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[ { "body": "\n\nThe use of chibis was supposedly started due to _Sailor Moon_.\n\n> The term Chibi was popularized by the anime Sailor Moon in the character\n> Chibiusa/Chibi-Moon, who is the daughter of Sailor Moon/Usagi (\"Chibi-Usa\"\n> as in \"Chibi Usagi\"). An even tinier character in the same anime was named\n> Chibi Chibi (approximately 3 years old). (Modified 23 September 2009;\n> sources: [(1)](http://en.anime-wiki.org/wiki/Chibi)\n> [(2)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi_%28term%29))\n\nThey also use chibi characters to show smaller children as the actual meaning\nof the word is \"short person\" or \"small child.\"\n\nAnother reason for chibi drawings could also be for truer expression of the\nsubject's characteristics.\n\n> They sometimes express the true nature of the character. The person may lie,\n> but a chibi may say the truth within the individual's mind. A chibi could\n> also express a nature, like massive anger hiding under a cool, calm\n> exterior. For example; the character Hiei, from the popular anime/manga YuYu\n> Hakusho, is often quite calm, hiding his true bloodlust and love of fighting\n> which show themselves only through his chibi form, as seen in the 7th book\n> of the manga. This is also used in the popular anime Naruto with Sakura's\n> true form. It is an easy way to show sides of a characters personality that\n> might come across as awkward or overly serious without this use of comedy.\n\nChibi is not always used for these reasons though; think of [_Katekyo Hitman\nReborn_](https://www.google.com/search?q=katekyo%20hitman%20reborn&tbm=isch&biw=1366&bih=643).\nThere, the chibis are used as a curse. This still gives a lot of comedic value\nand helps with the storyline. However, it's not really used to express the\ncharacters' nature or for small children.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-03T09:17:33.560", "id": "3650", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-04T00:02:53.887", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-04T00:02:53.887", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "3647", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\n\"Chibi\" started after an anime from 1990 (before _Sailor Moon_ ) which is\ncalled _Chibi Maruko-chan_ , and has a similar art style. So actually, the\n\"chibi art style\" is borrowed from _Chibi Maruko-chan_.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-18T16:01:40.340", "id": "62536", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-18T17:20:56.393", "last_edit_date": "2021-04-18T17:20:56.393", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "60116", "parent_id": "3647", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems that there is always a masked antagonist in the Gundam series, but\nthey vary in how much they resemble the original Char.\n\nIn Gundam Seed, it is [Rau Le\nCreuset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rau_Le_Creuset#Rau_Le_Creuset) .\nMasked, and related by blood to a member of the protagonists camp. IIRC he is\nalso a noble who stands to inherit, but unlike Char Aznable,\n\n> his family is not usurped.\n\nIn G-Gundam, it would be [Schwarz\nBruder](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Schwarz_Bruder). It is a bit tricky to\nbring him in the equation, though, because G-Gundam is much simpler than the\nother Gundam series.\n\nGoing by these examples and the ones mentioned in the question, the constant\nfeatures seem to be\n\n * The character wears a mask to hide his true identity.\n * The character fights for the (apparent) enemy.\n * The character is male.\n * The character is related by blood or cloning to the protagonist or a close ally.\n\nThe features that vary among the Char Aznable knockoffs are\n\n * The character has a strong sense of honour and fair-play (IIRC Rau Le Creuset is the exception here).\n * The character is a noble.\n * The character bears a secret grudge (Schwarz Bruder would be the exception).\n * The character has a nickname (again Schwarz Bruder is the exception).\n\nWith respect to Quatre in Gundam Wing, I don't think he is a Char-based\ncharacter. Quatre makes no secret of his identity and doesn't wear a mask. His\nname is not a clue IMO; almost all characters in the show were named after\nnumbers in French. The role of Char is aptly fulfilled by Zechs Marquise.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-10T20:07:57.460", "id": "4094", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-10T20:07:57.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1848", "parent_id": "3648", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI can't remember the character's name, but he was in Gundam 00. First season,\nhe was one of the nations' Aces (blue...so he flew for Union?). He was one of\na very small number of antagonists that could hold his own against the\nmeisters, but got seriously messed up along the way. He returns in the second\nseason wearing a mask (black and red though) and a new MS. This new MS was a\nmelee focused unit.\n\nHe was a bit odd, in that he came into his archetype later in the show,\noriginally being little more than a dedicated, if only slightly stronger mook.\n\nAlso, could Yzak from SEED (he piloted Duel Gundam) be considered here?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-11T15:34:58.607", "id": "4346", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-11T15:34:58.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "46", "parent_id": "3648", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the\n[Wikia](http://sayonarazetsubousensei.wikia.com/wiki/Fuura_Kafuka), it's\nunknown (but likely true) whether Kafuka was the same person as Akagi An or\nnot.\n\n> In the final chapter of the manga, it is revealed that **Kafuka had died\n> prior to the beginning of the series** , having her organs donated to a cast\n> of characters that indecently make up the majority of Nozomu's class.\n> However, she was \"too optimistic to die\", and thus **possessed one of the\n> main female characters in every scene of the series**. In the bonus chapter\n> of the 30th volume, it was revealed, that Kafuka continues possessing girls\n> to be able to live on with Nozomu as his wife.\n>\n> However, to let Kafuka be able stay with the teacher, all the girls have to\n> live under one roof and go through a rotation of divorces and marriages (it\n> has to be done to let Kafuka stay teacher's wife all the time), which makes\n> it resemble a harem.\n\n(my applied emphasis)\n\nwe do know that **Kafuka wasn't in the class** during the run of the series,\nhowever, we can't conclusively tell if she is the same person as Akagi.\n\nPersonally, I believe that she is not Akagi, as Kafuka was supposedly not\nalive during the series, and there's not much to suggest she is a ghost.\n\nI imagine that during the flashbacks, the students refer to the character as\nAn because that was her actual name. Then she became possessed by Kafuka, and\nwith time the other students started referring to her as Kafuka instead of\nAkagai An.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-08T10:50:31.087", "id": "14342", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-08T12:00:19.763", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3651", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAnime production teams tend to hire native speakers of other languages to\nvoice non-Japanese characters.\n\nTo use your example of _Eden of the East_. there are a number of English-\nlanguage voice actors who are used for when it is set in America. For example,\n[David\nWhitaker](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10474)\nplayed the black man in the apartment in episode 1. Policeman A was played by\n[Gregory Pekar](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1404231/), who has actually\nappeared in other Japanese movies/shows such as _Hana Yori Dango_ , as well as\nAmerican movies such as _Lost in Translation_.\n\nThese seem to generally appear in small roles and/or roles where they only\nspeak English, such as the policeman.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-03T12:40:10.780", "id": "3653", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-03T21:22:12.810", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-03T21:22:12.810", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3652", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSome become Chunin, some become Jonin. No one knows how they become Jonin, but\nin the Anime both appointments and exams are mentioned as a way to become\nJonin. Only power- and skillful ninja will become Jonin.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-03T21:32:30.200", "id": "3655", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-03T21:32:30.200", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3654", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNo not everyone will become a Jonin. As you may have noticed, some ninja like\nNaruto don't even become Chuunin. Naruto is a rare example however.\n\nIn order to become a jonin, a ninja must be extremely skilled. Jōnin are\ngenerally able to use at least two types of elemental chakra, some genjutsu,\nand above average taijutsu skills.\n\nThey are usually also appointed to A and/or S ranked missions alone while\nthose under the Jonin rank usually go with a team, or not at all.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-04T00:27:20.143", "id": "3660", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-04T00:27:20.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1641", "parent_id": "3654", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you think about this from a real world military viewpoint, it is like\nasking if every recruit becomes a commanding officer. The answer is **no**.\nAlso as related, keep in mind that not all [academy students become\nChūnin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3536/what-happened-to-the-\nrest-of-the-academy-class), so that might apply here too.\n\nAnd as per the [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%8Dnin)\n\n> It is as of yet unknown what one has to undergo to become one. It is\n> mentioned that jōnin are appointed, however there was mention of a Jōnin\n> Exam in the anime's Kurama Clan Arc. When a ninja becomes a jōnin, they may\n> be assigned a three-man genin team to supervise.\n\nAnd then there is also this guy.. [Kosuke\nMaruboshi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kosuke_Maruboshi) who _even though by\nchoice_ , has been a genin for over 50 years. This could also apply to your\nquestion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-05T15:31:30.227", "id": "3680", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-05T22:34:22.347", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3654", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI know it's like a ranking. You have to undergo an exam or a test to be one\nranking higher... I don't know if this sequence is correct: genin, chuunin,\njonin... In the 1st episode of naruto shippuuden, it is known that naruto is\nthe only one that's still a genin, others were chuunin and jonin. There are\nother ninjas that maybe are still on the same level or ranking.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-06T23:05:07.620", "id": "3694", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-07T01:19:44.757", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-07T01:19:44.757", "last_editor_user_id": "1528", "owner_user_id": "1748", "parent_id": "3654", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUsopp's name is derived from the Japanese word \"Uso\" which means lie or\nfalsehood ([1](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Usopp)). The elongated nose is\nan allusion to Pinocchio.\n\nFranky was actually created with seiyu Kazuki Yao in mind after Eiichiro Oda\n(the mangaka) heard the voice actor's performance as Jango and Bon Clay,\nhowever it is likely that Franky is based on Pop-eye. In addition to the\nenlarged forearms, both characters are 34 and both rely on food for energy and\npowers (Popeye uses spinach and Franky uses cola)\n([2](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Franky/Misc.)).\n\nThere are numerous clues that Chopper is an allusion to Rudolph (taken from\n[this Wikia article](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Tony_Tony_Chopper/Misc.)):\n\n * Chopper is a reindeer with an odd colored nose\n * His official birthday is Christmas eve\n * \"Chopper the Blue-nosed Reindeer\" was produced and sung by the cast\n * Dr. Kureha is described coming down the mountain with Chopper's silhouette pulling a sleigh and then enters some homes via chimney\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-04T01:53:44.693", "id": "3664", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-04T01:59:36.730", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-04T01:59:36.730", "last_editor_user_id": "1724", "owner_user_id": "1724", "parent_id": "3656", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nBrook is Saul Hudson aka Slash (guns n roses). He is a musician and one of the\nbest known guitarist in the world these days. Brook's personality doesn't make\nsense at all as he is a pervert, which may have good manners at times but acts\nsilly. He also looks gay, which reminds me more of Micheal Jackson that would\nbe the best fit in regards to his personality in the manga, but MJ doesn't\nhave an Afro hairstyle as a trademark, whereas Slash does. However, if you\nlook closely at the poster of the 'guns n roses' album 'Appetite for\nDestruction' you will see Brook with the skull face wearing the shades and hat\nlike Slash does.\n\n\n\n\n\nI will speculate Franky more as Arnold Schwarzenegger for he is a cyborg\nrelated to 'The Terminator' and he always wears underwear posing like a body\nbuilder. Arnold was a body builder and had won many titles; if you search on\nGoogle for some pictures of this guy you will see him posing with underwear.\nThere are surely more clues with regard to that matter like his real name\n'Cutty Flam' and the star tattoo that he has on his elbows.\n\n\n\n\n\nDarn, I almost see Duke Nukem in him.\n\nZorro, the name says it all. Aka Sero, Don Diego de la Vega, he always wears\nhis bandana when he fights seriously which makes him look like a pirate, but\nit also covers his eyes making him look like Sero when he is not wearing his\nhat. When it comes to sword play, he uses one-sword style which is unmatched\nbecause of his dexterity. It is like fighting someone using 3 swords and the\n'Z' of his trademark makes it 3 slashes. They say Sero is a fox with three\ntails related to Zorro Santoryu.\n\n\n\n\nFor Usopp and Chopper you are correct, I am curious to know about the rest.\nRemember One Piece is supposed to be funny, this is why the personality\ndiffers from the real protagonist, but when they are serious in a fight it\nturns them into the real thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-23T13:44:56.003", "id": "15254", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T15:16:24.773", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T15:16:24.773", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "9309", "parent_id": "3656", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSince the bottom of Subaru's untucked dress shirt is seen and tugged on, one\nassumes by the scream that he was discovered.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-09T04:00:47.657", "id": "4077", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-09T08:55:39.347", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-09T08:55:39.347", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBFB seems to be the professional mecha-basketball sport, where as Basquash is\na 'street' version of the game.\n\nBasquash is the unofficial name for Big Foot Streetball and comes from 'baka'\nand 'sukasu', explained below\n\n[Ref](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basquash!)\n\n> Big Foot Basketball (BFB) A popular professional sports league on Earthdash.\n> As its name suggests, it involves playing basketball with Big Foots. Its\n> popularity dwindled however when Dunk Mask hijacked a game, resulting in the\n> destruction of the Rollingtown stadium.\n>\n> Basquash & Open City Basketball (OCB) Open City Basketball, unofficially\n> named Basquash by Dan and known earlier in the series as Big Foot\n> Streetball. It is a new sport that involves playing streetball in a wide\n> cityscape using Big Foots.\n>\n> Prior to becoming an official sports league, Big Foot Streetball was\n> outlawed due to the destruction it caused. Many of Dunk Mask's ardent fans\n> prefer the name \"Basquash\" over the official name of the sport. Basquash is\n> actually not the combination of the terms basketball and squash, but rather\n> a pun in Japanese from the terms \"baka\" meaning \"idiotic\" and \"sukasu\"\n> meaning \"unintentional acts\".\n>\n> Dan uses the phrase against the The Worst leader, then in a flash of\n> brilliance while chanting \"baka\" and \"suka\", starts saying \"bakasuka\".\n> \"bakasuka\" is a word that means many, tons, or barrage of.\n>\n> Basically Dan is jumping from word to word, punning his way, until he\n> screams \"Basquash\" when he does the final squash serve-like attack,\n> Basquash.\n\nSo, the sports are very similar, they're just slightly different.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-21T09:57:05.877", "id": "3858", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-21T09:57:05.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3658", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo prizes are officially stated. However Daihaseisai (Grand Champion Star\nFestival) is a big deal for two reasons. The first reason is to observe large\nscale interference between espers. The second reason is that the festival is\nabout as popular as the World Cup or the Olympics. If not all than most of the\ncontests are broadcasted world wide for those who were unable to attend to\nview.\n\nBesides winning your school honor and prestige, they probably give out medals\nor a cup to the winning schools.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-05T03:14:32.210", "id": "4628", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-05T03:14:32.210", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "3659", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nReally surprised there isn't already a list of this somewhere. I don't have\nthe manga so I don't know which names are revealed there as opposed to the\nanime. I went through the scripts for the 25 episode series and could only\nglean the following:\n\n * **Satoshi Ideguchi** : Catcher\n * **Toua Tokuchi** : Pitcher (sometimes 1st base)\n * **Kojima Hiromichi** : Clean-up hitter/?\n * **Hideo Arai** : ?\n * **Tomioka** : Right Field\n * **Fujita** : Left Field/3rd Base\n * **Imai** : 3rd Base/Shortstop\n * **Nakane** : Pitcher\n * **Nishimura** : 1st Base\n * **Ishiyama** : Pitcher\n * **Nishioka** : Pitcher\n * **Mitsui** : Pitcher\n * **Kondoh** : ?\n * _Whoever wears #19_ : Center Field\n\n * **Yuuzaburou Mihara** : Manager\n\n * **Kinosaki** : Trainer\n\nIn episode 14, when they do the 9 person infield move, you can see a lot of\nthe numbers that some of the players wear, but ti's not clear enough to see\nany names. Center field and the 2nd basemen weren't explicitly mentioned in\nthe anime. As for Kojima, he's usually not on the field when his team isn't on\noffense, instead, standing next to the manager in the dugout explaining to the\nmanager what's going on. I'm not sure what position he plays if he was on the\nfield.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-04T06:11:29.950", "id": "3668", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-04T06:11:29.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3662", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's been two years since this question was posted, but since there's been no\nanswer so far and a lot has happened since then, I thought I might have some\nfun and see what I could find.\n\nParts with * means that it happened outside of a tournament, e.g. at a\ntraining camp. For references I'm using the Saki and Achiga-hen mangas/animes\nonly.\n\n# Basic yaku/han rules\n\n * **Kuitan (open tanyao):** Yes\n\n\n\n * **Ippatsu (one-shot):** Yes\n\n * **Dora:** Red (four), ura, kan, kan-ura\n * **Sanrenkou/Suurenkou (3 or 4 consecutive triplets):** No (Ch. 52 Saki)\n\n# Scoring rules\n\n * **No-ten penalty:** Yes\n * **Tobi (going bust):** Negative score, not zero (Ch. 42 Kana) \n * Koromo, being the sadistic loli she is, _purposely cheapens her hand_ to drop Kana's score to exactly zero.\n * **Tiebreaker after score** : First dealership (Achiga Ch. 20 Awai) \n * Awai ignores a potential sanbaiman since it would make her tie in points with Shizuno, and because Shizuno's dealership was earlier Awai would end up behind.\n * **Uma/oka (bonus points based on final placements)** : No (Ch. 11)\n * **Double wind pair:** 4 fu (Ch. 47 Saki) \n * Saki gets a 1 han 110 fu, which is only possible with this rule due to 102 fu being rounded up. For rules where this is 2 fu, it would be stuck at 100 fu.\n\n# Yakuman rules\n\n * **Robbing a closed kan for kokushi** : Yes (Ch. 36 Saki) \n * Saki avoids calling kan on a set of wests, being suspicious of Yumi's kokushi (which was 1-shanten at the time).\n * **Double yakuman** : No (Ch. 43, Ch. 51 Kana) \n * Hisa explains that there are no double yakumans in \"this year's rules\", so the rules most likely change from year to year.\n * **Allowed yakuman** : Either mentioned, attempted or actually won \n * ~~Riichi tsumo toitoi~~ Suuankou/Four closed triplets (Ch. 3 Saki*, Ch. 20 Kaori, Ch. 51 Kana, Ch. 125)\n * Kazoe-yakuman/Counted yakuman (Ch. 44 Kana, Ch. 52 Saki, Achiga Ch. 20 Himeko)\n * Kokushi musou/Thirteen orphans (Ch. 4 Saki*, Ch. 42, Ch. 48 Kana, Ch. 53 Yumi, Ch. 125, Ch. 140 Yukiko, Anime Ep. 21 Kaori)\n * Chinroutou/All terminals (Ch. 68 Hiroe)\n * Shousuushi/Little four winds (Ch. 56 Hatsumi, Ch. 89 Hatsumi)\n * Daisuushi/Big four winds (Ch. 125)\n * Tsuuiisou/All honours (Ch. 125)\n * Daisangen/Big three dragons (Ch. 13 Mai, Achiga Ch. 15 Takami)\n * Tenhou/Win on first dealer draw (Ch. 71)\n * Chiihou/Win on first non-dealer draw (Achiga Ch. 19 Awai)\n * Ryuuiisou/All green (Ch. 58 Kaori*)\n * _(Possibly more)_\n\n# General play rules\n\n * **Daiminkan pao/sekinin barai (responsible for open kan rinshan):** Yes (Ch. 52 Saki)\n * **Temporary furiten:** Yes (Achiga Ch. 6 Shizuno) \n * Shizuno could only win on 1-sou with a 2-3 wait, but could not ron in one of the rounds due to a 4-sou played earlier that round. Later she ignores a ron off one player in order to win off another.\n * **Taahai (penalty for having too many tiles)** : Yes (Ch. 62 Maho*) \n * In the training camp Maho reaches to draw a tile even though she's dealer before the first discard.\n * **Empty riichi** : Yes, and counts as tenpai on draw (Ch. 27 Hisa)\n * **Furiten riichi** : Yes (Ch. 137 Yukiko, Anime Ep. 21 Mihoko) \n * Yukiko draws her winning closed 2-man but contemplates a furiten riichi to gain more points. Mihoko _actually_ pulls off a furiten riichi against Hisa in the individuals, and wins with it.\n * **Calling pon on a tile you just discarded:** Yes (Achiga Ch. 8, Teru)\n * **Dealer can extend leadership after last round:** Yes (Achiga Ch. 10 Teru)\n * **Going west (extra round added if no player gets at least 30000)** : Yes (Anime Ep. 21) \n * Halfway through Ep. 21 Mutsuki explains how Nanpo was able to make a comeback once it entered the south round, despite it being a tonpuusen (east-only game). Note that no round is added if the top player ends on exactly 30000, as Saki did in Ep. 22.\n\n# Draw condition rules\n\n * **Kyuushuu kyuuhai (starting hand has 9+ terminals/honours):** Yes (Ch. 140 Yukiko)\n\n * Yukiko says that \"normally, one would abort the round\" (普段なら流すところだけど), which suggests that she has the option to do so.\n\n\n\n * **Suufontsu renda (all players discard same wind tile on first round):** Yes (Ch. 73 Yuuki)\n\n * Yuuki reaches tenpai on the first round, but is forced to abandon it since it would require discarding a west, drawing the round.\n * _(Possibly more)_\n\n# Tournament room\n\n * **People allowed:** The four players only (Ch. 11) \n * Presumably this refers to the competing schools only, since tournament staff are seen in the room later in the same chapter.\n * **Mobile phones:** No point since they won't get any signal (Ch. 11)\n * **Stuffed toys:** Yes\n * **Food:** Yes\n * **Taking off shoes and socks:** Yes\n * **Singing** : Yes (Ch. 125 Choe) \n * The commentators go on to explain that this is allowed in European championships, but not for pro tournaments in Japan (interhigh is okay).\n * **Throwing a tile into the air then slamming it down:** Nobody complained (Ch. 25 Hisa)\n * **Playing with tiles face down** : Yes (Ch. 141 Megan)\n * **Playing left-handed** : Yes (Ch. 138 Yukiko, discussed in Ch. 142)\n\n# Other rules\n\n * **Practice games for prefectural winners** : Only against other non-prefectural winners (Achiga Ch. 3) \n * Similar rules seem to apply to the individual tournament (Achiga Ch. 7)\n * **Vanguard for team tournaments:** Must be Japanese (Ch. 108) \n * This rule was recently changed, since up until now Rinkai had all five members being foreign (Ch. 106).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-03T01:21:26.047", "id": "20577", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-06T13:36:44.090", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-06T13:36:44.090", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13542", "parent_id": "3663", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs per [here](http://www.quora.com/Anime/Why-did-the-Slam-Dunk-anime-stop-\nbefore-the-Inter-High-tournament), _(not sure how credible the source is but\nit makes sense)_. So echoing back your thoughts..\n\n> This series, as some anime are known to do, was cancelled after the initial\n> 100 episodes. Most of the time this happens because the ratings are not that\n> good, or the manga has not been finished at the time. I believe the reason\n> for Slam Dunk not to continue had to do with money issues with its\n> developers ...\n\nand the answer also makes mention of the manga\n\n> Concerning the manga storyline it goes along the lines of the anime. And\n> yes, the manga continues into the Inter High tournament, right until it is\n> finished. It has a open ended finale, but in my opinion its one of the best\n> anime endings I have seen. If you enjoyed the anime, reading the manga is a\n> must.\n\nFollowing up this answer, it seems to be a\n[thing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_Dunk_%28manga%29). Unfortunately I\ncan't seem to find any ratings, viewership numbers or official source to back\nthis, but for the majority it coincides with what you presumed in your\nquestion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-06T14:25:42.377", "id": "3691", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-30T09:42:55.923", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-30T09:42:55.923", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was never explicitly stated in the anime, but in her first appearance, she\nwas playing Blackjack.\n\nNot sure how credible [this\nlink](http://www.angelfire.com/art2/bluprint/anime/cowboy_bebop/faye.htm) is\nbut it does backup what card terms follow her..\n\n> ...Faye is really good at gambling, especially where poker or blackjack is\n> involved because she cheats ...\n\nAlso her [aliases](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Faye_Valentine) are\n**Poker Alice** and **Queen Of Hearts**. It can probably be deduced from that\nwith any words she _might_ have used in any games she played in the anime. So\nits possibly Poker and or Blackjack.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-05T15:19:56.727", "id": "3679", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-05T15:19:56.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3667", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was never revealed in the anime and it isn't said on the\n[wiki](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Three_Old_Men) or anywhere\n[else](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cowboy_Bebop_characters#Antonio.2C_Carlos.2C_and_Jobim)\nof [relevance](http://pierceshane.awardspace.biz/threeoldmen.html).\n\n> They seem on speaking terms with many supporting characters, and though they\n> run into the main characters often there is not much attention paid to them\n> (or even mention that the main characters have seen them before).\n\nThis is the closest I have ever seen their [mention to a card\ngame](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/CowboyBebopSession3HonkyTonkWoman).\n\n> ... Spike and Jet have arrived and ready to hit the tables, with Jet having\n> a good feeling after having a dream involving Charlie Parker. The two split\n> off with Jet playing the slots while Spike mills around the tables, gaining\n> some chips after helping three old men win a card game. Eventually he\n> settles on a Blackjack table where Alice is dealing ...\n\nHere are all the [episodes](http://www.rfblues.net/Omake/Notice/#acj) they\nhave been featured in and it isn't said or shown in any. So it was never\nstated and in general they mainly acted as comic relief.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-05T15:02:37.177", "id": "3678", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-05T15:02:37.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3669", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**What could possibly cause the shift in currency?**\n\nDuring Kimimaro and Mikuni duel Takedasaki spreads rumors to cause the\nJapanese Yen to become useless thus is's exchange rate with Midas money\nshrink, this causes the Midas money to appear in Japan to everyone, even some\nof the bills are half Midas. This was done to weaken Mikuni in his Deals.\n\nThe Bank of Midas closes as Japan's Yen has no worth so it can't continue\ntrading, C passes though Japan as it has no worth and allowing Kimimaro to\ndeal the final punch to win the Deal and reverse the Printing Press, returning\nall the Midas Money back to the bank and getting Japan and it's people's\nfuture back.\n\nJapan's economy is rebuilt as since the Yen is useless it adopts the US\nDollar, it's believed that also reality has shifted like always to make it so\nthat everything that transpired (C, the falling value of the Yen, discovery of\nthe Midas Money in the Yen) never occurred, this is different from Singapore\nas it just went bankrupt because it had no mney left while Japan had money, it\njust was useless. This occurs while Kimimaro is speaking to Midas himself.\n\n\n\n**Was anything revealed about the motives of Masakaki and/or the Midas bank?**\n\nThe Masakaki's motives are the protection of their financial districts which\nis why the Japanese one gets annoyed when the US is able to push C back to\nJapan.\n\nWhen Kimimaro wakes up in reality he notices the changes, include where he and\nHanabi are total strangers now. The Japanese Masakaki appears apologizing\nabout Hanabi and presents him with a card from the Bank of Midas telling him\nthat the Financial District will always exist, as long as there are futures\nleft to take and if he wants to use the card he can revive the Japanese Final\nDistrict by calling for Masakaki.\n\nMidas on the other hand, he seems to just put the financial districts out\nthere, allowing people to use them however they see fit well making sure they\nknew the price was to gain all this money which can be used for anything\n\nAs for your question about some grand mastermind, unless there was some group\nbehind C actually occurring there is none, The Starling Guild know about the\nfirst instance of C and the effects the Bank of Midas had on reality and was\ntrying to mitigate the damage done, in a sense they were masterminding mostly\nevery Deal to reduce damage, however when C started Mikuni got to rash and was\nabout to do the exact opposite of what he had started the Starling Guild to\ndo.