_\nstarted out bloodless but got pretty graphic towards the middle of the Kyouto\narc. _Naruto_ and _One Piece_ both have their moments. Even _Dragon Ball Z_\nfeatured Frieza getting cut straight in half during his final battle with\nGoku. I recall some fairly bloody scenes from what little I read of _Saint\nSeiya_. Even _Yugioh_ , which definitely aims for the younger side of the 8-18\nage group, had some scenes that were at least brutal if not actually gory. For\nthat matter, shoujo has also historically been pretty violent— _X_ and _Ayashi\nno Ceres_ are hardly sugar, spice, and everything nice.\n\nAs to the last point, the audience for shounen manga is not uniformly young\nchildren. The most common audience is [boys from eight to eighteen years\nold](https://www.jappleng.com/culture/articles/anime-manga/155/shounen-genre),\nthough shounen manga is also often enjoyed by men, and women and girls as\nwell. But even if we restrict ourselves to ages 8 to 18, it's not that\nshocking for boys ages 15 to 18 to be watching or reading extremely violent\nmaterial. In the US, movies rated R are recommended for people 17 and older,\nbut growing up, I didn't know a single person who waited until 17 to see an\nR-rated movie. I saw violent R-rated movies like _Blade Runner_ and _Aliens_\nwhen I was 9 and 10. I've known kids who saw gore porn garbage like\n[_Saw_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_\\(franchise\\)) and\n[_Hostel_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel_\\(2005_film\\)) when they were\n7 and 8 years old. I found that excessively young for such violent material,\nbut I don't find anything particularly shocking about a fourteen-year-old\npotentially reading or watching _Attack on Titan_ , at least as far as the\nviolence is concerned. Also, keep in mind that _Attack on Titan_ is a bit of\nan anomaly: Isayama pitched it to _Shounen Jump_ , who passed on it because\nthey felt it was too mature. It was snapped up by _Shounen Magazine_.\nAnecdotally, I've always found that _Shounen Magazine_ manga of all genres\nhave more sophisticated writing than _Shounen Jump_ manga, so they probably\nlean to an older audience anyway.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 15, Puck referred to Emilia as his Daughter.\n\nWhy is this? A few thoughts I have come up with to explain the reasoning come\ndown to:\n\n * They have a relationship like Father/Daughter. (In my opinion they do not have this, they seem more like best friends than this.)\n * Puck IS her father. (Again, this seems convoluted to me, as it is stated that Puck is a Spirit.\n * the 'Daughter' terminology is code for something else, Emilia likely having something like this for Puck too.\n\nIt is also said by Puck in episode 18 something along the lines of \"In\naccordance with my contract, I shall now destroy the world\".\n\nWhen asked why, the answer given was \"Emilia is my entire reason for existing.\nThere is no reason for me to exist in a world without her.\"\n\nThis shows some kind of deeper bond between them, deeper than I can think.\n\nWhat exactly _is_ their relationship?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second movie, the story of Emilia's childhood is shown. After they\ndefeated Melakuera, she told Puck \"You're my father now\", and Puck laughed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Dragon Ball super episode 53, Goku, Beerus and Whis visit\nUniverse 10, where goku has a fight with Kaioshin Zamasu. After their fight\nzamasu hatred towards humans increase much more and also he comes to know\nabout Time rings, which he had no idea. His hatred towards humans, especially\nGoku caused for the creation of Goku Black\n\nSo therefore trunks coming to past, made goku meet zamasu indirectly\ntrigerring the creation of Goku Black. Therefore creating a time loop\n\nIs my suspicion correct?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is true. Though IMHO, this was not necessary for Zamasu to hate Goku and\nthe other humans.\n\nIn dragon ball super episode 57, Zamasu sees Goku fight in the universe 6\ntournament and realizes that Goku, though a mortal, can reach the level of\nGods. This enrages him and is the immediate trigger for him to find Zuno to\nget knowledge about Goku and the Super dragon balls. This subsequently led to\nthe creation of Goku Black.\n\nSo Trunks coming to past and Goku meeting Zamasu was just a effect of the time\ntravel but did not lead to the cause. Thus there is no time loop. This is more\nevident in the manga, where Goku does not meet Zamasu in the present. Instead\nZamasu just hears about Goku defeating Majin Buu from Shin.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlright, so in AKIRA the big psychic explosion causes WW3. My question is: why\ndid WW3 ensue afterwards? Did the Japanese government cover it up as a nuclear\nexplosion? It seems counterintuitive to start WW3, even if it is to cover up\nyour psychic program.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there any official source stating how many episodes Dragon Ball Super will\nhave? With all the open stories it has (Bills, Champa, the multi universe\ntournament, Zeno-sama, Zamasu, Black Goku, etc) I can't image them all fitting\nin the once rumored 100 episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUntil now, it is officially confirmed to have **_at least_** [72\nepisodes](http://www.kanzenshuu.com/2016/05/23/dragon-ball-super-dvd-blu-ray-\nboxes-4-6-announced/) of DBS.\n[Rumors](http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/rumor-dragon-ball-super-go-\nlong-100-episodes/) have shown that it will be 100 episodes, or even more if\nit's getting more popularity, but all of that is **_not true_**. Rumors are\nrumors, it is not yet confirmed, all we can do is to wait for upcoming news.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe start of _Active Raid 2nd_ (\"episode 13\", so to speak) clearly takes place\nsome time after the end of _Active Raid_ (\"episode 12\") - Sena has joined a\ngarbage company (and reports being out of practice); Asami has been\ntransferred to Unit 9; Inagi Koutarou is now the governor of Tokyo; and so\nforth.