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{ "accepted_answer_id": "2469", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nDuring the Pandemonium contest at the Grand Magic Games,\n\n> Erza challenges all the 100 monsters at once, but she could have won the\n> full 10 points by challenging and beating \"only\" 51.\n\nWhy did she do it?\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T12:59:30.110", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2468", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-30T16:09:41.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "fairy-tail" ], "title": "Why did Erza challenge that many monsters at the Pandemonium?", "view_count": 5315 }

[ { "body": "\n\nDuring the Phantom Lord arc, Erza herself mentioned that Fairy Tail is not\nconcerned about competition with other guilds. As Natsu told Sting during the\nChariot competition, they entered the Grand Magic Games for their comrades,\nand to prove that Fairy Tail will keep going forward. They wanted to win the\nGames to regain their guild's lost respect.\n\n> As such, the Pandemonium contest was more than just winning 10 points for\n> Erza. If she had only challenged 51 monsters, it was possible that she would\n> get to battle mostly the weaker monsters, and someone else might beat the\n> S-rank and A-rank monsters.\n\nThat would not earn them any respect, but people would just consider that she\nwas lucky. Erza did not want to take that chance.\n\nAlso, Fairy Tail from 7 years ago was known for going overboard and doing\nthings rashly. Doing it differently now would not convince people that Fairy\nTail is back, but only create a perception that they have become weaker and\nare lacking in confidence.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T12:59:30.110", "id": "2469", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T12:59:30.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nTo add on your anwser Deidara, she did it to show the power of Fairy Tail.\n\n> During the 7 years, Fairy Tail was weakened due to the loss of their most\n> powerful wizards in their holy land.\n\nSo during Pandemonium, Erza decided to show their return as well as the\nstrength of Fairy Tail.\n\nRemember that the power of D-ranked monsters were and how shocked the audience\nas well as other contestants were. So defeating all of the monsters just shows\nhow strong the guild is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T18:09:41.937", "id": "2516", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T18:09:41.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "175", "parent_id": "2468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n## Erza chose to challenge all 100 monsters because she was 1st.\n\nIf she wins, that's 10 points for the entire match. If she couldn't do it,\nshe'd just have to wait in the line up, until it was her turn again.\n\nShe wanted to test herself, and also ensure maximum points in that\ncompetition. It was not about purposely action brash to fit spectators old\nperception or something like that.\n\nFairy Tail 7 years ago was wild because its members are wild. They were\nconstantly in trouble because people like Natsu destroy a lot to complete a\nmission. It's in no way a purposeful things to show their \"style\". They just\nbreak shi+.\n\nSo again, Erza took a gamble because it would ensure the 10 point win and help\nher stretch her limits.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T06:36:20.123", "id": "2547", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-17T06:36:20.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1473", "parent_id": "2468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn a way erza knew looking at the task ahead , with mato explaining n showing\nthe strength of the D class monster that she can win when she chose to take on\nall 100 of the monsters.\n\nIt wasn't about her showing off their power but to test her own limit. she\nchallenged the Pendemonium....her right to challenge. Not to forget the part\nwhere she apologized to her team for taking longer then she expected.\n\nShe took the monsters on with a vivid plan in mind. She didn't just go in\nrushing without any plan (hot headed Natsu) . The way she took each monsters\njust showed us the real Titania - showed us why she is respected by all.\n\nShe was the turning point for fairy tail. Fairy tail became a serious\ncompetition. Tears came running down my cheeks (couldn't stop it.... Still\nmakes me cry when I re-watch this episode).\n\n\"Despite her countless injuries...the fairy that should have\nfallen....soared....Titania triumphed and our spirit were born a new\" love u\nerza.... True Queen of the fairies....\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-01-30T16:09:41.290", "id": "50650", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-30T16:09:41.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44704", "parent_id": "2468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2471", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nRecently, I have been hearing loads of theories about Sword Art Online and\nAccel World being related due to the fact that they refer to NerveGear and\nsuch in Accel World.\n\nI have also been hearing that the plot of Accel World was made by Kirito.\n\nIs there some sort of confirmation of this? Or trustworthy speculation?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T15:35:32.793", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2470", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-18T21:14:50.327", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-20T09:06:16.103", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1458", "post_type": "question", "score": 19, "tags": [ "sword-art-online", "accel-world" ], "title": "Are Sword Art Online and Accel World related?", "view_count": 85847 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are in the same universe. Sword Art Online's Nerve Gear was elaborated in\nAccel World as a precursor to the implants seen in Accel World.\n\nAnything further than that is likely speculation, until either light novel\nreveals more details.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T16:28:02.723", "id": "2471", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T16:28:02.723", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "2470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nThe author, Kawahara Reki, didn't clearly say whether they are in the same\ntimeline or not. During the Sakuracon Festival Interviews, he answered like\nthis:\n\n> **When you were creating\n> the[Alicization](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Project_Alicization)\n> arc in _Sword Art Online_ , was the technology used in the Alicization arc\n> carried over as a foundation to _Accel World_?**\n>\n> It is true that the technology used in Alicization could be, or is the\n> foundation of the technology being used in _Accel World_ , but at this\n> point, like I said, it might be similar technologies having a similar\n> technological chain, but it hasn't been made clear that it is in fact the\n> same world. The two worlds could just have a similar technological advance.\n> Also, as I noted before, if I were to clearly state the two worlds are the\n> same, the number of things that need to be resolved in order for such a\n> thing to be clearly possible is, the numbers are tens of thousands of times\n> greater than I can even hope to do right now! Seeing a movie like [_The\n> Avengers_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_\\(2012_film\\)), where\n> it took a bunch of properties into one cohesive title, I have to say that\n> the creative staff on that movie is quite amazing.\n\nOriginal link is [\"Interview with Kawahara Reki\" on Sutoraiku\nAnime](http://www.sutoraikuanime.com/2013/04/interview-with-kawahara-\nreki.html).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-08T18:20:22.840", "id": "4692", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T09:08:39.600", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-20T09:08:39.600", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2185", "parent_id": "2470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nSword Art Online and Accel World exist within the same universe but at\ndifferent times. Similar to Batman Beyond being in the future of Justice\nLeague and Batman the Animated Series. The technology in SAO is the first gen\nversion of the tech in Accel World.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-29T16:17:29.260", "id": "8352", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-29T16:17:29.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4320", "parent_id": "2470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSAO and AW are related because they have the same author and also in the one\nchapter of SAO and AW (versus) they meet and duel. (fact)\n\nYou may also think that the timeline also looks like this: SAO may be the\nfirst generation (nerve gear) until technology improves until the period of AW\n(neuro linker) is created. (opinion)\n\nThe timeline of past and future met and they have a duel because of that\nmachine Kirito used and Silver Crow using that accceleration program.\n(opinion)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-23T03:58:10.603", "id": "9885", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-23T03:58:10.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4989", "parent_id": "2470", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother point to add to this that I have yet to see is that when Haruyuki was\nlooking up the older generation tech, they show a picture. At first glance, I\nsaw the similarities, and it was when he actually said \"Nerve Gear\" (in\n[Episode 22](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PpQRY.jpg)) that I freaked.\n\nI'm not saying that it's definite that it's connected, but really, it's\ntotally possible. At the end of the first season of SAO, he was given the seed\nthat would enable other people to create their own worlds and games that\nothers could come into. If the worlds aren't connected, then I'd be very\ndisappointed, but at least it would make great fan fiction.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T13:28:53.687", "id": "11302", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-18T21:14:50.327", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-18T21:14:50.327", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6262", "parent_id": "2470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2736", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI know that the Kotoamatsukami rendered Itachi free of Kabuto's control over\nhis will. But he was still bound to the Edo Tensei, since he was released when\nthe technique was cancelled. \n**So, couldn't Kabuto simply have un-summoned Itachi?**\n\nWe have, in other situations (namely in chapter 514, with Deidara), seen that\nKabuto can un-summon shinobi at will, an empty coffin appearing and\n'reclaiming' the summoned. Were these other situations somewhat different from\nthe situations with Itachi? Or did Kabuto have to completely undo the\ntechnique, even if he just wanted to un-summon a single shinobi?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T21:17:55.083", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2473", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T21:12:03.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Couldn't Kabuto have un-summoned Itachi?", "view_count": 5702 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt sounds very likely that when Kotoamatsukami freed Itachi from Kabuto's\ncontrol, he could no longer unsummon Itachi. If he could, he would do it and\nthen _resummon_ him (which he has done previously with others), and this time,\nItachi could not free himself from Kabuto's control.\n\nLater, when Itachi forced Kabuto to release the Edo Tensei, he presumably\n\"reattached\" himself to it somehow, because as per his/Shisui's principles, he\ndidn't want to stick around and be hailed as a hero.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T14:35:38.713", "id": "2479", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-14T14:35:38.713", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2473", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe most plausible explanation is that the un-summoning with the empty coffin\npopping-up is only possible when the summoned is under the caster's control.\nItachi broke free of Kabuto's control with the Kotoamatsukami, but he never\nbroke free of the Edo Tensei itself (unlike what [Deidara's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2479/49) suggests). This is why he\ncould not be un-summoned (with the coffin), but was freed when the jutsu was\nundone. \nStill, Kabuto could've undone the technique altogether, at the cost of un-\nsummoning every shinobi he had summoned. However, this could mean a complete\nturnaround in the war. Anyway, Kabuto, most likely, did not think a complete\nrelease of the jutsu was needed, since was arrogant and confident that he\ncould beat Itachi.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T21:12:03.640", "id": "2736", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T21:12:03.640", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "2473", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2476", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nDuring the Max Heart season of Pretty Cure, the characters are hunting down\nthe 12 Heartiels. These little fairies represent the virtues of\n\n> the Queen of Light.\n\nWhile some of them are named after their virtue (Seekun seeks knowledge,\nHarmonin = Harmony), others have names that have nothing to do with a virtue\n(Horpun).\n\n**Could someone explain what their virtues are?**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T05:05:32.247", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2475", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-17T08:07:02.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "pretty-cure" ], "title": "Which virtue did each Heartiel stand for?", "view_count": 114 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Precure wikia](http://prettycure.wikia.com/wiki/Heartiels),\nthe list of Heartiels and Virtues are:\n\n[code]\n\n ╔══════════════════╦══════════════╦════════════════╗\n ║ Name ║ Virtue ║ Symbol ║\n ╠══════════════════╬══════════════╬════════════════╣\n ║ Eternalun ║ Eternal ║ Pocket Watch ║\n ║ Lovelun (rabrun) ║ Love ║ Ring ║\n ║ Prosen ║ Prosperity ║ Pear ║\n ║ Pyuan ║ Purity ║ Snowflake ║\n ║ Inteligen ║ Intelligence ║ Book ║\n ║ Wishun ║ Wish ║ Mirror ║\n ║ Braven ║ Bravery ║ Crown ║\n ║ Harmonin ║ Harmony ║ Treasure Chest ║\n ║ Hapinen ║ Happiness ║ Bell ║\n ║ Horpun ║ Positivity ║ Key ║\n ║ Pation ║ Passion ║ Torch ║\n ║ Seekun ║ Seek ║ Telescope ║\n ╚══════════════════╩══════════════╩════════════════╝\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T09:08:06.157", "id": "2476", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-17T08:07:02.797", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-17T08:07:02.797", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2563", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nIn _Cage of Eden_ , near the end, instead of plane crash in the beginning, we\nlearn that the students\n\n> did not crash on an uninhabited island but went into the future. It isn't\n> clear how they actually get to this _future_.\n\nI am not sure if I just missed the part where they explained a bit how they\ngot there or if it is just not properly explained.\n\nHow did the events at the end of _Cage of Eden_ occur?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T15:23:46.857", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2483", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:16.980", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:04.923", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1458", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "cage-of-eden" ], "title": "How did the events at the end of Cage of Eden occur?", "view_count": 24996 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is never explained in the manga how they get\n\n> to the future.\n\nWhen they describe the incident, it looks like a wormhole that caused a big\ndisruption in time.\n\n> In physics, an Einstein-Rosen Bridge (or wormhole) is a hypothetical\n> topological feature of spacetime that would be, fundamentally, a \"shortcut\"\n> through spacetime.[[ref]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T21:05:24.073", "id": "2563", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:08.123", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:08.123", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "8", "parent_id": "2483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nSo I heard this from a friend. This is only a theory.\n\nSince the kids are on an island with memorials of themselves, there is a\npossibility of the entire cast not being the actual people themselves but\nactually clones. With the technology of being able to bring back extinct\nanimals, they probably could also create clones of the deceased people using\ntheir DNA.\n\nAlso, the mother spoke about the island being a paradise, but since the cast\nis \"dead\", it could mean that they were planning on cloning the victims on the\nisland in the first place. The scientists hoped to make it paradise but with\ntheir death and the help of the \"terrorists\", the extinct animals were able to\nescape into the wild. =\n\nThis theory also has a lot of holes (the plane, age, etc.), but it is a pretty\nsatisfying theory in my opinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-12T23:45:11.193", "id": "5456", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:10.547", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:10.547", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2539", "parent_id": "2483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm still confused about what happened myself, but considering all the real-\nworld historical facts the talked about, like the limestone cave being like\nCappadocia, the disappearance of Eiken and the others at the Monument being\nlike the [Angikuni Village\nDisappearance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angikuni_Lake), then the way they\nwere transported to the future could be the [Dragon's\nTriangle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Sea).\n\nThe Dragon's Triangle is an area of ocean south of Japan that is like the\nBermuda Triangle. There are cases of boats of all sizes disappearing never to\nbe heard from. The Island that CoE takes place on is located in the Dragon's\nTriangle, from what I could see from the map Mariya showed of where the plane\nwent down, so despite them not talking about it in the manga, that seems like\nthe most plausible reason for the time travel. Maybe Yoshinobu Yamada had\nplaned on that being the reason but was unable to fit it in for the same\nreason the ending was so rushed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-31T18:52:17.170", "id": "5663", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-31T21:55:07.730", "last_edit_date": "2013-10-31T21:55:07.730", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "2648", "parent_id": "2483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThey time travel when they are inside of the plane and they crashed on a\nisland in the future.Otherwise, the world what the world looks like now\nwouldn't make any sense.\n\nThe main character's mother and other scientists who built the island built it\nin the past. The graves are there because the adults thought that they died in\nthe crash and erected memorials to all the passengers who died.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-16T13:25:31.457", "id": "5902", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-16T17:11:17.467", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-16T17:11:17.467", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "2737", "parent_id": "2483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that the idea is that the plane inadvertently disappeared, which\ncaused Akira's mother to continue the Eden Project and eventually create Raika\nIsland, and that one of the company's directors, maybe Sengoku Frey, in a\nlast-ditch attempt to save her dream of the 'paradise' after the biohazard\ndisaster on the island, channelled the company's remaining funds into Time-\nTravel research, which was completed and used to send the flight into the\nfuture to 'save' them, but accidentally causing an infinite time loop in the\nprocess.\n\nIt would fit, in my opinion, with Sengoku Frey's 'acceptance of Yuna's heart',\nand would be the most probable theory.\n\nToo bad that's how publishers go - cutting off a series' lifeline so they can\ndo other stories. Or perhaps, the author's idea was going to be much more\nambitious, but wasn't given the time to finish it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-30T04:17:06.980", "id": "40109", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:16.980", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-01T09:00:16.980", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32242", "parent_id": "2483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2490", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nThe High School DxD anime explains the devil ranking system pretty\nsuperficially. On the one hand, we know that to revive humans as devils and\ncontrol them, one needs evil pieces. The precise number and type depends on\nthe individual, but that isn't really important for this question. On the\nother hand, we know that devils don't keep the same rank forever. Low ranking\ndevils also sometimes get promoted to higher ranks, and eventually they could\ncontrol their own servants and presumably stop working for that master at that\npoint. Of course, low-ranking devils can also die.\n\nIn these situations, it would seem like a pretty substantial blow to the\noriginal master if they can't control any more devils. Their army's strength\nwould be permanently reduced. Does that master receive new evil pieces to\ncompensate in these cases?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T18:25:16.510", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2487", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-15T00:29:29.430", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:19:09.747", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "high-school-dxd" ], "title": "Does a Devil ever get more Evil Pieces?", "view_count": 4126 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[Wiki states:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_DxD)\n\n> If a Devil were to divert away from his/her master (then on known as a\n> \"Stray Devil\" (はぐれ悪魔 Hagure Akuma)), they have to be captured or killed\n> before they go out of control\n\nTherefore, I think that if a demon stops following his master the master will\nnot get the piece back till the person is either captured or dead. Although\nnowhere is it really stated that this is the case, I can not solidly prove\nthis.\n\nAlso, if I recall correctly, somewhere in the beginning of the series, Rias\nGremory states that using a piece is risky. If you use the wrong piece you\nlose it.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T18:49:00.800", "id": "2488", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-09T06:25:51.943", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-09T06:25:51.943", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2487", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nSo far, even in the light novels that cover about 5x the material the anime\ndid, It doesn´t seem to be possible to receive more Evil Pieces than the ones\nyou were revived with initially.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T21:00:03.113", "id": "2490", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-14T21:00:03.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2487", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that even if you become a High or Ultimate Class Devil (Only two\nreincarnated devils have done so in canon) and obtain your own Peerage you\nstill are a servant of your King. Kuroka was stronger than her King by a large\nmargin but still served him. This means that instead of losing your legion you\ngain more legions (not proper terminology since a legion is over 5500 troops)\nthat are indirectly under your command. Sirzechs peerage seem to be all high\nclass but still serve him. Tannin himself is Mephisto's Queen but he is also a\nUltimate-Class Devil and King and in the Top 10 of the Rating Game: in other\nwords a hero of the Underworld. It is suggested that technically Tannin is\nstill his servant but hard to confirm since even from the beginning Mephisto\ngave Tannin free reign to do as he pleased.\n\nThis is also supported by the fact that in volume one of the novels (and\nmanga) Rias states that powerful peerage become status for their King. This\nwould suggest such things remain even for servants that rose in status\notherwise it would make more sense to make blood-status the requirement to get\na set of Evil Pieces not Class since they would lose their property and the\nDevil's in DxD seem too greedy to sacrifice their valuables especially when\ntheir worth has become high.\n\nOnce you use it, Devils won’t be given a new [Evil Pieces].” Quoted from Rias\nin Part 2 of the New Life Chapter in the first volume of the DxD novels.\n\nAlso I got this from the official DxD wiki (which holds copies of the\ntranslated novels): There is actually no conflict when a Low-Class Devil\nstarts his own group while still being a part of another peerage after\nbecoming High-Class. When a Devil reaches High-Class, they receive a set of\nEvil Pieces to start their own group. However, even after going independent,\nDevils are still obliged to fight as underlings whenever their master has a\nRating Game, for example, if Issei were to reach High-Class and start his own\npeerage, he would still have to fight as Rias' Pawn if she ever has a Rating\nGame.\n\nAnd Evil Pieces that have returned have already stopped functioning and cannot\nbe used ever again. Said by Kiba in Vol. 12 of the Novels.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-05T21:47:36.450", "id": "4302", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-13T22:45:04.057", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-13T22:45:04.057", "last_editor_user_id": "1988", "owner_user_id": "1988", "parent_id": "2487", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen you become an HighRank Devil you receive your set of pieces (some of them\ncould be mutant pieces). After spend a piece you're only able to exchange it\nbut not ask for more, if he dies he dies with the piece, but there are a few\nexceptions as Issei (vol 11) after his death.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-26T05:55:03.637", "id": "7171", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-26T05:55:03.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3490", "parent_id": "2487", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe a Devil can only gain more Evil Pieces through reincarnating Devils\nand those Devils reincarnating Devils and so on -- -- an example would be\nIssei -- even when he becomes Ultimate Class ; he is still Rias' Pawn - any\ndevils he reincarnates will always be his servants and therefore Rias' by\ndefault through Issei being hers -- and of course on down the chain -- ---\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-15T00:29:29.430", "id": "49682", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-15T00:29:29.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43420", "parent_id": "2487", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI know the manga has ended already, and several years after the 2 seasons of\nanime which didn't have a definitive ending.\n\n> The second season ended with the attempt to send them back to Japan after\n> all of the spell fragments were collected, but both failed and the fragments\n> were scattered again.\n\nWas there a definitive ending in the manga? Or more specifically:\n\n> Did they get sent back to Japan or was the final attempt the last possible\n> one? Or is it like the ending of the anime where they just have to continue\n> to do it all over and over again?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T00:48:25.057", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2493", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T14:54:47.977", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "those-who-hunt-elves" ], "title": "Does \"Those Who Hunt Elves\" have a definitive ending?", "view_count": 2029 }

[ { "body": "\n\nActually, there where two manga series:\n\n 1. _Those Who Hunt Elves_ that was adapted almost entirely in the two anime seasons, and\n 2. _Those Who Hunt Elves Returns_ , years after the ending, with new stories not directly continuing but mostly reusing the same characters for new adventures, but was very short.\n\nFinally (for now) in 2013, the author\n[continued](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-01-15/those-who-hunt-\nelves-manga-returns-in-new-series) with a new manga, also an \"unconnected\"\ncontinuation, with the same settings and characters but not exactly a sequel\nsince the plots were already closed.\n\nAs for the plot that you mention, in the first manga, it was resolved somehow,\nbut keeping the door open for those sequels.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T10:19:35.060", "id": "5954", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T14:54:47.977", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-20T14:54:47.977", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "31", "parent_id": "2493", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2498", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Naruto movie 4, during the ending scene\n\n> The priestess says that she needs to give her powers to the next priestess.\n> And asks Naruto's help with this matter. But what did she mean by that? Did\n> she mean it in the context \"Make a new priestess with me?\" or more in the\n> context \"Once the time comes can you help me transfer my powers?\".\n\n[**Video of the scene I'm\nreferring**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCA-5fm0DI0)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T10:28:42.417", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2497", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-07T22:36:58.240", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-15T10:57:03.533", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1458", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Will Naruto have a Kid?", "view_count": 7063 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAh, I shouldn't comment so fast :D.\n\n> Then she asked Naruto if he would help **(indirectly asking if he will\n> father her child)** to everyone's shock, which a misunderstanding Naruto,\n> happily agreed to.\n\nSource: Narutopedia\n\nHowever, it never happened.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T13:52:30.190", "id": "2498", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T13:52:30.190", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2497", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI legitimately doubt that anything serious was meant by that, or even came of\nit.\n\nNaruto's character has always been to help others out where and when they need\nit, but in this case, he didn't pick up on the subtext like Rock Lee, Kakashi\nand Sakura did.\n\nIf nothing else, there won't be a child between him and that priestess.\nConsidering that, in canon...\n\n> ...he has _two_ children with Hinata: Boruto and Himawari.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-08T09:59:09.747", "id": "19215", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-08T09:59:09.747", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "2497", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2786", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the final episode of Tatami Galaxy, when the protagonist escapes from\nShimogamo Yuusuisou, a giant swarm of moths is also let out. That same swarm\ndistracts the crowd that was pursuing Ozu at Kamo-oohashi.\n\n\n\nThe protagonist himself says (in his role as narrator) that the viewer\nprobably knows what the swarm is, but I could not figure it out. What is the\nswarm of moths, and why did they protect Ozu?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T16:20:18.170", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2504", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-28T03:23:00.060", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-15T16:27:27.830", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "the-tatami-galaxy" ], "title": "What was the swarm of moths in the final episode of The Tatami Galaxy?", "view_count": 3592 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems we're led to believe that the moths represent Watashi, the\nprotagonist, in a metaphorical sense. Unfortunately, this is never officially\nexplained.\n\nWith regard to _The Tatami Galaxy_ , reviewers and analyzers seem to pull out\nthe fact that moths are meant to symbolize humans. One\nreviewer[[1]](http://guriguriblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/yojo-han-shinwa-\ntaikei-letting-your-inner-moths-out-of-tatami-galaxy/) called them pitiful\n(due to the fact that they are nocturnal, yet rely on light to survive).\nAnother blogger[[2]](http://animeotaku.animeblogger.net/2010/07/questions-and-\nanswers-from-the-tatami-galaxy-yojo-han-shinwa-taikei/#comment-110721) pointed\nout the [metamorphosis cycle of a\nmoth](http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/images/departments/environmental/gmcycle.gif).\n\nIn both cases, these were drawn to parallels with human beings and, in\nparticular, Watashi:\n\n> * People too can be pitiful sometimes. When life gets tough and one starts\n> losing his rose-tinted visions of life, he blinds himself from the truth and\n> begins to see what he only wants to see.\n>\n> * After all, moths undergo complete metamorphosis. Something Watashi goes\n> through.\n>\n>\n\nThis helps us somewhat to determine the origin of the moths. Every tatami mat\nroom contained a moth (which usually frightened Atashi); upon Watashi's escape\nfrom Shimogamo Yuusuisou, the moths escape as well, linking them somewhat to\nWatashi and representing his escape.\n\n> [T]he protagonist's jailbreak out of his endlessly continuing cell of\n> individual rooms is accompanied by a mysterious swarm of moths that\n> overwhelm the city of Kyoto. Officially unexplained, this massive swarm of\n> moths is the simultaneous outpouring of Individual moths from the infinite\n> number of 4.5 tatami mat rooms, each of which contained a single\n> moth.[[3]](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rceOMD_1hNkJ:www.academia.edu/2093366/_Condensing_the_Media_Mix_Tatami_Galaxys_Multiple_Possible_Worlds_in_Canadian_Journal_of_Film_Studies_21_2_Fall_2012_+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk)\n\nWhy did the moths help Ozu? Hard to say for sure; again, officially\nunexplained. One viewer I\nmentioned[[2]](http://animeotaku.animeblogger.net/2010/07/questions-and-\nanswers-from-the-tatami-galaxy-yojo-han-shinwa-taikei/#comment-110721)\nsuggested them as a spirit animal, though:\n\n> Then at the end, the moths come down in force as a benevolent instrument to\n> make him possibly the only thing that could stand out more than Ozu. Why are\n> the moths benevolent, and is there some reason why they are chosen? Is it\n> because moths, like him undergo a complete metamorphosis and as such are\n> sort of like his spirit animal?\n\nI believe that in general, _The Tatami Galaxy_ likes to leave some things for\nthe viewer to consider upon finishing the series. There likely is not one\nsingle, genuine answer to the question you've posed, but the symbolism of the\nmoth seems to be a good explanation for how and why they appear in the swarm.\n\n_(Sorry that reference #3 is a cached version. Its source is[this\npage](http://www.academia.edu/2093366/_Condensing_the_Media_Mix_Tatami_Galaxys_Multiple_Possible_Worlds_in_Canadian_Journal_of_Film_Studies_21_2_Fall_2012_)\nbut it's not fully searchable in the \"normal\" format.)_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T21:35:35.193", "id": "2786", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T21:35:35.193", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2504", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThey're the moths that were flying around the light in his room. There was\nonly one in each room, but they followed him through the universes and burst\nfree. It's a cute metaphor about how he's no longer disracted by meaningless\nthings, and breaking free from the tatami maze that had trapped him. It's not\nmuch more complex than that. Tuasa diesn't favor many extended metaphors, just\nlots of clever little ones.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-04-28T03:23:00.060", "id": "52707", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-28T03:23:00.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47031", "parent_id": "2504", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2628", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWith any given series, there's a lot of names and titles being thrown around\nin the opening and closing credits.\n\nWhat are the typical key roles (E.g., art director, color-setters (iro\nshitei), producer, director, series coordinator) and their primary\nresponsibilities? Are there also any roles or departments exclusive or work\ndifferently in anime production than in traditional or western animation?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T16:26:46.767", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2505", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T20:29:23.310", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:19:57.563", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "anime-production" ], "title": "What are the responsibilities of key staff members in an anime production?", "view_count": 4411 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's a pretty good summary of a lot of the positions\n[here](http://www.janscottfrazier.com/content/articles/jobs/index.htm).\n\n * Original Creator\n\n * Director\n\n * Enshutsu (Animation Technical Director)\n\n * Character Designer\n\n * Animation Supervisor\n\n * Key Animators\n\n * Inbetweeners \n\n * Producer\n\n * Art Director (Art Model and Background)\n\n * Color Coordinator\n\n * Finisher\n\n * Special Effect / CG Artist\n\nThese are just a few highlights:\n\n> **Original Creator (gensaku)** \n> The original creator is the person who came up with the concept for the\n> story originally. This may be the original manga creator, a novelist, game\n> developer, playwright, author, oracle, prophet, or whoever can come up with\n> an original idea.\n>\n> **Enshutsu** \n> Often translated as **_animation director_** or **_technical director_**.\n> Enshutsu is one of the most difficult and most important jobs in the\n> Japanese animation industry. The enshutsu is between the director (kantoku)\n> and the production staff. He is responsible for checking and supervising the\n> show through the production, from initial story to the final released\n> product, and in many cases, has almost total control over it. He checks the\n> animation drawings as they are being done, sets up the scenes before they go\n> to camera and supervises the sound and voice recordings and all the editing\n> amongst many other jobs. The exact job and responsibilities vary from\n> company to company, and from show to show as well. Sometimes the enshutsu\n> ends up as the whipping boy for the director; sometimes he or she carries\n> the show and the director sits back and watches. On larger productions there\n> is sometimes more than one enshutsu and usually quite a few assistants. It\n> is important to have a good knowledge of animation production as well as\n> artistic talent to do the job and it usually takes four or more years in the\n> industry before someone can do the job right.\n>\n> **Inbetweening (douga)** \n> The **_inbetweeners_** use the key drawings as reference points and produce\n> drawings that fit between the positions on the keys. This smoothes out the\n> movement and makes the animation look better. (The more inbetweens there\n> are, the more fluid the movement becomes and the more expensive the\n> animation becomes.) Inbetweening is a relatively non-creative job. It is\n> more tracing than anything else. The hours are long and the key animators\n> are sometimes very hard to work with. The cruelest part of being an\n> inbetweener is that they rarely get to work on anything they are fans of and\n> what they do get to work on they burn out on quickly. (I know some animators\n> and an enshutsu that you can send into convulsions by whispering \"Ranma\" in\n> their ears.) After 2 or 3 years of grueling inbetweening, animators who can\n> handle it are usually promoted to keys.\n\nAs for a position that is present in anime production but not as common in\nwestern or traditional animation, I could could only find one position that\nmight fit the bill.\n\n> **Color Coordination (Iroshitei)** \n> The Color Coordinator decides all the colors for everything that will be\n> painted/colored by the shiage department in the show and creates an\n> iroshitei hyou (color model pack) that the staff can refer to when painting.\n> This job requires not only good color sense but a good memory, as the CC\n> should be able to keep an idea of what the colors for the whole show look\n> like in her head so that when questions come up about small details and\n> things not in the iroshitei hyou she doesn't need to pull all the models and\n> think about it. \n> \n> The CC makes color models of each of the characters and the props, mecha\n> etc. in the computer paint system. The painters use these models when\n> coloring the various scenes. \n> \n> In the old days of liquid paint, there were 327 commonly used Taiyou\n> Shikisai (Taiyo Paint Company) cel paints but they had over 1,000 in their\n> catalog. Each color had a code number which originally was its equivalent to\n> the DIC (Dai Nippon Ink Company) code. Color code numbers were usually a\n> letter followed by numbers like GY-40 and RP-99. (Some companies used\n> another paint company - Stack - but their paint was more expensive (and\n> higher quality) and the paint codes were different.) \n> \n> A good way of telling that you had done this job too long is when you\n> lookout a train window at a sunset or forest and find yourself determining\n> what paint colors they it is composed of. Computers have made life a lot\n> easier with 16.7 million colors ending the need for weird paint codes but\n> now you look at that sunset and wonder what dpi you would have to scan it in\n> to get good output quality.\n\nI'm sure other types of animations have color coordinators but this one is\nsomewhat specific to anime since it deals with a specific Asian company and\ntheir limited paint color selection.\n\nThe full page is worth a read as it has a lot of the Japanese names of\npositions in addition to their translated names.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T21:09:44.377", "id": "2628", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-11T20:42:10.407", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-11T20:42:10.407", "last_editor_user_id": "29", "owner_user_id": "29", "parent_id": "2505", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2517", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI had a few ideas on how an animations are produced documentaries of western\nanimation, but I was curious of how the process works in Japanese animation.\n\nWhat are the typical order and steps undertaken by a studio or committee in\nproducing an anime? Do any prominent studios do things differently?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T16:46:02.080", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2506", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-19T17:13:33.533", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 16, "tags": [ "anime-production" ], "title": "What are the steps involved in producing an anime?", "view_count": 1522 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a really excellent blog post on Washi's blog titled \"[Anime\nProduction - Detailed Guide to How Anime is Made and the Talent Behind\nit!](http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-detailed-\nguide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/)\" that covers pretty much\nthe entire process that includes references from Studios like I.G., AIC, and\nSunrise.\n\nHere's a flowchart from the link that describes the process: \n\nSo you have the pre-production and planning phase, which can happen either\nfrom an original author or a production company:\n\n> This process depends on who’s pushing for an idea and who is backing it up,\n> it can be animation studios themselves along with sponsors, but many anime\n> are adaptations of manga or light novels, in which case, publishers front\n> costs (including the costs of having it shown on TV stations). The\n> production company (e.g Aniplex) gathers staff, sponsors, and looks at\n> advertisement and merchandise. While many people describe studios as being\n> cheap, only around half the budget is often given to the anime studio, with\n> the rest going to broadcasters and other contributing companies. The\n> broadcast costs are surprisingly high – according to blogger, ghostlightning\n> – at about 50 million yen for a late-night timeslot across 5-7 stations for\n> a 52 episode series. You can see why anime can be an expensive business. For\n> example, Full Metal Alchemist, which had a 6pm Saturday slot had a total\n> budget of 500 million yen (before additional costs).\n\nThis part of the processes then becomes mostly planning, designs, and putting\ntogether the staff. When it's time to create the first episode, then the\nprodcution phase starts:\n\n> The first step is to write the episode scripts. Following the episodes\n> synopsis/plans, the full scripts are written, by either one person for the\n> whole series or by several different writers based on the outlines from the\n> overall script supervisor (staff credit: series composition). The scripts\n> are reviewed by the director, producers, and potentially the author of the\n> original work before being finalised (after 3 or 4 drafts, often). The\n> episode director, supervised by the overall director then takes this\n> backbone of the episode and must plan out how it will actually look on\n> screen. While the director has the final say and is involved at production\n> meetings, the episode director has the most hands-on involvement in\n> developing the episode. This stage is expressed as a storyboard (a visual\n> script), and the storyboard marks the beginning of actual animation\n> production.\n\nStoryboarding:\n\n> Often the storyboard is created by the director, this means an episode is\n> truly the vision of that director. But usually, mainly in TV-anime, separate\n> storyboarders are used to actually draw them. This is because storyboards\n> usually take around 3 weeks to do for a normal length TV-anime episode. Art\n> meetings and production meetings are held with the episode director, series\n> director and other staff about the episode should look. Storyboards are\n> drawn on A-4 paper (generally) and contain most of the vital building blocks\n> of an anime – the cut numbers, actor movements, camera movements such as\n> zooming or panning, the dialogue (taken from the screenplay) and the length\n> of each shot (or cut) in terms of seconds and frames (which we’ll explain\n> later). Because the number of drawings available for an episode is often\n> fixed for the sake of budget management, the number of frames is also\n> carefully considered in the storyboards. The storyboards are roughly-drawn\n> and are really the core stage of deciding how an anime will play out. Cuts\n> refer to a single shot of the camera and an average TV-anime episode will\n> usually contain around 300 cuts. More cuts don’t necessarily imply a better\n> quality episode, but it will generally mean more work for the\n> director/storyboarder.\n\nThe post then covers the layout and the animation process, then finally, the\ncomposition and filming:\n\n> It is commonplace for the frames to be completed on a computer. After they\n> are drawn and checked, they are digitized. Once they are on the computer,\n> they are painted with a specified color palette by painting staff (generally\n> a low paid job). They use the shading lines drawn by the key animators to do\n> the shading colours. This digital equivalent of the ‘ink & paint’ stage of\n> production, which used to be done by hand, has allowed some more interesting\n> visual styles to come through in the colouring, such as the use of gradient\n> shading or even textures. These would have been too difficult to do back in\n> the day. It has also saved considerable time and money in the process. These\n> become the final “cels” that go into the animation.\n>\n> Once all the frames are coloured and finished, they can be processed as\n> animation using a specialized software package. “RETAS! PRO” is used for\n> approximately 90% of anime currently aired in Japan (for drawing sometimes\n> too)! Before the use of digital ‘cels’ (digicels), drawings (printed onto\n> cels) were actually filmed over backgrounds. Now, cuts are completed\n> digitally, and the background art can be added on the computer. Initially,\n> when digicel was first being picked up by studios (around about 2000), it\n> had real problems matching the fineness of detail in hand-drawn and painted\n> cels. But nowadays, anime studios have really perfected the digital cel,\n> giving us anime with just as much detail and more vibrant colouring. The\n> digicel age has now streamlined the production process such that repeated\n> cels and clip/recap episodes are basically a thing of the past. Some still\n> prefer the rougher look of pre-2000, but I’ve certainly moved on.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> After compositing is completed for all the cuts, they have to be to the\n> timing required for broadcast, so that the episode doesn’t lag overtime.\n> With the completion of the editing step, the episode moves out of production\n> and into post-production. I won’t go into much detail on this, but it\n> essentially encompasses adding sound (dubbing), both the music and the voice\n> recordings, and final editing (cutting the episode with space for\n> advertisements). Visual effects may also be added at this late stage too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T19:24:50.317", "id": "2517", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T19:24:50.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2506", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2524", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the manga, _Bartender_ , there have been a couple of oblique references to\nSasakura Ryu's father being well known. Who is he?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T17:02:15.133", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2507", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T00:43:08.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "bartender" ], "title": "Who is Sasakura's father?", "view_count": 415 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIn a flashback that starts in Glass 113, \"The Past\", it is revealed that his\nfather is named \"Sasakura Genichi\" who was a former Diet member. His nickname\nwas \"The Monster of Nagata.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T23:53:28.437", "id": "2524", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T00:43:08.593", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-27T00:43:08.593", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2507", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWho was Rin's servant Archer in Fate Stay Night? In the anime, it shows no\nreference to who he is or how he became a heroic spirit. But in the Manga, it\nonly shows how he became a heroic spirit.\n\nThe Holy Grail takes the soul or spirit from people of legends and myths. So\nwho was Archer in Fate Stay Night?\n\n * Only answer from Fate Stay Night, anime or manga. It would get confusing if somebody gives an answer that is true from a different universe or timeline.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T17:35:06.710", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2508", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T12:33:05.020", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-16T12:33:05.020", "last_editor_user_id": "175", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "fate-stay-night" ], "title": "Who was Archer?", "view_count": 94676 }

