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{ "accepted_answer_id": "2554", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nIn Bleach, Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo by having him stab\nhimself in the chest with her zanpakuto.\n\nIf a person is stabbed in the chest by a zanpakuto, can they absorb half of\nthe Shinigami's powers, or does it have to be intentional? If it does have to\nbe intention, is there any reason given for that?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-21T03:30:44.187", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2099", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-07T11:33:07.883", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-21T22:28:51.680", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "Is it possible to transfer Shinigami powers accidentally?", "view_count": 578 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIchigo is a special case. I do not want to spoil the story, so, I recommend\nnot to read anything below this line\n\n> There is a reason why the shinigami power were transferred to him. You see,\n> he does not have ordinary parents. one of his parents is a former shinigami\n> which caused him to have the capability of transferring shinigami powers to\n> him. He was the only male in the family, and probably being the male he had\n> a different gene than his sisters. makes sense ha?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T05:49:51.657", "id": "2202", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T05:57:41.453", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-29T05:57:41.453", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1388", "parent_id": "2099", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe transfer was initiated by Rukia, but since Ichigo has such a powerful and\ndominant reiatsu (spiritual power), he ended up taking all of her death god\npowers.\n\nIt normally shouldn't happen, but Ichigo is a bit of a special case.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T06:03:24.020", "id": "2203", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T06:03:24.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "2099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe transfer of powers has to be intentional because otherwise the shinigami\nwon't be able to stab anybody without losing their powers. Ichigo was stabbed\nby Kenpachi later in the Soul Society arc, and that did not give him the\nlatter's powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-17T17:47:38.373", "id": "2554", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-22T05:52:40.907", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-22T05:52:40.907", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n> Rukia stated that she didn't intend to transfer all her powers to Ichigo,\n> meaning that it may be possible for shinigami powers to transfer\n> accidentally.\n\nHowever, Ichigo is a special case.\n\n> Ichigo was born with high spiritual energy considering his parents weren't\n> regular humans, his father being a soul reaper and his mother being a\n> Quincy. \n> Due to Ichigo's high spiritual energy, all of Rukia's shinigami powers\n> transferred to Ichigo.\n\nAssuming this is only because Ichigo is a special case, it may be possible for\nshinigami powers to accidentally transfer, but not all of it. This is my\ntheory on this question.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-05T21:41:19.337", "id": "37199", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-06T03:10:56.957", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-06T03:10:56.957", "last_editor_user_id": "13532", "owner_user_id": "28306", "parent_id": "2099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSaying that Rukia's powers were transferred is fundamentally wrong. Since\nIchigo was a vessel capable of storing large Reiatsu (soul force), when she\nforcefully transferred her Reiatsu, Ichigo ended up pulling all of it. Hence\nrendering her powerless. She just poured her Reiatsu into him. Not her powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-07T08:32:36.383", "id": "37223", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-07T11:33:07.883", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-07T11:33:07.883", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "29135", "parent_id": "2099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2385", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the 4th season of Hidamari Sketch, Honeycomb, there's scenes where there's\na bunch of numbers (and an **HK** with a \"honeycomb\" symbol) in the\nbackground. Do these numbers have any significance? Are they related to\nproduction cuts (sometimes shown in \"flash card\" style during Bakemonogatari,\nanother Studio Shaft production)?\n\nExamples:\n\nEpisode 1:  Bottom right corner: `HK 01105`\n\nEpisode 5:  Bottom right corner: `HK 05274`\n\nEpisode 6:  Bottom right corner: `HK 06333`\n\nEpisode 10:  Bottom right corner: `HK 10133`\n\nEpisode 12:  Bottom right corner: `HK 12074`\n\nNot sure if I missed any, but it looks like a 2 digit episode number and 3\ndigits of something else. Also, not sure if previous seasons of Hidamari\nSketch has these, been a while since I've seen them. What do the other strings\nof numbers, that don't seem to change, mean?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-21T09:22:01.950", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2104", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-08T05:25:22.217", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-21T10:07:20.830", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "hidamari-sketch" ], "title": "What are the numbers in the background in Sae's room?", "view_count": 1501 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's the \"cut number.\" Just like in film, any time the perspective shifts is\nconsidered a new \"cut\" which equates to a numbered frame on the storyboard.\n\nUsing the first episode example, the first time the number is shown it reads\n091B (cuts that have some obvious close connection might be grouped together\nas A and B of the same number, though I'm not sure why this particular cut is\na B):\n\n**091B** \n\nThese are my guesses for the numbers of the following cuts. Only someone with\naccess to the storyboard could say for sure, but this is probably close\nenough:\n\n**092** \n\n**093** \n\n**094** \n\n**094B** Since it's just a close up of the last cut they probably wouldn't\nbother drawing it again (storyboard drawings would be rough anyway) so they'd\njust leave a note next to cut 094 to zoom in and add detail, hence cut 094B.\n\n\n**095** \n\n**096** \n\n**097** \n\n**098** \n\n**099** \n\n**100** \n\n**101** \n\n**102** \n\n**103** \n\n**104** \n\n**105** \n\nAs you can see, 14 cuts later we see the board again, and it has incremented\nexactly as expected.\n\n**Edit:** I think I may have misinterpreted the question. Not sure about the\nunchanging numbers, but there seems to be at least one theory that the numbers\nbefore the X are an encrypted \"hidamarisketch\" with two digits per letter. If\nyou can break the encryption you might be able to figure out the rest.\n\nThe full thing for reference:\n\n963958208 \n975195648 \n926748230 \n8X☆☆☆9428 \n947295039\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T04:56:53.480", "id": "2385", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-08T05:25:22.217", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-08T05:25:22.217", "last_editor_user_id": "1430", "owner_user_id": "1430", "parent_id": "2104", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "21522", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nKimimaro Kaguya has two dots on his forehead. In South Asia, it is called a\n_bindi_. Is it an identification mark, or does it have any significance like a\ncurse mark? Is there any canon reason given for it?