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"body": "\n\nI want to know how much of the _Kimi no Iru Machi_ anime is adapted from the\nmanga, and whether or not the anime skipped any content from it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime series skipped the Hiroshima part and goes straight to the Tokyo\npart where Haruto was chasing after the disappearing Eba. It ended with Haruto\nbreaking up with Asuka and going back with Yuzuki. Haruto moved out from his\nsister's place to live together with Yuzuki.\n\nThe OVA animated the Hiroshima part of the story and ended with Yuzuki moving\nback to Tokyo, thus the OVA should be watched before the serial. Since the OVA\nis only 2 episodes long it omitted many small detail.\n\nThere is also a gap between the OVA and the serial in that it skipped Eba\nbreaking up with Haruto. The serial started with they already breaking up.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn Season 10, when Nnoitra thinks back to when he fought Nel last time (when\nhe broke her mask), he got her to fight by hurting Pesche and Dondochakka.\nSeeing them, Nel said that Nnoitra had ripped off their masks. However, Pesche\nand Dondochakka are Fracción and thus Arrancar, so their masks have already\nbeen removed.\n\nCan Arrancar not fully removed their masks? If not, then how is Nnoitra\nripping off Pesche's and Dondochakka's so bad that it was enough to bait Nel\ninto a fight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Bleach, when a Whole becomes a Hollow their heart leaves their chest\n(forming a hole) and transforms into their mask. (Chapter 433)\n\nThe powers that a hollow develops and very body arise from the mask.\n\nIf the mask is removed, it would logically follow that the Arrancar would lose\nall of their power. We know that removing the mask from a normal hollow forces\nthem to temporarily revert to their form as a Whole (the Ichigo vs Orihime's\nbrother arc).\n\nWhile we can't be sure this would happen to an Arrancar, the fact is that\nstripping an Arrancar's mask would strip away their very identity as an\nperson. It's a horribly cruel thing to do, even for someone like Nnoitora or\nSyazel Aporro.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Season 10, after Nnoitra survives the Cero Doble that Nelliel ate and shot\nback, Nnoitra said that it had been years since Nelliel was an Espada.\n\nFrom my understanding the Espada only started to form after Aizen got the\nHogyoku and I don't see how it's been years since he took the Hogyoku out of\nRukia.\n\nSo how was Aizen building up the Espada before getting the Hogyoku?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**SPOILER ALERT for those who haven't finished Aizen's Arc!**\n\nJust a guess based on the fact that there were 2 Hougyoku. The fact that there\nwere 2 Hougyoku was disclosed during a flashback of Ichimaru Gin's memory as\nhe was dying.\n\nThere were 2 hougyoku, one made by Urahara and another made by Aizen. The\nlatter was then fused into the first as both were incomplete. The fused one is\nthe perfected Hougyoku that was hidden inside Rukia.\n\nSince there was years prior to the story then a reasonable answer would be\nAizen was using his own Hougyoku. This is because the other Hougyoku was in\nUrahara's lab. But then again, since it is Aizen that we are talking about\nhere, another possibility would be that after both was fused, Aizen used\nKyouka Suigetsu's Kanzen Saimin (Perfect Hypnosis) on Urahara to make him\nbelieve that the Hougyoku was still with him while in actual Aizen took it\nwith him to perform some experiments with the Hollows.\n\nThe second theory has a weakness in that why would Aizen return it to Urahara,\nwhich suggest that there might be a time limit to Kyouka Suigetsu's Kanzen\nSaimin. It would be possible to determine which one happened had we know the\nextend of Aizen's Hougyoku's power. What we currently know is the power of the\nalready fused Hougyoku and there is no way we can know the limit of the two\noriginal Hougyoku since Bleach has already ended without it being disclosed.\nIt is safe to say that the original Hougyoku would be weaker compared to the\nfused Hougyoku, but what abilities each can grant, whether both grant the same\nabilities or not, well, we wouldn't know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the scene in question is from chapter 291 and episode 192, so this\nis what I'm going to work off of.\n\nAccording to the [wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Espada#History):\n\n> The original Espada were already in existence sometime before Aizen's\n> defection from Soul Society and acquisition of the Hōgyoku.\n\nSo this would mean that Aizen did not have either Hōgyoku before the Espada\nwere being gathered.\n\nThen to answer the second half of your question, in the scene you mentioned\nNnoitra is talking about how it has been years since Nelliel has taken her\nfull form as an Espada due to the trama he inflicted on her long before\nrendering her appearance to that of a small child.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kRfB0.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nSyb5.jpg)\n\nSo in this instance he was not saying that it had been years since Nelliel had\n_become_ an Espada, but that it had been years since she _returned_ to being\nan Espada.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe short answer: by being a magnificent bastard with an overpowered shikai.\n\nThe more general answer varies slightly between each Espada. Aizen would find\nthe to-be Espada and prey upon their weaknesses and desires to lure them to\nhis banner. Sometimes they just wanted ever more power, either because they\nhad a singular lust for it (like Grimmjow), or because they wished to use it\nto some ends.\n\n> For example, Halibel wanted it to protect her friends/fraccion from the\n> aggressions of other hollows.\n\nAnd Starrk\n\n> Just wanted companionship. Chapter 375, Page 7, Aizen finds and recruits\n> Starrk: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fONBZ.jpg)\n\nBut sometimes brute force comes into play.\n\n> At one point, someone explains that the reason that Aizen can keep such a\n> powerful group of Espada functioning together is by his sheer, overwhelming\n> power. In Chapter 371, for example, we see how he recruited Barragan. It was\n> basically by humiliating him. Here's a few of those pages: Page 4 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ikH5.jpg)\n> Page 7 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fxyzZ.jpg)\n> Page 8 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9XgO4.jpg)\n> Page 11 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QfCt4.jpg)\n> Page 12 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jj0BK.jpg)\n> Page 13 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4MW2h.jpg)\n\nOne thing that may be worth noting here:\n\n> When we see Aizen recruiting Barragan, he has his \"soul society\" haircut, so\n> this is before he's revealed as the bad guy, and so before he has extracted\n> the Hogyouku from Rukia. When we see him recruiting Starrk, though, he has\n> his \"post betrayal\" haircut, so this event occurs after he has the Hogyouku\n> from Rukia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super, it is told that Gods of Destruction and Supreme Kais\ncome in pairs, so if a Supreme Kai dies, Beerus also dies. What about the\nother Kaioshin? West Kaioshin, North Kaioshin, South Kaioshin , Grand Supreme\nKai, Elder Kai, Gowasu, Zamasu, shouldn't they have or get Gods of\nDestruction?\n\nAnd what about Kaioshin students who later on become Kaioshins, do they have a\nGod of Destruction when they are born or when they are upgraded to Kaioshins?\nHow does it work?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSupreme Kais are chosen from the regular Kais, for a single universe. One of\nthe 7th Universe's Supreme Kais is the East Supreme Kai. This is process is\nelaborated in Chapter 16 of _Dragon Ball Chou_ , when Zamasu undergoes\ntraining to become the Supreme Kai of the 10th Universe.\n\nThere are 12 Gods of Destruction, for each universe. It means that in one\nuniverse, there can only be one God Of Destruction.\n\nFrom the wikia article on [Supreme\nKai](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Supreme_Kai_\\(position\\)):\n\n> Normally there are three Supreme Kai in each Universe, with two on duty and\n> if one of the Supreme Kai was to die in an accident, then the currently-\n> inactive third Supreme Kai would grow in the Sacred World of the Kai like a\n> plant.\n\nTherefore, each God of Destruction is linked with the Supreme Kais of that\nuniverse.\n\nBut the article also states that:\n\n> [Supreme Kais] are the Gods of Creation who provide the catalyst for life\n> and planets to be born, as opposed to the Gods of Destruction who destroy\n> life and planets, which maintains the balance of the universe.\n\nThis states that a God of Destruction and their Supreme Kais have a yin-yang\nrelationship. One cannot exist without the other.\n\nSo the other normal Kai aren't related to the God of Destruction's well being.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOnly 6 chapters are available online. Where could I find the rest? Because\nthere's nowhere to be found, and I'm dying to read it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Only 6 chapters are available online\n\nAssuming your talking about the English version this is incorrect. [All 7\nvolumes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble#Media) (which if we\nfollow the [pattern\nhere](https://www.mangaupdates.com/releases.html?search=46713&stype=series)\nwould be approximately 21 chapters (3 chapters per volume)) are available in\nenglish in both physically format and digital.\n\non the [Kodansha International site](http://kodanshacomics.com/series/) (which\nis an American subsidiary of\n[Kodansha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha)) lists [Mardock\nScramble](http://kodanshacomics.com/series/mardock-scramble/) and where you\ncan get all the volumes digitally and physically. each volume lists the same\nsites (though the links go to the respective volume) but using Volume 1 as an\nexample you can find each volume:\n\n * Digital \n * [Amazon](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00DN7BFE2)\n * [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1029766387)\n * [Barnes & Noble](http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mardock-scramble-1-tow-ubukata/1102622264;jsessionid=017936A7C017A9C80659A7EEFD441844.prodny_store01-atgap01?ean=9781612625270)\n * [Kobo](https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/mardock-scramble-14)\n * [Comixology](https://www.comixology.com/Mardock-Scramble-Vol-1/digital-comic/272063)\n * Physical \n * [Penguin Publishing House](http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212633/mardock-scramble-1-by-created-by-tow-ubukata-manga-by-yoshitoki-oima/9781935429531)\n\ni greatly suspect that the reason why you can only find 6 chapters online is\nbecause you are looking for the scanlation which stopped at chapter 6 in 2011,\nthe same year the manga was licensed in English. we won't post links to\nscalations here on Anime and Manga Stack Exchange nor should you be looking\nfor them when a series has been officially licensed in your language as this\nis then piracy\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently read the manga THE BREAKER: NEW WAVES. Is there a continuation of\nthis manga? It ended in a rather uncomfortable state (personal view).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's no continuation for The Breaker: New Waves for now. The author took a\nbreak on this series and started Trinity Wonder, if I remember right.\n\nHope I answered your question.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome additional information to Soukatsoui's correct answer.\n\nThe Breaker: New Waves went on a hiatus in May 2015 before releasing Part 3 of\nthe Manhwa. The reason is stated as the author will be working on another\nsupposedly \"mid-size\" comic \"Trinity Wonder\".\n\nThe actual duration of this break hasn't been announced. From initial\noptimistic estimate of 6-12 months, it looks the break will last for atleast 3\nyears. So I wouldn't expect any more Breaker chapters before 2018.\n\nTL;DR The Breaker is on an **indefinite hiatus pending update from the\nauthor** about the release of Part 3.\n\nIn October 2015, we got a look at the panel, which may be from part 3, so the\nauthor may still be working on it on the side.\n<http://m.blog.naver.com/tdstudio/220481432104>\n\nI'd found this Reddit when I was thinking of picking Breaker back up thinking\nit was finished\n(<https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/4dsrxi/breakers_creators_work_on_a_new_comic_called/>)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan anyone brief a little about the link between the Byakugan, Rinnegan, and\nSharingan? I know the meanings, but I don't know the relationship between the\neyes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike Akira said in the comment, they all come from Kaguya. That is, Kaguya\nowned both Byakugan and Rinnegan. Her son Hagoromo, widely known as Rikudo-\nsennin, inherited Rinnegan. His twin brother, Hamura inherited Byakugan.\nHagoromo's son Indra owns Sharingan, while his other son Asura owned his great\nlife force. Only when both are present then one can have Rinnegan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe progenitor of chakra, Kaguya Otsutsuki, was the first character\n(historically) to have Byakugan on Earth.\n\nAfter eating the Chakra Fruit, she awakens a third eye on her forehead, the\nRinne Sharingan.\n\n\n\nNow the Rinne Sharingan is completely independent of the Byakugan's influence.\nThis is because the [Rinne\nSharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinne_Sharingan) is the result of the\nmanifestation of the powers of the Chakra Fruit on a person.\n\n> The Rinne Sharingan possesses the ocular power of the Sharingan, and can be\n> used to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, an extremely powerful genjutsu which\n> can only be countered by the Rinnegan and the chakra of the nine tailed\n> beasts.\n\nWhen her two sons, Hagoromo and Hamura were born, they had their mother's\nByakugan. As time progressed, Hagoromo awakens a new dojutsu, the Sharingan.\nIn the anime, Hagoromo awakened the Sharingan after finding the corpse of his\nlove interest Haori.\n\n\n\nThe Sharingan is a derived form of the Rinne Sharingan, meaning, weaker. But\npowerful nevertheless. He goes on to attain the Mangekyou Sharingan also, but\nthat is not shown on screen.\n\nHagoromo then achieves the Rinnegan, after nearly killing his brother (and\nthereby freeing him from his mother's control).\n\n\n\nThe Rinnegan is a much more advanced form of the Sharingan and it has a wide\nrange of powers. The Rinnegan is stated to be something that is unique to the\nSage of Six Paths, which is why, to obtain the Rinnegan, shinobi mix the\nchakra of Ashura and Indra (thereby getting Hagoromo's chakra).\n\nWhile the Byakugan doesn't have any direct link to the Rinnegan and Sharingan,\nit does play a significant role in their creation, along with the Rinne\nSharingan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nByakugan originally came from the Otsutsuki clan. Kaguya has Byakugan, since\nshe is from that clan. In order to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Kaguya\nactivated her Rinne Sharingan.\n\nIndra, a grandson of Kaguya, was born with the Sharingan. From him, the Uchiha\nclan existed, and they all could awaken Sharingan.\n\nHagoromo, a son of Kaguya, had the Rinnegan. Sasuke was able to get part of\nthe Rinnegan because Hagoromo gave it to him.\n\nBy the way, I'm not taking into account the Naruto Shippuden fillers.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Byakugan is a pure dojutsu by itself, while the Rinnegan and Sharigan are\nthe separated dojutsu of the Rinne-Sharingan, the third eye manifested by\nKaguya. The Byakugan seems to have existed before the Rinnegan and Sharingan\nas it seems to have been present in Kaguya's eyes before her arrival on earth.\nThe Rinne-Sharingan came into existence when Kaguya ate the chakra fruit of\nthe divine tree. The three dojutsu were separated when Kaguya gave birth to\nHagaromo and Hamura Otsutsuki. Hamura inherited the Byakugan and Hagaromo\ninherited the separated Rinne-Sharingan, in their constituent forms, as the\nbasic Sharingan and the Rinnegan. The Sharingan of Hagaromo entered its\nMangekyou state after killing Hamura then resurrecting him using condensed\nsage power (nature energy). The Rinnegan seemed to be associated with the\ngeneral Rinne-Sharingan pattern and six of the nine Tomoe, and the Sharingan\nrepresents the colour and three of the nine Tomoe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be that the Rinnegan is a \"diluted\" version of the Rinne Sharingan.\nLike how the Sharingan can be considered a \"diluted\" Rinnegan as you need to\nmix Indra and Ashura chakra (Sharingan + Life Force/Sage's Body) to get\nRinnegan.\n\nSomething like genetic degradation/dilution due to reproducing with locale\nhumans.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey all come from Kaguya Otsutsuki. Kaguya's sons Hagoromo and Hamura were\nboth born with the Otsutsuki family trait of the Byakugan. However, after the\ndeath of his loved one, Hagoromo awakened the sharingan, and after almost\nkilling Hamura, awakened the Rinnegan. The sharingan and Rinnegan both come\nfrom Kaguya's Rinne Sharingan, the third eye on her forehead that she got\nafter eating the chakra fruit, giving her the power to perform the Infinite\nTsukiyomi. I'm going to assume you know how the Uchiha got the Sharingan and\nhow the Rinnegan can be achieved. Hamura had the Byakugan, as stated above,\nand passed that down to his Otsutsuki descendants that lived on the moon, as\nwell as his descendants that lived on earth, the Hyuga. There is also a\nByakugan equivalent of the Rinnegan, the Tenseigan, that was first awakened by\nHamura, and can be awakened by mixing the blood of the Hyuga and Otsutsuki of\nthe Moon clans. Its powers are similar to that of the Rinnegan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 36 of the _Tsukihime_ manga, Akiha doubles over in pain while Shiki\nis collapsing at the site of the incident eight years ago. The pacing and a\nremark from Akiha indicating worry for Shiki imply that this is related to\nShiki's collapse.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zpHm3m.jpg)\n\nWhy would Akiha have a physical reaction to Shiki's collapse? I do not recall\nseeing any indication of the two being linked physically or mentally in the\nway Shiki and SHIKI are. (Shiki eventually sees murders from SHIKI's eyes. We\ndon't see Akiha undergo the same experiences as Shiki in this maner.)\nAlternatively, am I misunderstanding what happens here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSometimes people say the first time we see Goku turn SSJ2 in the series was\nwhen he fights against Vegeta in the Buu Saga.\n\nHowever, there is a chapter before that when you wonder if he was SSJ2 or not.\nIn his battle in Other World against Pikkon, when he first turns into SSJ2 we\nsee the electricity sparks we see in SSJ2 transformations and his hair is seen\nmore rigid than usual.\n\nBut after the initial transformation and power up, we no longer see\nelectricity sparks on him. Was Goku SSJ2 when he fought against Pikkon or was\nhe a regular super saiyan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main way you can differentiate between SSJ and SSJ2 is that SSJ2 has\nelectricity in the aura, or to quote the [Dragon Ball Wiki for\nSSJ2](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_2):\n\n> The golden hair brought on by the original transformation becomes longer and\n> rigid and stands up even more. Some users like Gohan, Goku, Vegito and\n> Bardock lose a few strands of hair. Increased energy radiation causes the\n> aura to take on a jagged, fierce flame-like appearance rather than smooth or\n> flowing. Because the energy output and radiation is higher than that of a\n> Super Saiyan, the aura pulses at a higher frequency.\n\nAccording to [Dragon Ball Wiki for\nGoku](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Goku) the first time you see Goku in\nhis SSJ2 form is when he and Vegeta are battling:\n\n> Although they are evenly matched at Super Saiyan 2, Goku ends the fight when\n> he senses that Majin Buu has been released and pleads with Vegeta to help\n> him defeat Majin Buu\n\nAdditionally, it explains earlier that\n\n> while Goku is training in Other World he achieves Super Saiyan 2 and Super\n> Saiyan 3\n\nSo (by canon) you first see him transform against Vegeta but he must have\nachieved it earlier when he was in Other World.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWas Pokemon initially manga and then tv producers changed the story they\nwanted it or was it a product of imagination of tv producers?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPokémon actually started as a pair of video games published by Nintendo for\nthe Game Boy in 1996. Known as [Pokémon Red and\nBlue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue) (although in\nJapan the games were released as Pokémon Red and Green), these games were\nfollowed up by some [short\nstories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Junior).