[ { "body": "\n\nUnlike the other herioc spirits (Aurthur, Alexander the Great, etc), Archer\nis:\n\n> Shirou Emiya of an alternate future timeline who made a contract with\n> [Gaia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gaia) and became the Heroic Spirit\n> _Emiya_ , acting as the [Counter\n> Guardian](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Counter_Guardian#Counter_Guardians)\n> of the world to fulfill his contract.\n\nThere were hints about this when Archer sees Shirou for the first time\nbecause:\n\n> He purposely wanted to be summoned into an era where the young Shirou Emiya\n> would be around for the Grail war so that killing the younger version of\n> himself may cause a paradox that would break his contract.\n\nSo the simple answer to your question is that:\n\n> Archer is the future version of Shirou Emiya.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T19:48:35.767", "id": "2519", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T19:48:35.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2508", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst of all, it should be mentioned that Archer is a Counter Guardian and not\na Heroic Spirit. He is an agent of Gaia (the will of Earth) and is not stored\nin the Throne of Heroes like the other participants of the Holy Grail War.\n\nArcher´s true identity is that of:\n\n> Emiya Shirou from an alternative timeline of the Fate route (Saber route),\n> where he went into despair after Illyasviel passes away 1 year after the\n> war. He tried to become a hero by saving the majority by killing the\n> minority (like his father, Emiya Kiritsugu). Eventually the people he saved\n> turned on him and shunned him, throwing him further into despair,\n> culminating in him sacrificing his life by making a pact with Gaia to become\n> a Counter Guardian in exchange for a few hundred people´s life. He is\n> summoned into the war with the pendant he always carried on him that Rin\n> used to save him as the catalyst, since Rin had no catalyst herself.\n\nIf you want a more indepth answer, play the visual novel, as the second route,\nUnlimited Blade Works, revolves mainly around him and Shirou.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T21:31:22.623", "id": "2521", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T21:31:22.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2508", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2520", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nSince the Navy mainly determines power through bounty. They seem strong but\nWhitebeard was able to fight all three admirals at one. Also the Commanders of\nWhitebeard were on par with the Admirals. So how strong are the Admirals? How\nmuch bounty would they get if they got one?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T17:38:20.243", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2509", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:29:05.343", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-15T22:34:53.190", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 16, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "How strong are the Marine Admirals?", "view_count": 10587 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Navy actually doesn't determine bounty based entirely on power, they also\nbase it on how badly they want the particular guy caught.\n\nConsidering how DonFlamingo's bounty was 340 million beli, and he was a pretty\nbig deal, It appears that the marines start leveling out the bounties around\nthe 300-400 million range.\n\nThat taken into account, If the admirals were pirates, their bounties would\nlikely be in the 300 million range.\n\nAs far as power goes (and power is not that quantifiable in one piece),\nthey're all in the top league, and so far, the only character who was formally\nintroduced who can be said to have a very clear advantage over the admirals is\nWhitebeard, and he's dead.\n\nthe Other Yonko are very likely to be stronger than any particular admiral,\nbut that's not necessarily a concrete rule, and we yet to have a good measure\nof their power.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T21:02:55.820", "id": "2520", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T22:24:43.733", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-15T22:24:43.733", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "2509", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nAll of the Admirals are likely 1 step below the Four Emperors. I think it\nwould be realistic to say that if Akainu was a pirate, he´d probably be around\nthe 500-700 million range.\n\nAokiji is the least hostile and probably the weakest too, though it´s hard to\nsay how they compare against each other.\n\nAkainu is the most hostile and potentially the strongest of them. Lava is one\nof the most ridiculous powers imaginable, being both heavy enough to choke out\nfire and gas/air and still liquid, oh and it´s at least 1000 degrees Celsius\nas well.\n\nWhat I want to say though is that I think Kizaru is the strongest of the\nAdmirals. Think about this for a moment. You can counter ice with fire and\nother heat-related things or things that can´t be frozen. How the hell do you\ncounter light? Light moves at 300 thousand kilometers a second (and therefore\nhits with that force too, making Kizaru potentially the physically strongest\ncharacter in the One Piece world), is intangible, can bounce off of things,\ncan cut and pierce things in the form of a laser. That´s probably the most\noverpowered possibly Devil Fruit power.\n\nTo put it shortly, while they aren´t the most powerful characters in the\nseries, the Straw Hats probably still don´t stand a chance against one and\nthey are pretty close to the top.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T01:11:15.740", "id": "2528", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T07:29:05.343", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T07:29:05.343", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2509", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYou know how in some stories there are some characters who are like, god-like\noverpowered? Thats how the admirals are. When luffy was fighting aokiji, the\nlatter was barely using his full power and easily owned him. Its difficult to\nhit them since they can turn into their own element (except by using sea stone\nor haki), but the element akainu turns into probably makes him more dangerous.\nIf you touch ice, part of you will freeze. Light, nothing will happen. Magma?\nyour body will evaporate and die. I'd say Aokiji's powers are more accurate,\nAkainu's are more destructive, while Kizaru is a combination of both, but I\nthink he kinda balances. I'd say currently in one piece they're all equal.\nSure, it did take 10 days for Akainu to beat Aokiji, but with that much time\nthey barely seemed to have been outmatched.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T00:55:58.640", "id": "6707", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-03T00:55:58.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3202", "parent_id": "2509", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhat determines the nature of remuneration in Darker than Black?\n\nIs it something ironic? Similar to one of the contractors smoking even though\nhe hates the thought of smoking. Or is it some other way?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T17:40:45.253", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2510", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T20:21:59.613", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:21:59.613", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "darker-than-black" ], "title": "What determines Remuneration in Darker than Black?", "view_count": 1857 }

[ { "body": "\n\n> What determines the nature of remuneration in Darker than Black?\n\nSince it's unclear how exactly does one become a contractor, it's also unclear\nhow is his payment determined.\n\n> Is it something ironic? Similar to one of the contractors smoking even\n> though he hates the though of smoking.\n\nNo, not necessarily. [this wiki\nsays](http://darkerthanblack.wikia.com/wiki/Obeisance):\n\n> Remunerations are typically difficult for the Contractor and range in\n> severity from irritating to painful. However, there have been a few\n> contractors who enjoy their remuneration and at least one who uses it in\n> conjunction with his or her own ability.\n\nFor example, Bai's (Hei's sister) obeisance was sleeping, which is neither\npainful, nor shameful/irritating/etc. Another example is April, whos obeisance\nis alcohol drinking, which she actually enjoys.\n\nHowever in general it looks like that obeisance is more likely to be\nunpleasant to the contractor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-20T07:04:20.593", "id": "2963", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-20T07:04:20.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2510", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2518", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nHow are Contractors made in Darker than Black? Do you have to be born with the\npowers? Or do you have to make contact with a spirit and make a contract with\nit?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T17:42:49.690", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2511", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T20:42:48.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "darker-than-black" ], "title": "How does one become a Contractor?", "view_count": 2856 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the\n[wiki](http://darkerthanblack.wikia.com/wiki/Category%3aContractors), the\nprocess to become a contractor was never revealed, only that there is a link\nbetween contractors and the appearance of the Gate.\n\n> Shion Pavlichenko was born as contractor, and Suou became one after she\n> absorbed Hei's powers, and, in the Darker than Black: Shikkoku No Hana\n> manga, a character named Harvest has the ability to make people Contractors,\n> but all other Contractors, such as Tanya, have become what they are via\n> unknown means. In Kuro no Keiyakusha Gaiden it is revealed that Contractors\n> are defects that emerge when humans are unable to become Dolls.\n\nSo it looks like there's any number of ways to become a contractor. Some are\nborn with the powers, and it's also possible to obtain the power via someone\nlike _Harvest_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T19:35:43.610", "id": "2518", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T20:42:48.947", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-15T20:42:48.947", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2511", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2544", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhat determines the abilities of a Contractor? In the anime two contractors\nhave the same ability. Both dealing having the powers of electricity.\n\nSo does this mean that there can many contractors with the same ability?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T17:55:35.483", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2512", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T20:36:31.183", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:36:31.183", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "darker-than-black" ], "title": "What determines the Abilities of a Contractor?", "view_count": 562 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems to be randomized as to what kind of power you get. If you could\n\"pick\" your power, every Contractor would logically choose things like\nshooting giant laser beams. Same with the remuneration, although it sometimes\nseems to be things that the Contractor hates, like the woman who hates smoking\nwho had to eat cigarretes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T21:52:25.313", "id": "2544", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T21:52:25.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2512", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2538", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nHow do souls age in Soul Society?\n\n> People cannot die of old age resulting in the Captain Commander keeping his\n> position for a thousand years.\n\nThere are some souls who look like kids and some who are adults. In the manga,\nthe makers flashbacked into the past of the Captian Commander showing that he\nhad black hair instead of looking like what he was then. Also, when Ichigo\nleft the Precipice World he aged what looked like a couple years.\n\nSo how do souls age in Bleach?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T18:03:37.450", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2515", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-04T17:47:15.753", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-16T00:04:45.607", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "How do souls age in Soul Society?", "view_count": 51963 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe only explanation I can find is on bleach.wikia.com, which says:\n\n> One never gets hungry (if she or he doesn't have spiritual powers) and aging\n> is slowed to a great extent, with lifespans of 2000 or more years not being\n> unheard of, though such ages are limited to Shinigami or other Soul Society\n> dwellers with high spiritual power.\n\nThere is also an explanation on\n<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/BleachSoulSociety> that\nessentially says that it is really inconsistent within the show and that there\nare a number of different theories, including that characters age inversely\nproportional to the amount of spiritual power that they use and that at some\npoint aging just stops.\n\nTo summarize, there doesn't seem to be a clear explanation in-universe, but\nthe aging is slower than usual, with much longer life-spans than regular\nhumans.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T21:21:29.017", "id": "2538", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T21:21:29.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nthis is years late - but since it was the first google search result for my\nquestions - I figured this answer might help someone else.\n\n[wikia\nlink](http://bleach.answers.wikia.com/wiki/If_you're_not_suppost_to_age_in_the_soul_society,_how_does_rukia_and_renji_grow_up_from_kids_in_%22hanging_dog%22)\n\n> If you're not suppost to age in the soul society, how does rukia and renji\n> grow up from kids in \"hanging dog\"?\n>\n\n>> Souls without spirit power do not age in soul society. They also don't\nhunger and there is no evidence they are doing anything but waiting for the\nallotted time they must spend in Soul Society to pass before they are reborn.\n\n>>\n\n>> In Chapter 0, the pilot chapter of Bleach that was later reprinted in Book\nof SOULS, the \"magic number\" was 80 years. But Kubo has not stated how many\nyears a soul must spend in Soul Society in the proper Bleach storyline.\n\n>>\n\n>> Anyway, that aside, the point is that Rukia and Renji aged, because they\nhad spiritual power. It was also why they could become hungry and could become\nShinigami. \"Shinigami\" can and do age. They also give birth, die of old age\nand basically do everything humans do. Except that their lifespan is usually\nmeasured in hundreds of years and not decades.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-11T02:10:18.093", "id": "36773", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-12T00:59:45.313", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-12T00:59:45.313", "last_editor_user_id": "14229", "owner_user_id": "28663", "parent_id": "2515", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSouls without spirit power do not age in soul society. They also don't hunger\nand there is no evidence they are doing anything but waiting for the allotted\ntime they must spend in Soul Society to pass before they are reborn.\n\nIn Chapter 0, the pilot chapter of Bleach that was later reprinted in Book of\nSOULS, the \"magic number\" was 80 years. But Kubo has not stated how many years\na soul must spend in Soul Society in the proper Bleach storyline.\n\nAnyway, that aside, the point is that Rukia and Renji aged, because they had\nspiritual power. It was also why they could become hungry and could become\nShinigami. \"Shinigami\" can and do age. They also give birth, die of old age\nand basically do everything humans do. Except that their lifespan is usually\nmeasured in hundreds of years and not decades.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-11T20:43:20.450", "id": "45042", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-11T20:43:20.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38553", "parent_id": "2515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3870", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Episode 12 of the _Vampire Knight_ anime series, Zero encounters Shizuku\nHio, the woman who turned him into a vampire. Even before she tries to compel\nhim, he is shown as experiencing a strong physical reaction to her voice. It\nis clear that he already knew that she was there, so he shouldn't have been\nsurprised to hear her.\n\nWhy does he have that reaction? Does her voice have a compulsion before she\ntries to actively compel him? Is it due to some sort of bond he has with her?\nOr is there another reason?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T04:58:39.037", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2530", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-14T18:04:17.563", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-14T18:04:17.563", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "vampire-knight" ], "title": "Why does Zero have such a strong reaction to Shizuka Hio's voice?", "view_count": 379 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI guess it was what you said, a bond that was made due to Shizuka biting and\nturning Zero into a vampire.\n\nDuring one episode (I'm not sure what episode), Zero has figured out that she\nmust be Shizuka. Maria taunts Zero to pull the trigger, but he discovers he is\nunable to due to the bond between them. And it is said that once a human was\nbitten by a vampire, that vampire becomes his/her master and that human can be\ncontrolled by his/her master (like when Shizuka froze him when she was about\nto drink Yuki's blood).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-22T06:52:41.670", "id": "3870", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-22T06:52:41.670", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "2530", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 12, "body": "\n\nHe clearly is powerful. Makarov even said that Jura's (One of the 10 Wizard\nSaints) power was close to Gildarts, which means that Gildarts is more\npowerful than Jura.\n\nSo why isn't he a wizard saint? Does he have to do something magnificent? Or\nis he just not popular enough?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T14:28:37.320", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2532", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-31T08:31:26.347", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-03T04:37:51.773", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "fairy-tail" ], "title": "Why isn't Gildarts one of the Ten Wizard Saints?", "view_count": 70710 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's probably not because he **can't** be a wizard saint. He just doesn't\n**want to** be one. Gildarts does not like positions of influence (he also\nrejected Guild master title) And as more often said on the internet\n\n> He's too lazy to get off his ass and fill in an application form. \n> Probably doesn't want it, like he didn't want the guild master title.\n\nAlso the title currently does not add up to anything but a famous name. He\nmight not even be able to see the profit of having it\n\n> It is just a title, as far as we know, it doesn't offer anything else other\n> than respect from the masses.\n\nI hope this answers your question\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T15:39:36.987", "id": "2533", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-20T14:38:33.487", "last_edit_date": "2013-09-20T14:38:33.487", "last_editor_user_id": "2413", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Chairman of the Magic Council appoints the wizards to the Ten Wizard\nSaints. The Magic Council's decisions are not always objectively taken, and\nsometimes blatantly politically motivated. Many of the Magic Council members\nhave a strong dislike for the Fairy Tail guild. It is likely they did not\nappoint Gildarts because they did not want two Fairy Tail wizards to hold that\ntitle.\n\nAnother reason is that Gildarts travels a lot going on long missions, and\nrarely stays at his own guild for long, while the Magic Council probably did\nnot want such a \"nomadic\" member on that elite group. Moreover, even if the\nMagic Council made him that offer, Gildarts himself may have turned it down,\nseeing how he returned the Fairy Tail guild Master's title saying that he is\nnot suited for it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T15:40:21.500", "id": "2534", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T15:45:22.540", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-16T15:45:22.540", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's just a speculation, but I think that no sane Magic Council member would\nmake somebody a Wizard Saint who just goes around places destroying everything\nhe touches just because he doesn't pay attention and his magic is still\nactive. (Note that Magnolia has Gildarts-shift for the very same reason.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T17:54:47.737", "id": "2535", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T17:54:47.737", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n 1. The council hates Fairy Tail and are responsible for picking the Wizard Saints. There is no reason they would ever pick someone from the guild they hate so much.\n\n 2. Gildarts is lazy as hell and dissapears for years at a time to do 100-Year Quests.\n\n 3. His power is far too destructive.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T21:47:25.663", "id": "2542", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T21:47:25.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGildarts, Laxus, Mystogan. Essentially, you need to have your visible and\ninvisible guild members. Gildarts is invisible, or covert. The idea is not to\nhave him in the spotlight, so that he is not targeted, and remains like an Ace\nup one's sleeve.\n\nThough this anime shows signs of the \"never aging\" effect, if it were geared\nmore towards progressing over time, we can already tell by how the characters\nare scripted that Gildarts mode of protecting the guild - or his role in\nprotecting the guild, is by not being in the forefront. That's what Laxus was\nfor. Fairy Tail already has several S-Class wizards also.\n\nIt's likely Gildarts was never nominated for or applied for Wizard Saint. It's\nalso likely that there is an exam/test involved just like the Grand Magic\ngames. More importantly, while Gildarts feigns laziness, it's just a masque\nfor him to be able to handle the more underground obligations of keeping Fairy\nTail safe.\n\nNotice how he was shown ???name??? that Laxus father was looking for, but\nLaxus was not. All part of the progression and the plan.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T09:55:14.103", "id": "2548", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-17T09:55:14.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1473", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe there is only one reason behind it. Gildarts is a free spirit and\ndoesn't want to be bounded by the duties of the Ten Wizard Saints. For him\nexploring the world and fulfilling the quests is what defines him. He loved\nNatsu and other Fairy Tail members and considered them family but still\nunderwent the long SS rank quests because he think he belongs there.\n\nHe is kind of like Goku (who believes fighting is what he's meant for and\nwanders away from his family for that) and Ging Freeches in HunterxHunter.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-11T16:54:15.940", "id": "4102", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-11T19:38:28.740", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-11T19:38:28.740", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "1876", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI guess something special is planned for Gildarts:\n\n 1. To save the guild from Acnologia, Mavis Vermillion herself had to appear, since the guild was not powerful enough. But Gildarts once encountered Acnologia before and survived losing only some of his organs. How did he do it?\n\n 2. He even told Byro of legion that he didn't want the others (guild members & the new Oración Seis) to see what he was really capable of.\n\nSo... I guess you get what I'm getting at.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-12T13:24:05.927", "id": "4107", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-04T17:40:00.363", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-04T17:40:00.363", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1893", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGildarts usually would destroy everything in his path by accident. Just look\nback to the chapter when he comes back to town; they had to rearrange the\nwhole city just to make sure that he did not destroy everything in his path by\naccidentally tripping or something. Plus, as other have mentioned, Fairy Tail\nwas always known for being a destructive guild.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-25T19:46:30.783", "id": "4218", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-25T21:16:39.797", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-25T21:16:39.797", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "1946", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nGildarts could be a wizard saint. It is possible. Maybe people who read the\nmanga know if he a saint. You never know because the other saints or unknown\nand in the anime after the s class arc where they return after 7 years he has\nvanished.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T20:44:26.247", "id": "17137", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T20:44:26.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10895", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMaybe we are all wrong, and he is actually the 2nd strongest wizard saint. We\ndon't know who the top two are, and since the third one's identity is unknown,\nit is possible for the other two to be unknown.\n\nAt the Magic Games, the top three were noted as being \"not human\" in terms of\nstrength, and, if I remember correctly, Gildarts has been called such on\nseveral occasions. So, I believe this theory is probable and the reason I say\nnumber two is due to the fact you can't have the top dog not face Natsu and/or\nLaxus.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-02T18:48:46.170", "id": "19060", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-02T20:05:00.580", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-02T20:05:00.580", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11518", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe magic council doesn't know Gildarts power level as shown in s-class magic\narc. it was when Lohar know about Bluenote Stinger is fighting fairy tail. he\nsay no one in fairy tail strong enough to defeat him. Then I see that Gildarts\nis stronger than Makarov.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-04T17:37:05.430", "id": "19814", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-04T20:12:48.197", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-04T20:12:48.197", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "13057", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNobody would want someone who destroys everything he passes by be called a\nwizard SAINT. xD He might be strong but reputation-wise, he is just a dirty\nold skirt chaser who brings literal destruction to those he comes near to.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-31T08:31:26.347", "id": "20500", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-31T08:31:26.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13198", "parent_id": "2532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "48572", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn _Kaze no Stigma_ , fire, earth, and air spirit users are clearly seen using\ntheir abilities. Ayano is a fire-user, Kazuma is an air-user, and the\nTsuwabuki family are earth users. Water users are never even shown.\n\nAre they ever mentioned as existing, and is there any reason given, even in-\nuniverse or by an author, for them to never be shown?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T21:00:34.503", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2536", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-27T14:32:01.047", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-27T14:32:01.047", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "kaze-no-stigma" ], "title": "Are water spirit users ever seen?", "view_count": 1908 }

[ { "body": "\n\nSince the writer is dead, the story won't continue on from the point where it\nprematurely ended, but I think it's very likely that the arcs that would've\nfollowed (chasing down Rhodes and Lapis/Tsui-Ling) the ending would feature\nWater mages sooner or later, otherwise mentioning it to begin with would've\nbeen pointless.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T21:45:10.363", "id": "2541", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-20T02:21:59.003", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-20T02:21:59.003", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThey were simply hidden by the mist in that show. They were there the entire\ntime watching if you cared to watch.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-21T07:31:38.060", "id": "31574", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-21T07:31:38.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23592", "parent_id": "2536", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nGoogling for 水術師 (water technique users) proved that **they exist** in-\nuniverse, but don't seem to appear in both anime & manga. There are **2 named\nusers** :\n\n 1. (spoiler for **Light Novel vol. 6** , which is _just after the end of the anime which covers the first 5 volumes_ )\n\n> [クリスティアン・ローエングラム (Kristian\n> Lohengramm)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A2%A8%E3%81%AE%E8%81%96%E7%97%95#%E7%B2%BE%E9%9C%8A%E5%96%B0%E3%81%84)\n\nwho is\n\n> one of the major antagonists known as Spirit Eater. Having silver hair and\n> amber eyes. Possessing a water divine weapon called 水霊 ( _mizuchi_ ) that\n> has a form of whip/rapier. Able to blast a giant water ball from above his\n> head.\n\n 2. (spoiler for [_Kaze no Stigma RPG_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaze_no_Stigma#Role-playing_game), a spin-off gamebook guide for table talk RPG)\n\n> [ラーン\n> (Lahn?)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A2%A8%E3%81%AE%E8%81%96%E7%97%95#%E6%95%B5%E5%AF%BE%E9%96%A2%E4%BF%82)\n\nwho appears in [**_Kaze no Stigma RPG: Shin'en no Suiryuu (Deep Water\nDragons)_**](https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/89872/kaze-no-stigma-rpg-rpg-deep-\nwater-dragons), a replay/add-on gamebook, who is\n\n> also the main antagonist. A middle-aged man wearing a black robe. Able to\n> create a wall of water to protect himself and calling a water spirit beast\n> [Kelpie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie) to attack.\n\nAside from both of them, **a water technique user is one of the[playable tribe\nclasses](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A2%A8%E3%81%AE%E8%81%96%E7%97%95RPG#%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9)\nin _Kaze no Stigma RPG_** alongside with fire, earth, wind, and irregular.\n\n* * *\n\nSource: Japanese Wikipedia\n\n * [_Kaze no Stigma_](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A2%A8%E3%81%AE%E8%81%96%E7%97%95)\n * [_Kaze no Stigma RPG_](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A2%A8%E3%81%AE%E8%81%96%E7%97%95RPG)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-27T14:31:30.210", "id": "48572", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-27T14:31:30.210", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "2536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nA contractor is someone who makes a deal with a Spirit Lord and gains a large\namount of strength from it. Kazuma became a contractor with the Kaze no\nSeirei-Ō. Is it ever shown how he becomes the contractor, and is the way that\na wind-user becomes a contractor the same as the way that another spirit user\nbecomes a contractor? If there are manga images that explain it, that would be\nappreciated.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T21:08:23.747", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2537", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-18T11:15:43.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "kaze-no-stigma" ], "title": "How does someone become a contractor in Kaze no Stigma?", "view_count": 5071 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is never explained how Kazuma became a Contractor, and the process would´ve\nlikely been covered had the writer not died. The best guess I can give is\nthat:\n\n 1. He had incredible magical potential, just not when it comes to fire.\n\n 2. He was in desperate need for the power and made an earnest wish to the Wind Spirit King, catching his interest.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T21:49:52.633", "id": "2543", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-18T11:15:43.933", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-18T11:15:43.933", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2537", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2550", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Naruto, shinobi battles last a very long time consuming lots of chakra.\nEven though Naruto has a lot of chakra, he ignored the basics and started\nlearning high level techniques with Jiraiya. Even though this wasn't a bad\nthing, he just kept learning higher levels of techniques without using the\nbasics, causing him to waste more chakra for high level jutsus.\n\nWhy hasn't Naruto learned how the use the bare minimum the start his jutsus?\n\nKnow that if he did that, he wouldn't have had to rely on the Kyuubi's power\nand would probably be able the do rasen shuriken one more time, or at least\nhave some chakra left over for retreating or finishing off the opponent.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T09:57:32.270", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2549", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-02T10:47:18.753", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:41:07.197", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why didn't Naruto learn the basics of chakra control?", "view_count": 5862 }

