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"body": "\n\nIn high school English classes, we read many _classics_ , such as Shakespeare,\nSteinbeck, Lee, etc. In many other classes, popular TV shows and movies are\nanalyzed. Granted, these are also classics, such as Hitchcock's _Psycho_ or\nNichols' _The Graduate_.\n\nWhy is anime/manga not as critically analyzed by the general public, like\nother works of written/illustrated art are? There are a lot of different\nforums that review anime and many people on the internet who have their\nopinions on different shows, but why is it not recognized by the _general\nAmerican public_ like other literary works? Is it its age (it is still\npopular, and therefore not old enough to be considered a classic)? Is the fact\nthat it is seen as a _cartoon_ by many in the US? Is it due to negative\nstereotypes in the west surrounding anime (many may consider all anime to be\nhentai, for example, and therefore disregard it as an art form)?\n\n**EDIT:** To explain this more...many, many anime have underlying themes and\nmeanings that stretch sometimes deeper than current novels/books that are\nconsidered literary classics by the academic community. So, why aren't these\nshows studied and analyzed in an _academic setting_? For example, if I am in a\nhigh school/college film analysis class, why is the medium of anime not\nconsidered when picking source material to analyze?\n\nA few of these shows I think you can find deeper meaning in easily (and this\npart is subjective, you may disagree), with similarities drawn to novels that\nare considered _classics_ :\n\n * _Ping Pong: The Animation_ : allows the viewer to determine the definition of success (similar to [_Invisible Man_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man))\n * _Attack on Titan_ : comments on the human experience, portrays reality with a hunter/prey dynamic (just like [_Lord of the Flies_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies))\n * _Fooly Cooly_ : coming of age story (just like [_Catcher in the Rye_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye))\n\nMany others can be listed, and the above shows can be analyzed much, much\nfurther.\n\nSorry for the poor tag, couldn't find one that was applicable.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt kinda is, in the user reviews on dedicated online communities. Times\nchange, these things become easier to write and to share.\n\nThere's more anime and reviews appearing regularly than there were (what is\nnow considered) classics and critical analyses of it. The quantity is greater\nbut the average quality is lower. Substantial quality is required to be\nconsidered by the authorities of the older generations of people who run those\nestablished forums.\n\nI would not take it as a sign that all user reviews are useless, but merely\nthat certain communities don't recognize them. It doesn't mean you shouldn't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the simplest answer is that **anime is just not that popular.** Though\nimmensely popular and gaining momentum, the anime community just isn't that\nwidespread. If you look at it critically MOST of the anime fans are limited to\nthe popular and mostly Shounen series such as Naruto, One Piece, Bleach,\nDragon Ball, Pokémon, Deathnote etc.\n\nCompare it to the consumption of various books and movies and their\npenetration into our society. The iconism resulting from this is what raised\nthem to the platform where it seems that more and more of such media is\ncritically analysed. As Hakase pointed out, if you go to an anime forum/blog,\nyou'll see plenty of critical analysis of anime, especially the history and\ntropes.\n\nAnother factor is the **geography.** The popularity of anime and manga has\ngrown and they are an integral part of the Japanese culture. However, other\nplaces are adapting and amalgamating the same later. This will automatically\nlead to the feeling that anime as a medium is more targeted towards the\naudience it sells for, i.e. the japanese. But as an \"outsider\" we're not in a\nplace to critically analyze it. The same may be true for various literary\nworks or other media.\n\nA relevant example is the Indian epics \"Mahabharata\" and \"Ramayana\". I doubt\nthat many people know it on this community, but Indians have critically\nanalyzed each and every line of such epics as deep as it can go. Awareness of\nthem is just limited to the Indian subcontinent, but now the teachings are\nspreading. The same is true with Anime.\n\nSome food for thought:\n\n[Anime popularity: Blogpost](http://comicvine.gamespot.com/forums/gen-\ndiscussion-1/will-anime-ever-be-as-popular-as-comic-books-1538407/): A comment\nthat I liked\n\n> Depends. Again sales you might make the case but in terms of iconism there's\n> no chance. Everyone knows who Batman is. No one knows who Luffy is.\n\n[A good blogpost about how to look at Anime as a medium of\nentertainment](https://geekorner.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/anime-isnt-special-\nand-neither-are-you-for-watching-it/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are critically analyzed works.\n\nIt is indeed a much newer and nicher area than traditional film, but there are\ncommunities around it. There is just much less of it (as @Arcane states) due\nto popularity\n\nCritics in anime come in a few different forms:\n\n# Academic Critique & Analysis\n\nMany film/media journals accept papers on animated media - this is a large\narea of publishing, rather than more focused papers such as\n[Mechademia](http://mechademia.org/) \\- simply because researchers may not be\nfocused solely on one media format.\n\nDue to the nature of popularity, anime such as the Ghibli films get a lot more\nexposure than others.\n\nMore information about particular conferences, journals and papers lies [here\nas a community wiki post](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13515/are-\nthere-any-academic-journals-that-focus-on-anime-manga)\n\nThese articles delve quite deep into some topics like the representation of\ngender roles in shoujo manga, the influence of Western terrorism on Eastern\nMedia, etc.\n\n# Regular Publication Reviews\n\nA lot of book and film reviewers often work for newspapers or some sort of\npopular media outlet. Indeed, [RottenTomatoes has a high bar for counting as a\ncritic](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/critics/), requiring you to\nbe in (and regularly in):\n\n> * A top 100 daily US newspaper\n> * A top 100 weekly US newspaper\n> * A top 100 magazine\n> * A top 10 entertainment-based publication\n>\n\nSo the bar is set pretty high for specialist topics, because film and such are\nso far developed as a culture.\n\nBecause of the reduced popularity, an 'anime' specific column in a newspaper,\nis usually pretty rare, at least in the West - Meaning the chances of becoming\nwell known are further diminished.\n\n# Casual Critics / Blogging\n\nMost of anime reviews come from popular (and unpopular) bloggers / vloggers.\nAnother source is company accounts - the likes of Anime News Network and\nCrunchyRoll can hire people for this role as it is a rare case where it will\nincrease exposure for a company meaningfully.\n\nHowever, audiences for these reviews aren't usually interested in detailed\nbreakdowns of academic references, etc. Thus, often posts are focused on\nrecommendation. Often hobbyist bloggers will be supported by specific anime\ncompanies - so posts often align with what review copies they have been sent.\n\n# Here :)\n\nSo, as moderator of this site I'm _probably_ a bit biased, but on Anime &\nManga Stack Exchange we have many questions that seem to fit the bill for a\ndeeper understanding of particular works.\n\nHere are some examples:\n\n[What is written in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal that impacts Takao so\nbadly?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/27751/1530)\n\n[About the artworks used in the Elfen Lied opening scenes (contains\nnudity)](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15130/about-the-artworks-\nused-in-the-elfen-lied-opening-scenes-contains-nudity)\n\n[Is there a meaning behind the paintings in Tsubaki Kureha's living\nroom?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19502/is-there-a-meaning-\nbehind-the-paintings-in-tsubaki-kurehas-living-room)\n\nThese are just ones off the top of my head. Personally, these are also my\nfavourite type of questions - so I encourage there to be more on this site.\n\n**TL;DR:** Academic Critique exists, and right here is good too :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime as a genre has few gems. For me it's hard to find a good anime by\nrandom. Yet, I don't think that's the main reason why it's underrated. The\nones that are great, really shine bright and deserve a more in deph analysis.\nAnimation in general is considered \"for kids\". Time has proven that that is\nnowhere near the case (this applies also to western animation), yet this\nmissconception remains solid.\n\nI can debate themes like existentialism, libertarianism, morality, religion\nand many others in FMA for example and draw parallels between it and works\nsuch as Goethe's \"Faust\" or Brecht's \"Life of Galileo\" or Nietzsche's \"Beyond\nGood and Evil\". This being some examples I just thought of now. If you go in\ndeph you can really uncover more. I do not refute the importance of literature\nof cinema (my point about the few gems can be applied to these art forms as\nwell). Another point I'd like to make is that these art form have been there\nfor longer, they had enough time to establish themselves and they are spread\nall over the world. Anime and Manga has been hitting mainstream (in America at\nleast) since Toonami (~2008 I believe). _I'm not from America so don't quote\nme on that. And my last point about mainstream may be flawed, but that's how I\nsee it._\n\nI do believe that with time these preconceived ideas concerning animation will\nvanish. On the other hand I doubt they will be studied by themselves soon, if\never (besides art schools and art colleges). Hope my answer has been somewhat\nrelevant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Note: I can only speak from a Western perspective here. For all I know,\nanime _is_ critically analysed in Japan.**\n\nThe first thing worth considering as a reason for why anime doesn't seem to be\ncritically analysed in the West is that it's only really been easily\nconsumable over here in the last decade or so, meaning that a great many of\nthe established critics were already adults (and older) by the time they had\naccess to it. Before streaming services and high bandwidth Internet\nconnections, it would have been very difficult to find and watch anything\nother than anime deemed suitable for children that was broadcast on children's\nTV channels.\n\nThis may have contributed to the idea that anime is for children (and\ntherefore not worthy of analysis), a notion that probably already exists\nthanks to the general idea that almost _all_ animation is for children, thanks\nto most Western animation being aimed at that audience.\n\nIn a similar vein, the most popular anime shows do tend to be ones aimed at\nchildren/younger teenagers. Anyone looking to watch an anime show for the\nfirst time is likely to end up watching something like _Naruto_ , _Dragonball\nZ_ or _Pokemon_ \\- none of those are likely to leave you with the impression\nthat anime is an artform worthy of serious analysis.\n\nIt's also worth pointing out that there is a very big cultural divide between\nthe East and the West, one that often manifests itself in ways that may make\nWestern audiences... uncomfortable. In general, Japan seems to place less of a\ntaboo on sex and sexuality, which can make some anime appear as smut to\nWesterners - even anime that is aimed at children often contains at least some\nlevel of \"fan service\", which is off-putting when you aren't used to that kind\nof thing.\n\nThrow in a general culture surrounding anime that seems to be more concerned\nwith waifus and memes than it does serious analysis, a language barrier that\ncan be difficult to get past, and the at least somewhat racist (and somewhat\naccurate) idea that Japanese culture at large is \"weird\", and I don't think\nit's unreasonable that there aren't yet a lot of critical analysis' of anime\nat large.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to just repeat what our teachers said in English class to why we\nanalyse all of those things:\n\nwe analyse texts because it creates meaning, this will help us to appreciate\nliterature, this is why we analyse literature. as for other texts, such as\nadvertisements and pictures, we analyse them to allow for deeper understanding\nof how the author creates meaning.\n\nshe ends there.\n\nthis suggest that the texts that we analyse in school are literature and we\nneed to (apparently) appreciate the great works from he part. clearly anime\nand manga does not count as literature.\n\nto back this up, my art teacher has said to me that anime and manga does not\ncount as art.\n\nthis shows the unfair bias towards anime and manga\n\nthis is further supported dues to the fact that we analyse comic strips.\n\nthis shows how the western culture is still somewhat rejecting the other\ncultures.\n\nthe final reason is: it wouldn't make much sense to analyse something that's\nnot English in an English class.\n\nthis is from personal experience, hope this helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLiterature is that which is studied by teachers of literature (and by\nextension, their students). It **_may_** have a connection to quality of\nwriting, but this is not guaranteed, nor that other writing of equivalent\nquality will be included. It's further complicated by the fact that because\nthere's no clear evidence of what's good and bad, teachers are free to mark up\nstudents who write essays which agree with their preconceptions and to mark\ndown students who write essays which don't.\n\nThe problem isn't exclusive to anime. You'll find vanishingly few science-\nfiction or fantasy fiction titles in English Lit classes. \"Brave New World\"\nand \"Animal Farm\" were pretty much it when I was at school - and they're\nwritten by established \"classic\" authors who mostly _didn't_ write SF/F and\nwho explicitly wrote them as parables. HG Wells and Jules Verne sometimes\nfeatures on the list, but more because their stories are old (DWM) than\nbecause they're well-written. You're more likely to see Ursula LeGuin or\nMargaret Atwood in a list of feminist authors than a list of classic authors.\n\nHistorical fiction is in a similar genre ghetto. I'm less aware of who's out\nthere on that side of things, but Hilary Mantel had to be _really_ good to get\n\"Wolf Hall\" into the awards. People like Sir Walter Scott or Robert Louis\nStevenson sometimes get into literature lists, but again it's because they're\nDWM.\n\nGood and worthy ideas don't necessarily make a good book though. Tolkein is a\nperfect example - he had amazing ideas, but pretty awful execution.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime and manga are being critically analyzed. it is just that, as everyone\nabove said, it isn't as widespread or popular. I would like to add to their\nopinions, though. Anime and manga, during its infancy or should I say the time\nwhen they are beginning to become popular, their target audience at the time\nare kids and teens. You know how kids are- when they have something they like,\nit became difficult to get them away from it. This gave rise to the 'otaku'\nmindset which in turn gives anime and manga a negative reputation. I would\nlike to ask you then, if something has a negative reputation, are you willing\nto teach it inside the classroom? You won't, right?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**1\\. Anime has not been around long enough**\n\nThe first anime was created in 1907, but the first produced and televised\nanime didn't came until 1961, which is more than 50 years after the first\nanime[ [1]](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3408/what-is-the-first-\never-produced-anime-and-manga). The first light novel with anime-ish style\ncame in 1970s[ [2]](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13301/what-\nexactly-is-a-light-novel). The first modern manga originated in 1945[\n[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga). It hasn't been a century before\nanime and manga exist.\n\nIn comparison, many of the Western Classics came in the 19th century, for\nexample, The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Wuthering Heights (1847), Pride and\nPrejudice (1813), A Tale of Two Cities (1859). Some, such as Shakespeare's\ncame from even further back in the 16th century. This form of art has been\nlong enough that people have long enough time to know them and start\ncritically analyzing them, which also contributes to my second point. It has\nbeen read by generations of human population.\n\n**2\\. Popularity**\n\nMost people who went to school would have at the very least heard of\nShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, western or not. The same cannot be said about\nanime. Only avid anime and manga fans would know of Fushimi Tsukasa's Ore no\nImouto ga Konnani Kawaii wake ga nai. Even with world-wide popular anime such\nas Naruto, only some would notice the name Masashi Kishimoto. Anime and manga\nhas yet to reach the popularity that classic literature enjoys.\n\n**3\\. Content of anime**\n\nBeing made in Japan, many if not most of anime and manga have a view on God\nthat would be regarded as insulting to those living in religious countries. I\nremember when I was younger, I turned on TV to find Saint Seiya broadcasting\nand there one of the characters said something about \"power equal to that of\nGod\". My father overheard that and told me to change the channel ASAP. This is\ndue to the way Japan perceive God, that in Japan there are many gods, so much\nthat it was said that Yamato (ancient name of Japan) is a land of thousands\ngods. Older people tends to be more religious as shown in the statistics, more\npeople in the 80s are religious compare to the 90s and most of them are a\nfollower of Abrahamic religions which is monotheistic and regards polytheism\nas sinful [\n[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#Statistics).\n\nAnother problem with the content of anime and manga, especially in modern\nanime and manga is that many of them contains fans service that is sexual in\nnature. While pornography is legal in western world, in the other parts of the\nworld it is illegal. China and Indonesia, two of the most populous countries\nin the world, that is approximately 20% of the world population, have\npornography as something illegal. From these two countries alone we already\nlost 20% of potential critical reviewer.\n\n**4\\. You're an otaku, pffft**\n\nWhen someone is known as an anime and manga lover, he will get the label,\notaku. This is especially true with adults. The problem with this is that\notaku is not seen in positive light. Even in Japan otaku was seen in negative\nlight and only in 2013 that a research shows it has been seen in more positive\nlight. When you make a critical analysis of anime or manga, then like it or\nnot you have to read or watch it. Most kids won't be able to make make a\ncritical review, which means most critical review would come from adult, and\nlike I said adult watching anime was not regarded in positive light. Like\nshown in many anime, announcing yourself as otaku is basically a social\nsuicide, especially when many have questionable content.\n\n**5\\. Era difference, the Internet, and forms of entertainment**\n\nDuring the era of Shakespeare and other western literary classics, there was\nnot many form of entertainment. The wasn't video games, there wasn't Internet,\nno device where you can listen to music, heck, even electric light only gets\nfamous in the 20th century. This lack of entertainment means makes theatrical\nplays and books has little to no contender. Today with the variety of\nentertainment means available, less attention is spend on each. This also\ntranslate into less of the world population watch anime and read manga and\nlight novel compared to when the previous era, where means of entertainment\nare limited. Had anime and manga was born during the Shakespeare era and\nShakespeare during anime and manga era then the popularity would be reversed,\nwith anime and manga receiving more critical reviews than Hamlet, and Romeo\nand Juliet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll it says is that they're prescription sports glasses. Are they similar to\nany brand or particular model? Below is a pretty zoomed-in panel of the\nglasses, although there may be more descriptive images online.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTsukishima's seems to be a pretty common type of prescription sport glasses.\nIt is easy to find some reasonable similar ones. See for example\n[here](http://www.eyekit.co/goggles/industrial-and-domestic-safety-\ngoggles/bolle-safety-for-industrial-safety-goggles/bolle-prescription-safety-\ngoggles-twister-black-for-industrial-safety-eyewear.html),\n[here](http://www.zennioptical.com/sports-glasses?view=all) and\n[here](http://www.uksportseyewear.co.uk/product.php/187/childrens-football-\ngoggles).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XQpCJ.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ykk0u.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/60v0s.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen listening to Itachi's theme song, I heard that there is a woman voice in\nit, however I can't understand what it is saying. What is the woman saying in\nItachi's theme song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom Google, I found that Itachi's theme song is titled Senya (千夜, lit.\nThousand Nights) and is part of [Naruto Shippuuden Original Soundtrack\n2](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Music#Naruto_Shipp.C5.ABden:_Original_Soundtrack_II_.282009.29).\n[This\nsong](http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/narutoprofile/images/1/11/-Naruto_Shippuuden_Original_Soundtrack_2-_23_-_Senya.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20110913120142)\nhas no lyric. The woman voice there is part of the instrument. If you listen\nto it carefully, the woman only voice the vocal \"a\".\n\nAccording to [learntoplaymusic.com](http://www.learntoplaymusic.com/blog/why-\nthe-human-voice-can-be-considered-the-ultimate-melodic-instrument/)\n\n> the human voice can be thought of as the ultimate melodic instrument,\n> because it is capable of instant expression with no instrument required to\n> translate thoughts and feelings into sound.\n\nThe voice is there to give more feelings to the music about Itachi's pain,\nwhich just instruments won't be able to deliver.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was an ardent fan of Naruto and watched all of its episodes one after\nanother and reached the end of Shippuden at that time. It was 2 years ago I\nguess and I last watched episode 220 or something... just after reanimation\njutsu etc while the world war was going on. Then it became one episode per\nweek and I stopped watching and thought to myself that I will pick it up again\nwhen it will be over. Alas! It is still going on but I have heard that it will\nend by this December. But now I am not sure that I remember the whole story\nand picking it up again will not be that enjoyable. So maybe I should re watch\nit whole and skip the filler episodes! That way I can join the current\nepisodes within a month and watch the final as it air.\n\nOr if I watch the Naruto movies, does it have the same story and characters\nand fill me in on all the important things to know before joining in on the\ncurrent episodes which are going on nowadays? Movies will save me a lot of\ntime and trouble but will they be enough?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Spoilers in Summary below. Can't seem to get the tags to work**\n\nI would recommend watching Naruto and Naruto:Shippuden AGAIN without the\nfiller episodes for maximising your experience.\n\nIf you don't have the patience to re-watch, you should start from beginning of\nthe current Saga. From your description I would say that you have watched till\nSeason 10 of the Anime (Epsiode 197-221)\n\nSo you can pick up either from Episode 197 or from Episode 222.\n\n> **Season 10** follows the assemblance of the Kage, the five ninja eading\n> their respective villages, as a result of the actions from the criminal\n> organization Akatsuki as well as the rogue ninja Sasuke Uchiha who has been\n> siding with them.\n>\n> **Season 11** (Epsiodes 222-242) focuses on the ninjas' preparations to the\n> world war against the criminal organization Akatsuki.\n>\n> **Season 12** (Episodes focuses on Naruto's training to control the Nine-\n> Tailed Demon Fox and the first day of the world war against the criminal\n> organization Akatsuki. \n> [Fourth Great Ninja War. Major Events and the M&A\n> Chapters/Episodes](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Fourth_Shinobi_World_War)\n\nThe movies are MOSTLY filler. So it is upto you if you want to watch. This\nquestion should answer the order of movie watching. [Where do the Naruto\nmovies fall in the\ntimeline?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3127/where-do-the-naruto-\nmovies-fall-in-the-timeline)\n\nReddit for extended Discussion: [Naruto Movies: When to\nwatch](https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/2sipnq/when_should_i_watch_the_movies/)\n\nIf you want to rewatch without fillers, follow this guide. [How to watch\nNaruto and Naruto Shipudden Filler\nFree](https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=350747)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy do Manga and Anime defuse so often tragic situations? Moments that can be\ntragic/serious are often immediately defused by some hilarious moment and some\nstupid face of the characters. I personally find that disturbing that a plot\ncannot focus on something serious for a little while. Is that a stylistic\nchoice or just a way to target a particular audience (i.e. children).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom your comments, I gather you don't like the use of Anti-Climax in M&A as a\nmedium. Though it can be jarring, Anti Climax can be great if used correctly.\n\n> Anticlimaxes can work well if it's clear that the subversion of audience\n> expectations is the point, either for humorous purposes (such as the\n> Anticlimax Cut) or as a more serious commentary on the genre of the work. If\n> the Anticlimax is unintentional, however, or if the author's purpose just\n> isn't sufficiently clear to the audience, the result is serious audience\n> frustration. Use caution.\n\nI think the root cause of this problem is discussed quite well on TV Tropes.\n\n> Not all anticlimaxes are intentional, though. Oftentimes, they are caused\n> when the story writes itself into a corner. Other times, it's caused when\n> the writer realizes that their planned solution just wouldn't make sense\n> compared with the logical one. Sometimes, it's caused when there are teams\n> of writers that don't communicate very well. The planned resolution of a\n> Story Arc is nullified by another writer, who might have written out the\n> plot device intended. Sometimes, in the case of film and television, it's\n> caused by budget constraints or unexpected cancellation. It's rather rare\n> for unintentional anticlimaxes to show up in single works, usually popping\n> up in long serials where there isn't a chance to unobtrusively go back and\n> rewrite some pivotal moments to set up the proper climax.\n\nThe problems stated above are quite common in the Manga and Anime industry and\nthus as you seem to have found out can lead to disappointing endings to a\ngreat story.\n\nSource: [You've been warned TV Tropes link. Anti Climax\n](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anticlimax)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would believe this is something of psychology where it makes the situation\nfunnier; it's like after tasting some salt, the sugar will taste much sweeter.\nIf I try to explain this using a more understandable way, think of the number\nline: the funny side is to the right and the serious side is to the left and\nyou are at the 0 point right in the middle feeling no emotions. When things\nstart to get serious, you move to the left and feel serious at for example -3,\nbut then they drop a joke which makes you laugh and you move to the right.\nBecause 0 is the neutral point where you feel no emotions, you have to move\npast 0 to feel happy so you have to be at least 1 or above. The funnier the\njoke, the higher the number. Now, because you are starting from -3 rather than\n0, it gives you 3 more than if they just throw the joke at you in the start.\nThis can work the other way around as well. This is mostly why they use this\ntechnique.\n\nIf they do it wrong, or when they see people like you who don't enjoy these\nsorts of things, it doesn't work. From what I have seen, these are mostly used\nin slice of life and shounen manga/anime. In shounen, they will get serious,\nthen someone makes a joke, then they get deep and serious again. If you look\nat genres such as horror, this \"trope\" practically doesn't exist. An example\nwould be EVA (I believe): there is no funny bits in there, it's serious\nthroughout the show, but this might differ from person to person.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just finished re-watching episode 18 of season 2 of _Sword Art Online_ , and\nin the end, Kirito throws Excalibur into the pit and then Shinon catches it\nwith a spell arrow. Then, once the quest is over, he gets the sword as a gift\nfrom Urðr for saving the land. In the next episodes we don't see him use it.\n\nWhy isn't he using it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn SAO Wikia about\n[Excalibur](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Holy_Sword_Excalibur), there\nis some trivia mentioned, among which:\n\n> Kazuto resolved to never use Excalibur for personal gain as he believed that\n> the sword contained the «caliber» of himself and his companions.