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"body": "\n\nI remember an anime I watched on Indian television 8 years ago or maybe more.\nThe points I remember are:\n\n * The girl gets some soft toys from a toy store. (She doesn't buy them but they follow her)\n * One soft toy was some kind of a cute dinosaur\n * The toys have magical powers. They give a notebook and pen to the girl\n * She somehow becomes an adult by using these magical items, and she can repeat this to turn back to normal\n * In her adult form, she helps a lady, who helps her to become a model\n * One day she loses her powers and can't turn into her adult form. The modelling company ends up in trouble because their model disappears\n * Her adult self has a short hairstyle\n\nSome doubtful points, which might not be completely accurate:\n\n * Her hair color changes between forms. Maybe red and blue\n * The modeling company she works in also has an employee that is a relative to her (mother or big sister)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt can be [**Fancy Lala**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Lala)\n\n> One day, nine-year-old girl Miho Shinohara is given two stuffed dinosaurs by\n> a stranger. The stuffed dinosaurs come to life and present her with a magic\n> sketchbook and pen. Within limits, and subject to varying degrees of\n> control, she can draw in the sketchbook and bring the drawings to life. Miho\n> can also transform into a teenage girl, whom she names Fancy Lala. Fancy\n> Lala is scouted by Yumi Haneishi, the president of the talent agency Lyrical\n> Productions, and begins the long road to stardom.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWave states with great confidence that Incursio is weaker than Grand Chariot,\nbecause Incursio was a prototype for Grand Chariot, etc.\n\nThe early clashes between Wave and Tatsumi can lead the viewer to such\nconclusion, but Incursio's has the ability to evolve (from the beast it was\nmade of), while Grand Chariot doesn't.\n\nIf you watched to the finale, we can see that\n\n> Tatsumi causes Incursio to evolve so much during the fight against\n> Shikoutazer that it even gains the ability to fly. While it is enough to\n> defeat the emperor, unfortunately not enough to save Tatsumi's life.\n\nConsidering this, I don't think that Incursio was the weaker one. Is it so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCurrently there is no actual way of knowing this, especially not in the anime\nvariety as this bends off from the manga's story quite a bit.\n\n> Wave states that Incursio is the prototype of Grand Chariot, meaning it was\n> created after Incursio. (ch 18, p 36) (ep 10)\n>\n> Its full capabilities, however, have yet to be revealed and it is therefore\n> unknown if it is more powerful than its predecessor, Incursio.\n\nBut assuming that Incursio's Adaptation & Evolution are limitless, we can most\nlikely state Incursio to be the stronger armor. But as we get to know in the\nmanga _(do not believe this is shown in the anime)_ it also has huge side-\neffects\n\n**spoiler from the manga**\n\n> However because Tatsumi forced Incursio to evolve rapidly to increase his\n> strength, Incursio started to manifest in one of Tatsumi's eyes. After being\n> examined by a doctor, he reveals that the armor has started to bond with\n> him. He also states that after a few years Tatsumi could use it without\n> overdoing it like Bulat. Now at the risk of being devoured by Incursio,\n> Tatsumi can only transform 3-4 more times before Incursio consumes Tatsumi.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRather than evolving, Incursio adapts to its user. Tatsumi just happened to\nhave huge potential, which lead to Incursio evolving along with him.\n\nIf we think back to the days where Incursio belonged to Bulat, its only\nability apart from the obvious strength enhancing one which it shares with\nGrand Chariot, is its invisibility. Bulat had owned Incursio for many years\nlonger than Tatsumi ever had.\n\nAlso, we know next to nothing about Grand Chariot's own abilities. For all we\nknow, it might be the same as Incursio, only much younger and thus less\n\"experienced\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI mean, I see why Incursio could be seen as the stronger and better teigu, but\nof Grand Chariot is the prototype, IE, the finished, best/most recent version,\nthen who says it can't compete with Evolved Incursio, or even surpass it. All\nI'm really saying is we haven't seen as much of Grand Chariot as we have\nIncursio, thus, leading us to believe that, if we haven't seen it happen, it's\nnot possible. So just keep an open mind. Besides, Wave was the only person to\nweild two Teigu with ease whenever it would normally kill the user, so keep\nWave as a factor since he is the user, not just the Teigu itself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGrand Chariot lack the ability to evolve, removing the risk of losing control\nor being devoured. Hence it is the final product. That does not mean it is\nnecessarily stronger. Take the toy brand Nerf Guns for example, the original\nguns are extremely powerful and dangerous but they are designed with a stopper\nto limit the power making it safer, not necessarily better.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust to point out final episode proved that Incursio was overall stronger then\nGrand Chariot, being able to infinitely evolve. In the final episode all it\ntook was one hit with the laser to stop Wave while Tatsumi got hit and kept\ngoing envolving his armour to compete with the most powerful Imperial Arms in\nAkame Ga Kill.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe Incursio can be one of the strongest teigu, even though they told us\nthat all 48 Imperial Arms were the same in strength and power. But take note\nof the following conversation during one of Night Raid's meetings:\n\n> **Tatsumi** : Which is the strongest imperial relic? \n> **Najenda** : That would depend on compatibility and how it was used.\n\nSo if it depends on the wielder, then Incursio in Tatsumi's hands could be\nstronger than Grand Chariot in Wave's hands. Incursio in Tatsumi's hands also\ndefeated the Shikoutazer, the most powerful Imperial Arm, so yes, Incursio was\nstronger than Grand Chariot.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the definition of a trump card, it is the ultimate Teigu's\nability, one that often comes with a risk to the user's life.\n\nIt is true for several Teigu, like Murasame (infecting oneself with the fatal\npoison and the regret of everyone slain by it), Susano-o (giving up one's life\nforce to the Teigu, said to be usable only three times before certain death).\n\nWikia has on the Trump Card:\n\n> Several Teigu were shown to have a hidden ability (奥の手, oku no te, lit.\n> secret move), often referred to as \"Trump Card\" or \"Ace in the Hole\". (...)\n> Usually, such moves are the most powerful, **last resort** ones. _(emphasis\n> mine)_.\n\nWikia lists the invisibility power as Incursio trump card. It goes against the\nvery definition, since it has no risk (exaustive, yes, but not life-\nthreatening) and is used in almost the time.\n\nSo I have to disagree with that definition. I think that Incursio Trump card\nis the evolutionary power. It is shown in the Manga that Tatsumi is being\nconsumed by Incursio due to the repeated evolutions:\n\n> However because Tatsumi forced Incursio to evolve rapidly to increase his\n> strength, Incursio started to manifest in one of Tatsumi's eyes. After being\n> examined by a doctor, he reveals that the armor has started to bond with\n> him. He also states that after a few years Tatsumi could use it without\n> overdoing it like Bulat. Now **at the risk of being devoured by Incursio**\n> (...) _(emphasis mine)_.\n\nSo, what is the trump card of Incursio? Is there any official or canon\nmaterial on the issue?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do not think that the adaption and evolution can be counted as a trump card.\n\nBefore Tatsumi, Bullat and Gensei also were users of the Teigu Incursio. Both\nBullat and Gensei did not unlock the capability of evolution in the Teigu like\nTatsumi did. This might be due to them not being skilled enough to or just\nbecause Tatsumi has so much hidden potential.\n\nWith that said for most Incursio users the invisibility most likely will be\nthe actual trump card, with the only life losing risk being\n\n> As noted, a weakness of the invisibility is that while it masks the user\n> visually from the naked eye, it does not hide their \"presence\", allowing\n> skilled opponents to sense the user despite the invisibility.\n\nThe fact that Tatsumi did manage to awaken this power from the Teigu, most\nlikely is due to his hidden potentional, which seems to get stated by allot of\ncharacters through out the series as well\n\n> Tatsumi's name means \"Sleeping Dragon\", which seems to be a reference to his\n> hidden potential, which has been noted by many different characters in the\n> series. The first creature he was shown fighting was an Earth Dragon, and he\n> later obtained the \"Demon Dragon\" Teigu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the fact that it does not render true invisibility to the user is a\ngreat weakness. In one episode, Chelsea finds tatsumi's presence in the hot\nsprings. The fact that you enter a battle with an ability which is fallible is\nas great a weakness as Murasame. Because when I watched the anime, the\nfallible nature of invisibility seemed too much of a weakness to me to ever\nuse the ultimate technique. This seems like an abstract reasoning. So let me\nexplain it in comparision to murasame.\n\nMurasame infects the person who is cut with a fatal poison and knows neither\nfriend nor foe. The fact that akame can use it depends on her skill to handle\nthe sword. Similarly , Incursio's invisibilty also depends on the user's\nabilty and strength and skill. One misstep can kill you in either case. I\nwould believe this was the thought process in creating the weakness of\nincursio. Also each teigu has it's own set of weakness and strengths. You\ncannot expect each one to kill the user. For example the Omnipotent Five\nSights teigu would make the user hear voices in the head which not necessarily\nkill the user. Or Mastema which has no such weakness(afaik,correct me if I am\nwrong). So saying incursio's trump card ability is not limited is wrong. I\nthink we are too interested in the protagonist having the strongest ultimate\nand a corresponding weakness to believe that tatsumi can just make himself\ninvisble.(To relate this to another anime, kenpachi zaraki of bleach has no\nbankai and is still hell of a lot stronger, this is akin to that in the sense\n, incursio's power lies in its ability to adapt and evolve and have almost\nlimitless strength rather than its ultimate ability). Hope this helps :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**SPOILERS AHEAD**\n\n> After Hagoromo Otsutsuki gives his Yin chakra to Sasuke, Sasuke develops a\n> new dojutsu in his left eye. \n> \n> \n\n \n\n> Is this dojutsu the same one as Kaguya and Madara's third eye? \n> \n> \n\nIn both cases, the eyes have circles and tomoes in them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, Sasuke's dojutsu is different from Kaguya and Madara's third eye.\n\nSasuke has the [**Rinnegan**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan) while\nKaguya and Madara have the [**Rinne\nSharingan**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinne_Sharingan).\n\nBoth the dojutsu might look similar in design, but they're not.\n\n\n\nA side-by-side comparison of the two dojutsu shows that although they have\nsimilar circles, the Rinne-Sharingan has nine tomoe whereas Sasuke's Rinnegan\nhas 6 tomoe.\n\nAnother visual difference between the two is the color. Later in the manga,\ntheir colors were revealed.\n\n \\-\nMadara and Kaguya's Rinne Sharingan is **red** in color.\n\n \n\n \\-\nSasuke's Rinnegan is **purple** in color, just like a [normal\nRinnegan](http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140621040659/naruto/images/thumb/7/7e/Rinnegan.svg/300px-\nRinnegan.svg.png).\n\nComing to technical terms, the Rinne-Sharingan can be acquired only if the\nperson is the Ten-Tail's jinchuriki. Also, it is seen that the Rinne-Sharingan\nis activated on the user's forehead as a new eye, unlike how the Rinnegan is\nattained.\n\nTherefore, it is clear that both the dojutsu are not the same and what Sasuke\nhas is a Rinnegan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I watched episode 25 of Death Note (AKA the one when L, Watari, and Rem\ndied), I noticed that Light was strangely kind to L. Is that because he was\nnice to L before he died, or because he actually thought of L as a friend?\nThis is something I have been pondering over ever since L said that Light was\nhis only friend.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, he only saw him as an obstacle, but I assume he respected him. Otherwise\nhe would not have gone to such great lengths to kill him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis might be my personal opinion, but this does not look like the face that a\nperson would show his friend when that friend is dying. Light had been\npretending to be L's friend for a while, so by (over-)reacting he achieved two\nthings. The first would be keeping his image and the second would be giving\nhim a reason to go looking for the Death Note, that he knew would be laying\naround somewhere.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Chapter 32 (Vol. 4), Light was thinking if he should kill L or not, and\nthen Ryuk said he thought that Light's doubt was because L called him his\nfriend. Then Light answered that on the outside, Ryuuga/L is his friend, but\nactually L is Kira's enemy. And in various other pages, you see Light thinking\nabout \"killing L\" - hardly a thing a friend would do. So, no, Light (at least\nwith the memories of being Kira) doesn't consider L truly a friend, it's just\npart of his acting.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dV7tf.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do believe so yes. Light (that being the Light who didn't realize he was\nKira), did like L and considered him a friend. But Kira (that being, the Light\nwho has Kira's memories) considered L his enemy.\n\nWhat is interesting and what I feel is not really considered by fans, is that\nLight and Kira are the same person.\n\nLight without his memories, is STILL Kira. Kira WITH his memories, is STILL\nLight.\n\nWhat I mean is, just like how Misa would still remember her feelings for Light\neven while losing her memory, likewise, I do believe Light would still\nremember considering L a friend during their investigation together (after\nhe'd lost his memories).\n\nHis Kira self is more dominant, but based on how Light was seeing L when he\nlooks at the empty chair, and laments on how things aren't interesting without\nL, and even cut scenes to Light's blank looking face when he's on a date with\nMisa right after his lamenting about L being gone, it gives off the idea that\nLight, somewhere deep down, misses L.\n\nHe misses the challenge, he misses his \"friend.\" Even though L was Kira's\nenemy, Ryuuzaki was Light's friend. They had much in common, they were equals,\nliterally no one could match up to them the way they did to each other, so no\nmatter what, Light found something unique in his relationship with L. I do not\nbelieve he never cared at all.\n\nIt's just that he cared about being God of the New World far more, and thus\nwas willing to throw away everything else for it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are many animes I have come across that have characters with split\npersonalities. I think this is the case with Light. I believe Light is not\ntruly evil, but his other persona (Kira) is. I think this is also the case for\nLight and L's relationship. Light does consider L as a friend whereas Kira\nsees L as his enemy. Although many fans think Light acted a lot, I think there\nwere plenty of moments where Light and Kira were in conflict inside Light. As\nI read elsewhere, If Light had never found the death-note and became Kira, he\nwould have become a detective alongside L and the two would be friends. I've\nalso come across many scenes where Light seems to miss L.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen L confessed He thought of light as a friend I think on a conscious level\nit was simply a ploy, but there actually was some kindling of empathy. Also\neven though L admitted, ‘I think I wanted you to be Kira’ When he died he had\na wide eyed expression seeing Light smile as if he had just been betrayed. As\nfor Light, he never seemed to portray much kinship for L. Nevertheless I think\nit would be wrong to assume he hated Light. In episode 36 near is wearing a\nmask of L, and you can hear Light thinking of how it is dishonouring L, which\nis really strange considering Light plotted his death. I don’t think L and\nLight were really friends, but subconsciously I think they both knew that\nunder different circumstances they could’ve been, and I think that shone\nthrough when Light first brought L in from the rain. Also in lights last\nmoments when he’s dying, he sees L. You’d expect him to see his dad as when\npeople pass, they tend to have visions of those they have loved who have\npassed away. Instead he sees L, I think he really did care for him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo he did not think of L as a friend (beside when he lost his memories).Light\nwas trying to make L think he was not kira and also light tried killing L. i'm\npretty sure he would of killed L if he would not be seen as suspicious if he\ndid.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI personally don't see them as “friends”; both are fundamentally against each\nother when it comes to their perspectives.\n\nBut, that doesn't really mean they hated each other. There are hints that\nLight and L would have been friends under any other circumstances.\n\nBut, that's beside the point, the way I see it… Light and L have respect for\neach other. Light and L never really had a serious “game” with others before.\nLight saw in L a chance to prove his worth: if he won, he would be right, and\nif he lost, he would be wrong. This is evident in his slow decline into\ninsanity as soon as L was out of the picture. With L being the best the world\nhas to offer in opposition to him, he was to be a god, right?\n\nSo, ultimately what Light felt towards L was something you or I would feel\ntowards a boss in _Dark Souls_. Respect. Begrudgingly or not, Light saw his\nequal in L (even though L is canonically smarter than Light…), and once he was\ngone, he didn't feel as much excitement when going up against his successors,\nultimately leading to his defeat. He never really gave them as much effort as\nhe did to best L.\n\nAgain, this is my take on it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's been a long time since I watched _Otoboku_ , but I've always wondered if\nthe visual novel explained what happens to Mizuho after he graduates and puts\naside his façade.\n\nMizuho is a guy disguised as a girl, attending an all-girls school. He doesn't\nexactly keep a low profile, either; if he'd done that, he could have just made\nhis girl form disappear after graduation and went back to being a man.\nInstead, he runs for Elder and becomes a celebrity who is looked up to by the\nyounger girls. When he graduates, he can't just throw off his wig and dress,\ngo \"Phew, what a relief\", and be a man again, because tons of his former\nclassmates recognize him. He would have to either tell them all \"Yeah, I was\ncross-dressing all those years and hanging out in the dressing room and\nbathrooms with you\" and get arrested for a pervert, or else pretend to be his\nown brother (or something) and get out the disguise again whenever his old\nschool friends come around.\n\n\n\nYes, seriously, that's a guy.\n\nIf I remember correctly, Mariya, Takako, and Shion all know by the end of the\nanime series that Mizuho is a guy. Yukari and Kana never find out. So at some\npoint, he's going to have to break it to Yukari and Kana, even if he decides\nto never see anyone else from the school again. (According to [the Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Otome_wa_Boku_ni_Koishiteru_characters#Main_characters),\nthough, he, Shion, and Takako often visit their old school after graduation.)\n\nThe Wikipedia article says the VN does show what Mizuho does after he\ngraduates. Does it address this? Does he maintain his female disguise or\neventually break it to everyone that he was a guy the whole time?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAndroid 17 got out by opening the gap between Hell and earth. But instead of\ndoing the same, Goku could have used Instant Transmission to get out. Why\ndidn't he do so? Is it because of the fact that he was turned into a child and\nhe could use Instant Transmission only as a Super Saiyan 4 (taking into\nconsideration that Goku could only be a Super Saiyan 4 for a certain amount of\ntime)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the [Instant Transmission\narticle](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Instant_Transmission) on Dragon Ball\nWiki:\n\n> When Goku became a child in Dragon Ball GT, the ability to use this\n> technique was greatly hindered to the point where he just randomly travels\n> to places a short distance away; however, as a Super Saiyan 4, he is able to\n> use the ability to its full potential. When he is given energy by Goten,\n> Trunks, and Gohan during the battle against Syn Shenron, kid Goku is able to\n> properly use Instant Transmission.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is possible that my premise is extremely flawed, but I have noticed in\nrecent times that there are quite a few live-action adaptations of Japanese\nanime or manga that look very similar in visual style to their source\nmaterial. For example, I recently saw a trailer for the Japanese film\n[Parasyte](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasyte:_Part_1), which is based on a\nmanga. Many of the scenes from the trailer look identical to parts of the\nmanga, and the appearance of the parasites is identical to the original\nartwork. I also saw the movie trailer for [Attack on\nTitan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan) and the titans in the\nfilm look identical to those in the manga and anime. There are quite a few\nother examples that I've encountered that I cannot list right now.\n\nIn Hollywood, even when animated material is adapted to live-action, usually\nthe artistic direction is quite distinct between the two. Some of Marvel's\nlatest superhero movies borrow a lot from their comic book material, but even\nthen their visual style is quite distinct from the \"comic book\" look. The film\nadaptation of [Watchmen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen) was\n_extremely_ similar in both plot and artistic direction to the graphic novel\nand it was critically panned for this, which leads me to believe that it is\nsomehow deemed unacceptable to do this for Western graphic novels.\n\nIs there a reason why the live-action adaptations of manga are so close in\nappearance/artistic direction? Or is it just my limited experience?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's easier for comics to change the theme and style in movies as compared to\nmanga. The superhero comics generally are based upon one really strong\ncharacter or group. These characters can do anything and fight any evil, so it\nleaves a lot open to artistic interpretation.\n\nOn the other hand, manga are generally made in idea of the story. All the\nartistic interpretation goes into the drawing of it, therefore, if you change\nthe setting, then it feels like a very different story.\n\nOf course, there are exceptions. Dragon Ball, for example, can take place\nanywhere, which is why Hollywood thought it was a good idea to make a live-\naction. Granted the result was awful, but given enough love and care, I do\nthink Dragon Ball could be on par with a lot of the recent superhero movies.\n\nHowever, if you change the appearance of Kenshin for example, then to many of\nthe fans, the character wouldn't be Kenshin anymore. They could've gone even\nfurther, by making a prequel of Kenshin, but the manga already generally\ndefines the character. To stay with Kenshin's example, the manga gives a\ncomplete profile who Kenshin is, along with his past, present and future.\n\nEvidently, the same goes for Shingeki no Kyojin. They could change the\nappearances of the titans. However, since they're described in detail in the\nmanga, as well as the entire atmosphere and even the characters, changing\ntheir appearances would be like changing the manga and people generally\ndisapprove.\n\nIt's going to be interesting how [Ghost in the Shell\n(2017)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219827/) live action adaptation is going\nto turn out though. To me, it already smells like failure, but who knows. They\nmight amaze us.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would assume they're trying to be as visually accurate as possible since\nthey miss the mark just about everywhere else.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy theory is that the hooded man might be someone new who was also working\nbehind the scenes, but didn't make himself known as Obito and Madara had done\nor could be someone already introduced as a part of the Uchiha, it could be\nMadara, or Danzo. So, perhaps even the masked guy isn't Uchiha.\n\nSo who do you think it could be?\n\n> \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere’s this manga where, in the beginning, a boy is in school and sees a hot\ngirl. She lures him to some isolated garden outside or something and tries to\neat him (take his blood and stuff). A girl in his class, who is always seen\nsleeping, comes and rescues him by blowing up the vampire girl’s brains and\nstabbing its heart. The girl has two seals in her hands, and she usually uses\nonly her right hand that has this monster/demon that can kill vampires. The\nmonster-arm girl has a mission to kill all of the pure blood vampires (7\npowerful women). She has a little girl sidekick that was bitten by a vampire\nbut was mutated to help some organization’s cause. The girl with the monsters\non her hand is human but wants some sort of revenge (I think?) and uses the\nmonsters’ power. They drag the boy along as bait for the 7 purebloods (kinda)\n\nomg i remember all of this but i don’t know the name of it please help :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**[Crimezone](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=65424)** fits most\nof your description, including the fact that they use the main character as\nbait, and that there were 7 \"pure bloods\".\n\nAccording to mangaupdates, it's still ongoing, and last update was almost a\nyear ago.\n\nSynopsis from\n[mangaupdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=65424):\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xXNaa.jpg)\n>\n> The people of Earth live in a society where vampires aren’t just real but\n> dangerous. Although humanity has been able to keep them under control and\n> even take the night away as the vampire’s natural habitat, some of them have\n> adapted. Hesperides, a relatively new breed of vampires, have adapted over\n> hundreds of years in order to be able to go outside during dusk when the\n> sunlight is at its weakest and feast on humans.\n>\n> Aburaya Shiro, a high school kid, lives in a town where there has not been a\n> vampire attack in years, but adults keep warning them of going outside at\n> dusk. Shiro and his classmates take this warning lightly and head out at\n> dusk only to find out one of their classmates who they thought they knew\n> well turns out to be a Hesperides. With all his classmates violently\n> murdered, the only way Shiro was able to survive was with the help of a\n> different classmate, Ichijoji Eruka, who doesn’t seem to be human herself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRolo has been using his Geass since he was very young and using it beyond\nlimits; for various missions and assasinations again and again. But he never\nlost control over the Geass like Lelouch and Mao. Also if he had lost control\nbefore dying then what would be his situation if he had used it infinitely?\nWould he stop the time around him forever?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen he uses his power his heart stops beating! In other words if he uses his\nGeass for a long time he dies because his blood stops circulating!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nForever would have been impossible. The weakness to Rolo's time stopping Geass\nis that it also stops his heart, so he'd die quickly enough from it being in\npermanent use, which in turn would stop the geass. Same goes for him overusing\nit. The limit of his geass comes from a sort of body-based time limit\n(surviving while his heart is stopped) preventing extended use, rather than a\nlimit of the power itself. Below is a quote from [this\npage,](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Geass#Rolo_Lamperouge.27s_Geass) which\nI've spoilered out for plot reasons.\n\n> Its weakness was that it stopped Rolo's heart when used, limiting its\n> activation to short bursts. A large number of people was also more difficult\n> to stop, as Rolo was exhausted after he projected a field encompassing a\n> majority of the school's campus. Finally, this Geass was unable to stop\n> inanimate objects or physical phenomena such as speed and momentum. Rolo\n> ultimately died when he overused his power in a short amount of time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe cannot stop time forever, mainly because of his heart stops every time he\nuses it. It takes 4 mins of heart stoppage to kill your brain cells. So the\nmaximum he can stop time is for 4 mins (if he has a tremendous will power)\nafter which he will be dead no matter what. Weaknesses of Rolo's geass as\ndescibred in Wikipedia:\n\n> The weakness of Rolo's Geass is that his heart stops when he uses it,[5]\n> limiting its activation to short bursts. The range also determines the\n> amount of strain it puts on him.[6] Finally, it is unable to stop inanimate\n> objects or physical phenomena such as speed and momentum (for example, it\n> cannot stop a clock nor a projectile in mid-flight).[1] Although the Geass\n> can work on Jeremiah Gottwald, Jeremiah's Geass Canceler automatically\n> activates when that happens: limiting the Geass' effect on him to just a few\n> seconds.\n\nAs you can see from Wikipedia, he has a bunch of weaknesses. Essentially,\neverytime he uses it he gets a heart attack, even for a second. We all know\nwhat repeated heart attacks can do: they kills some of your heart cardiac\nwalls. It not even a temperory weakness. He essentially trades a **part of his\nlifespan** every time he uses it. His geass also cannot stop any inanimate\nobject (unlike Sakura's time card :D).\n\nHope this helps :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA couple of months ago, i read a manga about a guy who get's a job to tutor a\ngirl for math or other things, and he finds out shes a rich million air girl.\nShe made her money by stocks, and he's curious and decides to learn stocks to\nget closer with her.\n\nThat's really all I know, It should be enough though. **it's a romance 90%**\n\nHope you can get me the name of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am sure the manga in question is [**Billionaire\nGirl**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/23588/Billionaire_Girl)\n\nThe guy's name is Takato Kei. He tutors this rich teenage girl for 10000 Yen\nper hour.\n\n\n\nIt a complete romance story. In reality she is not a high school girl who has\namassed a lot of wealth from stock market. I think this covers the description\nyou gave. Hope this helps :D\n\n**BTW Fun-Fact:** I just noticed it was written by Isuna Hasekura (of Spice\nand Wolf fame :D ).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to know in which episode Tsuna gets stronger, so that I can tell\nmy friend and get him to stop bothering me!\n\nCan anyone answer it for me please?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe gets stronger in episode 25, and the story takes on a shonen-ish type of\ntwist.\n\nThe episode is aptly named too:\n\n> \"I Want to Win! Moment of Awakening\"\n\nHe can use the [Hyper Dying Will\nMode](http://reborn.wikia.com/wiki/Hyper_Dying_Will_Mode) which is a calmer\nversion of the Dying Will Mode.