[ { "body": "\n\nGiven that Naruto is a slow learner and the possibility of Kyuubi's\ninterference, Jiraiya realised it would take him a long time to learn the\nchakra control, and decided that the benefit gained from it is not worth the\ntime spent. Since Naruto has abundant chakra reserves, Jiraiya decided that\nlearning how to tap it is of higher priority than chakra control.\n\nMoreover, many of the times when Naruto learned a new technique (Frog\nSummoning, Rasengan, Rasenshuriken, Sage Mode, Kyuubi chakra mode), he had to\ndo it within some time limit, so he could not take his own sweet time learning\nchakra control, and hence, sticked to his original learning method. It is\npossible that Jiraiya did teach Naruto some chakra control during the time\nthey travelled together, but there is not enough evidence of this happening.\n\nNote that when Naruto began training with Ebisu during the one month training\nbreak before the Chunin exam finals, Ebisu did tell him to learn to use his\nchakra more efficiently. However, after Jiraiya took over his training, he\nasked Naruto to focus on power rather than control, since he felt that style\nsuited Naruto better.\n\n**Chapter 90** \n\n**Chapter 92** \n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T10:18:36.933", "id": "2550", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-17T10:56:27.737", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-17T10:56:27.737", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2549", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nBy the time he is likely a jounin by _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ 2 years\nafter the Kaguya fight, he can form a rasen shuriken with a single hand. His\ncontrol was so great and progressed so much during the war, he was able to\nshare chakra with everyone. Basically, the Kyuubi was in the way and when he\nwas no longer in the way, his abilities shot up and his control became so much\ngreater because he had to train in 'higher gravity'.\n\nConclusion, he was constantly improving his control, but the Kyuubi was\ninterfering throughout most of his life so he had to gain more control than\nthe average person to make up for it. When he no longer had interference, it\nwas no longer a problem.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-02T05:33:03.407", "id": "42580", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-02T10:47:18.753", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-02T10:47:18.753", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35913", "parent_id": "2549", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2553", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWhy do they call him \"Whitebeard\"?\n\nHe doesn't even have a beard!\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T12:04:39.233", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2551", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-04T00:35:21.153", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-25T10:31:31.783", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "260", "post_type": "question", "score": 55, "tags": [ "one-piece", "japanese-language" ], "title": "Why is Edward Newgate called Whitebeard?", "view_count": 20431 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWhy is Blackbeard called Blackbeard when he only has perma-stubble?\nWhitebeard´s flawless mustache is manlier than a thousand normal beards.\n\nAnd I quote:\n\n> A beard is the collection of hair that grows on the chin, upper lip, cheeks\n> and neck of human beings.\n\nA mustache is also a beard.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T13:09:47.727", "id": "2552", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-17T17:06:56.090", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-17T17:06:56.090", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nEdward Newgate's nickname in Japanese is Shirohige (shiro = white, hige =\nfacial hair). Japanese does not distinguish between beard and moustache1.\nHowever, a literal translation _White Facial Hair_ sounds a pretty poor\nnickname for one of the World's strongest pirates, and even sounds comedic.\nWhitemoustache isn't much better either. Whitebeard has a nice ring to it.\n\nAlso, [fairy-tail](/questions/tagged/fairy-tail \"show questions tagged 'fairy-\ntail'\")'s Lucy's nickname for the [Celestial Spirit\nKing](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Celestial_Spirit_King) is \"hige-oyaji\"\n(translated as moustache-man, in context), and he has only a moustache, which\nsuggests that \"hige\" is used to refer to both moustache and beard in Japanese.\n\n* * *\n\n1: Google Translate says that \"Beard\" is \"Agohige\", and \"Moustache\" is\n\"Kuchihige\". However, they did not call him \"Shirokuchihige\" in the original,\nso the distinction seems to be not widely used.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T13:42:27.617", "id": "2553", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-19T11:07:35.983", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-19T11:07:35.983", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 53 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen the manga was being fan-translated, the translator left a note about how\nthe name in japanese could be translated as white mustache or white beard. His\nwords went something like, \"Who wants to be White Mustach when you can be\nWhite Beard.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-27T02:28:43.123", "id": "7729", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-27T02:28:43.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3915", "parent_id": "2551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2556", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nThis theory got some attention on the internet a few years back, but I haven't\nfound a definitive source on it.\n\nBoth Ditto and Mew are genderless pokemon, with similar color schemes for both\ntheir normal and shiny sprites (images from\n[Serebii.net](http://www.serebii.net)):\n\n\n\nThe ditto normal sprites are somewhat more purple than the Mew sprites, but\nearlier generation Ditto sprites were a bit pinker, and the shiny sprites are\nalmost exactly the same color.\n\nIn addition, both Ditto and Mew weigh 8.8 lbs (4 kg). They both learn\nTransform naturally at level 0. There are a bunch of places where Ditto can be\ncaught in the original generation I games, but in Yellow the only two places\nare the Pokemon mansion (where Mewtwo was cloned from Mew) and Cerulean Cave\n(where Mewtwo lives). Mewtwo is also called the only \"successful\" clone of\nMew, so there's reason to believe that there were failed attempts, which could\nbe Ditto.\n\nOf course, everything above is just fan speculation, but it's gotten a fair\nbit of attention and I'd imagine someone from the Pokemon Company has\ncommented on it. What's the official word on this theory?\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T22:47:49.970", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2555", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-24T12:49:08.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 44, "tags": [ "pokemon" ], "title": "Is Ditto a Failed Mew Clone?", "view_count": 32837 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to an GameInformer\n[interview](http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/11/23/pok-233-mon-39-s-burning-\nquestions.aspx) with the art director and the producer (Junichi Masuda) from\nGamefreak:\n\n> _There is a rumor that in the original Pokémon games, versions Red and Blue,\n> that the Pokémon Ditto was a failed attempt at cloning a Mew. I was\n> wondering if you could speak to this, to whether or not it’s true._\n>\n> **Masuda:** That’s the first time I have ever hear that rumor actually.\n>\n> _Is that your only answer?_\n>\n> **Masuda:** In terms of how Pokémon are designed, they are each their own\n> unique living being. The unique thing about Ditto is that it’s a Pokémon\n> that can change forms, but each Pokémon we create with its own unique\n> element, so we just make sure that they are all individual life forms of\n> their own.\n\nThough it seems that his response denies this theory (or rather skirts around\nit), but since he was probably not directly involved in the development of the\ngame, it's still possible that Ditto was originally meant to be a failed Mew,\nbut scraped somewhere during in the development cycle.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T00:35:43.890", "id": "2556", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-18T00:35:43.890", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2555", "post_type": "answer", "score": 31 }, { "body": "\n\nKrazers answer is correct, but I want to add something: \nIn the first movie, the process of cloning Mew can be seen, from start (where\nthey find the DNA) to end (where Mewtwo flees). Nowhere a Ditto is seen, but\nMewtwo is the only _successful_ clone.\n\nI think that the reason why Mew learns Transform, is because Mew holds all the\ngenes of all Pokémon.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T08:52:21.463", "id": "2560", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-06T18:25:59.677", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-06T18:25:59.677", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2555", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nIn _Pokémon Yellow Version_ , there is one more note (in relation to _Red\nVersion_ ) on Pokémon Mansion (where Mewtwo was created and Mew was studied),\nsaying Ditto was created there too. So, probably it was a failed cloning\nattempt.\n\nAlso, it only can be caught there and in Mewtwo's cave (again, _Yellow\nVersion_ ).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-16T04:12:59.890", "id": "5202", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-16T04:37:19.740", "last_edit_date": "2013-09-16T04:37:19.740", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "2389", "parent_id": "2555", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2559", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn Code Geass R2, on episode 49, when Lelouch went to Nunnally\n\n> who was the holding F.L.E.I.J.A. switch, to confront her and to give to him\n> the switch, it was revealed that she has now regained her sight which she\n> lost because of his father, Charles Vi Britannia's geass. The only existing\n> geass who can possibly cancel out that geass was the Geass Canceller. And\n> Jeremiah Gottwald has that geass. On the previous episode, Nunally has\n> fallen from her wheelchair and someone helped her. So it can be assumed\n> (though it was not really stated or shown) that Jeremiah was the one who\n> helped her then and canceled out the geass Charles used on her, thus having\n> her regain her sight again.\n\nMy question is, why would Jeremiah\n\n> use his geass on Nunnally? (Assuming that he really was the reason why\n> Nunnally regained her sight again.)\n\nWas it out of pity? Since he\n\n> has vowed his loyalty to Lelouch,\n\ndid he feel the need to help Lelouch's sister, knowing that she is very\nimportant to him?\n\nOr was it included in Lelouch's plan? If it is, what will it gain him?\n\nOr Lelouch purposely asked Jeremiah to do it for him, again, for his sister's\nsake?\n\nOr it was just a random act for Jeremiah just for the purpose of having his\ngeass used?\n\nI just need some clarifications on this part. Maybe I overlooked something or\nmisunderstood something, but any clarifications would do. Thanks.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T05:20:26.497", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2557", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-21T06:05:41.957", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-18T06:29:49.513", "last_editor_user_id": "111", "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "code-geass" ], "title": "Why did Jeremiah Gottwald use his Geass on Nunnally?", "view_count": 4354 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHe didn´t use Geass Canceller on her because they have never even met.\nregardless of that, how would he cancel her if she had no eyesight?\n\nEither she overcame the Geass by her own or all Charles´s Geass are canceled\nupon his death.\n\n", "comment_count": 14, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T07:33:10.673", "id": "2559", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-18T07:55:54.427", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-18T07:55:54.427", "last_editor_user_id": "1446", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2557", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHe did not, as he was fighting elsewhere far beyond the range. Nunnaly broke\nthe geass out of sheer willpower. Some individuals can resist part of a geass,\nor overcome it.\n\nIt is shown for example, that Susaku can retain the memories of what he does\nunder the influence of the Geass, while everyone else forgets.\n\nThink of how she was feeling when it happened. She had reason to believe that\nnot finding the key would be the defeat of her side, and everything she held\ndear.\n\nThat would be enough to break the geass on her eyes. Note that it is not shown\nthat it also break the geass about her fake memories implanted during her\nmother's death.\n\nAlso, EVEN if you think Orange-kun could make a dispell bubble that large\n(kilometers), it would also dispell the geass on Lelouch soldiers. So he only\nused it to dispel (presumed) Charle's (or Marianne's) geass on Anya, after he\nopens up her cockpit during the battle.\n\n(I think its not shown he used it after the Mall incident).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-05T13:53:05.910", "id": "6762", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T19:55:48.703", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-25T19:55:48.703", "last_editor_user_id": "2808", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "2557", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n# It's simple, he didn't.\n\n### First off, he couldn't use his Geass Canceller even if he wanted to:\n\nAt the moment, he was fighting Anya in Mordred and even fter he defeated her,\nhis Knightmare (both parts) was already destroyed and also even if Mordred\nwasn't damaged enough, he would have to get access code from Anya to pilot it.\nMoreover, Damocles's shields were still up at that time, so he couldn't even\nget inside the shield, since the temporary hole that Lelouch created was\nalready gone.\n\n### Secondly, it's been several cases of people resisting Geass and even\nbreaking it without the Geass Canceller.\n\nNamely, Lelouch himself (though with the help of C.C.'s kiss) did break the\nsame Charles's Geass and restored his memory. Suzaku is known to partially\nresist Lelouch's Geass order due to his willpower to get an upper hand in\ncombat. Euphemia was resisting Lelouch's order for some time because she\ndidn't want to kill the Japanese and seemed to break out of that order before\ndying as she couldn't put herself to hurt Suzaku. The same Nunnaly did also\nresist Lelouch's order to give him the Damocles key. So it's not unnatural to\nbe able to resist Geass without Geass Canceller.\n\n### Lastly, it's been stated in-universe by Lelouch, that she did overpower\nCharles's Geass by herself.\n\nAfter Nunnally opens her eyes Lelouch literally says that she did break Geass\non her own.\n\nAlso, Jeremiah didn't just vouch for his loyalty to Lelouch. His loyalty to\nLelouch originates from his loyalty to Marianne and Nunnally is also her\nchild. Also from [his fandom wiki\nprofile](https://codegeass.fandom.com/wiki/Jeremiah_Gottwald):\n\n> His loyalty towards Marianne, and to an extent, to Lelouch and Nunnally, was\n> so devoted that he is willing to betray anyone in order to prove his loyalty\n> to them.\n\nMoreover, while going to the battle, Jeremiah says\n\n> For Lelouch, for Nunnally\n\nwhich shows his loyalty to both of them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-01-21T06:05:41.957", "id": "61694", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-21T06:05:41.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43957", "parent_id": "2557", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn [The Breaker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breaker_%28manhwa%29), how\nlong was Shi-woon under the tutelage of Goomoonryong? I was under the\nimpression that it was only for a few weeks most of which were spent improving\nhis stamina. As far as I can remember, he was only taught some basic\ntechniques. Yet, he keeps pulling new _Murim_ tricks out of the bag on a\nregular basis.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T20:16:34.007", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2561", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T11:28:59.290", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-22T16:50:35.297", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "247", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "the-breaker" ], "title": "How long was Shi-woon trained by Goomoonryong?", "view_count": 444 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAre we just talking about The Breaker? or is New Waves included?\n\nHere's info on The Breaker exclusively:\n\nActually, it was more than a few weeks. I would say... 1½ to 2 months? Maybe\nmore. Because you must account for the time that was spent:\n\n * When Shi-Woon tries to get stronger with his weak \n * Getting stronger through that medicinal ball thing that was given to him and enhanced his strength and ki\n * His first few weeks of stamina training\n * Then Chun-Woo (Goomoonryong) demonstrates the Soul-Crushing Strike\n * And finally, before Goomoonryong leaves, he demonstrates the foot technique once\n\nAnything else that is demonstrated by Shi-Woon is all from either him being an\nabnormal prodigy where he saw something once and understood it perfectly. OR\nfrom him adapting what was taught to him originally.\n\nHopefully that answered your question.\n\nBy the way, I highly recommend The Breaker: New Waves\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-30T01:58:03.953", "id": "5640", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T16:55:26.007", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-28T16:55:26.007", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "2636", "parent_id": "2561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHe spent only few weeks with the Goomoonryong where:\n\n * he got stamina training, but actually not that much\n\n * he got the medicine that actually increased his stamina and his ki\n\n * from that, he got a lot of training on how to circulate his ki around\n\n * the soul crushing technique was shown to him once\n\n * the 4 different foot techniques were shown to him once each\n\n * and the most important, at the end of the breaker, he gave him a smart phone with many videos to show him new techniques and random advice.\n\nOn top of that, he was shown some techniques only once, and he managed to\nreplicate them, although they were supposed to be difficult. So in fight, we\ncan assume he can do the same. Shi woon is a prodigy.\n\nIn the breaker new waves, even in a second state (under the black origin\nthingy), during the school arc, against the SUC, when facing the lone wolf, he\nmanaged to replicate the techniques easily, even in a state where he can't\neven think.\n\nSo to summarize, some solid basic trainings, then many videos to improve by\nhimself on top of the fact that he is a prodigy.\n\nAlso, with the inner training technique he received in the breaker new wave,\nhe is able to train in his mind, so it might make things easier to try new\nthings.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T10:39:28.953", "id": "15288", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T10:39:28.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3627", "parent_id": "2561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2568", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nAside from taking away someone's bending, as seen against Firelord Ozai, is\nthere anything more to the energybending?\n\nDo we know any details on the technique other than what was told in the series\nitself?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T20:26:32.450", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2562", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-12T14:19:40.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "avatar" ], "title": "What can energybending do?", "view_count": 859 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNothing has been mentioned outside the official series episodes so there are\nfew details to work with. The only other resources to look toward would be\nother series and how each used life force controlling powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-18T21:43:26.803", "id": "2564", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-18T21:43:26.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1435", "parent_id": "2562", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nEnergyBending skills\n\nTransferring knowledge : We see this when the giant turtle transfers the\nknowledge of this bending to Aang.\n\nRemoving Bending Power : For when Aang seals the powers of Firelord Ozai\n\nRestoring Bending Power : In The Legend of Korra, Korra goes into Avatar State\nand Aang restores the power of the people that were affected.\n\n_The lion turtle told him that in the era before the Avatar existed, the\nbenders did not bend the elements, but the energy within themselves. In order\nto bend another's life energy, their own spirit must be unbendable, or they\nwould be corrupted and destroyed._\n\nThis is the only information being able to found, maybe in the next books of\nLegend of Korra we would get new information.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-19T03:31:57.420", "id": "2567", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-19T09:03:00.807", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-19T09:03:00.807", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "8", "parent_id": "2562", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNot much is known about Energybending. Before the four elements and the avatar\nwere created, Energybending was the only bending-art in the world. Out of\nthis, the four bending-arts were created (Airbending, Waterbending,\nEarthbending and Firebending), so these are _based_ on Energybending.\nEnergybending is the _base_ of all arts. While the for bending-arts are based\non the _Chi_ , Energybending works a little bit different: It bends the energy\nin general and not the Chi.\n\nWith that, Energybending can be used to take and restore bending-power and\nknowledge (nothing more is shown, but I guess that much more is possible):\n\n * Avatar Aang uses the ability to take bending-power from Ozai in the last episode of _Avatar: The last Airbender_. This is a dangerous technique, as the soul of the user must be completely _clean_ ; otherwise, it can happen that the victim takes over the user.\n * Both the lion turtle (in _Avatar: The last Airbender_ ) and Aangs Spirit (in _The Legend of Korra_ ) use Energybending to transfer knowledge to other people. I guess it's possible to take memories, too, but that's nowhere proven.\n * Korra uses the ability to restore bending-powers to help some victims of Amon. The spirit of Aang uses that ability to restore Korras powers.\n\nAlso, Energybending is the only bending-power that can be used by a spirit\nwithout a medium (as shown when Aangs spirit teaches Energybending to Korra).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-19T08:11:40.273", "id": "2568", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-19T09:31:31.593", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-19T09:31:31.593", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2562", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nDon't forget, it's probably possible to grant the power of bending to someone\nwho cannot bend, as the Lion Turtles created the first Avatar.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-01T10:11:26.847", "id": "9346", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-01T10:57:27.327", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-01T10:57:27.327", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "4731", "parent_id": "2562", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe others are already stated in the answers so I am only including\nexplanations for the 2 that are not stated.\n\n * Granting bending\n * Removing bending\n\n * Astral projection\n\nTapping into the vast expanse of cosmic energy with the help of the Tree of\nTime, Korra was able to bend the energy within herself to create an astral\nprojection of her spirit. Despite not having been bound by a corporeal form,\nthe projection was able to both inflict and sustain great physical damage and\nutilize waterbending. This astral form was also capable of firing a beam of\nlight similar to that of Vaatu.\n\n * Spirit energy manipulation\n\nThe ability to manipulate energy originating from the Spirit World. Korra\nfirst used this technique to manipulate the energy of the pod encasing Jinora,\nRyu, and his tour group after they were captured by hostile spirit vines. She\nlater employed the same technique in the mortal world to deflect a lethal beam\nof energy fired by Kuvira's spirit cannon and save the metalbender.\n\n<http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Energybending>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-12T14:19:40.643", "id": "24017", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-12T14:19:40.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3771", "parent_id": "2562", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3545", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhat does Unohana Retsu's Bankai do?\n\nIt was not so clear in the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 13, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-19T09:51:10.167", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2569", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T01:36:05.090", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-19T17:44:32.310", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1454", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What does Unohana Retsu's Bankai do?", "view_count": 18079 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs for all the information that is currently available\n\n> she finally enables her Bankai! Blood spills from the skies, as though it\n> was rain, she enables it caller her Minazuki Bankai out! Zaraki notices all\n> the blood that’s dropping! Unohana’s sword is straightened and changes into\n> a sword with never-ending blood oozing from it. She mentions that the play\n> is over! Both of them go crazy and quickly go on their attacks! They keep on\n> clashing, Zaraki can feel that the sword Unohana currently has melts her, it\n> starts to degrade his face from skin to flesh and to bone! He mentions that\n> it’s fun! He notices his hands and cloths degrade away from his bony hands.\n> He asks himself what that is, he mentions that everything seems to be\n> different, at the same time, he sees Unohana with no face except bones!\n> Zaraki mentions that everything is so different, he’s been asleep, he’s just\n> been dreaming about their contacts over and over again, he calls this\n> exchange to have no name, but thanks to her, she now realizes that this can\n> be called, Fighting! They keep on clashing swords and spilling blood!\n> Unohana mentions that she likes fighting! Zaraki likes it so much that he\n> can’t help it, Zaraki is back to seeing flesh and blood again.\n> [Source](http://dailyanimeart.com/2013/02/13/unohanas-minazuki-bankai-\n> zaraki-kills-unohana-bleach-526/)\n\nIt seems like a weird kind of bankai to me very _Illusive_\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-26T15:26:09.897", "id": "3545", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-26T15:26:09.897", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2569", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nQuite simple really . Her bankai ressurects her target as many times as she\nwants. When Zaraki fought her he mentions having blackouts. They werent just\nblackouts but unohana killing & ressurecting him again and again to keep\nfighting.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T01:36:05.090", "id": "6734", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T01:36:05.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3214", "parent_id": "2569", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2572", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the beginning of the series, it is assumed that the Yoma have always\nexisted and the Claymores were created to fight them but it's never mentioned\nwhere they come from. Later on, it's revealed the Yoma were created by the\nOrganization to fight a species of dragon descendants.\n\nHow is it that the Organization creates these Yoma?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-19T13:32:44.427", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2571", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T20:40:55.063", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:40:55.063", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "29", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "claymore" ], "title": "How does the Organization create Yoma?", "view_count": 1445 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom chapter 126, it's revealed that the Organization\n\n> creates a parasite from combining flesh from a Dragon's Kin with flesh from\n> a captured Dragon. This parasite will infect the brains of humans and turns\n> them into Yoma.\n\n[Spoiler image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/viprT.jpg)\n\nMiria had previously speculated that the there was a war raging outside of the\nland where the Claymores were and that\n\n> the two sides were the people who run the Organization and the descendants\n> of Dragons and suspects that Yoma were created by the Organization. In\n> chapter 126, she learns from Rimuto, an Organization member, that the Yoma\n> were created by the Organization as a cover for them to develop Claymore.\n> The Organization's goal was to create a weapon to fight the Dragons and\n> Dragon Kin that could awaken but then revert back to human form. Previously,\n> awakened warriors couldn't revert and they just left them in battle to die.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-19T14:25:12.357", "id": "2572", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-19T14:25:12.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2571", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2579", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhen Chopper wants to spy into a room, he hides the wrong way, so that he is\nexposed totally. Why does he do that? It can be seen multiple times through\nthe Manga.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-19T20:35:41.453", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2578", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-20T10:29:58.527", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Why does Chopper hide himself the wrong way?", "view_count": 6896 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is a [Running Gag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_gag), which along\nwith his other peculiar actions1, is used for comic relief and to bring out\nhis childish and naive personality.\n\nChopper as a child was treated very harshly due to his blue nose and isolated\nfrom the rest of his herd. This became even worse after he ate the Devil's\nfruit. I think the gags, besides offering comic relief, also subtly reinforce\nthat Chopper hasn't grown out of childhood mentally due to those experiences.\n\nAnother explanation is that although his instinct tells him to hide, he\nsubconsciously sees this as isolating himself, and wants to avoid going out of\npeople's sight, ending up in that comical hiding pose. (This is the most\nconvincing \"serious\" reason I could think of, don't know if Oda-sensei thought\nso seriously about it.)\n\n* * *\n\n1 Believing Usopp's lies, getting excited about beams, and the cursing dance.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-20T05:33:51.450", "id": "2579", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-20T10:29:58.527", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-20T10:29:58.527", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2578", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2581", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhile Kushina gave birth to Naruto, Tobi came in and used her weakness to\nextract the Kyuubi. That was the first shown event, where a Jinchuriki\nsurvived the extraction of the tailed beast. How could Kushina survive that?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-20T08:28:02.160", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2580", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-13T19:11:00.547", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-20T12:16:21.570", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "122", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How did Kushina survive the extraction of the Kyuubi?", "view_count": 6838 }

[ { "body": "\n\nKushina survived the bijuu extraction due to the Uzumaki clan's incredibly\nstrong life force.\n\n(Chapter 501) \n\n\n \n**Spoiler Block:**\n\n> (Chapter 579) \n> \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-20T08:44:14.860", "id": "2581", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T10:13:21.953", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-01T10:13:21.953", "last_editor_user_id": "338", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2580", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nOne trait of the clan is that they have immense amounts of chakra in their\nreserves and are unrivaled when it comes to sealing techniques; as shown by\nMinato Namikaze who was taught by Kushina Uzumaki, his wife. **_They also were\nknown for their extremely long lives and will to do what they need to do._**\nsuch that they can even survived after the extraction on which gaara wasnt\nable to do when the shukaku was extracted from him.\n\nThe members of this clan possess incredible longevity and vitality seemingly\ninherited from their Senju ancestry. One notable case is that of Mito Uzumaki,\nwho lived from before the founding of Konoha, to well into the term of the\nThird Hokage's reign. This vitality was the reason Kushina survived the\nextraction of her tailed beast, though she was greatly weakened.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T02:09:05.337", "id": "2695", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-13T19:11:00.547", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-13T19:11:00.547", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1508", "parent_id": "2580", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI know that there isn't any story in the series, but they do sometimes get\ninto details about the setting (Merkur Era 48,650-48,794). Was there any\nreason given for the ongoing (very long) war with humanity that is constantly\nraging outside the manor? Or anything that can be gleaned from interviews with\nwriter/director Wataru Arakawa?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-20T18:04:54.560", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2582", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T20:41:31.113", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:41:31.113", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "fireball" ], "title": "Why is there a war in \"Fireball\" and \"Fireball Charming\"?", "view_count": 168 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's some explanation in the Japanese Wikipedia, but the portion is\nunsourced, and we can't tell if this is backed by any official stuff. Quoted\nand translated below.\n\n> On a planet which may or may not be Earth, where dolphins, monkeys, birds\n> and other wildlife and natural environment has already vanished, humans have\n> let robots run the government. However, the robots soon turned to\n> aristocracy, to which humans resisted; and now, the war between the human\n> military and robot aristocrats has been going on for 20000 years.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-19T01:26:32.647", "id": "4859", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-19T01:26:32.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "2582", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2592", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIs there any anime created for colorblind people?\n\nIn general anime productions have a strong use of colors to increase the\ndramatic effect, but colorblind people miss it and sometimes lose track of\nimportant parts of the history.\n\nImage example (not exactly from an anime, but...)\n\n * [here is the original image](http://www.wall321.com/thumbnails/detail/20130124/redheads%20ice%20cream%20long%20hair%20komatsu%20pink%20hair%20maburaho%20anime%20strawberries%20anime%20girls%20children%201_www.wall321.com_33.jpg)\n * in [this site](http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php) you can simulate how it looks to a colorblind... just select the previous link, and paste it there\n\n(and just a clarification: it's not exactly to me :) ... it's for a small one\nwho we just found that can't correctly see some colors. And, also, in the site\nI mentioned above, I found a \"daltonize\" algorithm that changes colors so that\ncolorblind people have a bit more contrast on the colors they miss, so it\nimproves the image to them)\n\nThanks :)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-20T18:51:22.483", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2585", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-30T06:47:05.793", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-21T13:57:55.310", "last_editor_user_id": "132", "owner_user_id": "132", "post_type": "question", "score": 19, "tags": [ "anime-production" ], "title": "Anime for colorblind people?", "view_count": 1888 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst, lets take a [simulated look](http://www.colblindor.com/coblis-color-\nblindness-simulator/) of how the following image is viewed by different\npeople:\n\n**Normal Color Vision**\n\n\n\n**Red Blind (Protanopia)**\n\n\n\n**Green-Blind (Deuteranopia)**\n\n\n\n**Blue-Blind (Tritanopia)**\n\n\n\n**Red-Weak (Protanomaly)**\n\n\n\n**Green-Weak (Deuteranomaly)**\n\n\n\n**Blue-Weak (Tritanomaly)**\n\n\n\n**Monochromacy (Achromatopsia)**\n\n\n\n**Blue Cone (Monochromacy)**\n\n\n\nProtanopia and Deuteranopia are the [most common\ntypes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness) of colorblindness.\n\nAs you see, the experiences of these color-blind viewers are not inhibited by\ntheir condition. Though a particular image or scene might not have as much of\nan impact on a normal user, they are still able to enjoy the other aspects of\nanime such as the writing and dialog, voice-acting, most importantly the\nanimation.\n\nThere might not necessarily be anime for blind people, because anime is\nintended to be marketed to a wider audience, usually for recreational\npurposes.\n\nTypically anime productions don't factor accessibility concerns of color blind\nviewers in the budget due to the extra costs required, since most of the\nprofit from an anime production is from disc sales.\n\nColor blind people usually rely on the settings on their computer (using a\nspecific color profiles, \"color blind\" modes in games) or television (color\nadjustments on the TV) to adjust their visual experience.\n\nRarely does color play a major plot and history of an anime series, but if it\ndoes, the change is usually significant (e.g. Victorique's hair in _Gosick_ ),\nnoticeable, and/or emphasized by the story and dialogue.\n\nThe color setting is only a small piece of the anime puzzle. Even without it,\nyou might be missing small details, you'll still be able to get the big\npicture.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-21T14:54:14.497", "id": "2592", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-21T14:54:14.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2585", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nKuragehime has my favorite eyecatch of all the anime I've seen:\n\n[Kuragehime Eyecatch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu63VCPfye4)\n\nIt's very amusing, but the \"tequila\" is pretty irrelevant to the show. Tequila\nisn't in any way relevant to the plot. It seems to be just a random word that\nthey chose to use.\n\nIs there any explanation for why they say \"tequila\" in the eyecatch, or is it\njust a random non sequitur for comedic effect?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-20T22:07:49.723", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2586", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T03:53:00.110", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-19T03:53:00.110", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "princess-jellyfish" ], "title": "Is there any explanation for \"Tequila\" in the Kuragehime eyecatch?", "view_count": 2259 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough it can't really be confirmed ( or has not been confirmed yet )\n\n> It's a reference to a song from the 70's, which was mostly instrumental but\n> contained one single lyric repeated throughout: \"tequila.\" I guess the style\n> was similar enough to the miniature music bit in that eyecatch to make the\n> reference clear to everybody old enough to get it.\n> [source1](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=279954)\n\nNot sure which tequilla song they reffer to as there are about 20.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T00:04:27.173", "id": "2640", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-23T00:04:27.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2586", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThere doesn't seem to be any sort of official reason given for \"Tequila\" being\nin the eyecatch. I looked on every page I could find on their official website\n(<http://kuragehime.noitamina.tv>) and could not find an explanation. You'll\nhave to translate the website into English to check.\n\nThe best explanation I can find is from\n<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/Kuragehime>, which says that\n\"Tequila\" is [Inherently Funny\nWord](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InherentlyFunnyWords).\nAccording to the page:\n\n> Fact: Whether by pronunciation, spelling, or use, some words are just plain\n> funny to certain characters.\n\nThere are a number of websites that speculate about the reasoning but most\nseem to conclude that there is no reason but that it's funny.\n([Example](http://www.anime-evo.net/2011/01/01/kuragehime-review/))\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-24T19:34:01.830", "id": "2653", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-24T19:34:01.830", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2586", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2588", "answer_count": 8, "body": "\n\nIs there any logical and canonical reason to why Naruto used his mother's\nfamily name, Uzumaki, instead of his father's family name?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-21T02:47:57.043", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2587", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-10T17:15:36.317", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-20T03:03:18.643", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "1454", "post_type": "question", "score": 28, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why does Naruto use his mother's family name?", "view_count": 150315 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Naruto Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki):\n\n> Suddenly orphaned, Naruto was left to grow up knowing nothing of his\n> parents, receiving only his mother's last name as Hiruzen believed it was\n> best that nobody knew that he was related to the Fourth Hokage.\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-21T03:41:41.643", "id": "2588", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-21T04:42:37.313", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-21T04:42:37.313", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "321", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 29 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason why Naruto has his mother's last name is because if people found\nout Naruto was the son of the fourth Hokage, he would have been in danger.\nThis was actually explained to Naruto by Minato Namikaze the fourth Hokage\nhimself in episode 168 of Naruto Shippuden. Naruto got to punch his dad in the\nstomach which was very funny even if he was mad at him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T00:34:24.093", "id": "5736", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-03T13:17:33.683", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-03T13:17:33.683", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2671", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe three main reasons for Hiruzen giving Naruto his mother's surname Uzumaki\nwere to protect the village, Naruto, and the kyuubi.\n\nLike the other posts stated, giving him the name Namikaze will make him a\ntarget for his father's enemies.\n\nBut there is more to Uzumaki name than just that. Hiruzen understood that the\nmysterious masked man (Tobi) didn't attack Minato Namikaze. What Tobi did was\nattack the kyuubi. And a fashionable trend seemed to be having the jinchuuriki\nas the Kage's son, for example Gaara was a jinchuuriki and his father was the\nKazekage. So by giving Naruto the Uzumaki surname, this made Naruto + the\nkyuubi safer from anyone after the kyuubi.\n\nHiruzen also made sure to conceal the information about Naruto altogether, as\nshinobi that knew about the attack (on the kyuubi) were not allowed to talk\nabout it (hence many people not knowing Naruto is Minato's son).\n\n**My extra 2 cents :** This all ties well with Naruto's personality, as the\nUzumaki nature (brash personality, powered by will and conviction) better\nsuits the main character of a shounen compared to the Namikaze depiction\n(Genius, excels at everything). Maybe I give Kishimoto too much credit, but I\nfeel like he had this all planned out (with Naruto being the son of the\nfourth, yet having his mother's name and personality).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T01:41:34.223", "id": "5743", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-05T01:41:34.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nWell according to me I think Naruto Uzumaki uses his mother's last name cause\nit was a reputed clan, however there was nothing about his father's clan in\nthe scenario. though Minato Namikaze was the fourth hokage still there was no\ndetails about his family in the whole manga series.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-21T08:34:48.933", "id": "21701", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-21T08:34:48.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14583", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think a child's last name depends on what clan it has been born in. Naruto\n**Uzumaki** therefore show that he's a **Uzumaki** clan member. Just like\nKushina Uzumaki, Naruto's mom. The preference of Uzumaki over Yamikaze is\nprobably because the Minato and Kushina wanted to make Naruto less\nrecognisable in public, as he is the 9 tail Jinchūriki and will be on the\nhitlist of many groups and organizations such as the Akatsuki.\n\n * Sasuke **Uchiha** comes from the **Uchiha** clan. \n * Hinata **Hyuga** comes from the **Hyuga** clan and so on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-04T23:08:16.970", "id": "37679", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T23:08:16.970", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29601", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHiruzen(the third Hokage) Decided to put Naruto's Surname as Uzumaki because\nthe Uzumaki was a clan which has Split after the village was destroyed,which\nmeant that Most of the Uzumakis were refugees, which meant that it would be\nharder to confirm that Naruto was Minato's child(although he has yellow hair\ninstead of the trademark red hair of the Uzumaki's), Secondly, the Namikaze\nfrom what I see on the wiki was a clan that was located in konohakagure,and\nMinato was the only famous Namikaze(once again,Wikipedia.),so If Naruto was\ngiven Namikaze, it would be easier for Anyone hunting for the Kyuubi or\ngetting revenge to Find Naruto and Kill/hold him hostage, which would put the\nvillage in jeopardy.Thirdly, Hiruzen wanted to give Naruto a normal life(which\nhe failed because of mizuki =_=).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-11T02:57:27.987", "id": "40313", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-11T02:57:27.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32467", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI feel like Naruto was given Uzumaki was because of these reasons:\n\n 1. Hiruzen just didn't want another attack on Konohagakure involving Naruto.\n 2. The main character would be killed/taken hostage by groups (Akasutki, etc.)\n 3. Naruto would be constantly on the run (making the story intense yet boring)\n 4. Naruto wouldn't have met all the characters besides Akatsuki members (when Masashi Kishimoto made them)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-25T02:31:04.413", "id": "43511", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-25T02:41:21.947", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-25T02:41:21.947", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36778", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with Demietra95. It is a custom in Japan for prestigious families to\nhave more \"weight\" when it comes to last names (E.g. A samurai family is given\npreference over non-samurai ones), so it would be natural for the Uzumaki clan\nto be given priority over the Namikaze clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-06T06:18:19.497", "id": "44102", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-06T06:18:19.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37493", "parent_id": "2587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2590", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the _Land of the Waves_ arc, it can be seen that Haku performs handseals\nwith only one hand. That must be something special, because a.) even Kakashi\nwas surprised to see that, and b.) that's never seen again somewhere (except I\nforgot it).\n\nHow is that possible? Is that a special technique? Was it ever explained in\nthe manga/anime?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-21T10:15:58.090", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2589", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-14T17:33:14.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "post_type": "question", "score": 25, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How can Haku perform hand seals with only one hand?", "view_count": 13029 }