\n\nI came across a source which said that it represents his clan, but the Kaguya\nclan doesn't have significant history in Naruto/Shippuden anime or manga. Is\nthere any source for this claim?\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-21T18:51:42.720", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2105", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-20T21:35:04.457", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-13T13:03:57.237", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "338", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "naruto", "symbolism" ], "title": "Does the mark on Kimimaro's forehead have any significance?", "view_count": 4519 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe sign can be seen on all seen clan-members (okay; there's only Kimimaro and\nsome guy in the anime), so I think that it's a clan-symbol.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-21T20:23:30.447", "id": "2106", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-21T20:23:30.447", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAll Kaguya clan members have that two-dot mark as their trait, just like how\nthe Uzumakis have red hair, Uchihas with Sharingans, Yamanakas have blonde\nhair and greenish eyes, Hyugas have Byakugans, etc.. It's done to make the\nclan member stand out from other clans and clan members and to identify\nexclusively from which clan the Shinobi is from. Mangakas do this so that the\nreaders don't get confused and also to have a good amount of distinction\nbetween each clan and their members.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-13T08:37:04.260", "id": "21522", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-15T08:15:05.673", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-15T08:15:05.673", "last_editor_user_id": "14105", "owner_user_id": "14105", "parent_id": "2105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2177", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nAccording to the wiki,\n\n> Shikotsumyaku (屍骨脈; Literally meaning \"Dead Bone Pulse\", Meaning (Viz)\n> \"Corpse Bone Chain\") is the kekkei genkai of the extinct Kaguya clan, which\n> gave them the ability to manipulate their own skeletal structure (their\n> osteoblasts and osteoclasts). By infusing their calcium with chakra, they\n> could manipulate the growth and properties of their bones to their liking.\n\nNow, surely that means that they're working with the base amount of calcium\n(and other minerals) in their body. The fact that they're able to grow their\nown bones seems to indicate that they are able to get the calcium (and other\nminerals) out of their nearby surrounding in some manner. Is this corroborated\nin the manga?\n\nThe last part is just my own speculation. Please do correct me if an alternate\nexplanation exists.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-22T02:14:55.620", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2108", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T03:33:20.180", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-25T06:23:57.880", "last_editor_user_id": "321", "owner_user_id": "321", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How does Kimimaro's Kekkei Genkai work?", "view_count": 3963 }

[ { "body": "\n\nKimimoro's Kekkai Genkai isn't like Gaara's sand. Gaara's sand can go\nunderground, smash the rocks, and use the hardened minerals from the local\nrocks and incorporate them into his sand. Kimimoro doesn't seem to do this at\nall, but rather his bones and chakra system is all internal.\n\nI think this is evidenced not by what he does but by what he doesn't do. In\nhis battle with Gaara which is clearly his most pressing battle (since he dies\nin it) he transforms multiple times, he uses his spine whip, and does a number\nof other jitsu but never absorbs from his exterior surrounds while Gaara\nclearly does.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-23T16:26:37.683", "id": "2137", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-23T16:26:37.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1338", "parent_id": "2108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to what is said [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shikotsumyaku),\nthose who posses the Shikotsumyaku are able to create bones by manipulating\n\n> their own skeletal structure (their\n> [osteoblasts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast) and\n> [osteoclasts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoclast)). By infusing their\n> calcium with chakra, they could manipulate the growth and properties of\n> their bones to their liking.\n\nFrom what I can gather (given that I am not an orthopedist, and have no\nknowledge in this field) osteoclasts and osteoblasts are instrumental in\ncontrolling the amount of bone tissue: osteoblasts form bone, osteoclasts\n[resorb bone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_resorption) (meaning they\nbreak down bone and release their minerals, which results in a transfer of\ncalcium from bone fluid to the blood).\n\nI think this part would explain how he is able to create bones in itself. \nHowever, after reading the first comment you left in [Curtis Sumpter's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/2108/49) ([ _Fair enough. But the\nhuman body just doesn't have enough calcium for his\njutsus._](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2108/how-does-kimimaros-\nkekkei-genkai-work#comment1291_2137)), I've tried to understand how calcium is\nregulated in the human body. I came to the conclusion that [parathyroid\nhormone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parathyroid_hormone) and\n[calcitonin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcitonin) are the hormones that\nregulate the calcium levels in the body, the former acting to increase the\nconcentration of calcium in the blood and the latter to decrease it. Perhaps\nhe had some type of deficiency in the way he [metabolised\ncalcium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_metabolism), which could have\nlead to\n[hypercalcaemia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercalcemia#Signs_and_symptoms).\nSome of the symptoms seem to match Kimimaro's, namely fatigue, abnormal heart\nrate, vomiting (he coughed blood, I'm not sure if it counts in the same\nway...) and he ended up dying of cardiac arrest. If this were the case, the\nfact that he is able to manipulate osteoclasts and osteoblasts may be a result\nof his abnormally high levels of calcium in the first place. This could also\nbe the reason for it to be such a rare Kekkei Genkai, even among members of\nthe Kaguya clan. It could be something like a [Potential Bloodline or a\nGenetic Advantage](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/306/49) (or disadvantage,\nsince he ended up dying of it, if this speculation is correct). \nAs far as real-world actual explanations go, with my limited level of\nknowledge, this is as far as I can go (and still, an orthopedist may look at\nmy explanation and find it a lot of humbug).