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"body": "\n\nIn the series we see Toru activate his power every once in a while. And also\ndisabling it every once in a while. The fact he disables it makes me wonder,\ndo his powers have any side effects ? What exactly are his powers anyway?\n\n",
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"title": "Are there side effects in using Iron Blood Transformation?",
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"body": "\n\n> Iron Blood Transformation: A saboteur technique, activated by extreme mental\n> concentration, that optimizes and redefines the user's entire body systems.\n> This allows Toru to perform inhuman physical feats, such as repelling a\n> feira unicorn or jumping several meters into the air. The transformation\n> also substantially improves his combat skills and techniques, allowing him\n> to fight against high level opponents. A drawback to using the Iron Blood\n> Transformation is that the technique requires a huge amount of energy. When\n> Toru transforms for the first time in a very long time, he needed a huge\n> amount of food to restore himself or risk fainting. Another drawback is that\n> it makes him more susceptible to poison, as the technique improves his\n> respiratory system which would increase the flow of any poison inside him.\n> In the anime, his hair turns red and two crimson streaks cross over his face\n> while emitting a red aura during the transformation.\n\nSource: [Hitsugi no Chaika wiki](http://hitsugimenochaika.wikia.com)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty much every character in Naruto seems to have his/her own theme song.\nBut I can't seem to find a theme song for\n[Konan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Konan). Does she just not have one? or is\nit just hard to find/ not released yet ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKonan - as far as I know - doesn't have an official soundtrack. She's usually\nseen with Pain in which Pain's soundtrack plays.\n\nI'd say that Konan shares a soundtrack with Pain which is called Girei.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTheres a song in the storm revolution game thats starts when konan talks to\nsasori i think thats here theme\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthere is one called the angelic herald of death which is associated usually\nwith konan it is an unreleased OST\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n **In chapter 709 of One Piece** , Bartolomeo has been seen blocking\nElizabello II's king punch with his barrier, while shouting \"Barrier\". In the\ntranslator's comment it stated that this is a _common taunt in Japanese school\nyards_. Now how does this taunt work? How would I use it if I were in a\nJapanese school yard?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T3uOi.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[According to 日本語俗語辞書 (\"Japanese Slang Dictionary\")](http://zokugo-\ndict.com/26ha/baria.htm):\n\n> **バリア** とは、子供が汚い物や人に触れたときに囃して遊ぶときの言葉。 \n> **Barrier** is a word that children say jeeringly when they touch an object\n> or person that is unclean.\n\nAccording to the explanation further down on the page: children say this to\nsomeone who has touched something unclean to stop the uncleanness from\n\"spreading\".\n\nAs an example, consider a child who has stepped in dog feces. Having done so,\nthe child will try to chase his friends around (and touch them with his hands\nlike in a game of tag, not with his feet to literally get the dog feces on his\nfriends). If, however, all his friends say \"barrier\" and trace out some sort\nof pattern with their hands, the child who stepped in the dog feces will have\nno choice but to abandon the chase (and remain \"it\", which I suppose is\nhumiliating to any child).\n\nThe dictionary seems to think that this was based on people imitating\nUltraman. Seems plausible, I guess.\n\nFor an example of someone barrier-ing, the interested reader might like to\nhave a look at episode 5 of Oregairu, around the 6:15 mark.\n\n* * *\n\nNote: Since I have never been on a Japanese schoolyard, this answer relies\nentirely on secondhand sources. An answer from someone who has been a kid in\nJapan would probably be superior.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nin _Yu-Gi-Oh GX_ , Duel Academy has 3 dormitories, named after the 3 Egyptian\nGod Cards, _Slifer_ , _Ra_ and _Obelisk_ with Slifer having very basic\nfacilities and seen as the underdogs (weakest) while students at Obelisk are\nmore privileged and seen as aces and elites (strongest).\n\nHowever, out of the 3 Gods, in terms of functionality this isn't right.\n\n * Obelisk is the weakest because its ATK and DEF are set at 4000 which we have seen reached by other monsters apart from Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, and requires sacrifices to destroy all monsters on the field.\n\n * Slifer is the next strongest with its HP fluctuating based on the number of cards in your hand. However, when a monster is summoned, it has an instant attack which drops the opponent's summoned monster's stats by 2000 with the chance of destroying it.\n\n * Ra is considered the strongest with its ATK and DEF able to come from the player's Life Points and also its initial ATK and DEF come from the monsters sacrificed to summon it.\n\nSo I am wondering, how did the dorms get assigned their names, and would it\nmake more sense that the elite's dorm gets the name of the strongest god card?\n\nNOTE: I am referring to the god cards' functionality in the anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe academy was created by Seto Kaiba who first owned Obelisk while Yugi owned\nSlifer. We can infer from Kaiba's personality that Kaiba always wants to be\nbetter than Yugi, so he placed the rank of Obelisk the highest and Slifer the\nlowest.\n\nFor Ra, the card was originally owned by Marik, and the only spot left the\nrank could be placed is in the between the ranks of Obelisk and Slifer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKaiba was the person who was directly responsible for the creation of\nfacilities like Duel Academy. And I can understand and explain his viewpoint\nof putting Obelisk at the top.\n\nThis is a school, and in every school, the more points you score, the higher\nthe grade you get. Keeping that in mind, let's look at the 3 god cards.\n\nFirst let's look at Obelisk the tormentor.\n\nIt is a monster with **4000** points of atk and def. Meaning no matter what,\nthis monster starts off with a solid atk and def power. HOWEVER, it also has\nan ability to tribute 2 monsters to gain infinite attack. Meaning that from\nKaiba's point of view, Obelisk was the monster that had **limitless\npotential** in terms of RAW power. This is the exact reason why Kaiba decided\nthat the strongest dorm should be called Obelisk Blue. Which is why most\nstudents who where in this dorm, had monsters with high attack power to deal\nbattle damage. Zane Truesdale is the best example of an Obelisk blue player\nwho used a cyber dragon power deck to overwhelm his opponents with attack\npower.\n\nNow let's look at the winged dragon of ra which is the strongest god from all\nof the 3.\n\nIt is a monster with **unknown** ATK and DEF. Soo the **potential** of this\nmonster in terms of ATK power is **unknown** from the get go. It's ATK and DEF\ndepends on the monsters you sacrifice for it to increase it's power, meaning\nthat unlike Obelisk who starts off with 4000 attack and has the potential to\nunleash an infinite ATK power, Ra depends too much on the monsters used for\nit, to gain ATK . And that would not be enough to surpass Obelisk in RAW\npower. However what RA lacks in terms of ATK power, it exceeds in **special\nabilities**. Ra has the ability to destroy any monster it wants, even if that\nmonster is another god. Soo Ra Yellow was the second strongest dorm in the\nacademy in the eyes of Kaiba. Because it had **hidden potential**. Bastion\nMisawa is the best example of what a Ra Yellow student represent, since he\nused strategies and tactics that overwhelm his opponents with card effects,\nmore than he does with attacks. Bastion managed to defeat an Obelisk blue\nstudents like Chazz Princeton. Which shows that even tho Obelisk represents\nRAW power that surpasses any other RAW power, Ra can overcome that RAW power\nwith it's **hidden abilities**.\n\nAnd last but not least, let's look at Slifer The Sky dragon. The weakest out\nof the 3.\n\nIt is also a monster with **unknown potential** in terms of ATK and DEf but\nnot in a good way. Even tho slifer's attack can be multiplied be the amount of\ncards the controller holds in his hands by x1000, at the end of the turn, that\nplayer can only hold 6 cards in their hand. Meaning that slifer's attack can\nremain at 6000 points at best. No matter how many cards a player gets in his\nhands, at the end of the turn, he has to discard them so he will remain with 6\ncards. And if you want slifer to become more powerful, you need to use cards\nthat allow you to draw. From Kaiba's point of view, slifer was weak because\nit's attack depends too much on the cards that the player holds in his hand.\nAnd the only special ability slifer had, was to strike the opponent's monsters\nto weaken their ATK or DEF. Meaning that the god couldn't save itself if it\nlacked in raw power against a monster who could survive that ability. Making\nSlifer the Sky dragon, the one that is **dependent** too much on other cards\nto remain powerful. While Obelisk is not depended on other cards to keep his\n4000 points of ATk. And Ra will keep the ATK it gains from the monsters that\nwhere sacrificed for it and will continue to grow without losing any power.\n\nOfcourse, when a slifer student improves his deck and he proves his power by\nwining against a Ra Yellow student or an Obelisk blue student, he will be\ngiven the opportunity to join one of the higher dorms, depending on how well\nhe performs and which traits of the two higher dorms he display during his\ngame.\n\nJaden started in the red dorm because he played with weak elemental hero\nmonsters that where too dependent on other cards to become strong. However he\nimproved a lot during his years in the academy and was given multiple\nopportunities to move out from the red dorm and become a Ra Yellow or an\nObelisk blue student. When Bastion Misawa locked Jaden's polymerization with\nthe trap _Cursed Seal of the Forbidden spell_ , Jaden showed that his deck had\nthe **hidden potential** to overcome it's dependency on the polymerization\ncard and find ways to win without it. This proved that Jaden was ready to\nbecome a Ra Yellow Student. However he simply refused because he felt that he\nwanted to stay in the red dorm since that is where he felt more comfortable.\nJaden could've easly become an Obelisk Blue student as well, since he was able\nto show RAW power with **limitless potential** that was on par with that of\nZane Truesdale, who was the top Obelisk blue student at the time. During their\nduel, Jaden managed to increase the attack of his Shining Flare Wingman to\n20900, while Zane countered that by increasing his Cyber End Dragon's attack\nto 36900. Forcing Jaden to use the card **Final Fusion** to inflict damage to\nboth players equal to the combined ATK of their battling monsters. Ending the\ngame in a draw.\n\nSyrus Truesdale is actually the best example of a Slifer Red student, who\nstarted as a weak player with weak monsters, uncertain of his abilities and\npotential. He gradually became more confident and strong, and started to play\nwith stronger combos and stronger monsters as time progressed. This allowed\nhim to ascend into Ra Yellow and later he became an Obelisk Blue.\n\nSoo let's go over it one more time.\n\nObelisk is for **limitless potential**\n\nRa is for **hidden abilities**\n\nSlifer is for **Dependency**\n\nYou now understand the logic behind the hierarchy behind the dorms and why\nKaiba made them the way they are.\n\nYou can also understand why teachers like Vellian Crowler hated the Red Dorm\nand didn't want it to exist. From his point of view, the weakest students that\nshow no potential go there. Crowler only wanted students that showed promise\nright from the get go. If they didn't use RAW power or smart strategies, they\nwhere not worth the time. OFC, what Crowler couldn't understand is that the\nSlifer dorm was neccesary to be there, soo that students who didn't show any\npromise from the get go, would have the chance and opportunity to prove\nthemselves. Which is what Syrus Truesdale and Chumley Huffington did.\n\nChumley was forced to retake his freshman year after he failed his first time\naround. Maximillion Pegasus offers Chumley a job at Industrial Illusions as a\ncard designer nearing the end of the first year after he wins a card-design\ncontest by creating \"Ayers Rock Sunrise\". In order to determine whether or not\nhe will be permitted to leave the school, Crowler Duels with him in one final\ntest. Although Chumley manages to hold his own, even getting the chance to\nplay the first card of his own creation, \"Ayers Rock Sunrise\", he is again\ndefeated. Crowler, however, lets him move on regardless, impressed by how far\nin his studies he has come. And also pleased that Chumley expressed both RAW\npower and hidden potential.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 134, when Meruem asks about Pouf's secret to Welfin, Welfin thinks\nso hard, harder than his brain is capable of. And the result is that he says\n\"Komugi\".\n\n\n\nWhy did Welfin know about Komugi? Did he meet her before?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe knew because Ikalgo and Palm told him about her and asked him to relay it\nto meruem.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 309 of the manga, Ikalgo and Palm had Welfin hidden in the back of\nthe truck, Ikalgo never mentioned Komugi, because that was the 'secret' the\nnarrator was talking about. And the 'secret' was to exchanging Komugi with\nKnuckle and Meleoron, and that was the plan.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust recently re-saw the arc so it's pretty fresh. He knew because Pouf had\nhim call Pitou to tell her that Killua killed her. It struck him as a weird\nrequest at the time, but when he was racking his brain for the right answer,\nhe started connecting all the dots and realized she was the keyword in all of\nit.\n\nHe most likely figured out Komugi was the right name because he put the\nfollowing things together:\n\n 1. The King is looking for something.\n 2. King wants to know what Pouf is hiding.\n 3. Pouf used Welkin to lie to another Royal guard.\n 4. Pouf lied about the enemy killing a person named Komugi who was in the enemies' possession\n 5. Royal guards are incapable of being un-loyal to the King. \n 6. Ikalgo/Palm believes they have something the King will definitely trade for.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not exactly expecting to find a full list or anything, but I was wondering\nif the manga/anime gave any clues to what the questions might have been.\nChecking the manga, I found that the first question was a\n[cryptogram](http://i13.mangareader.net/naruto/41/naruto-1565602.jpg) and that\nthe second question was about\n[tactics](http://i37.mangareader.net/naruto/41/naruto-1565605.jpg).\n\nHowever, I could not find any more information about the questions from the\nmanga. Does the anime provide any more insight into what the first 9 questions\nmight have been?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n 1. is cryptography\n 2. is figuring out trajectory of a thrown shuriken, as well as predicting the furthest possible range of a shuriken and describing how that conclusion was reached\n 3. appears to have a topographical map involving a mountain\n\nAs far as I can tell, no other question is explicitly discussed or clearly\nshown, but none of the rest of them have diagrams or maps, so presumably they\nare all math or logic questions.\n\nOne that Sakura is looking at is shown but (at least at the resolution I'm\nlooking at it on) the kanji just shows up as black blobs, and I'm not sure\nwhat it says.\n\nAccording to Sakura (in the English dub), they are \"problems based on\nuncertainty and requiring complex mechanical energy analysis.\" They are also\nstated to get more difficult as they go.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo whom does the Fishman Island territory belong to? First it was sure\nWhitebeard's territory. But what happened after he died? I thought Blackbeard\ntook them all, because he knew them really well.\n\nOr did Big Mama take this island?\n\nIs Fishman Island is now Luffy's territory?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Whitebeard's Death, the territory of Fishman Island belongs to Big Mam,\nwho offers her protection in exchange of sweets from the island. It still\nbelongs to her, Luffy offered treasures to smooth out things with mama but she\nturned them down, but in the end decided to take care of things with Luffy\ninstead of the fishman island.\n\nThe king of Fishman Island had said that maybe someday they will use another\nflag (that of the strawhats), but currently it still is Big Mam's territory.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just finished the manga and I get that she woke up from the coma and\ninjuries but it looks to me that she is still under lock. Does that mean she\nis still in a prison and she can't be free?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Final Fantasy VIII_ , Fujin talks using one-word sentences throughout most\nof the game.\n\n\n\nHowever, close to the end of the game, she uses much longer sentences when she\nis pleading with Seifer to stop what he is doing.\n\n\n\nNow it's obvious that it's a decision on her part to talk like in the first\nscreenshot, and while I can assume she only makes \"small talk\", is it\nexplained why she uses one word most of the time which can be read as yelling\n(all caps)? Is it like this in the Japanese version?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy are Haki attacks not effective on Marine admirals?\n\nIn the Marineford war, we see countless instances where Haki-imbued attacks\ndon't affect Marine admirals. When Marco and Vista attack Sakazuki, he even\nacknowledges that they are Haki-imbued, but nothing apparently happens:\n\n\n\nAnother case is when Whitebeard attacks Aokiji:\n\n\n\nWhat's with the admirals? Their Logia powers don't seem to be easily affected\nby Haki attacks. I mean we have many instances where Haki has _touched_ their\nbody, but still there are many instances where attacks on their body don't\nresult in damage. What's the deal with Marine admirals?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the only possible answer is that the Marine admirals' Haki is\nstronger. If their **Kenbunshoku Haki** and **Busoshoku Haki** are stronger,\nthey can easy foresee or block Marco's or Vista's attacks.\n\nAnd as you can see, Sakazuki got a scratch, so they aren't immortal at all.\n\nI think this just shows **how strong** they really are (or how weak Marco and\nVista are :P).\n\n**Another possibility** is that maybe they don't use Haki. I can't recognize\nanything that looks similar to when Luffy is using Haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think you are wrong in saying that they weren't affected. They clearly were\naffected as you can see from the wound on Sakazuki's shoulder. Since both\nquestions have a different answer, I'll reply one by one.\n\n## Whitebeard vs. Kuzan\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TObJY.jpg)\n\nFrom [Kuzan](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuzan#Marineford_Arc) article:\n\n> He then got stabbed by Whitebeard's bisento, to which pirates are seen\n> wondering if Aokiji was stabbed with Haki and if he was dead. Aokiji told\n> them not to spout nonsense before grabbing the bisento and using his Ice\n> Block Partisan attack. All of a sudden, Jozu attacks him and Aokiji is\n> caught off-guard, even bleeding from his mouth.\n\nAs you can see, Aokiji was not hit by the Partisan, which was most likely\nimbued by Haki. This is, because **he opened up a hole, where the partisan\nwould have hit, just before it would hit**. If he hadn't he probably would\nhave been stabbed to the heart. Marine admirals use their power smart and\nefficiently, but it doesn't mean they can't be harmed. This can be seen just a\nmoment after, when Jozu attacked him with his diamond arm and he was seen\nbleeding from his mouth.\n\n## Marco and Vista vs. Sakazuki\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sJI5S.jpg)\n\nFrom [Busoshoku\nHaki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Busoshoku_Haki#Drawbacks) article:\n\n> Devil Fruit users who can use Haki can resist the effects of Haki-imbued\n> attacks, Akainu was able to take Haki-imbued attacks while maintaining his\n> intangibility by extending his Haki through his body in order to nullify his\n> opponents bypass. This however depends on their level of mastery over Haki\n> when compared to their opponent as can be seen when Akainu was in contrast\n> harmed when attacked by Whitebeard's superior Haki and bled.\n\nIn chapter 784, it was confirmed that **Haki can be bypassed**. We can see how\nDoflamingo hits Luffy with a Haki-imbued attack, yet Luffy kept his elasticity\nduring the whole event, bouncing Doflamingo's attack right back. The same must\nhave happened with Sakazuki. It looks like Vista and Marco did hit Sakazuki,\nand he was affected, because he noticed the attack was different from that of\nnon-Haki users. Though, despite being hit with a Haki-imbued attack, he wasn't\nharmed and could just reform his neck, because his Haki was superior. I guess\nHaki is a bit like armor. If the level of an attack is lower than the\ntoughness of an armor, it will be unable to penetrate the armor, and unable to\ntouch the body hiding within the armor.\n\n* * *\n\n_The answer was updated due to wiki updates. Check the edit revision history\nfor the old answer._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe admirals were also using Haki, so it was Sakazuki's Haki vs Marco and\nVista's Haki. That's why Akianu was also bleeding, but it did not hurt much\nbecause both of them were using Haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think because Sakazuki's Haki is probably superior to Marco and Vista's\nHaki, it appears as if he is not affected by their attacks.\n\nTo confirm whether the admirals are affected by Haki or not, let's take a look\nat some cases where a **Haki of same or higher level** is used against the\nadmirals:\n\n 1. [Aokiji was thrown away by Marco while attacking Luffy at Marineford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYoTNFcm5dY).\n\n 2. [Kizaru vs. Rayleigh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdWxPzOn9A) (probably same level Haki)\n\n 3. [Sakazuki vs. Shanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6xjr1iqoSM) (same level Haki, or I think Shanks was on the defensive while using it).\n\nSo these cases prove that Haki does work on the admirals even though they are\nLogia users, but the **level of Haki** is what makes the difference!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the episode 24 of GITS SAC 2nd GIG it becomes apparent that the member of\nSection 9, usually referred to as Proto, is actually not a human, but a\n\"biodroid\" prototype. What exactly is it and how different it is from\ncyberized people and androids?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the name suggests, a\n[bioroid](http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Bioroid) is an android, but\nbuilt with human body parts-- except that they don't have a human brain.\n\nThe Major is a cyberized human, and an android is the least human of the\nthree.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is Son Gohan always so strong?\n\nI mean Son Goku trains all day long, but Gohan studies all day long. So how\ndid he manage to be so strong when Cell or Buu arrived? I mean, both started\ntraining when they were kids?\n\nIs it same with Son Goten? I mean Fusion SS3 at this young age, this is quite\nstrong.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you had seen the seasons completely, there is an episode (I think it was in\nthe Namek saga) where Vegeta looks at Goku and thinks to himself that the\nreason to Goku's true inner strength is due to an Earthling family. I think it\nis implied that such children are also far stronger than pure Saiyans.\n\nI am relating these bits of information and would say that children born with\nEarthling side are able to access their powers without much effort.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNot sure which episodes, but it is explained a few times that each generation\nof saiyans grows stronger than the previous generation. This is the reason why\nFrieza feared them as they will eventually get stronger than him. This means\nif both Goku and Gohan didn't train and were the same age, Gohan would be\nnaturally stronger. It's the reason Gohan tends to catch up quicker in power\nlevels since he is more naturally gifted.\n\nIt is also interesting to note Vegeta is from a more genetically gifted line\n(royalty was the strongest saiyans) so he would be naturally more powerful\nthan Goku if all conditions were same. Vegeta also points out to Gohan in buu\nsaga that he has been neglecting his training so he was able to catch up to\nGohan's power level when he defeated cell. Goku like you pointed out just\ntrains like a beast even when he is dead so he tends to eventually surpass\neveryone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGoku is the main character in the anime, he dies many times be he is brought\nback because where would the franchise be without him? Take this as an\nexample, the episode of dragon ball when he leaned kamehamheha his first try.\nHe always was the strongest and his children are because they train with their\nalready stronger parents who face stronger opponents later on. This makes it\nall relevant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGohan's hidden power was talked about from almost the very first episode of\nDragon Ball Z until nearly the very end. As far as he goes, his strength comes\nfrom the fact that he was thrown into fighting life and death battles when he\nwas just 4 with the arrival of Raditz and his training under Piccolo. Just\nlook at his resume: Raditz, the Saiyans, Frieza and all his minions, and then\nCell. I stop at Cell because that was the last time he seriously trained for\nany sustained amount of time. But even after that, he stopped training for 7\nyears and his power decreased to the point where he was \"only\" a little\nstronger than Perfect Cell. During the Buu saga, the Old Kaioshin just\nunlocked the rest of his dormant power. So with all he experienced when he was\na kid, it's only natural that he'd be a formidable fighter regardless of how\nmuch he's let himself go.\n\nAs far as Goten goes, he was being trained by Chichi. She might not be very\npowerful herself compared to the Z fighters, but she's certainly the strongest\nfemale in the world aside from 18. Her training methods were never really\ndiscussed but from the one flashback of her sparring with Goten, we can see\nthat she was going pretty hard on him so it wouldn't be too far fetched to\nthink that she'd be able to make him powerful. Like Gohan, he has the hidden\npower, so it's just a matter of training. The main difference is that Chichi\nallows Goten to train whereas Gohan had to either sneak off for that or there\nhad to be something threatening Earth.\n\nSorry for the long explanation but I hope that helps.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Vegita, it probably is because mixing saiyan and human blood\nmakes stronger hybrids\n\n[code]\n\n Vegeta: “At any rate, the battle power of Kakarot’s son is unusually high, \n even by the standards of Saiyan children.” \n Nappa: “Maybe his reading was wrong.” \n Vegeta: “No, it wasn’t wrong. Raditz really took a large amount of damage from that brat’s \n attack. It seems that mixing Saiyan and Earthling blood begets a powerful hybrid.”\n \n[/code]\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo you can't use the Death Note to kill someone else. If you write something\nlike:\n\n> \"John Zerto burns himself to death after he killed his boss\"\n\nJohn would simply die of a heart attack so he couldn't kill his boss. But if\nyou would write:\n\n> \"John Zerto dies after a heart attack after he tried to shoot his boss\"\n\nThat could work. After 6 minutes and 40 seconds, John would take out his gun\nand try to shoot his boss. And because there's a chance his boss could\nsurvive, it could possibly work. So what do you think? Could this work?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, the Death Note is precisely for killing someone else. Using a method like\n\"John Zerto burns himself to death after killing his boss.\" could work since\nit's within the realm of possibility that John Zerto could kill his boss and\nthat John Zerto could burn himself to death afterwards.\n\nThe 6:40 rule applies to if you've begun to write someone's name down in the\nDeath Note, but have not specified how or when they will die. If you don't\nspecify the details within 6:40 the person who's name you have written down\nwill die of a heart attack after 40 seconds.\n\nThere aren't any rules against using someone to kill someone else in the Death\nNote. So this is an entirely possible scenario. If you go into specifics, e.g.\nJohn kills his boss with a gun, but it's not possible for John to obtain a\ngun, John will simply die of a heart attack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences and\n> causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim’s cause of\n> death will be a heart attack\n\nThere are three possibilities and chosing between them is speculation. None\nkill the boss. As Madara said, you could merely include the name of the Boss\nto skirt this. Lets say the boss, therefore, goes by the identifier B to avoid\nthis. Lets say John Zerto is his bodyguard so his ability to obtain a gun or\nfind B is trivial.\n\nIf you say \"John Zerto dies of burns after killing B by shooting him\" then\nJohn will just die of a heart attack.\n\nIf you say \"John Zerto dies of burns after shooting B\" then either John will\njust die of a heart attack or he will non-fatally shoot B before burning to\ndeath. I believe it is the former.\n\nIf you say \"John Zerto dies of burns after trying to kill B by shooting him\"\nthen either John will just die of a heart attack, he will non-fatally shoot B,\nor he will attempt to shoot B but will inevitably miss every shot (or won't\nget any off). Of course he burns to death after either of the last two\noptions. I believe it is the first again but this is speculation.\n\nThe only thing I know is that any of these options result in John Zerto dying\nand B living. I include here the possibility that B could be maimed but this\ncan be logically excluded by assuming Kira is smarter than you. If he could\nmentally disable L by having a soldier non-fatally shooting him in the head,\nhe would have. He would not have missed this possibility and, therefore, it\ndoes not exist. We can extend this to assume that extreme phyisical harm is\nprevented.\n\nNote that this all must mean the universe of Death Note is either\ndeterministic to some degree or the death note is intellegently moderated. The\nbook/death itself knows if action A will result in someone else's immediate\ndeath or someone makes that call each time looking at the situation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRule X (I think) specific says\n\n> Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident,\n> if the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will\n> simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not\n> influenced.\n\nSo if written in the Deah Note \"John Zerto burns himself to death after he\nkilled his boss\" it won't be possible.\n\nHowever, the second example you gave \"John Zerto dies after a heart attack\nafter **he tried** to shoot his boss\" might be possible since a [gunshot don't\nnecessarily kill people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunshot_wound) so if he\nhas a gun (because if he can't get one he will die of a heart attack) the DN\nwill make John Zerto shot his boss in a way he won't be killed, but if it's\nnot possible to the boss the got shot and not get killed like he have bad\nhealth and will be dead the DN will prevent John to shoot his boss and will\ndie of a heart attack.\n\nAnd this only for the difference since it is not written that he shot his boss\n**to kill him** just shot _to shoot_ him, the DN talked about other deaths,\n_not injures._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you would write something like: \"Bob Hyrule dies of old age\", would this\nwork?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPer \"[Can I increase my\nlifespan](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/907/can-i-increase-my-\nlifespan-by-killing-myself-using-the-death-note)\" question: NO!.\n\n> In the Death Note, you cannot set the death date longer than the victim’s\n> original life span. Even if the victim’s death is set in the Death Note\n> beyond his/her original life span, the victim will die before the set time.\n\nThe only reasonable way for him to die of old age would be if you want him to\ndie of old age within 23 days. This requires him to be very old already.\n\n> But the Death Note can only operate within 23 days (in the human calendar).\n> This is called the 23-day rule.\n\nIf that is the case, I'm not sure how idiopathic death from old age would\npresent but there doesn't seem to be anything to prevent that \"cause\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, for two reasons:\n\n1) \"Old age\" is not a cause of death. \"Dying of old age\" indicates _when_ a\nperson dies from some natural cause.\n\n2) Following #1, you can only specify when a person will die if it's within 23\ndays.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Ogit.jpg)\n\n> **Rule XXVII**\n>\n> If you write, \"die of disease\" for the cause of death, but only write a\n> specific time of death without the actual name of disease, the human will\n> die from an adequate disease. But the Death Note can only operate within 23\n> days (in the human calendar).\n>\n> This is called the 23-day rule.\n\nHowever, the very next rule makes it clear that it's possible to write a cause\nof death which allows the victim to live much longer than 23 days.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fP5q2.jpg)\n\n> **Rule XXVIII**\n>\n> If you write, \"die of disease\" like before with a specific disease’s name,\n> but without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to\n> die the 23-day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an\n> adequate time depending on the disease.\n\nTherefore, you could write someone's name in the Death Note, with the cause of\ndeath being a disease that takes decades to develop. This would essentially\nmake the victim immune to the Death Note, while still allowing them to live\nout a long life (assuming they would have lived a long life anyways).\n\nKeep in mind that this cannot be used to extend someone's life, as the victim\nwill still die at the end of their original lifespan.\n\n> **Rule LVII**\n>\n> In the Death Note, you cannot set the death date longer than the victim’s\n> original life-span. Even if the victim’s death is set in the Death Note\n> beyond his/her original life-span, the victim will die before the set time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just realized a way Light could've guaranteed his safety with this rule, or\nat least his safety from other death notes and Ryuk. Suppose Light ordered\nMikami to write his cause of death to be \"rickets\" or \"huntington's disease\"\nwhich both take decades upon decades to kill their victims and can even last\ninto people's elderly years in his notebook. This means he would've have an\nimmunity from death of notebook users and shinagamies. this also meant light\nwould know is approximate time he had before death. This could've lead him to\nsecure life (assuming he beat Near in the final showdown) for a very long time\nand even outsmarting Ryuk, because would never be able to kill him. even if he\nfelt that he needed to die.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBoth are based off mangas right? Do I have to read the mangas for either\nseries or can I just watch the OVA and animes and not have to read the mangas?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can watch any anime and its OVA(s) without reading the manga. However,\nusually manga do contain extra content that aren't covered in the anime and\nOVA(s). So while you don't need to read the manga to watch the anime, you can\nfor an extra bit of info/story.