\n\nAs for C itself, it seems to be a financial collapse which can ripple though\nglobal markets, it's more something that ca occur in reality normally but it's\neffects are more devastating because C originates and affects the financial\ndistricts which in turn affect reality\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T03:17:12.437", "id": "7053", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T03:17:12.437", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "3670", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Depth of Field: Phase 6, it is revealed that Rikka and Dekomori are engaged\nin some sort of role-play thing in the clubroom. They seem to be pretending\nthat the cardboard boxes they wear are mechas.\n\n\n\nThe preceding episodes of Depth of Field depict the way they imagine their\nrole-play fight to take place.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-12T21:40:06.897", "id": "4779", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-12T21:40:06.897", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "3673", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom an early age, Kanon disliked skating and found it boring. She was only\ndoing it because her mother wanted her to and/or forced her to do it.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WEwE2.png)\n\nHowever, her mother encourages her to stick with figure skating until she can\ntruly understand the joy that it brings.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IqtT3.png)\n\nAs you progress through Kanon's route, she slowly realizes that since skating\nhas been her whole life, it has also greatly shaped her life. Thanks to her\nability in skating, she was able to finally meet her father.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/urBUY.png)\n\nThere was another scene where she spends Christmas Eve at a home for the\nelderly. Most of the people living there were lonely since they hadn't seen\ntheir children for so long, and Kanon was genuinely glad that she, a well-\nknown figure skater, could brighten their Christmas Eve just a little bit.\n\nEventually, in her Good End, Kanon admits that she loves skating due to all of\nthe life occurrences and experiences that it has brought her.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/leUSh.png)\n\nIn her next performance after this scene, she dazzles the crowd with her\nability and emotion to the point that everyone is cheering for her, even\ndespite the fact her poor attitude in a previous performance made everyone\ndislike her. The genuine reaction from the audience, as well as the support\nshe receives from her friends and mother, allow her to finally understand her\nmother's advice from many years ago.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jla1J.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7JEiX.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-16T04:21:16.357", "id": "4138", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-14T03:05:27.717", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-14T03:05:27.717", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "3674", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are playing Daifugo, a Japanese card game\n([1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daifug%C5%8D)). The game is known as \"Rich\nMan, Poor Man\" in the English version.\n\nThe rules are outlined in [this Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daifug%C5%8D#Basic_rules), but to put it\nsuccinctly:\n\nThere are five special titles for players during the game, ranging from \"the\ngrand millionaire\" down to \"the extreme needy\", based on how each player\nperformed in the previous round. For the first round, everyone starts at the\nmiddle rank, \"the commoner\".\n\nEveryone sits according to their title. The \"grand millionaire\" always\nshuffles and deals the cards (52) to the players. After the cards have been\ndealt, there is a period of \"taxation\" where the \"poor\" players hand over\ntheir strongest cards to the \"rich\" players and the rich players pass their\nbad cards back to the poor players.\n\nDaifugo uses tricks, like in Spades or Bridges during play. When players run\nout of cards, they are out of play for the round. The player with the\nstrongest or the most cards at the end of the round becomes the new \"grand\nmillionaire\", with the rest of the titles following based on number of cards\nor remaining cards in hand.\n\nThe winner is usually the player who is \"the grand millionaire\" at the end of\nthe game.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-05T02:02:01.030", "id": "3676", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-05T02:16:02.703", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-05T02:16:02.703", "last_editor_user_id": "1724", "owner_user_id": "1724", "parent_id": "3675", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I researched it was a combination of plew's spirit and Psycho Frame\nof Qubeley, but still no clear data can be found on this, but as a reference\nwe can see in the final episode of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Kamille fights\nwith spirits of his friends to destroy Paptimus Scirocco's mobile suit.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-14T13:21:20.700", "id": "4374", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T17:50:05.017", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T17:50:05.017", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2018", "parent_id": "3677", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor Alphonse who is not a State Alchemist, since he did not actually apply to\nbe an State Alchemist. It's a kind of job where you have to get certified, by\napply and pass some tests.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-05T22:51:07.220", "id": "3686", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-05T22:53:30.960", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-05T22:53:30.960", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "204", "parent_id": "3685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAlphonse can always do alchemy, throughout the whole show. The only times he\ncannot perform alchemy are the same times that Edward cannot;\n\n> When Homunculus uses his ability to seal off alchemy temporarily.\n\nNow, in the beginning of the show, he does not perform alchemy often because\nhe needs to draw transmutation circles to be able to. Drawing transmutation\ncircles takes time, and is not often practical in fights or other scenarios\nthat need quickness, especially if he does not know the proper circle (they\ncan perform more basic transmutation simply, and both Al and Ed are geniuses,\nbut they are still shown studying often). He is however, shown transmuting\nitems throughout the show, both before and after\n\n> gaining the ability to transmute without a circle, like Ed does.\n\nIn fact, Alphonse has a particular ability (at least in the Anime) that no\nother alchemist is shown to have. He can transmute without physically touching\nthe transmutation circle.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-05T23:18:09.000", "id": "3688", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-05T23:18:09.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "118", "parent_id": "3685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\nThe first part of the question has been answered so I will concentrate on the\nState Alchemist portion. Alphonse wanted to be a State Alchemist along with\nhis brother but Ed talked him out of it. The main reason was that being a\nState Alchemist is equivalent to joining the army. It means you have a\ncommanding officer, you follow orders, and you go fight when and where you are\ntold. As Ed told Al, \"only one of us has to carry that burden\".\n\nPlus there is the issue of a health screening, and seeing as how Al is just a\nhollow suit of armor, their secret would be immediately blown.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-06T00:04:03.557", "id": "3689", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-06T00:04:03.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1702", "parent_id": "3685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI have two theories\n\n * He either is a state alchemist and it is never spelled out or\n * He didn't want to follow orders and become a \"dog\", and since Ed joined he really didn't have to so he just didn't. I have not seen the entire series yet, so please tell me if there are problems with my ideas.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-10T18:00:49.250", "id": "45028", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-10T18:00:49.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38535", "parent_id": "3685", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI do believe that Alphonses special transmutation(which only happens the once\nin Liore) has to do with him seeing the Truth jist not knowing about it, it\nalso more likely that the creator had not finalized the transmutation process\nbefore she started the series and quickly quickly fixes it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-11-24T12:27:25.520", "id": "55945", "last_activity_date": "2019-11-24T12:27:25.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50886", "parent_id": "3685", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI just realized it or rather found it out when it updated yesterday. The title\nof the work is **[Kai\nPilgrim](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=70220)**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-16T10:30:13.780", "id": "3798", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-16T14:06:23.560", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-16T14:06:23.560", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "1788", "parent_id": "3693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the manga you are looking for is Chrono Crusade (or Chrno Crusade).\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Crusade>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T02:14:29.360", "id": "7951", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T02:14:29.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4069", "parent_id": "3693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs per the [wiki](http://lou.wikia.com/wiki/K%C5%8Dsuke_Ueki)\n\n> Although the power to turn trash into trees may seem weak, Ueki can be\n> creative with it, making wood darts, wood clubs and wood vines. He is able\n> to win most battle which may seem impossible, beating someone with 299\n> talents when he only had 11. He can even make trees strong enough to travel\n> directly through cars.\n>\n> **Its seen that he can make any tree he wants** , making a chestnut tree to\n> counter Taira's fire attacks with the chestnuts flying out of the tree and\n> shooting at the opponent(but really wanted to make them hot enough to eat).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-07T00:54:44.770", "id": "3696", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-07T00:54:44.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3695", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nInterestingly enough, the [TVTropes\nlink](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkingIsAFreeAction) I\nlinked in the comments had the answer\n\n> Taken to insanity during Goku's fight with Freeza. Freeza destroys the core\n> and gives the planet five minutes until implosion. Ten episodes\n> (approximately three hours of screentime for each of the scenes that are\n> playing out simultaneously) and over three hundred lines of dialog for the\n> two fighters later the planet finally collapses.\n\nSo there you go.\n\n * 10 episodes\n * 3 hours (roughly)\n * 100 lines of dialog\n\nalthough, apparently it was\n\n> Lampshaded snarkily in the dub. With ten episodes to go, Frieza has a line\n> to the effect that the planet is \"a tough one... it'll probably last another\n> two minutes.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-07T20:16:54.823", "id": "3707", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-07T20:16:54.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "3701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe you are looking for the series _[Manga Sarutobi\nSasuke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Sarutobi_Sasuke),_ or _Ninja, The\nWonder Boy_.\n\nThe show tells the story of Sasuke, a Koga ninja boy living in 17th century\nJapan, doing battle with the Iga ninja clan lead by the evil\nHanzo.[1](http://www.maxtoons.com/Sasuki.htm)\n\n\n\nOP/ED: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7vnd8rhoY>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-07T13:34:58.273", "id": "3705", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-07T13:34:58.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3704", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no OVA, all you get is a narrated flashback.\n\nIn season 2 ep 27 Izzy tells the new Digidestined about how the original eight\nwent to the Digital World and spoke with Jeni. Jeni instructed them to,\n\"release the powers that protect the Digital World\". This meant releasing the\npowers of the crests, from within themselves, in order the defeat the darkness\nand spread, \"a coating of goodness\" over the world. This brought peace and\nbeauty to the Digital World.\n\nEven though the crests were destroyed, the power of the crests still remained\ninside of the Digidestined. It was that power that was released.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-12T09:19:27.393", "id": "4351", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-12T09:19:27.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "3708", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, this is a reference to the first movie. The only other time Omnimon makes\nan appearance is in Digimon Movie 2 Revenge of Diaboromon where he is defeated\nand gives his power to Imperialdramon Fighter Mode in order to create\nImperialdramon Paladin Mode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-12T09:25:12.147", "id": "4352", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-12T09:25:12.147", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "3709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to this [Wiki](http://to-\nloveru.wikia.com/wiki/Gid_Lucione_Deviluke):\n\n> Lala states his current appearance is due to him using too much power during\n> the \"Galaxy Unification Wars\", which desized his body.\n\nIf I recall correctly, It **was** mentioned on the anime by Lala.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-08T21:17:10.200", "id": "3717", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-08T21:17:10.200", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "3710", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is mentioned in chapter 127 of the manga1, where Lala reminisced about\nthe time she got lost when she was small, and her father (King Deviluke) found\nher. At that time, King Deviluke carried her back to the castle, since he was\nstill at his normal size. Only later in the Galaxy Unification War that he\nused up too much of his power and ended up shrinking to the size of a small\nchild.\n\n1 This is during the journey to planet Mistletoe to find a cure for Celine.\nLala was under effect of pollen and was drained of all her physical power. The\nreminiscence happens when she was carried by Rito on the back.\n\n* * *\n\nThis trait of the Deviluke is again shown in chapter 44 of To LOVE-Ru Darkness\nwhere Lala herself turns into small child's body after exhausting all her\npower to protect Rito from Golden Darkness's rampage.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T02:38:54.780", "id": "3724", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-20T13:22:15.550", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-20T13:22:15.550", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3710", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_To_Love-\nRu_characters#Planet_Deviluke):\n\n> Although Lala appears to be somewhat air-headed, she is well known on\n> Deviluke for her genius-level intellect and enjoys making all manners of\n> inventions, often prompting some disastrous effect or another.\n\nAs far as I recall, the defects in Lala's inventions tend to be side-effects\nrather than anything else. For instance, personal teleportation device being\nan undressing personal teleportation device instead. So it seems coherent to\nme with her being depicted as both an airhead and a genius.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-31T10:38:22.707", "id": "4558", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-01T13:51:42.837", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-01T13:51:42.837", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2129", "parent_id": "3711", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nLooking at the list of Lala's invention on [Wikipedia page of To-LOVE-ru -\nJapanese\nversion](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_LOVE%E3%82%8B_-%E3%81%A8%E3%82%89%E3%81%B6%E3%82%8B-#.E6.BC.AB.E7.94.BB.E3.81.A7.E7.99.BB.E5.A0.B4.E3.81.97.E3.81.9F.E7.99.BA.E6.98.8E.E5.93.81)),\nor a less complete list on [To-LOVE-ru Wikia](http://to-\nloveru.wikia.com/wiki/Lala_Satalin_Deviluke#Inventions), most of Lala's\ninvention has caused some sort of trouble as seen in the source material.\n\n * There are a number of inventions which are created and used right away without testing. \nFor example, unnamed drug in chapter 54 of original series, given to Rito when\nhe disguises as his father during Mikan's house visit.\n\n * There are a number of inventions which explodes, or activates too easily, or not idiot-proof.\n * There are a number of inventions which has unwanted side-effects. \nFor example, Pyon-Pyon Warp-kun usually only warps living things, leaving the\nperson naked after warped.\n\nHowever, there are a number of inventions which are mostly stable, such as\nPeke, D-Dial and the expansion to Rito's house.\n\nMy theory is that all of Lala's inventions are **work-in-progress or proof-of-\nconcept** , and the more an invention is used (which is equivalent to\ntesting), the more stable it is. She is a genius in the sense that she can\nquickly create a working proof-of-concept. However, since she is not making a\nproduct, she doesn't feel a need to make her inventions practical, safe-to-use\nand idiot-proof.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-01T15:19:12.010", "id": "4580", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-01T15:19:12.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3711", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe inventions are a plot device. If they weren't defective or otherwise used\nin the wrong way, there wouldn't be that much to tell.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-01T16:36:06.943", "id": "4582", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-01T16:36:06.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "3711", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[some](https://twitter.com/kakuretajigen/status/15725106697342976)\n[attendees](http://yaplog.jp/sanka_kiroku/archive/385) at an [Index II x\nOreimo talk session in December 2010](http://www.project-\nindex.net/tv/news/hp0001/index00320000.html), someone from the Index staff\nsaid there that it was intended to look like [Kenji\nOhtsuki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Ohtsuki)'s face paint.\n\n\n\nIt is simply the result of a play on words without any significance:\n\n * In Japan, とある魔術の **禁書** 目録 ( _Toaru Majutsu no Index_ ) is often referred to as **禁書** ( ** _kinsho_** ) in short.\n * Ohtsuki is the vocalist/lyricist for the Japanese band **筋** 肉 **少** 女帯 ([ _Kinniku Shōjo Tai_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinniku_Sh%C5%8Djo_Tai)), which is often shortened as **筋少** ( ** _kinshō_** ).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-13T08:20:41.193", "id": "3772", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-13T08:20:41.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "151", "parent_id": "3712", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no game located in the Orange Islands. Perhaps the closest game would\nbe Fire Red/Leaf Green where the player could explore Sevii Islands. There are\narguments that this was inspired by the Orange Islands, but I haven't found\nany proof.\n\nThere have been player modded games fitting in with the Orange Islands -\n[Example](http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=225147), but no\nofficial release. [Reference](http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Orange_Islands)\n\n[According to this answer on another\nsite](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100525190130AANMhtE), the\nOrange Island plot was half-hearted and this probably meant that there was no\nreal push for a related game on that end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-08T12:02:43.857", "id": "3714", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-16T14:55:47.547", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-16T14:55:47.547", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's more plausible that there was no game made because there was no\nreal idea how many pokemon there was at the time(150 kanto, 250 jhoto). also\nthere was only four gym leaders each with diffrent obstacles to go through the\nchallenges would be to hard to mimic on the gameboy though it would be easy\nand fun on the ds. The other factor that puzzles me is the orange league\nchampion Drake uses a dragonite, drake is the same name they used in the kanto\ngames and the jhoto games he is the charater you face after the elite four and\nhe records you and your pokemon just as they did for ash after he defeated the\norange league champion. In red blue yellow is known as chapion in jhoto he is\nalso known as the dragon master. HE wears a pokeball around his neck just\nvideo game drake meaning that they must be the same person. So in a way they\neven though they don't have orange island gym leaders they still have the\nchapion drake which makes the game partly related to orange island. Though\neverything is just speculations And no one will no for sure but what we know\nis that the longer they continue to air Pokemon the more fans will become\nconfused.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T04:44:17.290", "id": "6042", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-27T04:44:17.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2805", "parent_id": "3713", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is one game on Orange Islands. The name of the game is Pokemon Naranj.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-09T14:03:13.793", "id": "23154", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-09T14:28:10.100", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-09T14:28:10.100", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "15574", "parent_id": "3713", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nBy the end of the first season, Pokemon: Gold and Silver (Johto games) was\nstill unreleased so the anime had to create a filler arc involving the GS ball\nand the Orange League to stall time. The Pokemon anime is based on the games\nand therefore could not go straight ahead and do the Johto saga if the game\nit's based on isn't released yet.\n\nThe Orange Islands is probably loosely based on the Sevii Islands from FireRed\nand LeafGreen but still debatable.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-31T03:30:08.780", "id": "38180", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-31T03:30:08.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30058", "parent_id": "3713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are no official games made by Nintendo about the Orange Islands. Some\nromhacks have been made/are under construction about them though.:\n\nPokemon Orange Islands (Complete) <https://forum.silphco.io/threads/pokemon-\norange-islands.69/>\n\nPokemon Orange <https://forum.silphco.io/threads/pokemon-orange-hoty-2017.67/>\n\nPokemon Naranja: <https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=54546>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-25T22:20:20.530", "id": "48055", "last_activity_date": "2019-09-25T23:21:40.243", "last_edit_date": "2019-09-25T23:21:40.243", "last_editor_user_id": "41727", "owner_user_id": "41727", "parent_id": "3713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a parody, not related at all to the original story. It just uses the\ncharacters and very, very basic personalities.\n\nBasically, it involves chibi (super-deformed) versions of each of the\ncharacters attending a school, including Unit-01, Shinji, Rei, Asuka, and\nothers, with Misato as their teacher and Gendo as the principal. (Sachiel and\nKaworu make appearances occasionally as well.) There is little to no voice\nacting (sans a few laughs and screams and whatnot), and it tells silly short\nstories about the students' antics. (For example, I believe the first episode\ninvolves Shinji sharing his sushi lunch with Eva Unit-01, who then shares a\nbattery with Shinji, who eats it in order to not be rude.)\n\n\n\n_Petit Eva_ has a manga as well as a 3D OVA (the first episode of which I\ntalked about above). More information can be found on [the Evangelion\nWiki](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Petit_Eva:_Evangelion@School).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-08T14:33:41.333", "id": "3716", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-08T18:24:23.400", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-08T18:24:23.400", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3715", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCircles are a relatively major thing in alchemy. Ouroboros symbols were sigils\nin alchemy dating back to Cleopatra, and they depict a serpent or dragon\neating its own tail.\n\n\n\nThe symbols in the circle are mostly alchemic symbols. The one on the the\nbottom left on the outside looks like the symbol for iron ore or the symbol\nfor male. Going clockwise from that is what looks like either copper ore or\nfemale, a symbol I can't identify, one of the symbols for regulus, another\nsymbol I can't identify, and sal-ammoniac.\n([Source](http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F700.pdf))\n\nSome Renaissance alchemic images have circles with words in them.\n\n\n\nSquaring the circle was another major part of Renaissance alchemic ideas. It\nwas believed that this symbol plus a man and a woman in the circle was all\nthat was needed to create a [philosopher's\nstone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone). A full explanation\ncan be seen [here](http://alchemicalpsychology.com/new/5.htm).\n\n\n\nThe Seal of Solomon is another similar image.\n\nAccording to [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_solomon):\n\n> In alchemy, the combination of the fire and water symbols (up and down\n> triangles) is known as the Seal of Solomon. The symbol is representative of\n> the combination of opposites and transmutation. By combining the alchemical\n> symbols for fire (upwards triangle) and water (downwards triangle), the\n> alchemical symbols for earth and air are also created. The downwards facing\n> triangle is divided along the center by the base line of the opposite\n> triangle. This is the alchemical symbol for earth. Conversely, the upwards\n> triangle divided by the base line of the downwards triangle is the\n> alchemical symbol for air. The Seal of Solomon is all that is unified in\n> perfect balance; the Spirit Wheel.\n\n\n\nIt's seems to be pretty much a compilation of different alchemic elements.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T02:19:11.110", "id": "3721", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-09T13:45:35.397", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-09T13:45:35.397", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3718", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nThis site has a note about [\"Squaring the\ncircle\"](http://alchemicalpsychology.com/new/5.htm), describing a utilization\nof circles:\n\n\n\nAttributed to [Michael Maier](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maier), a\nGerman alchemist from the 17th century. That gives you the generalized\n\"simple\" transmutation circle:\n\n\n\nThe symbols used in some of the more complex circles are old alchemic symbols\nor variations of them. I don't know of a complete list of them but some of\nthem can be seen in [Annibal Barlet's\nworks](http://www.alchemywebsite.com/symbols_barlet.html) or other symbols\nfrom the [17th century](http://www.alchemywebsite.com/val_symb.html). The\ninscriptions themselves seem to mostly come from [George Ripley's 12\nGates](http://www.levity.com/alchemy/ripgates.html).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T05:57:43.060", "id": "3729", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-09T05:57:43.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3718", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, those are the symbols for the four base elements. But there are also two\nmore very important parts to the circle. The center point which represents\norigin, time and growth, as well as an outer circle that represents the womb,\nthe ether and protection. There are many more aspects and details to Solomon's\ncircle than that. In fact, for such a simple symbol it is quite complex.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-21T06:54:19.723", "id": "11391", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-09T12:07:40.353", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-09T12:07:40.353", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "6327", "parent_id": "3718", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI always thought it looked like the Seal of the Seven Archangels which is a\nprotection symbol. [Seal Image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x7KPF.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-03-30T08:23:36.603", "id": "51318", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-30T08:23:36.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45643", "parent_id": "3718", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nBased on information I read at another source, some of the circles utilize the\nelemental symbols. Take colonel mustangs, for example. Two triangles\nintersect, one representing air and one representing earth, two things\nnecessary for a successful fire. Within these triangles is the triangle\nrepresenting fire. The bigger triangles push past the boundaries of the circle\nthat’s attempting to contain it, symbolizing fires expansive nature. To\naccompany this are images of a fire and a salamander. There’s a reason for the\nsalamander but I didn’t understand that as well as the other things I\nmentioned.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-06-12T03:21:40.227", "id": "57869", "last_activity_date": "2020-06-12T03:21:40.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53818", "parent_id": "3718", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe seals in fma are based on the King Solomon seals of Kabbalah as we see the\nSephirotic tree of life in the show. The Soloman seals are said to have\nmagical properties such bringing wealth or repelling demons (there are like 50\ndifferent seals). These seals can only be activated by people who know how to\nuse them (at least in the show). My theory is the people of Amestres mix\nalchemist symbols with magic (prayer) to produce energy using holy power.\n\nAssuming the fma world acts mostly as ours we know something cannot be made\nfrom nothing i.e the conservation of mass. The way to go against this worldly\nlaw is by using a stone. The philosophers stone grants godlike ability but at\na cost of a soul, bringing up the whole idea of how much is a soul really\nworth?\n\nFather and the seven deadly sins are powered by souls like batteries but\nhumans have only 1 such battery. This is where the series gets paranormal. It\nis through the literal power of God that alchemist can manipulate objects but\nthe objects can never change their chemical properties or add mass to them\n\"for creating something from nothing is God's work\" and impossible. The 2nd\nlaws of thermodynamics basically states that energy needs to be consumed for\nanything to happen, it could never be an endless stream of energy, it needs a\nsource. There is an irreversibility towards natural processes. No human could\ngo against God and cheat death.