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, he enters Hyper Dying Will Mode in episode 26, and apparently after\ndoing so by means of the pill or bullet, the person should be able to do it on\ntheir own, but Tsuna still can't as of episode 35; he doesn't seem to have\ngotten any stronger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe actually gets stronger in episode 25 as he obtains his mittens and gets\nshot with a new bullet allowing him to use fire (his deathperation flames with\nhis mittens)\n\nP.S: Sorry I forgot the bullet name\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe first goes badass mode on episode 25. But he doesn't truly actually start\ngetting _stronger_ until they start training in the Varia arc, which is the\nentire second season.\n\nSo basically, the whole 1st season is dedicated to building up relationships\nso that the family bond is solid and powerful so that they can really go crazy\nin season 2. However, after it starts getting crazy, it never stops.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI used to watch and read Bleach before, but I stopped following the series\nafter the defeat of Aizen.\n\nUrahara's Bankai is a mystery to me, and since I'm no longer updated, I don't\nknow if there's more to tell on Urahara's abilities.\n\nHas there been an update on what we know about Urahara since Aizen's defeat?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs of yet, Urahara's Bankai has never been revealed. We know that he is\ncapable of it, but he has never actually used it on-panel.\n\nBack when Ichigo was still working to attain his Bankai (Chapter 132),\nYoruichi informed Ichigo that Urahara gained his Bankai using the same\ntraining method, and did it in three days.\n\nLater (Chapter 224) Sado comes to him for training. Urahara tells Sado that he\nneeds to train against a Bankai in order to improve. He then assigns Sado to\ntrain with Renji, saying that his own Bankai was not suitable for training.\nThis implies that his Bankai is either absurdly lethal, or may not be a\ncombat-focused weapon (like how Unohana's Shikai is a flying ray medevac\nthing).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 664, Urahara was finally forced to use his Bankai. This happens on\nthe final page of the chapter.\n\nIt summons a giant person:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ToyZn.png)\n\nIn Chapter 665,\n\n> Urahara reveals that his Bankai has the power to restructure anything it\n> touches: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vrb7q.png)\n\nAs can be seen in the above picture where his eyes are being stitched up,\nUrahara is also able to utilize this ability on himself to heal wounds.\nConsidering the ability of his Bankai, it's easy to understand why he didn't\nuse it to train Chad when Chad needed to fight against a Bankai.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Fourth Shinobi World War, it is revealed that after losing to\nHashirama at the Valley of the End, Madara implanted Hashirama's cells into\nhis wounds\n\n> which led to him awakening the Rinnegan.\n\nLater, it is also revealed that:\n\n> Madara and Hashirama are transmigrants of Indra and Ashura, and one needs\n> both Indra's and Ashura's chakra to awaken the Rinnegan.\n\nIf Hashirama had instead implanted Madara's cells into his body, would he also\nhave\n\n> awakened the Rinnegan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not the cells but the eyes he would need to have Rinnengan, this is from\n[Naruto wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan):\n\n> Because the Rinnegan was wielded by the Sage of the Six Paths, merging the\n> chakra of his two sons, Indra Ōtsutsuki and Asura Ōtsutsuki, within one's\n> body brings forth the Sage's chakra, which can evolve their Sharingan into\n> the Rinnegan. This was proven when Madara Uchiha, Indra's reincarnation at\n> the time, awakened the dōjutsu from his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan by\n> infusing the DNA of Hashirama Senju, Asura's reincarnation at the time, into\n> his body; however, it did not manifest until many years later when he was\n> near death. At some point after this, Madara would implant his eyes into\n> Nagato — a young boy of Senju lineage.\n\nAlso there is a theory from Orochimaru and Kabuto, that says Sharingan came\nfrom Rinnegan, so without these eyes no Rinnegan:\n\n> They theorised that because the Sharingan originated from the Rinnegan, it\n> was possible for the dōjutsu to change into the Rinnegan as part of a\n> \"natural evolution\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Ufotable's adaptation of Unlimited Blade Works, when Lancer fights Archer\nfor the first time (episode 0), near the end of the battle Lancer begins\ncharging his Gae Bolg, but is later distracted by Shirou.\n\nLater, on episode 5 of the second season, when Lancer fights Archer again,\nLancer mentions that he wasn't fighting with his full potential back then\nbecause he was under a Command Spell telling him to not kill.\n\nIf that is true, then why did Lancer even bother charge his Gae Bolg back\nthen? I imagine that the point of his Noble Phantasm is to finish off his\ntarget.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLancer was specifically ordered to scout out the other masters and determine\ntheir Servants' strengths by fighting them to a draw. He couldn't expect to\nget a proper measure of Saber or Archer's strength, who were going to some\nlengths to hide their abilities--indeed, both Saber and Archer were going on\nabout how their \"true\" weapon could be anything, but they weren't going to\nbother revealing it--, unless he tried to force their hands. In a battle\nbetween Servants, this pretty much always requires the use of their most\npowerful Noble Phantasms. While use of his Noble Phantasm could result in the\ndeaths of either Saber or Archer, it seems likely that either the Command\nlimited the potency of the attack, or that the vagueness of \"find out their\nstrengths\" allowed him a bit of a loophole against such secretive opponents. A\nCommand not to kill them would seem likely to interfere with a Noble Phantasm\nto some extent, perhaps giving the opponent just enough wiggle room to avoid\ndeath (but not necessarily a severe injury, such as with Saber).\n\nAccording to the [TypeMoon\nwikia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Lancer_\\(Fate/stay_night\\)):\n\n> Contrary to his legendary battle prowess, his fighting in the Fifth Holy\n> Grail War is extremely limited. Fighting several Servants to a draw, he will\n> never start a fight on his own. Even if he gains a full chance to kill an\n> opponent, he is to merely observe and is given no authority to attack. He\n> can only go all out against an opponent during their second encounter due to\n> the Command Spell, so his first true \"battle without any binds\" is against\n> Archer. Without anything binding him, his strikes are much faster and harder\n> to see than in the previous battle. The only way Archer is able to keep up\n> with him in direct combat compared to the previous fight is due to the\n> experience of previously fighting him.\n\nRecall that Lancer was initially attacking Shirou before Saber had been\nsummoned. Shirou was simply an outside witness, and by Rin's commentary this\nwas strictly disallowed, and so it was completely natural that Servants would\ndisengage from their own fights to eliminate the witness. Once Saber is\nsummoned, Lancer backs off and waits for Saber to come to him and force the\ncombat (thought he doesn't seem to have problems with trying to provoke his\nopponents). For the preceding fight with Archer, we do not know exactly how it\nwas initiated. We are introduced to the fight already in progress from\nShirou's perspective.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWere the Heroic Spirits that powerful in their lives? Consider:\n\nSome heroes had \"reasonable\" powers:\n\n * Fate Zero's Caster has a spellbook that granted him massive amounts of mana.\n * Fate Zero's Lancer had two magical lances.\n * Stay Night's Caster has a contract-breaking dagger.\n * Fate Zero's Assassin could split into several shadows (I think it's reasonable, as if it was just some sort of complicated spell).\n\nBut other heroes had ridiculous powers:\n\n * King Arthur's holy sword could shoot an epic anti-fortress beam.\n * UBW's Lancer's Gae Bolg did an anti-army explosion.\n * Gilgamesh's Ea was an anti-world weapon (whatever that means, but it destroyed Rider's reality marble).\n * Heracles could regenerate from death several times.\n\nWas King Arthur's Excalibur really capable of such beam? Was Lancer's Gae Bolg\nreally that destructive? Or were such attributes given when they were summoned\nby the Grail, based on their legends?\n\nAnd also, there is the physical strength factor. Most heroes make holes in the\nwalls and ground while fighting, and can jump great heights (in UBW, episode\n1, I remember Saber jumped to the roof of Shirou's house, looking for nearby\nenemies).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen a Hero dies and ascends to the Throne of Heroes to become a Heroic Spirit\nthey will gain strength based off the worship of their legend as such the more\nfame and renown one gets the stronger they become. when they are summoned,\nthere are factors which determine how much strength they have in relation to\nwhat they have from the Throne of Heroes\n\n> * **Cultural Sphere** in which the Servant is summoned and the\n> **Recognition** they receive there are two factors that play a role in their\n> strength. The closer the are to the stage of their legend, a geographical\n> boost, and the more that they are known makes them \"stronger\", bringing them\n> closer to the strength they had in their legend and providing them with more\n> of their equipment displayed in their legend.\n>\n> * **Magic energy of the Master** \\- The more powerful the magical energy\n> of the Master, the greater the Servant will be able to reach the strength\n> they displayed in their legend.\n>\n> * **Container Parameters:** Unmodified by the strengths and weaknesses of\n> specific Heroic Spirits, the containers of the seven standard Servant\n> classes of the Fuyuki Grail War possess known base parameters.\n>\n>\n\nSource: - [Servant - Strength -\nFactors](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Factors)\n\nFor instance with those, Cú Chulainn, Heracles and Arturia would be stronger\nin Europe. Arturia's Strength fluctuates from her different Masters with Rin\nbeing the strongest because of Rin being an excelent Magus in comparison to\nShirou or Kiritsugu.\n\nCú Chulainn, being an excellent fighter, would be lesser so when Summoned as a\nCaster which as seen in Fate/Grand Order when he is summoned as a Lancer and a\nCaster by The Protagonist\n\n[code]\n\n Lancer | Caster\n Strength: B | E \n Mana: C | B\n Endurance: C | D\n Luck: E | D\n Agility: A | C\n N. Phantasm: B | B\n \n[/code]\n\nSources: Servant Stats for Protagonist [Lancer (Fate/stay\nNight)](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Lancer_%28Fate/stay_night%29) | [Caster\n(Fate/Grand Order - Cú\nChulainn)](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Caster_%28Fate/Grand_Order_-\n_C%C3%BA_Chulainn%29)\n\nAs you can see when Summoned as a Caster Cú Chulainn looses Strength,\nEndurance and Agility but gains Mana and Luck which then makes him much like\nmost Casters and not suited for a head on battle\n\nAs the above Quote uses the word \"Legend\" which is\n\n> a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not\n> authenticated.\n\nI would assume that after ascension they gain ever greater strength so while a\nHeroic Spirit may not have been insanely strong in real life their legends\nargument their strength further\n\nAnother instance of a Servant being stronger that they actually were in real\nlife because of their \"legend\" is with [Angra\nMainyu](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Avenger_%28Fate/hollow_ataraxia%29) who\nwas an ordinary villager and was randomly chosen as the \"source of all evil in\nthe world\" by his village and was tortured and sacrificed in the following\nrituals, so while his legends states that he is the evil god of Zoroastrianism\nhe actually isn't\n\n* * *\n\nThe things you have identified are all Noble Phantasms\n\n * Gilles de Rais's Anti-Army [Prelati's Spellbook](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Prelati%27s_Spellbook)\n * Diarmuid Ua Duibhne's twin Anti-Unit Lances [Gae Buidhe](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gae_Buidhe) and [Gae Dearg](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gae_Dearg)\n * Medea's Anti-Thaumaturgy [Rule Breaker](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Rule_Breaker)\n * The Hundred-Faced Hassan Self Targeted Anti-Unit [Zabaniya： Delusional Illusion](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Zabaniya:_Delusional_Illusion#Delusional_Illusion)\n * Arturia's Anti-Fortress/Anti-Unit1 [Excalibar](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Excalibur)\n * Cú Chulainn's [Gae Bolg](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gae_Bolg)\n * Gilgamesh's Anti-World [Ea](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Ea)\n * Heracles's Anti-Unit [God Hand](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/God_Hand)\n\nThese are\n\n> \"crystallized mysteries\", powerful armaments made using the imagination of\n> humans as their core, and weapons or abilities owned by Heroic Spirits.\n\nSource - [Noble Phantasm](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Noble_Phantasm)\n\nso these would be under the most influence from one's legends with their\noriginal weapon being the basis and arguments/altered by their legends, for\ninstance with Ea it's actual strength is around the level of Excalibur, its\neffect is unquestionably that of the legend of \"ripping the world\"\n\nwith Cú Chulainn's Gae Bolg it is in fact 2 Noble Phantasm, the first (\n_Barbed Spear that Pierces with Death_ ) being a single Anti-Unit of the\nlegend of a cursed spear but the second (S _oaring Spear that Strikes with\nDeath_ ) is Anti-Army without it's curse to reverse cause and effect which in\nhis Legend\n\n> It distorts space to create a \"tapestry of action\" that splits into numerous\n> spearheads that pour down over the enemy. It is said that it split into\n> thirty in his legend, but it seems that the number has increased after Cú\n> Chulainn became a Heroic Spirit.\n\nso _Soaring Spear that Strikes with Death_ is in fact more powerful than the\noriginal legend, possibly because of his legend being embellished over the\nyears\n\n> _Was King Arthur's Excalibur really capable of such beam?_\n\nit actually isn't a beam, on the Wikia Page it says\n\n> While the result is what looks like a large beam of light, only the tip of\n> the attack, which is a wave of light that can mow through the surface of the\n> Earth, is capable of doing damage, as the beam is the result of the\n> \"dislocation\" of everything the attack destroys in its path. Even if it is\n> dodged, those in close proximity can still be temporarily distracted by its\n> intensity.\n\nalso when we see Arturia use it we see her swing her sword rather than point\nit\n\n\n\nbut as already mentioned since a Nobel Phantasm is influenced by the\nimagination of humans more than likely it is King Arthur's Legend of being a\nking who was the only one to wield a sword forged by gods and when people\nthink of weapons forged by gods they think very, very destructive (ie Thor's\nHammer, Odin's Spear)\n\n* * *\n\n1: In the Fate/Zero material - Servant Status: Saber, p.012-013\n([Citation](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Excalibur#cite_note-FZS-1)) states\nthat Excalibur: Sword of Promised Victory is Anti-Unit while all other places\nstate it is Anti-Fortress, am unsure if this is a translation error or not\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually it's depends on the individual. As Garden of Avalon, supplementary\nmaterials reveal that Excalibur DID had the power to generate a Sword Beam. I\nguess it depends on whether they come from a mythical or historical\nbackground. Those such as Heracles who had the power to lift the sky and\naccording to some myths create the Strait of Gibraltar which separates Spain\nand Africa is obviously weaker as Servant. While heroes closer to the modern\nera are explicitly stronger as Servants than real life. Shakespeare would be a\ngood example, as he had zero magical ability in real life and relies on his\nnoble phantasm.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nWhat anime is this girl from? I found this on Facebook and I'm just curious.\nThanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat is from [**Kantai\nCollection**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai_Collection).\n\n> Kantai Collection (艦隊これくしょん Kantai Korekushon, lit. \"Fleet Collection\",\n> subtitled as \"Combined Fleet Girls Collection\"), abbreviated as KanColle\n> (艦これ KanKore), is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game developed by\n> Kadokawa Games\n\nThe game was adapted into a [TV anime\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai_Collection_%28anime%29) in Spring\n2015 season.\n\nThe girl the figure is modeled (including her pose) after one of the Abyssal\nBosses, [Aircraft Carrier\nPrincess](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Aircraft_Carrier_Princess)\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of the manga below, the text has been changed by a translator\nteam to help find new translators.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Happy Cafe**\n\n\n\n> Romance and happiness blossoms at the Happy Cafe! Uru takes her mother's\n> remarriage as an opportunity to work part time at the Happy Cafe. There, she\n> befriends Ichirou and Shindou, two of the most unsociable guys she's ever\n> met! To make matters worse, it turns out that Uru is not exactly meant for\n> the waitressing world, as she's a huge klutz. But as this hilarious shoujo\n> tale unfolds, true happiness,and even true love, lurks just around the\n> corner. [source](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6599093-happy-cafe-\n> vol-1)\n\nthis particular image you have posted is from the 11th volume of this manga.\nfor more informations about his manga [see\nhere](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Cafe) or\n[here](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6599093-happy-cafe-vol-1)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the Chimera Ants Arc, after Gon fights with Neferpitou,\n\n> Gon lost his Nen.\n\nWill he be able to fight and continue advancing within the Hunter x Hunter\nUniverse?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWithout nen, Gon won't be able to fight against Nen users. As was seen in the\nHeaven's Arena arc, the only way to defend against Nen is with Nen, and\nwithout it even relatively weak attacks will kill or cripple you.\n\nAt the moment, the story is on an indefinite hiatus, but if it ever gets going\nproperly again, Gon will not be able to fight against Nen users unless somehow\nhe is able to regain his Nen, whether by himself or by someone helping him.\n\nIt's obviously a different story, but I think it's similar to how after Ichigo\nlost his spiritual pressure in Bleach, he was pretty weak for a while until it\nwas restored to him.\n\nAlluka was able to save Gon, and it's definitely possible that either some\nHunter has the capability to restore Gon's Nen, or that somewhere in the Dark\nContinent there will be a way of restoring it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you think about it deeply, Gon really didn't lose his Nen per se. He just\nlost the ability to \"use\" it. Remember what Killua wished for? He wished Gon\nto return _back to normal_. But what is normal?\n\nIt is heavily implied that Gon's Nen pores are just back to normal again. Even\nhis dad had said, that he became \" _normal_ \" and whether he wants to or not\nis up to him.\n\nGon just has to re-learn Nen again, the way Wing forcefully opened his Nen\npores or the natural way.\n\nThe main problem here is the wish. That aura spread too far and that wish is\ntoo powerful. I wonder who's gonna suffer.... ;)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Gon will end up tracking down and joining the Phantom Troupe in order\nto regain the ability to use nen again. Also his nen category will probably\nchange in the process. He may end up becoming a Conjurer or a Specialist.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI agree with Shan Coralde, that Killua was just dumb about the command he gave\nnanika, and should have been smarter about it, as returning gon to normal\nwould mean normal like everyone else. Normal could also be implied as not\nhaving the same potential and growth rate he previously had, as that was\nextremely unnatural\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last scene of the show we see Reiji and Elen in Mongolia standing in\nthe fields and Reiji ends up shot and--I'm assuming--killed by the man on the\nwagon passing by. However Elen's emotions don't reflect this at all.\n\nFrom what I know, the show is setup to favor Elen and Reiji being together\nwith their bond they slowly developed throughout. However, when Elen looks\nback at Reiji she is smiling happily thinking. \"These memories are enough for\nme,\" and goes to lay down in the grass paying no mind to him.\n\nMy thoughts on what happened:\n\n * First off, the ending scene goes from them being together mid-day to each of them in separate scenes at sunset.\n\n 1. Elen is thinking back on her times with Reiji, after the point of his death. Which happens to be at the same place and time of day that he died. Elen says, \"I have memories of being with you,\" which could possibly be referring to a flashback from before Reiji died.\n\n 2. I'd like to point out that she could possibly have planned his death, although unlikely. Since that wouldn't fit with the dialogue of her thinking back about Reiji.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't watched Dragon Ball in detail, but I think something like this has\nnever been explained and it doesn't make sense to me at all.\n\nIt took all Dragon Ball for Goku to go from power level of 10 to a maximum of\n950 in his fight against Raditz. However, in much less time than what took\nDragon Ball to happen, he managed to get to 8000 in base form to fight Vegeta\nin relatively little time, and then to 300000 in base form in even less time\nto fight against Freezer, and so on...\n\nIt's obvious that if you get better training methods, you can improve faster.\nHowever, I think something like that doesn't make sense in this case even for\nan anime. I'd like to know if there's an in-universe explanation for this\nexponential growth in power level.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne possible answer is that Saiyans get way more powerful than before if they\nagonize (and survive). It's called\n[Zenkai](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Zenkai). This ability is found in\npure Saiyan, half-blood and even Cell.\n\nOne example is when Gohan fights Cell, kicks him around, but refuses to kill\nhim. This allows Cell to recover and get way stronger than before, making it\nvery difficult to Gohan to kill him, even with help of other warriors, Vegeta\nand even dead Goku. In retrospect, Gohan could have single-handedly kill Cell,\nbut he didn't do so at the beginning of their fight.\n\nNot by coincidence, this \"ability\" make every fight involving Saiyan longer\nand with plot-twists.\n\nSource: [Zenkai - Dragon Ball Wiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Zenkai)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSaiyans become more powerful from battle, especially if they're injured. They\nalso become more powerful every time they are presented with a challenge that\nis above them. So when Goku was killed by Picollo (when fighting Raditz) he\nbecame more powerful, even though he had died. Saiyans also become more\npowerful through anger and the training from King Kai also helped. As for the\nrest of the Z fighters, they always became more powerful from some sort of\ntraining (Kame's lookout, King Kai) or power given to them by a character that\nhas the ability to unlock their potential (like the elder guru did for Gohan\nand Krillin on Namek).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAside of Zenkai, which is one of the reasons why Goku increased his power very\nfast, another reason is they started to use training under heavy gravity.\n\nBefore the battle with Goku, Goku trained with King Kai in a planet with a\ngravity 10 times stronger than Earth's. That made him able to increase his\npower very fast. Also after that, Goku made Bulma's father to built a device\nwhich created an artificial gravity field of 100 times stronger than the one\nof the Earth. With that device and the Zenkai from the battle with Vegeta,\nGoku was able to raise his base power level from 9,000 to 90,000. Vegeta also\ndemanded Bulma's father to create a device with at least created a gravity\nfield of 300 times stronger of the one on Earth.\n\nMoreover, Goku in particular learnt from King Kai a technique called Kaioken.\nWith Kaioken he was able to multiply his power level. When he applied kaioken\ntimes 2, he was able to raise his power level from 90,000 to 180,000, in the\nbattle with Ginyu. But he was able to raise kaioken even up to times 20.\n\nIn his battle with Freezer, he was already 3,000,000 in base form due to a\nzenkai he got after being beated almost to death and having to recover in the\nmedical machine. So applying a kaioken times 20 over that, it made him to have\na power level of 60,000,000 during a short period of time.\n\nAnd aside of that, saiyans have transformations which apply to them\nmultipliers. The super saiyan transformation has a multiplier of times 50. So\nwhen Goku transformed, a times 50 multiplier was applied to his base form\npower of 3,000,000 during that time . Meaning he got a power level of\n150,000,000 when fighting with Freezer in super saiyan form.\n\nThe power levels of Goku I mention, you can see them stated in this list.\n\n[List of power\nlevels](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Power_Levels)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHello :) so I saw only part of it a while back and so I only know a little bit\nabout it.\n\nIt was definitely on the horror side - there were humans vs vampires and (I\ndont know if it was for just that episode or if it was the entire series) but\nthe humans were the ones hunting down the vampires. The vampires weren't evil\nand were just regular humans, but the humans were rude.\n\nThe scene I saw went something like this: Some vampires are crawling through a\nnarrow tunnel (head to butt) trying to escape the humans - they are obviously\npanicked and some are crying. Then one by one, the humans begin to rip them\nout of the tunnel. Pretty gruesome. After they rip them all out, you can see a\nmassacre of bodies around as a large man comes up to one of the vampires (Who\nis burning, if I remember correctly because of the sun) and he says something\nthat makes it evident that his son was killed by a vampire and then he kills\nher and the rest of the humans around him console him.\n\nI'm afraid that is all I know, any help would be extremely appreciated! <3\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt sounds like [**Shiki**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/7724/Shiki):\n\n\n\n> When citizens of a secluded village begin dying off in alarming numbers, the\n> sole hospital's head doctor tries desperately to save his patients—but his\n> efforts are in vain. Entire families are wiped out while others desert their\n> homes. All hell breaks loose as the villagers discover their loved ones'\n> corpses are rising from the grave with an insatiable thirst for human blood.\n> Who is safe when the urge to kill in order to survive blurs the line between\n> man and monster?\n\n * It is pretty gruesome especially in showing humans killing vampires\n * In the beginning of the series vampires kills humans without letting them realize they were actually killed (they just considered theirs as unexplained deaths)... When humans realize the existence of vampires they begin to hunt them down.\n * I think the scene you described is taken from **Episode 20.5** : [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy_Dcp5Ljp4) is a clip from that episode. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the epilogue to _Ping Pong_ , we see this newspaper headline.\n\n\n\n> Five years after naturalization, finally a ticket to the Olympics for\n> Tsujido Wenge\n\nNow, I don't know Japanese, but I can kind of read this at the very beginning\nof the Japanese text:\n\n> 辻堂文革（中国名 孔文革）\n\nThis translates to\n\n> Tsujido Wenge (Chinese name Kong Wenge)\n\nThis suggests that Kong Wenge is known as \"Tsujido Wenge\" in Japan. This is\nbecause it doesn't make sense for 中国名 to simply be referring to the Chinese\ncharacters (the kanji) for his actual name to me, given the \"中国\" (i.e. \"China\"\nor \"Chinese\" in the sense of nationality), but again, I don't know Japanese.\n\n**Is there any in-universe reason for this discrepancy?** Perhaps since he\nwants to play for Japan, he's better off with a Japanese surname? I think the\nschool Kong played for was Tsujido, and this also seems relevant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe keyword is in the **(Japanese) naturalization**.\n\nKong Wenge took a Japanese nationality by mean of\n[naturalization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nationality_law?oldformat=true#Naturalization).\nAfter naturalization, he needed to have a Japanese legal name.\n\nFrom [this article](http://www.turning-japanese.info/2010/07/faq-do-you-have-\nto-take-japanese-name.html),\n\n> # Do you have to take a Japanese name if you naturalize?\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> The simple answer to this question is YES, you _do_ need to take a Japanese\n> name.\n>\n> The reality, however, is that a [\"Japanese\n> name\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name) is not necessarily what\n> you are thinking. **You have to follow the same rules that a Japanese parent\n> has to follow when naming a baby**... [...].\n>\n> [...]. As you can see, some of us (like me) choose to write our existing\n> names in Japanese characters. Others choose a more Japanese-sounding name\n> that is similar in either sound or meaning to their original name, and\n> **others choose something that is altogether different from the name they\n> were born with**.\n>\n> You do need to write your name in Japanese characters. This can include ひらがな\n> (hiragana), カタカナ (katakana), **[常用漢字 (jōyō kanji) (kanji for everyday\n> use)](http://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1_qI8j9F5b8XqF8k1CklBiGRDSDp7kzhTc_oM7n5DUhE),\n> and/or [人名用漢字 (jimmeiyō kanji) (kanji designated for use in\n> names)](http://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1V0HNlUmutkYG8y1rh91KFQi9TxRFEGgnbKjo4Idimng)**,\n> [...]\n\n(Emphasis mine)\n\nWhile [孔 (kō)](http://en.ikanji.jp/character/%E5%AD%94) is actually an\nacceptable kanji (it's inside kanji for everyday use), given the privilege to\nchange his name, he chose 辻堂 (tsujido), probably to show his support to his\nhigh school.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the prologue to _Unlimited Blade Works_ , we see Rin drop her pendant after\nsaving Shiro's life. She doesn't bother picking it up, and later, Archer\nreturns it to her.\n\nHowever, in the first \"main\" episode, we see that Shiro picks up the pendant\nand takes it home after he is revived, and he doesn't encounter Archer until\nthe next day. So it doesn't seem like Archer could have intercepted him at\nsome point and retrieved the pendant. Moreover as additional support for this,\nwhen in episode 12, he topples Rin's jewelry chest, he sees her pendant and\nnotes that it's exactly the same as the one he remembered seeing that night.\nSo it looks like Shiro believes the pendant he finds at Rin's house is\ndifferent from the one he has.\n\nIs there a contradiction or omission here? It doesn't seem like Rin has more\nthan one pendant, from the narration in the beginning of UBW.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've only just started the second season, but from a combination of the\nmaterial here and what I've gleaned from sources like the\n[Wikia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Archer_%28Fate/stay_night%29), I have\nsomething of an answer.\n\n* * *\n\n**There is no contradiction or omission, in that there isn't only a single\npendant involved in the series.** In the first episode of the second season,\nwe have this exchange.\n\n> [Shiro shows Rin the pendant.]\n>\n> **Rin:** Huh? How did you get that?