\n\n* * *\n\nAs mentioned in the comments and in [Alchemist's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/36050/2516), Kirito used the sword\nwhen fighting off the guild to buy Asuna some time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Mansuro's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/36007/2516),\nit does make sense why he doesn't use it that often during battles. However,\nit is not true that he doesn't use it at all. He did use it in the Mother's\nRosario arc.\n\nHe uses it in the 21st episode. When Asuna and the Sleeping Knights are\ninterrupted by the adventurers just before entering the boss room. Kirito\nappears just in the nick of time and wards them off using his own sword and\nthe Excalibur, dual wielding them while Asuna and the Sleeping Knights head\nfor the boss room.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZC9Lv.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NE8cG.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe simply doesn't use it because it isn't fair, it is way too powerful. If it\nwasn't for Shinon, it would not have been given to him. You can think of the\nweapon like Mjolnir; any time a person who is not worthy tries to wield it,\nthe weapon gets too heavy to hold.\n\nThe only time he ever used it was to fight off the guild as an equalizer. Even\nthen, he knew he didn't have the stamina to kill the entire group.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI agree with him not using it because its too powerfull it would be unfair for\nothers but thats assuming due to his good character.\n\nAnd another thing is maybe its because he has another sword made by liz which\nhe prefers to use better when wielding dual sword.\n\nBut I disagree with the thought of he doesn't use it much because shinon only\nretrieved it for him. Even if kirito left the excalibur sword and shinon doest\nget it back. The npc will still give it to kitaro as reward for finishing the\nquest, besides he was still the one that pulled out the sword.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe cannot use Excalibur as a normal sword as it is very heavy even for him. It\nis like in season 3, the items have a requirement to be used and probably\nExcalibur also has a requirement that makes it impossible to use freely, until\nwhen he used the excalibur he spent several hours sleeping.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo when I was watching this anime I was wondering - even though all the Norma\nare women and they are stuck on that island, is it still possible for them to\nhave kids? And I also wonder, did any Norma have kids in the past?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nfrom the crossange wiki, you can get this\n\n> Norma (ノーマ Nōma?) is the name given to those who are born without the\n> ability to use Light of Mana. Like the Ancient Humans, they cannot use Mana\n> and will destroy anything made out of Mana just simply by making physical\n> contact with it. Unlike Ancient Humans, Norma can be born of parents that\n> can use Mana and are an example of a genetic throwback to the time where all\n> humans couldn't use mana. Only female can be Norma, the reason why is\n> unknown.\n\nnotice this line\n\n> Unlike Ancient Humans, Norma can be born of parents that can use Mana\n\nit says that norma can be born with parents who can use mana and that's\npractically the only difference between norma and ancient humans show in the\nwiki. therefore, if ancient humans can have children, then norma should be\nable to have children, also note that there is nothing that states that normas\ncan't have children so i don't know where the question is coming from but hope\nthis helps a bit.\n\nhere is the link to the page <http://crossange.wikia.com/wiki/Norma>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of the 2nd episode after Eren and Mikasa are saved, the blond\narmy guy pulls them forward, and Mikasa holds her head, has a flashback, and\nsays \"It's happening again\".\n\nWhat does she mean by this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter I rewatched the episode, I can firmly answer your question but be\nadvised for there are spoilers in my answer.\n\nWhen she has that flashback,\n\n> she remembers how her family was murdered and she was thinking that she\n> remained alone, until Eren saved her and she became part of his family. When\n> Eren's mother dies, Mikasa experiences the same feeling of losing someone\n> dear as she felt when her family was murdered. This is why she says \"It's\n> happening again..\", because she lost a part of her family again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit's because Mikasa has\n\n> titan blood in her, as the Ackermans are seen as titan experiments.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime it is said that he is from west asia but his name doesn't sound\nmiddle eastern. More like a European.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJonathan is a popular name in the west, but it actually originated from the\nmiddle east, that is, Israel. The first Jonathan recorded in history is the\nson of King Saul, first king of the Kingdom of Israel. It was recorded in the\nChristian Bible, a name that means \"YHWH has given\", with YHWH is the name of\nthe Hebrew God.\n\nMar is even more Arabic as it is an honorary title in East Syriac meaning 'my\nlord'.\n\nLike Hakase said in his comment, Jonathan Mar is of Arabic origin. Seeing that\nhis name is actually from middle east, Hebrew and Syriac, it further\nreinforces that he is of Arabic or middle-eastern ethnicity.\n\nYou can read more about\n[Jonathan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_\\(name\\)) and\n[Mar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar) in Wikipedia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I checked in Google, there is no direct reference for the age of\nMarguerite - she was one of the female tribe members on Amazon Lily who've\nfound Luffy.\n\nHer age is ambiguous at best, as everything seems to qualify between 14 and 24\n- or even beyond, knowing the way Oda handles age.\n\nIs there anything known about it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike you said, her age hasn't been officially revealed yet. Judging from her\nphysique and face, she could be anywhere from 16 to 24 years old, but until it\nis brought up in-story or Oda clarifies it in an SBS, her age will remain\nunknown.\n\nEDIT: The Vivre Card Databook Vol. 4 finally revealed Marguerite's age; she is\n16 pre-timeskip, and 18 post-timeskip.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs luffy have now 4 special forms (gears) how much they are different, can\nanyone please explain the differences?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Available on Wikia in detail. I'll try to brief it up a bit.**\n\nUsing Gears is selecting the right tool for the right job. Each Gear has its\nown drawbacks and Luffy must also consider the impact it will have on its\nbody. For Example. Gear Four may seem the strongest, but it leaves Luffy\ncompletely defenseless after the timelimit.\n\n**Gear Second:** Luffy uses his legs (Just his hand post-timeskip) as pumps to\nincrease the blood flow in his body. This provides him more oxygen and\nnutrients. Enhancing Speed and Strength though affecting his endurance to the\npoint of paralysis after prolonged use. Rob Lucci compares its affect to\ndoping. Luffy can use this technique because of his Rubber Blood vessels which\ndon't tear under extreme stress.\n\nPost Time-skip he gains much more control over this Gear, saving his Stamina.\nHe can activate and deactivate it quickly. Used in combination with Haki he\nalso can use much more powerful attacks.\n\n[Read More: Gear\nSecond](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gomu_Gomu_no_Mi/Gear_Second_Techniques)\n\n**Gear Third:**\n\n> Luffy corks his mouth with his thumb, bites into his thumb joint (making a\n> small opening) and blows very hard into it, which inflates his arm. He is\n> then able to transfer the air through his entire body, requiring the torso\n> to act as an interface for his various limbs. Luffy blows so much air into\n> his body that when they are all focused on a single limb, they become the\n> size equivalent to (or greater than) that of a giant's, if anything\n> resembling Oars' size. Used with his already-strong physiology, this\n> apparently gives his arm more mass and a larger area to attack with far\n> greater strength, but he sacrifices mobility for this strength, as his limbs\n> are now so large that Luffy has trouble moving.\n\nIn Gear third he essentially inflates his Bone to Giants (or larger) size. The\nincrease in mass and momentum give him tremendous Raw power (Destroying Marine\nBattleships, Oars Backbone etc.) Major difference for this is that Luffy loses\nhis elasticity.\n\n> Unlike the normal Gomu Gomu no Fusen technique, bullets ricochet off of Gear\n> Third instead of bouncing off.\n\nPost-Timeskip he can compress the air to the end of his limbs for more power.\n\n> Gear Third would increase the size of the majority of Luffy's arm, thus\n> reducing the speed of the attack in exchange for a powerful impact. However,\n> Luffy after two years can seemingly control where the air is stored within\n> his limbs, where his fist becomes large and instead of the air being equally\n> distributed throughout his arm, an equivalently large mass forms behind the\n> fist. This allows a majority of Luffy's arm to remain as it is, permitting\n> him to stretch it, thus allowing him to attack and withdraw much faster than\n> pre-timeskip.\n\n[Read More: Gear\nThird](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gomu_Gomu_no_Mi/Gear_Third_Techniques)\n\n**Gear Four:Boundman** Luffy puffs up his Muscular Structure giving him more\npower, while keeping up his flexibility. This seems to be a cross between Gear\n2 and 3 while utilizing his Haki.\n\n> Luffy coats his arm in Busoshoku Haki before biting into his forearm.\n> Similar to how he activates Gear Third, he blows an incredible amount of air\n> into his body, but this time he inflates his muscular structure before\n> distributing the air throughout his body, with emphasis on his upper half.\n\nIt achieves to counter both drawbacks of the first 2 Gears\n\n> While Luffy is using Gear Fourth, his physical strength and speed are\n> increased to the point where he is able to overwhelm a member of the\n> Shichibukai, Donquixote Doflamingo, whereas before, Gear Second's lack of\n> strength and Gear Third's lack of speed were ineffective in the fight. [...]\n> His durability is also enhanced: despite being hardened with Busoshoku Haki,\n> his body is still rubbery, so physical blows (even ones enhanced with\n> Busoshoku Haki) simply bounce off of him\n\nHowever, it lacks in range. And thus Luffy needs to be close to use the\ntechniques.\n\n> Unlike the previous forms, Gear Fourth focuses on compression more than\n> stretching. While the compression grants Luffy's moves overwhelming speed\n> and power, the range of his attacks is severely decreased.\n\n[Read more: Gear\nFour](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gomu_Gomu_no_Mi/Gear_Fourth_Techniques)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNear the end of the movie, we see the letter from Lagos. However it seems to\nbe encoded. What does it mean?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/35BJx.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [this post on MyAnimeList\nforums](https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1171937#SFRlu1Zqh4MTx5Wu.99),\nthis is the message:\n\n> From: ?AIA Sent: Tue???y,??ly 29,v???x ?:30PM To: Ma????ng list fre?ds Cc:\n> ?? com?unity Subject: We are alive. Attachments: I?mage582 Image6?5 Im??e661\n>\n> This E-mail is an appeal to all recipients.\n>\n> We are alive We were spared the effects of the anti-gravity experiment.\n>\n> We have yet to fully grasp the extent of the destruction But we are\n> absolutely certain that one particular undamaged area remains; namely, the\n> area on the exact opposite side of the Earth's mantle. This is the reverse\n> side of the Earth's axis.\n>\n> After settling that area, we pushed forward with research into the repair of\n> gravity inversion. Now it seems a successful breakthough may by just out of\n> reach. We have placed our hopes in the networks still online in each area,\n> and are transmitting this E-mail all over the Earth.\n>\n> To all recipients: please print as many copies of this E-mail as possible.\n> Then please distribute those copies to as many people, as you can, so that\n> they may know the truth.\n>\n> We are resolved to wait in here, for generations if necessary.\n>\n> Latitude 33.3526' N, Longitude 130.2401' E\n>\n> Please convey this to all peopple on Earth. We are alive.\n\n[Here's the location on the\nmap.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33.3526N+130.2401E/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs yamato dead? If not what happened to him. We saw him being taken prisoner\nby Kabuto and then we never see or hear from him again, even with Kabuto\ndefeated we see no mention of him. So what happened to him?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYamato was controlled by spiral zetsu (tobi) just before the infinite\ntsukuyomi. Since Yamato and zetsu both know wood release, their powers\ncombined was enough to stop the Third Hokage with \"Sage Art Wood Release: True\nSeveral Thousand Hands\".\n\nChapter 677 \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wxn6e.png) \nEpisode 426 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DYjmi.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Planetes_ was really well received but yet it doesn't have an anime\ncontinuation even though I hear the manga goes well beyond the anime (I think\nuntil exploration to Jupiter?).\n\nI can't seem to find any reason why it's not happening, is it because it\ndidn't have enough viewers or is it because it's been too long since the anime\nlast aired? Usually anime that won't get a conclusion has an explicit reason\nbut this one doesn't and it's really bothersome.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAh! My Goddess manga has run from september 1988 to june 2014, and that is 25\nyears, 9 months.\n\nOf the manga series that have already ended by this posting (before september\n2016), what is the longest-running one?\n\nIs it Ah! My Goddess? Or is there an even longer one?\n\nI'm more interested in the time between the first and the last chapter, but if\nyou can **in addition to** make a point for the one with more chapters, that\nis also acceptable\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe series mentioned by senshin in the comments are hard to beat. But here is\na new record:\n\nChiisana Koi no Monogatari (小さな恋のものがたり) ran for **52 years** , from 1962 to\n2014.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VbHmQ.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/knabM.jpg)\n\nIt was created by Chikako Mitsuhashi and published by Manga Time. A total of\n43 were published.\n\nSources:\n[wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_series_by_volume_count)\nand\n[myanimelist](https://myanimelist.net/manga/75265/Chiisana_Koi_no_Monogatari).\n\nAccording to the same wikipedia article, the record to most chapters seem to\ngo to Sazae-san, with **6477** , and the one for more volumes published to\nNijitte Monogatari with **111**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Assassination Classroom_ , season 2 episode 15, we see Nagisa Shiota\nperform a \"15-hit kiss\" on Kaede Kayano (aka Akari Yukimura) to help save her\nlife. Afterward, everyone is amazed that Nagisa performed a 15-hit kiss, but\nwhat is a \"#-hit kiss\" and what does the number symbolize?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/84NHW.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe #-hit kiss is a technique first seen in action by Irina Jelavić in chapter\n8 (\"Breast Time\") in the manga (page 17), or episode 4 (\"Adult Time\") in the\nanime (6.5 minutes in), when she kisses Nagisa for a 30-hit kiss.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R8SnK.jpg)\n\n[_See full-size image_](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Er8vN.jpg)\n\nIt is described by Nagisa in the manga:\n\n> I truly felt the weight of her \"killing\" words and that she was the real\n> deal, a professional hitman. A kiss so incredible that it overpowers the\n> senses. It could bring even the strongest men to their knees.\n\nSo this kiss is a weapon for seduction and assassination, and Nagisa\nrecognizes its power. This is the reason he knows how to use it on Kaede\nKayano later. It's because he experienced it first-hand by Irina.\n\nThe hit count is, as a\n[comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/36037/what-is-a-15-hit-\nkiss/38621#comment48420_36037) mentioned, probably a reference to [combo hits\nin videogames](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combo_\\(video_gaming\\)). From\nWikipedia:\n\n> The first game to count the hits of each combo, and reward the player for\n> performing them, was Super Street Fighter II.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the original series, the _Egyptian gods_ remained as they were, and later\nin the very same series a set of cards is called the _Nordic gods_ ; what\nmakes the _Earthbound Gods_ so different?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't really follow Yu-Gi-Oh anymore, but I think this can be explained on\npurely linguistic grounds.\n\nLeaving Obelisk (and \"Slifer\") aside for a moment, Ra and Osiris take as their\nnamesakes beings that we, in English, call gods. Ra is \"an Egyptian god\"\nbecause he was worshipped by the Egyptian people, and the same is true of\nOsiris. So we call their Yu-Gi-Oh counterparts \"the Egyptian god cards\".\n\nLikewise, we conceptualize Loki, Odin, and Thor as \"Norse gods\" because they\nwere worshipped by pre-Christian North Germanic peoples, and so we call their\nYu-Gi-Oh counterparts \"the Nordic god cards\".\n\nBut do we call the figures drawn in the Nazca lines \"gods\"? No, we do not.\nPerhaps the Nazca people who created them did worship them (though it's\ndifficult to tell, given that they produced no texts), but _we_ \\- the target\naudience - think of them as \"just\" a spider or a bird or a tree, not as\ntargets of worship. It would, in my opinion, be weird to use the word \"god\" to\ndescribe the Yu-Gi-Oh versions of these Nazca figures. I suspect that whoever\nmade this translation decision followed a similar line of thought.\n\nI hardly think this has anything to do with censorship. If they cared about\nnot offending monotheists, well, that boat sailed _long_ ago.\n\n(It is perhaps worth noting that though the Japanese word 神 _kami_ is\ntypically translated as \"god\", there isn't a one-to-one equivalence here. The\nEnglish word is heavily colored by the Christian sense of capital-G God, while\nthe Japanese word is colored by indigenous worship practices that treat a\nwider variety of entities as _kami_. Just because the Japanese name of the\nNazca figures is 地縛神 _jibakushin_ , that doesn't mean that the \"correct\"\ntranslation of it must involve the word \"god\".)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn UQ Holder, when Tota Konoe joined the UQ Holders, he was placed No. 7 and\nKurōmaru Tokisaka who joined at the same time as him was placed No. 11. Later\non, Santa Sasaki joined and was placed No. 12. So why was Tota Konoe placed\nNo. 7?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 4 of _Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu_ , there's a gag where Sakaguchi\nmentions \"the emperor [or empress?] of BL, Mori███████yuki\". Judging from the\nbleeping-out of the name, I assume this is a reference to a real person who\ndraws BL manga. But who?\n\nI had a look through [all the people on MAL whose family names begin with\n\"Mori\" and whose personal names end with\n\"yuki\"](https://myanimelist.net/people.php?q=mori%20yuki) and didn't come up\nwith anything.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is likely to be a reference to veteran male voice actor [Morikawa\nToshiyuki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiyuki_Morikawa)\n([森川智之](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E6%A3%AE%E5%B7%9D%E6%99%BA%E4%B9%8B)). He is\nknown to have done dubbed voice-overs for many famous (and handsome) Hollywood\nactors, as well as the\n[voices](https://myanimelist.net/people/6/Toshiyuki_Morikawa) of several well-\nknown bishounen anime characters such as Griffith from _Berserk_ , Sephiroth\nfrom _FF7_ , and Naraku from _Inuyasha_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on the name, the one dubbed as the Emperor of BL is Toshiyuki Morikawa.\nThere is an [interview in\nMAL](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2009-08-27/interview-toshiyuki-\nmorkiawa-voice-of-d.gray-man-tyki-mikk) that supports this.\n\n> Q: We've got many, many female fans today. In addition to regular anime,\n> you've been playing many roles for female-oriented drama CDs. What's the\n> major difference between the two types of performance, and how did you feel\n> when you first started voicing female-oriented drama CDs?\n>\n> A: I'm very happy to see so many female fans, but I also noticed a few guys\n> among them. At first I worried for them, fearing that they might feel\n> uncomfortable in the overwhelming female crowds, but I was relieved when I\n> saw them enjoying the autograph session very much. **As for boys-love (BL)\n> drama CD: you know that I've played many BL roles, and I love those titles\n> very much, for their storytelling are often superior to those of regular\n> anime, plus I wouldn't be able to play so many different roles without BL\n> drama CDs.** The most memorable performance was with my good friend\n> Shinichiro Miki in Embracing Love: Cherished Spring (Haru wo Daiteita),\n> which had two actors as male protagonists, thus in addition to playing the\n> character we had to deliver the message of the work as well.\n\nAs far as I know, he don't draw BL manga, but he do voice many of them as he\nsaid himself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have been thinking about this question for a while now. Since many Pokemon\nare based around animals, which animals are Pokemon based on? I ask for the\nfamily of the animals, such as dogs, cats, mice and so on. The complete\ndefinition is in [this link](http://a-z-animals.com/reference/animal-\nclassification/).\n\n**I would like a complete list if possible.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the battle at the end of episode 4, Canaria and Aoi get flown into Tokyo\nBay by two Tokyo students, shortly before Suzaku flies Himekawa into point-\nblank range of the Leviathan-class Unknown to wipe it out. Upon arrival,\nCanaria employs her World to fortify/power-up the other combatants. Well\nenough.\n\nHowever, Suzaku comments that Canaria's World is being combined/overlain with\nAoi's World (which, as you will recall, is the ability to record and\nretransmit people's perceptions). This is probably what Canaria asked Aoi to\ndo just before she started singing.\n\nBut why is this relevant? I can't think of any useful effect Aoi's World could\nhave here, nor did I see anything to indicate that anyone was receiving any\nperceptions transmitted by Aoi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a cinematic attraction at Universal Studios Japan, [Dragon Ball Z: The Real\n4-D](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z:_The_Real_4-D), Frieza has\nshown to have a power level of 5.3 Billion. Does that count as true? AFAIK,\nduring Frieza Saga, 100% Final Form Frieza's power level is only around 120\nMillion according to [this\nlist](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_power_levels). Is Toriyama\ncompletely ignoring the previous power level or just for advertising purposes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have finished watching **Noragami** anime. Then I saw the Noragami manga.\nThe anime has only 12 episodes but manga is ongoing. So if I want to read the\nmanga from which chapter should I start? I mean after anime episode 12.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nif you watched seasons one and two of the anime, you should start reading from\nvolume 11 of the manga. volume 10 is the end of season 2 , so noragami\naragoto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read the manga and watch the anime. It was awesome, but in only one place it\ndoesn't make sense at all. When Priscilla killed Teresa.\n\nI know, Priscilla was no 2 and she was too powerful, and she's got awakened in\nthat second. But still we are talking about Teresa! Her best ability was that\nshe could read the moves of her opponent. right?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTeresa wasn't as focused as she normally would've been because Clare made her\na bit soft. Her friend even said the old Teresa would've killed Priscilla when\nshe was lying there crying. The old Teresa wouldn't have let it get that far.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI mean does a ninja have to go through the ranks of being a Genin, a Chūnin, a\nJōnin and then finally a Kage?\n\nIn the movie **Road to Ninja** Naruto asks Iruka to fill his Jōnin form but\nIruka refuses it saying that Naruto will have to be a Chūnin to fill out the\napplication form of Jōnin. But when Naruto became Hokage he still has to be a\nGenin right? If thats a case can any of the a Genin, a Chūnin, a Jōnin become\na Kage?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Naruto's case, it might be **possible**. Hokage is praised to be\nthe strongest shinobi in the village, while strong shinobi is capable of\npassing Chuunin/Jounin exam. Naruto has only participated in the Chuunin exam\ntwice throughout the whole series. One is during the Chunin Exams Arc, and the\nother one is in the [5th OVA of Naruto\nShippuden](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ch%C5%ABnin_Exam_on_Fire!_Naruto_vs._Konohamaru!).\nHe failed both exams anyways. Nevertheless, he's still strong, but his\nsilliness made him failed the 2nd exam. Shinobi rank might not be the most\nimportant fact to consider when electing a new Hokage, they need to be loyal\nand trustworthy, as Naruto has all of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf the owner of the spirit dies, can the spirit chose another human? And what\nhappens if the spirit and the human are separated? Will it obey someone else\nand if yes, under what circumstances?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the very beginning of _Kamisama Kiss_ , Mikage gave Nanami spiritual powers\nand made her the Kami of Mikage shrine, but did he do this without losing any\nof his own power? Is there any evidence that his powers have diminished? If\nso, how much has he been weakened? Is there any evidence to the contrary?\n\nRelated question with no satisfactory answers: [What is Mikage's status (in\nthe spirit/god world) after he passes the Tochigami Crest to Nanami? Is he\nstill a god?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18920/what-is-mikages-\nstatus-in-the-spirit-god-world-after-he-passes-the-tochigami)\n\nI'm looking for an answer with more evidence than the one for this question\nand I would like to see more of a focus on Mikage's power and abilities rather\nthan his status.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the after-credits scene of episode 2 of _91 Days_ , Nero questions Avilio\nabout the circumstances of Vanno's death. Crunchyroll translates the dialogue\nas follows:\n\n> AVILIO: He stole Vanno's gun. I shot Serpente, but it was too late.\n>\n> BARBERO: Your hands weren't tied?\n>\n> AVILIO: Serpente said he'd let me pray. Then he tied up Vanno...\n\nIs that actually his alibi? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense that Serpente\nwould have to steal Vanno's gun if Avilio were already tied up. And why would\nSerpente let Avilio pray _and then_ tie up Vanno? This doesn't make a whole\nlot of sense.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 53, Goku fights a Kai in training named Zamasu. Does anyone know\nthe name of the music that played about halfway into the battle? I really\nliked it but I can't seem to find a title anywhere.\n\nAttached below is a link to a YouTube video showing the fight. The music kicks\nup around 1:25–2:18 in the video.\n\n> [Video: Goku vs Zamasu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuCRKzQ6uUM)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found it! The song is called `Desperate Assault`.\n\n**EDIT:** Link here [Desperate Assault\nOST](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXHTJ-snUKQ)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 55 of _Dragon Ball Super_ , when Goku meets with the King of All\ntowards the end, Goku lifted him up and down and he said, \"No one else can do\nit.\"\n\nDoes this mean Goku was special or just that the King of All would usually\njust wipe them out of existence?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first movie and the anime series, Mewtwo's voice clearly indicates that\nMewtwo is male. In the 16th movie, Mewtwo appears to be female. It was then\nshown that that Mewtwo can mega evolve into Mewtwo Y. From this, is it\npossible that there are two Mewtwos, where the male is Mewtwo X and the female\nis Mewtwo Y? I know that in the game, Mewtwo does not have a gender, but this\nis from the anime's perspective.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI did some research and it appears that there are actually two different\nMewtwos, as you suggest. I know this sounds a bit outlandish at first, but it\nis mentioned and supported in numerous different sources.\n\nFrom [GameFAQs](http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/696959-pokemon-x/66716994):\n\n> In game: genderless \n> Real mewtwo from the first movie: male \n> New mewtwo from genesect movie: female, apparently\n\nFrom [Pokemon Database](http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/242280/what-gender-is-\nmewtwo):\n\n> The original Mewtwo, created by team rocket (First Movie & Mewtwo Returns),\n> was a male. \n> This is the moody Mewtwo you know best.