\n\nIIRC, first came the Pokémon comics, then the [Pokémon\nseries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_\\(anime\\)) debuted on\ntelevision on April 1, 1997, and shortly thereafter the\n[manga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_\\(manga\\)) was released on\nAugust 8, 1997.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow did Izuna Uchiha -younger brother of Madara Uchiha die? Was he killed by\nTobirama Senju or by Madara himself when he seized his eyes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring a battle with Tobirama, Izuna was mortally wounded by Tobirama's\n[technique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Thunder_God_Slash).\n\n\n\nWith Madara quickly rushing to Izuna's aid, Hashirama pleaded with Madara to\ncome to peaceful terms. Seeing his brother begin to consider this offer, Izuna\ntold his brother not to listen to their lies, ultimately making Madara retreat\nwith Izuna.\n\nMadara later revealed that Izuna died from the injury. At the last moments of\nhis life, the dying Izuna had given Madara his eyes so his brother could\nobtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to protect their clan.\n\nBecause of the blindness caused by overuse of a Mangekyō Sharingan, many\npeople came to believe that Madara took Izuna's eyes by force to regain his\nsight.\n\nSource:\n\n[Izuna Uchiha | Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Izuna_Uchiha)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm still confused about it. I have a feeling that she is in love with Kaneki,\nbut it never states it. I know romance isn't really involved with Tokyo Ghoul,\nbut I'm very curious.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think she asked not for herself but for Touka instead. She saw Touka beeing\npretty sad because of Kaneki and concluded that she may be fallen in love with\nhim so she asked someone to understand Toukas feelings so she can\nhelp/understand her better, at least thats how I see it.\n\nEdit (second question): I dont think Touka has/had a crush on Nishiki because\nshe obviously likes Kaneki in a romatic way.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid Madara use Izanagi or Izanami and if yes then how did he have two\nRinnegans? If someone uses Izanagi their sharingan gets destroyed right? If he\nused Izanagi then he should have only one sharingan left and then that evolved\ninto Rinnengan. How does he have two Rinnengans?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Spoiler alert for if you haven't finished the manga or anime\n\n> Madara used the Izanagi to cheat death (just like I said in the comment\n> section). The second part that I said was wrong. When he was fighting\n> Hashirama he bit off a part of his (Hashirama's) arm, then after his \"death\"\n> he vomited up the piece of flesh and implanted it into his wounds, which let\n> him activate the Rinnegan (in both eyes).\n\nYou should remember that Hashirama is Ashura's reincarnation and Madara is\nIndra's (Ashura and Indra are The Sage of Six Paths' children), which is the\nreason why he was able to awaken it (Rinnegan) in the first place.\n\n> The Rinnegan can typically be awakened by gaining Hagoromo's chakra either\n> by reproducing it from combining the chakra of Hagoromo's sons, Indra and\n> Asura, or by directly receiving chakra from Hagoromo himself.\n\nAlso,\n\n> Madara's Sharingan did not become Rinnegan until decades later, at the end\n> of his natural lifespan; this also seemingly **restored the eyesight lost\n> from his use of Izanagi**.\n\nSo he didn't awaken the it right away. (The other part of your question is\nalso answered above).\n\nSources:\n\n * Naruto volume 71: I Love You Guys\n * [Rinnegan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Naruto Wiki ](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan)\n\n> The Mangekyō Sharingan's usage and activity place a great strain on the user\n> themselves, wearing at the user's body and causing deterioration to their\n> vision until eventually over-usage leaves them blind.\n\nAs is case with Izanagi. Izanagi in same way takes away ordinary mangekyo\nSharingan.\n\n> Their vision can be restored by receiving the transplanted Mangekyō of an\n> Uchiha with strong blood ties — ideally a sibling — thus awakening so-called\n> Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. The Eternal Mangekyō merge the designs of the\n> transplanter and the transplantee's original Mangekyō. Their Mangekyō-based\n> abilities are made stronger and they ** no longer suffer any negative side-\n> effects from the usage**. According to Madara, the Eternal Mangekyō\n> Sharingan is proof an Uchiha continues to seek something despite\n> experiencing great losses.\n\nSo, Madara had eternal mangekyo Sharingan which he never after Izanagi. Thus,\nhe could have Rinnegan in both his eyes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe sealed the Izanagi in his eye before the battle meaning that if he died it\nwould activate and bring him back, so in theory he could have used his old\nSharingan before he gained the eternal mangekyo, after all we saw Danzo do\nthat having a sharingan in his arm to sacrifice rather than the one he had in\nhis head. So why can't madara have done the same.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn season 4 episode 102, the two enemies Gajeel fought talked to Erza about\nZeref being in a \"dormant\" state or that he was technically \"asleep\".\n\nWhat happened to make him this way?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat order should I start watching the Naruto series if I already started on\nthe show. I want to watch everything about it like the fillers and stuff too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYour question doesn't have a real point. If your watching the show already but\nwant to see everything about it. Then the only answer is obviously to keep\nwatching it.\n\nWatch Naruto to completion. Then watch Naruto Shippuden. They literally run\nright behind each other.\n\nThe movies don't follow any real order watch them as you want.\n\nI'd recommend skipping filler since it's so long but since you want to follow\neverything. Then go right ahead.\n\nHere is a guide to all the valid Naruto timeline arcs as they exist you can\ngrasp a few more details if there are things you don't understand there.\n[Naruto arc-list](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Arcs)\n\nAlso before you come in here posting questions about things that happen in the\nshow search the `Naruto` tag that we have here and see if you questions are\nanswered.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would recommend not starting from the beginning, personally the first arc\nwas a pain. The Nine-tails arc is where I would start, although I haven't\nwatched Naruto in a while.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou have to watch everything from the beginning to understand it. You have to\nlive it from the start to the end. If you just watch some episodes here and\nthere, It's just entertainment.\n\nI recommend watching the episodes including the fillers (If you can and not\nbored).\n\nUse the following links:\n\n[1\\. Naruto Episodes](https://www.animesays.com/list/naruto/)\n\n[2\\. Naruto Shippuden Episodes](https://www.animesays.com/list/naruto-\nshippuden/)\n\nWatch them in an order.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 8 of _Yuri!!! on Ice_ , Emil Nekola skates his short program to a\npiano piece. (This is around the eight-minute mark in the episode.) The music\nsounded like a classical work that I have heard before, but I was unable to\nplace it. The most I have been able to gather is that if this is indeed a\nclassical composition, it would have to be from the Romantic period in music\nat the earliest. (I also have a sense of which composers _wouldn't_ have\nwritten something like this, but that's less useful.)\n\nIs the music in Emil's short program an original composition? If not, what is\nits title and composer?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found an answer after some additional guesswork and checking with some music\nrecordings.\n\nThe piano music is an excerpt from Modest Mussorgsky's [_Pictures at an\nExhibition_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition),\nspecifically [\"The Hut on Hen's\nLegs\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCELgdIadqs) section. The soundtrack\nbefore the episode cuts away to the end of Emil's performance clearly matches\nthis; the piano music starts where this section of _Pictures at an Exhibition_\nbegins and follows it (before the cut) without any alterations.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the fight with Buu, when Vegito just transforms, we see electricity sparks\nsurrounding him (typical feat of a super saiyan 2) but in the rest of the\nfight we see these sparks no more. Was Vegito a SSJ1 or a SSJ2 when fighting\nwith Buu?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know they've been living together for 2 years (time skip).\n\nAre they a couple?\n\nI mean, 2 girls living together means they like being with each other. They\nmust also like each other as individuals. Liking leads to feeling love.\nFeeling love leads to making love.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey're not a couple. They are friends. I live with another dude. We pay 400\ndollars each to rent an apartment close to our university. And I assure you\nwe're not a couple.\n\nWendy and Chelia have always been stated to be friends. Also, one of the last\nchapters has disclosed and confirmed that Wendy has never done anything sexual\nwith another human being (chapter 508). It's a confirmation, Wendy and Chelia\nare just friends and did nothing sexual (not even a kiss) during that year.\n\nThere are just 2 hints that may lead into thinking they're a couple:\n\n 1. That they lived together for 1 year. As I said before they didn't do anything.\n\n 2. The famous quote: \"Don't cry, Wendy... Even if I don't have my magic, at least I'm still alive... And love is way stronger than anything magic could offer.\"\n\nIt is exactly how it sounds. Wendy was going to die and Sherry saves her, but\nshe loses her magic. The \"love is way stronger\" can be interpreted many ways,\nand most aren't yuri related. Since the beginning of the series everyone says\nlove is the strongest force and it's usually not related to love affairs.\nUltear sacrifives herself, Lucy almost dies a few times trying to protect\nWendy... protecting each other is something Fairy Tail does with everyone of\ntheir members regardless of gender. Wendy joined Lamia Scale because Fairy\nTail was disbanded and has been part of that Guild for a whole year, more time\nthat what she has spent beeing a fairy tail member.\n\nIn the future the author may change that if he wants but so far they are good\nfriends.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer: No.\n\nHowever, it's been [hinted by Hiro Mashima on his\ntwitter](https://twitter.com/hiro_mashima/status/799968288746766340). He does\nthis thing where he'll post pictures of all of the \"couples\" ex.\n\n> Natsu and Lucy, Gray and Juvia, Gajeel and Levy, Erza and Jellal, etc.\n\nIn one of his more recent ones he included this picture:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UTYSm.png)\n\nThis is also not the only example, if you scroll through his twitter. So while\nit is not canonical (just like all of the other \"couples\") Mashima does hint\nthat it's more than just a friendship.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere isn't one single romantic moment between Wendy and Sherria in Fairy\nTail. The most you'll find is them being good friends or protecting each\nother, something done by everyone between members of the same guild (Wendy\njoined Lamia scale for at least 1 year).\n\nWhat is romance? Romance is for example Erza and Jellal. Erza was worried her\nbody wasn't good enough for Jellal when she got shrunk. At another time they\nalmost kissed while looking at each other lovestruck. Another less clear\nexample is Lucy. She blushes because of Natsu, when she thought he liked her\nand she imagined themselves dating and was disappointed when she found out the\ntruth. Juvia and Gray is another example. That is romance. Simply protecting\neach other is not romance, giving your life for your friends is the standard\neveryone follows in Fairy Tail, although they almost never die.\n\nSome people say they're more than friends because there's a tweet where they\nare playing with water and there are other people that have been portrayed by\nMashima to like each other.\n\nThe tweet is not canon.\n\nAs I see it, a good reason for her to be included there is that she's one of\nthe main characters just like most of the others. It's not like they're doing\nanything romantic anyways. Erza and Juvia attack their men in a romantic way.\nLucy and Gajeel attack their \"potential\" partner physically, something like\nteasing. Wendy and Sherria just play like normal friends.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VS6zy.png)\n\nActually, I think I am overthinking it. Mashima's tweets/drawings outside the\ncanon world usually lack common sense or are fanservice. He's drawn Natsu and\nGray saying I love you, boys' love between Gray and Lyon, Lucy and\nAquarious...\n\nIf you're looking at his tweets expecting everything to be a good\nrepresentation of Fairy Tail you're up for big disappointments in the future.\nHe likes mixing reality with illusion.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the [Danmachi wiki](http://danmachi.wikia.com/wiki/Terminology) the Valis\nsymbol was described as a \"V\" with two lines through it. What does this look\nlike?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt looks exactly like how it is described. Similar to the Yen symbol `¥`.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dn0jq.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've already watched the anime and now I want to read the manga from the end\nof the anime.\n\nCan someone please tell me where in the manga does the anime end?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know it's quite difficult but I'd like to know the power level order between\nthe Straw Hats. Currently I am assuming that the order is something like this:\n\n 1. Luffy \n 2. Zoro \n 3. Sanji\n\nI'm aware from place 4 onward it gets really difficult, but maybe some hints\nexist. For example, Oda said that Usopp's current power equal that of Zoro\nbefore time skip. That would be a good example of a great hint.\n\nSome measurements could be the opponents they have faced, their individual\npower, devil fruits and for those that have it, their haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is after the dressrosa arc:\n\nThe bounties are a good representative of the strength of each member of the\nstrawhat crew.\n\nThe only odd ones are Sanji, Usopp and Chopper.\n\nChopper because he is viewed as a pet instead of a full member Sanji because\nhe didn't participate that much and Usopp because he was said to be the one\nwho instigated everything but that was wrong.\n\nSo for power range according to posters (with dismissing odd things):\n\n 1. Luffy\n 2. Zoro\n 3. Sanji\n 4. Nico Robin\n 5. Franky\n 6. Brooke\n 7. Usopp\n 8. Chopper\n 9. Nami\n\nUsopp, Chopper and Nami are also called the weak trio so saying those three\nare the weakest is a pretty good assumption.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vGd4l.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDo the Strat Hats actually have romantic moments? Oda sure doesn't focus on\nlove but there should be some hints regardin Straw Hats that love someone,\neven if is shown briefly.\n\nUsually this question would be very broad but One Piece usually lacks romance.\nSanji doesn't count. Don't talk about him cause it would have no end. He's\njust on the receiver end (for example you might say Nami likes him because of\na certain scene...) unless you suggest there's someone more special to him\nthan all the rest, then again shown somewhere in One Piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only thing that Luffy loves is the sea. This anime teaches us to follow\nour dreams. There is no space for men-women kind of love.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually there is a canon answer... from the Word of God himself... even if it\ndoesn't help.\n\nD: Doesn't anyone on Luffy's crew fall in love? Will there never be a romance\namong crew members? (Sanji is an exception in this case) I'm just wondering.\nfrom Naoko\n\nO: Of course they're in love... WITH ADVENTURE! (good one)\n\n<http://www.japanator.com/eiichiro-oda-answers-fan-questions-in-\nsbs-7443.phtml>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga _The World God Only Knows_ , how many girls does the main\ncharacter actually conquer after all 268 chapters?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis question arose when I was watching Krillin vs Jackie Chun who is Master\nRoshi. When Yamcha pulls the hair thinking it is a wig, but it won't come off,\nthen he thinks it is real hair and asks that then the bald one should be a\nwig? Please, could anyone explain?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Master Roshi is really bald. He mentions it himself in Chapter 25:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2t4sr.png)\n\nIn the first tournament, he used a special glue to attach his hair. He\nmentions it when revealing his identity to Nam, who was just defeated by Goku\n(Chapter 46):[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HqY2u.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a very detailed explanation in the second movie of Dragon Ball \"the\nsleeping princess\". minute 6:40. Krillin arrives. Goku tells him he's bold.\nKrillin says all great Martial Artists shave, just like Master Roshi. Master\nRoshi says he's simply bald, nothing else.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Potential Spoilers for the events Season 6-8 of Naruto Shippuden** \n\nIn the Jiraiya vs Pain fight we get the following information.\n\n> Konan is a former student of Jiraiya, who is also the Angel of Amegkure and\n> Pain who has the Rinnegan is the leader who defeated Hanzo. During the fight\n> we learn of the six Paths of Pain, each who uses a different unique\n> abilities while sharing their field of vision. Jiraiya was confused how\n> could six people have the Rinnegan when only Nagato had it.\n\nThis is the setup for the sequence of the events leading into the next season.\n\n> Jiraiya recognises Yahiko, and then the body of pain that he pulls into the\n> toad. He then decides to go back out and realises that **ALL the paths of\n> pain are Ninjas he'd seen/met before**. And then the realization **\"The real\n> one is not among them.\"** This confuses me since we know Nagato can make any\n> dead person a path of pain (the new Animal Path), Why would he chose those\n> particular individuals that Jiraiya knows? Infact how did he know Jiraiya\n> knows them?\n\nAnd thus the question, **How/Why did Nagato choose the \"Paths\" of Pain?**\n\n**Additional Info** : He chooses the following paths of pain\n\n> the 5 shinobi that Jiraiya encountered during his journey: The Puppeteer,\n> The Waterfall shinobi, The Fuma clan shinobi, The Grass Shinobi, The Priest.\n> The sixth path i.e. Yahiko seems obvious due to their connection. But again\n> using the other 5 seems very coincidental.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**It's only a theory, because even the wiki (or any SBS) gave no explanation\nwhy he chose these specific people, except that Jiraiya knew them. So I will\ntry to make some connections between what we know for these characters (very\nfew) and their path's meaning.**\n\nSo, except from Yahiko, here is what I think for the other 5 paths:\n\n * [Nakara Path](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naraka_Path): The man that wields it was [a priest](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naraka_Path_\\(character\\)), so it only makes sense because of that that he would bring people back to life or take their life. This also comes from the religion perception:\n\n> Yama is the lord of Justice, the King of Hell, he puts living beings after\n> death for appropriate punishment, for example, in boiling oil, if you lie to\n> him, he will rip out your tongue. After the period of punishment is\n> complete, they are reborn on earth in human or animal bodies.\n\n * [Preta Path](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Preta_Path): [This person](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Preta_Path_\\(character\\)) had failed to cultivate the land for his family due to his participation in war. And as it is mentioned below in the wiki:\n\n> In Buddhism, the Preta realm (also known as the Hungry Ghost realm) is a\n> reincarnation based on strong possessiveness and desire which were\n> cultivated in a previous life or lives.\n\nSo it only makes sense for him to be that path.\n\n * [Human path](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Path): [This shinobi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Path_\\(character\\)) believed that all he could do to try and achieve peace was to teach the next generation to survive the battles with other ninja until it came.