\n>\n> **Shiro:** Anyway, you can have it back. I have another pendant like it at\n> my house. After Lancer nearly killed me at school, it was lying next to me.\n> I picked it up, and I've had it ever since.\n\nTo this, Rin seems surprised. So barring any weird, supernatural duplication,\nthere must be more than one pendant.\n\nN.B.: it seems that Rin's pendant is unique. Archer tells Rin that she\nshouldn't lose it again back in the beginning, and that it suits her (and not\nothers). From both my guess and the [Wikipedia episode\nlist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fate/stay_night:_Unlimited_Blade_Works_episodes),\nit looks like Shiro was returning the pendant from Rin's room, although the\nEnglish dialogue isn't completely clear on this. (I could not tell if Shiro's\nexplanation for having one of the pendants was supposed to explain why he had\nthe one he was returning. But this is more plausible, and perhaps Shiro didn't\nrealize that the pendant lying next to him after he almost died was\nnecessarily Rin's, even if he remembers her in the hallway.)\n\n* * *\n\nHowever, this doesn't explain where Archer got the pendant he returned to Rin.\nNow, Archer's true identity is:\n\n> Shiro of an alternate timeline from that of Fate/stay night [...] He is\n> summoned because he still has the jewel pendant that Rin used to save his\n> life after Lancer stabbed his heart. The jewel he owns is the actual\n> catalyst used for his summoning rather than the one that Rin still has at\n> the time of his summoning. (Source: Wikia)\n\nSo it must simply be that\n\n> Archer gave Rin his own pendant (which he obtained from her in another\n> timeline in a similar fashion to this one), and implicitly lied about\n> picking it up.\n\n* * *\n\n**Update:** I'm watching the UBW movie now, and Shiro tells Rin when returning\nthe pendant that\n\n> I didn't realize [it was yours] until I saw one with the same shape in your\n> home.\n\nSo I'm not sure if the conclusion I gleaned from Wikipedia about which pendant\nwas being returned was right. The anime series would suggest that he simply\ntook the pendant out of Rin's chest and is returning that one, but here, it\nlooks like Shiro is returning the pendant that he'd kept after being revived.\n\n**Update 2:** the visual novel (which I would consider \"canon\") makes it clear\nthat Shiro is simply returning the pendant he found at Rin's house (i.e. the\none Archer \"returned\"), when he explains to Rin where he found the pendant\nhe's returning:\n\n> I found it in your room. Oh . . . You might get surprised when you get home,\n> but I'm sorry. I tipped over your dresser . . . Well, I have the exact same\n> pendant at my house.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Archer is Shirou! \n> Basically that's it! \n> Because Shiro was grateful about being saved, he kept the pendant and even\n> as a heroic spirit he kept it. There is only 1 pendant; the other one came\n> from another time and space!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, it was revealed that\n\n> The Dwarf in the Flask was an experiment of the King of Xerxes and that it\n> has Van Hohenheim's blood.\n\nBut it wasn't explained what method was used to create him. So, how was The\nDwarf in the Flask created? Was it ever explained in the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe backstory of van Hohenheim and Father is discussed in chapter 74 and 75.\nAll we see is this:\n\n 1. The Dwarf in the Flask talks to slave no. 23, whom he names.\n\n 2. Van Hohenheim is taught to read and write, and ends up in a better position in the household.\n\n 3. The king wants immortality, and the homunculus tricks him and destroys the whole country, excepting Hohenheim.\n\n**The only thing relevant in these chapters to how the homunculus was created\nis this: it notes that blood was taken from Hohenheim to create the\nhomunculus.**\n\nFrom chapter 74:\n\n\n\nThe notion that they have blood relation is repeated later in chapter 75, but\nthis is the main thing we ever get as to the origin of the Dwarf in the Flask.\n\nIt's possible of course that there might have been more information in bonus\nmaterial to the series, but the fact that [the\nWikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Father) lacks anything beyond this and that\nI've never seen any serious commentary on this among fans of FMA suggest that\nthis probably isn't the case.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConsidering the Dwarf in the Flask knew a vastly complicated array like the\nXerxes Array, it's probably a piece of Gate Knowledge put into a body by an\nalchemist using Slave 23's blood. This is corroborated by those little black\nhands that grab anyone entering the Gate, which look remarkably like the\nDwarf's hands.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFullmetal Alchemist is an Anime that IS somewhat based on real alchemy, so you\ncan ask this question by thinking about Real Alchemy in this very own world we\nlive in. \nIn the past, many alchemists tried to create artificial life-forms called\nhomunculus, which was used in this anime as a base for the homunculus in the\nanime. \nThe Dwarf in the Flask looks very similar to what alchemists at that time were\ntrying to do, like trying to fertilize a chicken egg with their own semen and\nblood, seal it inside a flask and hope that a small human would be born from\nthat interaction. \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YaZXP.jpg)\n\nSo, as he was made inside a flask, he probably was made in a similar manner,\nwe just don't have the exact \"recipe\"\n\nHere are some references and interesting facts:\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus> \nBy the way, I didn't know, but Paracelsus was credited for the first mention\non Homunculus.\n\nParacelsus was the inspiration behind Hohenheim, which is where his name came\nfrom:\n\nPhilippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim\n\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDwarf in the flask is in my opinion a depiction of the emerald tablet. The\nfather or creator of alchemy and all alchemical nature's. It is also the thing\nthe philosopher stone was created from.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike Mihreia said above, I also believe the little Dwarf in the flask to be a\npiece of the gate. Partly because of it's vast knowledge and the very easily\nrecognizable little black hands that strech out to grab things. Though I want\nto add that the people of Xerxes may have had alchemy skills and methods that\nthe modern people of Amestris are unable to grasp hold of. Maybe it was a lost\nskill. It's like how we still have mysteries of people and events of the past.\nTill now, we dont know how the pyramids were built. Maybe it's something of\nthat sort.\n\nOther than that, all the other sources I've read do not give much information\nas to who,where or how the first homunculous came to be.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the **Stardust Crusaders** series, the antagonist [Vanilla\nIce](http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/Vanilla_Ice) is localized into English as\n\"Cool Ice\". There's also the renaming of [Steely\nDan](http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/Steely_Dan) to \"Dan of Steel\". Is it due to\npossible copyright/trademark infringements? Or is there another reason,\nartistic license?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found a page from the US Government's Patent and Trademark Office that\nexplains when a musician can trademark a name. <http://www.uspto.gov/learning-\nand-resources/ip-policy/musicians-and-artists-profile>, under **Registering a\nName** :\n\n> Sometimes musicians and artists want to register their name as a trademark,\n> including a stage name or pseudonym. If the mark appears to be a person’s\n> name, then there are additional requirements for the application. If the\n> name is an actual name (including a nickname or stage name) of any living\n> individual, then the person’s consent to the use and registration of the\n> name must be included in the application file. See TMEP 813 & 1206.03. If\n> the mark does not refer to a living individual, but could be interpreted as\n> a name (e.g., a band name that looks like a person’s name), then a statement\n> that the mark is not a living individual must be in the application file.\n> See TMEP 813.01(b). In addition to the consent requirement, applications\n> seeking to register a performer’s name as a trademark must include evidence\n> that the mark appears on at least two different works (e.g., multiple CD\n> covers). See TMEP 1202.09(a). Applications seeking to register a name as a\n> service mark must show a use in connection with the service, and not merely\n> the artist’s name or the name of the group. See TMEP 1301.02(b). However, an\n> artist’s name or pseudonym affixed to an original work of art (sculptures,\n> paintings, jewelry), need not show use in connection with a series. See TMEP\n> 1202.09(b).\n\nI couldn't find any specific source saying that Vanilla Ice and Steely Dan\nwere trademarked, but it seems likely they are. (So we should really write\nVanilla Ice™ and Steely Dan™.) The names have appeared on several CD covers,\nso that clause is covered; and it seems unlikely that the actual name of any\nliving person is \"Vanilla Ice\" or \"Steely Dan\". (But even if there was a\n\"Vanilla Thaddeus Ice\" living in Gary, Indiana, the kind of money that a major\nrecord label used to be able to command could probably convince him to give\npermission for the trademark.)\n\nThe US fair use laws do list parodies as a protected class of work, so\naccording to what little I know of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and fair use law,\nit could probably be argued in court that this is a parody and therefore a\nprotected usage. But I imagine the translators wanted to avoid any risk of\ngoing to court to argue about this, so they voluntarily changed the names.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think are there any real copyright or trademark issues that would\nprevent the names Vanilla Ice or Steely Dan being used in the English\nlocalization. You can't copyright a name and I don't think trademark law would\napply because there's no chance a consumer would confuse these very different\nproducts. In the case of Vanilla Ice his [abandoned registered\ntrademark](https://trademarks.justia.com/856/85/vanilla-ice-85685764.html) in\nthe US would have only covered \"Audio and video recordings featuring music and\nartistic performances [...] T-shirts [...] Entertainment in the nature of live\nMUSICAL performances by AN INDIVIDUAL [...]\", and not characters in comic\nbooks and cartoons. On the other hand, Steely Dan's name is not exactly\noriginal, they took their name from a strap-on dildo in a William S. Burroughs\nnovel. Also copyright protection is automatically world wide, and trademark\nprotection goes wherever the product does. I don't know if Vanilla Ice ever\nhad much of presence in Japan, but Steely Dan has toured there, so the group\nwould be entitled to just as much protection of their name in Japan as the US.\n\nThat said, even if they don't have a leg to stand on, it's much easier for an\nAmerican to cause legal trouble for an American company in the American\ncourts, than it is for them to do the same to an Japanese company in a\nJapanese court. The company doing the localization might have very well\nchanged the name to avoid a legal fight they couldn't afford even if they were\ncertain to prevail in the end.\n\nAt least for the Vanilla Ice character there's another fairly obvious reason\nwhy the name would be been changed. Many Americans would recognize the name\nand be put off by the fact that the character doesn't actually resemble the\nrap performer. Even without the legal considerations they may have changed the\nnames of the characters (there are quite few using names of musicians) to\navoid all the baggage the names would have with American audiences.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 4, when Teito meets Lazet for the first time she looks [like a\nbrunette](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AHbV7.jpg), but a few moment afterwards\n(something like 10 seconds), her hair color [changes to\npink](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PU4ND.jpg) without any noticeable reason (and\napparently no one seems to be bothered by it at all).\n\nAlthough I didn't see the whole series, I'd like to know if this phenomenon\nhas been explained later in the series, or has it just remained unexplained?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause\n\n> She is not a human, but a Noel Mermaid, who has an ability to change their\n> face's appearance. Her original face is the one with pink hair and eyes.\n\nSo, when Teito met Lazet,\n\n> She mimicked Teito's face: brunette hair and green eyes.\n\n* * *\n\nReferences:\n\n * 07-GHOST Wikia: [Razette](http://07ghost.wikia.com/wiki/Razette)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWho is the seiyuu/voice actress of the young Aya in Episode 17 of Mushishi? I\nwant to know because I think she sounds like Naru Kotoishi from _Barakamon_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\n[Tsuzurahara\nMiyu](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=25483),\napparently.\n\nIncidentally, AnimeNewsNetwork tends to have very comprehensive listings of\nvoice actors and staff, so that's always a good place to check if you have a\nquestion like this in the future.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nArmament Haki is being used by a number of users, namely Luffy, Sabo, Garp,\nChinjao, etc.\n\nSo, has there been any explanation given about the process or training\ninvolved in obtaining this Haki ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs an introduction I will quote [the wiki page on\nHaki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki):\n\n> Haki is a mysterious power that is found in every living being in the world.\n> It is not that different from the normal senses. However, most people do not\n> notice it or fail to awaken it. Broadly, there are two types of Haki common\n> to everyone, given the proper training\n\nAs mentioned here, everybody has the ability to learn Haki, given the proper\ntraining. We have seen lots of examples of people who had obtained Haki\nthrough training, like the girls from the [Kuja\ntribe](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuja), Luffy during his training with\nRayleigh, Cobi during his training with Garp, etc. Almost every person we have\nseen, that uses Haki has gone through some kind of training from a _Haki\nexpert_. The problem is that **none of these training sessions have been\nshown** as of writing.\n\n**Training is not the only way to obtain Haki though**. As mentioned in the\nintroduction, Haki is not different from your normal senses and that means\nthat you can also obtain Haki subconsciously. We have seen a handful of cases,\nwhere people had obtained Haki on their own, without any training whatsoever.\nExamples of this are Ace and Luffy obtaining Conqueror's Haki, Cobi and Usopp\nobtaining Observation Haki or Sai obtaining Armament Haki. So it does not mean\nyou have to take training per se to obtain Haki, but it is well advised to\ntake training to fully control your power. Ace for example was shown to have\nConqueror's Haki, but it did not look like he ever learned how to control it\nproperly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think to obtain certain haki, you have to do special training or learn some\nkind of technique, for armament haki you would have to boost your strength and\nfighting spirit to concentrate enough power to learn armament haki. For\nobservation haki, i think you would have to learn to concentrate on listening,\nhearing, seeing and smelling. Or(For people who want to learn it the easy\nway)you could meditate and begin to be more at peace, so you would be able to\nnot only see, but also hear your surrounding better, so it's harder for your\nopponent to hit you. To learn conquerers' haki...\n\nI don't know, that's really never been cleared before. Well hope this info\nhelps those who want to learn haki.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou have to be at a certain level of skill before you can learn haki. All the\ncharacters have shown usage of haki before they went into special training to\nget better at it. If you picked the weakest person off the street you would\nfirst train them in combat for at least one to two years before they start to\nshow signs of being able to use haki. Ussop is a good example because he was\nvery weak and grew to some extent from battling with the straw hats. Even then\nhe wouldn’t have been able to get training for haki. It was only after two\nmore years of training and a stressful situation did he finally use\nobservation haki to save Luffy from Sugar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nThis picture is really cute so I want to know what manga this is so please\nhelp me thank you for your consideration.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga that this image is from is called [**Houkago x\nPonytail**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/43789/Houkago_x_Ponytail). It is in\nthe second chapter and in page 29. A quick Google search will show this as the\nsource, although you may need to dig a bit deeper.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI only have the anime to go on so maybe there's an explanation in the manga.\nIt seems clear that Ichigo is stronger than Rukia was in episode 1 at the\npoint of his first battle with Renji. In fact it seems like Ichigo may have\nbeen stronger as soon as he became a soul reaper, but based on Rukia's\nreaction to the stronger enemies up to that point (Menos Grande, and Grand\nFisher) it seems she believes that a single shinigami could hope to win in\ncases where Ichigo does. This seems to imply that Ichigo is stronger than\nRukia ever was at that point. Then Ichigo fights Renji and is at least closely\nmatched. It's difficult to say that at the point where Ichigo gains the upper\nhand whether he is stronger or weaker than when he was fighting stronger\nenemies in the past but it does seem like Ichigo and Renji, at their first\nmeeting, are at roughly the same strength which is greater than Rukia's at the\nbeginning of the series.\n\nBut in episode 32 where Renji has his flashback to his time in the Rukon\ndistrict and training to be a shinigami it seems clear that Rukia was always\nstronger than he was. So then how do we explain this discrepancy? Did Renji\nget significantly stronger in the few months Rukia was in the world of the\nliving? Is there any particular reason for that? Or am I underestimating how\nstrong Rukia was at the start?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Rukia stepped into the world of the living, she had to inhabit a \"Gigai\"\n(empty body) to be able to interact with the living. That body was provided by\nKisuke Urahara. Hidden inside that Gigai was one of his inventions (the\nHōgyoku), which by being placed in the same body as a Shinigami would be\ndestroyed, or so he planned. After Rukia gifting her Shinigami power to\nIchigo, her powers failed to return, and the Hōgyoku was what was blocking\nRikia's powers. Along with the tower she was held in during her wait for\nexecution, she was left with no power. Shortly after she was saved, the\nHōgyoku was stolen, and her power began to very slowly return.\n\nIn the later episodes, when she has recovered, you can clearly see her\nstrength after she has enough power to call forth her Zanpakutō with its\noverwhelming ability to freeze enemies.\n\nJust as Ichigo has gotten stronger from numerous fights with Hollow and\nShinigami, so has Renji from their fights and his own determination to save\nRukia from her execution and later protect her from further harm. Also, his\npower was boosted considerably with him mastering his Bankai at the same time\nIchigo was unlocking his own.\n\nPlus, all Shinigami have their power capped/suppressed when visiting the human\nworld, or they would seriously damage the living.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause he had the best scores in the academy, Renji was in the the advanced\nclass together with other students, Kira and Hinamori among them. Rukia was in\nthe normal class because her scores were worse.\n\nBesides, the scene in the anime with Rukia making a bigger ball of light than\nRenji is filler, and it doesn't appear in the manga. Additionally, that\nwouldn't necessarily indicate that Rukia was stronger, as it can simply mean\nthat Rukia was better at kido.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRenji has always been stronger than Rukia in every arc as he possesses bankai\nand even in base form Renji would still slightly ahead of Rukia. Obviously,\nafter their training with the zero squad, if they all get the exact same\ntreatment, Renji would be stronger and Byakuya would be stronger than Renji.\n\nIn SS arc, Byakuya was stronger than Renji with bankai in just his base/shikai\nstate. even with shikai, Byakuya could have easily defeated Renji's bankai at\nthat time.\n\nDuring the Blood war arc start Byakuya's shikai was also stronger than Renji's\nby a lot. Renji was not even able to injure as nodt while Byakuya could.\n\nDuring the fullbring arc, Ichigo's shikai was stronger than Renji's bankai as\nseen from his feats against a Mid tier SR opie Ichigo was dominating while he\nstayed in shikai but Renji could not even injure a mid tier as nodt.\n\nIf we say that Rukia after the 2 year time skip was a Peak/Top level Vice\ncaptain and Renji a Low tier captain on the same level as SS Byakuya/Bankai\nIchigo then the power boost they all receive is 1 tier +.\n\nRukia would go from Top Vice captain to Top Tier Captain level same level as\nGin Ichimaru/Shinji\n\nRenji would go from Low Captain tier to Low Elite/Senior Captain about as\nstrong as Stark/ulquiorra R1, bleach has confirm that Vasto lord are stronger\nthan captain which infact they are, that is why Captain level and Senior\ncaptain are different\n\nByakuya would jump from Mid-high captain tier to Mid Senior captain tier which\nis about the same level as Shunsui/Unohana\n\nIchigo in the fullbring arc should be in the same level as top Tier captain so\nShinji/Gin while Kensei should be a Mid tier captain, Soi Fon a high tier\ncaptain\n\nAizen would be a high-top Tier Senior Captain while Yamamoto would be Top tier\nSenior captain or shinigami Limit absolute limit\n\nIchibei would be a transcendent Level tier fighter as he in shikai was\nsuperior to Yamamoto by a landslide given that he gave Yhwach a good beating\nwith ease before plot device came in.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRenji appears stronger in the anime but eventually in the manga when Rukia\nreaches her bankai and becomes captain of the 13th squad she gains tremendous\npower and therefore is thought to become stronger than Renji. Her bankai being\nconsiderably deadly and strong\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou forget Rukia has more spirit energy. She fainted as a kid because of the\nspiritual pressure of the Shinigami. Renji wasn't able to feel it yet. Also\nthe hogyoku was slowly turning her human or something and after she got locked\naway with no access to reiki. Wich made it so she wouldn't recover fast. Like\nshe would otherwise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've been looking for the name of this OST, but I haven't had any luck finding\nit. It's the first one played\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liotuj4dArU). It's also played on the\n6:07 mark in [episode 343](http://gogoanime.tv/naruto-shippuden-episode-343).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I see an image that I believe is from either an anime or a manga. What are\nsome ways that I can go about finding what series it's from?\n\n### Try these options:\n\n 1. [Google reverse image search](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-from-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/21619#21619) (browser built-in support and plugins)\n 2. [Other reverse image search engines: TinEye, SauceNao, iqdb](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-from-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/24210#24210)\n 3. [Search engine tailored to searching anime by screenshots](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-from-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/30207#30207)\n 4. [Search for an anime or manga character](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-from-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/36843#36843)\n 5. [Technique: Cropping the image](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-from-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/21620#21620)\n 6. [Animated GIF: Picking the right frame](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-from-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/21651#21651)\n\n> **Note** : Please note that as of May 9, 2016, **ALL** [identification-\n> request](/questions/tagged/identification-request \"show questions tagged\n> 'identification-request'\") questions are now [**off-\n> topic**](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2812/identification-\n> request-cleanup-phase-1-deprecation). Therefore, you can't ask an\n> identification request question on this site.\n>\n> However, such questions are still welcome [in our main\n> chat](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/6697/maid-cafe-) for users with\n> at least [20 rep](https://anime.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat)\n> (globally on StackExchange).\n\n* * *\n\n> **Protip** : **If you are using Google Image Search in a non-English\n> language** , [change your language to\n> English](https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en#languages) or just use\n> [Google NCR](https://www.google.com/ncr) for better, more accurate results.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Google reverse image search\n\n## Chrome for desktop\n\nLet's say you saw an interesting image online and you want to identify the\nanime it's from. To do this, you'll have to:\n\n 1. Right-click on the image.\n\n 2. Click \"Search Google for this image\" (or for later version, \"Search image with Google Lens\").\n\n\n\nand here it is:\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Using another desktop browser\n\n> **Note** : If you are using Firefox, you can download the [Search By Image\n> (by Google)](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-by-image-\n> by-google/) plugin and search for images like when using Chrome. If you use\n> a Chromium based browser (like Opera), you can download the same extension\n> from [Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-by-\n> image-by-google/dajedkncpodkggklbegccjpmnglmnflm?hl=en).\n\nTo search for images on browsers other than Chrome, you'll have to:\n\n 1. Go to [Google image search](https://www.google.com/imghp).\n 2. Press the camera button.\n 3. Paste the image URL, or upload a file from your computer.\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Using Chrome for mobile\n\nJust press and hold the image and click \"Search Google for this image\".\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Using another mobile browser\n\nSwitch your browser to desktop mode, and then follow the steps in _Using\nanother desktop browser_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Search parts of a larger picture\n\nSometimes you find a huge image, or an image consisting of several characters\nwhom you want to identify. In that case, you will first need to crop the image\nfor the search to work correctly.\n\n## Cropping the image\n\nFirst you will need to crop the image. For example, let us use this\n[picture](http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/342/6/1/white_haired_anime_characters_by_jonatan7-d5ng5ph.png)\nfrom DeviantArt:\n\n\n\nSuppose we want to find out who the top right character is, and from which\nanime he is. First, you need to single his picture out. You can do so by\nimporting the picture into a picture editor such as Paint or Photoshop, or an\nexternal screenshot device such as [Gyazo](https://gyazo.com/).\n\nAfter cropping the image you should have a picture similar to this:\n\n\n\nHaving the cropped the image, you can follow [almousawi's\nguide](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-\nfrom-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/21619#21619) to\nreverse image search it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis can also be done with GIFs. Some GIFs on the internet do not have much\nmovement, and it's usually safe to run those through the reverse image search\nwithout more extra work.\n\nHowever, other GIFs involve a lot more motion, and so it can be trickier\n(particularly since some of the frames can be useless). This can sometimes be\ndone by \"timing\" the search right (by clicking just before the right frame)\nand trying a different points in the GIF, but this isn't very efficient,\nparticularly since it can be hard to get the timing right.\n\nA better tactic is to first break down the GIF into all its frames and search\nsome of the more promising ones. There are a number of websites where this can\nbe done, such as [gif-explode](https://www.gif-explode.com/). We can then run\na couple individual reverse image searches, and some frames might work better\nthan others.\n\n## Demo\n\nFor example, this GIF does very poorly at certain frames, yet as I stated in\nmy answer in [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/12881/2604),\nsome of the frames do work.\n\n\n\nRunning this through gif-explode, I get the GIF broken down into its frames.\n(Click on the image to get bigger picture.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ve5x9.png)\n\nI pick a couple of frames and run them through Google Reverse Image Search,\nand the frame boxed in red gives me the very useful result of `illya archer`,\nand some links to the Fate series.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MaCkk.png)\n\nMeanwhile, other frames in this GIF give me no result, so it can take a couple\nof tries.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Other reverse image search engines\n\nAside from [**Google**](https://www.google.com/imghp), there also exist\n[**TinEye**](http://tineye.com/), [**SauceNao**](http://saucenao.com/) and\n[**iqdb**](http://iqdb.org/).\n\nYou can either go to these links and upload your image for search, or if you\nwant to search an image that is already published on the internet, copy the\nfollowing links into your browser's address bar and add the image link at the\nend of it.\n\n[code]\n\n http://tineye.com/search?url= \n http://saucenao.com/search.php?url= \n http://iqdb.org/?url=\n \n[/code]\n\nTinEye shows better search results than other engines for images that look\nlike screenshots from anime tv series and gifs from social networks and blogs.\n\nSauceNao and iqdb are usually better for searching original artwork that does\nnot come from anime movies, series or manga.\n\n> **Caution** : sometimes search results contain [**NSFW\n> images**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work), especially for\n> very low quality images.\n\n_If unsure, use all reverse image search engines listed on this page until you\nfind your source._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have developed a reverse search engine tailored for searching anime by\nscreenshots.\n\nTry this yourselves at <https://trace.moe>\n\nYou may also search by right clicking any image after installing the [chrome\nextension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-anime-by-\nscreensho/gkamnldpllcbiidlfacaccdoadedncfp).\n\nDemo screenshot:\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# Searching Anime Character Database\n\nSometimes you don't get results from an image search(Fan Art, Cosplay etc.) or\nyou just remember the character but don't have any images.\n\nYou can search in the [Anime Character\nDatabase](https://www.animecharactersdatabase.com) for the physical traits of\nthe character.\n\nFor example let me use the image from [Dimitri mx's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21618/where-is-this-picture-\nfrom-how-do-i-use-reverse-image-search-to-find-the-source/21620#21620) (sorry,\nbut I couldn't think of an example image), taken from\n[DeviantArt](https://orig15.deviantart.net/faca/f/2012/342/6/1/white_haired_anime_characters_by_jonatan7-d5ng5ph.png):\n\n\n\nSuppose we want to know the second character in the last row.\n\nWe note that she seems to be female, has white hair (length we can't say for\nsure), blue eyes, and looks to be a teen or child.