\n\nSo you could read the manga on top of watching the anime and OVA(s) for Read\nor Die, but it's not **necessary** to go through both. It could be fun though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_or_Die):\n\n> [The OVA is] based on the Read or Die manga series... [It] is a continuation\n> of the Read or Die storyline, taking place a few years after the events of\n> the manga.\n>\n> R.O.D the TV is a 26-episode anime TV sequel to the Read or Die OVA\n\nIncidentally, R.O.D. started as light novels and manga published at the same\ntime.\n\nAs with all OVAs I've seen, while you may be able to watch them and get some\nunderstanding of what's going on without reading the original source material,\nthey are usually short and made on the assumption that people who already like\nthe source will be the audience. Therefore, they tend to rush through\nexposition, and even skip over details that they assume the audience is\nalready aware of. As I remember (it has been a while since I watched) it seems\nthat in the case of the R.O.D. OVA, this meant they had very little\nexplanation of the events that happened a few years before. So probably you\nwould get more out of it if you went back and read the manga or light novels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt should be borne in mind that the _Read or Dream_ manga is not in the same\ncanon as _R.O.D the TV_. The sisters meet and adopt each other in a different\nway. Hisa has a different history and meets the sisters under different\ncircumstances.\n\nOn the other hand, I'm not aware of any contradictions between the _Read or\nDie_ manga and either of the anime series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChopper can transform into 7 different things (not including monster point)\nwith the rumble ball and after the timeskip he can transform into 7 more. But\nwhy are there no other Zoan types that have more than three transformations!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Chopper can transform into 7 different things (not including monster point)\n> **with the rumble ball**.\n\nYou answered your own question right there. He's completely reliant on a drug\nthat he developed in order to make the additional transformations. Before the\ntimeskip he was able to do the original 3 transformations without the rumble\nball, and an additional 4 with the rumble ball.\n\nAfter the timeskip he no longer needs the rumble ball for all 7 original\ntransformations. There is nothing canon that explains why. However with the\nfact that he is able to transform into Monster Point with only 1 rumble ball\nnow hints that he has developed a permanent effect of some degree that allows\nthis.\n\nIt is assumed at this point that Chopper _could_ theoretically develop\nsomething for other Zoan-class users assuming the rumble ball didn't already\nwork for them. Suffice to say that at this point no other _known_ scientists\nhave developed anything similar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nZoan Devil Fruits allows the user to transform into another species. **This\ntype of fruit provides three basic forms**\n([Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zoan#Effects)):\n\n> * Human Form (人型 Hito-gata?): The user's natural form.\n> * Human-Beast Form (人獣型 Jinjū-gata?): A hybrid form, combining both the\n> original and the fruit-bestowed species into an unusual form (usually in a\n> bizarre way where the size is greatly exaggerated).\n> * Beast Form (獣型 Kemono-gata?): A fully transformed type.\n>\n\nThis is not different from any Zoan user we have seen so far. The thing where\nZoan users can get creative is within their Human-Beast form. The Human-Beast\nform combines both the original and the fruit-bestowed species into an unusual\nform, but it does not specify which parts are of which species. Zoan users can\nbe creative as to which parts they turn into which species', but **it seems\nthat great control over your Devil Fruit and/or muscles is needed** before you\ncan attempt such feats.\n\nThat is why Chopper has been able to discover much of his combinations much\nsooner on, because **Chopper had been on drugs the whole time**. The rumble\nball enhances his control over his Devil Fruit, making him able to experiment\nmore with his different combinations of his Human-Beast hybrid form. He is not\nthe only one that has been able to transform into more than three\ntransformations though.\n\n\n\nWhile most Zoan Devil Fruits normally allow three forms of transformations\nunder normal circumstances, **Lucci is able to access a fourth form using[Life\nReturn](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Life_Return)**\n([Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Neko_Neko_no_Mi,_Model:_Leopard#Usage)).\nRob Lucci was seen as one of the strongest Zoan users we have encountered so\nfar, thus it makes sense for him to also be able to manipulate his body\nfurther, without the need for drugs.\n\n> Another example we have seen of Zoan users that had transformed further,\n> were the [Jailer Beasts](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Jailer_Beasts).\n> Those five Zoan users, were confirmed to be awakened Zoan users by\n> Crocodile. Assuming Chopper's monster point is his\n> [Awakened](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zoan#Awakening) form, it is again\n> shown, that **Chopper could access his awakened transformation earlier on\n> than other users due to him being on drugs**.\n\nTherefore, at this point it seems that Thebluefish is correct in saying that\nChopper can transform into different forms prematurely due to his Rumble ball.\nThough, **I do not agree on the fact that the rumble would supposedly be\nnecessary in order to gain different transformation. It just greatly enhanced\nit progression.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom [Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Awakened_Zoan#Effects):\n\n> Zoan Devil Fruits allows the user to transform into another species. This\n> type of fruit provides three basic forms:\n>\n> * **Human Form** (人型 Hito-gata): The user's natural form.\n> * **Human-Beast Form** (人獣型 Jinjū-gata): A hybrid form, combining both the\n> original and the fruit-bestowed species into an unusual form (usually in a\n> bizarre way where the size is greatly exaggerated).\n> * **Beast Form** (獣型 Kemono-gata): A fully transformed type.\n>\n\nThis is not different from any Zoan user we have seen so far. The thing where\nZoan users can get creative is within their Human-Beast form. The Human-Beast\nform combines both the original and the fruit-bestowed species into an unusual\nform, but it does not specify which parts are of which species. Zoan users can\nbe creative as to which parts they turn into which species', but it seems that\ngreat control over your Devil Fruit and/or muscles is needed before you can\nattempt such feats.\n\nThat is why Chopper has been able to discover much of his combinations much\nsooner on because Chopper had been on drugs the whole time. The rumble ball\nenhances his control over his Devil Fruit, making him able to experiment more\nwith the different combinations of his Human-Beast hybrid form. He is not the\nonly one that has been able to transform into more than three transformations\nthough.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the time skip Chopper is able to access all the transformations without\nthe rumble ball. The Monster Chopper transformation he unlocks when he eats\nthree can be done with one now, though he is still incapacitated after using\nit. Not only that. He can control himself while in Monster Chopper form.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, Luffy's devil fruit, the \"Hito Hito no Mi Model: Nika\" is a mythical\nzoan fruit that allows him to transform into 5 gears. Luffy's Gear 4 has three\nsubforms, Boundman, Snakeman, and Tankman. Counting all his gears apart from\ngear 4, he has 4 transformations. If we add the three subforms, we get 7 total\ntransformations. So, Chopper and Luffy have the same amount of\ntransformations.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn FMA: Brotherhood, Alphonse recover the memories he lost after going through\nthe Gate, by having Martel's blood spattered over his own blood seal (the one\nthat binds his soul to his armor), and is, henceworth, able to use the\nknowledge inherent to it, such as using alchemy without transmutation circles.\n\nIs there a reason for which _blood should have been splattered_ over his seal\nfor him to recover his memories?\n\nOr was it only coincidence/traumatic?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe blood acted like a charge and amped up the signal of the seal binding him\nin the armor and his body by the gate this is the only thing that makes since\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPersonally, I think it's just the blood splatter itself that \"jogged his\nmemory\" so to speak in a similar way as to how the blood splattered from the\ntransmuted body Al's soul failed to latch onto.\n\nUsually selective amnesia like Al's memory of everything involving the trauma\nitself can be brought back into one's conscious memories using a trigger which\nis usually something similar to something happening in the lost memory in the\nfirst place (I.e. saying an otherwise insignificant word in the right context\nthat would explicitly be tied to that 1 memory or catching a smell similar to\nthe environment that the event took place)\n\nIn this case, the trigger that would affect Al and tie his mind only to that\nincident is the death that HE experienced when his soul had been so violently\nand near immediately rejected from the body. (Which I'm pretty sure would be\nthe trauma which caused his mind to suppress the whole memory in the first\nplace. Who wouldn't be traumatized by actually dying?)\n\nAlso, the reason it happened when it splashed on his seal and not say...any\nother time they might have been fighting and gotten blood on his armor is\nbecause he can't feel it. The blood seal is a direct link to his soul, is the\nonly thing grounding him to earth. Since his rejection occurred in a different\nbody he's no longer attached to, it would stand to reason that such a trigger\ncould only be felt directly by his soul or the body he harbors. The blood seal\nacts as that direct touch to his soul. And this is because blood is ones 'life\nfluid' and often thought to hold the soul and its direct energy within it\n(like our unique DNA and Mei's explanation of the dragon's pulse flowing in\nour bodies). But Al's seal is made with Edward's blood, not his own.\n\nAs such the defining reason it even managed to latch onto Al's specific soul\nand hold it so well and for so long is because their souls were mixed during\nthe transmutation as Ed explains later. In brotherhood this is even easier to\nsee with the brief flashback to Al inside the body they made when it bleeds\nout rather similarly under an outstretched hand.\n\nThat's my take on it anyways.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MRikV.png)\n\nOn the bottom left paragraph, it reads:\n\n> You will not die if you write your own name in here, but it's not\n> recommended.\n\nThis page is taken from [the pilot chapter of Death\nNote](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_Manga_Pilot). Would the manga\npilot be considered canon? And thus, would I be able to kill myself with the\nDeath Note or not?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned by [Maroon](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2604/maroon),\nOP's question would possibly contradict the answer at [Can a person shorten\ntheir own life by using the Death\nNote?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7412/can-a-person-shorten-\nhis-her-own-life-by-using-the-note)\n\nSo before answering OP's question, lets first see what we know about the\neffect of writing your own name in the Death Note.\n\n 1. [In the manga pilot](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_Manga_Pilot), there is a rule that says:\n\n> You will not die if you write your own name in the Death Note, but it is not\n> recommended.\n\n 2. [In the movie The Last Name](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note:_The_Last_Name), we see L die from writing his own name in the Death Note:\n\n> Later it is revealed that L did not die and avoided death by writing his\n> name in the notebook stating, \"L Lawliet will die 23 days from this date\".\n>\n> The film ends 23 days later, with L dying peacefully.\n\n 3. [In the one shot special](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_One-Shot_Special), we read that the C-killer dies from writing his own name:\n\n> This resulted in C-Kira writing his own name in the Death Note.\n\nLooking at the available evidence, it would indeed seem like a possible\ncontradiction (although Miura-kun was about to try and commit suicide in the\nmanga pilot and there is no evidence he wouldn't have died). Therefore, in\norder to correctly reply to OP's question I checked what should be considered\n[canon according to the Death Note\nwiki](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Guide_to_Canon). Since the only three\nsources considered as canon are [the twelve original manga\nvolumes](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_Chapters), [Death\nNote 13: How to\nRead](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_13:_How_to_Read), and the\n[Death Note One-Shot-Special](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_One-\nShot_Special), it would seem that **you can indeed commit suicide by using the\nDeath Note** as seen in the One-Shot-Special, when the C-killer couldn't\nhandle the pressure and committed suicide.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom Death Note 13: How to Read, How to Use V:\n\n> A person can shorten his/her own life by using the note.\n\nSo, you may indeed shorten your own life.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 318, Gajeel mentions Rogue's real name, R(e)yos.\n\n\n\nSo what's the deal between them? I thought Rogue only adored/feared Gajeel\nfrom the shadows (pun not intended). So how did he know his real name?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 13 of Fairy Tail (2014) Gajeel implies that he was a mentor to\nRogue. The fact that he knew the name Reyos proves that Gajeel knew about him\nwhile in Phantom Lord. Gajeel says that Rogue was his disciple. According to\nthe Fairy Tail wiki, Rogue is also Gajeels sworn younger brother but the wiki\ndoesn't say how it got this info about the brother.\n\nFrom the [wiki](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Gajeel_Redfox#History):\n\n> At some point in time, Gajeel joined Phantom Lord. During his time in\n> Phantom Lord, a young man named **Rogue Cheney** , **known as Ryos, was\n> Gajeel's sworn younger brother**.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis could possibly be so due to Gajeels ability to absorb Rouge's shadows. If\nRouge was his disciple/brother, he was around he for an amount of time where\nhe adapted to his magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Rouge is Gajeel's younger brother since there is no other explanation\nI can think of. As we all know, when Gajeel was in Phantom Lord, he was feared\nso much. Therefore, he is respected but never admired.\n\nIt seems that Gajeel knows Rouge's real name since they were brothers and this\nwould explain why Rouge respects Gajeel so much. Even Gajeel says that he is\nhis disciple since they were brothers but with Gajeel as the older sibling and\nwith Rouge as the younger sibling in the family.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 27, Misa says\n\n> Ryuuku tricked the king of the gods of death to get the second death note\n> that kira is using.\n\nDoes anybody know how Ryuk tricked the king of Gods and got his Death Note?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty sure he pretended to have lost his Death Note and got a new one off the\nking. However, I'm not 100% sure.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt looks like Ryuk tricked the king of Gods by pretending he had lost his\nDeath Note.\n\n# Chapter 60\n\nSidoh appears for the first time. Sidoh says that he thinks it is about time\nto kill a human or two. This happens in 2009, 6 years after Ryuk had dropped\nhis/Sidoh's Death Note on earth. From this we can see that Sidoh is a lazy and\nclumsy Death God, who did not realize he was missing his Death Note for at\nleast 6 years. Which explains how Ryuk became the owner of this Death note.\nAccording to [How to Use:\nXII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_XII),\nyou lose ownership when the Death Note is stolen, unless it is retrieved\nwithin 490 days, which it wasn't.\n\n> If you lose the Death Note or have it stolen, you will lose its ownership\n> unless you retrieve it within 490 days.\n\n\n\n# Chapter 65\n\nSidoh appears again. This time he realized he had lost his Death Note and had\nasked the King of Gods, whether he had seen his Death Note. At which the King\nreplies that Ryuk had already taken that Death Note, pretending it to be his.\n\n> When I told the King of Kings what it looked like, he said, \"Oh Ryuuk said\n> it was the one he'd lost, and took it with him\"\n\n\n\n# Conclusion\n\nRyuk was bored and didn't feel alive in the Death God world. But according to\n[How to Use:\nXXIV](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_XXIV),\nDeath Gods are not allowed to stay in the human world for long periods of\ntime. Therefore when Ryuk found Sidoh's Death Note, he saw a once in a\nlifetime opportunity to have some fun. He pretended to the Death God that the\nDeath Note was his, so he could obtain ownership after 490 days and at that\ntime the story starts.\n\n> The god of death must not stay in the human world without a particular\n> reason. Conditions to stay in the human world are as follows:\n>\n> * When the god of death’s Death Note is handed to a human.\n>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, there is another theory, Ryuk might be the shinigami king himself\ntherefore as access to infinite number of notes, since the shinigami world is\nin ruins there isn't any actual proof that it has any particular authority\nstructure, the shinigami sidoh talked to might have pretended to be the king\nof the death gods to protect ryuk's identity, and since we never saw the king\nof the shinigami in the manga it might have being ryuk all along, also the bag\nryuk is keeping is death note has a strange design and we never saw another\nshinigami in the manga keeping is death note in a bag, which means ryuk might\nhave a sort of bag to keep his death note because he is the actual king.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAre there more seasons of xxxHolic? The only seasons that I can find are 1 and\n2 and I think 3.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk, i am unsure what you mean by a 3rd Season but here's what i've looked up,\nthere is\n\n * [xxxHOLiC](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6052) (Season 1) which was saw a number of releases outside Japan, 24 Episodes\n\n * [xxxHOLiC: Kei](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8551) (Season 2), this hasn't see as many releases, in the link there is a French Translator and Arabic Broadcaster but no licencing or distribution companies are listed, 13 Episodes\n\n * [xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10583) (OVA), so far only dench is listed, 2 Episodes\n\n * [xxxHOLiC: Rō](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11396) (OVA), only in japan, 1 Episode\n\n * [xxxHOLiC: Rō Adayume](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12056) (OAV), once again only in japan, 1 Episode\n\nthere is also a xxxHOLiC movie called [xxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night's\nDream](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4212),\nnumerous releases and from what i've seen in Australia gets released with\n[Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE the Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage\nKingdom](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5148)\naswell.\n\nFinally, i should forget the\n[Manga](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=2890) which\nis released in English.\n\nthe List above is i'm assuming the chronological order as the links all seem\nto indicate that much but i haven't seen the series myself however xxxHOLiC\nties itself with Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE from my understanding.\n\nTo answer you main question **How many seasons are there of xxxHolic** i'd say\nonly 2 Seasons and 4 OVA's (remember Shunmuki has 2 episodes)\n\nNow i have no idea how long the OVA episodes go for however i accept Maria\nWatches Over Us OVA Season 3 is a season by itself as that has 4 episodes\nabout 40-50 minutes each, in a sense that's about 8-10 regular episodes of a\nnormal series or if xxxHOLiC's episodes OVA episodes are about that you can\nrefer to them as seasons aswell\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime Tom is the best shipwright there is, but how did he get the blue\nprints to the Pluton. Did he write them himself, and if so how did he get the\ninformation needed to do so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFranky explains this, before destroying the blueprints. According to him, the\nbest shipwrights of the world created Pluton to counter the ancient weapon\n\"Poseidon\".\n\nI don't think any names have been mentioned, but it is safe to assume that the\nblueprints were handed down to Tom from his master.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe blueprints for the ancient weapon\n[Pluton](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Pluton) were not made by Tom, but\npassed on to him according to [the Wiki on Ancient\nWeapons](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ancient_Weapons):\n\n> While Pluton has yet to appear in the story proper, it has been referred to\n> as an ancient ship capable of massive damage and destruction. It was built\n> on the island of Water 7 sometime during the Void Century, and the\n> shipwrights kept the blueprints as a safety measure, in the event that\n> Pluton fell into the wrong hands; fortunately, the ship was lost to history\n> before that could happen. **The blueprints were passed down through the\n> generations** , and ten years prior to the main storyline were held by the\n> Fishman carpenter, Tom, of Tom's Workers.\n\nTherefore the blueprints were created during the [Void\ncentury](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Void_Century) about 800 to 900 years\nago and passed down through generations. Tom was the best shipwright of his\ngeneration, but when he was younger, there was probably another shipwright as\ngood or maybe even better than Tom, from whom Tom had inherit the blueprints\nfrom. The blueprints, could be a real danger for society and should have been\ndestroyed earlier, but as Tom mentioned, it is not the ship that does the\nwrongdoing, it's its captain. Shipwrights just build the ship. So they kept\nthe blueprints around, to be able to defend themselves, if the original ship\never fell into the wrong hands or to defend themselves against any of the\nother ancient weapons. In Enies Lobby, Franky destroyed the blueprints,\nalthough it is not clear whether he had made a copy or whether he had\nmemorized the blueprints. He is a robot after all. So it might still not be\nthe end of Pluton as we speak.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the War, many things changed with the Marine.\n\nThere are new unknown Admirals, but does anybody know what Sengoku's new\nposition is?\n\n**(After timeskip, he doesn't seem very serious any more)**\n\n\n\nI found this in the Wiki:\n\n> Sengoku the Buddha was the fleet admiral of the Marines during the first\n> half of the series. He was the successor of Kong and the predecessor of\n> Sakazuki. He was also one of the major figures along with Whitebeard, Shiki,\n> and Monkey D. Garp during the times when Gol D. Roger was still alive, and\n> still continues to be in the present, even after his resignation from the\n> Marines. Sometime during the timeskip, he became a **General Inspector.**\n\nDoes anybody know what _\"General Inspector\"_ is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe people writing [the wiki on\nSengoku](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sengoku) just forgot to link the\nrank's name to it's corresponding wiki page, because if you read the [wiki\npage on General\nInspector](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Marine_Ranks#General_Inspector) you\ncan read the following:\n\n> \"General Inspector\" (大目付 Ōmetsuke?) is **a special rank which has the duty\n> of detecting and investigating instances of maladministration, corruption,\n> or defection in the Marine organization.** The only known General Inspector\n> at the moment is the former Fleet Admiral Sengoku.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fh2Sl.jpg)\n\nSo I was wrong in my comment, thinking both Garp and Sengoku received the same\nrank. In chapter 594, as shown in the picture, Kong indeed suggests Sengoku to\nstay for the young marines, the same way Garp did. And according to the wiki\nGarp supposedly became an\n[Instructor](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Marine_Ranks#Instructor), while\nSengoku became a [General\nInspector](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Marine_Ranks#General_Inspector).\nBoth cases have not been verified by the manga though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was wondering how was Gohan so much **stronger as a normal Saiyan than Goku\nwas as SS3** when he fought Buu. Is there not like a power level to reach the\nnext SSJ form?\n\n\n\nPower level example:\n\n * **10,000 to reach SS1**\n * **100,000 to reach SS2**\n * etc.\n\nWhy couldn't Gohan reach SS3 already? Or he could fight as SS2 at least?\n\n_Maybe I have to rewrite my question again:_\n\nIf you read the list below,\n\n * SS1 is always at about 25,000,000\n\n * SS2 is always at about 49,000,000\n\n**If Gohan with the Mystic Sword is as strong as Goku was as SS3, there\nwouldn't be any difference in their strength when he would transform into\nSS3?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Saiyan Power Levels](http://www.danjco.com/power.htm) \\- check this link out.\n\nIt states the power level every character have during a specific battle.\n\n**Majin Buu Saga**\n\n> Fat Buu: 45,000,000 \n> Majin Buu: 80,000,000 \n> Good Buu: 55,000,000 \n> Bad Buu: 65,000,000 \n> Super Buu: 70,000,000 \n> Ultimate Buu: 50,000,000 \n> Majin Gotenks Buu: 90,000,000 \n> Majin Vegito Buu: 100,000,000 \n> Goku: 5,000,000 \n> Goku (Super Saiyan): 27,000,000 \n> Goku (Super Saiyan 2): 49,500,000 \n> Goku (Super Saiyan 3): 79,999,999 \n> Goku (Genki-dama): 100,000,000 \n> Piccolo: 26,000,000 \n> Gohan: 3,000,000 \n> Gohan (Super Saiyan): 25,000,000 \n> Gohan (with the Z sword): 53,000,000 \n> Goten: 1,500,000 \n> Goten (Super Saiyan): 10,000,000 \n> Trunks: 1,500,000 \n> Trunks (Super Saiyan): 10,000,000 \n> Gotenks: 3,000,000 \n> Gotenks (Super Saiyan): 20,000,000 \n> Gotenks (Super saiyan 3): 75,000,000 \n> Vegeta: 5,000,000 \n> Vegeta (Super Saiyan): 26,500,000 \n> Vegeta (Super Saiyan 2): 49,000,000 \n> Vegito: 10,000,000 \n> Vegito (Super Saiyan): 53,000,000 \n> Vegito (Super Saiyan 2): 99,500,000\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> The first Super Saiyan transformation occurs when a Saiyan who has reached a\n> very high level of power loses himself in a fit of rage.[22] However, the\n> transformation must be triggered in response to a great need, an example\n> being in Goku's case to defeat Frieza. While physical change is not too\n> drastic apart from a slight increase in muscle mass,[23][24] the power\n> output increase is colossal; the form is said to multiply the Saiyan's power\n> by 50x times its normal amount[22] (in the Dragon Ball Z: The Anime\n> Adventure Game, the multiplier for the form is 2.5x the user's normal amount\n> of power). When Goku utilises the Super Saiyan form against General Rilldo\n> in Dragon Ball GT, Rilldo states that Goku's power has increased a\n> hundredfold.\n\nSource: <http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think i found a possible answer:\n\nI found this in the [DB Wiki ](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Gohan).\n\n> As Goku, Supreme Kai, and Kibito observe what is happening down on Earth,\n> Gohan grows increasingly impatient as Old Kai reads and laughs at comics\n> instead of unlocking his power. Gohan soon loses his patience and angrily\n> powers up, displaying an amazing power that illuminates the Supreme Kai\n> planet. However, amazed at realizing that some of his power really was\n> unlocked, Gohan apologizes to Old Kai, and resumes the ritual. **After some\n> time, the ritual is finally completed and Gohan is told to power up like he\n> does for the Super Saiyan transformation; however, when he does, his\n> appearance does not change, but his power and strength gain an awesome\n> increase.** Gohan says goodbye to Supreme Kai, Old Kai, and his father Goku\n> and is transported back to Earth by Kibito. Before Kibito transports back to\n> the Supreme Kai planet, Gohan asks for the clothes reminiscent of his\n> father's, to which Kibito happily complies. Kibito wishes Gohan good luck\n> and transports back to the Supreme Kai planet. With his power finally\n> released and the fate of the world now in his hands, Gohan flies off to\n> confront the new Majin Buu: Super Buu.\n\n_So it seems when Gohan get \"Mystic Gohan\", even though he increased his Power\nhis appearance didn't change. So he coulnd't transform in any other Saiyan\nform than the normal form, but still getting stronger._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we saw more recently in Dragon Ball Super, Gohan in mystic form isnt the\nsame as Gohan in base form. Once he got rusty, to reach mystic form he had to\npower up to super saiyan and super saiyan 2 first, to finally reach the mystic\nform transformation, which looks very similar to base form with the sole\ndifference that he has a bang and more spiky hair.\n\n[Gohan turns mystic again - Dragon Ball\nSuper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4MGSd7-46E)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn DBZ, we see that the Elder Kai fully awakens the dormant power of Gohan. In\nthis state Gohan can match Buu in his unfused form. But after Buu absorbs\nPiccolo and Gotenks, why doesn't Gohan go Super?\n\nIs there any reason that Gohan couldn't transform to Super Saiyan form after\nthe awakening?\n\nEdit 1: Removed the transformation in GT from consideration because DBZ and GT\nare seperate canons.\n\nEdit 2: Dragon Ball Super has canon continuity to DBZ and I've heard talks of\nUltimate Gohan in it. Has more information been provided on Gohan's\ntransformation in DBS? Please Note: Yet to see DBS beyond the intial movies.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is yes. His power was fully awaken and so he had no need to\ntransform into super Saiyan. He could go super but he didn't know that Buu\ncould absorb people and their power level.\n\nWhen he is in mystic form his full power was awaken and he had the same power\nas he did as super Saiyan. so his base power was risen. He can still transform\ninto a SS or SS2 at any point he wants to. Its just the fact that he has the\nsame power level and so he doesn't see the point to.\n\nA good sight for you to look at the goes more in detail is [Dragonball\nwiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Why_can't_Ultimate_Gohan_go_ssj%3F)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think I found a possible answer, because I had a similar question.\n\nIn [Gohan](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Gohan) article on Dragon Ball\nWiki.\n\n> However, amazed at realizing that some of his power really was unlocked,\n> Gohan apologizes to Old Kai, and resumes the ritual. **After some time, the\n> ritual is finally completed and Gohan is told to power up like he does for\n> the Super Saiyan transformation; however, when he does, his appearance does\n> not change, but his power and strength gain an awesome increase.**\n\nSo it seems when Gohan got \"Mystic Gohan\", even though he increased his power,\nhis appearance didn't change. So he couldn't transform in any other Saiyan\nform than the normal form, but he was still getting stronger.\n\nI'm not sure if he is able to change, but the fact is, there would be no\ndifference. He already got all his power in his normal form, without a change.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is actually no. Gohan's Mystic Powerup IS his Super Saiyan\ntransformation which is why elder Kai tells him to powerup as if he were\ntransforming.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Dragon Ball Wiki, Daizenshuu 2 commented on the possibility of\n[Gohan](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Gohan#Power) becoming a Super Saiyan:\n\n> Daizenshuu 2 states that Ultimate Gohan is still capable of becoming a Super\n> Saiyan, but even without utilising the form he surpasses Super Saiyan 3\n> Gotenks in power, if Ultimate Gohan was to become a Super Saiyan his power\n> would likely rise to levels above even Super Buu (Gohan, Piccolo, Goten, and\n> Trunks absorbed).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, Gohan's Mystic Power-Up actually made it so his ki transformed to\nthat of a Kai, but doing so made it so that his appearance doesn't change when\nhe goes Super Saiyan.\n\nWhen he fought Super Buu, he was actually a Super Saiyan 2 charged by Kai\nenergy, but the Kai powers he got from his Mystic training made his Super\nSaiyan lose the aura and hair and eye color.\n\nApparently that Kai training has worn off by the events of Battle of the Gods,\nResurrection F and Dragon Ball Super because he went back to not training.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt makes perfect sense that Ultimate Gohan (the official name for the \"form\")\ncan go Super Saiyan. Whenever Gohan had sudden outburst of rage and power he\nutilized and unleashed very small portions of his full power, the greatest\nexample of this was him transforming into and SSJ2 against Perfect Cell.\n\nThe Super Saiyan forms are only multipliers, and are NOT set levels of power.\nUltimate Gohan is just Gohan with his potential unlocked, he can't get\nstronger than that naturally, but utilizing forms and skills like the Kaio-\nken, and Super Saiyan forms would multiply his power.\n\nFor further proof, the Daizenshuu 2 clearly states that Ultimate Gohan can go\nSuper Saiyan, and doing that would make him even stronger that Buuhan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super when training with Piccolo Gohan powered up to super\nsaiyan 2, and then he made a final effort and transformed into mystic form ,\npassing from super saiyan 2 to mystic form in a gradual change, as a next\nstage, so no, now with Dragon Ball Super the answer is clear, he can't\ntransform into super saiyan when in mystic form because it's another stage of\npower. You can see it here:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G4shXF9bo0>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI recently listened to the song **[Prelude to\nParadise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGIFGCj_So)** by Immediate Music\nand I'm pretty sure that the beginning (until at least 00:45) is nearly\nexactly the same track as one of HxH's songs (OST 1 or 2). It's probably one\nof the Zoldyck Family's themes.\n\nAm I wrong? If not, what song is it?\n\nFinally, if I'm right, is there any link between those two? I'm pretty sure\nthey are _extremely_ similar (well, at least the beginning), but Prelude to\nParadise came out more than 4 years ago....\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI could not find an exact match to this song searching through the OST's I\nwill agree that it does seem familiar to the Zoldyck Family theme at about 20\nseconds into the Zoldyck theme they sound very close but there is a\ndifference. As far as for link there is no real way to tell other than to ask\nthe composer of Prelude to Paradise. ref([HxH Zoldyck\nTheme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyoBQCzsYAM))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChristina decides a keyword which will make her believe Hououin Kyouma's story\nin the next time-line. That password is:\n\n> 私が今一番欲しい物はMy-Forkであり。 \n> My-Spoonはもうもってるし。 \n> The thing I most want at the moment is \"my fork\". \n> I already have \"my spoon\".\n\nShe blushes as soon as she says it. And when Kyouma repeats her this password\nin the following time-lines, she feels strongly ashamed (especially for the\n\"spoon\" thing) of it everytime.\n\nWhat is the reason behind Christina's intense embarrassment?\n\n  \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [Tv Tropes\npage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/SteinsGAte), the explanation\nfor the \"fork\" and \"spoon\" is an inside joke from 2chan for \"lover\" and\n\"friend\":\n\n> Apparently \"my fork\" and \"my spoon\" was at some point 2chan slang for\n> \"lover\" and \"friend\", respectively. No wonder Kurisu was so pissed with\n> herself.