\n\n> In Buddhism, the Human realm it is widely believed that is the form of\n> rebirth most likely to attain enlightenment, due to both the availability of\n> information and teachers, and the ability to reason without falling victim\n> to the obsessive aggression or carnal delights inherited by the higher\n> planes.\n\nSo that's how it makes sense, because he wanted to teach.\n\n * [Animal Path](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Animal_Path): The [first](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/First_Animal_Path_\\(character\\)), I think, was one of the Six Paths of Pain because he fought Jiraiya at some point. Also, there is only one connection to this path:\n\n> Buddhists believe that animals inhabit a different dimension separated from\n> humans not spatially but mentally; an unhappy plane of rebirth which\n> revolves around fear, instinct and **survival of the fittest** , suffered by\n> those animals that work for humans and, above all, by those ignorant to what\n> is happening to them.\n\nBut I don't know if it counts. [The second Animal\nPath](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ajisai) was after Jiraiya's death and she\ndidn't meet him.\n\n * [Asura Path](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Asura_Path): Last but not least, this [man](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Asura_Path_\\(character\\)) is the only one that I cannot make even one connection. He was shown to be a wandering puppeteer with insight to the world and\n\n> In Buddhism, the Asura realm is the plane of semi-divine warring demons\n> which people are reincarnated in due to actions based on jealousy, struggle,\n> combat or rationalisation in a previous life, and though powerful, live in\n> constant violence and conflict to which there is no resolution nor peace.\n> Following a common depiction of Asura, this ability allows the user to\n> possess six arms and three faces, each of which display a different emotion.\n> They are featured in Hinduism as the lowest tier of divine beings, and are\n> known to live a life pursuing power, while indulgent and representative of\n> materialistic and carnal pleasures.\n\nMaybe there is a connection through rationalisation.\n\nHope it helps!\n\nNote: if someone wants to edit and put more, feel free to do so!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNagato had a bit of a God complex. The six paths of pain that are\n\nAnimal Path Human Path Naraka Path Asura Path Preta Path Deva Path are\nactually the six paths of reincarnations from Buddhism. In Buddhism it is\nbelieved that every being reincarnates 5 times as different ‘paths’ until\nfinally he ascends to the Deva Path and becomes a god or at least goes to\nheaven and ascends properly.\n\nHaving just one or two of those paths would not be a proper nod at his god\ncomplex. Also some Jutsu’s are complex and need a proper setting. None of the\npaths could use the other paths abilities despite them all being Nagato’s\nabilities. Maybe that is why he had to make a minimum amount of paths to get\nhis abilities working. Even Tobi had to make 6 paths.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was clear that they were a traitorous faction within the Shogunate. In\n[Gintama' episode 16](http://ww1.gogoanime.io/gintama-2015--episode-16), it's\nstated by Sougo that it's basically known that the Hitotsubashi were behind\nsome bad stuff, but if they were called out for it, they could cause a lot of\ntrouble for Shigeshige. But if they're only a part of the Shogunate, how could\nthey have enough power to overthrow it, and how would that not be noticed?\n\nIn the same episode, Sougo says the Bakufu/Shogunate doesn't want any trouble\nwith the Hitotsubashi. So if they're so dangerous, why weren't they taken out\nalready? Just what kind of powerful organization are they?\n\nI'm just having trouble understanding the premise of the\n[Hitotsubashi](http://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Hitotsubashi_Faction).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn season 1, why did Eren survive when he was eaten by the titan during the\nbattle of Trost? Why didn't that titan gain his titan abilities too? There\nhasn't been another example of a Titan Shifter being eaten in their human form\nand surviving.\n\nFurthermore,\n\n> when Armin ate Bertolt he absorbed him and returned to normal immediately.\n\nAnd when Eren was eaten no one saw him transform and break out of the titan,\nmeaning the titan had enough time to walk away from Armin.\n\nIs this an oversight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGood question.\n\nIt says on the [Attack on Titan wiki\npage](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_shifter) about Titan Shifters\nthat:\n\n> According to Rod Reiss, **a shifter's power rests in their spinal cord,\n> meaning that to gain the Titan powers, it is not necessary to eat the entire\n> shifter, more so just biting through the spine and ingesting their spinal\n> fluid**. Analysis of a serum recovered from Rod Reiss has also revealed that\n> the Titan serums, which is actually Titan spinal fluid,appear to contain\n> ingredients based on human spinal fluid. However, it is difficult to study,\n> because once the liquid makes contact with the air, it evaporates just like\n> Titan corpses do.\n\nIt can be seen during the 5th episode of the anime [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qAWDt.jpg)\nthat when Eren is firstly bitten, his spine is not damaged.\n\nShortly after, he saves Armin, then the Titan bites his arm off and then\nswallows without chewing him. This means that he got in the Titan's stomach\n**without any damage to his spine, keeping his powers from being taken.** He\nthen transforms and breaks free, from here being no need for me to continue\nwith the story of how he escapes and goes berserk.\n\nMoreover, when Armin eats Bertolt it happens like this:\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U810M.jpg)\nIt can be seen that Bertolt is bitten in a way in which **his spine will be\ncracked** open so his powers will be passed to Armin.\n\n**To sum up:**\n\n * Eren survives during the Battle of the Trost because he keeps his powers and transforms fast enough to not be crystallized and regurgitated by the Titan.\n * He keeps his powers because his spine was not damaged.\n * Armin gained his powers by eating Bertolt's spine, as showed above.\n * Based on the previous information, these events were not an oversight from the author.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I have been watching Naruto for 1 week and am on ep 60. But what I have\nnoticed is that they show Sasuke as if he is the main charachter a lot of time\nand sometimes even more than they show Naruto...will this continue? I mean,\nNaruto is the main character so they should only treat **him** as the main\ncharacter. Else the show should have been Named \"Nauto and Sasuke\".\n\nWill they keep giving this much emphasis on Sasuke, or will this thing slowly\nfade away. As of now, almost everyone is thinking about him and how great he\nis and its like nobody cares about Naruto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAuthor Kishimoto Masashi is clever to introduce Sasuke in his epic manga\n\"Naruto\". If you look at any famous books or mangas, there will always we two\ncharacters who compete each other. For example, consider Dragon Ball Z, you\nhave Goku & Vegeta, if you take Bleach there is Ichigo & Uryu, If you see\nPokemon there is Ash & Gary etc. There will always be an eternal rival for\nevery super hero. I'm not talking about super villain. With these characters,\nthe authors show competency between the main lead & the second lead just as in\nreal life :) I could go on, but I think I made my point.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga and the anime series, sometimes a devil pops up from Izumi's\nhead, and chickens from Wakana's head.\n\nIzumi's devils seem an obvious allegory for the effects of\n\n> Sexual arousal on his private parts\n\nBut I am not sure about Wakana Ui's chickens.\n\nAre those devils and chickens an allegory for their mental state? What is the\nmeaning of Wakana Ui's chickens?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that it is an routine after-school endeavour for the Gremory to be\nsummoned through their flyers to do devilish stuff like foot massages and\nclaim the dead as their pawns.\n\nAside from the summon shown in Ep. 1 (when Rias is summoned to claim her Pawn)\nand the paiting Azazel gives Issei, there are not shown in the anime what\nrewards the demons gain. It is mentioned towards the end of the second season\nthat Gaspar makes the most out of contracts than any of them.\n\nWhat do they get from these demonic contracts? And how exactly does fulfilling\ncontracts help a demon rank up?\n\n* * *\n\nSide note: I have only watched the anime, but answers are encouraged to come\nfrom all media.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\naccording to the novel, this demon get their sprite as energy, for others is\nbrave and on, for our protagonist is oppai :) Dragon can give the owner power,\nafter the owner have a different view of world and himself. hope it helps! see\nnovel for more details.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Demon Contract Reward**\n\nQuoted from High School DxD novel Volume One.\n\n> The job goes like this:\n>\n> First we are summoned, and then we make a contract with them.\n>\n> After that, we fulfill their wishes.\n>\n> As a price, we receive an award fitting for the particular wish they made.\n>\n> It can be money, an object, and even their life.\n>\n> Well lately, there aren’t any contractors who would use their life to make a\n> wish. Even if there was a person like that, if the price they gave doesn’t\n> match up to the wish they wish for, then the wish won’t be granted.\n> According to Buchou, “People’s values aren’t equal”.\n\nSo what demons gets from a contract differs depending on the contract. They\ncan get anything, depending on the agreement.\n\n**Level Up**\n\nAs for \"level up\", I'm not sure what kind of level up you mean, but what has\nbeen shown in the story so far is that a demon can get recognized as said by\nRias (also from Volume One).\n\n> Since this only increases the number of servants, it doesn’t increase the\n> number of powerful devils. So the devils added a new rule. Chances or\n> opportunities were given to powerful reincarnated devils, in other words\n> devils that were reincarnated from humans. Reincarnated ones are given\n> peerage as well if they are powerful. Because of that there are lots of\n> devils in human’s society. There are also devils like myself who came to\n> human’s society as well. Ise, you may not have noticed but you probably\n> passed devils a couple of times while walking.”\n\nThe exact mechanic behind it is not clear, but what was clear is that [Rating\nGames](https://dxd.fandom.com/wiki/Rating_Games) is one of the methods to\n\"level up\" since it is easy to get recognized if you can proof your strength.\nThis is also the method used by Issei.\n\nAs for whether doing contract jobs with humans can get a demon recognized and\n\"level up\" it is not clear but it probably is possible though might take much\nlonger time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know it allows you to defeat logia users and gives your hits more strenth,\nbut is it the only thing it can do?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are 3 main types of haki\n\nKenbunshoku: Allows prediction and to sense people hiding\n\nBusoshoku: Armament strengthens attack and defense penetrates logia types\n\nHaoshoku: King's haki, breaks the will of weaker people rendering them unable\nto function.\n\nAs for the limits of each we cannot judge that at this time. The concept of\nhaki didn't become public knowledge until the new world came into the scene.\n\nWe do know 2 things so far. The first is from Zoro vs Pica and Tra vs Vergo.\nIf one person's haki is stronger than another's it will allow you to penetrate\nit.\n\nThe second is from Luffy vs Doflamingo and that's that haki can run out and a\nuser won't be able to use it for awhile once it does. How long and how much is\nstill pretty unclear.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was just wondering why anime series, Conan in particular, continually\nproduce TV Original and, In Conan's case, Remastered episodes, when they have\na couple of whole volumes of manga sitting around, waiting to get adapted.\n\nConan has Volumes 89-90, and most of 91, completed, and yet they churn out TV\nOriginal and Remastered episodes frequently.\n\n<http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Volume_81-90>\n\nIn the current season alone they had a string of up to 16 weeks of TV Original\nand Remastered episodes.\n\n<http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Season_25>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe period between manga and filler is always kept as about one year. For\nexample, vol 99 is in April 2021, and the corresponding fill of vol 98 ended\nat the beginning of 2022.\n\nThe production time of one episode is about three months and some stories need\nmore than one episode, so the period is necessary.\n\nAlso, the time flag such as the seasons and festivals of manga is close to\nreal-world time. To make the time of filler also close to the real world. At\nleast one year is necessary.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that the first shokugeki between Souma and Eizan is not for 9th seat\nbut for not Destroying Polar Star Dorm.\n\nThere is another shokugeki battle of Souma in Azami Administration Arc vs\nAkira Hayama.\n\nOn Chapter 190 - 191, Souma defeated Hayama. Does it reflect that yukihara now\nholds 9th seat of elite ten?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShokugeki rules elicit that the conditions of winning and losing should be set\nbeforehand. Souma Passes if he wins, gets expelled if he loses. Hayama gets\nnothing if he wins/loses. Though he had a deal with Azami to be expelled.\n\n**So, No. Souma is NOT a member of Elite 10.**\n\n> In fact in the next chapter he discusses that if he, Megumi and Aldini, grab\n> the Elite 10 seats. They have a chance of reversing Center's expulsion.\n\nAs discussed in the related question,\n\n> Each side must lay out their \"compensation\", or something they must give up\n> if they were to lose the challenge. Both sides must agree that the\n> compensation of the duel equate with each other.\n\nSource: [Wiki: Shokugeki](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Shokugeki)\n\nThis is established pretty early when Souma challenges Isshiki for his 7th\nseat earlier!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan anyone point me in the direction of a legal online seller of OSTs? There\nare a few anime and OVAs that I want to own but I have no idea where to\nsearch?\n\nA link or two would be upvoted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is of course\n[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_6?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A42%2Ck%3AAnime+soundtracks&keywords=Anime+soundtracks&ie=UTF8&qid=1480961577&rnid=2941120011)\nThat links to a soundtracks search that brings up Anime OSTs............and\ngames for some reason.\n\nThere is [cdJapan](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/)\n\nThose are the ones I have used.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are several soundtracks, or in some cases just singles, on iTunes,\nalthough of course availability will depend on region. Sometimes it can help\nto search for either an artist or a song title, and see what albums show up,\nbut you have to be careful because for every actual version of an anisong,\nthere are about twenty covers of varying quality and style (including entire\nalbums where as far as I can tell they've taken a MIDI version of the songs\nand run it through a synthesiser to make it sound like church bells, for\nreasons that completely escape me).\n\nYou'll get the best results if you're able to switch to the Japanese iTunes\nstore, although there may be some hoops to jump through to make that work\nproperly (for example, you can only buy something from a new region if you\nhave no iTunes credit in your usual region). And, of course, everything's in\nJapanese - if you're not a speaker yourself, use Wikipedia or ANN or a similar\nsite to find the Japanese name of the show you're looking for, and copy it\ninto the search bar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSometimes when watching anime reviews, various reviewers will say a series has\na _read the manga_ ending. From context, it appears to mean the anime is\nincomplete, there will be no sequel, and if you want to know what happens, you\nhave to literally read the manga. This is obviously used with a negative\nconnotation.\n\nI'm sure that usually this is not a planned result; due to whatever reason\nthere ends up being no will or resources to do an additional season. What I am\ncurious about is the alternative case -- is a _read the manga_ ending ever\ndecided up front? **I.e. was the anime series considered by the producers\nnothing more than a marketing tool to drive manga sales?** Some reviewers give\nthat impression, but I wonder if there are documented cases where it has been\nliterally part of the plan from the beginning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFor example:\n\n * Gintama:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUoupm.jpg)\n\n * Oregairu: I can't think of any examples I can back up right now, but for Oregairu you just need to watch any episode and you'll see Yui's flip phone.\n\n * Haganai\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JqvZmm.jpg)\n\n * Black Rock Shooter\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uk3HSm.jpg)\n\nIs it because the authors are just from an older generation than the fanbase?\nNo way, right? They have to have smartphones.\n\n[This](https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1348101) says it's because\nsmartphones aren't popular in Japan. I don't think that's\n[true](https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&q=japan+smartphone&tbs=imgo:1&gws_rd=cr&ei=UhVGWJfUF4nMjwOJuKPwAQ)\n(bad evidence alert).\n\nSeveral Reddit posts also agree that flip phones are more popular. Why are\nflip phones still so popular, (if you can endeavor to answer) in both society\nand anime/manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOf the shows you cite, _Haganai_ was animated in 2011; _Black Rock Shooter_\nwas animated in 2012; and _Oregairu_ was animated in 2013. The source material\nfor each is even older (albeit kind of irrelevant for _Black Rock Shooter_ ).\nI omit _Gintama_ because it's long-running and I don't know when your\nscreencap is from.\n\nSmartphone adoption in Japan is _hugely_ up between 2013 and now, and even\nmore so between 2011 and now. According to [the\nCIAJ](http://www.ciaj.or.jp/en/) (as cited in a whitepaper titled [\"Japan’s\nSmartphone Surge and Its Impact on the Mobile\nMarketplace\"](http://www.lek.com/sites/default/files/1837_Japans-Smartphone-\nand-impacts-on-the-mobile-marketplace.pdf)), smartphone penetration in the\nJapanese market was a mere 9% in 2011, rising to 39% in 2013, and skyrocketing\nto 84% in 2016.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/X5ppol.png)\n\nIs it any wonder, then, that anime set in \"the present\" that aren't from the\npast year or two would tend to have more non-smartphones (\"feature phones\", as\nthey're called) than smartphones?\n\n(I specify \"the present\" because we should exclude from discussion any shows\nset in the future. They tend to have fanciful notions of how\ntelecommunications would work that don't tend to involve feature phones _or_\nwhat we would consider \"smartphones\".)\n\n* * *\n\n> Is it because the authors are just from an older generation than the\n> fanbase? No way, right? They have to have smartphones.\n\nThis effect may exist - according to the Pew report [\"Smartphone Ownership and\nInternet Usage Continues to Climb in Emerging\nEconomies\"](http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/02/22/smartphone-ownership-and-\ninternet-usage-continues-to-climb-in-emerging-economies/), in 2015, Japanese\npeople age 18-34 were about 2.5 times as likely to own a smartphone as\nJapanese people age 35+.\n\nI doubt it is a substantial effect, though. Any animated production involves\nmultiple people with creative input (not just the author of the source\nmaterial), and I would imagine that at least some of them would know what kind\nof technology youngsters use.\n\n> I don't think that's\n> [true](https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&q=japan+smartphone&tbs=imgo:1&gws_rd=cr&ei=UhVGWJfUF4nMjwOJuKPwAQ)\n> (bad evidence alert).\n\n[Best Korea is\nproud](https://www.google.com/search?q=north%20korea%20smartphones&tbm=isch)\nof the way you confirm your priors.\n\n> Why are flip phones still so popular, (if you can endeavor to answer) in\n> both society and anime/manga?\n\n[The article](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2014-10-24/.80264)\n[@Maroon linked](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/37702/why-are-\narent-most-of-the-phones-in-anime-smartphones#comment51289_37702) in the\ncomments is a good overview of why smartphones were not common in Japan (prior\nto 2014 or so).\n\nAnd why were smartphones not common in anime/manga? Because smartphones were\nnot common in Japan. Simple as that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know it sounds funny, but how on earth Shanks stopped Kaido to enter and\nfollow Whitebeard on Marineford war?