\n\nNow go to the [Anime Character Database\nSearch](https://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/search.php), enter the traits\nand press search.\n\n\n\nThere she is, as the first result\n\n\n\nClicking on the result will give further details about her like the anime in\nwhich she has appeared, etc.\n\n\n\nYou can also use tags like Armor, Hair Ribbons, etc.\n\n> **Note:** You can use filter to show safe images only, questionable only or\n> everything.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Death Note anime, Rem kills [Ginzo\nKaneboshi](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Ginzo_Kaneboshi) in episode 21 to\nhelp Misa convince Higuchi that she is the second Kira. But why didn't Rem die\nafter this? If she died after killing Watari/L, but why not after killing\nKaneboshi?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat is because a Shinigami can die only if they try to **extend** or\n**prolong** the life of a human. In this case, Misa was not in any danger, and\nkilling Ginzo would in no way extend Misa's life directly.\n\nThis excerpt from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinigami_%28Death_Note%29#Overview)\nexplains that Shinigami can die only by saving a human life (emphasis mine):\n\n> Like humans, Shinigami also can die, of sorts by extending the life of a\n> human they care about (by saving them from certain death): the **purpose of\n> a Shinigami is to end life, not give it, and hence saving a human is\n> contrary to their nature**. Shinigami who die in this manner are reduced to\n> dust. Their Death Note is left behind. The other way that a Shinigami can\n> die is that they stop writing names in their Death Note- since Shinigami\n> take human lifespans for their own when they write a name in their Death\n> Note, if they stop they will eventually die when their lifespan runs out.\n\nHope this helps :D\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 62 of Brotherhood series, when Father's stone was nearly depleted,\nhe started to search desperately for a new one. When he saw Edward Elric\npinned down, his expression suddenly changed and he started walking towards\nhim, as if he had found one.\n\nIf they are part human, part Philosopher's Stone, isn't it kinda ironic that\nwhat they had been looking for was inside them all along?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are a few different things to address here.\n\nFirst off, **Edward and Alphonse are fully human**. This is actually addressed\nwhen Alphonse first finds out about his dad's origins. Essentially, he\ncontains a philosopher's stone within himself, but he is still biologically\nhuman.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ouTl3.jpg) \n_Click to enlarge._\n\nSecond, remember that **all humans are philosopher's stones**. Edward (kind\nof) states this in episode 41, and says that his life energy is identical to\nthat of a philosopher's stone, and he's right. All humans are simply\nphilosopher's stones containing exactly one soul.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ctpw.jpg)\n\nThird, it is because of the above points that Father approached Edward. It\nwasn't because he'd get a lot of energy, like from a true, isolated stone\n(such as one of Kimblee's), but rather **because Edward had one soul of energy\nwithin him**. Father was desperate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I remember this scene from an anime for many years now but I can't find it\nno matter what I searched for.\n\nHere's what I remember:\n\n * Green (maybe blue? not sure) long-haired badass guy, with dark clothing. He really resembles Sephiroth from _Final Fantasy_.\n * The setup is in a futuristic city/world, the city I remember resembles the city from _Akira_ : flying cars, full of roads, light etc.\n * It must be an old anime, late 80s or early 90s. \n\nThe scene I remember clearly is this guy walking an empty road on that city,\nbut the screen is full with roads on all heights, buildings etc. I think this\nguy is accompanied by someone else on that scene but I'm not sure.\n\nI tried to find it many times for 5 years or so, but I cant remember anything\nelse at all.\n\nWhat is this anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs this possibly the [**Escaflowne\n(film)**](http://escaflowne.wikia.com/wiki/Escaflowne_movie)? It was made in\n2000, adapting a TV anime from 1996.\n\nFolken in the film version has long sky-blue hair and dark clothes, and is the\nmain antagonist (he was born as Dune of Adom but became the leader of the\nBlack Dragon Clan).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DFJdR.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7L7UC.jpg)\n\nAllen Schezar in the same film, the leader of the Abaharaki (a group of\nrefugees), also has Sephiroth-style bangs with long hair and dark clothes.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FCCaq.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aMC5O.jpg)\n\nThe film includes airships, roads, and lights.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aSzwT.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gQxJx.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome of the girls conquered by Keima have issues that seem to be partially\nsolved once freed from their Loose Soul (like Kanon's invisibility), but while\nElsie sometimes ponders if it has any relation to the lost soul being inside\nthe girl's heart, it is not confirmed.\n\nIs there any solid reference in canon material of drawbacks of being possessed\nby a Loose Soul?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only _consistent_ drawback of remaining possessed is having your first\nchild being the reincarnation of a devil from old hell. The main goal of a\nloose soul is to be returned, and since they do this through the first\noffspring of their host (see below), they wouldn't want to adversely affect\nsaid host too drastically.\n\n\n\nAside from that, like you say, certain girls that host a Loose soul have a\nparticular \"power\", such as Kanon's invisibility, or Tsukiyo's shrinking. Even\nif not having a certain \"power\" as such, the Loose Soul can still heavily\naffect its hosts personality (e.g. Shiori, who has no specific power, but\nreads each book in the library and lives a secluded existence). These are all\nunique to a particular girl, and even though they vary greatly in severity,\nthey are still definitely drawbacks that would leave less than desirable\nliving conditions if left unchecked.\n\nDeciding on the most potent drawback depends on the girl, I suppose, but there\naren't any positives to take away from being possessed!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Namek Saga, we found out that the Namekian Dragon Balls need a password\nto be activated, which Dende uses on behalf of the Z Warriors. Since he says\nit in Namekian, I am wondering if there is a translation of what he is saying?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no known explanation for the password in manga AFAIK. According to\nthe Dragon Ball Wikia, only a few words of the Namekian language are\nexplained. Piccolo and Porunga are the two words really explained and the\nothers are in filler episodes.\n\n**The password is \"Takkaraput pop porunga pupiritt paro!\" . As far as you make\nit out, Porunga is part of the password. And the episode is named as \"Password\nis Porunga\". So the best guess is something like calling Porunga. Also for\nShenron, replace Porunga with Shenron in the password. So the password isn't a\nrandomn mystery but some sort of calling to the dragon's name. It is however a\nguess as there is no official translation**.\n\nTo quote the wikia on this:\n\n> The Namekian language is a fictional language spoken by Namekians,\n> individuals native to Planet Namek. \"Piccolo\" and \"Porunga\" have been\n> defined in the Dragon Ball manga; other words appear as filler material in\n> episodes of Dragon Ball Z. In Dragon Ball, Piccolo and Kami speak in\n> Namekian language to each other during the 23rd World Martial Arts\n> Tournament; although their actual words are translated, Namekian letters\n> appear on the screen.\n\nHere is a list of known Namekian words, some translated:\n\n> * **_\"Avishta\"_** – never explained, although it may have some relation to\n> _'hello'_ , as Krillin says this during the Namek greeting gesture he makes\n> to Raiti.\n> * **_\"Butla antu\"_** – _\"bed\"_ , literally _\"sleepy time\"_\n> * **_\"Dablirobe\"_** – never explained\n> * **_\"Dorigelop crafca\"_** – _''fly to''_\n> * **_\"Onska ropeca\"_** – never explained, although it has some relation to\n> _'turn around'_ , as the phrase causes the Namek spaceship to turn while in\n> flight.\n> * **_\"Piccolo\"_** – _\"from another world\"_ or _\"open\"_\n> * **_\"Porunga\"_** – _\"dragon of dreams\"_ or _\"dragon of law\"_\n> * **_\"Seata belta\"_** – \"toilet\"\n> * **_\"Stando boomsca\"_** – never explained, although it has some relation\n> to _'fire'_ , as the phrase activates the Namek spaceship's beam cannon.\n>\n\nAccording to Naroka's Namek to English translator, these are the remaining\nwords that have been translated from Namek to English in the whole manga \"\n\n> * **_\"Stando boomsca\"_** – Relation to _'blast'_ or _'fire'_\n> * **_\"Pikonatto\"_** – _\"good day\"_\n> * **_\"Kistan\"_** \\- *\"Guardian\" *\n> * **_\"Dimo\"_** \\- _\"I'm\"_ or *\"I am\" *\n> * **_\"Matto espen\"_** \\- *\"What is your name\" *\n> * **_\"Kado\"_** \\- _\"Hey\"_\n> * **_\"Ba soun\"_** \\- _\"Over there\"_\n> * **_\"Ne sinti\"_** \\- Phrase, _\"He/She seems well/nice\"_\n> * **_\"Sinti\"_** \\- _\"Nice/Well\"_\n> * **_\"Kabo ko\"_** \\- _\"Still\"_\n> * **_\"Bäsa\"_** \\- _\"Unsure\"_\n> * **_\"Horou\"_** \\- _\"Do you\"_\n> * **_\"Sä\"_** \\- _\"It/It's\"_\n> * **_\"Irra Pokabo\"_** \\- _\"Possible\"_\n> * **_\"Kogata ro sa shikohama\"_** \\- _\"Do it or die\"_\n>\n\nAs you can see, the Namekian password has never been translated in the manga\ntoo.\n\nSource: <http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Namekian_language>\n\n<http://wodsouls.freeforums.net/thread/1299/naroka-ukares-namekian-english-\ndictionary>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the first episode of Death Parade, after the first game, the woman's soul\nis voided, and the man gets reincarnated.\n\n\n\nDuring the darts game, the woman tells the man that she is pregnant. Does this\nmean that the baby's soul is also voided? This would be weird knowing that the\nbaby probably was reincarnated not so long ago and had no impact on what his\nor her mother would do.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe know that if you kill a person via a disease, the Death Note isn't limited\nto the 23 day rule. Now those who have watched death note know, you can\nmanipulate a person to an extent. So my question is, could I write something\nlike this?\n\n> John Doe, Diabetes. Obeys every command from the person he knows as _J_ ,\n> till he dies.\n\nCould this work?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched the series only once and I am sure it is clearly stated in the\nseries that it is absolutely possible to control a person's actions and\nmanipulate him to do anything at all as long as it is physically possible for\nthat person to do so.\n\nBut I don't really think if that command is going t work. You see, death note\nonly kills a person and you can make a person do some stuff before he\neventually dies. There might be a time limit for manipulating the person\nbefore he dies but I am not sure about that. I think I read something about\nthis kind of stuff in the rules that appear in the series.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can write that but the person would die in 10 seconds because you didn´t\nput the time when he dies. (I think it was 10 seconds)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBut there's another thing. For instance, he wrote Diabetes. The death note\nonly makes the person do things that are physically possible. Otherwise, he\ndies of a heart attack.\n\nNow what if the person is fit and doesn't consume a lot of sugar? Death note\nis only supposed to alter a person's state of mind and make him to stuff. But\nbringing about a biological change in a person sounds kind of impractical to\nme, save for the heart attack though. That's the default case scenario.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are different ways to interpret this question. So let's break this down\n\n> John Doe, Diabetes. Obeys every command from the person he knows as ''J'',\n> till he dies.\n\nSO according to rule 23\n\n> If you write die of disease like before with a specific disease's name, but\n> without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to die\n> the 23 day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an adequate\n> time depending on the disease.\n\nSo the first part of your question\n\n> John Doe, Diabetes.\n\nworks fine and the disease would take a natural course of action.\n\nBut here is the catch. You cannot let another person control the user as\neasily as you think. In the second sentence\n\n> Obeys every command from the person he knows as ''J'', till he dies.\n\nYou have entered the name 'J' and would kill the person named as 'J' using a\nheart attack.\n\nAlso the line states \"Every command\" that 'J' gives. SO \"every\" command could\nalso include that 'J' orders john doe to do things he would not like to do or\n'J' could order 'Jon doe' to kill others which is not possible. According to\nTV tropes\n\n> The first is that the Death Note can only kill one person per name. If it\n> brings harm to anyone else, the person will just die of a heart attack.\n> Also, aliases don't work, period. The Death Note doesn't know who L or Kira\n> or Wedy or Aiber or Near or Mello or anyone else with an alias are. Real\n> names only. However, you could write something like \"Report Siht. Demolishes\n> a hotel, then subsequently dies.\" and then write \"L Lawliet. Crushed by\n> falling debris as his hotel is demolished.\" As long as two names are\n> written, they are able to interact.\n\nSo there is a limit of how much you can control and you cannot pass the\ncontrol to someone else without killing them(since you wrote 'J' in death note\nalready). So you statement in the death note would fail and would kill 'J'\nwith a heart attack and also kill 'John doe' with a heart attack as the \"Obeys\n'every' command\" is ambiguous.\n\n**EDIT: In respect to the comment by Dark Yagami.**\n\n**What works:**\n\n> John Doe, diabetes. Eats fries and gummy bears, cheats on his girlfriend\n\nwould work and you can control them as long as you want (at least till they\ndie of diabetes).\n\n**What does not work:**\n\n> John Doe, diabetes. J, diabetes. John Doe obeys every command of _J_\n\nwon't work. Because you transfer control of power to change the lives of other\npeople (in this case _J_ could ask John Doe to kill someone or make John Doe\ndo something impossible like fly to California from Japan in 2 mins. You\ncannot give an ambiguous command or control of other people's lives in the\nDeath Note as the death note would just kill John Doe with a heart attack and\n_J_ with diabetes in the above case.\n\nOne thing you guys must understand is, Death Note does not transfer the\nability to control the lives of anyone other than the ones in Death Note. So\nyou cannot make someone do something they would never contemplate. So handing\nover life of someone to another person is impossible for death note to do.\n\nSource:\n<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/DeathNoteRulesOfTheDeathNote>\n\n<http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**tl;dr:** This will not work and John will die of diabetes at an adequate\ntime. In the off chance that John is so healthy that it would not make sense\nfor him to die of diabetes, he will ironically die of a heart attack instead.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LcPSi.png)\n\n* * *\n\nBefore I start quoting the rules, let us go back to the beginning. **In\nchapter 6** , when Light just got his Death Note, he was as curious as you are\nright now and did similar experiments to the question you have been having. In\none of the failed experiments he requested a prisoner to write down the words\n`I know L distrusts the police.` Light almost thought it would work, but he\nguessed that **it would be impossible for him to make people have thoughts\nthey would never have**. In other words, even with the Death Note, Light could\nnot do the impossible, whether it would be physically impossible (eg: travel\nto Paris in 30 minutes) or mentally impossible (eg: draw a picture of an\nunknown person or write down something you would not naturally think of).\n\nSo coming back to your question, where John has to obey every order _J_ gives\nhim. It would be impossible for John to be thinking about obeying **every**\ncommand _J_ tells him. Therefore, similar to what happened to the prisoner,\nthe situation of death would become void and only the cause of death would\noccur as written down.\n\n> **Relevant rule:** Also, after writing the cause of death, even if the\n> situation of death is written within 6 minutes and 40 seconds in the human\n> world, the situation will only occur **to the victims whom it is possible**.\n> For those where the situation is not possible, only the cause of death will\n> occur.\n> [HTU:LVI](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LVI)\n\nThis would make the situation of John's death impossible, but not the cause.\nTherefore John will still die of diabetes, with nothing more specified about\nhis death. Unless he is medically unlikely of gaining diabetes, as mentioned\nearlier. In that case, he will die of a heart attack.\n\n> **Relevant rule:** In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but\n> the situation is not, **only the cause of death will take effect** for that\n> victim. If both the cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will\n> die of heart attack.\n> [HTU:LV](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LV)\n\nSince you did not specify a time of death, the [23-day\nrule](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVII)\nwas bypassed and John will die at an adequate time needed for the disease to\ntake effect.\n\n> **Relevant rule:** If you write die of disease like before with a specific\n> disease's name, but without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days\n> for the human to die the 23 day rule will not take effect and **the human\n> will die at an adequate time** depending on the disease.\n> [HTU:XXVIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVIII)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFew months ago I was watching anime on kissanime.com. In `Latest update`\nsection I found interesting anime. I watched 2-3 episodes and then left site\n(forgot to bookmark). I thought that was airing anime, because it only had 2\nor 3 episodes at that moment. After a month I tried to find it (MAL, google,\nbrowser history), but I couldn't. So lets give a try to find that dam anime\n:).\n\n**Story:**\n\nNowadays. Two guys (cool looking teenagers, like a gangsters) was standing\nnear the river. One said that life was boring. Then suddenly they had been\nteleported to abandoned city. They went to explore what is going on. When they\nware wondering, they met women. After that they all together reach temple. In\nthe temple game of death started. They all had to draw card with question. The\nanswer- number. And if you guest wrong the temple are bombarded with fire\narrows (arrow count is difference between correct answer and wrong answer).\nFinally MC (one of the guys) figured it out and escaped temple. Although his\nfriend was shot with arrow in the leg. After then (or maybe later), someone\nexplained all situation. That they must participate in those death games. And\nif they win, they can live X days more. Otherwise satellite will kill you (if\nyou run out of time). MC was quit exited, so he suggested to participate in\nanother game. His friend was injured, so he went with that women. The next\ngame was in multistory building. There was about 5 levels with a lot of rooms.\nAnd outside stairs and balconies connected to each room. There were a lot of\nparticipants and all of them had to find room with red button. They they press\nit, they will win. Although there was walking a tough guy with MAC smg. And\nkilling everyone.\n\n> Some information can be inaccurate. I watched this anime long time ago and I\n> remember it poorly.\n\nOkay, I think that is enough story. Please help me find this anime. Thanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**[Imawa no Kuni no\nAlice](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16495)**\n\nI haven't seen the anime, but what you describe is more or less the same as\nthe first chapters of the manga going by the same name.\n\nSynopsis from\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/24781/Imawa_no_Kuni_no_Alice):\n\n> \n>\n> The story follows a high school boy named Arisu and other youths who are\n> transported to a devastated alternate world. Trapped, they are forced to\n> play a deadly game of survival.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai, Rikka refers to herself as 邪王真眼 ( _Jaou\nShingan_ ). Wikipedia says this translates literally to \"True Eye of the Evil\nKing\".\n\n\n\nA while back, I watched a fansub which translated it as 'Tyrant's Eye'. I'm\nnow watching the official Sentai Filmworks translation, which I've so far been\npretty underwhelmed by. The official translation uses 'Wicked Lord Shingan',\nas if _jaou_ is a title and _shingan_ is a name.\n\nWhy are these three translations so different? 'Tyrant's Eye' is easy enough\nto see; the meaning is close to the literal translation, and it sounds better\nin English. But why is the official translation so far off? Is there some\nambiguity in the original Japanese that makes this hard to translate? Or did\nthe official translators drop the ball?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Wikipedia translation \"True Eye of the Evil King\" is a character-for-\ncharacter translation of 邪 _ja_ \"evil\", 王 _ou_ \"king\", 真 _shin_ \"true\", and 眼\n_gan_ \"eye\". The fansub translation \"Tyrant's Eye\" is, as you say, a nice\nlocalization of that, where we view _jaou_ ~\"tyrant\" as an attributive\nmodifier for _shingan_ ~\"eye\".\n\nSentai's translation appears to proceed along the same lines: they view _jaou_\n~\"Wicked Lord\" as attributively modifying this thing called _shingan_ (i.e.\nwhat property does _shingan_ have? The property of being a wicked lord, of\ncourse). And, in fact, if you were presented with the phrase _jaou shingan_\n**completely devoid of context** , Sentai's translation is not _obviously_\nwrong - it could well be that _shingan_ is the name of some being who is a\nwicked lord or somesuch (in Japanese, unlike in English, proper nouns are not\nalways easily distinguished from common nouns, particularly when it comes to\nedgy chuuni things). Indeed, one might be inclined to translate it this way as\na parallel to structurally-similar phrases like 魔王サタン _maou satan_ \"demon lord\nSatan\", where, of course, \"Satan\" is a name (though in this case there is no\nambiguity, since サタン \"Satan\" is obviously a loanword).\n\nBut the phrase _jaou shingan_ is **not** devoid of context. As anyone who has\nwatched the show knows, _jaou shingan_ is what Rikka calls her eye. As such,\nit strikes me as bizarre to treat _shingan_ as a proper noun rather than\ntranslating it as \"true eye\" or something similar.\n\nI think Sentai screwed the pooch on this one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen translating, they need to find words that fit the amount of syllables the\nmouths show. They keep it as accurate as possible while still keeping with the\nmouth flaps. So even though \"Tyrant's Eye\" may be the most accurate\ntranslation, with the amount of mouth flaps in the anime it may be harder to\nfit and still make sentences that make sense.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo my knowledge it only has 1 chapter and I want to know more about it.\n\nThe guy is in debt and so he has become a shut in until he falls asleep and\ngoes to a world of fantasy. He meets a girl and they partner up on a mission\nthey completed it but goes on an adventure and the girl ends up dead by some\nmonster. He teleports in time before he is killed and he wakes up. He checks\nhis balance and he made the exact amount from his amount in the game. He then\ngoes to the hospital and finds out that the girl may be dead. Next chapter was\nsuppose to reveal if that part is true.\n\nCan someone help me find this manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe manga is **[Zero no\nShiniki](http://myanimelist.net/manga/76191/Zero_no_Shiniki)** , and like you\nsaid, there's only one chapter translated so far.\n\nSynopsis from\n[MangaUpdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=105763):\n\n> \n>\n> Kanzaki Rei is an avid gamer, but one day he hit rock-bottom due to his\n> debts. During the night while sleeping, a strange phenomenon happened and\n> sent him inside the game he previously played. A world of life and death\n> awaits.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't stop thinking of what happens between Oreki and Chitanda after the\nlast episode of the anime. Does anyone know what happens in the 5th volume of\nthe manga, with regards to Oreki and Chitanda?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHyouka anime and manga is actually based on the light novel series named ‘\n**Classic literature club** ’. The manga adaptation haven’t even caught up to\nthe anime ( please update me when it does ) . However, in the light novel\ntheir relationship is progressing with similar pace as in the anime. None have\ntill now confessed their feeling to oneself or to each other. Oreki seems way\nmore comfortable around Chitanda though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt may be in the future they may become girlfriend and boyfriend due to how\ntheir relationship was so i think that's my answer but i don't think they'll\nget married yet maybe in a couple years time they will but i guess only time\nwill tell\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer by Imprfectluck at [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/21659/6166) made me wonder what\nwould happen to people whose name was written down in the details of another\npersons death. For example: _John Doe dies after his date with Jane Doe_. The\nforemost basic rule of the Death Note states that `The human whose name is\nwritten in this note shall die`. **So will Jane Doe die?**\n\nWe additionally have rule LIV that states that if you write the cause and\ndetails of death on a different page, you need to be thinking of the original\nvictim and would not be able to think both of John and Jane at the same time.\nThis would indicate that you have to choose what will happen. Either you think\nof John and the details happen, either you think of Jane and she dies. Does a\nsimilar rule exist when writing on the same page? Or is writing someone's name\nin the details of another's death just an exception to that first rule?\n\n> In order to make the Death Note take effect, the victim's name must be\n> written on the same page, but the cause of death and situation around the\n> death can be described in other pages of Death Note. **This will work as\n> long as the person that writes in the Death Note keeps the specific victims\n> name in mind when writing the cause and situation of death.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat is correct. Jane Doe will die of a heart attack 40 seconds later (unless\nthe cause/time of death is also described for the second victim).\n\nThe death note will not cause the deaths of other humans whose names are\n**not** written. But once written, all bets are off.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOK here is the discussion that gave me that idea.\n\n> **Can you have someone you are controlling with a Death Note order a murder?\n> For instance, could Light have written down the name of a mob boss, then\n> write, \"orders the demolition of the hotel where L is currently staying,\n> then dies three hours later.\"**\n>\n> No, for two reasons. The first is that the Death Note can only kill one\n> person per name. If it brings harm to anyone else, the person will just die\n> of a heart attack. Also, aliases don't work, period. The Death Note doesn't\n> know who L or Kira or Wedy or Aiber or Near or Mello or anyone else with an\n> alias are. Real names only. However, you could write something like \"Report\n> Siht. Demolishes a hotel, then subsequently dies.\" and then write \"L\n> Lawliet. Crushed by falling debris as his hotel is demolished.\" As long as\n> two names are written, they are able to interact. Isn't it only that the\n> person cannot directly harm people? Of course, regardless of that, \"orders\n> the demolition of the hotel where L is currently staying\" is impossible\n> because the mob boss could impossibly know that L is staying in a hotel or\n> which hotel that is.\n\nAlthough the above discussion tries to prove that you would need the name of\nperson to be killed to actually kill them. So as long as Jane Doe's name is in\nthe notebook , it will kill them. Either in one sentence or two sentence. If\nyou do not think of the person , the death note's command would not work\neither as it protects from killing someone by mistake.So either the **command\nwill work** or **Jane doe will die** are the only possible outcomes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems this was actually confirmed by L in chapter 45. The Yotsuba company\nhad made tests of their own, and deduced rules from this. One of the things\nthey deduced was that\n\n> If other names are specified, the action becomes void and they all have\n> heart attacks.\n\nTherefore a person written in the situation of death would completely void the\naction and kill all written names with a heart attack. Obviously the most\nfundamental rules need to be fulfilled (eg: Think of that person's face,\nnicknames would not work, ...), but it seems that the complete action would\nactually be voided if more names were written down in the situation of death.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Death Note: How to Use It I, the second rule is this:\n\n> This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in\n> their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same\n> name will not be affected.\n\nThe important part of the rule to look at is the first part. This means that\nsince you were meaning to kill John Doe, and this death won't cause the death\nof Jane Doe, then you were probably only thinking of John Doe's face, and\nthus, Jane Doe won't die.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy does Blackbeard send Burgess to assassinate Luffy? Is he afraid of him? I\nmean with his 2 Devil Fruit powers, he is overpowered. Even just with his Yami\nYami no Mi, he won quite easily against Ace, and now he also has the Gura Gura\nno Mi and a strong crew.\n\nSo is there a special reason for him to kill Luffy? And why not do it himself?\nDoes he fear the D in Luffy's name?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the moment I reckon this is all just speculation. I think he wants to kill\nLuffy because of his ability to inspire the people around him, as often noted\nby Kuzan.\n\nAt the battle of Marineford Luffy continuously inspired the other pirates to\nrise up and fight, just by being himself. This alone is a force to be reckoned\nwith that could well be used against Blackbeard.\n\nI personally think that he doesn't see luffy worthy enough to be have his\npersonal attention when it comes to the assassination. It's almost the same as\nLuffy not bothering with alot of minor henchman of the bad guys he encounters.\nOften the crew just take care of those.\n\nAs for the fear of the D in Luffy's name concerned. I highly doubt thats the\ncase, since (spoiler alert)\n\n> Blackbeard is a D. aswell, Marshall D. Teach\n\nTime will tell what Oda has in store for us tho\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBlackbeard did not send Burgess to kill Luffy, he did not even know Luffy was\nat Dressrosa to begin with. **Blackbeard originally had send out Burgess to\nDressrosa to get the Fire Fruit**. Later it was Sabo who ate the Fire Fruit,\nbut it looks like not much people knew about this. The only thing most people\nreally knew, was that _Lucy_ had eaten the Fire Fruit.