\n>\n> The second Mewtwo appears in Genesect and the Legend Awakened and is female.\n>\n> There is no real evidence for exactly who created this Mewtwo, but it may\n> have been another team following Giovanni's original plans. It could also\n> have to do with the \"multiple parallel universes\" mentioned to exist in\n> ORAS.\n>\n> If this were to be the case, this Mewtwo would have been created at abut the\n> same time in about the same circumstances, but was born a female and may\n> have never met Ash.\n\nIn general, it appears that the movies can sometimes operate within different\ntimelines of the regular anime, so these _multiple parallel universe_ theories\ncan exist separately.\n\nFrom the [Bulbapedia entry for\nMewtwo](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mewtwo_\\(Pok%C3%A9mon\\)), it\nstates that Mewtwo is genderless, but Bulbapedia refers to the games and not\nthe anime/movies.\n\nYou can also watch [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHEXPEdJI8),\nwhere a semi-popular YouTuber discusses the gender of Mewtwo (and reaches the\nsame conclusion that there are two Mewtwos).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe evidence overwhelmingly indicates that there are two Mewtwos. Firstly, in\n[_Genesect and the Legend\nAwakened_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M16), Mewtwo didn't give any\nindication of recognizing Ash, even though it should have known him from the\nmovie _Mewtwo Strikes Back_. This indicates it was a different Mewtwo.\nSecondly, it has its own backstory in the special episode [_Mewtwo: Prologue\nto Awakening_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/SS026). I haven't seen\nthe special, so I couldn't say for certain whether the events therein\ncompletely contradict the idea of there being only one Mewtwo, but what I've\nread indicates that the second Mewtwo's creators survived, which contradicts\nthe fact that the first Mewtwo killed its creators.\n\nThe evidence for either Mewtwo having a gender, however, is nearly\nnonexistent. You submit the voice actor/actress for each Mewtwo as evidence of\nits gender, but I would contend that this is very insignificant. Especially\nfor animals (or Pokémon), an actress can play the role of a male character and\nan actor can play a female character. Shaymin from [_Giratina and the Sky\nWarrior_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Shaymin_\\(M11\\)) is an\nexample to consider. In the English dub of the movie, Shaymin's voice actress\nused a more masculine voice for when Shaymin turned into its Sky Forme, but\nused a feminine voice for Shaymin's Land Forme. This demonstrates that the\nvoice acting isn't a good indicator of a Pokémon's gender.\n\nFurthermore, the anime rarely reveals the gender of any Pokémon. For example,\njust look how few of [Ash's\nPokémon](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash_Ketchum#Pok.C3.A9mon.)\nhave confirmed genders. Of his Pokémon from Kanto and Johto, only the genders\nof Pikachu (male), Bayleef (female), and Butterfree (male) have been\nconfirmed. Notably, his Pokémon from Unova have the highest percentage of\nconfirmed genders. This is because his Snivy knew the move attract, the\neffectiveness of which depends on the Pokémon being of the opposite gender.\n\nAnd there you get to my point: The gender of a Pokémon is only revealed in the\nanime when there is reason to. The gender of Mewtwo really doesn't matter, and\nthere is no reliable information from the anime as a result. If we're just\ngoing by the anime, we don't know the gender of either Mewtwo.\n\n**Edit** : In the _Black and White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond_ episode\n[_To Catch a Rotom!_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW128), Professor\nOak confirms that Rotom is genderless after an attract move by Iris's Emolga\nfails. The existence of genderless Pokémon in the anime is likely an indicator\nthat the anime follows the games in this matter, and that Mewtwo is also\ngenderless.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Mewtwo in the first movie and in Mewtwo Returns is confirmed male - from\nGiovanni saying \"Good Boy\" when Mewtwo willingly goes into the trap made by\nGiovanni. And the more masculine voice just helps validate this, but the fact\nthat Giovanni stated him as a \"boy\" for me validates he is a male.\n\nAs for Mewtwo in the Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened - it\nis a different Mewtwo. It is voiced by a woman in both Japanese and English\ndubs, but there is no actual confirmation of its gender by pronouns or etc. We\n\"assume\" it is a female but there is no real indication of its gender as there\nwas with the first Mewtwo. Also, this Mewtwo is clearly a different Mewtwo by\nthe choices of voice actors, and also the fact that Ash recognized it as\nMewtwo, but the Mewtwo from the Genesect movie didn't recognize Ash. Ash also\n'acknowledged' it was a different Mewtwo in the Mewtwo x Genesect Movie. This\nMewtwo can also mega evolve to Mega Mewtwo Y at will, which the original\nMewtwo from the first movies never could.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes there are two mewtwos, this was stated by Director Kunihiko Yuyama: \"When\nyou think about the Mewtwo from the first movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back, you\nthink about lines like \"Who am I?\" and how there was this running theme of\nMewtwo wondering about itself and how it relates to the world around it.\"\n\n\"The Mewtwo in this film has actually gone out into the world and has expanded\nits worldview. And it's started to be concerned about this world and those in\nit, and when you compare it to the previous Mewtwo, you'll definitely feel\nlike it's gotten past one of its limitations.\"\n\n\"This Mewtwo is not the same Mewtwo from the first movie. What part will this\nMewtwo, who's actually gone out into the world, play in this movie?\" As you\ncan clearly read it is a separate individual and not the mewtwo we saw first.\nHere is my source:\n<http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies/bw_genosect_mewtwo/extreme_speed_genosect_awakening_mewtwo_director_yuyama_comment.html>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have seen so many episodes of Pokemon. Many episodes have Team Rocket trying\nto steal Ash's Pokemon by disguising themselves, or with other predicable\nmethods. Still, they are easily recognizable as Team Rocket every time. Why\nare Ash and his friends fooled every time, when Team Rocket's actions should\nbe predictable by now?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not that Ash and co. are constantly fooled by Team Rocket again and\nagain, but rather that Team Rocket has a specific role in the show. In order\nto keep Team Rocket in the show, they have to have a purpose for each episode,\nand thus have been constantly after Ash's Pikachu since the original few\nepisodes. To us, it seems that Ash is \"dumb\" or oblivious to Team Rocket's\nschemes, but in all reality it is due to the writing staff trying to keep them\nin the show (you have to remember that Pokemon is considered to be a\nchildren's show).\n\nI found from\n[here](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100224155237AATXwFa) one\nreason for why Team Rocket still appears in Pokemon:\n\n> Because they are popular comic relief characters, and if they were ever to\n> get rid of them, a boatload of rocket shipping fangirls would freak out and\n> hate Nintendo and stop buying games and watching shows, therefore\n> bankrupting the company. How else would they manage to make those episodes\n> last 22 minutes without wasting our time with another predictable plot to\n> capture Pikachu?\n\nAt this point, Team Rocket has become a staple of the Pokemon universe, and it\nwould feel empty without them. There are other Pokemon watchers who feel\nsimilarly to you, as stated\n[here](http://www.azurilland.com/forums/pokemon/pokemon-anime-\nmanga/524743-has-team-rocket-gotten-old-for-you):\n\n> The comic relief they provide is a necessary part of the show, but I'm quite\n> certain they could think of better ways of working it in. Not quite the same\n> as how you feel about strangling them, but my brother has actually started\n> cheering them on because he wants them to actually win for once so that they\n> aren't completely irrelevant. Plus it would be fun to see Ash totally lose\n> it when Pikachu is gone for days on end ;) The thing that really bugs me\n> though is how they have no concept of how you're supposed to pull off crimes\n> anyway. I can think of several instances off the top of my head where if\n> they'd kept their traps shut (no pun intended) without constantly going off\n> into their motto that they might actually have succeeded. They also think\n> that as soon as they've got a net around something that it's theirs. Team\n> Rocket is always shocked when the Pokémon fight back. Finally, who the ****\n> travels in a hot-air balloon when you're trying to be inconspicuous?!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne way to understand this is that the disguises are made obvious for the\nviewers, so that we are always aware that it is Team Rocket. From an in-\nuniverse perspective, the disguises must be fairly effective, because they\nalways fool everyone.\n\nFrom [TV\ntropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PaperThinDisguise):\n\n> The external reason for the flimsy disguise may be that the creators want to\n> signal the presence of a disguise to the audience before the other\n> characters catch on (a sort of Reverse Whodunnit).\n\nAnother point to consider is that this is a cartoon. In the real world, it\ndoesn't take much alteration to one's appearance to make it hard for other\npeople to identify you. But in a cartoon, where detail is lower, it's a lot\neasier to pick out characters so long as the alterations are minor and their\nfeatures are prominent enough (such as having giant purple or red hair). If we\nconsider Ash and friends seeing things more like we see them in the real\nworld, and less like the cartoon world we see them in, then this makes a bit\nmore sense (Jesse's hair is still pretty distinctive, though).\n\nSome sources on how easy it can be to fool people with simple disguises:\n\n<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121207-do-disguises-fool-surveillance>\n\n<https://www.wikihow.com/Disguise-Yourself>\n\n<https://gizmodo.com/its-surprisingly-easy-to-trick-people-with-a-\ndisguise-1832767214>\n\n<https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxap0000213> (scholarly\narticle mentioned by above gizmodo article, access required)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am from Iran and I saw just a few episodes. This story was famous in my\nparents' childhood and I really wonder why it is so different from the\noriginal story (the author is called Naghibolmamaulek). And why is the theme\ncompletely different from Persia?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime's based on [Hiromu Arakawa's manga of the same\nname](https://myanimelist.net/manga/51233/Arslan_Senki), which is, in turn,\nbased on [Yoshiki Tanaka's fantasy novel series of the same\nname](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heroic_Legend_of_Arslan). As the\nWikipedia page for the latter states, it appears to have taken inspiration\nfrom a few different sources:\n\n> Whilst the protagonist's name (which is\n> [Turkic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages) for lion) appears\n> to may have been taken from the popular Persian epic of [Amir\n> Arsalan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Arsalan), other than this\n> anachronism, Arslan and his Parsian enemies and allies primarily share many\n> parallels with [Cyrus the\n> Great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great) and other historical\n> figures of [6th century BCE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_century_BC)\n> [Persia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire) (albeit with several\n> liberties taken), whereas the conflicts with the Lusitanian forces (which\n> bear the [Byzantine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire)\n> [Orthodox cross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_cross)) – despite\n> mostly French names and a certain religious zealotry implying a connection\n> to the ([Catholic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Church))\n> [Crusades](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades) (again, with liberties\n> taken)– appear to be based on the [Byzantine–Persian\n> Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sasanian_wars),\n> specifically those of the [6th century\n> CE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_century). Furthermore, several names\n> of prominent Parsian characters appear to be taken from known important\n> figures throughout [Persian\n> history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iran) as well as the\n> historically unsubstantiated legendary parts of the historiographic Persian\n> epic [Shahnameh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh). Additionally,\n> supernatural elements mostly based on [ancient Near East\n> mythology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religions_of_the_ancient_Near_East)\n> increasingly play a role as the series goes on.\n\nI wasn't able to find any reference to Naghibolmamaulek, the author you\nmention, but the short answer to your question is: **the anime's based on a\nstory that was _inspired_ by the one your parents may have heard during their\nchildhood, among others, and it is not a direct adaptation of it/them.** As\nsuch, Tanaka (and possibly Arakawa too) took some liberties and changed a few\nthings around.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto uses a currency called the ryō (両).\n\n> The ryō (両) is the currency used in the Naruto world. It is based on an old\n> Japanese gold coin that was used in Japan before the Meiji period. It was\n> later replaced by the yen. **The exchange rate of a ryō is 10 yen**\n>\n> (from\n> [http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ryō](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ry%C5%8D))\n\nThis means 1 ryo ~ 0.1 USD.\n\nFrom what I can see the villagers pay money for all the missions completed.\nAccording to [the wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Missions),\n\n> * The reward for a D-rank mission is between five thousand and fifty\n> thousand ryō\n> * The reward for a C-rank mission is between thirty thousand and 100\n> thousand ryō.\n> * The reward for a B-rank mission is between 150 thousand and 200 thousand\n> ryō.\n> * The reward for an A-rank mission is between one hundred fifty thousand\n> and a million ryō\n> * The reward for an S-rank mission is more than a million ryō\n>\n\nFrom what I can observe, if you earn 5k ryō a day for 200 days a year (1\nD-Rank mission per day), you have 1 million ryō viz. $100k per annum. Not bad\nfor doing oddball jobs. This doesn't seem like a feasible economy to me.\n\n**However, since all this information is available in databooks etc., has\nKishimoto ever suggested how this economy would function?**\n\nOr is this another case of\n[WritersCannotDoMath](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WritersCannotDoMath)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nD-Rank missions were indeed overpaid, Kishimoto probably had no clue what he\nwas doing when he said that 1 ryo equals 10 yen. But first, in each year, only\n**_9 out of 27 graduates_** will be chosen to become a Genin, while the rest\nof course will be send back to the academy. This cuts down the quantity to the\nminimum, only 9 Genin are introduced to the mission per year.\n\n\n\nMissions are assigned by either Jounin-sensei (if they still have a mentor) or\nHokage himself. Almost all missions are **_non-repeatable_** , which means the\ncompleted missions will be removed from the mission list. However, it is the\nclient who decides the amount of money to pay the village (you can refer to\n[here](http://www.leafninja.com/mission.php)), and then the village will pay\nthe person who completed the mission. Not sure whether the village charges the\nfee or not, but probably yes in common sense.\n\n\n\nDespite their high income, they might spend most of their money on **_ninja\ntools supplies_** such as shurikens, kunais, scrolls, bombs, etc. Shinobi use\na lot of weapons and traveling goods, and that compensation probably is a\nsupplement, rather than the real income.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs it ever directly stated in the show or manga how high the net is?\nOtherwise, is there a way to extrapolate it, or is there any information on\nJapanese high school net heights?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know if _Haikyuu!!_ ever specifically talks about it - it doesn't come\nup in the anime through the end of season 2, at least - but the net height for\nhigh school boys' volleyball is [reportedly](http://www.sports-\nrule.com/volley6/about/) 240 cm. (Contrast 243 cm for pro men's volleyball,\nand 220 cm for high school girls' volleyball.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of episode 5,\n\n> Why does Rem kill Subaru, despite nothing wrong with relationship between\n> them ?\n\nThese events unfold starting at minute 22.\n\nAt the end of Episode 5, at night, Subaru is sick. He goes out to find help.\nHe is attacked. At 23:35 to 23:40, we hear the sound of an iron weapon (which\nis likely to be Rem's morningstar). And Subaru is killed with brute force.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DraOVm.jpg)\n\nHowever, it is unclear why Rem does that, given that Rem's relationship with\nSubaru is looking good. They both go to the village and talk. Rem also looks\nhappy then (at 17:29).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hvPt3m.jpg)\n\nI did watch Episode 6, where Subaru is very distant from Rem, and he acts\nsuspiciously, along with having the witch's scent that gets him killed. But\ndoes Rem kill Subaru in Episode 5 for the same reason?\n\n* * *\n\n**Edited** : From @ObviouslyJake's answer, I would like to add some more\ndetail comparing the time frame in episodes 5 and 6: \\- Similar: Subaru's\n**witch smell** (which is the main reason, according to @ObviouslyJake) \\-\nDifferent: the relationship with Rem\n\nEpisode 5: They talk and go to the town together. Rem is happy. (As I said\nabove, with an accompanying picture). In this episode, I can feel that Rem and\nSubaru become friends.\n\nEpisode 6: Rem tries to be distant from Subaru. Also, Subaru falls in her\ngarden twice, which she has to fix. In this episode, Rem and Subaru are\nstrangers.\n\nDoes the difference in the relationship between Subaru and Rem contribute to\nSubaru's death at the end of episode 5, compared to episode 6? Or is the\nwitch's smell the only reason?\n\nBecause there are two episodes, with some different choices and paths, I think\nthere must be something **different** here. I feel there has to be, but I\ncan't find it.\n\n* * *\n\n**Edit (Aug 31, 2016):** Thanks to @Davies comment and @ObviouslyJake, here is\nwhat I have in my head so far: in episode 6, things are worse than in episode\n5. Here, we're talking about why Rem kills Subaru in episode 5, despite them\nhaving a good relationship.\n\nMy theory is that Rem has a dual personality: Rem the maid, and Rem the oni\nwho hates the Witch.\n\nIn episode 5, Subaru has a good relationship with Rem the maid. As a result of\nhaving a good relationship with Rem the maid: \n\\- Rem smiles at 17:29 (picture above) \n\\- Rem gets Emilia to teach Subaru in the evening. (Episode 5, 17:57) \n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2qHdcm.jpg)\n\nHowever, Rem the oni still hates the Witch, which leads to Rem killing Subaru\nbecause of his Witch smell.\n\nTherefore, here is a summary: Rem will try to kill Subaru because of the Witch\nsmell unless the following condition is satisfied:\n\n * Rem is dead (nothing to say, I suppose...)\n\nor\n\n * Rem the Oni is freed from the tragedy of her childhood. \n\n(Spoilers for episode 18 follow)\n\n> The second condition is satisfied when Subaru saves Rem from the demon beast\n> in the forest in episode 11. The proof is in episode 18, from 20:00 to\n> 21:00, where Rem confirms that. \n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Cs1ym.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wpA4Um.jpg)\n\nThat is what I think, please tell me if I wrong.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe short answer is... **Yes, he was killed because of his witch smell.**\n\nRem is very suspicious of Subaru in this time frame. He is a new person,\nentering a household she has grown to love. Now think about it: if a new\nperson, Subaru, comes in, has distinct clothing that she's never seen before,\nis very 'friendly' with Emilia the main guest of the house, and smells like\nthe witch. It's not looking good for our favourite little protagonist in her\neyes.\n\nFurthermore, we saw a scene somewhere in there where Roswaald whispered to Rem\n(and Ram I think) to keep an eye on him, as he was also suspicious, feeding\nher the seed of doubt about Subaru, even more so than before. Everyone was\nsuspicious. He could have been a potential threat to their claim for the\nkingdom's throne.\n\nNow we move onto Rem's personal reasoning.\n\n**This part is a spoiler for a later episode. If you don't want to know\nspoilers, don't read this part.**\n\n> As we know, Rem's family and her whole village, aside from herself and her\n> sister, were killed by the witch's cultists, an organisation that, as\n> stated, worships the Jealous Witch. **Now think** Subaru, a suspicious\n> character who just appeared, smells just like the witch.\n\n> We can tell from this that she has a personal grudge against him for this.\n> **In conclusion:** Yes, you're correct. Rem killed Subaru because he smelled\n> like the witch, which she had personal history with.\n\n**Edit 1:**\n\n> I believe the change in Rem around Subaru could be an inkling of sympathy\n> for him. For example, when he wakes up, he is sporadic, screams and then\n> realizes the twins are looking over him, at which point he is back to his\n> 'playful, energized' self. \n> \n> I feel like she would see him as a 'madman' who isn't right in the head, to\n> the extent that she is friendly with him, as to not convey her concern or\n> trigger his madness. It could also be that she doesn't want to show\n> disrespect to him, as he is a house guest, doing so would tarnish her own\n> reputation, so in public, it is best to stay friendly.\n\n**Edit 2:**\n\nAs the question states, 'Am I wrong?' about the dual personality of Rem.\nPersonally, I believe you're right and wrong at the same time. I believe\nthey're the same personality. It's just that Rem is putting on a brave face\nwhenever she smiles. A quote I very much like, which I heard from someone, is\n\"Don't trust someone just because the smile.\" I think that applies here.\n\nRem smiles a lot, due to the fact that she has to keep a brave face, as to not\ndisappoint her sister, as well as to not tarnish the manor's professionalism.\n\nThink of it, in terms of two girls. **Girl 1** (Rem) is weaker than Girl 2.\n**Girl 2** (Ram) _was_ stronger, though lost her weapon, so she's now weak and\ncan't use a weapon anymore.\n\nIf Girl 1 were to just sulk and throw her weapon away, when she can very well\nstill use it, how would that make Girl 2 feel? This could also be why she\nkeeps a smile on her face. She's that used to putting up her smile, to not\ndisappoint her sister, that she does it with everyone. It's become a natural\nthing.\n\nNow onto the subtitles on the last picture you included, as they reminded me\nof something else.\n\nShe said \"My time has been stopped\". As in, there was no way for her to move\npast that incident that she was stuck in her own madness, revenge stricken\nmadness. Subaru comes along and saves her from this, later down the line, so\nthat her time keeps moving (I'm not really sure how, I'd have to watch the\nepisodes again).\n\n**However** , this doesn't necessarily mean that the reason you provided was\nthe right one. She stopped trying to kill him, as she realized, through\ntalking to him, through spending time with him, that he was actually a\ntrustworthy character, in the sense that he wasn't anything to do with the\nwitch's cult.\n\nHe openly admitted to her that he smelled like the witch. He wasn't trying to\nhide the fact, he was also unsure of why it existed. Rem's a perceptive little\ndemon, so she picked up on how his emotions and expressions were in the end:\ntrustworthy.\n\nHowever, having only just met him in episodes 5/6, he was just another witch's\ndisciple, a threat she had to eliminate for her own gain, for the revenge of\nher family, her sister and herself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHE HAD WITCH SMELL IN ALL EPS\n\n * EP4: Rem didn't kill him(probably) \n * EP5: Perfect relationship + witch smell, subaru felt sick, he needed help(he would die anyway because of the curse) but Rem killed him \n * EP6: no relationships + witch smell - acting suspicion - justified kill \n * EP7: no relationships + witch smell - Rem was holding his hand during nightmare\n\nWhere is the logic? There is non. Just poor screenwriting.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUh I know you guys might already know by now but in episode 5 when Rem and\nSubaru are walking back they start talking about demons and gods then Rem asks\nSubaru if he likes demons or whatever and he basically said how gods never\nreally do much and that he likes demons which witches are usually acquainted\nwith which leads to Rem killing him at the end of episode 5.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust wanted to clarify that when Roswaald was talking about Subaru being\nsuspicious or not, he was only talking to ram, not to rem.\n\nThe fact that rem was so friendly with Subaru but kills him hours later\ndoesen't make much sense to me even considering the witche's scent.\n\nI think a more probable answer is that it was Ram who killed Subaru, but then\nagain I don't know if Ram ever uses that chain weapon :/\n\nIf it really is Rem that kills him, then I think the story was not very well\nthought through, because episode 5 is THE episode where Subaru and Rem bond\nthe most (and genuinely so)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Dragon Ball series, Goku's Dragon Ball had 4 stars. How many stars were\non Ox King's / Chi Chi's Dragon Ball?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGoku and Bulma got the seven star dragon ball from the Ox king's castle. The\nOx king agreed to give them the dragonball if they put out the fire that was\ndestroying his castle. Once the fire was put out by Master Roshi, Bulma then\nused the dragon radar to locate the dragon ball in the ruins of the castle.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/50B2Q.png)\n\nThis picture is from the Dragonball manga. It was from chapter 15 on page 9.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [Arqade](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/283682/is-squirtle-\nwater-potable?noredirect=1#comment399382_283682 \"Arqade\")...\n\nI've seen this photo on Facebook:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xn5i2.jpg)\n\nFor sure I would take Charmander for the flame-throwing capabilities, but for\nthe second starter I was thinking about grabbing Squirtle.\n\nGaining access to clean water would be one of the biggest challenges you would\nface in a zombie apocalypse, and Squirtle's water gun could be a very easy\nsolution.\n\nQuestion is, is that water potable?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'll answer this with an answer I found\n**[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/2p54d2/do_you_think_it_would_be_safe_to_drink_water_from/)**\nvia a user by the name of **ItalianRapscallion**.\n\n> I assume, since so much is generated, its just summoned from a point inside\n> their mouth (or whatever aperture, gem, whathaveyou). That is, it comes into\n> being right then (not teleported from somewhere or produced by an organ --\n> since you cannot compress a liquid, a squirtle, say, could not store the\n> amount of water you typically see him emitting)...\n>\n> My guess is no, because if you are materializing water from thin air, would\n> that pokemagic create minerals / salt at normal levels too? It's probably\n> pure water, maybe a little saliva mixed in depending on the aperture from\n> whence it came (but if so it wouldn't be enough to make a difference). In\n> other words, drinking it would leech all the minerals and saline out of your\n> cells, it wouldn't hydrate you, and if you drank enough you would eventually\n> explode on a cellular level.\n>\n> **Edit: further mulling made me realize an easy test, (which i don't recall\n> from the show) Do we ever see electricity travelling along water spewed from\n> a water pokemon? If so, the water is conductive, i.e. mineralized, therefore\n> you can probably drink it.**\n\nGiven the fact that Suicune has the ability to \"walk across water and purify\ndirty water with one touch\", I believe that the fact that the water Pokemon\nproduce is in fact **not pure** due to the fact that it was never stated\nanywhere that it was indeed pure, as well as the fact that one Pokemon out of\nall of them was given the phrasing of pure water. **(Suicune is legendary, so\nyou can't just choose him and forget about the water purity issues.)**\n\nIn all honesty through my searches of the web, I haven't found anything\nconclusive on the topic, so we can put it in a grey area, in which we are\nnever really sure of the answer until we can see it for ourselves.\n\n**That said** , the fact that **Water Type** Pokemon are **weak to** Pokemon\nof the **Electric Type** , it is safe to assume that the water they produce\ndoes indeed contain the minerals and nutrients it requires.\n\nEven with this info however, we don't know just how bad the state of the water\nis, as that is never discussed. So even though it does contain the minerals,\nwe don't know if it contains any virus, or disease that would harm us.