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthis is my own opinion based on my own search and theories :\n\nshanks is based on chancai a.k.a red boy from the novel \"journey to the\nwest\".the name itself shanks reflect a combination between chancai and \"truks\"\nfrom dragon ball z. in the same novel a character known as \"demon lord\"\nheavily influenced the making of kaido's character along side with the\nMongolian emperor kaidu, and he is chancai's father.\n\nso how did shanks stop kaido? he probably cut a deal with his old man :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll we really know about Shanks and Kaido's skirmish is in these 2 Panels.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3BkJ.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r2p9l.png)\n\n_Anything said other than the information is merely speculation. However it is\nnot completely unfounded._\n\nLooking at the second panel, Shanks appears at Marineford just a day after his\nskirmish, with his crew and ship showing no signs of damage or a fight.\nConsidering, what happened to Marineford when Yonko Whitebeard fought we can\nsafely assume that whatever fight, if it took place was likely very minor.\nMore plausible is, **Shanks simply being there \"stopped\" Kaido**. Consider the\nfollowing scenario.\n\nThe fight between Whitebeard and World Government threatened to disrupt the\nbalance between the Yonko. Kaido tried to use this opportunately to\npreemptively strike at his enemy while he is distracted. Neither Whitebeard\nnor WG can afford war on two fronts. Whitebeard couldn't waste time and\nresources to thwart Kaido while WG didn't engage Rayleigh (Kizaru said\nsomething like do you want to fight 2 legends iirc)\n\nThus Shanks being a fellow Yonko just simply appeared there and stopped Kaido.\nKaido doesn't want to fight other Yonko's head on either. The balance exists\nbecause they are all evenly matched. Thus the scuffle between Shanks and Kaido\nwas likely very minor. Seeing that Kaido will not allow him to attack\nWhitebeard, Kaido retreated while Shanks followed Whitebeard to Marineford.\n\nAn interesting parallel to real world, Is Indo-Pak war in 1971. [From\nWIkipedia: Task Force 74](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_74)\n\n> The US Task Force 74 was a US Navy task force of the United States Seventh\n> Fleet that was deployed to the Bay of Bengal by Nixon administration in\n> December 1971, at the height of the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War. Led by the\n> Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, the deployment of the task force was seen\n> as a show of force by USA in support of the beleaguered West Pakistani\n> forces. [..] \n> \n> To counter this, On 6 and 13 December 1971, the Soviet Navy dispatched two\n> groups of cruisers and destroyers and a submarine armed with nuclear\n> missiles from Vladivostok; they trailed US Task Force 74 into the Indian\n> Ocean from 18 December 1971 until 7 January 1972. The Soviets also had a\n> nuclear submarine to help ward off the threat posed by USS Enterprise task\n> force in the Indian Ocean\n\nThus without fighting, both US and USSR effectively negated each other's\ninfluence on the war. For a more detailed account: [1971 War: How Russia sank\nNixon’s gunboat\ndiplomacy](http://in.rbth.com/articles/2011/12/20/1971_war_how_russia_sank_nixons_gunboat_diplomacy_14041)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow many characters have Haoshoku: King's haki, can any one please list it\nout. Till 2016 please\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBetween 24:00 to 26:00, can someone telling me what is the song name?\n\n[Hibike! Euphonium 2 Episode 1](http://www.crunchyroll.com/sound-\neuphonium/episode-1-mid-summer-fanfare-721567)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song is Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin.\n\nFunny that the first [Youtube\nvideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfTqVqngO8) that hits on Google seems\nto also have attracted other fans of the anime as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Ed \"kills\" Pride, a tiny baby pops out. When we see him 2 years later, it\nappears he has a nipple in the middle of his forehead.\n\nWhy?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe mark on Selim's forehead was already present when Edward had reduced him\nto his true form in chapter 106.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GLsBkm.jpg)\n\nThe mark does not appear to be visible on his forehead prior to his\ndestruction: for instance, compare these instances of Selim's face in [ch.\n70](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YD3sfm.png) to that in [ch.\n108](https://i.stack.imgur.com/actPAm.jpg), post-Promised Day.\n\nThe most likely explanation is that this has the same function as the\nouroboros tattoos of the other homunculi, since each is meant to have one\nsomewhere on its body, and we see no other markings on Pride's true form. Note\nhowever that unlike with the other homunculi, this mark is not actually the\nouroboros symbol.\n\nWhy is the mark only visible after Pride is destroyed? Selim Bradley's body is\nreally a shell. We see Selim's face start to disintegrate up in ch. 104, after\nhe fights with Edward, and in ch. 106, he states that the \"container\" that\nFather gave him is breaking up. There would be no reason for such a container\nto have the mark, particularly when it might arouse the interest of others.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n### It's another mark commonly worn by homunculi.\n\nThis a remnant from Selim being a homunculus. The **ouroboros** tattoo is a\nrecurring mark of a homunculus, but there are other common themes that at\nleast _some_ homunculi share.\n\nLook for the **red lines and circles** , most notably found on Sloth,\nGluttony, Lust, Envy (only in his true form) and Greed (when he has his shield\nup).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CtrS3.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRt55.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VDTyz.jpg)\n\nThe \"nipple\" you see on Selim's forehead is a continuation of this same mark.\nThe tiny baby already had this mark:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GLsBkm.jpg)\n\nThe \"old\" Selim (the one who was destroyed) wasn't the actual homunculus. It\nwas a container ( **the true homunculus was the little baby** ).\n\n### Why don't all the homunculi have these marks?\n\nWell, first of all, these marks are never explicitly mentioned (at least not\nin the shows, I haven't read the manga) and not plot relevant. Therefore, it's\npossible that these are not _required_ , but rather a design choice (or a\nconsequence from their creation)\n\nOr maybe Father managed to improve his later homunculi so that they don't need\nthe mark anymore, though GreedLing still has the red marks and he is the\nnewest addition.\n\nThere are two homunculi who actually bear the marks, but are able to hide\nthem:\n\n * (as per the other answer) **Pride** (Selim as we initially meet him) is nothing but a **container** for the true homunculus (the tiny baby which later grows up to be \"nipple Selim\"). Since the baby survived when the shell died, that proves that the container is not connected to the homunculus itself, and therefore the container does not need these marks.\n * **Envy** is a shapeshifter, thus he is able to hide the marks by choosing his humanlike form. Since the big green monster is considered his true form, that means that his humanlike appearance is his own preference. Note that Envy's headband still carries a similar mark, so that means he **chooses** to display the mark though not on his body as a tattoo. This strongly suggests that the mark itself is optional (but preferred).\n\nSo actually, there is only **one homunculus** who does not have the mark:\n**Wrath** (Bradley). But Wrath is also unique in other ways, e.g. the only\nhomunculus that ages. It stands to reason that there is a very good reason for\nWrath to hide his homunculus marks: because he is a **deep agent** who needs\nto stay anonymous.\n\nSo there are two possibilities here:\n\n * **All** homunculi have this mark (in different forms), we simply haven't seen Wrath's. Maybe it was under his clothes, we never see him naked or even undressed.\n * **All** homunculi except Wrath have this mark. Wrath is a specially designed homunculus in many ways (he ages too), so it's not impossible that his mark was hidden because he needed to go undercover as the Fuhrer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay so all the other dragon slayers have an obvious element to their magic.\nEven with Acnologia's roar on Tenrou Island, there was no direct element to\nhis magic. The only thing I could think of is just that his name is \"The\ndragon of the apocolypse\". So do we know what it is yet or not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe dragons we have seen so far do follow a unique theme and magic which is\nnot necessary an \"element\". [This table on the\nwiki](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon#Known_Dragons) sums it up pretty\nnicely. Acnologia is known as \"The Black Dragon\". (There is also a white\ndragon, Weisslogia). So the theme of Acnologia is \"Black\". What exactly are\nthe limitations of its \"black\" magic are haven't been shown in the\nanime/manga.\n\nHowever, there is a reason why Acnologia is \"different\" from other dragons.\n\n> Acnologia is a cataclysmically powerful Dragon Slayer that can take the form\n> of a Dragon. \n> Born over 400 years ago, Acnologia was one of the first Dragon Slayers to\n> come into being, entering the Dragon Civil War on the side supporting\n> coexistence. Acnologia and a group of other Dragon Slayers, however,\n> disregarded the cause their comrades fought for, and killed every Dragon\n> they could, bathing in their blood. Due to the overuse of his Magic,\n> Acnologia's physique eventually turned into that of a Dragon's, and he\n> proclaimed himself to be the Dragon King. This event was forever etched into\n> history as the Dragon King Festival.\n\nYou can read more about [Acnologia's\nhistory](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Acnologia#History) and the Dragon\nKing Festival on the wiki (it has a decent summary) or read the manga. This is\ndiscussed in Chapter 301 of Manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a theory that has a great explanation on what it might be. It is said\nin this theory that Acnologia is the Etherion Dragon Slayer. Basically\nEtherion also known as Ethernano is the mix of multiple different elements.\nYou remember when natsu ate the part of the lacrima? Well, that was Ethernano.\n(Honestly the video below explains it 10x better than I can).\n\nHere is a like to the YouTube video:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exDA3rQF9Zk>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAcnologia's element is etherious. Which is the combination of all other\nelements of magic. He can eat up any magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a class picture of Yoshida (Teacher), Gintama, Katsura, Takasugi,\nSakamoto with \"Other\" students when they were a child.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/52bpzl.jpg)\n\nHow come the \"Other\" students from the class picture did not appear when they\ngrew up as an adult? (If I am not mistaken)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey most likely gave up on being a samurai and accepted the alien government\nwhen the war was lost and their teacher died or they were caught executed by\nthe government for taking part in the war.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat I assume is they were probably killed in the war. You can see the picture\nbelow where there is an extra member (leftmost guy in the pic) in Gintoki's\ngroup that looks like Isao Kondo (Gorilla) but is not.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n6x5p.jpg)\n\nThe identity of this guy is not known till date. So I assume he is one of\nthose students who died in the war.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYup. They either died during the war (most likely), or they gave up on their\nways and accepted their alien overlords, unlike Gintoki, Katsura, and\nTakasugi. It's never truly specified in the Anime, but I'm going to assume\nthat that's what happened.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf Daath was after the king's power, they could have taken it from Shu anytime\nthey wanted. Why wait so long and resurrect Gai for taking the king's power?\nThey had someone else who could use king's power as well. Why does it have to\nbe Gai?\n\nAnd what caused a change of plans? Keido tried to be the \"Adam\". Then it was\nGai.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that Sokka's bird, Hawky, went off on a trip to deliver the letter to\nToph's parents and never came back.\n\nWhat happened to Hawky?\n\nThe [Wikia](http://kr.turbonick.nick.com/shows/avatar/index.jhtml) states:\n\n> Hawky never returned to the group after delivering Toph's letter, and it is\n> assumed that he found a new home at the Beifong Estate\n\nBut they are citing the [Nickelodeon official\nsite](http://kr.turbonick.nick.com/shows/avatar/index.jhtml) as a source, and\nthe site has since been updated removing any information about this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Noragami, some Gods uses other God's name for their business name. An\nexample of this practice is Bimbo-gami, Kofuku, using Ebisu's name. Is such\npractice limited to the world within Noragami? Or does it stems from the real\nworld? In other words, does some of the Japanese Gods in the real world also\ndo such practice?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are a lot of new seasons of anime coming out soon, and I was wondering\nhow long does it take for popular anime to get dubbed in English?\n\nIf it helps, the two main ones I am thinking of are Sword Art Online: Ordinal\nScale and Attack on Titan Season 2.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know the difference between production cost of animes that aired on\nTV and anime that can only be found online.\n\nHow much more or less does it cost to produce anime online instead of on TV?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the production order of the digimon anime? I've seen season 1 with Tai\nand Augumon and season 2 with Davis and Veemon. But what's the proper order to\ncontinue?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am watching the anime right now and can't understand this part of the plot:\nthere were two notebooks out of which one had been returned to the Shinigami\nthat came to Ryuk to get his notebook back. That leaves one which was with T\nas he was doing Kira's killings. Now suddenly that notebook reaches Light\nYagami and his team locked in a safe. How did that happen?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere were 4 Deathnotes in the real world. Ryuk has 2, Rem has 1 and another\nof Rem's friend who died to save Misa. Rem gave that Notebook to Misa.\n\nAt the beginning of the story, Ryuk gives his additional notebook to Light.\nMeanwhile after L's death Light got another notebook which was Rem's since Rem\nalso died.\n\nMello stole one of the Notebooks for which the shinigami came and is\nsupposedly the one originally dropped by Ryuk to be picked up by Light. This\nstill leaves Rem's notebook in Light's possesion and Misa's with her.\n\n**TL;DR Humans in the series use 3 Notebooks. Sidoh's orginal which he took\nback. Jealous's original which Rem gave to Misa and Rem's Notebook which Light\npicked up after he/she disintegrated.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEvery Shinigami holds a death note, so yes, multiple death notes have been\nused throughout the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 93, Yuuki was shown with Kaname and 2 girls. Are these 2 girls\nYuuki and Zero's kids?\n\nWhat happened to Yuuki when she turned Kaname into a human? Is she dead like\nwhen her mother turned Yuuki into a human?\n\nWhat happened to Zero here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn a city where 1,800,000 teenagers are struggling towards the same goal\n(esper improvement), having only **seven** level 5 students would\nautomatically bump them into celebrity status.\n\nTokiwadai's uniform was always easily recognized even by Skill Outs (usually\nfollowed by panic when they \"remember\" that school's top ace).\n\nMisaka did a swimsuit modeling campaign. Hard to believe the company wouldn't\nuse the \"Railgun wears our brand\" selling point.\n\nMisaka is also well known to jump into the fray even when the fray doesn't\nwant her there.\n\nIs there any in-series explanation why doesn't everyone in Academy City know\nMisaka's face? The out-of-series explanation is not of interest (e.g., \"The\nauthor wrote that way,\" etc).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn that society, they seem to not rank as famous just for their abilities.\nMost of people (not all), didn't know Accelerator either. In Misaka's case,\nthere's also a deeper reason, Sisters. Since there would be that ammount of\nclones, it would be really hard if when they released one, people noticed her.\nAlso, Sisters were to make Accelerator level up by murdering clones\nperiodically. If people knew any of them, they'd make a fuss if they spotted\nthem fighting, or even worse if they saw \"Misaka\" die, and reappear some days\nlater. That leads us to think that there's a missinformation campaign, that\nlowers the information normal people gets from them. These also can destroy\nany ads found with that information.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Introduction**\n\nI'd like to make a few points on this matter. Firstly, even if her face isn't\nknown by everyone in Academy City, many people do recognize Misaka Mikoto.\nSecondly, Academy City has the motivation and the means to keep Misaka's fame\nlevel down. These points are partially in conflict since I'm arguing on one\nhand that Misaka is famous, but on the other hand I'm saying she isn't. I\ndon't think these points are irreconcilable, but my goal here is mostly just\nto present evidence and analysis from the light novels and manga rather than\nto reconcile the two points.\n\n**Analysis**\n\nIn the first novel, Mikoto says this on pages 6-7:\n\n> Hey, have you heard? They're developing some military-grade little 'sisters'\n> for me, based on my DNA, that they can use in the army. I guess the by-\n> products were sweeter than the ultimate goal, huh?\n\nThe Railgun manga and other works in the franchise expand on this comment,\nexplaining that it is a rumor Mikoto has heard. Since we know from later works\nin the series that this rumor is actually true, it is probable that it was\nstarted (or at least helped along) by mysterious sightings of look-alikes of\nMikoto Misaka. In this case, people would have to have an idea of what she\nlooks like. The Tokiwadai uniform obviously helps a great deal at identifying\nher.\n\nNow, there are some possible reasons that Mikoto Misaka wouldn't have\ncelebrity status. First off, Academy City is a very secretive place, and\nMikoto Misaka is an invaluable research subject. Touma Kamijou comments\nseveral times on how secretive and stingy the place is in protecting the\nsecrets of its curriculum, including in volume 4 on page 2:\n\n> Plus in consideration of its own secrets, as well as the potential threat of\n> student kidnappings (read: theft of test samples), Academy City stubbornly\n> disliked allowing its students outside of its walls. Gaining permission to\n> leave required three written applications, the implanting of microscopic\n> devices in your bloodstream, and the arrangement of a legal guardian...\n\nSo, Academy City is very secretive and might prefer to keep their top espers\nout of the public spotlight. They have the means to do so, too. The very\nreason Touma is on vacation at the beach in the fourth volume is so that the\nsome information control can be done regarding his recent activities:\n\n> The upper echelons of Academy City were the ones most bothered by the\n> commotion. They said to him, \"Hey, hey, Mr. Kamijou. We'll fix this up with\n> our information control, so go away somewhere you won't cause needless\n> chaos, stupid.\"\n\nSo, from these passages from the fourth novel, we know that Academy City is\nvery secretive and that it has great influence over the information released\ninside and outside the city with regards to their research.\n\nLastly, volume 7 of the Railgun manga has a great deal to say on this issue.\n_Chapter 43: Negotiation_ partly chronicles the attempts of a committee to\nfind a public representative for the Daihasei Festival from among the level 5\nespers and they mention that the Daihasei Festival will be broadcast to the\nworld. The committee tries to get Mikoto Misaka as the representative, hailing\nher as \"the most normal level 5\". When the committee representative speaks to\nthe headmaster of Tokiwadai, the representative comments on Misaka's past\nexperience performing demonstrations in Russia. The headmaster refuses the\ncommittee member's request. The headmaster's reasoning is explained in\nthoughts and flashbacks: Based on previous incidents, the headmaster thinks\nputting Misaka into the limelight isn't good for her. In the flashbacks, we\nsee these three phone calls:\n\n> \"I witnessed your Misaka kicking the vending machine.