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5DS5u.png)\n\nLater when Sabo blew up the colosseum, Burgess realized that _Lucy_ was not\nLuffy any more, because Luffy already ate a Devil Fruit before and could not\neat a second. He just did not know who actually ate the fruit and thought that\nperson would have been long gone by now. That's why he went for the next best\nthing, not having to go home empty handed. Though, when Sabo showed Burgess,\nthat he had eaten the Fire Fruit, Burgess completely forgot about Luffy and\nturned his attacks towards Sabo instead, still hoping to get the Fire Fruit\neventually.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RL8zc.jpg)\n\nOn a side note: Blackbeard never targeted Luffy for personal reasons. He\noriginally wanted to kill Luffy to make a name for himself, but after he\nbecame a Warlord, he did not care much for Luffy any more. He could have\neasily destroyed Luffy at Impel Down, but he had other ambitions by that time,\nother than the one he had at Mocktown, Jaya.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nWhy is it that the characters' faces do this at various points in the dialog\nand what is it meant to convey? I wonder if perhaps this is a Japanese culture\nor anime culture expression that I have not seen before?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on the actions of the characters and Yuma's unique personality, I\nbelieve it's more of a \"I get the reason, but not the logic\" like\nunderstanding that the kettle is hot without understanding why, or rather not\ncaring why.\n\nThe little kid in Tamakoma does the same face, as Yuma when it come's to our\nworld may as well be a child. he also frequently say's \"naru hodo\" which\nroughly translate to \"now I get it\" but in reality he doesn't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a stylized squint. It is not specific to _World Trigger_ or Yuma's\npersonality.\n\n**This stylized squint is a variation on using horizontal lines to indicate\neyelashes.** This was popularized in shoujo manga, where the eyelashes were\noriginally very thick.\n\n \n\nOver time, eyelashes have generally become thinner.\n\n\n\nAnd **over time, increasingly abstract versions** , such as a sketch of\nhorizontal lines, have emerged.\n\n  \n\n**Yuma's 3 horizontal lines is an abstraction of the standard horizontal-line\neyelashes** , which in this case conveys acting like one is trying to\nunderstand or agree: squinting indicates **thinking so hard** that you end up\nsquinting from the strain on brain power and/or on account of focusing by\nshutting out your surroundings. Sometimes it is used when a character is\nthinking 「なるほど」 ( _naruhodo_ = \"Oh, I see...\" or \"Oh, so that's what that\nmeans\") whether or not he or she actually understands what happened/what was\nsaid. Here you can see Teruo from _Ore Monogatari!!_ doing the same thing with\nan abstraction of 1 horizontal line.\n\n\n\nSometimes it is used for squinting for vision purposes, such as when a\ncharacter takes his/her glasses off and cannot see clearly. This is based on\n[real Japanese people imagining that squinting improves long-distance vision\nwhen they do not feel like wearing their glasses or if their glasses\nprescription is too low (a very frequent occurrence in the Japanese school\nclassroom).](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty7RmPCP7OI&feature=youtu.be&t=2m50s)\nThe [3-shaped\nabstraction](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21862/what-is-the-\nhistory-behind-lip-eyes-on-characters-with-glasses) is a development in which\nthe horizontal lines become a very stylized scribble (the artist does not pick\nup the pen between each horizontal line, so the squint is connected into a\nsingle line).\n\n\n\nSometimes it is used to indicate sleeping with closed eyes.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs the new movie _Sora no Otoshimono Final: Eternal My Master_ the definite\nending movie of the series?\n\nThere are so many loopholes in the story which have yet to be filled in. And\nthe series has been quite the success as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[『 そらのおとしものFinal 永遠の私の鳥籠\n』](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_no_Otoshimono_Final:_Eternal_My_Master) (\n_Sora no Otoshimono Final: Eternal My Master_ ) was released as\n[劇場版第2作](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%9D%E3%82%89%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE#.E5.8A.87.E5.A0.B4.E7.89.88.E7.AC.AC2.E4.BD.9C)\n(second theatrical installment) following the first film 『劇場版 そらのおとしもの\n時計じかけの哀女神』 ( _Gekijouban Sora no Otoshimono Tokei jikake no Angeloid_ ).\n\nWhen it was announced, [the announcement](http://kadokawa-\nanime.jp/soraoto/2013/10/2014.html) did not specify that this is absolutely\nthe final film, but it did state:\n\n> 『「第３期シリーズ」として発表しておりましたが、この度シリーズ作品ではなく...2014年に劇場公開することが大決定しました！！』\n>\n> \"Although we had previously said there would be a third series [season],\n> this time instead of a series...in 2014 it's been decided that there will be\n> a theatrical release!\"\n\nA third season of the TV anime had previously [been\npromised](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%9D%E3%82%89%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE#.E3.83.86.E3.83.AC.E3.83.93.E3.82.A2.E3.83.8B.E3.83.A1)\nin the March 2012 issue of 「月刊少年エース」 ( _Gekkan Shounen Ace_ ) magazine, but\nthe film announcement corrects that to state that there will not be any\nfurther TV anime after all, and the second film is a replacement.\n\nWhether there will ever be another film or OAV is not clearly articulated, but\nthe title of the film implies that it is intended to be the final production.\nThey could have used the term 完結編 ( _kanketsuhen_ , the last program of a\nseries) in the title or in the announcement to explicitly state that there are\nno plans to ever produce a following work, but did not do so.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe movie skipped too big or hopped way to far. They skipped those important\nscenes, like:\n\n * Tomoki's world is not real (well, this part explains some point in the movie, but only a little.)\n * Defeating the master of Synapse\n * Mikako is a goddess?\n * etc.\n\nIf you want to know more or fill the holes of the movie, I prefer you read the\nmanga, which has the complete story (well, the anime comes from the manga).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI do understand it is a fictional character, and so I feel there must be a\nstory behind this virtual Diva. I am interested in learning \"how\" Hatsune Miku\nbecame interested in singing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs is the case with most vocaloids, the company that invented 初音ミク (Hatsune\nMiku), Crypton Future Media, released an [official personal data\nsheet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku#Characteristics) for Miku;\nhowever, this contains her physical and technical traits rather than\npersonality or back story, which intentionally allows the [fans to take a\nrole](http://www.crypton.co.jp/download/pdf/info_miku_e.pdf) in developing the\ncharacterization of the character. She is referred to as a \"beloved\n[collaboratively\nconstructed](http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us.jsp)\ncyber celebrity with a growing user community across the world.\" Some fans\nhave been allowed to create officially-sponsored costumes for Miku through a\n[design\ncompetition](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku#Winter_festivals) for\nthe Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (Snow Festival). It could be said that the clothing\ndesign becomes a part of the character's personality (i.e. this is the sort of\nfashion that Miku would wear).\n\n[『メーカー非公式\n初音みっくす』](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku:_Unofficial_Hatsune_Mix) (\n_Meekaa Hikoushiki Hatsune Mikkusu_ ) is a manga about Hatsune Miku which ran\nin『月刊コミックラッシュ』( _Gekkan Comic Rush_ ) magaizine published by ジャイブ株式会社 (JIVE\nLtd.). It is licensed in North America by Dark Horse Comics under the title\n_Hatsune Miku: Unofficial Hatsune Mix_.\n\n[『週刊はじめての初音ミク』](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%B1%E5%88%8A%E3%81%AF%E3%81%98%E3%82%81%E3%81%A6%E3%81%AE%E5%88%9D%E9%9F%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AF)\n( _Shuukan Hajimete no Hatsune Miku_ ) is a _yonkoma_ gag manga that ran in\n『週刊ヤングジャンプ』( _Shuukan Young Jump_ ) magazine published by 集英社 (Shuueisha).\n\nAdditionally, some mangaka of 『りぼん』( _Ribon_ ) shoujo manga magazine published\nby Shuueisha have drawn [illustrations of Miku](http://mantan-\nweb.jp/2015/05/01/20150430dog00m200029000c.html) that were included in a 付録\n(furoku = freebie) included with an issue of the magazine, and on some special\npages printed in the magazine.\n\nEach of these portrayals have different aspects and storylines for Miku, in\nkeeping with the collaborative, undefined nature of vacaloid characters. There\nis no one background story for Miku. Crypton intentionally encourages fans to\ncreate their own songs, music videos, visual novels, doujinshi, fanfiction,\nfanart, etc. and basically anything is fair game; portrayals that strike a\nchord with many fans rise in popularity, where fans adopt another fan\ncreator's rendition of Miku into their own image of her character. Miku is who\neach person wants her to be, which includes limitless options for coming up\nwith her backstory.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike I said in the comment, official background story for Hatsune Miku doesn't\nexist. Like pointed by @seijitsu in his answer, Crypton Future Media released\nonly his physical and technical traits. This applies to most other Vocaloids\ntoo if not all.\n\nThere are various stories about Hatsune Miku on the net. She even have 2\nvisual novels namely, _Mirai no Kimi to, Subete no Uta ni_ and _Mirai no Uta\nto, Tsunagaru Hitomi_. If I remember correctly, one tells about how she got\ninterested in singing. Those visual novels, however, are not official story\nfrom Crypton. They are fan made stories released on Comiket.\n\nDepiction of Miku's personal item (ultimate weapon?) the Leek (in Western\ncommunity) or Negi (in Japanese community) is also based on fan-made videos.\nIt started from the song \"Ievan Polka\", which is a composer-made song, not a\nsong from Crypton.\n\nYou can try checking Nico Nico Douga to find videos of Hatsune Miku daily\nconducts made with MMD. It has story of her and other Vocaloids like the\nKagamine twins, Luka, and Kaito.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMiku is a product. She is made to sing, she has no other purpose in life but\nto sing. Before being a singing superstar, she didn't exist.\n\nMiku has a version number, she is character version 01 of the singing software\nVocaloid. Her tattoo is much like a serial number on a factory product.\nFactory products don't have back-stories :(\n\n \n\nIf Miku **did** have a background story, it would probably be fan-driven and\nnon-canon, as the creators of Miku & Co left their stories purposefully open\nso that creators could write their own stories - Similarly, they didn't\nmention what style of music Miku likes or what her aspirations in life are.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSeeing as we finished the arc with Fū, I would like to see her reaction again\nwhen she actually meets him. So, in what episode does Naruto get linked to all\nof the tailed beasts and their jinchūriki?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 324 (\"The Unbreakable Mask and the Shattered Bubble\") of [Naruto:\nShippuden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Naruto:_Shippuden_episodes_\\(season_15\\)).\nBut the fight between Naruto and the other Jinchūriki continue till next\nepisode \"Jinchūriki vs. Jinchūriki!!\". Until they started getting absorbed\ninto the Gedo Statue.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDeath note states that if there's no other way a person would die due to a\nheart attack, but what if when you should die via the death note you have no\nheart? And no, that's not a silly question, there's a machine used for heart\ntranplant surgery called extracorporeal circulation system that acts as a sort\nof heart for the person in which the surgery is being performed on while it's\ndone. So, technically speaking if your name where to be written you could not\ndie due to a heart attack, unless that by heart we would also consider that\nmachine, although this is a bit far fetched. Then if you get another heart or\nput yours back you have avoided the death note effect, and at this point it\nhas failed to its own rules. From this point I'm not sure what would happen.\n\nI don't think something like that was covered either in the anime or the\nmanga, although I think it would have been an interesting concept to explore,\nas they could have experimented with that if they wished, but maybe the author\nexplained how things would be like in a case like this one in an interview.\n\nIs there any official explanation or any thing I missed that would give an\nanswer to my question?\n\nThanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVolume 1 of the manga series The Different Story tells a story about Mami and\nKyouko before the timeframe of the anime series, when they were partners and\nKyouko regarded Mami as a big sister.\n\n\n\n(Makes me wish KyoMami was a more popular pairing.)\n\nFrom the events of Volumes 2 and 3, we can infer that The Different Story is\none of the hundred or so timelines that Homura experienced as she was trying\nto fulfil Madoka's last request, as seen in Episode 10 of the series. But the\nevents of Volume 1 take place before Homura started going back in time. Does\nthat mean that this partnership between Kyouko and Mami happened in every\ntimeline, including the main anime timeline that ends with Madoka becoming\nUltimate Madoka?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the [drama CD](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Drama_CD_3) that the\nfirst volume of _Different Story_ is based on, it is in fact canon to all\ntimelines that Mami and Kyoko met. To quote the wiki,\n\n> The timelines diverge on the day when Homura wakes up in the hospital, so\n> events prior to that are unaffected by her resets.\n\nWhile we don't know the exact date that Mami and Kyoko met (we do know Homura\nwakes up on the 16th of March), the drama CD does go into detail about the\nevents that lead to Kyoko's father killing the rest of her family before\nkilling himself.\n\nAlso, at the end of Episode 4 when talking to Kyubey, Kyoko refers to Mami by\nher first name only, and according to the [wiki](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Kyoko_Sakura#Speculations_.26_Observations),\n\n> This was considered a sign that Kyoko and Mami had known each other\n> previously.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 9 of _Maria the Virgin Witch_ , Maria temporarily lost her powers\nafter she was beaten by Galfa.\n\nHow did he make them go away for only a slight amount of time without taking\nher virginity?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I watched the anime long ago, I also had the same question and discussed\nit in online forums. There were mainly 2 opinions regarding this.\n\nFirst was that Galfa only beats her up and pretends to sexually assault Maria,\nand combined with the smoke drug it makes Maria think that she has lost her\nvirginity, sort of like a mental block.\n\nThe second, more crude theory was that he actually did violate her, but\nuhh..only with the finger of his artificial metal hand so it did not count as\nlosing her virginity.\n\nI prefer to believe that it was the first.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you pause the scene, you can clearly see that he is raping her. She has no\nunderwear on and he would not have his waist pressed against Maria's if he was\nusing his metal fingers (which is still very sick).\n\nNo, the reality is that he drugs Maria, then proceeds to bound, gag, and\ntorture her in the most despicable and diabolical way. That's the harsh truth\nof how Maria loses her magic.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, in Owari no Seraph, we have these weird monsters called \"Horsemen of the\nApocalypse\" or \"Horsemen of John\", right?\n\nWhy do they attack people? What is their motive? Do they, for example, eat\npeople for nutrition? Are they under the control of the vampires?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo explanation is ever given as to why the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (also\nknow as Horsemen of John) attack humans.\n\na quote -\n\n> Horsemen only attack humans. Almost as if they were sent to cull the world's\n> bloated human population.\n\nSource --Shinoa, Chapter 8, \"Mitsuba's Squad\n\nAll of them attack humans and only humans, while they ignore every single\nother entity, they do not attack vampires or animals, with the exception of\n_one_ Horseman of John, namely -\n\nSpoiler alert -\n\n> The special Horseman of John, summoned by\n> [Abaddon](http://owarinoseraph.wikia.com/wiki/Abaddon) to destroy the army\n> of vampires and humans\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have watched the series once and I believe there are quite a few things left\nunexplained. The powers for instance can be transferred to others by only the\npeople who have the \"Code\" like C.C. or V.V.\n\nSo what exactly is this code? And was Charles after immortality when he tried\nto acquire C.C.'s code? He even acquired V.V's code didn't he? So he was\nimmortal. Why was he after C.C.?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> So what exactly is this code?\n\nIf Geass is considered _\"Absolute\"_ 1 then the Code is _\"Absolute over Life\"_\nthus making someone immortal. [This\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/19070/1587) has some answers on\nhow it is different. the form the Code takes it unknown but we can assume that\nbecause Geass doesn't appear to have a physical and tangible form then niether\ndoes The Code\n\n> was Charles after immortality when he tried to acquire C.C.'s code? He even\n> acquired V.V's code didn't he? So he was immortal. Why was he after C.C.?\n\nCharles was already Immortal when stole V.V's Code so he didn't need C.C to\nobtain Immortality. as i explain in [This\nAnswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/10011/1587) i suspect that the Sword\nof Akasha needs 2 Codes to activate\n\n> My own theory is that the Code made Charles untouchable **as to activate\n> Ragnarok originally required 2 Codes.** (However after Lelouch saves C.C\n> before Ragnarok is activated Charles is still able to activate it).\n\nOne thing to note is that in the debate of _\"Is Lelouch Alive\"_ , on the side\nof _yes_ one theory is that Lelouch has Charles's Code (as C.C retains her\nCode). assuming this side one can speculate 2 things when Lelouch ordered\nCharles to kill himself when they were at the Sword\n\n 1. Charles pretended to be controlled and die knowing he was immortal\n 2. The Code wasn't activated until Charles died which is why when Lelouch tried to order him again we see it repelled rather than it just do nothing (eg. when Lelouch tried to use it on Kallen and the Teacher a second time early in Season 1)\n\n* * *\n\n1: if you look [here](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Geass#Canonical_Geass)\nand look at Lelouch's, Mao's, Rolo's and Marrybell's Geass their Geass powers\nall have \"Absolute\" in their names and if a Code Barer is Absolute to a\nContractor's Geass (thus immune) then they could also be Absolute to Life\ngiven the power Geass has over others\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEvery trigger user have two bodies: his original flesh body, and the Trion\ncombat body. When he activates his trigger, the flesh body is stored inside\nthe trigger, and is physically replaced by the Trion body.\n\nBut Yuma's trigger permanently stored his flesh body (black haired) inside,\nand he lives with a Trion body (white hair).\n\nIn ep. 1 or 2 when he crashes into a car, his face shows a crack (causing\nMikumo to become certain Kuga is a neighbor) - the same kind crack\nAftokrator's magnetic shard trigger user (forgot his name - the one defeated\nby Jin in ep.29) shows.\n\nAlso when he activates a trigger, he undergoes the same transformation as any\ntrigger user, and have a combat body. Proof is that he seems a bit surprised\nin Ep.8 when he deactivates his trigger (after the Miwa Squad ambush at the\nabandoned train station) and his severed arm returns.\n\nSo, besides the two bodies (flesh body and Trion combat body), does Yuma Kuga\nhave a third intermediary body from his black trigger?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYuma does not have a third body, he only has 2, the real body stored in the\ntrigger and the trion body he lives with.\n\nIn ep 8, he was not surprised, he was just checking whether his arm was\nworking fine after he regenerated it using his own trion as trion bodies can\nbe repaired with trion if the trion was not supplied to a trigger.\n\nIn the episode when he used Osamu's trigger, a new border tigger based trion\nbody was created based on his trion body from his black trigger as he was\nusing that trion body when the trigger was activated.\n\nTherefore, if he were to use another such as Osamu's trigger while in his\nwhite-haired trion body, a third trion body would be created using his white\nhair trion body as a base.\n\nProve is that in ep 23, he had to deactivate his border trigger to utilise his\nblack trigger as the trion body he was using was not the one from his black\ntrigger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, he indeed has three bodies, but nonetheless he only has access to two of\nthem at any time.\n\n 1. Yuma's fleshly body is safely stored in suspended animation inside the black trigger ring his father created. Inside the ring, time passes ever so slowly that Yuma's certainly fatal wounds have not yet killed him even three years after the incident. This body is black-haired.\n 2. The \"civilian\" trion body. The one he uses whenever a trigger is not active. This body is made of Trion (see the scene in ep.2 when he is run over by a car, leaving only a small crack on his face). This body supposedly requires nutrients (since Yuma is shown to be eating). It has white hair.\n 3. The trion combat body, that replaces the civilian body (or is morphed into) when Yuma goes \"trigger on\". During the fight with Miwa squad in the abandoned train station, this body has an arm cut off. When Yuma \"trigger off\", the combat body is dissolved and the intact civilian body is replaced. \n3.1 Also during his fight with Viza in ep. 34, Viza successfully kills Yuma\ncombat trion body, and his black trigger restores the civilian body. Being\nmade of Trion, Yuma uses the inertia of his movement and a seal to burst\nthrough Viza's combat body. Viza is seen remarkably surprised for all his\ncombat experience.\n\nIt is supposed(whom?) that if and when Yuma is able to heal his flesh body,\nthe black ring will stop mantaining the trion civilian body.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy does it appear that Doflamingo's Bird Cage is indestructible? What is the\ndifferent between the strings used in DD's attacks and the birdcage? Why can't\nZoro cut the birdcage?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LmTCv.jpg)\n\nI don't think it is because Zoro cannot cut the cage that he is trying to push\nit back. In chapter 270 he was in a similar situation, where he was trapped by\nthe _White Cage_ during the [Ordeal of\nIron](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ordeal_of_Iron#Ordeal_of_Iron). At that\ntime he says it is completely unnecessary to trap him, because he is not going\nto run away. Now, with the birdcage, the situation is similar in the sense\nthat he has no intention of running away. **Cutting the birdcage or running\naway, will not benefit anyone with Doflamingo still around.** He will try to\nkill anyone present at the island, with or without the birdcage.\n\nZoro knows this and knows that the person that will defeat Doflamingo is\nLuffy, but he does not know how much more time Luffy will need. Therefore **to\nbuy Luffy as much time as he can and to prevent as much casualties as he can,\nhe tries to block the cage, instead of cutting it.** We have no clue what\nwould happen if he cuts the cage and it will probably require much needed\nenergy, which will probably just go to waste by cutting the cage over and over\nagain, because we all know Doflamingo will keep putting it up again and again.\n\nNow as to your question whether the birdcage is indestructible, **that has not\nyet been revealed up until the latest chapter 787**. Other than a few unknown\npirates and the meteor from Fujitora, there has not been a single person that\nhas actually tried to attack the cage, not now, nor in the flash-back.\nTherefore it is hard to say how strong the strings actually are.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have 2 theories on why Zoro did'nt try to cut the birdcage.\n\n 1. He never interferes with Luffy's fight just like Luffy will never interferes with his...he could have also chosen to attack Doffy directly now that he's weakened badly and either defeat Doffy or easily buying the 10min Luffy needs...instead he chose to delay the birdcage closing and believe in Luffy eventually defeating Doffy and making Luffy appears as the ultimate hero in stopping both Doffy and birdcage.\n\n 2. Doffy has COC haki and Zoro doesn't. So at this point he can't go up against Doffy nor cut his birdcage.\n\nPersonally I prefers the first theory cause it's way cooler and there is the\nspeculation that Zoro possess COC ever since his fight with Monet.\n\nAs for Fujitora I believe he could not openly oppose Doffy due to their\nrespective status.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, the birdcage itself cuts. A person not possessing Haki can't\neven touch the cage. If they try to touch they might get injured.\n\n> Here is a proof: \n> Zoro told them to move towards the factory because the factory is made of\n> sea-stone (Kairoseki) as mentioned in the\n> [wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SMILE_Factory#Dressrosa_Arc) and is\n> immune to getting cut by the threads, but is getting dragged instead. So the\n> question of normal people cutting it is solved. But what about the people\n> who possess Haki?\n\nThe threads created by Doflamingo are thin enough to be almost invisible but\nstrong enough to slice rocks, trees and even meteors as per\n[wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Donquixote_Doflamingo#Devil_Fruit).\n\nThere's no person who has attempted to cut down the Birdcage. Since no one has\ntried, it's probably presumed by the swordsmen like Fujitora, Zoro, Trafalgar\nand Bastille that it can't be cut.\n\nIt's similar to the barriers of Bartolomeo that are indestructible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe that his awakening or conquerors Haki may be directly associated to\nthe birdcages invulnerability, even Fujitora and Zoro cannot cut it. It also\nmay be because doffy's clone, whom he doesn't need to directly control will\njust continuously set up the cage. My final speculation is that the birdcages\ncenter might contract upon cutting a section out of it, making cutting it a\nbad option.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell I believe that zoro still not strong enough to cut the tread, as he said\nhe cant hold much longer againts the thread, and I believe fujitora able to\ncut the thread but he choose not to. straw hat teams still need training and\nit will be time skip 2\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n(This is my summary from the evidence and speculation from the rest of this\nthread)The birdcage was never really a threat to the straw hat crew cause\nthere were people in Dressrosa strong enough to deal with the situation. I\nthink Zoro and Fujitora could cut it but there may be no point as no one knows\nwhat will happen if the cage is cut. Sabo, Fujitora and Zoro are all strong\nenough to not only fight Doflamingo from scratch but at least finish him off\nafter the extensive damage he's taken. The main thing was that neither of them\nwanted to interfere with the fight. They all knew Luffy would beat him and it\nwas Luffy's fight, they just had to give him the time so to minimize\ncasualties they tried to hold the cage back. The evidence that Zoro wouldn't\nrun from the situation anyway, that he won't interfere with the fight which\nalso goes for Sabo and Fujitora who actually said that they wouldn't interfere\nat seperate times. The whole situation was shown to be quite a lot more\ndifficult than it actually was. Physically there were a lot of solutions for\nthe birdcage. Either 3 of them could break the cage or just kill Doflamingo.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDefinitely can't be cut. If it could have been it would have been, it was\nclose to destroying the country n killing a lot of people Fujitora would have\ncut it or attempted it with all the civilians at risk. Imo it's the ultimate\ndeath trap. Uncutable razor sharp completely rigid string with titanium like\ntensile nobodys cutting it or bashing a konobo through it. Mihawk is the only\nwild card an white beard if he were alive.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 3 of Tsukimonogatari, Araragi said \" _It's not that uncommon for\nthe collection of unpaid tabs to all come at once lately._ \" I checked another\nset of subtitles, and found that those gave \" _Lately, it isn't so strange\nthat a bunch of unpaid tabs come knocking all at once though._ \"\n\nHonestly, I'm confused and not sure \"unpaid tabs\" means. Is it a joke of some\nkind or what? I'd like some help and explanation, thanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt a bar, you can put something 'on your tab', which is a way of saying you'll\npay it later (usually next time you come to the bar) which when you do pay\nlater, can be known as 'collecting a tab'\n\nWhat Araragi is saying is that all the things he has been putting off have\ncome back looking for resolution at the same time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA big plot point of Tsukimonogatari revolves around the fact that Araragi has\nbeen dipping into his vampire abilities ever since the events of\nKizumonogatari that turned him into this half-vampire, half-human... although\nmore human than vampire.\n\nYou've seen him using his vampire abilities throughout the series so far, such\nas when Hitagi staples the inside of his cheek or he fights the monkey spirit\npossessing Suruga in Bakemonogatari, and when he fights against Kagenui in\nNisemonogatari. These are just a few examples.\n\nEvery single one of these times, this human was drawing from these inhuman\nabilities to perform inhuman things. In the time of this story that\nTsukimonogatari takes place, it became apparent to Kagenui and Ononoki that\nthis was a problem. If he continued to draw upon these vampire powers like\nthat, it's likely that he could turn into something no longer human.\n\nThis is the basis of his \"unpaid tabs\" line. As Toshinou Kyouko says in their\nanswer, a \"tab\" refers to a running bill at a bar. At a bar, you can choose to\nnot pay for your drinks, and instead leave a \"tab\" that you will pay at a\nlater point. Here, the \"unpaid tabs\" are all the times he used vampire powers.\nHowever, at some point, these tabs do need to be paid - namely, with his\nhumanity.\n\nBasically said, it's Araragi (and Nisioisin, the original novel's author)\nusing a metaphor.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI can't think of the anime name but the first episode stars the main character\nand either his little sister or female childhood friend. The main character\ncan't help but notice that the sun is different (I think he noticed that the\nsun was black instead of orange or yellow). Then, I think, he is transported,\nor something similar to transported, to another world or dimension that's the\nsame as earth but with magic. He then decides to enroll in a magic school\nbecause of a girl that may or may not have saved him.\n\nI do remember that it is a recently dubbed or at least somewhat recently\ndubbed anime.\n\nI only saw the first episode and would like to finish it but I can't remember\nthe name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe show you are looking for is probably [Trinity\nSeven](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Seven).\n\n\n\nKasuga Arata lived a normal life together with his childhood friend, Hijiri\nKasuga, in a small town. However, everything changed on the day of the Black\nSun, and a magus (mage) appeared before him. The Black Sun caused the\nBreakdown Phenomenon which destroyed the town where he lives. Because of this,\nhis normal life was artificially reconstructed by a grimoire that his\nchildhood friend had left. The appearance of the magus led him to a new life\nin the Royal Biblia Academy and meeting the members of the Trinity Seven.