\n(Considering the nature of the games and anime, I think it's safe to assume\nthey don't, but for the sake of this, we can't rule it out. It could be life\nor death after all.)\n\n**My conclusion is that:** It _should_ be safe, however we can't guarantee it\nfor multiple reasons, so keeping a Squirtle would be a good idea, though try\nto bring a form of filter with you, for a safety precaution.\n\nEdit 2: Thanks to\n**[Senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin)** I was\ninformed that distilled water would not kill you, unless it was the only water\nyou drink. Meaning that, if you have some other source of water coming in,\nfrom time to time, on a regular basis, you would be completely fine in that\ninstance. This, sadly however, still doesn't cover the fact that:\n\n 1. You're in an apocalypse, so water sources other than rivers, the ocean, ransacked stores, etc, is not going to be the most reliable in a city environment, though in the countryside you have more chance of finding natural bodies of water.\n 2. It might be dangerous water, rather than distilled water, coming from the Pokemon.\n\n**I say again** , bring a water filter of some sort, as well as a Squirtle, to\nensure your own safety.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that _apparently_ there is no information about this in the Dragon Ball\nSuper series.\n\nBut since new information is constantly popping up in manga, magazines, etc.\nBefore the series sometimes, that's why I'm asking.\n\nMore data on this, according to [Dragon Ball Wikia on Super Saiyan\nRosé](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_Ros%C3%A9)\n\n> This form is a counterpart to Super Saiyan Blue, and possesses a different\n> hair color due to the user already possessing the status as a god prior to\n> surpassing Super Saiyan God\n\nSo if Goku would turn a god of destruction as when he was offered once (or\nVegeta) or Trunks would become a Kaioshin as when he was a Kaioshin\napprentice, wouldnt they turn into Super Saiyan Rosé when trying to transform\ninto super saiyan god super saiyan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI dont think they would be able to achieve it because I think it is partly\nlinked to him being the same kind of race as Gowasu (as in mind)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSuper Saiyan Rose is Goku Black's version of the regular Super Saiyan that\nsurpassed the power of Super Saiyan God and evolved naturally into SSGSS/A\ndifferently colored Super Saiyan Blue due to his status as an actual god with\nnatural god ki.SSGSS is blue for Goku and Vegeta because they aren't actual\ngods just mortals with godly ki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDon't listen to anyone else except Zamasu it has to do with the fact that\nSuper Saiyan Rose is Goku Black's version of the regular Super Saiyan that\nsurpassed the power of Super Saiyan God and evolved naturally into SSGSS/A\ndifferently colored Super Saiyan Blue due to his status as an actual god with\nnatural god ki. SSGSS is blue for Goku and Vegeta because they aren't actual\ngods just mortals with godly ki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis transformation has something to do with Zamasu being inside of Goku.\n\nExample:\n\nIn DBGT Baby took Vegeta's body and transformed into super saiyan and Baby\nVegeta's hair was white. For what I know Goku and Vegeta will not get this\ntransformation because Zamasu is a \"World King God\" from Universe 10 and\nZamasu being a god being inside of goku made a mutated transformation like\nBaby in DBGT\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been watching lots of anime series and in lots of them the guy realizes\nthat he loves the girl when he sees her in a kimono specially for the\nfestivals. Just this last week it was both in ReLIFE and Twin Star Exorcists.\nJust what is with that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's a similar trope to one you see in Western media, where the normally un-\nfeminine (or dorky, or nerdy, or otherwise not stereotypically attractive)\nfemale character dresses up for some kind of fancy party - if the characters\nare school age, then it's frequently a prom. So they ditch the t-shirt, jeans\nand sneakers, don a dress and heels, swap the glasses for contacts, maybe put\non makeup and get their hair done, and then become the belle of the ball and\nmake the male protagonist swoon.\n\nA kimono (or yukata, since a lot of these scenes take place at festivals in\nthe warmer half of the year) is a very traditional dress, and it's associated\nwith elegance given its fabric (often silk) and intricate patterns. In\naddition, when wearing one, women will often put their hair up, maybe put on a\nlittle makeup, and wear geta which are elevated sandals, which have an effect\non the wearer's height and posture similar to wearing high heels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust a small correction: guys do not simply fall for the girl when he sees her\nin kimono/yukata; his love was built up and the kimono/yukata just sorta\ndelivers the final blow.\n\nThe kimono is a traditional Japanese clothing, it shows elegance and beauty to\nthe people wearing it. It is a formal garment that can be worn to weddings,\netc.\n\nFor teenagers, they don't get the chance to wear something fancy often, and\nthe kimono is something fancy which the teens can wear once or twice a year.\nBecause it's rare to see people wearing kimonos, it excites people\npsychologically. It's sorta like finding a shiny Pokemon, all it is is a\ndifferent color with a low chance of encountering and people treat it like\ngold. It's the same with this, because of its rarity, it enhances the beauty\nof the girls wearing it.\n\nLike I already said, this will only work if the guy has some feelings towards\nthe girl. If a random guy saw a random girl wearing kimono, he might feel\nattracted but wouldn't fall for the girl. And the trope can work with other\nfancy garment as well, such as a wedding dress (they go to a park where the\ngirl tries on a wedding dress) in some anime, or a qipao (Chinese dress)\ndepending on the anime. Most of the time it's a kimono because it's easy to\nrelate to and it's in Japan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball, master Roshi and the others take a plane trip over to Papaya\nisland for the 2nd Tenkaichi tournament (in the series). During the plane-\nride, master Roshi seems to become extremely upset and wants the plane to\nstop. I watched this a few times, and I guess I just didn't understand this\npart.\n\nWhy does he want the plane to stop?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you're talking about the manga, Master Roshi indeed wants the plane to\nstop, but the reason is quite obvious to the reader: he wants to poop real bad\n(Chapter 113). This is so clearly stated that I am not sure this is what you\nwere asking about. Maybe it is not so clear in the anime?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oF5je.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe understand she's embarrassed about her real name Lalatina and noble status.\nBut was it ever explained how/why she specifically came to choose to go by\nDarkness of all possible names?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Archer from the Fate:SN series is both a great archer and a great\nsword/knife user. Since he's Archer, you would think that he was an archer\nfirst. However, I have been told that apparently,\n\n> Archer is the future Shiro.\n\nSince this character learnt swords first why was he the archer and not an\nAssasin, a Sabre or something else. What did the Archer learn first, the Sword\nor the bow?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> since Shiro started to use swords first\n\nThat is incorrect.\n\nThis is not clear neither from the anime nor from the VN, but Shiro is highly\nskilled in archery way before the story starts. This is why he is hanging\naround archery range early in the story.\n\nSomewhere I read that Shiro was so good, he had to put effort into actually\nmissing the target. He stopped practicing archery because he was bored of\nsucceeding while putting no effort into it.\n\nIt was only after Holy Grail War started that he began to actually use swords\nand copying Archer's style.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShiro used to be on the Archery varsity team in his school. That's why he is\ngood at using bows. He became good in using swords/knives because of the\nfighting experiences. mostly when he fought Gilgamesh, which sharpened his\nsword intuition. Shiro is an archer who can wield blades for short.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNeither. The Archer class servant of the 5th Fuyuki Grail War was a magus\nbefore anything else. At his core he is Projection and Reinforcement\nmagecraft, all culminating into his reality marble (an innate bounded field)\n\"Unlimited Blade Works.\"\n\nAs a magus his talents were unremarkable, save for his talent in Reinforcement\nand Projection. While Emiya Shirou was in his school's archery club, it was\nshort-lived and not very noteworthy. Most of his strength came from him making\na contract with the World in order to become a Heroic Spirit in the form of a\nCounter Guardian after his passing.\n\nHis adeptness in melee combat is unusual for a servant of his class, but his\nOrigin is \"Sword.\" It's inevitable that we would use them in one way or\nanother. The twin swords he uses, Kansho and Bakuya are not tied to him as a\nservant, but was merely something he projected. He utilizes these twins swords\nbecause of the innate magic resistance (to deflect Caster's A-ranked spells)\nthey give, in addition to being effective against monsters such as Gorgon form\nof Rider and the extradimensional abomination summoned by Caster (from\nFate/Zero).\n\nServants are placed under the Archer class based on their Noble Phantasm. The\nuser does not have to be adept at a bow, but any projectile weapons, even\nfirearms. Gilgamesh is placed under Archer based on his Noble Phantasm \"Gate\nof Babylon,\" which essentially is him launching Noble Phantasms stored in his\ntreasury.\n\n\"Unlimited Blade Works\" allows allows him to reproduce just about any weapon\nhe's seen (with some exceptions), allowing him to summon an arsenal of weapons\nas he needs it. His Projection magecraft allows him to create and overload\nprojected Noble Phantasms (the copies are one rank lower than the original).\nThe overloaded Noble Phantasms called Broken Phantasms are increased by one,\nbut are destroyed they are used. Combining Broken Phantasms with a bow allows\nArcher to nuke the enemy from extreme distances. Think of as having an\nunlimited quiver of super powerful arrows for just about any situation.\nTactics such as these make him suitable to be classified as an Archer class\nservant.\n\nAdditionally, it should be noted that this Archer is not from the same\ntimeline as Emiya Shirou. He is an Emiya Shirou that walked a different path\nas a nameless hero of justice, who made a contract with the world to be save\nhumanity as a whole as Counter Guardian. But in the end, he was made to clean\nup after the actions humans by becoming an assassin. To save humanity as a\nwhole, instead of \"saving everyone\" as he had hoped.\n\nIt's possible for him to be summoned as Caster, Berserker, or Assassin, but\nthat's a story for another time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nArchery. Archer's magecraft is remarkably close/based off the 8 steps of\nJapanese Archery/Kyudo/The way of the bow, and his lack of self identity is\nthe reason why he's good at it. The weapon might have changed (his body\ninstead of the bow, swords instead of arrows), but the steps are the same\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nArchery is Shirou's basic talent, he didn't even need to learn it to be good\nat it (as mentioned above, he is way too good for the archery club), sword\ntechnique is more like his hobby or inner calling (because of Avalon, made his\nOrigin: Sword) and he is not really talented at it no matter he tries even on\nhis max potential + World-boost, his swordmanship is still below standard\nclose-combat Servants (although he can defensively fight against those \"True\"\nmelee combatants, such as Saber and Lancer with his True Mind's Eye (spider-\nsense-like skill)\n\nIf he was really intended to win the Holy Grail, he would just sniped every\nMaster and Servants from afar (including Lancer, who has Arrow Evasion\nskill/blessing or such, but only worked if Lancer could see where the arrow\ncoming from and the arrow had no AoE like Caladbolg II ... on Berserker, he\ncould just snipe Ilya anyways (but for unknown reason, Archer won't or can not\nkill Ilya, perhaps Archer came from Shirou-Ilya path? lol), and Berserker will\nrun out gas later if there is no Master supplied his Mana), i.e. his meele\nsword play is more like a handicapped fighter, and not even trying to win on\nmost cases.\n\nSo my conclusion based on VN and animes: his granted Sword origin from Avalon\ngave him an endless craving for Sword techniques, but will never reaches\nmastery like his Archery does ... also maybe he thinks Archery is a coward\nskill, and he prefers to fight his opponent bravely like other meele\ncombatants lol\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe learned Archery before and he was pretty accurate when shooting, making him\nArcher material. His archery skills is even better than his magic when he was\nstill Shirou.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we know from anime (I'm not familiar neither with manga or novel), Board of\nEducation is responsible for disposing (\"expelling from school/academy\") of\nproblematic student, who may turn to Akkis or Karma Demons. They may use\nvariety of methods to do so - Bakenezumi assassins, nekodamashi, poisoned\nmedicine etc. I'm sure that when they are ordering nekodamashi to kill\nstudent, they do realize, that they will be actual cause of death of another\nperson.\n\nWe can see from several occasions (temple monk after killing living library,\nSaki after her plan to kill Akki was success), that even small allusion, that\nyou are killing another human, may lead to heavy consequences, if not death.\n\nSo, my question is - are Board of Education members immune to Death Feedback?\nNumerous people were killed after their order, but it seems, that it does not\naffect any of Board of Education members at all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomehow they've figured out that using additional objects or creatures to\ncarry out the actual killing is a workaround which doesn't trigger the death\nfeedback reaction. I suspect it was made clear at the time the death feedback\nwas invented and introduced to people. There had to be _some_ way to kill the\ndeviants and possible mass murderers in case some genetic or other type of\ndisorder prevented death feedback from preventing more deaths as intended.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Warning: Major spoilers following.** \n(Yes, I'm aware the anime is 'old news', but the spoiler warning doesn't\nhurt.)\n\nIt is established in the anime that the heros of the Taisha can 'bloom' to\nincrease their strength, and that\n\n> this 'blooming' causes them to lose a bodily function (one eye's vision,\n> taste, voice, one ear’s hearing) upon returning to the everyday world. \n> \n> Similarly, from Tougou's and Yuuna's meeting with the former hero, it is\n> established that this process seems irreversible because they are 'offerings\n> to the divine tree'.\n\nHowever, during the last episode,\n\n> despite having bloomed multiple times (and in Karin's case, having a part of\n> her body 'chained' each time), the girls regain the bodily functions they\n> have lost — and even those they lost in the former bloomings, i.e. in\n> Tougou's case she can even move her legs again.\n\nIs there any explanation given either in the anime itself (which I must have\nmissed) or in derived works as to how what is put into the second spoiler box\nis even possible? It seems to contradict everything we learnt about the hero\nsystem in the preceeding episodes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen they bloom, the girls' bodily functions aren't _lost_ , per se, but are\n\"given\" to the divine tree as an offering. At the end of the series, the\ndivine tree elects to return what it took (i don't remember if the reasoning\nwas expressly stated or not, but I like to think that it realized the extreme\ndetrimental effect this was having on the girls).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is explained in the bonus chapter 「その後の園子」 ( _Sono Ato no Sonoko_ ,\n[Sonoko After](http://yuyuyu.wikia.com/wiki/Sonoko_After)), published on\n_Dengeki G's magazine_ ed. 2015/03.\n\nThe story talks about the everyday life of Nogi Sonoko and the heroes after\nthe final battle. It also explains the reason why the divine tree decided to\n\"reverse the effect\".\n\nExcerpt from the script ( ** _possible spoiler for 2nd season** , heavily\nredacted to answer the question only_):\n\n> After the party, Sonoko went over to Tougou's house. Yuuna was probably\n> being considerate. Today, she left them alone. The two had a lot to talk\n> about. \n> About everything that's happened so far. \n> About their dear friend. \n> And... \n> \"Have you heard the reason everyone's getting their offerings back,\n> Sonocchi?\" \n> The other side of the incident. \n> Sonoko smiled. \n> \n> [...] \n> \n> \"The Shinju-sama... came to believe in human courage~\" \n> \n> [...] \n> \n> \"However the Shinju-sama came to believe in the courage of mankind. By\n> witnessing Yu~yu's and everyone's hard work, as well as getting plenty of\n> Vertex combat data, the hero system was updated to the next stage.\" \n> \n> [...] \n> \n> \"Don't think negatively about the situation. The Shinju-sama believed\n> mankind would be able to walk down the harsh path, instead of a gentle one\n> that lead to its demise. That is why it gave back our offerings and allowed\n> for mass-production of the system so that everyone would be able to stand\n> and fight. Everyone will don their own flower~. Isn't that a good thing?\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last chapter of Bleach manga,\n\n> Kazui Kurosaki (Ichigo's son) vanquished the remains of Yhwach reiatsu by\n> simply _touching_ it (Yhwach remaining reiatsu).\n\nIs it because Kazui comes from\n\n> Ichigo's bloodline\n\nand is somehow connected to Yhwach?\n\nI am not sure I understand what happened there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n(This is during Duellist Kingdom, where high-level monsters do not require\ntributes.)\n\nIn [Episode 033](http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_-_Episode_033), Yugi\nhas Gaia the Dragon Champion on his field, and Jounouchi has in his hand Red-\nEyes Black Dragon, Graverobber, and Kunai with Chain. He thinks it's hopeless,\nsince even if he summons Red-Eyes, Gaia still has greater strength. But he\ndraws Copycat, inspiring a strategy: He summons Red-Eyes, then activates\nGraverobber from his hand as a Spell Card, stealing Yugi's Summoned Skull.\nNext he uses Copycat as a Spell Card, which apparently allows him to mimic any\ncard which Yugi has used; he chooses Polymerization, and with it he fuses\nSummoned Skull and Red-Eyes to summon Black Skull Dragon, a monster that can\noverpower Gaia.\n\nMeanwhile, I think: _Wouldn't it have been simpler to use Kunai with Chain?_\nRed-Eyes has 2400 ATK, and Gaia has 2600. The Trap Card Kunai with Chain can\nadd 500 additional ATK to a monster. If he had summoned Red-Eyes and allowed\nYugi to attack with Gaia, he could have activated Kunai with Chain and\ndefeated Gaia without his original needlessly complex strategy, saving several\ncards that could be useful later. While Kunai with Chain did end up being\nuseful later itself, Graverobber and Copycat, I think, are more worth saving.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am not sure if \"Beats\" refer to \"heart beats\" or \"music beats\". What does\nthe title mean as a whole?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis will include spoilers from later in the show, for anyone not wanting to\nspoil, please don't read my answer, just know that it in fact is both of the\nsuggestions @An hoa has.\n\n**It's both Heart Beats and Music Beats**\n\n* * *\n\n> Your assumptions of it being one or both of the two suggested is correct, as\n> the title as a whole is a play on the fact that the whole show revolves\n> around a character Otonashi who's heart was given away, to the girl Kanade,\n> after he had died. (or Tenshi, for those of you who don't like her actual\n> name). \n>\n\n* * *\n\n> In the end of the show we see that Kanade thanked Otonashi for giving her\n> the heart she had used to carry on living. She had always wanted to thank\n> him for the **beating** heart she had been given, as hers was no good. \n>\n\n* * *\n\n> We all realized that it was referring to the beat of the song, as well\n> however from the get go, due to the catchy rythm of the OP. So it's natural\n> to think that that was the reasoning. However it IS both. \n>\n\n* * *\n\n> The title literally means **_The beating of Kanade's heart_** \n> \n> As we know **Kanade is known as Tenshi** which directly **translates to\n> Angel.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last episode of _Angel Beats!_ , Kanade thanked Otonashi for the heart\nthat he gave to her. Kanade, a.k.a. Angel, said that his heart was still\nbeating in her chest, and that when he had fallen asleep on top of her chest,\nhe was listening to the rhythm of his own heartbeats. This is the meaning of\nthe anime's title.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode 7 of the show _Luluco Space Patrol_ , a lot of references to\nthe anime _Kill La Kill_ are made:\n\n * The planet they are visiting is named _KLK_ (initials for _Kill La Kill_ )\n * The characters are talking about living fibers and how it is necessary to use special scissors to cut them\n * Some of the characters from _Kill La Kill_ are present, such as the dog and the white clothes in background\n * The \"big excessive titles\" we can see in _Kill La Kill_ are present in this episode: \n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ySQMm.jpg)\n\n * At 5:20, we can hear the main theme of _Kill La Kill_\n\n * etc.\n\n* * *\n\nMy question is: what links those two shows? Same editor/writer? What common\npoints link those two anime close enough to have an entire episode of _Luluco_\ndedicated to _Kill La Kill_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> My question is: what links those two shows? Same editor/writer?\n\nSame everything, pretty much. Both shows are original IPs by\n[Trigger](http://www.st-trigger.co.jp/) (the animation studio), directed by\nstudio founder Imaishi Hiroyuki, and I assume that many other staff members\nworked on both shows.\n\nTrigger (or maybe it's just Imaishi) is known to be fond of reference humor -\nthere were, for example, oblique references to _Kill la Kill_ even in _Inou\nBattle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de_ , the latter of which was an adaptation of\na non-Trigger IP. Given the opportunity to reference one of their own IPs from\nanother of their own IPs - which means they don't have to tiptoe around\ncopyright issues - the results are what you see in episode 7 of _Space Patrol\nLuluco_.\n\nIn addition to the _Kill la Kill_ thing in episode 7, there's also _Little\nWitch Academia_ in episode 8; _Sex & Violence with Machspeed_ in episode 9;\nand _Inferno Cop_ in episode 11. These three things are also original Trigger\nIPs.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs with many forms of art and entertainment, the process of drawing anime must\nhave evolved over time. CGI isn't uncommon in modern anime, as scenes or whole\nshows can be completed using nothing but a computer. What are some of the\nmodern innovations in animation techniques (primarily for anime)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDue to the lack of time period in the question, here's a more blanket overview\nof anime innovation.\n\n# The Evolution of Animation Techniques\n\n**The Celluloid Shift**\n\nThe first few animations were made by Winsor McCay in 1914. Unfortunately,\nthere are not many copies of this animation remaining, but it sparked a\nmovement that was known as the _Celluloid Shift_ in animation history. This\nprocess involves drawing a background first, and then drawing different layers\nfor characters on top of it.\n\n[code]\n\n \n \n[/code]\n\nThis allowed for animators to make more complex scenes than just simple\nsketches. This is the method that Walt Disney used when he created [_Steamboat\nWillie_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie) (1929) and [_Snow\nWhite and the Seven\nDwarfs_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_\\(1937_film\\))\n(1937). While this isn't Japanese animation, or anime, this method of drawing\nlayers is what was used in early animation projects from any country or origin\n{1}.\n\nIt wasn't for a while that the now _regular episodic_ Japanese anime made an\nappearance. From [this A&M SE\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3408/what-is-the-first-\never-produced-anime-and-manga), people have largely agreed that\n[おとぎマンガカレンダー](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_History), or [Otogi Manga\nCalendar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_History), was the first anime\n_series_ ever created, which was published in 1961. However, there were other\nshort clips, like [Katsudo\nShashin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsud%C5%8D_Shashin) (1907) and [なまくら刀\n(An Obtuse Sword)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namakura_Gatana) (1917),\nwhich were each 3 seconds and 120 seconds, respectively. These first short\nanimations and full anime series use the method brought on by McCay with the\nCelluloid Shift. It is interesting to note that McCay brought this method to\nthe west in 1914, but it is seen being used in animations in the east as early\nas 1907.\n\n**Computer-Aided Frame-by-Frame Animation**\n\nAfter animation was gaining popularity as a medium of entertainment across the\nglobe, the computer began aiding animators in their creation of new works.\nWhen the computer first entered the world of animation, it was used to make\nthe process of redrawing parts of the scene much less arduous, by introducing\nthe _frame-by-frame_ method.\n\nIn the frame-by-frame method, an animator draws an initial scene on the\ncomputer. This can be done with a stylus on the computer screen, or it can be\ndone with special external computer peripherals that will translate a drawing\ninto an image on the computer screen. Then, the animator advances the screen\nby _one frame_ (if the movie takes place at 60 fps or _frames per second_ ,\nthen the animator advances the scene by 1/60th of a second). The drawing from\nthe last frame stays slightly grayed out for the animator to reference, and\nthe drawing from the current frame appears darker on the computer screen.\nThese allows the animator to create reference points when animating. With the\nprevious method in the Celluloid Shift, this method could be emulated with\nvery thin tracing paper, where an artist would draw one frame, and then lay a\nthin sheet of paper over it so they could see it while drawing the next frame.\n\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pHbZ7f9jLU) is a great video that\nshows exactly how frame-by-frame animation works (this is still largely used\nin the anime industry today), as it is hard to visualize from my description\nalone. It is important to note that in this method the animation is still\nlargely _drawn by hand_ ; even though this method uses a computer, the\ncomputer _doesn't_ actually do the drawing, the animator does.\n\n**Computer-Generated Imagery**\n\nHowever, the most modern innovation with anime and animation is CGI, or\n_computer-generated imagery_. Similar to frame-by-frame animation, CGI is\naccomplished with the use of a computer (thus the phrase _computer_ in the\nname), but different to all previous animation methods, the _computer_ draws\nthe scene (as instructed by the animator), rather than the _animator_ drawing\nthe scene.\n\nThis method has become popular in the west with studios like Pixar and\nDreamworks. Some of the most popular include _Toy Story_ (1995) and _The\nIncredibles_ (2004), as well as many, many others. However, this animation\ninnovation has been used fairly regularly in other shows as well. More popular\nin _mecha_ anime, at the dawn of the CGI era certain scenes would be completed\nwith CGI while the majority of the work was done with computer-aided frame-by-\nframe animation. This is because often CGI allows animators to create and draw\nscenes that are incredibly complex or too hard to draw by hand. It was more\npopular as CGI was emerging to use this cross-method animation, where parts\nwere animated with CGI and other sections were animated with the frame-by-\nframe method. There are many, many other examples of this, but the one I found\nthat showcases this fusion of the two methods is [this scene from the second\nseason of Aldnoah.Zero (2014)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8obMGyKgP5A),\nwhich you can see CGI being used for the vehicles and mechs but regular frame-\nby-frame for the people and other scenes (beware, this clip contains\nspoilers). Another show that relied heavily on both frame-by-frame and CGI\nanimation is [Initial D](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_D). You can\nwatch [this first episode of Initial\nD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVG7zusJ1t8) and seen the stark contrast\nbetween the two animation methods. Whether this cross-method animation was an\neffective way of creating a show is primarily opinion-based, however, and is a\nwhole different question for later.\n\nIn today's modern world, however, CGI is making the transfer from being used\nin conjunction with frame-by-frame animation to being used for the whole show.