[ { "body": "\n\nEbisu explains (in Chapter 90) that to perform a ninjutsu or genjutsu, a\nshinobi needs to go through 2 steps.\n\n 1. Build up the necessary amount of chakra for that jutsu.\n 2. Control the chakra for that jutsu using various hand seals.\n\nHaku's ability to do hand seals with one hand shows his exceptional skill in\nthe chakra control (at step 2).\n\nThere are other ways in which a shinobi's prowess with hand seals has been\ndemonstrated. Senju Tobirama could use the Water Dragon Bullet Technique with\njust one hand seal, while it normally requires 44. Uchiha Sasuke has been able\nto use Chidori without any hand seals, and Fire Techniques with just one hand\nseal. (He needed more seals for both the jutsu when he started.)\n\nThe other shinobi shown to be capable of one-handed seals is Guren from the\nThree Tails filler arc. (Source: Narutopedia)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-21T10:43:22.260", "id": "2590", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-21T10:43:22.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2589", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nHand seals are there to control chakra, but if you already have amazing chakra\ncontrol, you can use your techniques without them.\n\n> Madara was able to use Shattered Heaven (the giant meteors he used on the\n> Tsuchikage) with only 3 hand seals despite it being an extremely taxing\n> technique powerful enough to lay waste to an entire battalion.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-21T11:30:03.263", "id": "2591", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-21T14:53:43.907", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-21T14:53:43.907", "last_editor_user_id": "1446", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2589", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3836", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Dog Days, when \"normal\" inhabitants get knocked out, they turn into \"balls\"\nthat look like a cats with large heads and short limbs. (similar to the [Furby\ntoy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby))\n\n\n\n\n\nOn other hand, when the main characters get knocked out, they look pretty\nnormal (by Anime standards).\n\n\n\n*Put aside the fact that a main character that is knocked out is usually striped of his/her clothes for no apparent reason other than fan-service.\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n * What's the proper name for these \"furby-balls\"?\n * How are these \"normal\" inhabitants different from the main characters?\n * Do they \"recover\" back into human-like inhabitants?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-21T23:31:40.077", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2594", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-11T22:18:39.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "dog-days" ], "title": "What exactly are those \"furby-balls\" in Dog Days?", "view_count": 1373 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI have been trying to get a satisfying answer for myself for this question,\nbut it has proven to be very hard.\n\nFor your **first question** there is no real name for them as far as I can\nsee. I have looked at the episode (episode 2 around 4:00 minute mark) to see\nhow the different subbers named them.\n\n \n\nSo as you can see one of them names it \"animal furballs\" and the other names\nit \"pet balls\". What info I can give you on it else is:\n\n * The people from Biscotti turn into \"Dog looking balls\"\n * The people from Gallete turn into \"Cat looking balls\"\n * The people from Pastillage (season 2) turn into \"Squirrel looking balls\"\n\nFor the normal inhabitants can turn into the animal balls the following ways:\n\n * When they have been hit hard with a weapon (KO/unconscious)\n * When they get touched on the back or head\n\nFor your **second question** I have tried to look up information, but not much\nis said about it in the anime or is found on the web about it. The only thing\nI have been able to find about it is this:\n\n> It may be part of the protection magic. High-ranking fighters lose their\n> clothes. Everyone else turns into a furball. A pretty blatant example of\n> this happens in episode 9 of the first season. Vert Far Breton shoots a\n> magical arrow which hits Ricotta while she's flying above them. Ricotta\n> loses all of her clothes except her panties, and then a magical spear hurled\n> at Vert's troops knocks them all out, but only strips her armor/clothing\n> off.\n\nSource: [here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/DogDays) under\n\"Clothing Damage\".\n\nThe **third question** is by far the easiest to answer. If you watch the\nsecond episode about at the same time mark I mentioned in the first question\nyou will see them saying something in the lines of:\n\n> They will be rendered powerless for a limited time.\n\nDuring this time that they are in their \"ball form\" the medics of the teams\nwill \"collect\" them and bring them to the base camp of their team.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-19T20:32:44.167", "id": "3836", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T08:18:08.067", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T08:18:08.067", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "2594", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Bleach, there are Four Noble Families of the Soul Society. I know that\npeople can have children in the Soul Society. However, is whether you are a\npart of the Noble family based on whether you were born into that family in\nthe real world or in the Soul Society? For example, if you are from the\noriginal line of the Kuchiki family (in the real world) and you died, would\nyou become part of the Noble Family?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T00:06:22.593", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2595", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-09T06:27:44.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "How do the Noble Families work in Bleach?", "view_count": 1274 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI do not think they went deeper into the noble houses, so I believe there is\nno current information available about \"How to become a noble\". All the\ncurrently available information on the 4 noble houses can be found\n[here](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Noble_Houses).\n\nThere they also state:\n\n> The Noble Houses of Soul Society have an unclear role in the culture, social\n> and governmental aspects of that dimensions existence.\n\nSome speculation from my side: I think that they were either appointed by the\nSoul King or the Central 46. And I also believe the divisions are involved in\nthis.\n\n> There is reason to believe that the captaincy of the 6th Division runs in\n> the Kuchiki family, as at least two members, both of them were family heads,\n> have held the title captain and two other known members have been lieutenant\n> and 3rd seat respectively.\n\nThis part is just speculation though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T01:41:02.167", "id": "2596", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-09T06:27:44.480", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-09T06:27:44.480", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2595", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2598", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI've started to notice lately that the vast majority of anime (that I can\nfind, anyway) seems to have opening (OP) and ending (ED) sequences which are 1\nminute and 30 seconds long.\n\nSome examples (though I'm sure there are lots that I haven't covered):\n\n * _Fullmetal Alchemist_ : There are 5 OPs and 5 EDs, all of which are 1:30 long.\n * _Digimon Tamers_ , _Steins;Gate_ : Both OP and ED are 1:30.\n * _GaoGaiGar_ and _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ : The OPs are 1:30 long, though the EDs are only 1:00 in duration.\n * _Cardcaptor Sakura_ : The OPs are 1:30, did not check the ED durations.\n\nThere do seem to be some exceptions (again, far from an exhaustive list):\n\n * _One Piece_ : Though some episodes fit this pattern, others have 3-minute OPs and no EDs. (The combined duration is still the same, though.)\n * _Akagi_ , _Kaiji_ : OP is shorter than 1 minute.\n * _Ga-rei: Zero_ , _Aria_ : During the OP or ED music (which is 1:30 long), things unrelated to the OP/ED sequence happen (like actual parts of the episodes).\n\n**These lists are just examples of each** , and don't really show that the\nvast majority of anime (I would wager **90%** or higher) seem to follow the\n1:30 OP/ED \"rule\".\n\nIt is worth noting that most American series have openings which are 30\nseconds or 1 minute in length; _Family Guy_ and the _Sonic the Hedgehog_\ncartoon are examples of this, though there are far more.\n\nWhen did the 1 minute 30 second duration of OPs and EDs start to come into\npopularity, and is there a particular reason why they did so?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T03:44:14.860", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2597", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-28T00:40:34.333", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-05T23:45:01.553", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "274", "post_type": "question", "score": 65, "tags": [ "anime-production", "anime-history", "theme-song" ], "title": "When and why did the trend of 1:30-long openings and endings begin?", "view_count": 46974 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[This article\nhere](https://web.archive.org/web/20150823072557/http://www.animenation.net:80/blog/2007/08/07/ask-\njohn-why-are-anime-opening-sequences-so-long/) explains very well why Anime\nOPs are so long in the first place.\n\nTo summarize a few of the points:\n\n * Cost\n * Spread out commercial breaks\n * Advertisement for record companies.\n\n* * *\n\n**Cost:**\n\n * Each episode is a total of 25 minutes, which leaves 5 minutes for commercials in a 30-minute time slot.\n * Furthermore, OPs and EDs are typically reused for most of the episodes in a series.\n * OPs and EDs only need to be animated once.\n\nSo the longer you make them, the less work you need to fill up the rest of the\ntime. Therefore, long OPs and EDs cut down on production costs.\n\n**Spread out commercial breaks:**\n\nTo quote the article:\n\n> Typical anime television episodes broadcast on network Japanese television\n> have commercial breaks after the opening animation, in the middle of the\n> episode, and just before the ending credits. With this broadcast pattern, a\n> 90 second opening puts more content between commercial breaks than a 30 or\n> 60 second opening, which may be less annoying for viewers to watch.\n\nSo this is more of a reason with the flow and pacing of the episode.\n\n**Advertisement for record companies:**\n\nAgain from the article:\n\n> Opening animation sequences serve as record company advertisements. A\n> popular opening animation sequence like that of the Suzumiya Haruhi no\n> Yuutsu or Lucky Star television series can make their series opening theme\n> songs turn into overnight smash hits. A longer opening animation sequence\n> provides time for the theme song to get exposure and gain popularity.\n\n* * *\n\nGetting back to the point of why 90 seconds, that seems somewhat of an\narbitrary number possibly the result of a bit of trial and error from the\nindustry.\n\nAs the article mentions, they used to be 60 seconds back in the 1970s. Then\nthey were increased to 90 seconds for the reasons above. It's possible that\nsome studios experimented with even longer OPs/EDs, but later on, found that\n90 seconds was a sweet spot.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T04:15:49.643", "id": "2598", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-28T00:40:34.333", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-28T00:40:34.333", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "2597", "post_type": "answer", "score": 66 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn **Crystal Triangle** , there's an ancient relic in the shape of a cube\nthat's got writing all over it and is referred to as \"God's Message\".\n\n\n\nAt first glance, it looks like it's based on Aramaic:\n\n\n\nBut then when we get a really good look at it, it doesn't look Aramaic at all:\n\n\n\nIs this based on any kind of real world language/alphabet (similar to how the\nwriting at the end of the Evangelion opening sequence is based on [Angelic\nScript](http://www.omniglot.com/writing/angelic.htm))? Or is it completely\nmade up?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T04:50:18.100", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2599", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-29T07:22:52.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "crystal-triangle" ], "title": "What language is on the \"God's Message\" Cube?", "view_count": 487 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI have not seen this show, nor have I researched the question, so take this\nanswer with a grain of salt.\n\nAt first glance, the inscriptions look like Chinese characters ( _hanzi_ ) or\nJapanese characters ( _kanji_ ) that have been modified a bit to look\n'archaic' or chiseled into stone. I've taken the second picture and added in\nthe Chinese characters (in red) that I think some of the etchings are similar\nto.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-22T16:04:17.043", "id": "4188", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-29T07:22:52.957", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-29T07:22:52.957", "last_editor_user_id": "16253", "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "2599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2601", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn episodes 4 and 5 of _Steins;Gate_ , some of the characters are seen playing\na board game, one of which is at a large tournament-style event. It's played\non a board composed of blue and yellow squares, and seems to have to do with\ncards and flipping.\n\nHere are some images of gameplay (sorry about the giant \"play\" icons):\n\n  \n\nWhat is this game called, and are its rules really defined? Does this game\nexist in the real world, is it based on one, or is it completely made-up?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T04:59:04.640", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2600", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T05:09:40.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "steins-gate" ], "title": "What board game is being played in the early episodes of Steins;Gate?", "view_count": 4870 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe game is called \"Rai-Net Access Battlers\" and [here's a detailed\ndescription of the game and\nrules](http://jantakukaigi.g.hatena.ne.jp/jantaku24/20101013/1286961904)\n(Japanese). It's a made up game but it's loosely based off of the German game\n[Ghosts!](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2290/ghosts) from the 80's. The\ngameplay is similar. As for it existing in the real world, there seems to be\nan official version of this game in the real world, it was [sold at\nComiket](http://ow.ly/i/fc2H).\n\nReference: [Stein's Gate wiki](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Rai-\nNet_Access_Battlers). There's a short description of the gameplay in the wiki\nthat's been translated from the above Japanese link:\n\n> Each player receives 4 Link cards and 4 Virus cards and arranges them as\n> he/she wishes in their setup zone. Those Online cards (Link cards and Virus\n> cards) all look the same from the face, so only you know and can see the\n> alignment of your own Online cards.\n[code]\n\n [A's Stack Area]\n A A A S S A A A (B escapes from A's S)\n . . . A A . . .\n . . . . . . . .\n . . . . . . . .\n . . . B B . . .\n B B B S S B B B (A escapes from B's S)\n [B's Stack Area]\n \n[/code]\n\n> (S stands for Server Port)\n>\n> No card is placed in Server Ports or the Stack Area in the setup phase. Both\n> players have 4 Terminal cards in their hand at the beginning of the game.\n> Terminal cards from Basic set include LINE BOOST, FIRE WALL, VIRUS CHECKER\n> and 404NOT FOUND.\n>\n> Before starting the game, players, the referee, and the audience are\n> encouraged to shout \"DUEL ACCESS!\".\n>\n> Alternate turns. On your turn, you must move exactly one of your Online\n> cards 1 space forward/backward/sideways (never diagonally). If you land on\n> an opposing Online card, you capture it, reveal its Link/Virus alignment and\n> move it to your Stack Area. An Online card in one of the opponent's Server\n> Ports can use its move to escape the board. Escaped cards are stacked to\n> your Stack Area. If an unrevealed Online card escapes, it stays unrevealed\n> in the Stack Area until the end of the game.\n>\n> You can use a Terminal card instead of moving an Online card. In other\n> words, you have to consume 1 turn to use a Terminal card.\n\nYou win by either:\n\n * You stack 4 Link cards in your Stack Area, regardless of whether they are your cards or the opponent's cards. \n\n * Your opponent stacks 4 Virus cards in their Stack Area, regardless of whether they are your cards or the opponent's cards. \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T05:09:40.230", "id": "2601", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T05:09:40.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2600", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2617", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nI don't understand where Johan went after he \"mysteriously\" got out of the\nhospital. Dr. Tenma seems to be finally OK and I don't understand how after\nall this, Yohan still lived. He was the one who caused all this evil in the\nfirst place!\n\nA fantastic anime, but a confusing one at the end. Can someone explain what\nhappened?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T12:47:45.417", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2604", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-02T23:37:52.270", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-02T23:37:52.270", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1488", "post_type": "question", "score": 20, "tags": [ "monster" ], "title": "What happened in the hospital at the end of the anime/manga?", "view_count": 108387 }

[ { "body": "\n\nObviously, this entire post is going to be spoilers.\n\n> It's left as an open issue at the end of the series. Johan was operated on\n> and saved yet again by Tenma and when he went to visit Johan at the police\n> hospital, who was in a coma originally, Johan sat up and was talking to\n> Tenma. But later we see the same room with an empty hospital bed. \n> \n> The conversation at the end was about which child Johan's mother wanted to\n> keep, him or Anna/Nina. So there may be a clue in that.\n\nSome of the possibilities:\n\n> 1\\. He died after waking up from the coma and talking to Tenma (Or\n> Alternatively, the talking to Tenma bit could have been a daydream, but he\n> died anyways) \n> 2\\. He was released and he's alive and well \n> 3\\. He escaped from the police hospital just like the beginning of the show\n> and continues his ways.\n\n.\n\n> But the focus should be on the mother and her choice on which twin to give\n> up and which to \"save\" and the title of the last episode, \"The Real\n> Monster\". There's always been confusion as to which was which because\n> previously we were told from conflicting memories. Some people think that\n> the title of \"The Real Monster\" is the mother, some people think it's\n> referring to everyone and the world, how the world can make anyone a\n> monster, or, Johan is the real monster afterall. Each of these sort of\n> correlates to one of the possibilities. \n> \n> If the mother was the real monster for choosing one twin and unwanted the\n> other, Johan dies and Nina lives. If everyone's really a monster, Johan was\n> absolved (for the most part, maybe not criminally) of all of his crimes\n> because the world and the people in it are the real monsters. If Johan is\n> the true monster here, then he escaped from the police hospital and\n> continues to play the role of the \"real monster\".\n\nSo it's up to your interpretation. Who do _you_ think the real monster is?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T19:14:57.677", "id": "2617", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T19:22:22.060", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-22T19:22:22.060", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2604", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nI think that the Mother is the real monster but that doesn't mean Johan dies.\nWhat kind of a mom gives up a child without wanting it?\n\nIf Anna is the unwanted twin (which I think) then Johan dressed and acted like\nher to try to protect her. But of course the mom knows who she is and hears\nher voice and sends her to the Experimental Mansion. Then Johan becomes that\nway because of his hatred for his mother who leaves him in The Three Frogs.\n\nIf Johan is the unwanted twin then he cross-dressed like Anna because he knew\nhe was and wanted to protect himself. That would mean his mother made a\nmistake to send Anna to the Mansion and Johan tries to change his past because\nhe was supposed to go there..? Then Johan would be a monster because he knows\nhe was unwanted and wants to change his past.\n\nJohan probably didn't die because this isn't some Hollywood drama and it's\nobvious Tenma saved his life (twice). Maybe Johan left to see his mom.. or\nescaped in the end, because she is alive.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-18T17:40:59.097", "id": "4855", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-19T04:35:28.977", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-19T04:35:28.977", "last_editor_user_id": "1848", "owner_user_id": "2244", "parent_id": "2604", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe tricky part that confuses everyone is the memory of the Rose Mansion\nbecause it is unknown to whom it actually belonged to. Was it Anna or Johan?,\nand for the Mother's case, clearly she was under so much pressure that she\ncould had committed the mistake.\n\nSecondly the way the twins were dressed both as girls probably suggests their\nmom knew this was going to happen. So for her sake and to prevent any\nemotional attachment while taking decision and to fool her mind or herself,\nshe made them dress that way but there is no denying that Johan had a mindset\nof a psychopathic killer that he had exhibited from the times of 511\nKinderheim, however for me the real plot says the world was the monster to the\ntwins. I support this by saying that it was the experiments that made their\nmindset corrupt. It's not like the twins were born with a killer mindset were\nthey?\n\nSecondly, about the last episode it is clear the mother is herself, however\nshe is not sure which twin she choose to let loose, nor is Johan or Anna. It\nis also clearly evident that they were both blaming any one of these three as\n\"The Real Monsters\" which is foolishness. It's The situations created by Nazis\nand Humans that were \"The Real Monsters\".\n\nA third point to consider is the empty bed at hospital and it's possible that\nJohan committed suicide. After all his whole plan was a \"Perfect Suicide\" or\nhe could have possibly escaped and remained underground all throughout his\nlife because he finally got a name, so he was no longer \"A Nameless Monster\"\nanymore and that is what I think happened at the end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-21T17:40:25.777", "id": "7624", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T12:22:15.753", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-08T12:22:15.753", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3838", "parent_id": "2604", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nTenma is the real monster.\n\nInspector Lunge suspected Tenma as a suspect even after knowing everything\nabout Johan and Tenma. He had triggered something fishy and at last he failed\nhis conception as it's also beyond the thinking of Inspector Lunge. That is\nwhy even in second to last episode he said \"Tenma is prime suspect\" just\nbefore he met Tenma, he says \"Sorry\". I think this is a bit tricky in\nInspector Lunge's conception about \"Tenma\".\n\nHowever, Johan's Character was beyond our imagination the way he could control\neveryone, so is the anime,it's beyond our thinking if we don't stress on it.\nThis is my personal conception though and will mainly be based off\nspeculation/opinion.\n\nI plan to watch the anime again to improve my answer and point.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-03T09:07:49.383", "id": "9491", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-03T17:03:34.900", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-03T17:03:34.900", "last_editor_user_id": "2077", "owner_user_id": "4732", "parent_id": "2604", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell I think that Tenma was hallucinating when he saw Johan talking to him and\nmaybe he was thinking what Johan could say something to him if he was awake.\nJohan knows what his mother did and when he wakes up from the coma he escapes\nfrom the hospital.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-08T11:16:06.243", "id": "10154", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T12:24:12.707", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-08T12:24:12.707", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "5161", "parent_id": "2604", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2606", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nA friend of mine is looking for an anime with a wolf/man or dog/man as main\ncharacter. He described him as a demon with a red cloak and a big sword. He\nhas long white hair and protects a female girl with black hair. The story\ntakes place in old days from Japan, but I think the girl came from modern\ntimes.\n\nI know which anime he means, but I can't remember its name. I hope some of you\ncan help me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T13:18:07.043", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2605", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-09T16:57:02.727", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-09T16:57:02.727", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "47", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "inuyasha" ], "title": "Anime with a wolf/man demon as main character", "view_count": 3690 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIs it possible that you're searching for\n[InuYasha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inu_Yasha)?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T13:29:49.017", "id": "2606", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T16:39:30.053", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-22T16:39:30.053", "last_editor_user_id": "29", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2605", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2612", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn The Breaker-New Waves after his master broke his ki center he is still able\nto fight. In fights his level of regeneration is off the charts. He can keep\nfighting even if he has broken bones. Why is this happening? Is it because of\ntraining? Is it because of a medical condition?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T14:06:34.003", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2607", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T17:02:51.420", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-22T16:31:32.747", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "the-breaker" ], "title": "How does Shi-Woon regenerate his wounds so fast?", "view_count": 333 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHis regeneration and stamina have been greatly enhanced thanks to the\nextremely rare and expensive pill that Lee Shi-Ho (whose clan specialises in\nsuch matters) gives him. The pill, _Illwallsidan_ , triggers a tremendous\nrelease of _ki_ which most people cannot handle (and often die). But thanks to\nChun-Woo's timely assistance, Shi-Woon somehow manages.\n\nMuch of _New Waves_ tackles how Shi-Woon goes about restoring his broken _ki_\ncentre.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T17:02:51.420", "id": "2612", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T17:02:51.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "2607", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Vampire Knight, if a vampire hunter family gives birth to twins, one will\nbe weak and the other will be strong.\n\nAccording to\n[vampireknight.wikia.com](http://vampireknight.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire_Hunter#Vampire_Hunter_Curse):\n\n> For the pair to become powerful hunters, the stronger one has to devour the\n> other and become one.\n\nHow much of the weaker twin does the stronger twin devour? Does the stronger\none drink the blood of the weaker one or actually eat their flesh. Is this\never explained in canon or by the author?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T14:20:02.427", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2608", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-06T13:40:54.587", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-23T03:28:56.743", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "vampire-knight" ], "title": "How much of their twin does the other twin need to eat?", "view_count": 241 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe particular issue of quantity consumed is never addressed, in-universe or\nout. The twin does literally devour the flesh (and, consequently, much of the\nblood) of the \"victim\". However, since this happens during the pregnancy, the\nfetus is likely autonomous (for the most part), and thus would consume it in\nits entirety.\n\n### Background\n\nThis phenomenon is known in real life as \"vanishing twin syndrome\"\n([Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin) \\- **warning:\ngraphic medical images** ). There are cases of both partial and complete\nconsumptions.\n\nConsequently, because of the real-life nature of this issue, it has been seen\nthroughout history. Most primitive cultures believed that twins meant\nsomething spiritually, even in terms of magic and righteousness.[[ref\n1]](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/801409) Some thought fraternal twins\nwere the sign of adultery, and identical twins were the sign of divine\npaternity.[[ref 2, pg.1, paragraph\n3]](http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/22324/0000769.pdf;jsessionid=87F1C301E9196741B7A767AC25CA38E2?sequence=1)\nOften, in older societies with high infant mortality, only one twin would even\nsurvive the birth. To explain this to the surviving twin, explanations of\nmagic and myth were often used.[[ref 2, pg. 2, paragraph\n2]](http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/22324/0000769.pdf;jsessionid=87F1C301E9196741B7A767AC25CA38E2?sequence=1)\n\n### Why this is important\n\nI know what you're thinking: \"Does this relate to the question?\" It does,\nbecause it somewhat shows the roots of this concept in _Vampire Knight_. Twins\nwere often lost before they were born, and so legends came to be about why and\nhow this happened. One such legend is that two identical twins are, in fact,\none being which has separated. In order to regain their full strength, they\nmust be reunited—one must be absorbed.\n\n### Summary\n\nSo, _how much_ does the strong twin have to eat to become whole? According to\nthe legends, it only has to be enough to kill the weaker twin, so that the\nlife force can be absorbed. Let's say it took a small bite from the arm of its\nvictim—that would likely not kill it, and would do nothing overall. But\neating, say, the head or heart (or the entire body), would be sufficient for\nthe victim to die. Assuming these legends are the roots of the concept in\n_Vampire Knight_ , the same logic would apply.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-06T00:13:27.740", "id": "3266", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-06T13:40:54.587", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2608", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nDuring Vampire Knight (the first season) Yuuki shares a room with Yuri. During\nVampire Knight Guilty, though, when they are all out for break, Yuuki's room\nonly has one bed in it. Why isn't she staying in the dorm anymore? Where is\nshe staying instead?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T14:45:10.597", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2609", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-10T05:56:12.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "vampire-knight" ], "title": "Why does Yuuki's room change?", "view_count": 148 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a number of guest rooms that Kaien has for guests; I'm quite sure\nZero uses one of them himself, and you see one used when Hanabusa stays behind\nwhen the Night Class goes off for their break. I'm also quite sure Maria stays\nin another one after the end of the first season.\n\nThe room Yuuki is in, I think is a \"special\" room saved just for her by Kaien\n(if his mentality is anything to go by). Keep in mind that Yuri might have\nleft the campus to visit family, so it's quite possible that Yuuki only stayed\nin the same room with Yuri because she was there, and that the room in which\nshe is seen in _Guilty_ is probably her original room.\n\nBut, the reason why she's in there may be related to Kaname.\n\n> Even Shizuka's death was a part of Kaname's plans to draw out the Senate,\n> have them release Rido, and then have Rido killed using Zero. Kaname knew\n> that while he wasn't around, and Yuuki's memories were still repressed, she\n> could become a target since Rido was always targeting her. Remember that\n> Ichiru did try to get Yuuki to drink a vial of blood while she was sleeping,\n> but Hanabusa stopped him; hell, knowing Kaname, he probably knew what\n> Akatsuki said to Hanabusa and knew the exact reason why he stayed and knew\n> that Hanabusa would protect Yuuki for him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-09T22:24:58.610", "id": "3732", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-10T05:56:12.193", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-10T05:56:12.193", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "2609", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\n**Contains spoilers for early manga readers or anime viewers**\n\nAfter the Phantom Lord arc, two mages\n\n> Juvia Lockser and Gajeel Redfox\n\nwho were the S-rank members of their previous guild who had joined Fairy Tail.\nWhy did they not retain their S-rank status?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T17:00:29.580", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2610", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T09:02:58.057", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-02T09:02:58.057", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "fairy-tail" ], "title": "Why didn't the two mages who joined Fairy Tail retain their S-rank status?", "view_count": 1174 }

[ { "body": "\n\nEach guild follows its own criteria to promote its members as S-rank mages.\n\nFairy Tail's criteria for being promoted to S-rank mage are more stringent\nthat those of Phantom Lord. Master Makarov mentioned that he selected the\nparticipants for the S-rank exam by watching their strength, heart and soul.\nFrom Master Jose's personality and his obsession with making Phantom Lord as\nthe strongest guild, we can be certain he uses only fighting strength as the\ncriteria, and doesn't care about things like heart and soul.\n\nMoreover, although the S-rank mages were the strongest Phantom Lord's mages,\none could not be certain where they stand in comparison to Fairy Tail's\nmembers. To determine that, they too would need to go through the S-rank exam.\n\nAlso, it is a Fairy Tail tradition to conduct an S-rank exam every year. It\ncould also be part of the tradition that the only way to get promoted to\nS-rank is to pass the exam, and there are no direct appointments.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T17:00:29.580", "id": "2611", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T17:00:29.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2610", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2614", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nNaruto was always discriminated against by the people of the Leaf Village\nbecause he had the Kyuubi inside. However, he is the son of the 4th Hokage and\nhe was the one who sealed it inside him. Why, then, did they discriminate\nagainst him if it was in order to save the village?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T17:13:31.120", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2613", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-18T14:26:42.053", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-22T17:15:56.703", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why didn't people of the Leaf Village want to get closer to Naruto if he is the son of the 4th Hokage?", "view_count": 1499 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe details of how Minato sealed the Kyuubi inside Naruto, and the fact that\nNaruto is Minato's son was kept hidden from the villagers. The villagers\nbelieved that Naruto is the reincarnation of the Kyuubi, who killed their\nbeloved Hokage. Having experienced the Kyuubi's attack on Konoha, they were\nalso frightened about going near Naruto. Even the people who knew that the\nKyuubi was sealed inside Naruto were worried about their own safety, and\nwanted to stay away from Naruto.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T17:27:41.883", "id": "2614", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T17:27:41.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2613", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Masked Man pretty much nailed it. For future reference, even the fact that\nNaruto's mom, kushina was giving birth was kept secret, as the seal on kyuubi\nis weakest during child birth. So, if someone told the villager's that Naruto\nwas the son of Minato and Kushina, when no one knew she was even going to give\nbirth, it could be hard to believe. Especially, when only a few people knew\nabout it. Furthermore, it was probably safer for Naruto if people didn't know\nthat he was the Hokage's kid. That title brings a lot of enemies. Even\nKonohamaru had people following him 24/7.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-18T14:26:42.053", "id": "39931", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-18T14:26:42.053", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25715", "parent_id": "2613", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2616", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Gurren Lagann, when they are about to start the fight with the Anti-\nSpirals, they mention that the Spirals have tried to attack them before but\nlost. Then, in the episode when the fight is about to begin, you can see many\ndestroyed battleships. Does this mean that the Earth was destroyed and rebuilt\nbefore? Or was humanity not completely wiped out?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T18:12:22.420", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2615", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-01T00:43:38.830", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-22T18:30:32.520", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "gurren-lagann" ], "title": "Was the Earth in the Gurren Lagann universe destroyed before?", "view_count": 875 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's important to note that Anti-Spirals were originally Spiral lifeforms.\nHowever:\n\n> The Anti-Spirals realized the truth about the event called \"Spiral Nemesis\",\n> an event in which the entire universe would be destroyed by an excess of\n> Spiral power. Because of this, they purged themselves of Spiral power and\n> became a collective consciousness (the black creature known as the Anti-\n> Spiral).\n\nThe Anti-Spirals then made it their mission to ensure that no Spirals could\ncontribute to this cataclysmic event; this included attacking Earth, where the\nSpiral lifeforms continued to live. However, they were unsuccessful:\n\n> The Anti-Spirals found heavy resistance on Earth, since this was the home of\n> the native Spiral warriors. The Spiral warriors held off the Anti-Spirals,\n> driving them back into space, before pushing further into Anti-Spiral\n> territory.\n>\n> \\-- [Anti-Spirals at the Gurren Lagann\n> Wiki](http://gurrenlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-Spirals#First_Anti-Spiral_War)\n\nLordgenome, a powerful warrior, was the one who led the resistance against the\nAnti-Spirals and ultimately protected the Earth from destruction. However:\n\n> Utterly immersed in the despair the Anti-Spiral had instilled within him,\n> Lordgenome activated his most powerful weapon, the Cathedral Lazengann, and\n> pushed humanity back to Planet Earth, determined to preserve the remaining\n> spiral population by conceding to any demands the Anti-Spiral had. He\n> constructed an imposing castle fortress called Teppelin, and created the\n> Beastmen as enforcers to slaughter human beings living on the planet\n> surface, driving them underground in hope their fear would keep them there\n> along with burying the Lagann in the depths of the Earth's crust. \n> \n> \\-- [Lordgenome at the Gurren Lagann\n> Wiki](http://gurrenlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Lordgenome#First_Anti_Spiral_War)\n\nSo, no, the Earth itself was never destroyed. The Anti-Spirals _tried_ to\nobliterate the Spiral lifeforms, but they were not destroyed; they were only\nsuppressed by Lordgenome in an effort to further the Anti-Spirals' protection\nof the universe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T18:25:22.320", "id": "2616", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T18:25:22.320", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2615", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nHumans are not the only spiral life forms in the universe, there are many\nothers that tried to face the anti spirals before humans and before that the\nanti spirals were spirals that chose to protect the universe from the spiral\nnemesis, so before them there were other spirals since spirals are any beings\nwith a double helix dna or something like that so dont think spiral = human,\ncuz spiral is everything that evolves, from life to galaxies and so on u.u\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-01T00:43:38.830", "id": "55458", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-01T00:43:38.830", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50157", "parent_id": "2615", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "43918", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn **Galaxy Angel** , it seems Mint and her family all have these droopy\nrabbit ears above their real ears.\n\n\n\nI know that she likes cosplay so are these fake? In all of the anime seasons I\ndon't see her without the rabbit ears and she seems to be able to move them as\nif they're real. I've read that the BROCCOLI game has some insight into the\nears but I've never seen the game or could find any info about it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T20:12:02.433", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2618", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-24T14:31:05.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "galaxy-angel" ], "title": "Why does Mint have rabbit ears?", "view_count": 382 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is unknown officially whether they're real or fake. As you mentioned,\nMint's father, Darno, has these ears as well:\n\n\n\nThe reasons why Darno has these do not appear to be stated, nor are they very\nelaborate for Mint. It is believed that they are fake due to her losing them\nlater in the series. From the [Galaxy Angel\nWiki](http://galaxyangel.wikia.com/wiki/Mint_Blancmanche#Anime):\n\n> She is notable for having a pair of rabbit ears above her human ears, a\n> trait shared by her entire family and the family pet. They can move\n> depending on her emotions and can flap rapidly for flight. Although\n> generally considered real, they were shown to most likely be fake in the\n> third season, after an ordeal with a duck helmet completely removed her hair\n> and rabbit ears, while leaving her real ears attached.\n\nSo, while they are considered to be fake for the reason stated above, it has\nnever been officially revealed one way or another.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T20:56:53.493", "id": "2625", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T20:56:53.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2618", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n**Technically, they are テレパスファー ( _Terepasufaa_ , Telepasfer?), a peculiar\nparasitic creature on planet Blancmanche.**\n\nAccording to Mint's character introduction on [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%81%AE%E7%99%BB%E5%A0%B4%E4%BA%BA%E7%89%A9#.E3.83.9F.E3.83.B3.E3.83.88.E3.83.BB.E3.83.96.E3.83.A9.E3.83.9E.E3.83.B3.E3.82.B7.E3.83.A5),\n\n> In the original work, the parts that resemble animal ears on the head are\n> parts of the body, organs for telepathy, and grow on all of her (Mint's)\n> relatives regardless of their gender. In addition, _GA2_ made it public that\n> the reason why Mint can use telepathy is the effect of _Terepasufaa_ , a\n> peculiar parasitic creature on planet Blancmanche. In the anime, they are\n> ear attachments and react based on Mint's feeling. [...]. Also, just like\n> Ranka, all of her family wear the same headband.\n>\n> * _Galaxy Angel_ (original work)\n>\n> (Mint) has a telepathic power and even able to read another, hidden, dark\n> side of someone's thought, [...]\n>\n> * _Galaxy Angel_ (anime)\n>\n> (Mint) doesn't have a telepathic power, [...]\n>\n>\n\n* * *\n\nIn the original work (game/manga/LN) for _Galaxy Angel_ , it's only mentioned\nthat the ears were parts of the body and capable of telepathy. However,\n_Galaxy Angel II_ expanded the setting by introducing _Terepasufaa_.\n\n\n\n_Terepasufaa_ as first introduced in _Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryōiki no\nTobira_ (PS2)\n\nIn the game, it's described as a fluffy, parasitic creature living on planet\nBlancmanche. It doesn't attach to a human (most possibly, it _only_ attaches\nto people from Blancmanche), and it rarely moves. It has a telepathic power\nand can be used by gripping it lightly, closing eyes, and thinking about\npeople (unknown for other living things/non-living things). The user can\nsee/know the targets' whereabouts & feelings, and even can suggest the targets\nto think about the user (to let the user know how they feel about the user).\n\nRelated video: [Japanese Let's Play on NicoNico\nDouga](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24434387) ([mirror for accountless\nviewing](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24434387)),\nstarts at 0:33\n\nA [Japanese tweet by\n@mint_mamiya](https://twitter.com/mint_mamiya/status/836147833589772288)\nstated that Blancmanche conglomerates from generation to generation\n_intentionally_ attach the _terepasufaa_ to the newborn children. However, I\ncan't confirm its reliability.\n\n* * *\n\nOn the other hand, in the anime, they are just ear attachments. There's a\nscene in each season 3 & 4 where Mint doesn't put its animal ears.\n\n\n\nSeason 4, episode 26; image courtesy of [Normad Type 3's Livedoor Blog\n(Japanese)](http://blog.livedoor.jp/normadtype3/archives/50114705.html)\n\nNote that the anime doesn't really follow the original work and thus there are\nsome differences in the detail.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-24T07:40:47.843", "id": "43918", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-24T14:31:05.067", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-24T14:31:05.067", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "2618", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2634", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nWe know that Deadman Wonderland is a brutal prison for convicted criminals.\n\nAnd at various points in the show, it is revealed how each of the main\ncharacters ended up there. (what crime they were convicted of)\n\nBut how did Shiro get there? Is it ever revealed what Shiro did to end up in\nthat prison?\n\n\n\nWe know that Shiro was Ganta's childhood friend. So that means that she\nstarted off outside in the normal world. But are there any clues to what\nbrought her into Deadman Wonderland?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T22:28:52.127", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2633", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-10T06:06:36.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "deadman-wonderland" ], "title": "How does Shiro get into the Deadman Wonderland?", "view_count": 12039 }