\n\nOn the other hand, the explanation provided in the Wiki also says that, aside\nfrom manipulating the osteoclasts and osteoblasts, they infuse their calcium\nwith chakra. So this completely ruins real-world actual explanations, since it\nintroduces a completely different (and actually nonexistent, AFAIK)\ncirculatory system. This means two things: _firstly_ , it introduces a new\nvariable, that potentially renders all of my above possibilities moot; _and\nsecondly_ , that the infusion of chakra into calcium could actually modify its\nproperties somehow (this is actually contained in the first thing, but\nnevermind...). This last paragraph could actually mean something like: don't\noverthink it, it's just a cartoon... :D\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T13:06:47.517", "id": "2177", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T03:33:20.180", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "2108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2111", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Bleach, Hollows (and Espadas) have holes in their chest. However, the holes\ndo not bleed and seem to have no harmful effects on the body. For human-shaped\nHollows and Espada, do the organs rearrange themselves around the holes or\njust cease to exist where the holes are? Also, how do the holes not bleed?\nDoes skin grow around inside the holes or are the cauterized?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-22T03:26:00.917", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2109", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T03:29:14.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "How does the hole in a Hollow's chest work?", "view_count": 5569 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are actually souls... rather they are dark souls!\n\nA soul has a something called a \"chain of fate\", the link to its physical\nbody. It is the soul that couldn't make it to Soul Society yet. Because to\nmake it to Soul Society, a soul-reaper needs to help. When a soul loses its\nchain of fate, there forms a hole in its chest.\n\nThis hole signifies the emptiness, the hunger to fulfill something which is\nendless. So it might be just a representation. I would like to list below some\npossibilities:\n\n 1. It might be just a representation.\n 2. If the chest has a heart which signifies something good, its absence signifies bad. So we can think that hollows don't have heart.\n 3. _Why they don't bleed?_ It is the structure of their body. \n\nI think the second point is right!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-22T05:38:12.840", "id": "2110", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T03:29:14.283", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-26T03:29:14.283", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "338", "parent_id": "2109", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHollows are not like normal living creatures. Don't forget that they are born\nfrom human _souls_ , not from flesh and bones. In **chapter 433** it is\nexplained that\n\n> Hollows lose their hearts from the pain of not being saved by shinigami.\n> That forms the hole. Their lost hearts form their masks. Also, the hollows'\n> unique appearance and their unique traits and powers are formed from their\n> lost hearts as well.\n\nAlso, don't forget what happens when they are killed. Their bodies simply\nvanish, leaving no corpse, no anything. So, taking that into account, we can\nsay that\n\n> since they can live with their heart lost, their bodies (even if we forget\n> that Hollows are spirit creatures) definitely don't work the same way as\n> human (or shinigami) bodies do, so they somehow are able to live with it.\n\nAnd I guess that since they are spirit creatures they don't care about such\nthings anyway ;)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-22T05:41:05.620", "id": "2111", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-22T05:41:05.620", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2109", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2885", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the anime **Zettai Karen Children: The Unlimited - Hyoubu Kyousuke** , Andy\nHinomiya is an esper who negates the power of all other espers. Yuugiri cannot\nread his mind, Kyousuke can't hypnotize him, telekinetic attacks are\nineffectual against him. So how is it possible for Kyousuke to teleport him in\nepisode 3? They're walking away and he snaps his fingers and the entire group\nteleports away. Is it that Andy really isn't completely immune to ESP? Or is\nthe teleportation a side-effect of an ESP power so it isn't negated?\n\nTo clarify the side-effect thing, You Fujiura's ESP can effect sound waves,\nthough the ESP itself can be negated by Andy, the actual sound that the ESP\ncreates (or deadens) can be heard by Andy (episode 2).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-22T07:04:47.910", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2112", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-17T19:57:12.563", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "zettai-karen-children" ], "title": "How is Kyousuke able to teleport Andy?", "view_count": 996 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAndy's wearing the limiter he got in episode 2. As long as it is active, esp\npowers can be used around him, such as when he was teleported right after he\ngot it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-13T17:33:56.280", "id": "2885", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-13T17:33:56.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1566", "parent_id": "2112", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThat's because Andy's limiter was on when Hyoubu teleported him in episode 3.\nWhen his limiter is on, Andy's power is limited. Look here:\n\n\n\nIn fact, Andy's power could negate teleportation power too. As we saw in\nepisode 5, Magi asked Andy to turn his limiter on, so he could teleport him.\n\nAlso, here is the position of Andy's limiter when it's on.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-29T09:25:06.083", "id": "3092", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-17T19:57:12.563", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-17T19:57:12.563", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1622", "parent_id": "2112", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2141", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI saw that Spirited Away, Ponyo and Arrietty, all written by Hayao Miyazaki,\nseem to have some common traits:\n\n * The hero is a girl.\n * Moreover, she is a girl who is special in some way.\n * She develops a friendship with a boy that is an \"insider\" and they help each other.\n * She seems to take a spiritual maturity journey while also building that friendship.\n\nIs there some mystical connection to these themes or it is a mere coincidence?\nCan someone shed some light on this matter?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-23T19:50:08.233", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2138", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-28T04:54:07.243", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-01T22:24:55.640", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "13", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "hayao-miyazaki" ], "title": "Why do Spirited Away, Ponyo, and Arrietty have so much in common?", "view_count": 933 }