\nThere have been a couple shows like this recently (and probably many more that\nI haven't watched), but the two that are in my mind right now are\n[Ajin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajin:_Demi-Human), whose trailer can be\nseen [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO21Sq_CB0A), and the new sequel\nof [Berserk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk_\\(2016_TV_series\\)), whose\ntrailer can be seen [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxU5IpKpM0). As\ncomputers become more powerful and more available, it seems that CGI is taking\nover more shows, but I doubt it will fully replace frame-by-frame animation\n(on a personal note, if you haven't seen Ajin or Berserk, I HIGHLY suggest\nwatching the anime or reading the manga for both of them) {2}.\n\n[Here is](http://www.ageofinnovation.org/the-evolution-of-graphics-in-anime-\nmovies/) another great article that discusses the evolution of graphics in\nanime, from a more subjective lense:\n\n> Those who watch older versions of anime movies will immediately notice the\n> difference in graphics. First of all they were designed in 2D and the\n> special effects were considerably simpler. It is amazing the special effects\n> seen in new anime shows these days. There are even 3D versions of certain\n> anime movies that delight their audience with incredible action and effects.\n\nWhile this section stems from general animation techniques, you have to\nremember that _anime_ is an _animation_ , and its history has largely followed\nthe same technique evolution as the animation industry as a whole.\n\n# The Evolution of Anime Trends/Styles\n\nIn addition to different innovations in animation techniques, there have also\nbeen different trends and innovations that have to do with style. This has\nless to do with the different techniques of drawing anime, and more with the\ndifferent styles and trends that have emerged from anime over time. The full\nlist can be read from [here](http://kotaku.com/some-of-animes-most-famous-\nposes-and-techniques-1709259375).\n\n * **Gainax Stance** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uBMD0.jpg)\n * **Shaft Angle** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3vYRH.jpg)\n * **Dezaki Direction Style** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2fQK9.jpg)\n * **Minagawa Fade** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/36MgY.jpg)\n * **Sunrise Stance** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q8Njz.jpg)\n\nWhile this section isn't the first thing you think of when asking \"What\ninnovations are there in anime techniques,\" I would argue that it is still\nrelevant because it is how animators are changing trends and innovating in\ntheir animation styles. These are not styles that are done by just one or a\nfew animators or shows, but rather trends that span across the whole anime\nindustry {3} {4}.\n\n**Sources:**\n\n{1} [(source)](http://b2w.tv/the-evolution-of-animation-a-brief-journey-\nthrough-time/) {2} [(source)](http://b2w.tv/the-evolution-of-animation-a-\nbrief-journey-through-time/) {3} [(source)](http://kotaku.com/some-of-animes-\nmost-famous-poses-and-techniques-1709259375) {4} [(source)](http://www.cool-\njp.com/articles/anime/techniques.php)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm referencing the first season of\n[Berserk](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318871/) in this question, not the new\n2016 continuation (I haven't finished that yet, so please don't spoil it for\nme).\n\nAs I've been watching Berserk, I've noticed that I enjoy two aspects of the\nshow. I love how gory and action-driven the show is (the fight scenes are\nawesome), but I also enjoy the deeper meanings that the show portrays with its\ncharacter development and plot. For example, I like the general coming-of-age\nstyle of Guts' narrative, and I have noticed other religious motifs throughout\nthe show.\n\nHowever, I haven't been able to explicitly \"nail down\" the big themes. I was\nwondering if anyone could extract the most prevalent themes from the show and\nhelp explain them to me (similar to critical analysis in a college-level\nliteracy class). What are the deeper meanings in Berserk? Does it have to do\nwith religion? Friendship? Loss? Life purpose and direction? Is it commenting\non history and war?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn final episode of Galaxy express 999 (episode 113), after Tetsuro & Maetel\ndestroy planet Peuromesyum, Maetel left Tetsuro behind just to guide another\nboy to the future (or something). But the whole reason she had to travel was,\njust so she can 'provide' that boy to her mother. So I'm wondering after this\nthing is over, why does she still need to travel? Can't she just wind up with\nTetsuro?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoilers if you didn't see episode 472 of the anime yet:\n\n> In episode 472, when Kaguya changed the environment to the world with high\n> gravity, how come Kakashi and Obito could move while Naruto, Sasuke and even\n> Kaguya couldn't?\n\nI know they all used a lot of chakra fighting each other, but they are on a\ndifferent level totally, and besides, Obito was half dead, and used almost all\nof his chakra to find Sasuke and bring him back.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLogical Explanation: Naruto and Sasuke had already jumped out of the way of\nthe quicker first shots. Not only did they just expend great energy to move,\nthey were also in terrible positions to attempt to get up. Whereas Kakashi and\nObito had not been shot at, or even looked at, they had already stood up and\ncould run. They were also able to freely infuse their chakra while Naruto,\nSasuke and Kaguya were using theirs fighting each other. And then there was\nthe mystical BS of Rin grabbing them and pulling them into position\n\nLikely Truth: A plot hole by the writers in order to give Obito a noble death\nand introduce the idea that their team can somehow briefly help each other\nfrom beyond the grave to justify when Obito posthumously gave Kakashi both\nMangekyo Sharingan for a temporary amount of time\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany have mentioned the plothole part, however this seems to be a case of\nusing a writing device to\n\n> 1\\. Give Obito a heroic death \n> 2\\. Absolve Obito of his crimes \n> 3\\. Allow Kakshi to be cool by completing his Sharingan\n\n**In Universe Explanation:** This is the explanation written on the Wiki, a\ntypical case of [Eleventh Hour\nSuperpower](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EleventhHourSuperpower)\n\n> Obito returns Sasuke and Sakura to the dimension where Naruto and Kakashi\n> are. He watches as Naruto and Sasuke fight Kaguya, their combined powers the\n> only ones capable of stopping her. Aware of this, Kaguya relocates them to a\n> dimension with powerful gravity and pins Naruto and Sasuke down while she\n> attacks with All-Killing Ash Bones. **Obito and Kakashi, empowered by a\n> shared memory of their past friendship, place themselves in front of Naruto\n> and Sasuke as shields.** Because his odyssey began by saving Kakashi from\n> death by a boulder, Obito decides he must now end things by saving Kakashi's\n> life again: he uses his left eye to teleport the attack aimed at Kakashi\n> away, allowing the attack directed at him to connect. Obito's body begins to\n> crumble and there is nothing anyone can do to save him. He warns Kakashi\n> that he will not be around to save him a third time and places his faith for\n> a better world in Naruto before dying with a smile.\n\nThis can be compared to a final push, the rush of adrenaline. Obito and\nKakashi pushed themselves to the limit figuring they would die, while\nNaruto/Sasuke were still hoping to escape the Gravity pull so that they could\ncontinue fighting.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChakra is internal energy; it has nothing to do with physique (muscle, bones,\nskin, organs, etc.). Ninjas do not train their physical mortal bodies, besides\nspecial cases like Lee and Gai. The reason why Kakashi and Obito could move is\nbecause they have superior physique compare to Sasuke and Naruto, who have\nnever trained their bodies before. Because gravity increases the weight of\neverything, chakra cannot help here. The only thing that can help is pure\nphysical strength, and Kakashi had trained with Gai many times and was even\nable to open the first gate, meaning he is stronger physically.\n\nThis is also called the \"Container\" and the \"Water\". A ninja's essence is\nchakra, which is an energy located within the stomach and runs through the\nchakra network. So, in this case it is the water. The container is the\nbody/physique of the ninja. A ninja does not need a strong body to become\npowerful, since chakra can be used to increase speed, jumping, power, etc.,\nbut remember that chakra does not change the structure of a ninja's body, such\nas bones, muscle, organs, etc. This is why Gai and Lee train their bodies so\nthat when they open the gates it does not rip them apart. Sakura, for example,\nuses chakra control.\n\nKishimoto knows this, but the viewers don't, and he indirectly already\nconfirmed body and chakra are different when he introduced Lee and Gai. Most\nviewers see chakra as more physical strength and more speed, but they don't\nrealize that chakra and physique/body are completely different categories.\n\nExample. Suppose that one denotes the following: \nLevel 1: Human Adult Male \nLevel 2: Bodybuilder Male/Power lifter\n\nThen, an average ninja's body is of level 1, exactly as it was since the day\nthey became able to extract chakra. Most future ninjas learn chakra extraction\nby the age of 4–7, which is the time they enter ninja school. Before learning\nchakra extraction, they are just normal humans: no super-strength or anything.\n\nNaruto/Sasuke's body is of level 2, slightly higher even though they have\nnever done training for physique, just because they are talented individuals\nand have bloodlines/tailed beast since birth.\n\nContinuing the analogy in a similar manner, Kakashi is of level 4, since he\ntrained to open the first gate.\n\nLee is of level 20, since he trained enough to make muscles, bones and body\nstronger to survive gates being release up to the sixth gate.\n\nGai is of level 30, since he can survive without breaking bones up to the\nseventh gate.\n\nAll ninjas can use chakra to directly enhance power/speed depending on their\nchakra levels and chakra control. Some, like Tsunade and Sakura, have\nextremely talented control, and are thus able to create similar feats of\nsuperhuman strength when they fight. Others like Kakashi are lower tier when\nthey fight in close combat, as seen with his fight against Obito, while Lee\nand Gai do have stronger bodies, but because they have bad chakra control\ntheir increase in physical attributes from chakra enhancement is not similar\nto Tsunade and Sakura.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 1 of _Time Travel Shoujo_ , it is established that Mari can\ncommunicate freely with local folk when she travels back in time. For example,\nwhen she travels back to 1600 and meets William Gilbert, she perceives\nGilbert's speech as being in Japanese, and Gilbert perceives her speech as\nbeing in English. The audio itself is fully in Japanese during Mari's sojourn\nin Gilbert's time.\n\nHowever, in episode 3, something curious happens. Mari has been sent back to\nthe year 1752 and meets Benjamin Franklin. Again, she is able to understand\nhim and vice versa. At around 14:37, though, we hear two background characters\nsay the following in _English_ audio:\n\n> GIRL: Rain, rain, go away! Come again on Saturday!\n>\n> WOMAN: Good, Laura!\n>\n> GIRL: Thank you very much!\n\nTo be clear, what I mean is that the viewer hears roughly 「レイン、レイン、ゴーア ウェイ。 カム\nアゲイン オン サターデイ。」 and so forth - the voice actor for the girl has a strong\nJapanese accent, but she's very clearly saying English words (ones that aren't\nloans into Japanese, in particular).\n\nNow, why is that? Is there some sort of plot-related reason why Mari's \"babel\nfish\" didn't work on these two background characters? (The show pointedly\naddressed the idea of instantaneous translation during Mari's supplementary\nlessons earlier in episode 3, so I suspect this isn't just a goofup.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read somewhere that Maria has a \"double contract\" with her Symphogear.\n\nI searched on the TV episodes, but found nothing. Maybe it has to do with the\nfact that she can wield two different gears (Gungnir and Airgetlam).\n\nSo a few questions:\n\n 1. What is this \"Double Contract\" exactly?\n 2. Why is it special?\n 3. Where in canonical material is it talked about?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat you're looking for is GX Zesshoushinai 4, segment 9 「ガングニール、再び４」\n\"Gungnir, Once Again 4\".\n\nSegment 7 (\"Gungnir, Once Again 2\", two segments prior) is set during the\nevents of episode 4 - Chris watches from SONG headquarters as Maria fends off\nGarie using Hibiki's Gungnir. This leads her to idly wonder whether she, too,\ncould use other people's gears. Chris imagines up some wonderful things:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jv9tv.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MjJ9Gm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/np5Ram.jpg)\n\nIn segment 8 (\"Gungnir, Once Again 3\"), Chris brings this idea up with Tsubasa\n-or, at least, she tries to, before being shot down. (Tsubasa, too, once had\nthe same idea, it seems.)\n\nThis brings us to segment 9. Tsubasa explains to Chris about how only certain\nrelics will respond to any given person's song, and that in general, a\nperson's song will match only one relic. Maria's \"double contract\" (she says,\nusing the loan phrase ダブル・コントラクト _daburu kontorakuto_ ) is an exceptionally\nrare exception to this general principle.\n\nAs you surmise, this has to do with Maria's affinity with both Gungnir and\nAirgetlam, and is special simply because it's so rare. Why can Maria pull it\noff? Who knows - no explanation is given. I don't recall any of the keywords\nhaving anything to say about this state of affairs.\n\nTo wrap up this segment, we get a peek into Tsubasa's imagination:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UmnLZ.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto Shippuden_ episode 473, ...\n\n> Kakashi uses Obito's eyes to create Susanoo. But Obito's eyes were not\n> Eternal Mangekyou. Previously, he had Rinnegan which he has borrowed in\n> addition to one of his own eyes, and that's why he could do lots of stuff.\n\nWhen did Obito awaken the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan?\n\n* * *\n\nNote: this is not the same question as [When did Kakashi and Obito awaken\ntheir Mangekyou Sharingan?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/4484). Eternal\nMangekyou is when someone from Uchiha gives his Mangekyou to someone dear then\nit becomes eternal and the powers will be activated.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObito never had the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. The user does not need the\nEternal Mangekyō Sharingan to use Susanoo according to the\n[wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan) \\- just the\nMangekyō Sharingan in both eyes. Once Kakashi gains the power of both of\nObito's eyes, it allows him to use Susanoo. Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan\nincreases the power of their abilities and causes the user no negative side\neffects such as losing vision and bleeding from the eye.\n\nThe full body Susano'o is the most powerful form granted by the Mangekyo\nSharingan. Kakashi said in episode 437 at 12:53 \"Gaining the Six Path's power\nenhances one's Visual Prowess too\". It's most likely that Kakashi was able to\nuse the full body Susano'o since when he gained the pair of his (actually\nObito's) Sharingan, he also gained some of the Six Path's power Obito\nposessed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe doesn't need Eternal Mangekyo for the Susanoo, and if you're asking why he\ngot the perfect Susanoo, it's because before dying, Obito had stolen some of\nthe Six Paths Chakra from Madara, and as it was said that the Six Paths Chakra\nenhances and doujutsu or anything. That is the reason he was able to skip the\nimperfect Susanoo and the cage's to the perfect Susanoo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nItachi had a disease. We never got to see how strong he really was. Itachi's\nchakra control was so amazing that we couldn't notice he was sick. Sasuke\ndidn't kill him, he died from the disease. That's why he needed Obito to kill\nthe Uchiha.\n\nItachi was the most interesting character to me because he planned his life\nout and was known as one of the strongest shinobis with the sickness. That's\nwhy Itachi wasn't able to summon a perfect Susano because he was very sick and\nwas on verge of dying.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was once stated in Bleach manga by Urahara that,\n\n> _Urahara details that without the Soul King's existence, Soul Society would\n> be rent asunder. The Soul King is the \"linchpin\" and if that linchpin is\n> lost, then the world would simply crumble away and that is the way of the\n> world._ [Wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Soul_King)\n\nBut then afterwards,\n\n> Yhwach completely absorbs the Soul\n> King.[Wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Soul_King)\n\nHow does then the Soul society continues to survive into the future?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**The Soul King by himself is not the key to Soul Society's survival.**\n\nIt is true that someone of transcendent power needs to act as the linchpin\nholding the three dimensions (Earth, Soul Society and Hueco Mundo) together.\nHowever, that person needs not to be the Soul King himself.\n\nThe requirements to become a Soul King are to possess reiatsu from the two\nspiritually-attuned species (Shinigami and Hollow) combined with a fragment of\nthe Soul King. Alternatively, possessing an organ of the Soul King may also\nmake one a viable candidate for the title of Soul King, even if that person\nisn't both shinigami and Hollow.\n\nIt should be noted that each and every Fullbringer possesses a fragment of the\nSoul King ; and that their Fullbringer powers derive from that fragment. Even\nthough it is explained within the manga that Fullbringers gain their powers\nwhen their pregnant mother is attacked by a Hollow and survives _(as explained\nin Chapter 433, page 10)_ , that explanation apparently was incorrect. The\nHollows attacked the mother BECAUSE their offspring bore a Soul King fragment.\n\nSeveral characters have been noted (including within the canon-ish Can't Fear\nYour Own World light novel) to be Soul King candidates :\n\n 1. **Yhwach :** Since he absorbed the Soul King's entire power, he became a suitable candidate for the very title of Soul King himself. \n 2. **Ichigo :** Notably possesses both Hollow and shinigami reiatsu. He also mastered Fullbring, thus proving he possesses a Soul King fragment.\n 3. **Kūgo Ginjō :** Former shinigami and proficient Fullbring user. Upon stealing Ichigo's Fullbring, he also copied his reiatsu structure, thus gaining Hollow properties, as explained by the [Bleach wiki :](https://bleach.fandom.com/wiki/K%C5%ABgo_Ginj%C5%8D) \"Upon absorption of one's Fullbring, he also incorporates their own Reiatsu into the attack, making it virtually identical to the original user.\" _(Chapter 470, page 8)_\n 4. **Jūshirō Ukitake :** Was used as a host body by Mimihagi, the Soul King's chopped-off, conscious right hand. By sacrificing himself and unleashing Mimihagi, he could have taken, theoretically, the Soul King's place (although his attempt thwarted by Yhwach).\n 5. **Hikone Ubuginu :** A character exclusively developed within the light novel Can't Fear Your Own World. In short, an artificial individual built from shinigami, Hollow and Soul King fragments to achieve transcendent power and take the place of the Soul King.\n\nThe Can't Fear Your Own World light novel implies that a high amount of\nspiritual pressure is needed to be a Soul King candidate, although since we\nare lacking an official translation, I cannot vouch for this information's\ntruthfulness. Likewise, this light novel shows that **a defeated Yhwach has\nbeen sealed and now replaces the Soul King**. This information is most likely\ncanonical. If Yhwach had won, it is very strongly implied within the manga\n(and confirmed in the CFYOW light novel) that Ichigo was to be forced to take\nthe Soul King's place.\n\n**TL;DR :** The three dimensions' structural integrity can be preserved if a\nSoul King candidate is sacrificed to become the linchpin in stead of the\noriginal Soul King.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know the name of the music from around 4:46 onwards in Senki\nZesshou Symphogear GX episode 12? It starts after Maria says \"10 thousand\nplans\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnother Symphogear aficionado!\n\nThis piece is \"S2CA/Voltage Maximum\", [_Symphogear G_ OST\n1](http://vgmdb.net/album/40295) track #7. The first use of this piece was in\nepisode 2 of _Symphogear G_ , when Tsubasa/Chris/Hibiki use S2CA Triburst for\nthe first time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor example, Issei in Highschool DxD isn't really the most popular guy,\nwithout many other friends who are guys. Basara of Shinmai isn't shown with a\nlot of his friends either. Oregairu's protagonist is the most lonesome\nprotagonist ever. Kirito of SAO does not have a social life outside of video\ngames. I'm sure you guys could think of some more examples.\n\nWhy does Japan's light novel industry think the most relatable character is a\nsocial outcast? It's kind of a harsh commentary on their target audience, if\nso, although possibly not completely wrong.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the most applicable answer is relatablily, as you reference in your\nquestion. I want to preface this answer by saying that not all anime consumers\nor fans fit this mold.\n\nThe stereotype is that _otakus_ are social awkward and timid people. To make\ntheir shows relatable, anime producers try to appeal to this aspect of their\ntarget audience.\n\nIf you've ever been to Japan, much of the culture and merchandise surrounding\nanime almost promotes staying inside and watching more anime. If a consumer\nbecomes obsessed with anime, they are more likely to stay inside and consume\nmore of it, which in turn makes the producer(s) more money. Thus, many\nproducers tend to exaggerate this fact to promote the idea that an anime\nwatcher is a social outcast, which in turn makes _otakus_ relate to their\nshows more and watch them more often.\n\nHowever, I think it is also important to realize that the target audience of\nmany, many anime and manga is high school aged students. As many of us can\nattest to, high school can be an awkward time of transformation, when people\ntruly realize who they are and what they enjoy doing. Thus, it would make\nsense that many of these shows create characters that are initially shy and\ntimid and then overcome their fears to accomplish something. Take Kirito from\n[Sword Art Online](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online), for\ninstance. Yes, on the surface, and from an outsider's perspective, he seems\nlike a social outcast. But as the viewers know him, he is a strong warrior of\nSAO. I think this _hidden side_ of many anime protagonists appeals to a lot of\nhigh school teenagers, many of whom are timid or shy, but each have specific\npassions of their own. Similar parallels can be seen in the protagonists of\nmany other shows, such as [Parasyte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasyte)\nand [Gurren Lagann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurren_Lagann). Both\nShinichi and Simon are teenage boys who start out timid, but transform\nthroughout their respective shows to become accomplished and powerful.\n\nI believe that the vast majority of anime consumers are not the stereotypical\n_otakus_ , but we only hear about the _otakus_. If my friend Greg just likes\nAttack on Titan, we don't hear much about him, but if my buddy Michael has\nwatched every single episode of One Piece, Bleach, DBZ, has tons of action\nfigures, and runs around spouting random phrases in Japanese, people are more\nlikely to notice and have opinions. Thus, the _otakus_ create the stereotype\nfor anime watchers, which anime producers then build upon with many of their\nprotagonists. [(source 1)](http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/2000121-anime-and-\nmanga-other-titles/66037764) [(source 2)](https://www.quora.com/Are-anime-\nfans-socially-awkward)\n\nAs for the black/dark hair, I would guess that many protagonists have black\nhair due to the majority of the Japanese (and Asian) population worldwide\nhaving black hair, further making the protagonist more relatable.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLet's analyze this using protagonist of some Japanese light novels. Let's\nstart with those you mentioned in the question. I'm excluding Basara of\nShinmai since I don't watch the anime nor read the LN. I don't know him enough\nto talk about him. Also to be noted that I only write based on LNs that I have\nread, and I write their names using the natural writing order, not the\nEnglished version.\n\nLet me say beforehand, loner is not the same as social outcast.\n\n## Analysis\n\n**Example Cases**\n\n 1. High School DxD - Hyoudo Issei\n\nEven at the start of the LN, Hyoudo Issei was depicted not as a loner. He has\n2 close friends, Matsuda and Motohama, who are both as perverted as he is.\n\n 2. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy ga Machigatteiru (Oregairu) - Hachigaya Hachiman\n\nHe started the story as a loner. But, it was later revealed that he actually\nhave 1 close (enough) friend, Zaimokuza Yoshiteru.\n\n 3. Sword Art Online - Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito)\n\nAt the start of the LN, no friends of Kirito was mentioned. The story started\nwith Kirito login in into the game, Sword Art Online where he met Klein and\nthen was trapped along with other 6,000 players in a death game.\n\n 4. Oda Nobuna no Yabou - Sagara Yoshiharu\n\nNo friend of him was mentioned since he was sent into the other world\nmysteriously. But in the other world, he quickly befriends old man Tokichiro.\nHe also befriends other characters as the story progress on.\n\n 5. Tokyo Ravens - Tsuchimikado Harutora\n\nHarutora has a childhood friend who is also his cousin, Tsuchimikado Natsumi.\nHe was also childhood friends with Kurahashi Kyouko, a distance relative. At\nthe start of the story he was friends with Hokuto and Ato Touji.\n\n 6. Infinite Stratos - Orimura Ichika\n\nNo friends prior to him attending IS Academy was mentioned at the start of the\nstory. However, it was later revealed that he actually has one close friend,\nGotanda Dan. He also gets along with Dan's little sister, Gotanda Ran. He is\nalso friends with Huang Lingyin and Shinonono Houki prior to the start of the\nstory.\n\n 7. Date a Live - Itsuka Shidou\n\nItsuka Shido has one close friend, Tonomachi Hiroto.\n\n 8. Madan no Ou to Vanadis - Tigrevurmud Vorn\n\nThe only known friend of Tigre prior to the start of the story is his\nchildhood friend and maid, Titta.\n\n 9. Rokka no Yuusha - Adlet Mayer\n\nAdlet has no friends prior to the start of the story.\n\n 10. Boku ha Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai) - Hasegawa Kodaka\n\nKodaka has 1 close friend prior to the start of the story, Taka.\n\n**Loner**\n\nOkay, I think this much is enough for examples. Let's start analyzing them. Of\nthe ten examples I give there,\n\n * 2 person starts the story with 3 friends, Orimura Ichika, and Tsuchimikado Harutora.\n * 1 person starts the story with 2 friends, Hyoudo Issei.\n * 4 person starts the story with 1 friends, Hachigaya Hachiman, Itsuka Shidou, Tigrevurmud Vorn, and Hasegawa Kodaka\n * 3 person starts the story with 0 friends, Kirito, Sagara Yoshiharu, and Adlet Mayer.\n\nI count Tsuchimikado Harutora as a person with 3 friends (Tsuchimikado\nNatsumi, Ato Touji, and Hokuto) as Kurahashi Kyouko was no longer his friend\nat the start of the story since he forget about her.\n\n[Merriam Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loner) defined\nloner as a person who is often alone or who likes to be alone.\n[Dictionary.com](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/loner) defined it as a\nperson who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of\nothers. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loner) defined it as a\nperson who avoids or does not actively seek human interaction.\n\nThe only one who really fit the definitions above is Hachigaya Hachiman. The\nother doesn't avoid company of others.\n\nIf we go with Merrriam Webster's first part of the definition, then Adlet,\nKirito, and Kodaka also can be called loner. However, there are circumstances\nbehind their _lonerism_.\n\nAdlet was training in a secluded area where there are only him and his master.\nIt was shown in the story that Adlet doesn't avoid social interactions.\n\nKirito's school friends was not depicted in the story because they have no\nrelevance to the story. Kirito later was alone\n\n> since he took the blame after the boss killed some of the front liners and\n> was called Beater. he did this to protect the other Beta Testers.\n\nThere is a circumstance behind him being alone.\n\nKodaka doesn't avoid company of others, in fact he longed for the company of\nothers. It's just that his hair color makes him mistaken as being a\n[yankee](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yanki).\n\nOrimura Ichika, Hyoudo Issei, Itsuka Shidou, and Tigrevurmud Vorn can't be\ncalled loner since they clearly have friends and they also doesn't avoid\nsocial interactions. While Sagara Yoshiharu doesn't start with friends, his\nbehavior doesn't suggest that he is a loner.\n\nOut of the 10 examples, only 1 was a true loner, that is 10%.\n\n**Social Outcast**\n\nDoes them being a loner also means that they are outcast? [Merriam\nWebster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcast) defined outcast as\nsomeone who is not accepted by other people.