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[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think hatred is the only feeling that makes an Uchiha powerful, since\nmany strong feelings (e.g. pain) can strengthen him, and this is just a\nquicker way to gain more power. \nIf an Uchiha sees their close friend or relative die, they gain Mangekyou\nSharingan, but the feeling of hatred is not a necessity (Itachi hated no one\nwhen he saw Shisui commiting suicide). \nSo, I believe the feeling of hatred CAN make an Uchiha powerful, but it's not\nthe power source. In short, a strong feeling is just a trigger, and once you\nawaken the Mangekyou Sahringan with it, you remain powerful.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-24T14:40:40.723", "id": "3898", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-24T16:37:09.610", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-24T16:37:09.610", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1539", "parent_id": "3894", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nItachi didn't seem like that hateful of a person, and he was very powerful.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-24T15:03:09.550", "id": "3899", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-24T15:03:09.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "3894", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs for teleportation, the [Railgun wiki\nsays](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Accelerator):\n\n> As of Volume 20, he is currently in Russia, where he has a brief encounter\n> with some Russian mages, and some of Academy city's new streamlined, high-\n> speed power suits. It is also during this encounter where we learn that his\n> ability not only works on magic (although incompletely, as the magic is\n> dissipated instead of redirected) but also on teleportation as well.\n\nSupposedly, Accelerator's reflect shield works in all 11 dimensions, so as\nlong as the teleportation is using one of those (as [Kuroko's\ndoes](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Shirai_Kuroko)), he'll be able\nto reflect it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-25T00:18:59.553", "id": "3903", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-25T00:18:59.553", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "3900", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**I think none.**\n\nFirst of all, in this\n[link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoustacheDePlume), these are\nthe only manga examples created by authors who pretended to be the opposite\nsex using pen names.\n\n * In the anime ef - a tale of memories, Hirono Hiro, 17 year-old male who is a professional mangaka, writes under the pen name Shindou Nagi, claiming to be female. Given that his work is shoujo, it's understandable. \n * In Otomen Tachibana Juuta writes sparkly romance shoujo manga under the penname Sachihana Jewel, and refuses to disclose his real identity even though the manga is hugely popular, because he's afraid readers wouldn't take well to their shoujo manga being written by a man. He goes as far as crossdressing whenever he needs to appear as Sachihana.\n * There's also his (Tachibana Juuta's) favorite mangaka, Mira-sensei (short for \"Mirage\") who dresses, speaks and behaves like a classic '70s shoujo manga character, for the same reason as Juuta. His motto is \"Because we're professionals!\"\n * In Himitsu No Hanazono the four brothers work under one female name to publish their shoujo manga. \n\nWhich all are male mangaka pretending to be female for their shoujo manga. And\nin this\n[list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_comics_creators#Japanese_manga)\nare female mangaka, and you can notice some created shounen manga. If there\nare some of them who pretended to be male, then it should have been stated\nthere because it's a must-know.\n\n_Why none?_\n\nAccording\n[here](http://womenincomics.wikia.com/wiki/History_of_Women_in_Manga), female\nmangaka were greatly accepted so I think there is no need for them to use pen\nnames to hide their true identity, either for the reason of having their\nshounen manga accepted or the reasons you mentioned above. And there exists a\nlot of female mangaka who created/creating shounen manga.\n\n> Later popular artists include the highly prolific and successful Rumiko\n> Takahashi and rising star Akira Amano (both drawing primarily shonen stories\n> for boys) as well as the female collective CLAMP.\n\nFurthermore, I think male mangaka receives more discrimination for writing\nshoujo manga than female mangaka writing shounen manga. It's much like the\ndiscrimination when females are okay to hold hands with females (most will\nthink that they are best friends) while males holding hands with males are..\nnot so acceptable. If you know what I mean. :P\n\nWell, the links I provided might not be complete or I might be wrong (forgive\nme) so I'll just update this answer if I find something. As of now, this will\nbe my answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-31T00:26:04.070", "id": "3975", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-31T00:26:04.070", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3901", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe creator of _Full Metal Alchemist_ , Hiromi Arakawa pretended to be a male\nfor a while as she was worried her being a female would give her less credit\nand readers. She originally called herself Edmund (or Edmond) Arakawa. Then\nchanged her alias to something similar to her real name but masculine, Hiromu\nArakawa.\n\nBesides being afraid that fewer people would read her shounen works if they\nknew she was a woman, she is also allegedly very camera shy and there aren't a\nlot of photos of her online and she tends to draw herself as a human with a\ncow head and avoids interviews.\n\nI'm not sure if there are any other examples of this though however I wouldn't\nbe surprised.\n\nA lot of the female manga authors who make popular works typically make it\nwith male leads though and I think there are various obvious reasons there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-15T00:54:45.040", "id": "62200", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-15T17:17:34.800", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-15T17:17:34.800", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "59442", "parent_id": "3901", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe pre-episode 12 Dai-Gurren: \n\nIn addition to the paddle, the Dai-Gurren was equipped with flippers on its\n\"feet\" which can be seen in the original image.\n\n[Reference Link ](http://gurrenlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_12)\n\nWhen Adiane attacks with the Dai-Gunkai, Kittan tries to fight back and dives\ninto the water, but realizes that his Gunman isn't suited for underwater\ncombat, as the cockpit starts letting water in.\n\nAssuming that the machines are similar, there must have been some adjustments\nmade to the Dai-Gurren's hull to make sure that it wouldn't let in water.\nPerhaps it drew from the regenerative abilities of Gurren Lagann, allowing it\nto seal itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-27T13:32:23.790", "id": "3925", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-02T22:46:58.890", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-02T22:46:58.890", "last_editor_user_id": "30687", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3902", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is just a game of [watermelon\nsplitting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suikawari)\n([スイカ割り](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E5%89%B2%E3%82%8A)).\nIn anime and manga, it is common activity portrayed in the beach chapters.\nGenerally, the game is also played at the beach in real life, but it may also\nbe played in nursery/kindergarten/playground or at event venue.\n\nThe rules of the game is quite similar to\n[piñata](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C3%B1ata): the watermelon is laid\nout, and the participants will try to smash it open while blindfolded.\n\nThe 2 paragraph above are summarized from Wikipedia page, both English and\nJapanese version.\n\nThere is no significant symbolization here. It is just a game in Japan\nintroduced by Saito to the denizen of Halkeginia. By using the reason \"for the\nsake of the Spirits of Water\", the principal (+ Saito) fools the girls to\nchange into bikini from one-piece swimsuit. And since the game is played\nblindfolded, the boys can ogle at the girls body all they want without\ntriggering the girls self-consciousness.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-25T05:05:04.010", "id": "3906", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-25T09:40:39.460", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-25T09:40:39.460", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3904", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe hole in the ocean from your image is from the first [One Piece\nspecial](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Special_1).\n\nAs for the reason why it was there, this is what I could find:\n\n> She opens it only to find just a skull inside. Usopp reads the back of the\n> skull, which engraves about a treasure that can make anyone's dream come\n> true. It lies deep in the ocean's naval. Then a large hole begins to form\n> near the crater they crashed into, so Usopp, Nami, and Sanji prepare\n> themselves in a diving barrel to explore the cavity in the sea.\n\nSo far we have seen two other \"holes\" in the anime. The first of them being\nthe whirlpool that is formed by the [Knock Up\nStream](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Knock_Up_Stream).\n\nThe second one is seen in the [Maubeugemour\nSea](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Maubeugemour_Sea) in [episode\n575](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_575) (this is a filler for the\n[One Piece Film Z](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece_Film_Z)).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-27T09:25:35.630", "id": "3924", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T17:32:06.973", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T17:32:06.973", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I can find (and according to [TV\nTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/RocketGirls?from=Main.RocketGirls)),\nit is never explained what happened to her father, and it seems to have been\nmore of an excuse to have her end up on the island and get involved in the\nfirst place than any real major plot point.\n\nIn episode 2, Yukari finds her father and demands to know what had happened.\nHe tells her to calm down, then starts to cry after she tells him that he was\nthe reason she had come there and why she was so upset about not knowing what\nhad happened to him. It is shown in that episode that he knows the Director,\nwho knows that Yukari is his daughter, but it isn't explained why the father\nleft.\n\nThe only basic explanation (that I found) was that he went out to look at the\nmoon and never returned.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-02T22:57:58.707", "id": "5386", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-02T22:57:58.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3908", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a rather famous scene from episode 37 of Death Note. Parodies of the\nscene have become fairly common, including a [Know Your Meme\npage](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/matsuda-you-idiot). For an example, [this\nvideo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2iwsIvwU_Q) has clips from the scene\nset to \"Native Faith\", the extra boss theme from Touhou 10. Misheard or\naltogether wrong lines from this scene are also common, as is the case in this\nparticular GIF. Here's the original video; as a warning, it contains **major\nspoilers**.\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxXJgfR4FWs>\n\nAs for what's going on in the scene, again, it's very spoilery, but here's a\ndescription. It does not involve swimming.\n\n> Yagami Light has just been found out as Kira, the serial murderer, who\n> possesses a Death Note, a notebook with which he can kill anyone by writing\n> their name in the book. Matsuda, a police officer, had a friendly\n> relationship with Light (as well as looking up to Light's father the police\n> chief), so discovering that Light was the criminal they were searching for\n> all-along, and was responsible for his own father's death (as well as many\n> others), was fairly shocking. Light, on the other hand, at this point has\n> succumbed completely to his insane delusions of grandeur, and as he has no\n> more tricks up his sleeve, he attempts to persuade the officers who have\n> caught him to join forces with him, but comes off just looking even more\n> insane. As a result of all of this, the scene is rather dramatic.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-25T19:54:45.000", "id": "3911", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-25T19:54:45.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3909", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nProbably because she would throw a tantrum if he tried. She's been wanting him\nto show up in okinawa anyway.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-30T04:13:23.837", "id": "4522", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-30T04:13:23.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "3912", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a bit difficult to find the name, though using the word from the Japanese\nWikipedia page, it seems to be this: 名札.\n\nTo summarize the [Japanese\nWikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%93%E6%93%8D%E7%9D%80) page on\ngym clothes:\n\nIt seems like there are two reasons to have these name tags. The first reason\nis for identification for emergency response. If a student is injured while\nexercising or, in this case, has a problem while swimming, they can be quickly\nand easily identified. Also, it allows for identification both to help people\nkeep their clothing straight and to be identifiable to the teachers/other\nstudents in the class.\n\nThis is corroborated as well in the German Wikipedia page on\n[mizugi](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Mizugi), or Japanese swim-wear,\nwhere it states that the name-tags help teachers identify their students\nbecause identification is otherwise difficult due to the swim-caps.\n\nThe reason for it being so popular with otaku subculture is likely just that\nswimsuits in general are popular, and this is just one aspect of it.\nAdditionally, they are used in schools primarily, so they likely show an\naspect of innocence that is also popular.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-26T20:00:58.203", "id": "3920", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-27T16:48:15.137", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-27T16:48:15.137", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3913", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n# What is it called?\n\nThere doesn't seem to be a separate name for that kind of school swimsuit, but\nthe the part with name and class written on it can be called either ゼッケン\n(zekken, literally meaning cloth) or 名札 (nafuda, literally meaning name tag).\n\n# Why is it popular?\n\nI don't think there's a definitive or objective way to answer why school\nswimsuits are so popular in anime, but here are translations of some of the\npossibilities mentioned in various answers to [a very similar Yahoo Chiebukuro\nquestion](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1189881196):\n\n * It's easier to draw everyone in school swimsuits than to make up a swimsuit design for each character\n * They make the character seem younger, inferior, and/or weaker\n * They expose some skin and show off a character's body while still seeming immature\n * It's moe (see related question: [What does 'moe' mean?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/894/what-does-moe-mean))\n * They have a simple design which is appealing\n * Lolicons prefer school swimsuits, and it's easier to please all of lolicons with school swimsuits than to attempt to please all the other groups with widely varying preferences\n\n# What is its purpose?\n\nFrom the [Japanese Wikipedia article for gym\nuniforms](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%93%E6%93%8D%E7%9D%80#.E3.82.BC.E3.83.83.E3.82.B1.E3.83.B3),\nwhich typically also include the same patch with a student's name:\n\n> In order to manage students and in the event of an accident while\n> exercising, the student's name, class, attendance number (similar to an ID\n> number), etc. are filled out on a white cloth name tag that is sewn or\n> embroidered onto the clothing.\n\nThere was no relevant information in the article specifically for school\nswimsuits which is why I used the article for gym uniforms in general.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-27T19:04:04.673", "id": "3930", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-27T19:04:04.673", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "3913", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMAD are probably refer to a broader classification of AMV from Japan.\n\nAccording to the [Nico Nico Pedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/mad):\n\nMAD refers to video and/or audio created by editing and rearranging existing\nvideo or audio, to give it new meaning. Basically, they are derivative, fan\ncreations.\n\nThe name is [probably derived](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/mad)\nfrom \"MAD Tapes\" from [the\n80s-90s](http://web.archive.org/web/20050212172315/web.ics.purdue.edu/~milliken/anime/mad.html)\nwhich was the fad in which people uses cassette tapes and mess around with the\naudio. The acronym for MAD predates the popular usage of the term \"anime.\"\n\nMAD can be used to describe the the Japanese underground media community.\nHowever, MADs can be mush-ups of anything from audio clips, edited pictures,\nto wholly originally created content (e.g. custom animation). While not all\nMADs are associated anime or manga, most of the more popular ones typically\nare.\n\nAMVs on the other hand typically describe the American media subculture of\nediting bits of anime with music, though similar in content the scope tends to\ndiffer.\n\nLets compare this AMV: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dHD1JvUXo>\n\nto this MAD: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRHItX-zQCo>\n\nThe MAD mashes up a lot more custom together compared to the clips in the AMV.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-26T08:55:33.473", "id": "3917", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-26T09:00:37.757", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-26T09:00:37.757", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3916", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nI think MAD and AMV is one. MAD is shorted for \"music anime douga\", similar to\n\"anime music video\" aka AMV. There's lots of pages saying that these two are\nactually one kind of fan-made video, too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-26T08:44:30.753", "id": "6570", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-26T08:44:30.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3113", "parent_id": "3916", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure if this is an error in subtitles or if they slightly altered the\nreal disease's name, but either way I think they are referring to Tularemia,\nwhich is pronounced as tsuraremia (ツラレミア) in Japanese.\n\nFrom [the English Wikipedia article for\nTularemia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tularemia), bold emphasis is my own:\n\n> Tularemia (also known as Pahvant Valley plague, **rabbit fever** , deer fly\n> fever, and Ohara's fever) is a serious infectious disease caused by the\n> bacterium Francisella tularensis. A Gram-negative, nonmotile coccobacillus,\n> the bacterium has several subspecies with varying degrees of virulence. The\n> most important of those is F. tularensis tularensis (Type A), which is\n> **found in lagomorphs (rabbits and similar animals)** in North America, and\n> it is **highly virulent in humans and domestic rabbits**. F. tularensis\n> palaearctica (Type B) occurs mainly in aquatic rodents (beavers, muskrats)\n> in North America and in **hares and small rodents** in northern Eurasia. It\n> is less virulent for humans and rabbits. The primary vectors are ticks and\n> deer flies, but the disease can also be spread through other arthropods. The\n> disease is named after Tulare County, California.\n\nFrom [the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia\narticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E5%85%8E%E7%97%85), to show\nthe Japanese pronunciation:\n\n> アメリカ合衆国カリフォルニア州トゥーレアリ郡（w:Tulare County, California）で発見されたことからツラレミア\n> (tularemia)\n\nWhich translates to...\n\n> ツラレミア (tsuraremia, Tularemia) comes from the fact that it was discovered in\n> Tulare County, California.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-27T16:05:14.010", "id": "3929", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-27T16:05:14.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "3928", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I can tell, this is just a coincidence. This producer wasn't part of\nthe original School Days visual novel production team, and he worked on anime\nbefore the School Days anime or VN (the earliest apparently being Meine Liebe\n(2004)). The School Days VN came out in 2005, which seems to rule out it being\na pen name chosen because of the character. He made a brief joke on the [39th\nepisode of the radio show \"Radio School\nDays\"](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2816191) regarding their names which\nseems to confirm that they aren't related.\n\nAccording to [School Days\nWiki](http://schooldays.wikia.com/wiki/Makoto_It%C5%8D), the basis for (the\nfictional character) Makoto's name is actually from [Itou\nHirobumi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi), who was prime\nminister of the Japanese empire for four terms.\n\nAs a note, Itou Makoto (written as 伊藤 誠) isn't an uncommon name. Itou is the\n6th most common surname, and Makoto is the [18th most common given\nname](http://www.japanorama.com/zip/100%20given%20names.pdf) (these figures\nmay change somewhat depending on the source, time period, etc. but are just\nmeant as demonstrations of commonality). [This Wikipedia disambiguation\npage](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E8%AA%A0) lists 6 real\npeople with that name. While it's still a pretty big coincidence that a\nproducer would end up having the same name as a character, it's not\nunbelievable.\n\nSource (for everything unsourced above): [jp.wikipedia\narticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E8%AA%A0_%28%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E5%88%B6%E4%BD%9C%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%29)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-27T21:55:19.983", "id": "3932", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-28T15:16:43.897", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-28T15:16:43.897", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3931", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn many cultures, the eyes are regarded as the doorway/path to your soul.\nTherefore, in many ways, eyes are often manipulated to show the\nwill/emotions/drive of the creature in question (and by creature, I include\nanimals, aliens, humans, anime-pseudo-beings and all other lifeforms that are\nshown with eyes).\n\nIn contrast, what does not have eyes, we often perceive as dead. Even\ncreatures that are presented without eyes, often carry a bandage og other\ndevice covering the area where the eyes would normally be shown.\n\nTo give life and passion to a character in a show, they have to be designed\nwith eyes or other seemingly visual-oriented details.\n\nAlso notice: Often bigger eyes are pictured as more passionate, while\nsmall/tiny eyes are often used to convey negative traits.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-28T11:13:35.810", "id": "3939", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-28T11:13:35.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1834", "parent_id": "3934", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLets say the magnetron indeed has a power requirement of 1kW (I never tried,\nso I might be off with this value and 1kW is not enough to burn a brain. On\nthe other hand, I guess it also depends on the duration the magnetron is\nturned on.)\n\nLets also say a mobile(-ish) battery of 50V is used (I do have to pick some\nvalue, right).\n\n[P = V * I ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power), so it would draw\n1000W / 50V = 20A.\n\nNow, lets say a brain is fried in 1 minute (maybe this assumption is too high:\nif it takes too long the 'immediate dying' effect would be gone? Although some\nagony is a pro in the eyes of an evil mastermind)\n\nSo [this\nbattery](http://em3ev.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=106)\nfor example (disclaimer: first one I found; I do not own stock for this\ncompany) seems to be sufficient. As it should be able to power it for about 1\nhour (19.5Ah)... It is a bit heavy with its 8.8kg, but we do probably not need\npower for one hours, so a smaller battery should be sufficient, weighing a lot\nless.\n\n* * *\n\nSo in short the answer is (with these crude estimates and calculations): Yes\nit is possible to power a (mobile-ish, the magnetron you linked to did not\nlook too mobile as well) device with our current technology.\n\nI did not read the manga or anime, but I guess the complete system needs to be\nscaled down to match the description and fit in a helmet...\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-29T14:52:32.937", "id": "3955", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-29T14:58:01.663", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-29T14:58:01.663", "last_editor_user_id": "51", "owner_user_id": "51", "parent_id": "3940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nIn light novels there is no \"infinite batteries\". Kayaba says \"You will die if\nyou're unplugged from the electricity or the internet for more than 10\nminutes\". Infinite battery thing is made by anime productors.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-03T08:05:32.033", "id": "13788", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-03T10:41:36.503", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-03T10:41:36.503", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "3940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBackgrounds and characters are usually made by different people and companies\nfor movies and series, but there's no activity less creative than another as\nyour answer may suggests.\n\nFor example, [Kusanagi](http://www.kusanagi.co.jp/) is a company specialized\nin [backgrounds for many\nanime](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=3297)\nproduced by different studios like _Waiting in the Summer_ (J.C. Staff) and\n_Mobile Suit Gundam 00_ (Sunrise). The [ANN article about Waiting in the\nSummer](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13448) show\ncompanies and people involved in the process, the Art director is from\nKusanagi (backgrounds) and not from J.C. Staff (animation production).\n\nChanging the perspective from companies to authors, this interview by NHK\nshows [how Makoto Shinkai and his staff make backgrounds and\nstoryboard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECqwCrJwEc&feature=player_detailpage#t=728s)\n(12:09~13:40). He shoot a scene using a camera and then pass this material to\nhis assistants. In this case this task is taken by the director itself,\nleaving the team working on the material he provided according to the\nstoryboard.\n\nHowever, Makoto Shinkai started his career as independent animator with _Hoshi\nno Koe_ , where he [do animation, backgrounds and characters\nalone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwHFwDIQo_0&feature=player_detailpage#t=292s),\nso this rule doesn't necessarily apply to independent productions where staff\nis limited.\n\nIn [this answer covering all key roles of an animation\nproduction](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2628/98), _inbetweening_ is\ncited as a \"relatively non-creative\" job, so when you ask about a (relatively)\nnon-creative job there is no foreground-background (as viewer) dichotomy but a\ncreative-repetitive (as job) dichotomy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-28T21:18:31.863", "id": "3943", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-28T21:18:31.863", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "3941", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDuring the hunter exam Gon followed Ponzu's scent and he was also aware of her\nbee breeding ability. so we can assume that he understood from the moment they\nreceived the letter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-19T07:18:39.507", "id": "4402", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-19T07:18:39.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2046", "parent_id": "3942", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're looking for _[Hero Tales](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_Tales)_ aka\n_Juushin Enbu._ There's also a 26 episode anime adaptation of it.\n\nFrom [ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8281):\n\n> Set in a time of chaos, seven heroes of the Stars, the Hokushintenkun, rise\n> up to lead the people. Two of the seven, the Nitenshinson, the Hagun and the\n> Tanrou, are never supposed to exist at the same time, but fate has decided\n> otherwise. Taito, chosen as the Hagun, now must rise up to defeat the\n> Tanrou, as the fate of the Stars destined it to be.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T00:20:02.670", "id": "3959", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T00:20:02.670", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3950", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI am kind of sure you mean Juushin enbu. Its by the same mangaka as full metal\nAlchemist with the same kind of art.