\n\nThis puts a lower bound of probably around a few months on the timeskip. Do we\nhave any better idea as to how long passed between the two cours? (This seems\nlike the sort of thing that'd be mentioned in promotional materials or\nsomething.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to know when episode 66 and onward of Fairy Tail 2014 gets\nEnglish dubbed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fairy_Tail_episodes#English)\nFunimation will release Fairy Tail **_episode 241_** 1 on September 6, 2016 as\napart of Part 21 of the Home Media Release (Episode 240 - 252)\n\nthis is also confirmed on the [Funimation\nStore](http://shop.funimation.com/Fairy-Tail-Part-Twenty-One)\n\n> Fairy Tail - Part Twenty One \n> Blu-ray & DVD \n> Rating: TV-14 \n> **ReleaseDate: 9/6/2016**\n\nNote that Funimation uses the weird US style of dates where it's MM/DD/YYYY\nand not DD/MM/YYYY so the date in the quote is indeed September 6th and not\nJune 9th.\n\n* * *\n\n1: Fairy Tail 2014 series is Season 7 and Fairy Tail Zero according to\nWikipedia and still retains the episode order. as such Fairy Tail 2014 episode\n66 = 175 (last episode of Season 6) + 66 = 241\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the \"Greed Island\" arc, we learn of a nen user who can remove other's\nnen. When he got the Bomber's nen removed, the creature he summoned to remove\nthe nen had to stick to him until he touched the Bomber and say the \"magic\nwords.\"\n\nKurapika's chain needle is more powerful than the Bomber's nen, yet when\nChrollo got exorcised and he appears to be unscathed. There should have been\nsome form of price Chrollo paid to get Kurapika's insane ability removed.\n\nDo we ever find out what happened here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChrollo successfully had his chain removed by the Greed Island Exorcist.\n\nHe doesn't need to pay a price except whatever he paid to hire the exorcist to\nhelp him. Gon only lost his Nen because he violated a Contract, and even then\nit isn't confirmed that he is completely nen free.\n\nChrollo can still wield his book, and he used so very efficiently when\nfighting with Hisoka.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am talking about watching those shows in websites that provide them for\nfree. I could of course afford to subscribe to paid websites such as\nCrunchyroll and the likes, but often I couldn't find the series I wanted to\nwatch there. The free ones usually host a load of anime and drama titles.\n\nIs watching free anime and Japanese drama **in Japan** considered safe?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnless the site you wish to watch on is sponsored and endorsed by the\nproducers themselves, you can assume they are _not_ safe. Though if you wish\nto do a little background check on the website, for example searching \"is\n`GenericAnimeStreamingSite.com` legal\" will do the job (in most cases).\n\nNo company wants their content, which could earn them money (like anime is\nintended to do) to be pirated. If you're watching on a third-party site which\ndoesn't give money to the producers (or however they transfer funds to gain\nrights to anime), that is exactly what you're doing.\n\nIf you wish to be safe, the best thing to do is to subscribe to an official\nsite, like Crunchyroll, as you said. Of course (as\n[Memor-X](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1587/memor-x) reminded me),\nCrunchyroll as well as some others do offer free options, though those aren't\noptimal due to the ads. If you wish for the most **hassle free** and **legal**\nviewing experience, your best bet is simply to **subscribe** to a site like\nCrunchyroll. If affording it is no problem, then that's one of your options.\n\nThe other of course, would be to buy the Blu-Ray version, though that's more\nexpensive.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japan or not, sites other than official sites that provides streaming for\ncopyrighted/law protected contents are illegal and against the law. Thus, the\nanswer to your question is no, it is not safe, it is against the law, it is a\ncrime.\n\nFrom IT (information tech) point of view, many such sites are actually crap\nsites that is full of ads, click baits, and links that will only redirect you\naround without showing the content if any. Such sites might also send adwares,\nmalwares and the like to your computer. It might also be used to stole your\nidentity. Thus it is also not safe from IT point of view.\n\nIf you are in Japan, however, you can watch the anime when it was broadcasted.\nThis is perfectly legal. In fact, you can also record it if you want to watch\nlater. AFAIK from anime that I watched, this is also legal. Some anime shows\nthat recording a broadcasted show is okay. For example, in _Futsuu no\nJoshikousei ga [Locodol] Yattemita._ , Yukari recorded a show that is being\nbroadcasted. In _Doraemon_ , Doraemon and Nobita would often record a show\nsince it is being broadcasted at the same time as a baseball match that the\nfather likes to watch.\n\nOf course since it is limited to broad-casted anime only, you won't be able to\nwatch older animes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTL;DR: Yes. It is safe but with a catch.\n\nStreaming services that have a license to broadcast content within Japan such\nas Niconico are ideal.\n\nStreaming services meant to distribute anime abroad such as Crunchyroll and\nHulu are also legal to view in Japan. That said, both sites have region\nfilters because they are not licensed to show many series within Japan. When I\nvisited Japan in April, 2016 the Crunchyroll's massive catalog was reduced to\nless than 20 items that were licensed for viewing.\n\nOther unlicensed methods are both illegal and dangerous. The Japanese\nauthorities take piracy very seriously. Illegal viewing could land you in\nprison for two years, even as a tourist. This includes content posted on sites\nwithout a license to broadcast that content in Japan, YouTube, downloads/file\nsharing, screen sharing (RabbitMQ), and using a VPN to get around region\nlocking on sites with a license to broadcast elsewhere.\n\nRelated: [How does online anime streaming work within\nJapan?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28998/how-does-online-anime-\nstreaming-work-within-japan)\n\n",
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