\n\nBut no source was provided.\n\nThough the [Steins Gate wiki](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Glossary) has a different explanation for it:\n\n> As a way for Makise Kurisu to understand that Okabe time-leaped back a few\n> hours prior to Mayuri's death, she tells Okabe that she needs a \"My Fork\" to\n> go with her \"My Spoon\" in the present, so that when he time-leaps back,\n> she'll believe that Okabe came back from the future to save Mayuri.\n\nBut I still think it's just slang.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn addition to Jon's answer:\n\nIn Japan, people usually have their personal set of dishes, which they may\ncall my+something. e.g マイ箸 for chopsticks...\n\nIt is also trendy to prepend this \"my\" prefix for many personal objects that\nare seen as an achievement : house (マイホーム), car (マイカー)...\n\nCombine those 2 hints for better understanding of the joke :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to an interview with the scenario writer, Naotaka Hayashi, featured\nin Dengeki Games Magazine about the heroines of anime/game that weren’t\nexplained in the main story:\n\n> **Why did Kurisu want her own fork?**\n>\n> Ever since Kurisu came back to Japan she couldn’t get enough of instant\n> ramen. At first she tried using chopsticks to eat her ramen but never could\n> get used to them, so she gave up and used a fork instead. This is why she\n> wanted her own personal fork to eat her ramen at the lab.\n\nThis is probably the actual meaning she implies. Her comment about how Okabe\nshouldn't take an interest (i.e., ask more about it) in that, is probably\nsomething to hide he embarrassment of not being able to use chopsticks.\n\nNote that she [brought her own spoon for\npudding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965605ajxaQ), but she doesn't have a\nfork (for ramen).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis answer will not provide you with any deeper meaning on what it would mean\nto own your personal spoon and/or fork, but it will tell you **how Makise got\nher spoon** and why she wanted a matching fork.\n\n* * *\n\nIn Steins;Gate: **Aishin Meizu no Babel** (The story from Makise Kurisu's POV)\nyou can see how Makise gets her personal spoon for her tenth birthday from her\nfather and was supposed to get her personal fork from him a year after that on\nher eleventh birthday.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QLbDa.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXGWu.png)\n\nThen on her eleventh birthday, she gave her father proof that time machines\nshould be impossible to build. He became outraged over this and instead of\ngiving her anything, he told her he would prove her wrong and erase her from\nthis earth.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/f8elb.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vvckj.png)\n\nSo I guess her wanting her personal fork, would mean that she wanted to patch\nthings up with her father and become wanted again by him. Which can be seen\nwhen Ferris lets her listen to the tape both their fathers had made 16 years\nearlier, when she called him after all these years.\n\n> Not much had changed though, he still hadn't been able to built the time\n> machine and he still wanted to erase her existence in 2010. \n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m2gkr.png)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3lKdz.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere is the story. The hero is a boy who likes a girl that ends up being a\nwitch. When she is in trouble he tries to rescue her but get's beamed to a\nspaceship by another girl who needs his help. Before he can help her he gets\nsummoned to another planet to fight an overlord dragon who is immune to magic.\nHe then slays the dragon with a ray gun he takes from this spaceship.\n\nDoes anyone know the name of this anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're looking for the light novel and manga series, [_Ore ga Heroine o\nTasukesugite Sekai ga Little\nMokushiroku!?_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=70424)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nNBDO.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have searched all over for an answer to this and there doesn't seem to be a\nsatisfactory answer to me. One theory says that it's a light offensive joke\naimed at Americans, a subtle way of calling us dicks because of how it's\nusually only offensive material that are censored on TV. Another theory says\nthat it's actually to not offend Americans, since they couldn't render all the\nstars or that it might not be displayed appropriately. I'm not so sure I'm\nconvinced with that since Excel Saga's main audience is not American, at\nleast, I don't think it is.\n\nWhy was the American flag censored in episode 17 of Excel Saga? Have there\nbeen other instances where national flags are censored or is there some sort\nof regulation to censor flags that they must follow?\n\n\n\nRelevant clip:\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x39Jp-z61M&noredirect=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x39Jp-z61M&noredirect=1)\nAt around 0:39\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe protagonist enters a story and becomes the replacement for the original\nprotagonist of that story. After each arc, he uses an element of a previous\nstory in order to solve the current story's world's problems. It's still quite\nnew so it should be under 50 chapters.\n\nI read it maybe a half a year ago. Does anyone what manga this might be?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt could be [KINGDOM HEARTS](http://myanimelist.net/manga/396/Kingdom_Hearts),\nand is actually based on a [PlayStation 2\ngame](http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/516587-kingdom-hearts) that came out first.\n\nIn the main story, Sora (the protagonist) travels among other worlds. And in\neach world, he transforms and blends in to resemble the world's characters. \nAlso in every world, there is a problem that only he could help to fix.\n\nIn the first season of this series, there are 43 chapters\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhere I live (Ireland), the convention scene is predominantly teenagers around\n16/17. As I get older, I feel more out of place. I'm only 22, so I'm not old\nat all, but everyone else is so much more energetic and there aren't many\npeople my age left. There are still attendees older than myself, but the\nnumber is usually in the single digits.\n\nI watched Crunchyroll's livestream of an American convention (A-Kon maybe?),\nand it seemed to be a bit more diverse.\n\nI've wanted to visit a larger convention on a visit sometime in the future, so\nI was wondering what the age demographic usually is for American conventions\nsuch as Anime Expo or Otakon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been reading several articles and blog posts about this and I tweeted at\na couple of the larger American conventions and one got back to me.\n\n[Otakon](https://twitter.com/Otakon) said that their main demographic is 18 to\n28 year olds.\n\n[Anime Midwest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_Midwest) is not as big as\nOtakon, but several places online mention the average age is about 17/18. \\-\n[\"Anime-Midwest: Dear God, I'm\nOld\"](http://www.threatormenace.com/2013/07/11/anime-midwest-dear-god-im-old)\n\n[Anime\nBoston](http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/laserorgy/archive/2010/04/05/anime-\nboston-10-improving-but-not-growing.aspx) seems to be reputed for hosting a\nyoung crowd.\n\n[A large-scale\nsurvey](https://sites.google.com/site/anthropomorphicresearch/past-\nresults/iarp-2014---3-fandom-project) seems to indicate the average age for\nA-Kon in Dallas is ~24\n\nThere seems to be a problem of fans _graduating_ from anime fandom, so that\nthe average age stays the same and cons sometimes face problems with\ndisappointing turnouts because of the constant promotion drive.\n\nPerhaps the larger cons attract older attendees as they might visit them\ninstead of smaller cons because of more work commitments and etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you can see in the title and from the\n[xxxHOLiC](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6052) and\n[Tsubasa RESERVoir\nCHRoNiCLE](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4591)\nAnime News Network Pages pages, the titles for these 2 use mixed casing, on\nthe [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubasa%3a_Reservoir_Chronicle)\npage they have the japanese name as\n\n> ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- Tsubasa: Rezaboa Kuronikuru\n\nI am wondering if there is a reason why the names come out like this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn [How to Use:\nXIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_XIII),\nin the second point it says\n\n> The god of Death always remains with the owner of the Death Note.\n\nindicating that a Shinigami will remain with the owner of their Death Note,\nLight learns this and gathers a group of friends to try and hide himself with\nRyuk following him when Misa is trying to find him (she finds him because of\nher Eyes)\n\nHowever, the Death Note Light had in the beginning isn't Ryuk's but Sidoh's\nwhich Ryuk stole, and unlike Gelus who died and Rem probably obtained\nownership of Gelus's Death Note afterwards, Sidoh was still alive so even if\nLight became the owner after Ryuk dropped it in the human world, the Shinigami\nwho was supposed to be with like was Sidoh.\n\nAlso in [How to Use\n2](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_II),\nthe second point says\n\n> The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of the original\n> owner, i.e. a god of death.\n\nSo is there an explanation as to how Ryuk was tied with Light's Death Note\nhaving stolen it from Sidoh?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [How to use\nII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_II):\n\n> The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of the original\n> owner, i.e. a god of death.\n\nTherefore the only explanation for Light being able to see Ryuk would be, that\n**Ryuk is the original owner**. But how did Ryuk become the owner of Sidoh's\nDeath Note? As I explained at [How did Ryuk trick the King of Death\nGods?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/11541/how-did-ryuk-trick-the-\nking-of-death-gods/11602#11602), it is because of [How to Use\nXII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use%3a_XII):\n\n> If you lose the Death Note or have it stolen, you will lose its ownership\n> unless you retrieve it within 490 days.\n\nRyuk became owner of Sidoh's Death Note because of this rule. It wasn't until\nchapter 65 that Sidoh realized that he had lost his Death Note, which is 6\nyears after Ryuk first dropped the Death Note down to earth. If it took him at\nleast 6 years to realize he had lost his Death Note, it would be safe to\nassume that Ryuk had already found the Death Note 490 days before he dropped\nit down to earth, claiming ownership and becoming tied to that particular\nDeath Note.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually a shinigami or god of death is mortal(rem,the shinigami attach with\nmiss and one more shinigami died)..to increase their age,they used to steal\nage from the human world So here Ryuk the most brilliant shinigami tricked\nlight from the beginning.he actually steal the light life. This is the most\ninteresting theory I come up with.\n\nSo my theory is:\n\n 1. if shinigami write a person death ,he also convert into the sand.so they only can reduce life of a human but can’t kill.(rem told to miss how shinigami use their more book)\n 2. to kill a person by shinigami ,by writing name is only possible when human life span is completely finish.in that case shinigami will not die. Also as shinigami can see a person life span so it’s easy for them also.(at the end ryuk named lighat name in his death note) and he did not died\n 3. many more\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome years ago I found this really great depressing anime and I cannot recall\nit's name. It was built as a series of stories, with each being independent\nfrom the rest. Not like arcs but actual independent stories. And one of those\nstories has ever since stayed with me as the the most depressing thing that\nI've ever saw.\n\nIt was a true story of a young Japanese novelist who won the newcomer award in\nJapan (or something along those lines). It basically talked about his life's\nups and downs and ended in his suicide.\n\nIn general the theme there was very dark and well suicidal, but I loved it for\nthat. If I remember correctly it was set in the post WW2 era Japan.\n\nOne other thing I remember that the last story in the series was set in\nmedieval Japan, was quite colourful and seemed really out of place from the\nrest of the stories. It was possibly even a fantasy story.\n\nIf I remember correctly it had only 3 stories and was 12ep max possible less.\n\nAlthough the last one was simply weird in that line up, the previous two where\nquite heavy dramas exploring how a person can fall into suicide.\n\nI vaguely remember something like this happening in one of them: The main\ncharacter (young male early 20s or late teens) went to this bar where he met\nanother depressed women. They hooked up and I think they became a couple. They\nthen proceeded to commit double suicide, by throwing themselves of the cliffs.\n\nWhen they got there they ate a lot of sleeping pills so they would drown in\nthe sea and they jumped off the cliff.\n\nThe woman did just that, but when the main character (do not remember the name\nsorry) was about to jump he first started to puke from all the booze they\ndrank that night and puked out the sleeping pills.\n\nAt the time he did not think much of it and followed the women and jumped off\nthe cliffs. How ever because he failed to ingest the sleeping pills he did not\ndrown and later was saved from the sea or washed up on the shore. Anyway later\nhe had some serious regrets on puking and not managing to kill himself.\n\nLater on there was this scene where I think it was the same character, but\npossibly it was the other story, where the main male character was living with\nhis wife. Again only after going through some serious issues. And was living\nin this big (relatively speaking) house and supporting the couple by creating\nmanga based on his life full of profanities I think we nowadays would say it\nwas seinen hentai... if that makes any sense.\n\nAnyway the character had gone through some series of hardships and though that\nhe finally found if not a peaceful life than a livable life. I remember one\nscene were his friend (or was it an acquaintance) came by to see how he was\ndoing and when he saw how he was making money was quite shocked by it.\n\nOne day when he came home his publisher was there \"doing\" his wife. When he\nconfronted him, the publisher told him that the manga that he was doing was\nnot actually selling and this is why he got the cheques, because his publisher\ngot to have sex his wife. Now his publisher proceeded to explain to the poor\nguy how he must have known all that and he should not be so shocked.\n\nOne of the more memorable scene is were the wife told the guy \"How could you\nhave done this to me\" implyng that he basically pimped her to his publisher.\nThis of course lunged the main character into a suicidal fit where he tried to\nkill himself.\n\nHopefully it ring some bells to someone, every time I hear that Clannad is a\nsad anime I think \"not really\" and think back on this one. But I simply do not\nremember the name, so I can't give them an example of a truly sad and\ndepressing anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a good chance you're looking for [Aoi\nBungaku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoi_Bungaku) (lit. \"Blue Literature\").\nIt's a collection of 6 classic Japanese novels adapted as an anime by Madhouse\nin 2009. As the name suggests, the stories are mostly quite depressing, though\nthere is some variation between them.\n\nMost of the events you mentioned occur in [No Longer\nHuman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Longer_Human), the first novel adapted\n(episodes 1-4), by Dazai Osamu, who later committed suicide. It's about a man\nnamed Oba Yozo, who is incapable of interacting normally with other people and\nalways puts on a facade. Over the course of the novel (and the anime), he\nlives several lives, moving from one position (and woman) to another fairly\nquickly, and is never content with his life. Just this story was recompiled\ninto a [movie\nrelease](http://myanimelist.net/anime/7651/Ningen_Shikkaku%3a_Directors_Cut_Ban),\nthough I guess from your description you probably saw the TV version.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nReferring to the 2003 anime FMA, what is the exact process to creating an\nHomunculus? I haven't watched the anime in a little while but if this makes\nsense I am looking for the ingredients that are put together to make an\nHomunculus in the 2003 anime.\n\nI do remember that Edward used the composition of what the human body was made\nof but other than that I can't remember exactly what the ingredients (if this\nmakes sense) on what Homunculi are created from.\n\nFor some reason I remember that you need the persons flesh that you are trying\nto bring back for human transmutation but cannot remember where I heard this\nfrom and I am pretty sure Edward didn't do this when he tried to bring back\nhis mother.\n\nIf you don't get the question think about how a salad is made and think of it\nas if I am asking what ingredients go into it to make it a salad if this makes\nsense.\n\nAnswers are appreciated. :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd assume it be mostly the same with every homunculus since they are created\nfrom failed attempts at Human Transmutation which in most cases is bring\nsomeone back to life, that being said the Human Composition that can be\nbrought with a child's allowance is probably the collection of ingredients\nthat are used.\n\nWe can from the series confrim what was used as material for 2 of them, they\nare\n\n * **Sloth** (Ed's and Al's mother) - the human composition Ed and Al read up on which during the process we hear Ed rep.\n\n * **Wrath** (Izumi's child) - Izumi used her child's body as material and it was reborn as a homunculus (it was still wrapped in the sheets Izumi had it in)\n\nas for the rest, i can only make these assumptions.\n\nGluttony was purposely created by Dante to use the Philosopher's Stone so he\nmay have been created differently using different materials which would be\ncompatible with the stone, in the movie he also shoots out Red Stones so _Red\nWater_ may have been used.\n\nNot sure about Pride or Greed on how they were made so it's not entirely sure\nwhat their Material was.\n\nLust was the lover of Scar's Brother and since he was a heretic already for\ndoing Alchemy in the first place so he may have exhumed her body though it's\nnever clear if he studied the same line of Alchemy Ed and Al used (Ishbal\nseems to have a similar thing to Alchemy which developed the Grand Arcanum to\ntransmute a Philosopher's stone).\n\nEnvy was Dante's and Hohenhiem's son so we could assume the material for him\nwas either his own remains or the same composition Ed and Al used for Sloth\nthough there might have been something else in Envy which caused his\ntransformation into a dragon when he passed though the gate (though this could\nhave been because of his powers which he was using to try and get the game to\ntake him to Hohenhiem)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe human body composition you were looking for is detailed in a quote on a\nWikipedia page.\n\n> Water: 35 l. Carbon: 20 kg. Ammonia: 4 l. Lime: 1.5 kg. Phosphorus: 800 g.\n> Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100 g. Sulfur: 80 g. Fluorine 7.5 g. Iron 5 g.\n> Silicon 3 g. and trace amounts of 15 other elements.\n\nHowever, this excludes the part of the alchemist that is creating the\nhomunculus.\n\n[Click\nhere](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_\\(anime\\)#To_Challenge_the_Sun_.28One_who_Challenges_the_Sun.29_.5B1.01.5D)\nto see the full conversation between Edward and Rose.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 37, Light dies. Soon after that, Misa commits suicide. But I'm a\nlittle confused now, because of this rule:\n\n> the death of the person whose name is written in the book can not lead to\n> anyone else's death\n\nNow, everyone knows that Misa will commit suicide if Light dies. But the death\nof a person whose name is written in the book can't lead to anyone else's\ndeath. So basically, Ryuk shouldn't have been able to kill Light, because if\nLight is dead, that will indirectly lead to Misa's death. So, have I missed\nsomething in Death Note, or am I right?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_Note: It's been a while since I watched Death Note, and it's not a series\nI've followed much afterwards, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I have\nalso only seen the anime._\n\nThere are two points to address here:\n\n * Is the fact that Misa will commit suicide if Light is dead completely certain?\n\n * What exactly constitutes \"leading to the death of another person\"?\n\nIn Death Note, we see that Misa is fairly devoted to Light, in almost an\nobsessive way, but it's not _completely_ clear if she's obsessed to the point\nwhere life would be completely pointless without him. We do see that she's\nfairly dependent on him, and to be honest arguing about whether or not she's\n_that_ devoted to Light is slightly difficult, so it's easier to come to some\nconclusion by looking at the exact mechanics of the death note.\n\nThe \"leading to the death of someone else\" bit is usually interpreted as\n\n> the death of someone whose name is in the DN cannot _directly_ lead to the\n> death of someone else1\n\nAn example of something that wouldn't work would be:\n\n> XXX hijacks a passenger jet and crashes it into a mountain [which wouldn't\n> work because it would kill the passengers as well]\n\nIn Misa's case, her suicide is somewhat indirect, so one could say that this\nrule doesn't quite apply here - I get the impression that driving the bereaved\nto suicide as a result of someone's death doesn't really count. (We should\nnote that the influence that the Death Note rules talk about seem to be more\n\"physical\" and direct.) As stated by\n[user1306322](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/191/user1306322), Misa\ncommits suicide of her own will here, which is also important here.\n\n* * *\n\n 1. Realistically speaking, the idea that something will occur as a result of an earlier event can't really be said to ever be completely certain (in the same way one might say that there's a chance the sun might not rise today). [But _given how we see the death notes work_](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/7415/2604), I don't think this should be an issue per se as long as the causality is reasonably direct.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTechnically, the death of Misa would make sense. Obviously, the writer thought\nof some possible loopholes in what he wrote which resulted in the line which\nmay have either been said by Ryuk or Rem, that not even the shinigamis\nthemselves know all the true potential/rules of the Death Note. I believe what\nthe rule actually meant was that someone couldn't write a chain effect of\ndeath, it would be too much for the notebook to possibly handle and would make\nit too easy for people to wipe out a mass amount of others and make it seem\nlike an 'accident'.\n\nObviously, there would be loopholes in the Death Note due to the fact that if\nyou watch the series, shinigamis actually aren't aware of how humans act and\nare often bored without anything to do and sit around doing absolutely for\nyears upon years, which is the reason why Ryuk 'drops his Death Note' (which\ndidn't even belong to him.) If you really think about it, Misa's death makes\nperfect sense.\n\nThe action was hers and hers alone and she was _not_ controlled. We often see\nthroughout the series Misa being often mistreated by others and disregarded.\nShe also went through an immense amount of trauma that was disregarded by\neveryone else and was kidnapped and blindfolded for days, so it would make\nsense if she has had symptoms of depression way before Light's tragic death.\n\nAlso, Light later in the series had fake rules written, so what's to say that\nthere was once a tragic issue where many people were killed in a chain event\nand the rule was made up added to prevent it to happen again. And, technically\nfrom what we saw, Misa's name was never written so the rule would _not_ count\nagainst her death to prevent it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 398 we can see how Robin has enough energy to stand straight, walk\naround, tell a long story and shout across the ravine, despite being\nhandcuffed with Seastone handcuffs.\n\n\n\nWhile in chapter 730 we can see how Luffy becomes completely immobilized after\ntouching the bars of the Colosseum.\n\n\n\nWhere does Robin get all this energy from? How come her energy isn't\ncompletely drained as it was with Luffy's?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMany Devil Fruits give powers that have to be activated consciously, \nie. they can be \"switched on and off\" completely. Luffy is a different case, \nhis body is rubber all the times. He can´t make his body temporarily normal\nagain, \nhe's deformable while sleeping, etc.\n\nSeastone doesn't affect energy, health and so on, it affects _only_ Devil\nFruit powers.\n\nAs long as Robin doesn't try to use them, nothing would change because of the\nSeastone handcuffs (well, except for being handcuffs). \nLuffy can't get rid of his rubber state, so...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRead that chapter (169) more carefully then...\n\n\n\nHere, Luffy _stands_ in Crocodile's Kairoseki cage.\n\n\n\nThen he states that he has no power. Well, of course, since the cage is made\nof Seastone.\n\n\n\nThen Smoker kicks his ass and nails him down. And I think regardless of\nSeastone any of us would have problems standing if Smoker _pushed_ his weapon\nto our chest.\n\nSo to answer the question: Robin was in a weak state because of the Seastone\nhandcuffs back then, but she could stand because nobody pushed her down.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Kairoseki(Seastone) is a naturally occurring (though apparently rare)\n> substance that can drain the energy of Devil Fruit Users to the point where\n> they can't consciously control their powers. Dr. Vegapunk has invented\n> revolutionary ways to use this rare substance. The Marines appear to have\n> vast quantities of it, using it for jail cells, handcuffs, weapons, and the\n> bottoms of battleships.\n>\n> **The degree of \"weakness\" induced by the Kairoseki depends on its density\n> and composition; for example, Kairoseki handcuffs rob the prisoner of their\n> abilities, but still allow the prisoner to walk around normally.**\n\nSource : <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kairoseki>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI only saw the last part of this Anime. A few minutes. So, I cannot give many\ndetails. I think it was a movie and I think it was around the 2nd half of the\n1990s. Because it was on a weekend program where they showed Anime movies and\nonce \" _X (1999)_ \" was one of them.\n\nWhat I remember from that short scene:\n\n * The Anime is about people, who can transform themselves into giant robots with the help of a device/talisman (?). However, the transformation rips their clothes apart and when hey change back, they are totally naked.\n * The protagonist is a girl. She has straight, shoulder-lenght, brown(ish) hair and she wears it in pigtails maybe. Anyway, her hair is tied up somehow. Either she cannot transform till the end of the movie or she has problems with fighting... but in the end she transforms and fights well.\n * There is and older guy (not old!), who may be her \"teacher\", who teaches her how to transform(?) He has brown hair and glasses I guess. In that end scene he came to help the girl out but she did well on her own, so he just watches and changes back. Being experienced, he brought spare clothes with him, but there is a giant dog (I think it is his) that takes them. So the guy ends up chasing the dog naked. They were under a bridge that time.\n * The art was great and detailed.\n\nThis is **ALL** I remember.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou might be looking for [Android Kikaider: The\nAnimation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Kikaider_%28anime%29)\n[[ANN]](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=964)\n\n\n\n> Dr. Kohmyoji creates Jiro (Kikaider) but an explosion occurs. When Dr\n> Kohmyoji's kids, Mitsuko and Masaru, their father was nowhere to be found,\n> Jiro wandering aimlessly in a remote area eventually meets Mitsuko. Mitsuko\n> teaches Jiro to go into his robot form and about the GEMINI system inside\n> him. The two grow closer together but the relationship development halts\n> when a mysterious flute playing causes Jiro to attack Mitsuko, which causes\n> her to believing he is a mad machine. Jiro inevitably leaves Mitsuko and\n> Masaru in fear of being destroyed. Mitsuko then hires Hanpei Hattori and his\n> apprentice Etsuko Sarutobi to find Jiro and bring him home. Throughout the\n> story, Jiro encounters robots and learns more about Professor Gill and the\n> evil organization DARK. A reoccurring android named Hakaider causes Jiro out\n> of control by whistling (similar to Gill's flute). The more Mitsuko\n> encounters Jiro the more she falls in love with him. When Mitsuko and Jiro\n> reunite, they search for Mistuko's mother who is revealed to be in love with\n> Professor Gill but could not bare the pain of being away from her children\n> and gives them the location to Professor Gill's headquarters right before\n> she killed herself. After they discover the location, Jiro attempts to fight\n> Hakaider alone and also discovers the brain inside Hakaider's head is that\n> of Dr. Kohmyoji's. Dr. Kohmyoji overtakes Hakaider's body before Hakaider\n> could destroy it and infiltrates the headquarters. Once Professor Gill\n> discovers Dr. Kohmyoji is in control he sends his robots to attack them.\n> Jiro was able to give the brain to Hanpei in order to put it back into Dr.\n> Kohmyoji's body. Professor Gill attempts to control Jiro with his flute, but\n> Jiro to is able to overcome it. Hakaider then attempts to kill Professor\n> Gill for betraying him and destroys the place along with Gill. Hanpei,\n> Mitsuko and Etsuko able to escape, but didn't see Jiro escape with them. In\n> the end, Mitsuko has hope that Jiro will return to them\n\nAs explained form [Android Kikaider\nwiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Kikaider_\\(anime\\)), they are able\nto go into their robot forms because of the GEMINI system inside of them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe series that OP was looking for is\n[**Moldiver**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldiver), a 6-episode 1993 OVA\nanime series.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cQVEt.jpg)\n\nThe female protagonist is **Mirai** , the brown-haired girl in the middle. And\nthe glasses guy on the lower right corner is **Hiroshi** , her brother and\ninventor of the _Mol Unit_ \\- the transformation device.\n\nPlot summary by\n[ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=699):\n\n> Hiroshi Ozora invents the Mol Unit, a device that makes its user invincible.\n> His plans of becoming a super hero are short lived however when his sister,\n> Mirai, accidently modifies the suit configuration. Now she is forced to save\n> Tokyo by herself from the evil Machinegal and his gang of all-female\n> androids.\n\nBelow is the screenshot 18 minutes into episode 2 showing Mirai getting her\nclothes ripped off when transforming with her clothes still on.\n\n\n\nBelow is a series of screenshot of Hiroshi getting naked inside the tunnel of\nthe stadium to prepare for the transformation but failed (17 minutes into\nepisode 2), after which he contacted Mirai and asked her to transform (above).\nWhen he was instructing Mirai (21 minutes into episode 2), **a dog came and\ntook his clothes away behind him**.\n\n\n\nThere wasn't any scene of him chasing the dog, though.\n\n* * *\n\nWhen I first tried to identify the anime in question, I checked through the\nlist of anime and manga in [Clothing\nDamage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClothingDamage) trope, and\n[Moldiver](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Moldiver)'s screenshot\nkind of matches the description for the female protagonist.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are lots of series out there called \"Hidamari Sketch\" -something and I'm\nnot sure in which order to watch them. Can you help me out with that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou might as well watch them in production/publishing order:\n\n 1. Hidamari Sketch\n 2. Hidamari Sketch (special)\n 3. Hidamari Sketch × 365 (TV) \n 4. Hidamari Sketch × 365 (special)\n 5. Hidamari Sketch × Hoshimittsu (TV) \n 6. Hidamari Sketch × Hoshimittsu (special) \n 7. Hidamari Sketch × SP (special) \n 8. Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb (TV) (sequel)\n 9. Hidamari Sketch: Sae/Hiro Sotsugyō-hen (OAV)\n\n(listing from [ANN's\npage](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6811).\nEverything except the last OAV is [on\nHulu](http://www.hulu.com/search?q=Hidamari+Sketch) \\- the specials are part\nof the previous main season)\n\nThe problem is that _episodes_ aren't completely in chronological order.\nThere're two groups:\n\n * Hidamari Sketch + Hidamari Sketch × 365 (Yuno & Miyako year 1)\n * × Hoshimittsu + × SP + × Honeycomb + Sae/Hiro Sotsugyō-hen (Yuno & Miyako year 2)\n\nEpisodes in the first groups are less ordered. Episodes in the second group\nare more in order, but also have some episodes that chronologically take place\nduring the first group.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI completely agree with @Clockwork-Muse' suggestion that, if you're a first\ntime watcher, release order is definitely the way to go. \nThe show was made in that order and cues in later episodes (even if set in the\npast) will have no effect if you haven't seen what they're referencing from a\nprevious ep.\n\nHowever, for everyone else that, like me, rocked up at this question because\nyou're generally curious about what the actual order might be (instead of just\nbeing ushered away with _`don't you worry about that`_ ), I'm writing this for\nyou. \nThis is no Haruhi, but I don't doubt that it'd be cool to go chronological for\na rewatch of the show, get a new perspective and watch the characters grow\ntogether.