\" \n> \"A person resembling Misaka was chasing a high school boy!\" \n> \"A person I believe to be Misaka-san was playing some sort of survival game\n> in the backstreets.\"\n\nOnce again, these phone calls show that Mikoto is recognized by some people.\nThis isn't the only point I'm trying to make here, however. The headmaster\nbelieves the public spotlight has had negative effects on Mikoto, and has been\ntrying to keep her away from it. This attempt to get her away from the media\ncould be a reason she isn't widely recognized. Without constant attention from\nthe media, many people could start to forget what she looks like.\n\n**Conclusion**\n\nMy conclusions are that Misaka is more widely recognized than the question\nindicates, but at the same time, Academy City is likely to be suppressing\nMisaka's fame because she is a valuable test subject and they vigilantly guard\nthe secrets of their curriculum, so it isn't unusual that everyone in the city\ndoesn't recognize her. If anyone disagrees with one or both of these\nconclusions, I hope at least the passages and analysis were useful and\nprovided some hints as to where to look for more information.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episodes 1 and 2, we're shown that part of Tokyo is sealed off. In episode\n2, after Oubu knocks Entei into the air, we get what I presume to be an aerial\nview of the region (enclosed by a circular wall):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zkW4p.jpg)\n\nIn episode 1, we see Kinoa and Shizuru beat up two people who appear to be\nguarding an entrance to the region. The character in red at the top of the\ntower in the top-center is 封, meaning roughly \"seal\" (as in \"isolate\").\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QKxZ1.jpg)\n\nShortly after that, a man notifies Reoko that \"A Bubuki user has broken\nthrough the gate\". Upon hearing this, Reoko gets up and leaves the memorial\nceremony she's at.\n\nWhat is actually in the sealed region? I'm pretty sure the \"Buranki prison\"\n(i.e. the place where Oubu's skeleton is kept) is in there, but the region\nseems far larger than it needs to be just to accomodate the \"prison\". As\nyou'll note if you look closely at the aerial view above, the streets inside\nthe region are laid out in a very \"honeycomb\"-like manner, while the streets\noutside the region are gridded, much like real-life Tokyo. What's the deal\nwith that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Kaoruko and Azuma awaken all the Buranki on Treasure Island in episode 1,\nthey cause some of the Buranki to fall to Earth. Eight Buranki fall on Tokyo\n(according to contemporaneous news reports seen at the beginning of episode 3,\nand according to Hiiragi later that episode), not counting Oubu.\n\nHowever, as Oubu falls to Earth (with Kaoruko, Azuma, and their father\ninside), we get this aerial shot of the Tokyo area:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/llVy2.jpg)\n\nAs you can see, there are some smoke plumes, all located on the west side of\nthe bay. I've marked them with red dots in the image below:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wOwhp.jpg)\n\nThere are only seven plumes, though. Where did the eighth Buranki fall?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe news reports at around 1:00 into episode 3 state that there are reports of\nBuranki having fallen in Ohta, Toshima, Chiyoda, Shinjuku, and Sumida wards.\nWe also see footage of a destroyed Buranki in Bunkyo ward.\n\nBelow, I've superimposed a diagram of the wards of Tokyo over the screenshot\nin the question (which is thankfully fairly easy to do because of the\ndistinctive shape of Tokyo Bay).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dzzds.jpg)\n\nIn green, I've outlined Sumida. A Buranki is supposed to have fallen there,\nbut there's no smoke plume. The other wards listed all have smoke plumes in\ntheme, so my best guess is that someone just forgot to draw a plume in Sumida.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIndex episode 14 around 14:00 minutes.\n\nTouma awakens to find his right hand on Misaka 10032's chest. 10032 then\nstates that she placed his hand there herself, and that she was reading\nelectrical currents to measure his life signs.\n\nGiven that Imagine Breaker is a passive power, how could that be possible?\n\nSo, is it\n\n 1. A white lie. She wasn't reading him. Not likely because Misaka clones usually don't lie and show little emotion.\n 2. A plot hole. They just forgot what power was in the hand.\n 3. An animation faux. She was actually holding his left hand in the Light Novel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just watched episode 57 when they explained it, but it's unclear to me. The\nSand Village joins the Sound Village secretly, and planned to attack the Leaf\nVillage. Because ever since the Leaf & Sand Village created the pact it\naffected their village (sand) somehow. How did it affect them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGarra is the secret weapon of the Sound village.\n\n> In the next episodes you shall find that the pact with the Sound village and\n> the attack on the Hidden Leaf were all planned out by Orochimaru, or rather,\n> Orochimaru disguised as the Kazekage, who used Sand village for his own\n> purposes.\n\nHope this helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the [naruto wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Konoha_Crush)\n\n> For years, Sunagakure suffered a series of budget cuts by the daimyō of the\n> Land of Wind, weakening the village and thus re-routing ninja missions to\n> Konoha. One day, Orochimaru, a missing-nin from Konoha who founded\n> Otogakure, approached the Fourth Kazekage with the proposition of a joint\n> invasion using the Chūnin Exams hosted in Konoha as a cover to attack\n\nHope this explains it better.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Gundam UC OVA EP 6, Banagher shared the final coordinate with Audrey, which\nI feel he trusted Audrey to put that into good use. However why is is that at\naround 27:00 mark, when Audrey revealed the coordinate to everyone, Banagher\nseems to feel betrayed?\n\nWhat kind of outcome did Banagher wanted?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSenzu bean is known as \"magical healing bean\", it can heal and restore\nconsumer's health instantly when eaten. Does it cures diseases as well? Such\nas Goku's heart disease.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf Senzu bean could cure diseases, Goku wouldn't have died in the future and\nTrunks wouldn't have needed to go back from the future to give him the\nantidote.\n\nFrom [Dragon ball wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Senzu_Bean)\n\n> However, it appears that the beans can not heal injuries that have already\n> healed over (like Tien's and Yamcha's respective scars or Saiyan tails) or\n> cure ailments (like Goku's heart virus contracted during the Androids Saga)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile there's little concrete evidence, it's likely that Senzu Bean's only\nheal the type of wounds your body could heal on its own, in Dragonball it was\nnoted that Senzu bean's were very filling, not quite like medicine. So it\ncould be more like they're a \"super food\" that accelerates the body's natural\nprocesses rather than something like conventional medicine.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNO.\n\nSenzu bean only help to recover from injury, heal the wounds and regain power.\nIt could not be used as a medicine to cure disease, and the evidence can be\nfound during the Android Saga, where Future Trunks bought the antidote from\nthe future to help Goku survive the heart attack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be because it was EXPLAINED by Future Trunks in the Android Arc that\nSenzu Beans, in his timeline, were stopped being manufactured because of the\ndecrease in need of it and the time to make a senzu bean would take long, thus\nthe heart disease that Goku contracted were not cured.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Poco's Udon World_ has a \"spin-off\" in-universe children series _Gao-Gao and\nthe Blue Sky_ , in which a super-dangerous alien bent on conquest and\ndestruction comes to Earth to destroy/conquer it and then befriends two human\ngirls and ends up as its defender.\n\nOne cannot avoid noticing the similarities with Disney's Stitch character.\n\nIs there any connection?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Trunks' future that had been destroyed by the Androids, Goku died from a\nHeart Virus.\n\nEven in the alternate timeline caused by Trunks warning the Z Warriors about\nthe Androids, Goku still contracted the Heart Virus but they already had a\ncure for it given by Trunks. Yet in both timelines out of all the Z Warriors\nGoku was the _only_ person to contract it.\n\nWhy is this? Was it a targeted attack on him by Dr. Gero (given the timing of\nwhen it occurred)? Was Goku's diet a factor or was there something Saiyan wise\nthat made him more susceptible which doesn't apply to Vegeta and half-Saiyans?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is Highly likely that the infection rate of the virus was just\nexceptionally low. Infection rates vary from virus to virus. Some can only be\ntransmitted in highly populated areas due to their low contraction rate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell one theory I was told from a friend many years ago was that the virus was\nalways in Goku it just took years to affect Goku.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not clearly stated, but there are a few things we can draw inferences\nfrom.\n\nWhen Goku succumbs to the effects of the virus in the battle with Androids 19\nand 20 and Vegeta arrives to save the day, he criticizes Goku for his\nrecklessness, and specifically states that his use of the Super Saiyan form\naccelerated his susceptibility. We are told many times, especially during the\nAndroid/Cell saga (and beyond), that the Super Saiyan form is tiring and\nexhausting, and requires a great deal of energy be used to activate. So much\nso that Goku and Gohan dedicate their training for fighting Cell to figuring\nout how to sustain the form indefinitely, endure it better, and save on the\nactivation energy. A training strategy that Vegeta is loathe to admit is\nreally quite clever.\n\nThe Z-fighters in general are in premium shape and would be most resistant to\nviral infections (relative to the rest of the global population) by default.\nBut elevated levels of stress and exhaustion bring down the efficacy of the\nimmune system.\n\nSo what we can infer from this is that the other Z-fighters had strong enough\nimmune systems to fight it off, but Goku's failed when the virus\nopportunistically exploited the downsides of the Super Saiyan form. Vegeta is\nthe only other fighter (not exactly a Z-fighter) we know that used a\nsimilarly, if not even more, exhausting training regimen and combat form. But\nhe spent a great deal of his training time in outer space punching rocks, so\nmay have simply avoided transmission from Goku or others by practicing the\nultimate in social distancing.\n\nThere's also the simple fact that Goku is a Saiyan and not a Human, like the\nrest of the Z-fighters. The particulars of his immune system may alter his\nsusceptibility (that it could infect two different species, Saiyan and Human,\nis a bit surprising and may have taken time to mutate to transfer from one to\nthe other). Vegeta is, again, spared by social distancing. And Goku's family\nis, presumably, spared by being human or half-human. Piccolo is presumably\nspared by being Namekian and having inherited Eternal Youth from his father,\nand just generally spending most of his time meditating on rocky spires in the\nmiddle of nowhere.\n\nFinally, most of the Z-fighters don't actually spend that much time together.\nThey usually train on their own or with a fixed partner, and come together\nonly to deal with new threats or special occasions (such as celebrating\nvictory over such a threat). Goku's only real training partners are Gohan,\nPiccolo, and Krillin, most of which is either done on Roshi's Island or in a\nwilderness devoid of other people; Goku and his family themselves live in the\nmiddle of nowhere. Tien and Chiaotzu train together but separately from the\nothers and in general isolation; Yamcha is a lone wolf who started as a desert\nbandit afraid of nothing but talking to women; Yajirobi hides with Korin, etc.\nSo most of them aren't even exposed all that often to each other, or even\nother humans. This is particularly true in the time-skip to the arrival of the\nandroids, as everyone went off to train in their own ways (if at all).\n\nSo, again, social distancing seems likely to have protected everyone, with\nGoku being the one unfortunate soul for which it didn't work out. Probably by\nrandom bad luck, as it's not a 100% surefire protection, but also possibly\nbecause Chi-Chi actually _makes_ him go out and do stuff in public like\ngetting a job, thus elevating his exposure. Whereas Krillin doesn't yet have a\nfamily or known job at this point, and Vegeta mostly just trains and doesn't\neven spend much time with his own family yet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super, Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F', gods of\ndestruction, beings belonging to Whiss's race (some sort of angels or angels),\nsupreme kais and super saiyan gods can use \"god ki\". In DBS and Resurrection\n'F' also, others no super saiyan gods saiyans like Vegeta can obtain the power\nof god ki without transforming into super saiyan god by training (and also\nbecoming super saiyan god super saiyan by transforming) . Can other Dragon\nBall races like humans or namekians or Frost Demons obtain god ki by training\ntoo?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBetween the end of the Naruto and Sasuke fight (ep 479) and the beginning of\nSasuke Shinden (ep 484), you can see that most of the characters have not only\nreceived a new set of clothes and hairstyle but have also aged quite a bit.\n\nSo how much time has passed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom last battle, I think their ages were 17 years old. Probably Sasuke\nShinden only takes 2 - 3 years after last battle, because when we saw the\nNaruto Movie Last, their face were look almost same with Sasuke Shinden, The\nLast Movie maybe occurred after Sasuke Shinden.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFound this image on Light Novels page of Naruto Wikia. [Light Novels -\nNaruto](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Light_Novels?file=Novels_timeline.png)\nThe page also lists the the timeline of the novels, but for some reason it\ndoesn't list Sasuke Shinden. But there seems to be an official timeline,\nprobably from Jump/Databook (Citation Needed)\n\nI don't read Japanese, so maybe someone could corroborate, but looking at the\ncovers, Sasuke Shinden seems to be in the same period as that of Gaara Hiden.\nFollowing this Sasuke Shinden take place somewhere between 2-10 years after\nNaruto and Sasuke fought in the Valley of the end\n\nEdit: Correction. It seems the event take place just before Chapter 700 of the\nManga, but after Naruto becomes Hokage so closer to 10 years rather than 3\nthat I assumed. However this is _true only for the Light Novel and not the\nAnime_. Found the translated timeline on Reddit: [A guide to the Naruto Light\nNovels, Naruto Gaiden, and The Blank\nPeriod](https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/33zfy3/a_guide_to_the_naruto_light_novels_naruto_gaiden/).\nIt seems like the most complete timeline of Light Novels I could find.\n\nIn the Anime, Naruto is yet to be Hokage and there are several other\ndiscrepancies. No official timeline as of yet, but events seem to be just\nAFTER the events of The Last.\n\nEdit: Confirmed for Anime too. The Events of Sasuke Shinden Episode 484-488\ntake place some time after the events of the movie: The Last.\n\nImages for reference Below, Order (LtR- Official Timeline, Sasuke Shinden,\nGaara Hiden): \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CDty2.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tsGnPm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YXvaFm.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've considered your answers, but I couldn't accept them, because they were\neither not supported by evidence or a bit vague (2-10 years, or closer to 10\nyears, is not helpful enough). Sorry for not replying sooner.\n\nHowever, I did find the answer from anime episode 489. Here's a picture if you\ndon't feel like watching it:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GQhWN.jpg)\n\nI know it's from the anime, but according to\n[Animefillerlist](http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto-shippuden), it's\nconsidered canon. So there you go, I answered my own question (very rarely\ndoes it happen!)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy first point, which is the most obvious, is that Naruto is 17 at the end of\nthe fourth shinobi war. During episode 491 of the anime, while on a mission\nShikamaru says \"I'm only 19!\" Presuming that Naruto and Shikamaru are the same\nage, this would mean Naruto is 19 as well; which would ultimately mean that\nbetween the end of the fourth shinobi war and the beginning of epsiode 484, 2\nyears has passed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo as we have seen in the Hagoromo filler:\n\n> Hagoromo didn't inherit the Byakugan and could not pas it over so a clan\n> (Like Uchiha with Sharingan) Can be born. and we see that Hamura has the\n> Byakugan, but he leaves and goes to the moon, and we see in \"The Last:\n> Naruto The Movie\" That he formed a clan on the moon and there was a whole\n> civilization there, but before he takes off for the moon there was no\n> mention of his romantic life and no indication that he took someone with\n> him.\n\nSo when was the Hyuga clan formed? did Hamura came back and took someone and\nformed a clan? or is this just a plot hole?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis question will seem a bit weird so I'll give a bit of background.\n\nI like to view anime that follow a specific genre and target audience.\n\nSo naturally when a new title pops up on here, MAL, from friends or whatever I\npromptly Google it to see if it's something I'd like or not.\n\nIs there a way to infer a target audience from analyzing the content of the\nfirst episode?\n\nWhat I mean is if there are tell tale signs of each genre (ex. Supernatural,\nromance, sports) and demographic(ex. Shonen, seinen, shojo, josei etc.) that\nseasoned anime fans look for that allow you to know the genre and demographic\nwithout prior research?\n\nIf there is a viewing style or technique involved I'd like to know it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are a couple of clues that I can think of are a good indicators that\nindicate the probable demographics of a anime series. The first is the use of\n[furigana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana), which indicates the target\ndemographics is probably young, and the second is the target demographics of\nthe magazine that the source manga was original published in. The later\nobviously only applies to series derived from printed manga, but that's still\nmost anime.\n\nFurigana are those small Japanese characters that can appear over kanji\ncharacters in order to provide their pronunciation to readers who might not be\nfamiliar with the kanji or there use in that context. They can appear even\nworks targeted at adults if the kanji is very unusual or the author's intended\npronunciation is non-standard, but mainly the appear in works targeted to\nchildren. I'm not entirely sure what age the cut off is, but a show targeted\nat younger teens is probably going to use furigana while a show targeted at\nolder teens probably won't. Apparently this has changed over time and current\nworks targeted at teens are [more likely to use\nfurigana](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/1246) than older works with the\nsame demographics.\n\nIn an anime show the place to look for furigana is things like the titles, eye\ncatches, subtitled opening or closing song lyrics and any Japanese subtitles\nof foreign language dialog. The credits won't normally have furigana, being\nessentially aimed at adults working in the industry.\n\nFor example despite the fact the characters in Wooser's Hand to Mouth Life all\nlook they were designed by Sanrio, the lack of any furigana in the show's\ntitle screen suggests an older target demographic:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hZqmG.jpg)\n\nThis is supported by the fact [the show originally aired on TV in Japan at\n1:35 AM in the\nmorning](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-08-24/wooser-hand-to-mouth-\nlife-manga-gets-tv-anime-by-supercell-members).\n\nWhile anime series often try to target a broader audience than the original\nsource material (if any) that their based on they rarely try to target a\ncompletely different demographic. In the case of anime series based on printed\nmanga it's usually not too hard to find out what magazine the manga was\noriginally published in. Most manga magazines have a entry on the English\nWikipedia which gives the target demographic of that magazine. Sure it\nrequires a bit \"previous research\" but it usually requires no more work than\nfinding the Wikipedia page for the anime and clicking one or two times.