[ { "body": "\n\nEven though Shiro and Ganta were childhood friends,\n\n> Shiro was used in experiments by the director (Hagire Rinichiro) and Ganta's\n> mother. This was all before Deadman Wonderland was created, and when the\n> director founded it, he created a special room for Shiro. Shiro wasn't\n> imprisoned there, but lived there so that the experiments to create the\n> \"Wretched Egg\" (Shiro's other personality) can continue, thus she was\n> brought there by the director when Deadman Wonderland was created.\n\nThis was mentioned briefly in the [Deadman Wonderland\nwiki](http://deadmanwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Shiro#History).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T22:36:29.387", "id": "2634", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-24T19:27:37.637", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-24T19:27:37.637", "last_editor_user_id": "17", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nDeadman Wonderland was originally the medical center in the flashbacks, but\nwhen it was destroyed by the [Great Tokyo\nEarthquake](http://deadmanwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Tokyo_Earthquake),\nthe prison was built over it.\n\n> Deadman Wonderland was built specifically to contain Shiro's second, more\n> sinister personality, the [Wretched\n> Egg](http://deadmanwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Wretched_Egg), aka the original\n> Deadman, the Red Man. At the heart of the facility is the [Mother Goose\n> System](http://deadmanwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Mother_Goose_System) which\n> was designed to transmit a lullaby that suppresses the Wretched Egg. This\n> way you could say the heart of the facility exists to contain her, and\n> that's why she's there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T22:45:55.857", "id": "2635", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T22:45:55.857", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nShiro was adopted by Hagire (the man who was the \"boss\" of the National\nMedical Center later Deadman Wonderland (after the earthquake). She was used\nas an experiment subject, so they did a lot of painful experiments on her.\nLater they build D.W. with its main goal to keep Shiro there (the Red man) and\nto collect every branch of sin. So with that Hagire can get rid of the\nMotherGoose system and can become like Shiro.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-26T21:18:26.503", "id": "11490", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T21:18:26.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6392", "parent_id": "2633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nDeadman Wonderland was built on ground zero of the Great Tokyo earthquake,\nalso being the place where Shiro and Ganta lived during their childhood, to\nsuppress poor Shiro with speakers, made partly of her own flesh and blood, aka\nthe Mother Goose System. Shiro is the original sin, the original deadman,\nwhich Ganta was supposed to be.\n\nI honestly doubt there will ever be any more shown in the anime, since key\ncharacters have been missing, but let's hope for a continuation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-27T01:48:23.567", "id": "20375", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-27T01:55:00.100", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-27T01:55:00.100", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13445", "parent_id": "2633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAs of episode 7, we know the following:\n\n * Rei is somehow connected to the Alones that are attacking the city.\n * The (unnamed) black bird is able to inflict extreme pain on Rei through those feathers.\n * Every time Rei fires an arrow at an Alone, she consumes one feather.\n\n\n\nIs there anything else that has been revealed? Do these feathers symbolize\nanything?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T23:00:21.943", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2636", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-02T18:15:49.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "vividred-operation" ], "title": "What are the feathers on Rei's neck?", "view_count": 284 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs of Episode 7, it's been revealed that it indicates how many Empowering\nArrows she can fire and that she only has twelve of these arrows available.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-22T23:41:43.150", "id": "2639", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-02T18:15:49.337", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-02T18:15:49.337", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2636", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3122", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn episode 7 of **Chihayafuru 2** , Chihaya mentions that she didn't know what\n\"Frenzied\" means and Kanade says to herself:\n\n> \"We're in the second season and she still doesn't know what the title\n> means?!\"\n\n\n\nI realize that \"chihayaburu\" is impassionate, but is this a play on words\nsomehow? Or is this an instance of Kanade breaking the fourth wall? It would\nbe the first instance of this happening as far as I know, seemed really\nawkward and out of place.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T00:12:34.503", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2641", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T22:31:15.483", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "chihayafuru" ], "title": "Did Kanade Oe break the \"4th wall\"?", "view_count": 759 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThough it's not explicitly stated either way (imagine in a series, if they\nwere to mention that they broke the fourth-wall; that's some serious meta\nfourth-wall-breaking), the general consensus in the fan kingdom is that this\nis an instance of the 4th wall being broken.\n\nAs you mentioned, _chihayaburu_\n([千早振る](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%83%E6%97%A9%E6%8C%AF%E3%82%8B)) a\n[_makurakotoba_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makurakotoba) meaning\n\"wild\"[[1]](http://fudoan.cdx.jp/english/bugei_e/fudoan_dojo/chihaya.htm) or\n\"vigorous power\"[[2]](http://vetus.wordpress.com/astrape/), which can be\nsynonymous with \"impassioned\" or \"frenzied\". So, in English, it's not unlikely\nthat the word \"frenzied\" could be (loosely) considered the title.\n\nAs I mentioned, though, there are several unofficial sources (some fans, some\nnot) mentioning this (sudden) break in the fourth\nwall.[[3]](http://www.lostinanime.com/2013/02/chihayafuru-2-07.html)[[4]](http://www.limitofquestions.com/2013/02/chihayafuru-2-7.html)[[5]](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=562147#msg20186017)[[6]](http://ar-\nmachine.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=467&pid=88938#pid88938) So, based on the\ncloseness of the words, and the fan/community reaction to it, this seems to be\na \"breaking the fourth wall\" scenario.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T22:22:56.553", "id": "3122", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T22:31:15.483", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-30T22:31:15.483", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2641", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2649", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nFrom what I've heard, the anime version of Soul Eater was fairly faithful to\nthe manga up to a certain point (excluding a few fillers). However, the ending\nof the anime was nothing like the manga (which is still ongoing), and in my\nview the end of the anime was its weakest point. I want to start reading the\nmanga at the point where the two diverged.\n\nWhat is the last manga chapter that was adapted in the anime, and what episode\ndoes that correspond to? Also, are there any chapters before that which I\nwould have missed from the anime (especially those which have important plot\npoints)?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T06:17:52.370", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2642", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-11T23:28:49.867", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "soul-eater" ], "title": "When did the Soul Eater anime and manga diverge?", "view_count": 17134 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it would be the safest bet to start reading once they introduced the\nSpider Witch. It's when their paths started to separate more and more. That is\non **chapter 23th, Daily Life**.\n\nYou will notice quite a lot similarities from the anime, but that's where they\nstart to go different ways.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-24T18:10:47.380", "id": "2649", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-24T18:10:47.380", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1407", "parent_id": "2642", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2647", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nMany anime do not follow the manga history and are made shorter. However there\nare a few that do follow it or try to finish the history with the manga like\nthe big three (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece), Death Note, and FMA Brotherhood.\nBut others finish the anime without the real ending like FMA, Ouran High\nSchool, Pandora Hearts, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Why is this so? Is it\nbecause of the high cost? Or the lack of popularity?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T15:05:34.187", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2643", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-12T05:02:46.037", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-24T17:20:27.560", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "anime-production" ], "title": "Why do many anime not follow the manga? Why are they usually made shorter?", "view_count": 17845 }

[ { "body": "\n\nGenerally with cases like Soul Eater, Ouran, Kaichou wa Maid-Sama and Ao no\nExorcist is that they've run out of source material or that the manga simply\nhasn't reached far enough past that point to continue the anime. The first\nFullmetal Alchemist anime came out when the manga wasn't anywhere near done,\nand therefore branched off completely after\n\n> Hughes was killed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T15:23:17.793", "id": "2644", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-23T15:58:47.633", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-23T15:58:47.633", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe television broadcaster allots a specific number of seasons for the anime,\ndepending on commercial considerations, such as popularity of the source\nmaterial (manga), target audience, timeslots available, etc. If the manga\nwould not conclude by the time their allotted season ends, they usually create\nan alternate ending, so that the audience does not feel like they abandoned\nthe series.\n\nThe more popular series such as Naruto or One Piece can reasonably expect that\nthey would get several seasons, till the manga ends and hence can follow the\nmanga closely. However, such anime could also end somewhat abruptly, if the\nbroadcaster decides to not allot them any more seasons at some point, as it\nhappened with Bleach after the Fullbring arc, for example.\n\nIn some cases, when the anime production company works closely with the\nmangaka, they can keep their ending consistent with the manga, even though the\nmanga has not been published, but this is rare.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T16:04:43.513", "id": "2647", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-23T16:04:43.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's hard to say, since there's a lot of reasons.\n\nSome are just horrible decisions.\n\nSome are money motivated.\n\nTokyo Ghoul is a recent example of how NOT to adapt a manga into an anime,\nwhich basically ruined it FOR NO REASON (since the manga was almost in it's\n2nd to last arc when the anime started development, so all the material they\nwere basing the anime on was already there and ready to use). (Even anime-only\nviewers that had never read the manga were able to pick up on the fact that\nsomething didn't feel right....nice action scenes to be sure (when the whole\nscreen wasn't blacked out since someone decided it was a brilliant idea to run\na gory series like TG on a network with strict censors), but the plot,\ncharacters, and pacing was meh...a lot didn't even realize it was supposed to\nbe a seinen series and mis-type it as shounen when describing it)\n\n 1. Rearranging events that made no sense to rearrange to begin with (introducing several noticeable plotholes, such as Kaneki actually getting WEAKER as the story progressed, since in the first arc (after the intro arc) he demonstrates sudden melee fighting skills, but none in the 2nd arc in his fight with Amon, where as in the manga it was his inability to control his Kagune in his fight with Amon (and lack of fighting skills that forced him to use it) that convinced him that he should learn to fight without relying on it until he could control it properly as to not endanger his friends and allies, which is why he'd become much stronger during the Gourmet arc). \n\n 2. Completely altering the MC's personality into a helpless useless baby that did nothing worthwhile until the last arc, where as in the Manga he was just understandably lost/confused with the completely new life he'd been forced into and adapted to it rather quickly and well. (one of the biggest differences being in the first episode/chapter, where defining character moment was changed completely. When faced with a monster and threat of death, Manga Kaneki fought, while anime Kaneki fled). Also the fact that Manga kaneki discovered most of the stuff about being a ghoul by himself, where as anime Kaneki has to be told every little thing. \n\nA similar thing was done to Shinichi in the new Parasyte anime, but only for\nthe first episode or two at which point he jumped back to his manga\nincarnation (which according to Madhouse, was because modern anime fans have\nhad their brained rotted out by years of terrible anime that they can't\nproperly detect subtle shifts in personality unless they're beaten over the\nhead with it with extremely blatant evidence of personality shifts such as\ndramatic physical/psychological changes).\n\n 3. Leaving out A LOT of character development across the board. (this is ESPECIALLY bad for a seinen series being adapted because one of the biggest differences between a seinen and shounen is that seinen tend to have much deeper looks into character development, where as shounen is generally more superficial or glossed over in favor of focus on action due to being marketed to younger audience with less attention span and wanting to see more explosions (Obviously the only real definition for Shounen vs Seinen is which magazine the source material ran in, which results in stuff like Death Note or AoT being shounen despite having the sort of themes and depth you expect from a seinen.)\n\n 4. FILLER SCENES in an anime that was already way too short, that could've been better spent on the cut character development or scenes actually in the manga that were pretty important but cut in the anime. This is the WORST kind of filler. If the anime had been ~24 episodes and they added a bunch of filler that expanded and fleshed out the world to get them to the point where the anime ended (if properly adapted the beginning through Aogiri arc to it's full conclusion, rather then simply stopping in the middle like the anime did would've taken about 18-19 episodes), AFTER they'd properly adapted everything that was supposed to be there, then that's good filler. But when you're already having to prune the story (and some element could be pruned without hurting the overall experience, like Amon running out to dig up Hinami's father's mask to prove the mother and child were ghouls, which showed Amon was dedicated, albeit recklessly so to hunting down ghouls, but wasn't critical to his character since he showed his revolve and beliefs A LOT)) to get it to fit into the Season length, filler shouldn't exist at ALL. Taking Hinami's father's episode scenes as an example...IF the anime had the run time to allow it, AND it was treated as a flashback instead of currently happening, then sure, it would've added to the story and been useful, but it served no purpose in the anime and was so unimportant in the manga it was only mentioned in passing. We already cared about Hinami because of what happened to her mother....and seeing what happened to her mother already let us imagine what happened to her father who we knew was killed before the story began, so wasting almost a 1.3 episodes worth of run time on HIM, was pointless because we're not going to care about Hinami any more then we manga readers did already without having to know him, which could've been better spent on Kaneki/Touka (in disguise) visiting the CCG's Ward 20 office (giving the audience some crucial insight into how ghoul's bodies work and exactly what the stakes are for the future of ghouls) that ACTUALLY HAPPENED in the manga. Or the non-existing plot over Jason's pliers, which didn't happen in the manga, because in the manga RC suppressants were used, where as in the anime, since they skipped everything involving how a ghoul's body works, they had to make Quinque steel surgical implements a anime-original plot point, and then wasted even more time on it then just explaining RC would've taken.\n\n 5. Tokyo Ghoul is a rather gritty and Psychological seinen manga, but the animating studio (who are mostly known for shounen series) animated and paced it LIKE a shounen series (the author of the manga is on record as being very disappointed with the direction they took in the adaption), which caused a lot of the explored themes and struggles as to come off as very superficial, with the skeleton of the plot they used serving as just padding to move from action sequence to action sequence, including throwing in new action sequences that never happened or were deliberately never shown in the manga because action was never supposed to be the focus.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-06T03:42:07.477", "id": "19843", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-06T03:42:07.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "2643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2648", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWe've all seen it many times... When someone gets angry or annoyed, the angry\nsymbol (shown below) shows up one or more times in and around the person's\nhead.\n\n\n\n * Where did it come from?\n * How did it get popularized?\n * Is there a proper term for it?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T16:00:41.080", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2646", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-29T22:25:46.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "tropes" ], "title": "How did the angry symbol originate?", "view_count": 24384 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage) calls it the\n\"[Cross-Popping\nVeins](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossPoppingVeins)\", and\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_iconography#Head_and_face) as\nwell as other blogs and sources seem to be comfortable backing up that term.\nOther terms include \"Bulging Vein\" or \"# Mark\".\n\nAs their name suggests, they were inspired by a physiological effect many\npeople have; when they become excessively angry or tense, their blood pressure\nrises and muscle tension builds, forcing veins to the surface.\n\n> Angry characters may exhibit a \"vein\" or \"stress mark\" effect, where lines\n> representing bulging veins will appear on their forehead.\n> ([Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#Facial_expressions))\n>\n> In real life, bulging veins are usually a sign of physiological changes,\n> such as aging or diseases. Strong emotion pumps blood faster, thus making it\n> more protrudent.\n> ([TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossPoppingVeins))\n\nObviously, the cross- or Y-shaped markings are oversimplified and cartoon-like\nversions of these veins, but are still representative of this reaction.\n\nThe first use of this icon does not seem to be recorded, nor why it seems to\nhave become popular enough as a symbol of anime that even anime knockoffs will\nuse it. The tropes article I mentioned has a documented list of where it's\nappeared over the years; however, it does remain possible that even the most\ndated entry in that list is not the original usage of the icon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-23T16:22:22.103", "id": "2648", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-23T16:27:41.640", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2646", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\n80% sure this originates from NES/SNES era computergames, with JRPG's in\nparticular.\n\nThose characters were so small in size that they couldn't do any facial\nexpressions with them, because the characters didn't have a mouth.\n\nSame thing with the popping vein. The question is with which video game this\nstarted.\n\nOldest example known so for far is of Super Mario World November 1990, near\nthe end of the final battle it shows on the bowser's flying machine.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-17T15:46:12.507", "id": "29042", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-17T15:46:12.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20497", "parent_id": "2646", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe markings originated from some angry Japanese fudal lord don't remember\nwhich one, but his face was used for some samurai masks. They are typically\nused to show anger and/or announce. If anyone can name both the lord and mask\nspecifically it would help lots probably.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-04-29T22:25:46.903", "id": "57411", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-29T22:25:46.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53069", "parent_id": "2646", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2654", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nPretty much just as the title states: What is the proper order to watch\n_Hakuouki_ in?\n\nRecently I watched _Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan_ , and it really felt as if I\njumped in half-way through a series. Then, I found out there are about 10\ndifferent _Hakuouki_ and I'm wondering, in which order I should watch them to\nproperly follow the story?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-24T18:56:15.427", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2650", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-14T23:16:49.857", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-06T16:16:44.047", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1458", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "hakuouki" ], "title": "What is the proper order to watch Hakuouki in?", "view_count": 148242 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHakuouki was released in this order:\n\nHakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan (or just Hakuouki), Hakuouki Hakketsuroku, Hakuouki\nSekkaroku OVA, and Hakuouki Reimeiroku.\n\nHakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan is the original series. Hakuouki Hakkesturoku is\nthe sequel to the original series. The \"episode zero\" of Hakuouki Hakkesturoku\n(Memories in Kyoto) is a recap of the first series. The OVA series was\nreleased between the second series and Reimeiroku. Reimeiroku was the third\nfull series released and acts as a prequel to the original series.\n\nTo conclude, if you want to watch in chronological order of the show (as\nopposed to release order), the correct viewing order would be:\n\n * Hakuouki Reimeiroku\n * Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan\n * Hakuouki Sekkaroku OVA\n * Hakuouki Hakkesturoku\n\nEdit: First, I actually made a mistake originally. The OVA is actually set in\nbetween episodes 8 and 9 of the first season of Hakuōki Shinsengumi Kitan, so\nchronologically it would really be before Hakkesturoku.\n\nIn regards to the movies, their roles are a bit more confusing. According to\nWikipedia:\n\n> Two new films are scheduled for 2013–2014. Film 1 was released in August\n> 2013 and is released on DVDs February 2014. The film is supposed to be a\n> retelling of both seasons in greater detail and with a slightly different\n> ending.\n\nHowever, [ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-02-26/hakuoki-games-\nget-new-ova-3rd-tv-series-2-films) states:\n\n> Production on a two-part Hakuōki film project that will open [2013] has been\n> green-lit. The film will tell an all-new story.\n\nHaving not seen either of the films, I cannot say for certain where they fall\nin the timeline.\n\nSources: [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuouki#Anime)\n\n[Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11286)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-24T19:48:46.307", "id": "2654", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-16T09:07:30.263", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-16T09:07:30.263", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2650", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2656", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI'm trying to remember the title of an anime I watched a while back. I watched\nthis anime sometime in 2007. Judging by what little I remember of the art\nstyle the anime was probably made sometime between 2000 and 2005. The episodes\nwere 10-15 minutes each and there were about 10 of them. The show had a lot of\nnudity and was pretty explicit, but I'm sure it wasn't hentai. I somehow\nremember the plot very vividly despite forgetting the name. It wasn't a very\ngood show, but I'd still like to know what it was.\n\nThe anime was about producing some sort of hero/sentai television show. In\nthat fictional television show there were several girls (probably 5) who were\nable to transform into different outfits and gain different abilities\ndepending on their outfit. The main character is a high school boy who is the\ncamera man for the show who is secretly also the writer of the show. He's also\npretty perverted, and a lot of the show is just him falling into erotic\ndelusions.\n\nThe actresses playing the characters in the sentai show realize that he is\nactually the writer, though they keep this a secret from him. Somehow they all\ngo to his school (I think), even though I'm pretty sure some of them were\nelementary- or middle-schoolers. In order to try to increase their screen-\ntime, they all start trying to seduce him by getting into compromising\nsituations, like \"accidentally\" running into him naked or showing him their\nunderwear. The first half (maybe more) of the series is just random fanservice\nin that vein.\n\nLater on, he figures out that they know that he is the writer and that they've\nbeen seducing him, and decides to punish them by putting them into even more\nembarrassing situations, causing wardrobe malfunctions on-stage and doing all\nsorts of other abuses of power. The series takes a sort of darker turn at this\npoint, though there's still plenty of fanservice. However, the plan backfires\non him. Some sort of controversy causes him to be taken off the project, and I\nthink the show was even cancelled. Yet somehow there was a happy ending where\nall the actresses were still friendly with him and the show gets restarted,\nand he might end up in a relationship with one of the girls. The only thing I\nremember about the ending is that it was rather implausible, so I don't know\nhow that happened.\n\nDoes anyone have any idea what this anime could be?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T03:00:56.297", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2655", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-04T20:32:32.320", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-04T20:32:32.320", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "love-love" ], "title": "Anime about the cameraman from a television show", "view_count": 625 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're looking for the show\n_[LOVE♥LOVE?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Love%3F)_.\n\n> Naoto Ohizumi is the screenwriter for the all-female Super Sentai TV show,\n> The Super Transforming Cosmopolitan Prayers (\"Cosplayers\"), although this is\n> only known by the show's producer. Naoto has a crush on one of the show's\n> stars, Natsumi Yagami. As the show proceeds so does their relationship, with\n> many twists and turns along the way. Many of the other actresses are also in\n> love with Naoto, creating various situations throughout the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T06:06:15.420", "id": "2656", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-25T19:01:18.120", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-25T19:01:18.120", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2655", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2659", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nI am looking for the name of a certain anime I saw when I was younger. It was\nabout a guy who was fleeing into the mountains for some reason. In these\nmountains he found a woman. After kissing her he found out that he became\nimmortal and lived for thousands of years. I also remember that the moment\nthey kissed he would feel inhuman pain for 3 consecutive days.\n\n**Edit:** I can't properly remember the art style or the music used. I am sure\nit was a series around 12 episodes. I watched it subbed and don't believe\nthere was any dubbed version (I don't really watch those so didn't pay\nattention to that). I believe it was a Madhouse production but I can't tell\nthat for sure. The moment I started watching it had just about ended and I\nbelieve the end was a bit of a vampire-like story or at least hinted at a\nvampire-like plot.\n\nI remembered a bit more about the plot: it was set in medieval times between\n1200 and 1400, I think. But halfway through the plot, he loses consciousness\nand stays so for 1000 years and ends up in a post-apocalyptic Japan where he\nstarts to search for his beloved (the one who kissed and made him immortal).\nAlso it was not 2007 when I watched it but the end of 2008. I read the manga\nin 2007.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T14:34:02.947", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2657", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-08T21:00:19.383", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-08T21:00:19.383", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1458", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "kurozuka" ], "title": "Guy becomes immortal after kissing a girl", "view_count": 2965 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[Princess Resurrection](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Resurrection)\n(怪物王女 Kaibutsu Ōjo?, lit. Monster Princess) is a Japanese horror comedy manga\nby Yasunori Mitsunaga.\n\n> Hiro Hiyorimi is a boy who has just moved to the Sasanaki City to meet his\n> sister. While walking down the sidewalk, he is suddenly hit by a car\n> (crushed by construction beams in the anime). On the verge of death, he is\n> seen by a young woman clad in gothic clothes. **She then resurrects him,\n> leaving him alive in the hospital morgue.** He wakes up confused over what\n> happened, only to encounter the woman again as she eliminates some wolf\n> creatures. She addresses Hiro as \"her servant\" and introduces herself as\n> \"Hime\" (Japanese for Princess) and explains that she is a member of the\n> royal family of the Monster Realm.\n\nNo mountains apparently. But the rest of the plot appears to share the same\nballpark. The time-frame is also a fit.\n\nThe manga is still ongoing.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T16:52:38.207", "id": "2658", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-25T16:52:38.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "2657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis sounds somewhat similar to\n[Kurozuka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurozuka).\n\n> The series begins in 12th century Japan and centers on Kuro, a character\n> based loosely on the legendary Japanese swordsman Minamoto no Yoshitsune.\n> Kuro and his servant, Benkei, meet a beautiful and mysterious woman named\n> Kuromitsu while on the run from Kuro's elder brother, who seeks his life.\n> Kuromitsu and Kuro fall in love, but he soon discovers that she harbors a\n> terrible secret: she is a vampiric immortal. Following an attack by his\n> pursuers, Kuro is badly injured and must imbibe Kuromitsu's blood to save\n> his own life. Kuro is then betrayed and attacked by Benkei, who has been\n> subverted by a shadowy organization called the Red Army, and Kuro's head is\n> severed, which interferes with his transformation into a fully immortal\n> being. \n> \n> Kuro loses consciousness and wakes up centuries later in a post-\n> apocalyptic, dystopian Japan. The surviving citizens have fallen under\n> constant oppression by the Red Army, and Kuro is quickly found and recruited\n> by an underground revolutionary movement called Haniwa. The remaining\n> episodes follow Kuro's fight with the Red Army and its host of elite\n> warriors, who have been enhanced by samples of Kuromitsu's blood, and his\n> quest to find his inexplicably lost love.\n\nThe anime is also by Madhouse from 2008.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T16:59:37.070", "id": "2659", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-25T17:05:36.890", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-25T17:05:36.890", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\n\"A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives\" or the Japanese name \"Itsuka Tenma No Kuro\nUsagi\".\n\n> Taito has been really sleepy lately, and keeps dreaming of a female vampire\n> who says she has given him her “poison.” Sometimes he even thinks he hears\n> her voice when he’s awake. But after surviving an accident that should have\n> killed him, Taito’s world changes drastically and he realizes that his\n> dreams are more real than he thought. its a cool anime\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-17T15:39:42.670", "id": "4386", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-17T16:36:43.060", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-17T16:36:43.060", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "2036", "parent_id": "2657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2663", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhy are manga read right to left? Has it always been so? Are there any\nexceptions?\n\n(Flipped mangas are excused from this question.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T18:33:57.567", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2662", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-26T03:30:43.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "post_type": "question", "score": 20, "tags": [ "manga-history" ], "title": "Why are manga read from right to left? Has it always been so?", "view_count": 43483 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe traditional Japanese written language goes from right to left.\n\nBooks in Japan tend to start from the \"right-most\" side. It's only natural\nthat manga publications follow the same format.\n\n> Traditionally, Japanese is written in a format called tategaki (縦書き?), which\n> copies the traditional Chinese system. In this format, the characters are\n> written in columns going from top to bottom, with columns ordered from right\n> to left. After reaching the bottom of each column, the reader continues at\n> the top of the column to the left of the current one.\n>\n> Modern Japanese also uses another writing format, called yokogaki (横書き?).\n> This writing format is horizontal and reads from left to right, just like\n> English.\n>\n> A book printed in tategaki opens from what a Westerner would call the back,\n> while a book printed in yokogaki opens from what traditionally in Japan\n> would have been considered the back.\n>\n> —[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system)\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T18:45:30.910", "id": "2663", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-26T16:20:02.500", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "2662", "post_type": "answer", "score": 30 }, { "body": "\n\n[\"Manga textbooks\"](http://www.kenleewrites.com/2010/03/manga-textbooks.html)\nfor studying science and math are nice examples of what would be an exception.\nIt's troublesome to keep the tategaki if you want to have some equations in\nthem.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T04:32:08.127", "id": "4877", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T04:32:08.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "2662", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2665", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the original TV series, Yawara was supposed to compete in Barcelona Olympic\nGames. The special \" _Zutto Kimi no Koto ga_ \" goes on where the TV series\nends. In that special, the location changes to \"Atlanta Olympics\" without any\nexplanation.\n\nWhat is the reason for this unexplained sudden change?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-25T23:36:55.060", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2664", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-13T10:40:36.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "yawara" ], "title": "Why did the location change to \"Atlanta\" from \"Barcelona\"?", "view_count": 851 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe _Yawara!_ manga was written starting in 1986 and lasted until 1993. In the\nmanga, Yawara is actually meant to compete in the [1988 Seoul\nOlympics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics):\n\n\n\nHowever, when it was adapted into an anime, which aired from 1989 (after the\nSeoul Olympics) until 1992, they kept the media contemporary (instead of\ndating it), they adjusted this to be the [1992 Barcelona\nOlympics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics). _(Side note:\nThis worked out well for them, as a competitor much like Yawara won in real\nlife in Barcelona that year and received the nickname \"Yawara-chan\". The more\nyou know!)_\n\n_Zutto Kimi no Koto ga_ , however, was not released until 1996, two weeks\nbefore the [1996 Atlanta\nOlympics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics), hence it was\nadjusted for this set of Olympic games instead.\n\nIt seems that, in each instance, the producers wanted to play somewhat on the\npublicity of the Olympic games, and by 1996 they were good enough to air their\nspecial only weeks ahead of the real thing. There is no in-universe reason for\nthe change here, simply that she was competing at the \"upcoming Olympics\" in\ntwo different time periods (pre- and post-1992).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T00:02:39.733", "id": "2665", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-26T02:03:08.487", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-26T02:03:08.487", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2740", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nIn episode 290 of Naruto Shippuden, Kabuto creates Hidan from thousands of\ntiny snakes. But by looking at the eyes of manifested Hidan, it seems like an\nEdo-Tensei. And Kabuto mentions it himself.\n\nHidan isn't dead! Then how can he be reincarnated? What Jutsu is that??\n\nIn the manga of course there is no confusion..\n\nBut for that episode I am trying to find the logic. Do you have any thoughts?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T07:31:36.253", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2666", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-25T01:47:15.337", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T13:15:26.697", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "338", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How Kabuto could reincarnate or manifest Hidan (in an anime filler)?", "view_count": 32419 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Hidan in that filler is not necessarily the real Hidan. You said it by\nyourself \"Kabuto creates Hidan from thousands of tiny snakes\" which proves my\npoint here. In Naruto we see many things created from snakes, in this case, It\nis Hidan. The directer of this filler tried to make his story interesting but\nhe failed miserably as you can see. This filler overlaps with the real story\nmaking the answer for your question not very logical. This is as far as you\ncan get with this event.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T05:45:16.577", "id": "2740", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T05:45:16.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1388", "parent_id": "2666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reincarnated Hidan was like a clone created by Kabuto from the real one's\nDNA, and also it wasn't like the other Edo Tensei, he died later without being\nsealed.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-22T16:03:52.693", "id": "4435", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-22T16:23:38.503", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-22T16:23:38.503", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "2062", "parent_id": "2666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nthis is just an opinion, but hidan never died in the first place. I mean,\nsure, he got blown up, but he never died, since he is immortal. maybe hidan's\nconsciousness was put into the body that kabuto created with some sort of mind\ntransfer jutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-23T23:57:10.557", "id": "39549", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-23T23:57:10.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31607", "parent_id": "2666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nApparently Hidan can die from malnutrition, so one can assume that while he\nwas trapped in that hole that Shikamaru dug for him, he eventually and\ninevitably died from said cause. That's the only explanation that I can give\nas to how this even makes a lick of sense since I'm re-watching the series and\njust got to this filler episode, haha.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-10-15T19:52:50.710", "id": "49204", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-15T19:52:50.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42921", "parent_id": "2666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBy a bunch of snakes and a scroll, to revive a real corpse through edo tensei\nyou need their dna for it\n\nthat was just a clone of him cultivated from his cells\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-05T18:16:14.467", "id": "49519", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-05T18:16:14.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43273", "parent_id": "2666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2668", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI remember an anime about a girl from Japan who came to the United States\n(where everyone speaks Japanese, apparently) to join a famous high-tech sort\nof circus.\n\nWhat I can't remember is the name of that anime. Could anyone give me a lead?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T09:25:47.797", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2667", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-13T00:35:45.623", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T00:35:45.623", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "kaleido-star" ], "title": "Anime featuring a circus", "view_count": 1127 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on the limited information provided, my best guess is that you are\nlooking for [Kaleido Star](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleido_Star):\n\n> Sora Naegino, a **young Japanese girl** with a great talent for acrobatics,\n> comes to the **United States** in hopes of auditioning for the Kaleido\n> Stage, a world famous **circus** which has mesmerized her since childhood.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T12:03:53.520", "id": "2668", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-26T12:03:53.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "2667", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2672", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI read this manga like 2 years ago. It is about a high school guy who receives\na calling card of a cyborg, and then when he answers his phone, he is\nteleported to another dimension where everything is devastated and he starts\nto fight with monsters. He has a female friend with gray hair and glasses.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T21:26:40.997", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2671", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-08T22:03:18.893", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-08T22:03:18.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "psyren" ], "title": "What is this series featuring a boy that gets a calling card and ends up fighting in another dimension?", "view_count": 583 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis sounds like it might be [Psyren](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyren),\nthough I don't remember any cyborgs in that manga. Synopsis from\n[MAL](http://myanimelist.net/manga/3438/Psyren):\n\n> Yoshina Ageha is a high school student who offers to help people with their\n> problems for 10,000 yen. He'll take care of your stalkers, find your lost\n> animal, whatever you want. One day when he's heading home, a nearby pay\n> phone rings, and he picks it up. The only thing he hears however is his own\n> voice echoing. After finding a mysterious card with the word 'Psyren'\n> printed on it, his life suddenly changes as he is drawn into a crazy new\n> world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T21:32:09.383", "id": "2672", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-26T21:32:09.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2671", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2674", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the last chapters of the manga,\n\n> When Tobi finally admits he is Obito and starts to remember what happened\n> after the rock hit him, he meets Madara. How is this possible? Hundreds of\n> years must have passed; how was he able to survive so long?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T21:55:03.370", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2673", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-11T20:49:16.337", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-26T21:56:38.750", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "8", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How did Madara Uchiha survive such a long time?", "view_count": 15008 }

[ { "body": "\n\nMadara, when he was close to death, awakened the Rinnegan.\n\nThe Rinnegan allowed him to break the seal placed by the Sage of the Six\nPaths, and summon the Juubi's shell (The Gedo Mazo) from the moon.\n\nUsing it as a catalyst, Madara used Hashirama's cells in order to extend his\nown lifespan.\n\nOnce disconnected from the Mazo, Madara died instantly.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T22:01:36.317", "id": "2674", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-26T22:01:36.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "2673", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara Uchiha didn't survive. The one who everybody thinks is Madara is\nacually Obito Uchiha because Obito said that he was going to take on Madara's\nlegacy. This means the day of the nine tails attack Minato was actually\nfighting his own student. \"Madara\" (Obito Uchiha) is the one who set the nine\ntails lose and he says his name is Tobi which is just Obito switched all\naround with one \"o\" taken off.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T00:59:38.903", "id": "5738", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-05T02:07:41.030", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-05T02:07:41.030", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "2671", "parent_id": "2673", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3055", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAccording to MAL, the\n[former](http://myanimelist.net/anime/4654/Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index) is the\nparent story of the\n[latter](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6213/Toaru_Kagaku_no_Railgun), that\nappears described as a side story. However, I find no reference to these\nquestions:\n\n**Do both stories take place in the same universe? \nAre they somewhat dependent on each other? \nIf so, in which order should the series be watched?**\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T22:36:54.210", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2675", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-07T23:58:05.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 25, "tags": [ "a-certain-scientific-railgun", "a-certain-magical-index" ], "title": "How are \"A Certain Magical Index\" and \"A Certain Scientific Railgun\" connected?", "view_count": 91542 }

[ { "body": "\n\nRailgun is a non-canon spinoff using the characters and setting of Index.\n\nby that definition:\n\n 1. I guess they take place in alternate universes.\n\n 2. They are indepedent besides setting and characters.\n\n 3. Watching both seasons of Index before Railgun is in my opinion for the better.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T23:25:24.173", "id": "2678", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-26T23:25:24.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2675", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nChronologically, _Railgun_ comes first. Then near the middle of _Railgun_ (the\nLevel Upper Arc), the events and timeline start to converge with _Index_.\n\nFor an example, in episode 17 of the _Railgun_ anime, Komoe-sensei mentions\nhow she likes all her students, even the ones that blow up her roof, which is\nprobably a reference to when Index used Dragon's Breath (episode 6 of _Index_\n).\n\nThe manga gives a better frame of reference, since it gives a exact date (July\n16th). So the events in _Railgun_ begin 4 days before the Index novel (July\n20th), where Touma first meets Index. Touma [meets](http://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index%3aVolume1_Prologue)\nMikoto on the eve of July 19th.\n\nAccording to the [TV\nTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun?from=Manga.ToAruKagakuNoRailgun):\n\n> The anime, however, violates this by adapting events from Volume 8 of the\n> novels into the anime's first episode. As it stands, Chapters 18 to 39 occur\n> around the time of Volume 3 in the novels, Chapter 40 is around volume 5,\n> Chapters 41-42 and around volume 8 and Chapters 43-current take place around\n> volume 9.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-26T23:00:35.640", "id": "3055", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-26T23:06:38.137", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-26T23:06:38.137", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2675", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nAdding onto [кяαzєя's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3055), a good\nresource that specifies the chronology of Index and Railgun in much more\ndetail is the [Baka-Tsuki Unified Index Calendar](https://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Index_Calendar), which is an fan-compiled\ncalendar of all events in the Toaru Majutsu no Index franchise.\n\nAs of January 2018, the calendar includes the following source materials, up\nto the specified issue (with the latest in-universe date specified in\nparentheses):\n\n * (Light Novel) **A Certain Magical Index** : NT volume 19 ( _Dec. 12_ )\n * (Manga) **A Certain Magical Index** : chapter 123 ( _~Oct. 7_ )\n * (Manga) **A Certain Scientific Railgun** : chapter 100 ( _~Oct. 14_ )\n * (Manga) **A Certain Scientific Accelerator** : chapter 42 ( _~Sep. 10_ )\n * (Manga) **Astral Buddy** : chapter 7 ( _~Sep. 28_ )\n * (Anime) **A Certain Magical Index** : II episode 24 ( _Oct. 3_ )\n * (Anime) **A Certain Scientific Railgun** : S episode 24 ( _Sep. 2_ )\n\n[](https://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/images/7/7d/A_Certain_Unified_Calendar.png)\n\nThe calendar is frequently updated.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-23T19:22:05.367", "id": "47554", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-07T23:58:05.873", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-07T23:58:05.873", "last_editor_user_id": "18352", "owner_user_id": "18352", "parent_id": "2675", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2680", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the Pokemon game, specifically in the older version Red and Green, there\nare some news (or rumors) that the tone used in the Lavender Town caused a\nsyndrome (called Lavender Town Syndrome) where kids who played it and heard\nthe tone get sick and worst, eventually committed suicide. Coincidentally (or\nmaybe not), you can find the Pokemon Tower in the Lavender Town, where you can\nhunt ghost Pokemon.\n\nHow true is this and does it have any relevance to the anime Pokemon or was it\never mentioned in the anime itself?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-26T23:42:30.483", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2679", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-24T08:13:45.467", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-24T08:13:45.467", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 28, "tags": [ "pokemon", "game-history" ], "title": "How true is the Lavender Town Syndrome?", "view_count": 147362 }