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T10:20:45.900", "id": "3967", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T10:20:45.900", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1839", "parent_id": "3950", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is clear that you are not up-to-date with the manga, so I'll put the answer\nin a spoiler block.\n\n> Shikaku figured out how the chakra of the Nine Tailed Fox can be shared with\n> other shinobis, giving them extra power, so that they can provide better\n> backup to the main warriors.\n\nNote: This is only an abridged version of the entire plan. The plan in action\nstarts from chapter 614 of the manga, and then the next instance is in the\nlast page of ch 615. Finally ch 616 shows it all.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-30T17:10:09.600", "id": "4536", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-30T18:06:56.213", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-30T18:06:56.213", "last_editor_user_id": "2077", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "3951", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNara's strategy had four components:\n\n 1. Shinobi Alliance create distractions\n 2. Naruto powering shinobi up with chakra \n 3. Locking down the Juubi with the Shika Ino Chouji combo\n 4. The entire Alliance will attack full force at the Juubi\n\nNaruto comes into communication with Shikaku here, as he shares his great Nara\nPlan. He also stated that he has told the entire alliance his plan already.\nHowever, the entirety of the plan is not revealed to the reader just yet. What\nthey are discussing in this chapter is simply creating the distraction.\n<http://www.mangainn.com/manga/chapter/95742_naruto-chapter-612/page_9>\n\nPhase 2 of the plan begins here as Naruto starts to transfer his chakra to the\nShinobi Alliance. <http://www.mangainn.com/manga/chapter/96726_naruto-\nchapter-615/page_20>\n\nThen phase 3 begins. Chouji is the front line tank along with many others. Ino\nuses her jutsu to take control of Obito and slightly throw off the Juubi's\nattacks. And Shikamaru and his clan use the shadowbinding technique on the\nJuubi. Also note that Shikamaru suspects that something may go wrong with this\nstrategy and (in the flashback) Shikaku basically tells Shikamaru he is going\nto have to make that decision when the time comes.\n<http://www.mangainn.com/manga/chapter/97954_naruto-chapter-616/page_13>\n\nPhase 4 commences and the Alliance begins their attack.\n<http://www.mangainn.com/manga/chapter/98410_naruto-chapter-617/page_8>\n\nThat pretty much sums everything up about Nara's strategy. The only problem\nwas that it didn't work. Obito, Madara, and the Juubi are too strong to be\ntaken down by the current Shinobi Alliance. That's when Minato shows up,\nfollowed by the other Kages and Sasuke and then everything changes again.\n\n* * *\n\nAdditional proof Shikaku understood the Kyuubi's chakra transfering ability.\n<http://www.mangainn.com/manga/chapter/97954_naruto-chapter-616/page_8>\n\nShikaku first learned of it from Kakashi's experience here.\n<http://www.mangainn.com/manga/chapter/98410_naruto-chapter-617/page_5>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-30T01:44:13.580", "id": "5358", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-30T01:57:19.497", "last_edit_date": "2013-09-30T01:57:19.497", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "3951", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile I am not 100% sure about the transition from Genin to Kage, I do know\nthat Gaara was at most a Chuunin before becoming the Kazekage. So, it would\nseem that a jump in ranks would be justified under special conditions of\nability.\n\nIn any case, why should there be a need for a direct promotion? If Naruto (or\nSasuke I guess) has plans to become Hokage, it does not mean that they have an\nintention to skip the transitions between ranks (although I'm sure there would\nbe some sort of allowance for them to \"test out\").\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-31T19:33:24.637", "id": "3981", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-31T19:33:24.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22", "parent_id": "3952", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, they can.\n\nThe rank 'Genin' is usually associated with ninjas which just started out in\nthe ninja academy or as a derogatory term for ninjas with no talent in\nninjutsu.\n\nHowever, Sasuke and Naruto have advanced beyond leaps and bounds. Especially\nnow they have received the blessing _we all already knew they had_ directly\nfrom The Sage of the Six Paths.\n\nSo yes, I think they can be upgraded from Genin (if they are still perceived\nas such) to Hokage.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-09T21:14:58.393", "id": "9608", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-13T04:02:37.330", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-13T04:02:37.330", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4828", "parent_id": "3952", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell because Naruto is already hokage I guess you can jump from ranks because\nhe has been a genin this whole time because he lost against konohomaru in the\nchuunin exams\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-23T23:54:27.363", "id": "24308", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-23T23:54:27.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16489", "parent_id": "3952", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is only one sort of moving Den Den Mushi. The only place where you see\nthen is in the [Tenth\nmovie](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece_Film:_Strong_World)\n\n> **Self-Propelled Visual Den Den Mushi** Shiki has a variant of the Visual\n> Den Den Mushi called the Self-Propelled Visual Den Den Mushi (自走式映像転送電伝虫\n> Jisō-shiki Eizō Tensō Den-den Mushi?). As the name implies they are able to\n> move and look around. They also appear to be close to the same size as the\n> larger variant of the Visual Den Den Mushi and have attachments that allow\n> them to project what they can see to a monitor.\n\nThe Den Den mushi are normal snails untill people attach the phones to them.\n\nThis is taken from [SBS 41](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_41)(Q&A\nwith author)\n\n> **D:** In Chapter 367, Sanji-kun destroys the Den Den Mushi. That's so\n> mean!!! The Den Den Mushi didn't do anything wrong! Even a Den Den Mushi\n> would cry if that happened to it! It cries when it hurts! It cries because\n> its heart hurts even more than its body! So let's apologize to it, shall we?\n> P.N. Naoko\n>\n> **O:** Oh, well, you see... OK, I admit, I may have created that impression,\n> but it's okay. On the right is a wild Den Den Mushi. It has the ability to\n> communicate with its species through radio (thought) waves. Humans attach\n> buttons and receivers to them so they can contact specific other Den Den\n> Mushi. So, you can destroy the receiver without hurting the Den Den Mushi.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-29T20:05:05.153", "id": "3957", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-29T20:05:05.153", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually, the term is still _tsundere_.\n\n> The word is derived from the terms tsun tsun (ツンツン), meaning to turn away in\n> disgust, and dere dere (デレデレ) meaning to become 'lovey dovey'.\n>\n> — [_Tsundere_ , Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere)\n\nThere are, then, two types of _tsundere_ : _Tsun_ (Type A), and _Dere_ (Type\nB).\n\n**Type A** , also known as **harsh** , is what we typically consider\n_tsundere_ ; they are typically angry, mean, or pessimistic on the outside,\nbut have a sweet side that they reveal to characters they like (or in other\nsimilar situations).\n\n**Type B** , also known as **sweet** , is the reverse of Type A. These\ncharacters are typically sweet and kind on the outside, but have a hidden\nmeanness inside of themselves that they sometimes unleash, usually in a\nresponse similar to that of Type A.\n\nOriginally, the term seemed to refer to Type A only, but has expanded over the\nyears:\n\n> The term was originally used to describe characters who began with a harsh\n> outgoing personality, but slowly revealed a soft and vulnerable interior\n> over time. Over the years the character archetype has become flanderized,\n> and is now generically associated with a character who flips between the two\n> emotional states at the slightest provocation.\n>\n> — [_Tsundere_ ,\n> TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tsundere)\n\nSo, it seems the way the word _tsundere_ is structured, it can have either\n_tsun_ as the default mood, or _dere_ , meaning it can be used to describe\neither variation of a character. In your case, though, you're looking for a\n\"Type B _Tsundere_ \".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T04:45:16.717", "id": "3962", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T04:50:28.360", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "3961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nInstead of _tsundere_ , it's _haraguro_ (腹黒).\n\nIt means a character who is \"two-faced\", acts nice but vicious with certain\npeople or in secret.\n\nExample of haraguro character: Maki from Seto no Hanayome.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-13T08:13:45.940", "id": "43307", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-13T13:32:24.307", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-13T13:32:24.307", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36596", "parent_id": "3961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBrook ate the [Yomi Yomi no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi) devil fruit.\n\n> The [Yomi Yomi no Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi) is a\n> Paramecia-type Devil Fruit which enhances the user's soul to the point where\n> they can come back to life after dying once, remaining alive until their\n> body is sufficiently damaged, and to use several other soul-based abilities,\n> making the user a Reviving Human (復活人間 Fukkatsu Ningen?). The name is\n> derived from Yomigaeru (よみがえる), meaning \"Resurrection\", also, Yomi (黄泉) is\n> the name of the Japanese underworld.\n\nAs for why he is a skeleton.\n\n> Brook's soul was able to return to the mortal world thanks to the powers of\n> his Devil Fruit. Unfortunately for him, he had lost his body because of the\n> fog in the area (it made it hard to find the ship) and had to search for it\n> for one year. When he finally found his body, it was just a pile of bones.\n> \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-30T09:02:03.523", "id": "3964", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T09:09:21.173", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-30T09:09:21.173", "last_editor_user_id": "1588", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "3963", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_geass#Production) page has a\ngood explanation of the role that CLAMP played on the production.\n\nTo summarize it, CLAMP was contacted during the beginning planning stages.\nThey provided ideas that helped with the development of the setting and\ncharacters. When they were developing Lelouch, Ageha Ohkawa, the head writer\nat CLAMP, said that she saw him as a character that everyone could relate to\nas being \"cool\" and a \"beauty\". Zero was one of the earliest developed\ncharacters, with the mask being a something that was felt to be necessary for\na Sunrise (the studio) show as well as being something CLAMP saw as being\nunique design.\n\nThe finalized original character design art done by CLAMP was converted into\nanimation character designs by the Sunrise character designer, who had\nextensively studied CLAMP's art and style. He focused on designing them to\nallow the other animators to apply them without moving away from CLAMP's\noriginal art style.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-31T18:02:08.447", "id": "3980", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-09T19:00:11.707", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-09T19:00:11.707", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "3977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirstly, the manga was released in 1998 which was just about when the Internet\nwas exploding all across the world and the dot-com bubble taking shape.\nSimilarly, the off-the-shelf hardware available at the time was a shadow\n(think 300 MHz Pentiums) of what is available now. Things were far different\nback then than they are now.\n\nSecondly, while it might be possible for computer algorithms that play Go to\nbe written reasonably easily, algorithms that seemingly play Go _well_ is\nexponentially complex. If you consider [Deep\nBlue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_%28chess_computer%29), the chess\nengine that beat Kasparov 2-1 (out of six games played) in 1997, it used racks\nof cutting edge hardware calculating 200 _million_ positions a second, and\nintricately tuned software specifically built for the purpose by IBM. It\ndidn't exactly overpower him. In terms of board size, possible moves and\ncombinations, Go is far more complex and demanding than chess and it would\nhave been extremely unlikely for any 1998 desktop software to be able to match\nGo grandmasters of the time.\n\nLastly, incorporating cheating and other negative elements of real life was\nunnecessary to the story and would have hamstrung one of the objectives of the\nmanga, that being the aim to popularise the game of Go.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-31T14:58:14.013", "id": "3979", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-31T14:58:14.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "3978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat follows is not a real answer (I believe the accepted answer is correct),\nbut more an interesting side note.\n\nSai played go on internet. But Sai is a purely fictional manga character.\n\nHowever, in 2003 - 2004 on a real go server (KGS), a strong opponent appeared\nand had a 100% win ratio. He won also against some professional players. His\nname was \"Tartrate\".\n\nActually, after some time he lost a few games, but these losses were on time,\nor occurred during simultaneous games. Note that KGS is not really a \"strong\"\nserver, so that even if the best players on KGS are professional, they are not\nthe best professional players. But still, Tartrate managed to get an\nimpressive winning streak.\n\nThe identity of Tartrate was kept secret, and actually it was only revealed in\n2009. So at that time (2003 - 2004 and later until 2009) many players wondered\nwho he could really be. There were many gossips and a [web\npage](http://senseis.xmp.net/?Tartrate) was created in order to figure out\nwhat could Tartrate's real identity be.\n\nSome people even claimed he was Sai (more as a joke than a real hypothesis).\n\nNobody would believe (seriously) this user was a computer bot. The reason is\nthat at that time the best bots were still at kyu level.\n\nEven today (June 2013), the best bots are at 4 dan or 5 dan amateur level\n(which is still weaker than an average insei for example).\n\nAlso, another interesting anecdote on this topic is \"the shodan bet\". An\namateur player ranked first kyu made a bet of 1000$ with a friend that he\nwould not be beaten by a computer player before 2011. He had to play a series\nof games against a computer in 2010 and won the bet. However, in 2012 (after\nthe bet deadline), he lost 3-1 against another computer.\n\nThe [web page](http://dcook.org/gobet/) about this bet gives some information\nabout computer bots.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T07:21:53.680", "id": "4004", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-11T04:46:07.887", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-11T04:46:07.887", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "1609", "parent_id": "3978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor whatever reason, Disney seems to prefer more traditional distribution\nmethods. Going to Disney's [Studio\nGhibli](http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/studio-ghibli.html) page, I could not\nfind any information on purchasing these in any digital format. All of the\nlinks they had were to purchase physical DVDs or Blu-rays. If they were\nselling it in a digital format officially, I imagine they would have included\nthat on the website.\n\nAs for streaming services, you've listed most of the relevant ones, which\nprobably means it isn't being streamed anywhere legally. I know for a fact\nthat Ponyo was available at one point for streaming through Netflix, but what\nmovies these services offer can vary on a day-to-day basis. I can't tell if\nany of them are available for streaming at the moment, but even if they are,\nit would likely change in the near future anyway, so your best bet is just to\ncheck with whatever services you do use and see if they have it. If not, your\nonly legal option (at the moment) is to buy the DVD/Blu-ray.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-08T23:22:04.327", "id": "4075", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-08T23:22:04.327", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "3982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nI have discovered that its the 'Japanese arm of studio Ghibli' that is\nwithholding the digit oral distribution rights and bans any company or studio\nfrom selling or renting the Ghibli films in digital format. But what they gain\nby doing that is a still anyone's guess. :-/\n\nTruthfully no one knows why they won't release the films digitally. I've had\nno luck in trying to contact Ghibli, Disney who do the American dubbing and\ndistribution, or StudioCanal who now do the UK distribution.\n\nThe simple answer is you can't buy them anywhere and the only way to get hold\nof them is to rip a digital file from the DVD or Bluray, if you have the know\nhow to do that, or get the films illegally from Internet torrents which no one\nwants to do as a general rule, given that its fiddly, time consuming,\nunreliable and illegal. Presumably, there's some complicated licensing issue\nat stake or perhaps one of the investors has some vested interest in Bluray or\nDVD distribution that they need to protect, but it's all guesswork and\nconjecture unless someone can find an explanation or actually get a response\nfrom one of the companies on the matter.\n\nI'm just a Miyazaki fan like any other and am always frustrated by this when I\nperiodically try and hunt for any of the films to buy so I message them on\ntheir UK Facebook page intermittently to try and get their attention on the\nmatter, though again I've never had a personal reply to any message I've sent,\nnor to any queries I've sent directly to the studios. But I did start a\npetition the other day on change.org and sent it out into the net just to see\nhow much attention it gets as I'd be curious to know if there's many other\npeople looking for these films online or if I'm just a frustrated minority.\n\nThe petition is connected to Disney and StudioCanal who seem, according to\nGoogle searches, to be the studios currently controlling the western\ndistribution rights. Whether there are other companies imposing the\nrestrictions from elsewhere, it's hard to tell but Disney and StudioCanal are\nthe ones losing profits by not selling the films and so if enough people post\non their Facebook page, email other studios and sign petitions like the one\nI've started, then eventually the studios might start thinking there's enough\ninterest in the films that its worth resolving whatever issues are preventing\ntheir digital distribution and releasing them. They're the ones who have the\npower to change things and resolve whatever problems are holding the films\nback so if they can be made to see they are encouraging piracy of films they\nhold the rights to by refusing to sell them and thus losing out on millions in\nrevenue from those lost sales then logic would suggest that eventually they've\ngot to see reason and fight whatever is preventing them from releasing these\nfilms. Holding them back must be losing them money from lost sales and\nencouraging piracy to boot as that's the only way to get the films at the\nminute so presumably there must be a huge legal, financial or contractual\nobstruction in the way that is preventing the films being distributed and\nknowing exactly which studio or company is responsible for the restriction is\nnearly impossible but with enough consumer interest and consumer complaints\nthey must eventually relent and resolve the issue.\n\nFor now the only solution to this problem, apart from reverting to DVDs and\nBlurays, seems to be pirating the films illegally (far from ideal or advisable\nfor many obvious reasons but as absurd as it may seem that is the only option\npeople are being offered currently) or alternatively the only other option is\ncontacting and pleading 'en mass' with the studios involved to request the\nrelease of the film. My humble attempt to write a petition is below and states\nthe frustration of not being allowed to legally buy films and being forced to\npirate or go without and the logic of releasing the films digitally and pleads\nwith the studios to release them.\n\nAnyone out there who wants to see these films released, I'd encourage you to\nconsider signing it or even starting your own petition if you believe you have\nfound a better platform to launch one from or a more direct line to the\ncorrect studio or person that hold the decision on releasing these films or\nnot. But also reply on this post or others if you find out any further\ninformation on why the films aren't available or who is responsible for their\nrestriction.\n\nThe best educated guess is what's already been stated in previous answers,\nthat the studios (Disney and StudioCanal it seems but there may be other\nJapanese studios in loved in the matter too) may (and this is purely\nguesswork) have a financial investment in Bluray or DVD so don't want to\nsupport the (perhaps less profitable?) digital distribution of the films. If\nthis is the case then the way to reverse their decision would be to convince\nthem that they have more to lose by not selling the films digitally than to\ngain by only selling physical discs.\n\nIf they think people are buying the discs because they're not sold digitally\nthen they will never release the films but if they get the message that people\nare choosing to pirate the films instead of buying he discs then they might\nrealise that it's in their interest to sell the films online digitally. A\npopular misconception is that video piracy exists because people don't want to\npay but the emergence of iTunes and Netflix, et al has shown a huge drop in\npiracy, suggesting that people are quite happy to pay if the price is right\nand the service is easy to use so far from piracy being held in place by copy\nprotection and legislation it would seem its actually prevented by offering\nconsumers an easy affordable alternative.\n\nThat is the message that the studios need to hear from their customers in\norder to convince them that wide digital distribution of films is the only\nsolution to preventing piracy. For the moment they may still see Blurays and\nDVDs as more profitable but until the scales tip completely over to digital\nstreaming sales the only way to make your voice heard is to speak up to the\nstudios. If enough voices are heard they will listen. They have no way if\nknowing how many people are refusing to buy physical discs or have already\nbought discs but would be willing to buy digital versions too if only they\nwere available so the only way of them knowing that is if consumers speak up.\nThis isn't an answer to where you can buy the films in the short term but\nhopefully it may be part of the solution to ensuring people can buy the films\nin the long run.\n\n[Join the campaign to make the films available on\nchange.org](https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/studio-canal-disney-studio-\nghibli-release-studio-ghibli-films-on-digital-streaming-download-\nformats?share_id=BcDWDwKUad&utm_campaign=twitter_link&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-28T18:55:50.750", "id": "4489", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-30T16:51:48.357", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-30T16:51:48.357", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "2098", "parent_id": "3982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you live in Italy, since the 8 November plenty of Studio Ghibli features\nare available on Infinity, the new streaming service from Mr. Berlusconi's\nMediaset:\n\n<http://www.infinitytv.it/>\n\nAs I live in the UK, I cannot subscribe that service, but apparently they may\neven allow you to download the features on mobile devices.\n\nThe Infinity TV blog dedicated a recent entry to Miyazaki:\n\n<http://blog.infinitytv.it/talk/miyazaki-filmografia/>\n\nIf Studio Ghibli allows that in Italy, I would imagine is merely a matter of\nproviders for other territories not being able to match its commercial\ndemands.\n\nWhile anime in Italy is not as big as in Japan, it is way bigger and popular\namong the general audience than in USA or in UK, so new challengers on the\ndigital market arena such as Infinity TV are probably getting a larger\nincentive on matching the requests of the Japanese film studio or of its\ndistributors.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-22T20:50:42.853", "id": "27517", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-22T20:50:42.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19254", "parent_id": "3982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are some titles in the UK iTunes store, like [The Castle of\nCagliostro](https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/the-castle-of-\ncagliostro/id914600854?ign-mpt=uo%3D4) or [Grave of the\nFireflies](https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/grave-of-the-\nfireflies-1988/id917750274?ign-mpt=uo%3D4). Not so much, but is something.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-03T14:55:58.747", "id": "42615", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-03T14:55:58.747", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1987", "parent_id": "3982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI exclude the laziness hypothesis. This is a deliberate omission of a relevant\ninformation by the narrator. This is the case of an [unreliable\nnarrator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator) that was keeping\nherself a key fact for narration purposes. These lines about to Agatha\nChristie's novels from the cited Wikipedia article can apply to this type of\ntrope too:\n\n> the narrator hides essential truths in the text (mainly through evasion,\n> omission, and obfuscation) without ever overtly lying [...] even a first-\n> person narrator might hide essential information and deliberately mislead\n> the reader in order to preserve the surprise ending\n\nThe first image you've cited from Fullmetal Alchemist actually doesn't hide\nall faces. The mother, dead too, is clearly visible in the photo, only the\nfather's face is obfuscated. So the criteria to hide a particular face is not\nrelated to the fact that a person is dead but to the role the obfuscated\ncharacter has in the story.\n\nI.e. in Bakuman the Mashiro's uncle's face is clearly visible at the funeral,\nbecause the narrator has interest to inform the reader about why Mashiro is\nreluctant about being mangaka and, later, to motivate him in front of the\nreader. In Another, on the contrary, a certain character's face at the funeral\nis not showed until the author discloses who is dead.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-01T11:07:23.817", "id": "3985", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-01T11:07:23.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "3983", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know the _how_ part since in the anime, it was when Yukito was slowly\nvanishing due to his lack of powers and that's when Touya admitted to Yukito\nthat he knows about his alter-ego (Yue) and his need for power. If I remember\ncorrectly, Yue appeared after that then Touya gave his power to him,\nsacrificing his ability to sense danger and see poeple who has passed away\nlike their mom Nadeshiko. Touya just fainted after that. It happened on this\n[episode](http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura,_Yukito,_and_the_Vanishing_Power).\nI haven't seen the manga so I probably missed something on the _how_ part (if\na ritual was done to transfer Touya's powers to Yukito).\n\nWith regards to Touya having the powers to be able to maintain Yue's power,\nremember that in the manga\n\n> Sakura's father, is one of Clow Reed's reincarnation (the other is Eriol).\n> So Touya probably inherit his magical powers or spiritual awareness from\n> him. Though this fact was completely removed from the anime, though it can\n> only be the reason for Touya having such powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T03:59:49.143", "id": "4001", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-03T03:59:49.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know, there wasn't much of a revelation about why Syaoran acts\nthat way in front of Miss Kaho Mizuki. Though for me, it would really make\nmore sense if Syaoran would find himself attracted to her powers just like how\nhe feels with Yukito. Nevertheless, Syaoran felt worried when Miss Mizuki is\naround, maybe, that's how Syaoran shows his alertness because of Mizuki-\nsensei's mysteriousness.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T07:08:25.583", "id": "4003", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-03T07:22:46.920", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-03T07:22:46.920", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "1676", "parent_id": "3986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are about 20 endings in the School Days Visual Novel. Here's the episode\n6 routemap from School Days HQ:\n\n\n\n[Large image (severe spoilers)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/j0uaJ.jpg)\n\nThe last leaves of the routemap tree can be duplicate (I know a single case,\nthere can be more). The only reliable information about what ending you get is\nthe title appearing at the end of a route, with the heading \"Final Episode\".