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe anime that you are asking about is Trinity seven. It's first season has\nended.\n\nDescription:\n\n> Everyday is a normal day in the small town where Kasuga Arata lives;\n> however, everything changed on the day of the Black Sun, and following it, a\n> magician appears before him. The Black Sun caused the Breakdown Phenomenon\n> which destroyed the town where he lives.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nThis has got me wondering for a long time. In the first chapter, we see Zeira\nlying motionless on the ground. Yet in later chapters, we see her alive and\nwell.\n\nSeeing how Mavis is able to conjure pretty powerful illusions and how we have\nnever seen anyone interact with Zeira thus far, is it safe to say that Zeira\nhad indeed died and it was all just an illusion, or am I thinking too much\nhere?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 11, it was revealed that ...\n\n> You were correct. **Zeira was indeed nothing more than an illusion created\n> by Mavis.** This was confirmed when Yuriy told Mavis that none of them can\n> actually see or hear Zeira and that Zeira must be an illusion, Mavis made\n> herself to keep herself company. \n> \n> \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhere in the manga does anime season 2 of Rosario to Vampire end? And are\nthere any major differences in the plot between the anime and manga that are\ngood to know about?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are _massive_ differences in the plot, to the point where a reasonable\nanswer might be \"chapter 1\". Indeed, one might take umbrage to any claim that\nthe second anime season even had a plot. Unless you mean \"plot\" ironically for\n\"excessively ecchi elements\". The anime is extremely focused on ecchi, which\nwas never a significant focus in the manga.\n\nIf you want to see the story and characters progress, without constantly\ntossing their tits and panties in your face, you need to read the manga and\nforget the anime entirely. On the other hand, if that sounds like exactly the\nstuff you do want, ignore the manga and enjoy the anime.\n\nI only watched the first few episodes of the second season before giving up on\nit, but I read the manga in its entirety. I'll try to go through [this\nlist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rosario_%2B_Vampire_episodes#Rosario_.2B_Vampire_Capu2)\nand try to point out which of those plot lines would have actually occurred in\nthe manga.\n\n1: Anime original.\n\n2: Kokoa is a real character in the manga. Her introduction is different. The\ndescription of Moka and Kokoa's relationship is accurate, though, and that's\npretty much how her introduction story line ends, as well.\n\n3: The parental visit happens. The singing doesn't.\n\n4: Anime original.\n\n5: Anime original.\n\n6: Anime original.\n\n7: Anime original.\n\n> We basically never see Tsukune's family again in the manga, beyond the\n> Lilith's mirror thing that appears later and little more than a spectating\n> cameo appearance in the final chapters. A fact I only just now realized.\n\n8: Anime original.\n\n9: Anime original.\n\n> Mizore-centric plot lines basically vanish in the manga after she tells\n> Tsukune about how breeding works for her kind. There is one fairly major\n> exception I won't go into, but it's not contained in this anime episode for\n> sure.\n\n10: Anime original. If it involves the bat, it's anime original.\n\n11: [The mirror](http://rosariovampire.wikia.com/wiki/Lilith's_Mirror) [also\nappears in the manga](http://rosariovampire.wikia.com/wiki/Kyouko_Aono#Manga)\n(the story happens mostly in the \"first season\" of the manga; the Lilith\ncharacter makes some appearances in the \"second season\"). But the following\ndoes not happen: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OZ5vS.jpg)\nBasically, if you're seeing breasts or panties, that's anime original.\n\n12-13: Anime originals.\n\n> [The \"truth\" of the rosary is much different in the\n> manga](http://rosariovampire.wikia.com/wiki/Rosario_Cross). And Moka's\n> father doesn't play that big of a role.\n\n* * *\n\ntl;dr: Don't even bother trying to compare the two. Read the manga from the\nvery beginning.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 199, Gon and Killua's names are written the Latin alphabet on the\nblackboard.\n\n\n\nIn chapter 45, Killua and Zushi's names are also in the Latin alphabet.\n\n\n\nMost of the writing uses the [Hunter x Hunter\nalphabet](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Hunter_%C3%97_Hunter_Alphabet),\nso why are these names written in the Latin alphabet? Is it just another\nlanguage that is used in Hunter x Hunter world? If so, is there an anything\nthat indicates where the Latin alphabet comes from in the world of Hunter x\nHunter?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost writing in _HUNTER x HUNTER_ is in a\n[syllabary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary), rather than an alphabet,\nthat correlates exactly to the syllabary of the [Japanese written\nlanguage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system) (hiragana and\nkatakana). A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the\n_syllables_ which make up words; a symbol in a syllabary is called a\n[\"syllabogram.\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabograms) (In contrast, an\n[alphabet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet) is comprised of letters.)\n\nRomaji is the\n[application](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese) of the\nLatin script to write the Japanese language, not the Latin script itself. In\nromaji, 「キルア」 would be written as _Kirua_. Romaji does not include the letter\n\"L.\"\n\nThus, these scans you provide show a language that is most likely **English**\n, based on the inclusion of the English word \"To.\" It appears that \"Killua\" is\nthe intended English spelling of 「キルア」.\n\nThe syllabary is the primary written language of the _HUNTER x HUNTER_ world\nand is therefore used on official documents, etc. but it is **not the only\nlanguage that exists in that entire world**. Since\n[キルキゾルデイック](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/14634/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%82%BE%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF)'s\nuseful answer was unfortunately deleted from this SE, I will also add here\nキルキゾルデイック's answer that **Leorio's cell phone, the[Beatle\n07](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Beatle_07)**, boasts a translation\ntool that can translate over 200 languages. If a person never or rarely comes\nacross other languages in the _HUNTER x HUNTER_ world, a translation app would\nnot be a useful feature that customers would fork out 200,000 Jenny for; that\nthis is valued as a feature of the phone implies that it can be very normal to\ncome across written languages other than the syllabary.\n\nAlthough there is no stated reason for the inclusion of English specifically\nin the _HUNTER x HUNTER_ world, the world includes linguistic elements that\nare shared with or based on our real world, which make up at least a portion\nof the 200+ languages that are stated to exist. Just as if you visit Japan and\nsee that most documents and signage are printed in the official language\n(Japanese), that does not preclude any Japanese person from writing something\nin English, or French, or Arabic, if they so desire at any given time; the\nperson writing does not need to provide a specific rationale for this to be\nconsidered normal behavior. In the same way, the _HUNTER x HUNTER_ syllabary\nis what we see most often in that world, but since it is not the only language\nwhich exists in that world, **any character at any given time can opt to write\nin another language that exists in that world** , according to his/her\npersonal preference.\n\nFor an example of the _HUNTER x HUNTER_ world unapologetically employing\nEnglish and other languages from our world,\n[ヨークシンシティ](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Yorknew_City) ( _Yooku Shin\nShiti_ = York New City)'s name is based on New York City, in a combination of\nthe Japanese katakana pronunciation of \"York\"\n([ヨーク](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF)),\nthe native Japanese word for \"new\" which is\n[「新」](http://jisho.org/search/%E6%96%B0%20%23kanji)( _shin_ ), and the\nJapanese katakana pronunciation of \"city\" (シティ).\n\nAs another example, the character ハンゾー (Hanzo) is from the 国家 ( _kokka_ =\nnation) of\n[ジャポン](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUNTER%C3%97HUNTER#.E4.B8.96.E7.95.8C.E8.A8.AD.E5.AE.9A)\n(Japon), which is clearly based on Japan, since he is the only one who knows\nhow to make 寿司 (sushi) in the ハンター試験 (Hunter Exam) and he bears a\n[ninja](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Hanzo) motif.\n[\"Japon\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan) is an\n[exonym](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym) for the nation of\nJapan. An exonym is the name of an ethnic group and where they live, which is\napplied to them by outsiders (in contrast to endonyms, which are the names\nused by the group itself, such as 「日本」[ _nihon_ ], 「日本（にっぽん）」[ _nippon_ ],\n「大和」[ _yamato_ ], and「和」[ _wa_ ]). The English word\n[\"Japonism\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonism) comes from this exonym.\n\nAs a third example, Gon's primary attack is\n[ジャジャン拳](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9#.E5.BF.B5.E8.83.BD.E5.8A.9B)\n(Jajanken), which relies heavily on the Japanese words employed in the\nJapanese version of the originally Chinese game\n[じゃんけん](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors) ( _Janken_ , known\nas \"Rock-Paper-Scissors\" in English). The game starts with the phrase\n「最初はグー」(\" _saisho ha 'guu,'_ \" meaning \"first comes 'rock'\"), which is\nnecessary for Gon to say aloud in order to power up. He uses the Japanese\nwords 「グー」( _guu_ , which correlates to 「石」 [ _ishi_ = rock]),「チー」( _chii_ ,\nwhich correlates to 「鋏」[ _choki_ = scissors]), and「パー」( _paa_ , which\ncorrelates to 「紙」 [ _kami_ = paper]) to vary his attack.\n\nAs a fourth example, Netero wears a baseball tee with the Japanese or Chinese\nword 「心」 ( _kokoro_ ) on it. Some characters, including Netero, have names\nwith origins in languages from our world (his first name is アイザック [Isaac], the\nkatakana pronunciation of the English pronunciation of the Hebrew name\n[יִצְחָק](http://www.behindthename.com/name/isaac) [Yitzchaq], which means \"he\nlaughs\").\n\nThus, this case is not out-of-place according to the worldbuilding that the\n_mangaka_ , Togashi Yoshihirou, crafted. Rather, it **fits with his\nprecedent** of including spoken and written languages other than the syllabary\nin the _HUNTER x HUNTER_ world.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's more than only Hunter language in the world, and romaji (or directly\nEnglish) is one of them.\n\nDo you remember Leorio mentioning that the phone Beetle can translate over 100\ndifferent languages? Hunter world most likely has the same languages of the\nreal world, and many more are not shown yet, so far the Hunter language is the\nonly invented one that we could see in both anime and manga, that's the reason\nof why in the manga we could see Togashi using the romaji/English writing.\n\nHowever, I guess that the image you provided was edited by a fansub, as the\noriginal name of Zushi as for _Official Hunter Databook_ (done by Yoshihiro\nTogashi) is written as Zooci (in Japanese ズシ, romaji \"Zu-shi\") and not Zushi.\nIn the 1999 version, you see how the name Zushi is written in the score screen\nas Zooci. I don't think that Togashi would name Zushi as \"Zushi\" in some part\nof the manga when he intentionally wrote his English name as \"Zooci\" in his\ndatabook, it's pointless.\n\nThere are more cases where English was used instead of Hunter Language\nalthough I don't remember all, but we can assume that Hunter World has two\nmajor languages, and these are Hunter and English.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf Luffy covers his arm with Haki and puts it in the water, will he lose his\npower or does the Haki cancel the effect of the water?\n\nI thought about it because of this image.\n\n\n\nWhen Luffy used his \"Red Hawk\" against Hody, the water had no effect on his\npower. Is this because of the Haki he used for Red Hawk (which was not well\ndrawn in the anime) or is there another reason?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Luffy would lose his power** , because Haki does not seem to negate the\npower of the sea at all. In chapter 603, we could see how Luffy put his hand\ninto the ocean without coating it in Haki. He said to be powerless in the\nocean, yet he was able to draw Sanji back to the boat. This would make it seem\nthat due to his training during the time-skip, he has become able to withstand\nthe power of the sea for a short while.\n\n\n\nThen, in chapter 605, we could see how Luffy put his hand back into the ocean,\nbut this time he coated it in Haki. Despite being fully coated, he still lost\nhis power at the same rate. Luffy got a lot stronger during the time-skip and\nit might even be that, since he has more power to drain, it might take a bit\nlonger, but **it is safe to say that coating yourself in Haki does not negate\nthe effects of the sea**.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not the water that drains them. It's the stagnant non-running water. This\nis why they can shower and drink water but not take a bath. So if they could\nvibrate their Haki in a manner which causes the water around them to FLOW like\na running water, then in theory they could nullify the effects of the water.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are a lot of anime that have a first season, but no second season, even\nthough there is enough material to produce another season. There are also a\nfew anime which are dubbed, but only up to a certain point in the series.\n\nSo, why do anime companies keep the rights to these anime, instead of passing\nthem on to another company?\n\nFor example, here are a few anime which didn't get more seasons:\n\n 1. _Mayo Chiki_ (1 season) - Big cliffhanger\n 2. _Rosario Vampire_ (2 seasons) - Another cliffhanger\n 3. _High School of the Dead_ (1 season)\n 4. _The World God Only Knows_ (3 seasons) - Missed out a lot of content\n\nAnd some which are dubbed only to a certain point in the series:\n\n 1. _Detective Conan_ (130 episodes) - Stopped due to low ratings\n 2. _The Familiar of Zero_ (1 season) - Dubbed no further due to low ratings\n\nThere are many more examples. Why are the studios behind these series and dubs\nreluctant to release the rights to others to continue the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Essentially, it all comes down to money.\n\nA lot of series are discontinued simply because the series aren't making\nenough money - whether that be for the English publishers in the West, or the\noriginal publishers in Japan.\n\nSelling the rights of an anime means that they cannot continue to receive any\nrecurring income from the series - even if it isn't that significant. Ongoing\nincome could include licensing the rights to stream the show as part of a\npackage deal to streaming services. For example, a studio licenses a bundle of\nthree shows to CrunchyRoll, when CrunchyRoll really just wants one. [On a side\nnote, this is why there's a load of random movies on Netflix]. Also, if there\nare new platforms on which to sell their media - such as new online stores or\nnew video systems - studios effectively get another burst of sales, especially\nif it's digital (much less cost to put the items up for sale).\n\nThere isn't a lot of incentive for other companies to buy studio's productions\nthat have proven to be loss-making, especially as the price and the long\nprocesses to secure the deal would often be hard to justify. It's a much wiser\ndecision for companies to focus on works that have a solid following.\n\nEvery season, the popularity of a show drops as less and less people keep up\nto date/interested. If a show is profitable in the first season, it doesn't\nnecessarily mean that it can manage with reduced sales the next time round. On\nthe other hand, if the main show is still profitable, they don't really have\nmuch reason to sell it either.\n\n## It isn't strictly true that shows will never change hands though.\n\nTake Yuru Yuri for example: the third season is going to be animated by TYO\nAnimations, even though the first 2 were animated by Dogakobo. Anime companies\ntend to be fairly tight-lipped about internal processes and exchanges, so I'm\nafraid it's quite hard to get more information on why they swapped studios, or\nthe process they had to go through to do it.\n\nThere have been several Western examples of \"license rescues\", which, whilst\nnot explicitly the same as the bare rights (but similar to your dubbing\nquestion), allow publication of a discontinued series to continue to be\ntranslated. This is quite rare unfortunately - [Viz Media explains that they\ntend to be hard sells](http://organizationasg.kokidokom.net/2014/03/24/what-\nmanga-publishers-can-actually-license-in-the-us/). Western companies are\nsimilarly tight-lipped, although luckily less so that their Japanese\ncounterparts\n\n## Further reading\n\n * [Anime News Network on U.S. licensing](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-06-11)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough this is an old question being revived, I'm here to clear up a bit of\nthings.\n\nThe studios of anime are usually just hired staff. They don't run or own\nseries. Unless its an original project E.G: Trigger's _\"Kill La Kill\"_.\n\nThere are things called production committees composed of lead producers &\ncompany members that are filling in spots for companies such as: Kodansha,\nKyoani and etc.\n\nA Producer comes a long to get an animation adaption of a series. Usually\nplaces like SQUARE Enix, a large multi-media company, have a production office\nwhere they find series associated with themselves to be animated. Such as\npopular manga, being printed by SQUARE ENIX. Which then they take to\nfinanciers, people with resources, producers & studios.\n\nThe heads & most important are those choosing to make the series continue or\nnot, whether for financial reasons or just no-longer wanting to work on the\nproject.\n\nFor example _\"SNAFU 2\"_ was animated by a totally new company. That decision\nwas done by the Production Committee. Not the animation studio. Though,\nremember animation studios can be part of the production committee either on\ntop or usually the bottom. Mostly they are on top due to original productions,\nthey own. Changes in the studio can happen due to large schedules, or\ndisliking their work on the first project.\n\nHowever, a director or art director, may be associated with the animation\nstudio. Which will lead in the anime`s directing overall or just an art\ndirection such as the production studio: SHAFT. SHAFT, though Aniplex is the\nhead-producer of _\"Nisekoi\"_ a few producers & Chief director are from SHAFT.\nBecause, Aniplex adores their style. This weaves back & forth. A Director\nmaybe from one studio but still direct for other series, with different\nstudios.\n\nJust check all the cast & staff. Or at the end of an anime's opening you may\nsee who is producing the series. Though, it is undisclosed many times.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto_ , they usually announce their jutsu's (i.e. fire style, fireball\njutsu), but do they do the same for genjutsu?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe only ones that come to mind is the Mangekyou Sharingan. Other than that, I\ndon't recall them ever revealing their Genjutsu. I feel that Genjutsu is much\nmore subtle than Ninjutsu or Taijutsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen it comes to Sharingan, only once it was announced, before even the jutsu\nwas used. It was by Itachi when he was fighting Sasuke. But When Sasuke was\nfighting Danzo, he used Tsukyomi on Danzo, but Sasuke didn't announce it\nbefore using the genjutsu.\n\nWhen it comes to Byakugan, Neji and Hinata announce jutsus before using it.\n\nAs with Rinnegan, Nagato didn't announce when he used Gedo Rinne Tensei no\njustsu to revive the people of Konoha. That might be due to already he was\nexhausted and on the verge of death. But during the Fourth Ninja War, Madara\nannounced before he used the Gedo Rinne Tensei no justsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo kill a person using the Death Note, you are required to think of their face\nwhile writing their name.\n\nIf the Death Note user last saw a person decades ago when he was a child, but\nhas no idea what he looks like now, can he kill the person by remembering the\nchildhood face?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is never really explained, but according to the rules, you should be able\nto kill that person, if you know their name and face.\n\n> The human whose name is written in this note shall die.\n>\n> This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in\n> their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same\n> name will not be affected.\n>\n> — _Death Note, How to Use: I_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is not expanded on in the series just like many other rules regarding the\nDeath Note. I believe Ohba has not commented on such things either.\n\nMy opinion is: **No**.\n\nI think a photo of a person's face can qualify as \"has the person's face in\ntheir mind\" if (and only if?) that person's current appearance is _not too\nfar_ from how the person looks in one's memory or in a photo.\n\nI doubt a baby picture of L accurately describes the current appearance of L.\n\nA possibly relevant detail: I would say those drawings of Mello and Near would\nbe far superior to photos of them when they were younger. [Since those\ndrawings do not work for inferring names with Shinigami\nEyes](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XX),\nI guess childhood photos also won't work when used for inferring names with\nShinigami Eyes and possibly the same for the scenario in the question.\n\nHowever, if you were to kill someone (using a Death Note) who is about 13, and\nyou last saw them when they were 11, that may work.\n\nSo who judges \"not too far\"? I guess whomever invented Death Notes and their\nrules in the first place or whomever is responsible for the Death Notes'\nworking. As Death Note is fantasy and not scifi, I think such question will\nnot have a precise answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Rule\nXX](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XX):\n\n> 2. If above conditions are met, names and life spans can be seen through\n> photos and pictures, no matter how old they are. But this is sometimes\n> influenced by the vividness and size. Also, names and life spans cannot be\n> seen by face drawings, however realistic they may be.\n>\n\nIf the Shinigami Eyes work through a picture no matter how old it is, this\nwould seem to take into account childhood photographs. The rules for using\nShinigami Eyes (actually seeing them) compared to using the Death Note\n(remembering their face) are much stricter, so I would assume that, as long as\nit was a clear memory, remembering their face would work.\n\nAlso, remember that the purpose of remembering their face is only to\ndistinguish them from people with the same name or to check that you know who\nyou are writing about. If the Death Note counts a child version as _definitely\nthat person_ , then it will work.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI remember seeing either a trailer for it or a part of the first episode.\n\nThere was a guy who tried to commit suicide (I think) and jumped off a tall\nbuilding. As he was falling this guy and I think 2-3 others kinda fly next to\nhim.\n\nThe guy offers him his services to save him or something coz I remember him\ngiving the suicidal guy a card.\n\nSorry if I didn't describe it very well, but that's a that I remember.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI believe you may be looking for\n[**Noragami**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noragami).\n\n[The scene you described is in episode\n4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5P_rYXit4), where a guy tried to commit\nsuicide by jumping off a rooftop.\n\nThe only part that doesn't fit your description, is that the guy jumped. He\n_intended_ to jump, but \"accidentally\" fell instead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of Tsubasa Cat in Bakemonogatari, Mayoi tells Araragi that\nshe saw Shinobu at Mister Doughnut. Araragi doesn't seem to be all that\nworried though, as Shinobu can't be too far away from him.\n\nWhen Black Hanekawa is about to kill Araragi, he calls Shinobu for help, where\nshe appears from his shadow and attacks Black Hanekawa. At the end of the last\nepisode, when Araragi is riding on the bike with Senjōgahara, he notes that\nShinobu now lives in his shadow.\n\nBetween when Mayoi told Araragi where she saw Shinobu and when Shinobu\nattacked Black Hanekawa, Araragi didn't see Shinobu or even came across her. I\nam wondering: **When did she start to live in his shadow?** From the way\nthings played out, she must have been living there the entire time while he\nwas looking for her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAraragi did go check out Mister Doughnut store Mayoi was talking about, about\nfive minutes into Tsubasa Cat Part 4.\n\n \n\nHe didn't find her, but this seems like the most plausible time for her to\nsneak into his shadow without him knowing.\n\nIn case of the alternate timeline, Araragi didn't know about that Mister\nDoughnut, didn't go there and didn't get Shinobu into his shadow.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of _Nisemonogatari_ before the opening, [we\nsee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbR-L4rf7_Q) Araragi chained and\nhandcuffed in the cram school with Senjōgahara being the perpetrator. At one\npoint, Araragi said that he would be enjoying the moment more if it wasn't for\nthe Evangelion reference.\n\nWhat is the reference he was talking about? I didn't see anything which hinted\nat an Evangelion reference.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is referencing the conversation between Shinji and Rei in episode 6 while\npreparing to engage Ramiel. At least that's the best I could think of and\nevageeks\n[agrees](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Tributes_to_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_in_other_Anime_and_Manga#Nisemonogatari_.28.E5.81.BD.E7.89.A9.E8.AA.9E.29).\n\nClick the image below, for the full sequence.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zrNSN.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Prisma Illya universe, the class cards (cf. below) are physically real\nmagical items. But what about in the \"main\" Fate universe, where Fate/stay\nnight is set? Do the class cards physically exist there (even perhaps in some\nnon-magical capacity)?\n\n\n\nWe do see a fair bit of them in the VN, but never \"in-universe\", per se, at\nleast as far as I remember - we mostly see them as illustrations to accompany\nexplanations given to Shirou, without any actual indication that they are\nphysically present.\n\nI would have thought that the class cards don't physically exist there, but I\njust had a look at the first OP for DEEN/stay night, and there's a shot there\nof Kirei holding the cards (cf.\n[video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlu8Ce2PP_8#t=0m48s)). Not that\nDEEN/stay night should necessarily be taken at face value, but it does make me\nwonder.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's about two students in the same class who realize everyone but them is in\na relationship. They are kind of forced by their classmates to go out with\neach other, even though they don't particularly like each other.\n\nI remember the cover of one volume being the two main characters in front of a\nclass board. There is also an otaku couple (one acts openly, while the other\nis a closet otaku).\n\nI read this manga once and really liked it, but can't remember the name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's most likely [**Bocchi na Bokura no Renai\nJijou**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=102410).\n\nThe color spread from chapter 1 indeed features the main couple in front of\nblackboard:\n\n\n\nSynopsis from mangaupdates:\n\n> When summer break ended, high-schooler Ichijou Hajime finds out that\n> everyone in his class but him has gotten a girlfriend or a boyfriend! Hajime\n> suddenly finds himself a loner but then Ninomiya Chitose transfers into his\n> class...!?\n\nSince they are the only loners in the class, their classmates suggest them to\ngo out with each other. Of course, they vehemently refuse the suggestion,\nsince they just meet each other. However, the boy makes a faux pas when he\nsays he doesn't want to date her just to make do, which the girl responses by\nsaying that he is \"unsold good\". This marks the bad start of the love story\nbetween them.\n\nAs for the otaku couple, here they are:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nPhM6.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt all begins when my friend asked me, \" _Would Saekano be as popular if the\nillustrator weren't Misaki Kurehito?_ \"\n\nAs we may have known, a light novel's illustrations are the main 'bait' to\ncatch the attention of new buyers, but I still haven't figured out how those\nLN publishers usually assign the illustrator to work on a light novel.\n\nThus my question:\n\n**How do LN publishers assign the illustrator for a light novel?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the Japanese Wikipedia, for the [earliest light\nnovels](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%8E%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB#.E6.8C.BF.E7.B5.B5.E3.83.BB.E3.82.A4.E3.83.A9.E3.82.B9.E3.83.88.E3.81.AE.E9.87.8D.E8.A6.81.E6.80.A7),\nartists were selected by the publishing company EITHER for their work in 油絵 (\n_abura-e_ = oil painting) and 水彩画 ( _suisaiga_ = watercolor) OR for their work\nin manga-style art, such as PC games. In 1987, the 少女文学 ( _shoujo bungaku_ =\ngirl's literature) or\n[少女小説](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%91%E5%A5%B3%E5%B0%8F%E8%AA%AC) (\n_shoujo shosetsu_ = girl's novels) genre began, and for the first time shoujo\nmanga style was used, which helped set the trend of manga-style art as the\nstandard for light novels from the 1990s.\n\nAccording to\n[『ライトノベル「超」入門』](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%8E%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%80%8C%E8%B6%85%E3%80%8D%E5%85%A5%E9%96%80-%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E6%96%B0%E6%9B%B8-%E6%96%B0%E5%9F%8E-%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%9E/dp/4797333383)\n( _Raito Noberu \"Chou\" Nyuumon_ = _Ultra-Initiation to Light Novels_ ) by\n[新城カズマ](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sinjowkazma/) (Shinjou Kazuma）pages 105-116, the\nincreasing demand for anime-style artists available for light novel\nillustrations grew so large that it was necessary to develop a system for the\nindustry to produce a large number of illustrations in a short time period\n(this time demand was partly off-set by the introduction of illustration\nsoftware, allowing artists to complete illustrations in a shorter time frame).\n\nCurrently, it is standard practice that each artist is associated with a\nparticular publisher. This means that they can switch between manga and light\nnovel magazines, but they only switch between magazines all owned by the same\npublisher. For example, [Obana Miho](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miho_Obana)\nis a mangaka under [株式会社集英社](http://arina.wikia.com/wiki/Shueisha)\n(Kabushikigaisha Shuueisha), so her earlier works like 『こどものおもちゃ』 ( _Kodomo no\nOmocha_ = Children's Toy) and 『パートナー』 ( _Partner_ ) were published in\nShuueisha's 「りぼん」( _Ribon_ ) magazine, her 『ハニービター』 ( _Honey Bitter_ ) is\npublished in its 「Cookie」magazine, and her 『あるようでない男』( _Aru You de Nai Otoko_\n= Not That Kind of Guy) was published as a one-shot in its 『りぼんオリジナル』 ( _Ribon\nOriginal_ ) magazine and then serialized in its 「コーラス」 ( _Chorus_ ) magazine.\nHer novelizations of 『この手をはなさない』 ( _Kono Te wo Hanasanai_ = I Won't Let Go of\nThis Hand) and 『こどものおもちゃ ガールズ バトルコメディ』( _Kodomo no Omocha Girl's Battle\nComedy_ ) were published under Shuueisha's コバルト文庫 ( _Cobalt Bunko_ = Cobalt\nLibrary) line of light novels. Thus, to select the artist for a light novel,\nany of the artists associated with that publishing house are fair game; it\npartly depends on how busy they are on other projects, what connotations their\nart is associated with, and their fanbase.