[ { "body": "\n\n**No, Lavender Town Syndrome (LTS) is not real**. It is an urban legend.\nUnfortunately, the internet [loves itself a good urban\nlegend](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lavender-town-syndrome-creepypasta), and\ndetermining truth from fiction (especially for an event from 1996) can be very\ndifficult. This phenomenon was never mentioned on the anime itself, and did\nnot really become well known until sometime around 2010.\n\n# What really happened?\n\nThe original Lavender Town theme music was a MIDI that was run on two channels\n(this is called a **binaural** effect), so that children wearing headphones\nwould hear one thing out of one ear, and one out of the other. The two would\ntheoretically combine in the brain to form a unique sound. The way the theme's\nmultiple channels ran together, many children in the range 7-12 received\n[migraine headaches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraine).\n\nHowever, there were not mass suicides over this.\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan) does not cite any\nunusual suicides in the 1990s (except an increase in adults due to economic\nrecession).\n\nThe real consequences of the music are not well recorded. One source I found\nstates that many children suffered seizures, and two were hospitalized.\nAnother said there were four deaths from children falling or getting chest\npain from the intensity of the headaches. But there is no evidence nor reports\nof a massive surge in child suicide as a result of this event, nor is there\nany substantial proof for these other reports.\n\nIn 1997, an [episode of the Pokémon\nanime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon#Reception_and_controversy)\n([YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CTdJHysJpZI#t=70s))\ncaused many seizures, which fueled the fire, but these two events are not to\nbe confused.\n\nIn the American version, the MIDI was changed to single tone (I believe using\n[crossfeed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfeed), or perhaps dithering),\nand the sound was tamed slightly.\n\n# The MIDI Frequency\n\nA myth\n([(1)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MXDtXlEZxvY#t=104s)\n[(2)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MK2iLnTR9V8#t=531s)\n[(3)](http://thevendy.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/laven.jpg)) was started that\nthere was an Easter Egg in the MIDI file such that the frequency track is in\nthe shape of a ghost as well as Unowns spelling the words \"Leave Now\".\nHowever, the Unown was not seen until 1999. I also pulled the original Shion\nTown (Japanese name) theme song, which is only 6:22 long, and confirmed that\nthere is no strange ghost anomaly in the frequency graph:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gDujK.png)\n\n# Summary\n\n**To summarize** : [Lavender Town Syndrome was not a real\nthing](http://ds.about.com/od/glossary/g/Lavender-Town-Syndrome.htm), and did\nnot lead to mass suicides. It is true, however, that the binaural headphone\neffect of the original music (before it was changed for the EU and NA\nversions) could cause headaches and potentially other issues.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T00:46:20.790", "id": "2680", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T19:32:28.843", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 43 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2682", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nYuri and Shoujo-ai are anime themes which are related to girl-to-girl\nrelationship, while yaoi and shounen-ai are related to boy-to-boy\nrelationships. But what are their distinct difference? When can you call a\nspecific girl-to-girl anime a yuri or shoujo-ai? When can you call a specific\nboy-to-boy anime a yaoi or shounen-ai?\n\nPlus, what is the distinct difference of ecchi and hentai anime? I just know\nthat they are both _for adults only-theme_ anime. When can you call a specific\nanime an ecchi or hentai?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T01:36:59.360", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2681", "last_activity_date": "2022-11-02T12:22:25.073", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "terminology" ], "title": "What is the difference between yuri and shoujo-ai, yaoi and shounen-ai and ecchi and hentai anime genre?", "view_count": 54882 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFor Yuri vs. Shoujo-ai, according to Wikipedia:\n\n> Yuri focuses on the sexual or the emotional aspects of the relationship, or\n> both, the latter of which sometimes being called shōjo-ai by western fans.\n\nAlso,\n\n> In North America, yuri has initially been used to denote only the most\n> explicit end of the spectrum, deemed primarily as a variety of hentai.\n> Following the pattern of shōnen-ai, a term already in use in North America\n> to describe content involving non-sexual relationships between men, western\n> fans coined the term shōjo-ai to describe yuri without explicit sex. In\n> Japan the term shōjo-ai (少女愛?, lit. girl love) is not used with this\n> meaning, and instead tends to denote pedophilia (actual or perceived), with\n> a similar meaning to the term lolicon (Lolita complex). The western use of\n> yuri has broadened in the 2000s, picking up connotations from the Japanese\n> use.\n\nTo summarize, the way it is used depends on who you ask. In North America,\nshoujo-ai is generally less explicit/sexual, while in Japan it generally\ndenotes pedophilia.\n\nYaoi vs. Shounen-ai:\n\n> The terms yaoi and shōnen-ai are sometimes used by Western fans to\n> differentiate between the contents of the genre. In this case, yaoi is used\n> to describe titles that contain largely sex scenes and other sexually\n> explicit themes and shōnen-ai is used to describe titles that focus more on\n> romance and do not include explicit sexual content, although they may\n> include implicit sexual content.\n\nAlso,\n\n> Shōnen-ai originally connoted ephebophilia or pederasty in Japan, but from\n> the early 1970s to the late 1980s, was used to describe a new genre of shōjo\n> manga, primarily by the Year 24 Group, about beautiful boys in love.\n> Characteristics of shōnen-ai include that they were exotic, often taking\n> place in Europe, and idealistic.\n\nThe yaoi vs shounen-ai distinction is similar to the yuri vs shoujo-ai one.\n\nFor ecchi\n\n> The word is not only common in Japan, it is also used worldwide inside the\n> fandom of Japanese media to describe sexual themes or undertones. While the\n> word ecchi could mean anything from mild to insulting in Japanese language,\n> it is used in Western culture to divide between pornography (hentai) and\n> playful usage of sexualized imagery (ecchi). Works considered as ecchi do\n> not show any sexual intercourse or primary sexual characteristics. Instead,\n> it is up to the imagination of the viewer.\n\nFor hentai\n\n> [Hentai] is a Japanese word that, in the West, describes sexually explicit\n> or pornographic comics and animation—especially those of Japanese origin,\n> such as anime, manga, and eroge.\n>\n> The English use of hentai is more similar to the way the Japanese use the\n> slang term エッチ (H or ecchi), which refers to any sexually explicit content\n> or behaviour. The Japanese seldom use the term hentai to refer to\n> pornography in Japan.\n>\n> Adult anime, or hentai anime, is anime that relies primarily on sex. Adult\n> manga, or hentai manga, is manga designed for purely pornographic purposes.\n> Plot is still used to develop character and setting, but most of the time,\n> the ultimate goal is to show scenes of sexuality with few exceptions.\n\nFor ecchi vs. hentai, the difference seems to be also mostly dependent on who\nyou ask. In America, hentai and ecchi are generally synonymous, while in\nJapan, hentai is sexually explicit while ecchi is generally not.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T01:52:08.800", "id": "2682", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-09T11:15:56.273", "last_edit_date": "2022-10-09T11:15:56.273", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2681", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 }, { "body": "\n\nShounen-ai and shoujo-ai in manga are often used when there's hugging and\ndates and kisses only which may mean that it is not mature themed as compared\nto yaoi and yuri which usually contains sexual themes.\n\nEcchi usually comes with romance and consensual sex which means that the\nmanga/anime is likely to be focused on the storyline.\n\nHentai usually comes with rape and sexual kinks, forced sex which means that\nthe storyline would be more focused on the sexual acts\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-17T17:13:05.223", "id": "22526", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-09T11:16:01.187", "last_edit_date": "2022-10-09T11:16:01.187", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "15125", "parent_id": "2681", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nBasically what everyone has been saying.\n\nYuri is love between women in manga and anime: Shojo-ai is a platonic\nrelationship between young girls.\n\nYaoi is boy-boy love, romantic or sexual relationships: Shonen-ai was used to\ndescribe a new genre of shojo manga about innocent relationships.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-18T16:03:30.217", "id": "38477", "last_activity_date": "2022-11-02T12:22:25.073", "last_edit_date": "2022-11-02T12:22:25.073", "last_editor_user_id": "4484", "owner_user_id": "30382", "parent_id": "2681", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nI am going to be extremely technical here. In its original context, shoujo\nai/seinen ai focused on same-sex female/male relationships, either gay or\nstraight (although the heterosexual emphasis is not as prevalent anymore)\npresented in a romantic way (think Shaun and Cory in _Boy Meets World_ ). But\nthis definition has been modified over time, for American audiences, so that\nthe focus is more on the LGBT aspects of the genre.\n\nSo in the west, shoujo ai and yuri are almost interchangeable. However, yuri\nfocuses more on the sexual aspects of a strictly LGBT relationship. While\nshoujo ai is mainly (thanks to the American influence) focused on a lesbian\nromantic relationship, it may occasionally, in rare circumstances, focus on\nintimate straight same-sex relationships as well; best friends or sisters,\netc. as long as the relationship is presented in a way that gives you the\n'feels'.\n\n_Candy Boy_ is a good example of hetero-romantic shoujo ai (I am ignoring girl\ncrushes in _Candy Boy_ as that happens across multiple anime genres).\nYuri/yaoi is more or less gay/lesbian ecchi/hentai (porn).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-19T23:28:58.567", "id": "54046", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-09T11:15:59.057", "last_edit_date": "2022-10-09T11:15:59.057", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "48605", "parent_id": "2681", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2685", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe anime film [**Odin: Photon Space Sailer\nStarlight**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin%3a_Photon_Sailer_Starlight) was\nreleased in Japan with a running time of 139 minutes, but Central Park Media's\nU.S. release of the movie is only 93 minutes long. This results in a whopping\n_45 minutes_ of footage edited out. I realize there was no real ending to the\nmovie since it was originally planned to be a trilogy, and that the film\nitself is kind of slow to begin with. But what did the U.S. release edit out?\nWas there a specific chunk(s) of the story that was removed? Or did they\nsomehow remove all of the panning, random action, and borderline long still\nshots throughout the movie?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T06:43:36.003", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2683", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-27T14:03:10.790", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-27T14:03:10.790", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "odin-starlight-mutiny" ], "title": "What was removed between the Japanese and English releases of \"Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight\"?", "view_count": 126 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing_of_anime_in_American_distribution#Length):\n\n> Many earlier anime theatrical films had slow deliberate pacing resulting in\n> running times that were over two hours. Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight, whose\n> original runtime was two hours 15 minutes had a pre-credits sequence,\n> numerous surrealistic special effects scenes, lengthy dialogue scenes,\n> silent moments, as well as a musical ending (special appearance by\n> [Loudness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_%28band%29), the band who\n> performed some of the music numbers), all of which were cut resulting in a\n> 90 minute English dub.\n\nSo the answer appears to be \"All of the above\".\n\n(I've not seen the movie yet.)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T13:40:40.750", "id": "2685", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-27T13:40:40.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "2683", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "4293", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nLong back I started reading a manga, where in the first chapter, a guy is\nshowed to have a crush on a girl. Then the girl starts eating an ice-cream\ncone, but for some reason, the guy then gets to eat the same ice-cream. He\nthen thinks that by eating the same ice-cream, he has shared an indirect kiss\nwith the girl. (Maybe the guy ate the ice-cream first, I don't remember\nexactly.)\n\nI don't know any more details because I never got back to reading it after\nfinishing half of the first chapter. I want to resume it, and see if it is any\ngood. Does anyone know what manga this is?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T13:37:28.910", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2684", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-26T19:39:08.530", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-26T19:39:08.530", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "anedoki" ], "title": "Manga involving indirect kiss through icecream", "view_count": 2266 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI know that this happens in Shugo Chara! in episode 33. Here's a link to a\npicture of it:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T13:58:19.773", "id": "2688", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-27T14:42:28.273", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-27T14:42:28.273", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2684", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAre you maybe looking for [_Anedoki_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anedoki)?\nThe question is a bit old, but this appears to be the one you're looking for.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-04T06:44:53.373", "id": "4293", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-05T00:02:56.827", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-05T00:02:56.827", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "1984", "parent_id": "2684", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2689", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIn Ano Hana, if I understood correctly, Menma's wish was to help Jinta's dying\nmother fulfill her wish, and that was to make Jinta cry. If it was, then why\ndid Menma start to vanish on the last episode when Jinta cried again for the\nfirst time after Menma appeared before him in the episode when he joked that\nhe remembered something (a movie perhaps) to hide the real reason he was\ncrying from Menma?\n\nWould the wish just take effect if Menma clearly remembered what it is? Or\n_making Jinta cry_ was just put in that way by his mother for the young Menma\nto understand and what it really meant was for Jinta to generally open himself\nup again to different emotions like enjoying himself with his friends, to\nlaugh when he's happy, to get angry when he is, to cry when he's lonely, etc?\n\nAnd the day Menma died, Menma called for the Super Peace Buster to fulfill\nthat wish but unfortunately, due to Yukiatsu and Anaru's plan to tell everyone\nwhat Jinta feels about Menma, (which apparently Menma and Tsuruko knew about)\nit failed and led to Menma's death. How did she plan to fulfill that promise\nthat day?\n\nWas it explained or not? Or is it overlooking on my part?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T13:47:22.623", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2686", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-06T02:11:46.857", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-28T09:22:33.067", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "anohana" ], "title": "How did Menma fulfill her wish?", "view_count": 35194 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think it was explained in the series but one of the things most people\nassume is that Menma returns because she wants her wish fulfilled. This, in\nturn, could mean that once her wish is fulfilled, she leaves. So the\nassumption is that she disappears because her wish was fulfilled, but what if\nher return didn't have anything to do with her wish (or specifically here, the\n\" _make Jinta cry since his mother thinks he shouldn’t hold back anymore_ \").\nSo it's possible either she has returned for some reason unrelated to her wish\nor she lied about what her wish actually was. Note that these two things are\nnot mutually exclusive.\n\nSo the scenarios here are:\n\n * Menma lied about her wish, and she returned to have her wish fulfilled and at the end, it was fulfilled and she disappeared. All this time, the audience (and the rest of the cast) doesn't know what the wish is and thus don't know why she returned and why she disappeared.\n\n * Menma's wish was actually to make Jintan cry, but that's not why she returned. Thus perhaps even fulfilling the Jintan-cry-wish, she doesn't disappear because the reason for her return is something else, which was completed at the end of the series.\n\n * Menma's lied about her wish, but her return was irrelevant to that wish to begin with, leaving her disappearance a mystery. It's possible in this scenario, that the wish facilitated whatever it was that allowed her to leave.\n\nAs for what the wish was and why she left, it's probably all speculation.\nThere's a [blogpost](http://keikakudoori.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/ano-hana-\nalternatives-interpretations-and-theories/) that speculates about the\npossibilities of Menma's wish and her reasons for returning. Note that this\nwas written before the ending of the series, but if we are to assume that the\nfinal wish (or the reason she came back) isn't what she claims, then a lot of\nit is still applicable.\n\nIt's completely reasonable to assume that the extension of her wish was meant\nfor \"Jintan to generally open himself up again to different emotions like\nenjoying himself with his friends, to laugh when he's happy, to get angry when\nhe is, to cry when he's lonely\", and the entire journey of finding what it was\nthe Menma had originally wished for accomplished this. And that sort of mean\nher original wish _wasn't_ what brought her back and not why she left at the\nend.\n\nAs for how she planned on accomplishing her original wish if she had not died,\nI don't know.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T21:08:16.960", "id": "2689", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-27T21:08:16.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's easy, her wish was to spend more time with the Super Peace Busters.\n\nShe reunited them and made them honest to each other that's why in the very\nlast episode she was slowly disappearing, because all of them knew what\neveryone was hiding from each other.\n\nMenma's wish was to reunite the Super Peace Busters, to really hear what Jinta\nhas to say, before she died to grant the wish of Jinta's mother and to have\nproper goodbyes. It said that they won't have proper goodbyes if they don't\nfind Menma, thats why Menma appeared again to properly say goodbye.\n\nIf you watch the series more than once you would know. I watched it 33 times,\nthen just now it hit me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-20T13:50:48.363", "id": "4418", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-21T19:25:13.293", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-21T19:25:13.293", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "2054", "parent_id": "2686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understand, Menma did come back in order to fulfill the wish of\nJinta's mom, but it's not specifically about \"crying\". It's about being honest\nwith one's emotions and the first time Jinta cried, he's still in conflict\nabout what he felt about letting Menma go, that's why it didn't work.\n\nPlus, Menma said that it can only be fulfilled with all of the Peace Busters\ntogether. So aside from Jinta's mom's wish, Menma also has a wish of her own,\nthat all of the Peace Busters would finally be able to let their true feelings\nout, not just Jinta.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-09-13T22:30:05.540", "id": "65594", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-06T02:11:46.857", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-06T02:11:46.857", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "62397", "parent_id": "2686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, I'm gonna put it up in three points of view. Menma's wish was:\n\n * God's point of view: to make up among the rest of six friends, to rebuild the old peace busters. That's why in the 11th episode you would see that just after the friends started revealing what was on their mind, Menma's hand got a little ash in color meaning her journey to heaven, her peace in mind was already on act.\n\n * Menma's point of view: As Menma herself mentioned in the anime, she wanted to keep the promise with Jintan's mother to make junta wide open in mind once again and she also wanted to see the Peace Busters for one last time together to say a proper goodbye, to erase the self-made sins in their mind from which they were hiding since Menma's death.\n\n * My point of view: including the two opinions given up here, I'd add that she just wanted to bring herself inner peace from her sudden death via bringing peace to her friends, especially Jintan who was totally uprooted after two sudden deaths, one of his mother and the other of Menma's.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-05T20:15:06.960", "id": "65863", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-06T02:10:35.257", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-06T02:10:35.257", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63124", "parent_id": "2686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2734", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI know that some changes were made to Sailor Moon when it was translated into\nEnglish, like that Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are changed from lovers to\ncousins. What other changes were made?\n\nI'm not asking about name changes, only plot and character changes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T13:48:13.207", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2687", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-24T21:05:52.247", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-27T14:04:04.550", "last_editor_user_id": "29", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "sailor-moon" ], "title": "How does the English version of Sailor Moon differ from the original?", "view_count": 21242 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBesides the points you made yourself... I do not believe \"some\" is a word I\nwould use. I actually watched Sailor Moon with Dutch dubs (based on the\nEnglish version so I got double the misery) and saw the Japanese version after\nthat and got so confused about it. The Japanese and the English version have\nthe same name but that is about the only thing these two have in common. So\nno, to me \"some\" does not even come close.\n\nEach episode was different from the original Japanese version: any form of\nviolence, nudity, death, swearing and gay relationships or gay behaviour was\ntaken out.\n\nEven the main theme of love was not as highly present in the English as in the\nJapanese. The English theme song is a superhero song:\n\n> I'm sorry I'm not straightforward, \n> I can say it in my dreams \n> My thoughts are about to short circuit, \n> I want to see you right now\n\nversus...\n\n> Fighting evil by moonlight, \n> Winning love by daylight, \n> Never running from a real fight, \n> She is the one named Sailor Moon\n\nPeople actually die in the Japanese version. Something that surprised me even\nmore since I was still used to it being a naive censored version.\n\nYou are not the first to ask this and there is a website dedicated to the\ndifferences called\n[smuncensored](http://www.smuncensored.com/season.php?season=1). It has an\nepisode-by-episode color-coded review of all the differences. Looking at\n[episode 1](http://www.smuncensored.com/comparison.php?episodeid=1) I stopped\ncounting at 50 differences in plot and story line. [Episode\n2](http://www.smuncensored.com/comparison.php?episodeid=2) was skipped\ncompletely... and at [episode\n46](http://www.smuncensored.com/comparison.php?episodeid=46) you can see that\na total of 6 episodes got skipped.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T20:43:34.660", "id": "2734", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T03:39:32.940", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-26T03:39:32.940", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1514", "parent_id": "2687", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2691", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhy is the image of Totoro (from \"My Neighbor Totoro\") so common? Even outside\nanime, background drawings can include Totoro dolls or posters.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1K0I.gif)\n\nIs it just a question of marketing or is there something special about the\nfigure or character? I wonder if Totoro (as a toy or image) is even better\nknown than the movie.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-27T22:26:10.793", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2690", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-09T12:42:44.653", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-09T12:42:44.653", "last_editor_user_id": "66713", "owner_user_id": "1507", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "symbolism", "culture", "hayao-miyazaki", "studio-ghibli" ], "title": "Ubiquity of Totoro", "view_count": 2303 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFor one thing, the image of Totoro is part of Studio Ghibli's (one of the most\nfamous and critically acclaimed animation studios) logo:\n\n\n\nThe second thing is that the movie appeals highly to both children and adults.\nIn a paper by Rieko Okuhara titled \"[Walking Along With Nature: A\nPsychological Interpretation of My Neighbor\nTotoro](http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/tlg/article/view/104/100)\",\nshe starts with:\n\n> Why did My Neighbor Totoro capture the hearts of the Japanese people,\n> including my mother, so strongly? So popular in Japan is My Neighbor Totoro\n> that people say every Japanese family owns a copy and that every Japanese\n> child knows Totoro. On the surface, the story is quite simple and easy to\n> follow. The cute cuddly characters seem universally appealing. Adults may be\n> reliving cherished childhood memories, for the film takes place in a village\n> in Japan and portrays the post-World War II countryside in detail. But is\n> its adult appeal just nostalgia for the forgotten days of long ago? \n> \n> ... \n> \n> The lovable features of the characters are a major reason for the popularity\n> of the film. Totoro and his friends are furry and look like stuffed animals.\n> Totoro, or Big Totoro (Oh Totoro), is the main advertising icon for Studio\n> Ghibli, and products featuring Totoro are popular among both children and\n> adults. Medium Totoro (Chu Totoro), Little Totoro (Chibi Totoro), Catbus\n> (Neko Basu), and Mei are also favorite characters of My Neighbor Totoro\n> fans. Catbus is not really \"cute\" per se; he strongly recalls the Cheshire\n> Cat from Alice in Wonderland with his big grin. Tanaka compares Catbus with\n> a Japanese cat monster (bake neko) because of his big eyes that see through\n> the dark and his big mouth that lets out a horrifying noise. Yet fans find\n> Catbus adorable and enjoy the humor in the way he runs on narrow electric\n> cables and jumps over trees. The fantasy world where Totoro and his friends\n> belong appears almost dream-like, and Mei and Satsuki wonder several times\n> if Totoro and his friends live in their dream world. The creatures' amiable\n> woolly features make the children wonder even more if all the spirits are\n> characters from their dreams. In one scene, the sisters describe the night\n> they spend with the spirits as \"a dream, but not a dream\", which is exactly\n> how they experience their time with the spirits of nature. It is easy to\n> understand how the adorable features and comic actions of these animal-like\n> spirits make them everyone's favorites, but this does not explain why Mei is\n> considered a favorite character. Mei seems to have something special that\n> appeals to adults and children, which is not clear at first glance.\n\nLast year, Biglobe reported that [\"Totoro\" was the most used word on Japanese\nTwitter](http://www.biglobe.co.jp/pressroom/info/2012/08/120807-3)\n\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro#Critical_reception)\nmentions some reasons for Totoro's ubiquity:\n\n> My Neighbor Totoro helped bring Japanese animation into the global\n> spotlight, and set its writer-director Hayao Miyazaki on the road to\n> success. The film's central character, Totoro, is as famous among Japanese\n> children as Winnie-the-Pooh is among British ones. The Independent\n> recognized Totoro as one of the greatest cartoon characters, describing the\n> creature, \"At once innocent and awe-inspiring, King Totoro captures the\n> innocence and magic of childhood more than any of Miyazaki's other magical\n> creations.\" The Financial Times recognized the character's appeal, \"[Totoro]\n> is more genuinely loved than Mickey Mouse could hope to be in his\n> wildest—not nearly so beautifully illustrated—fantasies.\" \n> \n> The environmental journal Ambio described the influence of My Neighbor\n> Totoro, \"[It] has served as a powerful force to focus the positive feelings\n> that the Japanese people have for satoyama and traditional village life.\"\n> The film's central character Totoro was used as a mascot by the Japanese\n> \"Totoro Hometown Fund Campaign\" to preserve areas of satoyama in the Saitama\n> Prefecture. The fund, started in 1990 after the film's release, held an\n> auction in August 2008 at Pixar Animation Studios to sell over 210 original\n> paintings, illustrations, and sculptures inspired by My Neighbor Totoro. \n> \n> A main-belt asteroid was named 10160 Totoro after the film's central\n> character Totoro.\n\nThe ubiquity of Totoro seems less about marketing and more about how great the\nmovie and its characters are perceived, especially in Japan, and by both\nchildren and adults. In Roger Ebert's review of the movie said the movie was\n\"based on experience, situation and exploration—not on conflict and threat\".\nSo the imagery of Totoro is both iconic and positive.\n\nI don't know where the Okuhara paper gets the source that \"every Japanese\nfamily owns a copy [of the movie] and that every Japanese child knows Totoro\",\nbut it would seem that the movie itself is better known than simply Totoro\ntoys.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T01:06:26.040", "id": "2691", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T01:06:26.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2690", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2694", "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nIn Naruto, when does Kakashi first use his Mangekyou Sharingan? Because as far\nas I know, he and Tobi both awaken their Mangekyou Sharingan when Kakashi saw\nRin and Obito get killed, but he never uses it in the series until Shippuden.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T01:52:37.567", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2693", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-12T15:14:32.153", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T13:10:03.793", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1508", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "When does Kakashi first use his Mangekyou Sharingan?", "view_count": 123194 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHe needed more chakra control and his stamina is sub-par. That timeskip made\neveryone get better so that's most likely the reason. Plus, he is a non-Uchiha\nand that's why he can barely handle it. Maybe he first used his Mangekyou\nSharingan during his fight with Deidara.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T01:58:38.887", "id": "2694", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T13:12:00.067", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T13:12:00.067", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1508", "parent_id": "2693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nKakashi's first known use of the Mangekyo Sharigan was against Deidara.\nHowever, I think your question really is why did he not use it earlier. There\ncould be a number of reasons why he did not use it or was not shown using it\nearlier.\n\nKakashi awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan when Rin was killed. He thus failed to\nkeep his promise to Obito. Hence, this was a emotionally painful moment for\nhim, tied to both Rin and Obito. Maybe he did not want to use it since to\navoid revisiting those emotions.\n\nAs mentioned in lexter's answer, another reason is that being a non-Uchiha, he\nsimply did not have enough stamina to use it effectively in battle. Even after\ntimeskip, he could only use it twice in a day, and had to take rest for a week\nor so after he used it. Before timeskip, he was in charge of genin-level\nstudents, and he couldn't risk getting knocked out and put his students in\ndanger.\n\nAlso, before the timeskip, he simply did not get to fight villains against\nwhom he was forced to use it. He only fought Zabuza and Haku during the Land\nof Waves arc, and unnamed shinobi from Sand Village and Sound Village during\nthe Invasion of Konoha arc. If Orochimaru were to fight him, Kakashi would\nprobably be pushed to using it, but Orochimaru fought with the Third Hokage\ninstead.\n\nLosing to Uchiha Itachi easily may have compelled Kakashi to consider using\nit, due to the usual shounen/Naruto logic of \"If I want to protect my nakama,\nI have to get stronger.\"\n\nThere could also be a couple of author issues why Kakashi couldn't be shown\nusing it earlier. Sasuke was a protagonist at the time, and his main aim in\nlife was to kill Itachi. Therefore, it was necessary to introduce Itachi as a\nsuperpowerful villian. Ensuring that Mangekyo Sharingan is first mentioned\nwhen Itachi is introduced would maximize the audience's perception of how\nstrong and evil Itachi is.\n\nThe other reason is it was not in the author's plan that Kakashi had already\nawakened the Mangekyo Sharingan when the series started, and planned to offer\nan alternate explanation for how he awakened it during the timeskip period.\nHowever, as he started addressing the hanging threads while winding up the\nstory, he decided to shoehorn it into Obito's backstory.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T04:54:19.203", "id": "2699", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T04:54:19.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nMy friend just discovered this in the anime (first season, episode 6, at about\n6:35) which I think supports the other explanations. Kakashi is about to use\nit when he is caught in Zabuza's water prison jutsu. You can see it in this\nimage. This would indicate that he is ready to use it in a near death\nsituation.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WSZBZ.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-21T20:44:49.073", "id": "35934", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-21T21:40:50.533", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-21T21:40:50.533", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "27869", "parent_id": "2693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIn kakashi's fight with deidara (episode 29) he references using it before so\nI think it's safe to assume he has at least practiced the mongekyou sharingan\nbefore this fight\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-24T15:19:19.173", "id": "37009", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-24T15:19:19.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28892", "parent_id": "2693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the only real reason here is **retcon**. The Sharingan history is one\nof the most retconed plots in the Narutoverse and the Kakashi-Rin-Obito\nrelationship is up there too. If what is being suggested by these answers and\ncomments is true, then we have to ignore the fact that Kishimoto admited not\nyet having a design for the Mangekyou Sharingan for the scenes that show\nItachi using it on Sasuke without the design we now know. Because of that, we\ncan infere that at the time kakashi was fighting Zabuza, him having the\nMangekyou too was unthinkable. Not to mention that when he truly first used it\nagainst Deidara, he spent a good hour \"working\" on his new Sharingan (see\nimage below), so even at the point it still wasn't defined that he had\nawakened it in Rin's death.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uah79.png)\n\nNow, if we MUST make it work for the sake of the Narutoverse, even then we\ncan't presume that those were his intentions when fighting Zabuza, simply\nbecause there was no point in using his Kamui in that specific situation.\n\nAbout his ability with it, yeah, he probably did use it before his fight with\nDeidara simply because he knew what his eye would do. Since he's not an\nUchiha, he had no way of knowing the details of the Mangekyou's power (other\nthen watching Itachi, which was not helpful since their eyes didn't have the\nsame jutsu) without testing on a tree, or a rock. He did faint afterwards, but\nit wasn't after a single use, he spent a lot of time trying to sever Deidara's\narm and even \"Kamui'd\" his Jibaku Bunshin (Suicide Bombing Clone) entire\nexplosion away.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-04T14:13:16.753", "id": "46881", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-12T15:14:32.153", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-12T15:14:32.153", "last_editor_user_id": "22922", "owner_user_id": "22922", "parent_id": "2693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHe awakened when he killed rin, but he learned about the existence of the\nmangekyou in the first fight with Itachi, i think kakashi maybe have trained\nusing this fight as \"inspiration\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-02T20:54:26.873", "id": "53844", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-02T20:54:26.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48372", "parent_id": "2693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nWhy was the Third Hokage not revived at his prime? He could be much stronger\nbecause it was believed that he already surpassed the previous Kage of Konoha.\nAt that point, he knew all the techniques in Konoha.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T02:26:53.333", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2696", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-10T19:30:37.427", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:47:12.243", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "1508", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why was the Third Hokage not revived at his prime?", "view_count": 4438 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs you can see, all the revived character in naruto was revived in the form\nbefore they died. The third hokage died at an old age that's why he was not\nrevived at his prime.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T03:25:13.227", "id": "2698", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T03:25:13.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1508", "parent_id": "2696", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are a couple of possible reasons for this, though as far as I know, it\nhasn't been explained in the manga.\n\nThe first possible reason is that Sasuke hadn't mastered it well enough to\nbring him back at his full power. As is stated on page 10 of chapter 620, if\nthe summoner doesn't have full mastery of the summoning, the reincarnated\nindividual might not be brought back with the full power they had in life.\n\nAlso, according to\n[here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation):\n\n> As a downside, the reincarnated seem to retain any permanent body damage and\n> physical limitations they received during their lifetime.\n\nThis could include aging. The First and Second Hokage also seem to appear the\nsame way as they did whenever they were shown in flashbacks.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-08T20:58:20.137", "id": "3293", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-08T20:58:20.137", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2696", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAll of the characters have been reanimated in their most iconic form, we've\nalways known Third Hokage as an old man.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-04T16:28:19.673", "id": "48188", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-04T16:28:19.673", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41864", "parent_id": "2696", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara is a weird case though. He hadn’t awakened his rinnegan until he was\nvery old, yet when he was resurrected he was young again with his new eyes in\ntact. His most iconic form is him young with eternal MS not old with rinnegan.\nMaybe how a person is resurrected is purely based on their summoner’s skill,\nthe more skilled the more powerful the resurrected person is. Lol that makes\nme think of what would happen if Donzo was brought back by Kabuto, would Donzo\nhave his arm full of eyes back working at full capacity?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-10T19:30:37.427", "id": "55532", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-10T19:30:37.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50282", "parent_id": "2696", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2708", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI have started watching Beelzebub anime. The anime is very funny, and I feel\nthere is a plot in it.\n\nDoes this anime have a real plot or is it just a comedy like Gintama? By a\nreal plot, I mean that the story is more important than the comedy (One Piece\nfor example).\n\nSo, is it leaning towards One Piece or Gintama in terms of plot?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T05:40:03.720", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2700", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T13:05:42.507", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T13:05:42.507", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1388", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "beelzebub" ], "title": "Is Beelzebub's main focus on comedy or storyline?", "view_count": 1696 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's plot is given quite early, but is often overlooked. The plot it that Oga\nis supposed to raise Beelzebub into the new Demon King. Simple as that. This\nincludes everything from Oga and Beelzebub growing stronger, to gaining\nminions and so forth. The anime and manga are quite easy going, but slowly and\nwith no rush, it's moving further against the goal.\n\nYou may ask yourself what Oga feels about having his \"son\" to become a\npowerful and merciless Demon King, however thoughs regarding this hasn't been\nmentioned more then a couple of times with no further talk about it.\n\nPersonally, I prefer to read the manga due to the [anime being\ncancelled](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120325121047AAaZ8fc).\nI've yet to get tired of the manga due to all the awesome and funny things\noccuring in it. I gave up on the anime once I knew it wouldn't continue.\n\n**To answer your question;** \nBeelzebub is a comedy _with_ a (slim) story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T09:40:15.807", "id": "2708", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T09:40:15.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1407", "parent_id": "2700", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "38762", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIt seems like it may have been hinted at in one of the flashbacks (there were\na few of them in the last episode) and it always seemed like it had something\nto do with that tree that Binchou-tan's always looking at (and writes a letter\nat the end).\n\nDid her grandmother die at the tree? Did she die of old age or was it sudden\n(like getting attacked by a wolf)? It seems weird that she'd abandon Binchou-\ntan in the middle of the woods if she knew she was dying.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T12:30:58.630", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2721", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-03T08:10:26.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "binchou-tan" ], "title": "How did Binchou-tan's grandmother die?", "view_count": 286 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is explained in the last (4th) volume of the manga:\n\n> She collapsed and passed away at a market when she went to a town.\n\n* * *\n\nThe respective page:\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tzs3U.jpg)\n>\n> Image taken from [livedoor, a Japanese\n> blog](http://blog.livedoor.jp/animarusokuho/archives/22590411.html)\n\nTranslation:\n\n> 2nd - 4th panel: Good afternoon. You're Binchou-tan, right? I'm a\n> spokesperson from town hall... your grandmother passed away in the town.\n> Yesterday at the market, she collapsed, and...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-03T08:10:26.577", "id": "38762", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-03T08:10:26.577", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "2721", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2725", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThroughout **Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei** , there's a picture (not animated) of\na bald man's face that appears randomly (often as a censor). Who is he and\nwhat is his relation to the show (or their creators)? Does he randomly appear\nin other Studio SHAFT shows?\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T12:55:04.723", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2722", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T14:22:48.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 16, "tags": [ "sayonara-zetsubou-sensei" ], "title": "Who is this man whose face appears randomly?", "view_count": 17254 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHe is the mangaka's assistant, Maeda-kun.\n\nFrom the TVTropes page [Manga: Sayonara, Zetsubou-\nSensei](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei):\n\n> Fan Disservice: Some fanservice scenes can be a little awkward when they're\n> censored by the face of Maeda-kun, Koji Kumeta's assistant, who sometimes is\n> even facepalming disapprovingly. Shame on you.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T13:15:19.443", "id": "2723", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T13:15:19.443", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nHe is [Kosaku\nMaeda](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E7%94%B0%E5%90%9B), and his\nnickname is MAEDAX, he was the voice actor for several minor parts in the show\n(including playing himself, credited as MAEDAX) and also worked on the manga.\n\n[Here is his picture on Anime news\nnetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=67112).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T13:57:32.927", "id": "2725", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T14:22:48.330", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-28T14:22:48.330", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "1504", "parent_id": "2722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "6357", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAt the end of **Mahoromatic** (second season), what happened to Suguru?\n\n> After Mahoro dies, the final episode reveals that Suguru was so distraught\n> over Mahoro's death that he becomes a cyber bounty hunter who hates robots\n> now. So he was wounded after being betrayed by his partner and then he sees\n> Mahoro again. We know she died, but not in a way one normally would. We find\n> that she has become the \"Id\" (I may be remembering incorrectly these terms)\n> of humanity, so she's sort of still around. Does Suguru die and he's just\n> hallucinating Mahoror or is he somehow metaphysically reunited with Mahoro?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T13:17:36.367", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2724", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-03T22:58:56.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "mahoromatic" ], "title": "What happened to Suguru at the end?", "view_count": 7793 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a classic [Gainax\nEnding](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GainaxEnding), i.e. an\nending where a lot of things happen which are ambiguous or just plain don't\nmake sense. The trope is named after the studio\n[Gainax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainax), famous for these sorts of\nendings (see also \"Neon Genesis Evangelion\" or \"Panty & Stocking with\nGarterbelt\"), the same studio which produced Mahoromatic. To put it simply,\nthings happen in the anime, but there's no explanation for exactly what\nhappened.\n\nIn the case of Mahoromatic, this is understandable. The second season of the\nanime ended in 2003, while the manga continued until 2004, so at some point\nthe anime studio was forced to either wait to create another season concluding\nthe anime or else come up with their own ending (they chose the latter).\nAnime-original endings are not uncommon among manga adaptations.\n\nAnyway, here's everything that I've managed to gather from it:\n\n> Suguru is now a bounty hunter on the Saint-Earth colony. He works with a\n> comrade, but that comrade later backstabs Suguru in an attempt to collect\n> the bounty on his head. As he is seriously wounded or dying, he sees Mahoro\n> again. Matthew also makes a vauge related comment related to \"leaving\n> something behind\" as she leaves the Earth to search for more life, which\n> seems like it may be a reference to Mahoro. It's not clear in what form she\n> has been reborn (human, android, or something else entirely), or if she's\n> just a hallucination. Even if she's alive, Suguru is most definitely\n> seriously injured, and it is not explained whether or how he survives.\n\nIf one browses through forums and blogs, there are tons of speculative\ninterpretations of this, and none seem to have any official sources backing\nthem up. The only conclusion I can come to is that the ending is ambiguous,\nperhaps deliberately so. There do not seem to be canonical answers to any of\nthese questions.\n\nFor what it's worth, the manga ending is somewhat easier to understand, but it\nis quite different from the anime ending in terms of the points you have\nmentioned. There are some similar details, so it may be that the author had\nsome rough idea what he wanted to do but had not finalized the details at the\ntime of the anime's ending.\n\n> Matthew (the leader of Saint) was the original basis for Mahoro and the one\n> who proposed her to Suguru's grandfather originally. 20 years after the\n> events of the main story, Suguru is now a Vesper agent and works tirelessly\n> to defeat their enemies. Matthew meanwhile is leaving Earth to search for\n> new life somewhere else, but decides to give birth to a human girl who is\n> the reborn version of Mahoro. As Mahoro ages she begins to remember about\n> Suguru. After one mission, Suguru returns to his home on the Earth, only to\n> be greeted by the reborn and newly human Mahoro. It's implied that they live\n> happily ever after. In this ending it's clear how Mahoro was reborn, and\n> that Suguru did not die and was not hallucinating.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-16T16:30:01.207", "id": "6357", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-16T16:30:01.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2724", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs i checked in anime what i got is suguru is half saint and half human and\nhe's upgraded his body by mechanising himself .He's now in a colony shared by\nboth humans and saints outside earth but he's an vesper agent who kills the\nbattle androids for bounty most of them were keepers who enhanched themselves\nduring the last stage of their end . But suguru gets betrayed by his own\ncomrade who stabs him from back whereas he slices the traitor to half finding\nout he's a droid to .During this time matthew and lisa discuss to move further\nin the space. While lisa whos a saint worry's about suguru her grandson as she\nwas the women who gave birth to sugurus mother and was lover of sugurus grand\nfather .This reveals suguru is hybrid of saint and human whereas matthew says\nshe wants to leave her sweet memories behind as they wont be needed in her\nfurther journey but will be helpful to someone and assures lisa that suguru is\nfine and he wont be lonely anymore .Here mahoro is revived by matthew as her\nsweet memories are left in her she finds suguru in the colony and injured\nsuguru thinks he's hallucinating in his death only to find out she has come\nback again for real this time as mentioned by matthew sugur is fine despite\nbeing injured that means he's well and lives with mahoro goes back to earth to\nlive happily ever after\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-01-03T06:50:12.423", "id": "50299", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-03T06:50:12.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44181", "parent_id": "2724", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is an old question, but I recently re-watched the ending and I wanted to\ngive my point of view of what happen.\n\nBefore beginning the last episode...\n\n> Mahoro death left a heartbroken Suguru who feels betrayed after he has been\n> left alone again without family. Even if he was able to get some of his old\n> life back with his good friends and school, he decided to leave his hometown\n> to never return again, trying to erase the memories of that time that causes\n> him so much pain.\n\nThen, in the last episode...\n\n> After 20 years, Suguru is a 34 years old bounty hunter based on the new\n> Saint-Terran colony established in a planet assumed to be near Earth. We\n> learn soon that many of his body parts have been replaced by cybernetic\n> components, rendering him as a cyborg rather than a human, but also enabling\n> him to do dangerous jobs as hunting down and destroying any remaining of\n> Management androids. The only mood relief of this whole dark episode is a\n> fleeting encounter with Shikijo-sensei, who after seeing she has not changed\n> a bit, Suguru suspects she is an android also; something she notices and\n> clarify she is 100% human. Then Shikijo notices Suguru's sword and the odd\n> look of Jils, his business partner; get a bit scared and decides to left him\n> behind, vowing to meet him again \"if he is still alive\".\n\nAnd finally...\n\n> Suguru get backstabbed by Jils, who does so just because there is a bounty\n> on Suguru's head. Suguru pain a suffering over these 20 years have been\n> followed by Ryoga and Lisa (his grandmother and only family member still\n> alive), without taking any particular action on it. With Suguru in the edge\n> between life and death, prompts Lisa to take action and talk to Matthew, the\n> collective consciousness of Saint. Mahoro was an android built with Saint\n> technology, so it means that she has a true hearth and memories, connected\n> to Matthew; so after Mahoro destruction, her memories and conciousness when\n> back to him/her. Lisa makes a request to Matthew so they can do something\n> for Suguru, and Matthew tells how 20 years ago a memory born inside him that\n> he were not able to cope with -clearly talking about Mahoro-. As Matthew and\n> some Saints are about to embark on a new journey into deep space, and this\n> uneasy memory will be of no use, he decides to leave it back for Suguru...\n\n> This creates a totally misplaced Mahoro in the Saint-Terran colony near\n> Suguru's whereabouts but not directly in front of him (it is not clear this\n> new Mahoro is an android, human or whatever), so Mahoro start looking for\n> Suguru and asking people she finds about him. Finally, she finds Suguru but\n> she is not able to recognize him, as she is still looking for the 14-years\n> old kid. Suguru, who is on the verge of death, thinks that Mahoro is the\n> Angel of Death, the Grim Reaper, or plain simple that he is dying\n> (ironically, he doesn't seems to care much about it). After several really\n> funny interactions between the misplaced Mahoro and the old Suguru, she\n> finally notices he is the person who is looking for, and Suguru realizes the\n> Mahoro that is in front of him is real. She tells Suguru to go back home,\n> where he can get his happy life back and never be alone again.\n\nAbout Suguru's fate:\n\n> It is heavily hinted that Suguru survives and return safely to Earth with\n> Mahoro: first in the epilogue dialogue and second, because Lisa states to\n> Ryoga that \"nobody will die tonight\". Finally, I think the change in the\n> final scene from 34 years-old Suguru to 14 years old one is just to avoid\n> the weird view it would be Mahoro embracing a 34 years-old man.\n\nThis last episode can look grim and many people may hate it, but I really\nloved it and I think on it as a proper ending to the series as...\n\n> ...Suguru suffering and sacrifice during 20 years is what triggers Lisa to\n> request Matthew -something that seems to be highly taboo- to do something\n> about it and bring Mahoro back. If Suguru didn't go this dark way, he could\n> have been happier during the 20 years, but he would never had Mahoro back as\n> Lisa wouldn't sense the need to act.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-03T22:58:56.033", "id": "59488", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-03T22:58:56.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56075", "parent_id": "2724", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2733", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nTouhou Project has a lot of characters, but the vast majority of them are\nfemale. Even though Gensokyo has plenty of men, for whatever reason they are\nvery rarely relevant to the story. To the best of my knowledge, none of the\nmen have appeared in the games (excluding non-humanoid characters like Unzan),\nbut they do appear in manga side-stories and other canon works.\n\nCan someone provide a list of the major (named characters, characters with\nsignificant impact on the plot, etc.) canon male characters in Touhou Project?\nI'm mostly interested in human or humanoid characters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T18:26:05.850", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2732", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T23:31:17.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "touhou-project" ], "title": "What male characters are in Touhou?", "view_count": 15109 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know, [Rinnosuke\nMorichika](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Rinnosuke_Morichika) is the only male\ncharacter that is significant to the plot. He's the main character of the\nCuriosities of Lotus Asia (official) story compilation, which focuses on his\nlife as the proprietor of\n[Kourindou](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kourindou), a store that sells\nantiquities from the Outside World.\n\nReimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Youmu Konpaku, Remilia Scarlet, Yukari Yakumo,\nSakuya Izayoi and many other Touhou characters are mentioned in those stories,\nwhich is why I'd say it's relevant.\n\nYou could also count [Youki\nKonpaku](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Youki_Konpaku) (Youmu's predecessor at\nHakugyokurou) and [Marisa's\nfather](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Marisa%27s_unnamed_father) as other\nimportant male characters, but I don't recall those characters ever being\ndeveloped. They were mentioned in order to develop Youmu and Marisa's\ncharacters.\n\n**Edit** : If you want an extensive list of male gods/human/humanoid\ncharacters and you don't care whether they're relevant or not:\n\n * [Bishamonten](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Bishamonten): an actual god in Buddhist mythology, worshipped by [Byakuren Hijiri](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Byakuren_Hijiri)\n * [The Two Gateguards of the Lunar Capital](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Gateguards_of_the_Lunar_Capital#Gateguards_of_the_Lunar_Capital)\n * [Iwakasa](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Iwakasa): one of the guys who was told to dispose of the Hourai Elixir\n * [Lord Tsukuyomi](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Lord_Tsukuyomi): founder of the Lunar Capital\n * [Mizue no Uranoshimako](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Mizue_no_Uranoshimako)\n * [Myouren Hijiri](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Myouren_Hijiri): Byakuren's brother\n * [Shirou Sendai](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Shirou_Sendai): a man who brought good fortune to every business he would visit, mentioned in Wild and Horned Hermit\n * [Taisui Xingjun](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Taisui_Xingjun): tried to cause a disaster to Gensokyo in a dream Hong Meiling had\n * [Tenma](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Tenma): chief of the Tengu at Youkai Mountain\n * [Unshou](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Unshou): a mysterious fisherman who appears in Wild and Horned Hermit\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T18:43:18.910", "id": "2733", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-28T23:31:17.853", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-28T23:31:17.853", "last_editor_user_id": "190", "owner_user_id": "190", "parent_id": "2732", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3034", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn K-ON!, Ritsu found a doll (belonging to Mio) of an old man who's almost\nbald with a huge nose.\n\nIf I'm not mistaken, it was shown when they were cleaning their club room.\n\n (season\n2, episode 2, 4:54)\n\nWho is that old man doll? Was that doll based from a real person or from\nanother anime or just a random creation from K-ON! itself?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T01:05:22.993", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2737", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T17:00:16.903", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-25T20:22:21.817", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "k-on" ], "title": "What character is Mio's doll from?", "view_count": 1103 }