\n\nAs far as genre does I don't think it possible to come with any good rules to\ndetermine the genre of a show by watching it. Sure it's not hard to categorize\na show after viewing 15 minutes of it, but codifying that process would be\nwell beyond what can be answered here and not all the useful. Genres are\nbasically just piles we place shows in order to provide some sort of\norganization. They're sections in a video store. A show has to go on some\nshelf, but not every store is going to make the same determinations of where.\nAnd at the edges it's not always possible to say whether a given\ncategorization was right or wrong.\n\nAnother problem complicating determining genres is that Western genres are\noften different the Japanese genres, and anime fandom has created its own\ngenres distinct from either. For example \"slice-of-life\" is an anime genre\nthat [doesn't have direct translation into\nJapanese](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6081/how-to-say-slice-\nof-life-anime) and differs the older Western meaning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched a few (very few) gundam series, and to me they seem like\nindependent mecha anime series.\n\nIs there any connection between the Gundam series? Or are each of them in\nseparate universes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany of the Gundam Series takes place in separate universes, which can be\ncalled timelines such as:\n\n * Mobile Suit Gundam - UC timeline\n * Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - AD timeline\n * Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans - PD timeline\n\nHowever, there are several links between the mobile suit gundam universes in\nterms of plot like:\n\n * Mobile Suit Gundam has a V shaped antenna\n * Existence of evolved humans\n * Mascot character - Haro\n\nBut other than those the story and characters are completely independent\nbetween the timelines.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNope, there is no connection between them. It basically means that you can\nwatch each one indepent from the others, you basically won't miss out in\nrelevant information to the given selection.\n\nHowever they have familiarities. In each universe/timeline/planet/section\nwhatever you want to call them, there is conflict going on. The gundams in the\ngiven era with the given pilot have plenty of technology and fighting skills\ncommon. But that is about it. Some have the same technology level so I guess\nthey COULD take place in the same universe or maybe all do but with different\ntimelines.\n\nYou can basicaly see each gundam series as a seperate anime with the \"mecha\"\ngenre as common relation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nyou have many gundam series with connections! For example, Gundam 79, the\nfirst one, is in the same chronology line with Z, ZZ, stardust memory and\nothers. this series are differents, but in the same line, in the same conflict\n(AEUG vs Zeon)\n\nBut, Gundam Wing, Seed, build Fighters...are differents.\n\nYou can follow this example:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jQ3f5.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow can the Armored Titan and Annie in the Titan form harden their bodies,\nwhile Eren and the other Titan Shifters can't?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe fact that Annie can harden her Titan form and Eren couldn't is because\nthere are different types of Titan power in existence.\n\nThe complete explanation is as below.\n\n**Massive Spoiler Alert**\n\n> In the manga it is later revealed that all Titan powers came from Ymir\n> Fritz, an ancient Fritz family monarch. According to Eldian mythology, over\n> 1,820 years ago, Ymir came across what is only described as the \"source of\n> all organic material\". With this discovery, Ymir gained the power of the\n> Titans, becoming the 'Progenitor of all Titans'. \n> \n> After 13 years Ymir met her death, and her \"soul\" was split between nine\n> successors, giving these nine Titan powers. Throughout history, these powers\n> are inherited by the 'Eldians' or the 'Subjects of Ymir'. \n> \n> The Titan power that Eren possesses is called the 'Attack Titan'(進撃の巨人\n> Shingeki no Kyojin). The names of powers of other Titan Shifters is not yet\n> revealed but they are also among the nine. \n> \n> This the reason that the Titan Shifters possess different powers. \n> \n> **Sources**\n>\n> * [Ymir Fritz](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Ymir_Fritz)\n> * [Eren Yeager](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Eren_Yeager)\n>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOut of curiosity, I'd like to know if RWBY is actually aired on television, or\nit's available on the Japanese version of Crunchyroll, or how else it is\nviewed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWBY):\n\n> A local Japanese dub is being developed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment\n> Japan, with plans for release on Blu-ray and DVD in 2015, marking the first\n> time an American-produced anime-inspired series has been marketed in Japan.\n\nSo it appears that the Japanese release is limited to those media.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a song in _Tokyo Ghoul: Root A_ in the second episode where young\nKureo Mado is facing the one-eyed owl, and then Arima steps up to fight.\n\nWhat is the song that plays?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTook me a bit of time to track it down, but managed to find it. The song is\ncalled **FUKUROU** off the Tokyo Ghoul Root A soundtrack.\n\nYou can listen to it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmIa4ScvqZo)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I heard this song many times but I have no clue what its name is. It's in\nOVA 5 (when Sonic was training) and OVA 6 (S class hero murder, at 0:18). It's\nthe trumpet soundtrack.\n\nI really want to find the music sheet for that, because I play trumpet. Thank\nyou so muuuuch (´▽`)/\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is track #42 \"Yuuhi ni Mukatte\" from [the _One Punch Man_\nsoundtrack](http://vgmdb.net/album/55383). Here is a 20-second extract from\nthe beginning of the piece: <https://clyp.it/m3qa2cee>.\n\nI don't know where you'd find sheet music for it. It is rare for anime\nsoundtracks to have accompanying sheet music (though it does happen, e.g.\n_Symphogear_ , _K-ON!_ ). Your best bet is likely to hope that an enterprising\nfan has transcribed the piece.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf Ash bonded with his Greninja that he had for one generation, but he won't\nuse it anymore, why haven't Pokémon like Pikachu or Tauros bond with Ash\ninstead?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the same way that not every pokemon has a [Mega\nEvolution](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mega_Evolution) the only\npokemon known to have the bond ability so far is the\n[Greninja](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash%27s_Greninja).\n\nTrue that by now we can believe that Pikachu and Ash have maximum trust, one\nof the requirements for the [Bond\nphenomena](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bond_Phenomenon) to happen.\n\nBut that might not be the only requirement, or Pikachu species does not have\nthis bond ability.\n\nIt remains to be shown further if other pokemon than Greninja have that\nability or not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I'm not mistaken, the Deucalion was stuck to the side of Saazbaum's landing\ncastle right? How come on the Season 2 Episode 1 scene where Yuki rescued\nInaho, they were underwater?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs there like a set list of things you need? And can there only be 7 at one\ntime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know exactly what hapened to Gekko Moriah? IIRC he was in the\nMarineford arc. But I haven't seen anything of him post time-skip?\n\nDid I miss some development or something?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe last we saw of Moriah was\n\n> him attacked by Doflamingo and a group of Pacifista in the backstreets of\n> Marineford. According to Doflaminog this was because Moriah was deemed \"too\n> weak\"to continue serving as a Shichibukai. When asked by Moriah is Sengoku\n> ordered this, Doflamingo told him that it came from someone higher than him.\n> [Chapter 581/Episode 490]\n\nPerona asks Mihawk about Gekko Moriah\n\n> Mihawk tells her that Moriah was alive at the end of Battle, but he is not\n> sure if he is still alive now. The newspaper reports that Moriah is dead\n\nDoflamingo however later reveals to the Gorosei,\n\n> that Moriah escaped before he could deliver the killer blow, probably using\n> his DF power. He also asserts that Moria was critically injured and die\n> anyways. [Chapter 595/Episode 513]\n\nThus Moriah's official status is **Unknown**. Doflamingo believes he is dead,\nbut according to **[New World\nTimes](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/New_World_Times)** , Moriah survived and\nis in hiding somewhere in the New World. This is however based on eyewitness\naccounts and thus NOT a confirmation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid L **win** against Light? Let me elaborate:\n\nAfter L's death in episode 25, we assume that Light won. But in episode 26, L\nleaves a message in his computer (which Light deletes in the same episode).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DzkUG.png)\n\nAlso, at the end of the episode, we see that some data is being sent from L's\npersonal computer.\n\nSo, my question is: did he **know/confirm** that Light was Kira and sent the\ncase data to Near?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eAwxN.png)\n\nNote:By \"winning\", I mean that L defeated Light in their mind game/battle. L\nhad confirmed that Light is Kira( but could not prove it in front of the whole\nworld). He was able to see that Light would come to kill him in the future and\nconfirmed that Light is Kira (when Light smiles at L's dying body). This is\npurely a theory based on the possibility that the transmitted data can indeed\nbe the case data stating Light as Kira.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt really depends on what you call _winning._\n\n * L had been suspicious, strongly suspicious and just a tad less strongly suspicious of Light being Kira throughout the entire anime (or, well: those potions wherein he was alive).\n\n * L, however, wanted to _prove_ that Light was Kira with evidence that would suffice to try him guilty. Collecting enough evidence to win a court case was also the police task force’s goal. They never achieved that or they would have arrested (and subsequently tried) Light.\n\nIn games like the board game [_Cluedo_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo)\n(or _Clue,_ if you’re on the other side of the pond), you can essentially win\nby guessing correctly. In crime fiction or real-world criminal investigations,\nyou don’t win by guessing correctly, you only win by _proving_ you’re correct.\nThus, applying the rules of Cluedo, L won; but he himself wouldn’t have\nconsidered him winning due to thinking in criminal investigation terms.\n\n* * *\n\nSince you now clarified what you mean by winning:\n\nL did not win the mind game. We was on a good track, but he was short of the\ngoal. If Rem hadn’t taken action, it probably wouldn’t have been too long\nbefore L had proven to himself that Light is Kira, at which point he would\nhave also told the world about it. However, he was stopped just short of\nproof.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the end L won because it was his successors who proved Light was Kira. Kira\nbeing caught was the end goal, regardless of L being alive when it happened\nwhich is why from the beginning he said he had to prove he would risk his\nlife.\n\nHe also told Soichiro that if he were to die, Light is probably Kira meaning\nhe considered the possibility of dying and believed that Kira could be\nstopped. \nL was considered to be slightly evil by the creator, I agree only in the sense\nthat he was willing to do necessary evils, he was only bad in that Makeaveli\nway, by means to an end. If that meant dying so be it. \nRemember he considered the murders to be atrocious and could not go\nunpunished. \nLight had been punished and died before he could face trial, by the will of\nRyuks Death Note.\n\nAside from personal beliefs, it was a draw. They both died from the hands of a\nshinigami because of the actions of people close to them. \nMisa is the reason Rem chose to kill L, because she would have been executed\nor sent to prison. Near is the reason Ryuk chose to kill Light, because he\nwould have been executed or sent to prison. \nI love L so it is my own personal opinion that he won.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nL knew the whole time that Light was Kira. The problem was the proof. Even\nwhen confronted with the 13 day rule, L knew he was backed into a corner, he\nknew that proving Light was Kira was a deathwish, that Light would not let\nthis happen. The staircase / roof scene confirms L contemplating his death, He\nKNOWS he is going to die, and will die when he tries to hash out the truth of\nthe death note. He tells light that they will soon part, and asks Light if he\nknows how boring that will be for LIGHT - because L was his greatest\nadversary. When he died all the info was sent to near, about the death note,\nthat Light was Kira, about the 2nd Kira, how everything works, and\ninstructions to take Light down. We don't get to know Near because after all\nhe's just following L's plan the whole time. And the whole time Near is\ncheating, he knows the outcome. He's just watching the pieces fall into place\nbecause unlike how \"L\" had to contemplate all of his choices, Near never does\n- Near KNOWS and that's the huge difference and why some people hate Near,\nbecause he doesn't have to think. But if you rewatch it - knowing that Near\nalready knows everything and how it ends - and I think he used the death note\nto kill light and described his death far before the scene in which Light dies\n- because LIGHT would never be stupid enough to admit to being KIRA - he was\ncompelled to do so by Near. That was the plan the whole time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believed that Light was smart and did have a running start but there was so\nmany other factors, each character has their own flaws and the two opponents\nused this to their own advantage by the middle of the anime the two was\nbasically on equal footing. L was happy to find somebody to interact with on\nthe same intellectual level and this ended up leading to his death but not\ndownfall. Near was given the information that L had gathered outta the mud and\ndeduced that L died because of his respect for light. Light held others in\ncontempt and it also led to his downfall because near was smart and had all of\nL’s previous work within his disposal, this is why Near didn’t find Light\nspecial. Near and Mello combined put them on equal footing as L because like\nmello L wasn’t afraid to take risks and put his life on the line but at the\nsame time he was as calculated and articulate as Near if not more. In the end\nL won because he knew how’d it’d end and he didn’t want to kill the only true\nfriend that he felt he had.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHold up. I don’t think we should think which of those two won, I think it’s\nwho won. Many people might not like my theory, but I think both of them won\nand lost in a way. Let me explain why. L wanted nothing more than to catch and\nkill Kira/Light. It was his biggest wish. Now L won and lost. He completed the\nfirst part of finding Kira, because he knew that Light was Kira, just couldn’t\nprove it to others. The second part however, not so much. He died before he\ngot to kill him, and Near had to finish off (I mean Ryuk in the end but well).\nSo he got his wish, when Light died, but didn’t do it, because L died before\nhe was able to. Therefore I think he won, but lost to Kira.\n\nNow Light or Kira in the other hand. He wanted to become a god of the new\nworld, and kill anyone who tried to stop him (originally criminals but later\non innocents), but died trying to achieve it. He kind of stayed as some sort\nof a god even after he died, since he still had worshippers on Earth. And when\nLight became a shinigami (I believe the shinigami theory, cause it seems\nreally possible and well proven), he became a GOD of death, he wanted to\nbecome a god of the new world, and he became a god of death, but died in the\nhuman world. For that I’d say he also won but lost. If he would remember his\nhuman life when being a shinigami, then he would have won, because he could\njust continue his killing as a shinigami, that’s not the case though.\nTherefore, I think L and Kira both won and lost to each other, both got what\nthey wanted but suffered and died at the same time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching One Piece when I remembered that there was a guy Sanji saved\nback in the Baratie arc. Then I looked up his name, and it was Gin.\n\nI remember that when Krieg launched the poison attack, Gin gave his mask to\nLuffy, essentially sacrificing himself in the process.\n\nThey said he took a lethal amount of poison, yet we don't know if he died\nafter the events. We only know that he and his crew (including Pandaman)\nsailed away on a ship that wasn't the ideal size, and Gin said to Luffy that\nhe's going to meet him again.\n\nDid he die? I'm quite far in the story, and he hasn't returned thus far.\nChallenging Luffy also wouldn't be a very sane idea if he knew he was going to\nbe dead in couple of hours, and there's virtually no chance they meet again in\nthat time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGin hasn't been mentioned or referenced in the story since he left, so his\nfate his unknown at the moment, and only speculation can be used.\n\nOn the one hand, he did breathe in a supposedly lethal amount of poisonous\ngases, and may not have much longer left to live, as he noted himself. But on\nthe other hand, several characters in the series have been shown to survive\nsupposedly lethal injuries, albeit sometimes thanks to outside help. Pell\nsurvived the explosion from Crocodile's bomb in the Alabasta arc, and Luffy\nsurvived Magellan's poisons thanks to Ivankov's treatments and his own\nwillpower.\n\nUntil Gin reappears in person, is mentioned by another character, or Oda\nclarifies the situation in an SBS, Gin's fate will remain ambiguous.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched the cut and uncut versions and haven't really noticed any\ndifferences.\n\nWhat are the big (or even small) differences between each?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUncut episodes are typically longer, while CN cuts scenes out so they can show\ncommercials. Uncut episodes also have more blood, alcohol, and sexual things\nin it. For example, the uncut episodes will show Naruto and Sasuke kissing in\nthe beginning of the series, and they take that out on the CN version.\n\nThere's a comparison between a US TV version and Japanese TV version. Uncut\nepisodes are most likely same as the Japanese version where it doesn't get\ncensored out. Though, there might be a very slight improvement on the uncut\nversion, probably like the lines touch-up or something, it's very hard to spot\nwith naked eyes.\n\n[US Version]-------------------------------------------------[Japanese/Uncut\nVersion]--------------------------------\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yflsw.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GMLLb.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mh40C.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the examples is, in episode 18, the scene where Haku died is censored.\nThey didn't show how Kakashi's lightning stricken him to death. The blood is\nalso removed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the German version, it's also like \"this one beat the other one\", while in\nthe uncut version it's like \"this one killed the other one\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen this used in almost all of the episodes, where during a fight or a\nscene the colors of the characters will change almost immediately, almost to\nan inverted color scheme, or sometimes a more muted color scheme.\n\n[In this scene](https://youtu.be/LRGMJahRaJc?t=11s), you'll notice that\nJosuke's Stand, Crazy Diamond, is normally colored blue/pink, yet during the\nfight switches to blue/green, while Killer Queen, who is normally\nPink/Black/Gold, is switched to Gold/Black/Blue (body, gloves, skullpiece).\n\n[In another fight, seen here](https://youtu.be/EZ14-5cJ73s?t=2m10s), not only\ndoes Josuke and Yoshikage change colors, but their stands change color to yet\nanother different color, with Crazy Diamond turning blue/brown, and Kira Queen\nturning Blue/Green/Yellow.\n\nAnother example of Yoshikage and Josuke:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MfusX.