\n[Dictionary.com](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/outcast) defined it as a\nperson who is rejected or cast out, as from home or society.\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_\\(person\\)) defined it as\nsomeone who is rejected or 'cast out', as from home or society, or in some way\nexcluded, looked down upon, or ignored.\n\nHyoudo Issei can be called as outcast since the rest of the school perceived\nhim as insect due to his perversion. Hachiman was also avoided and looked down\nupon due to his sarcastic behavior and dead fish eyes which makes people who\nconverse with him feel uncomfortable. Hasegawa was avoided since they are\nscared of him as they think he is a yankee due to his blond hair which they\nthink was dyed.\n\nThe rest was not avoided or looked down upon. There was nothing in the anime\nor light novel that suggests that they are a social outcast. Tigrevurmud Vorn\nwas looked down but only by noble of higher status (greater political and\nmilitary power) than him, Zion Thernadier. The rest, including Eleonora\nViltaria, which boast greater military and political power, much like Zion\nThernadier if not greater due to her status as a Vanadis, doesn't look down\nupon him. Adlet was looked down upon by only by some, due to his background.\nMost however, see him in good light since he is one of the chosen heroes.\n\nSo, out of 10, we have 3 pure outcast, that is 30%. While this is not a\nmajority, it is quite a significant number. Why do we have this many social\noutcast protagonists? In Issei's case, he is a social outcast due to his open\nperversion, so his personality is the problem here. It is to be expected that\nhe is a social outcast since he is so perverted. Hachiman and Hasegawa are the\nonly ones looked down purely due to their looks. So it's really only 2 of 10\nsocial outcast. Not that much considering the amount of samples.\n\nWhy do we have these social outcast protagonists? I think the main reason is\nthat because having a social outcast protagonist helps in making the reader\nimmersed in the story. Such protagonist invokes empathy from the reader,\nregardless of whether the reader was a social outcast himself or not, but is\nespecially true if the reader was. An immersed reader will continue to read\nthe story as they want to find out what happens, thus such protagonist helps\nmaking the book sells.\n\n**Hair**\n\nOf those 10, Orimura Ichika, Hyoudo Issei, Hachigaya Hachiman, Kirigaya\nKazuto, and Sagara Yoshiharu are the ones with _dark_ hairs. Dark as in black\nor dark brown. Tigrevurmud Vorn, Itsuka Shidou, and Adlet Mayer has _light_\ncolored hair of red, blue and red respectively. Hasegawa Kodaka is in-between\nsince his hair is actually blond but a dark blond. Tsuchimikado Harutora's\nhair is mainly light but he has black hair near his ears.\n\nOf the 10 examples 5 has dark hair, that is 50% of the samples. Those who have\ndark hairs are all of Japanese ethnicity. Of those 5, Orimura Ichika,\nHachigaya Hachiman, and Kirito are the ones with black hair. Hyoudo Issei and\nSagara Yoshiharu's hair are dark brown. [Dark brown hair is actually\nquite](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-just-a-stereotype-that-all-Asians-have-\nblack-hair-and-if-so-do-some-of-them-have-brown-hair) common among Asians.\n\nTigrevurmud Vorn, and Adlet Mayer was not Japanese. Japan doesn't even exist\nin their world. Itsuka Shidou, Tsuchimikado Harutora, and Hasegawa Kodaka are\nJapanese with light colored hair. In the case of Hasegawa Kodaka, his dark\nblond hair color is part of the plot. It was due to his father being a\nJapanese (with black hair) and his mother being a western with blond hair as\nhe mentioned when he said that he is jealous of Kobato being born with pure\nblond hair and that she doesn't look like a Japanese unlike him. Shidou and\nHarutora has such hair color even when they were kids.\n\nBlond however, is a color that people in real life also has. Shidou is the\nonly Japanese with unnatural hair color. So, out of the 8, 7 has hair color\nthat exists in real life. Only 2 has blond hair, which is not what most\nJapanese was born with. Thus, we can say that most of the protagonist with\ndark hair is because that is what most Japanese was born with.\n\n**Other Media**\n\nNow, let's analysis how western media protagonists are. I'll just mention\nsome.\n\nHarry Potter of the Harry Potter series was a loner if we go by Merriam\nWebsters' first definition of loner. He was also an outcast since befriending\nhim means becoming enemy of the class bully, who happens to be his cousin,\nDudley Dursley.\n\nBella Swan of Twilight series was also has friends prior to the start of the\nstory, Angela Weber, and Jessica Stanley.\n\nBatman is mostly a loner with his friend being Superman and that was after the\nstory start, not prior to the story. He is also in friendly relationship with\nRobin, his sidekick.\n\nWolverine's friend before he joins the X-Men was his brother, Sabertooth. He\nis outcast as far the the humans is concerned since they fear him for being a\nmutant, that is if they found out about it.\n\nHeathcliff of Wuthering Height was a loner and an outcast. He pretty much\ndislikes the company of others with the exception of Catherine who he is in\nlove with. He is also an outcast due to his dark skin and origin.\n\nI'm not saying that protagonist of western media are more loner and outcast\nthan Japanese LN protagonists since clearly I didn't give enough examples. My\npoint here is that this is not unique to Japanese LN protagonists. Such type\nof protagonist exists even in the 19th century when Wuthering Heights was\npublished,\n\n## Conclusion\n\nWe can't really say that there is a trend of loner main protagonist in light\nnovels. While we have quite a significant number of outcast main protagonists,\nit is not the majority. Like I said in the beginning, loner is not the same as\nsocial outcast. Only 10% of the example protagonists are loner, but 30%, that\nis 3 times, are social outcast. Social outcast protagonist invokes empathy\nfrom the reader which helps making them immersed in the story.\n\nIn comparison to other media, LN protagonists are actually not that unique.\nLoner & outcast protagonist is not exclusive to LN since like the example I\ngive above, many protagonist of famous stories are loner and outcast.\n\nIn regards of hair color, it can be said that their dark hair color is due to\nthe fact that most of Japanese was born with that, thus giving a dark hair\ncolor helps keeping it believable that the main character is a Japanese just\nlike their name suggests.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis question and its answers will contain spoilers.\n\nI just finished watching Berserk (the original, not the 2016 continuation),\nand was able to follow the plot up until the second to last episode.\n\n> At that point, the ground turned into faces and almost all of the main\n> characters got killed. Griffith turned into a weird bat-thing. It seemed\n> like Casca was raped, and Guts lost an eye and an arm.\n\nWhat is this weird scenario? What happened? How does the plot actually end?\nWhy did Griffith transform? Can someone just explain what happened in the last\ntwo episodes of the series (the conclusion)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGriffith is a very ambitious person, he's ready to do anything in order to\nachieve his dreams. However, he was broken, he couldn't do anything anymore,\nand his dreams were going to end in front of his eyes.\n\nHe had the **_behelit_** , the egg of the king, which allows you to achieve\nsomething and sacrifice something else in return. He had the choice, and he\nchose to sacrifice his comrades in exchange for a great power, a power that\nwill bring him closer to his dreams, and give up his humanity, so he ended up\ntransforming. Everyone who uses the behelit becomes some kind of demon as they\nmake contract with creatures from the other world.\n\nSpoiler warning (events of the manga and 2016 anime) :\n\n> After what happened, only Casca and Guts survive, with a cursed brand that\n> causes them to be always haunted. Casca however loses her mind after she was\n> traumatized, while Guts keep on fighting trying to find Griffith and get his\n> revenge.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor you to understand the ending, you need to understand about the Crimson\nBehelit that Griffith has.\n\nWhat is a Behelit?\n\n> The purpose of the Behelits is to create an Interstice between the physical\n> realm and the part of the Astral Realm where the God Hand reside. A Behelit\n> belongs to a predestined owner and therefore, no matter the circumtances,\n> will always finds its way to its owner when his desire to escape his current\n> situation is great enough for it to fully activate so the owner can be\n> transformed into an Apostle. From there, the Behelit would gradually come to\n> another to repeat the process. Normally, a Behelit would activate from being\n> exposed to the owner's blood.\n\nThe Crimson Behelit\n\n> Griffith's Crimson Behelit, which he obtained from a fortune teller as a\n> youth, was a rare and unique item said to grant one's greatest desire in\n> exchange for the owner's flesh and blood.\n\nAfter Griffith sees Guts and Casca together and realizes he may lose all the\nmembers of the Band of the Hawk, he runs away and falls in a stream. There we\nsee he finds his Behelit among the river stone.\n\nThe behelit activates and summons the four members of God Hand.\n\n> Also known as the Egg of the King by both Nosferatu Zodd and the God Hand,\n> it appears once every 216 years when the time of the Eclipse draws near, its\n> owner destined to discard physical form transcend into one of the God Hand.\n> It is not known whether there were five different Crimson Behelits or\n> whether the same came to each of the God Hand's members in turn.\n\nGod Hand then inform Grifith that in order to become one of them, he must\nsacrifice all the members of the Band present there. Thus, they all are marked\nwith the brand of sacrifice and are killed by demons. Guts and Casca however\nescape with the help of the Skull Knight.\n\nSource: [Behelit](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Behelit)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthis expands upon @Arcane 's answer.\n\nThe reasons behind Griffith's acts inside of the astral realm is a revenge of\nsorts. To become a member of God Hand he must make a sacrifice,. This does not\nexplain his personal actions against Guts and Casca.\n\nGriffith is destroyed by Gut's desire to leave the Band of the Hawk, that is\nwhy they dueled in the snow. Griffith also knows that Casca was losing her\ndevotion to Griffith who strung her along, as this helped prove the idea he is\nboth beautiful and dangerous. After Guts successfully leaves Griffith knows he\nlost his fighting strength and believes he is not beautiful anymore. That is\nwhen he breaks into midland castle to sleep with the princess, both to prove\nto himself he was making progress to become king and to console his loss of\nhis two closest friends.\n\nThis was the greatest mistake of his by far as the king captured Griffith\nafter the act. Losing his army means he lost the three things that brought him\nto the height of the social ladder and nearly to his goal; His strength, his\nbeauty, and his army/followers. At this point he believes there is nothing\nleft for him in this world and would like to die, his reason for trying to\ncommit suicide multiple times in the final episodes.\n\nThen the God Hand is summoned to him, and offer him everything he lost and\nmore. the only thing he had to do was sell out his old friends and followers.\nThis was an easy choice, they had abandoned him once and he was not willing to\nlet his ambitions die to save people that betrayed his trust. This explains\nthe Astral plain and his choice to become a God Hand, but not his rape of\nCasca.\n\nGriffith knows that Casca loves Guts, it was evident after years together and\nher own lust for Griffith faded. Guts commits the greatest betrayal to\nGriffith by leaving his sworn service and breaking the trust in his own\nstrength. So Griffith decides to break both Casca and Guts like they broke\nhim.\n\n> So Griffith rapes Casca and makes sure Guts watches, to hear her enjoyment\n> and show Guts that Griffith the greater man in this department. It is also a\n> reference to Gut's own rape during childhood, who would never wish the same\n> pain on someone else he loves. The rape was not to show sexual desire for\n> Casca but more of a pissing contest between two dogs after the same mate\n\nGriffith both initiated the competition and ended it in one move...\n\n> as Casca's mind breaks after the betrayal of a man she once loved and\n> admired.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGriffith desires a kingdom above all. That's what pretty much all of the\nGolden Age Arc revolved around. During this arc, you could even say that\nGriffith IS the PROtagonist of the story. It was all about the pursuit of his\ndream of being the one on top of a castle.\n\nNow there is much more back story & lore behind those final moments of the arc\nin the berserk universe, but the basic gist of it is... Given Griffith's\npredicament where he could no longer pursue his dream in his broken state, he\nultimately made the choice to sacrifice his former comrades so that he may be\nreborn and therefore be able to continue that pursuit. But the conflict of\nreasoning behind that choice and why he ultimately made the one that he did is\nwhat encapsulates the best of the Golden Age Arc. Some further insight into\nthat below.\n\nWhy did he end up making that choice? Well, beyond the obvious reason of his\nmutilated, and therefore useless, body... And why did it cause him to turn\nagainst, and target Guts in particular, after he became Femto? Would you have\nmade the same choice? These questions make up the best part of berserk in my\nopinion.\n\nSo, would you have made the same choice? It's commendable if you wouldn't, but\nunderstandable if you would. The story shows how Griffith ultimately came to\nhis own personal decision, and all I can say is it's got less to do with his\nbody and more so to do with what he's already sacrificed, even before the Band\nof the Hawks, as well as just being the type of person he is.\n\nLast, but not least, Griffith's actions against Guts as Femto is also a lot\ndeeper than many people realize. As he made his choice, Griffith admits that\nGuts is the one who, thru comraderie and perhaps even friendship, made him\nforget about the pursuit of his dream even for but a short time. This,\nespecially for a character like Griffith, is almost like an assault to his\nvery nature. Therefore, it's no wonder that Griffith, reborn as Femto,\npractically devoid of most, if not all of his humanity, targets Guts for this\n\"transgression\". And yes, the biggest part to this was raping Casca in front\nof him.\n\nIf you rewatch the show again, keep this post in mind.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNormally, anime is about 23 minutes long. With the addition of ads, it will\ntake about 30 minutes for one episode to air which is what one time slot\nnormally is. Yet, some anime like Miss Monochrome and Tonari no Seki-kun are\nnot 23 minutes long. They are just around 6 minutes long, approximately a\nquarter the length.\n\nHow are these shows scheduled? Do they air along with other short anime so\nthat they can make a total of 30 minutes in a time slot?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBundling multiple shorts into a 30-minute block is reasonably common, yes.\n[Ultra Super Anime Time](http://us-at.tv/) is perhaps the best known block of\nthis sort, bundling three ~8-minute shorts into a contiguous 30-minute time\nslot. It was home to seasons 2 and 3 of _Miss Monochrome_. A couple seasons\nago, both _Sekkou Boys_ and _Kagewani Shou_ were on USAT together, which\nresulted in this bit of hilarity:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TPkdGl.jpg)\n\nHowever, it's also fairly common for shorts to just be squeezed in between\nother shows. Japanese television programs don't tend to be rigidly slotted\ninto exact 30-minute time blocks, so you can just kind of put shorts wherever\nthere happens to be room. To use _Tonari no Seki-kun_ as an example - when it\naired on TX back in winter 2014, [its slot was on Sundays from\n26:35-26:45](http://kakaku.com/tv/channel=12/date=20140106/). It was preceded\nby _Saki Zenkoku-hen_ from 26:05-26:35, and followed by _Ichiyazuke_ (some\nsort of infomercial) from 26:45-26:55.\n\nSame deal with _Miss Monochrome_ season 1 - on TX, its slot was Tuesdays\n25:35-25:40, preceded by [_Bijo no Kareshi ga Mitai! Osusume_](http://www.tv-\ntokyo.co.jp/program/detail/22941_201310012530.html) (I don't know what this\nis) from 25:30-25:35 and followed by [_Gifuu\nDoudou_](https://myanimelist.net/anime/18771/Gifuu_Doudou__Kanetsugu_to_Keiji)\n(which is [unintentionally hilarious](http://thecartdriver.com/gifuu-doudou-\nepisode-1-butts/), by the way) from 25:40-26:10.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recall a few years ago (around 2011) the phrase \"holy trinity\" being thrown\naround to describe the size, magnitude and importance of _One Piece_ ,\n_Bleach_ , and _Naruto_ all running in Shonen Jump. Now, with two of those\nspecific publications* ending, this so-called \"holy\" trinity is no more.\n\nHowever, there would've had to have been three other manga that were\nconsidered something like this before, right? Was there was such a confirmed\ntrinity of manga that ran together?\n\nIt doesn't _necessarily_ have to be from Shonen Jump, but [the closest\nunsourced examples](http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Big_3_Manga) from the '90s\nwere _Dragon Ball_ , _Slam Dunk!_ , and _Yu Yu Hakusho_ , which were likely\npublished in a shonen-oriented magazine.\n\n*: This doesn't include _Boruto_. That isn't _Naruto_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt may be worth pointing out that the very notion of a 'Big three' here is\nlargely a male- and shonen-centric perspective. See\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Manga_Best_Sellers_of_2011>\nfor an example, but fundamentally it's a 'Big One' -- while _Naruto_ was\nclearly that popular, neither _Bleach_ nor _One Piece_ ever hit #1 in 2011 and\nin fact the latter struggled to even make the top 5. _Bleach_ fared somewhat\nbetter in 2010, but even there it didn't do substantially more than several\nother titles, and the same holds true in later years as well. There's a solid\ncase to be made that _Sailor Moon_ should be well ahead of either _Bleach_ or\n_One Piece_ in the conversation, and even titles like _Black Butler_ are\nfairly comparable with the top non-Naruto shonen titles.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a question that's been bothering me for a while. I know that Naruto is\nsupposed to be a manga written for teens and pre-teens so some stuff doesn't\nhave any explanation or represents a plothole, but still I would really like\nto know whether this question has a reasonable answer or not. How can Obito\ntransport his body parts in another dimension without the person that passes\nthrough him getting blood over his/her entire body? And why doesn't the body\njust collapse with the head being in another dimension?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObito uses a technique called [Kamui](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kamui).\n\n> Kamui is a powerful [Mangekyō\n> Sharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan) dōjutsu\n> that creates a unique and specialised form of [space–time\n> ninjutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Space%E2%80%93time_ninjutsu). It\n> allows the user to achieve two very distinct, yet closely associated feats —\n> teleportation and **intangibility**.\n\nIntangibility, here refers to making the body or certain parts of body\ninaccessible to the physical world. Thus, no one could touch him and passed\nright thought Obito.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is just my own theory, but it might be like in UQ holder where the\nvampire's arm, though sliced off, is still connected to its body through magic\n(here chakra) links, meaning that blood and nerve signals reaching the \"hole\npart\" are teleported to the other dimension and same upon exiting the hole\npart.\n\nThis would explain why he feels the pain of being stabbed in the kamui\ndimension while his head is in the normal one\n\nBasically, according to the body system, it is still whole, and it can\nfunction perfectly through dimensions\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre there any anime that have English language dubs voiced by the voice actors\nof the original non-English language of the anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe most prominent example that comes to mind is Pokémon, which has used [Ikue\nOhtani's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikue_%C5%8Ctani) voice for Pikachu for\nalmost the entire series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs amazing as that would be the answer is no. A majority of the voice actors\nin the industry would have to be fluent in English for that to happen, and\nthat is sadly not the case here. \nEDIT :A lot of Japanese voice acting tends to be 'good', but at the same time\nit's a lot different than the type of voice acting in English. With English,\nwe kind of strive for natural sounding voices that sound normal. Whereas in\ncontrast with Japanese voice acting, especially in Anime, nobody in real life\ntalks like any anime character. While overacting is seen as a sign of a bad\nactor in the West, over in Japan it's kind of the opposite. And I feel because\nof this, it's kind of easier to come across as a good voice actor in Japanese\nthan it is in English. That and directors are super picky about VAs. Some\ndirectors will go through hundreds of auditions for characters that aren't\neven the protagonist.\n\nAlso, would you like to watch an anime where all the jokes and puns which kind\nof make sense in Japanese, would be lost in translation?\n\nAs an answer said already the most prominent case of that happening is in the\ncase of Pikachu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs a matter of fact, [Mari Iijima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Iijima)\nreprised her role as Lynn Minmei in ADV's 2006 English dub of the 1982 anime\n_Super Dimension Fortress Macross_. Unfortunately I can't find any clips of\nthe dub, but [here's an English interview with her about the\nrole.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpz298XHrxw)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _[D4DJ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D4DJ)_ English dub has one of the\nJapanese voice actresses playing the same character in English. Which is\nreally cool!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin _Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment_ , Kirito has access to Asuna's\ninventory, as expected since they married before Floor 75, but also he has\naccess to Sachi's inventory which contains a Teleport Crystal, a Health Potion\nand the message Sachi left for him for Christmas (can't use it to confirm the\nmessage but I assume it's the same one).\n\nAside from Kirito's attire, everything up until Kayaba disappearing on Floor\n75 is based off the anime. So how does Kirito have access to Sachi's\ninventory? To my understanding, Grimlock only had access to Griselda's\ninventory after she died because they were already married. Is there another\nway for a player to share their inventory without marrying them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPlayers that would like to, can setup a shared inventory, separate from a\nguild storage and different than marriage.\n\nIn marriage, your inventories become one, they can see all your stats and\ninventory items, no matter what. In this, it is a tab that is in addition to\nyour normal inventory. This tab was labeled Sachi.\n\nFrom a translation of the Sword Art Online light novel:\n\n> Charging into my hotel room, I immediately opened the storage box installed\n> in the room, taking from the item window that popped up all the restoration,\n> detoxification crystals and potions and the like. Although these alone could\n> count up a hefty balance sheet, I would not pity it even if all of them were\n> used up.\n>\n> As soon as I took out a single-handed sword from my collection, confirmed\n> its durability, I took off the sword on my back that I used to fight the\n> ants and exchanged it. Then I also exchanged my leather coat and armor and\n> everything else for new items. When I had finished, I was about to close the\n> window when I saw my inventory and stopped my hand.\n>\n> There, in addition to the «Self» written there, my own inventory page, was\n> another label that read the name «Sachi».\n>\n> This is the result of a very good relationship between two players, but one\n> which has not progressed to «Marriage» —such players set their own common\n> items window. This is different from the way that all items in marriage are\n> shared in that only items in this separate window are shared.\n>\n> Sachi, who had never asked for a confession or to hold hands previously,\n> requested shortly before her death to set up this window. When I asked for\n> the reason, she gave an answer that was difficult to accept, that it was for\n> easily exchanging healing potions and similar items—if this was the purpose,\n> there was clearly already a guild open that could be used for that. But I\n> nonetheless agreed, and set up this window to share only between Sachi and\n> me.\n>\n> Though Sachi died, this window still remained. Of course, the friend list\n> would also still retain Sachi's name, but it would be a grey that could not\n> be contacted. And the few remaining healing potions left in the shared\n> inventory, these would also not be used. After half a year, even with the\n> guild page deleted without feeling, I was unable to remove the label of\n> Sachi's name. Of course—the reason was not that I believed she could be\n> resurrected—I just couldn't forgive the self that would have been able to\n> feel better after having deleted her name.\n>\n> I only recovered and closed the window after looking at Sachi's name for ten\n> minutes. It was two hours until midnight.\n\n– _Sword Art Online_ Volume 02: Aincrad, Chapter 4, Part 3\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the population ratio of humans and pokemon in the pokemon world\n(pokemon series)? Considering that every human has more than one pokemon, it\nmight be possible the pokemon ratio is higher.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think there is any specific information about this in the Pokémon\nanime, manga, or games, but the ratio of humans to Pokémon in the Pokémon\nworld is likely similar to the ratio of humans to other animals in the real\nworld. The estimates listed below are from this article: [How Many Wild\nAnimals Are There](http://reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-\nthere/#Summary_table). The author admitted the estimates are not very good,\nbut I could not find a better source.\n\nLand Birds: 1 * 1011 to 4 * 1011 \nLand Mammals: 1011 to 1012 \nLand Reptiles: 1011 to 1012 \nLand Amphibians: 1011 to 1013 \nFish: 1013 to 1015 \nHumans: 7 * 109\n\nFrom these, we can get a rough calculation of the ratio of other animals to\nhumans (and thus Pokémon to humans) by summing the different groups of animals\n(using the higher estimates) and dividing by the number of humans:\n\n1.0124 * 1015 animals / 7 * 109 humans = **144,628 animals per human**.\n\nThis number should give a general idea of the ratio between humans and\nanimals, but should in no way be taken as accurate. And note that if I added\narthropods into the sum, then the ratio would be greater by several orders of\nmagnitude. I didn't do so because bug Pokémon are much larger than their real\nworld counterparts and their populations probably would not be comparable as a\nresult.\n\nLinks of interest:\n\n * [Lists of organisms by population](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_organisms_by_population)\n * [About how big is the bird population? Has it gone down because of global warming or pollution?](http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/askascientist/question16.php)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nQuite often in a promise is made to go see the ocean. Just as often these\npromises can not/ no longer be achieved due to some events occurring.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rrTTi.png)\n\nIs there some symbolism at play here? Leading to a character always having to\ndramatically fail at going to the ocean together? Or something different all\ntogether\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has something to do with the term Mother Ocean, the fact that Japanese\nislands are made of several volcanoes linked together, their work ethics and\ncustom.\n\n**Mother Ocean**\n\nMother Ocean is a term used to refer to the fact that all lives on earth\nstarts from the sea/ocean as described in [Nagi no\nAsukara](https://myanimelist.net/anime/16067/Nagi_no_Asukara). Even after\nleaving the sea and becoming land creature, the ocean still provides\nnourishment and food for them, thus it can be said that Mother Ocean is a\nsymbolics of love. A love that knows no bound even when betrayed and left\nbehind. An eternal love that is ready to accept when one repent and return to\nit as is the case with Miuna.\n\nThus, it can be said that a promise to see the ocean is a promise of love. The\nfact that the promise was broken and in some cases tragically, is a symbolics\nfor a love that would never come true.\n\n**Japanese Islands, Work Ethics & Custom**\n\nSee the following map.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wgE3U.jpg)\n\nMost of Japanese lands are mountainous terrain. People live on these\nmountains. In the olden times, these terrain makes traveling hard, thus not\nmany mountain people travel to see the sea. In the modern day this would be\ndue to their tight schedule making them unable to take vacation to the sea. I\nthink it is already a common knowledge that Japan has a [crazy tight work\nschedule](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2991505/Japanese-\nworkers-soon-FORCED-holidays-Government-consider-making-illegal-five-days-\nyear-bid-combat-overwork.html). People rarely use their paid visit. That is\npart of their work ethics. Also, [most Japanese visits ocean only during\nsummer](http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29429742). It's an old custom.