\n\nWe can further deduce this by looking at the people who opened the portal of\ntruth. Once opened you are granted the ability to do alchemy with no seal and\nby simply clapping your hands together which kind of looks like praying (Ed\neven mentions it in the last episode). They cant ignore the conservation of\nmass but they can manipulate it without having to use any seals. Even this\nneeds energy to do. They claim in the show it is the tectonic energy that is\nharvested through the earth which produces the energy needed. But they also\nclaim one is all and all is one. This is a prerequisite to alchemy training.\nIn theory if you are one with all, you are one with God because God is\neverything (we see this is most religions especially Hinduism) you are using\nthe power of the world to force energy into mass.\n\nThe whole Dragon or Snake eating itself is a great analogy for the search for\nimmorality, the holy grail, the power of God, the fountain of youth, etc. The\nwhole FMA series is based off the idea that nothing last forever and death can\nbe a beautiful thing. it is something we have to fight and accept at the same\ntime.\n\n * The Gamer Psyche\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-07-20T04:42:19.443", "id": "58174", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-20T04:42:19.443", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54405", "parent_id": "3718", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn their concept, they are very much alike. In their implementation, they are\nstarkly different.\n\n# Similarities\n\nFirst, it is very important to say that there is hardly a single definition of\nalchemy. Some of its first mentions are from texts hundreds of years old, but\nmost highlight three things: Transmutation of base metals (usually to gold),\ncreating a universal cure, and creating a universal solvent.\n\nUsing FMA alchemy, it is possible to transmute base metals into gold (as Ed\ndid in Yoki's village), and through proper use of alchemy, healing and\nmedicinal applications are possible. Other elemental transmutations, which\nwere less sought by real-life alchemy but still present in research, are also\ndone.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/W4Yx4.png)\n\nReal-world alchemy was often done in the pursuit of the philosopher's stone, a\nlegendary substance which was believed to provide everlasting life (as it did\nin _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ ); the stone in FMA did this,\nmore or less, as well.\n\n# Differences\n\nThis philosopher's stone was originally believed to be produced through the\n[magnum opus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_opus_\\(alchemy\\)). This is\nnever seen (nor even mentioned) in FMA; instead, all alchemy is done through a\ntransmutation circle (with a few exceptions), including creation of the stone.\nTransmutation circles are not strictly based on any tradition of alchemy\n(though they use alchemical symbols and other similar glyphs).\n\nThe philosopher's stone ingredients differ also:\n\n> In real life, the origin of the stone was that it was possessed by Adam, who\n> had received it from God, and its ingredients were never discovered. In FMA,\n> the stone is made of human life.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8plEd.jpg)\n\nSimilar to the circles, there is no real mention of using hands to physically\nguide energy in alchemy. There were not dreams of making weapons out of the\nfloor or using the techniques for war. Alchemy was done mostly in a lab, using\ntechniques like the magnum opus to create chemicals and other such processes.\nIt's no surprise, then, that the believed art of alchemy was for science and\nadvancement of oneself, so much so that it founded today's chemistry (and\nthrough Paracelsus—mentioned below—chemical medicine).\n\nThe sources of energy for the transmutations are also different; in FMA, they\nuse tectonic energy and the \"Dragon's Pulse\" for Alkahestry. In real life, the\nenergy comes from chemical bonds and thermal energy.\n\n# Alkahestry\n\nThe universal solvent I mentioned above is called Alkahest, which is the base\nof the name Alkahestry (used in the English dub).\n\nGenerally, Alkahestry is much closer to what we think of as alchemy from the\nreal world. Its purpose—medicinal usage—is much closer to the medical and\nchemical applications that real-world alchemy sought. In the alchemical notes\nthat they delve into later into the series, there is a drug, \"rasayana\" (based\non the Indian term [_rasayana_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasayana)), which\nis used for longevity and which is stated to \"transform all metals to gold and\nrestore youth to the elderly\"; in that way, this substance appears to be much\nlike the philosopher's stone concept seen in real life.\n\nHowever, Alkahestry (like normal FMA alchemy) uses hand gestures and circles\ninstead of actual chemicals; also, as mentioned above, its source of energy\n(the \"Dragon's Pulse\") is something that is not found in ancient real-world\nalchemy.\n\n# Overall\n\nFMA's alchemy and real-life alchemy share some things:\n\n * The overall concept of transmuting elements, as well as transmuting to gold\n * The creation of a philosopher's stone\n * The ability to cure through alchemy\n * The pursuit of everlasting life\n\nThey also have quite a few differences:\n\n * The process of creating the philosopher's stone\n * The philosopher's stone ingredients\n * The transmutation circles\n * The process of doing alchemy at all (using the body rather than a lab)\n * The source of energy (tectonic energy or the \"Dragon's Pulse\" rather than chemical energy)\n * Their purpose (real-life alchemy pursued a goal more like Alkahestry)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T02:14:41.043", "id": "3720", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-12T19:40:09.703", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3719", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHohenheim is named after\n[Paracelsus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus), a man whose name's last\nportion (at birth) was \"von Hohenheim\". Paracelsus practiced medicine,\nalchemy, and other sciences, much like Hohenheim.\n\nIn the vein of alchemy, Paracelsus also had a significant similarity to\nHohenheim. He claimed to have made a\n[homunculus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus#Alchemy) out of bodily\nfluids, as described in _De homunculis_ :\n\n> Let the semen of a man putrefy by itself in a sealed cucurbite with the\n> highest putrefaction of the venter equinus [horse manure] for forty days, or\n> until it begins at last to live, move, and be agitated, which can easily be\n> seen…If now, after this, it be everyday nourished and fed cautiously and\n> prudently with [an] arcanum of human blood…it becomes, thenceforth, a true\n> and living infant, having all the members of a child that is born from a\n> woman, but much smaller.[(1)](http://www.madscientistblog.ca/mad-\n> scientist-5-paracelsus-pt-2-paracelsus-homunculus/)\n\nThough Hohenheim himself did not make a homunculus, he did contribute the\nblood that created _the_ Homunculus, Dwarf in the Flask.\n\nThere appears to be little beyond these similarities. Paracelsus's personality\nwas polar opposite to Hohenheim's, being stubborn and arrogant to say the\nleast. (This was bad enough to earn him anger and distaste from others in his\nfield.) Paracelsus was never a slave, nor did he challenge a great villain,\nnor did he have kids.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P5ucy.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g1fDx.png)\n\nWhile it's clear that Hohenheim's skills, name, and contributions to alchemy\nare closely linked with Paracelsus, it's safe to say that little more than\nthat connects him to Hohenheim.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T02:27:38.313", "id": "3723", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-15T03:31:50.943", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-15T03:31:50.943", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA misanga is a type of handicraft good luck charm, similar in concept to\nfriendship bracelets, they are typically made from knotted embroidery floss,\nthread, gimp, or similar material. Like friendship bracelets, they are tied\ntogether by simple knots.\n\nIt is said that if you make a wish when you tie the ends together, your wish\nwill come true when the bracelet falls off from wear.\n\nThe etymology of the name seems to come from the Portuguese word for \"beads\"\n(miçanga). They were [first\npopularized](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC)\nin 1993 during the beginning of the\n[J-League](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0),\nthe Japan Professional Football League. Ramos Ruy and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa of the\nTokyo Verde football club wore these to wish for the victory of their team.\n\nThe idea behind it may have changed but it's intended to be a symbol of good\nluck and friendship.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T03:44:59.533", "id": "3726", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-09T21:56:25.233", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-09T21:56:25.233", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt has been released in the U.S., but I don't think there's any information\navailable regarding the other two countries.\n\nFor the US, the show was [licensed by\nFunimation](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2011/10/01/funimation-\nannounces-guilty-crown-and-hackquantum).\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Crown#Anime) claims that the\nanime was planned to be released in 2012, but I'm fairly certain this did not\nhappen. The release seems to have actually happened in August 2013. It's\ncurrently listed in [Funimation's\nstore](http://www.funimation.com/shows/guilty-crown/products/dvd-blu-ray) in\ntwo DVD+Bluray combo packs. Other online stores including\n[Amazon](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00CU6WC8K) also carry it.\n\nIn the UK, the series was licensed by [Manga\nEntertainment](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-27/manga-\nentertainment-announcements-at-london-mcm-expo-including-wolf-children). It\nwas listed as \"planned for release in April [2013]\", but their website still\ndoesn't list the series in [their list of\ntitles](http://www.manga.com/titles). As such, it's pretty safe to conclude\nthat no release has been made yet. Their [Q2 release\nschedule](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-02-07/manga-\nentertainment-q2-release-schedule) also doesn't mention Guilty crown, so it\nmay be delayed or cancelled.\n\nFor Australia, as you said the licensing organization is Madman Entertainment.\nI've looked through [their\nwebsite](http://www.madman.com.au/actions/channel.do?method=view), but a\nsearch for \"Guilty Crown\" only brings up streams of the first 2 episodes. It\nis not listed on their [release\nschedule](http://www.madman.com.au/actions/catalogue.do?method=schedule&webChannelId=1)\nnor on their [full\ncatalog](http://www.madman.com.au/actions/series.do?method=browse&webChannelId=1).\nAlso, the only news I could find regarding this was an [announcement that the\nseries would be\nstreamed](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-05/madman-begins-\nstreaming-guilty-crown-and-waiting-in-the-summer), but no announcements of\nplans for a home release. This suggests that they don't have any plans to do\nso, and likely have not bought the rights for a home release.\n\nSo, as of now, there is only a home video release in the U.S.. It's still\nquite possible that the UK will have releases of the series in the fairly near\nfuture. Australia is less likely to get a release anytime soon.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T05:17:43.660", "id": "3728", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T07:19:24.460", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-05T07:19:24.460", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3727", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI found two other light novels that you hadn't mentioned also -\n[Link](http://www.mangashare.com/forums/threads/74858-Bleach-Ligh-Novels)\n\n> I know that there are two Bleach light novels (BLEACH-letters from the other\n> side: The Death and The Strawberry and Bleach: The Honey Dish Rhapsody). Do\n> they follow the Bleach manga plot lines or do they diverge? If they follow\n> the manga, what chapters do they cover? If not, what happens in them?\n\nThe light novels seem to be short stories that the manga/anime doesn't cover,\nbut run concurrently with the plot.\n\n_BLEACH-letters from the other side: The Death and The Strawberry_ was\nreleased November 15, 2006 and _Bleach: The Honey Dish Rhapsody_ on October\n31, 2008. So before volumes 25 & 36 respectively (not sure if this helps,\ndon't read bleach myself)\n\n\n\n\n[Wikia](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Bleach:_Letters_From_The_Other_Side)\nmentions that letters from the other side: The Death and The Strawberry was a\nnovelization of some of the earlier chapters\n\n[Again Wikia](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Bleach:_The_Honey_Dish_Rhapsody)\ntells us that Honey Dish Rhapsody is set during the week Ichigo and his\nfriends spent in Soul Society following the betrayal of Aizen.\n\n\n\n'Spirits Are Forever With You' was released June 4th 2012 and covers the 17\nmonth timeskip between volume 48 and 49. There are two volumes, these novels\nwere written by a separate author from the other 3.\n\n[Forum discussion](http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php/77050-NOVEL-\nSpirits-Are-Forever-With-You)\n\n[Another Discussion.](http://forums.mangafox.me/threads/383362-New-Bleach-\nnovels-covering-the-17-months-timeskip.)\n\n\n\n'The Death Save The Strawberry' focuses on the same time period, but has a\nfocus on Rukia and is written by the author of the first two books.\n\n[Yet another Forum Discussion](http://bleachasylum.com/showthread.php?122-The-\nDeath-Save-The-Strawberry-Novel-Discussion)\n\nIt's arguable if the light novels are canon or not, seeing as they were not\nwritten by bleach's mangaka, but there is no evidence to suggest that they are\nnot.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-24T11:48:50.527", "id": "3896", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-24T11:54:36.280", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-24T11:54:36.280", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt says \"you-me-friend\" in JSL. The pronouns appear to be the same as ASL,\n(finger pointing at the relevant person stands in for you/me/he/she/it) and\nclasped hands by context appears to mean friend. In ASL, it would be hooked\nindex fingers & clasped hands means \"to congratulate\".\n\nI didn't see any other panels with likely sign in them. On an unrelated side\nnote, JSL is distinctive for it's usage of air-writing, where some signs like\nplace names are the Kanji written in the air with your finger.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-25T18:45:28.960", "id": "3910", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-25T18:45:28.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1767", "parent_id": "3731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nHe actually blushed after she had shown him a piece of paper with something\nwritten on it, if I remember correctly. So we can only imagine what actually\nwas written here (\"I like you\", maybe?)\n\nGrabbing one's hand should mean \"don't leave me\" (it is so in english and\nrussian deaf language).\n\nThe I/me/friend part is already answered, and it's correct.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-14T13:37:38.560", "id": "4375", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-14T13:37:38.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2023", "parent_id": "3731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHe was repeating what she had hand signed to him when they were in elementary\nschool, \"Can we be friends?\". Now that he understands what she said at the\ntime his reply to it now was how she could have asked that of him (which he\nviews as embarrassing). Both times she clasped his hand as an agreement or\nasking for an agreement from him (in elementary).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-29T18:43:59.370", "id": "5353", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-29T18:43:59.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2468", "parent_id": "3731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHe's blushing while saying \"you, me, friend\" or maybe just \"can we be\nfriends?\" while reminiscing what Shouko said back then. It's after he said all\nthat that he realizes that it was a pretty embarrassing thing to say\n(culturally, Japanese rarely say something as straightforward as that). The\nnext panel when he says: \"Why did you even say that?\" is the proof. His rebut\n\"that's not what I meant\" is essentially to hide his embarrassment.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-06T02:22:51.347", "id": "5411", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T13:18:27.633", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T13:18:27.633", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2506", "parent_id": "3731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's one possibly-relevant translation issue (Japanese -> English, nothing\nto do with JSL) in the pages @nhahtdh posted that might be confusing people's\ninterpretations of the scene. On Page \"-5\", Ishida's last line is more like\n\"Not being able to hear your voice made _my_ life difficult.\" - he's talking\nabout himself, not sympathizing with Nishimiya. On what would be page \"-4\", he\ngoes onto say that things would've gone better if each of them could hear what\nthe other had to say.\n\nContra @ssh's answer, there's no reason to suspect that Ishida blushing had\nanything to do with Nishimiya showing him something on a piece of paper -\nshe'd only just gotten her notebook back from Ishida after 5 years, and we\ndon't see her writing on it.\n\n> Why did the boy blush and reply \"That's so embarrassing! How can you even\n> say that?!\" in page second to last?\n\nHere, Ishida is referring to the scene around pages 26-27 where Nishimiya\nsigns to him \"you-me-friend\" / \"can you and I be friends?\". This is a very\ntouchy-feely and generally non-boyish thing to say, which is why Ishida\nexpresses that it would be \"so embarrassing\" to say something like that\n(especially given his treatment of her prior).\n\n> And in the last page, when the girl grabbed his hand, why did he say \"That's\n> not what I meant!\"?\n\nAs we saw on page \"-3\", clasping hands indicates \"friend\" (or, per the text\ngiven there, maybe something like \"become friends\"). By taking Ishida's hand,\nNishimiya reaffirmed that she still would, in fact, like to be friends with\nhim. I imagine that Ishida's startled reaction there indicates that he viewed\ntheir meeting not as a chance to make up with her and start over, but more of\na chance to say \"hey, I'm kind-of-but-not-really sorry about what happened\nback then\" - he wasn't expecting Nishimiya to be so congenial to him, I guess.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T22:19:24.793", "id": "9021", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T22:19:24.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "3731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter being scolded by his teacher for partly ripping off Nishimiya's ear,\nIshida was angry with Nishimiya, because she supposedly would have snitched to\nher parents for bullying. So when they met again at page 24, they didn't\nreally want to talk to her, but instead of being angry for being bullied,\nNishimiya apologized. And despite being bullied all the time by Ishida, she\nstill wanted to become friends and get to know each other. So that's when she\ntook Ishida's hand and asked to be friends on page 26-27\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PERO7.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vhGuI.png)\n\nUnable to understand her true intentions, Ishida got upset and threw away her\nbooklet and started bullying her even more severely the following days, until\nhe ended up being bullied himself. After being bullied himself, he couldn't\nforget about Nishimiya and grew more curious by the day, so he learned sign\nlanguage. After five years he finally understood what she had been trying to\nsay. She just wanted to be friends after all.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ka5Xj.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/F6Ejp.jpg)\n\nAs Senshin mentioned in his answer, grabbing someone's hand and asking to be\nfriends like that isn't a boyish thing to do, especially in elementary school.\nAnd on top of that it was rather embarrassing to ask your bully to become\nfriends. That's why he started blushing, remembering the scene from five years\nearlier.\n\nIshida was just repeating what Nishimiya had said, but as she still wanted to\nbe friends with him, she took the opportunity to reply to his question by\ngrabbing his hand, telling him she still wanted to be friends. This made him\nblush even more, because holding hands to confirm friendship is embarrassing\nand even though he doesn't mind being friends, he didn't pose the question. He\njust repeated what she had said five years ago. It wasn't supposed to come\nover as an actual question for friendship.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T22:16:44.787", "id": "13151", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T22:16:44.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "3731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI read through all the answers, and while a lot of them are good, I think\nthey're kind of failing to get to the main point here, which is to interpret\nand explain this scene.\n\nShoya does the signs for asking to be friends, but he's only doing it in the\ncontext of asking about when Shoko did the same signs as kids. We see this\nbecause immediately after doing the signs, Shoya asks how Shoko could say that\nback then, and that it's embarrassing. Thus, when Shoko answers with an\naffirmative \"Yes, I will be friends with you.\" Shoya replies with \"That's not\nwhat I meant.\" Shoko has misinterpreted Shoya's signs as him asking her to be\nfriends, and Shoya gets embarrassed as a result.\n\nAnother way to interpret it might be that Shoya asks Shoko to be friends, but\nimmediately gets embarrassed and reneges on it, and makes excuses that he's\njust asking about back then. And when Shoko agrees, he's still embarrassed, so\nhe continues with his reinterpretation.\n\nThis second interpretation is actually exactly how things go in the main\nstory's version of this event in Chapter 6.\n\n> Nishimiya... Could you... and me.. be friends?\n>\n> (Oh crap!! I went too far!! I was planning to apologize and disappear! Why'd\n> I bring \"friends\" into this?!)\n>\n> I mean, that's what you were saying back then, right?! I can't believe you\n> said something so embarrassing with a straight face!!\n\nAfter Shoya says all this, Shoko grabs his hand as in the other version. Shoya\ndoes not say the \"That's not what I meant!\" line, but instead just looks\nsurprised in silence.\n\nThe theme of _A Silent Voice_ , as stated by the author, is miscommunication,\nso it makes sense that even after Shoya learns sign language, there would\nstill be hiccups like this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-24T15:29:34.237", "id": "67800", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-25T15:08:06.540", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-25T15:08:06.540", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "3731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you are looking for [Guilty\nCrown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Crown)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-10T09:52:51.257", "id": "3740", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-10T09:52:51.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3739", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\n[Betterman](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=350)?\n\nFrom Anime News Network:\n\n> A deadly virus known as \"Algernon\" has attacked humanity with vicious\n> meaning. At the forefront of the battle is the mystifying Akamatsu\n> Industries – disguised as a heavy machine factory in Tokyo, this undercover\n> organization uses neural enhanced weapons known as NeuroNoids to battle\n> Algernon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-10T17:45:12.177", "id": "3742", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-10T17:45:12.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "3739", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAt first: As kuwaly mentioned, normally no one falls asleep while singing a\nlullaby. That's most likely the reason, but there are other possible points:\n\n * Like in the game, Pokémon using Sing aren't affected by the attack. This was most likely done to make this move usable, and was copied in the anime so the viewers aren't confused.\n * Some of the Pokédex-entries suggest, that you need to look in the eyes of Jigglypuff to be affected. As a Jigglypuff can't look itself in the eyes, it can't fall asleep. You can read the entries [on Bulbapedia](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jigglypuff_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29#Pok.C3.A9dex_entries_2).\n\nI also think I remember other Jigglypuffs falling asleep, too, but I'm not\nsure. That would mean, that Jigglypuffs aren't immune to the singing, but just\naren't affected by their own attack.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-11T09:27:10.680", "id": "3748", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-13T11:52:09.630", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-13T11:52:09.630", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3743", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat I think is that Jigglypuff can't hear itself when it sings. To whoever\nsaid you needed to look into its eyes, the Neon City episode in the anime had\npeople falling asleep when they weren't looking into Jigglypuff's eyes. Maybe\nall Jigglypuff have different songs and ears, so the user of the song can't\nhear itself sing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T22:37:15.887", "id": "16653", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-11T22:37:15.887", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10594", "parent_id": "3743", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nPerhaps when Jigglypuff sings, the direction and application of it's voice are\nONLY directed towards everywhere but itself. I don't think it can't hear\nitself sing, because in every 1st gen episode it was in, it got mad that\neveryone fell asleep during its song. If it didn't think it could sing, or\ncouldn't hear it, why would it be so mad? Also, in every 1st gen episode it\nappears in, it has a microphone that doubles as a marker. You can hear the\nreverberation of its voice in the Neon City episode, where it used\nloudspeakers, as well as in every other instance of it singing **without**\nloudspeakers. (except that one episode where it was quietly singing to itself\nas it walked down a road, and even then, **if it couldn't hear itself sing,\nwhy would it continue singing?** ) In conclusion, if every time it\ndeliberately sung for an audience, (and not for itself) it put a\n(hypothetical) sleep frequency in the music that was directed and amplified\noutward from itself, it would never hear that frequency, thus not falling\nasleep, but is able to hear its own song.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-12T12:50:22.853", "id": "26575", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-12T12:50:22.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18467", "parent_id": "3743", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually the reason jigglypuff is not sleeping hint hint hint hint is that it\nsing to everyone around herself and when she is singing is because that she\nknows not to sleep when she is singing so she can know what to say next.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-27T23:17:18.743", "id": "37549", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-27T23:23:58.037", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-27T23:23:58.037", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "29490", "parent_id": "3743", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis can be answered well with typical concepts of biology. While no species\n(to the best of my knowledge) is known that can send other individuals to\nsleep by singing, practically every species produces some kind of natural\nproducts that are fatal or unpleasant to others.\n\nConsider, for example,\n[tetrodotoxin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin) known as the\npoisonous ingredient of pufferfish or _fugu._ Tetrodotoxin acts by inhibiting\nnervous sodium channels and thereby inhibits nerve signal transfer. This\nshould affect all higher vertebrates that rely on nervous signaling. It is not\nproduced by the fish itself but by numerous bacterial symbiontic species. They\nare not the only species to use this toxin as a defence mechanism; among\nothers, so does the [rough-skinned newt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough-\nskinned_newt).\n\nNaturally, it is interesting that all species harbouring these bacteria seem\nimmune to tetrodotoxin. However, even more interesting is the fact that the\n[common garter snake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_garter_snake), a\nnatural predator of the rough-skinned newt, has also developped some immunity.\nThis could be traced back to a modification of said sodium channels that\nrender them immune against tetrodotoxin.\n\nA similar mechanism could and should be acting with respect to jigglypuff’s\nsong. Potentially, one could assume that singing was either a method of self-\ndefence (a sleeping predator cannot attack jigglypuff) or an attack method (a\nsleeping victim cannot run away). In any case, if jigglypuff were able to sing\nitself to sleep, that would be evolutionarily very unfavourable since it would\npresent an easy target. Therefore, evolution probably selected those\njigglypuffs who were able to withstand their own singing (and possibly also\nthose, who enjoyed other jigglypuffs’ singing). This gave them an advantage in\nsurvival.\n\nThe exact mechanism by which jigglypuffs’ singing does not sing themselves to\nsleep would have to be researched by pokémon researchers in the pokéworld.\nHowever, I present the hypothesis that their nervous system reacts to the\nstimuli in a different way than other animals, humans and pokémon, possibly\ndue to a different, yet to be discovered signalling molecule mutation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-28T22:39:38.590", "id": "37566", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-28T22:39:38.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13532", "parent_id": "3743", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nStatus Condition Moves, like:\n\nHypnosis and Sing\n\nFor example, are primarily used to put Other Pokemon to sleep. They have no\neffect on the Pokemon performing the move(s). Therefore, whenever Jigglypuff\nis singing, Humans or Pokemon fall asleep. Her singing is primarily a \"Status\nCondition\" Move and that's it. If it was meant to be listened to, Humans and\nPokemon would be wearing earplugs, so they don't fall asleep. It's even\nfunnier when she stops singing, realizes that everyone's asleep, gets mad and\ndraws on their faces with her microphone/marker.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-01-24T22:15:51.667", "id": "61722", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-24T22:15:51.