\n\nFor example:\n\n\n\nThe attached routemap shows the title of the endings I know as of the time of\nwriting, and the images you get in the main menu as a result of the route (see\nthe two samples embedded in the routemap).\n\nThe number increases if you count \"double\" endings, where Makoto goes out with\nmore than one girl and get a primary and a sort of secondary ending,\nexplaining a particular outcome\n\n> In one case, two girls are present in a single ending.\n\nMakoto actually can date girls he doesn't get in the anime. In fact, there are\nmore endings than girls. However, the two main heroines are Sekai and\nKotonoha, and even the in-game graphics show Makoto's affection for them in\nthe upper bar: red is Makoto's affection for Sekai, green is Makoto's\naffection for Kotonoha:\n\n\n\nThis is the reason why the anime almost only shows these two characters. On\nthe contrary, by meeting particular conditions, you can choose other heroines\nin the game. Actually, there's even an ending where Makoto cannot get any\ngirl, continuing to live his life normally without any love interest, though\nit's not included in the episode 6 routemap above.\n\nAs far as I know, Nanami Kanroji is and remains a supporting character in both\nthe anime and the game.\n\n> However, Nanami's friend Setsuna and her teammate Otome are heroines, as\n> well as Sekai, while only Sekai is an heroine in the anime.\n\nIt's understandable, considering that Nanami Kanroji already has a boyfriend.\nShe talks a lot about him to her friends and he appears during the School\nFestival:\n\n> He is an otaku who likes playing visual novels, and he likes to be called\n> oniichan by her when they have a sexual intercourse during the School\n> Festival.\n\nBeing in a relationship herself, Nanami is in a good position to judge other\ncharacters' relationship. Nanami's role in the game seems to be judging\nMakoto's actions towards her friend Sekai, she has a very important role at\nthe end of one of the routes. A hypothetical relationship between Makoto and\nher would destroy her credibility in the eyes of the player, reducing the\nimpact of many key scenes.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-01T14:50:34.217", "id": "3989", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-12T16:37:57.003", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-12T16:37:57.003", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "3987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs @j__m mentioned, There's probably no more meaning to the name 'Ren' than\nmeets the eye, but reading into it, Lotus flowers can symbolize several things\nthat could be linked to their relationship:\n\n * The Egyptians believed the lotus was a symbol of Rebirth, Life and Death\n\n> In the final chapters of the manga, Their relationship is cut short by Ren's\n> sudden death\n\n * Buddhism associates the flower with loyalty and faithfullness\n\n> Even though they separate, Ren and Nana return to each other. Ren's lock\n> necklace is a symbol of loyalty also.\n\n * Also, Red lotus flowers can be a symbol of love and harmony\n\n[Ref1](http://www.lotusflowermeaning.net)[ Ref2](http://exotic-arts-\ngallery.com/pages/Lotus-Flower-Meaning.html)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-31T07:02:06.333", "id": "4547", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-16T20:57:43.197", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-16T20:57:43.197", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "3988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe name Ren also means lotus. Nana Komatsu in the dubbed version says, \"Nana\nhad a tattoo of a red lotus on her arm, a lotus also known as a Ren flower. At\nthe time I had no idea what that tattoo meant to her\"\n\nIt is obvious that the tattoo refers to him and is a response to the chain\nNana put around Ren's neck as they joked about Ren being Sid Vicious and Nana\nbeing his Nancy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-02-21T16:47:36.957", "id": "61978", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-21T16:47:36.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58987", "parent_id": "3988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nUsui-kun, wears contacts at school and glasses at home. Most probably, this\nshows how Usui is different from school and from the comfort of his own home.\nRevealing the real Usui when he is out of everyone's sight. ^^\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T06:04:54.347", "id": "4002", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-03T06:08:20.787", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-03T06:08:20.787", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "1676", "parent_id": "3992", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the question/answer segments Hiro Fujiwara sometimes adds at the ends of\nchapters, Usui said that he thinks he has 20/100 vision in one eye and 20/30\nin the other eye. It was also confirmed he wore contacts at school.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-24T01:40:26.283", "id": "62595", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-24T01:40:26.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60234", "parent_id": "3992", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI am not very confident about my Japanese to argue about the correctness of\nthe translation. However, it is quite clear from the context of the episode\nthat the riddle is referring to **Time** , and **Time** fits quite well to the\nfirst 3 lines of the riddle (where there is no confusion in translation).\n\nThis is the episode where the _ability_ of **Tokisaki Kurumi** (時崎 狂三), the\nthird Spirit, is revealed.\n\n> And as shown in episode 9, Kurumi has the ability to manipulate time. She\n> can summon herself from different time axes, and this is the reason why she\n> can cheat death as shown in episode 8 to 10. Episode 9 and episode 10\n> display her angel's abilities: rewind time on an object, temporarily freeze\n> time on an object, and instant movement. However, every time she uses the\n> angel's ability, it consumes a bit of her life (time) as indicated by the\n> clock face on her left eye. Therefore, it is necessary for her to consume\n> time from other sources to refill hers, as explained in episode 9.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T13:13:52.963", "id": "4009", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-03T13:13:52.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "3994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nit's obviously \"life\" & it's related to the episode since AST members doesn't\ncare to waste their own life to take the life out of spirits.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-27T04:24:22.853", "id": "66000", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-27T04:24:22.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63439", "parent_id": "3994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know if this story was the basis of the appearance of the moth but I\nknow a story about it from our country Philippines. I don't know if this story\nis already known around the world but it was a story told by the mother of our\nnational hero Jose Rizal.\n\n> It was Jose Rizal's Mother who told him about the story of the moth. One\n> night, her mother noticed that Rizal was not paying anymore attention to\n> what she is saying. As she was staring at Rizal, he then was staring at the\n> moth flying around the lamp. She then told Rizal about the story related to\n> it.\n>\n> There was a Mother and son Moth flying around the light of a candle. The\n> Mother moth told her son not to go near the light because that was a fire\n> and it could kill him easily. The son agreed. But he thought to himself that\n> his mother was selfish because she doesn't want him to experience the kind\n> of warmth that the light had given her. Then the son moth flew nearer. Soon,\n> the wind blew the light of the candle and it reached the wings of the son\n> moth and he died.\n>\n> Rizal's mother told him that if the son moth only listened to what his\n> Mother said, then he wouldn't be killed by that fire.\n> ([source](http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Jose_Rizal_and_the_moth_anecdote))\n\nThe relevance I can see between the quote and the symbolism of the moth is (if\nthis story was _really_ the basis of the symbolism), probably, Grumman was\ncomparing himself to the mother moth and the soldiers to the son moth who\ndidn't listen to him so they'll be like that moth who'll burn themselves.\n\nNote: This is purely based on my opinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T09:11:12.627", "id": "4006", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-03T09:11:12.627", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "3996", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe this refers to the saying \"like a moth to a flame\".\n\nThe saying indicates that something/someone is irresistibly attractive (not\nnecessarily as in human attraction), but that it will ultimately lead to\ndownfall. Remember, at the end, the flame engulfs the moth, and it dies.\n\nSo, Bradley and Mustang are fighting for peace/freedom/a good future. They\nthemselves believe that they cannot stay away from the fight, as it must be\ndone in order to achieve their goals. Yet still, the path they take is being\npredicted and taken advantage of, which, in the eyes of Grumman, will lead to\ntheir downfall.\n\nSo, the metaphor with the moth is used in a perfectly valid manner.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-07T07:42:16.690", "id": "4063", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-07T08:17:30.880", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-07T08:17:30.880", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "1834", "parent_id": "3996", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhite Len's contract with Nanaya (this is the supressed personality of Tohno\nShiki, from _Tsukihime_ ) is a symbiotic (yet seemingly contradictory) one --\nshe maintains his existence with her TATARI powers, while he supplies her with\nthe prana she needs to survive.\n\nHowever, in the White Len ending in _Act Cadenza_ , Nanaya clears states that\nhe is in the \"master\" role:\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4O_rLYRESs#t=454s>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T00:24:24.667", "id": "3998", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-05T13:58:08.403", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-05T13:58:08.403", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "3997", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nBefore the Sealed Card was able to attack and gather Syaoran's most important\nfeeling, the Hope Card negated it.\n\nTo explain it more clearly, it was because the nameless card nullified the\npower of the sealed card to obtain Syaoran's feelings. With regard to this,\nSakura's powerful emotions towards Li made that happen. The Sealed card and\nthe nameless card merged in the process, creating the Hope Card. That is why\nthe Hope Card or the Love Card (which was called in the english dub) was the\ncard who doesn't have a clow card counterpart, meaning it only exist as a\nSakura Card because it was created by Sakura's feelings towards Li Syaoran.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T09:22:52.747", "id": "4008", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-03T23:30:22.787", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-03T23:30:22.787", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "1676", "parent_id": "4007", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe video title is \"A Kiss Goodnight\" by Dragon/Roy\n([youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWMtjqu4SFo)) and the anime is\n[Nodame\nCantabile](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7010).\nThe two characters you see playing the piano are Shinichi Chiaki (male) and\nMegumi Noda (female).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T15:11:09.673", "id": "4011", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-03T15:11:09.673", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "4010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's partly a matter of targeting specific audiences. Depending on what time a\nshow broadcasts at, you can tell roughly what their target audience is.\n\nPlenty of anime are broadcast in the morning. From this season, Danchi Tomoo\nairs at 9:30, Dokidoki! Precure at 8:30, Toriko at 9:00, One Piece at 9:30,\nUchuu Kyoudai at 7:00. These are mostly shows which are aimed at younger\nchildren. Those also all air on weekends. There are some early morning anime\nwhich air on weekdays as well, but typically they air before school hours\nbegin.\n\nThere is also some anime which broadcasts in the evening. These are generally\nprograms which would be appropriate for a family to watch together or for\nolder children/teenagers to watch on their own. Some examples of this from\nthis season are Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 (5:30 p.m.), Train Heros (5:30 p.m.),\nDoraemon (7:00 p.m.), and Yuugiou! Zexal II (7:30 p.m.).\n\nLate night anime are typically those which are targeting a mostly adult\nfanbase. In many (but not all) cases they aren't appropriate for younger\nviewers. Even if they are, they wouldn't be interesting to those viewers. At\nleast in principle, the broadcast time is late at night so that children won't\naccidentally tune in while adults can still watch it or record it. Late at\nnight, TV stations do not enforce broadcast restrictions as strictly as during\nprimetime hours. Late-night anime thus has the connotation of having a lot of\nfanservice and moe, though that isn't always the case. For many of the shows,\nlike Chihayafuru, it would probably be fine to show it in the evening, but\nsince there are already established time blocks for showing anime, sometimes\nshows like that get shown as late-night anime anyway.\n\n* * *\n\nIt's also true that most late-night slots are usually (though not always)\npurchased from the TV station by the production company directly. Since this\ndoesn't require external sponsors, and because it's cheaper airtime, it's\ntypically easier to get a late-night slot than a primetime slot, so this has\nbecome the default for a majority of anime which are not aimed at children.\nThis is done essentially as a form of advertising for the final product\n(DVDs). Incidentally, this is also the reason why most anime production\ncompanies are gladly willing to sell rights to simulcast for next-to-nothing,\nbecause it serves as advertisement outside Japan, but DVD licensing rights are\nexpensive (because the DVD is the final product and the way which they expect\nto make money).\n\nLate night anime slots have existed on-and-off since the 1960s (one of the\nearliest being _Sennin Buraku_ from 1963-1964), but the first really\nsuccessful series was _Those Who Hunt Elves_ in 1997. This was also at the\nstart of an anime boom, and rather than trying to expand in the daytime, many\nnew anime series opted to follow this and go for night slots. In recent years,\nthis has become the default method for broadcasting anime, and a majority of\nanime are broadcast in late-night slots. Occasionally, some of those which are\nparticularly popular will get rebroadcast in other time slots.\n\nAs for why late-night series in other countries sometimes get better slots\nthan in Japan, it's likely because of the different business model. In Japan,\nlate-night TV are essentially advertisements for DVDs. They are not aimed at\nbeing profitable on their own. In most other countries, there is a much\nsmaller supply of anime broadcast (some of which was broadcast late-night in\nJapan), and it is often sponsored or on pay-to-view channels. Hence, they can\nafford to broadcast a lot of anime during the day because of less competition\nand better sponsorship.\n\n[English Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_night_anime) has some\nmore information, though the article is poorly sourced and out-of-date.\n[Japanese\nWikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B7%B1%E5%A4%9C%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1)\nis a little bit better and more in-depth, but still has sourcing issues.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-03T17:15:33.607", "id": "4014", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-04T03:21:16.513", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-04T03:21:16.513", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's cultural. In Japan, anime is not limited to children or teens, and that\ntrend is also growing here in the US. However, in Japan, many families watch\nthe programs together. There is also the fact that the Japanese attend school\nuntil much later than we do and many have after hours clubs, activities or\ncram school.\n\nYou may have noticed that in many Anime high school students are not on the\nway home until around or after sunset. When you consider those factors it all\nmakes sense.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-02T23:48:34.470", "id": "8434", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-03T00:08:01.537", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-03T00:08:01.537", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "4320", "parent_id": "4013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**What animation studios are located outside the Tokyo area?**\n\nJapanese Wikipedia's article on\n[アニメ制作会社](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E5%88%B6%E4%BD%9C%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE)\n(Animation studios) says:\n\n>\n> 92%[[1]](http://www.tdb.co.jp/report/watching/press/pdf/p100803.pdf)の制作会社が東京都内、特に大手制作会社の所在地付近に集中しており、地方には少ない。\n\nTranslated,\n\n> 92%[[1]](http://www.tdb.co.jp/report/watching/press/pdf/p100803.pdf) of\n> studios are located in Tokyo Metropolis. In particular, most of them cluster\n> around larger studios. Few are found in rural areas.\n\nLooking through the list given further down on the Wikipedia page, we find\nthat the following studios are not located in Tokyo Metropolis (東京都):\n\n * Aomori \n * [Igel-Nest](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)\n * Fukuoka \n * [Kyushu Animation](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E5%B7%9E%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3)\n * Fukushima \n * [Studio Odabu](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AA%E3%83%80%E3%83%96)\n * Kanagawa \n * [Anime ToroToro](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD)\n * Kobe \n * [Anitas-Kobe](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B9%E7%A5%9E%E6%88%B8)\n * Kyoto \n * [Kyoto Animation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation)\n * Nagano \n * [Sakuraku Create](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%9C%E6%A5%BD%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88)\n * Okinawa \n * [Jinbun](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%98%E3%82%93%E3%81%B6%E3%82%93)\n * Osaka \n * [Animation Studio ingres](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB_%28%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E5%88%B6%E4%BD%9C%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE%29)\n * [GoHands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoHands)\n * [StudioMAT](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AAMAT)\n * [Studio Muu](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC)\n * Saitama \n * [Ajiado](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%9C%E7%B4%B0%E4%BA%9C%E5%A0%82)\n * [Mugenkan](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A2%E5%BC%A6%E9%A4%A8)\n * [studio add Co](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%89)\n * [Studio Cosmos](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9)\n * [Studio Kelmadick](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF)\n * Toyama \n * [P.A.Works](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Works)\n\nStudios included in the \"foreign\" and \"inactive/bankrupt/etc\" sections of the\nWikipedia article at the time of writing are not included in the above list.\nNote also that I generated this list semi-programmatically - I guarantee that\nevery entry on the list above is a non-Tokyo studio, but it is possible there\nare some other non-Tokyo studios I missed. The report cited for the 92% figure\non Wikipedia identifies 14 non-Tokyo studios at the time of its writing\n(2010), so the 18 I have listed above probably cover those studios fairly\nwell.\n\n**Why is the majority concentrated in Tokyo?**\n\nThe report cited in the Wikipedia article does not, unfortunately, speculate\nas to _why_ there are so many studios in Tokyo. I would imagine that it is\nmostly a simple matter of Tokyo being the economic center of Japan, but this\nis mere speculation on my part, and I have no sources to support this.\n\nAside: the report mentions a trend of studios moving into more-rural areas as\na result of advances in technology, making digital animation and data exchange\nsimpler.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-12T21:10:54.720", "id": "4776", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-19T20:20:11.427", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-19T20:20:11.427", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's nothing special about them, they are just random animal plush as such\nthing are popular toys for kids. Stuffed animals are often shaped as people's\nfavorite animals and such things.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-29T08:57:27.453", "id": "6619", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-29T08:57:27.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3151", "parent_id": "4017", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'd say the cat-looking things in front are a type of nesting doll (matryoshka\ndoll). Specifically this:\n\n_From<http://bobobabushka.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/lucky-new-year/>_\n\n\n\nThe Penguins themselves might be a generic penguin plush toy. Remember that\npeople keep all sorts of things in their bedrooms, and wouldn't display\nanything they didn't find visually appealing. Plush toys are considered cute.\n\nIn the first image, the dog-like stuffed animals are Capybara-san. This is\nalso a cute thing.\n\nIf you want to make a connection. Capybara-san and Mawaru Penguindrum are toys\nput out by Banpresto, who also puts out SAO figurines.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T06:32:36.280", "id": "7056", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-31T08:04:08.057", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-31T08:04:08.057", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3402", "parent_id": "4017", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThose cat-like dolls kinda looks like Kapibarasan. A doll popular in Japan. I\nhave one as well and the salesclerk told me they were Suguha's dolls.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-30T00:33:06.583", "id": "21239", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-30T00:33:06.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14210", "parent_id": "4017", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a hypothesis: The time goes beyond 24 hours in order to make it easier\nfor the viewers to identify which day of the week they should stay up late to\nwatch the show. For example, \" _Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties_ is aired on **Monday\n25:35** \" informs the viewers that they need to stay up late on Monday.\n\nIf we write in standard 24 hours format **Tuesday 01:35** , it may cause some\nconfusions:\n\n * Is the show aired at 01:35 in the afternoon, or some hours past midnight?\n * Some people only take note of the day of the week, but not the time: \"Since it is on Tuesdays, there is no reason to stay up late on Monday\".\n\nIn Japan, [both 24-hour format and 12-hour format are used _in everyday life_\nactivity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Japan#Time).\nTherefore, a time without any indication of the period of the day such as\n**Tuesday 01:35** might be confusing. The confusion may also be partly\nattributed to the cultural perception about the hours of darkness.\n\nQuoting the Wikipedia article1 (emphasis mine):\n\n1 The Wikipedia article lacks citation, though.\n\n> Times past midnight can also be counted past the 24 hour mark, usually when\n> the associated activity spans across midnight. For example, bars or clubs\n> may advertise as being open until \"26時\" (2am). This is partly to avoid any\n> ambiguity (2am versus 2pm), partly because 8the closing time is considered\n> part of the previous business day, and perhaps also **_due to cultural\n> perceptions that the hours of darkness are counted as part of the previous\n> day, rather than dividing the night between one day and the next_**.\n\n* * *\n\nThere is another notation that is commonly used, where the day of the week is\nthe day that the viewer has to stay up late, and the time is clamped to 24\nhours with some text to clarify the time. Using the same example as above, in\nthis notation, it will be **Monday, late night at 1:35**.\n\nFor the purpose of reference, I do a sampling from the anime of Spring 2013\nseason (late night shows only):\n\n * Beyond 24 hours:\n\n * [Ore Imo Season 2](http://www.oreimo-anime.com/onair/index.html): チバテレビ4月6日より 毎週土曜 24:30～ 予定\n * [DATE A LIVE](http://date-a-live-anime.com/story/onair.html): TOKYO MX 4月5日より 毎週金曜日 25:30～26:00 \n * [Hataraku Maou-sama](http://maousama.jp/oa.html): サンテレビにて 毎週木曜日 26:00～\n * [Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince](http://mjp-anime.jp/17onair/index.html): テレ玉 4月4日より、毎週木曜 25:05～\n * [Kakumeiki Valvrave](http://www.valvrave.com/): 4月11日より 毎週 （木） 25:35 放送開始\n * [To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S](http://www.project-railgun.net/index.html): TOKYO MX 毎週金曜日 24:30～\n * [Shingeki no Kyoujin](http://shingeki.tv/onair/): ＭＢＳ 4月6日より 毎週土曜 25時58分～\n * [Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Bride](http://www.hyakka-ryoran.tv/onair.html) (it uses both syntax): AT-X リピート放送 (火) 28:30～29:00\n * [Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko](http://www.henneko.jp/onair/index.html): MBS 毎週土曜日 26時28分～\n * Clamped to 24 hours, but the day of week is the one before:\n\n * [Arata Kangatari](http://arata-anime.com/onair/): テレビ東京 2013年4月8日（月）から 毎週（月） 深夜 2時5分～\n * [Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W](http://nyaruko.com/onair/): テレビ東京 4月7日スタート 毎週 （日） 深夜 1:05～\n * [Hayate no Gotoku! Cuties](http://www.hayate-project.com/onair_staffcast/index.html): テレビ東京 4月8日 （月） 深夜 1時35分～\n * [Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge](http://crimeedge.com/#/broadcast): TOKYO MX 4/3 (水) ～ 毎週 （水） 深夜 0時30分～\n * [Karneval](http://karneval-anime.com/onair.html): ＡＢＣ朝日放送： 4月3日より毎週水曜深夜 2:43～\n * [PhotoKano](http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/photokano/onair/): TBSにて毎週木曜日 深夜 1時58分～ 放送中！\n * [Yondemasuyo! Azazel-san Z](http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/azazel/onair/index.html): TOKYO MX 毎週土曜日 深夜1:00～1:15予定 2013/4/6予定\n * [Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Bride](http://www.hyakka-ryoran.tv/onair.html) (it uses both syntax): TOKYO MX 2013年 4月8日 (月) 深夜 0:30～1:00\n * [Oregairu](http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/oregairu/onair/): TBSにて毎週木曜日 深夜1時28分～ 放送中\n\nThe usage of the 2 notations are more or less equally common. We can also\nobserve that it is more common to specify only the starting time, than\nspecifying both starting and ending time. The data might be skewed by the fact\nthat all the shows here are late night shows, and the sample size is quite\nsmall (17 shows).\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-04T05:08:56.657", "id": "4020", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-10T06:18:13.647", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-10T06:18:13.647", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "4019", "post_type": "answer", "score": 39 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock):\n\n> Time-of-day notations beyond 24:00 (such as 24:01 or 25:59 instead of 00:01\n> or 01:59) are not commonly used and not covered by the relevant standards.\n> However, they have been used occasionally in some special contexts in the\n> UK, Japan, Hong Kong and China where business hours extend beyond midnight,\n> such as broadcast-television production and scheduling. They also appear in\n> some public-transport applications, such as Google's General Transit Feed\n> Specification file format or some ticketing systems (e.g., in Copenhagen).\n> This usage prevents a time period reported without dates from appearing to\n> end before its beginning, e.g., 21:00–01:00.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-04T06:23:50.557", "id": "4021", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-04T06:23:50.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1853", "parent_id": "4019", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nWhist in Japan, I've seen this happen in other places outside of anime. The\nopening times for one onsen was 18:00 - 20:00 for women, 21:00 - 25:00 for\nmen.\n\nI'm pretty sure it's to avoid the _break_ that happens when switching days.\nIt's easy to see that the men's bath is open for 4 hours, but 21:00 - 01:00\nisn't so obvious at first glance.\n\nIt's also related to waking hours - if you're up at 1:00 it's more likely that\nyou've stayed awake rather than woken up early. In that vein, keeping the same\nday's hours could potentially be less confusing\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-03T08:35:06.620", "id": "22101", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-03T08:35:06.620", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "4019", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, here are some of the jutsu Naruto probably can't (or will be near\nimpossible) to learn without Kurama:\n\n * Techniques from elements other than Wind - Naruto's natural chakra affinity is towards wind, while he can train in other elements, he probably won't be able to learn some of the other elements. (Actually has nothing to do with the Bijuu, that's kinda what happens to everyone)\n * The Bijuu Dama - a Bijuu specific technique (the nuclear-warhead like black sphere).