\n\nThus, while Japan has plenty of beaches, and given the distance and the\navailability of public transports it should be relatively easy to access,\ngoing to the beach is not something Japanese people easily do unless they\nalready live by the sea. This means that going to the sea can be counted as a\nluxury for the Japanese.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter a student is found guilty, the next scene if of them being tied up or\ntrapped in a new room before dying an \"interesting\" death.\n\nBut who put them there? Does the anime ever give any indication of who is\ntying up the guilty and dragging them to the \"death room\"?\n\nSee this video for example (Ep3): <https://youtu.be/um_HQ6XyzLQ?t=17m> The\nculprit is found guilty and shortly after Monokuma pushes the red button, he\nis instantly \"teleported\" to a room to die. How?\n\nI hope this question makes sense. I couldn't figure out how to word it\nproperly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeeing [Majikoi S in VNDB](https://vndb.org/v6245), the seiyuu for Kawakami\nMomoyo and Christiane Friedrich is written as Kamishiro Misaki and Misaki Rina\nrespectively. People that is not too into seiyuu might not know, but the\nseiyuu-otaku are very likely to know that they [Kamishiro Misaki is Asawaka\nYuu](https://vndb.org/s81) and [Misaki Rina is Itou\nShizuka](https://vndb.org/s516). The first is even more easily recognizable by\nnon-seiyuu-otaku and non-anime-otaku since she is the voice provider for the\nVOCALOID Megurine Luka.\n\nHeck, even people that doesn't know this would be able to find it relatively\neasily with some Googling. I tried entering the name Kamishiro Misaki in\nGoogle and the 5th entry states Asakawa Yuu's name.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V1dVr.png)\n\nMisaki Rina is even worse. It clearly shows that Misaki Rina is Itou Shizuka.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FlA8d.png)\n\nIf they are relatively unknown seiyuu, then it can be said that they use such\nalias so that later when they finally get famous people wouldn't link them to\ntheir previous work as eroge seiyuu. But these two are famous seiyuu even\nduring the time Majikoi S was released. Also the Majikoi anime was aired\nbetween 2 Oct 2011 and 18 Dec 18 2011, while Majikoi S was released in 27\nJanuary 2012. Given that\n\n * those 2 reprise their role in the anime,\n * they voiced it the same as when they voice the character in the Visual Novel,\n * and that the anime clearly stated that Christiane Friedrich is Itou Shizuka and Kawakami Momoyo is Asakawa Yuu,\n\nit doesn't take a genius to figure that it is them.\n\nThis is apparently common in female seiyuus while many male seiyuus use their\nusual name even when voicing eroge. For example the [BL Emperor, Toshiyuki\nMorikawa](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/36047/who-is-the-emperor-\nof-bl), uses his name, [Toshiyuki Morikawa in most of his Visual Novel\nworks](https://vndb.org/s53) even if the said work is a R-18+, such as [Gin no\nKanmuri Ao no Namida](https://vndb.org/v1781).\n\nMost, if not all famous female seiyuus use alias to voice R-18+ games.\nExamples other than Itou Shizuka and Asakawa Yuu would be [Sato\nRina](https://vndb.org/s360), [Goto Yuko](https://vndb.org/s833), all use an\nalias when doing most of their eroge works.\n\nMy question is, since it is clear that it is them, why do most popular female\nseiyuu still bother using alias when voicing eroge?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nH-actors and eroge seiyuus indeed use aliases because of following reasons:\n\n**1\\. Avoiding union penalties and expulsion (legal reason)**\n\nThe [Screen Actors Guild](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild)\n(SAG-AFTRA) is a union most voice actors comes under. SAG-AFTRA forces their\nmembers to only take on union work. This is how the union makes sure that its\nmembers get paid fairly, have good working conditions and aren’t taken\nadvantage of.\n\nThe problem with hentai voice actors is that hentai sometimes don’t meet SAG-\nAFTRA's standards for working conditions and pay ([as little as $150 to $450\nper video](https://vocal.media/filthy/11-shocking-facts-about-the-hentai-\nindustry-you-didn-t-know)). In those situations, there are willing buyers (the\nstudio or small business hiring a voice actor) and willing sellers (the voice\nactor wanting to do the work). So it can make sense to use an alias to\nsidestep the issue which means that if a voice actor wants to do non-union\nwork, being credited in their real name could cause them to be in breach of\ntheir contract with SAG-AFTRA. Being in breach of contract with SAG-AFTRA can\nresult in a fine. Actors can also be expelled from the union, which can make\nit a lot harder for you to get work from companies contracted to SAG-AFTRA.\n\n**2\\. Using unique name/aliases/stage name to avoid personal or professional\nconfusion**\n\nSometimes one might have a common name/surname. In order to tackle any\npersonal or professional confusion (getting confused with other actors), they\nuse stage name or aliases. Using a stage name can help one distinguish the\nwork life with personal life and also can use the name to make it as a \"brand\"\n(actors can become famous by that name and people can recognize with this name\nrather than the personal name).\n\n**3\\. To protect their identity and professional career due to nature of the\nwork**\n\nUsing an alias has an advantage for h-actors because they can hide their\nidentity due to nature of work being \"adult oriented\". Voice actors are\nextremely popular in Japan and have a huge fan following which also includes\nsome messed up people like stalkers and their name can reveal a lot about them\nso the information can be easily misused ([more than 20000 stalking cases\nreported to Japanese police in 2020](https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-\ndata/h01040/)).\n\nThis can also be a way for the actor to do any non h-work work without future\nclients knowing about the work in the past and avoiding any miscommunication\nbecause some company feel strongly against h-work. It can also protect\nthemselves from exposure from any \"bad/low-budget h-projects\". A lot of\nindependent clients can easily find the gigs with a quick Google, it could\nreflect badly on the actor.\n\n**References**\n\n 1. [Why Do Voice Actors Use Aliases?](https://moonlightingvoice.com/why-do-voice-actors-use-aliases/)\n 2. [Why do people use aliases and pen names?](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12753)\n 3. [Why do anime actors go by different names in different anime](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20079&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)\n 4. [H-anime voice actors](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18705)\n 5. [Why do some anime voice actors hide or do not reveal their name, even though people know its them?](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/9jt45w/why_do_some_anime_voice_actors_hide_or_do_not/)\n 6. [Why seiyuu (voice actress) in Japan always use a stage name instead of their real name?](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/65l3ay/why_seiyuu_voice_actress_in_japan_always_use_a/)\n 7. [anyone know the reason why voice actor for anime usually use fake names instead of their real name?](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/48h8sx/anyone_know_the_reason_why_voice_actor_for_anime/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoiler alert if you didn't see episodes 9 & 10.\n\nHow many fingers exists in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-?\n\nIn episode 23 at 17:50,\n\n> Subaru says that only one is remaining. How did he find out about the number\n> of remaining fingers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow Betelgeuse captured Subaru's body?\n\nSpoiler alert if you didn't watch episode 25:\n\n> In the ending of episode 23, he captured Subaru's body which some would\n> think was possible because Subaru has touched the book. But he didn't touch\n> it in episode 25 and still Betelgeuse was able to capture him.\n\nHow? Why?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 23 at 11:40.\n\n> When Julius was having a conversation with Subaru, he said that Subaru might\n> have an affinity for spirits. Since Petelgeuse was a spirit himself, he\n> could possess the fingers' body which had been cast spell on beforehand and\n> even entities having affinity for spirits. According to Julius, Subaru\n> definitely matches the case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore watching the recent anime arc focusing on Itachi, I had assumed that he\nand Shisui were roughly the same age. But in episode 452, Shisui appears as a\nfull-fledged ninja alongside the 6 or 7-year-old Itachi when the latter was\nstill a first-year student.\n\nAlso reading into things further, Shisui awakened his Mangekyo after\nwitnessing an unnamed friend's death in the Third Great Ninja War, so he must\nhave been old enough to participate there.\n\nIs there any further information that can help nail Shisui's age down?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the time Shisui died, he was 16 and Itachi was 12-13 years old. He met\n5-year-old Itachi a year after the Third Great Ninja War. Assuming Shisui was\n3 years older than Itachi, he should have been 7 during the war.\n\nChunin rank and above are allowed to participate in the wars. Considering\nShisui was extremely talented, it makes sense that he was a Chunin at the age\nof 7.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nItachi was 12-13 and Shisui was 16.\n\nBecause Shisui died before Itachi left the village and Itachi left the village\nwhen he was 13, this means that Itachi couldn't have been 15.\n\nThis also means that if Itachi would have been 15 that the coup d'etat\nwould've happened. Which it didn't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to point out; we have no idea how old Shisui was when he\ngraduated from the Academy. At the time, the average age was nine (see Obito\nUchiha and Rin Nohara). We don't know whether or not Shisui graduated early.\nThat plays a key deciding factor here, considering he met Itachi approximately\ntwo or three years after he graduated.\n\nIf he graduated at the average wartime age, this would make him somewhere\naround eighteen to twenty years old at the time of his death. Thus, making him\nsix years older than Itachi, give or take. Perhaps he graduated at six, like\nKakashi, or maybe seven. Possibly eight. We have no idea. We don't know how\nlong Shisui fought in the war for either. What if it was a year? Or more?\n\nHowever, gauging his visual age 18-20 makes the most sense. In addition, have\nyou seen the difference in height between Shisui and Itachi when they first\nmet? There's too big a difference for there to simply be a three-year age gap,\nin my opinion.\n\nAlso, you need to factor in Shisui's height and weight stats from the\ndatabook. At the time of his death, he had the height and weight of an average\nadult male. He couldn't have been less than eighteen. I like to believe he was\nnineteen; six years older than Itachi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga _Sengoku Youko_ (same author of _Hoshi no Samidare_ ) a character\nis asked by Hisahide Matsunaga if he's considered changing his last name to\nKazamatsuri, and there's a couple historical easter eggs lurking about. I\ndon't know if there's any (additional) significance to this last name.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l4VuC.png)\n\nBecause Hisahide in the manga is rather whimsical and has some perception of\nthe flow of time, I feel there's something more lurking about.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 21 of _Sousei no Onmyouji_ , Mayura advises Benio to read a manga\ntitled _Hoshino Hitomi no Silhouette_ (\"Hoshino Hitomi's Silhouette\") to learn\nhow to deal with Rokuro romantically.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pstwNl.jpg)\n\nAfter googling around a bit, I noticed that this work is a clear parody of a\nwork with a homophonous title ― _Hoshi no Hitomi no Silhouette_ (\"Silhouettes\nof the Eyes of the Stars\"), published 1985-89. The author of the fictional\nwork is \"Kaede Akane\", whose name means \"Maple-tree Red\", while the real work\nis by Hiiragi Aoi, which can be read as meaning \"Holly-plant Blue\". I point\nthis out to emphasize that this is clearly an allusion of sorts.\n\nMayura describes this manga as a \"bible of romance\", supposedly read by four\nmillion girls, and shows us these archetypical shoujo-romance scenes from the\nmanga:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jyuvam.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/webajm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Va08om.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/C7s9am.jpg)\n\nI don't have any context for _why_ the author might have chosen to parody this\nparticular shoujo romance manga, though. Might there be some sort of\nconnection between Sukeno Yoshiaki (author of _Sousei no Onmyouji_ ) and\nHiiragi Aoi? Or is _Hoshi no Hitomi no Silhouette_ a particularly classic\nexemplar of shoujo romance manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor example, this here:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bF0tw.jpg)\n\nWhy does it need to jut out of the walls instead of just being inside the\nwalls to begin with?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is explained in manga Chapter 2 afterwords.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QEpbw.jpg)\n\nYou should realize, that walls are long. I mean, _really_ long. And it is\nimpossible even to watch over wall, not to mention protecting it. So such\ndistricts do exist, to attract all titans attention, since it is much easier\nto protect small district than miles of wall.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's also to consider that a door is a weak point in the wall, so it needs\nadditional protection from attacks; the city does exactly that, provide an\nextra layer of protection and acts as a cushion and a pen, to contain and\ndispatch giants more easily.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince this has been troublesome for many to understand- I will provide an\nexplanation. The towns are there to keep the titans at bay- giving soldiers\nsomething to grapple onto. The towns also have Cannon defense, which will be\nfine for help. However, if you look onto the picture on the LEFT SIDE, you\nwill see titans approaching the wall. The DISTRICT more or less attracts the\ntitans keeping them away from Shiganshina.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this post, _GITS_ stands for Ghost in the shell and _SAC_ stands for stand\nalone complex\n\n**I've collected:**\n\n * GITS arise quadrolgy\n * GITS SAC 1st gig\n * GITS SAC 1st gig solid state society\n * GITS SAC 2nd gig\n * GITS SAC 2nd gig individual eleven\n * GITS 2 innocence\n * GITS 2.0\n * GITS the laughing man\n\n**My queries are:**\n\n * Except for GITS 1995, am I missing anything ?\n\n * What is the correct order of watching?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWho are these characters that Mikura sees in her vision of the future at the\nend of _Mezzo DSA_?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kb8F1.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ijCRi.jpg)\n\nMy guess is that they're from an upcoming anime, but a quick Google reverse\nimage search and a text search for anime by Yasuomi Umetsu or Arms\nCorporation, the director of and the studio behind _Mezzo DSA_ , respectively,\nrevealed nothing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor a background character, the girl police's design stands out too much, so I\nsuspect that she is a crossover character or has at least some background to\nher. Or do animators occasionally just like to draw a background character so\ndifferently? But she doesn't even dress like a policewoman!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t4zjU.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KE4Vr.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/foeCH.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn 23rd episode of [Kanon 2006](https://myanimelist.net/anime/1530/Kanon_2006)\nanime, Yuuichi goes to _School_ Ayu visited and met her there. Yuuichi offered\nto grant her third wish.\n\n> She wished for Yuuichi to forget her, but he declined to grant that wish\n> because he is not able to.\n\nAyu then realizes what the third wish is, but we only see her mouth moving.\n\nWhat did she wish for?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat are the exoskeletons in Heart x Hybrid (Masou Gakuen) called?\n\nI tried looking on the net and on the wikia for this anime and I don't find\nmuch about them.\n\nI'm talking about the exoskeletons that are in the background from time to\ntime, not the Hybrid Gears.\n\nYou can see it in the background: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JLPQdl.jpg)\n\nYou can see them clearly here: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FU9J6l.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn [Right Stuff](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Maria-Holic-Manga-Volume-1) and\n[Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?ann-\nedition=au&id=10200) it indicates that Maria†Holic is shoujo-ai/yuri but\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Holic) doesn't say this. (For\nreference, Citrus on [the](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_\\(manga\\))\n[same](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?ann-\nedition=au&id=15835) [sites](http://www.rightstufanime.com/Citrus-Manga-\nVolume-1) is listed as shoujo-ai/yuri.)\n\nAlso, Wikipedia, Right Stuff and Anime News Network have almost the same\ndescription which is\n\n> Maria Holic revolves around a high school girl named Kanako Miyamae, who is\n> scared of boys and breaks out in hives if a boy touches her. During her\n> second year of high school, she enrolls in an all-girls school hoping to\n> find a female romantic partner. **However, her ideal candidate, Mariya\n> Shidō, turns out to be a sadistic cross-dressing boy**.\n\nNow sure, the premise might be interesting, a story about a girl getting over\nher fear of men through dating a cross-dressing guy (going by only what's been\nquoted) but if there is one thing I really, really, really really really hate\nit's being lied to about shoujo-ai/yuri, so how is Maria†Holic shoujo-ai/yuri?\nAre there actually lesbian relationships in it?\n\nNOTE: I ask fully expecting spoilers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've read the manga up through Volume 5, and I would describe it as a yuri\ncomedy. None of the girl-girl relationships are developed in real depth, but\nKanako is definitely a lesbian and is only attracted to Mariya insofar as he\nappears to be a girl. The two of them are not dating and Kanako has no\ninterest in getting over her fear of men; in fact, Mariya's torture probably\ndeepens her fear of men.\n\nKanako actually spends most of her time in the series chasing/lusting after\nvarious cute girls who are bona-fide females, such as her tomboy sempai\nRyuken, the rotini-haired student council president, and Mariya's identical\ntwin sister Shizu, who is a girl in disguise as a boy at an all-boys school\n(and hates men due to her experiences there). The comedy gets steadily weirder\nand takes over more and more as the series goes on, but Kanako being a lesbian\nis pretty much her defining trait and she never shows any sign of being\nattracted to men or of wanting to be.\n\nIf you're looking for a deep, romantic story, it's definitely not this, but\nthere is real girl-girl attraction in Mariya-holic, so in that sense it can be\ncalled yuri.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Trunks arrived from the future, he was easily defeated by Goku and\nVegeta. His strongest form is SSJ2 (or Possibly USSJ in the anime). This form\nat best is on par with SSJ3 Goku.\n\nWhen Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks go back to the future, Goku Black knocks out\nVegeta, who is in SSJ Blue form, easily. Then, Goku is also handily defeated.\n\nDespite this massive power difference, Trunks steps in and fares far better\nthan either Vegeta or Goku. How is this possible?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDragon Ball is known for inconsistencies and plotholes so it might simply have\nto do with something of that. But aside of that, some reasonable arguments\nI've seen online are these 2, each time a saiyan is knocked down it gets a\nsenkai boost when it recovers (increase in his power) . He was knocked down\ntwo times, by Goku and Vegeta. In the manga, when he is fighting against Goku,\nhe is said by Vegeta to be almost as strong as a Super Saiyan 3 . It is\npossible for a Super Saiyan 2 to be as strong or stronger than a Super Saiyan\n3, Beerus says Vegeta (in Super Saiyan 2) made him use more of his power than\nGoku (in Super Saiyan 3) when fighting against him. After fighting a Super\nSaiyan 3 (Goku) and being knocked down, he recovers as a saiyan to catch up\nhis power, and later he is knocked down by a Super Saiyan Blue (Vegeta), and\nhe recovers as a saiyan to catch up his power. So the argument says that when\nhe might not be as strong as a Super Saiyan Blue, he might not be as far of it\nas for being unable to step in fresh by surprise in a fight, and score some\nsuccesful punches\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis isn't very clear in the Anime but in the manga it's pretty clear that\n[SSB has a major\nflaw](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_God_Super_Saiyan):\n\n> In the Dragon Ball Super manga, the form is noted to have a major flaw in\n> its stamina. If the form is subsequently used multiple times in a row, the\n> user will be unable to exert even 10% of their power...\n\nThis may or may not have been a factor.\n\nAlso Trunks notes that Black is as powerful as himself in SS2 form while in\nbase form. This is useful to note here for 2 reasons. 1 it shows that Black is\nstupid strong, and 2 it shows that form isn't everything. It really depends on\nthe base powerlevel of the person fighting.\n\nGoku for instance didn't have to go SSB to stay even with Black until after\ntheir first fight. He was essentially even with him in SS2 form in the\n'current' timeline, where Trunks got his butt kicked in that form.\n\nFinally Pablo has a point, and it can even be seen in this instance. Fighting\nand getting beat makes Saiyans stronger fast. Black got stronger then SSB\nVegeta from one fight with Goku. Goku went Super Saiyan the first time _after_\nbeing pummled by Freiza. It's not unreasonable by Dragon Ball standards that\nTrunks getting his butt handed to him by Black also made Trunks much stronger\nfor the very next encounter.\n\nHaving watched the entire arc I can now say for sure:\n\n 1. Transforming into blue multiple times played a big role.\n 2. Keep track of the sensu beans, Trunks gets an extra one. For Saiyans in the middle of a fight a sensu bean is basically a +1 level.\n 3. Goku and Vegeta _do_ generally fight on par with Black. Problem is, is that he +1's without sensu beans and he has an immortal partner. Really without Zamasu there who wasn't that strong comparatively - Goku smashes his head into the ground 10 or 12 times - but could be a shield _and_ blinder against attacks. Black would of gone down 2 different times to either Goku, or Vegeta.\n 4. Rage plays a huge part in it. Vegeta gets stronger when he's pissed and thinks Trunks might be dead, Goku would of blown them both up when he hears what they did to Chichi if one of them isn't immortal, and Trunks final strength gain comes from being pissed off from being told protecting his loved ones is a 'sin'.\n 5. > Finally, Trunks doesn't win alone, Goku started the meltdown, Vegeto continued it, and Trunks basically absorbed the power of a spirit bomb in the end to gain enough power to finally kill the crazy bugger. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is clearly evident by what happens later in the story with Trunks' sword.\nAt some point Trunks obtained an ability very similar to the Genki Dama. While\nit takes on a more physical form when he gets his sword back we actually see\nhis Super Saiyan aura incorporate a blue glow which could either be\nreminiscent of the SSJB auras or the Genki from the Genki Dama. But we get\nconfirmation that Trunks sword was like Goku's Genki Dama from Goku himself.\nNot to mention we see him take something from the people he is trying to\nprotect.\n\nWhat is questionable however is how the Earthlings managed to power him up so\nmuch when there weren't that many left.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere's a theory:\n\nThere are two Zamasu's. One from the past and one from the future. As the past\nZamasu gets beat up, the damage and recovery is instantly recognized by\nBlack's Saiyan body and increases his strength. Being a god, the strength\nincreases even more. He more than likely gained the ability to transform into\nsuper saiyan rose by beating up his old self in a sparring match.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 5 of _planetarian_ , after\n\n> the crab mech blows the lower half of her body off,\n\nYumemi tells the Junker (or \"kuzuya\" / 屑屋; I don't know what the usual\ntranslation is) that the reason she believed she was slightly \"malfunctioning\"\nis that she kept coming to the conclusion that no people would ever come to\nsee her again. So the Junker's arrival did indeed prove her conclusion to be\n\"faulty\".\n\nBut the Junker _isn't_ the first person since the war to see her, is he?\nThere's a flashback in episode 1 where we see some old guy telling the Junker\nabout how met \"a robot\" who I think it is safe to say was Yumemi. Judging from\nhis irritation, Yumemi must've been awake (not asleep/charging), so I would\nthink that Yumemi would remember the old guy.\n\nIs this a plot hole? Or, perhaps, a defect of the anime adaptation?\n\n( _planetarian_ being a small and mostly self-contained work, I think it\nshould be possible to identify whether or not this is a plot hole with a good\ndegree of certainty.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Is this a plot hole? Or, perhaps, a defect of the anime adaptation?\n\nBoth. Adaptation-induced plot hole.\n\nThe flashback with the old guy is anime-only. No such scene is in the VN and\nJunker never heard about robot like Yumemi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor the life of me, I cannot find the song that plays at the end of each\nepisode of Darker Than Black (both seasons, subbed+dubbed) during the next\nepisode preview.\n\nCould someone either provide the name or some way to find it?\n\nHere's a clip of what I'm looking for - <https://clyp.it/pxwptiqg>.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAPhU9YSIE> I believe, perhaps. I only did\nsome mild research, and you know it's in the title of the vid.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is \"Water Forest\", track #18 from [the season 1\nOST](http://vgmdb.net/album/19094). Here is a 30-second extract from the\nbeginning of the track: <https://clyp.it/i5pumfdi>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found out that _Re:Zero_ has a public web novel version that is available\nfor free due to [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/33741/)\n\nI did some searching and found the English version. However, I only see it\nbegin from vol. 3 (without vol. 1 or vol. 2).\n\nI would like to know where I can find _Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu_\n(web novel) in English, from the beginning (vol 1) until now.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSasuke still has his Six Paths power, the Rinnegan. I understand that the\nother Tailed Beasts are no longer in him... **but** in the 4th War, even when\nMadara pulled out the Nine Tails, Obito gave him the One Tail and the Eight\nTails chakra; thus, he was able to use his Six Paths power since he already\nhad chakra of all the other tailed beasts.\n\nWhy doesn't Naruto have his Six Paths power?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Sasuke and Naruto sealed away Kaguya, Naruto lost his Sage Of the Six\nPaths powers (SOSP). This is most likely because Hagoromo gave Naruto and\nSasuke powers to defeat Madara or basically Kaguya. That is most likely the\nreason Naruto lost his SOSP powers.\n\nSasuke, on the other hand, cannot use the Sage of Six Paths senjutsu, but he\ncan still use Rinnegan. I would imagine that it has gotten weaker since Sasuke\nin one of the _Boruto_ manga had to charge up his Rinnegan powers and he no\nlonger has the SOSP senjutsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto did not lose his Six Paths senjutsu because he can still manipulate\ntruth seeking balls, and his eyes also exhibit that he is using it in battle\n(tailed beast eyes crossed with sage eyes with no eye shadow).\n\nSasuke awakened the Rinnegan because Kabuto used Hashirama's cells to heal him\nafter Madara impaled Sasuke with a sword. Thus, Asura's chakra mixed with\nIndra's chakra, becoming Hagoromo's chakra, thus allowing Sasuke to awaken the\nRinnegan.\n\nBasically, nothing has changed, except that Naruto and Sasuke can't use the\nSix Paths Sealing jutsu anymore because it can only be used once per lifetime\nand the two already used the jutsu to seal kaguya\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto has and uses his Six Paths power.\n\nIn _Boruto_ , when Naruto & Sasuke fights Momoshiki, he uses his Six Paths\npower against Momoshiki. Naruto has Kyuubi chakra and Sage Mode chakra mixed\ntogether, and when he mixes them, there are no pigments. However, when he uses\nregular Frog Sage Mode (or whatever it's called), there are pigments under his\neyes with Sage Mode, and when Naruto came back from the psyche plane with\nHagoromo, he received his chakra and received Six Paths Sage Mode.