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58446", "parent_id": "3743", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, Jigglypuff does fall asleep from her own lullaby in [this\nclip](https://youtu.be/gQmT56hvDQs?t=115).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-04T20:04:10.257", "id": "62674", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-05T02:21:43.740", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-05T02:21:43.740", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "60406", "parent_id": "3743", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> _Are the opening/ending themes, insert songs, and background music created\n> specifically for the series they represent, or are they just picked by the\n> producers/production committee based on how well they would fit their\n> series? What typically happens?_\n\n**In most cases, opening/ending themes, insert songs, and background music are\ncreated specifically for the series they represent.** Though, it can also be\npicked based on it's popularity. After all, the main objective is to promote\nboth the series and the theme songs.\n\n> _What exceptions are there?_\n\nAbout exceptions, which I think can only be applicable when picking a song\ndepends on the deal between the companies (anime production/company and music\ncompany) whether they will allow a song to be used as an anime theme song.\nWell, anime can be a good promoter of a theme song and vice versa so it's a\nwin-win deal for the companies, so exceptions I guess will be all inside their\nagreement.\n\n> _How much have things changed now compared to the past?_\n\nI think the only thing that has changed pertaining anime theme songs are the\npopularity. Anime are more popular now than before globally so there is more\nopportunity of a theme song to have a different versions of languages (which\ninvolves purposely creating theme songs for the anime itself).\n\nMy basis is [here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeThemeSong),\n\n> **The theme music for most anime tends to be catchy songs deliberately\n> written for release to the pop/rock music market, if they aren't already\n> actual pop/rock songs.**\n>\n> One reason is simply that anime provides an easy way for both hit and entry\n> J-pop/J-rock artists to get more exposure and good lateral promotion.\n> Platinum J-rock bands like L'Arc~en~Ciel and Orange Range frequently release\n> their new songs along as themes in anime that are on the air at the same\n> period as their respective singles or albums.\n>\n> Another reason this is done is because many anime voice actors are also\n> singers, often the more successful ones. (At least one such performer,\n> Megumi Hayashibara, is both a formidable presence on Japanese pop charts and\n> an internationally-known talent, as well as the recipient of more star and\n> featured anime roles than any one person ought to have.) It's not unknown\n> for production companies to organize some of their principal cast members\n> into groups for recording CDs — the \"Goddess Family Club\" (Ah! My Goddess),\n> DoCo (Ranma 1/2), the Maho-Dou (Ojamajo Doremi) and the Spirit Singers\n> (Digimon Frontier) all come to mind. Either way, it's usually to a voice\n> actor's advantage — they perform theme songs (as well as additional\n> \"character\" songs), receiving a double benefit from exposure in two\n> different markets (and the additional profit).\n>\n> A third reason is that TV theme songs are the pinnacle of Japanese musical\n> success. If a Japanese artist/group makes a hit album, the studio takes\n> almost all of the profits. If the same group makes an album as a TV tie-in,\n> the musicians themselves receive a much larger cut.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T06:36:56.820", "id": "3869", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-06T06:15:47.737", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-06T06:15:47.737", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3744", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAs @Looper mentioned, Chiaki only plays the violin and the piano. The lack of\nadditional instruments can be attributed to his dedication in becoming a\nworld-class conductor.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-16T19:17:42.310", "id": "3800", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-16T19:17:42.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1724", "parent_id": "3746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Yes.**\n\nThough they are not actually an actual and active band in Japan but [Houkagou\nTea Time (HTT)](http://k-on.wikia.com/wiki/Ho-Kago_Tea_Time) (composing of the\n[K-On!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-On!)'s characters' voice actresses)\nwere created for the anime's purpose itself. Toyosaki Aki (Hirasawa Yui),\nKotobuki Minako (Kotobuki Tsumugi), Hikasa Yoko (Akiyama Mio), Satomi Sato\n(Tainaka Ritsu) and Taketatsu Ayana (Nakano Azusa) actually performed (sung\nwhile playing their character's respective instruments) some of K-On!'s OST\nlive during two of their live concerts, [Let's\nGo](http://k-on.wikia.com/wiki/K-ON!_Live_Concert%3a_Let%27s_Go!) and [Come\nWith Me](http://k-on.wikia.com/wiki/K-ON!!_Live_Concert%3a_Come_With_Me!!).\nThe voice actresses were taught how to play their characters' instruments for\nthe live concert so I think HTT was specifically created in dedication for the\nanime K-On!.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-16T00:23:10.267", "id": "3797", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-16T00:23:10.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBesides Chiba, I'm only aware of the bassist,\n[Taira](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_%28manga%29#Characters), resembling\nRCHP's bassist, [Flea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea_%28musician%29).\nThey both often play shirtless on stage and share the bleached-blonde look.\n\n> Beck's bassist, Taira is the second member recruited by Ryusuke. Although he\n> can sometimes seem uncaring or apathetic, he is actually the most mature of\n> the band members and often offers helpful advice. He usually performs\n> shirtless, **much like the real-life person he is based on: Flea of the Red\n> Hot Chili Peppers.** His main live bass is a white Music Man Stingray (a\n> 1993-1996 model as identified from the type of bridge) with 3-band EQ and a\n> trans bridge.\n\nFlea is also known to use the [Music Man\nStingray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Man_StingRay).\n\n \n\nThe mangaka, [Harold Sakuishi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Sakuishi),\nis an RHCP fan and, according to WP, has claimed that Beck is partly inspired\nby the band. I don't know if this extends to other members of the band.\n\n> Harold Sakuishi himself has admitted that the **band is inspired in part by\n> the Red Hot Chili Peppers**. Sakuishi admits that they are his favorite\n> band; their music, specifically the song \"Under the Bridge\", helped him\n> through a difficult time in his life. **A one-shot manga also called Under\n> the Bridge was written by Sakuishi and narrates his first meeting with the\n> band.** This influence is widely seen in Beck, not only in the band's\n> musical style, but also in the fact that **Taira heavily resembles a younger\n> version of Flea, the Chili Peppers' own bassist** , both in looks (he is\n> mostly seen playing shirtless and has his hair bleached blonde, as Flea used\n> to have his own) and in playing style.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-12T04:03:06.110", "id": "3757", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-12T04:03:06.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "3751", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAn a capella version of this song has not been released yet.\n\nAccording to [VGMdb](http://vgmdb.net/)* and [imas DB](http://imas-\ndb.jp/song/detail/141.html), Nemurihime was only ever released on two CDs:\n\n * **THE IDOLM@STER MASTER ARTIST 2 -FIRST SEASON- 05 Chihaya Kisaragi** : This was the original release of the song and therefore is not a special version.\n * **THE IDOLM@STER ANIM@TION MASTER 07** : This is one of the many soundtracks for the anime series, but it is still the original version and is not a capella.\n\nNote: Neither referenced site has an official relationship with the iM@S\nseries, but they are both reliable fan-made databases.\n\nSince the airing of the anime, Nemurihime was also released on DVD/Blu-Ray of\nlive performances on:\n\n * THE IDOLM@STER 7th ANNIVERSARY\n * THE IDOLM@STER 6th ANNIVERSARY\n\nHowever I looked up the videos of these performances and they were both the\noriginal version. I think it's safe to say that any performances of Nemurihime\nbefore the anime are also the original version.\n\n_*_ Since VGMdb does not have permalink search feature, these are the\nparameters I used:\n\n> trackname -- 眠り姫 \n> game -- idolm@ster\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-12T02:55:23.803", "id": "3756", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-12T02:55:23.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "3752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a few things that point to why the [A in C minor\ntone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUvlamJN3nM) was chosen for this purpose.\n\n# The Bell\n\nThe first is in a subset of the lyrics from _In the Land of Twilight Under the\nMoon_. This part of the lyrics seems to reference A in C minor in that this\ntone, which is unique enough to be commonly used for tuning instruments (via\ntuning fork), is sometimes known for its similar sound to a bell (as in the\n[video you linked](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN987vxtiuQ)).\n\n> High and loud, the sound of your bell of the \n> Twilight... ringing... \n> All alone, it rings and echoes in twilight\n>\n> — [SIGN Original Soundtrack 2, _.hack_\n> Wiki](http://dothack.wikia.com/wiki/SIGN_Original_Soundtrack_2#In_The_Land_of_Twilight_Under_The_Moon)\n\n# Liminality\n\nThe second is somewhat more convincing; the sound may be considered a\nmanifestation of Liminality. The game can, of course, make contact with the\nhuman mind, and the tone itself is subliminal. This means it was probably\nprogrammed in by Harald, being key to this mental contact, much like hypnosis\n(which uses specific types of lights for maximum effect).\n\nIn reality, there is nothing special about the properties of A in C minor\n(with the exception of its ability to be easily differentiated from other\nnotes); it is heard at approximately 440Hz, though its range extends as low as\n435Hz. However, in the [_.hack//Liminality_\nOVA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//Liminality), it is (incorrectly)\nstated that the tone is the highest note a human can hear. In the _.hack_\nuniverse, most people are unable to hear this tone, but Mai can.\n\n# Overall\n\nIt seems that the note itself was chosen for its uniqueness (especially in\nthat it is easy for the human ear to hear), as well as its faux property of\nbeing the highest note humans can hear. The A in C minor tone itself is not\nexceptionally notable outside of the _.hack_ universe.\n\nThe note itself is also the first letter in the musical scale and its use is\nsomewhat akin to [déjà vu in _The\nMatrix_](http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu), though these are not\nas likely to be related.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-18T18:42:44.357", "id": "3820", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-18T18:42:44.357", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3753", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI managed to get a hold of a copy of the tracklist from the OST. The\nsoundtrack has 76 songs on it. This includes the 67 songs which appear in\n\"Sound Mode\" in the visual novel as well as several others. I have made no\nattempt to distinguish which of these are present in the visual novel and\nwhich were added. The OST track titles are in romaji, but the original\ninspiration pieces are listed in English.\n\nA few of the pieces are original, namely Answer, Sayounara, Close Your Eyes,\nand Yuki no Hane Toki no Kaze. There are a few more pieces based on these, but\neverything else is based on some preexisting piece. A couple of the tracks\nwould be better characterized as arrangements rather than adaptations.\nValkyrie no Kikou, Wa ga Haha no Oshietamaishi Uta, and the various versions\nof G-Senjou no Aria fall into this category, but I have made no attempt to\nlocate all such cases.\n\nDisc 1\n\n 1. G-Senjou no Aria #1 [J.S. Bach - Aria on the G-String]\n 2. Aizou no Nare no Hate [Katakiri Rekka - Answer]\n 3. Katakiri Rekka – Answer\n 4. Uraraka [E. Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1/Morning Mood]\n 5. Asa no Aisatsu [J. Pachelbel - Canon in D]\n 6. Hiru no Asobi [L. Beethoven - Symphony No. 9/Ode to Joy]\n 7. Ima, Saikou ka [J. Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld]\n 8. Sora no Seki [E. Satie - First Gymnopedie]\n 9. Byakuya [C. Debussy - Suite Bergamesque/Clair de lune]\n 10. Byakuya no Mae [C. Debussy - Suite Bergamesque/Clair de lune]\n 11. Hansuberi [A. Khachaturian - Gayane/Sabre Dance]\n 12. Giwaku [F. Chopin - The Revolutionary Etude]\n 13. Ginen [F. Chopin - The Revolutionary Etude]\n 14. Gimon [F. Chopin - The Revolutionary Etude]\n 15. Shinjitsu [F. Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto/1st Movement]\n 16. Shinjitsu no Ato [F. Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto/1st Movement]\n 17. Houyou [G. Handel - Rinaldo/Lascia ch'io pianga]\n 18. Tousou [M. Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition/Promenade]\n 19. Tousou no Tsudzuki [M. Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition/Promenade]\n 20. Satori [M. Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition/Promenade]\n 21. Ai [L. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathetique/2nd Movement]\n 22. Sayounara\n 23. Saikai no Hi [A. Dvorak - Humoresque No.7]\n 24. Yasuragi no Yoru [J. Brahms - Violin Concerto in D/3rd Movement]\n 25. Taiketsu [R. Wagner - The Valkyrie]\n 26. Otoko no Hanamichi [Katakiri Rekka - Answer]\n 27. Aishita Onna [Katakiri Rekka - Answer]\n 28. Michi ha Hyouga Nari [Katakiri Rekka - Answer]\n 29. G-Senjou no Aria #2 [J.S. Bach - Aria on the G-String]\n\nDisc 2\n\n 1. Wa ga Haha no Oshietamaishi Uta [A. Dvorak - Songs My Mother Taught Me]\n 2. Hitomi wo Tojite #1 [Ayane - Close Your Eyes]\n 3. Ayane - Close Your Eyes\n 4. G-Senjou no Aria #3 [J.S. Bach - Aria on the G-String]\n 5. Yuki #1 [J. Newton - Amazing Grace]\n 6. Yuki #2 [J. Newton - Amazing Grace]\n 7. Yuki #3 [J. Newton - Amazing Grace]\n 8. Kyoukou [J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor]\n 9. Kachiku no Mure [J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor]\n 10. Shinigami [J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor]\n 11. Kage no Sasoi [F. Schubert - The Erlking]\n 12. Yami no Tsukai [F. Schubert - The Erlking]\n 13. Fushoku [C. Saint-Saens - The Carnival of the Animals/Aquarium]\n 14. Rakujitsu [F. Schubert - The Erlking]\n 15. Nigeba Nashi [L. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 Appassionata/3rd Movement]\n 16. The Devil [F. Schubert - The Erlking]\n 17. The Devil #2 [F. Schubert - The Erlking]\n 18. Wa ga Haha ha Kakukatarishi [J. Pachelbel - Canon in D]\n 19. Hitomi wo Tojite #2 [Ayane - Close Your Eyes]\n 20. Hitomi wo Tojite #3 [Ayane - Close Your Eyes]\n 21. G-Senjou no Aria #4 [J.S. Bach - Aria on the G-String]\n\nDisc 3\n\n 1. G-Senjou no Aria #5 [J.S. Bach - Aria on the G-String]\n 2. Kyoushuu [L. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 Moonlight Sonata/3rd Movement] \n 3. Kousaku [J.S. Bach - Little Fugue in G Minor BWV 578]\n 4. Deochi [P. Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker/Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy]\n 5. Hitoyasumi [S. Joplin - The Entertainer]\n 6. Tsuikyuu [C. Saint-Saens - The Carnival of the Animals/Those With Long Ears]\n 7. Shundou [E. Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1/In the Hall of the Mountain King]\n 8. Shinsou [C. Saint-Saens - The Carnival of the Animals/Hens and Roosters]\n 9. Asai Gonzou [P. Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave]\n 10. Chijou ni Arawareshi Jigoku [C. Orff - Carmina Burana/O Fortuna]\n 11. Jigoku no Tsudzuki [C. Orff - Carmina Burana/O Fortuna]\n 12. Yamiyo Kouro [C. Orff - Carmina Burana/O Fortuna]\n 13. Shiyuu [L. Beethoven - Fur Elise]\n 14. Kecchaku [L. Beethoven - Fur Elise]\n 15. Valkyrie no Kikou [R. Wagner - The Valkyrie]\n 16. Picaresque [G. Bizet - The Girl From Arles]\n 17. G-Senjou no Aria #6 [J.S. Bach - Aria on the G-String]\n 18. Barbarian on the Groove feat. Chata - Yuki no Hane Toki no Kaze\n 19. Kyoufu [J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor]\n 20. Dark [F. Schubert - The Erlking]\n 21. Maou 3 [F. Schubert - The Erlking]\n 22. Ko-Fugue [J.S. Bach - Little Fugue in G Minor BWV 578]\n 23. Gnossienne [E. Satie - Gnossiene No.1]\n 24. Gekkou #1 ~3rd Movement [L. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 Moonlight Sonata/3rd Movement] \n 25. Gekkou #2 ~3rd Movement [L. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 Moonlight Sonata/3rd Movement] \n 26. G-Senjou no Aria #7 [J.S. Bach - Aria on the G-String]\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-23T00:09:52.037", "id": "3884", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-23T00:22:04.157", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-23T00:22:04.157", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3754", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no answer to your question provided in the canon. After the tuning of\nthe world, we only see a very short scene (at the very end of the final\nepisode) showing Quon as a baby. It's safe to say that she probably remembers\nnothing. Ayato and Haruka (offscreen mostly) discuss things that indicate they\nmay have some awareness of what happened, but to what extent they may have\nretained memories of it is impossible to say. Nobody else is referenced, so\nit's anybody's guess as to what the rest of the world knows/thinks.\n\nSorry to be so inconclusive.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T01:57:00.953", "id": "24117", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T01:57:00.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "3755", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's probably going to be pretty rare for anime soundtracks to be featured\nwith a Vocaloid singer, since the talent tie-ins and money for making anime\nwant to promote their in-house talent so they want to use their own (live)\nsingers. You can see a lot of famous vocaloid producers get hired for their\nmusic but instead of the vocaloid voice track, they use in-house talent for\nthe voice:\n\n * _ryo(supercell)_ gets hired by Sony Music to make [Bakemonogatari's ED, \"Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari\"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaZQyUi3ME), but sung by Yanagi Nagi\n * _kz(livetunes)_ gets hired by Sony Music to produce the song [\"Irony\" for Oreimo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaP1Xk0A44), but sung by ClariS\n * _Toku-P_ had one of his existing Vocaloid songs [\"Color\" used for the Freezing OP](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Is9Y4N184), but sung by MARiA\n * _40mP_ also had one of his Vocaloid songs [\"Evidence\" used for one of the Fairy Tail OPs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs0zed2Fhzw), but sung by DaisyxDaisy\n\n[source](http://mylifemyword.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/vocaloid-producers-who-\nproduced-songs-for-anime/)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-15T17:04:17.617", "id": "3794", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-15T17:04:17.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nJon Lin's answer is good, so I don't think I have anything to add in that\ndirection. As he says, using Vocaloid singers for songs of full-length anime\n(rather than animated music videos) is rather uncommon. It sometimes happens\nthat a Vocaloid singer will be used in early stages of production, but by the\ntime they are ready to release the song it's usually done by a live singer,\nwhich is generally more profitable.\n\nI only know of two instances of Vocaloids being used other than in the Black\nRock Shooter shows (which you mentioned). Both of these were atypical.\n\n[The ending of episode 13 of\nAkikan!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeATxC406Y) (the final episode) used\nMiku (as Mikkuchu Juuchu). However, each episode of Akikan! had the same song\n(Koisora Recycling) sung in a different arrangement by Nomiko, sometimes with\nguest artists, so Miku wasn't really the focus.\n\nMeguriau Sekai, a 15-minute low-budget independent anime, has an insert song\nby Miku called Wish: Kutsuhimo o Musunde. I was not able to find this song\nanywhere, though if you can find the anime it plays from 12:00 until the end.\nThis was very likely done to keep costs low. The anime only has one voice\nactor, and licensing a professional musician would probably have been beyond\ntheir budget.\n\nI searched for any other anime with Vocaloid songs, but I was not able to find\nany for the top 10 or so most popular Vocaloids. If there are any others, they\nare low-budget independent productions like Meguriau Sekai, since a high\nbudget show using Vocaloid songs would probably be notable enough that it\nwould be documented in many places.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-15T18:53:17.370", "id": "3795", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-15T18:53:17.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nEpisode 6 of Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui was sung\nby Miku, but it's kinda sad that it was only for an episode. And it seems like\nit wasn't even an original song, I think, but just a cover. Not sure, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-27T11:27:25.950", "id": "5607", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-27T11:27:25.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2620", "parent_id": "3760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBlack Rock Shooter, in fact isnt the only OP sung by Hatsune Miku. Heat Haze\nDays, from Mekaku City Actors is also sung by Miku.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-24T02:37:51.250", "id": "27549", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-24T02:37:51.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19279", "parent_id": "3760", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\n[Paprika](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1943/Paprika), a 2006 anime movie, has\na theme song called \"The Girl in Byakkoya\" by Susumu Hirasawa which was sung\nby Vocaloid [LOLA](http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/LOLA_\\(VOCALOID1\\)).\n\nIt's considered as the first anime movie to use Vocaloid in its OST.\n\n> The last track, \"The Girl in Byakkoya\", features three spoken lines in\n> Vietnamese. The soundtrack is significant for being the first made for a\n> film to use a Vocaloid (using the Lola voicebank) for some vocals.\n>\n> From [Wikipedia article of\n> Paprika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_\\(2006_film\\))\n\nYou can listen to the song and download it freely on [Susumu's official\nwebsite](http://noroom.chaosunion.com/modules/opus/index.php/photo/46/?ml_lang=en).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-21T03:05:47.640", "id": "29141", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-21T03:05:47.640", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "3760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne reason that can explain this is the **need for 'power' or 'skills'\ndecreased over time**. Whenever there was raging destruction and war, powerful\nshinobi emerged to sustain the survival of their respective clans. After\nHashirama and Madara established the leaf village, peace and prosperity spread\neverywhere, as more peaceful villages emerged. This was explained in one of\nthe recent manga chapters : people took the _truce between the most powerful\nclans_ as an example and decided to take a break from war. With no raging\nbattles or major wars, the need for highly skilled shinobi declined and people\nstarted exploring other professions.\n\nMy guess is that Rikudo Senin was born with certain special skills and trained\nunimaginably hard in his generation to overcome the terror of the ten tails.\n\nThis also explains why Naruto and Sasuke have trained so extensively on the\nway to become the most powerful of their generation. The experiments of\nOrichimaru in reviving the dead, the Akatsuki's goals and conflicting views of\nNaruto and Sasuke were indicators of a potential major war coming up!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-12T19:40:26.670", "id": "3769", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-12T19:42:40.150", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-12T19:42:40.150", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1773", "parent_id": "3761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSakamoto has 3 chips, plus his own (for a total of four), after he kills\nMasashi Miyamoto (knife guy) and Souichi Natsume (attorney guy with glasses).\n\nBefore Miyamoto gets killed (while he has Himiko hostage, after Natsume is\nkilled by the Cracker BIM), he mentions he's already killed a guy and taken\nhis IC chip and BIM. Miyamoto wrongly assumes that Sakamoto has three chips\n(two plus his own) since he has 3 types of BIMs, and that Himiko has Mitsuo\nAkechi's (fat guy) IC chip.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-13T06:48:17.313", "id": "3771", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-13T06:48:17.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3765", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe walk cycle is considered to be one of the most basic aspects of animation.\n\nAmerican animators and animation enthusiasts often times scorn the Japanese\nstyles and methods of animation as lazy, while Japanese anime enthusiasts\nderide the American style as clunky or too comical.\n\nWhy is that you ask? The answer lies in how these countries distribute their\nbudget and time.\n\nWhile American animation often times may seem lacking in it's attention to\ndetail, it makes up for it the quality of their animation. American animation\noften times meticulous and original in how they animate motion, though\nsometimes content is reused cyclically, the animation is painstakingly frame\nby frame.\n\nIn contrast, Japanese anime uses a lot of shortcuts (to save budget and meet\ndeadlines). Typically long scenes feature only the mouth of a character (and\nmaybe other minor features like a waving hair or glittering eyes) moving\nduring delivery of key information/dialog, or the short burst of motion of\nsome character in some an action pose against an animated, cyclic, and\nstylized background (I'm looking at you transformation scenes). Often times\nthese uses of dramatic still-shots are done against patterned (or static\nillustrated) backgrounds, sometimes a few moving emotive icons (sweat drops,\nquestion marks, small chibi animated heads) will accompany a some sort of\nmonologue. Admittedly both styles of animation reuse shots and sequences, but\nit's more noticeable in Japanese anime for various reason (e.g., not enough\nbudget and/or manpower). This is why Japanese anime is typically labeled as\n\"lazy\" by American animators and enthusiasts.\n\nA typical walk cycle in animation consists of 8 keyframes typically:\n\n\n\nThe smoothness of an animation is typically determined by the framerate and\namount of key frames in the animation.\n\nIn American animation, the animation is captured by shooting two frames of\nfilm per drawing at a rate of 24 frames per second (fps) to achieve the smooth\nmotion of American animation.\n\nJapanese anime, while it also runs at an average 24 fps, typically captures\ntheir animation at a rate of three or four frames per drawing in order to save\nmoney and manpower. Though it varies depending on the studio and tools used\n(e.g 3DCG) with main objects in the foreground (typically characters) are\nanimated at 8 to 12 fps, while background objects can be animated at as low as\n6 to 8 fps.\n\nLets compare the difference between one walk cycle that is 8 frame to one that\nis 16 frames, both at 60 fps:\n\n <\\-- 8 frames  <\\-- 16 frames\n\nNotice the 16 frame one is smoother, but slower while the 8 frame is faster,\nbut choppier. This is because it takes the 16 frame animation twice as long,\ncovering more frames, to go through one cycle than the 8 frame one.\n\nThe varying of frame rates can also be be used to depict the expansion and\ncompression of time (think bullet time from _The Matrix_ ). However generally\nchoppy animation is the result of not enough keyframes in your animation. More\nframes mean more and manpower and/or time, which ultimately means more money\nis required. Japanese anime production [don't typically have as big of a\nbudget](http://wildgrounds.com/ask/15/anime-series-whats-the-average-budget)\ncompared to American productions (but there are exceptions), so they must make\ndo with what they have and cut corners where they can (like Shaft did with the\ncertain _Bakemonogatari_ TV episodes).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-13T05:43:27.527", "id": "3770", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-26T16:19:50.243", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-26T16:19:50.243", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 29 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the creation of Japanese animation, the director creates the storyboards\n(think of them as scenes) to assign to key animators. I'm mostly unsure where\nthe blame lies, but I theorized that it's mostly on budget and time\nconstraints. The key animators are good are making people run in a 2D plane\n(x, y dimensions). However, some might find it difficult to do it in a complex\nperspective assigned by the director. Additionally, the director hands a\nspecific amount of frames that they have to accomplish it in so it won't break\nthe overall timing/flow of next scene. In some instances, the key animator is\nsuccessful, but the inbetweener makes it appear \"off\".\n\nIt mostly depends on the key animator. Toshiyuki Inoue, Mitsuo Iso, Hideaki\nAnno, Hiroyuki Okiyura and Shinji Hashimoto were known as \"realist\" animators.\nYoshinari Kandada pioneered the \"Kanada\" style. It's hard to describe what it\nexactly is, but it was prevalent in 80's mecha anime and in most Gainax anime.\nIt's described as \"spastic\", or choppy looking. Despite Eastern animation\nfavoring composition over animation, the fight/action choreography is hailed\nconstantly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-22T18:08:12.627", "id": "5997", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T13:36:14.933", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T13:36:14.933", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2778", "parent_id": "3768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs given on [Wikia](http://bloodc.wikia.com/wiki/Saya_Kisaragi) :\n\n> Saya Kisaragi has long hair that are similar to that of original Saya\n> Otonashi, respectively of Blood+ in 1863 early version of Saya and 1972\n> Vietnam War in scenes only.\n>\n> Despite major dissimilarities other than that they are different\n> personalities, between the two Saya's of Blood+ and Blood-C, such as their\n> backstory and traits for the character; they share the similar plot\n> differently. For Example Saya Kirasagi sings when walking around town and\n> the Other Saya Otonashi plays the cello but badly judging from the reactions\n> of other characters.\n>\n> Somehow Saya Kirasagi remains in mystery where she come from despite of her\n> origins, unlike Blood+ Saya Otonashi comes from a chiropteran mummy\n>\n> Saya never calls a sword in the series except in the opening when she mind\n> controls her cover of the sword even as Tadayoshi Kirasagi gives the sword ,\n> before battles like Blood+ Saya from Haji and The Last Vampire from David.