\n\n[code]\n\n ╔════════════════════════════════╤═════════╦══════╤══════════╗\n ║ Season │ Episode ║ Year │ Date ║\n ╠════════════════════════════════╪═════════╬══════╪══════════╣\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 9 A ║ 0 │ 22nd Nov ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 1 ║ 1 │ 10th Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 7 ║ 1 │ 7th Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 11 ║ 1 │ 28th Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 4 ║ 1 │ 18th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 3 ║ 1 │ 27th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ SP 2 ║ 1 │ 6th Jun ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 10 ║ 1 │ 8th Jun ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 3 ║ 1 │ 17th Jun ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 12 ║ 1 │ 8th Jul ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 6 ║ 1 │ 14th Jul ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 6 A ║ 1 │ 30th Jul ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 9 A ║ 1 │ 5th Aug ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ SP 1 ║ 1 │ 11th Aug ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 2 ║ 1 │ 21st Aug ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ SP 3 ║ 1 │ 26th Aug ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 9 ║ 1 │ 4th Sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 8 B ║ 1 │ 26th Sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 11 ║ 1 │ 28th Sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 7 ║ 1 │ 12th Oct ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 8 ║ 1 │ 13th Oct ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 4 B ║ 1 │ 31st Oct ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 10 ║ 1 │ 3rd Nov ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 6 B ║ 1 │ 11th Nov ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ SP 2 ║ 1 │ 27th Nov ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 9 B ║ 1 │ 3rd Dec ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 3 B ║ 1 │ 10th Dec ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 12 ║ 1 │ 25th Dec ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 13 ║ 2 │ 10th Jan ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 1 ║ 2 │ 11th Jan ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 5 B ║ 2 │ 31th Jan ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 2 ║ 2 │ 6th Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ SP 1 ║ 2 │ 10th Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 5 ║ 2 │ 13th Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 11 B ║ 2 │ 16th Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 OVA/EX │ ║ 2 │ 24th Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 1 A ║ 2 │ 27th Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch │ 8 ║ 2 │ 13th Mar ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 4 A ║ 2 │ 16th Mar ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x365 │ 5 ║ 2 │ 25th Mar ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 1 B ║ 2 │ 1st Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 2 ║ 2 │ 6th Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 3 A ║ 2 │ 8th Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 4 ║ 2 │ 15th Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 5 A ║ 2 │ 20th Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 6 ║ 2 │ 26th Apr ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 7 ║ 2 │ 3rd May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x SP │ 2 A ║ 2 │ 9th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 8 A ║ 2 │ 13th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 1 ║ 2 │ 6th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 2 ║ 2 │ 18th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 9 B ║ 2 │ 21st May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x SP │ 2 B ║ 2 │ 25th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 10 ║ 2 │ 28th May ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 11 A ║ 2 │ 5th Jun ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x SP │ 1 A ║ 2 │ 15th Jul ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ 12 ║ 2 │ 12th Jul ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi │ SP 1 ║ 2 │ 11th Jun ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x SP │ 1 B ║ 2 │ 28th Aug ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 3 ║ 2 │ 31st Aug ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 4 ║ 2 │ 15th Sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 5 A ║ 2 │ 17th Sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 6 A ║ 2 │ 25th Sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 5 B ║ 2 │ 28th sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 6 B ║ 2 │ 29th Sep ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 7 ║ 2 │ 5th Oct ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 8 ║ 2 │ 11th Oct ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 9 ║ 2 │ 10th Nov ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 10 ║ 2 │ 2nd Dec ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 11 A ║ 2 │ 22nd Dec ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 11 B ║ 2 │ 24th Dec ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Honey │ 12 ║ 2 │ 31st Dec ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Sae and Hiro │ 1 ║ 3 │ 1st Feb ║\n ║ Hidamari Sketch x Sae and Hiro │ 2 ║ 3 │ 28th Feb ║\n ╚════════════════════════════════╧═════════╩══════╧══════════╝\n \n[/code]\n\n**Year** refers to the year of Yuno being at Hidamari. The first entry\npredates this. If **Episode** contains the _SP_ prefix it means it is of the\nspecials associated with that season, and if it has an _A_ or _B_ suffix it\nmeans it is only talking about the first/second half of that episode\nrespectively!\n\nI found [this thread](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1337297) where\n`Viteracf` has listed the order of the ep's for all four seasons! I tidied up\nhis table [a lot] but you're gonna wanna consult his version if you want his\nnotes on specific entries in the table (like why he put X before Y, or to see\nan uncovered anachronistic mistake).\n\n`Centent` [also made a list](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=301911)\nbefore that shows things in a slightly differing order, but doesn't regard all\nthe seasons and could be at odds due to concerns already explained in the\nnotes I mentioned earlier. Check them out if you feel the need\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga, Darin and later Darin's father (Chief of Zoma) keeps referring\nto Furuya's grandfather as \"Professor Boil\". Is there a reason behind his\nname?\n\nBelow are some examples:\n\n * Chapter 10 (Darin):\n\n\n\n * Chapter 31 (Darin's father - Chief of Zoma):\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is in the same page of chapter 10 in the original Japanese version.\n\nFuruya's grandfather's full name is 降谷 茹五郎 (Furuya Jogorou), and his nickname\n\"Professor Boil\" comes from the character 茹 in his name, since 茹でる means \"to\nboil\".\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nI tried [the wiki](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Vehicles), but couldn't\nfind any information on this cool-looking walking (hydron?) canon. What is the\nname of this and what does it do?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit's the [Raikō](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Raik%C5%8D) which, as the\nWiki says, literately translates to\n[Lightning](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E9%9B%B7%E5%85%89).\n\nIt's a Japanese Seige weapon which was originally developed by the Japanese\nLiberation Front, first seen in the JLF's Hotel Hijacking which saw Euphie\nheld hostage and the rise of the Black Knights. it was later used by the Black\nKnights duing the Assault on Tokyo Settlement in the Black Rebellion.\n\nAs it's translated name suggests, it's a lighting cannon, more precisely it's\nan Electromagnetic Cannon using the 4 Knightmares to move it around and to\nstabilize when it's being fired, in the anime we only see 2 crew members so\nthere isn't one in each Knightmare. only Suzaku and the Lancelot is shown to\nbe able to destroy it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn FMA, transmuting gold is against the law. However, I don't get this - **How\ndoes the state know when people transmute something (e.g. bread into gold)?**.\n\nThere's nothing to stop someone from transmuting bread into a gold coin,\nwalking into a store and then going on their merry way out as if nothing\nhappened, because there's absolutely no way to know that it was bread to start\noff with. (Please correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't been watching the anime\nin a while and have only started re-watching again).\n\nSo, **how will/how does** the state know when someone **has** transmuted\nsomething into gold? How do they deal with this? e.g. imprisonment, fines etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the 2003 anime, it seems impossible to transmutate something to gold\n(without the philosophers stone of course), because Ed coats gold on the coal\ninstead of transmuting the coal directly.\n\nIf the alchemist is good enough, it's impossible to find out whether the gold\nwas transmuted from something else. If he tries to make \"perfect\" gold, he\nwill be noticed because there's no pure gold, so he just needs to think about\nthe correct composition. \nIn the case that there are any marks on the gold, he can simply melt it\n(although I believe that a skilled alchemist can avoid that because not all\ntransmutations in the anime show such marks).\n\nThe only way to notice is when the alchemist tries to circulate the gold. If\nthe market is flooded by cheap gold, you _will_ notice it. Also, there is no\n\"alarm\" when someone transmutes gold, or otherwise Ed would have serious\nproblems :D.\n\nAs to how the alchemist are punished: All I know is that they will be tried in\nCentral City (Source: It was mentioned that Shou Tucker will be sent there for\ntransmuting humans). Or they will be ignored if it was too minor or is helpful\n(look at the Elric-Brothers: It's known that they tried to revive their mother\nbut they are still state-alchemists).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Short Answer** \nBecoming rich isn't exactly subtle, and [Locard's exchange\nprinciple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locard%27s_exchange_principle)\nsuggests that there's always _some_ way to get to the truth in matters like\nthis.\n\n**Long answer** \nLet's be clear about something: This isn't Harry Potter, the state doesn't\nknow when a transmutation is performed.* Mustang was sent to find Edward\nbecause they had heard about his abilities by word of mouth.\n\nThere is no surefire way to know whether or not an alchemist has created gold.\nWhile it is possible for them to do so, you'd find that any mechanism they had\nfor catching said alchemists would be similar to the real-world practice of\n[insider trading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading) or\ncounterfeiting.\n\nIn counterfeiting, there are telltale signs of illegal bills. In alchemy,\ntransmutation marks are often left by alchemists as the science is not really\na perfect one. As @looper mentioned, you could melt the gold, but then you'd\nstill need equipment to put it back into bars or some tradable form.\nAlchemists aren't blacksmiths.\n\nThat said, there's exceptions. Consider Major Armstrong, whose alchemy is one\nof the most refined around, such that he leaves no transmutation marks on his\naverage transmutation. Say he manufactures a few gold bars and sells them to\npay for some under-the-table deals he made. The state would have no way of\ncatching him--there is nothing that sets his gold apart from real gold, and\nthey probably wouldn't even know about the deal to begin with.\n\nHowever, say he starts doing it regularly. He upgrades his car, his house\n(even though he already has a mansion, go figure), wears a brand new watch,\nand so on. This is likely the point when the state would start to question\nwhere he acquired such funds (especially knowing his salary). In this case, he\ncould be \"audited\" (assuming such a practice exists in-universe) and he'd\nlikely be caught.\n\n*Now, there is a point I have not addressed:\n\n> Because, in _Brotherhood_ , Father regulates all alchemical exchanges in\n> Amestris, it's possible he'd have some way to look in on this. However, I\n> highly doubt that, even though he essentially owns the state military and\n> thusly all of Amestris, he'd care whatsoever about gold entering the\n> country's economy illegally.\n\nThis answer probably got a bit more \"real\" than you expected, but I think\nthat's just the truth. It's the same with their \"creating humans\" rule; they'd\nhave no way to know you did it until you did something to make it clear.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan someone help me identify the name of this anime with a dating simulator\ninvolved?\n\nThe plot goes like this: A kid in highschool is into dating simulators on his\nPSP. Demon's from hell comes to collect demons from girls that have shut in\ntheir emotions and he is the only one to help the demon by making those girls\nfall in love with him.\n\nDoes anyone know the name of this anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# [Kami nomi zo Shiru\nSekai](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8525/Kami_nomi_zo_Shiru_Sekai)\n\nAlso known as [The World God Only\nKnows](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8525/Kami_nomi_zo_Shiru_Sekai)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> Keima is a dating sim champion. Cute girls are rendered powerless by his\n> irresistible game playing techniques. Too bad things aren't that way in the\n> real world. That is, until his tempting game playing causes a real live—and\n> very bubbly-cute—demon hunter named Elsie to materialize! Now Elsie wants\n> Keima to help her free hot girls from sneaky demons who secretly possess\n> them.\n\nSource: Sentai Filmworks\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nhello it's me again with another question about my favorite anime/manga death\nnote. So, here's my question: what does [rule VIII's second\npart](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note?file=Rules_VIII.jpg)\nmean:\n\n> **Even if you do not actually possess the Death Note, the effect will be the\n> same if you can recognize the person and his/her name to place in the\n> blank.**\n\nCan someone explain this to me?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched quite a lot of anime over the last several years. And I noticed\nthat I haven't seen a single anime which lacked both an opening and an ending\nsong. There are some anime that don't have ED songs or don't have OP songs.\n\nBut are there any anime that have neither of these?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDepends what you're looking for. Besides credits and providing a transition\ninto the show, OPs and EDs also serve the purpose of presenting the sponsor\nmessages when the show airs on real TV. These are always present on TV in some\nform.\n\nThat being said, if you grab a BD or a DVD of a show, the sponsors/credits are\nremoved and you can skip the intros and have just the show. I know that there\nare also some shorts that aired online that didn't have any songs, but it's a\nsmall minority and things that most people never hear about.\n\nSo no, they don't really exist since they're necessary on television for\nfinancial and legal reasons.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Hoshi no Koe (Voices of a Distant\nStar)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshi_no_koe) features credits in the\nbeginning, but no OP. Credits are layered on top of actual movie. It has an\ninsert song towards the end, but technically that does not constitute ED. ADV\nrelease has english dubbing credits added at the end.\n\nEDIT: I notice that the question asks for \"anime **series** \", but in the last\nsentence you ask for just \"anime\", so I consider this answer at least\npartially relevant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe main candidates are series with short episodes (e.g. ONAs, anime that air\nin short timeslots, etc.), since the openings and endings are more likely to\nbe cut due to time constraints. But ack, most of them still have openings and\nendings to some extent!\n\n * For example, consider [Tonari no Seki-kun](http://www.crunchyroll.com/tonari-no-seki-kun-the-master-of-killing-time/episode-1-dominos-648663): It's 21 episodes, 7 minutes 40 seconds each. But despite the time constraints, it still has an opening and ending! They're shorter than usual, mind you, at 45 seconds each. But they're still proper songs, so this doesn't count.\n\n * Consider also [Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara](http://www.crunchyroll.com/mahou-shoujo-nante-mouiidesukara/episode-1-you-can-see-me-692957): It's 24 episodes (2 seasons), 4 minutes each. Despite the super short length, this series still has a proper opening song that lasts 45 seconds. It doesn't have an ending song or credits. But it has the opening, so this doesn't count either.\n\nI know of some more likely candidates, but I'm not sure if some of them\ncompletely fit the bill. But anyway, I'll list them:\n\n * **[Rockman.EXE BEAST+](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2713/RockmanEXE_Beast_)** : An anime series consisting of 26 episodes, 10 minutes each. Each episode has an opening sequence that lasts for 20 seconds, but it's just credits text flying at you in a Windows Music Visualizer-esque cyber tunnel thing, set to an instrumental version of one of the soundtracks from the series. Not really a proper opening song, in my view. This series doesn't have any ending credits or songs either. (It does have, however, a 15-second preview of the next episode.)\n\n * **[Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya](http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-melancholy-of-haruhi-chan-suzumiya-nyoron-churuya-san/episode-1-540502)** : An ONA consisting of 26 episodes, around 2~5 minutes each. Well, it has an \"intro song\" of 1 minute, but this intro song is kept separate from all of the other episodes. For each episode, the \"opening\" is basically a sequence of Haruhi smashing into the screen, which lasts 10 seconds. The episodes have ending credits, but they only last for 15 seconds, and it's white text on a black background with some light instrumental music. (Reminds me of Western cartoons...)\n\n * **[Nyoron Churuya-san](http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-melancholy-of-haruhi-chan-suzumiya-nyoron-churuya-san/episode-1-540592)** : An ONA consisting of 13 episodes, around 2 minutes each. It doesn't have any opening song or credits. The episodes do have ending credits, but they only last for 15 seconds, and it's just white text on a white background, set to some recorder music and the graphic of a single slowly spinning smoked cheese.\n\n * **[Barakamon: Mijikamon](https://myanimelist.net/anime/25045/Barakamon__Mijikamon)** : An ONA consisting of 13 episodes, around 2 minutes each. The episodes don't have either an opening or an ending song. The only \"opening\", so to speak, is a 6-second segment where Handa and Naru say \"Mijikamon\" in front of the title card.\n\n * **[Tanaka-kun wa Kyou mo Kedaruge](https://myanimelist.net/anime/33004/Tanaka-kun_wa_Kyou_mo_Kedaruge)** : An ONA consisting of 35 episodes, ~30 seconds each. The only \"ending\" to speak of is a 2-second static title card at the end with some credits displayed.\n\n* * *\n\nSide note: Though most anime out there tend to have at least one of an opening\nor an ending, for the series that air in shorter timeslots, I've seen them\noccasionally cut the opening/ending song short due to time constraints. So\nperhaps you could say _that for those specific episodes_ , the anime has\nneither an opening nor an ending song.\n\n * For example, [Ryuusei no Rockman](https://myanimelist.net/anime/1835/Ryuusei_no_Rockman) consists of 55 episodes, 10 minutes each. It has an opening sequence with a proper song that lasts 60 seconds. It has no ending song or credits. However, in episodes 48, 49, 54, and 55, the anime truncates the opening at 6 seconds (just long enough to show the title). The credit texts continue showing up for the first minute or so into the episode, but the opening song isn't played.\n\n* * *\n\nWell, that's all I got.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI ended up reading Steins;Gate, but after I had finished it, I wasn't sure\nwhich one I should read next. When searching for Steins;Gate cartoons, I found\nall these different parts and I started reading Bokan no Rellion and it looks\nlike it's the same story, but from a different character's perspective. So\nwhat about the other parts? Are they the same story too or are they sequels\nand is there a specific order I should use to get the most out of the story?\n\n * Steins;Gate\n * Steins;Gate: Bōkan no Rebellion\n * Steins;Gate: Onshu no Braunian Motion\n * Steins;Gate: Shijō Saikyō no Slight Fever\n * Steins;Gate: Hiyoku Renri no Sweets Honey\n * Steins;Gate: Aishin Meizu no Babel\n * Steins;Gate!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've only watched the anime so I can't 100% confirm, but:\n\nWikipedia says all of those mangas are side-stories. Most of them are the\nstory from a certain character's point of view, and I believe one is material\nfrom a fandisc. Steins;Gate! is a spinoff comedy.\n\nSo pretty much, whatever order you feel like.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nif you read them in order of publication date, you should be fine. All of the\nmanga to date (excluding the multi-artist anthologies), listed in order of\npublication date:\n\n『STEINS; GATE』11/2010~9/2013 (the main storyline)\n\n[『STEINS;GATE 亡環のリベリオン』](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Rebellion_of_the_Missing_Ring)( _Rebellion of the Missing\nRing_ ) 2/2010~9/2011 (side story, focused on Suzuha in the 0.000000,\n0.337187, and 0.409431% World Lines)\n\n[『STEINS;GATE 史上最強のスライトフィーバー』](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/History%27s_Strongest_Slight_Fever) ( _The World's\nStrongest Slight Fever_ ) 2/2011~10/2011 (the main storyline, focused on\nKurisu)\n\n『しゅたいんず・げーと!』( _Steins・Gate!_ ) 3/2011~5/2012 (parody of the main storyline)\n\n『STEINS;GATE DROPS』8/2011~3/2012 (a 4-panel gag comic, the storyline of the\ncomedic Xbox360 fandisc game『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん』[ _Loving Vows' Darling_ ],\nset in the 3% World Line)\n\n『STEINS;GATE 星屑のデュプレット』( _Stardust Duplet_ ) 8/2011~3/2012 (the storyline of\nthe fandisc, focused on Mayuri)\n\n[『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のスイーツはにー』](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Steins;Gate_-\n_Darling_of_Loving_Vows) ( _Loving Vows’ Sweets Honey_ ) 10/2011~3/2012 (the\nstoryline of the fandisc, focused on Kurisu)\n\n[『STEINS;GATE 恩讐のブラウニアンモーション』](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Braunian_Motion_of_Love_and_Hate)( _Braunian Motion of\nLove and Hate_ ) 4/2012~7/2012 (side story, focused on the past of Mr. Braun)\n\n『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のフューチャーはにー』( _Loving Vows’ Future Honey_ ) 5/2012~? (the\nstoryline of the fandisc, focused on Suzuha)\n\n『STEINS;GATE もっと比翼恋理のスイーツはにー』( _Even More Loving Vows’ Sweets Honey_ )\n6/2012~12/2012 (spin-off from the storyline of the fandisc, about Lab Members\ngoing to school)\n\n『STEINS;GATE 変移空間のオクテット』( _Variant Space Octet_ ) 6/2012~1/2013 (the storyline\nof the game of the same name, which is a non-canon crossover with _Chaos;Head_\n)\n\n『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理の+ニャン2 くらいしす☆』( _Loving Vows + Meow2 Crisis_ ) 6/2012~1/2013\n(the storyline of the fandisc, focused on Feris)\n\n『STEINS;GATE -哀心迷図のバベル-』( _Babel of the Grieved Maze_ ) 6/2012~2/2014 (the\nstoryline of the CD\ndrama[『STEINS;GATEドラマCDα「哀心迷図のバベル」ダイバージェンス0.571046%』](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=305040),\nwhich is the main storyline focused on Kurisu)\n\n『STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のスイーツはにーふぁいなる』( _Loving Vows’ Sweets Honey Final_ )\n1/2013~6/2013 (sequel to the fandisc storyline manga)\n\n[『STEINS;GATE 閉時曲線のエピグラフ』](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Epigraph_of_the_Closed_Curve)( _Epigraph of the Closed\nCurve_ ) 2/2013~12/2013 (side story, the storyline of the light novel of the\nsame name, set in winter 2010 in the Beta Attractor Field around the 1.129848\nand 1.130205% World Lines)\n\n『劇場版STEINS;GATE 負荷領域のデジャヴ』( _Loading Area of Déjà Vu_ ) 5/2013~12/2013 (the\nstoryline of the movie of the same name, set one year after the events of the\nTV series)\n\n『STEINS;GATE -無限遠点のアークライト-』( _Arc Light of the Point of Infinity_ )\n3/2014~present (the storyline of the CD drama\n『STEINS;GATEドラマCDβ「無限遠点のアークライト」ダイバージェンス1.130205%』, focused on Mayuri)\n\n『STEINS;GATE 永劫回帰のパンドラ』( _Pandora of Eternal Recurrence_ ) 5/2014~present\n(side story, continuation of _Epigraph of the Closed Curve_ , set in the Beta\nAttractor Field in 2010)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have absolutely no idea where she is from, but I'm looking for an anime to\nwatch, this seems like it would be okay.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tdY97.gif) \n(click for animated version)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI looked at the original GIF and ran a [Google Image\nsearch](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/793/2604) at a few points when\nthe girl looks into the \"camera\". One of the results that came up suggested\nthat this is from the anime adaptation of [Rail\nWars!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Wars!), which follows a continuity\nwhere the Japanese national railway system was never privatised. (Here's the\n[MyAnimeList link](http://myanimelist.net/anime/23309/Rail_Wars!) as well.)\nThe anime just started airing, and is from a franchise based on a light novel\nseries.\n\n\n\nThe protagonist is a boy named Takayama who wants to work for the railway, and\nwho ends up having to work against a bunch of extremists (called RJ) who want\nprivatisation.\n\nThe character in this image should be [Aoi\nSakurai](http://myanimelist.net/character/105161/Aoi_Sakurai) (who seems to\nalso be a high school student) - and she should be the same girl in this cover\nscan from Wikipedia.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring each advertisment break, they display a graph for a stand-user.\nUnfortunately, some sub-groups don't translate it, and I can't understand what\nis written there except for the \"speed\" that is written with Katakana.\n\nCan you please translate it?\n\nAnd, what do the big capital letters (D, E, D, A, D and C) stand for?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs my original comment suggested it is indeed a chart of power levels in\ncertain points. The red marking stands for the power division, and it is\ngraded accordingly with a A = Best E= lowest and anything in between.\n\nAfter a short search I managed to find this image which includes the same\nstats system on the [jojo wiki page](http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/Sun),\nincluding the translation which is as following (The power levels included are\nfor this card and not for the one you shown in your picture)\n\nStats are listed clockwise starting from the top\n\n**Stats**\n\n * Destructive Power A\n * Speed E\n * Range A\n * Durability A\n * Precision E\n * Developmental Potential E\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to Dimitri's answer, the translations go as I added them to the\nimage below.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't comment on the other answers so here is my piece to the other answers:\n\nThe letters are the way it grades the Stand according to the stat. The\ntranslated text is what determined what the stat is.\n\nThe stat at the bottom is the Stands ability. Abilities are something like;\nMagician Red's fire, Hierophant Greens possession, and (spoiler alert!) Star\nPlatinum's time stop. Hermit Purple's stat in that category is high because of\nits _ability_ to reveal other stand users and make superhuman observations.\n\nAttacking a Stand just hurts the user. Durability is never really brought up\nas something that a Stand can have since the durability is simply based on the\nuser. I have no idea if there is a Stand with armor so basing a stat on that\ninstead of ability just seems like a mistranslation to me.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI started watching this anime but I ended up closing the browser without\nwriting it down as I had to leave and the history was cleared. All I remember\nwas there was a high school boy walking along and narrating, and he said\nsomething like, \"This was the day my world ended.\" As he said it, everyone\naround him turned into light and a giant baby started eating the light people,\nand there was a giant ball of faces. There was a girl with orange or brown\nhair with a sword who started fighting them, but the guy stopped her and she\nhad to cut him from the shoulder to the hip to attack the monster. Then, when\nshe had cut the giant baby and almost killed it, it turned into a small child\nand flew away. Then the girl started talking to a light near her or something.\n\nDoes anyone know what this anime is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe the anime you may be describing is Shakugan no Shana. I am pretty\nsure this is the anime your describing as this takes place in Episode 1 if I\nam not correct.\n\n> The two creatures discover that Yuji can move about in the Fuzetsu, and\n> deducts that he might be a Mystes. Curious about his identity, one of the\n> creatures grabbed Yuji and attempted to devour him... until a blade slices\n> its arms cleanly off. As the gigantic baby doll cries in pain, Yuji finds a\n> girl with blazing-red eyes and hair standing in front of him. Soon, she\n> confronts the creatures in front of her and mercilessly defeats the two. The\n> girl with blazing-red eyes soon ask about Yuji's existence, and like the\n> creatures she defeated, a voice she refers to as \"Alastor\" assumes that he\n> is a Mystes. Then, she attacks another creature; this time, it is in the\n> form of a woman, and that creature mockingly identifies the girl with\n> blazing-red hair and eyes as the \"Flame-haired Burning-eyed Flame Haze of\n> Alastor, 'Flame of Heavens'\". As the Flame Haze is about to deliver the\n> final blow, a confused Yuji goes in the way, and is instead attacked by the\n> enemy. **Leaving with no choice, the Flame Haze strikes her sword and tears\n> a large gash off Yuji's shoulder, slicing off the enemy's arm in the\n> process. Shocked by the attack he receives, Yuji falls to the ground as a\n> small doll-like figure escapes from the scene.**\n\n(Summary of Episode 1 per the\n[wikia](http://shakugan.wikia.com/wiki/Shakugan_no_Shana_Episode_01) since I\ncouldn't remember entirely what happened in episode 1)\n\nAlso [Yuji Sakai](http://shakugan.wikia.com/wiki/Yuji_Sakai) says this quote\n\"That was the day my world ended\" which was actually \"That was the day my\nworld...changed forever.\" which happened at the end of the episode.\n[(src)](http://shakugan.wikia.com/wiki/Shakugan_no_Shana_Episode_01#Quotes)\n\n \n\n\n\n* * *\n\n# [Shakugan no Shana](http://myanimelist.net/anime/355/Shakugan_no_Shana)\n\nAlso known as [Shana of the Burning\nEyes](http://myanimelist.net/anime/355/Shakugan_no_Shana)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> He had thought his normal days would last forever, until they were ended\n> abruptly by an encounter with a girl with red hair and eyes. He named her\n> Shana.\n>\n> Not long after he enters high school, Sakai Yuji’s normal days come to an\n> end. He sees something bizarre on his way home: people are frozen in a\n> strange fire, and a monster that looks like a large doll is attacking them.\n> Just when he's about to be killed, a girl in a dark cloak wielding a large\n> sword appears, and slices the monster in half. Although Yuji survives the\n> strange encounter, the girl informs him of a desolate truth: \" 'You' don't\n> exist anymore.\"\n>\n> She calls herself a Flame Haze who hunts \"Guze no Tomogara\"; intruders from\n> another world. She explains to him that he is a \"Torch\", a substitute of\n> Yuji whose “existence” has already been devoured. She also told him that he\n> is a special Torch, \"Mystes\", which contains a precious item in it. When he\n> looks at his chest, he sees within himself a faint flame, just as she said.\n>\n> It is in this way that his eternal struggle alongside the girl begins.\n\nSource: AnimeNfo\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm searching for song from episode 12 of the anime adaptation of The World is\nStill Beautiful (それでも世界は美しい). I know both title and vocalist, but can't find\nit anywhere. It's called \"Ame Okuri no Uta\" （雨おくりの歌） by Chisa Yokoyama （横山智佐）.\n\nIt is shown in the list of insert songs in the credit roll of episode 12:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember seeing this on TV as a younger kid but I don't know what it's\ncalled. I think Adult Swim was where I saw it. This girl runs off and joins\nthis team that's in a race with a bunch of other alien species. Her dad is the\nleader but he doesn't know the girl is his daughter. Her mother was a pilot\nand she died in a race so the dad didn't want the daughter to race. There's an\nalien that has a white mask and shadow powers sorta. People think it killed\nher mother, bit it tried to help her before the ship exploded. there's like\nthis mother ship like thing that's the 'garages' are on and it moves to right\nabove the next race start and then the racers drop from the ship.\n\nThank you in advance for any help given.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis sounds like [Oban Star\nRacers](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1212/Oban_Star-Racers).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zsrj9.jpg)\n\nHere are a few quotes comfirming that from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cban_Star-Racers):\n\n> Unable to tell her father who she really is, she lands a job as a mechanic\n> in his team under the name \"Molly\"\n>\n> Haunted by the death of her mother — a famous star-racer — and the harsh\n> \"reunion\" with her father, Molly is determined to win so she can be with her\n> parents once again.\n\nAnd here's the opening sequence:\n\n<http://youtu.be/TIKQBNlwhHA>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that they are the writers of Nagi no Asukara, just that I wanted to\nknow more about that exactly. A group being named after a \"project\" sounded\ncurious to me. Can someone tell me more about these authors? (or author)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**The meaning of \"Project-118\" is the sum of the name of the staffs in the\nplanning stage converted to numbers.**\n\nIt was explained in the \"Nagi no Asukara\" Special Staff Talk Show ([凪のあすから\n汐鹿生大宴会 ―「凪のあすから」スペシャルスタッフトークショー](https://www.loft-\nprj.co.jp/schedule/plusone/22229)) on April 19, 2014. Some tweets from it:\n\n> [澤村・スク水・英梨々\n> @nanoexpTS2](https://twitter.com/nanoexpTS2/status/457509532113973248)\n>\n> Project118の意味。辻さん **凪のあすからの企画段階のメンバーの名前を数字に変換して足したら118だった**\n> 。検索してみたら、海上保安庁の番号だった。[...]\n>\n> The meaning of Project118. Tsuji (ed. the Animation Producer) said that **if\n> the name of the staffs in the planning stage of Nagi no Asukara is converted\n> to numbers and then summed, the total is 118**. Searching about it, it is\n> the number of Japan Coast Guard. [...]\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> [しらこ @srcsn](https://twitter.com/srcsn/status/457529612528922624)\n>\n> **Project-118の118の意味は、製作決定当初のスタッフさんの名前をあてたものを足して118になった** とか。[...]\n> …ちなみに118は海上保安なんたらの番号らしく、海という共通点が偶然にも。\n>\n> **The meaning of 118 in Project-118 is, when the name of the staffs at the\n> beginning of production decision is \"matched\"(?), the sum is 118**. [...]\n> ... By the way, looks like 118 is the number of Japan Coast Guard something,\n> having \"sea\" as a common point is a coincidence.\n>\n> (emphasis mine, archived from [togetter\n> (Japanese)](https://togetter.com/li/657114?page=6))\n\nHowever, they didn't explain further about the conversion and who the staffs\nare.\n\nIt might be possible as [nhahtdh's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/11669/what-exactly-is-\nproject-118#comment14376_11669) to calculate the kanji strokes of the name\n(example: 辻充仁 is 5 + 6+4=15), but it's also possible to use\n[_goroawase_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_wordplay#Goroawase)\n(example: 辻充仁, _Mitsuhito Tsuji_ is 3+2+1+10 + 2+10 = 28 [or any other\npossible combinations]). But at this point, both are only speculation though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am slowly coming to the end of watching \"Toaru Majutsu no Index\" anime.\nThere are a few anime series related to that world:\n\n * Toaru Majutsu no Index\n * Toaru Majutsu no Index II\n * Toaru Kagaku no Railgun\n * Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S\n\nand some movies. But I am not sure in what order I should watch them. Someone\ntold me that \"Railgun\" came after \"Majutsu no Index\" - should I watch\n\"Railgun\" first then, or the second season of \"Index\"? Are there some things\nthat I can miss if I watch them in the wrong order, like not knowing\ncharacters that were already introduced?\n\nAnd if it is Railgun I should watch second, should I watch \"Toaru Majutsu no\nIndex II\" afterwards, or \"Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S\"? Or is it that it really\ndoesn't matter and I can watch both of the \"Toaru Majutsu no Index\" series\nbefore the two \"Toaru Kagaku no Railgun\" series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHaving just watched them out of order (accidentally), I highly recommend\nwatching them by order of release date, including the movie.\n\nThe original and spin-off series were produced by the same company. (The same\nteam as well I believe) and never aired at the same time.\n\nThis makes the recommended order:\n\n 1. Index season 1\n 2. Railgun season 1\n 3. Index season 2\n 4. Index movie\n 5. Railgun season 2 (S)\n 6. Index season 3\n 7. Accelerator season 1\n 8. Railgun season 3\n\nEnjoy!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe \"canonical\" order in which to watch Raildex (i.e. production order) is\ncorrectly given in [Builder_K's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/11675/1908).