\n\nIn _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ , he also uses Six Paths power and Ashura's\nFist.\n\n* * *\n\nAbout Sasuke's Rinnegan, it's because he got Hagoromo's chakra _directly_ ,\nnot because of Hashirama's cells.\n\nAbout the whereabouts of his Truthseeker Orbs, they can only be used once,\nthen they are gone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto and Sasuke do not have Six Paths power. They lost this after sealing\nKaguya.\n\nThe _Boruto_ designs contradict that of _Naruto: Shippuuden_ because Naruto in\nSo6P ( _Naruto: Shippuuden_ ) is seen having the same pattern that Juubidara,\nJuubito, and Hagoramo had. But, in the _Boruto_ series, it's KCM, not So6P. In\nhis fight against Momoshiki, it's KCM because you can see the Kurama Chakra\nMode from his tongue.\n\nSasuke, on the other hand, still has the Rinnegan but doesn't have Six Paths\npower because every other Rinnegan (Hagoromo Rinnegan) user could use the Six\nPaths abilities. And, with Six Paths powers, they do not run out of chakra, as\nwe see Sasuke could spam Susanoo more than twice after getting it destroyed.\nWhereas in the _Boruto_ series he got knocked down and couldn't stand up,\nresulting in him using Amaterasu instead of his Rinnegan genjutsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthe reason he doesnt use the 6 paths power is not bc he sealed kaguya bc they\nthen used there 6 paths power to stop the infinite sukoyome its bc when narato\nand sasuke fight they both lost there arms in the battles they lost the arms\nwith the light and dark marks and hogoromos charka in it and the reason susuke\nstill has his sharirenigan is bc he awakened it bc he had the six paths charka\nto trigger its awaken and the charka then went into his eye which then let him\nkeep some of his 6 paths chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 9 and episode 10 of _Re:Zero_ , when Rem uses\n\n> her horn to engage beasts, it seems that she cannot control herself.\n\nIn episode 10, she also\n\n> attacks Subaru and Ram. Subaru has to hit her horn to bring her out of the\n> madness. \n> \n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g8b1kl.jpg) \n> Episode 10 at 19:47\n\nHowever, in episode 11 on the flashback when Ram and Rem were young,\n\n> none of them become crazy when they use their horns. \n> \n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NopMVl.jpg) \n> Episode 11 at 1:26 \n> \n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UBIEil.jpg) \n> Episode 11 at 2:17\n\nCould anyone explain it to me?\n\n> Is madness the side-effect of using the horn, or are there any other causes?\n> Because as I see, it happened to Rem in the forest with mabeast (demon\n> beast) only.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn that fight, she was overwhelmed and, in fact, was probably going to die\nbecause she was too weak to kill all the wolves. She was also hysterical\nbecause she had to kill the king wolf who cast a curse on Subaru, and if left\nto run, its course would have killed him a few hours later.\n\nSo under normal use, she would not have her personality affected, but in this\ncase, she was in a hysterical rage to save Subaru and exhausted almost all of\nher power on the minions before the boss she needed to kill showed itself.\nHowever, why her personality changes when she loses control is not explained,\nand I can only assume it to be a combination of her already unstable mental\nstate, her being drained of power due to the fighting, and possibly a side\neffect of her Oni transformation that is normally manageable.\n\nThe details are taken from the arc 2 synopses of [Subaru's Wiki\npage](http://rezero.wikia.com/wiki/Natsuki_Subaru/Synopsis)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Re:Zero, Subaru has the \"return by death\" power, but when he tries to tell\nanyone about it he is stopped by what I assume is \"The Witch\". Why does this\nhappen? Why can't Subaru tell anyone about his power?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe witch seems to have given him his Return by Death power and stops him when\nhe tries to reveal it. The witch's motivations for giving him the power or\nkeeping it secret have not been revealed yet. It seems pretty clear that\nthere's no way for Subaru to overcome the witch and reveal the power -- when\nhe tried to overpower the witch and reveal his ability to Emilia, the witch\nkilled Emilia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe biggest key lies in the role of the witch - the witch of **Envy**. She is\naltogether not at all keen on him sharing just about anything with others, but\nmost especially anything he shares with her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat manga chapter is episode 219 of Naruto Shippuden from? I think there are\ndifferences between the manga and the anime and I want to check them out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 219 is towards the end of the [Fourth shinobi world war:\ncountdown](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Fourth_Shinobi_World_War:_Countdown)\n\nThis arc lasted from volume 52 to 55. Or chapter 484 to 515.\n\nIIRC they covered roughly 2 chapters per episode during this arc. Leading me\nto believe that episode 219 should match chapter 493-494\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLooking from the perspective of the recent movie (which occurs at or near the\nchronological beginning of the series):\n\n * Koyomi has what appears to be a slide-phone with a keyboard, and Hanekawa puts her \"phone number and email address\" into it.\n * Koyomi goes to the bookstore for porn instead of just looking it up on the internet. (This show never seems to indicate any signs of the internet even existing?)\n * All the cars (which are mostly copy-pastes of the same CG model) seem to have a much older style to them.\n\nMost of all, this frame (which appears right as Koyomi is about to bring up\nhis phone) may indicate a year. But what does the \"G9\" stand for?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ab6vJl.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't recall an exact year, but there's evidence that the series takes place\nin the modern day, between 2007 and 2018.\n\nThe strongest piece of evidence comes from the novels. In _Kabukimonogatari_\nChapter 7, after Koyomi travels back in time 11 years, he notes that the money\nis different and has Natsume Souseki on it. These would have been [the series\nD bills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Japanese_yen#1984)\nissued from 1984 to 2007 and suspended April 2007. This puts the series no\nmore than 11 years after 2007, or no later than 2018. The novel version of\n_Otorimonogatari_ has Nadeko make a reference to _K-On_ , also putting it\n[after May 2007](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-On!), when the _K-On_ manga\nstarted.\n\nMaroon notes in the comments that the dates line up better for 2006. The\nphasing out of the Souseki notes began in 2004, so 2006 is a plausible year as\nwell. The novels [began their run in August\n2005](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogatari_\\(series\\)), so it's possible\nthat Nisio Isin looked to March 2006 as the starting point for the series.\n\nSmartphones do exist in the world of Monogatari; in the preview on Episode 7\nof Nisemonogatari, Kaiki complains that after Hitagi smashed his phone, he\nwent to buy a new one and could only find smartphones, which he dislikes.\nHere's a hard-to-see picture of my television screen that shows it:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0BP1H.jpg)\n\nFlip phones are actually still pretty common in Japan; see [this Answerman\ncolumn](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2014-10-24/.80264).\n\nAs a side note, the male protagonist hiding porn books in his room is a time-\nhonored tradition of the genres that Monogatari draws on, harem and school\naction. Suruga also fills her room up with cheap BL books instead of going on\nthe Internet and reading slash fiction. Monogatari is a mixture of real and\nhyper-real, so sometimes it just plays by the rules of fiction.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nToneri had somewhat the same Goal as Madara. Madara gained Hagoromo's Power\nand Toneri, Hamura's. The both powers are, I believe equivalent.\n\n**_Sharingan >> Rinnegan = Byakugan >> Tenseigan_**\n\nHe who awakens the Rinnegan, shall receive the Powers of Hagoromo and he who\nawakens the Tenseigan shall receive the Powers of Hamura. Which is exactly\nwhat happened. BUT... Toneri had the Power of Hamura, who has the equivalent\nPower as Hagoromo... Then, how was Naruto able to finish Toneri's Tenseigan\n(and the Powers of Hamura) away with one blow?? + just in Nine Tails Mode,\nwithout his Six Paths Powers.. It just doesn't add up.\n\nNow.. let's move to the Movie Boruto:\n\nKinshiki and Momoshiki are **very** powerful beings... Momoshiki even has 3\nRinnegan (One in his Forehead, and one in each palm) and has also the\nequivalent, if not greater Power to those of Kaguya.... how the hell was he\ndefeated by only Boruto (a child)? While it took **Naruto & Sasuke** to seal\naway (not defeat) Kaguya and they both had the Six Paths Powers, while Boruto\nhad none whatsoever.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTwo reasons:\n\n 1. Byakugan is weaker than the Sharingan\n 2. Toneri was not a Hyuuga before he started his world domination. Madara was actually an Uchiha, therefore he had the immediate access to all Sharingan powers. Toneri didn't have immediate access to Byakugan. Not to mention the fact that the Hyuuga kept the Byakugan a heavily guarded secret. So much to the fact that they had to create a seal for the branch family. One reason Sharingan was so easy to just obtain, is that the Uchiha didn't put in extra effort to guard their eyes. That is because only those who have a strong will can have the Sharingan. Sharingan is much much harder to obtain than Byakugan because you are not born with it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto and Sasuke during Boruto saga are way stronger than the version in the\nwar arc, so any actual threat that is Kaguya or even just slightly above her\nis not gonna do much against them and did so because they were nerfed in the\nmovie.\n\nAs for how Boruto's rasengan finished the enemy is because Naruto used his\nchakra to charge it and you can expect that his rasengan is going to be over\npowered.\n\nThese are reasons I believe so, as you can't expect them to be same level when\nthey fought Kaguya as they did not have experience with their power and it's\nalready shown in this series and many other that you become more powerful as\nyou grow older until certain age.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTechnically, neither of them were easy. It took 5 kages + Sasuke to defeat\nMomoshiki & Kinshiki. As for Toneri reducing production cost's technical\nfactors:\n\n 1. Transplanted Byakugan and evolved it into Tenseigan minutes before starting to fight Naruto. Even assuming he knew about its powers, he won't have instant mastery over it. \n 2. He was fighting BSM Naruto even if part of Kyuubi was separated, he was actually powering golem that it was fighting.\n 3. Was trying to ram Moon into Earth all while fighting Naruto.\n\nAlso, people mostly forget to mention that guy is in similar age group as\nNaruto & co. So, no help there. Well, he seems quite knowledgeable (Otsutsuki\nfactor), but still no extra time to develop chakra.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, Naruto and Sasuke were vastly inferior in power to when they fought\nKaguya. They no longer had Six Paths power, Naruto could only use Kurama, and\nSasuke Susanoo and he only had 1 arm left! It's just that Kaguya is vastly\nstronger than the other members of her clan. In fact, she's vastly stronger\nthan all other characters in Naruto, she is the god of the Naruto verse after\nall.\n\nThe whole Momoshiki greater threat was hype-crap. They got beat by a simple\nlarge Rasengan made by Boruto and a weakened Naruto on his base-form while\nKaguya took 9 Rasenshurikens at once. She didn't even absorb them, she just\ntanked them.\n\nBy feats, Momo and Kinshiki were below Madara, let alone Kaguya, who Sasuke\nstated on his thoughts to be far stronger than Madara.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw this image on this question: [Why are there outlying towns/cities on the\nwalls in Shingeki no\nKyoujin?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/36222/why-are-there-\noutlying-towns-cities-on-the-walls-in-shingeki-no-kyoujin)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bF0twl.jpg)\n\nIf you look carefully, there is a spot near the bottom where the water canal\nenters the district Shignashina and then through Wall Maria itself.\n\nWhy don't the Titans use this opening to attack the city? From the question,\n[Can the Titans swim?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13446/can-\nthe-titans-swim), there haven't been any conclusive theories as to how the\ntitans cross the water.\n\n> Titans floating seems misplaced and I think \"Connie's Mom\" provides evidence\n> that someone probably turned few people living on the islands to titans to\n> wipe out humanity\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust a hypothesis from what has been shown in the story.\n\nHumans has been living for 100 years in peace behind the wall. Assuming that\nthe gate and the canal has always looked like that during the whole 100 years,\nthen I suppose the main reason would be because the Titans ain't that smart.\n\nBefore the rise of the Titan Shifters, there was no accident of the wall being\nbreached. Only after the Titan Shifters shows up, that is the Shiganshina\nattack by the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan, that the wall was finally\nbreached. Their method of breaching was by attacking the weak point of the\nwall, the gate. Seeing that the canal allows water to flow through a gap under\nthe wall, then the canal should be as weak as the gate if not more. Which once\nagain means that the average titan just don't have the brain to think about\nsuch a thing.\n\nAs for why Colossal Titan didn't kick the canal instead of the gate, it could\nbe just a coincidence, or maybe because Titans really can't swim\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly, the canals have some kind of blockade that can be\nclosed, too (correct me if I'm wrong). Breaching something is easier on land,\nsince moving in water slows down and thus weakens any movement.\n\nAlso, since the body temperature of titans is abnormally high, I could imagine\nthe water could evaporate and this would be a nuisance. If enough water is\nlost this way, there would even be a considerable force of the water pushing\nback to the titans - being light as they are, this could prevent them from\nentering.\n\nRemark: This is all speculation, I don't have sources for this at hand.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey can walk through it, but probably there is some kind of metal barrier or\nsomething that allows water but not titans. In fact, if this is true, boats\ncouldn't be possible and they couldn't pass, except if there it was some kind\nof mechanism that allows to up or down the gate, but just a theory.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's kind of referenced in the anime as \"the strongest part of the wall\" but\nnot explained...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/npbXY.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ohu9B.png)\n\nAnd this is where the cannon fired/transformation happened: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uGC5t.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI feel like Kyogre and Groudon don't go Primal because they're angry triggers.\nI feel like it's more like having a lust for power, or something. If there WAS\na Primal Rayquaza, It would basically only be Mega Rayquaza, only more\npowerful. Plus, going Primal doesn't count as Mega Evolution, so you could use\nPrimal Rayquaza AND a Mega all in one battle.That would be especially useful\nwhen battling a really strong trainer, like if you challenge the League again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first volume of the manga series _Kochikame_ , there was neither any\nintroduction of the characters whatsoever, nor any explanation of the\nsituation at all. In the second chapter, two new characters were introduced\nbut it was as if they had been shown in the manga before. I'm really confused\nabout this, so did I miss something in the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of soundtrack in **_Tokyo Ghoul Root A (EPISODE 2....14:15)\n?_** with the scene of Akira the daughter of Mado?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wN2CA.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is called **Kriminalbeamte** by Yamada Yutaka. You can find it on the\nTokyo Ghoul Original Soundtrack. (Disc 1, Track 9) If you want the soundtrack\nyou can get it at [CDJapan.co.jp](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MJSA-1158).\n\nWas not easy to track down since Investigator Takizawa wouldn't shut his mouth\nthrough the quiet music! lol\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe moment I'm talking about is episode 22 of the anime when he's possessing\nthe body of a female cult member, and a little red ball comes swirling by.\n\nIs there any additional significance to it that I'm not aware of or just\nBetelgeuse being crazy?\n\nWatching the next episode makes me better aware of the fact Julius was keeping\nan eye on Subaru. However I assume there's little Julius/Ia could have done to\nhelp (or he would've done that already considering the rather dire\nlifethreatening situation Subaru was, being crushed into the tree).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Betelgeuse die he became some sort of quasi spirit himself allowing him\nto possess those who are spirit compatible or lacking in sanity, in this case\nthe fingers , Subaru and skip by the anime, Julius (The guy got his own\nissue).\n\nJulius however cannot be possessed due to having six guardian spirits. This\ndid not allow him to choose Julius as a host after the last of the fingers\nwere eliminated but instead tried for the next best thing which is Subaru. if\nhe did tried to possessed Julius. Betelgeuse must fight against the other six\nspirits and that can cause severe pain to the mind of the host which may cause\nhim to be ejected and die for real.\n\nSubaru to was having the same problem like Betelgeuse but we saw it much\nclearly, severe headache when the spirit try to cleanse him of Ram illusion\n\nEven when Subaru has IA ,Julius lesser fire spirit to help him Subaru is not\nthe true pact wielder of the spirit making him vulnerable to possession.\n\nBut still wanting Julius as a body due to his more powerful body Subaru was\ntaken hostage to try to get Julius to get rid of his pact , not wanting Julius\nhis friend (and himself) getting possessed and wreaking havoc he ask to be\nkilled by Felix . Felix in turn ruin Subaru Gate causing his blood to boil\n(see episode 5 death) and Julius tearfully end his life for that loop.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDepending on how condensed the plot is in a manga, the number of episodes that\ncome out annually will be affected. For example, _Haikyuu!!_ had 25 episodes\nper season for the first two seasons, and since it has almost caught up, there\nwill probably be 10-12 episodes per year from now on each covering 4-5\nchapters, as 50 episodes got them to about chapter 150, if they want to stay\nat pace with the manga.\n\nIn an action-based manga where a lot of the scenes are fighting scenes, it\nbecomes pretty hard to lengthen a chapter time-wise. What are specific time-\nfilling techniques _One Piece_ using to keep the chapter-to-episode ratio at\n1:1?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _One Piece_ manga and anime aren't in a 1:1 ratio. The distance between\nthem even shifts around. The second arc took place between the 8th and 24th\nchapters in the manga, while the same in the anime took place between the 4th\nand 8th episodes.\n\nThe main reason why the anime is this slow is the fillers. They help the manga\n\"catch a breath\" and sneak in a couple of chapters. (side note: This is still\nno excuse for fillers in the middle of an arc though).\n\nOda likes to put in a few filler episodes after every arc or when there's a\nnew movie out.\n\nWith these however, there's still a very big chance that the anime will\neventually reach the manga. If this happens, there are 4 possibilities:\n\n * They stop airing _One Piece_ for a year so the manga catches up.\n * They start airing the episodes every 2 weeks.\n * They do what _Game of Thrones_ will do/did and continue with a separate storyline.\n * They start writing the story for the anime and make the manga based on that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_One Piece_ uses a lot of still shots, pointless camera angles and shots, and\na lot of dragging out short scenes to make them longer. A good video to watch\nwould be [Why Manga Fans Dislike The Anime | One Piece Discussion | Grand Line\nReview](https://youtu.be/4yRw-nRPgc4) as it goes into deeper detail as to how\n_One Piece_ keeps a nearly 1:1 chapter to anime ratio.\n\nAs for [Bálint's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/36472/2516) that\nsaid they use filler to make this happen, that's just not true. _One Piece_ is\ncomprised of only 10% filler compared to _Naruto_ which is in the 40%. The\n_One Piece_ anime tends to just drag scenes out overall.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just finished this anime on Crunchyroll, if you have watched it as well, you\nknow how it ends there.\n\nHow or where can I see what happens next without waiting for the still\npossible next season? Also, what chapter of the manga picks up where the anime\nends?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 24, 25 will cover vol. 9 which will be published in 25th of September\n2016. This will mark the end of \"Arc 3: The Truth of Zero\", follow up by arc 4\nthat starts with vol. 10 which will start publishing in October.\n\nFor the raw/unedited web version (Arc 1 - Arc 6), you can read it on\n[Shousetsuka ni Narou (Japanese)](http://ncode.syosetu.com/n2267be/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is: I was mistaken.\n\nCrunchyroll made the series sound (to me) like it was ended 2 weeks ago but\nthe series actually played until this week (not sure yet if there is more\ncoming).\n\nBut, thankfully, I was able to see all the episodes up to an actual\nconclusion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow is the Rinne Sharingan awakened? I know Madara and Kaguya were the only\npeople to do so but I don't remember it ever being explained in Naruto\nShippuden.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n***SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE ANIME UPTO DATE ***\n\n> The Rinne Sharingan (輪廻写輪眼, Literally meaning: Saṃsāra Copy Wheel Eye) is a\n> dōjutsu kekkei mōra and the predecessor to the Rinnegan and Sharingan.\n\nI got the above from the naruto wikia page\n[here.](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinne_Sharingan)\n\nFrom that we can conclude that Rinne-Sharingan is a predecessor of both\nRinnegan and Sharingan.\n\nFrom the anime, i know that in order to awaken the Rinne-Sharingan one must\npossess both the chakras of Indira and Ashura.\n\nThe fact that Hagoromo, father of these two had it proves the above line that\nboth their chakra are needed.\n\nThus only Madara and Kaguya have the Rinne-Sharingan. Kaguya got it by eating\nthe Chakra fruit from the God tree during the time of her pregnancy in order\nto save herself.\n\nMadara got it when he was awakened with the cells of Hashirama infused in\nhimself.\n\n> As a result of Black Zetsu's actions, Madara's body then served as a vessel\n> for the resurrected Kaguya, who retained the Rinne Sharingan.[4]\n\nThis is during the 4th war, when Kaguya emerges from the body of Madara. The\nabove quote was also taken from the same wiki page.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read the wiki of Madara, and got that while Madara was fighting, Black Zetsu\nused Obito to use Kamui and transport them to the real world. Then Madara took\nback his Rinnegan, giving Obito back his Mangekyou Sharingan. So Madara\nstalled Sasuke and Naruto with several Chibaku Tensei. So, Madara got into the\nproximity of the moon, during that time awakened the Rinne-Sharingan and\nsucceeded in casting Infinite Tsukuyomi. I'd say to unlock the Rinne-\nSharingan, you'd need the Rinnegan, basically the cells of Indra and Asura,\nand have the full clear view of the moon infront of you. If this is wrong,\nplease correct me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo awaken the Rinne Sharingan I believe that you need to:\n\n1.) possess the Rinnegan, and 2.) approach the moon/be near the moon.\n\nBased on the [Rinne Sharingan Naruto wiki\npage](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinne_Sharingan), it was written on the\nstone tablet handed down in the Uchiha clan that \"when one who wields the\npower of Rinne approaches the moon, the eye which can reflect off the moon and\ngrant the infinite dream will open\". The eye here refers to the Rinne\nSharingan, which Madara was able to acquire after approaching the moon.\n\nYou could read the rest on the wiki page about how Kaguya awakened it, if you\nwould actually call that awakening. I'd like to believe that the logic behind\napproaching the moon to activate it was because the moon is essentially where\nKaguya is, after being sealed by Hagoromo and Hamura.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo awaken the Rinne Sharingan, you have got to be the ten tails jinchuuriki.\n\nAdditionally, Sasuke's left eye is not a Rinne Sharingan but a Rinnegan given\nto him by the Sage of six paths, which is probably the reason for the tomoe. \nWe don't know if there are other variations of the Rinnegan, since we only see\ntwo pairs of them (Hagoromo's and Madara's since those we're the eyes Nagato\nand Óbito had).\n\nI don't know why Obito didn't awaken his though, since he was the ten tails\njinchuuriki for a while.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou have to posses the power of the Divine Tree. Kaguya awakened it simply by\neating the chakra fruit. But with Madara, things were a little bit\ncomplicated. Since the Divine Tree's chakra basicly became the Ten Tails, you\nhave to absorb it by becoming Jinchuuriki, and absorb the Divine Tree. To cast\nthe Infinite Tsukuyomi, you need to posses the Rinne-Sharingan. Since Kaguya\ncurrently has one, you need to, essentially, take it from her, by nearing the\nmoon. Stone Tablet says this: \"When the one who possesses the power of Rinne\nshould draw near the moon, an eye will reflect on the moon in order to\nactivate the infinite dream.\" Rinne, not Rinne-Sharingan, not Rinnegan,\nbecause these probably are the same, but you cannot cast the Infinite\nTsukuyomi with Rinnegan. So you come close the moon with the power of\nRinnegan, and Divine Tree, basically taking Kaguya's Rinne-Sharingan, and\nawakening your own. Then you can cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Hope I explained\nyou :D By the way, Sasuke's left eye is not Rinne-Sharingan, it's Rinnegan\nwith 6 tomoe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is quite an old movie. Still...\n\n**SPOILER ALERT**\n\nI finished watching the movie and manga a few years ago. I've just finished\nthe novel by Shinkai-sensei.\n\nAfter watching and reading through these, I completely can't figure out why\nTakaki's relationships couldn't last.\n\nHe had 3 relationships, 2 during his university life and 1 with Mizuno. Let's\njust put the first two aside, I think he's going well with Mizuno. But, at\nlast, when he took Mizuno to the station where he and Akari met each other\nagain, he just couldn't and cried. Why?\n\nBecause judging from the novel, it seems like he was not trapped in the\nmemories with Akari when he was going out of Mizuno, not to say that he'd\nforgotten the memories.\n\nIn my opinion, the last scene, where Akari and Takaki passed by each other,\nonly Takaki was relieved and really started to move on.\n\nBut what really was Tataki's struggle?\n\n",
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"title": "In 5 Centimeters per Second, why was Takaki struggling in love?",
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"body": "\n\nI read the manga and watched the movie several times, it has a slice-of-life\ngenre, so I came to a conclusion. He just can't move on. The feelings,\nmemories, and Akari. But... In the last scene, he decided to move on. Remember\nthe passing train? It symbolizes that life moves on and so, he did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do not think this has a definite answer. 5cm was about love, growing up, and\nall that entails. So in truth only Shinkai knows exactly what was meant.\n\nWhat I can offer is what I felt was Takaki's issue.\n\nHe never quite got over the fact that he failed to send that letter.\n\nIn my view, it could have been a self-imposed sense of not worth being in a\nrelationship, or other such things that we do to ourselves when things do not\nwork out.\n\nin other instances he seems to be getting into a relationship trying to fill\nthe emptiness left after losing his first love. And that is a mistake that a\nlot of people end up making. The end lesson in life, is that you cannot fill a\nvoid left by one person with a different person. That void will always be\nthere. One just has to learn how to live with the pain that happens in love\nand life. Takaki does not seem to do that very well.\n\nMy answer might not be the kind one can be backed up with research, and you\nmay not agree with it, but it is the only answer that I believe can be given\nfor this specific movie/book.\n\n",
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}
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