\n\nIt seems to be of a parallel or a totally different world because of the\nvarious differences shown in spite of the similarities introduced to make it\nof a series.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-21T04:01:27.923", "id": "3851", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-19T08:44:57.700", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1579", "parent_id": "3777", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer is not clear cut at all. While there are enormous facts pointing to\ntwo different worlds, there are several facts pointing to one single world.\n\nFacts supporting a unified world are the fact that during the last episode of\nthe series:\n\n> After drinking the elders blood, she has a flash vision as her memories\n> return. One of these memories during this time, and other times through out\n> the series, is her fighting and killing a Chiropteran several times. Most of\n> the flash visions are blurry, showing the shape of what appears to be a\n> Chiropteran. In one of the last flash visions Saya has, it clearly shows her\n> being attacked by a Chiropteran.\n\nHowever, this could just be a coincidence if it was a joined but separate\nworld, meaning that the two Saya's are different people. It is clearly stated\nthat Saya is not the girls real name in Blood-C, that it was just a name given\nto her by her captor.\n\nAll in all, it is what ever you believe it is because the facts point to\neither side of the spectrum. you decide.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-24T03:13:55.073", "id": "22711", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-24T04:03:19.583", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-24T04:03:19.583", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "15251", "parent_id": "3777", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**The hand seals in Naruto are based\nin[Mudra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudr%C4%81)**, which are\nsymbolic/ritual gestures associated to Hinduism and Buddhism. Mudra are used\nin everyday life, from religious practices to dances, going through martial\narts as well. The most well-known Mudra is probably [Añjali\nMudrā](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%B1jali_Mudr%C4%81), which often\naccompanies the greeting [Namaste](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste). \nIn the [French version of the Mudra Wikipedia\npage](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudr%C4%81#Dans_la_fiction), they do indeed\nlink directly to [Naruto's hand seals\npage](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers_de_Naruto#Signes_incantatoires),\nunlike what happens in the English page. However, they don't add much info\nother than the fact that they are called Mudra, and that they're based on the\nChinese Zodiac.\n\nFrom Wikipedia's page on Mudra, on its use on Martial Arts (highlight by me):\n\n> One of the more curious things that I encountered in my martial arts\n> training was the use of mudra in combative arts. Mudra (Japanese: in), for\n> those who aren't familiar with them, are these weird hand gestures that are\n> derived from esoteric Buddhism (mikkyo), particularly the Tendai and Shingon\n> sects. **These gestures are supposed to generate spiritual focus and power\n> which then are manifested in some way externally.**\n\nHowever, as far as I know (and also according to [this\npage](http://www.freewebs.com/narutovsreallife/)) **the use of Mudra in\nNinjutsu is made up by Kishimoto** (once again, highlights by me):\n\n> Although the use of hand seals in ninjutsu is entirely made up by Kishimoto,\n> **seals are used as ways to focus energy during Buddhist meditation**. Also,\n> special hand signs, called mudras, are **used to convey a certain concept\n> into the user**. For example, a right hand raised with palm facing outwards\n> means “no fear”, and **grants the user that concept’s blessing through their\n> meditation**. The seals in Naruto are from the oriental zodiac, the 12\n> animals which name the years (I was born in the year of the snake, for\n> instance), the properties of each seal representing what that animal’s\n> qualities are - Eg, Tora/Tiger seal is fire.\n\nBasically, in real life hand seals are used in meditative practice, and are\nsupposed to help the user get into a certain state of mind. \nIn the Naruto universe, Kishimoto decided to use these ancient signs in a\ndifferent way (associated to Ninjutsu), but their purpose is basically the\nsame. The user performs hand seals in order to gather/mold chakra, which means\nthat he is entering a certain state of mind when he does so. Also, when a user\nmasters a jutsu he [needs to perform less/no signs before he can do\nit](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hand_Seals), which means that the meditation\nphase before the use of the jutsu can be skipped/sped up. Similarly, the more\none meditates, the easier it gets for him to get into a state of meditation. \n**So they are basically based in an existing concept, but used in a different\ncontext** (in Ninjutsu) **, with basically the same function.**\n\nFor more info in Mudra, also see [this\npage](http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/mudra-japan.shtml).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-13T22:14:35.580", "id": "3781", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-13T22:21:42.710", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-13T22:21:42.710", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "3780", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nThey are based on kuji-in. Similar to, but not mudras.\n\nMudras are learned around peace and happiness while kuji-in are developed to\nhandle danger and battle. \"Mudras is to qigong\" as \"kuji-in is to budo\ntaijutsu or karate\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-23T03:20:58.370", "id": "43490", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-23T03:26:44.323", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-23T03:26:44.323", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36747", "parent_id": "3780", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThey are from daoism..The author has said they come from Taoism. No one knows\nand everyone says they are Hindu or Buddhism. If you just compared the\npatterns of the movements you can see the similarity. In Naruto they are\nmodified a bit from the original but sees a similarity much more than mudra\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-09-24T10:48:04.710", "id": "65646", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-24T10:48:04.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "62565", "parent_id": "3780", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Katanagatari\nwiki](http://katanagatari.wikia.com/wiki/Deviant_Blades#Nokogiri), the\nNokogiri doesn't have any poison but has the ability to cure the effects of\nthe poison from the other swords:\n\n> A wooden sword that sharply contrasts its title as \"King of Swords\", it is\n> in the possession of Zanki Kiguchi. Unlike the other Deviant Blades, it\n> doesn't have any of the poison found in Kiki's blades. It is the purest\n> blade with the ability to cure the effects of the poison the other swords\n> have on their owners. A small floral mark and yellowish streak on the sword\n> identifies it as Nokogiri.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-14T01:00:54.083", "id": "3784", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-14T01:00:54.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n Lumen Histoire is\nlocated in a secret underground room in Fairy Tail's [original\nbuilding](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/First_Fairy_Tail_Building). This\nsecret is only known by Fairy Tail's Guild Master and is passed on to the new\nMaster successively. Purehito showed it to Makarov when he became Master.\nYears later, Makarov showed it to Gildarts Clive when he told him that he\nwanted him to be next Master of Fairy Tail. According to Ivan Dreyar, Lumen\nHistoire is Fairy Tail's darkness, while according to Mavis Vermilion, it is\nFairy Tail's light.\n\n[Wiki link](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Lumen_Histoire)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-14T06:59:15.630", "id": "3789", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-14T06:59:15.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3788", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Girl in the Crystal is the 406th chapter of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail.\nThis is where you can find the answer to the main question of this thread. \nIt was revealed on the second to the latest chapter that Lumen Histoire is\nMavis Vermillion, frozen inside a crystal.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T02:47:10.037", "id": "15173", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-19T09:53:49.850", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-19T09:53:49.850", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "9241", "parent_id": "3788", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nhere it is in Chapter 406: The girl in the crystal\n\n> ..Mavis Vermillion \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T09:46:19.343", "id": "15178", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-19T12:05:13.970", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-19T12:05:13.970", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "9246", "parent_id": "3788", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nOriginally it was said that _[Lumen\nHistoire](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Lumen_Histoire)_ is located in the\nbasement. This has later (in chapter 4 been revealed, not to be a _thing_ ,\nbut a weapon. A weapon related to the sealed body of the first master of Fairy\ntail, Mavis. Therefore, more than just _Lumen Histoire_ , **it is Mavis'\nsealed body that lies beneath Fairy Tail's[original\nbuilding](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/First_Fairy_Tail_Building)**.\n\n\n\nQuote from the wiki:\n\n> Lumen Histoire is located in a secret underground room in Fairy Tail's\n> original building. This secret is only known by Fairy Tail's Guild Master\n> and is passed on to the new Master successively. Precht showed it to Makarov\n> when he became Master. Years later, Makarov showed it to Gildarts Clive when\n> he told him that he wanted him to be next Master of Fairy Tail. According to\n> Ivan Dreyar, Lumen Histoire is Fairy Tail's darkness, while according to\n> Mavis Vermilion, it is Fairy Tail's light.\n>\n> Later, it is revealed that Lumen Histoire is in fact the body of Mavis\n> Vermilion encased in a crystal. Makarov also calls it the \"ultimate weapon\"\n> of Fairy Tail. [source](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Lumen_Histoire)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-23T11:27:13.687", "id": "21753", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-23T11:27:13.687", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "3788", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt has not been disclosed in the manga yet and no one knows it except for the\nwriter Tite Kubo.\n\nIt probably won't be revealed real soon though... I speculate that first\nIchigo will master a new power to fight the Quincy king and then there will be\na fight between Kenpachi and the king again.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-11T16:33:16.663", "id": "4100", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-12T16:14:33.307", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-12T16:14:33.307", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1876", "parent_id": "3790", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAs of today's (16-04-2014) manga chapter (chapter 577) we got to know how\nZaraki Kenpachi's Zanpakuto looks and what its name is.\n\nThe name of his Zanpakuto is Nozarashi. Also, in order to get into Shikai\nstate the keyword seems to be \"swallow\".\n\nHow it looks:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-16T08:46:15.770", "id": "8698", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T13:47:53.877", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-08T13:47:53.877", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3790", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe ricochets the bullets off of his other ninpo, the blue ball he sent\nbouncing around the room.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-23T10:15:33.200", "id": "3891", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-23T10:15:33.200", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1818", "parent_id": "3791", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the novel, when Emonzaemon shot his bullets off all over the\nroom, he was aiming for things made of metal, like the nails on the\nfloorboards and columns in the room.\n\nAs his bullets ricocheted off metal objects, Penguin's luck was forced to be\npitted against the luck of the metal itself, which Penguin lost out to.\n\nThis was explained that no matter how lucky Penguin was, his luck would not\nlast forever, because like all humans, he will one day have to die. Metal, on\nthe other hand, has a much longer natural life span, far longer than that of\nhumans. Therefore the metal has accumulated much more luck over the centuries,\nif not millennia, far surpassing the natural luck of any given human gathered\nin their lifetime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-09T03:33:38.453", "id": "4076", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-09T03:33:38.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3791", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Naruto wiki page on\n[dōjutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/D%C5%8Djutsu), there are two potential\npoints of inspiration for the dōjutsu techniques\n(rinnegan/sharigan/byuakugan).\n\nThe first:\n\n> The concept of dōjutsu may have been inspired by Futaro Yamada's 1959 novel,\n> The Kōga Ninja Scrolls (甲賀忍法帖, Kōga Ninpōchō), which featured two warring\n> clans of ninja that had developed mutations and abilities through selective\n> breeding, with the young heirs to each clan possessing mysterious dōjutsu.\n\nOr alternately,\n\n> Another possible inspiration for dōjutsu in the series may also be found in\n> the Journey to the West classic's titular character, the Monkey God-King,\n> Sun Wukong: After having eaten all of the 'peaches of immortality', the\n> 'pills of longevity' and drunk all of the 'wine of immortality', and then\n> was captured after a long rebellion against Heaven, the Monkey God-King, Sun\n> Wukong, was then sealed into Lao Tzu's Eight Trigram furnace to be burned to\n> ash in order for Lao Tzu to reclaim his pills of longevity. But after 49\n> days, Sun Wukong broke out--stronger than ever--his body having been refined\n> by the flames instead of being reduced to ash, His eyes had also become a\n> fiery red and golden colour, becoming known as his \"Fiery-eyes golden-gaze\"\n> (火眼金睛, Huǒyǎn-Jīnjīng); an eye condition that allowed Sun Wukong to now see\n> what's really there just by looking and the ability to see and recognise the\n> real form of evil despite whatever form that it took on — but, likewise, it\n> also gave him a weakness to smoke, fogging his vision.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-15T12:07:47.560", "id": "3793", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-15T12:07:47.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1724", "parent_id": "3792", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe roman numeral represents the kakugane's serial number. There are only 100\nKakugane, from I (one) to C (one hundred). There are 29 known kakugane that\nare used (in Japan) in the series.\n\nKazuki's \"LXX\" kakugane is... special.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-17T02:33:14.567", "id": "3802", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-17T04:10:31.150", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-17T04:10:31.150", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nExactly as the first answer, but there were three special Kakuganes, which\nwere prototypes of black Kakuganes, but the three prototypes ended as a\nfailure. The one that had to live with it lived by draining the life forces of\neverything around him. The black Kakugane's bearer's (also known as a Victor\n1, 2 or 3 depending on his Kakugane) appearance also changes. His hair became\nof a glowing green, his skin turned into a burned red.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-29T17:08:17.617", "id": "30972", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-29T17:34:57.787", "last_edit_date": "2016-03-29T17:34:57.787", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "23076", "parent_id": "3801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is less to do with eye health as it does with [photosensitive\nepilepsy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy) (PSE):\n\n> Television has traditionally been the most common source of seizures in PSE.\n> For patients with PSE, it is especially hazardous to view television in a\n> dark room, at close range, or when the television is out of adjustment and\n> is showing a rapidly flickering image (as when the horizontal hold is\n> incorrectly adjusted). Modern digital television sets that cannot be\n> maladjusted in this way and refresh the image on the screen at very high\n> speed present less of a risk than older television sets.\n>\n> Some PSE patients, especially children, may exhibit an uncontrollable\n> fascination with television images that trigger seizures, to such an extent\n> that it may be necessary to physically keep them away from television sets.\n> Some patients (particularly those with cognitive impairments, although most\n> PSE patients have no such impairments) self-induce seizures by waving their\n> fingers in front of their eyes in front of bright light or by other means.\n\nSince many anime contain rapidly flickering images (think flashing lights),\nthe broadcasters ask to turn the lights on as it is especially hazardous in a\ndark room, for those susceptible.\n\n* * *\n\nThis is happening even recently:\n\n> In some cases, specific television programs featuring certain types of\n> visual stimuli have provoked seizures in a small minority of television\n> viewers, including some viewers with no prior history of seizures of any\n> kind. The \"Dennō Senshi Porygon\" episode of Pokémon is the most frequently\n> cited example ... broadcast of the program in Japan, which includes strong\n> flickering scenes, produced seizures in a surprising number of viewers, even\n> though the proportion of viewers affected was extremely low\n\nSee the [Public\nResponsibility](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Photosensitive_epilepsy&oldid=554545459#Public_responsibilities)\nsection of the page for more examples.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-17T15:29:56.763", "id": "3804", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-22T04:21:11.870", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-22T04:21:11.870", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "3803", "post_type": "answer", "score": 30 }, { "body": "\n\nOded's answer is correct. The most important reason to remain far away from\nthe screen is to avoid the risk of epileptic seizures. As a practice in anime,\nthis was started after the infamous Pokemon episode [Electric Soldier\nPorygon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon) aired, which\nresulted in 685 viewers being hospitalized for seizures. The Pokemon anime was\nput on hiatus for 4 months after the episode was broadcast, and the episode\nhas never been reaired in Japan or anywhere else.\n[Bulbapedia](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Electric_Soldier_Porygon)\nhas some more information on the episode as well.\n\nThat episode, which contained fast flashing scenes with a lot of red in the\nimages (particularly bad for epileptic people), resulted in stricter\nguidelines for flashing images in anime. Broadcast studios also elected to\nbegin showing these sorts of warnings, especially on children's programs,\nthough there is no official rule that they must do so. This is mentioned on\nthe [Japanese Wikipedia\nArticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF)\nabout the incident (called \"Pokemon Shock\"; see the [注意を促すテロップの表記\nsection](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF#.E6.B3.A8.E6.84.8F.E3.82.92.E4.BF.83.E3.81.99.E3.83.86.E3.83.AD.E3.83.83.E3.83.97.E3.81.AE.E8.A1.A8.E8.A8.98)),\nbut not in any English sources I was able to find.\n\nThere was a similar incident with the anime [YAT Anshin! Uchū\nRyokō](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAT_Anshin!_Uch%C5%AB_Ryok%C5%8D#Controversy)\nearlier in the same year, but it was not as large scale. The Pokemon incident\nis the one which spurred action from both the government and broadcast\ncompanies.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-17T15:58:23.220", "id": "3805", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-17T20:06:22.400", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-17T20:06:22.400", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3803", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt appears that _Bastard!!_ was discontinued due to issues with someone in\ncharge of the series, and there was not enough interest or commitment to\nreviving it later on. According to\n[AnimeNewsNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=519&page=22):\n\n> Bastard!! was suppose _[sic]_ to be eight episodes, but the creator was\n> arrested during the making of the seventh episodes _[sic]_ and was never\n> continued.\n\nI found this statement mirrored by some fan reviewers and forum threads, but\nunfortunately it does not seem that there are many reputable sources\nconfirming it. This is partly because I was not able to track down who they\nreferred to as the creator (since they are not referring to [Kazushi\nHagiwara](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushi_Hagiwara), the manga's\ncreator), and partly because the internet doesn't always have particularly\ngood information on lesser-known events from the early 1990s.\n\nHowever, I did find out that screenplay writer Hiroshi\nYamaguchi[[ja.wikipedia]](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%8F%A3%E5%AE%8F_\\(%E8%84%9A%E6%9C%AC%E5%AE%B6\\))\nretired some of his roles, including his role on the production committee, in\n1992 (the year the _Bastard!!_ OVAs were produced) and went to work with a\nsmaller group before going independent in 2001. This may have contributed to\nthe cancellation as well.\n\nLastly, based on reviews and threads talking about the OVAs, it seems they are\nnot as in-depth and were never as popular as the manga. This may have been a\ncontributing factor to the decision not to resume it with a more willing crew.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-17T19:04:09.043", "id": "3807", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-08T07:48:32.627", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-08T07:48:32.627", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3806", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe light novel doesn't give much context about the machine, and just\ndescribes it as a 小さな機械 (lit. small machine/apparatus).\n\nOne assume by the location ns accessories (hose) that it's for watering the\ngarden. Since the inhabitants of this city are all hikikomori-types, it would\nmake sense for machines to do all the work, life watering the plants.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-20T06:46:49.893", "id": "6453", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-20T06:46:49.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3808", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on the textual factors, the magazine shown is very likely a reference to\n[月刊サンデージェネックス](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%88%E5%88%8A%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9)\n([Monthly Sunday Gene-X](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Sunday_Gene-X)),\nwhich is also known as 月刊サンデーGX.\n\nLet us have a closer look at the magazine in the picture:\n\n\n\n * \"月刊\" printed at the top, and \"Monthly Yonday\" printed vertically at the side of the spine of the magazine tell us that it is a monthly magazine.\n\n * The text at the bottom of the spine reads \"Kougakukan\", which is most likely a reference to [Shougakukan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogakukan) ([小学館](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%AD%A6%E9%A4%A8)), which is the publisher of the actual magazine 月刊サンデーGX.\n\n * The logo of the magazine (月刊ヨンデーFF) has close resemblance to the logo of [月刊サンデーGX](http://sundaygx.com/). There is also the fact that there is only a difference of 1 Katakana, and how 2 English alphabet is used at the end of the name.\n\n\n\nLogo is taken from <http://sundaygx.com/>\n\nHowever, the logo as seen from the spine of 月刊サンデーGX magazine doesn't\nperfectly match up with the image from Hataraku Maou-sama. The screenshot\nbelow show how the spine of the magazine in 2006/2007 looks like (can't find a\nmore recent image). The word 月刊 is separated from サ in the actual magazine,\ncompared to the fictional magazine in Hataraku Maou-sama, where 月刊 is placed\non top of ヨ. There might be a second reference here that I do not know of.\n\n\n\nImage taken from <http://blog-\nimgs-27-origin.fc2.com/n/a/0/na005/20070204-1.jpg>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-21T11:42:42.707", "id": "3859", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-21T11:42:42.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3809", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCaptain Tsubasa IS a very popular anime that was said to inspire a sense of\nsportsmanship in children. Anime is well known for its influence on the\naudience.\n\nWhen it was dubbed, (in Hindi (Indian)) the names were not changed since they\ncould very easily be distinguished in my language as something foreign. The\npronunciation varied drastically though. I suppose the names were changed to\nmake things easier as it was aimed at a younger audience who might have\ntrouble remembering names they don't often hear in their regions. If I recall\nclearly, there weren't any changes in the English dub either.\n\nIt also depends on the dub team. If I were young and I saw complicated names\nin a cartoon (not familiar with anime then) and others, I might as well prefer\nsomething else without giving it much time or chance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T10:46:05.507", "id": "3971", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T10:46:05.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1839", "parent_id": "3810", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe OVA boom describes the exploding popularity of direct to video anime\nduring the 1980s and 1990s that started when some of the very first OVAs\nbecame commercially successful in the 1980s. Specifically the OVA \"Megazone\n23\" became one of the first popular OVAs of the 1980s and sparked a chain\nreaction of studios making OVAs.\n\nBack in the day the only serious way studios thought to make money off their\nanime was to either broadcast on television or make it into a movie. (Dragon\nBall, Grave of Fireflies) Well, the introduction of the first successful\n\"direct to video\" animes showed studios that it was possible to make a lot of\nmoney off of sending anime straight to VHS or DVD for people to buy. This\nserved as a milestone in the anime industry as the first time OVAs became a\ncredible marketing model for anime.\n\nThis OVA boom in the 1980s did a number of things. First, it gave the anime\nstudios a lot of wiggle room as to what they could turn into anime. When\nmaking anime for TV or movies the only choices are to make a long running plot\nor an incredibly short plot. With the OVAs an anime series could be of varying\nlengths and run times as long as they told the story. This gave anime writers\nmore freedom as to what the plots of their anime could be since they didn't\njust have to write for TV or movies. Writers were no longer bound by the\nformat of anime, they could write what they wanted and turn it into a 13\nepisode series for OVA release.\n\nOVA popularity also meant that anime studios could spend more money making\nbetter quality anime since they could put more money into making 13 episodes\nas opposed to having to save up money to animate a long running TV series.\n\nThe OVA boom basically is the rise of the OVA in the 1980s as a result of\nstudios seeing OVA as a credible way to make money off of their anime. If I\ngot a couple of details wrong, I'm sorry about that but I hope this answered\nyour question.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-18T22:33:50.217", "id": "3823", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-18T22:33:50.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1796", "parent_id": "3811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBesides the quality of the graphics, you've already said it, the 2011 version\nis more faithful in the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T07:00:06.090", "id": "3871", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-31T11:56:04.863", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-31T11:56:04.863", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are only minor differences between the old Hunter × Hunter and the new\nHunter × Hunter. The main reason they decided to do a remake was because of\nthe viewer group. Almost no one would decide to pick up Hunter × Hunter if it\nwere to start right in the middle after more than a 10-year break.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T21:13:38.277", "id": "3883", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T22:08:46.723", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-22T22:08:46.723", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1814", "parent_id": "3812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHunter × Hunter 2011 is the 'reboot' of the original series of 1999. It was\ncreated in order to improve the quality of the animation (ex. cute Bisky), and\nbecause the 1999 series was very popular; they rebooted the series to gain\nsome more popularity. Also, the reboot completely follows the manga and\nreduces huge amount of fillers, like the Greed Island arc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-07T16:12:28.790", "id": "4670", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-07T17:16:00.007", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-07T17:16:00.007", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "2177", "parent_id": "3812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm a Japanese, so please excuse my English.\n\nI ignore a lot of small changes, and want to talk about the cause.\n\nSpeaking from the conclusion, the notable differences are the following, I\nthink:\n\n 1. Original Manga's Progress\n 2. Broadcasting Station\n 3. Main Target\n\n**1\\. Original Manga's Progress**\n\nTogashi is working now. That's all.\n\n**2\\. Broadcasting Station**\n\nFuji TV is following One Piece, Toriko and Dragon Ball. It is the HxH 2009's\nstation, and faithful to the original. Fuji's slogan is \"NO FUN, NO TV\", and\nis known as the most vulgar TV station in Japan. But I really, really love\nFuji's \"noitaminA\".\n\nThe 2011's Nippon TV is the most traditional commercial broadcasting station.\nThis oldest station is known as the most aggressive technical pioneer. Maybe\nthe original fans hate their editing, and the children's parents like it. I\nthink that the 140 times same OP songs is their attempt, too.\n\n**3\\. Main Target**\n\nIn Japan, HxH 2009 was the \"Saturday Golden Time Anime\"; then from episode 62\nonward, it became OVA. HxH 2011 was the \"Sunday Morning Anime\"; then from\nepisode 99 onward, it became \"Midnight Anime\". Both began broadcasting in time\nslots meant for \"Children's Anime\" in Japan, and OVA and \"Midnight Anime\" were\nthe \"Adults' Anime\".