\n\n* * *\n\nHowever, there are alternate viewing orders that are also feasible, since\nIndex and Railgun are only loosely coupled to one another. Persons who enjoy\nRailgun but not Index might wish to watch in the following order:\n\n 1. Index season 1 (episodes 1-9, i.e. to the end of the Deep Blood arc)\n 2. Railgun season 1 (all episodes)\n 3. Railgun season 2 (all episodes)\n\nIndex season 1 up through the Deep Blood arc has almost nothing to do with\nwhat happens in Railgun through the end of season 2, aside from\n\n> Index destroying Tree Diagram\n\nbut I would suggest watching it anyway to get a feel for the Raildex universe.\nIf you find Index too abominable to bear with, just drop it and start at\nepisode 1 of Railgun season 1 - you won't have missed out on much.\n\nIf after finishing Railgun season 2, you want to continue with Index, pick\nIndex season 1 back up wherever you left off; and then watch Index season 2\nand the Index movie.\n\n* * *\n\nIf you like Index but not Railgun, do the following:\n\n 1. Index season 1 (all episodes)\n 2. Index season 2 (all episodes)\n 3. Index movie\n\nThe Index side of things is not dependent on Railgun in any significant way\n(Saten's first appearance outside Railgun is, I believe, in the movie, but\nnothing else comes to mind), so you don't need to watch any of Railgun for\nthings to make sense.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[User /u/urban287 on reddit proposes an interesting non-conventional viewing\norder for watching the entire Raildex\nseries](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2mf5hg/meta_i_need_help_with_a_wiki_page_im_setting_up/cm3rir5):\n\n 1. Railgun season 1\n 2. Railgun season 2\n 3. Index season 1\n 4. Index season 2\n 5. Index movie\n\nHis reasoning is rather compelling:\n\n> Watching the Sister's Arc first in Index absolutely ruins the emotional\n> impact you get from seeing it from Misaka's perspective while providing\n> absolutely no gain. The Sister's Arc is 4 episodes in Index and 14 in\n> Railgun S as such the Railgun S version's enjoyment should _clearly_ take\n> priority, especially considering the fact that it is the _primary_ arc of\n> the entire Railgun series (and arguably the best arc of the _entire_ show).\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> The first season of Index is the weakest entry to the series. Index season\n> one is written pretty badly. It does a horrible job explaining the world and\n> what is going on.\n\nRaildex is a situation where the conventional wisdom of \"watch it in\nproduction order\" kind of breaks down because there are actually two parallel\nproductions involved. Since this watching order _does_ still preserve\nproduction order within each individual production (i.e. Index and Railgun), I\nthink it works.\n\nIf you do watch the series in this order, note that episodes 10-14 of Index\nseason 1 are basically a condensed, crappier version of episodes 2-16 of\nRailgun season 2. It'll be a bit of a slog to get through, but you should do\nit anyway, because the Index version shows events from a different character's\nperspective (Touma's).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is how i came up with the watch order for \"Toaru Majutsu no Index\" whole\nseires:\n\n**Index Season 1** Oct 5, 2008 to Mar 19, 2009 \nIndex tan 2009\n\n**Railgun Season 1** Oct 3, 2009 to Mar 20, 2010 \nMMR + 2 OVA\n\n**Index Season 2**. Oct 8, 2010 to Apr 1, 2011 \nIndex tan s2 2011 \nIndex Movie Feb 2013 + OVA\n\n**Railgun Season 2** Apr 12, 2013 to Sep 27, 2013 \nMMR S2 + 1 OVA\n\n**Index Season 3** Oct 5, 2018 to Apr 5, 2019 \nIndex tan s3 2018 to 2019\n\n**Upcoming** Railgun Season 3 and Accelerator Series\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat happened to Miss Dunya's skin when she died? (Shown in the animated .GIF\nbelow)\n\n\n\nFor reference, it occurred in Episode 2 of Magi - The Kingdom of Magic around\n16:17.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe turned into metal coal after she died. This happened due to the side\neffect of turning into a black djinn.\n\n[The Magi wikia](http://magi.wikia.com/wiki/Dunya_Musta%27sim) gives you more\ninformation on her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm talking about names that transliterate poorly to the Japanese tongue such\nas _Light-Raito, L-Eru, Lelouch-Ruruush, Bleach-Bureechu_ (yes they all have\nan l, especially our one-lettered detective). Do manga authors place a premium\non unpronounceable names because they sound the most foreign?\n\nApparently people eyes is a symbol of exotic.\n<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PurpleEyes> is there a similar\ndocumented trope for L-ven names?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJapanese is actually a sound poor language. Unlike English, which can be\nconsidered as a sound rich language, Japanese language misses many syllabic\nsounds like the letter 'l'. There is no specific pronunciation of the letter\n'l' from English language in Japanese.\n\nSo, the pronunciation for letter 'l' in Japanese is actually eru.\n\nHere is a link to all Japanese sounds possible\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _[Aoishiro](http://vndb.org/v710)_ , on the 2nd day during Lunch, Momoko is\ncomplaining about the lack of animal protein in the meals Yasumi has prepared,\nwho has been trying to keep to vegetarian Buddhist Meals.\n\nMomoko asks Suzuki Yuukai, the monk of the temple, if he would run her out of\nthe temple if she ate meat, he says:\n\n> I don't condemn eating meat at all. \n> (Literally, \"at all\" = \"no hair\")\n\nThis is what Yuukai looks like\n\n\n\nAfter reading the liner notes of _Maria Watches Over Us_ , I know that some\nhumor in Japanese language comes from puns on how words look very similar but\nhave vastly different meanings only because of one character of the placing of\na space.\n\nI know Yuukai is bald, however, I don't get how not condemning eating meat at\nall = him having no hair, as at dinner on the second day, he points out that\nhe does eat meat (asking Shouko if his \"Iron Body\" could come from a\nvegetarian diet). I played the English fan translated version.\n\nSo I am wondering, is this actually some sort of pun only understandable if\nyou know Japanese (i.e. read the original Japanese text)? What exactly does he\nmean?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found a walk through of the game in Japanese on\n[YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoyWCZbGzRU#t=350). The link shows\nthe exact scene in the unpatched Japanese version.\n\nThe same line in Japanese is\n\n> 「[肉食]{にくじき}を[咎]{とが}めるつもりは[毛頭]{もうとう}なし」.\n\nThe pun is on 毛頭なし, where in this context, it means \"not at all\". However, if\nyou interpret the idiom 毛頭なし literally, it means \"no hair\" (毛 = hair, 頭 =\nhead, なし = no).\n\nAs reference, here is the entry of 毛頭 on\n[Weblio](http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E6%AF%9B%E9%A0%AD):\n\n> 【一】 （ 副 ）\n>\n> （下に打ち消しを伴って，打ち消しを強調する気持ちを表す）毛の先ほども。少しも。いささかも。 「立候補する気は－ない」 「そんなつもりは－ない」\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure whether this question will make sense or not but what is the\nsymbolism or meaning behind the logos or symbols that are associated with the\nwalls of Maria, Rose & Sina?\n\n  \n\nAre they suppose to represent the current King or are they some sort of\nrecognizement of some past Kings and Queens in AOT in the last 100 years? What\nare the logos suppose to mean? Who is in them? If its not a person, is it\nsuppose to represent or show how humans have managed to survive from titans in\n100 years?\n\nI haven't watched the anime in a while so whether it was revealed or not (I am\nnot sure) however I am pretty sure they didn't address it. Does anyone know?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs stated in the first chapter, they (humanity) built those walls over a\ncentury and have lived in them during that time. At this point in the series,\nthere hasn't been any declaration about the wall's symbols (to my knowledge).\nWe can only speculate, but keep in mind the fact that the walls are _old_ and\nthe people depicted in their emblems quite possibly have the same antiquity.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we know, the Walls are filled with Titans, the ending credits of the Female\nTitan arc confirm this. We also know that the coordinate ability, which has\nbeen passed down through generations of the Riess family, gives the possessor\nthe ability to control both Humans and Titans to various degrees. Given theses\nfacts, I surmise that the three goddesses were in fact three human women, who,\nin deference to the interests of the kingdom (we also know from the same\nending credits that the coordinate is the subject of a war between two\nopposing kingdoms), used the coordinate to force vast numbers of their\nsubjects to become colossal class Titans, stand in formation, and then\nsimultaneously invoke their hardening ability to both form, and trap\nthemselves within the walls. The resultant walls were then named according to\nthe person who orchestrated each specific iteration, and through the passage\nof time, short memory of the human race, and obvious manipulations of\ncollective memory through the coordinate ability, the Goddesses are born\n\nThat's what I think anyway, I'm looking forward to finding out what the\nwriters came up with\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've noticed that Robotics;Notes, Captain Earth, and Aldnoah.Zero all\nprominently feature Tanegashima (city in Japan). Are these series tied\ntogether in some way or is this just coincidence? (kind of like how Tokyo and\nKyushu are featured in a lot of anime)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Tanegashima](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima) island is prominently\nfeatured, most probably due to the fact that:\n\n> The **headquarters** of [JAXA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA), the\n> [**Japan Aerospace Exploration\n> Agency**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Aerospace_Exploration_Agency),\n> the [**Tanegashima Space\n> Center**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_Space_Center) spaceport\n> is located at the southeastern end of the island.\n\nAbout [Tanegashima Space\nCenter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_Space_Center):\n\n> The **Tanegashima Space Center** (種子島宇宙センター Tanegashima Uchū Sentā) (TNSC)\n> is a Japanese space development facility. It is located on Tanegashima, an\n> island located 115 km south of Kyushu. It was established in 1969 when the\n> [National Space Development Agency of\n> Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Space_Development_Agency_of_Japan)\n> (NASDA) was formed, and is now run by JAXA.\n>\n> The activities that take place at TNSC include assembly, testing, launching\n> and tracking of satellites, as well as rocket engine firing tests. It is\n> **Japan's largest space development center**.\n\nTanegashima Space Center [is\nfeatured](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_Space_Center#In_fiction)\nnot only in the 3 anime as mentioned in the question, but also in:\n\n * [Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Earth:_The_Art_of_Conquest)\n * [Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Ruby_and_Sapphire) (Mossdeep Space Center is based on TNSC)\n * [5 Centimeters Per Second](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second) (features a rocket launch from TNSC)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKotoishi Naru keeps on calling the main character a Junon Boy. He seems to\ntake this as insulting.\n\nWhat is a Junon Boy and why does he dislike being called that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Junon is a monthly Japanese fashion magazine primarily directed towards\n> teenage girls and women. It began circulation in June 1973.\n\nSource: [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junon_%28magazine%29)\n\nGiven Junon super boy contest is a beauty contest I would guess, \"Junon Boy\"\nbasically means \"pretty boy\".\n\nThe magazine hope page can be found at: <http://www.junon-boy.jp/>\n\nI am basing my answer on research so perhaps some one else can confirm this,\nalso I could not find any information of the meaning of maganize name alone,\nso again I am basing on the circumstances.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSomeone replied about Junon Boy on [Yahoo!\nAnswers](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090317184028AA8Jyd9) 5\nyears ago. Hope this helps a little bit.\n\n> It is a beauty contest for young boys, like teenage boys. Junon is a\n> magazine, like Seventeen. I don't know what they win, but I think many\n> girls' readers vote, and I believe the winner will get some money and a\n> contract with some actor/modeling agency.\n>\n> Most of the contestants are just young boys who want to be actors/models.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was wondering if you actually miss out on anything from watching the dubbed\nversion of a series (E.g. Magi- Labyrinth of Magic over watching the subbed\nversion of it)?\n\nEverytime I watched dubbed animes, my friend in particular use to moan about a\nlot of things such as the voices sound horrible and you miss out on more of\nthe storyline through improvisation and other stuff such as cuts on certain\nlines and sayings. Ever I was oblivious or just plain blind but I actually\nnever noticed this before (besides the voices of course) and since I have\nnever actually watched the same of an anime series in both dubbed and then re-\nwatched it in subbed to compare it, do you actually miss out on anything\nimportant or paramount?\n\nIs there any difference in terms of the story, how the characters are\ndeveloped or how the storyline runs when you watch a dubbed anime over the\nsubbed version of it which is in Japanese? Do you miss out on anything or is\nthis just my friend trying to persuade me to only watch it in subbed which I\nhighly suspect.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer, it depends.\n\nLong answer, some change a lot more than others. The major thing is whether\nyou are watching just a dubbed version of a show or whether you are watching\nan Americanized version of a show (assuming you're talking about English\ndubs). Some shows are changed because of censorship, and some of it is because\nof other changes. You can check out the censorship for at least some of the\nshows at [this website](http://www.movie-censorship.com/). A lot of that ends\nup being differences in blood, violence, and sexual content. Sometimes the\nchanges are based on the animation, including making colors brighter or\nslightly changing positions of things.\n\nOn the other hand, you get shows like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor\nSakura/Cardcaptors. In Sailor Moon, for example, entire relationships are\nchanged, such as making characters cousins instead of being in a relationship\n(which ends up just looking like incest). That's done because the relationship\nwas between two women, something which wasn't really accepted in the US when\nit aired. They also skipped entire episodes.\n\nSometimes you also just lose subtleties because English is a less subtle\nlanguage than Japanese. That ends up happening with subs, too, so it's pretty\nmuch unavoidable unless you know Japanese.\n\nSome shows don't really change anything at all.\n\nThe major changes tend to be related to nudity, violence, sex, and\nhomosexuality, though there are other changes. If you want to check out the\ndifferences, you can look at websites like the one I linked too, as well as\n[this](http://www.smuncensored.com/) for Sailor Moon,\n[this](http://www.psypokes.com/anime/censor.php) for Pokemon,\n[this](http://frozen-wings.net/ccs/main.php?page=information/differences) for\nCardcaptor Sakura, etc. You have to be careful if you're worried about\nspoilers, but for most popular shows you can find someone talking about the\ndifferences.\n\nFor Magi- Labyrinth of Magic, which you mentioned, I can't find anything\ntalking about the differences, though only the first season has been released\nin English, so that might change later.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI apologise for the theological sounding question, but I couldn't phrase it\nany better.\n\nIn Oyasumi PunPun, PunPun can see God whenever he chants _'Dear God, dear God,\ntinkle-tinkle hoy'_\n\nThis character always has the same expression and is realistic to a point that\nit seems it has been copied from a photograph or similar media.\n\nIs God based on the appearance of the mangaka or anyone in particular?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Japanese Yahoo!\nAnswers](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1022024160),\nhe is Kumatsuto, Asano's—the mangaka—close friend.\n\nA [customer review on Japanese\nAmazon](https://www.amazon.co.jp/review/R7TMSMN9CUD5K) also mentions Kumatsuto\nas the god (くまつとさん神様)\n\nHe is also mentioned in the manga's credits\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSometimes, Japanese (as opposed to foreign, e.g Lelouch from Code Geass)\ncharacters in anime and manga get given names which seem un-Japanese, at least\nas far as I can tell. I have three different examples:\n\n * Orihara Izaya - 折原 臨也 (Durarara!!): the pronunciation of “Izaya” doesn't match the kanji, and apparently comes from the biblical “Isaiah”.\n * Yagami Light - 夜神 月 (Death Note): again, pronunciation doesn't match the kanji, but is clearly directly from English.\n * Mankanshoku Mako - 満艦飾 マコ (Kill la Kill): given name written in katakana, though I gather that the name may not be realistic anyway - “mankanshoku” means “dressed up”.\n\nSo, my question is: are there any real Japanese people with names like these?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Brazilian subtitle, he was first called as Ruffy, but in the half of\nEnies Lobby/Water 7 Saga he started being called as Luffy, so I'm interested\nin knowing what is his name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHis name is Luffy. You better know his name when he becomes King of the\nPirates!\n\nWe have discussed the difference with regard to pronounciation on this site\n[before](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/782/whats-the-correct-\npronunciation-for-luffy-or-rufi).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nToday I decided to carry on watching Black Butler since I had only watched the\nfirst episode a couple months ago and then stopped watching. (so fairly new to\nthe series) but I noticed that every time there was an intermission or brief\nbreak in between the episode, it always seem to feature either Ceil or\nSebastian next to what I think is a tarot card?\n\n \n\nI don't mind spoilers just so you know and maybe I am a bit slow, but is there\na relationship or connection between the cards and how they always pop up in\nintermission to the storyline etc?\n\nEdit: I just realised that I had been watching Black Butler II and not Black\nButler I which would probably be why I was confused.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm late to this, whoops.\n\nBut the tarot cards, I assume, are just a foreshadowing of the uprising\nevents. If the Death tarot card appears: what happens in the episode? Well,\nobviously, death. Either, on Ciel's side or the opponent of Ciel.\n\nSome other cards are harder to explain but you could search up \"insert tarot\ncard here\" on Google and then find the meaning there.\n\nSorry if this wasn't much help. I tried!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of the Aincrad arc, Kirito faced Skull Reaper (boss of the floor)\nand found out that the Guild Master of the Knights of the Blood was the GM\nhimself. After beating him, Aincrad was destroyed and floors 76-100 were still\nuntouched.\n\nAt the end of the Fairy Dance arc, Kirito restores Aincrad so the people can\nexplore it again.\n\n\n\nI waiting for the story about floors 76-100, as well as the Ruby Palace (100th\nfloor), but there has been nothing so far. Now that Kirito has begun exploring\nGGO (Gun Gale Online), are floors 76-100 still untouched?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no formal reference to this in manga/anime as far as I'm aware of,\nbut chances are that it probably got cleared or in process of. Aincrad was\nrevived and others are playing in it including Kirito (he commented how he\nwould like to restart from level 1 and beat it properly this time). Unless he\ngot bored, I'm sure he would only move on from the game after someone beats it\nproperly.\n\nThe other probability is SAO II happens while he's still in pursuit of that\ngoal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was only implied in the light novel and anime, that Kirito would like to\nclear Aincrad. It was not told in detail about it as after ALO (Alfheim\nOnline), the story moved to GGO (Gun Gale Online). Too bad the online\nreference in Baka-Tsuki is no longer available.\n\nSource: I read the book from volume 1 to 6, that is from SAO (vol 1-2) to GGO\n(vol 5-6).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nStill untouched in canon. In the non-canon games Infinity Moment/Hollow\nFragment, Kirito and the others had to continue through the upper floors and\nthe Ruby Palace.\n\nIt was established within canon that the floors of New Aincrad are being\nreleased 10 floors at a time. The Mother's Rosario story arc begins with the\nupdate that opened floors 21-30 to begin clearing, notable because Kirito and\nAsuna wanted to reclaim their cabin on floor 22. Since nothing has been said\nbeyond Mother's Rosario, it is safe to say the upper floors still have not\nbeen released.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last scene of _Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale_ ...\n\n> Kirito and his team are fighting the last boss on Floor 100, or the so-\n> called Ruby Palace.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo Game No Life have 16 race and ranked from 1 to 16, based on this\n[wiki](http://no-game-no-life.wikia.com/wiki/Exceed)\n\nThere are :\n\n 1. Old Deus \n 2. Phantasma\n 3. Elemental \n 4. Dragonia \n 5. Gigant \n 6. Flügel\n 7. Elf\n 8. ?\n 9. ?\n 10. Exmachina\n 11. ?\n 12. Dhampir\n 13. Lunamana\n 14. Werebeast\n 15. Seiren\n 16. Imanity \n\nAnyone know about race ranked 8, 9 , and 11 ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs also stated in the comment's the 3 remaining races are already known and\nare the\n\n * dwarf\n * fairy\n * demonia\n\nThe 3 respected race's have not yet been ranked, but will most likely fill the\nblank spots of rank 8, 9 and 11.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I recall, the only locks mentioned during the [Dressrosa\nArc](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dressrosa_Arc) are:\n\n * The lock to the [SMILE factory](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SMILE_Factory)\n * The lock of Law's handcuffs\n\nThough, in **chapter 747** Doflamingo destroys the key to the factory.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/F8NHh.png)\n\nAnd in **chapter 750** , we can see Viola holding the key to Law's handcuffs.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/K9wzq.png)\n\nSo what is the key, Doflamingo is holding in **chapter 752** , for?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eYNei.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think as far as we know, you can't tell for sure if it's one of these two\npossibilities.\n\nBut if I compare the key to the SMILE Factory with the last one you can't see\nanything similar. So I think it's **not another key to the Factory.**\n\n \n\nEven though the other is much smaller on the picture, if you zoom in, you can\nsee that the **key for Law's chain is round.** On the other side\n**Doflamingo's key has the shape of a heart.**\n\nAnother point is, that the **left one has a little hook...**\n\n \n\nSo I think this is just speculation, but I think even if it's one of these two\noptions it would be the key to Law's chain.\n\nIn my opinion, it's a key to something new, maybe even more important.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know it's a month ago you asked this, but it hasn't really been made clear\nin the manga yet, sort of, so I'll drop my opinion. I think it's just another\nkey to Law's handcuffs, because Doflamingo said he had something to deliver,\nbut wasn't able to accomplish the job. Seems pretty obvious to me he's\nreferring to the key he's holding in the next panel. I don't think he just\nwent there to kill them, he even said so himself, he came to \"save\" them. Also\nit's just logical for him or at least his 'family' to hold on to a key for the\ncuffs, seeing as Law was his prisoner and Doflamingo's got personal business\nwith him. Even if that means there is more than one key.\n\nOn the other hand.. It being heart shaped and all, and the whole heart theme\nregarding Corazon.. And although he wanted to bring Law the key it doesn't\nreally have to be for his cuffs.. I do think so but you're right. Maybe it\ndoes have another purpose. xD If there is any more meaning to that key I think\nwe'll find out when they finally face each other again, probably the next\nchapter! ^^\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Deadman Wonderland, Ganta first has hexagons around his blast when the ball\nfalls from the tower and is about to crush him. Later he gets it again when\nfighting and protecting Shiro.\n\n\n\nThe only other person who I know can do this is the Wretched Egg. So why is\nGanta able to do it and have a lot more power behind his shot?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis isn't really explained in the show. As you can see, in the image below,\nthe Branch of Sins manifestation is based on the power of the user.\n\n\n\nHowever, if we take Episode 1 into consideration, we can see that Wretched Egg\nattacks Ganta and kills off his class mates. This is also what seems to be\nwhen Ganta should be receiving his powers. In that case, since Wretched Egg's\npowers have the hexagonal patterns around his/her abilities, then this would\nexplain why Ganta has the same design, since Ganta got his abilities from\nWretched Egg.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we know, Naruto (Jiraiya's apprentice) has mastered the Sage Mode of toads.\nAlso, Kabuto (Orochimaru's apprentice) has mastered the Sage Mode of snakes.\nSo, my question is, is there a Sage Mode of slugs (related to Tsunade)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Sage Mode of the slugs is _somewhat related_ to the Sage Mode of Hashirama\nSenju (First Hokage). He learnt Sage Mode in Shikkotsu Woods/Forest, a\nlegendary place that is equally famous as Mount Myōboku (toad) and Ryūchi Cave\n(snake). It is the home of the slug Katsuyu, parts of which are summoned by\nTsunade and one of her disciples, Sakura Haruno.\n\nEvidence:\n\nIn Hashirama's fight with Madara, it appears that he enters a _Sage Mode_\n(bottom right corner) similar to Tsunade's, with a diamond shape tatoo-like\nsymbol in her forehead.\n\n\n\nThough it is not explicitly said neither in the manga nor in the anime that\nTsunade enters Sage Mode, it is clear that Hashirama did.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI also assume that Hashirama used the Slugs-based Sage Mode. I noticed the\nname Shikkotsu Forest/Wood, \"wood\" is in the name of the jutsu Hashirama used\n- the Wood style. This observation makes me conclude that Hashirama is a Slug\nSage. I also noticed that Hashirama got a healing jutsu which the slugs used.\nThe jutsu was also inherited by his granddaughter (Tsunade-sama), who also\npassed the power to her apprentice (Sakura-chan).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSages use nature energy. Tsunades \"100 healings technique\" uses her own stored\nchakra.\n\nAlso, Hashirama does not use the same healing technique. His is called\n\"Mitotic Regeneration\" in his sage mode and it works by increasing the speed\nat which his cells replicate through mitosis which replaces the damaged or\ndead cells.\n\nI'm too lazy to find the exact episode, I just watch/read a lot of Naruto..\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think hashirama does use slug sage, and I think that his wife mito uzumaki\ntried to imitate him, but with out the risks that sage training has sense she\nos the nine tails jinjuriki, and developed an jutsu, seal (being and uzumaki\nwhich is a clan known for their seals) , to imitate what her husband learned\nand created the hundred healings jutsu. I also think this because madara\nstated that tsunade’s 100 healings jutsu was the same as hashirama’s, but he\ndidn’t use the hundred healings like his wife, or else he would have had the\nmark, so you can say that these two jutsu are based around the same thing.\nSlug sage. I also think the 100 healings seal is on the fore heal and spreads\nall over when activated because Mito most likely tried to imitate the forehead\ncircle as well. So you can basically say the 100 healings technique is an off\nbrand slug sage.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the reason for which the ( _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_ 's)\nhomunculi look the way they do? I know they mean to represent the sins from\nwhich they were created, but is there a common image in Japanese folklore for\nthem?\n\nLust is represented as a beautiful, desirable (take Havoc's opionions on this)\nwoman. (And that's the only directly-represented sin I can find amongst the\nhomunculi.)\n\nGluttony is represented as a fat, all-eating beast. ( _?_ )\n\nGreed... ? I mean, the first Greed was an apparently normal human with\nabilities to cover his skin with diamond-hard layers. (Apart from the\n\"diamond\", I can't see how he is \"greedy\" at all. Not as his appearance, at\nleast.)\n\nSloth is\n\n> a giant, enormously huge and _fast(??)_ creature.\n\nWrath is justifiable enough.\n\n> He had a normal human body taken for experiments and had a philosopher's\n> stone inserted. All the souls within him then fought for control, leaving\n> only the one who actually controlled him.\n\nPride\n\n> is a child????\n\nEnvy\n\n> is a huge monster who has the ability to freely change his form around.\n\nIs there a pattern I'm losing here?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEnvy's form is understandable because he's actually really small and weak so\nhe has the desire to be as good as other individuals\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPride and Greed were always the hardest to explain to me.\n\nSloth\n\n> Sloth _has_ the ability to move at extreme speeds and has incredible\n> strength, but never wants to do it because it's \"such a bother.\" Being\n> slothful doesn't mean you're slow or useless by nature, it means you choose\n> to do as little as possible.\n\nEnvy\n\n> Envy's true form is both hideous and weak. He wants the use of more\n> beautiful peoples' appearances, and their strength. His large form is more\n> of a mystery in regards to beauty, it might just be that his true form\n> becomes that monstrosity when properly fueled with souls\n\nMy theories for the other two:\n\nGreed\n\n> Greed 's ability is more indicative of his personality rather than the sin.\n> He has his visage of being a powerful being who wants and wants and wants,\n> but he's the most human of the homunculi in that he actually cares for his\n> 'underlings.'\n\nPride I'm not sure which theory I like better:\n\n> 1: Pride is the first homunculus, and where the whole 'father' shenanigans\n> started. That's the reason he's a child and he's pride because of the\n> arrogance of creating near-humans. Or 2: Irony. He's the embodiment of the\n> father'a pride but he takes the form of a child, usually associated with\n> relying on others.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is my understanding of what defines the homunculus physical attributes.\n\n### Lust\n\nBeautiful, desirable and a b****. The kind of woman that every man wants to\nget, but when they are in there, they soon realize that they don't want to be\nwith her.\n\n### Gluttony\n\nFat, lazy, always hungry and quite stupid. Wants the girl but most likely\nwon't get her because of his appearance, which is also why he always hangs\naround Lust and goes crazy when she is killed by Mustang.\n\n### Envy\n\nHer actual form is very ugly. She envies everyone because they look better\nthan her. This is the reason why she can change her appearance at will, as she\nwants to look better than others.\n\n### Greed\n\nWants everything, has possessions not friends. His ultimate shield is a\nvariation of carbon (diamond). Teeth are jagged like that of a demon.\n\n### Wrath\n\nAnother word for anger. Uses his rage to fuel his determination and fighting\nability, thus making him the ultimate warrior and leader.\n\n### Sloth\n\nLarge, strong, slow. However, easily bored and would rather not do anything\nphysically taxing. He is also easily agitated hence the battle at the wall.\n\n### Pride\n\nFeels he is superior in everything, appearance, abilities. Has a huge ego and\nwill most likely try to kill anybody that makes him feel small. Hence why he\nis bound to a vessel of a 7-9 year old. Children of about that age are\nextremely prideful in personality, causing him to be slightly immature and\nthink he is the best.\n\nThis is however my own interpretation of why they are like they are physically\nand personality wise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n * Lust's body inspires lust. She penetrates victims to kill them. Stabbing killing for pleasure is often cited as having a sexy motivation.\n * Gluttony's body is fat from overeating and has a giant mouth (actually a portal) when opened. \n * Wrath's body is just a man because he as much man as homunculi. Wrath doesn't just mean anger. He here doles out judgements, vengeance, and punishments which is more what it means. I suspect we may never have seen his true form.\n * Greed frankly looks mostly human because it is what he needs to have to do his job and be independent. I suspect we may never have seen his true form. Idk for ultimate shield. Before he died, all homunculi just looked humanoid.\n * Sloth is strong and fast for the irony.\n * Envy's true form is a pathetic worm. Of course it wants to be big and strong which is its first hidden form. Of course it wants to be human and be able to steal other's lives. It's powers gives it what it wants. \n * Pride is the most complicated because it has three less obvious forms. First, the child is for convenience; it is a disguise but looks like true form as it takes pride in it's own creation. Second, the arms and defenses are meant to look like the dwarf in the flask as father takes pride in his himself. Finally, his true form is a true small human. Pride is oldest the homunculus and that is exactly what Father was attempting to create. He is truly playing god by making a human and that is very prideful.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of the designs of the homunculi seem fairly obvious and others not so\nmuch. I'll try to weigh in with some of my own thoughts and I'll also\nreference the trivia sections from the wiki pages for each homunculus when\nthere is something relevant there.\n\n**Envy** \nEnvy's appearance as a giant green monster seems to be a reference to the\nidioms \"green with envy\" and \"green-eyed monster\" (I've also heard this as\njust \"green monster\" or \"little green monster\", which are more appropriate for\nEnvy). Envy's ability to transform into other people seems fitting since an\nenvious person would want to be the person they are envious of.\n\n**Lust** \nThis one seems fairly obvious. Her appearance is that of a voluptuous woman\nwith wide hips and slender waist, usually immodestly garbed. She's an\nembodiment of lust.\n\n**Gluttony** \nThis is another obvious one. Gluttony's obesity is a result of engaging in\ngluttony. His large mouths facilitate his gluttonous eating habits.\n\n**Pride** \nSince he's very proud to be the first of Father's homunculus, it makes sense\nthat he takes a form similar to Father's first form. His wiki page also\nsuggests that the many eyes on his shadow may be reminiscent of a peacock's\ntail and a peacock is a symbol of pride. The wiki page also notes that his\nhumanoid container being a child may be a reference to the word homunculus\nliterally meaning \"little human\". In this sense, he is sort of the closest to\nbeing a true homunculus (looking separately at the Fullmetal Alchemist\ndefinition for his shadow form and the real world definition for his humanoid\ncontainer) and he's proud of it.\n\n**Wrath** \nWrath's appearance is that of a middle-aged man with an eye-patch. It's a\nlittle difficult to determine the connection to wrath. Wrath does often have a\nfierce scowl and perhaps his role as dictator and military attire help him\npersonify wrath.\n\n**Sloth** \nSloth's appearance is perhaps the most difficult to explain. He's large and\nmuscular, which seems to be at odds with his slothful nature. I don't have an\nexplanation for it. His big nose does remind me a little of the animal sloth.\n\n**Greed** \nHis appearance is that of a typical human both in his first and second bodies.