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1N7ME.png)\n\nIs there a specific reason for doing this technique? Why has David Co\n\"switched\" the colors sometimes during a fight?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I know, Araki enjoys playing with various colour schemes, which is\nevident in multiple different colour versions of the characters in manga\ncovers and coloured artwork, which the anime series has followed as it is a\nbig 'part' of the look and feel of Jojo-series as a whole. For specific\ninstances of colour, I guess it's mainly to enhance and add visual flavour to\ndramatic scenes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you noticed in stardust crusaders at the start when we first see Kakyoin,\nhe calls Jotaro \"evil\" and after Jotaro says \"Evil?\" they swap colors, making\nKakyoin and Hierophant purple and Jotaro and Star platinum green.\n\nIt would almost be like Jotaro's the \"loser\" and the \"evil one\" until it turns\naround, making Kakyoin the \"loser\" and the \"evil one\". Thus Jotaro saying \"I\nmay be deemed a punk but i know nauseating evil when i see one\"\n\nThat is my theory about it. It might as well just be its own style of showing\noff cool colors but there may be a bigger meaning to it all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a couple of contradictions.\n\nI'm reading that Tamaki created it after he lost his games in the Earthquake.\nAnd he created Carnival Corpse for fun.\n\nI'm also reading that Hagire Rinichiro created it after the earthquake and\nafter taking over the old man's body. That old man was supposed to be the\nprevious winner of Carnival Corpse but how is that possible if Carnival Corpse\nwas only created after Hagire took over the old man's body?\n\nThen there's the question of when he took over Toto's body. In the later\nchapters (50+) it shows Toto with his original personality and his original\nclothes (with the vest and pants instead of the gown he wears now) asking why\nhe's not fighting the Wretched Egg and Hagire telling him he's going to take\nover his body.\n\nBut the first time we see Toto during Ganta's time in DW, he seems to have\nswitched over his clothes and personality (wearing the gown) already. We also\nsee old man Hagire talking with Shiro.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, during Obito and Kakashi's fight in the Kamui dimension, Obito gets a hole\nin his chest. After watching the episode, most of the viewers commented that\nObito \"was defeated\" even though he had the Rinnegan. But wasn't it because\nObito **_\"let\"_** Kakashi win to undo Madara's Seal (as we see in **chapter\n675** , Obito gets to know about the seal and wishes to undo it) and become\nthe Ten Tails Jinchuuriki? Also, I wanted to know that would Kakashi (a\n**_non-Uchiha and a non-Senju_** ) have been able to **actually** defeat\nObito? Because during their fight, Obito didn't use _Izanagi_ or even one\n_Rinnegan_ ability (even though, just moments later, he seals the Ten Tails\ninside him with the Rinnegan). I am compelled to say this, but Obito's\nabilities are no joke.\n\nPlease provide a convincing answer to explain exactly what happened during the\nfight and what would've happened if Obito was really serious.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObito definitely let Kakashi win because once he got the rinegan he could use\nall the powers that Pain had and Kakashi DIED after defeating only one pain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOf course he did. Obito is an Uchiha, so he possesses the Sharingan, and he\neven got the Rinnegan from Nagato. By the end of Shippuden, it's basically:\nKurama, Sharingan, or you're weak.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is stated in chapter 1 that the demons hide themselves in a human heart,\nand are kicked out once the hole in the heart is filled.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/unLaB.jpg)\n\nHowever, in chapter 3, it is stated that they only hole themselves up in the\nhearts of women, because they will be born as the woman's child.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9CsLI.jpg)\n\nBut in the majority of cases, they'll find love at some point before the child\nis conceived, so the demon would already be kicked out. So what's the point of\nartificially banishing all of them beforehand with the MC?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, an old man who is present when Oubu first ascends to the surface\nwith Azuma as its heart mentions that he saw Oubu when it razed Ueno 24 years\nprior.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kiGvb.jpg)\n\nLater, in episode 24, Azuma runs into a \"stinking drunk\" in the park:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fuzbB.jpg)\n\nAre these the same people?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2, when Oubu ascends to the surface, an old man describes it as \"a\npart\" of the thing that razed Ueno.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kiGvb.jpg)\n\nIn what sense is Oubu \"a part\"? Oubu at this time does look slightly different\nthan it did during the incident in Ueno (probably just because Oubu changes\nshape a bit depending on how powered-up/powered-down it is). Now:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HFiHU.jpg)\n\nAnd then:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pYwB2.jpg)\n\nBut Oubu (unlike Entei) was no more or less \"complete\" now than in the past,\nso I'm not sure what the old man means. (Maybe he's just senile?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the very beginning of episode 13, when Epimew responds to Guy's summons to\ndeal with a Buranki, we watch Epimew fly by London, the \"former capital\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cHTFy.jpg)\n\nWhat on earth happened to London? Given that Big Ben is there, London must've\nat least been thriving until 1859 or so (assuming that things happened at the\nsame time in the _Bubuki Buranki_ time line as in the real world), but by\n2040, it's been thoroughly overgrown. Some sort of Buranki-related incident?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile the Japanese characters in the show typically refer to the giants as\n\"Buranki\", some non-Japanese characters (particularly Guy) sometimes refer to\nthem as \"déraciné\".\n\nThis is a curious name for them - the French word \"déraciné\" means \"one who\nhas been displaced\". In a sense, this is an appropriate name for the ones that\nhave fallen from Treasure Island, which was their \"home\". But not all Buranki\non Earth are ones that have fallen from Treasure Island; indeed, the majority\nwere probably on Earth to begin with.\n\nIn a different sense, this name is also an appropriate way of describing all\nBuranki, given that\n\n> the Buranki are genuine alien lifeforms who left their home in search of a\n> new one and ended up on Earth.\n\nHowever, this fact is not widely known; only the people most involved with\nBuranki are aware of this.\n\nThis being the case, why are they called déraciné?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaxim has the heart of Zampaza; Lyudmila has the right arm; and Diana has the\nleft arm. Given that they are full siblings (as far as I know), and that\nBubuki are passed lineally from parent to child, how is it that they received\nthree Bubuki from their two parents? Did one of their parents have multiple\nBubuki?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat exactly was Yui trying to do at the end of _OreGairu_ season 2?\n\nI interpreted it in three ways:\n\n 1. She's going to fight for Hachiman and declares war on Yukino.\n 2. She's trying to maintain the status quo of the group and just have them be friends forever.\n 3. She's giving up on Hachiman and letting Yukino have Hachiman whilst also making Yukino admit her own feelings for him.\n\nWhich one is right?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy own interpretation is actually different from any of the ones you've\nlisted.\n\nWe discover over the last few episodes of Season 2 that Yukinoshita has a lot\nof trouble even identifying what it is that she personally wants. Where\nHikigaya has to have an external reason to help people but is otherwise\nincredibly self-sufficient, Yukinoshita needs an external reason to do\npractically anything at all (mainly via her mother and sister), and once she\nhas an external reason she forces herself to conform to it. Yuigahama may not\nbe intellectually bright, but she's incredibly perceptive when it comes to\npeople's emotions and social cues, and she has picked up on this fact. She is\nalso perfectly aware that Yukinoshita is starting to feel romantically\ninclined to Hikigaya, which puts Yuigahama in a very difficult place: she\nwants to maintain her friendship with Yukinoshita, but the entire reason she\nbefriended her in the first place was to get close to Hikigaya in a way that\nwon't cause her to be judged or ostracized by her social circle.\n\nAdditionally, Yuigahama is aware that Hikigaya is undergoing an emotional\nshift of his own and is allowing himself to become closer to both her and\nYukinoshita. This is simultaneously thrilling (because it means that she has\nsuccessfully gotten him to notice her, finally) and terrifying (because she\nrecognizes that she's in a love triangle, and him choosing one of the girls is\ngoing to destroy their current social relationships no matter what).\n\nSo the question becomes: how can Yuigahama gain what she most wants (a\nromantic relationship with Hikigaya) without destroying their current social\ndynamic? Well, first off she can't come out and explicitly confess to\nHikigaya. No matter how he responds to that, their social dynamic is dead\n(this is the same problem that came up with the Ebina/Tobe interaction earlier\nin the season). Additionally, she is feeling guilty about taking advantage of\nYukinoshita's obvious lack of experience when it comes to dealing with\nromantic feelings.\n\nThe answer that she arrives at is her double date (cherishing and celebrating\ntheir current social dynamic) and the final confrontation with Yukinoshita\n(which may destroy their social dynamic).\n\nThe trouble is that because Yuigahama cannot explicitly say what she wants to\nsay, we have to rely largely on subtext. As I read it, the subtext goes like\nthis:\n\n * She gives the cookies to Hikigaya. This is a clear indicator to both Hikigaya and Yukinoshita that she is interested in Hikigaya; she is tacitly admitting that he was the one she wanted to make cookies for all along.\n * She then tells Yukinoshita that she \"wants it all\". My reading of this is she is saying, \"I want Hikigaya, but I also want to maintain my friendship with you.\" Of course, there is only one way this can work, which is if Yukinoshita gives up on her own feelings for Hikigaya.\n * She then assures Yukinoshita that if Yukinoshita leaves everything to her, she will ensure that outcome. This little bit of manipulation is pretty brilliant (and underhanded) because it plays right into Yukinoshita's inability to identify and act on her own desires. Yuigahama is saying, \"I know it's difficult for you to act on your desires, so why not act on my desires instead? I will give you the friendship that you've never been able to gain on your own as long as you give up your desire for Hikigaya.\"\n\nAnd at this point, Yuigahama has won the love triangle match. Until, that is,\nHikigaya interjects with his insistence that Yukinoshita needs to solve her\nproblems on her own or she will never escape the cycle she's currently stuck\nin.\n\nAt which point the really fascinating part of this scene occurs, which is that\nYuigahama says she thought he would respond that way and immediately backs\ndown. The implication here is that Yuigahama entered into this whole gambit\nbelieving that she would probably fail, but did it anyway because she did not\nthink the status quo was maintainable and that forcing her friend and her\ncrush to face the emotional currents that underly their little threesome was\ndesirable even if it leads to her losing Hikigaya.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth Yukinoshita and Hikigaya are very alike in a lot of ways. Needless to\nsay, both Yukinoshita and Yuigahama have amazing quality and are wonderful\nfriends, but the longer it takes, the more painful it could get. I can see\nthis being a huge problem considering the situation.\n\nI myself couldn't agree more with Hikigaya's interjection, If he didn't say\nsomething, Yukinoshita would have lost much more then just a chance with\nHikigaya. At the moment, she is going through a change and needs time. It's\nimportant for both to finally come out with there feelings. But, if\nYukinoshita can't get her own thoughts and feelings together, she won't be\nable to decide for herself. They can make it known to Hikigaya their true\nfeelings and put the ball in his quart finally. He may be dense but I think he\nfully understands the situation and needs a bit of a push to come up with his\nown desires. In the end, even if both or one backs down, it's still up to\nHikigaya to find his own path or decision.\n\nWe have to remember that Hikigaya has a history or even a little post-\ntraumatic stress when it comes to rejection. I mean we have met two other\nwomen in his life who have rejected him. So, this could be a bit hard for him\nas well. Someone's bound to get hurt either way which sucks I believe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI thought maybe Yui was proposing sharing Hikigaya, as there were hints that\nthey had come to an understanding about him.\n\nThat part where Yui sits uncomfortably close to Yukinoshita seems to suggest a\nparticular change in fondness. I thought this was indicating possible yuri,\nbut she still likes Hikigaya and she also knows Yukinoshita likes him. If\neverybody likes everybody, why force a choice.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think she actually thought that if anyone of both yui or yukino confessed\ntheir feelings for hikigaya then it will disturb there friendship and they\nwon't be friends like they were then, so she meant that if she tells yukino\nabout what to do with her problem then she will win the battle royale and\nyukino and hikigaya would have to do what she says which is to drop her\n(yukino) feelings for hikigaya as she (yui) was ready to do and remain best\nfriends forever with hikigaya and no one would confess their feelings for\nhikigaya. The gist is that she wanted to maintain the status quo and not to\ndisturb it. She felt that their friendship was important than her love and\nwanted to keep it. she was like the problem is having a romantic relationship\nwith hikigaya (for both of them as if one got into a relationship the other\none would feel jealous and ruin the perfect friendship they had), so why not\nremove the possibility of that and remain friends forever.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn [Chapter 795](http://mangapark.me/manga/one-piece/s3/c795), we jump from\nDressrosa to the aftermath of Sanji's side boarding Big Mom's ship.\n\nWhat chapters did this happen? It's not specifically listed in the Manga Story\nArcs in the arcs up to and including the [Dressrosa\nSaga](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Arcs#Dressrosa_Saga).\n\n**Edit:** Revoked the correct answer because I have a new doubt. In Chapter\n807, Usopp says that the last time he spoke with the Sanji half of the crew\nwas when they evaded Big Mom's ship, meaning they had a chance to speak after\nevading Big Mom but before meeting on Zou. Thus, it couldn't have been\nskipped, because the whole crew, or at least Usopp, was there with them.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat segment was never shown and was used specifically to prequel what is\ncoming.\n\nSimilar cases have occurred in the anime but are usually filled in with\nfiller. The story follows Luffy so when other characters go off and do their\nown thing away from him the manga doesn't reflect it.\n\nWith respect to the Edit: During the Dressrosa arc Usopp was one of the\nstrawhats who stayed behind. IIRC there was an episode that had a cameo of\nsanji speaking to Usopp before things got too crazyin Dressrosa. It was when\nthe coliseum event was still going on. We didn't see how the evasion happened\nbut we did see that the ship was approaching. It wasn't brought up again until\nthe Zou arc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMagicians show that they are serious by shouting their magical names. Poster\nchild of this behaviour is shown in Endymion no Kiseki, when\n\n> Touma is still unsure of what is going on, when Stiyl shouts Fortis583 right\n> before going all out. Touma's expression changes radically, as he\n> understands that Styil is an enemy, at least for the moment.\n\nIs there any rule in making the magical names, or are they intended to look\nlike forum/internet nicknames?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, I assume that this particular system is to prevent name clashes.\n\nThe church probably has a registry of names; a magician chooses a Latin word\nthat fits their ideals and a number is added on to indicate that they are the\nnth person to have chosen that name.\n\nIt's out of necessity that they sound like that, since their magical name is\nsomething that defines them, the same way as a person's username on a forum\ndefines their membership of that forum.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is explained in the fourth novel (angel fall arc; chapter 2 part 5) by\nMotoharu:\n\n> “The term ‘magician’—especially the modern magicians that were established\n> in the tenth century, will carve their wishes onto their souls. This is the\n> magic name. Carving the reason why they want to learn magic or give up their\n> entire lives for the one goal by writing it out it in Latin. Like for me,\n> I’m Fallere825, Kanzaki nee-chin’s Salvare000. **The numbers behind are used\n> to prevent others from repeating the word, so this is like an email\n> authentication.** ”\n\n(This is not from the official English translation because I don't have access\nto it.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe magic names are Latin and they are chosen to represent the wishes of the\nmagic user. The numbers at the end serve as unique identifiers in the case\nthat the term has been used previously as a magic name.\n\nThis is a quote from Tsuchimikado from page 112 of volume 4 of the Yen Press\ntranslation of _A Certain Magical Index_ :\n\n> \"Sorcerers-particularly the kind who assumed a foothold in the nineteenth\n> century, or 'advanced sorcerers'- engrave our own desire upon our souls. I'm\n> talking about magic names. We carve into our hearts the Latin for the reason\n> we study magic, the one wish for which we would give our lives for. For me\n> it's Fallere825, and Kanzaki's is Salvere000, nya~. The numbers afterwards\n> are in case there're doubles of the same term. It's kind of like an email\n> domain in that respect.\"\n\nThis is the same quote used by looper in his answer, but the official\ntranslation differs significantly. The official translation compares the\ninclusion of the numbers to an email domain rather than to email\nauthentication. This means the two translations are offering completely\ndifferent explanations for the numbers. In one case, the numbers are for the\npurpose of authentication so that others cannot repeat the name. In the other\ncase, the numbers are simply for differentiating magical names that use the\nsame Latin term.\n\nIt's easy to just offhandedly say the official translation is the correct one,\nbut we'd have to check the original Japanese to be sure. Thanks to senshin's\ncomment, we have this: the original Japanese is:「そこらへんはメールの登録名【ドメイン】と同じだぜよ」.\nThe phrase \"登録名\" means literally \"registered name\", and refers to a type of\nname used for persistent and ideally-unique identification (a la an email\nlocal-part); he then adds furigana ドメイン _domein_ \"domain\". (Again, thanks to\nsenshin for the original text and translation)\n\nSo it turns out the Yen Press translation is more accurate to the original\nJapanese and makes the most sense.\n\nKamijou hears the full magic names, so there is a flaw in using the numbers\nfor authentication. If the purpose of a magic name is to tell opponents, then\nit doesn't make sense to give them the authentication as well. Also, at the\npoint I've read to in this series, there hasn't been any mention as to why it\nwould be bad that someone knew your magic name, so I question why\nauthentication would be needed in the first place.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNoticed it first in this Jump cover in the bottom right corner:\n\n\n\nKatakana is used for spelling out foreign words. Nisekoi is Japanese for \"fake\nlove\". So, why is katakana used? Just to make the name seem more \"cool\"?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn epsiode 71 of Dragon Ball Super, Goku is shown to have some kind of special\ntraining. It seems that Whis knows what Goku is doing but doesn't want to tell\nVegeta.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n 1. What is the special training that Goku is currently undergoing?\n\n 2. Why doesn't Whis tell Vegeta about this?\n\n 3. Why Beerus says that \"Goku is the leading fighter...\" even though till the last fight (i.e., with Zamasu) both seemed to be on equal level?\n\n 4. Does it mean that Goku is again going to get stronger than Vegeta?