\n * It's possible that using Kurama's Yang element chakra (sealed within Naruto), he'll be able to do _something_.\n * Tajuu Kage Bunshin - Even though Naruto naturally has massive chakra reserves, he wouldn't be able to make as much copies without the Kyuubi Chakra Pool.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-04T18:05:38.467", "id": "4023", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-01T14:24:39.357", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-01T14:24:39.357", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "4022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nmost of naruto jutsu really on bijuu. even the rasenshuriken (his only futon\njutsu), without kyuubi heal ability, naruto arm would be disabled to cell\nlevel after the first try. If naruto hadn't kyuubi power (strong seal, fully\nisolate kyuubi from naruto like a high secured living storage scroll) naruto\nwould be a outcast nobody (his strong own chakra level come from the seal\nconvert and mix kyuubi chakra with his own)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-03T19:58:21.523", "id": "19096", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-03T19:58:21.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11531", "parent_id": "4022", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nNaruto was able to do multiple shadow clones (thousands of shadow clones)\nWITHOUT KURAMA or any other natural energy source. This is when he stopped\ntaking karuma's help (Ep 52) and started learning rasenshuriken on his own. I\nguess most of the guys are getting it wrong here. I understand that kyuubi is\nthe main reason behind his healing but you can't forget the uzumaki clan\nhealing abilities and the level of chakra they possess. Naruto was able to\nmaintain clones without kurama chakra and yamato was there to stop going\nkurama mode when naruto's chakra is completely depleted. I guess without\nkurama, Naruto can always learn different jutsus using multiple shadow clones\nwith his OWN massive chakra level (20 years of training in just a week). LETS\nGIVE NARUTO A LITTLE CREDIT HERE!!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-11T16:10:19.623", "id": "39351", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-11T16:10:19.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31382", "parent_id": "4022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCalling on the [Willing suspension of\ndisbelief](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief)\ntrope.\n\nI think it was just an overlooked detail when it comes down to it.\n\nTo add on to this, as I recently reread Buddha, there are plenty of other\nspots where they should have noticed his brand. Like the time he was hung\nupside down after bragging during training. There really is no explanation.\nMaybe he came up with some way to mask it, like body paint, or something.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-09T22:33:47.980", "id": "11187", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-09T21:18:05.110", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-09T21:18:05.110", "last_editor_user_id": "6184", "owner_user_id": "6184", "parent_id": "4024", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe's just a skeleton obviously, so he's not really breathing, however, when\nhis body gets drowned slowly by the seawater, his strength begins to fade away\n(Chapter 493, page 7):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjb4a.jpg)\n\nAnd from this scene, I imagine if he falls into the ocean, like all Devil\nFruit users, he will be powerless and be unable to resurface unless helped.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-05T08:46:09.223", "id": "4034", "last_activity_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:28.747", "last_edit_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:28.747", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1764", "parent_id": "4025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI imagine it would work something like this:\n\nAs a Devil Fruit user, he'd be rendered weak by the submersion. But we've also\nseen instances of Devil Fruit users' powers being somewhat nullified by\nsubmersion in seawater (specified since I have no idea if it applies to bath\nwater, pool water, etc.). For example, Luffy was unable to stretch himself in\nthe Arlong Park arc, but his head was still brought above water by third\nparties. Similarly, in the Enies Lobby arc, Chopper's rampage was stopped when\nFranky threw him into the sea, transforming him back into little Chopper.\n\nMy thought was that since Brook can't drown, as he has no lungs, the fact that\nhe was submersed in seawater would nullify his Devil Fruit power and his soul\nwould leave his body at the bottom of the ocean.\n\nJust a thought.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-26T05:23:38.860", "id": "14664", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-26T05:23:38.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8867", "parent_id": "4025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n[Michael](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14664/2516) brought up the topic\nof Luffy when nullified. He did tell his Devil Fruit being nullified\nunderwater but was used by a \"third party\", so Devil Fruits can still function\nbut the user is paralyzed I think.\n\nSo if Brook goes underwater, he doesn't drown because he's breathing nothing\nliterally, so he won't drown. But let's say maybe he's underwater like Luffy.\nJust like drowning in a dreamlike situation, but he's unconscious like having\na battery used 5x faster so it'll be null. But Brook won't die, he'll get\nunconscious, like \"unconscious mode\" underwater, so he'll be unconscious only.\nEven if he ejects his soul in the body because the body is the source of him.\n\nAnd by Luffy, as his Devil Fruit abilities are still going to be functioning\nby other people as a third party, well, I don't know about Brook, but he's\nstill having his abilities, but he's like paralyzed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-27T11:18:00.070", "id": "40545", "last_activity_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:52.330", "last_edit_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:52.330", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32765", "parent_id": "4025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nLike all Devil Fruit users, Brook won't be able the move if he is fully\nsubmerged underwater, that's a fact.\n\nBut will he drown? We've seen Jack the Drought Mammoth guy got trapped in the\nsea floor still alive but unable to swim himself up, waiting for someone to\nrescue him because he was a fishman-human hybrid. We don't know whether Brook\nwill drown or not because, during Fishman Island, he was wearing an oxygen\nbubble underwater, meaning he somehow breathed. Otherwise, he wouldn't need it\nsince he was fully submerged in the water anyway (episode 538).\n\nI always theorized that Brook had invisible organs that could not be touched\nor felt since he eats and poops, and that requires organs to break down his\nfood and give him energy like all living things. If my theory is correct, then\nBrook will drown underwater.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-04T23:36:08.917", "id": "46388", "last_activity_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:38.630", "last_edit_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:38.630", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "39969", "parent_id": "4025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs a skeleton, he has no lungs to drown with. As a Devil Fruit user, he cannot\nmove underwater.\n\nYou can make theories about how he works all you want, but as far as we've\nseen, there is no proof that he can die unless you destroy his skeleton. And\neven then, we've seen him pull his head back on using his spirit.\n\nIt is a known fact that skeletons decompose in salt water, it just takes five\nor ten years to accomplish. However, we've seen Luffy attack people while his\nlimbs are underwater (Fishman arc) using Haki to protect his stretchy arms, so\nI'd assume that if Brook ever learned full-body (or full-skeleton?) Haki, he\ncould not only survive the ocean but even walk about underwater unharmed.\nSwimming I doubt, as he has no flesh to move the water out of his way with.\nBut would he survive? Most certainly.\n\nSo to sum it up: Brook COULD survive underwater for five or ten years in\nparalysis, or indefinitely (or as long as Haki lasts) with full-body Busoshoku\nHaki.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-03T16:46:12.547", "id": "47294", "last_activity_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:41.960", "last_edit_date": "2023-08-15T13:54:41.960", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "40947", "parent_id": "4025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think you asked this question because you have seen Brook running on water.\nNo, Brook isn't actually able to drown as he has eaten a Devil Fruit, namely\nthe Revive-Revive Fruit, but he can't die as he is already dead. As per\nBrook's statement, when a person who has eaten this particular fruit has died,\nhis soul would have to descend to Earth and find its body to be revived. But\nBrook happened to die in the Florian Triangle, which was so engulfed in\ndarkness that Brook's spirit had trouble finding the body. And when he finally\nfound it, Brook had already turned into a skeleton.\n\nBut we also see that Brook is able to literally \"run\" on water. This is\nbecause he is a very light-weight person. But of he were to stop running, he\nwould immediately sink.\n\nHad Brook's spirit found its body before he became a skeleton, then Brook\nwouldn't be so light as he is, thus he wouldn't be able to run on water.\n\nSo, if he is dropped into the ocean, he can survive by running on the Ocean's\nsurface. But if he is released under the ocean like from a submarine, then he\nwould lose his strength, but we can't say that he would die cus he is already\ndead.\n\nIt was a Skull Joke\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-08-15T08:32:14.390", "id": "68237", "last_activity_date": "2023-08-18T18:09:43.113", "last_edit_date": "2023-08-18T18:09:43.113", "last_editor_user_id": "72891", "owner_user_id": "72891", "parent_id": "4025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is said that the Devil Fruits are the fruits of Sea Devil, so even if most\nof them provide a great power, they're cursed. Quoting [One Piece's\nwiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit):\n\n> The sea rejects the new Devil Fruit user and they become helpless while\n> submerged in water\n\nAlso, Oda said in SBS that Devil Fruit users are vulnerable to all types of\nwater, not just salt/sea water. Basically any type of \"standing\" water (ocean,\nlakes, rivers, etc) will affect them, while \"moving\" water (rain, waves, etc)\nwon't.\n\nOverall, I'm not saying the problem is the sea or something inside the users,\nwhat I'm saying is that it's **both**. And as to why users are affected by\nSeastone/Sea-Prism Stone/Kairoseki, as stated by Smoker:\n\n> It gives off a wavelength that is the same as the sea itself\n\nBasically it's a mini solid piece of the sea so that's why Devil Fruit users\nare affected by that as well...\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-04T20:34:56.583", "id": "4027", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-06T13:42:09.713", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-06T13:42:09.713", "last_editor_user_id": "1498", "owner_user_id": "1498", "parent_id": "4026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nTo add up to the other answer:\n\n\"A person who has devil fruit power experiences a lack of energy when gets\ninto the water!\" That means, the user lacks minimum energy to show body\nmovements, otherwise, they could swim. Without body movement, the person\nstarts sinking down.\n\nIt's also evident that a person doesn't lose power immediately but constantly.\nThe longer he stays in the water, the more he'll become helpless.\n\nThe Devil Fruit side effects section in the wiki is worth reading:\n\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-21T07:09:01.597", "id": "5267", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:11.937", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:11.937", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "338", "parent_id": "4026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my idea, I think it's because the Devil Fruits are the body of the sea\ndevil. So, if we ate one, we can't swim because we have the power of the seas.\nIt's like, we are stealing their powers so they will make us can't swim.\nThat's why people who ate Devil Fruit can't swim.\n\nIt's the same as _kairoseki_ (sea stone). _Kairoseki_ is like sea ice but\nwon't melt, and that's why Devil Fruit users can't swim.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-05T09:40:41.980", "id": "7852", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:05.470", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:05.470", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "3994", "parent_id": "4026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMaybe it's because the Devil Fruits have some sort of origin with the Fishmen.\nI mean, Fishmen are already ten times stronger than a normal human, so maybe\nsomeone in the past thought that such power would be too dangerous if it fell\ninto the hands of Fishmen. That's why those who eat it couldn't swim.\n\nMaybe it started out as a feud in the past of the \"ancient weapons\"\\- the\nobjects capable of destroying the world. Look at \"Noah\", the big ship at\nFishman island. Maybe it played a part in the Devil Fruits. Or maybe it's\nconnected to the Adam Wood and Eve Tree something which Franky stated.\n\nThis is just a guess though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-30T12:59:38.977", "id": "22892", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:07.697", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:07.697", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "15367", "parent_id": "4026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMy opinion is that because water as a weakness is commonly seen as a\ndemon/devil weakness, hence the name Devil Fruit. And the user's soul is the\npolar opposite of the sea, which in turn would create a struggle between the\n2. And water ultimately wins seeing as how Devil Fruits are rumored to be a\npart of the sea, causing its wielder to constantly be drained of their power,\nor in cases of sea stone, causes their power to drain just enough so that they\ncan't use their power.\n\nThis is purely speculation, but it is also a very likely theory all things\nconsidered.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-11T07:49:19.037", "id": "27236", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:16.643", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-22T14:54:16.643", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "19033", "parent_id": "4026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe biggest difficulty with getting into Touhou is the number of characters\nwhich are present. The bulk of the canon story material is really not that\nlarge.\n\nThe main Touhou games are released in chronological order. This is rather\nirrelevant because the stories typically are not closely related anyway.\nHowever, newer games do involve characters from older games. This shouldn't\nreally stop you from understanding what's going on, because the characters are\nall pretty easy to understand, but you may miss a few things if you go out of\norder. Note that these are really essential to understanding Touhou well,\nsince they serve as the introduction for most of the characters and almost all\nof the major plot points which are referenced elsewhere are from the games.\n\nTypically, it's recommended to start with the beginning of the Windows Touhou\ngames, [Touhou 6 (Embodiment of the Scarlet\nDevil)](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil). The\nWindows Touhou games have only occasionally used characters from PC-98 era\ngames, apart from [Reimu](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Reimu) and\n[Marisa](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Marisa) (the protagonists). However, it\nwould not really hurt anything to start with any of the other games either. If\nyou find the games too difficult, many people who are just interested in the\nstory watch replays of them online or read transcripts of the dialogue (which\nare available on Touhou Wiki, e.g.\n[here](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil/Story)).\nThere are fan-made patches available for all of the main Touhou games.\n\nIf you want an official source, Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red (the first\nTouhou fanbook) has a great deal of information on the characters up to\n[Touhou 9](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Phantasmagoria_of_Flower_View).\n[Touhou Wiki](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki) typically serves as a\nfine alternative as well, though it has a lot of fanon as well. Neither of\nthose are really stories though. To be perfectly honest, you can read almost\nany of the canon manga releases if you're willing to occasionally look up who\na character is. [Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the\nEarth](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Inaba_of_the_Moon_and_Inaba_of_the_Earth)\nmight be a particularly good choice simply because it only involves a small\nnumber of characters.\n\nIn any case, once you know the very basics (the major characters and plot of\nthe main games), you can pick up pretty much anything canon or fanon with\nrelative ease. The biggest difficulty is just learning all the characters in\nthe first place, and I don't think there's any better advice for that than\njust to play the games (or at least read the dialogue from them).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-04T23:11:01.640", "id": "4030", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-04T23:18:59.573", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-04T23:18:59.573", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4029", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's a good introduction to Touhou in [this blog\npost](https://rabbiteclair.tumblr.com/post/173504016367/i-know-nothing-about-\ntouhou-but-i-think-its) by rabbiteclair, which gives some background on what\nexactly is _Gensokyo_ , some perspective on the media and fandom, and also\nlists some games and manga that are particularly good starting points.\n\n> The fandom is so damn big that it was very efficiently self-perpetuating for\n> a long time. There’s no common canon entry point, because half the English\n> fandom just stumbled upon [this\n> thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkgK8eUdpAo) ten years ago and got\n> curious enough to try figuring out what in the hell it meant.\n\nEven just looking at official content, there are >27 official games, a bunch\nof manga series, a music CD series that has its own independent story in the\nbooklets (fun Secret Sealing Club shenanigans). But here are some possible\nstarting points:\n\n**Games** :\n\nThe stories for the games are fairly straightforward and self-contained, so\nyou can jump into any of these in any order without needing to worry about\nother games.\n\n * [**Embodiment of Scarlet Devil**](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil): The 6th game of the series, and the first game to be released for Windows. The start of modern era Touhou; this game effectively soft-rebooted the continuity, so you don't need to worry about the previous 5 games (the older PC-98 system games). It introduces a lot of major characters, including Cirno, Patchouli, Sakuya, Remilia, and Flandre.\n * [**Perfect Cherry Blossom**](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Cherry_Blossom): The 7th game of the series. The Cherry mechanic makes it one of the easier games. Really great music. It introduces a lot of major characters, including Alice (well, if you ignore Touhou 5), the Prismriver Sisters, Youmu, Yuyuko, and Yukari.\n * [**Mountain of Faith**](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Mountain_of_Faith): The 10th game of the series. Introduces major characters like Nitori, Sanae, Kanako, and Suwako. It's considered the first game of the \"2nd Windows Generation\", using a new engine.\n * [**Ten Desires**](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Ten_Desires): The 13th game of the series. Relatively recent. There are a few really good songs in this game. The Trance mechanic helps make the game easier to play, but only if you remember to hit C.\n\n**Manga** :\n\n * [**Forbidden Scrollery**](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Forbidden_Scrollery): The story of a normal human girl from the human village as she starts getting entangled in the supernatural and youkai politics. Also, it has an [official English release](http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/series/forbidden-scrollery/?yen)!\n * [**Sangetsusei (the Three Fairies series)**](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Sangetsusei): The story of three pretty normal fairies as they do fairy things. Very slice-of-life-y. Lots of cameo appearances from other characters, so it's also a nice way to get introduced a lot of characters.\n\n* * *\n\nIncidentally, I first played the games in this order: TH06, TH08, TH10, TH13,\nand then TH07. So far, the only games I've been able to finish without any\ncontinues (on Normal!) are TH08 and TH07 ¯\\\\_(ツ)_/¯\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-06T06:23:13.170", "id": "47704", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-03T08:55:25.637", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-03T08:55:25.637", "last_editor_user_id": "18352", "owner_user_id": "18352", "parent_id": "4029", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOk, let's look at the situation more carefully. You have your Trenni silver\ncoins, which have some % of silver in them. The market value of such a\ncurrency is bound to the amount of the noble metal in each coin. It's very\nsimple and intuitive: silver is rare and valuable, so the more silver there is\nin a coin, the more is the value of that coin.\n\nNow, we have a situation where the amount of silver in the coins is going to\nbe _decreased_. What is going to happen? Well, the _new_ Trenni coins (with\nless silver) will become less expensive than the _old_ Trenni coins. That\nmeans, that it is profitable to save all the old coins you have.\n\nBy spreading the rumors that the amount of silver is going to _increase_ , the\nMedio company is accomplishing two things at once. First, it makes people\nthink that it's profitable to sell their coins now (because they think that\nafter the new coins arrive, the value of the old ones will decrease). Second,\nit creates a possibility to make people selling their coins for even a lower\nprice than they are now, simply because they want to get rid of the coins\nASAP, before the price drops.\n\nAlso, if they already have some new coins, they can even trade them for a\n_larger_ amount (say, 2 old ones for 1 new, people think the new ones are more\nvaluable, remember) of old ones.\n\nThis lets the Medio company stock plenty of old silver coins, which as we\nknow, in reality, will be worth _more_ when the new ones are released. That's\nhow they want to make the profit.\n\nThe Milone company, after getting the information from Lawrence, starts doing\nthe same thing: buying Trenni coins to get a large stock of them before the\nnew coins are released. After the new coins will be in play, people will, of\ncourse, know that they are really _less_ valuable, and the value of Milone\ncompany's stock of old coins will increase further.\n\nI hope the explanation wasn't too messy ;)\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-05T06:54:19.040", "id": "4032", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-21T06:13:37.283", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-21T06:13:37.283", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "4031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen the silver coin in question has more silver in it, it is worth much more.\nSo the current coin that everyone is using is about to increase in value. It\nis because the area is making more coins with less silver in them there,\nmaking anyone with the current coin want to keep it because the value will\nsoon go up.\n\nThe kid who talks to our main protagonist tells him that the coin will\ndecrease in value due to the area making a coin with more silver, which is the\ncomplete opposite of what will happen. So the people with the current coin who\nhave this info will want to get rid of the current coin ASAP. So they will\nsell it to people for a low amount of money.\n\nThis is where that trading company comes in. They buy the coins that are\nreally about to increase in value. So, in the end, they make a profit, and the\ntraders given false info have been cheated out of a great deal of money.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-22T17:07:11.400", "id": "6515", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-21T05:54:44.360", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-21T05:54:44.360", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "3073", "parent_id": "4031", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe comments on [SingerOfTheFall's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4032) is on the right track but not\nquite got it yet.\n\nYes, when new coins of lower purity are introduced to circulation, all coins\nof that type will lose value. It's due to the people using the coins having\nless trust in said coins.\n\nWhile that is the first step to understanding the scheme, it goes much deeper.\nWhen Milone Trading company starts collecting the Trenni Silver Coins, they\nare not doing so because they want them to be recycled in exchange for\nexclusive deals. First, you have to think about why that particular country\nwould be lowering the purity. It's because the country of Trenni doesn't have\nthe silver to continue making coins of such high purity.\n\nYes, in the short view Trenni can make more coins, but this also means that\noutside of their own borders, the coin will be worthless. In addition, within\ntheir borders, the coin is not valued on how much silver is in it so much as\nit is by how much the government says it is worth.\n\nFor example, let's say you have one pure 1 gram gold coin. Let's also say\nthese pure gold coins are the common currency in your country. That means even\nthough it is just 1 gram of gold, the government can say that the 1 gram is\nworth 2 grams. This is something called\n[seigniorage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage). Now, this only works\nto a certain degree, which depends on how much faith the people have in the\ncoins purity and the government manufacturing the coins. So, it is in the\ncountry's best interest to keep purity high. However, when they decrease the\npurity, while it will make a lot of money really fast and put more in\ncirculation, it does decrease the faith that the people have in the coin.\nMeaning that even with a small decrease in purity, you may see a drastic\nincrease in how many coins any given item is worth due to people not having\nfaith in the purity of the coins. Therein lies why it isn't a good idea to\nreduce the purity so drastically.\n\nIf the Government is reducing the purity, you can assume this means their\nfunds are getting low. Meaning that they would be more than eager to trade\nexclusive deals for coins they can recycle. In that, the commenters were\ncorrect. But, think. If Trenni were to suddenly come into a large amount of\nsilver they wouldn't _have_ to recycle all these coins into lower value ones.\nThey could slowly reintroduce them into circulation and therefore solve the\nproblem of having such low funds. That is why this deal was so valuable and\nthe land of Trenni would be willing to sacrifice quite a bit for the older\ncoins.\n\nAlso, Milone's goal was not to trade for deals. No, instead they traded all\nthe older higher purity coins for land, large area mining rights, tariff\ncontrol, and other privileges generally held solely by the government. Meaning\nthey could move their goods without paying tolls, resale the land at a higher\nprice, and sell individual mining rights for a small area to smaller companies\nfor a higher price per acre. For that matter, they could even further use the\nland and mining rights for future income by leasing the land and mining rights\nfor certain areas in segments. Though it would be a little longer before you\nmade your money back, you would in the long term have a potential to earn much\nmore than you would just by selling it.\n\nNow considering they were able to pay Lawrence back the next morning, I would\nassume they resold all or at least some of the privileges they acquired, which\nis the least risky way to play it since if they were to lease the land, there\nis no guarantee that people will be willing to lease it. That leads to the\nrisk of actually losing money. It's my guess they sold the risky investments\nand kept the privileges that would lead to the saving money in the future as\ntheir portion of the profit.\n\nOr there is a second option in which they could have kept all the assets and\nprivileges they gained and gave Lawrence Trenni coins out of the Companies\npocket based on the estimated value of the assets they'd acquired. That way,\nMilone Trading still has the potential gain from the mining rights and such.