[ { "body": "\n\n[This](http://yuaayua.blog112.fc2.com/blog-entry-246.html) Japanese blog says\nit's a plush of \"ウゴウゴルーガ\" (Ugo Ugo Ru-ga).\n\nI'm personally not familiar with the show, but the it strongly resembles おやじむし\n(Oyajimushi), which I think is an \"insect father\"? Whatever that means.\n\nSearching further, [this](http://cyobin.blog10.fc2.com/blog-entry-1552.html)\nblog and [this](http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/shirakawakaido/diary/201003220000/)\nsite agree.\n\n[Here](http://blogc.fujitv.co.jp/simg/blogimg/9aab7/90025/52663_pcl.jpg)'s a\npicture of a plush doll that looks virtually identical, except for the nose\nbeing quite a bit longer.\n\nAnd\n[here](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E3%81%8A%E3%82%84%E3%81%98%E3%82%80%E3%81%97%20%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B4%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch)'s\na Google search with multiple images for \"おやじむし ウゴウゴルーガ\" (Oyajimushi Ugo Ugo\nRu-ga).\n\nAmong the images, there is one image from Amazon showing the manga where this\ncharacter originates from:\n\n\n\nThe manga is titled [**おやじむしの人生\n(人生いろいろウゴウゴ・ルーガ)**](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%81%8A%E3%82%84%E3%81%98%E3%82%80%E3%81%97%E3%81%AE%E4%BA%BA%E7%94%9F-%E4%BA%BA%E7%94%9F%E3%81%84%E3%82%8D%E3%81%84%E3%82%8D%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B4%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC-%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD-%E7%A7%80%E5%B9%B8/dp/4938704315).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-25T18:46:03.193", "id": "3034", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T17:00:16.903", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-20T17:00:16.903", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1603", "parent_id": "2737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2739", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWho is Domo-kun? Is he an anime character or a manga character? I often see\nhim in anime stores so I wonder if Domo-kun is an anime character or a manga\ncharacter?\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T03:49:34.023", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2738", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T04:15:03.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "domo-kun" ], "title": "Who is Domo-kun?", "view_count": 3227 }

[ { "body": "\n\nDōmo-kun is the official character or mascot for the Japanese broadcasting\nchannel _Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai_ (NHK). According to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domo_%28NHK%29), he was created in\n1998 and named after a pun on \"Hello there!\":\n\n> Domo-kun first appeared in short stop-motion sketches on 22 December 1998 to\n> mark the 10th anniversary of NHK's satellite broadcasting. The name \"Domo\"\n> was acquired during the second episode of his show, in which a TV announcer\n> said \"dōmo, konnichiwa\" (どうも、こんにちは?), which is a greeting that can be\n> translated as \"Well, hello there!\", but which can also be interpreted as\n> \"Hello, Domo\", and thus is a convenient pun (dajare).\n\nHis concept was created by Tsuneo Gōda to be a mascot. He appeared only in\nstop-motion animation originally, so it's hard to classify him as either\n\"anime\" or \"manga\". However, there was a (reportedly terrible) English-only\nmanga of the character, called _Domo: The Manga_ , published in the USA and\nCanada.\n\nAs a final note, and as you may or may not know, there has been a whole world\nof memes created from Dōmo-kun (including the [Grues on\nUncyclopedia](http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Grue)). You can read more at\n[Know Your Meme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/domo) (\n**Warning:[NSFW](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work)**).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T04:15:03.217", "id": "2739", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T04:15:03.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2738", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2743", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Kobato (Kodaka's sister) appears to have\n[Heterochromia iridum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum).\n\nHer right eye is red and her left eye is blue.\n\n\n\nBut in episode 5 of the first season, both her eyes are blue.\n\n\n\n## What gives?\n\nIs she wearing contacts? I wasn't able to find an explanation for this from\nthe Anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T06:12:34.837", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2742", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-09T16:00:55.333", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "boku-wa-tomodachi-ga-sukunai" ], "title": "Why are Kobato's eyes inconsistent in color between episodes?", "view_count": 3851 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is not heterochromia. The manga does explain it better and ...\n\n * her normal eye color is blue.\n * she is wearing a contact lens. \n\nThere is also a mention of her mother being English and having red eye color.\nSo wearing a contact might be a fashion statement.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T08:48:37.523", "id": "2743", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T08:48:37.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1514", "parent_id": "2742", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nHer eye is not those kind of special eye or Heterochromia type , she is\nwearing eye contact to match with the anime character she's cosplaying\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-31T06:53:38.683", "id": "3124", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-31T06:53:38.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1627", "parent_id": "2742", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3050", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nIn FMA, alchemists draw transmutation circles that are made up of perfect\ncircles and regular polygons.\n\n\n\nIs it ever show how they make perfect circles and entirely equal angles? I\nknow that it is difficult to free-hand draw things like that. Is anybody ever\nshown using rulers/compasses, or is it just understood that they are all able\nto free-hand circles/polygons without them?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T14:55:46.543", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2744", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-28T16:28:56.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series" ], "title": "How do alchemists draw transmutation circles?", "view_count": 9077 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's been a while, but I don't remember seeing any of them measuring their\ncircles, and it doesn't seem to be particularly important to the plot whether\nthey free-hand them or not.\n\nNow some of the combat alchemists, like Roy for instance, already have small\npre-made transmutation circles on-hand(I know Roy had some on his gloves) that\nthey used, so they don't have to draw them every time.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T19:16:44.653", "id": "2750", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T19:16:44.653", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "2744", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, they do sometimes show them drawing the circles. Mostly it seems when\nthey are kids though... Check out chapter 23 of the manga when Edward fixes\nthe farm building and when they try human transmutation. Both times he uses a\nstick or pointy ended object to draw the lines. With the farm building it\nshows him walking around the building using the stick.\n\nIn both cases you can see that the lines aren't perfectly equidistant and have\na bit of a squiggly edge to them, showing their hand drawn style.\n\nAnother example would be the small transmutation circle that Edward draws on\nthe suite of armor to attach Alphonse, though relatively small you see him\ndraw that one too. It too is in no way clean/sharp.\n\nMaybe it's just the anime that has sharp and clean transmutation circles?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T21:49:19.547", "id": "2751", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T21:49:19.547", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1433", "parent_id": "2744", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nPractice makes perfect, they probably didn't draw perfect figures, though\ndrawing such shapes constantly would most certainly help them do a pretty neat\njob.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-08T22:23:03.887", "id": "2847", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-08T22:23:03.887", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1548", "parent_id": "2744", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst, there is no official word on this. None of the Hiromu Arakawa (the\noriginal writer) interviews go into depth as to what the transmutation circles\neven _do_ , much less how they are created. Neither of the _FMA Perfect Guide_\nbooks mention transmutation circles to any strenuous degree, though it is\nmentioned that Alphonse has more practice drawing them than Edward (for\nreasons obvious to those who have seen the series).\n\nThere are [tutorials](http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Transmutation-Circle)\nonline that show methods to draw these circles; however, most if not all that\nI found used rulers, compasses, or other tools.\n\nSome alchemists use circles that are likely made by tools:\n\n * Major Armstrong's circles are inscribed in the [metal plates on his hands](http://ginnodangan.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/fma54-42.jpg). These would require tools to make, and so may have been made perfectly circular by tools as well.\n * The same applies to other circles we see; Roy's are on [his gloves](http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/4479/331630-fma_roy_mustang_red_75.jpg), Basque Grand's are on [his gauntlets](http://images.wikia.com/fma/images/f/ff/Basque03circle1.jpg), etc.\n\nHowever, alchemists are shown drawing the circles many times:\n\n * In a flashback during episode 2 _FMA:B_ (and others), Ed is shown to draw a transmutation circle (the blood seal) on Alphonse's armor just using his finger, and he's still a child.\n * Around episode 23 _FMA:B_ , May Chang is shown to draw a \"perfect\" circle and pentagram using only her foot. She then proceeds to throw ten _kunai_ into two perfect pentagons, which are used as transmutation circles.\n * In episode 57 _FMA:B_ , the Gold-Toothed Doctor uses chalk to draw a rather large transmutation circle.\n * In episode 63 _FMA:B_ , Edward Elric draws a large transmutation circle by only dragging a pipe across the ground.\n * In chapter 1 _Manga_ , Al is seen drawing a circle using chalk and no tools (pictured below). This shot appears in similar fashion in _Brotherhood_.\n\n\n\nIn none of the above circumstances are tools shown to be used to draw the\ncircles. Furthermore, Scar's brother's tattoo likely could _not_ have been\ndrawn with tools as the human skin is not a uniform or Euclidean surface. And\nalso, the Elric brothers are shown, prior to their mother's death, to draw\neffective transmutation circles without tools.\n\nWith all these bits of information together, it's _at the very least_ hard to\nbelieve that there are tools used to draw the circles, or even to learn to\ndraw them. No one is ever seen using them; I suspect we are just supposed to\nbelieve that freehanding it becomes a skill as alchemists get better.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-26T20:37:57.940", "id": "3050", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-26T20:37:57.940", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2744", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nThe one thing that the alchemists do get before even being able to apply to\njoin state is a LOT of practice. I think this is the part that's glossed over\nbecause it's not important. No one wants to see Al and Ed go through the\nlearning process on that part of it because it's boring.\n\nIt appears that this is why so many of the Alchemists specialize in one type\nof alchemy. They get particularly adept at specific symbols to go with the\nbasic circles and other geometric shapes. Practice and dedication is\nnecessary, as is the will to make it do more than look like a pattern.\n\nThey show the dedication in Al and Ed when they are young in some flashbacks.\nIt's almost obsession for them. After enough hours of practice, you become\nvery good at it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-28T16:28:56.183", "id": "3079", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-28T16:28:56.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1616", "parent_id": "2744", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2748", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThere is a very similar image in both Ouran High School Host Club and\nFullmetal Alchemist. Both the hair part and the eyes look essentially the\nsame. Are there any known connections/has anybody official said anything about\nit?\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T15:27:52.133", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2745", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T17:19:13.930", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-01T17:08:53.070", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series", "tropes", "ouran-high-school-host-club" ], "title": "Is there any relation between the images in Ouran High School Host Club and Fullmetal Alchemist?", "view_count": 1702 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBoth shows were animated by the studio called\n[BONES](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=198).\n\nIt is not uncommon for series animated by the same studio to contain jokes or\nreferences to other series. It can provide a great joke for those who have\nseen the referenced series (causing them to call out \"I know what that's\nfrom!\" just like you have), but for heavier references it might be a bit of an\nadvertisement as well.\n\nThe image below is a scene from Lucky Star referencing The Melancholy of\nHaruhi Suzumiya. Both series were animated by the same studio (Kyoto\nAnimation).\n\n\n\nAnd, below, Joshiraku (animated by JC Staff) shows off some 2D cosplayers\ncosplaying as characters from Zero no Tsukaima, Milky Holmes, Kaitou Tenshi\nTwin Angel, A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun, and Kill Me\nBaby. Guess who animated all of those? JC Staff. (Sorry, the only one I don't\nknow is the old man. Please feel free to comment/edit if you know what he's\nfrom.)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T17:19:13.930", "id": "2748", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T17:19:13.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "2745", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2747", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAnyone familiar with dating sims and romance visual novels will recognize the\nterm \"flag\" in that context. In these games, when you are presented with\nchoices which affect how the other characters view you and potentially change\nwhich route you go on, it's called a flag. \"Raising a character's flags\"\nessentially means that you make choices that improve your standing with that\ncharacter and which are more likely to put you on his/her route.\n\nThis terminology is quite common even outside of visual novels in anime. For\ninstance, the manga The World God Only Knows (a parody of the dating sim genre\nof games) uses the term frequently, and the manga chapters are numbered as\nflags (e.g \"flag 53\"). I've seen it in many other anime and manga as well,\nboth in Japanese and translated into English. I was not able to find any\nreference for the term used in this way in either English or Japanese.\n\nThe term \"flag\" doesn't seem particularly romantic or descriptive in this\ncontext. There are other terms, like \"affection points\" (a slightly different\nsystem) which are easy to understand, but \"flags\" is at least as common as any\nof those. What is the reasoning behind the terminology \"flag\" in this context\nand where does it originate?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T16:38:18.913", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2746", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-25T19:14:34.927", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-27T06:32:04.477", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 22, "tags": [ "terminology" ], "title": "Why are romantic events sometimes called \"flags\"?", "view_count": 17864 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe terminology probably comes from\n[programming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_word). With most visual novel\ngames the terminology \"flag\" and \"counter\" go hand-in-hand.\n\nIn the background of a game, there are various variables, the most notable\nones are the \"global\" and \"local\" variables. These variables usually what\ncounters and flags consists of.\n\nLocal variables are usually a point counter that resets every time you start a\nnew game. So let's say you have this character, Y. If you give Y a present,\nY's \"affection\" counter will increase with 2 points. By the end of the game,\nif this counter totals 12 points or more point, you will get that character's\n\"good\" end.\n\nGlobal variable are typically flags created by the game to remember certain\nthings. So if in a game if you chose to leave your house without checking the\nstove, you active the \"unchecked stove\" flag. Later in the game, the flag is\nchecked and if has been activated, if will trigger the event where your house\nhas burns down and you have to move in with a friend.\n\nA global variable flags are persistent, so when you start a new game they are\nnot reset like local variables. They typically are used as bookmarks to mark\nprogress and be used as save points, so you don't have to replay though\neverything again.\n\nLet's say that there is this other character named Z. If you get one of Y's\ngood end, you'll active the Y's good end global variable flag. During your\nnext playthrough at some point dring the game, the game checks for this flag\nhas been activated and if has, you get a new choice that allows you to access\nZ's route. This is typically done to control player progress in the game as\nZ's route might spoil story elements in Y's route.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T17:01:54.327", "id": "2747", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T17:07:39.857", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-01T17:07:39.857", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\n_This is purely conjecture._\n\nI suspect that flags are effectively the same as _booleans_ in computer\nprogramming which can have values of either _true_ or _false_. In\nvexillological terminology, flags would either be _raised_ or _lowered_. This\nmakes things easier to understand and visualise when used in dating sim\nsoftware. Furthermore, the existence of a number of dating sim _software\nengines_ which abstract a lot of the code into a more accessible format also\nprobably helped make such terminology mainstream.\n\nI can imagine that walkthroughs and the like which were created by people in\nthe business regularly used phrases such as _trigger the flag_ which hastened\nmatters.\n\nExcellent question.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T18:21:33.507", "id": "2749", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T18:21:33.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "2746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the visual novel/RPG _Megadimension Neptunia VII_ , the in-game codex,\n_Nepedia_ has the following entries:\n\n1\n\n> **Flag (Programming Term)**\n>\n> The term \"Flags,\" from their use as landmarks, is used in programming to\n> mean a requirement to process an action. If the requirement's cleared, one\n> says \"the flag is true\" or \"the flag's been raised.\" When it's not met, one\n> says \"a false flag falls.\"\n\n2\n\n> **Flag (Derivative) 1**\n>\n> Originally a programming term, it's come to be used to mean \"progress in a\n> relationship,\" \"omen of disaster,\" and other divergent meanings. A famous\n> flag is \"speaking optimistically and holding onto hope when things are\n> dire.\" Since most die after this, it's known as a \"death flag.\"\n\n3\n\n> **Flag (Derivative) 2**\n>\n> When a flag doesn't go as expected, or when a person stops the outcome\n> themselves or ignores it, it's known as \"breaking the flag.\" Those who do\n> this excesivelly are called \"Flag Crushers.\" The usage has diverged from the\n> meaning, and programmers in nations outside Japan say using the word\n> _breaking_ isn't right.\n\n4\n\n> **Flag Item**\n>\n> In Gamindustri, once in a great while, the usually intangible concept of\n> \"flag\" materializes into an item. The item is categorized as a \"Flag Item\",\n> and one receives beneficial functions by obtaining one. Previously,\n> adventurers and scouts raised and lowered it within dungeons to their\n> benefit. However, as it's much more convenient as an item, most people pull\n> it out and carry it away now, so you rarely see one in the wild.\n\nI think the last entry refers only to this game specifically, but the first\nthree entries are more generally. Still, it is a _in-game_ encyclopedia, and\nin a game that's overflowing with satire so take it with a grain of salt.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-25T19:14:34.927", "id": "36533", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-25T19:14:34.927", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24187", "parent_id": "2746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe background color of a manga paper when scanned online is changed by the\nscanlators to white (#FFFFFF).\n\nHowever, this is not the background color in an actual manga book. the color\nin the manga book looks little grayer in the paper.\n\nWhat I am trying to do, is to publish a manga online with the same real\nbackground color.\n\n * What is the best estimation of that white-gray color?\n * What are the manga papers made of? They are not the same as a normal white printer paper. \n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T23:13:30.637", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2752", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-19T22:28:39.807", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-02T19:46:28.387", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1388", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "manga-production" ], "title": "What is the color of a manga paper?", "view_count": 2283 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe color varies _widely_ based on multiple factors:\n\n * Lighting\n * Paper type (I'll get there in a minute)\n * Scanner type and quality\n\nTherefore, I can't 100% give you a color estimate (it could be anything from\nvery light yellowish-gray to very dark gray).\n\n* * *\n\nAs for paper types. There are also several types of paper that could be used\nfor printing manga:\n\n * Newspaper-like paper, which is thin and has a slight gray shade.\n * Recycled paper, which is yellowish in composure and often has little \"grains\" in it.\n\nThere are probably a whole lot more, but that's the prominent two I know of.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-02T19:58:01.283", "id": "2756", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T03:17:51.177", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T03:17:51.177", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "2752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nSolution: I also had this question, but I ended up having to make color\ncombinations, print them out, and compare them to physical copies of manga I\nhad. The closest color combination I was able to make was: (R, G, B) = (238,\n230, 201).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-19T22:28:39.807", "id": "62812", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-19T22:28:39.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60703", "parent_id": "2752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2755", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn episode 19, Natsu, Gray, Happy and Lucie should have been punished because\nthey \"stole\" an S-Rank quest. However, the master wasn't there, so they wanted\nto take another quest. When they read the quest content, it swapped their\nbodies/minds. The master then entered and tried to help them, and the episode\nends.\n\nEpisode 20 starts in a forest where Natsu and Happy are fishing, so the\n\"ending\" of Episode 19 is missing.\n\nDid I watch a wrong \"source\" or is this part really missing?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-02T09:34:07.000", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2754", "last_activity_date": "2019-09-25T14:03:20.323", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-09T11:01:40.427", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1493", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "fairy-tail" ], "title": "What happened to the punishment for stealing an S-Rank Quest?", "view_count": 35976 }

[ { "body": "\n\nEpisode 19 (filler episode) and episode 20 (omake episode) are non-canonical\nfrom a continuity perspective. In the manga, when they return to Magnolia,\nErza reminds them about _that_ punishment (just like in the anime), but then\nthey see their guild building destroyed. This begins the next Phantom Lord\narc, and thus the punishment matter gets dropped naturally. Since the\npunishment was never shown in canon, they probably decided to skip it in the\nanime too.\n\n> In any case, _that_ punishment is most likely something silly, such as the\n> one in episode 75 later.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-02T12:27:02.833", "id": "2755", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-02T12:27:02.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2754", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nWe never actually find out what \"THAT\" is. All we learn is that it is\nhorrifying enough to make Natsu scream in terror and Gray cry/breakdown at the\nthought of it.\n\nMy personal opinion is that knowing Makarov and how much he loves his\n\"children\" I doubt that it's something painful; rather my guess is that it's\nprobably something intensely humiliating.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-15T07:15:45.773", "id": "12857", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-15T07:15:45.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7605", "parent_id": "2754", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere was another time when a punishment was used. When the entire guild was\nracing, the last four people had the punishment of dressing up in women\nclothes, and they had their pictures taken for the sorcerers weekly magazine.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T20:54:33.523", "id": "15234", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-21T21:27:14.243", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-21T21:27:14.243", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "9288", "parent_id": "2754", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAfter defeating Cell, they revived all his victims using Shenron. But Shenron\ncould not revive Goku, as he already revived once. Then, Goku contacted them\nusing King Kai's telepathy and asked them not to revive him.\n\nThe question is, would it have been possible to revive him somehow (at that\npoint of the story) if he were not against it?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-03T00:27:50.567", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2757", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-04T06:50:40.930", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-13T20:31:40.560", "last_editor_user_id": "17758", "owner_user_id": "1520", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-z" ], "title": "Could Goku have been revived if he really wanted, after dying fighting Cell?", "view_count": 6745 }