\n\nHowever, there are some rare exceptions to the rule. [Takeuchi\nNaoko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoko_Takeuchi) was associated with\n株式会社講談社 (Kabushikigaisha Koudansha), which published her 『美少女戦士セーラームーン』\n_Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon_ = Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) in 「なかよし」 (\n_Nakayoshi_ ) magazine and _Codename ha Sailor V_ in its 「るんるん」 ( _RunRun_ )\nmagazine. She illustrated all the light novels authored by [Koizumi\nMarie](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B3%89%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%88)\nup through the [『マーメイド・ぱにっく』](https://missdream.org/raw-sailor-moon-\ndownloads/other-books-by-naoko-takeuchi/mermaid-panic-volume-1/) (Mermaid\nPanic) series: 『ま・り・あ 』(Maria), 『あたしのわがままを聞いて…』 ( _Atashi no Wagamama wo\nKiite…_ = Listen to My Selfishness...), and 『絶対、彼を奪ってみせる! 』( _Zettai, Kare wo\nUbatte Miseru!_ = I'm Definitely Gonna Steal Him!). However, [after Kodansha\nlost some pages](http://www.kurozuki.com/takeuchi/pqangels/) of her [『PQ\nAngels』](http://piikochan.tripod.com/) manga manuscript before it made it into\nprint in late 1997/early 1998, Takeuchi abadoned that series and was recruited\nby rival company Shuueisha, which published her\n[Punch](http://www.kurozuki.com/takeuchi/punch/) series in its 「Young You」\nmagazine in 1998. After Takeuchi left Kodansha, illustrations for Koizumi\nMarie's novels were assigned to [Ogura\nMasora](http://www.j-n.co.jp/writer/?writer_id=449) whose style is shoujo but\notherwise not particularly-related to Takeuchi's. After publishing many\nKoizumi/Ogura novels, Koizumi's work was consistently illustrated by [Kitagawa\nMiyuki](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E5%B7%9D%E3%81%BF%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D),\nwho is best known for her manga series 『あのこに1000%』 ( _Ano Ko ni 1000%_ = That\nGirl Goes to 1000%) and 『東京ジュリエット』 (Tokyo Juliet), then by [Takada\nTami](https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E9%AB%98%E7%94%B0%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9F&rlz=1C5CHFA_enJP509JP509&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pS5tVam9O4G4mwWsiIKIAg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1274&bih=700&dpr=0.9),\nand Koizumi's most recent novels have been illustrated by a variety of\nartists. [Five years after Takeuchi's departure](https://missdream.org/about-\nnaoko-takeuchi/) from Kodansha, Takeuchi returned to Kodansha to publish her\n『ラブ・ウィッチ』(Love Witch) manga.\n\nSome light novel authors have the talent and skills to illustrate their own\nlight novels (or, as the case may be, get [accused of\nplagiarism](http://seventhstyle.com/2014/09/23/no-game-no-life-artist-caught-\ntracing/) for re-working other's artwork). Some light novels are self-\npublished online and have no ties to publishing companies, so they are\ncompletely free to choose their illustrator.\n\n[『このライトノベルがすごい!』](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%93%E3%81%AE%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%8E%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%81%8C%E3%81%99%E3%81%94%E3%81%84!)\n( _Kono Raito Noberu ga Sugoi!_ = _This Light Novel is Amazing!_ ) published\nannually in November and\n[『ライトノベル・データブック』](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%8E%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%96%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF)\n( _Light Novel・Data Book_ ) explain the history of light novels and project an\noverview of upcoming trends in the industry.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe 'Fairy Vearth' that God Enel keeps talking about, the continuous land. Is\nhe talking about the moon?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFairy Vearth refers to the **Endless Earth**. In de [Enel's mini\nseries](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Enel%27s_mini-series) ( _chapter\n428-474_ ) you can read his story. It's a reference for **the moon** where he\nwanted to travel with his specially build ship **Maxim**.\n\nAs for [Montblanc Noland](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Montblanc_Noland),\ndespite the fact that he is known as the world's largest trickster and liar,\nhe was also a very skilled sea man. At the point he was stronger than Zoro and\nWiper by a lot at that time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen we have scene showing a person (or many people) sleeping soundly, it's\nquite common to have one of them saying \"I can't eat anymore\" 「もう食べられないよ…」 in\ntheir sleep.\n\nAccording to [this forum\nthread](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21670) on\nANN, this trope has been observed in:\n\n * _Cowboy Bebop_ (by Edward)\n * _Air in Summer_ (by Kanna)\n * _Inu-Yasha_ (by Shippo)\n * _Super Milk Chan_ (by Milk-Chan)\n * _CardCaptor Sakura_ (by Kero, also inverts the joke in one instance)\n * _Sailor Moon_ (by Usagi)\n * _Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu_ (by Tessa)\n * _Gokujou Seitokai_ (by Randou Rino, in episode 24)\n\nSince the forum thread above is from 2006, the examples are quite old. Below\nare some recent examples:\n\n * _Brynhildr in the Darkness_ (by Kotori)\n\nThanks to [Pawl Rowe](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/13167/paul-rowe)\nfor providing the example above\n\n(Feel free to edit in more examples and images showing this trope, preferably\nfrom recent series).\n\n**What is the origin of this trope?**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to\n[Chiebukuro](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1087146595),\nan early source is a 落語 ( _rakugo_ ) performance act titled\n[「品川心中」](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%93%81%E5%B7%9D%E5%BF%83%E4%B8%AD) (\n_Shinagawa[Shinjuu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinj%C5%AB)_, meaning\n\"Lovers' Suicide in Shinagawa\"\n[[Shinagawa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinagawa) is a ward of Tokyo])\nwritten in the [Edo era](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_period) (between\n1603 and 1868) (unsurprisingly, the tale revolves around a double lovers'\nsuicide). [_Rakugo_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo) is a form of\nJapanese verbal stage entertainment. A single storyteller sits in [_seiza_\nposition](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza) and tells a long and complicated\ncomical story which involves dialogue of two or more characters. The art was\ninvented by Buddhist monks in the [9th and 10th\ncenturies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo#History) to make their sermons\nmore interesting.\n\nBecause the work was a live performance so long ago, [conclusive historical\nevidence does not\nexist](http://www.eurartproject.com/artworks/shinagowa_lovers_suicide/), but\nit is generally believed that the story included the following lines of\ndialogue:\n\n> 「ほら、あんた、起きとくれよ！」( _Hora, anta, oki to kure yo!_ )\n>\n> 「ふぇぇー？ もう食えねぇ～．．．」 ( _Fuee~? Mou kuenee~..._ )\n>\n> 「何言ってんだい、お前さん、時間だよ．．．」 ( _Nani itten dai, omae-san, jikan da yo..._ )\n\nmeaning\n\n> A: Hey, you, wake up!\n>\n> B: Huhhhh? I can't eat anymooore...\n>\n> A: What're you talking about, hey you, it's time [to get up]...\n\n「食えねぇ」( _kuenee_ ) and「食べない」( _tabenai_ ) both have the [same\nmeaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/3016/what-is-the-\ndifference-between-%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%86-and-%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%B9%E3%82%8B): \"can't\neat.\" The \" _kuu_ \" pronunciation is used by men and has a rougher sound, and\nis also used to refer to animals consuming their food.\n\nThe inclusion of this line in various manga indicates that **even to the\npresent day, dreaming of eating so much food that you couldn't possibly eat\nany more is considered a good dream** : such a good dream that you don't want\nto wake up from it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to know in which episode Luffy said the following quote:\n\n> You came without fear. Don't have any regrets, no matter what happens. \n> This is the duel you wanted.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile I don't have a specific episode number, I've found some context that can\nhelp you find it:\n\n<http://tieba.baidu.com/p/445238214>\n\nIt sounds like this happened around the beginning of the Water 7 arc, which is\naround the time where the Going Merry had damage to it's keel and couldn't be\nfixed, and Usopp and Luffy get into a fight about it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's from **Episode 236** : [this](https://youtu.be/j0BtHTmDfAc?t=3m29s) is a\nclip from the episode at the scene you mentioned.\n\nThe context is the duel between Usopp and Luffy: after Luffy decided to buy a\nnew ship and abandon the Going Merry, Usopp abandons the crew and challenged\nLuffy to a duel. The cross talk is between the two of them just before the\nduel began.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOften in anime which features a character who wears glasses, when they take\noff their glasses, their eyes turn into a sort of puckered lip emoticon that\nlooks like the number 3.\n\n\n\nThe meaning is fairly obvious, that the character looks drastically different\nor worse without their glasses on. But why is this icon used, specifically?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe \"3\" is a stylized (and humorous) way of showing the characters squinting\ntheir eyes, which then look somewhat like a \"3\".\n\nMost glasses wearer -- especially the young ones -- are short-sighted, so\nwhenever they take off their glasses, they start squinting. The \"3\" is used in\na similar fashion to depict pouting characters, like with the following emoji:\n\n(°3°)\n\nA variation of this is the famous へのへのもへじ (henohenomoheji), which uses\nHiragana characters that look somewhat like facial features and is used almost\nexclusively for humorous purposes:\n\n[](http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/09/26/hiragana-\nart-creating-pictures-using-the-japanese-syllabary/) \nImage taken from\n[RocketNews24](http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/09/26/hiragana-art-creating-\npictures-using-the-japanese-syllabary/)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn this scene, Marii goes on to ask \"Why the Nobita Face?\". The fact that she\nrefers to the trope as thus would indicate that it's the origin or at least\nthe most famous version of the trope.\n\n[From a previous question I\nasked](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4985/what-exactly-is-a-\nnobita-face?lq=1):\n\n> From the Doraemon Wikia:\n>\n> Nobita's eyes are never drawn consistently. Sometimes they look like the\n> number 3, sometimes they're black beaded, and sometimes, like in the case of\n> the recent movies, they're normal eyes.\n>\n> \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSuppose that there is Mr. A, who received a plastic surgery to have the same\nface as Mr. B and changed his name to Mr. B. He uses this name for years and\neveryone knows him as Mr. B now. I then get to know his current face and name\nand write that in the Death Note. Who will die?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy personal guess would be that **nobody would die**. It was established at\n[this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/12978/6166) that despite\nchanging names, the Death God would still see the original name. Therefore Mr.\nB would still show _A_ as his real name. So if you would write down Mr. B,\nwhile thinking of Mr. A, the names would not match.\n\nNow about having the exact same face. One could argue that Mr. B would die,\nbecause you did write down his name and did think of his face, but despite\nhaving undergone plastic surgery, your face will never be 100% exactly the\nsame. Even with identical twins, they will have differences. That's why I\nbelieve that nothing will happen, since the Death Note probably knows you are\nnot thinking of Mr. B, but of Mr. A, due to their faces being slightly\ndifferent.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are Mr. A and Mr. B. They are conjoined twins who each has their own set\nof organs except for the heart. I write the name of Mr. A while imagining his\nface, with the cause of death being falling from the top of Tokyo Tower head\nfirst. Let's say the difference in height between the two is less than 1 cm.\nWill Mr. B also die?\n\nAccording to [**How to Use:\nXXVI**](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVI),\nitem 2:\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\nHowever, a heart attack will also kill Mr. B.\n\nAdditionally, [**How to Use:\nX**](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_X),\nitem 2 stated:\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\n* * *\n\nThis question is a bit different than [the one proposed as possible\nduplicate](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7415/can-writing-in-the-\ndeath-note-influence-others). In the proposed question, the death of the pilot\nor the surgeon doesn't necessarily means that the people in the plane or the\none in the surgery will 100% die. There is a delay before they actually die.\nSurgery is rarely done by only one doctor. It usually is done by a team of\ndoctors, so the other doctors can still save the patient. Flying a plane is\nalso the same. There is also the co-pilot. In the case of my question, killing\nMr. A is the same as killing Mr. B since they share the same heart with no\ndelay whatsoever to save Mr. B.\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\nDoes rule XXVI not answer your question? Mathematically speaking you could\nrewrite it as follows.\n\n> Causes others to die => (Cause = Heart-attack).\n\nHere you could see that the heart attack would be **logically implied** as the\ncause of death if others are influenced, regardless whether they take others\nwith them. Therefore **they would both die**. Mr. B would also be killed.\nRemember that this rule does not say that if you would cause another human to\ndie, that you would stay alive. It only says that the cause changes to a heart\nattack, which in this case would kill both, so the death of the other would be\nunavoidable in this case.\n\nIf this would not have been true, **Light would have been able to make himself\ncompletely immune to the Death Note, even making it impossible for Ryuk to\nkill him**. Light could have implanted a bomb inside a few people, that would\nall be triggered when either his heart or their heart stopped beating. He\nwould repeat this over different groups of people. By doing so, Ryuk would be\nrendered unable to kill Light as it would be impossible to kill any of those\nwith a bomb implanted, as it would kill the others and he would not be able to\nkill Light as it would kill all of them. This would make Light immune to the\nDeath Note, which I found very unlikely to be true, because **it would\ncompletely contradict the first and most fundamental rule of the Death Note**\nnamely\n\n> The human whose name is written in this note shall die.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlthough Peter Raeves has given quite [a good explanation as to why they will\nsimply both die](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/21877/1398), there is also\nthe possibility that rule XXVI **does** imply that no other people will die\nbecause of the person's death. In practice, this would be a hard rule to\nfollow (pilots dying whilst flying, doctors dying whilst operating, a\nconjoined twin...), but for the world of fiction, it of course wouldn't.\n\nYou can always think of a scenario where no other people will die. The bomb\nscenario in Peter's answer, for example, can be debunked with simple\ntechnology malfunction. Every time Ryuk writes down a name, there is the\nextreme coincidence that the bomb on that person disables for what seems to be\nno reason.\n\nFor the conjoined twins, they can have a heart attack, yes. However, you can\nbe _revived_ after this. So people try to revive them both, but only Mr. B\ngets to survive, and the other dies.\n\nEvery thinkable scenario can be debunked in the world of fiction :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEven though L had his suspicions about Light, he was not sure that Light was\nKira and he couldn't prove it either. However, N was able to do so.\n\nWhat evidences led N to believe that Light Yagami was Kira?\n\nSince I only watched the anime and didn't follow the manga, I'd appreciate it\nif the answer also references episode number.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nN researched the past, so much of his conclusions match L's, so I will start\nfrom the beginning as to why N (and L) thought Light was the _killer_.\n\n * Chapter 2/Episode 2 (19:11): The _killer_ must be in the Kanto region.\n * Chapter 3/Episode 3 (3:35): The _killer_ must be a student.\n * Chapter 4/Episode 3 (10:40): The _killer_ must be a relative of the police.\n * Chapter 11/Episode 6 (8:45): The _killer_ acts alone and must be among those investigated by the FBI during the first 5 days.\n * Chapter 15/Episode 8 (5:58): The _killer_ was investigated by Raye Penbar and is thus part of Chief Yagami's family or part of Sub-Chief Kitamura's family.\n * Chapter 19/Episode 9 (15:35): L's gut tells him Light is the _killer_.\n\nFrom this point onwards, L keeps suspecting Light, but could never find any\nconcrete evidence proving this conjuncture. This was mainly due to the false\nrules put in by Light himself. If it was not for those rules, Light would have\nbeen convicted. Then in chapter 58/episode 25 (18:45) L dies and in chapter\n59/episode 27 (1:25) N and M come into play and the cat-and-mouse-game starts\nall over again.\n\n * Chapter 60/Episode 27 (13:22) (M): The _killer_ must know about the abduction of director Takimura.\n * Chapter 63/Episode 27 (20:27) (N): L is a fake and now called L2.\n * Chapter 75/Episode 30 (1:44) (N): L2 is the _killer_.\n * Chapter 77/Episode 30 (10:53) (M): N finds out one of the rules is fake by M.\n * Chapter 78/Episode 30 (12:16) (N): The _13 day rule_ is believed to be fake.\n * Chapter 79 (N): The rule is confirmed to be fake.\n * Chapter 82/Episode 31 (13:27) (N): The _killer_ must be the son of Chief Yagami, Yagami Light.\n * Chapter 85 (N): It is confirmed that Light is the first _killer_ and Misa is the second _killer_.\n\nFrom this point onwards, N keeps suspecting Light, but again needed evidence\nto actually convict Light. It took N until chapter 103 to gain this evidence\nand he only got it by chance too.\n\n * Chapter 103/Episode 36 (21:16): Light confessed `Victory is mine`\n * Chapter 103/Episode 37: Mikami calls Light a God (2:37), and the only name not written down is Light's (3:00)\n\nThis was considered enough evidence to convict Light and the game of the\n_killer_ is finally over when Ryuk kills Light.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost of the evidence was already there because of the work of L. He had other\nways of figuring things out, too. Like using Tarot cards. My point is, while L\nused his intelligence to piece _that_ much together, Near just screwed around\nwith evidence to make himself look as smart—or smarter—than L.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QCSBT.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you state \"Jack Hare\" will die at precisely 15:00 12/03/14 without stating\nthe location, and you write this without knowing where they will be at the\ntime, and the person goes to work as per normal, can this be used to kill more\nthan one person?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn several occasions, for example, when Mikami used his Shinigami Eyes to see\neveryone's name in the final episode, he saw in a red tint. Is this only done\nfor dramatic effect, or do they generally see in a red tint?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**It looks like they do see in a different colour.** The first time Misa meets\nLight we can see her look at him differently, but from the manga it is hard to\ndeduce what the actual colour is. From chapter 28 it does seem that users with\nShinigami Eyes do see in a different colour as shown in the pictures below.\nAnother moment when this happens is when Chief Yagami looks at Mello through\nthe Shinigami Eyes. At that time, he also sees him in a different colour, so\nit is safe to say that people with the Shinigami Eyes look at the world\ndifferently than we do, but the actual colour could be any colour, since the\nmanga is just black and white.\n\n \n\nIn chapter 28, we can see this colour page and it would make it seem that\nusers with the Shinigami Eyes, see the world not in red, but in reverse.\nAlthough it is not completely sure who made this colour page. It might just be\nfan-art.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\n\nIn Counter-Strike: Global Offensive a new skin was released called the\nAkihabara Accept. The description of the skin is:\n\n> Powerful and accurate, the AUG scoped assault rifle compensates for its long\n> reload times with low spread and a high rate of fire. It has been decorated\n> with a heat transfer vinyl of an **anime magazine cover**.\n\nSo I'm curious, does this actually come from a real anime magazine cover? Or\nis this just some custom in-house work by Valve? On the girl on the butt end\nof the gun the words \"Fazik\" are labelled on her uniform; perhaps it's part of\nthe artist or something?\n\n\n\nHere's an [imgur album with closeups of the skin in\nquestion](https://imgur.com/a/OFadr).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAlso, as mentioned by Matt, **it does not look like it comes from any specific\nmanga or anime** and is just some random Japanese anime character put on there\nby Steam, hoping to get some money from otaku fans alike willing to pay huge\namounts of money for just an anime skin.\n\n* * *\n\nBased on [comments on it at\nReddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensiveTrade/comments/37ftv6/discussion_aug_akihabara_accept_screens/)\nand [steam\nitself](http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/AUG%20|%20Akihabara%20Accept%20%28Field-\nTested%29). If it was based on something you would expected steam to promote\nit as such.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs mentioned by [Aki Tanaka](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2516/aki-\ntanaka) it is probably a parody of an anime magazine. Valve is not allowed and\nwill never use original artwork, covers or other illustrations that have been\nproduced by somebody else.\n\nThe [Steam Workshop](http://steamcommunity.com/app/730/workshop/) is the only\nplatform where other people can upload their ideas for a skin, but before they\ncan upload it they have to give Valve all rights for said artwork, confirming\nthat the skin is their own work.\n\nThe _Akihabara Accept_ is not a work from the workshop and therefore has been\nmade by Valve.\n\nDescriptions like the one you posted:\n\n> It has been decorated with a heat transfer vinyl of an anime magazine cover.\n\nare only to roughly indicate how the skin has been created. It is similar to\nthe _Kami_ skin which has a manga page painted on it.\n\n> It has been painted using a hydrographic in a Japanese manga pattern.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nA common trope across various anime and manga is the [snot bubble\ntrope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SnotBubble). I've put an\nexample below:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kqEmO.jpg)\n\nI can gather what it signifies from the [TV Tropes\ndescription](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SnotBubble), but\nwhat's the origin of this? Does anybody know where it was first used, or where\nthe inspiration came from?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe origin is, perhaps surprisingly, real life! This does occur among\n[children in Japan](https://www.flickr.com/photos/altus/1515466596) and [in\nother countries as well](http://jemblankz-\nmonstervikings.blogspot.jp/2011/06/funny-snot-bubble.html).\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe have all seen it often before, that when girls are among themselves, they\ntend to playfully grope their friend's breasts and it all seems to be okay and\naccepted behaviour. This trope is thus appropriately called [Skinship\nGrope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SkinshipGrope). I am aware\nthis is used often as fan service and it does mention at the trope page, that\none _should not try this at home_ , yet I have had this trope confirmed by\nfriends and TV shows. Therefore it made me wonder where this trope originated\nfrom. Did it come from a (at that time) weird manga or did this originate from\na cultural difference I am not aware off being a European male myself?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the member of the Manga & Illustration Society student club at a Japanese\nnational university, I have seen young Japanese women involved in sub-culture\nperform this joking action in public in real life. I have seen it done in a\nsmall group of female friends while staying at an _onsen ryokan_ (traditional\ninn at a hot spring), in the midst of a large group of male & female college\nstudents, and my husband saw it done by girls in a booth sitting in a bar-type\nrestaurant. Sometimes it is either asked (\"Can I touch your breasts?\" and the\nperson answers \"No\" or \"I don't have any breasts to begin with\"), or\nthreatened (\"I'm gonna touch your breasts!\") but if the person protests, the\nthreat is not followed through, or she might only threaten playfully and then\nnot go through with it of her own volition. In all cases, the girls have been\nfully clothed (I have not witnessed a case in an _onsen_ [hot spring] itself\nor otherwise nude context where the Japanese and Korean phrase \"skinship\"\nmight be applicable).\n\nCulturally, it is indeed considered okay and acceptable behavior, and does not\nimply that that the girl/s involved are lesbians. It seems to be a sort of\ncompliment, i.e. false hitting-on (a true lesbian could engage in such\nbanter/activity without ever coming out since the purportedly straight girls\ndo it too). I heard one female college sophomore give her name, grade, major,\nand \"I love breasts\" as her entire self-introduction to the group (a mixed\ngathering of males and females) at the start of the academic year. Of course,\nthe context matters: young women would not do this at formal functions, when\nprofessors are present, etc. Young Japanese can throw out the phrase 「セクハラ」(\n_seku-hara_ , short for \"sexual harassment\") in these cases, but it [does not\nbear the severity and criminal\nmeaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/15328/what-do-young-\njapanese-mean-by-%E3%82%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A9) of the English phrase\nand is not necessarily unwelcome by the person being hit on.\n\nSo in anime, this is not simply unrealistic fan service for male viewers, but\nrather is a practice among real-life young Japanese women who do not do it for\nthe sake of the enjoyment of men. As a non-Japanese, of course this is rather\nsurprising the first time you see it happen.\n\nCulturally, bathing at an _onsen_ or _sento_ does not generally lend itself\ntoward any sensual content; most women there either avoid eye contact with\nothers, just don't look down (focus on the other person's face), or look at\nthe scenery or wall painting instead of at the friend sitting next to you.\nPeople who normally wear glasses cannot see clearly while in the _onsen_\nanyway. You can go with your family, relatives, friends, co-workers, and/or\nacquaintances, or alone and no one expects to be looked at uncomfortably. The\nvery fact that everyone is naked and no one cares or is weirded out or shy\nabout it makes it easy for the average Japanese to enjoy and truly relax.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI saw someone on the internet wonder if Ed and Al are capable of doing flame\nalchemy because they have seen Truth. This bothered me, since this would\nnegate the idea that flame alchemy was difficult to learn and that via\ndestroying Hawkeye's tattoo, it would be possible to avert the existence of\nanother flame alchemist (vol. 14).\n\nSomeone suggested that it's possible from [an\nomake](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8rLJY.jpg) where Ed finds Roy's lost gloves,\nputs them on, and creates an explosion. (Click to see images.)\n\nHowever, this is an _omake_ so I doubt it can be taken completely seriously,\nand moreover, Ed does not seem to have any of the technique Roy has honed. Yet\nat least with flame alchemy, where manipulation of gas concentrations is\nnecessary (vol. 1), technique and precision seem to be crucial. Given this, I\nwould normally expect to be what Ed describes as a \"rebound\".\n\n**Does seeing truth indeed allow alchemists to circumvent the normal learning\nprocess, _provided that they at least have a rough idea of what materials are\ninvolved and the arrays needed,_ if they are lacking in the specific\ntechniques that would normally be indicated by the ability to use an array?**\n(The latter bit is necessary; otherwise, there's no reason why Ed and Al don't\nlearn for three years how the philosopher's stone is created.)\n\nOf the four alchemists who have seen Truth in FMA, all of them seem to only\nhave gained the ability to perform alchemy without an array, and if I'm not\nmistaken, we only ever see them perform transmutations that they can be\npresumed to have already known beforehand. We _do_ see Ed use Scar's\ndeconstruction technique once, but unlike with flame alchemy, there's no\nquestion of needing the correct combination of materials or precise\n\"technique\" here.\n\nI am looking for answers based on the manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom my understanding, all that seeing Truth does is allow one to create an\nAlchemy Array with their own body (as opposed to drawing it). it should be\nnoted that in the 2003 Anime1 that even though Ed could have been doing circle\nfree Alchemy from the moment after he and Al tried to being their mother back\nhe still used circles. his first discovery that he didn't need them was when\nGracia was giving birth and his second attempt was during the State Alchemist\nExams\n\nMustang knows all the finer details of his alchemy because he had to learn it\nall from himself just from the Tattoo Riza has on her back which was placed\nthere by her father, and further simplified it to be a smaller circle\n\n> Flame Alchemy is the brainchild of the master alchemist Berthold Hawkeye,\n> who had spent several years perfecting it before his death from illness in\n> 1905. Believing it to be the greatest and most powerful form of alchemy\n> possible, Hawkeye refused to pass on the knowledge to Roy, who was his\n> apprentice at the time, and instead entrusted the secrets of his search for\n> knowledge to his young daughter Riza - tattooing the perfected array onto\n> her back as the only physical record of its existence. The full array\n> appears to consist of a circle corralling an inverted hexagram made up of a\n> large air triangle and a large earth triangle, both splitting into identical\n> pairs as they intersect, with a fire triangle at the center, pointing upward\n> toward a flame. Below the hexagram is an image of a salamander. Outside the\n> circle is a pair of entwined basilisks and the text of the \"Libera Me\"\n> responsory repeated multiple times. After Roy gains Riza's trust and takes\n> the Flame Alchemy knowledge for himself, he modifies the symbol somewhat for\n> his gloves (removing the text and the basilisks in favor of a simplified\n> circle).\n\nSource: [Roy Mustang - Flame Alchemy (4th\nParagraph)](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Roy_Mustang#Flame_Alchemy)\n\nwhile the Omake being canon can be questioned, logically Ed could just as well\ndo the exact same with Mustang's gloves as they are a simplified form but he\nwont have the finer control that Mustang has and will most like just cause\nvery big explosions...or blow himself up.