\n\nAnd then there's yet another option where they sold just enough of the assets\nto make sure they hadn't suffered a loss in addition to the amount needed to\npay Lawrence. This, in my opinion, would be the smartest play considering it\nwould mean there is no risk of loss and their debts are settled. In addition,\nthey would have the leftover assets to do what they wanted with them. In\ntheory, this option is almost no risk with high potential gain.\n\nNow to tackle why Medio would be spreading words of raising purities, and\ntruthfully, compared to the rest of all this, it's quite simple. If the\ncommunity believes the purity is going to raise, then they will begin getting\nrid of older coins and trying to acquire these newer \"thought to be more\nvalued\" ones. This gives Medio to act as if they are a third uniformed party\nand give the people newer coins in exchange for older coins. Likely they had\nthe same goal as Milone, this was just their way of collecting the coins.\nUnfortunately, the direction they chose to collect the coins also requires\nthem scamming all the people that they tell into having the newer less pure\nones. That part of it really is quite simple.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-21T05:42:27.790", "id": "42417", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-26T10:43:15.730", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-26T10:43:15.730", "last_editor_user_id": "11451", "owner_user_id": "35743", "parent_id": "4031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nPart of the answer to this(which isn't as explicitly mentioned in the anime),\nis that when Milone sells the gathered silver Trenni to the government, they\nactually make the government pay _more_ than the coins are worth. The\ngovernment can do this because the resmelting the coins still gives more coins\nthan was provoided+the extra fee. (Example, sell 10 coins for 11 coins. These\n10 coins are then smelted into 13 new coins. That way, the company gets 1 coin\nin profit and the government gets 2).\n\nThis was however the lesser valuable trade(as shown by the initial sale profit\nbeing quite low). The real profit came from selling the coins in exchange for\ntrade rigths and privileges(like no tariffs on wheat from the company holding\nthis privilege). This second option doesn't require the government to shell\nout cash here and now(though they still lose in the long term), which is why\nit was so attractive. In this case, Milone then sold the wheat privilege to\nMedio, who actually traded fairly heavily in wheat, and from there made most\nof their overall profits.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-25T07:44:44.410", "id": "48911", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-25T07:44:44.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42626", "parent_id": "4031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe old trenni silver will technically be worth more in silver value even\nthough on the face it's still worth the same to the average layman. The\nKingdom of Trenni was having financial difficulties keeping a treasury in the\nblack and so they basically devalued their currency in silver value while\nattempting to maintain the trust of the Trenni to remain the same fiat value.\n\nTo make it as simple as possible the Government of Trenni was trying to print\nmoney to make up for financial shortcomings. The Milone Trading Company\ncapitalized on this by stockpiling old Trenni coins, they didn't get nearly\nenough to make a huge profit on its face but they did get concessions by the\nKingdom in exchange for the old coins with extra value which they could then\nmelt down and reduce the silver content of.\n\n100 old Trenni coins turned into 120 new Trenni coins ( as an example of what\nhappened) with barely anyone being aware of the devaluation. In the meantime\nMilone got some concessions (like no taxes), a tidy profit (as did Lawrence),\nThe Kingdom of Trenni got to refill their coffers for whatever they needed it\nfor and 99% of the people kept their trust in the value of Trenni silvers\nwhich prevented an economic collapse.\n\nNear the end of the series of Light Novels a similar problem comes up. A noble\nwho owns a Silver, Gold and Copper mine and refineries decided to make his own\ncurrency which was much purer and release it against the existing coinage\nwhich were all less pure. Therefore his currency gave him enormous power by\nallowing him to supplant the economic hold over the region in question and he\nbasically made himself Kingpin. People were trading existing Trenni and Lutes\nfor his purer silver and gold at a profit. By taking the hit in the short term\nby trading pure coins for less pure existing ones he gave himself a\nstranglehold on the trust in currency in the region. If everyone is using your\ntrusted coins and you control all manufacture of those coins you have all the\npower. And since there was less and less old coinage the trust in their\nvaluation was nonexistent. It would be like trading US quarters (mostly made\nof copper) for pure silver new coins. You'd make a lot of money exchanging\nyour quarters for the silver but eventually there'd be no quarters left and\nthe guy you sold them to controls what coins are made and make more any time\nhe wants and buy stuff for little cost on his part.\n\nI hope that makes sense.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-15T17:29:21.083", "id": "53988", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-15T17:29:21.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48553", "parent_id": "4031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nTo understand this plot you need to know that the monetary value for\neverything in the world, including the world of _Spice and Wolf_ , follow the\nprinciple of supply and demand, and Trenni silver coin is no exception. When\nthe demand suddenly increase but supply does not, its price would increase;\nand similarly, when supply increase but demand does not, its price would\ndecrease. In the case of Trenni silver coin, its value is its purchasing\npower. However, since Trenni silver coin is issued in such a large quantity,\nit's very difficult to drastically change its value in a short time. Only\nnobels or large merchant guilds have the power or wealth to effectively\ninfluence its price.\n\nThe root cause for this plot is the royal house of Trenni's need for money.\nThey decides to achieve that by devaluing the currency (or inflation).\nBasically, they milt the old coins, and by mixing other cheap metal, they use\nthe same amount of silver to make more coins. Such actions if planed properly,\ncould go unnoticed for a very long time. But since the noble cannot gather\nlarge amount of old coins due to its financial crisis, they need someone else\nto do it for them. Medio smelled the opportunity in this, because once they\nhave collected enough, they are able to negotiate an exclusive right to this\ncoin collection business, and monopoly = high profit.\n\nHowever, rashly collecting coin of such a large amount is very expansive, and\nhas the risk of attracting the attention of rival merchant guild. Thus, to\nreduce the cost and also keeping it a secret, Medios hired people like Zheren\nto spread the rumor that the silver coin's silver content will increase\n(basically saying that its purchase power will go up). Upon hearing this,\nother small business owner like Lawrence would prefer to hold on to their\nTrenni silver coin, thus the demand for that silver coin will increase, its\nsupply will decrease, because there are less Trenni silver coin being used on\nmarket. Medios would then use the Trenni silver he has, exchange it to goods\nor other currencies.\n\nAt the right time, Medios could release the truth, that the silver coin is\nabout to be devalued. Upon hearing this, those who stock piled Trenni silver\nwould panic and seek to spend their silver to avoid losses, creating a sudden\nsurge in Trenni silver coin entering the market. As the market is suddenly\nflooded with Trenni silver, its supply increase and demand decrease. In that\nshort period of time, the silver coin will quickly loose purchase power.\nPerfect time for Medios to collect large amount of \"cheap\" Trenni silver coin,\nand negotiate the exclusive right with nobles.\n\nMedios did this in a slow and hidden process, because if rival guild catches\nwind of it, his entire plan would be spoiled. Which is why Medios tries so\nhard to get rid of Lawrence - the whistleblower. For Lawrence, with Holo's\nability, he was able to tell that the silver content is actually decreasing,\nhe made a contract with Milone trading before telling them the plot. Which\nallows Milone trading to collect large amount of silver coin in that short\nwindow of time when the Trenni silver coin value decreases, and negotiated the\nexclusive right before Medios did.\n\nIn the end, not wanting his years of preparation went in vain, Medios\npurchased the right from Milone with a heavy price. Lawrence, received his\nshare from that purchase.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-12-15T17:37:26.393", "id": "67546", "last_activity_date": "2022-12-16T03:46:38.020", "last_edit_date": "2022-12-16T03:46:38.020", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "70840", "parent_id": "4031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor one thing, it wasn't a very deep thought that caused him to wish for her\nto still be alive. Instead, according to\n[here](http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/Y%C5%ABko_Ichihara):\n\n> Upon her death, Yuuko finally explains her connections with Clow Reed. As\n> Yuuko lay dying, Clow Reed had the briefest thought that he wanted her to\n> remain alive. Clow's magic was so powerful that this single thought caused\n> Yuuko to become frozen in time.\n\nAdditionally, according to [here](http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/Clow_Reed):\n\n> In Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Clow Reed is mentioned by Yuko frequently.\n> They seem to have worked together for the same event that Yuko always talks\n> about: \"the day that has to come\". For this purpose, both created the\n> Mokonas (which implies that they had met the \"Real\" Mokona of Cephiro).\n\nAs far as I can tell from everything I've read, they are not related by blood.\nInstead, they worked together. They may have been no more than acquaintances\nor maybe friends, as there seem to be few implications that they were ever\nanything more.\n\nThe only time I have seen it implied was in Chapter 138 of Tsubasa, where Clow\nsaid to Sakura, \"Being apart from the one you like, no matter how old you are,\nis a lonely thing. And while apart, I'm wishing for that person to be happy.\"\nThere are thoughts that he may have been talking about Yuuko. It is possible\nthat he was talking about Madoushi, but Madoushi only appeared in an anime\nmovie and so may not have been canon to the manga.\n\nI cannot find any official statements on the matter, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-05T16:26:02.000", "id": "4038", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-05T16:26:02.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "4033", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's not directly stated, but this being Clamp, whose themes often revolve\naround love, it seems highly likely that Yūko and Clow Reed were in some kind\nof a romantic relationship. That's the impression I got from reading _Tsubasa_\nand _xxxHolic_.\n\nThe evidence:\n\n 1. Yūko is always badmouthing Clow Reed. However, there isn't any real hostility in her words. This implies a high level of familiarity with him.\n 2. Clow Reed wished to save Yūko. It's stated in the other answer that it was only a single passing thought that brought his wish into reality, due to his powerful magic. But such a mistake really isn't what Clow Reed is known for. My guess is he cared about Yuko a whole lot to slip up like that. Additionally, this situation parallels the one between Syaoran and Sakura, where Syaoran ends up making a wish that stops Sakura's time, so that she won't die. I highly doubt this similarity is a coincidence. And Sakura and Syaoran are confirmed to love each other.\n 3. Watanuki is stated to resemble Clow Reed. And...\n\n> By the end of _xxxHolic_ , Yūko is gone, and Watanuki decides he will wait\n> for her in the shop, no matter how long it takes, and no matter how unlikely\n> it is he'll see her again. It is clear he feels some kind of love for Yūko\n> (not necessarily romantic, but I'm not discounting it either). He goes so\n> far to choose this love at the expense of all of his other relationships.\n\nI got the impression that Yūko and Clow Reed were in a romantic relationship,\nbut this isn't solely me making stuff up, as other fans noticed long before.\n[Clow Reed's page](https://xxxholic.fandom.com/wiki/Clow_Reed) here notes\n\n> Clow and Yūko had a past relationship. It is theorized that he and Yūko were\n> lovers. He and Yūko made the two Mokonas together.\n\nAs far as Madoushi goes, when I watched that movie, I got the impression her\nlove was unrequited. Her [Wiki page](http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Madoushi) even\nstates,\n\n> She started developing feelings for him, but it isn't indicated if [Clow\n> Reed] returned the feelings. She constantly made mention that there was\n> something she wanted to tell him, presumably that she loved him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-11T02:28:24.930", "id": "67625", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-11T02:42:06.727", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-11T02:42:06.727", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "4033", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_I am not entirely sure about the credibility of this_ but it does make sense\nand the only info I could find. Taken from the\n[wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki) under Trivia and from this\n[answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2783/1528)\n\n> * Haki appears to be similar in principle to common types of **Qi**\n> _(Chi)_ found in various other anime and manga series; which is based on the\n> concept of \"qi\" (or \"life-force\") in Chinese philosophy.\n>\n> * The concept of Kenbunshoku Haki, known to Skypieans as Mantra, is\n> loosely based on the style of thinking in Hinduism, which goes by the same\n> [name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra).\n>\n>\n\nThe original Japanese term is ki (pronounced the same as \"key\", written as 気).\nIt can also be spelled chi or qi. The same term is used for a concept in\nmartial arts.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-05T09:28:44.037", "id": "4036", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-10T04:27:00.030", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "4035", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> what is his reason for doing so?\n\nIt has not been revealed yet. Though it is likely to come out towards the end\nof the arc.\n\n> What is his canonical name?\n\nHe is using and is mostly referred to by others as Juha Bach. \"Yhwach\" may be\na title rather than a name (basing this on the similarity to \"Yahwe\" - the\nHebrew name of god), or a different pronunciation of the same name (in a\ndifferent script/language).\n\nThough it appears that Juha Bach is a mistranslation of Yhwach (which appears\nto be the [official name](http://shonenjump.viz.com/node/1095)), as @Zeno\n[commented](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4045/what-is-juha-bachs-\nmotivation/4053?noredirect=1#comment3289_4053).\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-06T10:26:42.943", "id": "4053", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-06T13:41:15.090", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "4045", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHe probably wants to kill The Soul King and rule the world. In one of the\nchapters. he told his assistant to order the Sternritters to retreat so that\nthey can wait for the Royal Guards to come. Juha Bach is too smart to start a\nwar all because of revenge. He only cares about himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-15T07:00:59.993", "id": "4131", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-10T13:02:54.093", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-10T13:02:54.093", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1902", "parent_id": "4045", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHe now holds Hueco Mundo. Should he gain control of Soul Society, there would\nbe no power considered great enough (in his mind) to threaten the Quincy race\nagain. This seems to be my assumption.\n\nAlthough i'm sure there's some sort of connection that's yet to be revealed to\nus as well. I speculate this connection due to the fact that Masaki's family\nis dead and there was no explanation given, unless we are to assume they\nperished in the Quincy genocides.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-21T13:46:51.373", "id": "4181", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-21T18:28:33.310", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-21T18:28:33.310", "last_editor_user_id": "1926", "owner_user_id": "1926", "parent_id": "4045", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs you have said, Toya and Yukito has romantic feelings for each other. As for\nYue, it can be implied that he has no romantic feelings for Toya (since he\nknew ever since everything about Yukito, he probably had known that Yukito has\nfeelings for Toya and wouldn't interfere). And according\n[here](http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Yue),\n\n> **Yue was in quite a strong and close intimate relationship with Clow\n> Reed.**\n\nYue was even against Sakura, as he strongly believed that no one succeed Clow\nReed, but later on accepted her as his new master. So if there's somebody who\nYue has romantic feelings for, it probably would be Clow Reed.\n\nIn addition, as far as I can remember, the only specific event that Yue and\nToya had a conversation was when Toya gave his power to Yue and made Yue\npromise to protect Sakura and Yukito.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-06T00:30:09.667", "id": "4047", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-06T00:30:09.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "4046", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAt first, Yue is cold toward Sakura. He is a very nostalgic person who only\nrecognize Clow Reed. But Sakura's warmth melted the coldness in his heart, and\nhe recognized Sakura as his new mistress deep within his heart. He and Sakura\ngets quite intimate in the battles to turn Clow Cards into Sakura cards, and\neven wiped her tears away in Episode 65 when Sakura overheard the conversation\nand transfer of powers between Yue and Toya. Does Yukito and Toya have\nromantic feelings for each other? I'd say yes. But how about Yue's feeling for\nhim? Truthfully, I think after such a long time with Sakura, he has stronger\nemotional attachment to her than to Toya, whom he met only once in his true\nform. It is his false form, Yukito, who had feelings for Toya.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-30T00:38:25.163", "id": "21963", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-30T00:38:25.163", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14740", "parent_id": "4046", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI always thought that if, in the manga they make it clear to a certain point\nwith Yukito; With Yue believed that if he has feelings for Toya even if it is\nfalse appearance he did not believe that they can only \"create\" those feelings\nunconsciously and he feels it. In the end they are the same person, two sides\nof the same coin.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-21T05:23:20.127", "id": "39981", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-21T13:42:54.900", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-21T13:42:54.900", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "32096", "parent_id": "4046", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLet's get the facts right:\n\n 1. Sasuke did not kill Orochimaru. Orochimaru entered Sasuke's mind and tried to take it over, but failed. Hence he got \"sealed\" inside.\n 2. That's why Orochimaru continued to live inside of Sasuke, after exhausting all of his chakra, Sasuke failed to restrain Orochimaru and he broke free (only for Itachi to permanently seal him again).\n 3. Orochimaru's Cursed Seal allows him to inject his **[snake sage chakra](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Mode#Snake_Sage_Mode)**. That allows him (much like Minato and Kushina did with Naruto), to have part of his consciousness sealed inside of the people he gives his cursed mark to.\n\nDue to that fact, Orochimaru's consciousness lives inside of **Anko** , and\nafter supplying it with some flesh from Kabuto (who contained Orochimaru's and\nHashirama's cells), the consciousness part was able to retain control and a\nbody. Also, absorbing all of his own cells from Kabuto, he managed to get the\ninformation he needed, as well as his life-force, to recover.\n\nActually, I'm pretty sure that if he's _killed_ now, he'll die (unless he has\nsome backup copy/cells/whatever hidden elsewhere, waiting for the next sucker\nto discover and awaken).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-06T15:42:20.100", "id": "4055", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-06T15:42:20.100", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "4048", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto summoned [Gamakichi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gamakichi). \n\n\nSasuke summoned [Aoda](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Aoda). \n\n\nSakura summoned [Katsuyu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Katsuyu). \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/C69Ko.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-06T07:16:04.493", "id": "4052", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-26T18:12:14.273", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-26T18:12:14.273", "last_editor_user_id": "1588", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "4051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\n> **UPDATE!** This was confirmed in chapter 634.\n\nActually, based on the patterns on his body and face, I'd say that it's\nactually Gamakichi.\n\nIt's consistent with what this **[page on\nNarutoWiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gamakichi)** says, although I don't\nknow how reliable a source that is.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-06T15:33:54.100", "id": "4054", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-12T10:16:51.403", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-12T10:16:51.403", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "4051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is Gamakichi, as Naruto himself confirmed. In turn, Gamakichi said that his\ndad (Gamabunta) was busy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-18T09:10:08.997", "id": "4153", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-18T10:48:24.733", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-18T10:48:24.733", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1915", "parent_id": "4051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is probably just a random word created by the mangaka for the spell's\nname. It's probably just a coincidence that Troia meant whore in Italian\ntranslation. After all, it's a healing magic so it won't make sense that the\nmangaka chose that kind of word intentionally if knew that meaning in Italian\ntranslation. You can find Troia's full description\n[here](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Troia).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-07T05:15:49.493", "id": "4061", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-07T05:15:49.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "4056", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo me, it's like he is trying to look at human behavior from a 3rd party point\nof view.\n\nWe won't really know until the mangaka makes it obvious later in the story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-01T16:31:48.167", "id": "4581", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-01T16:31:48.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "4057", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you just began watching the series, this answer will be a huge spoiler for\nyou. The information here is from episode 9, so I'd advise you to wait for the\nepisode before reading this.\n\nIn episode 9, Ledo got hold of some information from the past in which he\nlearnt about the origins of both the Hideauze and the war between them and\nmankind.\n\n**Spoilers from episode 9 from here onward!**\n\nBefore Earth's fifth ice age, a group of humans underwent heavy genetic\nmodifications, in order to adapt themselves to space environment, so that they\ncould migrate from Earth. These people were called the Evolvers. The human\nEvolvers are what became the Hideauze. \nThere were countries that stood by the Evolvers, and countries that stood\nagainst them (the Continental Union). The opposition movement against the\nEvolvers opened fire against them. From there things escalated into a war\nbetween \"regular\" humans and Hideauze (genetically modified humans), because\nthey both wanted to flee from Earth (using a portal being built by the\nContinental Union), and saw each other as a threat. \n**Basically, \"regular\" humans attacked first, because they saw the genetic\nmodifications the Evolvers underwent as a sort of blasphemy (and were, most\nlikely, afraid of them). However, the war only got to what it is now because\nthe Hideauze saw the portal being built as a threat to them (because they'd be\nstranded on Earth), and decided to take preemptive action against \"regular\"\nhumans.**\n\nHere's a set of pics from episode 9 (click it to enlarge): \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YuO6Y.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-06T21:25:08.003", "id": "4060", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-30T09:38:39.740", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-30T09:38:39.740", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "4058", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOsamu Tezuka, perhaps ?\n\nIn his mangas, the same characters would appear in different roles. Given the\nammount of work he produce, it's not a big surprise he could do that. Don't\nthink it was intensive like CLAMP, but was well used, in specific situations.\n\nTezuka had his [Star\nSystem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka%27s_Star_System), and his\ncharacters would appear in many stories, sometimes without a formal reference\n(not being identified as such).\n\nExamples:\n\nBlack Jack made some apparitions in Astro Boy... Astro Boy made many\napparitions in Black Jack and in other mangas.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-07T19:05:19.957", "id": "4064", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-10T13:20:15.890", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-10T13:20:15.890", "last_editor_user_id": "132", "owner_user_id": "132", "parent_id": "4062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nSince the title mentioned \"manga\" but your description said \"anime or manga\",\nI'll just put it here. I'm conflicted because this one across many medias\n(Light Novel, Anime, Manga, Visual Novel).\n\n**[Type-Moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-Moon)** (Fate series, Kara no\nKyoukai, Tsukihime, etc) has its famous\n**[Nasuverse](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Nasuverse)**.\n\n> The universe of the writings of TYPE-MOON's scenario director, [Kinoko\n> Nasu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinoko_Nasu). It's made up of several\n> \"sub-universes\" (\"franchises\" that share characters) that take place in the\n> same world with the same rules, but interestingly enough, seldom obviously\n> cross over. \n> ~tvtropes\n\nThere's also this image of [Nasuverse Character\nChart](http://images34.fotosik.pl/64/031a310f6bfa47cd.jpg).\n\nThe difference with CLAMP is, while CLAMP likes to make the character clearly\nhas an appearance in other series, Nasuverse isn't like that, and that's why,\nabove, it's described as\n\n> ...take place in the same world with the same rules, but interestingly\n> enough, **seldom obviously** cross over. ~tvtropes\n\nSo don't expect to see something so obvious like when Syaoran and Sakura of\nTRC appear in XXXHolic (that even turns out their plot is related). From what\nI understand, Nasuverse heavily put its chain between series around its\nconcept of magic, mage, and supernatural being. There's some character\nrelated, but still it's not like they appear like, how Sumeragi Clan of Tokyo\nBabylon involved heavily in X. As far as I know, their character relation is\n'implied', like, X from Y series is teacher in School Q, and 'coincidentally',\nin B series, A is student in School Q.\n\nFor all the preview of anime and manga, you can see it in the tvtropes link I\ngave above. Almost all of them has magic as one of the story element, which\nalso poses as one of its universe's chain. For deeper explanation of the\nuniverse, you can see its [analysis page, still in the same\nsite.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/Nasuverse)\n\nCMIIW.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T00:21:34.757", "id": "9985", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T00:21:34.757", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "4062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe first movie (Gurren-hen or Childhood's End) is basically a recap of the\nfirst half of the tv series, similarly the second movie (Lagann-hen or The\nLights in the Sky Are Stars) covers the second half.\n\nThere is around 20 minutes of new material in the first film and a bit more in\nthe second film - primarily added in the final battle\n\nThe only changes in plot were that\n\n> Makken doesn't die\n\n&\n\n> The Gurren Lagann evolves to an even higher stage, becoming Dai Tengen Toppa\n> Gurren Lagann which is even larger than galaxies!\n\nThere's an overall improvement in the animation quality, noticeably making\nbattle scenes more thrilling.