[ { "body": "\n\nMiyazaki is often identified as a\n[feminist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styles_and_themes_of_Hayao_Miyazaki#Feminism).\nAlmost all of his films have strong female protagonists, usually fairly young\ngirls, and challenge traditional gender roles in anime. This presumably\nexplains the first point.\n\nAs for the other three, I don't think these are particularly uncommon or\ndifficult to explain. The protagonist in anime is usually somehow special,\nbecause a story about someone totally normal isn't usually going to be very\ninteresting. Likewise, for the third point, most anime have some form of\n(possibly implied) romance, even in short movies. However, there's not a lot\nof room in movies to introduce extraneous characters, so the love interest has\nto be at least somewhat related to the plot. As for the final point, that's\njust another way of saying that it's a coming-of-age story, which is very\ncommon, especially with younger protagonists.\n\nSo other than the first point, I think these are just common anime tropes that\nyou'd frequently see elsewhere, especially in other movies.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-23T20:38:42.407", "id": "2141", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-24T04:37:26.607", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-24T04:37:26.607", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2138", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nHayao Miyazaki is a great writer, but he frequently recycles plots in his\nstories. Compare the stories in Future Boy Conan, Nausicaa, and Laputa Castle\nin the Sky. All post apocalyptic stories involving villains trying to find and\nuse ancient super-weapons. Whisper of the Heart and The Wind Rises both have\nmain characters that struggle to create something great. The main characters\nin Porco Rosso and Howl's Moving Castle are men mentally scarred by war who\nthink of themselves as inhuman monsters, until the women in their life show\nthem they aren't so terrible.\n\nIt is not surprising you have found the parallels that you did between\nSpirited Away, Ponyo and Arrietty.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-28T04:42:18.590", "id": "66005", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-28T04:54:07.243", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-28T04:54:07.243", "last_editor_user_id": "43941", "owner_user_id": "43941", "parent_id": "2138", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nThis question could contain spoilers.\n\nIn Chapter 187, it was stated that after the Millennium Earl was killed, the\nremaining twelve Noahs repopulated the world - That means that there were only\n13 Noahs. However, Nea Walker is referred to as \"The 14th Noah\". Where did he\ncame from?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-24T08:02:25.497", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2142", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-31T19:29:30.137", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "d-gray-man" ], "title": "Why is there a 14th Noah?", "view_count": 745 }

[ { "body": "\n\nUnanswered in the manga as of now, but it is entirely possible that there are\n14 Noah and the Earl only mentions 13 (including himself) because the 14th\napparently dislikes the Earl, as he wants to dethrone him and take his place.\nChapter 218 hints that a \"Mana D. Campbell\" may be responsible for the\nexistence of the 14th, although i can´t really call the Earl in his current\nstate of mind a reliable source.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T15:15:09.523", "id": "2482", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-14T15:15:09.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, if the Millenium Earl was killed leaving the present 12 Noah remaining,\nI'll assume that one of these 12 is the new Millenium Earl. This new Millenium\nEarl states that in total there were only 13, and it should only be 13 by what\nI've seen in the anime and manga. So my guess is the 14th Noah, Nea, is the\nreincarnation of the 1st Millenium Earl, the one that was killed by the other\nNoah, and for that reason he came back in another form as the 14th so he can\nkill the Millenium Earl and take his place back as head of the family. Really\nsilly answer, just guessing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-15T12:46:48.737", "id": "5488", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-15T16:40:45.283", "last_edit_date": "2013-10-15T16:40:45.283", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "2547", "parent_id": "2142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt could be possible that the Millennium Earl was trying to hide the existence\nof the 14th Noah from the others for as long as possible, as until they found\nout about Allen, I don't recall any of them mentioning anything about the\n14th, and they couldn't sense him yet as he wasn't awakened.\n\nHowever, it's always possible that it could've been an error in translation,\nbut I doubt it, as the official versions are, well, official.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T19:29:30.137", "id": "14774", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-31T19:29:30.137", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8959", "parent_id": "2142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2146", "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nWhile the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu seems to be taught, the Tajuu Kage Bunshin no\nJutsu is sealed, so nobody can learn the jutsu. Does that mean that there's a\ndifference between these jutsus, aside from the number of Kage Bunshin\ncreated?\n\nOr, why was the Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu sealed away? \nIf there's no other difference, everybody could use this without reading the\nsealed scroll.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-24T12:13:40.157", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2145", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-15T10:56:56.330", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:04:11.493", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "122", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What's the difference between Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu?", "view_count": 45360 }

[ { "body": "\n\n> While the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu seems to be taught, the Tajuu Kage Bunshin\n> no Jutsu is sealed, so nobody can learn the jutsu.\n\nWeeeeellll... not quite! The Naruto Wikia seems to be a bit off on this bit,\nsince the technique that was sealed away was actually the \"regular\" Kage\nBunshin no Jutsu — the technique that's taught is actually the [Bunshin no\nJutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_Technique).\n\n* * *\n\n> Or why was the Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu sealed away?\n\nThe [Kage Bunshin no\nJutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique) is a forbidden\njutsu, and that was why it was sealed. Since its \"massive version,\" the [Tajuu\nKage Bunshin no\nJutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Multiple_Shadow_Clone_Technique), is just\na variation of the same technique, it was also sealed away. \nIt is forbidden because of the danger it present to its user, since it\ndistributes an equal amount of chakra between all the clones that comes\ndirectly from him. This could easily drain the total amount of chakra from a\nuser who has less control over it.\n\n* * *\n\n> Does that mean that there's a difference between these jutsus, aside from\n> the number of Kage Bunshin created? \n> If there's no other difference, everybody could use this without reading\n> the sealed scroll.\n\nAs for differences between it and the normal technique, I'd say that the\namount of chakra necessary would be its main difference in terms of execution\n— the more chakra you have, the more clones you can generate. \nHowever, most people won't use the \"massive version\" of the jutsu simply\nbecause of the danger mentioned in the above section — not many shinobi can\nuse such high amounts of chakra and safely maintain the technique steady. \nAdding \"Tajuu\" in front of it is just something that Naruto does every once in\na while (note that he sometimes generates huge amounts of clones even without\nsaying \"Tajuu\") when he intends to generate a massive amount of clones instead\nof a \"regular\" one. You can double check this in the very first chapter, where\nNaruto reads the scroll and never makes mention of the \"massive version\" of\nthe technique.