\n\nThe nature of the children's time slot is slightly different between the two\ncontinuities. \"Saturday Golden Time Anime\" means that children watch the anime\nwith their parents at dinnertime. \"Golden Time TV Program\" is the TV Program\nthat airs between 18:00 ~ 20:00 in Japan. If the Golden Time Anime airs on\nSaturdays, TV station is expecting the conversation with the children. In\nother words, children logical conversation with the parent is satisfied are\neligible. This is why HxH 2009 did not refrain from grotesque representations,\nin contrast to HxH 2011. The reason why the TV broadcast was finished is\nbecause the original stock was gone. By the way, there is no relation to the\nanimation named \"Golden Time\".\n\nOn Sunday mornings, I think you are still sleeping, right? In this time slot,\nmost young children are watching TV, so a more wholesome animation is\nrequired. Japanese parents do not like their children watching torn heads or\nhearts or fingers without supervision. I think the reason of the change in\ntime slot is that there are few parents who like their children watching torn\norgans in anime. Then I wonder what kind of adult gets up in the early Sunday\nmornings, but I do not have the answer. I think they are probably also the\ntype that does not turn on the TV during dinnertime.\n\nAnyway, I do not write in detail because spoilers, but HxH 2011 thoroughly\nignored the content of the original manga. I'll never forgive the corruption\nrelated to Kite, the worst difference for me:\n\n> In the original manga and the 2009 anime, the reason why Gon aimed to become\n> a hunter is because Kite told him that Gon's father is a superior hunter.\n> Gon thought his father was dead. First appearance: Kite gave Gon a scolding\n> \"you should not come near the territory of dangerous organisms\". \n> \n> In the 2011 anime, Gon has forgotten the existence of Kite, and they don't\n> know each other, not even the names. First appearance: Kite had been fishing\n> on the side of the nests of chimera ants.\n\nFor more information, you can read [this\nwiki](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Kite#Anime_and_Manga_Differences).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-02T21:47:21.403", "id": "13213", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T19:03:42.363", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T19:03:42.363", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3412", "parent_id": "3812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nThe fillers, OMG the Fillers! Animation quality is better in new. Stuff\nregarding kite, see the wikia for story related differences they have a good\nlist. Also the soundtrack has a noticeable difference. Not that one soundtrack\nis better than the other, as the new one is pretty good. There were scenes I\nthought the 2009 soundtrack did better (just felt darker for some reason).\n\nKurapica vs Uvogin, \nPhantom Troupe's assault on the Auction (when Chrollo conducts the music of\nwar), \nPakunoda's death scene with the chains\n\nSidenote - Overall I prefer the new one minus the music parts listed above.\n(sadly i also really enjoyed some of the soundtrack of the original FMA even\nthough FMA:Brotherhood was better overall. I wish they would keep original\nmusic people enjoyed in these Anime remakes or integrated in a way that did\nhomage to it)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-12T16:46:01.510", "id": "13369", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-12T16:46:01.510", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "3812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nthe intro/outros are different. otherwise, _(I just watched all of the 1999v,\nand started w/the 2011, and could barely tell the difference...except)_ the\n2011 in/out theme is a bit obnoxious, while I'm partial to the 1999 version.\n\nimo the 1999 ending song (with the female voice) is the best. otherwise, I've\nwatched all of the 1999v, and up to ep11 on the 2011v... with the verdict of\nthe 2011v is a quicker story, and one youtube version (1-5 combined into one\nvideo) completely skips the first episode entirely.\n\none of my favorite parts was in the 1999v ep1, when Gon meets the fox-bear,\nand Kite, and this is a very touching part of the story that is left out of\nthe 2011v. This sub-story also comes into play later on, and should be\nconsidered important..so, if you only watch the 2011v, then I recommend to\n(also, at least) watch the 1999v ep.1 as well to get a few extra bits of the\nstory.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-21T05:49:12.327", "id": "28185", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-21T05:49:12.327", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19856", "parent_id": "3812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the 2011 version of _Hunter x Hunter_ has better music cast and\ndrawings than the 1999 version.\n\nThe story in the 1999 version stops in the middle, but the 2011 version\ncontinues until the end, although it has many fights, some sad moments, and\nhappy ones.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-04-24T16:40:36.033", "id": "57362", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-24T19:55:31.977", "last_edit_date": "2020-04-24T19:55:31.977", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "52963", "parent_id": "3812", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTestuo (probably like Akira before him) finally gains full control of his\npowers, and uses it to initiate the creation of a new universe. In effect he\nis now the creator god of this new universe, and he proclaims this at the end:\n\n\"I am Tetsuo\"\n\n_This_ is the real Tetsuo, he is saying. His essence without the limiting\nshell of his mortal body. The pure energy of his being distilled into a pocket\nuniverse.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-21T17:10:51.207", "id": "3861", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-21T17:10:51.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "3813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nI think I may disagree a little here, since one of the main themes of the film\nis evolution and the main subtext is about puberty, (Tetsuo being unable to\n\"control his body\" and his inability to \"ride Kaneda's bike\") I think Tetsuo\nsimply reached the next step in our plane of existence. Like Akira, Tetsuo has\naccepted his role as a superior being; however, since he is aware of the\ndamage that he creates (told through dream sequences, and Kaneda's exploration\nof his psyche), he is also partly human. He is aware of any and all change\naround him, including the change within himself. He undergoes a total\nmetamorphosis, completing his evolutionary destiny. By recognizing that he is\na supreme being with mortal qualities, he comes to accept himself thus his\nstatement, that he's neither the experiment known as #41, nor is he the\nresentful boy, he is and has always been, Tetsuo.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-30T06:33:33.530", "id": "6083", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-30T06:33:33.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2825", "parent_id": "3813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI do not negate or confirm whether he has created a new universe or just come\nto terms with his pubescent angst... I would say it is just as likely that he\nis merely coming to terms with **death**? But, what is the difference? That is\nthe beauty of the story. It could be all three... I mean, creating a new\nuniverse and now becoming its god, that's insane. Not to say impossible, but\nin our view it would be the same as death.\n\nI am curious about the puberty undertones, I can see that but I have to say\n_undertone_ , no more. I feel that Akira is social commentary at it's peak and\npuberty may be a theme, but not the main one. I like the idea of a new\nuniverse but I feel that it is not obviously stated. Yet I cannot deny that it\nis a great analysis of the ending. So, having never read the manga, because I\nam a cheap jerk or whatever, I feel that Tetsuo dies. He dies, only in our\neyes. It is a perfect ending. We do not know what comes after death, and I\nagree the theme is about the Star Child, human evolution, 2001 Space Odyssey,\netc. So all these interpretations are essentially the same ending. AMAZING. I\ndon't know. AKIRA! Every time I watch it I am blown away. Tears. Amazed. Or as\nKei said, \"Fantastic.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-28T10:29:11.293", "id": "13678", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-28T12:15:26.200", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-28T12:15:26.200", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8171", "parent_id": "3813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is due to he and Akira moving on to another plane of reality and creating a\nnew universe. This directly correlates to the ending of the manga when Kaneda\nis trapped inside the energy wave as Akira engulfs Tetsuo to keep him from\ngetting too out of control. Those pages talk about the initial genetic testing\non humans which led the test subjects towards a new step in evolution. The\nconclusion being the possibility of creating a new universe via the powers\ngranted through genetic manipulation and high doses of experimental drugs over\nsubsequent generations of test subjects. Ultimately, the power talked about in\nboth the film and the comic is \"the power\". It is the power that drives\nphysics, chemistry, and all of life. It is the power to both create and\ndestroy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-11T07:42:47.407", "id": "14388", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-11T07:42:47.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8654", "parent_id": "3813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n\"I am Tetsuo\" is a great and memorable line, but albeit a tricky one to\ndecipher. I believe the intent is to serve two points to the audience,\nanything further might be reading too much into it.\n\nThe first point serves to inform to the user that Tetsuo is still \"alive\" (as\nin he' still out there), but not necessarily in a physical sense. The second\npoint serves to point out to the audience the _individual_ entity know as\n\"Tetsuo\" still exists. Not as part of Akira or as a new merged entity, but as\nTetsuo in one form or another.\n\nThough this doesn't necessarily doesn't explain or foreshadows anything, it's\na reminder to the audience that somewhere in the vastness of space of that\nworld... Tetsuo is out there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-11T22:21:19.647", "id": "14393", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-11T22:21:19.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that Tetsuo had created a new world to inhabit as a higher power and\nnot in a firey passion but in a benevolent society. Perhaps he had just said I\nam Tetsuo to to hint at his conciouaness thrives on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-12T05:57:08.780", "id": "19992", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-12T05:57:08.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13192", "parent_id": "3813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I can tell (according to\n[this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate)):\n\n> Practically all hand-drawn animation is designed to be played at 24 FPS.\n> Actually hand-drawing 24 unique frames per second (\"1's\") is costly. Even in\n> big budget films usually hand-draw animation shooting on \"2's\" (one hand-\n> drawn frame is shown twice, so only 12 unique frames per second)[6] and some\n> animation is even drawn on \"4's\" (one hand-drawn frame is shown four times,\n> so only six unique frames per second).\n\nOther sources (of varying degrees of reliability) say:\n\n> Japanimation runs at an average of 24 frames per second, with main objects\n> animated at 8 to 12 fps and background objects as low as 6 to 8 fps.\n\n([Source](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071111114612AA52dSO))\n\n> Decent/high quality animation in general is done at the 24 frames/second\n> rate (this also includes animation in other mediums, such as claymation and\n> CG'd work). Now, depending on the 'look' and 'feel' they are aiming for--all\n> of those 24 frames may be slightly different (in succession) than each\n> other, to give 'movement' to the object on the screen (as in, none of the\n> frames look exactly alike. There are slight variations between all frames),\n> or only 12 of them may be different from each other--every other frame (in\n> succession with each other) being varied, with an exact copy of the last\n> frame before it acting as the ‘filler’ frame. So it's like 12 pairs of\n> different frames--the first frame in each set varied from the last and its\n> copy behind it to lengthen the time the image is on the screen.\n\n([Source](http://www.animenation.net/forums/showthread.php?t=201462))\n\nA general consensus, from the little that I can find, is that most anime now\nseem to have a frame rate of 24, but they often are 2s, which means that every\nframe is doubled so there are 12 unique frames per second. For example, a\ntorrent site for Claymore lists the frame rate as 23.9, which is really 24\nfps. So to conclude, Akira is not the only anime to be produced at 24fps.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-19T18:43:06.087", "id": "3835", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-19T18:43:06.087", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nAs can probably be seen by the response, the way the question is made can lead\nto misleading answers.\n\nAkira was filmed completely using 24 distinct images per second to achieve 24\nframes per second. This is normally called \"shooting on ones\", where no frames\nare repeated consecutively.\n\nMost animation is done \"on twos\", which mean 12 distinct images per second are\nused to achieve 24 frames per second, by repeating as necessary.\n\nMost Anime is done from 2 to 12 distinct images per second to achieve 24\nframes per second, by repeating as necessary.\n\nHigh-Quality studios usually use a mix, having some animation running on ones\nbut the majority of the feature running on twos (Ghibly, for example, does\nthis a lot, usually it's very obvious in the smoothness of the animation).\n\nAkira is the most famous animated full feature done in \"true\" 24fps for the\nwhole length of the movie. I'd argue the other most famous one is the\nunreleased \"The Thief and the Cobbler\", partly due to its bizarre history and\npartly because when talking about the fact that it's done \"on ones\" is always\nmentioned.\n\nSo the answer to your question is, if taken literally, that no, it's not the\nonly one \"filmed\" at 24fps (most, if not all, are).\n\nThe answer to your actual question is \"yes\", as it's the only full-length\nanime production **animated** on ones, at the full 24fps.\n\nDepending on whether you want to consider \"The Thief and the Cobbler\" (being\nas it is unreleased), it is the only \"modern\" (post-1950) full-length animated\nfeature **animated** on ones.\n\nI would've given the willfully obtuse answer to your literal question instead\nof your intended question, but I see that's been done already :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-10T11:05:52.267", "id": "12748", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-10T11:05:52.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7546", "parent_id": "3814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nMost anime today would be running at 24fps or higher, I don't know the\nspecifics, but the animation in itself is mostly animated on the 3s (8\ndrawings per second), and rarely animated on the 2s (12 drawings per second),\nand even more rarely on the 1s (24 pictures per second / a picture a frame).\nStuff like CGI, which you would find is more recent anime, are mostly running\nat 24fps.\n\nWhen it comes to _Akira_ on the other hand, there is a common misconception\nthat it is all animated on 1s. That is not true, not even _The Thief and the\nCobbler_ was animated on 1s, though Richard Williams was known for always\ninsisting on animating on ones, there are some scenes animated on the twos.\n\nYou've probably heard this before, but animation is a tedious and long\nprocess, and there is no reason for a studio to ever spend so much time and\neffort and money on animating on the ones.\n\nThere are even moments where animating on the ones is the wrong way to go,\nslower scenes that aren't as energetic are much better animated on the twos as\nit creates a much more natural movement (natural isn't smooth), and there\naren't enough skilled inbetweeners to work on a two-hour picture animated on\nthe ones, _Akira_ wouldn't look as good if it was.\n\n_Akira_ is mostly animated on the 2s and 3s, and it has a few bits animated on\nthe 1s, but still way more than most anime which would usually be animated on\nthe 3s. Most of the ultra-smooth scenes that you think are on the 1s are\nprobably on the 2s.\n\nI'm not trying to say that I'm better than people, but there are a lot of\nYouTubers feeding this misinformation when giving their analysis/ essays.\nThere are so many documentaries on the making of Akira where they say it's\nmostly animated on 2s and 3s. If you don't believe me then at least give this\nvideo a watch, he kinda clears things out.\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtYpif-dLjI>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-24T17:53:33.440", "id": "59650", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-24T19:57:42.323", "last_edit_date": "2020-09-24T19:57:42.323", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "56378", "parent_id": "3814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nMost western animation is mostly done on 2s both slow and fast movements are\ndone on 2s, while the very fast movements would be on 1s on particular\noccasions. Anime is usually done on 3s , even though Akira is 24fps, so it's\nanimated both on 3s and 2s in some scenes, even Anime is mostly done 3s, it's\nrarely animated on 2s. Billy Plympton's shorts would be done 4s, 5s and 6s,\nbecause that's really peculiar for animator like him to make animation like\nthat since most animators do animation in 1s and 2s, and most Japanese\nanimators do animation in 3s. YouTubers make a lot documentaries and video\nessays about the 24 fps myth about Akira.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-01-02T01:22:27.020", "id": "61455", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-02T01:22:27.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58010", "parent_id": "3814", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm late to answer but most answers here have some misunderstanding and\napproved answer is wrong so here is some explanation\n\n 0. Akira is not on 1s and probably there is no any other movie or TV series on 1s. Look about Akira [here](https://exploringakira.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/akira-the-24-frames-per-second-myth/) Some explanation\n 1. All cartoons have the same framrate or fps of 24 which is standart TV framerate\n 2. To make animation cheaper the same frame is often shown several times. So if you show the same frame 2 times you need only 12 frames to draw. If you show it 3 times you need 8 frames to draw. This is called on 1s, on 2s on 3s\n 3. Most 2d animation are either on 2s or 3s including Disney, Ghibly etc. Big movies are usually on 2s. TV series are often on 3s\n 4. 3d animation is usually on 1s as frames are interpolated by software. \"cutout\" animation made in AfterEffects or similar software could be done on 1s too.\n 5. There is probably no 2d drawn movies or tv-series made totally on 1s. The closest example was unfinished \"The Thief and the Cobbler\" but even it wasn't fully on 1s.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-06-12T18:33:20.030", "id": "68048", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-12T18:33:20.030", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "72366", "parent_id": "3814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you recall from the OVA and manga, during dream sequences, the appearance\nof the gun's so-called \"spirit\" bears a strong resemblance to Baron Harkonnen\nfrom the David Lynch adaptation of _Dune_. This is strongly implied to be a\ntribute/reference to the _Dune_ series (or at least the movie).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T01:35:11.090", "id": "3960", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T01:35:11.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3815", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nSeras Victoria experiences repeated visions of [Baron Vladimir\nHarkonnen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Harkonnen) from the David\nLynch film \"Dune\" claiming to be to be the spirit of her gun.\n\nAs far as I can tell, there's no\n[canon](http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/161/282/161282537_640.jpg) [sic] explanation\nfor the reason why it chooses to manifest itself in this particular way, aside\nfrom the fact that her gun is actually called **The Harkonnen** (which is\nitself a contraction of the formal name of the gun; e.g.\n\n * **H** ellsing **A** rms **A** nti-Midian **C** annon\" becomes \"HAA Cannon\" becomes \"[Harkonnen](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Harkonnen)\").\n\n\n\nAlthough she is initially scared by the Baron's 'spirit' and runs from it on\nseveral occasion, it does ultimately provide a successful (and **wholly\naccurate** ) warning that she is being targeted by a Rio S.W.A.T. team which\nwould seem to indicate that there's more to her visions than mere\nintrospection brought on by extreme psychological pressure.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T19:16:29.577", "id": "7545", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T19:35:14.250", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-17T19:35:14.250", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3776", "parent_id": "3815", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nOkay, this is kinda pushing it, but if you see on Westwood Dune series RTS\n(Dune, Dune 2/ Dune 2000, Emperor: Battle For Dune) (which, kind of, based on\nDune universe, kind like Alternate Universe or something), you see that House\nHarkonnen, a faction in this game, is kinda... obsessed with firepower.\nLudicrous Firepower and Armor, at the expense of speed and utility. Their\nultimate weapon is a nuclear missile.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-30T08:57:06.843", "id": "38678", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-30T08:57:06.843", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30624", "parent_id": "3815", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost of the sources stated that Lupin III is half-French, half-Japanese -\nsources: [1](http://lupin-iii.generalanswers.org/),\n[2](http://wikipedia.qwika.com/de2en/Lupin_III#Ars.C3.A8ne_Lupin_III),\n[3](http://lupin.wikia.com/wiki/Arsene_Lupin_III#Origins),\n[4](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Lupin_III). There are also\nsources that state that his nationality is unknown - sources:\n[1](http://www.lupinthethird.info/personages/char_lupin_en.html),\n[2](http://www.lupinencyclopedia.com/profiles/characters/arsene_lupin_iii).\nBut according to\n[this](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/LupinIII):\n\n> Lupin is half-French, half-Japanese, though Monkey Punch, Lupin's creator\n> himself said (in materials to promote the first Lupin movie) that he\n> considered Lupin to be of no nationality – a citizen of the world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-26T07:23:38.323", "id": "4226", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-26T15:02:59.200", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-26T15:02:59.200", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3816", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nViz Media was responsible for localizing the Battle Angel Alita manga, and the\nreason apparently makes no sense, (from [this\npage](http://everything2.com/title/Gunnm)):\n\n> Gally's name is changed to Alita. Why this was done is unknown, but the\n> person who decided on the change tried to \"validate\" it, explaining that\n> coincidentally Alita comes from Russian and has something to do with Mars\n> (which is where Gally is from, incidentally).\n\nThere's a dream sequence where in the original Japanese version, Gally's dream\nself is named \"Alita\". The Viz version has the two reversed.\n\n> Back in 1993, as Kishiro-sensei was quickly bringing things to a close with\n> the Gunnm manga, he came across a plot point which he could use to take a\n> jab at Viz. Early on, Kishiro learned that Viz decided to change, for\n> reasons that truly make no sense, Gally's name to Alita. Towards the end of\n> the series, Dr. Nova traps Gally in the Oruboros machine, in an attempt to\n> crush her spirit. At one point, Nova is talking with Ido and suggests her\n> name to be (in the japanese version) \"Alita,\" the cat's name is \"Gally.\"\n> (Gally and the cats' names are important). Unfortunately, Viz decides to\n> play along word for word, and Nova names her \"Gally\" and the cat is \"Alita.\"\n> So much for that potshot.\n\nAdditionally, Viz changed a bunch of names of a city, facility, and the\ncomputer (via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita),\nwith emphasis):\n\n> Besides renaming Gally to Alita, the North American version of the manga\n> also changed the city of **Salem** to **Tiphares** , after _Tiferet_. Since\n> Kishiro also used the name Jeru for the facility atop Salem, **Jeru** was\n> renamed **Ketheres** in the translation, after _Keter_. To further develop\n> the **Biblical theme** in the original series, Salem's main computer was\n> named **Melchizedek** , \"the king of Salem\" and \"priest to the Most High\n> God\".\n\nAlthough \"Alita\" isn't a bible reference (western religion), a number of these\nnames were changed, and Alita is a western name (moreso than \"Gally\"), so that\nit's more accessible to western audiences.\n\n* * *\n\nEDIT: I found the quote, from AN's [\"Ask John\"\ncolumn](http://www.animenation.net/blog/2000/01/10/ask-john-why-is-battle-\nangel-called-gally-on-the-dvd/):\n\n> In the October 1993 issue of Animerica, Fred Burke, co-translator for the\n> Viz Comics Battle Angel Alita manga explains that, “For a Viz Comic to work,\n> it’s got to appeal to more than just the hard-core manga and anime crowd;”\n> therefore there were several alterations made in the translation of the\n> manga. Yukito Kishiro’s title Gunnm, a compound of Gun Dream, was re-named\n> Battle Angel Alita. Gally, the protagonist, had her name changed to Alita, a\n> name, Burke explains, means “noble:” a name that he discovered while\n> searching through a book of baby names. Burke also explains that, for no\n> reason given, the floating city Zalem was re-named Tiphares: a name meaning\n> “beauty,” taken from the Qabalah and the mystical Tree of Life. Furthermore,\n> Yugo’s name was given a cosmetic change to Hugo for American readers.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-19T02:49:34.520", "id": "3826", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-19T02:54:51.713", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-19T02:54:51.713", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3817", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nChanging names is quite usual for translators/publishers when it comes to\nforeign works. Apparently their idea is that people couldn't possibly buy\nsomething with \"foreign-sounding\" names because that would be too confusing\nfor our little brains. It's all about marketing. This is why \"Harry Potter and\nthe Philosopher's Stone\" has been changed to \"HP and the Sorcerer's Stone\" for\nthe American market: because the publisher feared that people would run away\nif they saw the word \"philosophy\" in the title.\n\nNow you'll have to explain to me why it is the case here but not in Europe:\nfor instance I know that the French version of Yukito Kishiro's works has kept\nevery names and it's been a huge hit, not just among the \"hard-core manga and\nanime crowd\" as Burke thinks it would be. At some point it would be nice to\nsee publishers and translators respect the work of the author and the\nintelligence of the readers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-14T19:07:15.003", "id": "43779", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-14T19:07:15.003", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37164", "parent_id": "3817", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nGALLY is the original name for the Gally Battle Angel Japanese cartoon. This\nis a sad attempt to make political correctness for giving a. Few props to\nrecognize a hispanic female heroine. Much like, the thinking that ghost in a\nshell should be played by a european in the live movie version. It sure would\nbe nice to have Gally identified as Japanese in both the big screen animation\nand live movie version.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-12T19:35:00.223", "id": "50812", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-12T19:35:00.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44932", "parent_id": "3817", "post_type": "answer", "score": -4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe word \"Alita\" in spanish means \"Small Wing\", so it also makes some sense\nwhen you translate the title to spanish \" Battle Angel's Small Wing\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-15T19:47:26.703", "id": "50849", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-15T19:47:26.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44988", "parent_id": "3817", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe magazine [_QuickJapan_ vol. 81](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4778311566)\npublished interviews with the authors Ohba and Obata, and the editor Soichi\nAida. Aida stated that:\n\n> Like how the number of players who play a sport would increase after a manga\n> on the sport gets popular, I do think about people who would think \"I might\n> try drawing a manga\" after reading _Bakuman_. If _Bakuman_ does well, we\n> would see more people aspiring to be a manga artist. If we have more manga\n> artist candidates, the future of _Jump_ is bright. As an editor, I do dream\n> about those stuff.\n\nHe might be drawing an analogy with how the population of Go players increased\nsignificantly after Obata's earlier work _Hikaru no Go_. More competitors +\nsurvival of the fittest = only the best of the best can remain... that's the\neditor's point of view.\n\nMeanwhile, Obata has stated that he has always loved Fujiko Fujio A's _Manga\nMichi_ (a semi-autobiographical work about the Fujiko Fujio duo), and the idea\nfor _Bakuman_ started from wanting to do a _Manga Michi_ of his own. So, you\ncan say that it was less about \"bringing in fresh air to the industry\" for the\nauthors, at least; but there was no reason to keep the editors and the\npublisher from anticipating it.\n\nAs for the effect on the industry, the number of young people bringing their\nmanga to _Jump_ office did increase, according to the QJ magazine.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T23:06:30.357", "id": "4892", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T23:06:30.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "3818", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe OVA stated that the two timelines are real,\n\nIn the past Sinohara walked the girl (Yukie Kashima) in the snow, he liked her\nbut he didn't say anything, maybe because he didn't have the courage to do so.\n\nThe first timeline is when Sinohara met her at the class reunion. They had a\ngood time together and they both liked each other. When finally Sinohara tried\nto say something she stopped him and said good bye. In this timeline we all\nknow that she is some kind of spirit.\n\nThe second timeline is when Sinohara wakes up again, and he hasn't gone to the\nclass reunion. Although he didn't see her again, he got the clue that his\nexperience was real. The proof is the postcard he got in the second coat. And\nhe knew what Noa get for him before she even told him.