\nAccording to his wiki page, Greed sharing a human body with Ling could be a\nreference to Dante's Inferno, where the greedy are always having their bodies\nstolen from them by lizards and they have to steal a human form from another\nsinner (Interestingly, all the homunculi have some connection to Dante's\nInferno. None of the other points are relevant here, but you can look through\nthe trivia sections on their wiki pages if interested). This also accounts for\nwhy Greed just has a normal human form. I have no explanation for his\nappearance when using his ultimate shield.\n\nIn your question, you ask whether there might be common image for these\ncharacters in Japanese folklore. I don't know much about Japanese folklore\nother than what little information I've gleamed from anime and manga, but I\nthink it is probably unlikely. This is because the seven deadly sins come from\nChristian theology (see Wikipedia for details).\n\n**References** \nWiki pages for [Wrath](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Wrath),\n[Lust](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Lust),\n[Gluttony](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Gluttony),\n[Greed](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Greed),\n[Sloth](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Sloth),\n[Envy](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Envy), and\n[Pride](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Pride) on <http://fma.wikia.com/> \n[Seven Deadly Sins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins) on\nwikipedia.org\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 137 of Hunter x Hunter during the Chairman Election arc, Ging rigs\nthe election rule choosing process with his own 5 rules. He states his fifth\nand last rule is a decoy, with the purpose of making his earlier rule points\neasier to concede to. He cites this is a popular con man trick.\n\nIs this a real con man trick, and if so, what is the equivalent name in our\nworld?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis particular trick is hard to name, because it is so specific to\ncircumstance. It is a form of psychological manipulation which can be\ncategorized as **misdirection**\n,[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_%28magic%29) **diversion**\n,[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distraction) or a **confidence\ntrick**.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick) However, it\nfalls most directly under the title of \" **Kansas City Shuffle**\n\".[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Shuffle#The_scheme)[[5]](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KansasCityShuffle){note\n1}\n\nThe trick essentially goes as follows:\n\n> 1. The victim expects to be conned.\n> 2. The victim figures out how to avoid a _different_ con, thinking they've\n> avoided the con altogether.\n> 3. The victim then ends up being taken by the original, hidden con.\n>\n\nIn Ging's case, it's something like this:\n\n> 1. The Zodiacs are expecting that Ging wants to further his goal to become\n> chairman (since he elected himself).\n> 2. Because Ging introduced the rule #5 decoy, Pariston and the others talk\n> him out of it, and think they've foiled his plan.\n> 3. They don't realize that the con plan was actually rules #1 through #4,\n> and they accept his terms. (Not like they really had a choice--but they are\n> now okay with it.)\n>\n\n**However** , since the term _Kansas City Shuffle_ is not a common one, I'd\nfile this most closely as a simple _diversion_. He is introducing something to\ndraw attention away from something else which, at its core, is just plain and\nsimple psychological diversion.\n\n* * *\n\n## Footnotes\n\n[1] [Wikipedia:\nMisdirection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_%28magic%29) \n[2] [Wikipedia: Distraction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distraction) \n[3] [Wikipedia: Confidence\ntrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick) \n[4] [Wikipedia: Kansas City\nShuffle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Shuffle#The_scheme) \n[5] [TV Tropes: Kansas City\nShuffle](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KansasCityShuffle)\n\n{note 1} The Wikipedia article focuses somewhat on song by that name from\n2006. The \"scheme\" section covers well enough what the basic idea is, but\nhonestly, the TV Tropes article is more clear.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Selectors battle, there is a large wheel or clock that decides which\nSelector goes first.\n\nThe Selectors are represented by their deck colour (eg. Yuzuki - Red Deck,\nRuko - White Deck) The image below is from when Ruko battled Yuzuki, And it's\nclear that Ruko gets to go first.\n\nBut how could we tell who goes first if both Yuzuki and Ruko had the same\ncoloured deck? Would the wheel be entirely one colour?\n\nAs of season 1 of the anime there have been no same-deck battles but maybe\nthere is some external source of information about this?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 11 of Selector Spread WIXOSS, There is a same-coloured battle:\n\n> between Mayu & Ruuko (Black vs Black) \n\nIt seems like when the selectors are battling with the same deck colour, they\ncan choose who goes first.\n\nThis also ties into the real game - where there are no hard set rules on which\nplayer goes first. (although I presume this advantage is offset in some way)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the series Shura no Toki it shows the different generations of the mutsu\nenmei and their battles. I have watch the series and think that is great and\nrecomend it to friends. I like the way that they have done this compared to\ndifferent animes.\n\nBut I am a little confused on why the writers decided to do different\ngenerations instead of like a lot of the other animes out there keep with one\ngeneration and follow them tell the end of the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a bit of history here which puts this in perspective. In 1987, mangaka\nKawahara Masatoshi first published [Shura no\nMon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shura_no_Mon). This is a pretty standard\nmartial arts manga in terms of setting and characters. It primarily follows a\nsingle character, Mutsu Tsukumoto. He practices a martial art Mutsu Enmei\nRyuu. This martial arts style has apparently never been defeated in its 1000\nyear history. Shura no Mon ran for 31 volumes and finished publication in\n1996. It does have a sequel which began in 2010. It was never adapted as an\nanime.\n\nIn 1989, Kawahara began publishing a prequel manga [Shura no\nToki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shura_no_Toki). This details the thousand-\nyear history of Mutsu Enmei Ryuu and the Mutsu family. It has arcs for each of\nthe major periods in Japanese history, each with different characters. This\nwas published at a slower pace. In total, there were 15 volumes. The series\nended in 2005.\n\nThe anime adaptation of Shura no Toki occurred in 2004. They chose to adapt\nShura no Toki rather than Shura no Mon, and covered 3 story arcs. Given the\ntiming, this made more sense. Shura no Mon hadn't been released for 8 years,\nbut Shura no Toki was still publishing and nearing its end, which is a good\ntime for an anime adaptation. Of course, given the nature of the work, they\nadapted it in arcs rather than just doing a single one.\n\nIt's a bit of a historical accident that Shura no Toki got an anime\nadaptation, while Shura no Mon didn't. I don't think there's a single really\nconvincing reason why it happened. Partially, the timing wasn't great. Martial\narts was big in the 1980s, but by the mid-90s (when an anime might have\nstarted) it had died down in popularity. Shura no Toki was better timed in\nthat respect and also had the benefit of being more historically themed (and\nhence appealing to a larger group than just martial arts enthusiasts). There's\nplenty of other speculation as to why the prequel was the only part to be\nadapted as an anime, but in any event that's the fact of the matter.\n\nSo the reason why Shura no Toki took that approach is because it was always\ndesigned and intended as a prequel to Shura no Mon, which has the more\ntraditional single protagonist. However, in English, the Shura no Toki anime\nis the only one with a sizable following since neither manga is well known.\nWithout that context, the style of the anime seems somewhat strange.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe story focused on the martial art style, not the person. And I guess the\nwriter wanted the reader to understand why this mutsu enmeiryuu style is \"the\nstrongest martial art\" and \"undefeated for a thousand year\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat would happen if Doflamingo's Fakes touches water? Are they proofed\nagainst water?\n\nIn the Chapter 752, Doflamingo appears as a \"Fake\" Doflamingo\n\n>  \n\n * **Would Doflamingo lose his power?**\n * **Would the fake Doflamingo lose his power or is he immune against water?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe see in the manga Devil's Fruit powers emanations that falls in the see,\nhave effect and then disappear much or less slowly. The string clone'd\nencounter the same end in the water.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt least for Paramacia the sea only affects the user and not the effects of\nthe fruit. Example: Luffy's neck was still stretchable after being submerged\nin water during the Arlong Arc, while Luffy himself was not able to move.\nVander Decken IX's tracking ability worked even while it went underwater, as\nwell as Whitebeard's earthquake fruit got transmuted through the sea to the\nocean floor.\n\nSo as long as Doflamingo's not in the water himself his powers or extension\nthereof shouldnt be affected.\n\n@Rajven What is the basis for this? His clone could have ended due to the\nattack it sustained from the other revolters.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**They are waterproof.**\n\n> Paramecia is one of the three Devil Fruit types. These fruits give the users\n> a power that can affect their body, manipulate the environment, or produce\n> substances.\n\nThere are three different types of\n[Paramecia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Paramecia), and Doflamingo seems to\nbe the third type. He can produce strings, rather than his body being made of\nstrings. We have clearly see him get hurt and bleed and additionally have we\nseen strings separated from his body, still being intact (eg: birdcage). The\nstrings that he produces come out of his body and are thus not part of it any\nmore. He can manipulate their shape and structure, and he can use his parasite\ntechnique to make them move, but they are just strings and nothing more.\n\nProof that they are indeed separate and do not affect him, has been given in\nchapter 787.\n\n> When Franky and the Tontatta try to push back the birdcage with the seastone\n> factory, the strings are basically touching seastone, yet we don't see them\n> nor Doflamingo get any weaker. So whether it be the birdcage or the string\n> clones he makes, regardless of them being touched by water or seastone, they\n> will not lose their power. \n> \n> \n\n* * *\n\nOn a sidenote, it seems that this effect happens with every paramecia that\nproduces things, except for Robin. I think, Robin **would** be affected if her\nhands touch the sea(stone). I'm basing this on the fact that she could be\nturned into a doll, by touching one of her _limbs_ , while similarly it does\nnot seem like Doflamgino would be turned into a doll if his cage or clone was\ntouched.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow much are \"cens\" in FMA worth? Is there some sort of canon answer to this,\nor can something at least be inferred from the manga / either anime series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWorking off of some manga / Brotherhood details, we can reach some sort of\napproximation. I am not sure if there are any details in any of the guidebooks\nto give a clearer answer and so am only working off what I've seen in the\nseries itself.\n\n * Ed borrows 520 cenz from Roy. He uses this to make a phone call (via a pay phone) to Winry. Admittedly this may be a costlier \"long-distance\" phone call, but this doesn't matter much - from later details we can still reach a similar conclusion.\n\n * When Roy asks for the money to be returned, Ed first gives him 500 cenz. Roy gets annoyed, and Ed tells him he's stingy for caring so much about 20 cenz. Ed also pays back Roy in coins.\n\n * In the Hong Kong dub of FMA, 520 cenz is translated to be $5.2, [which isn't much in Hong Kong dollars](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5.2%20hkd%20to%20usd).\n\n * According the Wiki (which argues that cenz is approximately equal to JPY), [cenz comes both in paper bills and coins](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XbHKg.png). This, along with the fact that we see Roy with a bunch of coins when he calls Hawkeye, implies that the coins should be of lesser value (which is usually the case in real life currencies that also use paper). After all, pay phone calls within the same city can't cost _that_ much.\n\n\n\n * Given that Ed gets 520 cenz _coins_ from Mustang (as seen at the end of [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pzeMaTcmdE)), and taking the considerations in the last point into account, 520 is a relatively small value.\n\n * Some people have argued that Ed was mad about having to pay 100 cenz for coffee in Briggs, which might imply that he finds it too expensive. But given the above and the context (him being given a cup of coffee by a doctor, which he finds out afterwards that he's to pay for), it's more reasonable to assume that Ed is annoyed by the fact that he has to pay for (bad) coffee in the first place (without warning).\n\n\n\nConsequently, the value of a single \"cenz\" doesn't seem to be much. Given that\nthis is a Japanese manga, the most reasonably assumption would be that \"cenz\"\nis approximately equal to the Japanese yen in terms of value and/or worth.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of you may know [Beyond\nBirthday](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Beyond_Birthday). He was born with\nShinigami eyes so he didn't need to make the Shinigami eye deal. So, Beyond\nBirthday's victims were supposed to die soon, because their lifespans were\nover. But how the hell could he read the lifespans of humans? I always thought\nonly Shinigami could understand the meanings of the lifespan numbers. Can\nsomebody explain this to me?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the wiki about [Shinigami\nEyes](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami_Eyes#Humans_Seeing_Lifespans)\nit says in L: Change the WorLd L himself presumably could read it (though i\nhaven't read the novel so i don't how L Would see it)\n\nOne reason which would explain how L and Beyond could read lifespans is\nexpressed in the Wiki and that the numbers are infact apart of a complex\nmathematical algorithm which Shinigami intuitively know. while i can't say\nanything about Beyond if L could read lifespans then this theory would relate\nto him as L was practically a genius (though the method he would use to\nconfirm his finding is unknown), as such, because Beyond was to be made as L's\nSuccessor one could assume he may be just as smart and having the eyes he\nworked out the formula.\n\nAnother reason is that the understanding of lifespans are engrave into a\nShinigami's Eyeballs. when the eye deal is made the Shinigami isn't rendered\nblind and probably can still read lifespans so the person who made the deal\nhas their power, not their understanding. It's mentioned on the wiki about\nBeyond Birthday that\n\n> Mello wonders if a Shinigami dropped its eyeballs to Earth (instead of a\n> Death Note)\n\nwithout knowing who the Shinigami is and what has happened to them the line\nsays it dropped it's _eyeballs_ , not it's _eyes_ which the latter is normally\nused to describe the power gained from the eye deal. now assuming that Mello's\nthinking is correct and the understanding is engraved in the eyeballs then\nBeyond, from birth, had the understanding to read them.\n\nThis also doesn't necessarily contradict my previous assumption or the wiki as\nthe understanding of the formula may be engraved into the eyeballs.\n\nOfcause, it should be noted that Tsugumi Ohba states that Light's lifespan was\nactually a complex mathematical formula while the rest seen are just random\nnumbers, this is where the assumption of the lifespan being a formula came\nfrom, aside from that it's not know how even Shinigami can understand a\nhumans's lifespan\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Death Note, I am not aware of whether Light actually truly loved or cared\nabout anyone although at the beginning of the series you could say he loved\nhis parents perhaps. But it seems that he was at least shown to be as an\nintellectual person who just so happened to be bored or well tired with the\nway life was (e.g. criminals everywhere, continuous injustice that happened\ntowards people etc.).\n\nI may have missed something from the anime and I haven't read the mangas (so\nplease correct me if I'm wrong) but did Light ever truly love anyone? I want a\ncanon answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he loved his family. And I don't think he was just acting when his\nfather died. He was just corrupted by the Death Note.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis isn't really exercised in the show, we can't tell. All we see is Light\nbeing fed up with life until he gets the Death Note...\n\nWe can see that he didn't really love Misa though as he never actually\nexpresses any feelings for her at all. As for this father, it looks like he is\nexpressing genuine feelings for his father when he is dying in episode 29,\nhowever at the time he is only thinking about how important it is to kill off\nMello.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMisa served as a tool; Takada served as a tool; and his family just shouldn't\nget in his way, otherwise he would have killed them.\n\nBut he reacted when Sayu got kidnapped by Mello.\n\nI think that he only possessed a kind of responsibility-like feeling.\n\nAt a certain point in the manga, I don't think that he loved anyone anymore.\n\nHe was focusing on achieving his goal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Himself.** And only himself.\n\nYagami Light truly perceived himself as a god where everyone else was a lower\nbeing. He explained in one segment that his lifespan is too valuable to make a\ndeal for the shinigami eyes. Yet for even his closest allies (Misa) or even\nhis family, their lives can be easily discarded. Light did not truly love\nanyone other than himself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHimself.\n\nAs to the sociopath suggestion, it is generally thought that sociopaths are\nborn that way. You don't just become one. Insane narcissist? Yes, he totally,\nbut sociopath? Doesn't fit the bill.\n\nA total narcissist loves only themselves, and might have emotion for others,\nbut mostly just in how they help themselves feel good.\n\nIf you look at Light during the period of time where he forsakes the Death\nNote, he is actually a decent guy. Notice how his entire expression and tone\nare changed. (even when no one is looking) He is corrupted by the power of the\nDeath Note, and becomes a figurative monster. Absolute power corrupts\nabsolutely.\n\nOn the topic of psychological issues: L is a textbook case of Asperger's\nSyndrome.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAbout Sayu, the only reason he didnt kill her was that the only ones aware of\nthese were them and Near's crew. Though he never really loved Misa, he did get\ninvolved with her as a couple\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know name of the song that plays at 01:15 when Lady Scheherazade\nreleased the final Aberrant Magic granted to her (or, well, her clone version,\nanyway)?\n\nI couldn't find a link; the only one I have is probably an illegal one anyway.\n\nIt is in episode 25 (final episode) of Magi - the Kingdom of Magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell after going through a whole lot of songs in a\n[playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi1zu5BkZMhluoCsJLXkE9qf27C2ELEfw)\non YouTube, I finally found it. The song is called \"Warrior Ships\"\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiGCxbGEcgk&list=PLi1zu5BkZMhluoCsJLXkE9qf27C2ELEfw&index=20).\n\nSadly, I could not find any information on the song that I could add to this\nanswer such as who composed it or wrote it.\n\nPS: I am not sure whether it is \"20 Warrior Ships\" or just \"Warrior Ships\". I\nhad no idea, to be perfectly honest, but this is definitely it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I was browsing around, finding a new anime to watch. And came along, _Ore\nno Nounai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love Comedy wo Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru OVA_\nand found it to be a very long name.\n\nIs this the longest anime name or is there an anime with a longer name out\nthere?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome pretty good contenders are:\n\n> Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo The Movie 2: UFO Shuurai!\n> Tornado Daisakusen\n>\n> Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Great Adventure into the Underworld - The\n> Seven Magic Users\n>\n> Detective Conan Magic File 2: Kudou Shinichi - The Case of the Mysterious\n> Wall and the Black Lab\n\nAnd as a bonus, I discovered a Gintama Episode (S2 Ep.53) with a particularly\nlong name:\n\n> \"Sutoresu wa hage no gen'in ni naru ga sutoresu o tamenai yōni ki o kubaruto\n> sokode mata sutoresu ga tamarunode kekkyoku bokurani dekiru koto nante\n> nanimo nai\"\n\nor\n\n> \"Stress Makes You Bald, But It's Stressful To Avoid Stress, So You End Up\n> Stressed Out Anyway, So In The End There's Nothing You Can Do\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, so I have been able to find a definitive answer!\n\n> Naruto Narutimate Hero 3: Finally a Clash! Jonin VS Genin!! Indescriminate\n> Grand Melee Tournament Meeting!!\n\nis the longest titled anime with a large 107 characters or 87 characters\nwithout non-alphanumeric characters\n\nSecond Place goes to:\n\n> Digimon Adventure 02: Zenpen Digimon Hurricane Jouriku!! - Kouhen Chouzetsu\n> Shinka!! Ougon no Digimental\n\nWith 104 characters, 85 alphanumeric\n\nAnd Third,\n\n> Dragon Ball Z Special: Tatta Hitori no Saishuu Kessen - Freezer ni Idonda Z\n> Senshi Son Gokuu no Chichi\n\n102 characters, 82 without.\n\nI discovered this by writing a small Python script to iterate through a dump\nof AniDB's database of anime titles and check each one, [which you can find on\ntheir site](http://wiki.anidb.net/w/API)\n\nIf anyone is interested, you can find the script here:\n<https://gist.github.com/ianfhunter/43599d30384b9b7aa0c6> (but I only hacked\nit up in 5 minutes, so it's nothing special)\n\n(The shortest is C)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI took all anime titles from\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?c\\[0\\]=a&c\\[1\\]=b&c\\[2\\]=c&o=3&q=&tag=&sy=0&sm=0&sd=0&ey=0&em=0&ed=0&show=0),\nparsed and sorted them by length:\n\n[code]\n\n Dragon Ball Z Special 1: Tatta Hitori no Saishuu Kessen - Freezer ni Idonda Z Senshi Son Goku no Chi 100\n Naruto: Dai Katsugeki!! Yuki Hime Shinobu Houjou Dattebayo! Special: Konoha Annual Sports Festival 98\n Detective Conan Magic File 2: Kudou Shinichi - The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab 96\n Crayon Shin-chan Manatsu no Yoru ni Ora Sanjou! Arashi wo Yobu Den-O VS Shin-O 60-bu Special!! 94\n Meitantei Holmes: Mrs. Hudson Hitojichi Jiken no Maki / Dover Kaikyouno Daikuuchuusen no Maki 93\n Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Jouriku!! / Chouzetsu Shinka!! Ougon no Digimental 90\n Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure - Dent to Takeshi! Gyarados no Gekirin!! 90\n Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS: Sailor 9 Senshi Shuuketsu! Black Dream Hole no Kiseki 89\n Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music... OVA 88\n Detective Conan Magic File 3: Shinichi and Ran - Memories of Mahjong Tiles and Tanabata 87\n Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven - Tachikoma no Hibi 87\n Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Movie 3: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Magica Quartet x Nisioisin 87\n Dragon Ball Z Special 2: Zetsubou e no Hankou!! Nokosareta Chousenshi - Gohan to Trunks 87\n Detective Conan OVA 07: A Challenge from Agasa! Agasa vs. Conan and the Detective Boys 86\n Detective Conan OVA 05: The Target is Kogoro! The Detective Boys' Secret Investigation 86\n Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai - Toki to Yami wo Meguru Saigo no Bouken 86\n Yatterman the Movie: Shin Yattermecha Osu Gou! Omocha no Kuni de Dai Ketsudan da Koron 86\n Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society 3D - Tachikoma no Hibi 84\n Ichigo 100%: Koi ga Hajimaru?! Satsuei Gasshuku - Yureru Kokoro ga Higashi e Nishi e 84\n Keroro Gunsou Movie 5: Tanjou! Kyuukyoku Keroro, Kiseki no Jikuu-jima, de arimasu!! 83\n Chouyaku Hyakuninisshu: Uta Koi. - Sake to Kikoushi ~ Murasaki Kishikibu to Kintou 82\n Kagachi-sama Onagusame Tatematsurimasu: Netorare Mura Inya Hanashi - The Animation 82\n Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter Sanctuary - Yomigaerishi Gold Saint-tachi no Shinwa 82\n Astro Boy Tetsuwan Atom Tokubetsu Hen: Ivan no Wakusei - Robot to Ningen no Yuujou 82\n Puchimas!: Petit iDOLM@STER - Takatsuki Gold Densetsu Special!! Harukasan Matsuri 81\n \n[/code]\n\nThis is from [Anime News\nNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?list=9)\n(parsing is not ideal and some titles have \"-phrases like this-\" in them):\n\n[code]\n\n Chō Gekijō-ban Keroro Gunsō Tanjō! Kyūkyoku Keroro Kiseki no Jikūjima de Arimasu!! 82\n Legend of the Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars, A Hundred Billion Lights 80\n Prince Mackaroo: Peril at the Full Moon Road - A 'Rare' Adventure of Our Prince- 80\n Soreike! Anpanman: Minna Atsumare! Anpanman World Komusubiman to Omatsuri Robot 79\n Suteki desu wa, Sakura-chan! Tomoyo no Cardcaptor Sakura Katsuyaku Video Nikki! 79\n Animation Seisaku Shinkō Kuromi-chan: Nippon no Anime wa Watashi ga Tsukuru! 2 78\n Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume THE MOVIE II ~Watashi o Ai Shita Kuro Oolong-cha~ 78\n Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Alternative TWO -Kobayashi Opera to Kokū no Ōgarasu- 78\n Chō Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō 3: Keroro Tai Keroro - Tenkū Daikessen de Arimasu! 77\n Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Alternative ONE -Kobayashi Opera to 5-mai no Kaiga- 77\n Glass no Kamen Desu ga Onna Spy no Koi! Murasaki no Bara wa Kiken na Kaori!? 76\n Detective Conan: Conan Edogawa & Heiji Hattori versus Kid the Phantom Thief 75\n Ham Ham Grand Prix - The Miracle of Aurora Valley ~Ribon-chan's Close Call~ 75\n Hamuchanzu no Takara Sagashi Daisaku - Hamuhaa! Sutekina Umi no Natsuyasumi 75\n Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume The Movie 3 ~http://takanotsume.jp wa Eien ni~ 75\n Meitantei Conan: Agasa kara no Chōsenjō! Agasa vs. Conan & Shōnen Tanteidan 75\n My mental choices are completely interfering with my school romantic comedy 75\n Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE the Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom 75\n Japan Air Self Defence Force Tactical Training Squadron 801 T.T.S. Airbats 74\n Tottoko Hamutaro: Ham Ham Paradi-chu! Hamutarō to Fushigi no Oni no Ehonto 74\n Tottoko Hamutaro: Hamutaro no Otanjōbi - Mama o Tazunete Sanzen Techitechi 74\n Kikaider-01: The Animation: Guitar o Motta Shōnen - Kikaider vs. Inazuman 73\n Maison Ikkoku: Prelude, When the Cherry Blossoms in the Springtime Return 73\n Super Doll Licca-chan: Licca-chan Zettai Zetsumei! Doll Knights no Kiseki 73\n Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Depth of Field - Love and Hate Theater 72\n Magical Witch Academy - Boku to Sensei no Magical Lesson - The Animation 72\n Maji de Otaku na English! Ribbon-chan: Eigo de Tatakau Mahō Shōjo the TV 72\n Slam Dunk: Hoero Basketman Tamashii! Hanamichi to Rukawa no Atsuki Natsu 72\n Tony's Heroine Series: Kanojo wa Hanayome Kōhosei? Cinderella Collection 72\n Chōjū Kishin Dancougar: Ushinawareta Mono-tachi e no Chinkonka [Requiem] 72 \n Ore no Nōnai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love Come o Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru 72\n Gekijō-ban Anime Nintama Rantaro Ninjutsu Gakuen Zenin Shutsudō! no Dan 71\n Precure All-Stars DX3 Mirai ni Todoke! Sekai o Tsunagu Niji-Iro no Hana 71\n Street Fighter II: Yomigaeru Fujiwara-kyō - Toki o Kaketa Fighter-tachi 71\n Chiisana Kyojin Microman: Daigekisen! Microman VS Saikyō Senshi Gorgon 70\n Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 Special Edition 'Zero Requiem' 70\n Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Special Edition 'Black Rebellion' 70\n Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Chō Collaboration Special!! 70\n Gekijōban Pocket Monster Best Wishes! Victini to Shiroki Eiyū Reshiram 70\n \n[/code]\n\nThis list is from [Anime Planet](http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/all)\ntitles:\n\n[code]\n\n Detective Conan Magic File 2: Kudo Shinichi: The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab 94\n Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Super S: Sailor 9 Senshi Shuuketsu! Black-Dream-Hole no Kiseki 90\n Glass no Kamen Desu ga the Movie: Onna Spy no Koi! Murasaki no Bara wa Kiken na Kaori!? 87\n Detective Conan Magic File 3: Shinichi and Ran: Memories of Mahjong Tiles and Tanabata 86\n Chou Gekijouban Keroro Gunsou 5: Kyuukyoku Keroro, Kiseki no Jikuu-jima, de arimasu!! 85\n Detective Conan OVA 5: The Target is Kogoro! The Detective Boys' Secret Investigation 85\n Meitantei Conan OVA 7: Agasa-sensei no Chousenjou! Agasa vs Conan &Shounen Tanteidan 84\n My youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected., My Teen RomanticComedy SNAFU OVA 82\n Hamtaro Movie 3: Ham Ham Gran Prix Aurora Tani no Kiseki: Ribbon-chanKiki Ippatsu 81\n Zettai Karen Children: Generous Treatment! Natsuko and Hotaru's B.A.B.E.L. Report 81\n Puchimas! Petit iDOLM@STER - Takatsuki Gold Densetsu Special!! Harukasan Matsuri 80\n Legend of the Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars, A Hundred Billion Lights 80\n Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation III -Love is the Pulse of the Stars- 79\n My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy OVA 79\n One Piece Movie 8: The Desert Princess and the Pirates - Adventures in Alabasta 79\n Engaged to the Unidentified: Mite. Are ga Watashitachi no Tomatteiru Ryokan yo. 79\n Gekijouban Metal Fight Beyblade vs Taiyou: Shakunetsu no Shinryakusha Sol Blaze 79\n Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Destiny Special Edition Kanketsu Hen: Jiyuu no Daishou 79\n Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Special Edition III: The Hell Fire of Destiny 77\n Yatterman: Shin Yattermecha Osu gou! Omocha no Kuni de Dai Ketsudan da Koron! 77\n \n[/code]\n\nGet [the unparsed\npages](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9dzgs_dkXAIaVkzN1Jfek5oYnc/edit?usp=sharing)\ncontaining all these titles saved as text, and maybe you'll be able to parse\nit better than me!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't seen any anime with really long titles, the longest title I have\nseen so far was probably Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem\nor Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture—Prince of Darkness. That's\nprobably not the longest though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe longest name that I can find (excluding spin-offs, movies, second season,\nand special editions etc, that have extended subtitles as opposed to the main\nshow) is \"Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii\nDesu ka?\" which has 75 characters (61 alphanumeric) and translates to\n\"WorldEnd: What are you doing at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you\nsave us?\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI noticed she was able to do this after drinking Pip Bernadotte's freely-\noffered blood. when she was about to die from not wanting to drink blood.\nafter she drinks it her left arm is replaced by a mass of chaotic black and\norange shadow matter that usually manifests as a whip-like tendril.\n\nWhen in the world did she learn how to do that. I have watched it over and\nover again trying to figure out when she knows she is able to have that\nhappen.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I have read the manga, I think it's not a learned ability, but\nrather a power to show that by drinking Pip's blood, she became a full-fledged\nvampire, so her body started to heal and she became more powerful. Also it\nseems that the tendril acts on instinct rather than her direct will. Hope this\nhelped.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe potential to do so was always in Seras but she manifested superior vampire\nabilites due to the fact of drinking blood for the first time. After that she\ncompleted her \"inner path\" to become a full fledged vampire.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSchrodinger specifically said, in that very scene, that blood freely given is\nan entirely different matter than just taking it. Alucard has the same\ntendrils when he releases restraints, and I think it's the souls of people\nvampires have fed off of.\n\nSince Pip offered his blood, I think it allowed his soul to act independently\nand aid Seras, as well as giving her a greater power boost than normal.\nBreaking the illusion that was plaguing everyone when she ascended was\nnoteworthy when it happened.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the latest episode (filler, obviously...) of Naruto Shippuden, episode 368\nthe expression\n\n> \"to show your guts\"\n\nwas flying all over the place. I've tried Googling around, but didn't manage\nto find what it meant.\n\n* * *\n\nI think it means something along the lines of _showing your most inner\nfeelings_ , but I'm not entirely certain.\n\nPS: English isn't my native language, so don't judge.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOxford Advanced Learners English Dictionary defines guts in 4. (informal) the\ncourage and determination that it takes to do sth difficult or unpleasant. So\n\"show your guts\" means you challenge to someone to show / demonstrate his\ncourage / determination to do something.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo be _gutsy_ is to be courageous or brave. Madara says that they should \"show\ntheir guts\". In other words, they should prove their courage, or show how\nbrave they are by example\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom context and the discussions in the show about the reasons that wars\npersist and continue (bits and pieces from Nagato, Naruto & Jiraiya at\ndifferent points in time) - they are talking about how people cannot discern\nemotions and thoughts of others directly, meaning people cannot know the true\nfeelings of others. Which in turn causes misunderstanding, differences in\nopinion and emotion to the end result of conflict, culminating in war.\n\nGiven this overall theme, I think it is reasonable to understand this\n(possibly mistranslated phrase) to mean - show our internal\nfeelings/emotions/thoughts to the other (internal <-> guts).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn session 23 at 14:45, is Ein hacking or is Ed?\n\nEin has the head band interface on that Jet was using to interface with the\ncult's net presence and Ed doesn't have her hands on the computer. It looks\nlike Ein is hacking the cult's access point; is this the case?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf I'm remembering this correctly, I'm pretty sure that it was Ein doing the\nheavy lifting:\n\n\n\nAnyone who hooked into this website got brainwashed (Ein had saved Jet from\nthis by biting him), so I guess they figured if a Dog's brainwaves were used,\nthe website won't be able to brainwash them. So it's Ein that's doing the\ncontrolling (you can see him twitching and moving) and it looks like everyone\nelse was just monitoring his progress:\n\n\n\nWhen the site comes up, Jet says \"Ed, that's absolute perfection!\", thinking\nthat this was Ed's doing, but then it pans to Ed in front of her computer\nconfused, and she wasn't typing on the keyboard at all while all these windows\nwere opening/closing on the website.\n\nAlso, from the bebop wikia page about\n[Ein](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Ein)\n\n> In order to avoid having a human member of the Bebop crew be enlisted into\n> the radical religious cult, S.C.R.A.T.C.H., Ein is put into the headgear\n> that is used to link to the cult's website. Within seconds of being logged\n> into their virtual lobby, Ein himself hacks into the underground portions of\n> the site.