\n\n", "comment_count": 13, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-24T12:34:02.753", "id": "2146", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-15T10:56:56.330", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-15T10:56:56.330", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "2145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nThe technique was considered a kinjutsu because it could potentially kill the\nuser if they made too many shadow clones (the distribution of chakra\npotentially outstripping the user's capacity). With Naruto, he has ridiculous\nlevels of chakra so it's not dangerous to him. High level ninjas like Kakashi\nknow it and use it to create a handful of shadow clones, but Naruto and his\ninsane level of chakra can create hundreds.\n\nI can see Konohamaru being able to pull off a few shadow clones because he's a\nSarutobi and they are a pretty powerful ninja blood line.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-20T22:13:57.160", "id": "5263", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-20T22:13:57.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2417", "parent_id": "2145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that Tajuu kage bunshin as opposed to Kage bunshin is easier to use\nfor large amounts of clones, rather than the 4-10 clones usually used in\ncombat situations, then again at the start Naruto use Kage bunshin instead of\nTajuu kage bunshin to fight Mizuki, so I could be wrong but as I said that's\nwhat I believe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-18T00:16:10.293", "id": "5511", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-18T00:16:10.293", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2562", "parent_id": "2145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe difference between the two jutsu is that you gain experience and knowledge\nfrom other clones,(when naruto was learning the rasen-shuriken jutsu). Other\nthan that these clones can actually take on a persona and react differently in\nthe same situation, (during the ninja war you can see that each clone acts on\nits own when naruto distributed them), that is the major difference. The Tajuu\nwas invented for stealth purposes (retrieving data). A ninja could send the\nclone in to find information and then release the jutsu from a safe distance\nand retain the knowledge the clone learned. Reasons for it being sealed, my\nguess is rogue clones that exhausted chakra and couldn't be released.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T01:29:12.950", "id": "6963", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T01:29:12.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3374", "parent_id": "2145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nKage bunshin no jutsu makes the amount of clones you want with an excess\namount of chakra to still use jutsu. While tajuu kage bunshin no jutsu make a\nmassive amount with just enough chakra to hold the clones and can't cast a lot\nof jutsu\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T21:27:43.730", "id": "17332", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T21:27:43.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11043", "parent_id": "2145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think you guys are messing up the names of the jutsus, which makes it\nconfusing for others who came to find out the actual difference between the\ntwo (like myself).\n\nThe jutsu that is often taught in the academy is called Bunshin no Jutsu, aka\nthe move that Naruto sucked at. The one that was in the scroll in the\nbeginning was the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, invented by the 2nd Hokage. It was\nsealed away because it takes much more chakra for this jutsu than for regular\nclones, which don't have tangible bodies like shadow clones do. When Naruto\nsays Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, he means to make many copies of himself,\nthis is when you would see up 100+ copies of himself. Tajuu means mass, hence\nMass Shadow Clone Jutsu.\n\nThis reply might be really late but someone had to clear it up.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-11T13:36:33.460", "id": "22346", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T13:36:33.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14996", "parent_id": "2145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2160", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWe have always seen Naruto using this technique - _Taju Kage Bushin no Jutsu_.\nI agree that Naruto's stamina is 5/5, but.. he uses the technique for an\nunbelievable number of times.\n\nFor example, let's say he has a chakra level of 100%, and he creates 3 clones,\nwhich means each clone will have 25% chakra of the original.\n\n 1. If 3 clones get destroyed by an opponent, **or**\n 2. Naruto undoes the jutsu \n\nIn both cases, Naruto learns the information the clones have gathered. Do they\nalso return their chakra back to Naruto?\n\nIdeally, they should return in case 2! However, I am not sure about case 1.\n\nIf they don't, then Naruto's chakra level should go down exponentially, as\nlong as he creates new clones.\n\nNow since Naruto has mastered Senjutsu (which of course has a time limit), he\ncan create 2 clones in the battlefield itself with the help of natural energy.\nAlso with Nine Tails chakra, he can create unlimited number of clones, because\nTailed Beasts possess unlimited (compared to human limits) amount of chakra.\nBut how about his battles prior to his Senjutsu or Nine-Tails form?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-25T06:01:21.923", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2159", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-05T17:53:51.690", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-05T17:53:51.690", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "338", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Does (Taju) Kage Bushin no Justu return the user his Chakra after he undoes this jutsu?", "view_count": 1415 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto uses that technique to gain the Sen-chakra in the fight against Pain,\nso yes, the chakra is transferred to the user, when the clone is destroyed.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-25T07:58:44.027", "id": "2160", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-25T07:58:44.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThis part of the [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_clone) provides\nsome additional details on this particular usage of the technique:\n\n> characteristic that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any\n> experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user\n> once they are dispersed. This makes the technique ideal for spying, since\n> the user can simply send a clone to spy on a target, then have the clone\n> disperse itself without returning to pass the information back to the user.\n>\n> It's also useful for training purposes, since the total amount of experience\n> the user gains is multiplied by the total number of clones being used to\n> train. For example, if a user creates one shadow clone and trains together\n> with this clone for one hour, then dispels the clone, the user gains two\n> hours of training in one hour by adding the hours of clone and the user\n> together.\n\nand\n\n> [...] Naruto also uses shadow clones in order to counter the limit of Sage\n> Mode, the need to stay still on a battlefield to gather more senjutsu\n> chakra, as well as the inability of the Two Great Sage Toads to merge with\n> him due to the presence of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox inside him. By infusing\n> his shadow clones with senjutsu chakra and leaving them at Mount Myōboku,\n> Naruto can recall them to him on the battlefield and dispel the technique\n> causing the chakra they have stored up to return to the original body.