\n\nIt's a love story, the spirit just wanted to say goodbye for the last time\nbefore she went to a place far away, and this is the most romantic and fun way\nshe could ever done that without making him scared or sad.\n\nps: it will help you if you watch Groundhog Day, the movie made on 1993. It\nhas looping time, different from \"Snow Rondo\" but essentially the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-18T14:37:01.827", "id": "4154", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-18T16:44:19.570", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-18T16:44:19.570", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "1917", "parent_id": "3819", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIts just about Asuma moving on from idealistic dreams of how his future would\nbe, lines like \"I look at this and think, is this really where I want to be?\"\nHint towards this interpretation and the scene at the end where lets go of the\nred balloon showing that he's satisfied with what has life had become. This\ninterpretation is further solidified with the events that take place in\nepisode 16, showing us that Asuma is having to face the difficult parts of his\npast becoming a part of his future.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-14T07:32:06.820", "id": "38942", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-14T08:14:30.993", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-14T08:14:30.993", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "30920", "parent_id": "3819", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe golden age of anime began in the 1980s with [Mobile Suit\nGundam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam) and [Space Battleship\nYamato](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato).\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Anime#The_Golden_Age_of_Anime):\n\n> Mobile Suit Gundam (1979), the first Real Robot anime, was also initially\n> unsuccessful but was revived as a theatrical film in 1982. The success of\n> the theatrical versions of Yamato and Gundam are seen as the beginning of\n> the anime boom of the 1980s, which many consider the beginning of the\n> \"golden age of anime\". This anime boom also marked the beginning of\n> \"Japanese Cinema's Second Golden Age\", which would last until around the\n> beginning of the 2000s.\n\nMecha animes and space operas began becoming popular after Star Wars was\nreleased in 1977. The major players were Mobile Suit Gundam and Space\nBattleship Yamato in the beginning. Hayao Miyazaki released [Nausicaä of the\nValley of the\nWind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_%28film%29),\nwhich is considered one of the most influential anime of all time, during that\ntime. His company became Studio Ghibli.\n\nThe introduction of the martial arts genre also happened in this time with the\nrelease of [Dragon Ball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball) in 1984.\nThe anime fandom, filled with people known as otaku, began forming at this\ntime, concentration on magazines such as\n[Animage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animage), which published Nausicaä of\nthe Valley of the Wind, and\n[Newtype](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtype_%28magazine%29). The sports\ngenre also began in the 1980s with the release of [Captain\nTsubasa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tsubasa).\n\nThe beginning of OVA (Origial Video Animation) also happened in the 1980s,\nbringing anime to the home video market; the first OVA released was Moon Base\nDallos.\n\nThe fall of the 1980s anime boom had a few causes. The first is that the\nsuccess of Nausicaä led to an increase in experimental and high budget anime\nfilms. Many of these were relatively unsuccessful, not making up the\nexorbitant amount of money spent to create them. [Royal Space Force: The Wings\nof\nHonneamise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Space_Force:_The_Wings_of_Honneamise)\nhad a budget of ¥800 million and\n[Akira](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29) had a budget of $11\nmillion (which, if that is the 1988 budget, was approximately ¥1.408 billion).\nNeither of these films, along with many other experimental anime films, were\nbox office successes in Japan, though Akira did bring in fans from the West.\nBecause of these failures, many anime production companies began closing.\nStudio Ghibli was one of the only successful anime production companies at the\nend of the 1980s with the film [Kiki's Delivery\nService](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki%27s_Delivery_Service). These\nfailures, along with the bursting of the economic bubble and the death of\nOsamu Tezuka, a main player in the experimental anime field, lead to the fall\nof the 1980s era of anime.\n\nRegarding the moe boom, according to\n[this](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moe):\n\n> Another theory asserts that its usage stems from 2channel in the 1990s when\n> the word was used to refer to female characters who were “hybrids of the\n> Lolicon (lolita complex) and bishoujo (beautiful girls) genres,” Hotaru\n> Tomoe from Sailor Moon being an early example of a moekko character.\n>\n> In an article written by Patrick W. Galbraith of Tokyo University,\n> Galibraith explores the origins and meanings behind the term “moe”. He\n> states that the term originated from 2channel in the 1990s in the discussion\n> of young, cute, and innocent girls and their burning passion for them. This\n> term likely picked up because moeru (nominalized as moe) while meaning ‘to\n> bud or sprout,’, is homophonous with the verb ‘to burn.’\n>\n> The sexualization of underage (or underage-looking) characters in manga goes\n> back to the late ’70s, when underground and adult manga artists such as\n> Disappearance Diary creator Hideo Azuma began to work around censorship laws\n> by drawing characters without pubic hair. This was the beginning of the\n> lolicon (Lolita Complex) trend.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-19T02:35:53.773", "id": "3825", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-19T02:35:53.773", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3822", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter Kei comes to, he finds out that the Earth he knows has been fractured\ninto many different realities, a majority of the of the planet being\ncontrolled by 3 main powers: the Emaan, the Terram, and the Mu.\n\nThe Emaan are nearly identical to humans, except for prehensile antenna-like\ntendrils that come out from the backs of their necks. Emaan males have one,\nwhile females have two. They seems to respond and move based on the emotions\nof the host (like cat ears or dog tails). These tendrils don't exert enough\npower to actually be able to move or lift heavy objects, so it's assumed that\nto be some evolutionary artifact. It's mentioned that in the series Emaan\nacting as spies in Terram have these surgically removed.\n\nThe Terram are probably closely related to the humans of Kei's world. The Mu\nare a robotic race, they were created to serve their creator, but later turned\non them and wiped them out.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-09T04:18:21.360", "id": "4078", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-10T15:40:41.980", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-10T15:40:41.980", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3824", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLayer 05 \"Distortion\" shows how Mika goes mad (spoiler from here).\n\nAt the beginning of the episode, she is apathetic but doesn't show any symptom\nof mental frailty. However, she is exposed to various traumatic events:\n\n 1. She witnessed a car accident on Shibuya caused by the traffic lights cracking, without any reaction while all around people are scared.\n 2. She has seen her sister both in person and on a big screen on Shibuya, but Lain doesn't confirm the fact.\n 3. She got a handkerchief containing a message:\n\n\n\n> Hell is full of the dead. and the dead shall wander.\n\nShe use the handkerchief to clean a stain caused by a boy. Later, she reads\nthis message on a coffee stain:\n\n\n\n> Fulfill the prophecy.\n\nThe previous traumatic events (the coffee stain, the message) are now mixed\nwith each other while she is hallucinating.\n\nThis is the turning point of Mika's insanity. Lain's father projection tells\nher how Prophecy is a way of Deus to interfere in the real world, and Mika\nseems to be a target of these actions, aimed to make her doubtful about her\nperceptions and, later, causing her dissociation. Lain can see a duplicate of\nher sister too in a form of a crystallized avatar at the end of the episode,\nand many other characters confirm the messages Mika was exposed to exist, so\nthe first traumatic events are not hallucinations but a starter for her\nconditioning.\n\nFor reference, the [abstract of episode 5 on\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Serial_Experiments_Lain_episodes)\nis rough but clear:\n\n> Lain's sister Mika is driven to the point of insanity due to the Knights\n> repeatedly communicating the message for her to \"Fulfill the Prophecy\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-02T00:58:06.477", "id": "3993", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-30T18:35:11.157", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-30T18:35:11.157", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "3827", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nOk I’m just throwing this out there: Mika died. She was hit by the car. The tv\nnews verifies there was a fatality and the scene seemed to imply she was hit.\nWhat happened is that the afterlife was overcrowded so even though she died\nwhen hit by the car, she had nowhere to go (off topic, but another implication\nis that we need to transfer our souls online since the afterlife is too full\nto accept more souls). Her death by the car separated her soul and body-both\nof which are stuck in this world. The school girl outfit Mika represents her\nsoul as opposed to casual clothes Mika her real body. Her real body goes home\nto have dinner with her parents. Her actual soul is stuck somewhere between\nthis world and the next or the wired. The fulfilling the prophecy message she\ngets it’s probably meaning that she needs to move her soul on from this plain\nof existence to the wired since she has died and that is now where the dead\nneed to go. She hasn’t yet realized/accepted her death until she goes home and\nsees her real body living her life. At this point she sort of starts to move\non. Causal clothes/body of Mika acts almost zombie like in this series because\nshe no longer has a soul. It’s also possible that Mika’s soul is straddling\nthe line between reality and the wired after getting hit by the car-this\nexplains some of the trippier scenes and how they could make sense. It also\nexplains how she is so unaffected by the car fatality unlike all the other\nbystanders-she was hit but refuses to accept it and therefore acts as if she\ndoesn’t notice her body lying there as her soul walks away in denial of the\nevent. Also-if the fulfill the prophecy isn’t about moving her soul to the\nnext world but some sort of message by the knights to help fulfill their\nagenda (I am only up to episode 5 so I haven’t yet learned what exactly they\nare really after), then Mika now is continuously harassed by it as she has\nbegun straddling between the real world and the wired since dying and the\nwired is overrun with this message due to the knights-alica and her friends\nare shown discussing how the wired was spammed with this fulfill the prophecy\nmessage by the knights and since Mika is now partially inhabiting this reality\nshe sees the message spammed all over the (wired) world around her as well.\n\nThat’s my idea. What does everyone think? It connects all the real world\nevents and the trippy scenes of Mika into a coherent idea. Thoughts on\nthis????? Lol I really want to discuss this with someone\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-04-05T12:00:23.090", "id": "51399", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-05T12:25:02.703", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-05T12:25:02.703", "last_editor_user_id": "45733", "owner_user_id": "45733", "parent_id": "3827", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn most likelihood it was Getter Robo which first appeared in 1974. The story\ngoes that Go Nagai came up with the novel idea of machines combining together\nto make a single giant robot. He communicated this idea to his friend and\nfellow mangaka Ken Ishikawa, who went on to create the Getter Robo series\n(which is why Nagai is often credited as a co-creator, if not _sole_ creator).\n\nOn the other hand, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (the first Super Sentai show) aired\nin 1975 and didn't have any giant robots, combining or otherwise.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-21T17:01:09.533", "id": "3860", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-21T17:01:09.533", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "3828", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe 1979 movie is a [re-edited summary](http://www.nippon-\nanimation.co.jp/work/conan_movie.html) of the 26-episode 1978 TV series.\n\nGoogle translation of the above link:\n\n> World 20 years after the world war broke out in 2008, the earth had\n> undergone a transformation. On the island of strained island-living the\n> grandfather and wild boy Conan, girl Lana strange day was washed ashore.\n> Rana helped two people become friends with Conan, but it would have been\n> taken away from the work-employee Montsouris we aim to dispatch in the world\n> to show off the civilization of the old era of \"Industria\". Conan you lose\n> your grandfather in the fight at that time, and after the island is left to\n> follow the Rana. It is a grandson of Dr. Rao to hold the secrets of solar\n> energy, Rana found myself being chased by administrative director Repka\n> attempt to dominate the solar energy of the \"Indus Rear\". Adventure of Conan\n> stood up to save Lana began. **Movie re-edit the TV series.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-19T05:05:28.853", "id": "3832", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-19T05:05:28.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "3829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe war involved WMDs which destabilised the earth's magnetic core leading to\nmassive earthquakes and tsunamis which led to the sinking of most major land\nmasses and general planetary destruction. Some small islands (islets) did\nsurvive and survivors flocked to them.\n\nThe two belligerents of the war were the Peace Union and the West with the\nformer being the aggressive warmongers who used said WMDs and the latter the\nmore peaceful bunch. Industria and High Harbour are the respective post-\napocalyptic remnants of these two powers which retain their ideologies.\n\nThe anime is based on [Alexander\nKey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Key)'s 1970 novel, [The Incredible\nTide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Tide). The linked wiki page\nhas a decent synopsis of the story.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-19T05:15:58.430", "id": "3833", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-19T05:15:58.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "3830", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzey%27s_Wing),\n\n> Garzey's Wing is infamous for having a minimally explained plot, so most\n> ideas of the purpose must be extrapolated. The protagonist Chris is abruptly\n> whisked away to a parallel world called Byston Well while his physical body\n> remains in his home world. Chris' spiritual manifestation travels to a new\n> world, where he is thrust into a rebellion. Chris is told that he has a\n> mystical power called \"Garzey's wing\", which causes large wings made of\n> light to come out of his ankles, allowing him to fly and run quickly.\n\nThe reason that he gains the magical ability in the real world that he had in\nthe fantasy world seems to be because of this:\n\n> Chris exists simultaneously in Byston Well and the real world, and the two\n> can communicate to each other through a necklace they both wear. Real-world\n> Chris feels the bruises and pain Byston Well Chris experiences while\n> fighting soldiers, and training he does in the real world allow him to learn\n> it in Byston Well.\n\nAll in all, a main thing seems to be that it was simply not entirely explained\nwithin the show, which may have been in part because it was only three\n30-minute episodes long.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-10T00:48:12.143", "id": "5135", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-10T00:48:12.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3831", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA few potential options, some of these are a shot in the dark hoping some of\nyour information is mixed up:\n\n * _Monster Rancher_ \\- Monsters were born from disks and used to battle other monsters. Not a mecha anime and came out in 1999. Protagonist doesn't transform _most_ of the time.\n * _Saint Seiya_ \\- Has transforming protagonists that look mecha-like. I don't recall any disks though, it came out in the late 80s.\n * _Escaflowne_ \\- Came out in the 90s, mecha like.\n\nIt could also be some flavor of _Digimon_ , _Gundam_ , etc.\n\nVery few Mecha anime that weren't _Gundam_ or _Macross_ came out in the 90s\nthat I'm aware of; but [here is a\nlist](http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?q=&type=0&score=0&status=0&tag=mecha&p=0&r=0&sm=0&sd=0&sy=1985&em=0&ed=0&ey=2000&c%5b%5d=a&c%5b%5d=b&c%5b%5d=c&gx=0).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-06T21:21:54.770", "id": "4059", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-07T00:55:45.110", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-07T00:55:45.110", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1870", "parent_id": "3834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\ni think that you are looking for [Gulliver\nBoy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver_Boy):\n\n\n\nIt matches your specifications.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-27T21:48:56.150", "id": "7182", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-28T01:50:39.363", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-28T01:50:39.363", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "3504", "parent_id": "3834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEverything in the Black★Rock Shooter franchise is based on the original\nconcept art by [Huke](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Huke) on Pixiv.\nThese were fairly popular, but it really only took off after the\n[supercell](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Supercell) song [Black★Rock\nShooter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLzOrik5YJ8), which quickly became one\nof the most popular vocaloid songs to date.\n\nAfter that point, the franchise essentially split, and all of the following\nproductions are different canons. There has been an\n[OVA](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%85Rock_Shooter_%28OVA%29)\nand a [TV\nanime](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%85Rock_Shooter_%28anime%29),\nwhich have similar characters but the plot is rather different. Both of these\nwere criticized by some fans for including lots of content and knew characters\nwhich weren't really closely related to the original concept. [The\ngame](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%85Rock_Shooter_THE_GAME)\ntook a more conservative approach by sticking to the action-themed post-\napocalyptic mood of the original and only introducing a few new characters. In\ngeneral, it's safe to say that based on how different the plots of these are,\nthey all take place in different universes.\n\nIn addition to those, there have been several other releases, which also\ngenerally take place in their own universes. [Black-rock\nchan](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%85Rock-chan) is a\n4-koma manga based on the original concept art. [Black★Rock Shooter ~Innocent\nSoul~](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%85Rock_Shooter_~Innocent_Soul~)\nis a manga, again based on the original and in a different universe. There was\nalso a\n[manga](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%85Rock_Shooter_THE_GAME_%28manga%29)\nand a\n[4-koma](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Black%E2%98%85Rock_Shooter_THE_GAME_%28yonkoma%29)\nrelated to the game.\n\nSo, to summarize, **there is no direct connection between the anime and game,\nbut they are both based on the same original work.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-20T00:17:06.833", "id": "3841", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-20T00:17:06.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3837", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's a pretty good description [here](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Automail).\n\nTo summarize it, automail is a prosthetic limb that connects directly to the\nnervous system and requires no external power because it uses the electrical\nsignals from the brain as its power. They were originally created to be\nweapons but then became sophisticated enough to use as a prosthetic limb.\n\nThere are a few major drawbacks to automail. The first is that it is\nincredibly painful to install, as shown when Edward's automail is being\ninstalled. The reason for that is that it is being connected directly to the\nnerves, which send pain signals to the brain. The second is that they break.\nEdward's has shown to break. They can be transmuted by the wearer, which is an\nadvantage because they can be changed into weapons and then back when needed,\nbut theoretically, they could also be transmuted by an enemy who could get\ntheir hands on them.\n\nAnother drawback is that they are reliant on the person who is constructing\nthem. As shown by the time when Winry forgot a screw, if the person who\nbuilds/installs it screws up, the automail can break or fall apart.\n\nThey can also conduct heat, being made of metal, so when it's very hot out,\nthey will irritate the skin because they'll become hot.\n\nAutomail can also be incredibly expensive. The God's Model automail (shown\nbelow) has a price tag of 10,000,000 of whatever money they use.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-20T00:16:28.350", "id": "3840", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-13T02:08:00.500", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-13T02:08:00.500", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\n[@kuwaly](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/93/kuwaly)'s\n[answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3840/274) covered most of it, but\nhere's a bit more information as well.\n\n> What's so special about an automail?\n\nIt's basically a prosthetic limb which has been optimized for fighting. Its\nname comes from [auto-](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auto-) (as in\n\"automotive\") and [-mail](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_\\(armour\\))\n(related to armor). They were originally designed to give more freedom of\nmotion to uses of prosthetics, but were soon fitted to combatants who had lost\nlimbs.\n\nThere is nothing extraordinarily special about these limbs except their\nversatility and wide variety of uses. Additionally, this type of technology\ndid not exist in the real world during the time _Fullmetal Alchemist_ is set\n(early 1900s).\n\n> How does it work?\n\nThere are dozens of little parts to it, but it is largely composed of motors,\ntubing, and the external metal covering. Here's a couple images of its\ncomponents (click to enlarge):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SsSyg.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zqiTy.png)\n\nIt has no internal power source; it draws its power directly from the impulses\nof the nervous system to run the intricate motors and other mechanics inside\nit (and of course, to control which ones activate when). So, when the synapses\nare sent, each part contracts with its motors, giving free, versatile\nmovement.\n\n> Are there any drawbacks?\n\nOf course--otherwise, why wouldn't people just cut off their limbs? ;)\n\nkuwaly mentioned three major drawbacks:\n\n 1. [It is painful to have installed](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/5407/274) (nerve connections are painful--in real life, too).\n 2. It is prone to breaking (just like a bone or limb).\n 3. It creates a reliance on an automail mechanic for tuneups and fixes, and mechanics can make mistakes!\n\nThere are two drawbacks that weren't mentioned, though. One is that it is\nquite painful during pressure changes; recall that when Ed went to the field\nwith Pinako to dig in the rain (2009 anime), he was actually forced into\nvomiting due to the aching pain of the pressure system. The second is that the\nmaterial can work against you; iron and steel can cause issues like frostbite\nwhen in cold areas, and are also quite heavy. (Some alloys alleviate this\nissue, though.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-20T00:28:35.117", "id": "3842", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-10T14:13:43.693", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 }, { "body": "\n\nI think an explanation can be that in the Fullmetal Alchemist universe, there\nexist materials capable of converting neuron synapses (message signals from\nthe brain) into mechanical waves, which are received by the circuitry in the\nautomail and respond in its accordance. The automail limbs must be made to\nfunction as a real limb and its machine parts are made to provide the same\ncontract and relax mechanisms as the muscles in our body.\n\nIt's just like in Inception with the dream-machine. Different universes,\ndifferent rules.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-11T16:17:56.843", "id": "4098", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T17:40:53.143", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T17:40:53.143", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1876", "parent_id": "3839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWe don't know what happened to it. It might be possible that it was released,\nand it might also be possible that it's sealed within Minato (if you remember,\nhe sealed it within himself before he died).\n\nI'm guessing that it won't go unnoticed, but I'm guessing we'll just have to\nwait and see.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-20T17:34:54.137", "id": "3844", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-20T17:34:54.137", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "3843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAs of the current chapter (630), it is still not known if the Kyuubi's chakra\nwas released from the Shinigami's stomach. It is possible that it is the\n**gift** that Minato is referring to when the kages and Sasuke's group are\nabout to go to the battlefield.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0TcKg.png) \nFrom chapter 627, page 16\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-21T05:52:08.060", "id": "3853", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-25T23:52:15.090", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-25T23:52:15.090", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "3843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nThe latest chapter (631) shows:\n\n> [Minato cloaked in the Kyuubi chakra](https://i.stack.imgur.com/77N6j.jpg),\n> in the same manner that Naruto is when using it. This suggests that the half\n> he has sealed away in himself is still there, in him and he has full use of\n> it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T10:49:08.797", "id": "3878", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T12:13:24.760", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-22T12:13:24.760", "last_editor_user_id": "1649", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "3843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are special just for the movie. They make it that way so the movie is fun\nto watch with new sorts of hissatsu techniques. If you see better, there are a\nlot of Avatars in the movie that we didn't saw in the anime episodes too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-10T19:35:04.017", "id": "4092", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-10T20:13:44.393", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-10T20:13:44.393", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1886", "parent_id": "3845", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThose are separate cases.\n\n * The first movie _The Invasion of the Strongest Army Ogre_ is not connected to the main series, since it happened in a different timeline due to the time travel. So in the main anime's timeline, the events in the first movie never happened.\n * The second movie _The Ultimate Bonds Gryphon_ is canon for GO and occurs between the 2 matches. It is canon, as the next episode features Pegasus arc, and the speech about avatar drawing and talking about batteries and circuits.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-05T07:44:24.387", "id": "20632", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-05T10:57:40.653", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-05T10:57:40.653", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13745", "parent_id": "3845", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is worth bearing in mind that the TV show only covers the first 7/8 books,\nand it might be addressed later on in the story.\n\nAs far as I could find however, the ranking system seems to be done by\ngeneration rather than reallocating ranks when someone dies. You can see\nclaymore occasionally contest someone's position in the manga, but it doesn't\nseem to be an official thing.\n\n[Ranks by\nGeneration](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Claymore_characters#Current_generation)\n\n> Claymore warriors No. 1 through 47 are ranked on their baseline Yoki\n> potential, strength, agility, intelligence, sensing and leadership. A\n> warrior's rank rises and falls according to the warrior's strength in\n> relation to other warriors. Claymores are known to belong in different\n> eras/generations, marking the time they joined the Organization, but not all\n> Claymores who are active at the same time belong to the same generation.\n> This is because Claymores never age beyond their physical prime.\n\nIt's unclear as to when a generation changes, as some claymore survive more\nthan one.\n\nWe can see on the linked site that one generation's order has changed.\n\nThe old generation (旧世代) (Teresa era テレサ時代).\n\n * No. 1 - Teresa \n * No. 1 and 2 - Rosemary \n * No. 2 - Priscilla \n * No. 2 and 3 - Ilena \n * No. 3 and 4 - Sophia \n * No. 4 and 5 - Noel \n * No. 5 and 6 - Elda\n\nRecalling Priscilla who was a newly created claymore who shot up through the\nranks to become number 2, I would imagine that in exceptional cases such as\nthese, the organization would alter the ranks, but mostly it would be left as\nis until the next generation comes around and new claymores are assessed\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-21T09:24:43.563", "id": "3856", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-21T09:24:43.563", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nClaymore are ranked based on their combat ability. Their ability is taken from\na number of factors such as strength, Yoki, and intelligence to name a few.\nClaymores typically only change rank by challenging and defeating a higher\nranked Claymore or when a Claymore dies or awakens.\n\nNow, just because a Claymore dies, it doesn't mean others will go up in rank.