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga / Brotherhood, we learn that the reason human transmutation is\nforbidden is because it would otherwise allow people to create their own\nprivate armies (at least according to the man who talks to General Armstrong\nafter she's transferred to Central). Right after that, we're shown the\nmannequin \"soldiers\", implying that they're the results of some form of human\ntransmutation.\n\nBut it's pretty obvious that the mannequins are different from the products\nproduced by Ed, Al, Izumi Curtis, and Roy when they attempt (or are forced to\nattempt) human transmutation - in the case of the mannequins, the\ntransmutation has actually produced what the alchemist probably wanted and is\n\"successful\".\n\nGiven this, what's the difference between the human transmutation referred to\nin the context of the mannequins and human transmutation as attempted by the\nsacrifices? Is the difference in result simply an issue of having a different\nintended result and/or maybe philosopher's stones, or is there potentially a\ndifferent explanation for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's very simple. The so called act of \"human transmutation\" means that the\nintent of such alchemy is to create a fully functional human being, complete\nwith memories, emotions, capability to feel and think. In other words, a\nperfect copy of a person.\n\nThe mannequins are mere cannon fodder. They don't have the ability to feel or\nhave complex thoughts. They are just war machines following the order. That\nwas the original intent with which they were created.\n\nCompared to transmuted people, mannequins are much simpler, and as a result\npose a much lesser threat to the world. Imagine if human transmutation went\nperfectly every time, and that you could create any number of smart, ingenuous\npeople. What would bad alchemists do? Recreate evil geniuses of the past\nmaybe, which would be much more dangerous than a bunch of brainless soldier\nmannequins. That's one of the reasons why human transmutation is forbidden,\naside from being impossible to perform perfectly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe mannequins are explicitly stated to be \"humanoid receptacles\", not\nattempts to create a human body. Rather than attempting to call back a soul\nthat no-longer exists in the world, the mannequins were existing souls bound\nto ready made doll bodies.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll this time, I thought the manga was leading on that Saiga Furinji was the\nleader, but then around chapter 570, it turns out some guy named Senzui was\ndisguised as Saiga Furinji. Furthermore, it seems that they both shared the\nsame disciple Satomi.\n\nWas Senzui the One Shadow this entire time? How can they both even train\nSatomi if Senzui is always disguised and so is Saiga? What on earth is going\non?\n\nLastly, who actually controls (or controlled) the One Shadow Nine Fists ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, first read [this\nrule](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LVII):\n\n> In the Death Note, you cannot set the death date longer than the victim’s\n> original life span. Even if the victim’s death is set in the Death Note\n> beyond his/her original life span, the victim will die before the set time.\n\nSo that means if you wrote something like John zeurtö dies peacefully in the\nyear 2315, that wouldn't work because this date is beyond his lifespan. But\nthat would mean, if you wrote a date thats within his actual lifespan, that\nwould work.\n\nBut now, there's this [23 day\nrule](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVII).\n\n> The Death Note can only operate within 23 days (in the human calendar). This\n> is called the 23 day rule.\n\nSo, could the first example work?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe rules together means the following.\n\nAssume I am dying of a fatal disease and expected to die in 14 days. If I\nwould write that I would die of sexual exhaustion in 21 days, I would still\ndie of the original disease in 14 days before the book can come into effect\nassuming the cause of death is reasonable.\n\nIf I put that someone will die in 24 days of \"insert horrific image here\", it\nwill not occur as stated. When I remember that rule tommorrow and write that\nyou will die of the same thing on that date... well... it will not be fun to\nbe you. If you want to avoid that after reading the death note, I guess you\ncan kill yourself and the deathnote will not stop you as that is the end of\nyour normal lifespan. Note: you should have brought a pen so you can edit the\nentry. That works.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Basically John will die at a given moment, which is...**\n\n * ...before his original lifespan would have ended (Because of [How to Use: LVII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LVII))\n\n> In the Death Note, you cannot set the death date longer than the victim's\n> original life span. Even if the victim's death is set in the Death Note\n> beyond his/her original life span, the victim will die before the set time.\n\n * ...within 23 days of writing, because a specific time of death was written (Because of [How to Use: XXVII, rule number 2](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVII)) \n\n> If you write, die of disease for the cause of death, but only write **a\n> specific time of death without the actual name of disease** , the human will\n> die from an adequate disease. But the Death Note can only operate within 23\n> days (in the human calendar). This is called the 23 day rule.\n\nIn our case that would be _dying peacefully_ instead of _disease_ , because\nthe actual way John is supposed to die is not specified. He could die in a\ncoma, could die after being drugged or by sexual exhaustion as mentioned in\n[kaine's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/12799/6166).\n\n * ...after 6 minutes and 40 seconds if none of those 23 days were in the year 2315 or if it wasn't possible for John to die peacefully within those 23 days due to war for example (Because of [How to Use: XI, rule number 3](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XI)) \n\n> As you see above, the time and conditions of death can be changed, but once\n> the victim's name has been written, the individual's death can never be\n> avoided.\n\n**Therefore, if you write _John zeurtö dies peacefully in the year 2315_ one\nof the following will happen.**\n\n 1. 2315 is after his original lifespan; John will die as he normally would have.\n 2. 2315 is after 23 days of writing; John will die of a heart attack after 6 minutes and 40 seconds.\n 3. 2315 is before 23 days of writing, but it is impossible for John to die peacefully; He will die of a heart attack after 6 minutes and 40 seconds.\n 4. 2315 is before 23 days of writing and it is possible to die peacefully; He will die peacefully within those days on the most probable date.\n\n* * *\n\nNow if you would have written \"John dies peacefully of sexual exhaustion\",\n**without mentioning a specific time** , then he might have died later than\nthose 23 days, if it was still within his original lifespan (Because of [How\nto Use: XXVIII, rule number\n1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVIII))\n\n> If you write die of disease like before **with a specific disease's name,\n> but without a specific time** , if it takes more than 24 days for the human\n> to die the 23 day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an\n> adequate time depending on the disease.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike I pointed out [here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/40973/33164), the\n23 days rule does not work that way. If the time of death is later than the\nnatural one, the natural death will happen. If the time of death is before the\nnatural one, it will either be a heart attack or the specified death.\n\nThe death note works for every time of death between the moment of entry and\nthe natural time of death. The 23 days rule just specifies that one can't\nmanipulate the victoms for more than 23 days before their deth including\ngiving the victom a specified disease that takes more han 23 days to kill.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's about a kid that looks and sounds around about 10 years old. He is\nspecial for some reason, and has to go through challenges or something. Also\nhe has this long lost childhood friend that loves him. She is pale with white\nhair and wears like a white jump suit and like red mitts on her hands. She's\nsuper powerful and is always protecting him even when he doesn't realize it.\nThe anime is also pretty bloody (so gore possibly). He is also shown never to\nbelieve in himself but people around him do.\n\nDoes anyone know the name of this anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis sounds exactly like Deadman Wonderland. The characters you're describing\nare Shiro and Ganta. Shiro being the white haired childhood friend and Ganta\nthe main character that sounds and looks like a 10-year old. Wiki:\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadman_Wonderland>\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I read here, this is probably [Deadman\nWonderland](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6880/Deadman_Wonderland)\n\n\n\n> Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a\n> classroom full of teenagers. He's framed for the carnage, sentenced to die,\n> and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland.\n> And then it gets worse.\n>\n> At Deadman Wonderland, convicts are forced into brutal deathmatches for the\n> amusement of the masses, the cheers of the crowd drowning out the screams of\n> the dismembered. Even when Ganta befriends Shiro, an unusual female inmate,\n> his dark fate crushes all hope —until he discovers the strange ability to\n> wield his spilled blood as a weapon. Ganta learns his new skill might be\n> related to the murderous man in red and uncovers disturbing secrets that\n> could expose those who stole his freedom. He's determined to see justice\n> served —but first he'll have to fight for his life in a prison that holds a\n> million ways to die.\n\nFrom MyAnimeList\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the beginning of Tokyo ESP, Kagura is waiting for Yomi somewhere. \nIs Tokyo ESP a continuation to Ga-Rei?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XQe9V.jpg)\n\n",
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"title": "Why do Kagura and Yomi from Ga-Rei show up in Tokyo ESP?",
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"body": "\n\nThe comment by josephting got it mostly right. Ga-Rei and Tokyo ESP are both\nmanga by Segawa Hajime (Ga-Rei: Zero also shares script writer Takayama\nKatsuhiko with the Tokyo ESP anime). Showing Kagura and Yomi (and later two\nother characters from Ga:Rei Zero) was likely intended as a throwback\nreference to Ga-Rei. I guess from a practical standpoint, it would serve to\nalert people who otherwise weren't paying attention to such things that\nthey're by the same author.\n\nHowever, Ga-Rei and Tokyo ESP are pretty clearly _not_ in the same universe.\nIt should be enough that the mangaka has never indicated anything to the\ncontrary, but there are also in-universe reasons why they can't be. For\nobvious reasons, if it were, it would necessarily happen before Ga-Rei: Zero.\nBut in the Ga-Rei universe, ordinary people weren't aware of all the\nsupernatural phenomena. In fact, in the opening of the first episode, they\norder a [media blackout as per \"Section 3B of Form\n12\"](http://youtu.be/fxLMovytTmk?t=55s). In contrast, in Tokyo ESP, ESP users\nare generally known to the public well before the first episode (specifically,\nin chapter 12). In addition, the events of Tokyo ESP simply don't fit on the\nGa-Rei timeline, since we know essentially the full backstory of the\ncharacters and there's nothing remotely like what happens in Tokyo ESP, nor do\nany ESP users show up anywhere in Ga-Rei. Barring some major retconning, we\ncan safely say that these aren't the same universe.\n\nIn the manga, the scenes with characters from Ga-Rei don't happen. In fact,\nvery little of what happened in episode 1 is in the manga at all. What did\nhappen is in chapters 22 and 23. Kagura and Yomi haven't appeared at all in\nthe manga as far as I've read (chapter 30). However, the series is no stranger\nto cameos. We'll certainly be seeing some of (spoilers) [this\nguy](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Thi0.jpg) and likely quite a few others. With\nthat in mind, Ga-Rei cameos aren't particularly out of place here, but they\nwon't be playing any big role.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that its not related but the group in orange that fought the\nteleporting girl are clearly the exact same group that got murdered in the\nvery beginning of ga-rei\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeeing as some characters reappearing in Tokyo ESP that don't appear in Ga-\nRei-Zero anymore, i suppose the events in Tokyo ESP happen before Ga-Rei-Zero.\nBut this is only what i think from watching Ga-Rei-Zero and the first episode\nof Tokyo ESP.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe it's my fault for not watching from the first season, but I'm wondering,\nwhat exactly is this? it already appear in the very first episode in Hidamari\nSketch × ☆☆☆ (Hidamari Sketch x Hoshi Mittsu), was he ever introduced in the\nanime?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is Ume sensei dressed as a Pokemon (metapod). Ume sensei is voiced by [Ume\nAoki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ume_Aoki), the manga artist.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMami was always fighting with both gun and ribbon. In the Rebellion movie,\nwhen Homura was fighting Mami, she can't break Mami's ribbon, but in the end,\nshe was able to do that. How can this happen? And if Mami's ribbon already\nattached in Homura's feet (just like picture on the left), why didn't Mami\njust pulled her ribbon so Homura won't move?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMami could entrap Homura with her ribbon at any time, but decided to play fair\nand square during the duel − she didn't use the ribbon to her advantage. The\nwhole gun duel was Mami's way to show that Homura can't beat her and do\nwhatever Mami thought Homura was planning to do.\n\nWhen Homura stops time after throwing away her gun, Mami's face changes from\nsatisfied smirk to focused, alerted expression. Mami doesn't know what Homura\nmight do next.\n\n> When Homura tries to, what appears to be, commit suicide by shooting herself\n> in the head, Mami gets scared and tries to save her as she pulls the trigger\n> by grabbing the ribbon and pulling Homura away.\n\nAt this point, it becomes apparent that Mami never wanted Homura's death.\nAfter all they were just drinking tea together peacefully a few moments ago.\nMami's intent to keep Homura alive overweights the will to keep attached to\nher with the ribbon, and so the ribbon gives in to the bullet and tears up,\nletting Mami out of contact with Homura, which in turn freezes Mami.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Yato named Yukine, he gave him three names - Yuki, Yukine, and Setsuki. \nWhat's the point of the different names?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEach name is for a facet of the Shinki.\n\nThe Shinki as a tool.\n\nThe Shinki as a \"person\".\n\nIn the specific case of Yukine, the names are:\n\n[code]\n\n Yuki - The japanese pronunciation of the Shinki ideogram. \n Yukine - the full name of the Shinki in human form. \n Setsuki - the name of the Shinki in weapon form.\n \n[/code]\n\n[The wikia page](http://noragami.wikia.com/wiki/Shinki#Creation_of_a_Shinki)\nhas the breakdown of the names including the Kanji play they do with the\nJapanese and Chinese readings.\n\n[code]\n\n Kanji | Japanese | Chinese | Human | Weapon\n | Reading | Reading | Name | Name\n 雪 | Yuki | Setsu | Yukine (雪音) | Sekki (雪器)\n \n[/code]\n\nAlso, the names are the magic words to trigger the Shinki transformation to\nand from person.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe character 雪 (\"yuki\" in kun'yomi), has an alternate reading (on'yomi),\n\"setsu.\"\n\nSekki (雪器) is a combination of this alternate reading with the character 器\n(ki).\n\nHis actual true given name is \"Yuki.\" (Yato's true name is Yaboku, 夜卜, using\nthe kanji 卜 instead of the kana)\n\nHis weapon name is \"Sekki.\" (the \"tsu\" runs into the next consonant, making\n\"Sekki,\" instead of \"Setsuki\") The gods all seem to give their weapons names\nusing the alternate readings and the \"-ki\" suffix (e.g., Sekki, Hanki, Chouki)\n\nThe common (nick)name he goes by everyday (e.g. Charlie, instead of Charles),\nis \"Yukine,\" with \"-ne\" (音) being the suffix Yato gives to all his Regalias\n(e.g., Yukine, Tomone). Tenjin-sama uses \"-yu\" (喩) (e.g., Tsuyu, Mayu, Nayu).\nKofuku uses the prefix \"dai-\" (大) (e.g., daikoku).\n\nIn folklore, one's [true name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name) should\nnot be given out easily, as it reveals the person's true nature. Therefore\nmany people take a common name similar to their true name. The weapon name is\nsomewhat akin to a stage name, and is typically used when conducting business-\nrelated activities.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've watched just the 2006 Fate/Stay Night anime series. I know there are\nother series in the franchise (Fate/Zero, Fate/kaleid Liner Prisma Ilya), as\nwell as the Unlimited Blade Works movie, and the manga. I don't intend to read\nthe visual novel since it's hundreds of dollars to import it, plus it's\ninsanely long. What order should I take these works in, and are there any I\ncan skip without losing out?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you ask five people this question, you'll get six answers. There are\nconflicting opinions on this, and I'll try to outline the major options\navailable in this answer. But first, a tl;dr\n\n# tl;dr\n\nIf you only want to watch anime:\n\n 1. Watch Ufotable's version of Unlimited Blade Works ([prologue](http://myanimelist.net/anime/27821/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)_-_Prologue), [first half](http://myanimelist.net/anime/22297/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)), [second half](http://myanimelist.net/anime/28701/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)_2nd_Season))\n 2. Wait for [Ufotable's version of Heaven's Feel](http://myanimelist.net/anime/25537/Fate/stay_night:_Heavens_Feel)\n 3. Then, watch the Fate/Zero anime ([first half](http://myanimelist.net/anime/10087/Fate/Zero), [second half](http://myanimelist.net/anime/11741/Fate/Zero_2nd_Season))\n\nIf you're willing to do whatever:\n\n 1. Read the [Fate/stay night visual novel](https://vndb.org/v11)\n 2. (Optionally, watch the Ufotable versions of Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel)\n 3. Watch the F/Z anime.\n\n* * *\n\nIt is generally agreed that Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero are the two core\nworks of the Fate series. They both come in multiple forms. Whatever you do,\nconsuming these two works in some form is the first thing you should do.\n\n### Fate/stay night\n\n * Fate/stay night was originally [a 2004 visual novel](https://vndb.org/v11) that had three routes - Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel (in that order).\n * The [2006 anime by DEEN](http://myanimelist.net/anime/356/Fate/stay_night) mostly adapted the Fate route.\n * The [2010 movie by DEEN](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6922/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works) adapted a highly condensed form of the the Unlimited Blade Works route.\n * [Fall 2014](http://myanimelist.net/anime/22297/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)) and [Spring 2015](http://myanimelist.net/anime/28701/Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_\\(TV\\)_2nd_Season) saw _another_ adaptation of Fate/stay night, this time by Ufotable, which adapts the Unlimited Blade Works route.\n * At some point in the future, Ufotable will release [a movie or series of movies that will adapt Heaven's Feel](http://myanimelist.net/anime/25537/Fate/stay_night:_Heavens_Feel)\n * There is also a manga series that (I believe) adapts the Fate route, but I'm going to ignore it, because it's generally thought to not be that great.\n\n### Fate/Zero\n\nFate/Zero is a prequel to Fate/stay night.\n\n * It was originally [a light novel series](http://myanimelist.net/manga/3649/Fate/Zero) (2007). Fate/Zero has no concept of routes, so all media of Fate/Zero cover the same material, more or less.\n * It had [a manga adaptation](http://myanimelist.net/manga/25191/Fate/Zero) (started in 2011; ongoing). It was pretty good, but if you want to read it, I recommend that you do so after watching the Fate/Zero anime.\n * It was adapted into a 2-cour anime by Ufotable in [Fall 2011](http://myanimelist.net/anime/10087/Fate/Zero) and [Spring 2012](http://myanimelist.net/anime/11741/Fate/Zero_2nd_Season).\n\nBelow, I discuss some possible scenarios for consuming F/sn and F/Z.\n\n* * *\n\n# You want to stick to watching anime\n\nIn this case, the best option is:\n\n * Watch Ufotable's version of Unlimited Blade Works. Then, once Ufotable's version of Heaven's Feel comes out, watch that. Finally, watch the F/Z anime.\n\nThe next-best option is:\n\n * Watch the F/Z anime. Then, watch Ufotable's version of Unlimited Blade Works. When Ufotable's version of Heaven's Feel comes out, watch that, too.\n\nThere are pros and cons to watching F/Z first vs. watching F/sn first. Each\none spoils material for the other. On the whole, though, I feel that watching\nF/sn first is the correct choice, since this is the \"production order\" of the\nseries - the F/sn visual novel followed by the F/Z light novels.\n\nFor incredibly spoilery details on how they spoil each other, see below:\n\n> If you watch F/Z first, you know how messed up the Matou family is; you know\n> that the Grail is corrupt; you know about Kiritsugu's affiliation with the\n> Einzberns; you know that Sakura and Rin are sisters; you know that Kotomine\n> is not a good guy. These are all major reveals in Fate and Heaven's Feel,\n> and I think that knowing these things in advance impedes one's enjoyment of\n> those routes. \n> \n> On the other hand, if you watch F/sn first, you know how the Fourth Grail\n> War ends - but this isn't a bad thing. That's how all the original readers\n> of Fate/Zero went into it, and Urobuchi Gen wrote the light novels with that\n> in mind - the dramatic irony that _we_ know that everything's going to hell\n> in a handbasket but _they_ don't is what gives F/Z a lot of its impact.\n\nI do not advise watching the DEEN F/sn anime (the TV series) it is poorly\nproduced, both in terms of objective quality (art, animation, etc.) and in\nterms of faithful adaptation of the original work. If you _really_ want to\nknow what happens in the Fate route, I guess you could watch it, but honestly,\nlots of what happens in Fate is also referenced in UBW and Heaven's Feel, so\nyou'll be able to piece it together after watching the Ufotable version of\nthose two routes.\n\nI also do not advise watching the UBW movie at all - Ufotable's version of\nUnlimited Blade Works is strictly better in every way that I can think of\n(animation, pacing, etc.).\n\n### But you already watched the DEEN F/sn anime\n\nWell, in that case, you're sort of in an \"ideal\" position - now you can watch\nUfotable's version of UBW and (when it comes out) Heaven's Feel, and at the\nvery end, Fate/Zero. This best emulates the \"production order\" of the Fate\nseries without having to go to the visual novel.\n\n* * *\n\n# You are open to anything\n\nYou have one clear-best option.\n\nRead the F/sn visual novel. Then, watch the F/z anime. Optionally ― if you can\ngrok Japanese or tolerate fan-translated light novels ― read the F/Z light\nnovels.\n\nAt any time after reading the UBW route, watch Ufotable's version of UBW; at\nany time after reading the Heaven's Feel route, watch Ufotable's version of\nHeaven's Feel (assuming it has come out). The Ufotable version of UBW has a\nfew extra scenes, and is generally agreed to be a very good adaptation of the\nvisual novel (given the constraints of anime as a medium). So, if you want to\nsee your favorite fight scenes animated, or just want to hear more lines by\nyour waifu, I'd say go ahead and watch it.\n\n* * *\n\n# What about all the other Fate/asdfghjkl stuff?\n\nIn this section, I've mentioned the major Fate/ works that people often have\nquestions about; if you have any other questions, leave a comment and I'll\nupdate.\n\n### [Fate/hollow ataraxia](https://vndb.org/v50)\n\nFate/hollow ataraxia is the sequel visual novel to F/sn (released in 2005).\nYou can read this at any time after finishing the F/sn visual novel. It will\nprobably be rather confusing if you've only watched the Ufotable versions of\nUBW and Heaven's Feel, since they do omit a fair bit of detail that is\nimportant to getting the jokes in Fate/hollow ataraxia.\n\nIf you can't read Japanese, this may be an unpleasant experience. The English\ntranslation patch is... not great.\n\n### Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya\n\nFate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya is a spinoff manga (parts\n[one](http://myanimelist.net/manga/3526/Fate/kaleid_liner_Prisma%E2%98%86Illya),\n[two](http://myanimelist.net/manga/13856/Fate/kaleid_liner_Prisma%E2%98%86Illya_2wei!),\n[three](http://myanimelist.net/manga/36131/Fate/kaleid_liner_Prisma%E2%98%86Illya_3rei!!))\nthat shares characters and universe concepts with F/sn and F/Z but is\notherwise rather dissimilar. [A 10-episode anime\nseason](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14829/Fate/kaleid_liner_Prisma%E2%98%86Illya)\naired in summer 2013 and [another 10-episode season\n(\"2wei\")](http://myanimelist.net/anime/20509/Fate/kaleid_liner_Prisma%E2%98%86Illya_2wei!)\naired in summer 2014. [A third season (\"2wei\nHerz\")](http://myanimelist.net/anime/27525/Fate/kaleid_liner_Prisma%E2%98%86Illya_2wei_Herz!)\nis scheduled for summer 2015.\n\nYou can watch or read this at any time after finishing the F/sn visual novel\nor F/Z in any form. You will get more of the jokes if you've finished both and\nalso gone through Fate/hollow ataraxia.\n\n### Other Fate/gibberish\n\nThere are also a _lot_ of spinoffs. To name a few, Fate/apocrypha, Fate/Grand\nOrder, Fate/strange fake, Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC, Fate/Unlimited Codes,\nFate/tiger colosseum, and Fate/Prototype. You can probably read/play any of\nthese after reading the Fate/stay night visual novel or watching the 2006 DEEN\nanime or Ufotable UBW or Ufotable Heaven's Feel. None of them are particularly\n\"important\", but you may find them fun.\n\n### The rest of the Nasuverse\n\nThe Fate/ series shares a universe with a number of other works by Nasu Kinoko\n(the author of F/sn), including [Tsukihime](https://vndb.org/v7), [Kara no\nKyoukai](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2593/Kara_no_Kyoukai_1:_Fukan_Fuukei),\nand [Mahoutsukai no Yoru](https://vndb.org/v777). Some of these are dependent\non one another, but they're all essentially wholly decoupled from the Fate/\nseries. Read them if you like, or don't. Whichever.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn my opinion (as senshin said, 5 people, 6 answer), if you are looking at the\nseries from production release order, I'd do the following.\n\n## 1) Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel\n\nAll works on Fate/Stay Night are adapted from this as\n\n * The anime mainly follows the Fate Route \n * Caster's Antagonist Role later in the anime is adapted from Unlimited Blade Works. (In Fate, she appears but is shortly killed. Her goal to prematurely summon the Grail was one of the main plots of Unlimited Blade Works).\n * Sakura's attacks on Rin in their battle during Caster's Arc is adapted from Heaven's Feel.\n * The _Unlimited Blade Works_ Movie adapts the Route of the same name in the Visual Novel. However, it is more faithful to the adaptation than the original anime (I say faithful in a _loose_ sense - you can't be faithful to a few hour long game in a movie).\n * The _Unlimited Blade Works_ Anime series by Ufotable adapts the Route of the same name in the Visual Novel. is a more faithful then the movie because it doesn't try to compress everything into one movie. it also expands on the fates of a couple of characters who simply disappeared inadapts the Route of the same name the route\n * The _Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel_ movie trilogy is suspected to adapt the Route of the same name (however currently only the first movie has been realsed)\n\nIn terms of which Visual Novel, _Fate/Stay Night Realta Nua PC_ is your best\nbet as Realta Nua uses the same updated engine as what _Fate/Hollow Ataraxia_\nuses. Realta Nua PC is for all ages and in Japanese. There is an English Patch\nfor it and it does add an option to view both the original H Scenes from the\noriginal Visual Novel and their Realta Nua Replacements (Shiro and Saber's Bed\nScene, Rin's Contract with Shiro, Rider stealing Prana from Shiro).\n\n## 2) Fate/Zero\n\nFate/Zero is a prequel to Fate/Stay Night. At the start of the Fate/Stay Night\nanime, you see Saber and Gilgamesh fight it out - this is _sort of_ what\nhappens in Fate/Zero (in the anime they don't fight but it may have been\ndescribed in the Novel). Mainly, a lot of Fate/Zero is already revealed in\nHeaven's Feel like the state of the Grail, the Matou Family, and the true\npurpose of the wars.\n\nRegardless of the route in Fate/Stay Night, they all start from the aftermath\nof Fate/Zero.\n\n## 3) Any other anime\n\nFrom this point, you will be well-versed on the events. As such, the anime\ntitles will be an abridged version of what you've seen, but with more stylized\nfights (e.g. Archer vs. Lancer), which looks better animated in my opinion.\n\n* * *\n\nIf you are looking at the series from chronological order, I'd do the\nfollowing:\n\n 1. Fate/Zero\n 2. Fate/Stay Night (anime, if you really have to)\n 3. Unlimited Blade Works (I'd watch Ufotable's series over Studio Deen's movie)\n 4. _Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel_ movie trilogy\n\n* * *\n\nWhile you say you don't intend to read the Visual Novel, you would miss out a\nlot. The Visual Novel isn't constricted to screening times, as such you can\nget quite detailed explanations of Nasuverse terminology such as True Magic,\nMagecraft, The Throne of Heroes, and how it's used with the Holy Grail. A lot\nof these are explained in the Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel Route,\nThe latter has has only just been released partially as a movie with more\nfilms to be released.\n\nAlso finally in Realta Nua, after seeing all 5 endings, there is _-Last\nEpisode-_ which is in 2 parts: the first is a review of the Fate Route, while\nthe second part is the true conclusion to the Fate Route where 2 people\nfulfill the conditions to perform a Miracle. You can also see it as a\nconclusion to the Fate/Stay Night anime since both the anime and the Fate\nRoute have the same ending, as such, -Last Episode- would continue on from\nboth. The original visual novel did not have this and a separate patch to\nMirror Moon's patch was required to add it in.\n\nOutside of anime there are:\n\n * **Fate/Hollow Ataraxia (Visual Novel)** \\- This follows the Fate Route. However, it does expect that you've played all the routes in Fate/Stay Night as it has elements that transpired in Heaven's Feel.\n\n> The state of the Matou Family's as Zouken and Shinji are terrified by Sakura\n> now that she is the head of the family and Alter-Saber being Saber's second\n> personality\n\n * **Fate/Extra (PSP Game)** \\- This is set outside Fate/Stay Night. in the 1970's a certain event has drained Prana from the world. There are cameo's from Fate/Stay Night like Kotomine, Taiga, Rin's Lancer and Sakura, but their roles are different and not related to the original. Also, the Rin in this title, while looking like Rin from Fate/Stay Night, is not the same Rin but a descendant of Fate/Stay Night's Rin by at least 2 generations (implied to be either mother or grandmother).\n\n * **Fate/Extra CCC (PSP Game)** \\- A split from Fate/Extra like Heaven's Feel is to Fate/Stay Night. Sakura has a much larger role which also adds Gilgamesh into the mix. However, he's not so much as an ass as he is in Fate/Stay Night (though proudly showing off his naked body in front of Elizabeth as a weapon does show he's still got that ego).\n\n * **Fate/Apocrypha (Novel)** \\- If you've watched Fate/Zero or Played the Visual Novel then you know of the 3rd Holy Grail War. Fate/Apocrypha splits from the 3rd war where the Grail was stolen from Fuyuki. In this story, there are 2 teams of Servants and a new class, Ruler, which acts as mediator over the war. Also Mordred is summoned as Saber, keeping an established tradition in Fate series: the main Saber is related to Fate/Stay Night's Saber.\n\n * **Fate/Prototype** \\- This was what Fate/Stay Night could have been feature a Male King Arthur with a Female Master. the Holy Grail War also different with a different purpose.\n\n * **Lord El-Melloi II Case Files** \\- a side series following Lord El-Melloi II, AKA Waver Velvet from Fate/Zero, and Gray, a Descendant of Arturia's Bloodline, as they investigate mysteries in the thaumaturgy world generaly set around Clock Tower in London.\n\n * **Fate/Labyrinth** \\- set in the Seventh Labyrinth of Caubac Alcatraz (a Dead Apostle Ancestor) where someone had installed and activated one of the Subcategory Holy Grails in Caubac' labyrinth. Manaka Sajyou from Fate/Prototype appears but is now an existence connected to Akasha possesses the body of Norma who summons Arturia. this series is also one of the cases Lord El-Melloi II and Gray investigate\n\nThere are also other Nasuverse works such as _Tsukihime_ and _Witch of the\nHoly Night_. _Carnival Phantasm_ is a crossover of the Nasuverse like the\nheroes of Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime trying to date all their heroines at\nthe same time and alternate formats of the Holy Grail War.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'll post this to help anyone like myself who can't get their hands on the\nvisual novel. As said in another answers, it's best to start with Fate/stay\nnight. The new version that comes out is based on the Unlimited Blade Works\nroute of the visual novel. As such, I recommend this viewing order.\n\n**Fate/stay night (2006)**\n\n**Fate/Zero**\n\n**Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (2014)**\n\n**Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel**\n\nThis viewing order avoids spoilers ruining the series and lets you see each\nroute to completion before moving onto the next route. Fate/Zero and Fate/stay\nnight (2006) have Saber as the female lead and thus the most connected.\n\nI would like to mention that while the 2006 anime receives negative critiques\nregarding its animation, when I watched it I enjoyed it. Anyway, I have\ndefinitely seen worse anime. Although I am under no illusion that it is better\nthan the visual novel, the source material is usually better than anime\nadaptations.\n\nAnyway I just thought to post this since the original question was to exclude\nthe visual novels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter watching the series myself, I have the perfect answer. Watch Fate/ Zero\nfirst as it is incomplete, then watch fate stay/night by Ufotable (The newest\nversion which is still being released in simulcast) I took forever making the\ndecision and I am relieved I chose right. If you watch it the other way around\nyou will have no idea what is really going on. Thus, just go in order with the\nactual timeline of the story. Fate/Zero, then Fate/Stay Night. Easy Peezy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMadoka has a character song titled \"See You Tomorrow\" (またあした, Mata Ashita)\nwhile Sayaka and Kyoko have a duet song titled \"And I'm Home\".\n\nI just found out that Homura and Mami don't have a character song (from this\n[Puella Magi wiki page](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Madoka_Magica_Music)) like\nMadoka, Sayaka, and Kyoko do. Are there any character songs for Homura and\nMami? If there aren't, why didn't they make one for them?\n\n**Added to clarify** , by character song I mean\n\n> A song whose vocals are credited to the character or characters singing the\n> song.\n\nas per this question [What is a “character\nsong”?