[ { "body": "\n\nUnlike the Dragon Balls on Earth, the Dragon Balls of Namek are not restricted\nto reviving someone once. During the fight with Kid Buu, Goku and all the\npeople Buu killed on Earth as well as the planet itself were revived by having\nthe Namekians collect the Dragon Balls.\n\nSo yes, Goku could and was revived again by the Namekian Dragon Balls.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-03T01:59:49.243", "id": "2758", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-03T01:59:49.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2757", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n 1. Goku brought Dende to earth before he died in the fight against Cell, so they got two wishes. So, they could have used the second wish to go to Namek, then use one wish there to revive Goku and Kaito and use another to go back to earth. \n 2. Goku could have communicated with the Namekians to ask them to revive him.\n 3. Dende could have changed the Dragon Balls to make such wishes come true. Note that the Namekians made Porunga (Namekian Dragon) more powerful, so that he can revive multiple persons with one wish. \n 4. They could use the stupid-looking idea from Krillin and just turn back time multiple days so that Goku could train more and could even beat Cell, then he wouldn't die in the first place.\n\nSo yes, there would have been multiple ways to revive Goku at this time.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-03T17:56:54.977", "id": "2764", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T13:03:17.647", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T13:03:17.647", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "2757", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nGoku couldn't have been revived because there were no dragon balls and no one\nknew were new namek was,and instant transmission was still limited by distance\nso even if Goku wanted to be brought back to life there would still be no\npossible way. Even if you include GT Goku was still brought back to life once\nso the black star dragon balls could not have brought Goku back to life.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-28T18:42:47.907", "id": "30940", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-28T18:42:47.907", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23050", "parent_id": "2757", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIf you've seen CosPrayers, you probably remember it as one of the worst anime\nyou've watched. The story made no sense, with many important story elements\nbeing cut out entirely. The characters had no personality, terrible acting,\nand their actions didn't make sense. There was pretty much no explanation for\nwhat was happening either. The camera angles were strange. The random\nfanservice also kills any attempt at a serious tone, but the show seems to be\ntrying to take itself seriously. It's just all-around a bad show.\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmopolitan_Prayers) even claims\nthat the show spawned a minor meme \"Worse than CosPrayers\" to describe\nincredibly terrible shows.\n\nIf that were all, then we could just write off the show as one of anime's\ngreat failures, but the abomination continued with [Smash\nHit!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_o_Nerae!) ( _Hit wo Nerae!_ ) and\n[LOVE♥LOVE?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Love?). These series were aired\nin sequence immediately after CosPrayers and produced by the same people. In\nthem, CosPrayers is a live-action television show, and both shows are about\nthe production of CosPrayers. It is plagued with numerous problems, including\npoor management, lack of experience of the producers, unsuitable content, and\neven actresses seducing the screenwriter to try to get more screentime.\n\nIf a real show was plagued with so many problems, I imagine the result would\nbe pretty bad. So it's almost understandable why CosPrayers was so bad,\nespecially if it was intended to add to the story of the other two series.\nHowever, if that was their goal, I'd imagine that airing CosPrayers last,\nrather than first of the three, would be the better approach. It's also rather\nunbelievable that a studio would create a bad show deliberately, since I can't\nimagine they'd expect to make money off of it. Still, the show seems almost\ntoo bad to be true, and some forum posts online claim that it was deliberately\nmade that way to match the other two series better.\n\nIs there any evidence suggesting that CosPrayers was made to be a bad show,\nand the problems plaguing it were deliberate? Or is this just \"fan\"\nspeculation?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-03T04:38:59.820", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2759", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-11T15:32:53.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "anime-production", "love-love", "cosprayers", "smash-hit" ], "title": "Was CosPrayers deliberately bad?", "view_count": 625 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHaving checked [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosprayers),\n[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/CosPrayers), the\n[official\nwebsite](http://web.archive.org/web/20070220172341/http://www.ponycanyon.co.jp/pc-\nmoe/cosprayers/) (via Wayback Machine), and [Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3460),\nthere was no information on this. Even if the show was deliberately made to be\nbad, it's likely that the production company wouldn't reveal that fact, so\nwe'd have no way of knowing. Hence, there's probably no definitive answer to\nthis.\n\nHowever, the sorts of problems in the show aren't the sorts which one would\ndeliberately create if the show was deliberately made to be bad. The show\nprimarily suffers from an incoherent plot, as well as bland characters. But it\ndoesn't seem to be deliberately incoherent; rather, they had no room to fit\nany plot in the short time that was allotted. This is evidenced by the fact\nthat there are flashbacks to scenes which never took place on camera. Probably\nthere was initially some attempt at a plot, but crucial pieces were cut during\nproduction.\n\nIt's also notable that the show, while terrible, isn't anywhere near the worst\nanime ever. If the production team was deliberately trying to make a bad\nanime, they could have done even worse, e.g. by using worse artwork or adding\nmore plot holes. There's nothing good about Cosprayers, but there's plenty\nthat could still be worse. As Jon Lin noted in the comments, M.O.E. (the\nstudio responsible for Cosprayers) has done plenty of mediocre anime, and\nCosprayers could easily just be somewhere on the low tail end of the\ndistribution without being deliberately made to be bad.\n\nFinally, as I noted in the question, it doesn't make any sense why Cosprayers\nwould be aired before Smash Hit! and LOVE♥LOVE? if they were making it\ndeliberately bad. The better strategy from a production point-of-view would be\nto air it the last of the three.\n\nIt's worth noting that at least one guy on the internet agrees with me. [This\nreview](http://the-sun-is-up.dreamwidth.org/65427.html) of Cosprayers\ndiscusses whether the show is intentionally bad or not in the final paragraph:\n\n> But back to that question of the parody retcon: According to Wikipedia,\n> Smash Hit premiered only a week after CosPrayers ended, so it does seem\n> possible that the producers had planned all along for CosPrayers to be\n> crappy. But if that's the case, they're _still_ complete blockheads. First\n> of all, where's the sense in airing the intentionally sucky show-within-a-\n> show _before_ airing the making-of show that gives it context? Your audience\n> will get bored and/or annoyed and go off to watch something else long before\n> you have a chance to reveal the whole \"it was supposed to be crap all\n> along!\" twist. And secondly, **a crappy work does not automatically get any\n> less crappy just because you made it crappy on purpose.** If you sing a song\n> horrendously off-key, it doesn't matter whether you did it because you're\n> tone-deaf or because you're doing it intentionally to make some point —\n> either way, it's still going to make my ears bleed. Being sucky on purpose\n> isn't enough by itself — you have be _entertainingly_ sucky, and preferably\n> also include some satire on the sucky thing that you're imitating. Plus, I\n> don't think CosPrayers is outlandish enough in its suckiness to qualify for\n> the \"haha sucky on purpose\" crowd. Simply put, it's not bad enough. Despite\n> that \"worse than CosPrayers\" meme, it's not the worst anime out there, nor\n> is it even the worst I've seen. It's just kind of mediocre and incoherent.\n> It fails even at being legendarily awful.\n\nThere are some sources which make the opposite claim, but neither side has any\ndirect evidence. With that in mind, I'm of the opinion that while we can't\nknow for certain, based on the above evidence it's very likely that the show\nwas not intentionally bad.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-11T15:32:53.280", "id": "2865", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-11T15:32:53.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2759", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2766", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nHigurashi no Naku Koro Ni and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai both say \"Welcome\nto Hinamizawa...\" and \"WHEN THEY CRY...\" on the cover.\n\nUmineko no Naku Koro Ni says \"Welcome to Rokkenjima\" and \"WHEN THEY CRY 3\".\n\nI thought Umineko was the follow-up to Higurashi.\n\nWhere's \"WHEN THEY CRY 2\"?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-03T15:43:05.597", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2760", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-01T20:37:08.217", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-01T20:37:08.217", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1524", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "higurashi-when-they-cry", "umineko-when-they-cry" ], "title": "Am I missing an entry in the Higurashi series?", "view_count": 694 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough it's not said anywhere officially, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai is\nwidely considered to be When They Cry 2.\n\nContrary to Jon Lin's answer, \"When They Cry\" is not purely an English\nlicensing name. It may be used for the licensing name, but it is actually\nrelevant to the original creation.\n\nThe creator of the original sound novels, Ryuukishi07, uses this name and\nnumbers to distinguish/count the works in the \"When They Cry\" series.\n\n * [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - When They Cry](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VVw2V.jpg)\n * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - When They Cry 2* (the title in question, see further below)\n * [Umineko no Naku Koro ni - When They Cry 3](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ffg2C.jpg)\n * [Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - When They Cry 4](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yVf2b.jpg)\n\nThese titles can be seen on the official cover art as proof. I've linked\npictures of these covers to the related titles above.\n\nHowever, interestingly enough, \"When They Cry 2\" is quite odd. It does not\nappear on the cover of the sound novels, manga, PS2 version, DS version,\nnovels, or drama CDs. The (original/Japanese release) anime DVD cases and\nboxes don't even mention \"When They Cry\"\n\nHowever, despite this lack of \"When They Cry 2\", even the Japanese somehow\nknow that 2 = Higurashi Kai, as seen in [this Yahoo Chiebukuro\nquestion](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1435012409)\nwhere both answerers reply that 2 = Higurashi Kai.\n\nAdditionally, [a fanmade Japanese Umineko wiki site's FAQ\npage](http://umineco.info/?%E3%82%88%E3%81%8F%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E8%B3%AA%E5%95%8F)\nmentions the following definitions:\n\n * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei - When They Cry 2+\n * Umineko no Naku Koro ni Tsubasa - When They Cry 4+\n\nSo it seems that Higurashi Kai was not defined as 2 anywhere officially, but\nit has been accepted as such by both Japanese and Western fans due to either\nUmineko being called 3 or the Higurashi Kai anime being dubbed as 2. Who knows\nwhere Ryuukishi07 got the idea from. If I stumble upon an official Kai work\nusing When They Cry 2 somewhere, I'll be sure to update this post.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T04:23:52.910", "id": "2766", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-05T16:23:35.330", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-05T16:23:35.330", "last_editor_user_id": "107", "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "2760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\n_When They Cry 2_ refers to _Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai_ , as indicated on\nthe side-label of the sound novel:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T06:30:52.113", "id": "6975", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T06:30:52.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3377", "parent_id": "2760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\n**Contains spoilers for fans who have not reached the timeskip.**\n\nThe story takes a seven year timeskip at the end of the Tenrou Island arc.\nMembers who went to the Tenrou Island to participate in the S-rank exam go\nmissing. With the 8 exam participants and their respective partners, the 3\nexaminers, Master Makarov, and Laxus, that would be **21** members. Is this\ncalculation correct?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-03T17:06:43.373", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2762", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-01T20:03:48.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "fairy-tail" ], "title": "How many Fairy Tail members went missing from the guild during the timeskip?", "view_count": 11333 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAt the end of the Tenrou Island arc,\n\n> Acnologia sinks the Tenrou Island along with all the people on it.\n\n * Mest Gryder, one of the eight exam participants, is actually a Magic Council member, and he left the island earlier anyway.\n * Gray's partner, Loke/Leo, returned to the spirit world earlier.\n * Wendy and Gajeel took their Exceed partners, Carla and Pantherlily respectively, to the Tenrou Island. \n * Laxus was not a member at this time, since he had been expelled and Makarov refused to readmit him.\n\nTaking all the above into account, altogether **20** Fairy Tail members (and\nLaxus) were missing from the guild during the timeskip.\n\nList of members (clockwise in the human circle they formed, starting from Lucy\nand excluding Laxus):\n\n 1. Lucy Heartfilia\n 2. Natsu Dragneel\n 3. Erza Scarlet\n 4. Cana Alberona\n 5. Gildarts Clive\n 6. Levy McGarden\n 7. Gajeel Redfox\n 8. Wendy Marvel\n 9. Carla\n 10. Happy\n 11. Pantherlily\n 12. Makarov\n 13. Bickslow\n 14. Freed Justine\n 15. Evergreen\n 16. Elfman Strauss\n 17. Mirajane Strauss\n 18. Lisanna Strauss\n 19. Juvia Lockser\n 20. Gray Fullbuster\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-03T17:06:43.373", "id": "2763", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-03T17:06:43.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2762", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2768", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe OP sequences for ef - a tale of melodies have a lot of German text in the\nbackground. The text seems to be the same for all of the different versions.\nThis version is from episode 6, and features the instrumental version of the\nsong (Ebullient Future) and the characters are not present, so it's the\neasiest to read the text:\n\n[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRp0Adtwadc&hd=1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRp0Adtwadc&hd=1)\n\nI think it's pretty safe to assume this isn't totally random German text. What\ndoes it say (in English), and what is it referencing?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T04:43:53.163", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2767", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-02T15:10:12.473", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-02T15:10:12.473", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "theme-song", "ef-a-fairy-tale-of-the-two" ], "title": "What does the German say in the opening of ef - a tale of melodies?", "view_count": 1822 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt looks like the entire OP has been translated [in this\narticle](http://web.archive.org/web/20120716191313/http://www.aquastar-\nanime.net/?page=articles/article20081211). It says that the lines are from 2\ndifferent EF related songs, \"Eternal Feather\" from the ending theme of the\nlast episode of \"ef - a tale of memories\" and \"Emotional Flutter\" from the\nopening of the game \"ef - a latter tale\".\n\nThe article has all of the text, side-by-side, with the English translation\nand (in red) the song that the line came from. There's also a note at the end\nabout some names of other EF related songs on-screen.\n\n> Holding the reviving memories [Eternal Feather] \n> To my chest [Eternal Feather] \n> There was a distant sky on the other side of the window [Eternal Feather] \n> I was watching the unreachable clouds [Eternal Feather] \n> The smile left behind on the road home, [Emotional Flutter] \n> Will never find the voice it looks for [Emotional Flutter] \n> The darkness engraved in my memories [Emotional Flutter] \n> Even now, won't end [Emotional Flutter] \n> Even now, won't end [Emotional Flutter] \n> Swooping down from the sky, [Emotional Flutter] \n> There was a distant sky on the other side of the window [Eternal Feather] \n> I was watching the unreachable clouds [Eternal Feather] \n> My breaking heart has been healed [Eternal Feather] \n> I heard a tender voice [Eternal Feather] \n> Pieces of a dream spill and fall into my palms [Eternal Feather] \n> To search for the lost answer, I start running [Eternal Feather] \n> Overcoming the time when we came across each other [Eternal Feather] \n> Our hands join together [Eternal Feather] \n> Holding the reviving memories [Eternal Feather] \n> To my chest [Eternal Feather] \n> I search for your back that I have forgotten about [Eternal Feather] \n> Making the loneliness end [Eternal Feather] \n> I believe you, but I feel uneasy [Eternal Feather] \n> And I dreamed of your voice [Eternal Feather] \n> I fear getting hurt [Eternal Feather] \n> and make my face smile, [Eternal Feather] \n> I'll start weaving a breakable courage, if we're together [Eternal Feather] \n> When I change even the pain frozen onto me into warmth [Eternal Feather] \n> The sound of the bell echoes [Eternal Feather] \n> Into the endless future [Eternal Feather] \n> Soar up high into the sky [Eternal Feather] \n> Even if you don't have feathers [Eternal Feather] \n> I believe you, but I feel uneasy [Eternal Feather] \n> And I dreamed of your voice [Eternal Feather] \n> The smile left behind on the road home [Emotional Flutter] \n> Will never find the voice it looks for [Emotional Flutter] \n> The darkness engraved in my memories even now, won't end [Emotional Flutter] \n> Even now, won't end [Emotional Flutter] \n> Swooping down from the sky, [Emotional Flutter] \n> The white wings swayed [Emotional Flutter] \n> Running with my outstretched hand, [Emotional Flutter] \n> I chased after your shadow [Emotional Flutter] \n> If the falling white snow were to pile up, [Emotional Flutter] \n> It would cover up these sad colors [Emotional Flutter] \n> The love sleeping deep within my heart [Emotional Flutter] \n> Please remember it [Emotional Flutter] \n> Soar high up in the sky [Emotional Flutter] \n> And spread your wings [Emotional Flutter] \n> Inside the gentle rays of the sun [Emotional Flutter] \n> You showed me your dreams [Emotional Flutter] \n> Fluttering down from the high sky, [Emotional Flutter] \n> Wear your white wings [Emotional Flutter] \n> Our joined hands [Emotional Flutter] \n> Won't let go of the future [Emotional Flutter] \n> The love sleeping deep within my heart [Emotional Flutter] \n> Please remember it [Emotional Flutter] \n> The smile left behind on the road home [Emotional Flutter] \n> Will never find the voice it looks for [Emotional Flutter] \n> The darkness engraved in my memories even now, won't end [Emotional Flutter] \n> Even now, won't end [Emotional Flutter] \n> There was a distant sky on the other side of the window [Eternal Feather] \n> I was watching the unreachable clouds [Eternal Feather] \n> My breaking heart has been healed [Eternal Feather] \n> I heard a tender voice [Eternal Feather] \n> Swooping down from the sky, [Emotional Flutter] \n> The white wings swayed [Emotional Flutter] \n> Pieces of a dream spill and fall into my palms [Eternal Feather] \n> To search for the lost answer, I start running [Eternal Feather] \n> Overcoming the time when we came across each other [Eternal Feather] \n> Our hands join together [Eternal Feather] \n> Holding the reviving memories [Eternal Feather] \n> To my chest [Eternal Feather] \n> Running with my outstretched hand, [Emotional Flutter] \n> I chased after your shadow [Emotional Flutter] \n> I search for your back that I have forgotten about [Eternal Feather] \n> Making the loneliness end [Eternal Feather]\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T06:40:15.253", "id": "2768", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-02T11:32:43.220", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-02T11:32:43.220", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2767", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2770", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nA few examples:\n\n4th Hokage: He was nominated and chosen when 3rd Hokage was still alive and\nwas capable of fighting (courtesy: 9-tails attack on Konoha)\n\n5th Hokage: after the Third Hokage deceased.\n\n4th Raikage: After the Third Raikage deceased.\n\nI thought the next Kage would only be chosen after the previous Kage's death.\nBut that wasn't the case for 4th Hokage! Was he strong enough to be believed\nto take over Third? Was it because the Third believed he was too old ?\n\nBtw, the Third continued to be Hokage after 4th was deceased!\n\nI have never come across an info that notified the 4th Hokage's nomination..\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T09:19:57.423", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2769", "last_activity_date": "2022-04-01T18:30:55.973", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-11T19:53:54.417", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "338", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why was 4th Hokage chosen when the 3rd was still alive and capable?", "view_count": 60677 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hiruzen_Sarutobi) stands the\nfollowing:\n\n> After serving as Hokage for many years, Hiruzen started looking for a\n> successor to the title. While he hoped to be able to give the position to\n> Orochimaru, he saw that he only was interested for the power it offered.\n> Though he turned to Jiraiya, Hiruzen instead named Jiraiya's student Minato\n> Namikaze as his successor.\n\nI found no information about why he wanted to retire, but it seems that he\njust wanted to retire. Additionally shortly before he died, he spoke about\nretirement too.\n\nNote that the Second Hokage chose the third before he died according to this\n[article](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hashirama_Senju):\n\n> He chose to sacrifice himself after he selected his prized student Hiruzen\n> for the position of Third Hokage. Homura and Koharu would later become\n> Hiruzen's advisers. After giving the title of Hokage to Hiruzen, Tobirama\n> went off to fight the enemies where he died a noble death\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T09:47:39.570", "id": "2770", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T09:47:39.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "2769", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nThe third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi was the oldest Hokage and best the village\nhad ever had seeing as he served in the position for the longest time and was\ndid so very well. However, he knew that he would not be alive much longer to\nfulfill the position. He began a search for someone worthy of the title. He\nthought about Orochimaru, but later realized he only wished to have the title\nfor the power it'd bring him. He thought of Jaraiya, but he did not want the\nposition. Hiruzen then selected Minato Namikaze seeing how he was Jaraiya's\nstudent and ultimately the next best thing. Later, Orochimaru challenged the\n3rd Hokage in a battle to the death. The two went all out which ended\nHiruzen's life and reign as Hokage, but not before he used a reaper death seal\nto seal Orochimaru's arms, preventing him from using hand seals and ninjutsu\nand a life of pain for as long as he lived. Thus, Minato was the acting 4th\nHokage, before this advent he merely held the title until Hiruzen's death\ntranspired.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-17T01:28:38.730", "id": "8089", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-17T01:34:21.253", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-17T01:34:21.253", "last_editor_user_id": "4145", "owner_user_id": "4145", "parent_id": "2769", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer is contained in the _Kakashi: Shadow of the Anbu Black Ops_ arc in\nthe anime. Given this question was asked in 2013, that probably explains why\nnone of the answers have the correct answer, as it probably wasn't readily\navailable at the time (I didn't actually check the dates when the episodes\ncame out, I'm just guessing).\n\nTowards the end of the Third Shinobi War, the Third Hokage negotiated for a\npeaceful resolution without reparations, and this was viewed as weakness by\nmany. The Third Hokage was blamed for the losses of the war, and Hiruzen\nstepped down as Hokage to appease everyone who was annoyed with him and\neveryone who was angry with him. This is his way of accepting responsibility.\nThough if you believe Danzo and Orochimaru, Hiruzen Sarutobi intended to use\nMinato Namikaze to basically continue his reign, so stepping down was somewhat\nof an empty act to get everyone off his back.\n\nFrom the [Fandom\nwiki](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Third_Shinobi_World_War):\n\n> In Konoha, although the war had been proceeding favorably for the village,\n> the Third Hokage established a policy of reconciliation to bring an end to\n> the fighting with an unprecedented offer to not seek reparations from Iwa.\n> Advocates for the war opposed Hiruzen's seemingly weak decision, and to keep\n> dissatisfaction in the village in check, he decided to step down as Hokage.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-04-01T18:21:24.383", "id": "66564", "last_activity_date": "2022-04-01T18:30:55.973", "last_edit_date": "2022-04-01T18:30:55.973", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "2769", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2773", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIt's been observed that the nature of the chakra a person possesses is\ndetermined by the village they are from.\n\nFor example, people from Iwagakure (Village Hidden in the Rocks) use earth\nrelease techniques, while people from Kirigakure (Village Hidden in the Mist)\npossess water-type chakra.\n\nThere seem to be exceptions, though.\n\nFor example, let's consider Konoha : Naruto possesses wind-type chakra while\nKakashi and Sasuke possess lightning. Sasuke also possesses fire.\n\nIs it hereditary, or is there something else that determines it? Or is it\nrandom?\n\nThe 5th Mizukage possesses 3 types of chakra elements: Earth, Fire and Water.\nIf my supposition is correct, how she could achieve this?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T10:15:11.227", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2771", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-06T02:07:24.420", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-04T20:23:35.650", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "338", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Is the nature of chakra hereditary?", "view_count": 7281 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThat much is unexplained, however, one can assume that it is to some degree\nhereditary.\n\n * People from all villages (with the exception of Konoha, which is a unison of multiple multicultural clans), often use element specific techniques to their village (Mist uses water, Cloud uses lightning, etc).\n * Kekkei Genkai (genetic techniques) are often meant to be specific elements, which require specific elemental combinations (of two or sometimes more).\n\nIt was said that every shinobi has a primary chakra type (Wind for Naruto,\nlightning for Kakshi, etc), and that they can expand their chakra mastery to\nfurther elements (Kakashi knows lightning (primary), earth and water (there's\nalso anime-specific fire)).\n\nYin and Yang elements seem to be an exception to that rule. It looks like it\ndepends on the shinobi's innate chakra system (Hashirama could use healing\ntechniques, which were implied to be Yang element, but also use Wood, which is\na fusion between Earth and Water).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T11:07:30.323", "id": "2772", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T11:07:30.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "2771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nChakra Nature affinities are hereditary. That is why, as you referred, people\nfrom the same village or clan generally possess affinity toward the same\nnature (Uchiha's have a natural affiliation with the Fire Nature). This means\nthat genetically, the affinity is passed from generation to generation, being\nthe one that you are _naturally_ connected to. Despite this, it may be\npossible for shinobi to have affinities that are different from the ones\npossessed by their parents, although I cannot remember any examples.\n\nHowever, shinobi are not limited to the nature toward which they have a\nnatural affinity. So one can also master other Chakra Natures _through\npractice_. Generally, shinobi at Jounin level have mastered more than one\nChakra Nature.\n\nHaving said that, given the amount of time and practice taken for one to\nmaster a Chakra Nature, it is practically impossible to master all five\nNatures (unless you possess the Rinnegan, the\n[Bashousen](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Bash%C5%8Dsen), or do it the way\nKakuzu did).\n\nYou can also check out [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/304/49), that though not exactly\nthe same, may answer some doubts you may have.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for the examples you provide:\n\n * Sasuke has a natural affinity toward Fire Nature (as all Uchiha), and trained in order to master Lightning Nature. However, given how well he masters Lightning Nature, I'd say he may well have had a natural affinity toward it to start with.\n * Kakashi's natural affinity is toward Lightning Nature, and he masters other Natures through practice, presumably with the help of the Sharingan (in copying and understanding other shinobi's jutsu).\n * Whether Naruto's affinity toward Wind Nature is hereditary or not is unknown, since we do not know what affinities Minato and Kushina were born with (both were proficient in Wind Nature transformation, but also in other Natures: Kushina in Water Nature, and Minato in Fire and Lightning Natures). \n * As for the variety of Konoha's shinobi's affinities, check out [this comment from Madara](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/222/whats-kakuzu-original-chakra-nature-element?rq=1#comment302_223).\n * As for the case of Mei Terumi, I do not think it is known whether her affinities and Kekkei Genkai were obtained _naturally_ or _through practice_. \n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T11:08:16.497", "id": "2773", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-19T07:13:46.557", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-19T07:13:46.557", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "2771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nI have though about it for a while the secondary nature that sasuke and Naruto\nhave are based on there past think about it\n\nLightning is unstable sasuke legit has no one the whole entire uchiha clan was\nkill be itachi he lived the life in the shadow of is bother who I think if I'm\ncorrrect got jonien at 14 or 15 so yeah his life kinda sucks\n\nWind is Naruto's calm cool and soft I think this he had people that cared for\nhim examples include iruka and kakashi this isn't say that wind is always calm\njust look at hurricanes and tornados ether way both elements irl are dangerous\nunder that right conditions like the 2 badass shinobi\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-12-02T14:59:08.503", "id": "61174", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-02T14:59:08.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "57448", "parent_id": "2771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is implied in the manga that chakra affinities are partly genetic and\npartly influenced by the natural energies of the land. People born in Fire\ncountry are more likely to have fire as their primary affinity, Earth country\nnatives to have earth affinity, etc. It does seem to work somewhat like other\nheritable characteristics, though, in that individuals from families with some\npredominant affinity may still be born with a different primary affinity.\n\nIn addition, children in some families are born with dual affinities (kekkei\ngenkai) and these are inherent to the bloodline and will be inherited by all\nof the offspring.\n\nIt is stated that most people have more than one affinity, although one is\nusually dominant, and that secondary affinities can be developed with\npractice. By the time a shinobi reaches Jounin level, they are pretty much\nexpected to have developed at least one secondary affinity to reasonable\nlevels. Most of the Kage level shinobi seem to have developed two, or more,\nalthough not all if them can combine these into kekkei genkai or higher level\nmerges.\n\nMost can also develop at least some proficiency with either Yin release (e.g.\nshadow manipulation, illusion techniques) or Yang release (e.g. healing or\nbody modification) or both.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-12-06T02:07:24.420", "id": "61197", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-06T02:07:24.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54097", "parent_id": "2771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2778", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nAfter Goku fought Frieza and the planet blew up, everybody on earth thought\nGoku was dead. So they used the dragon balls to wish to bring Goku back to\nlife, but the dragon then told them that Goku was still alive. They then asked\nthe dragon to teleport Goku back to Earth. The dragon then said no, because\nGoku did not want to.\n\nSo why would the dragon listen to Goku, who was not making the wish?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T12:35:36.307", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2774", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-18T20:25:18.803", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-13T06:11:58.697", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "1526", "post_type": "question", "score": 23, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-z" ], "title": "Why could the dragon not bring back Goku after he fought Frieza?", "view_count": 11175 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI am not sure about this, but I have two theories.\n\n 1. Goku is much stronger than Shenron and Shenron was simply too weak to teleport Goku against his will.\n 2. Shenron is generally not able to grant wishes which are against one specific will. \n \n[Here](http://www.pojo.biz/board/archive/index.php/t-715728.html) is another\ndiscussion about this topic. I did not read everything so I don't know if they\ngot a real answer.\n\n \n \nSorry that I don't comment your question, but I don't have enought reputation.\nSo I \"answered\".\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T12:51:31.090", "id": "2775", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T13:22:29.747", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1493", "parent_id": "2774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nPorunga is not able to relocate someone against their will as stated in the\n[Porunga Wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Porunga). Its his limitation.\nAs Shenron has his own limitation like granting only one wish, not able to\nresurrect the same person more then one time. Porunga has his own limitation\nof not relocating someone without his own will.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T15:03:28.910", "id": "2778", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T16:25:31.950", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-04T16:25:31.950", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "1527", "parent_id": "2774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nMaybe because Goku/Kakarot was going to come back in due time anyways. So the\ndragon let it slip by like when the dragon had to check if he could make a\ncertain wish. Maybe the dragon only does stuff that can't already happen\nnaturally.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T05:35:15.290", "id": "17294", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T05:35:15.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11012", "parent_id": "2774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2777", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI want to find an anime where there are so many android which have superpower.\nThe main lead have power of speed (In one instance he achieve more speed then\nlight and everything appears to him as still objects). Others have power like\nshape shift etc. I think the main lead is a member of a group and every member\nhave different power such as shape shifting etc. At one instance they meet a\ngroup of androids which thinks they are god and they really have similar power\nresembles of god. I think Greek gods but not sure. There are some half animal\nhalf human look like android too with god androids.\n\nI watched it on an Indian entertainment Chanel approx 8/9 years before. Its\nfull action pack but sometimes contain silly jokes too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T13:58:24.070", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2776", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-21T21:14:10.500", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-21T21:14:10.500", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1527", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "cyborg-009" ], "title": "Anime where androids have super powers", "view_count": 2882 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're most likely looking for [Cyborg\n009](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg_009) which is about:\n\n\n\n> Nine regular humans are kidnapped by the evil Black Ghost organization to\n> undergo human experiments which resulted in nine cyborgs with each one\n> having super human powers. The nine cyborgs band together to fight for their\n> freedom and to stop Black Ghost. The evil organization's goal is to start\n> the next world war by supplying rich buyers with countless weapons of mass\n> destruction.\n\nIn 2012, Production I.G., in association with other studios, produced a reboot\nof the series, called [009 RE:Cyborg](http://009.re-cyb.org/), consisting of a\n3DCG movie (written and directed by [Kenji\nKamiyama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Kamiyama)) and a manga series by\n[Gatou\nAsou](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=60997).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T14:28:54.083", "id": "2777", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T14:28:54.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2780", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nShisui's Mangekyou Sharingan casts the mind-control genjutsu, Kotoamatsukami,\nbut it activates only once in a decade. Why are people so eager to grab his\neyes?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T15:18:09.380", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2779", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-17T15:07:21.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why are people so eager to grab Shisui's eyes even though it activates rarely?", "view_count": 10655 }

[ { "body": "\n\n**Several big spoilers ahead.**\n\nThree people have been showed to be eager to grab Shisui's eye, namely Danzo,\nTobi and Kabuto. Besides that, they have one other thing in common:\n\n> They all have access to Senju Hashirama's cells, which significantly reduces\n> the reactivation time of Shisui's eye. Hence, these people could put it to\n> practical use without the undesirable restriction. \n> \n> **Danzo** 's case actually shows this reduction of the reactivation time.\n> He had stolen Shisui's right eye shortly before the Uchiha incident, and had\n> Orochimaru implant Hashirama's cells into his body. He was able to activate\n> Shisui's eye twice in a day, first during the five Kage meeting and later\n> towards the end of his battle with Sasuke. \n> \n> **Tobi** is later revealed to be Uchiha Obito. The right half of his body,\n> destroyed during the Kannabi bridge battle, was repaired/replaced by Madara\n> with Hashirama's cells. \n> \n> **Kabuto** had access to Hashirama's cells due to both working under\n> Orochimaru previously and through Yamato whom he had captured during the\n> fourth shinobi world war. Shisui's left eye emerges during the war from\n> Naruto's mouth due to Itachi's setup. Kabuto also hears Itachi talk about\n> the use of Hashirama's cells to reduce Kotoamatsukami's reactivation time.\n> He hoped to grab it for his own use.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T15:18:09.380", "id": "2780", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T15:18:09.380", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2783", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn Bleach, the term is \"reiatsu\". In Naruto, it is \"chakra\". However, all I\never really heard in DBZ is \"power level\". Is there a more formal descriptive\nterm for the source of their powers or the energy they give off?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T16:26:02.880", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2782", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-13T06:12:49.330", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-13T06:12:49.330", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "1528", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-z", "dragon-ball-series" ], "title": "What is the formal term for energy in Dragon Ball Z?", "view_count": 3303 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe original Japanese term is _ki_ (pronounced the same as \"key\", written as\n気). It can also be spelled _chi_ or _qi_. The same term is used for a [concept\nin martial arts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi), though naturally Dragon\nBall's version is quite a bit different from this. In the English dubs, this\nterm is never used, and \"energy\" is used throughout the series.\n\nAccording to Toriyama, there are 3 components of ki, namely Genki (元気, roughly\nmeaning Energy), Yūki (勇気, Courage), and Shōki (正気, Mind). Ki also can be\npositive or negative. The various charge up and transformation sequences are\nall done in order to increase one's ki.\n\n[Dragon Ball Wiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Ki) has more information\non ki in the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-04T16:34:24.480", "id": "2783", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-04T16:39:46.253", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-04T16:39:46.253", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2782", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Naruto, they refer to energy or ki/chi as chakra, but they don't go into\ndetail about the human chakra energy system, but yes, they're basically the\nsame thing. It's all energy, just explained differently.\n\nAn interesting relation to DBZ - 7 dragon balls, 7 characters, Goku's\ngrandfather gave him the 4 star dragon ball, or it could be seen as the heart\nchakra.\n\nGoogle \"chakra\" and learn about the human in-built energy system. It ties in\nbody function with human emotion and fundamentally gives us both life and\nexistence.\n\nShaolin monks use energy in their system of fighting, integrating both body\nand soul with the focus of their energy through fighting. It's not too\ndissimilar from DBZ (although DBZ takes to another level, well, because they\ncan :P).\n\nAnyhow that's my 2 cents.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-10T02:59:15.703", "id": "7436", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-10T03:46:48.920", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-10T03:46:48.920", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3669", "parent_id": "2782", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nPower levels measure their strengths alone. Ki measures the energy they have,\nand to do certain attacks they need to focus their ki, like when Gohan was\nteaching Videl how to fly, she pushed her ki to the bottom of her feet to fly!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T01:17:53.510", "id": "17219", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T01:44:57.617", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-01T01:44:57.617", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "10959", "parent_id": "2782", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]