\n\n\n\nalso seemingly Yoko's breasts are slightly bigger in the movies\n[ref.](http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=2111156)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-09T10:09:56.290", "id": "4080", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-09T10:27:06.770", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-09T10:27:06.770", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "4065", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're looking for [_Please Twins!/Onegai\nTwins!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Twins!)\n\n> Please Twins! is a story about three high-school students: Maiku Kamishiro,\n> Karen Onodera, and Miina Miyafuji. The three were drawn together by a\n> photograph of their childhood home which later makes all of them seek out\n> the house in the picture. However, the picture shows only two children, a\n> boy and a girl. The three conclude from this that only one of the girls,\n> either Karen or Miina, can be related to Maiku. The other must be a\n> nonrelative. The only other identifying feature of the pair in the picture\n> is that the boy and the girl have eyes of the same unusual color, a feature\n> that furthers the ambiguity as all three of them share the same eye color.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-08T01:32:46.320", "id": "4068", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-08T01:32:46.320", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4066", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[This blogpost](http://animehistory.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/theory-of-a-live-\ngirl-code-geass-spoilers-inside/) adequately explains how she could have\nsurvived. I also do not believe there was as much of a vacuum because at that\npoint in time the FLEIJAs still had a limiter. It was not until the\ndestruction of the Capital city of Pendragon that the limiters were removed.\n\nThis is the summary of the link:\n\n> After Sayoko rescued Kallen she went on ahead to find Nunnally and to try\n> and Rendevouz with Rolo and found the ship Nunally was on. Around the same\n> time the Gefjun disturbers were disabled and Nunnally’s ship left with\n> Sayoko and her men aboard. She never passed Rolo because he hadn’t even\n> reached the hangar yet.\n>\n> Eight minutes later Rohmeyer is on a decoy ship with KF’s to make it look\n> like the governor general is aboard and Rolo walks in to find the ship,\n> assuming reasonably that Nunally is on it he commandeers a KF to try and\n> blow up the ship and kill her. Meanwhile Sayoko barges in on Nunnally in the\n> ship she’s really on and Rohmeyer doesn’t respond at all because she’s\n> actually on the decoy back in the hangar. Nunnally’s ship is probably just\n> outside the area by this point. When the bomb goes off Rohmeyer is caught in\n> it in her decoy ship and goes up in a ball of flames. Rolo has run away once\n> he thinks he knows what’s going on with Fleija (whatever it’s called) and\n> somehow made it to safety.\n>\n> How? I’m not sure as that thing had a pretty big blast radius. So when he\n> reports to Rolo he talks about the ship Rohmeyer is on and really isn’t\n> lying when he says Nunnally is dead, because he honestly thinks she is. In\n> reality I think she’s okay and with Sayoko elsewhere. Though that elsewhere\n> might be in Schneizel’s clutches.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-08T01:57:42.627", "id": "4313", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-11T09:48:37.833", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "4071", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that the FLEIJA that was used by Suzaku was not as powerful as the\nones used by Prince Shnizle because Shnizle removed the limiter. Now if I can\nremember correctly Nunnally and Sayoko were underground and just out of the\nblast radius. Now how Nunnally, Sayoko and Gilford disappeared is uncertain.\nWithout the power I believe that the outer blast radius is just a light show,\nand pulls then pushes out. I believe it threw them in some random direction\nout of sight. Stupid I know, but that's all I can think of.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-17T07:38:37.230", "id": "9767", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-17T07:38:37.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4922", "parent_id": "4071", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nDo you have anything to back this up from Code Geass (or any related\nmaterials) itself? – Maroon 2 days ago\n\nAs a matter of fact I do. In Season 2 Episode 23 Floyd, Miss Cecile, and Nina\ntalk about the FLEIJA that destroyed the Capital Pendragon, and Miss Cecile\npoints out that the FLEIJA that Shnizal used that destroyed the Capital\nPendragon was more 10x the destruction range than the one Suzaku use. Nina\nrealized that he removed both the effect range and detination time limiter.\nThese FLEIJA's Shnizle uses go critical when they are fired as he mentions\nwhen Lelouch orders his men to charge at the FLEIJA's. Now the FLEIJA's do\npull things into the center of the blast because in the battle of Lelouch and\nShnizal, Shnizal fired a FLEIJA and everything was pulled into the center. You\nmay say that it was Lelouches order to charge at the FLEIJA and he did but if\nyou see the environment like the oceans this shows things get pulled into the\ncenter of the blast. I believe FLEIJA's do not explode, but implode.\n\nIf you want to watch the final episodes of Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebelion\nR2 go to animefreak.tv and watch Episodes 23-25\n\nP.S this does not explain everything about the FLEIJA's but it gave me enough\nto reach my conclusions\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-20T06:55:20.813", "id": "9814", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-20T07:06:26.450", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-20T07:06:26.450", "last_editor_user_id": "4956", "owner_user_id": "4956", "parent_id": "4071", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI guess this is because of it's overall popularity. According\n[here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AliceAllusion),\n\n> **Alices Adventures In Wonderland is a pretty well-known work: it can be\n> associated with world-crossing fantasy, drug imagery, lolita fashion and\n> other aspects of Victorian England, political satire, and who knows what\n> else. No wonder it shows up a lot in anime** , shock horror (it's a frequent\n> target of Grimmification, usually with lots of blood), and emo teen novels.\n> (You know the kind — usually involving vampires, eating disorders, or\n> vampires with eating disorders.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-10T04:02:43.773", "id": "4085", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-10T04:02:43.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "4074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is interesting because I see many answers saying it's not limited to\nanime, but from what I've seen, it's not limited to Alice in Wonderland.\n\nWhile it seems to be the most popular one by far, I also have seen re-editions\nof the Japanese fairy tale 'Momotaru, the Peach Boy', examples include:\nAssassination Classroom, Maid-Sama and Free!!! (All of which are amazing and I\nwould recommend watching from the bottom of my heart.)\n\nI agree that they are many for the purpose of buying time for the animators to\nwork on bigger pieces such as finales, they also are comic relief episodes\nthat put loveable characters in familiar situations.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-03T06:16:40.017", "id": "36648", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-03T06:16:40.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28535", "parent_id": "4074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat looks like [D.N.Angel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.N.Angel) to me.\nThough I'm not too sure as the plot could be any story nowadays.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-25T08:54:49.587", "id": "4210", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-25T08:54:49.587", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1725", "parent_id": "4081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nOut of the\n[five](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?category=Personality%20Change/s&filter=oneshots)\nI've found, this one fits the closest:\n\n**Blackberry**\n\n> Ever since Fune Momohara was told that she was just like a \"guy friend\" by\n> the boy she liked, she's been bent on becoming the ideal girl. But when she\n> meets the perfect guy who turns out to be more than a little pretentious,\n> she realizes that it can be difficult to keep up appearances!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-01T17:06:43.227", "id": "4585", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-01T17:06:43.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "4081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI haven't finished this yet, but it might be S+M, however it doesn't mention\nanything about nighttime:\n\n> The first man who doesn't obsess over her assets turns out to be the first\n> man she ever wants to have obsess over her, though there's something strange\n> about him... One time she's with him, he's a sweet masochist, the next time\n> he's a bold sadist. Which does Ryou like better? The S or the M? She'll have\n> to make a choice, because it turns out that she CAN'T have both.\n\n<http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1902>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T19:53:01.963", "id": "7202", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-28T19:53:01.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "4081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nA friend of mine was desperate to find this manga... after so long trying to\nfind, she finally found! She said it's an extra chapter of [Ookami Nanka\nKowakunai!?](http://myanimelist.net/manga/3457/Ookami_Nanka_Kowakunai!) If\nanybody else is after that, it's here :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-12T21:52:42.487", "id": "13378", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-12T22:19:58.377", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-12T22:19:58.377", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "7966", "parent_id": "4081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI was trying to recalled and find some manga that I have previously read\nbefore I stumbled upon your question. So it was not until that I ultimately\nfound the manga that I have been looking for, that at the same, I found a\nmanga that seems to match your description.\n\nHere it is: [Saitei na Hito wo Suki ni\nNarimashita](http://myanimelist.net/manga/39673/Saitei_na_Hito_wo_Suki_ni_Narimashita)\n\n> Liking the worst possible person...... \"If you love me, you will fufil my\n> wish, right?\" Yui confesses her love to Hiro who hides a dark personality...\n\nI haven't read it before but by the looks of it, it's maybe the one. Hope it\nhelps!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-27T23:12:12.130", "id": "27660", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-28T02:22:36.120", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-28T02:22:36.120", "last_editor_user_id": "14121", "owner_user_id": "19379", "parent_id": "4081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGhost in the Shell: Arise is not yet licensed. That means there's no release\nplanned in the US yet.\n\n**UPDATE**\n\n[Ghost in the Shell: Arise is now licensed by\nFunimation](http://funimation.tumblr.com/post/52976810089/flower-mound-tx-\njune-14-2013-funimation). In October 2014, the first two parts have been\nreleased on BD and DVD, while parts 3 and 4 have been released a year later.\n(At least) the first three parts are also available at Netflix.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-10T07:31:46.853", "id": "4086", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-16T07:35:56.193", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-16T07:35:56.193", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4083", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAgarest 2 follows neither ending. It takes place in an alternate reality from\nthe first two games so, aside from a few nods and references to them, is a\nstand-alone story wise.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-16T11:49:15.980", "id": "36388", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-15T16:06:50.837", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-15T16:06:50.837", "last_editor_user_id": "28022", "owner_user_id": "28291", "parent_id": "4084", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't have a definitive answer to this, but based on the first 2 episodes of\n_Gatchaman Crowds_ (all that has aired so far), at the very least there's no\nclear connection between the two series. If they are in the same universe, the\ncharacters in the two series don't seem to be interacting at all. There are\ndefinitely references to the original series, e.g. all of the members of the\n_Gatchaman_ team in the original series have counterparts in _Gatchaman\nCrowds_ , and many of the concepts stayed the same.\n\nThere's good reason to believe that the two series are in different universes.\nIn the original Gatchaman, all of their powers were, at least in principle,\njust the product of science and technology. In _Gatchaman Crowds_ , by\ncontrast, their powers are of some sort of mystic origin. It's not yet clear\nhow they work, but they aren't purely within the realm of science fiction\nanymore. This rendition of _Gatchaman_ is thus fundamentally different from\nthe original, and probably only makes sense in its own universe.\n\nThe Wikipedia entry for [_Gatchaman\nCrowds_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatchaman#Gatchaman_Crowds) seems to\nagree with this, describing _Gatchaman Crowds_ as “based in the Gatchaman\nuniverse,” which would seem to preclude it from being in the same universe.\nHowever, there's no solid source for that statement, so it's at best\nquestionable.\n\nOf course, this answer could still change (at least until _Gatchaman Crowds_\nends) but for the moment it seems more likely that they are in different\nuniverses.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-20T18:58:19.603", "id": "4420", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-10T14:38:53.963", "last_edit_date": "2021-12-10T14:38:53.963", "last_editor_user_id": "20254", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4093", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI would say the connection between _Gatchaman Crowds_ and the original\n_Gatchaman_ is the original is a TV show in the _Gatchaman Crowds_ universe in\nwhich somehow the team actually exists in the world, which would explain the\nreferences to the team in the first episode before the reveal of them actually\nexisting.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-01T01:29:13.230", "id": "9314", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-10T14:38:39.033", "last_edit_date": "2021-12-10T14:38:39.033", "last_editor_user_id": "20254", "owner_user_id": "4727", "parent_id": "4093", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Spiders first make their appearance in Chapter 224 of the manga. Needless\nto say a fight follows shortly after (next chapter).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-25T19:41:28.667", "id": "4217", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-25T19:41:28.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4103", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTohsaka is probably disappointed because the shed is like Shirou's workshop.\nTohsaka is a professional magus; her workshop probably has magical items and\nbooks and scrolls, but Shirou has broken junk.\n\nMaybe, it's the same for Saber (but we do not know if Saber knows what a\nworkshop should be like).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-23T20:33:19.610", "id": "4199", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-23T21:13:01.030", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-23T21:13:01.030", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1933", "parent_id": "4106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLet's approximate the size of the Hidden Leaf based on the size of the Nine-\ntails in his attack:\n\n\n\nAs you can see, the village is quite large. I can estimate a population of\nover 100,000 easily. Since many of them are shinobi, I don't think it's\nexaggerated to think that there are at least 12,000 shinobi there (probably\nmore).\n\nSo that's where all of them came from. Don't forget that we are focusing on\nonly one (two) set of academy students as they progress, in reality there are\nnew (and old) classes every year that graduate, get their own Jonin sensei,\nand take on missions etc. Those unimportant characters are often seen as what\nI like to call \"shuriken throwers\" (they only know how to throw shuriken,\nnothing else). You usually see them die when a strong opponent arrives.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-12T14:46:31.500", "id": "4110", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-12T14:46:31.500", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "4108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nThe number of the shinobi is too damn high. If you look at the ninja\nregistration numbers in the databook you can see that since Konoha's founding\nthere were some 13,000 shinobi total who graduated the academy- Naruto was no.\n12607. That's 13,000 over more than 60 years. And if you figure in old age and\nbattle casualties of four world wars and constant minor conflicts there's no\nway Konoha could have anywhere near 12,000 shinobi. I doubt Konoha should have\neven 2,000. The only rational explanation is that there are a number of\nshinobi villages in the fire country other than Konoha we have never heard\nabout and that they make up the rest of their forces.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T10:10:47.037", "id": "7034", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T10:10:47.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3400", "parent_id": "4108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Databook shows ninja registration numbers, Jiraiya's number is in the 2300\nrange while Naruto's is actually 102k range as shown in episode 2 just after\nhis picture is taken and he is told to retake it. It's not 12K range as shown\nin the databook. Considering there is roughly 38 years difference in age that\nmeans 100000 other ninja joined the roles of Konoha, roughly 2500/yr. So it's\nnot hard to imagine Konoha putting up a large number of ninja for the fight.\nRemember, their true strength of numbers is spread across the Land of Fire.\nThat was one reason the attack on Konoha by Orochimaru was difficult to\ncounter.\n\nAlso, its interesting that people think the Academy is the only way ninja join\na village. Whole clans join villages for various reasons, and a village would\nnot require each of them attend the Academy, they would likely be given tests\nto prove their skill and then placed in the hierarchy accordingly.\n\nFor anyone questioning the number of combatants I suggest looking at the\nnumbers of forces Japan and China used from the 13th century onward in\nstruggles with one another.\n\n> In 1592, and again in 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi decided to invade China (唐入り)\n> through Korea and mobilized an army of 160,000 peasants and\n> samurai.([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai#Azuchi.E2.80.93Momoyama_period))\n\nThe numbers are staggering, but consider this... The Cowboys NFL team averages\n80K attendance for a single game. So getting the number together isn't\nimpossible.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-22T01:58:02.150", "id": "13572", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-22T05:05:20.437", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-22T05:05:20.437", "last_editor_user_id": "6345", "owner_user_id": "8096", "parent_id": "4108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nWell the data book state the leaf population to be ranked 5 , rock 4, mist\n&cloud 3 and sand 2 , assuming the samurai are feared for their number they\nmight be ranked 5 as well ( but they also might ranked 1) The number of\nshinobi behind each star range from minimum of 80K/23 to 80K/18 = 3.5K to 4.5\nK. Than the leaf as around 17.5K to 22.5K of active shinobi. While the sand\nthe weakest one as between 7-9K active ninja..\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-26T20:34:15.287", "id": "33951", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-26T20:34:15.287", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25852", "parent_id": "4108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think a good theory is that not all Ninja come from that one village in each\nNation? What dumb leader would recruit from a single village, however large? I\nsee the Hidden Villages as the center of Ninja administration and leadership,\nand the place where a larger portion of active-duty Ninja are stationed.\nCertainly there are Ninja recruited and Trained in other regions of the\nnation. Other Clans, and academies? Just, as I said, the Hidden Village acts\nas the central hub. In this case, it is quite easy to imagine 12-20K Ninja a\npiece.\n\nWhat about the small classes? 9 Students a class? Well, I imagine several\nanswers to this. Firstly, let's ask how Naruto, the dunce who failed three\ntimes, is the same age and graduating class as Sasuke? My Thoughts? The\ngraduating classes happen more then once a year. Likely several times a year.\nIf there is one every two months (assuming Naruto merely has to retake the\nfinal semester or quarter after failing. It's the only idea that explains him\nbeing in the same class as people his age, despite failing 3 times), is would\nbe 54 graduates a year. That is assuming Iruka's is the only class set. If\nthere are 4 separate \"graduating class'\", and each one goes every two months,\nthat is over 200 new Genin a year. That is much closer to replacement and\ngrowth numbers. And that is for one City.\n\nAnd who is to say that is the only way to become a Genin? Perhaps there are\nsome clan based methods? Or perhaps you can take a sort of Ninja-GED, if your\nold enough, skilled enough, and capable of competing on a Genin/Chunin level?\nRemember, Naruto is told he can be a Chunin merely by asking. Someone who\ndidn't attend the academy, but can fight on a Jonin level, could perhaps be\nadmitted as such without going through the Academy. The Academy / Genin system\nmay be more of a Youth program to foster stronger members. It may not be the\nprimary source of Ninja (although, considering that each Academy member\noutshines the pathetic \"Shuriken-Throwers\", it may be the source of the better\nquality ones. After all, training from Youth usually has that effect). Think\nabout how most Military men didn't go to a Military Academy. But those who did\ntend to become Officers.\n\nAlso, to the person who lists the 5-point rankings, it may not be that each\nstar represents an absolute amount (I.E 1 Star is a fifth of 5 Star). So, as\nan example, there may only be a 20 or 30K Population different (population,\nnot Ninja Count) between 1 Star and 5 Star. So the Smallest City may still be\n80K while Konoha is (I presume) around 100K. I question the size of the Land\nof Iron. It seems to be a small location, and how many Samurai do you see on\nthe 4th War battlefield. It seems it's feared for it's skill, quality, and\nfortress.\n\nBut yes. That's my idea. Ninja are recruited and trained throughout the\nNation, with the Hidden Village being the Central Hub of Ninja Leadership and\nAdministration. As well as the City of Residence for the Most powerful Shinobi\nClans.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-29T05:40:13.600", "id": "36074", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-29T17:39:03.787", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-29T17:39:03.787", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "28007", "parent_id": "4108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the [Wikipedia page for \"Manga\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga), it\nsays this about the history:\n\n> In 1905 the manga-magazine publishing boom started with the Russo-Japanese\n> War, Tokyo Pakku was created and became a huge hit. After Tokyo Pakku in\n> 1905, a female version of Shōnen Sekai was created and named Shōjo Sekai,\n> considered the first shōjo magazine. Shōnen Pakku was made and is considered\n> the first children's manga magazine. The children's demographic was in an\n> early stage of development in the Meiji period. Shōnen Pakku was influenced\n> from foreign children's magazines such as Puck which an employee of Jitsugyō\n> no Nihon (publisher of the magazine) saw and decided to emulate. In 1924,\n> Kodomo Pakku was launched as another children's manga magazine after Shōnen\n> Pakku. During the boom, **Poten (derived from the French \"potin\") was\n> published in 1908. All the pages were in full color** with influences from\n> Tokyo Pakku and Osaka Pakku. It is unknown if there were any more issues\n> besides the first one.\n\nSo in 1908, there was a manga called \"Poten\" that was printed in full color.\nThere's more info about \"Poten\"\n[here](http://mmsearch.kyotomm.jp/infolib/search/CsvSearch.cgi?DEF_XSL=eng&GRP_ID=G0000002&DB_ID=G0000002GALLERY&IS_DB=G0000002GALLERY&IS_TYPE=csv&IS_STYLE=eng&SUM_KIND=CsvSummary&SUM_NUMBER=10&IS_SCH=CSV&META_KIND=NOFRAME&IS_KIND=CsvDetail&IS_NUMBER=1&SUM_TYPE=normal&IS_START=3&IS_KEY_A1=%22GALLERY%22&IS_TAG_A1=Cul11&IS_ADDSCH_CNT=1&VIEW_FLG=0):\n\n> When we look at the history of manga, we see a side which was brought about\n> by war. The Sino-Japanese War kick-started the Giga-Nishikie boom, and the\n> Russo-Japanese War brought about the manga magazine publication boom. In\n> 1905: “Jijimanga Hibijutsu Gaho”* (Kyoto), “Nipponchi” _; 1906: “Tokyo\n> Pakku”_ ; 1907: “Osaka Pakku” _, “Joto Ponchi”_ ; 1908: “Ehagaki Sekai” _,\n> “Warai”_ , “Shonen Pakku”* and so on. In 1908, “Poten” was published in\n> Kyoto.“Poten” apparently comes from the French word “potin”, meaning “rough-\n> and-tumble”. Unlike other manga, it is 34cm long and 19cm wide, yet it has\n> been strongly influenced by other manga magazines of the time. That the\n> centerfold spread was a large single sheet of topical satire manga and that\n> all the pages were printed in colour were influences from “Tokyo Pakku” and\n> “Osaka Pakku”.Also, on the last page there are four picture postcards which\n> one can cut out and actually use an idea borrowed from Miyatake Gaikotsu's\n> “Ehagaki Sekai”. It is unconfirmed whether there are issues other than the\n> first issue. (Shimizu Isao) (*)...Museum collection\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-12T17:37:30.227", "id": "4114", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-13T01:03:23.037", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-13T01:03:23.037", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "4113", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt contains Amaterasu. In Naruto, wind is superior to lightning and in fact\ndefeats it. What Naruto stated earlier in the chapter was that he was glad\nthat his wind could fuel Sasuke's fire with his powers - and the image is\nclearly black and colored like Amaterasu. He manipulates Amaterasu through his\nBlaze Release: Kagatsuchi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-13T03:32:37.077", "id": "4118", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-13T03:32:37.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1895", "parent_id": "4116", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is a **[blaze element](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Blaze_Release)**\ntechnique (an enhanced Amaterasu with help from Naruto). What is is called?\nWell according to the said chapter:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NJasc.jpg)\n\nThey could call it \"[SHAKUTON KOURIN SHIPPUU NO YA ZEROSHIKI (read: Swirling\nGale of Black and White\nArrow)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Scorch_Release:_Halo_Gale_Jet_Black_Arrow_Style_Zero)!\"\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-13T03:33:40.687", "id": "4119", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T23:39:17.883", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-01T23:39:17.883", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "4116", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is from the manga [Watashi ga Motenai no wa dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga\nWarui!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Matter_How_I_Look_at_It,_It's_You_Guys'_Fault_I'm_Not_Popular!)\n(often translated as \"It’s Not My Fault That I’m Not Popular!\"), which\nincidentally is getting an anime adaptation starting in July. Wikipedia offers\nthe following synopsis:\n\n> Having been well-versed in the world of otome games, fifteen-year-old Tomoko\n> Kuroki believes herself to be popular. However, upon entering high school,\n> she discovers this is far from the truth as she winds up being an unsociable\n> loner and is forced to take a long hard look at herself for the first time\n> in years. The story follows Tomoko as she attempts to improve her social\n> status as she progresses through high school.\n\nThis particular panel is from chapter 7, page 6. Here's a scan of the full\npage to compare:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-13T23:51:39.197", "id": "4123", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-14T00:03:05.397", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-14T00:03:05.397", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4122", "post_type": "answer", "score": 29 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [wiki](http://gurrenlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_6):\n\n> The uncut version of this episode features more explicity such as:\n>\n> * More of Yoko's breasts are revealed. At the end of the episode, her top\n> falls off completely-although we still don't see anything.\n> * Gimmy's penis is briefly shown. (This is actually not seen as taboo in\n> Japan, as Gimmy is considered too young to be sexualized.)