\n\nOutside from using the gloves, Ed would still need to know the kind of Array\nto use to subconsciously alter his internal array and the procedure needed to\nutilize it. as for understanding the Array Ed has demonstrated in Lab 5 that\nhe is quite knowledgeable (understanding the one to create the philosophers\nstone and altering it to be more efficient) which one can assume the ability\nto understand array's he's never seen before comes from the knowledge he\ngained from The Gate and Truth (as knowledge on Homunculi would have came from\nbooks he already read, after learning about Winry's parents Ed says he read\nabout them in a book), as such looking at Berthold Hawkeye's array he may in\nfact be able to understand it quicker than Mustang. though at it's current\nstate with the important aspects for it having been destroyed by Riza's\nrequest Ed would probably need to study in order to figure out what is needed\nto complete it\n\n* * *\n\n1: Brotherhood skips a lot of Ed's early years but i do remember events from\nthe 2003 anime being the same as the manga (ie, Bald, Nina being chimeratized\nand killed by Scar, Barry the Chopper) so it stand to reason that up until\nYuswel it is more or less the same\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPretty much just the formation of a physical array or circle in the preforming\nof alchemy. For an alchemist unfortunate enough to meet Truth, they can use\ntheir body as the circle by placing their hands together, forming a ring from\ntheir heart through their arms and back. Otherwise nothing else. Edward and\nIzumi did seem to imply - during the time they were discussing Al's memory of\nmeeting the truth - that meeting Truth, is literally seeing the \"truth\" or the\nknowledge of the entire universe, i.e. the supreme truth or all knowledge. And\nthat depending on the toll paid - body part lost - the violator alchemist sees\ndiffering amounts of the \"truth\". They suggested that because Al paid his\nentire body he must have seen nearly all of the \"truth\" or at least far more\nthat his brother or Izumi did. But I don't think they go into that any further\nor even mention it again. (This is just an opinion but it might even be a\ndropped plot line or something the author cut out later). But As far as I know\nthe only thing that is bypassed is the need to draw or make a physical circle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are quite a few anime, manga, and JRPGs that have a character who, at\none point, offers to (or in some cases has to) cook for the other characters\nand is often convinced they are at least decent. They end up poisoning the\nothers by mistake. It's often played for laughs that this person is shockingly\nbad, but (often) completely unaware. Usually, this person is a woman or girl.\nIt's mildly amusing,(citation needed) but it happens in so many stories, it\nseems any show going long enough needs to have this joke in it.\n\nTV Tropes page with examples\n[here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LethalChef).\n\nWhat is it about this joke that it is so often repeated in manga and anime\n(and games, I guess)? Is there some cultural thing I'm missing making it\nfunnier? (As a sub-question, why is it nearly always women?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nUsually the food is a gift from a girl to a boy - for example, sharing bentos\nat school or making the boy chocolate for valentines day. These are pretty\ncommon occurances in both games and anime - usually in the lead up to a\nconfession of love. When guys give gifts to girls in anime it's more often\njewellery or something to remember them by.\n\n[Gift-Giving going\nwrong](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnwantedGiftPlot) is another\ntrope and the humour in it is that the character getting the present feels\nobliged to pretend that they really like the gift. For example, getting a\npresent that you already own. This trope has been going in different media for\nages, and stems from real-life experiences. I know I've gotten presents I\nhaven't been overly thrilled by but had to express my gratitude to be polite.\n\nSo, when gift-giving going wrong is applied to food - the character has to try\nand eat a disgusting meal while saying it's delicious - or at least, not say\nit's awful. The humour comes from the conflicted emotions and the effort the\ncharacter has to put in to make sure it doesn't come across on his face that\nit's disgusting.\n\nI think the fact that gifting food occurs so often in anime, means that this\nalternative gifting has become a _spinoff_ as it were - and has become a trope\nin its own right.\n\nI'm not sure if this answers your question or not - add a comment if it\ndoesn't :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ , after Naruto and Hinata got\nmarried and Hinata gave birth to two kids, is that the end of Naruto? Will\nthey create a sequel to the story?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's currently an on-going manga about a future story titled [**_Naruto\nGaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet\nSpring_**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Gaiden:_The_Seventh_Hokage_and_the_Scarlet_Spring).\n\nAt the end of _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ , there is an announcement for the\nnext movie called [**_Boruto: Naruto the\nMovie_**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Boruto:_Naruto_the_Movie). (Thanks to\nAnkit Sharma for pointing this out)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe second half of the soundtrack for the WIXOSS anime came on the album\n[\"selector spread WIXOSS music Particle.2\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/49081).\nThis album was released with [the second spread WIXOSS box\nset](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%80%8Cselector-spread-\nWIXOSS%E3%80%8DBOX2-%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E4%BB%98-Blu-\nray/dp/B00OH1K9DG/) back in April. For whatever reason, though, the track\nlisting for this album does not appear to be available anywhere on the\ninternet.\n\nWhat is the list of tracks on this album?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome nice person added the track listing to VGMdb a little while back (I\nassume it's correct, though there are no scans of the listing included); here\nis a romanized / translated† version of it:\n\n 1. Battle ~ I can make your wish come true\n 2. _doushite naite iru no?_ / \"Why are you crying?\"\n 3. _fushigi_ / \"Strange\"\n 4. _Chiyori_ / \"Chiyori\"\n 5. _chiyoringaa, chiyorunbaa, chorisoo_\n 6. _gikochinai_ / \"Awkward\"\n 7. _yukkuri to_ / \"Slowly\"\n 8. _Urisu to Iona_ / \"Ulith and Iona\"\n 9. _uso to yokubou, kowarete guchagucha_ / \"Lies and desires come tumbling down\"\n 10. _Iona to Akira_ / \"Iona and Akira\"\n 11. _iradachi to kyoufu_ / \"Anger and fear\"\n 12. _kenshin to izon ~ Devotion_ / \"Sacrifice and dependence ~ Devotion\" \n 13. Conflict\n 14. _atarashii katachi_ / \"A new form\"\n 15. _nichijou ~ Futase_ / \"Life ~ Futase\"\n 16. _mayoimichi_ / \"Gone astray\"\n 17. _Fumio_ / \"Fumio\"\n 18. _Battle ~ mou, genkai nan da_ / \"Battle ~ I can't go any further\"\n 19. _Mayu to shiroi heya_ / \"Mayu and the white room\"\n 20. _hibiware ~ Brasted piano_ / \"A crack ~ Brasted piano\"\n 21. _Ulith_ / \"Ulith\"\n 22. _omoikomi?_ / \"A preconception?\"\n 23. _utsuro na sonzai_ / \"A hollow existence\"\n 24. _minna de yarinaosou?_ / \"Why don't we all start over?\"\n 25. Battle ~ Consternation\n 26. _taiji to itami_ / \"Confrontation and pain\"\n 27. _kizu_ / \"Injury\"\n 28. _dakedo_ / \"But\"\n 29. _Yuki_ / \"Yuki\"\n 30. Profane Wish ~ Brasted piano\n 31. _moshikashitara_ / \"What if\"\n 32. _sorezore no yasashisa_ / \"Kindness, each in their own way\"\n 33. _tobira_ / \"The gate\"\n 34. infinite Girl\n\n* * *\n\n† Except for track 5, because what do you even do with that? Also, because I'm\nlazy, I didn't pull the translations for things like tracks 22 and 23 from the\nsimulcast subtitles, so they'll probably be sort of discrepant.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\ni really cannot recall hear. what was her name again? Since this post does not\nmeet standards i have to write that i tried to remember her but no luck in\nthis.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe character's name is _Fuko Ibuki_ , sometimes spelt _Fuuko_\n\n\n\nYou probably could have Googled 'starfish girl Clannad' to get the answer\nfaster\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, Ichigo's father, Isshin, is shown to have captain level powers,\nbut I think that it was never mentioned that he was a substitute shinigami. So\nwhere does he get his powers?\n\nAlso, why did he hide his powers (or why couldn't he use his powers) for 20\nyears? And why did he hide the fact that he was a shinigami from his son?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe below answer contains spoilers (because the anime stops before this was\nexplained).\n\n* * *\n\nTo give you a little back story before explaining:\n\nSo after Ichigo is done with the Fullbringers, there is the Final Arc with the\nQuincies. Ichigo's Zanpaktou in Bankai is broken and he has to fix it with the\nhelp of the Zero Division. The man that creates the Zanpaktou tells him that\nhe needs to find his true Zanpaktou, but Ichigo can't because he needs to\nlearn something about his past that is blocking him.\n\nThis is how he learns about his father. In 10 chapters, his father finally\ntalks so Ichigo could learn about his past, why he didn't tell him about his\nShinigami powers and how his mother died.\n\n* * *\n\nIsshin was the former head of a branch of the Shiba Clan, as the Shiba that\nRukia knew ([Kaien Shiba](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Kaien_Shiba)), and\nCaptain of the 10th Division. He was in the Shinigami world until Aizen, Gin\nIchimaru and Kaname Tōsen were doing these experiments with Hollows and\nShinigamis in the human world.\n\nSo after a while he decided to go to see what is going on in the human world\n(because people died), and he found a White (an experimental Hollow) and he\ncouldn't defeat it. So Ichigo's mother came and she is revealed to be a Quincy\nand tried to defeat it. She did it, but she was injured by it, which infected\nher and she was becoming a Hollow.\n\nSo Kisuke found Ichigo's mother and father and told Isshin that if he wants\nher to live he has to sacrifice his power to protect her in a device (as he\ndid with the Vizards, but not 100% the same). He accepted and lost his powers\nand became a human. So when she died, he got his power back because it stopped\nprotecting her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fullmetal Alchemist the door in the Truth realm has a huge symbol with all\nkinds of things on it:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WZK3s.jpg)\n\nI've seen the opening of Neon Genesis Evangelion today and noticed that the\nsame symbol is shown in the beginning of the opening around 0:10 - 0:13.\n\nI first thought that it was just a random symbol in FMA, but now that I've\nseen it in the opening of NGE, I believe that it must come from something else\nsince there is no connection between those anime.\n\nWhat is this symbol, where does it come from and what does it describe?\n\nHere is a more detailed picture of the symbol:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GuvzR.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[The FmA Wikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gate) seems to indicate that the\npicture is _Tree of Life_ (also known as _World Tree_ or _Tree of Emanations_\nor _Arber Sephiroteca_ ), as described by a 17th century English Paracelsian\nphysician [Robert Fludd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fludd). I'm\nhaving a hard time finding additional information about the diagram, but the\n[EvaGeeks Wiki](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Tree_of_Life#Arber_Sephirotheca) has\na page that describes the different parts in more detail. It does seem\nsomewhat related to the _[Sephirot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot)_ ,\nor _Sefirotic Tree_ as diagrams depicting it are often called.\n\n\n\nIt also seems that this diagram is unique to Edward's Gate, as Alphonse's Gate\nhas a different diagram, from 15th century alchemist [George\nRipley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ripley_\\(alchemist\\))'s text _The\nMarrow of Alchemy_. (I wasn't able to find out if the diagram itself has a\nname).\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's a slightly modified version of the [Sephirothic Tree of\nLife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot) as defined by Robert Fludd, who\nwas a physician with interests in Kabbalah and other religious mysticisms. The\nglobes (called Sephiroths) are thought of as being ways in which the universe\nshows its truths to humanity. They're also printed with the words God used in\ncreating the universe in Genesis.\n\n\n\nYou can read up on it more [here](http://www.sacred-\ntexts.com/eso/sta/sta29.htm), but the basic idea behind it is that it is a\nmystic symbol representing universal truth -- and the Truth is on the other\nside of the door in FMA.\n\nIn [NGE](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Tree_of_Life), however, the symbol appears\nafter the Mass Production units form an inverted tree of life, symbolizing the\nopposite of creation -- destruction, death -- after crucifying Eva 01. This is\npart of the Third Impact, in which nearly all of humanity is reduced to LCL.\nYou'll find that there's a lot of mystic symbolism in NGE.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the door, there is a lot of Hebrew on it. On the bottom, it says 'Adonai'\nwhich translates to 'god' and 'Elohim gibor' means 'god is strong' or 'god is\nbrave'.\n\nAlso, on Alex Armstrong's fists, 'chasak' is written in Hebrew which means\n'strong'.\n\nI feel like this show is more related to Judaism than any other religion by\nall the Hebrew and Jewish beliefs.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\"adonai\" in hebrew actually \"my master\" but its used as gods name. there is\nalso some other names for god in judaism on the door such as \"elohim\" which\nmeans god, \"elohim gabor\" means god is brave, iah or YHVH also means god, on\narmstrongs fists it says \"chazak\" which means strong in hebrew, and the door\nalso says \"el\" which is also a name for god usually put at the end of a word.\nfor example, samuel in hebrew means \"god heard\" or \"god listened\". it also\nsays \"cherub\" on the door and a cherub or the \"cherubim\" are the little angel\nthing thing on the ark of god or ark of the covenant which is basically a\nreally holy large box made of gold that holds the tablets with the ten\ncommandments and some other stuff.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince July 17th 2014, [Fairy Tail\nMonthly](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Tail_Wiki:Sorcerer_Magazine/Monthly)\nhas been released. Every month at the 17th it is supposed to come out with the\naim to:\n\n> * Entertain\n> * Inform users of important series information, rumors, funfacts, trivia,\n> etc.\n> * Inform users of ongoing important votes, discussions, and articles\n> needing improvement\n> * Provide users with a quick summary of happenings in the past month, e.g.\n> user rights changes, major community decisions, discussion results\n> * Keep users updated with the latest contests, community activities, etc.\n>\n\nIt should also contain a chapter of [Fairy Tail\nZero](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Tail_Zero), written by Hiro\nMashima. Since the chapter is due 11 days now, it made me wonder whether\nsomething has happened to the magazine. Was it not yet released in Japan due\nto Golden Week? Or did the magazine just not contain a chapter this month? Is\nthere anyone that might know more about the magazine and the chapter?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Chapter 1 of Monmusu Quest, it is shown that a large number of humans\nworshiped Ilias. Yet, not all human communities consider her as a goddess. The\nworship of Ilias also seems to be the root of the conflict between most humans\nand monster girls considering how much Alice detested Luka's worship of her.\nThe conflict wasn't always the case either, it seems to have arisen after\nhumans started worship Ilias.\n\nWhy did humans started worshiping Ilias? How did it get started?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs Miku kind of falls under the purview of the Anime/Manga Realm with her\nimage, and PV's I suppose she belongs here.\n\nThe PV for the video started out with miku in a lab, she finds a \"scouter\"\nlike object which translates alien language allowing her to take control of\nthe spaceship she somehow enters, she then enters a \"faster than light\" sort\nof warp and heads to like a space mall, things happen and then she \"wakes up\"\nat the desk where she originally was. I think the technology was like \"xeno\"\nsomething or other.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found it!\n\nThanks to people who searched, it took me until page 20, going through Miku's\n_Innocence_ song, and then a little bit further to find it.\n\n[Hatsune Miku \"Escape\", 3D Music Video in Sci-Fi\nstyle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM0_0oSdwc8)\n\nIt's called **ESCAPE**. The \"xeno\" part referred to \"Xenolinguistic\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHJpUN5P2yg&hd=1) is the scene where\nthe song in question is playing.\n\nThe clip is taken at around 15:13 into episode 24, at the scene where\nHideyoshi Sarutobi slapped Mikawa Kai to calm him down.\n\nThank you in advance.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat would be\n[Surechigai](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbumEwFao0&list=PLHvpnzuBCCqakfbrG05pNPv95eJHhtS47&index=15),\nas composed by [Takanashi\nYasuharu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuharu_Takanashi)\n\nIt was included in the Seto no Hanayome Vol.3 - Bonus BGM OST 2 album as the\n8th track.\n\nSeveral of [set-no-hanayome](/questions/tagged/set-no-hanayome \"show questions\ntagged 'set-no-hanayome'\")'s albums are for sale on\n[amazon](http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-\nalias%3Dpopular&field-\nkeywords=Seto+no+Hanayome+album&rh=n%3A229816%2Ck%3ASeto+no+Hanayome+album) So\nyou most likely will be able to find it on there as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've only seen Ufotable's adaptation of UBW (and the movie too but that was\nlong ago).\n\nIt's still not very clear to me what's up with Archer:\n\n * He's Shirou from the future. Does he not remember the events of this war? He would also know that Shirou is going to beat him.\n * How did Shirou die? There is a scene in which a giant glowing ball absorbs Shirou (like some sort of pact), so I assume that's when he became a Heroic Spirit too. Did he **_die_** at that point? (so he killed himself)\n * So Archer wants to kill Shirou because he _regrets_ his decision of becoming a Heroic Spirit? Why does he regret it? Because Kiritsugu was right? (that you have to kill people to save others).\n * Why does Archer have Rho Aias from the Trojan War?\n\nAnd finally,\n\n * Is this Archer the same Archer from Fate Stay/Night? In other words, is the Archer from the original series also Shirou from the future?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> He's Shirou from the future. Does he not remember the events of this war?\n\nIn the version of the war that Archer experienced as a Master, Rin summoned\nsomeone else as a servant (still an Archer-class Servant, but we're never told\nwho). Archer has no experience of having met his future-self.\n\nI forget where - maybe it's some kind of side material or maybe it's Last\nEpisode or something - but we _are_ explicitly told that Archer vividly\nremembers having summoned Saber when he went through the war (this is\nsomething that happens in every timeline, because of Avalon). Something to the\neffect of \"even were he to die a thousand times, he would never forgot Saber's\nradiance\" or some similar schlock.\n\nThe thing Archer pulls at the beginning where he claims not to remember who he\nis _is_ initially because Rin genuinely did mess up the summoning, but he\nregains his memory relatively quickly and maintains the facade of memory loss\nfor some time afterwards.\n\n> How did Shirou die?\n\nArcher explicitly mentions in episode 19 or 20 that he was scapegoated by one\nof the people he saved, and was executed shortly thereafter.\n\n> There is a scene in which a giant glowing ball absorbs Shirou (like some\n> sort of pact), so I assume that's when he became a Heroic Spirit too. Did he\n> die at that point? (so he killed himself)\n\nYes, that's when Archer (then-Shirou) \"contracted with the world\" (to use the\nparlance) and became a Counter Guardian. He only died later.\n\n> So Archer wants to kill Shirou because he regrets his decision of becoming a\n> Heroic Spirit? Why does he regret it? Because Kiritsugu was right? (that you\n> have to kill people to save others).\n\nArcher regrets having become a Heroic Spirit because he did so by becoming a\nCounter Guardian (as opposed to by becoming an actual Hero). What this means\nis that he gets dispatched to situations where mankind is destroying itself.\nHe stops mankind from destroying itself by killing the people who are the\ncause, generally after they've already done their damage.\n\nImplicitly, this does mean that Kiritsugu was right, though I don't think that\nArcher is specifically bothered by the mere fact that Kiritsugu was right.\n\n> Why does Archer have Rho Aias from the Trojan War?\n\nThis is somewhat mysterious. The implication is that Archer must have been\ndispatched to the Trojan War at some point (in his capacity as a Counter\nGuardian), where he must have seen Ajax using his shield and copied it.\n\n> Is this Archer the same Archer from Fate Stay/Night? In other words, is the\n> Archer from the original series also Shirou from the future?\n\nBy \"Archer from the original series\", do you mean \"Archer from the 2006 DEEN\nanime\"? If so, yes - that Archer is also Shirou from the future.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis information isn’t from the F/SN-UBW but rather the Fate/Extra game. In\nthere almost close to the end of the game you talk to Archer (if he’s your\nservant) and he tells you that there was a nuclear meltdown that was going to\nkill tens of thousands of people. He also says he needed someone to help him\nwith the job. Yet he didn’t ask for help. So what happens is Archer goes past\nsecurity and everything and deactivates the melt down alone and manually. But\nit causes him to die. And become a heroic spirit. (I think that’s the glowing\ngiant ball in the anime.) Also as for him not knowing the exact past, you can\nconsider him from an alternate future. Because the Throne Of Heroes contains\nheroic spirits form all times and parallel universes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAFAIK Archer is a version of Shirou from a very specific timeline. He comes\nfrom one of the bad (arguably) ending of the third route of the visual novel,\nHeaven's Feel(it's the one where the main romance interest is Sakura). I don't\nremember if this still stands in the anime adaptation\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the beginning of Ufotable's UBW adaptation, on the day Rin was going to\nsummon Archer, the clocks happened to have moved backwards by one hour. She\nconsidered that it may have been her father's doing.\n\nWhy did the clocks move one hour backwards?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe explanation is kind of dumb.\n\nThe day before Rin summoned Archer, she was rummaging through her father's\neffects in hopes of finding stuff that would be useful for the summoning. One\nof the things she found was the box containing the pendant (and, at least per\nthe depiction in UBW 2014, the catalyst for Gilgamesh), protected by a magical\nMacGuffin that, when activated, makes clocks go wonky and apparently rewind by\none hour. She activated the MacGuffin. The clocks rewound in two half-hour\nincrements. She only noticed one of the half-hour increments. The end.\n\nNasu later stated in an interview (in Complete Material 3) that this was\napparently an intentional \"test\"-of-sorts on Tokiomi's part, the idea being\nthat if she couldn't handle a minor issue like this, she wasn't cut out to be\nin the war.\n\nThis makes no chronological sense, because Tokiomi likely never expected Rin\nto be in the war in the first place (Tokiomi would have expected the fifth war\nto take place around 2060 or so, by which time Rin would have had descendants\nrather more sprightly than she), but there you have it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a 9 year old daughter that has expressed some interest in manga, but\nI'm having trouble locating series that are appropriate for her age. No one at\nour local bookstore could offer any advice. Is there a kid-friendly imprint or\nother resource I could use to help her find something appropriate?\n\nClarification: I recognize that there's a lot of personal opinion wrapped up\nin what is considered appropriate. What I'm really hoping for is a way to\nnarrow down my options so that I can make a judgement for myself.\n\nMy preference is for physical books but I'm willing to explore digital\noptions. I see from the potential duplicate question notification that the\nCrunchyroll app may be an option.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the back of a lot of US manga there's an age guide.\n\n**Y** – Youth, Age 10+ Similar to a \"PG\" movie rating, the \"Y – Youth, Age\n10+\" rating means that the title may contain mild violence and/or cursing.\n\n**T** – Teens, Age 13+ The manga rating equivalent of a \"PG-13,\" \"T - Teen\"\nindicates that the comic's content may include some sexual innuendo and/or\nviolent action scenes.\n\n**OT** \\- Older Teens, Age 16+ \"OT - Older Teen\"-rated manga may contain more\nexplicit sexual situations and some violent scenes, including blood and gore.\n\n**M** – Mature, Age 18+ Manga rated \"M - Mature\" is strictly for adults. You\ncan expect to find explicit sexual situations, strong language and / or bloody\nbattles and mayhem.\n\nYou can usually find these ratings on the back cover, but occasionally they'll\nbe on the front:\n\n\n\nThe design changes with publisher so be aware they mightn't all look the same.\n\nPersonally, I think the best way to determine if a manga is appropriate is to\nflick through it yourself - if something undesirable occurs it's likely to\nhappen a few times and you'll probably catch it skimming through. As she's 9\nthough, I'd say the **Y** tag is fine :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe **content deemed acceptable for Japanese children generally differs** from\nthe concept in other countries; manga contains all genres of stories, so one\ncannot responsibly presume that just because a title was marketed at Japanese\nkids, that you would likewise consider it appropriate for your kid of the same\nage.\n\nAs one example: \nThe popular girl's series _Sailor Moon_ was published in the manga magazine\n_Nakayoshi_ , which was marketed toward elementary school-age girls (1st\nthrough 6th grade). This series includes strong language, bullying, violence,\ndeath, war, genocide, refugees, lovers' suicide (more than once), non-\nconsensual kisses (forced while awake, while asleep, while drunk), a father\nfondling his adult daughter while brainwashed, human/animal romance, demonic-\nstyle alien possession of human bodies, nudity, cross-dressing, a non-\nmonogamous lesbian couple, and non-graphic sex resulting in teen pregnancy\n(the 90s anime version, also marketed toward children, also added wrist/ankle\nrestraints for a [rape-like](http://www.btchflcks.com/2013/02/sexual-assault-\nsubtext-in-sailor-moon.html), pain-inducing entering of victims).\n\nThere are many **manga reviews** on the web, including those that specifically\n**for parents and teen/preteen/kid readers** on what sort of possibly\nobjectionable content is included in the title (such as strong language,\nviolence, nudity, gender-bending, innuendo, sexual content, etc.) and what\nsort of general content you can expect (for example: horror, potty humor,\nserious themes like depression/body image/sexual\norientation/prostitution/parental abandonment/bullying/suicide) and let you as\nthe parent or the reader use your own judgment about whether a title fits what\nyou deem appropriate at what age. Browsing reviews also allows you to seek out\ntitles that reinforce and contribute to your family's values (such as traits\nof selflessness, generosity, celebration of uniqueness, etc.).\n\nSome good starting places are:\n\n * [A Parent's Guide to Anime](http://www.abcb.com/parents/)\n * [Good Manga for Kids](http://mangabookshelf.com/good-manga-for-kids/) at Manga Bookshelf\n * [Good Comics for Kids](http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/category/manga/) at School Library Journal\n * [Kids Manga](http://noflyingnotights.com/category/mangaandanime/mangaandanime-kids/) at No Flying No Tights\n\nSince you have a daughter, she may be especially interested in shoujo manga,\nwhich was written with the target audience of Japanese girls. Within shoujo,\nnearly all genres of stories are included; some titles are very cheerful and\ninnocuous and teach a moral-of-the-day, others are dark and heavy. Good\nstarting places to get informed are:\n\n * [What is Shoujo Manga?](http://matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/japan_quarterly/), [What Shoujo Manga Are and Are Not](http://matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/whatisandisnt.php), and [Recommended Shoujo Manga](http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/susume/) by Matt Thorn, a professor in the Faculty of Manga at [Kyoto Seika University](http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/eng/edu/manga/) (one of the world's experts on shoujo manga)\n * [What is Shoujo?](http://shoujo.tripod.com/intro.html) at [Energetic Heartbeats](http://shoujo.tripod.com)\n\nSome shoujo manga review sites are:\n\n * [The Classics](https://shojocorner.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/the-classics/) at [Shoujo Corner](https://shojocorner.wordpress.com/)\n * [Emily's Random Shoujo Manga Page](http://niko-niko.net/shoujo/) (despite its unassuming name, contains many detailed reviews)\n * [Heart of Manga](http://www.heartofmanga.com/review-index/)\n * [Shoujo Savvy](http://www.shoujosavvy.com/)\n * [Shoujo Manga Recommendations](http://shoujomangarecs.tumblr.com/tagpage)\n * [Romance Manga Reviews](http://romancemangareviews.tumblr.com/)\n * [Shoujo Manga Reviews](http://kieuana.blogspot.jp/search/label/review)\n * [Shoujo Manga with Anime](http://shoujomanga-reviews.blogspot.jp/p/shoujo-manga-with-anime.html) at Anime Manga Reviews\n\nMore general review websites include\n[MangaBlog](http://mangablog.mangabookshelf.com/category/reviews/) and\n[Kuriousity](http://www.kuriousity.ca/reviews/), and a Google search will find\nyou many more.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMy personal answer to this question is for the parent to become involved in\nwhat the child reads as well.\n\nThis helps in two categories:\n\n 1. You can find things you feel comfortable with your child reading.\n\n 2. You can share in the stories with your child, maybe not at the same level of emotional interest in the stories and characters, but you can have conversations about themes being discussed in the stories, etc.\n\nThis is the same view I have on parenting and gaming. But that is another SE.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the back of the book it should say the rating. If the manga is more adults\nonly it will have the black and white parental advisory sticker on it.\n\nY-10+: Is basically like a pg movie (Should be fine for ages 6 and over i\nwould say)\n\nT-13+: Very similar to a PG-13 movie (May have some fan service and a bit of\ngore)\n\nOT-16+ A good example would be the popular manga called Berserk (Has some\nsexual situations, nudity and gore)\n\nM (Mature)18+ These series have content strictly for adults and anyone who\nsays otherwise is lying.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI want to start reading the manga Naruto Shippuden, but I would rather start\nreading from the last episode that was aired (currently episode 413). Do you\nknow which chapter that episode (episode 413) would be?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto: Shippuden episode 413, titled _Hopes Entrusted to the Future_ , is a\nfiller episode. The entire arc, _In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths_ ,\nis a filler arc. Meaning, none of the episodes from the arc has a manga\nequivalent and is anime exclusive.\n\nHowever, if you want to check the manga equivalent of an episode from the main\narc, you can get the episode details from [**Naruto\nWikia**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia).\n\n",
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