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-25T09:17:02.443", "id": "2167", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-25T09:17:02.443", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "51", "parent_id": "2159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nDuring the Land of Waves arc, Kekkei Genkai is defined as techniques which are\nunique to a clan and passed down through the bloodline. After timeskip, it is\ntouched upon again, and is now defined as a technique which combines two\nelements. Looking back at the Land of Waves arc, Haku's Ice Release satisfies\nthis definition as well.\n\nHowever, Sharingan and Byakugan are also called Kekkei Genkai, although they\ndo not combine any elements. Later, Terumi Mei is showed to use Lava release\nand Boil release, and they are both considered Kekkei genkai, although it\nappears that this is something unique she achieved, not passed down through\nbloodline.\n\nThus, the term kekkei genkai seems to be used in various contexts to mean\neither:\n\n 1. Bloodline techniques passed down through generations, but not involving combining basic elements (Sharingan, Byakugan users) \n 2. Techniques combining basic elements, but not passed down through bloodline. (Terumi Mei, and a few others) \n 3. Combining basic elements **and** passed down through bloodline (Haku)\n\nWhat exactly does it mean?\n\n* * *\n\n**Edit** It looks like people have not understood the question. Let me try\nagain.\n\nDoes kekkei genkai mean: \nA. techniques passed down through blood. \nB. techniques which combine basic elements. \nC. Both A and B.\n\nThe answers as well the commenter below seem to have assumed \"A\". To make it\neven easier, here's a related follow-up question: \"If Naruto learns Lightning\nRelease, and then combines with his Wind Release, would that be kekkei genkai\nor not?\"\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-25T13:04:01.253", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2173", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-11T09:12:51.617", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-28T00:11:54.720", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How is a technique categorized as a Kekkei Genkai?", "view_count": 8191 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I know, it would be translated as\n\n> a technique limited to inheritance by blood\n\nHowever, the _Dust Release_ , the _Lava Release_ and the _Magnet Release_ have\nusers without relation to each other. I think they are transferred via\ntransplantation, like Kakashi gained the Sharingan or Yamato the Wood-Release.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-25T13:30:10.567", "id": "2174", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-25T13:30:10.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2173", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nKekkei Genkai is an ability that is passed down genetically, usually amongst\nthe members of a specific clan.\n\nHowever, there are several possibilities to acquire it. The first one would be\ntransplantation. If Kekkei Genkai is isolated in a specific organ (e.g. in an\neye), that organ can be transplanted to another individual, which will then be\nable to use the Kekkei Genkai.\n\nAnother possible variant is genetic modifications. This is what Orochimaru has\ndone with Yamato. Obviously, if Kekkei Genkai is passed down genetically,\ngenetic engineering can be used to \"produce\" it.\n\nThere are indeed some Kekkei Genkai abilities that are used by people with no\napparent relations. It's not yet known how is this possible, but I can\nspeculate a little:\n\n * Maybe it developed individually in different unrelated people. While statistically unlikely, it is still possible.\n * Maybe the users have some kind of blood relation to each other, perhaps they share ancestors, or something like that.\n * Maybe there are other reasons that will be later explained in the manga. \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T08:41:04.843", "id": "2176", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-26T08:41:04.843", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2173", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n[Quoting from the Natuto Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kekkei_Genkai)\n\n 1. > Kekkei genkai (血継限界; Literally meaning \"a technique limited to inheritance by blood\" or \"Bloodline Limit\") are abilities passed down genetically within specific clans.\n>\n> * Kekkei genkai abilities that work via the user's eye are called\n> dōjutsu.\n> * Other kekkei genkai include mixing one type of elemental chakra with\n> another, creating a new one unique to the users, which is usually impossible\n> for normal ninja, or other bodily manipulations that are usually\n> unachievable by normal standards.\n\n 2. > Kekkei genkai and their related techniques cannot be taught to or copied by others. However, kekkei genkai can be given to others\n>\n> * Dōjutsu, or other kekkei genkai isolated to a single organ, can be\n> transplanted into the body of another, as was done with transferring Obito's\n> Sharingan to Kakashi.\n>\n> * Chakra elements can also be passed down to people outside of the clan,\n> such as Yamato being subjected to DNA re-modification by Orochimaru who\n> wanted to acquire the Wood Release kekkei genkai.\n\n 3. Some anomalies in the transfer of kekkei genkai.\n\n> * Although kekkei genkai are usually genetically shared within a\n> specific clan, sometimes it is unique to one person alone, and that even\n> family relatives do not share it, such as the Wood Release.\n> * Yet other kekkei genkai seem to appear in individuals with no known\n> relation, such as the Lava Release, which has appeared in ninja from\n> Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure, while Magnet Release, which has\n> appeared in ninja from both Kumogakure and Sunagakure.\n> * There is an advanced variant of kekkei genkai known as kekkei tōta,\n> which is a combination of three different nature transformations. ( _This\n> technique is used by only two shinobis, namely - Ōnoki and Mū and they too\n> do not share any blood relations._ )\n\n* * *\n\nUsing the above quotes as a base for my explainations:\n\nThe general meaning of kekkei genaki is an ability that is unique to a clan.\n\nKekkei genkai can be classified into two broad categories-\n\n 1. Abilities that originates from some body organ, eg sharingan, byakugan (only eye abilities have been shown so far) are called dōjutsu. As the wiki rightly mentions these abilities can be transferred by transplanting the organ from the original bearer to a host, eg Kakashi's sharingan from Obito and Ao who uses the byakugan.\n\n 2. Abilities that uses originates from chakra manipulation. Eg, Haku's Ice release, Kimimaro's Shikotsumyaku. The Nara, Yamanaka and Akimichi clan's (to name a few) kekkei gengai uses a yin-yan chakra manipulation for their techniqies.\n\nThe above two categories are seen to be transferred within the clan.\n\nHowever, there are a few exceptions to the general thumb rule.\n\n 1. Some kekkei genkai like the first hokage's wood release is unique to a singular person. \n\n 2. Some kekkei genkai like Mu's dust release ( _technically called as kekkei tōta, as it is an advanced form of kekkei genkai_ ) can be taught as in it was taught to Ōnoki. But these are the only two shinobi's known to be able to use the dust release technique.