\n>\n\n>\n> Scenes added include:\n>\n> * Kamina trying to peek at the girls.\n> * The beastmen fool Kamina into giving up Gurren-by offering to remove the\n> pixellation seemingly covering their nudity. (Of course, they aren't\n> actually naked-just wearing tiny, skin-tinted swimsuits.)\n> * The beastmen using a shock collar-like device on the girls.\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-14T06:55:34.647", "id": "4125", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-14T06:55:34.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "4124", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey're from a _Visual Novel_ called **[Kizuato](http://vndb.org/v184)**. The\nnames are (in order of their pictures):\n\n Kashiwagi\nHatsune (柏木 初音)\n\n Kashiwagi\nKaede (柏木 楓)\n\n Kashiwagi\nAzusa (柏木 梓)\n\n Kashiwagi\nChizuru (柏木 千鶴)\n\nAs for \"Kashiwagi Azusa\"'s name (柏木 梓), I'm not sure why it was translated as\n\"Azuki\", but if you look at the original Japanese:\n\n\n\nIt says \"Azusa\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-14T15:38:39.397", "id": "4128", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-14T18:00:00.770", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-14T18:00:00.770", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "4127", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to a tweet from\n[@anime_photokano](https://twitter.com/anime_photokano) (the official\nPhotokano twitter account):\n\n>\n> 「フォトカノ」EDアニメーションのイントロで映る花ですが、順にリンドウ、ガーベラ、ヒマワリ、シロツメクサ、タンポポ、コスモス、スイートピーです（どの花がどのヒロインに対応しているかは以降のカットでご確認を）。本編でも、花のカットの使われ方にご注目ください！\n> #photokano\n\nLoosely translated,\n\n> Regarding the flowers at the beginning of the Photokano ED - in order, they\n> are [Japanese gentian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentiana_scabra),\n> [gerbera](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbera), sunflower, [white\n> clover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifolium_repens), dandelion,\n> [cosmos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_%28plant%29), and sweet pea\n> (take a look at how each heroine corresponds to her flower in the following\n> scenes). During the main part of the anime, please pay attention to the use\n> of flowers as well! #photokano\n\nNote that the order referred to in the tweet is not the order in which the\nflowers appear in the OP's screenshot, but rather the order in which the\nfields of flowers are displayed immediately prior to that screenshot.\n\nClearly, the flower choices aren't arbitrary. To figure out what they actually\n_mean_ , we probably have to look at the Japanese conception of\n[花言葉](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanakotoba) ( _hana-kotoba_ , \"flower\nlanguage\"). Japanese flower-language seems to be better-known in Japan than\nits European counterpart is in the west, lending credence to the idea that the\ngirls were matched up to flowers based on flower-language.\n\nI don't have access to any English-language sources, and I'm not aware of any\nauthoritative Japanese-language sources, so I've just culled the below\ninformation from various Japanese sites.\n\n * **MUROTO Aki** ( **Japanese gentian** ) - \"I love you-who-are-sad\"; justice; victory; faithfulnes\n\n * **SAKURA Mai** ( **gerbera** ) - noble beauty; mystery / wonder; hope; \"always moving forward\"; patience\n\n * **YUNOKI Rina** ( **sunflower** ) - longing; \"my eyes are only for you\"; admiration; devotion; glory; shining; adoration\n\n * **MASAKI Nonoka** ( **white clover** ) - revenge; promises; \"think of me\"\n\n * **SANEHARA Hikari** ( **dandelion** ) - \"love from the bottom of my heart\"; confusing and mystifying; divine revelation; fickleness\n\n * **MISUMI Tomoe** ( **cosmos** ) - girlish innocence; sincerity; orderliness; affection\n\n * **NIIMI Haruka** ( **sweet pea** ) - departing; happy memories; small joys\n\nNow, unfortunately, I have only seen the first episode of Photokano, so I\ncan't really evaluate how well these flower-language descriptions map onto the\nactual personalities of the girls. I hope this helps, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-12T07:00:10.647", "id": "4762", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-12T07:00:10.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4132", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime is Naruto and the character is Itachi Uchiha.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-15T19:40:04.120", "id": "4135", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-15T19:40:04.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "4134", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe sisters were created with suppressed emotions, as these were completely\nuseless for the experiment. The lack of understanding their emotions and the\nshared memory causes them to miss any self-identity, thus they refer to\nthemselves in the third person.\n\nI don't know why Last Order says Misaka twice, maybe it's just because of her\nown _personality_ because she's only 10 years old.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-15T23:02:30.883", "id": "4137", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-15T23:02:30.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4136", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know this for sure, but practically speaking, just because a talent is\ncontracted for voicing a character, doesn't mean that the person is tied to\nthe character for life.\n\nAdd to the fact that production companies will green light projects at\ndifferent times, there are scheduling conflicts, too.\n\nAlso, I'm pulling this from [seiyu\nka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiy%C5%AB_ka-! \"Seiyu ka\"), but it seems if\nthe sound director doesn't like the talent, they can fight to have the talent\nremoved from the project.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-30T04:03:01.393", "id": "4519", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-30T04:03:01.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "4139", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the case of Lucky Star, this is because [the drama\nCD](http://vgmdb.net/album/24597) predates the anime by about two years, and\nwas produced by a completely different group of people. When Kyoto Animation\ntook on the Lucky Star anime project, they decided to cast new voice actors.\nWhy? I don't know in this specific case, but one possibly contributing factor\nis that drama CDs are likely to have a smaller budget than anime, meaning that\nthere are probably more constraints on which voice actors can be hired. Then\nagain, maybe the producers just didn't like Hirohashi Ryou as Konata, or maybe\nHirohashi had scheduling issues (because, after all, the Lucky Star anime\nwouldn't have been part of her contract to do the drama CDs). Who knows?\n\nThis is a pattern you will see from time to time - there are some manga/LN\nfranchises that get drama CDs before getting an anime adaptation. In these\ncases, the drama CD cast is likely to be replaced when it comes time to make\nan anime, simply because the production staff for the drama CDs and anime are\ndifferent, and so there's nothing really necessitating that the anime\nproduction staff use the drama CD cast. Kara no Kyoukai is another example of\nthis - there was [a drama CD back in 2002](http://vgmdb.net/album/49306), but\nthe entire cast (besides glorious Nakata Jouji as Araya) was replaced for the\nmovies.\n\nOn the other hand, when the drama CDs are a _tie-in_ to the anime, you'll\nalmost invariably see the same cast used for both, since they're both being\nproduced by the same people/companies. I know of no exceptions to this, though\nI wouldn't be too surprised if there were some exceptions out there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-30T18:33:30.907", "id": "20480", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-30T18:33:30.907", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4139", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRina knew that Alice's true identity is Uchida Yuuko.\n\nEarlier in the same episode, Rina sees through Yuuko's stealth ability and\ninvites her to try some cooking. She eventually agrees and seems to have fun.\n\n\n\nDuring the school festival, Rina once again sees through the cosplayer Alice's\n\"stealth\" ability of masking her true identity. In a low voice, extremely\nsimilar to Yuuko's normal voice, Alice simply tells Rina to keep it a secret.\n\nIn a previous episode, Maeda Kazuya also noticed a similarity between Yuuko\nand Alice but he thought it was just his imagination, so he didn't give it any\nfurther thought.\n\nThis may seem like speculation, but fortunately the episode's credits back it\nup.\n\n\n\nThe line I've highlighted says this:\n\n> Uchida Yuuko (Alice) Takagaki Ayahi\n\nSo it seems like Rina is not only very good at noticing the people who tend to\njust be \"background noise\" to everyone else, but she can also easily see\nthrough the \"disguise\" of a costume and different personality to see who\nsomeone really is. Both are pretty great abilities if you ask me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-17T18:30:20.690", "id": "4151", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-17T18:30:20.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "4142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe swords that Archer used were replicas of real swords with the same names,\nwhich he made because he was greatly impressed by the originals. The original\nswords really existed (in real life), and were crafted by [Gan Jiang and Mo\nYe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan_Jiang_and_Mo_Ye) (pls refer to the wiki\nfor the full text, I'll only put a piece of it here):\n\n> Gan Jiang (Chinese: 干將; pinyin: Gān Jiàng) and Mo Ye (Chinese: 莫邪; pinyin:\n> Mò Yé) were a swordsmith couple who lived during the Spring and Autumn\n> Period of Chinese history. A pair of swords were forged by and named after\n> them.\n>\n> According to the historical text Wuyue Chunqiu, King Helü of Wu ordered Gan\n> Jiang and Mo Ye to forge a pair of swords for him. However, the blast\n> furnace failed to melt the metal. Mo Ye suggested that there was\n> insufficient human qi in the furnace so the couple cut their hair and nails\n> and cast them into the furnace, while 300 children helped to blow air into\n> the bellows.[citation needed] In another account, Mo Ye sacrificed herself\n> to increase human qi by throwing herself into the furnace. The desired\n> result was achieved after three years and the two swords were named after\n> the couple. Gan Jiang kept the Ganjiang Sword for himself and presented the\n> Moye Sword to the king. The king was angered when he discovered Gan Jiang\n> had kept one of the swords so he had Gan Jiang killed.\n\nHowever, the legend doesn't really describe the appearance of the swords, so\nwe can't say if Archer's replicas look the same or not.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-17T12:17:02.557", "id": "4150", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-17T12:17:02.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "4143", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording\n[here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoCelebritiesWereHarmed),\ncameo/cross-over/parody of a anime character from another anime or a real\ncelebrity is done for several reasons..\n\n> Sometimes a character's entire shtick will be that he or she is a thinly\n> disguised imitation of some celebrity somewhere. The more blatant examples\n> will often have a parody of that celebrity's name. **This can be done for\n> various reasons, such as to serve as a homage and/or parody, to make a point\n> using the character, or simply because the writers think that it would be\n> cool. Though some consider it done because the writers are out of ideas.**\n\nThe reasons mentioned above can be the reason why Brad Pitt appeared as a\ncameo in both Yakitate Japan! and Arakawa Under the Bridge. Actually, Brad\nPitt isn't the only celebrity/character parodied in Yakitate, as stated in the\nlink given above.\n\n * Michael Schumacher doing an Initial D before going to Formula One. \n * Azuma mistaking Lake Iglesia with Julio Iglesias. \n * Kaiser's fans behaving like the Detroit Tigers fans? \n * One of Kuroyanagi's overblown pun-based reactions to tasting a turtle-shaped dessert has him turning into Gamera, the giant, flying, fire-breathing turtle kaiju.\n * Episode 68 appears to be a Lord of the Rings parody... with cooking.\n * One of the earlier episodes has the manager Matsushiro pulling a Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) on Kawachi. Matsushiro Ken -> Kenshiro? It makes sense! 'Omae mo hatsuga suru' note \n * The Black Tri-Stars from Mobile Suit Gundam show up as three expert bakers from St. Pierre's Kyūshū branch. They tasted Kazuma's Black Ja-pan and had a reaction where they fought the Nobel Gundam from G Gundam which was piloted by Yukino (and had a caption reminding people they were still watching Yakitate!! Japan. ) They quit after the reaction.\n * In one episode, Pierrot eats \"Alexandria\" Egyptian Bread, with Kodaimai Miso flavoring and turns into Detective Conan.\n * In another episode, Kuroyanagi turns into Super Kuroyanagi (a parody of Super Sayain) by eating Takumi Tsubodzuka's Super Toro Aburi. He fights Kawachi in a DBZ-style fight. He turns into Super Kuroyanagi 2 (a parody of Super Sayain 2) and Super Kuroyanagi 3 (a parody of Super Sayain 3) as a result of eating Urchin-roe Chawanmushi bread.\n * In another episode, Kuroynagi turns into a parody of Monkey D. Luffy by eating Kazuma Azuma's Ōkuchi Wafuu (Japanese-style) Ja-pan Man.\n * Kawachi Kyousuke tries some kelp marinated in soda and turns into Pepmiman, a parody of Pepsiman. He rescues a girl from drowning at sea. He also beats two sharks that tried to eat the girl.\n * And there was yet another sequence involving Kawachi as a blond ninja in bright orange clothes.\n * Then there's this, done in the style of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which gets several other shout-outs, to the point where it is hard to believe the manga-ka isn't a fan.\n * When Meister Kirisaki decides to train Kawaichi, he talks about making him an iron man, complete with images of Kawaichi dressed as Gigantor \n\nI'm not that familiar however with regards to Arakawa so I can't give\nexamples. But the bottomline is, the reasons stated above might be the reason\nfor having Brad Pitt cameo in Yakitate Japan and Arakawa Under the Bridge.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-18T23:58:29.933", "id": "4155", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-19T00:07:50.393", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-19T00:07:50.393", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "4144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUser Caciulacdlac on Bulbapedia has compiled [a list of Pokemon that appeared\nbefore their generation starts\nairing](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/User%3aCaciulacdlac/Pok%C3%A9mon_that_appeared_before_their_generation).\nI assume the Japan broadcast date is used as the criteria.\n\nThe whole answer below is mostly based on the link above, and several other\narticles on Bulbapedia.\n\n* * *\n\nAll the dates cited below will be **Japan** broadcast dates. Episode numbering\nwill follow the numbering used by Bulbapedia.\n\n**Generation II**\n\nEpisode 117, aired on **October 14, 1999** , marks the start of the [_The\nJohto\nJourneys_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon%3a_The_Johto_Journeys)\n(season 3), and also the start of generation II. The Pokemon listed below are\nfrom generation II, but appeared in the anime before the journey to Johto\nstarted.\n\n * **Ho-Oh** : [Episode 001: _Pokémon - I Choose You!_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP001) **(April 1, 1997)**\n * **Togepi** : [Episode 050: _Who Gets to Keep Togepi?_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP050) **(June 25, 1998)**\n * **Marill** , **Snubbull** : [Pikachu Shorts 01: _Pikachu's Vacation_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PK01) **(July 18, 1998)**\n * **Donphan** : [Movies 01: _Mewtwo Strikes Back_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M01) **(July 18, 1998)**\n * **Ledyba** , **Elekid** 1, **Bellossom** , **Hoothoot** : [Pikachu Shorts 04: _Pikachu's Rescue Adventure_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PK04) **(July 17, 1999)** \n1 Elekid also appeared earlier in Tracey's sketch in [Episode 103 - _Misty\nMeets Her Match_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP103) **(July 1,\n1999)**\n\n * **Lugia** , **Slowking** : [Movies 2: _The Power of One_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M02) **(July 17, 1999)**\n\n**Generation III**\n\nThe first episode of [_Advanced\nGeneration_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Advanced_Generation_series)\nseries, aired on **November 21, 2002** , marks the start of [_Pokémon:\nAdvanced_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon%3a_Advanced)\nseason (season 6), and also the start of generation III. The Pokemon listed\nbelow are from generation III, but appeared in the anime before generation III\n(to Hoenn) started.\n\n * **Kecleon** : [Episode 205: _The Kecleon Caper_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP205) **(July 5, 2001)**\n * **Azurill** , **Wailmer** : [Pikachu Shorts 10: _Pikachu's PikaBoo_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PK10) **(July 7, 2001)**\n * **Wynaut** : [Episode 252: _Fangs for Nothin'_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP252) **(June 13, 2002)**\n * **Duskull** , **Volbeat** : [Pikachu Shorts 11: _Camp Pikachu_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PK11) **(July 13, 2002)**\n * **Latias** , **Latios** : [Movies 05: _Pokémon Heroes_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M05) **(July 13, 2002)**\n * **Blaziken** : [Episode 265: _Pop Goes The Sneasel_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP265) **(September 12, 2002)**\n * **Sharpedo** , **Seedot** , **Shroomish** , **Lotad** , **Zigzagoon** : [Episode 272: _Johto Photo Finish_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP272) **(October 31, 2002)**\n * **Wingull** , **Pelipper** : [Episode 274: _Hoenn Alone!_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP274) **(November 14, 2002)**\n\n**Generation IV**\n\nThe first episode of [_Diamond and\nPearl_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Diamond_%26_Pearl_series)\nseries, aired on **September 28, 2006** , marks the start of [_Pokemon:\nDiamond and\nPearl_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon%3a_Diamond_and_Pearl)\nseason (season 10) and also the start of generation IV. The Pokemon listed\nbelow are from generation IV, but appeared in the anime before the journey to\nSinnoh started.\n\n * **Munchlax** : [Movies 07: _Destiny Deoxys_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M07) **(July 17, 2004)**\n * **Lucario** , **Bonsly** , **Weavile** , **Mime Jr.** : [Movies 08: _Lucario and the Mystery of Mew_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M08) **(July 16, 2005)**\n * **Manaphy** , **Mantyke** , **Buizel** , **Chatot** : [Movies 09: _Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M09) **(July 15, 2006)**\n * **Electivire** : [Advanced Generation Episode 192: _Home is Where the Start Is!_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/AG192) **(September 14, 2006)**\n\n**Generation V**\n\nThe first episode of [_Best\nWishes_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Best_Wishes_series) series,\naired on **September 23, 2010** , marks the start of generation V. The Pokemon\nlisted below are from generation V, but appeared in the anime before the\njourney to Unova started.\n\n * **Zorua, Zoroark, Woobat** 2: [Movies 13: _Zoroark: Master of Illusions_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M13) **(July 10, 2010)** \n2 Appeared as image only.\n\n**Generation VI**\n\nThe first episode of [_XY\nSeries_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/XY_series), aired on **October\n17, 2013** , marks the start of generation VI. The Pokemon listed below are\nfrom generation VI, but appeared in the anime before the journey to Kalos\nstarted.\n\n * **Sylveon** : [Pikachu Shorts 25: Eevee & Friends](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PK25) **(July 13, 2013)**\n * **Helioptile, Gogoat** : [Best Wishes Episode 134: The Journalist from Another Region!](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW134) **(July 18, 2013)**\n * **Noivern** : [Best Wishes Episode 137: Celebrating the Hero's Comet!](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW137) **(August 15, 2013)**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-19T09:20:05.233", "id": "4164", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-08T16:01:05.217", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-08T16:01:05.217", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "4145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nSnubbull was introduced in 1998 in the Pikachu special, Pikachu's vacation. It\nwas not until the year 2000 that the Generation 2 pokemon were introduced.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-15T15:45:32.213", "id": "53623", "last_activity_date": "2019-07-15T15:45:32.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48104", "parent_id": "4145", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Episode Glossary article on Steins;Gate Wiki](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Glossary), there are 5 operation names coined\nthroughout the series:\n\n * Operation Urd (Episode 6)\n * Operation Eldhrimnir (Episode 10)\n * Operation Verthandi (Episode 11)\n * Operation Valkyria (Episode 18)\n * Operation Skuld (Episode 23)\n\n* * *\n\n_**Operation Eldhrímnir**_ is coined by Okabe in [episode\n10](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steins;Gate_episodes) for the plan to\ninvite [Suzuha](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Suzuha_Amane) to a party on\nthe following day regardless whether she meets her father or not. The party is\nmeant to be a celebration party in case Suzuha meets her father, and in case\nshe doesn't, it is a farewell party for her.\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia entry on\nEldhrímnir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldhr%C3%ADmnir):\n\n> In Norse mythology, **Eldhrímnir** (Old Norse \"fire-sooty\") is the cauldron\n> in which the cook of the gods, Andhrímnir, prepares Sæhrímnir every evening.\n\nThe name is probably chosen due to the similarity in the _meal_ theme.\n\nLooking at the entry for [Einherjar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar):\n\n> In Norse mythology, the **einherjar** (Old Norse \"single (or once)\n> fighters\") are those that have died in battle and are brought to Valhalla by\n> valkyries. In Valhalla, the einherjar eat their fill of the nightly-\n> resurrecting beast Sæhrímnir, and are brought their fill of mead (from the\n> udder of the goat Heiðrún) by valkyries.\n\nAnd [Sæhrímnir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A6hr%C3%ADmnir):\n\n> In Norse mythology, **Sæhrímnir** is the creature killed and eaten every\n> night by the Æsir and einherjar. The cook of the gods, Andhrímnir, is\n> responsible for the slaughter of Sæhrímnir and its preparation in the\n> cauldron Eldhrímnir. After Sæhrímnir is eaten, the beast is brought back to\n> life again to provide sustenance for the following day.\n\nI hope I am not reading too far into this, but since **Eldhrímnir** is the\ncauldron which is used to cook food for the **einherjar** who died in battle,\nit bears resemblance to the fact that Suzuha introduce herself as a \"soldier\",\nand how she fails to meet up with her father the next day. Or maybe the name\njust simply refers to the party with all the food and drinks, which relates to\nthe fact that the cauldron is the cook for preparing a feast.\n\n* * *\n\n**Operation Valkyria** is coined by [Kurisu](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Kurisu_Makise) in [episode\n18](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steins;Gate_episodes), before the\ndate between Okabe and [Ruka](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Ruka_Urushibara) (this occurs in the world line where Ruka\nis an actual girl).\n\nAs for the meaning of\n[Valkyria/Valkyrie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie), citing from\nWikipedia:\n\n> In Norse mythology, a **valkyrie** (from Old Norse valkyrja \"chooser of the\n> slain\") is one of a host of female figures who decide which soldiers die in\n> battle and which live. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the\n> other half go to the goddess Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the\n> valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla,\n> ruled over by the god Odin. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar.\n> When the einherjar are not preparing for the events of Ragnarök, the\n> valkyries bear them mead.\n>\n> The word _valkyrie_ derives from Old Norse _valkyrja_ (plural _valkyrjur_ ),\n> which is composed of two words; the noun _valr_ (referring to the slain on\n> the battlefield) and the verb _kjósa_ (meaning \"to choose\"). Together, they\n> mean \"chooser of the slain\".\n\nPutting the context and story behind the name **Valkyria** together, it\n_probably_ refers to the role of Kurisu as she tails Okabe and Ruka during\ntheir date. The date can also be thought of as a battlefield for Okabe, since\nthis is his first time going on a date. And the fact that Okabe keeps screwing\nup during the date can also be thought of as \"die in battle\". (This is the\nbest I can come up with to connect the name and the context of the story).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-17T18:36:43.073", "id": "4152", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-24T13:19:50.560", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "4146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nBeing Icelandic and speaking the language (which is the closest language to\nOld Norse), I noticed that Norse mythology is prevalent throughout this\nseries. For example, immediately on episode 18 during Operation Valkyria,\nOkabe is on the date with Ruka at the cafe \"Völuspá Café\". The sign can be\nseen when they enter the cafe and again when they exit on episode 18.\n\nVöluspá is the first and best known poem of the Edda (collection of Old Norse\npoems). In the 19th verse of Völuspá, the 3 Norns - Urður, Verðandi, and Skuld\nare talked about being home at one of the three roots attached to Yggdrasill,\nthe tree of life. In the 30th verse, Valkyries are gathering because a warrior\nhas fallen and they are preparing to bring him to the afterlife, Valhöll.\n\nConsidering all the Norse mythology in this series and that the sign is shown\nso clearly, it is worth mentioning.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T04:19:45.853", "id": "14145", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-27T04:48:12.520", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-27T04:48:12.520", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8457", "parent_id": "4146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough I can't remember it being stated, it is most likely, that he found\nthe tattoo in his brothers notes and put it on his arm with the help of Dr.\nMarcoh.\n\n> The tattoo was most likely one part of the preparations for the 'promised\n> day' in episode 46 (2009), before Scar comes back with Marcoh from the\n> negotiation with the Ishvals.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-19T06:50:32.207", "id": "4160", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-19T06:50:32.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4156", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's said that the symbols stand for '963' and is probably a callout to his\nwife and novelist Kaoru Kurosaki, who collaborated with the author, Nobuhiro\nWatsuki, on the story for the manga.\n\nThere are many ways to read these numbers in Japanese, some that makes sense\nare:\n\n * 9 → ku, 6 → ro, 3 → san = Kuro-san \n * 9 → ku, 6 → ro, 3 → sa + (ki) ~= Kurosaki \n\nHis wife's Twitter handle is **@kaworu963**.\n\nAs a side note, one of the ships in the Alchemist fleet also bears this\nnumber:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-19T22:21:57.197", "id": "4172", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-19T22:28:20.397", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-19T22:28:20.397", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough Rasengan may be a very dangerous technique, it's not a forbidden\ntechnique, so anybody can teach it to everybody.\n\nThe Naruto wiki has the categories for [forbidden\nJutsus](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kinjutsu):\n\n> * Techniques that cause harm to the user themselves, such as opening the\n> Eight Gates, which the mere use of is both highly useful as well as\n> detrimental to the user.\n>\n> * Techniques that violate the laws of nature (e.g. the Summoning: Impure\n> World Reincarnation, which reincarnates the dead with a human sacrifice).\n>\n> * Certain techniques that are known to cause massive collateral damage,\n> such as the total destruction of a village and end with the death of\n> everyone in it, thus the great moral ramifications of its potential lead\n> many to labelling it as a forbidden technique.\n>\n>\n\nRasengan does not fit in any of these categories, so it's most likely not a\nforbidden Jutsu ;).\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-19T06:20:09.947", "id": "4159", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-19T06:20:09.947", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4158", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell the difference is quite simple.\n\nthe Inuzuka clan's dogs are simple dogs. They can understand human language\nvery well and are the \"sidekicks\" of the Inuzuka. Kiba and Akamaru understand\neach other by [\"Hand\nWave\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandWave). This is not\nexplained any further as it is prescriptive.