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n 1. Seeing as it was revealed, Goku is waiting for Hit to come at him and is constantly on edge seeing Hit can manipulate time.\n 2. Whis hired Hit for Goku to assassinate Goku. Seeing as Vegeta would try to stop Goku and Beerus wouldn't risk losing one of his prized (and leading) fighters, Whis decided not to tell them.\n 3. Goku still has his Kaioken as pointed out by Happy Face, next to that is that Beerus fought Goku and didn't fight Vegeta (also out of universe reason, Gokus is the protagonist of Dragon Ball)\n 4. The constant jist of Goku vs Vegeta is that they both will get powerfull than the other at a certain point in the story every time but the other will catch up and surpass the first.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of Brotherhood, Edward sacrifices his gate in order to bring back\nAl with his body. While doing so, the Truth being associated with Ed's gate\ntells him:\n\n> You've defeated me. Take everything you want!\n\nSo why didn't Ed get his leg back, when he can get everything if he sacrifices\nhis gate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is probably difference in translation. In the manga it is made pretty\nclear. The entire conversation is about Al only. Look at the following\ntransmutations and the sacrifices. Ed sacrificed his leg and Al his body for\ntheir Mother. Ed sacrificed his hand for Al's soul. Al gave his soul for Ed's\nhand. Ed gives up his transmutation gate for Al's body and soul.\n\nI don't remember the entire conversation in the Anime, but in the Manga,\nFollowing conversation takes place. Ref: Chapter 108 of the Manga\n\n> **The Truth:** Come for your brother, Eh? But how do you plan to extract an\n> enitre human being? How will you pay? Will you offer YOUR entire being? \n> **Ed:** I've got your payment right here. It's really big though. [..] \n> **The Truth:** That's the right answer Alchemist. You've beaten the truth.\n> Claim your prize. All of it.\n\nThus to me it seemed that the bargain was Al's entire being. All of it.\n\nNow, you could always argue that the exchange wasn't \"equivalent\" and Ed\nshould have asked for his leg back as well. We could talk about this all day!\nBut just touching on the very surface, its about the main themes of FMA.\nPersonal Responsibility and Sacrifice. Both Ed and Al are ready to sacrifice\neverything for each other. But Ed wouldn't use a philospher Stone or even\nHohenheim himself to bring Al's body or his limbs back. This has been\nreiterated several times. In the end Ed is satisfied with what he can get and\nbe normal, because he still has his friends.\n\n**Edit:** _@Maroon also highlights the difference in translation, by\nmentioning the Cantonese dub._ This further supports the differences in\ntranslation.\n\n> I'll also note that in the Cantonese dub of the same episode, Truth appears\n> to say something more along the lines of \"Take what you came to retrieve,\n> then [now that you've defeated me]!\" rather than \"Take everything you want!\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's because of the Equivalent Exchange:\n\n 1. Ed exchanged his arm for Al.\n 2. Al then exchanged his soul for Ed's arm.\n 3. Ed then exchanged his ability for alchemy to get Al back.\n\nThat completed the Equivalent Exchange between the brothers.\n\nThe price Ed paid for the human transmutation of their mother was his leg.\nThat was a different matter all together.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the English dubbed FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on Netflix Part 5\nEpisode 11. The conversation between Ed and The Truth goes like this...\n\n(After hearing the voices of all his friends)\n\n> **Ed:** Who even needs alchemy? When I’ve got them. \n> **The Truth:** (Smiles) You’ve done it. That’s the right answer. \n> **Ed:** (Claps his hands) \n> **The Truth:** Good Job. You beat me. \n> **Ed:** (Turns around and touches the door to the Portal of Truth) \n> **The Truth:** (Stands up) Go ahead. Take him home. \n> **Ed:** (Transmutes his Portal of Truth) \n> **The Truth:** (As he disappears with the door) The back door is right over\n> there. (Points behind him to Alphonse) Goodbye Edward Elric.\n\nIt’s quite clear throughout the entire conversation (including dialogue not\nmentioned above) that they are only talking about Alphonse. And if you look at\nall the transmutations and sacrifices made by Ed and Al in the show, by the\nend it’s an \"equivalent exchange\".\n\n**In the beginning:**\n\nTo get their mother - Ed lost his leg and Al lost his body.\n\nTo get Al’s soul - Ed lost his arm.\n\n**In the end:**\n\nAl lost his soul - To get Ed’s arm.\n\nEd lost his alchemy (Portal of Truth) - To get Al's body and Al's soul.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm new to the _Monogatari_ series; got into it because Nisio Isin wrote\n_Medaka Box_ and also GIFs I found online.\n\nI just don't understand whether we are intended to take the supernatural parts\nof the show to understand the characters or whether they are important on\ntheir own yet. For example, in the LNs, does the monologue hint at what is\nreality and what is made up?\n\nHow much of the content in the show can be chalked up to hallucination, etc.?\nIs the crab god really there? Or is it a metaphor for her not carrying her\ntrauma, thus she is weightless? Or both?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObi, the former thief / former hired thug / now the prince's messenger charged\nwith guarding the beautiful red-haired herbalist, at times seems out of his\ngame when gazing at the damsel.\n\nIt is hinted in the anime that he is in love with Shirayuki. I was wondering\nif more solid evidence is available from the printed story.\n\nIs Obi in love with / does he have a crush on the Snow White with the red\nhair?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObi has told Zen in the manga that he \"likes\" Shirayuki. Combine this with all\nthe moments they have together and all the hints we've been getting over the\nanime and manga (they end up living with just one another and other herbalists\nfor like 2+ years straight), and it's pretty clear that he's in love with her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObi is the Lancelot to Shirayuki & Zen's Guinevere & Arthur. In the manga and\nthe second-half of the anime, Obi is shown to value his loyalty & friendship\nwith both of them more than his romantic feelings.\n\nThe manga includes two scenes (one in the anime, and a later manga-only one)\nwhere Obi asks Zen to trust him to be Shirayuki's bodyguard & companion when\nshe will be far away. The second time, Obi explicitly states that he's doing\nit \"for himself, rather than for Zen, or out of duty.\" That seemed like a\npretty clear admission to me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is hinted multiple times throughout both the anime and the Manga that he\nlikes her. There are two parts in the Manga that he said that he likes her.\nThe first time was when Zen asked him if he likes Shirayuki or not and his\nanswer was yes. The second time was when he was having a conversation with\nKiki and he told her that his feeling lay with Shirayuki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObi liked her as a friend and never let his emotions go beyond that. Not only\nout of respect for his friends, but to keep himself safe as well. This very\nfact is explained not only in the Manga, but also in the Anime where he even\n‘tested’ his very feelings and said, ‘nothing is there’. The writers basically\ndenounced Obi as a love interest. Either way, he couldn’t compete with Zen -\nthat boy only need to look at Shirayuki and the flood gates would open (if you\nknow what I mean lol). For Zen and Shirayuki it was love at first sight.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems there is something special in anime and manga about 10 years gaps.\nThey seem to me that they will become a different person in 10 years.\n\nYes, I know people age and a decade is a long time. I can think of the me 10\nyears ago, and he was something of a mess.\n\nBut why is it always 10 years? not nine or eleven, 10... always 10. The list\nis enormous:\n\n * [My wife is Wagatsuna-san:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Wife_is_Wagatsuma-san) the MC can timeskip 10 years, to a time when he is married with the eponymous girl.\n * [Horimiya:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hori-san_to_Miyamura-kun) in ch10 Izumi remembers his old self 10 years ago.\n * [Orange:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_\\(manga\\)) the letters from their future selves is from 10 years ahead.\n * [Bleach:](https://otakukart.com/animeblog/2016/08/05/bleach-chapter-685/) \\- ch 685 has a 10 years time skip.\n * [Dragonball:](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/10_Years_After) ch 518 has a 10 years timeskip.\n * [Soushin Shoujo Matoi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matoi_the_Sacred_Slayer) Matoi's mother saved the world 10 years ago.\n * Strike the Blood when Minamiya Natsuki lost her memory, she was turned into 10 years younger version of herself.\n\nI am sure I've seen other 10 years intervals in other titles, the list could\ngo on and on.\n\nWhat is so magical about the **10 year** gap?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a question about when future Trunks goes to the past along with future\nMai but what about current Trunks I know that current Mai is his girlfriend\nbut when he becomes young the Mai is so old in dragon Ball GT so he cannot\nmarry her so who is his wife?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDragonball Gt was not written by Akira Toriyama and as such is not considered\nto be a **canon** story.\n\nAs far as _Current_ Trunks is concerned he has no wife, since he is only 8 and\nwe still have to see what will happen with him in the future.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know exactly how much a prize queen is paid? I know it must be a\nlot since that is Nozomi's goal and all. But is there a precise dollar amount\nstated?\n\nOr is it implied to be the same tier as like a world champion?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nLooking at it it kinda seems like a Pokeball but not quite as a pokeball\ndoesn't have that bottom sticking out it and the curve dividing the pokeball's\ncolours is only a curve at certain angles, if looked front on it's just a\nstrait division.\n\nSo i am wondering what is the symbol of the Uchiha clan supposed to be?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's actually supposed to be type of fan. On the Wikipedia page where Japanese\nWar Fans it says:\n\n> In addition the symbol of the Uchiha Clan is a fan which is a reference to\n> uchiwa (団扇, paper fan) which is another way of pronouncing the clan's name.\n\nSource: [Japanese war fan - In popular culture (2nd\nParagraph)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_fan#In_popular_culture)\n\nLooking at the Wikipedia page for the\n[Uchiwa](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchiwa) (and even googling it) we\ncan see that the Uchiha Clan Symbol is shaped like that of a Uchiwa.\n\n \n\nThis is also backed up on the Naruto Wikia also giving a logical reason why\nit's also a fan.\n\n> \"Uchiha\" is another way of pronouncing \"uchiwa\" (団扇, paper fan), which is\n> the clan's symbol. Uchiwa can be used to fan flames, making the flame hotter\n> — referring to the fact that the Uchiha is a clan of Fire Release users.\n\nSource: [Uchiha Clan - Trivia (first\npoint)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uchiha_Clan#Trivia)\n\nThis also allows us to infer as to why the colour scheme is by chance like a\nPokeball. A Flame is generally seen as red however the hotter a flame gets the\ncloser it'll get to being white.\n\n> The colder part of a diffusion (incomplete combustion) flame will be red,\n> transitioning to orange, yellow, and white as the temperature increases as\n> evidenced by changes in the black-body radiation spectrum. For a given\n> flame's region, the closer to white on this scale, the hotter that section\n> of the flame is.\n\nSource: [Wikipedia - Flame - Flame Colour (3rd\nParagraph)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame#Flame_color)\n\nNow given that a flame is generally hotter at the source one interpretation\ncould be that because the bottom part is supposed to be a Uchiwa handle this\nwould be the hottest part (being in your hand all the time).\n\nAnother interpretation could be that while also being an Uchiwa the symbol\nalso looks like how some Flame Release Jutsu's get \"spat out\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6IAIk.jpg)\n\nSo the \"handle\" is the jet of fire coming from the mouth, since fire is\nnormally hotter at the source this part would be white while further away it\nwould be red.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto Episode 130, Susake's father clearly stated that \"The Uchiha crest\nrepresents the fan that rouses the flame of our will.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 44, \"Buildup × To A × Fierce Battle\", I was wondering if anyone\ncould tell me what card game is being played by The Phantom Troupe not\ninvolved in the fight in this episode. They seem to simply discard cards one\nafter the other, except for one moment when one of them flips theirs over to\nreveal a king of hearts.\n\nIs this a real game, or something made up similar to Gungi?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Bungou Stray Dogs_ , Ango Sakaguchi's ability is \"Discourse on Decadence\".\n\nI googled and looked at the wikis, but there's no information about it.\n\nWhat does it do?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nToad oil as shown on Mount Myoboku was produced from a special fountain that\nallowed user to more easily feel the natural energy around them. This was used\nin the initial stages of Senjutsu training by Jiraiya and Naruto.\n\nHowever, We've seen several combo jutsu's used by Jiraiya which rely on the\nToads spitting Oil (Toad Oil Bullet). Which can be lit on fire or even mixed\nwith both Wind and Fire Jutsu. We know toads can manipulate Chakra and are\nmostly affiliated with Water Style.\n\nSo Is the toad oil produced naturally in the Toad's stomach's or is it\nsomething that they achieve by nature manipulation (manipulating multiple\nchakra natures, similar to Kekkei Genkai)?\n\n**Update:** I understand \"Toad Oil\" based techniques utilize chakra, but the\nsource of the oil is not explained. I have read the wiki entries and Wiki just\nstates \"converts Chakra to oil\" but doesn't explain it. Is it like the Dragon\nFlame produced by Dragons? For an in universe example take a look at Katsuyu\nand her/its ability. I can see Slugs producing Slime and Katsuyu using that\nslime similar to that of the Mizukage's Acid Release. This is both a Nature\ntransformation and Kekkei Genkai, while also possible naturally. **Do toads\nnaturally produce this oil, do a nature transformation, Is there any myth that\nattributes toad spitting oil etc. is what my question moves toward.**\n\nAdditionally, for those confused about Ying-Yang techniques and Nature\nTransformations should go through the wikia page and read the cited\ninformation! [Naruto Wikia - nature\nTransformation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_transformation)\n\n> Aside from the five elemental nature transformations, there is a second kind\n> of nature transformation that are the source of all non-elemental techniques\n> such as the Shadow Imitation Technique, Multi-Size Technique, medical\n> ninjutsu, genjutsu, etc. There is Yin Release (陰遁, Inton), based on the\n> imagination and spiritual energy of a shinobi, and Yang Release (陽遁, Yōton),\n> based on the vitality and physical energy of a shinobi. Together, they are\n> used to perform Yin–Yang Release (陰陽遁, In'yōton, Onmyōton).\n\nYou can't just club any random technique to be Ying/Yang.\n\n**Additional Update:** [Trivia section of Wikia for the Nature\ntransformation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_transformation#Trivia)\ngave an interesting lead.\n\n> Techniques such as the _Toad Oil Bullet and the Poison Mist_ mention\n> \"converting\" or \"kneading\" chakra into materials or substances, _but have\n> never been mentioned to use certain chakra natures._\n\nSo I think I am not the only one unsure how these techniques are performed!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe [Toad Oil Bullet](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Toad_Oil_Bullet) Is a skill\nused by Jiriya that converted his chakra into Toad oil. He spit out a volume\nof oil more than his body's size, proving that he could not have stored it\ninside his body. So the answer appears to be that there is a technique that\nconverts chakra to Toad oil.\n\nHowever, It is entirely possible the Toads, especially Larger ones, can\nswallow toad oil and regurgitate it later to conserve chakra usage required to\ncreate it.\n\nIt is notable that the Toad oil they spit out and Toad oil used in Senjutsu\ntraining might be different oils. The wiki entry on [Mount\nMyoboku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mount_My%C5%8Dboku) notes:\n\n> There is a sacred fountain on Mount Myōboku which produces a special oil\n> which allows people to more easily feel the natural energy around them\n\nSo it seems only the fountan produces the Sage Mode oil. Also, the Sage Mode\noil looks significantly like cooking oil, very light, clear, and of the same\nconsistency, while The oil spit out to be ignited looks dirty, and dark,\nsometimes even opaque.\n\nEdit: addressing your edit, There is only one thing that could possibly be\nadded, and its a Theory.\n\nYou copied one line from the wiki on the trivia section of the [Nature\nTransformation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_Transformation) page.\nHowever, the very next line gives off a HUGE hint.\n\n> Certain other techniques involved in manipulating substances are also often\n> confused to be chakra natures, such as silk, bone, and ink. However, these\n> substances cannot be produced from chakra alone, meaning the chakra is not\n> changed in nature, and it is rather used to change already-existing\n> substances.\n\nThe oil is called Toad Oil, So its could be some kind of substance a Toad can\nnaturally create. If that is the case, then this would literally be exactly\nlike Kimimarus Bone based Jutsu,\n[Shikotsumaku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shikotsumyaku), or [Kidomaru's\nSpider Technqiues](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kid%C5%8Dmaru). Just like how\nThey can take the natural substance that already exists (bone/Spider Silk) and\nuse Chakra to create more of it, Toads would do the same. Perhaps that is what\nKneading into a substance means, Mixing Chakra with a substance, and\nconverting the chakra into more of that substance. Since everyone who uses\nToad Oil is either a Toad, or Jiriya after he goes Sage mode and becames part\ntoad, then they would likely have a natural source of it to duplicate via\nChakra kneading, if that is indeed the case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have recently started watching the 2016 anime, Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless\n( 田中くんはいつもけだるげ ). Plugging the Japanese into the Google Japanese-to-English\ntranslator, it comes out as \"Tanaka-kun is always wonderful\". One possibility\nis that there is a Japanese homonym that can mean either \"listless\" or\n\"wonderful\". That seems like a pretty big spread. But I guess if \"bat\" can\neither be a crafted wooden stick or a blind flying mammal, it certainly is a\npossibility.\n\nAnother possibility is that the translation does not capture the full Japanese\nmeaning. Perhaps the implication is more on the lines of \"wonderfully\nlistless\", which actually sort of fits the series.\n\nA third possibility is that there is not really a concept in English that\nmatches the Japanese. Having watched the first two episodes, I know choosing\n\"listless\" to describe Tanaka was an accurate choice. So maybe the translators\nchose a single English word that fits his personality and did not try to match\nthe Japanese exactly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNot only it's a good translation, but it's also the correct translation.\n\n[Logan](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/37983/is-the-title-tanaka-\nkun-is-always-listless-a-good-translation#comment51774_37983) has already\nexplained the construction of the word\n\n> けだるげ is technically a combination of けだるい and 気 using [this somewhat\n> uncommon\n> construction](http://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/4768/using-%E3%81%92-to-\n> turn-adjectives-and-nouns-into-adverbs).\n\nUsing this as the base, searching for the definition of けだるい returns:\n\n * [Jisho](http://jisho.org/word/%E6%B0%97%E3%81%A0%E3%82%8B%E3%81%84): languid; listless\n * [Japanese Wiktionary](https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%91%E3%81%A0%E3%82%8B%E3%81%84): listless, lazy\n\nThe conclusion is, echoing [Senshin's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/37983/is-the-title-tanaka-\nkun-is-always-listless-a-good-translation#comment51738_37983):\n\n> The English title is a literal translation of the Japanese title; there's\n> nothing to read into here.\n\n",
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