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/26036/2869)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not sure precisely how a character's \"official\" song is defined, but a\n[\"Credens Justitiam\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MaQ6m6mho8) is, in my\nexperience, often associated with Mami. Here's [one\nsource](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AwesomeMusic/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica)\nthat sites this as the case. Further, for a more speculative approach, this is\nthe song that plays during several of the scenes involving Mami, and,\nlikewise,\n\n> no longer seems to play in the anime after Mami dies (if memory serves me\n> correctly).\n\nThus it would make sense that this is identified as her theme song.\n\nAs for Homura's song, the same source I listed earlier states that Homura's\ntheme song is _\"Puella in Somnio\" (\"The Girl in the Dream\")_. Google searching\n\"homura's theme\" also will return several YouTube videos all of this song. As\nbefore, I believe this song is played most often (if not exclusively) in\nscenes directly involving or featuring Homura.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYep, it's a late answer...\n\n> # TL;DR Version\n>\n> **Character Songs**\n>\n> * Madoka Kaname: Mata Ashita\n> * Homura Akemi: Connect\n> * Mami Tomoe: Credens Justitiam\n> * Sayaka Miki and Kyoko Sakura : And I'm Home\n>\n\n \nI would attribute **Credens Justitiam** track as being _Mami's_ character\nsong.\n\nThe **Connect** track is _Homura Akemi's_ character song.\n\nIndeed, this is not obvious, because it shows _Madoka Kaname_ throughout the\nvideo; This is actually the perspective of _Homura_ in the original universe,\nbefore she wished to become a magical girl. She had watched her\nfriends(Madoka, Sayaka and Mami) protecting the city from _familiars and\nwitches_ as magical girls. (Remember that _Kyoko_ was introduced into the\nstory only when _Mami_ died...)\n\nThis is what consists of the video content of the opening **Connect** track.\n\nThe lyrics actually convey _Homura's_ thoughts after she has lived through\nmultiple time-lines and conveys that she will never hesitate to protect\n_Madoka_...\n\nAlso notice that it is played at the end of episode 12, supporting the fact\nthat it is _Homura's_ character song.\n\nCredits to users _senshin_ and _Secret Evil Radio_ for their thoughts!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthere's a more recent song, Mebius Ash, sung by Chiwa Saito, so that's\nHomura's character song, i guess. released in the same album is Stairs, a duet\nsong sung by Kaori Mizuhashi and Ai Nonaka, but thats the only song that could\ncount as Mami's character song. source: <https://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Madoka_Magica_Soundtrack#Ultimate_Best> (it says \"An album released\non August 8th, 2017, containing songs from the anime, the movies, and several\nsongs that only appeared in the Pachinko and Pachislot games.\" so while the\nalbum itself was released in 2017, maybe whatever those are released prior to\nthat?) (also this has gotta be the worlds latest answer, i came along this\nwhile trying to find out if Mami had a character song lol)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the English dubbed Madman DVD release of _Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu!_ , as\npart of of the extra segment _The Mysteries of Fumoffu_ on the first disk\n(episodes 1-3), it notes there is something different about the first and\nsecond episodes compared to when they aired.\n\nThe notes say _A Hostage With No Compromises_ was not aired because of a\ncertain event and so _A Fruitless Lunchtime_ was aired with _The Man From the\nSouth_ as the first episode instead. What was this event, and how does it\nrelate to _A Hostage With No Compromises_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Full_Metal_Panic!_episodes#Full_Metal_Panic.3F_Fumoffu),\n_A Hostage With No Compromises_ was not aired \"because the plot involved child\nkidnapping and in Japan, real-life child kidnappings were making headlines at\nthat time\", and as mentioned in the question, _A Fruitless Lunchtime_ and _The\nMan From the South_ was aired as episode 1 on **August 26th, 2003**.\n\nThe [Japanese\narticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF!#.E3.83.95.E3.83.AB.E3.83.A1.E3.82.BF.E3.83.AB.E3.83.BB.E3.83.91.E3.83.8B.E3.83.83.E3.82.AF.3F_.E3.81.B5.E3.82.82.E3.81.A3.E3.81.B5)\nof **Full Metal Panic!** reports that Fuji TV made the change to the airing\ndue to the [kidnapping and murder case in\nNagasaki](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E5%B4%8E%E7%94%B7%E5%85%90%E8%AA%98%E6%8B%90%E6%AE%BA%E4%BA%BA%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6)\nthat happens less than 2 months before the airing date.\n\nBelow is the summary of the incident, based on the ariticle:\n\n> On **July 1st, 2003** , in Nagasaki, a 4-year-old boy was kidnapped and\n> murdered by a first year middle schooler (12-year-old). The child was led by\n> the middle schooler to the top floor of a parking building, where the child\n> was stripped naked, then was punched and kicked in stomach and various\n> places. Furthermore, the child has his genitalia mutilated by the middle\n> schooler with scissors. However, when he realized that there was security\n> camera, he decided to throw the crying child over the railing down the road\n> 20 meters below, the impact of which killed the child 30 minutes later.\n\nLooking at the summary of _A Hostage With No Compromises_ (taken from\nWikipedia):\n\n> After Sousuke's encounter with a gang leaves its members disrespected, their\n> leader decides to take Kaname hostage. Instead of giving in to their\n> demands, **Sousuke holds the gang leader's little brother hostage and\n> proposes an exchange**.\n\nThe story was quite similar to the outrageous incident, not just the\nkidnapping part, but also the part about a young man kidnapping a boy.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust a curious thought I had recently. Naruto has been in an awful lot of\nfights but I can't recall if he ever actually killed another person.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTechnically speaking, Naruto never landed the killing blow on anyone.\n\n * Haku, even though beaten by Naruto, jumped in front of Kakashi's Raikiri.\n * Kakuzu, hit directly by the Rasenshuriken, survived, and later killed by Kakashi.\n * Pain's bodies were already dead. Nagato, the living puppeteer, sacrificed himself after hearing Naruto's resolve, with the Rinne Tensei, and revived all the people of the village.\n\nYou could say that Naruto was a major cause in all of these people's death,\nbut he did not directly kill any of them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is someone I know. [Yūra](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Y%C5%ABra) was\ndefeated and killed by Naruto's [Big Ball\nRasengan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Ball_Rasengan). His corpse was\nlater devoured by Zetsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember he killed Fuuka in one of the filler episodes by cutting her hair.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that this thread is old, but I just want to point out that Naruto did\nkill Aoi Rokusho with the Rasengan. Aoi Rokusho is a rogue ninja who ran away\nfrom the Leaf Village with the sacred Thunder Sword that belonged to the 2nd\nHokage. Naruto attacked the Thunder Sword that Aoi sensei was using and that\nsent Aoi sensei plummeting down the cliff, which according to Aoi himself, is\na fatal fall. This was during their mission to the Land of Tea (*ep 106 in\nNaruto). I think that's the closest thing Naruto has to killing somebody on\nhis own without any variables.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHiruko from will of fire was fatally wounded by Naruto's rasenshiruken\n\nNot 100% sure if true but I watched th end part of the movie and it seems that\nhe died from said blow\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto killed white zetsus, you can see it here,\n\n[Naruto Vs White Zetsu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFp9pgE9Osk)\n\nWhile if you consider them \"persons\" or not, it's debatable. This wikia\ndescribes them as race: humans\n\n[[White Zetsu](https://xianb.fandom.com/wiki/White_Zetsu)]\n\nThis another wikia entry describe white zetsu as \"mutated human\",\n\n[Zetsu](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Zetsu)\n\nAnd this other wikia entry,\n\n[White Zetsu Army](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/White_Zetsu_Army)\n\ndescribes the white zetsu army as \"originally humans who fell victim to\nKaguya's Infinite Tsukuyomi and were bound by the roots of the God Tree.\" ,\nlater as \"No longer humans\" and finally as \"Because of their modifications,\ntheir DNA is very similar to Hashirama\"(who was human)\n\nSo to the topic question \"Has Naruto ever killed anyone?\", the answer is yes,\nand to the content of the topic question which is different \"Naruto has been\nin an awful lot of fights but I can't recall if he ever actually killed\nanother person.\" the answer is kind of.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ra8fU.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto killed at least 2 guys\n\n<https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Aoi_Rokush%C5%8D>\n\n> Naruto then fought Aoi, and eventually defeated him with the Rasengan; by\n> aiming at the crack on the sword, Naruto was able to break it. Once the\n> Rasengan hit Aoi, it sent him flying off the cliff where he fell headfirst\n> into the water.[4] Seeing as he said that a fall from that height was fatal,\n> Aoi died from the fall.\n\n<https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Y%C5%ABra>\n\n> Ultimately, Yūra was defeated and killed by Naruto's Big Ball Rasengan. His\n> corpse was later devoured by Zetsu.\n\n<https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/F%C5%ABka>\n\n> As they battled, Naruto noticed that Fūka was constantly switching bodies to\n> perform different elemental techniques, and that her hair was of more\n> importance to her than her body. In turn, he continuously attacked her hair\n> (which destroyed her bodies) and left her in her purest state — a soul. As\n> the battle came to a close, Naruto charged at her with a Rasengan in hand,\n> and she at him with her hair. The former managed to land his attack first,\n> resulting in her quick demise from a blow to the head\n\nI have also read that Naruto killed many other white zetsu. However, I haven't\nwatched that part.\n\nSo yea, the 2 guys and white Zetsu.\n\nNaruto himself has never shown compunction on killing at all. Like all Ninja,\nhe fights to kill.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, there is one more guy that is killed by Naruto -\n\"[Shura](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Shura)\":\n\n> Shura kidnaps Akio. Naruto and the others go to Shinobazu's base to free\n> him. Shura beats Akio demanding to know where Gantetsu hid the stolen\n> treasure. Todoroki charges in and Gantetsu gets captured. The building burns\n> and Todoroki panics, but overcomes his fears to help Gantetsu and his\n> brother escape. Naruto fights Shura and defeats him with Rasengan sending\n> him plummeting to his death in the forests below.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Magi, Aladdin is the only one who seems to be able to use 'Solomon's\nWisdom', a power he obtained from Ugo in a dream.\n\nMy question is, how is Solomon's Wisdom acquired? Does it have anything to do\nwith Ugo and why can't other Magi's such as Scheherazade tap into this power?\n\nIt only makes sense that they should be able to use it since they are Magi's\nand are favoured by the Rukh. I am sure it was not addressed in the anime\nsince I only follow the anime (not the manga) but if it was revealed in the\nmangas then that is perfectly fine too.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHad to delete my old post based on new reveals in the Alma Torren Arc.\n\nHe's Soloman's son so it was probably his inheritance/something that is passed\ndown genetically as only Soloman had the ability before.\n\nSolomon's wisdom is defined in the wikia as:\n\n> This power allows normal people to hear the will of Rukh. This power seems\n> to be able to see the past, present and future, through the use of Rukh.\n> Aladdin was able to show Judar his past, causing him to freak out. This\n> power also is able to temporarily summon departed souls back to life as a\n> way to say any last goodbyes. This, however, is very tiring to Aladdin. It\n> allowed Aladdin to enter the body of Alibaba to get rid of a curse cast on\n> him by Ithnan. According to Ithnan this power makes the person \"Omniscient\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDo the Death Note rules permit the user to state \"death by gunfire\" as a cause\nof death?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt doesn't break any rules to write that someone dies of shooting. In the Live\nAction film, Light writes that Naomi shoots Shiori and then shoots herself.\n\nIll Ratt from the SPK shoots himself as per instructions in the Death Note.\n\nHere's some of the [relevant rules concerning the cause of\ndeath](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note):\n\n> How To Use I:\n>\n> 3: If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing\n> the person's name, it will happen.\n>\n> 4: If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a\n> heart attack.\n>\n> 5: After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written\n> in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.\n>\n> How To Use III:\n>\n> 1: If the time of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause\n> of death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the\n> time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name.\n>\n> How To Use X:\n>\n> 1: Suicide is a valid cause of death. Basically, all humans are thought to\n> possess the possibility to commit suicide. It is, therefore, not something\n> unbelievable to think of.\n>\n> 2: Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or\n> accident. If the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the\n> person will simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives\n> are not influenced.\n>\n> How To Use: XXVI:\n>\n> 1: If you just write, \"die of accident\" for the cause of death, the victim\n> will die from a natural accident after 6 minutes and 40 seconds from the\n> time of writing it.\n>\n> 2: Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it influences\n> and causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the victim's\n> cause of death will be a heart attack.\n>\n> How To Use: XXVII\n>\n> 2: If you write, die of disease for the cause of death, but only write a\n> specific time of death without the actual name of disease, the human will\n> die from an adequate disease. But the Death Note can only operate within 23\n> days (in the human calendar). This is called the 23 day rule.\n>\n> How To Use: LV\n>\n> 2: In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but the situation is\n> not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the\n> cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will die of heart\n> attack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[How to use VI: Point\n1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_VI)\n\n> The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically\n> possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by\n> that human.\n\nIf the condition can not be met because it's not possible, just as Light's\nExperiments found and in [How to use LV: Point\n2](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LV),\nthey would just die from a heart attack\n\ndeath by gunfire is quite open to interpretation, with Kiichiro Osoreda Light\ncould have had him \"die by gunfire\" which could have had him killed by Raye\nPenber after emptying his gun or get hit by a bullet bouncing around after he\nshoots through Ryuk\n\nthis is about as ambiguous as \"death by suicide\" used by Light to kill Naomi\nMisora so even if the cause is ambiguous if it's achievable it'll happen, in\nNaomi's case we see a artistic rendition of her going to a noose however Light\nhad wrote down that her body is never found so i very much doubt she's hanged\nherself so the artistic rendition is just to show she's _marching off to her\ndeath_\n\nAs stated in [How to Use I: Point\n3](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_I) and\n[How to Use III: Point\n1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_III) if\nyou write a person's name you have 40 seconds to either write the cause of\ndeath or the time of death after their name is write, after that as stated in\nPoint 6 of How to Use I you then have 6 minutes and 40 seconds to details of\nthe death however just saying _death by gunfire_ or _dies from gunfire_ may\nnot be enough unless it's possible or reasonably for the target to be in a\nsituation with a gun present, within the allotted time, in which case we can\nassume is within 6 minutes and 40 second, it will have a higher success rate\nin war zones or areas of high gun crime as \"gunfire\" could be from stray\nbullets.\n\nin the situation where you specify the time of death first you probably have\nmore success depending on how long the person has left to live, if you write\ndown they die at 6:00 PM and you wrote that at 5:58 PM then wrote \"death by\ngunfire\" then in that 2 minutes the person has to be in the situation to die\nlike that.\n\nFor the best results, As we see with Light's Execution of the FBI, the\ngreatest rate of success would come from detailing everything before writing\nthe person's name, this way you have all the time you need to detail how\nanyone could possibly be in a situation where \"Death by gunfire\" is the result\nof their death\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Pokémon games, when Payday is used, you can gain a small amount of\nmoney. The amount is however pitiful, so it's never used as an infinite money\ntrick or effective money grinding strategy.\n\nIn the anime however, during the Johto League Arc, in one episode Jessie,\nJames, and Meowth are copycatting a famous burglar who had a Meowth as a\npartner. In his escapes the burglar's Meowth used Payday like a smoke screen.\nWhen Jessie and James copycat, they do the same thing, however because Meowth\ncan't use Payday, Meowth throws bottle caps belonging to James' collection.\n(When Ash, Brock, and Misty examine the \"coins\" they comment they are just\nbottle caps, after which you hear James in the background saying they aren't\n\"just bottle caps\".)\n\nI am wondering however, is the money that's thrown out when Payday is used the\nsame kind of money used in society in Pokemon? If so, then how is it people\ndon't abuse the move to get rich? (For example, Team Rocket stealing Pokémon\nwith Payday and using them to fund their criminal operations.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's possible that Payday as a move that is only successful if the opponent\nhas money on them. In this case the Pokemon would need to have some kind of\nmoney and so the move would not always be successful in the anime if they\ndon't have access to what they consider money.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile I have no canonical answer, I do have a few ideas.\n\n * First, maybe it's somehow tied to Pokemon happiness. Miserable Pokemon gives a couple pennies, overly happy Pokemon gives several quarters (maybe not in USD, but hopefully I've conveyed the point).\n\n * Alternatively, maybe it can only be used once every so often. After all, there is no exploit of Charmander for heaters or Pikachu for powerplants. Pokemon do not have limitless power, they eventually need to rest and recharge.\n\n * Perhaps the coins are actually fake, just some people buy them as keepsakes. This would be similar to going to the beach and buying seashells or buying a fancy rock from the mountainside. Maybe even just buying it as a lump of metal, similar to recycling plants that pay for your aluminum from used cans.\n\n * It could also be that only some coins are real and the others are illusions. If a bunch of gold coins are being thrown in a crowd, some might jump on the opportunity just in case they are real.\n\nOne potential reason the crowd might have swarmed for Payday coins would be\nthat it looks like real money. In a crowd, they might not know it was a Payday\nmove and mistake fake coins for real ones. It could also be that Payday is not\na well known move to the general population.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 56 of the [Pokémon Adventures\nmanga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Adventures), you can see how\nKanto's [Pokémon Fan Club\nChairman](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Fan_Club_Chairman)\nhad perfected the Pay Day move on both its Rapidash and Fearow. **He used the\ncoins to pay his ticket to ride the S.S. Anne** , so they must be real coins.\nAs to why Team Rocket does not use this method to gain loads of coins, it\nprobably costs too much time and effort to be worth it. Imagine your cat could\nspawn a couple of cents a day, and with some effort, it might be able to\nspawn, let's say, a dollar a day. You might retain only a little after paying\nfor the training and food to keep your cat healthy to spawn lots of coins. I\ndoubt it would make someone rich quickly. I think Team Rocket would be much\nbetter off just robbing a bank or something or stealing from some rich dude\ninstead of stealing or breeding a bunch of Meowth.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HTZUI.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThroughout almost the entire series, all characters in the Dragon Ball series\nkeep on talking about sensing each other's powers from great distances and\nall. They even compare each other's power levels just by observing each other.\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n 1. What is the unit of power level? For example, weight is measured in the unit kilogram.\n\n 2. How is each unit of such a power measured?\n\n 3. Since the story revolves around Earthlings, is it possible (in the wildest of dreams) for humans to devise a way to measure power levels?\n\n",
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"body": "\n 1. I think the unit of the Power Level is **Ki**. I would like to give you the [link](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Level) to the wiki:\n\n> The Power Level (戦闘力, Sentō Ryoku; literally \"combat power\" or \"fighting\n> strength\"), referred to as Battle Point/Battle Power (BP) in video games, is\n> a concept found in the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama. It\n> is first introduced in Dragon Ball, where Goku as a kid learns to sense\n> **ki** after drinking the Ultra Divine Water, although the Z Fighters are\n> able to detect power levels via the ki sensing ability eventually.\n\n 2. It's not clear _how_ they measure the power, or at least I couldn't find something...\n\n 3. That's right, Bulma got one of the scouters, so I think it shouldn't be a problem for her to copy it.\n\nAnd if you want to know which character has which Power Level, see this [list\nof Power Levels](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Power_Levels).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConsidering that Vegeta didn't sense the genkidama hold by Kuririn, we can\nassume that Ki is not necessarily Battle Power. Gohan also only noticed the\nGenkidama after seeing how huge it was in the sky.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUnits of power are somewhat of a rough indicator of how strong a person is in\nthat point in time. Although at the beginning of Dragon Ball Z, in the Vegeta\nand Frieza arcs, power level is considered the only thing that matters. We\nlater see in the Cell arc with Vegeta and Trunks with their alternate SSJ 2\nform (The really buff one) that power level only measures strength and not\nspeed.\n\nSo later on in the series power level just becomes somewhat of a joke when\nGoku and all the others have power levels of 100 000+ that it really just\ndoesn't matter what your power level is.\n\nAlso, the creator of DBZ says that power levels often lie, because they don't\nshow hidden power or potential.\n\nLike in the fist couple episodes where Gohan has a super pathetic power level\nthat just skyrockets when he gets mad.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis isn't official, but I looked into this, and this was the most reasonable\nconclusion I could make:\n\nThe Equation for Power Output f(x) with Power Level x is:\n\nf(x) = 0.25x^2 * (x+1)^2\n\nf(x) = The Power Output in PLU x = The Power Level\n\nTo find the value of 1 PLU (Power Level Unit), we can use the fact that Freeza\ndestroyed Namek, and if we assume Namek's binding energy is the same as\nEarth's, we get about 224 x 10^30 Joules. Freeza powered up for 6813 to 6846\nframes, and since the framerate is 30 fps, the time is anywhere from 227.1\nseconds to 228.2 seconds. Based on the equation presented, a power level of\n60,000,000 comes to 3.24 x 10^30. This means the value of 1 Power Level Unit\nis 12357457/40659859 Watts, or about 0.304 Watts.\n\nThis equation makes the farmer's power level of 5 equal to 68.4 Watts, and\nalso gives the following Power Levels:\n\nGE90 Jet Engine = 177\n\nSpace Shuttle = 626\n\nSaturn V Rocket = 1,215\n\nStrongest Laser Ever Built (ELI) = 40,276\n\nThe Sun = 8,420,000\n\nKeep in mind that these do not increase linearly, so 50% of a power level of\n100 is not 50, its about 84.\n\nAlso, I found Mr. Satan's Power Level:\n\nMr. Satan pulls buses in the cell saga. In my research, I found a similar bus\nwith a mass 12000 kg and a length of 772 cm. There are 4 buses, so he pulled a\nmass of 48000 kg a distance of 3088 cm. He did this in 1129 frames, or about\n37.6 seconds, and as the total work done is 14,535,808.896 Joules, the average\npower was about 387 kW. This puts Mr. Satan's power level at 43.\n\nSources:\n\nCalculator Used: <https://web2.0calc.com/>\n\nBus: <https://www.siemens.com/press/pool/de/events/2013/infrastructure-\ncities/2013-05-uitp/background-ebus-wiener-linien-e.pdf>\n\nEpisode 97, in which Freeza destroys Namek\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a second unit of power in Dragon Ball which is \"kili\". Only 3 power\nlevels in that unit are given,\n\nYakon: 800 kili\n\nGoku Super Saiyan: 3000 kili\n\nDabura: 4000 kili\n\n[List of power\nlevels](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Power_Levels)\n\nAfter a second thought I have to disagree now that the main unit of power in\nDragon Ball is ki. Ki roughly translates to a type of energy. So that would be\nlike saying \"energy\" is an unit of energy, when Joule for example is, but\nenergy isnt. I would say the unit of power they read in scouters is unknown,\nand it's an unit to measure ki, but it isnt ki, just as joule is an unit to\nmeasure energy, but the unit isnt \"energy\". Also the definition of an unit of\nenergy is a fixed amount of energy that is needed to perform certain task, in\nthe case of the real joule for example, is the amount of work done by a force\nof a newton per meter in the same direction, when calory is the amount of heat\nneeded to elevate the temperature of one gram of water in one degree Celsius,\nso, in other words, an unit of ki would have to be a fixed amount of ki with a\nparticular different name to _ki._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll shadow clones have the same memories as the original (from birth until the\nJutsu cast time). Which means all the shadow clones also should think of\nthemselves as the original.\n\nIf an action needs to be done by only the original, all the shadow clones also\nwould try to do the same. Because they all think that they are the original.\n\nIs it valid? Do shadow clones know that they are just clones?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of the series, Naruto's Shadow Clones did confuse and fight\namongst themselves about who's the original one (before realising that all\nthey had to do was to release the jutsu to figure it out).\n\nI'm guessing that as you get more proficient in the technique, both you and\nthe clones begin to recognize who they are.\n\n> In Naruto's most recent case, the original has Gudoudama behind him, while\n> the clones do not.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Clones created doesn't have all the behaviour in self. \nIn case 3 clones are created one shows depressed mood, second Hyperactive,\nthird one in a Happy mood. \nThus, Original will have every behavior making him recognize himself. \n**(naruto shippunden around 250th o something has this concept of shadow\nclones taking over naruto, more clearly explained there).**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMore experienced ninja have shown to have an increased spacial awareness as\nwell as combat awareness. You can see this in various fights throughout the\nseries.\n\n> In the first fight with Uchiha Itachi, Kakashi showed that he was able to\n> create a water clone in a split second designed to take potentially lethal\n> damage.\n\nThroughout the series, clones are used as decoys just as much as they are used\nto mitigate damage done to the user. Obviously the user in these cases know\n_exactly_ who is the clone and who is the user.\n\nIt would make sense then, that young and inexperienced Naruto with a new clone\ntechnique (which isn't that much different than other cloning techniques)\nwould not have the experience or spacial awareness to perceive the\ndifferences. However a Naruto that has used the technique hundreds if not\nthousands of times, as well as having participated in numerous fights, would\nbe able to tell right away.\n\nNow exactly _how_ he can tell is mostly speculation, but there are several key\npoints:\n\n * when making the clones, he can choose where the clones appear. \n * One could notice that they were not where they used to be prior to the technique.\n * One could also notice that they have \"appeared\" as a specific piece within a specific strategy.\n * The consciousness of the clones would see an immediate shift (a pop?) from where he was to where they appear. \n * This could also be extended to immediately recognizing one's self as a clone based on \"feeling\" the shift from using the technique to the clone appearing.\n * One could speculate that the user might even \"feel\" a shift in the molded chakra from when the user is performing the technique to when the clone appears.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, the Monogatari series has four season, and soon will be five, and if we\nlook at the production order, [based on this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4727/what-is-the-\nproduction-order-of-monogatari-series), and [this Wikipedia\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monogatari_episodes) it will be:\n\n * Bakemonogatari (2009–2010)\n * Nisemonogatari (2012)\n * Nekomonogatari (Kuro) (2012)\n * Monogatari Series: Second Season (2013)\n * Monogatari Series: Second Season + α or Hanamonogatari (2014)\n\nAs you can see, \"Second Season\" is the fourth and fifth season of anime, so\nwhy the title \"Second Season\"?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'll take a shot at this. The [Bakemonogatari\nwiki](http://bakemongatari.wikia.com) groups the Bakemonogatari volumes, the\nNisemonogatari volumes, Kizumonogatari, and Nekomonogatari Black together as\nSeason 1. The stories adapted in the Second Season anime, plus Suruga Devil,\nare grouped as Season 2, and the rest are Season 3.\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogatari_%28series%29) corroborates\nthis. So it is based on the novels, as nhahtdh says. And of course, since the\nsecond season anime covers five different novels (Neko White,\nKabukimonogatari, Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari, and Koimonogatari), they\ncouldn't just reuse the name of the novel like with the Bake and Nise anime\nseries.\n\nAs to why the novels are grouped like this, it's hard to say, so I'll\nspeculate wildly. First of all, notice that if the Monogatari series had used\na regular season (26 episodes) for the anime, instead of short seasons plus\nONAs, that would just about cover Bake (15 episodes) and Nise (11 episodes),\nand then we'd have a four-episode Neko Black OVA and possibly a Kizu movie, if\nit ever got made in this alternate reality. It's possible that Nisio Isin\nrecognized this when he decided to assign those novels to the first season.\nAlso note that the second season did fit fairly neatly into one 26-episode\nseason, which could have contained Hanamonogatari if they'd cut out all the\nreview episodes.\n\nSecond, look at the content of the stories. Bake and Nise together cover a\nsingle story for each heroine, including Karen and Tsukihi. The other two\nfirst-season entries, Kizu and Neko Black, are prequels, and Kizu is sort of\nthe first Shinobu story. The second season novels all take place after the\nfirst season novels, and give a second story for each heroine, narrated by\nthat heroine in many cases, with the exceptions of Kabuki-, Oni-, and\nKoimonogatari. The second season stories are also tied together by the\npresence of Ougi.\n\nI have no exposure to the third season novels, so I can't say how they fit in.\nBut it does make some sense that the novels would be grouped like this, even\nthough the anime adaptations didn't carry this grouping over with the first\nseason novels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## _Second Season_ refers to the light novel series, not the anime\n\nThe word _Second_ in the anime title _Monogatari Series: Second Season_ is\n**not** based on the number of times the series has been animated (which is\nthe usual practice), but rather based on the fact that the anime adapts the\ncontent from the Second Season of the Monogatari Series, which consists of 6\nvolumes (listed in order of publication): _Nekomonogatari (White)_ ,\n_Kabukimonogatari_ , _Hanamonogatari_ , _Otorimonogatari_ , _Onimonogatari_ ,\nand _Koimonogatari_.\n\nThe anime _Monogatari Series: Second Season_ (summer 2013) has adapted (listed\nin airing order) Nekomonogatari (White), Kabukimonogatari, Otorimonogatari,\nOnimonogatari, Koimonogatari. And this summer (2014), Hanamonogatari will be\nanimated under the title _Monogatari Series: Second Season Hanamonogatari_.\n\n## Earliest usage of the term\n\nThe term _Second Season_ has been in used since mid 2011 in [Monogatari\nSeries](http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%80%88%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E%E3%80%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA&oldid=38301453)\narticle on Wikipedia.\n\nIt also has been used on an [anime news site](http://temple-\nknights.com/archives/2011/03/hanamonogatari-20110329.html) in March 2011,\nregarding the release of _Hanamonogatari_ (emphasis mine).\n\n> 第変話「するがデビル」を収録した西尾維新『花物語』の発売日が3月29日に決まった。『花物語』は化物語シリーズ **セカンドシーズン**\n> 『猫物語(白)』『傾物語』に次ぐ第3弾。\n\n## How the term comes to use\n\nAs for why the 6 volumes are collectively called _Second Season_ , according\nto Wikipedia article of [Monogatari\nSeries](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%80%88%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E%E3%80%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA)\nin Japanese:\n\n> 『猫物語（黒）』で当初の予定であった暦とその周辺の人物の物語は一通り終了したが、『化物語』のアニメ化に触発されて「セカンドシーズン」が発表された。\n\nMy own translation1:\n\n1 Feel free to edit in a correct translation.\n\n> Although the series was initially planned to end at _Nekomonogatari (White)_\n> , at which point the series have finished telling the story about Koyomi and\n> all the people around him, Nishio Ishin was inspired by the anime adaptation\n> of _Bakemonogatari_ and announced the \"Second Season\".\n\nThe [old\nversion](http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%80%88%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E%E3%80%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA&oldid=38301453)\nof the article noted the date of the announcement being June 2010.\n\nThen, _Bakemonogatari_ (2 volumes), _Kizumonogatari_ , _Nisemonogatari_ (2\nvolumes), _Nekomonogatari (Black)_ are collectively called _First Season_ for\nthe sake of convenience after the Second Season was announced.\n\n> セカンドシーズン発表後に便宜上「ファーストシーズン」と呼ばれるようになった。\n\n**Unfortunately** , the article (old or new) didn't cite any source regarding\nthe announcement of the Second Season of the novel.\n\n### Reference\n\n * [〈物語〉シリーズ - Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%80%88%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E%E3%80%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA&oldid=52348669). Version July 21st, 2014.\n * [〈物語〉シリーズ - Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%80%88%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E%E3%80%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA&oldid=38301453). Version July 7th, 2011.\n\n",
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