\n\nKakashi's dogs on the other hand are Summoned. They are not \"real\" dogs but\nspirits, comparable to Gamabunta, Gamakichi and the other [Kuchiose No\nJutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning_Technique) summoned animals.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-19T07:42:35.220", "id": "4162", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-19T07:42:35.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1751", "parent_id": "4161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nLike how Vogel612 stated the reason why Kakashi's ninken can speak is cause\nthey are summoned creatures. However, the only ninken part of the Inuzuka clan\nthat can actually speak is Kuromaru, at least as of right now.\n\nAlso, the Inuzuka all understand their ninken because of their bonds with\nthem.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-10T16:08:15.527", "id": "5821", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-10T16:08:15.527", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2707", "parent_id": "4161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's one of Karin's powers - biting her lets people absorb her chakra and\nits healing properties.\n\nFrom [Karin](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Karin), in Narutopedia:\n\n> she not only has incredible healing capabilities, but can also heal others\n> by letting them bite her and absorb her chakra. The potency of her healing\n> chakra is great enough to even restore a bisected Tsunade to full health.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-19T10:36:02.793", "id": "4166", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-19T10:36:02.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "4165", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer pretty much lies on the skills and abilities of the Uzumaki Clan.\n\n1st: _Members of this clan were very knowledgeable in the art of fūinjutsu,\nand were both respected, and feared worldwide because of their prodigious\nskill._ **Fūinjutsu** _are a type of jutsu that seal objects, living beings,\nchakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object.\nFūinjutsu can also be used to unseal objects either from within something or\nsomeone._\n\n2nd: The Uzumaki Clan lives in Uzushiogakure. The people of Uzushiogakure were\nnoted to have notoriously long lives, so it gained the epithet **\"The Village\nof Longevity\"**. The clan's life force was the reason Kushina survived the\nextraction of her tailed beast, despite additionally just giving birth only\nmoments before, though she was left severely weakened.\n\nThese two (as far as I know) are the reasons why they are a chosen to be\njinchuriki.\n\nAnd another thing, if you analyze the situation, as the parent or member of\ncertain clan that possesses a Kyubi, it is more likely for them to give the\nKyubi as an inheritance for the next generation (Ex: Kushina to Naruto: given\nalso the fact that they have the required skill to do that)\n\nSources:\n\n * [Uzumaki Clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki_Clan)\n * [Uzushiogakure](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzushiogakure)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-20T02:23:25.703", "id": "4173", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-12T03:13:46.107", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-12T03:13:46.107", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "4167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\nAs explained by Motoi in Chapter 493, Jinchuriki are usually chosen among the\nspouses, siblings or close relatives of the Kage (and not just in Konoha).\nThis reduces the danger of the Jinchuriki betraying the village, and also\nserves to protect the Kage and display the Kage's power.\n\nMito and Kushina were primarily chosen because they were the wives of the\nFirst and Fourth Hokage respectively. Them belonging to the Uzumaki clan was\nalso a factor in choosing them over others, for reasons well explained by\nChristian Mark in another answer. Naruto becoming the Jinchuriki was not pre-\nplanned, it was a decision the Fourth Hokage took during the battle against\nKyuubi.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-28T16:15:36.463", "id": "4255", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-28T16:15:36.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "4167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause it was first put into an Uzumaki and it has been passed on from\ngeneration. It was first sealed into Mito Uzumaki, then Kushina Uzumaki, and\nduring the Nine-Tails attack, Minato sealed the yang-half of the Nine-Tails\ninto Naruto while sealing the yin-half in himself.\n\nSo right now, Minato and Naruto are both Jinchuriki's of the Nine-Tails and\nthat also means that Minato is the only non-Uzumaki member with the Nine-Tails\ninside him since his last name is Namikaze.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T00:50:34.377", "id": "5737", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-18T03:57:16.360", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-18T03:57:16.360", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2671", "parent_id": "4167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Uzumaki Clan are the ONLY clan capable to holding down the Kyuubi No\nKitsune because they have the proper techniques to bind the beast. The Uzumaki\nare best in fuinjutsu so their chakra and techniques are best when it comes to\nholding him down. Not only that, others would die becoming the Jinchuuriki.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-22T14:10:43.443", "id": "7109", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-22T14:10:43.443", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3447", "parent_id": "4167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason only Uzumaki, is because the members of the Uzumaki Clan, such as\nKushina, have a stronger life force and a longer lifespan, an example is that\nMito Uzumaki survived since Konoha's Creation to the time of the Third Hokage.\n\nIt also explains why Kushina didn't die as soon as the Kyuubi was set free,\ndue to this fact, Only Uzumaki were chosen to become the Nine Tails\nJinchuuriki.\n\nAll Uzumaki have a great amount of Chakra reserves, and Additionally, have a\nlarge amount of experience in sealing techniques.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-17T23:27:46.283", "id": "36400", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-17T23:27:46.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28306", "parent_id": "4167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason is none of the above.\n\nMito wasn't chosen to be a host. She sealed the nine tails in herself of her\nown accord when it was freed from Madara's control. This is the reason that\nshe, an Uzumaki, was the first Jin of the 9 tails.\n\nKushina was chosen because even among the Uzumaki clan, her chakra was said to\nbe special and unique.\n\nIn Naruto's case, Minato chose his son so that he could be a hero, also\nselfishly, so that he and Kushina could see him when it's needed.\n\nOnly one Uzumaki was ever chosen and that was Kushina.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-04T23:11:59.847", "id": "42653", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-05T02:25:57.677", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-05T02:25:57.677", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35959", "parent_id": "4167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's not much information out there, perhaps because it is bad practise to\ncriticise fellow animators. But there is information from the people who were\ninvolved:\n\nFirstly, [The mangaka](http://justputithere.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/aku-no-\nhana-hana-ga-saita-yo-kai-notes/) was satisfied with the way the anime was\nanimated, and [the studio](http://sgcafe.com/2013/08/interview-with-mappas-\nmasao-maruyama/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-with-\nmappas-masao-maruyama) itself was happy with the outcome, wanting [realism\nwithout making it completely live action](http://www.japanator.com/aku-no-\nhana-s-hiroshi-nagahama-talks-flowers-evil-28789.phtml) and wouldn't be\nopposed to doing it again with another series, mentioning that Mushishi would\nbe a good candidate for the style.\n\nVertical Inc., who publish the manga in English, have also stated their\nsupport for the stylistic adaption - [Vertical Inc. Tumblr](http://vertical-\ninc.tumblr.com/post/47480925580/blog-post-on-the-flowers-of-evil-anime)\n\nThe industry as a whole isn't opposed to rotoscoping in the industry, Kuuchu\nBaranko also implemented it for one character's appearance and there was\nlittle outroar on the internet\n\n\n\nKids on the Slope also used the technique for animating the characters playing\ninstruments, most notably the drums;\n\n\n\nIt also wasn't the target of much negative feedback either.\n\nPersonally, I think that if a large unconvential stylistic choice was made for\nan entire anime, there will always be negative feedback, and that makes a lot\nmore noise than positive ones.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-19T07:55:33.267", "id": "9802", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-19T07:55:33.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "4170", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's not the rotoscoping itself, but the combination of rotoscoping along with\nthe omission of various details that cause negative reactions. When the brain\nis given visual data to process, it doesn't immediately distinguish whether\nwhat it's shown are objects in the real world or images on a screen or paper.\nThe brain looks for various cues, like the relationship between lines and\nshading and color, and automatically searches for and identifies patterns that\nit can use to determine relative positions of objects, motion of living things\nand other objects, human motion and facial expressions, and other features\nthat are important for survival. As such, when the brain perceives patterns\nthat aren't actually there it will never the less still include those patterns\nin the final processed image that we \"see.\" This is the basis for pretty much\nevery optical illusion ever created. On the other hand, when the brain is\ngiven an image that approaches realism but is missing various cues or the cues\nare slightly off, the brain freaks out and releases cortisols and other\nchemicals to simulate pain and initiate a fight or flight response.\n\nBasically, images that approach realism too closely without actually making it\nall the way there will appear extremely \"creepy\" and be off-putting, and not\njust to some people, but to everyone with a functioning visual cortex and\nadrenal cortex. But that's exactly what the studio was shooting for, so\nmission successful? It simultaneously adds to the atmosphere but breaks\nimmersion, which makes it difficult for people to project themselves into the\nstory with the exception of a few scenes where the audience is allowed to\nvicariously explore deviant behaviors.\n\nSo when seeking other animators' opinions on Aku no Hana, I'd be wary of\npeople who conflate the style with its psychological and physiological\neffects.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-28T11:33:29.157", "id": "39600", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-28T11:33:29.157", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31678", "parent_id": "4170", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't have any hard evidence to back it up, but I always assumed that it was\nat that point that Koizumi actually started taking Kyon seriously. Instead of\njust looking at what he seems to be at first glance, he started peering into\nhim at greater depth. And, since it's mostly a comedy series, that greater\ndepth involves a mole.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-21T18:07:26.340", "id": "4186", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-21T18:07:26.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61", "parent_id": "4174", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the light Novel at least:\n\n> there is a scenario where the cast encounters well, a fake cast (fake Kyon,\n> fake Haruhi, etc.) Kyon manages to deduce that fake Mikuru was fake because\n> there was no mole on her breast. Most likely we are shown the mole of Kyon\n> to also understand the fact on how Koizumi will be able to distinguish the\n> fake Kyon from the real Kyon in this incident (because Koizumi encounters\n> the fake Kyon).\n\nOf course, note that this is just speculation too, as the Light Novel has a\nfirst person perspective (so we don't actually read about Koizumi seeing the\nmole, so therefore the above also won't be read about). However, it's quite\nlikely that KyoAnim added it because of this case.\n\nThe scene can be found in:\n\n> The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya, The Snow Mountain Syndrome chapter. To\n> quote: \n> \n> A deep breath comes forth from the depths of my throat. \n> \n> \"Hoo...!\" \n> \n> I jump out of my bed as if I had a spring in me. \n> \n> \"No way!\" \n> \n> Look closely! Why is it that I didn't notice this? The person before me is\n> not 'my Asahina-san'. I should have known better than anyone else. Didn't I\n> do this last time to verify for authenticity? You would know after looking\n> at 'that spot' on Asahina-san. \n> \n> \"Who are you?\" \n> \n> -There is no mole on the left breast of this Asahina-san. \n> \n>\n\nLater on...\n\n> He [Koizumi] stares right at my [Kyon's] face. \n> \n> [Koizumi]: \"You appeared in my room as well. The appearance might have been\n> you, but the behaviour was just terrifying... anyways, you did things that\n> you wouldn't do.\" \n> \n> Source: <http://www.sos-\n> dan.ru/files/novels/en/Volume_05/31_Snow_Mountain_Syndrome.htm>\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-16T10:56:01.360", "id": "6348", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-14T19:05:18.243", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-14T19:05:18.243", "last_editor_user_id": "2988", "owner_user_id": "2988", "parent_id": "4174", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is going to vary a lot depending on the budget of the series. The\ndifference between high budget and low budget series is big enough that\napplying this to any individual anime is probably not a very good\napproximation. As an aside, this is essentially a rehash of my answer\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/857/24), though the question is\ndifferent enough that I don't think it's a duplicate.\n\nA single episode of a typical anime today costs roughly 10 million yen. [This\nCruncyroll article](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2011/10/30-1/how-\nmuch-does-one-episode-of-anime-cost-to-make) from 2011 lists the following\nbreakdown of costs for one single 30 minute episode of a 2011 anime had the\nfollowing breakdown of costs:\n\n> Original work - 50,000 yen ($660)\n>\n> Script - 200,000 yen ($2,640)\n>\n> Episode Direction - 500,000 yen ($6,600)\n>\n> Production - 2 million yen ($26,402)\n>\n> Key Animation Supervision - 250,000 yen ($3,300)\n>\n> Key Animation - 1.5 million yen ($19,801)\n>\n> In-betweening - 1.1 million yen ($14,521)\n>\n> Finishing - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)\n>\n> Art (backgrounds) - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)\n>\n> Photography - 700,000 yen ($9,240)\n>\n> Sound - 1.2 million yen ($15,841)\n>\n> Materials - 400,000 yen ($5,280)\n>\n> Editing - 200,000 yen ($2,640)\n>\n> Printing - 500,000 yen ($6,600)\n\nfor a total of about 11 million yen.\n\n[This image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ke6LH.jpg) (in Japanese) is a breakdown\nof the costs of a single episode of the series [Bamboo\nBlade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_Blade). As you can see, the price\ncomes in at just under 10 million yen. [This\nsite](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/makaronisan/20060719/1153219520) has some more\ninfo, as does [this list](http://alfalfa.livedoor.biz/archives/50621035.html)\n(though not everything there is anime and most is old). But the bottom line is\nthat the market price is roughly 10 million yen per episode, which comes out\nto 230 yen per frame. Some of that goes to things other than animation, but\nthe bulk is for art and animation costs.\n\nAs for the source, the production company typically self-funds its own\noriginal anime. For example, [Puella Magi Madoka\nMagica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica) was funded by\nAniplex. For adaptations, the publishing company typically provides some or\nall of the funding, as it serves as a form of advertising for the original.\nThe details on these arrangements are very secret and can vary a lot.\n\nNote that the production company also has to pay for the TV run in most cases,\nsince late-night TV slots are purchased by production companies as a form of\nadvertising for their final product e.g. DVDs (see [Why does anime usually air\nat night in Japan?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/4013/24) for more\ninformation on this). According to [this blog\npost](http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-detailed-\nguide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/), for a 52-episode series\nairing on 5-7 stations, this would be in the ballpark of 50 million yen, or\nabout 1 million yen per episode. They typically only make back their money at\nthe point of DVD sales, which is why studios never know exactly how much money\nthey're able to invest on a new series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-21T04:06:35.853", "id": "4179", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-21T04:06:35.853", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4175", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI am not sure if there's a superstition in the Japanese culture or just among\nthe animators but according\n[here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreditsRunningSequence?from=Main.RunningSequence),\n\n> In a lot of anime, a character (usually the protagonist) will show up in the\n> opening or ending credits, running along while remaining on a fixed spot on-\n> screen. The character could be running the whole time, or start out walking\n> slowly and gradually pick up speed. The background is usually of the\n> scrolling kind, but sometimes the character actually seems to run through a\n> changing scenery. In any case, it's rare for characters to maintain a\n> leisurely speed the whole time; **usually, this has something to do with\n> either the pace of the music, or the animators' need to keep opening and\n> ending themes moving fast at all times.**\n>\n> **Side-on running and walking cycles are often created by animators as a way\n> to get a feel for the characters, and these cycles will no doubt be used at\n> some point in the show.**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-26T06:47:38.877", "id": "4225", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-26T06:47:38.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "4176", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSaber is extremely popular character. They are just \"milking franchise\" with\ncharacter that looks similar to the original. And by having little different\npersonality, they make sure they gain interest of more people other than fans\nof original Saber.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-21T15:53:54.317", "id": "4183", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-21T15:53:54.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "4177", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOn the [wiki-page for Red\nSaber](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Playable_Saber_%28Fate/Extra%29), there\nis a little excerpt from a Q&A:\n\n> Q: Why are Red Saber and Blue Saber so similar? Are they related? \n> A: They are very different! \n> They are different like Takashi Takeuchi and Arco Wada. Or like buckwheat\n> noodles and udon. The model of King Arthur were said to be a fusion of two\n> individuals, and one of them is the Roman general Artorius. I guess there\n> are some relationships.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-21T16:59:11.753", "id": "4185", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-21T16:59:11.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4177", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly, Red Saber as is much more hot blooded and much less\nproper, as compared to Normal Saber who is much more sedate and proper. Also,\nRed Saber is much more haughty and acts less humble than Blue Saber. I don't\nthink that it's ever really explained why they look so similar, but the wiki\nsays they don't have any blood relations.\n\n> Also, they are two different people, Red Saber is Nero while Blue Saber is\n> Arturia.\n\nIf you look at the wiki you can see that they are both extremely different\ndespite their superficial similarities.\n\n<http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Playable_Saber_(Fate/Extra)>\n<http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_(Fate/stay_night)>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-13T05:04:58.833", "id": "5172", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-13T05:04:58.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2376", "parent_id": "4177", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n@Templar627 makes an interesting distinction in his answer. Personality wise,\nthe _Fate/Extra_ Red Saber is more of a hedonist that does thing\noverindulgently with much gusto (expressed by her somewhat lewd attire). In\nthe game dialogues and scenes, she is (implied to be) very openly bisexual\nsaying the only things she cares for is what is beautiful (\"Beautiful young\nboys are good. Beautiful young girls are better. My singular preference is\nbeauty!\").\n\nRed Saber can be loud and opinionated -- often butting into conversations,\nthrowing around advice, and insulting your enemies as she sees fit. Unlike her\nblue counterpart, she is vain, boisterous, and arrogant and speaks with all\nthe regal proclamation of an arrogant ruler that is partially divine, not\nunlike Gilgamesh.\n\nIf you consider Blue Saber to be a tsundere, Red Saber would be the complete\nopposite. She bold (her attire shows off her cleavage and back/behind and\nlegs/leotard/panties) where the other is reserved, proud where the other is\nhumble.\n\nRed Saber seems to be a bit shorter at 150cm tall, compared to the 154cm\nstature of her Blue counterpart. However Red Saber is bustier (B83/W56/H82)\nthan her Blue counterpart (B73/W53/H76).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/A9282.jpg)\n\nIn _Fate/Extra Material_ , Red Saber's backstory makes mention that her care\nfor diplomacy caused Britannia's relations in Rome to improve during later\nyears, essentially making her the person who built the opportunity for the\nlegend of King Arthur to be born. Perhaps why she Blue Saber looks so similar\nto Red Saber is because her [legend/archetype was based off Red\nSaber](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4185/63).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-12T23:44:56.220", "id": "5846", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-28T21:35:47.553", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4177", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nOn [the wiki page that templar627\nposted](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Playable_Saber_%28Fate/Extra%29#Development),\nunder the development subheading it says:\n\n> She was made to look like Saber because they wanted to trick people into\n> thinking they were the same character and surprise them upon actually\n> playing the game.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T00:24:18.023", "id": "5860", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T03:18:35.877", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-14T03:18:35.877", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "2725", "parent_id": "4177", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the video you linked, the uploader also linked to a news post on the Attack\non Titan anime's official website. This news post explains the situation. I've\ntranslated the most relevant part:\n\n> 各放送局のオンエアー日を極力揃えて放送しておりますが、 この度は制作上及び放送局納品期限の都合により、このような放送形態となりました。\n>\n> Although we tried our hardest to deliver the same product to each\n> broadcasting office on the day of the airing, due to certain circumstances\n> involving the episode as well as the broadcast office's deadline, the\n> broadcast ended up like this.\n\nSource: [Attack on Titan news post](http://shingeki.tv/news/archives/167)\n\nSeems like the staff were running a little too close to their deadlines and\nended up not having the finished product for all stations. I think it would be\nsafe to assume that stations that aired the unfinished version had stricter\ndeadlines.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-21T04:34:18.950", "id": "4180", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-21T04:34:18.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "4178", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nL-Elf is not clairvoyant, he is just highly intelligent. He takes what he\nknows about the people around him as well as what he knows about the enemy so\nthat he can predict the movements of what will or what can happen. If there is\nsomeone he does not know or understand his calculations are seen as false\npredictions. I believe it was episodes 3 and 4 of the first season that proved\nthat he was not clairvoyant. If you watch the series over again with that in\nmind, you will see that everything he says is based on what he plans, with\nsome variations.\n\nAt the end of the first season of the series Cain clearly states that \"L-Elf,\nI trained you well. That is how I can predict your movements now.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-10T18:05:30.387", "id": "4338", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-10T18:50:59.757", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-10T18:50:59.757", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "2009", "parent_id": "4184", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOh! I figured it out! It took me awhile searching through a few series I\nthought it might have been. I thought it could have been a minor Neo-Nazi or\nCzech S.S. character from Monster, the Comrade “villain” from Gun X Sword, the\nperfectionist character from the last story arc in The Twelve Kingdoms, or one\nof the rich & borderline-insane old men from Kaiji or Akagi.\n\nBut then it dawned on me... Hunter X Hunter (2011)! I found in the first ten\nminutes of episode 80.\n\nIt was a few details off in the previous description but it’s the story of the\nyouth of Gyro (the leader of NGL’s underground). We’re never told what happens\nto him but I can only assume the worst if you saw the episode. I think I had\nmy memory lapse because his name, position, and story of youth are all that\nare mentioned without any sort of introduction of his character into the\nstoryline. Seems sort of suspicious to me…\n\nI’m sorry about answering my own question kuwaly and other people who may have\nbeen researching this. Have a good day.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-24T00:02:18.113", "id": "4201", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-24T00:02:18.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1938", "parent_id": "4189", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nMichiko & Hatchin has abusive stepparents at the beginning, in an impoverished\ncountry.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T14:19:21.983", "id": "15473", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T14:19:21.983", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9470", "parent_id": "4189", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it could be **Monster Rancher** (also known in Japan as Monster Farm).\n\nHere is a summary of the show from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Rancher_%28anime%29), bold\nemphasis is my own:\n\n> The story follows a boy named Genki Sakura, who is a keen player of the\n> Monster Rancher video games. After winning a tournament hosted by the game's\n> creators, Genki wins a special CD that he can use to unlock a special\n> monster in his game at home. However, upon using this disk in his game\n> console, **he finds himself transported to a world of monsters that, much\n> like Genki's game, are given life by scanning special stone disks within\n> temples**. There, he meets a girl named Holly, who is seeking a stone disk\n> containing a legendary Phoenix that will save the land from the tyranny of\n> an evil ruler named Mu. Upon attempting to use the disk Genki had won to try\n> and release the monster, they bring forth a different sort of monster, which\n> Genki names Mochi. Wanting to free the land from Mu's rule, Genki, Holly,\n> Mochi and their other monster companions go on a quest to find the stone\n> disk that contains the Phoenix.\n\nOne of the monsters mentioned in this summary, Mochi (sometimes also written\nas Mocchi), is the name of a Japanese confection. It seems that \"Sweetcake\" is\nused as a translation of this name sometimes, based on the results of Googling\n`monster rancher \"sweetcake\"`. Here is a picture of Mochi/Sweetcake which may\nhelp jog your memory more than written words.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-23T02:38:49.623", "id": "4192", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-23T02:38:49.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "4190", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUiharu's ability is that she can keep the things that she touches at a\nconstant temperature.\n\nShe reveals this to Haruue in episode 22 of the first season. (at roughly 7:30\nincluding OP) \nShe also reveals that she has never told anyone else what her power is.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-23T05:01:50.427", "id": "4194", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-23T05:01:50.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "4193", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]