\n\n 3. Certain kekkei genkai seems to appear within individuals that have no relation to each other or without teaching. Examples are: \n\n> Lava Release, which has appeared in ninjas from Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and\n> Kumogakure, while Magnet Release, which has appeared in ninja from both\n> Kumogakure and Sunagakure.\n\n 4. There may also be shinobi's that have more than one kekkei genkai, eg Mei Terumī who can use three elements, namely earth, fire and water. However, unlike Mu and Onoki she can not combine the three at once. She can combine two of them at a time and create two different kekkei genkai, namely Boil Release (water + fire) and Lava Release (Earth + fire).\n\n* * *\n\nBased on the above categorization we can safely deduce, kekkei genkai means\ntechniques passed down through blood, techniques which combine basic elements.\nBut as discussed above there are a few exceptions.\n\nNow to answer your second question, \"If Naruto learns Lightning Release, and\nthen combines with his Wind Release, would that be kekkei genkai or not?\" -\nI'd say yes, as combining lightning release and wind release would put naruto\nin the exception category where he doesn't gain the ability from his clan, but\nis unique to him. ( _However its most unlikely that lightning and wind would\nmake a stable combination.. :P_ )\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T10:48:17.157", "id": "6053", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-27T10:48:17.157", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "2173", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nNaruto cannot combine two different release, eg wind and lightning, to create\na kei kei genkai. He has to be born with it in his blood, like the sharingan,\nbyakugan, which is in the clan blood. Hence the name bloodline limit. The 1st\nhomage wa born with water and earth realease and the combination of the two\nwhich is wood release. All kei kei genkai and touta users are special because\nof that. In was in their blood to produce those releases. Now tsunade is the\n1st granddaughter but she can't use the wood style and he is the only person\nin naruto history to gain it naturally. Yamato was experimented on. And not\nall uchiha had the sharingan. Ninjas like Jiraiya and the Third could use all\nbasic styles but couldn't mix them to create kei kei genkai. That's because it\nwant in their blood or born being able to mix them\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-11T09:12:51.617", "id": "38905", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-11T09:12:51.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30864", "parent_id": "2173", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2184", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\n * _One Piece's_ Luffy, \n * _Naruto's_ Naruto, \n * _Fairy Tail's_ Natsu, \n * _Reborn's_ Tsuna, \n * _Dragon Ball's_ Goku \n\nAll of the above are shown to be simple-minded and foolish.\n\nWhy is it so common to depict the lead protagonist to be so stupid?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T15:43:36.813", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2178", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-07T00:43:39.763", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-16T14:30:06.040", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 24, "tags": [ "tropes" ], "title": "Why are the shounen lead protagonists usually shown to be stupid?", "view_count": 25949 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis seems to be a general feeling of creators for shounen, that characters\nshould be straightforward and stupid. A lot of them also seem to have been\nbased off of Dragonball\n\nRegarding [Naruto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki):\n\n> When creating Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto incorporated into the character a\n> number of traits he felt made an ideal hero: a straightforward way of\n> thinking, a mischievous side, and many of the attributes possessed by Son\n> Gokū from the Dragon Ball franchise. He also made sure to keep Naruto\n> \"simple and stupid,\" since he does not like smart characters. Naruto himself\n> is not modelled after anyone in particular, being conceived as childlike,\n> with something of a dark side as a result of his harsh past. Despite this,\n> he is always positive, making him unique in Kishimoto's eyes.\n\nRegarding [One\nPiece](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy#Creation_and_conception)\n(it is worded slightly differently now, but this is where I originally got it\nfrom):\n\n> When drawing One Piece, Eiichiro Oda was heavily influenced by the manga\n> Dragon Ball, and had the series in mind when designing his characters. Oda\n> has said that when he was creating Luffy, he was thinking about \"manliness\",\n> because Dragon Ball had already done all the things that a child could\n> possibly be happy about.\n\nRegarding [Dragon Ball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball#Production)\n(also now worded slightly differently):\n\n> The Dragon Ball universe began as a loose adaptation of the classic Chinese\n> novel Journey to the West, with Goku starting off as more or less a parody\n> of Sun Wukong the Monkey King. Similarities between the two include Goku's\n> prone for mischief as a child (due to his innocence), possession of Nyoibo\n> (Sun Wukong's staff that can fill the entire universe), and Flying Nimbus\n> (the magical cloud the Great Sage rode on in Journey to the West). As the\n> Dragon Ball manga continued its run, he was able to develop differently,\n> eventually turning out to have similar origins.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T19:08:37.643", "id": "2182", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-16T21:40:32.780", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-16T21:40:32.780", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2178", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is a [common\narchetype](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotHero) in many forms\nof fiction, not just shounen anime and manga. for instance, many seinen\nromance series have protagonists who are usually at or below average\nintelligence, e.g. Clannad, Chobits, though seinen also has some intelligent\nprotagonists like those from Death Note or Ghost in the Shell. Shoujo series\nalso sometimes use this archetype. However, I suspect it is especially common\nin shounen series and other series targeted at children.\n\nOne reason for this is that if the protagonist frequently spends a lot of time\ndeeply considering things, and comes up with complicated logical thinking to\njustify his actions, it can easily confuse some of the viewers, particularly\nyounger children. In a mystery series, this might be acceptable, because the\nviewer is expecting to have to think critically to follow what's going on, but\nin an action series, it detracts from what most people are watching for.\n\nAnother reason is that for the protagonist to be a good hero (or arguably even\na good antihero), they need to be identifiable to the average viewer. It's\neasy to identify with people who aren't as smart as you are, because at some\npoint in your life you were like that. Since some of the viewers will be\nfairly young, to make this work you need to make the character at or below\ntheir intellectual level, which makes them appear really dumb considering\ntheir age. It's much harder to identify with someone who is far smarter than\nyou. Extremely intelligent characters are supposed to be impressive rather\nthan identifiable (e.g. Light and L from Death Note, who are identifiable in\nother ways, but not in terms of their intelligence). Of course, it's also\npossible to just make the character average intelligence and not put any\nemphasis on that direction (and lots of series do this), but shounen\nprotagonists tend to be more like caricatures than real people, i.e. they have\nexaggerated features and characteristics, and intelligence is often one of\nthem.