\nIt is entirely possible that the newly created Claymore takes the exact rank\nof the one that died or awakened. The reason that Claire never advances in\nrank is because she is only one quarter Youma since she was created with\nTeresa's remains and it is said that she'll never achieve the potential of a\nregular Claymore that is one half Youma.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T20:50:42.060", "id": "3882", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T20:50:42.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29", "parent_id": "3846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nClare being 1/4 Yoma surely indicates that she has full potential to house 3/4\nof human energy mind being amongst the 1/4 Yoma.\n\nMost Claymores, in a sense, have it rough, you might say, as they are all\nequally assessed in the middle of battleground between lethal killer and calm\nhuman, exceptions such as Teresa and Priscilla (before becoming aggravated by\nTeresa) are able to house full 100% human control within their means of reach\nof fighting, until they begin to access Yoki.\n\nClare is an exception to being discussed over ranking! This Claymore Universe\nmay indeed need to stop entirely placing Clare on a parallel comparison to the\nother Claymores, as this is why:\n\n * She became a Claymore to exact her spiritual bond connection to the physical beings of herself and Teresa's physical being, therefore _she has no hatred whatsoever towards Yoma or Claymores_. Only Priscilla, not Priscilla the Awakened Being, just Priscilla as an Entity, which qualifies Clare to have a unique case within the organization, as all other Claymore Creation stories, involve traumatic events with Yoma or Yoma Awakened Beings that cause them to choose to exact revenge (offensive) _or_ protect themselves (defense), from the Yoma beings.\n\n * The fact she took in 1/2 already Yoma Potent Flesh versus 1 whole piece of Yoma flesh, deems the obvious we know, 1/4 Yoma in Clare. This alone should not even begin to have a place in conversation over ranking, as with her fact she had 1/4 Yoma, means she has more Human Energy Control, which finalizes the logic behind her consistent ability to awaken far many more times than her comrades did, and with seeming ease reverts back more frequently, which wouldn't be possible with any half bred as by that many awakenings they would have by then surely lost their 50% control.\n\nClare needs to stop being judged. She's practically Teresa's daughter, that in\nitself gives her enough credit to be called a Badass Warrior.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-16T22:20:15.920", "id": "19417", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-17T01:31:08.833", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-17T01:31:08.833", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "11764", "parent_id": "3846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think comparing Clare's baseline overall power, speed and combat ability,\nshe's no match to either Teresa or Priscilla, or even the top 10 or say top 20\nof Claymores.\n\nBut in a half-awakened state, it is possible that she can beat Priscilla and\nall the other strongest Awakened Beings, nothing more to say about all the\nClaymores from rank 2 to 10. Her powers are specifically developed to fight\nAwakened Beings. And her greatest strength is her ability to develop a part of\nher body or skills to match the power of the Awakened Being she fights with,\ne.g. Rigaldo.\n\nAs with Teresa, I think she is the strongest of them all, that is a special\nstatus relegated to her. We'll never know the extent of her powers when she\nbecame awakened. I think that Clare, if she fights with Teresa in her awakened\nstate, would be able to find a way.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-21T01:46:35.277", "id": "37977", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-21T11:35:20.587", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-21T11:35:20.587", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "29870", "parent_id": "3846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPencil boards\n([Shitajiki](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=88)),\nare used to place under a sheet of paper (or a pad) such that writing on the\npaper won't indent the sheets underneath. The wiki page for\n[Shitajiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitajiki) says:\n\n> Merchandised shitajiki are very common, featuring images of everything from\n> tourist attractions to celebrities to anime and manga characters. Most\n> shitajiki designs only go through one print run, making them very\n> collectible and often difficult to acquire. Collecting shitajiki is a hobby\n> for many anime and manga enthusiasts. As collectibles, shitajiki are also\n> often used for decorating or other ornamental purposes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-20T22:36:06.103", "id": "3849", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-20T22:36:06.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe had made the blacksmith of \"不知火鉄心 (しらぬい てっしん) (Shiranui-Tesshin)\" who live\non the earth. \nthus, I think answer is the earth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-30T07:40:42.430", "id": "18977", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T07:40:42.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11336", "parent_id": "3850", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it's the soul that enables the suit to move, and thus the armor gets\nthe soul's owner's ability and techniques. Due to the binding process they no\nlonger feel fatigue or pain, and they also no longer feel the need to sleep or\nrest, which explains why Alphonse never gets tired or feels physical pain when\nfighting.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T02:30:28.780", "id": "3864", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-03T04:04:27.060", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-03T04:04:27.060", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "1764", "parent_id": "3854", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn each case of a bonded soul, the blood is directly placed against the armor,\nallowing the iron in the hemoglobin to physically interact with the metal (and\npresumably any other material it would be bonded\nwith)[[1]](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Rune). This means, basically, that\nthe alchemic procedure allows the soul to interact with the metal as well.\n\nWhen a blood seal is made, it is connected to a being, and must remain with\nonly that being, as well as it must be connected. That means that if Al loses\nhis arm, he cannot move it; however, if he picks up an iron pipe, he cannot\nmove that at free will either, as it was not bonded to him initially. (Even at\none point, he transmutes part of his body and can no longer manipulate it.)\n\n \n_(Note: Alphonse has no eyes lit up in his helmet because the helmet is\nseparated.)_\n\nIn the _Fullmetal Alchemist_ universe, souls are that which contain a being's\npersonality, thoughts, and memories, which is seen later in the series:\n\n> For example: Kimblee's soul is able to connect with Pride from within;\n> Hohenheim's many souls are spread around the land and are able to think and\n> act with their energy; and Hohenheim was able to speak and interact with the\n> emotions and arguments of every soul within him from the memories that soul\n> kept.\n\nThus, we can connect the dots: Alphonse's soul is connected to the armor\nthrough the blood seal, and is able to act with his full set of memories;\nthus, Alphonse can use his memories and thoughts to move the armor at will.\n\nThe physical strength and agility comes from their ability to not be\nrestrained by inner forces. (Imagine how much faster you could run if your\nbody worked the same, but without bones and muscles weighing you down!)\nHowever, all the fighting skill and ability comes from things that soul has\nlearned (both before getting that body, and after).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T03:18:30.673", "id": "3865", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T03:18:30.673", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3854", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Paradise Kiss_ is actually set in the same universe as _Gokinjo Monogatari_ ,\nanother work by Ai Yazawa. There are bonus sections in _Paradise Kiss_ , but\nfrom what I can tell (at least from the first bonus section on chapter 10), it\nshares characters from _Gokinjo Monogatari_ instead. According to\n[Wikia](http://parakiss.wikia.com/wiki/Paradise_Kiss), _Paradise Kiss_ is\nactually the sequel to _Gokinjo Monogatari_.\n\n_Paradise Kiss_ and _Nana_ were published by different companies, so it is\nlikely that they are not allowed to have much cross-over between the two. As\nfar as I can tell, there is no other cross-over between _Paradise Kiss_ and\n_Nana_. The only example I can find of a possible cross-over (other than in\nthe bonus sections), is from a [random\nforum](http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/manga/a-small-connection-between-nana-\nand-paradise-kiss/t.46784187/) where a person mentions that a dress donated in\n_Paradise Kiss_ is bought in _Nana_ , but that hasn't been substantiated.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-26T19:18:28.883", "id": "3919", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-15T06:48:47.457", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-15T06:48:47.457", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3857", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTohno Shiki (who is really Nanaya Shiki) is meeting with Tohno Shiki (who is\nreally Tohno Shiki) in that scene. They don't recognize each other.\n\n> SHIKI catches a drugged Shiki going berserk and killing some people in a\n> back alley. Both have coffee on a park bench while discussing life and how\n> they both fit into the world, and joking with each other like friends. SHIKI\n> even points that Shiki reminds him of his precious childhood friend, not\n> realizing that he is the same person. In the end, SHIKI does try to start a\n> fight, but Shiki tells him that he's superior in a fight to the death.\n> Surprisingly, he agrees with him, and decides to give up and leave town for\n> good.\n\nSource: <http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/SHIKI_Tohno#Kohaku.27s_route>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-12T22:30:50.757", "id": "50074", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-12T22:30:50.757", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "3862", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGyro is killed and eaten after the Chimera Ants invade NGL.\n\n> but he is later reborn as a Chimera Ant... and the first to keep all of his\n> human memories and break free of the Chimera Ant Queen's control.\n\nAdditionally,\n\n> The Chimera Ant King, Mereum, cannot be Gyro, because Gyro was shown leaving\n> the hive at the same time that Gon was training to defeat Knuckle, in\n> Chapter 204, before Mereum was born.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T04:09:29.580", "id": "3868", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-02T16:10:02.220", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-02T16:10:02.220", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the manga, he became a chimera ant and had all his human memories\nintact. He escaped while the queen was dying and supposedly went to Meteor\nCity to start his empire again (according to the manga). I think they might\nhave him return in the future as a super villain or something, because in ep\n79 or 80 it showed his back story and his thoughts on humans. He wanted to\nbring evil in his human form, so why not in his chimera ant form?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-21T18:58:34.930", "id": "4187", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-21T20:50:09.297", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-21T20:50:09.297", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "1928", "parent_id": "3863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGyro was not re-born as the Chimera Ant King, Meruem. Gyro was killed and\neaten by the Queen, turned into a Chimera. But he re-gained every single one\nof his memories and fled to Meteor City to rebuild his Empire. It says so in\nthe manga and on Gyro's Wiki page.\n\n<http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Gyro>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T05:31:00.630", "id": "11441", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T05:31:00.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6354", "parent_id": "3863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGyro was killed by the chymera ants why i say this is because when the ants\ninvaded gyro was seen seated in his chair and in the next scene the chimera\nan't who looks like a centuar said \"Gyro huh..wish i could know more about\nhim..well no use dwelling in it now what's fine is done \"\n\nIn order words gyro was killed and eaten by the queen and born as the king\n'meruem' and that explains why meruem was do evil from the start because when\nthe narrator was explaining gyro's past he said gyro is evil hence the king' s\nbehaviour Gyro would have without a doubt continue to be evil if it weren't\nfor komugi and that's why he did not even bother to take out the five million\nhumans with him to hell\n\nGyro 'muruem' was killed by the poison by netero and died along with his love\ninterest kumogi\n\nSo in conclusion gyro is the king of the chymera ants mureum\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-07-31T00:17:15.217", "id": "58252", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-31T00:17:15.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54558", "parent_id": "3863", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, it was said in the manga the Gyro did return to meteor city after being\nturned into a chimera ant. Gyro escaped the queen to meteor city specifically\nto rebuild an army and spread evil across humanity.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-05-17T17:59:36.083", "id": "66812", "last_activity_date": "2022-05-17T17:59:36.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66551", "parent_id": "3863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDon't know of a non-Japanese studio that produces _only_ anime, but the series\n**Oban Star Racers** was produced by a French studio, \"[Sav! The World\nProductions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sav!_The_World_Productions)\" along-\nside Bandai and Disney.\n\nThe Studio 4C production \"[First\nSquad](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10231)\" has\nwriting credits to Russian studio **Molot Entertainment Film**.\n\nAs far as mangaka, there's a lot of Korean manwha artists/writers that get\npublished in Japanese serials. I don't think that necessarily makes them\n\"mangaka\". The series \"[Blade of the Phantom\nMaster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_of_the_Phantom_Master)\" by **Youn\nIn-wan** was serialized in \"Monthly Sunday Gene-X\" in Japan (published by\nShogakukan). **[Shin Yong-\nGwan](http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=5047)** also had his first\ncouple of works published in \"Young Champ\".\n\nAs far as the western world **[Frederic\nBoilet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Boilet)** is probably\nthe most well known, born in France but draws comics in Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T03:59:26.617", "id": "3867", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T03:59:26.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe only name that comes to my mind is the Japanese-Brazilian novelist and\nillustrator [**Yuu Kamiya**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%AB_Kamiya), who\nworks in Japan and is pretty famous now with the anime adaptation of his\nseries [_No Game No Life_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Game_No_Life).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-02T21:55:31.730", "id": "13214", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-03T09:51:25.797", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-03T09:51:25.797", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7842", "parent_id": "3866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nOne of the creator of Dr. Stone is Korean and he was able to publish his story\nin Shonen Jump which later was adapted into an anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-26T00:34:09.953", "id": "62299", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-26T00:34:09.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59667", "parent_id": "3866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Vocaloid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid) is a program that produces\nsinging voice, it is not an anime. As to how it is related to anime, there are\na few anime which have vocaloid singers. You can also see [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3794/1772) for a bit more\nexplanation on that aspect, which I think are well detailed.\n\nThe significance of Vocaloids in the anime industry is probably similar to how\nsignificant robotics is used in assembly lines, in the sense that depending on\nhow you use them, you can be making more savings. But you first need to know\nhow to effectively use them, and this often comes with an initial significant\ninvestment. Once this is overcome however, things should be easier onwards, as\nlong as you can continue innovating the outputs.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T08:19:00.207", "id": "3874", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T11:52:01.607", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1772", "parent_id": "3872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\n[Vocaloid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid) is a singing voice\nsynthesizer. In other words, a piece of software that enables users to\nsynthesize singing by typing in lyrics and melody.\n\nOne of the better known vocaloids is [Hatsune\nMiku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku).\n\nAt the moment there is no anime with vocaloids. There is only a manga called:\n[Hatsune\nMix](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku:_Unofficial_Hatsune_Mix). The\nonly relation I can futher find for vocaliods with anime is:\n\n> Hatsune Miku performed her first \"live\" concert like a virtual idol on a\n> projection screen during [Animelo Summer\n> Live](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animelo_Summer_Live) at the Saitama Super\n> Arena on August 22, 2009. At the \"MikuFes '09 (Summer)\" event on August 31,\n> 2009, her image was screened by rear projection on a mostly-transparent\n> screen. Miku also performed her first overseas live concert on November 21,\n> 2009, during [Anime Festival\n> Asia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_Festival_Asia) (AFA) in Singapore.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T08:21:49.073", "id": "3875", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T17:28:39.640", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T17:28:39.640", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nVocaloid is a piece of software used to model a human singing voice. Users can\ncreate music with the software by putting in a backing track and giving the\nVocaloid program a set of lyrics to sing.\n\n\n\n\nWhile many Vocaloid (And similar software) mascots are anime-styled, there are\nno actual animes that include them as a main role.\n\nThere have been some fan-based mangas however - [Chibi Miku-\nsan](http://mangag.com/comics/chibimiku/) (A 4-Panel manga) and the previously\nmentioned [Hatsune\nMix](http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Maker_Hik%C5%8Dshiki_Hatsune_Mix)\n\n\n\nVocaloid Merchandise also overlaps a bit with typical anime merchandise,\nincluding figurines, plushies, bags, etc.\n\n\n\nVocaloid songs are all created by the software, although sometimes they may\nstar some actual singers too, but the term Vocaloid is referring to the\nsoftware.\n\n[More Info](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid)\n\nVocaloid was a significant breakthrough in music technology, the software now\noffers a cheaper alternative to professional singers and the versatility of\ngetting harmonics and etc exactly perfect to the way the composer envisaged it\n(rather than adapting it to suit a singer's voice).\n\nIt also was a significant breakthrough for hobbyist musicians, making a lot\nmore songs feasible without leaving the home. This was especially important\nfor the ones who can't sing :p\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T08:57:45.373", "id": "3876", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T13:18:17.187", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-22T13:18:17.187", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhy shouldn't anime characters have official birthdays? It would be strange if\nthey didn't have them!\n\nOver in the west animated characters are given birthdays also. Spongebob's\ndate of birth is July 14th, 1986.\n\n\n\nPresumably the addition of birthdays is just to make characters a bit more\nrealistic. And occasionally it helps with character, For example in Kodocha,\nAkito was given his name as he was born in autumn. Sana was named so because\nshe was born on 7th march.\n\n\n\nSometimes an author will release a 'databook' with information about the\ndifferent characters including dates of birth, blood types etc. The example\nbelow is an excerpt from a Bleach databook.\n\nBirthdays of course can be shown to in the actual show's content, in which\ncase the day the episode was first aired is taken to be their birthday.\n\nHowever, the most common case is to take birthdays from a character profile\n\n\n\nAs for historical significance, authors have been giving fictional characters\nfrom day one.\n\nSherlock Holmes's birthdate is 6 January, 1854\n\n**_TL;DR_** : Fictional characters are treated as non-fictional characters to\nbestow a sense of realism on them, so why shouldn't they have birthdays, blood\ntypes and everything else we have?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T09:33:16.900", "id": "3877", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T09:33:16.900", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3873", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> To symbolise his ascension from snakes (i.e. Orochimaru's power) he changed\n> his team's name from Hebi (snake) to Taka (hawk). It is revealed that his\n> [animal-oriented\n> techniques](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning_Technique) have also\n> changed from snakes to [hawks](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hawks) as shown\n> from him summoning a hawk that he used to fly around on during his fight\n> with Danzō, evade his assaults and in the anime perform coordinated attacks\n> with Sasuke. It is currently unknown when he made a contract with them.\n\nThis can be found [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sasuke_Uchiha) under\n\"Summoning Technique\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-23T09:32:59.730", "id": "3890", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-23T09:32:59.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke most likely reversed summoned himself. Every shinobi has a signature\nanimal summoning, in Jirayias case he simply used the summoning jutsu without\na contract and ended up with the toads.\n\nKakashi probably did the same and found his ninken hounds, he is half Inuzuka\nso he was probably by blood bound to his ninken.\n\nSo ultimately, Orochimaru taught SASUKE the snake summoning but that wasnt\nSasukes natural summoning. Naruto's natural summoning probably isn't toads\neither but he never used the reverse summoning so he will probably never find\nout. Sasuke probably reversed summoned himself and found the place where the\nhawks resided and signed a contract with whichever hawk was there that could\nspeak with sasuke. Allowing him to summon Garuda, Garuda cannot speak so I'd\nimagine another hawk gave him the contract for the summoning.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-23T03:16:05.967", "id": "26763", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-23T03:16:05.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18657", "parent_id": "3887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe titles of the chapters are arrange in order of appearance in the anime.\nThe anime also added some original content to create smooth transition between\nunrelated chapters.\n\nIn order not to confuse viewer (?), even though the anime draws material from\nvarious arcs in the manga, they are modified (sometimes heavily) to fit the\npretext that all characters have known each other, and with all the details\ninvolving the plot (from where the chapter comes from) removed.\n\n_Chapter titles are taken from[Wikipedia - List of Hayate the Combat Butler\nchapters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hayate_the_Combat_Butler_chapters).\nTitle of 4-koma manga are taken from scanslation._\n\n**Episode 1**\n\n**Hayate** episode.\n\n * Chapter 303: \"An Ordinary Life That KyoAni Wouldn't Turn Into an Anime\" (京アニがアニメ化とかしない方の日常?)\n * Chapter 352: \"Illness begins in the mind. That means you will get sick if you neglect your mind.\" (病は気から。気を抜くと病気になると言う意味)\n * 4-koma ??\n * 4-koma Colorful Chapter 24: Hermione and The Secret Clothes\n * Chapter 353: \"He Caught A Cold Because He is No Longer An Idiot\" (バカじゃなくなったからカゼをひく)\n\n**Episode 2**\n\n**Nagi** episode.\n\n * Chapter 197: \"If You Feel Like You Have Become a Little Greater When You Wake Up Early in the Morning... Then You Are Imagining Things\" (朝早く起きるとちょっと自分がエラくなったような気がする…という気のせい)\n * Chapter 174: \"Even if the Law Says You Can't, You Still Want to See it\" (法律でダメって言われても、観たい気持ちは消えない)\n * 4-koma Colorful Chapter 16: Sanzenin Nagi's Less Than Beneficial Information\n * 4-koma Colorful Chapter 5: The Wild Kingdom\n * Chapter 339: \"A Single Yen Can Make One Laugh or Cry\" (１円に泣いたり笑ったり)\n\n**Episode 3**\n\n**A-tan** (as Alice) episode.\n\n * Chapter 306: \"It's an Option That Comes Default on Little Blonde Girls\" (金髪幼女にはデフォルトでついてるオプションです)\n * Chapter 316: \"Don't Move Another Step\" (もうお前一歩も動くな)\n * Chapter 317: \"If it's Important, Keep it with you\" (大事なら持っとけ)\n * 4-koma ??\n * 4-koma ??\n * Chapter 318: \"Sign\"\n * Chapter 346: \"And The Butler Made Them\" (そして執事はそれを作ったとさ)\n\n**Episode 4**\n\n**Isumi** and **Sakuya** episode.\n\n * Chapter 341: \"A Maid Will Not Be Found For Isumu-San Until 23rd Century\" (伊澄さんのメイドさんは２３世紀まで見つからない)\n * 4-koma Volume 29 (Front): Hi-tech Isumi-san ~Eps. Smartphone~\n * 4-koma Volume 29 (Back): Hi-tech Isumi-san ~Eps. App~\n * Chapter 175: \"You Bump Into Everyone You Need in Life\" (人生に必要な人とはだいたい出会うようにできている)\n * Chapter 309: \"The Honorific \"Onee-san\" is Filled With Romance\" (敬語お姉さんが恋愛で満たされて)\n\n**Episode 5**\n\n**Hinagiku** episode. The anime didn't follow chapter 340 too closely (only\naround 50% of manga stays the same in the anime), but it makes the story\nbetter. For chapter 220 to 223, which occurs during the Golden Week in the\nmanga, all the inheritance related stuffs are excluded in the anime.\n\n * (Up to just before the end of) Chapter 340: \"Hinagiku-San's Wish Does Not Seem As If It Will Be Granted Even If She Uses The Holy Grail\" (ヒナギクさんの願いは聖杯を使っても叶いそうにない)\n * (Start from near the end of) Chapter 220: \"The Time to Forget Your Troubles Has Come. The Memory Mechanism Is Still Scientifically Unclear\" (トラブルは忘れた頃にやってくる)\n * Chapter 221: \"Because You Go to the Beach, There's Something You Have to Do\" (ビーチに来たからにはやる事がある)\n * 4-koma Volumn 12 (Front): Into the Dream, Into the Dream\n * 4-koma Volumn 12 (Back): Don't you want to go?\n * Chapter 222: \"Love Makes People Run in Odd Directions And Then They Want to Die\" (恋は人をおかしな方向に走らせる。後で死にたくなる)\n * Chapter 223: \"Winning And Happiness Are Equal But Not Linked\" (勝つことと幸せはイコールで結ばれない)\n * (The rest of chapter 340)\n\n**Episode 6**\n\n**Izumi, Miki, Risa** (Idiot Trio) episode.\n\n * Chapter 356: \"Even with Three Heads, 'Hmm...I Dunno' is all the Three can Come up with\" ( 三人寄ってもう～ん…どうなんやろ…って三人で悩むだけ)\n * Chapter 373: Pros Are Amazing In My Field\n * 4-koma Volume 28 (Front): If you can't concentrate, you can't do anything.\n * 4-koma Volume 28 (Back): With the ability to concentrate, you can do anything.\n * Chapter 308: \"Carelessness Means Acting Carelessly in Careless Moments\" (うっかりは、うっかりしている時にうっかりする)\n * (Plus the first page of chapter 309, which is animated after the ED sequence).\n\n**Chapter 6**\n\n**Ruka** episode. There are quite a number of differences between anime and\nmanga in the second part. In the manga, chapter 292 to 299 covers the first\nmeeting between Hayate and Ruka, and the first meeting between Nagi and Ruka.\nThese chapter also involves _Housen Yozora_ (法仙 夜空) chasing after Hayate to\ndestroy a fragment of photo that Hayate is holding on to. In the anime, which\nanimates content of chapter 298 and first half of chapter 299, the story has\nbeen modified under the pretext that Ruka has known everyone else in the\napartment, and _Housen Yozora_ is replaced by _Gilbert Kent_.\n\n * Chapter 357: \"Cycling Yahoo!\" (サイクリング ヤッホー)\n * Chapter 358: \"To be Blunt, I am an S at the Core. Also, Never do what I do!!\" (ぶっちゃけ根はどSなのです。あと絶対マネしちゃダメ！！)\n * 4-koma ??\n * 4-koma ??\n * Chapter 298: \"Idol Master\" (アイドルマスター?)\n * (First half of) Chapter 299: \"Don't Stop! Dreamer on the Road!\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-23T09:32:41.573", "id": "3889", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-28T06:08:26.687", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-28T06:08:26.687", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no definitve answer to this as no set age or timeframe is given in\nthe manga, anime or on the wiki. Keep in mind ninjas like Itachi who became a\nchunin at age 10 and kakashi at age 6. _(special cases yes but they did become\nchunin)._\n\n**So if I were to give an answer, it would be until _when_ they decide to take\nthe exams**.\n\nAs per the [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chunin)\n\n> To become a chūnin, a genin participates in a large examination, known as\n> the \"Chūnin Exams\".\n\n_Again,_ also as related, keep in mind that not all academy students become\n[Chūnin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3536/what-happened-to-the-\nrest-of-the-academy-class), so that might apply here\ntoo.[*](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3654/does-every-ninja-\nbecome-a-jonin/3680#3680) No doubt they would have to try again.\n\nAnd then _again_ there is also this guy.. [Kosuke\nMaruboshi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kosuke_Maruboshi) who even though by\nchoice, has been a genin for over 50 years. This could also apply to your\nquestion.[*](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3654/does-every-ninja-\nbecome-a-jonin/3680#3680)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-23T23:00:14.250", "id": "3893", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-23T23:22:06.397", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "3892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe exams happen twice a year. The genins that participate are chosen by their\ngroup leaders. So if the group leader is of the opinion, that they are ready\nat age 6, he sends the genin to the exams, if he's of the opinion that they\nare not ready yet, he lets them wait. There is no special requirement to take\nthe exams (at least nothing was mentioned), it's just the group leader who\ndecides. This can be seen in chapter 35, when Kakashi, Kurenai and Asuma\nsuggest their team for the exams. Although Iruka protests, he can't do\nanything against it. That does not mean, that the genin can't decide against\nit, though. A ninja can't be forced by his group leader to do the exam.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-24T06:01:08.583", "id": "3895", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-24T08:54:53.947", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-24T08:54:53.947", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "3892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]