\n\nIt's also worth noting that most shounen action shows were, at least\noriginally, marketed to young boys. Most young boys are far more interested in\nbeing strong than in being smart. By making the character below-average\nintelligence, but unbelievably strong, it makes the character simultaneously\nidentifiable and admirable.\n\nThere's also the comedy aspect. Almost all of these series involve comedy. For\nwhatever reason, many people find people doing stupid things to be funny. A\nlot of these series exploit this by making the protagonist almost useless\noutside of battle. In the traditional\n[Manzai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai) style of comedy, they play the\nboke role, which is usually the more interesting role (hence fitting of the\nprotagonist). That isn't to say that intelligent characters can't be comical,\nbut it isn't as easily exploitable with little-to-no effort as it is if the\nprotagonist is unintelligent.\n\nFinally, the protagonists in most of these series are idealists. Intelligence,\nby and large, correlates with pragmatism, at least in anime. Pragmatic\ncharacters make good generals, but typically not interesting ones. To put it a\ndifferent way, pragmatism wins wars, but idealism leads to epic battles, and\nin an action series that's what counts. Dragon Ball wouldn't be nearly as\ninteresting if Goku resorted to some form of guerrilla tactics to win each\nbattle, even though it might make things easier. The protagonist usually has\nsome more level-headed allies who will pull out if they really are in a losing\nbattle (e.g. Nami, Piccolo), but these characters aren't the ones you're\nsupposed to identify with. Also, idealism is often portrayed as admirable in\nthese series, which further adds to the character's good qualities.\n\nThere's also the aspect of tradition, as kuwaly's answer points out. So I\nthink there are a lot of reasons why it works well to have an idiot hero in\nshounen action series, so it's understandable why they are common.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T22:54:56.867", "id": "2184", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-26T22:54:56.867", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2178", "post_type": "answer", "score": 26 }, { "body": "\n\nOne of the reason for this is that we get attached to this type of\npersonalities. Moreover, they sometimes make the viewers optimistic as the\nprotagonists being stupid achieve many things which seems impossible!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-03T18:11:15.937", "id": "32520", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-03T18:11:15.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24462", "parent_id": "2178", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nShonen, for me, is all about doing the hard things. It's about effort, moving\npast self-doubt, facing impossible odds, and somehow through luck, faith, and\ngrit you make it through. I think to do any and all of that instinctively, you\nhave to be a little stupid.\n\nI consider myself a smart person. Most of my friends are smart. My parents are\nsmart. My brothers are smart. I think I know smart people. Smart people\nanalyze things. They think about the odds, about their abilities, the utility\nof a certain action and do a rough calculation in their heads before they make\ndecisions. In the real world, it's the right way to go. The trouble comes when\nyou do too much analyzing and distance yourself from reality and hope.\n\nShonen heroes never do such a thing. They bulldoze their way past insecurity.\nThey don't give it a second thought. All they know is that if they stick with\nit, if they keep punching, if they keep climbing, they will get where they\nwant to go. Even if it's stupid. Even if it's impossible. They're insane or\ndumb. That's the only explanation. You can't just solve things by punching\nyour enemies. You can't just keep running on a race track till your soles\nbleed or you collapse. You can't kneel for three days to make a point.\n\nBut they can.\n\nAnd that's why it's so addictive. Because I want to believe that I can be like\nthat. I want to be able to laugh off failure and keep trudging. I want to\nbelieve that the most important things in life are being a good friend, never\ngiving up, and always following my own path, even when every rational\nindicator tells me to turn back or to hedge my bets.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-09T01:58:57.023", "id": "34167", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-09T01:58:57.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26086", "parent_id": "2178", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThose protagonists aren’t dumb, but more so simple-minded. There are some\ndefinitions of the word that make it seem like simple-minded equals stupidity,\nbut it honestly doesn’t mean stupid. People who are simple-minded can still\nproblem solve pretty well even if it takes them longer to figure it out. They\nthink and solve things simplistically, have simple ideologies, and have\nsimplistic goals. That doesn’t make the characters stupid, their brains work a\nbit differently than the average person. They typically rely on their own\nstrengths and abilities to make it through the day. They are in many ways seen\nas survivalists and are more practical than reasonable. This makes for very\nstubborn protagonists who don’t give up. For example, I kind of know someone\nwho thinks this way, he can fix cars and trucks like it is second nature to\nhim, and he’s done some insane fixes that other car mechanics find insane to\nattempt, and he just relies on what he has to solve these problem. Although he\nstruggles in math and with solving puzzles. Like he absolutely hates puzzles\nbecause it takes a lot of brain power to solve stuff like that. That kind of\nproblem solving isn’t their best ability. People believe that intelligence\nmeans you do well in school and make good grades. People who don’t do well in\nschool are considered unintelligent. That isn’t the case. Intelligence comes\nin many forms and you can be intelligent in gathering and retaining knowledge\nbut struggle with social or survival intelligence.\n\nWith that said, why does shounen have simple-minded characters. Well they are\ntypically the easiest to develop and also provide good comedy to the anime.\nWhen you have characters that think simplistic than they usually struggle a\nlot in many areas. Later on you put other characters in those protagonists’\nlives to build up those simplistic protagonists through influencing. Their\nstruggles can be seen as relatable to most who struggle in their teenage or\nyoung adult life, but at the same time it is also suppose to make you feel\nbetter about yourself because you aren’t struggling as much as those kind of\nprotagonists. I would argue though that there are plenty of shounen that have\ngenius level protagonists and also a few that have average protagonists.\nHowever the ones you’ve listed do have that shounen troupe of the protagonists\nhaving simplistic thinking and problem solving.\n\nI don’t know if you’ve watch Hunter X Hunter, but Gon has that same simple-\nminded protagonist troupe in this shounen anime. He thinks simplistically, but\nthe writer does show that Gon can problem solve well and even better than the\nother characters during certain situations. He is shown to struggle with\nhigher level concepts and explanations, but finds his own way around it or to\nunderstand those concepts. I don’t think anyone who watches the anime\nconsiders Gon stupid. There is an understand among those characters that Gon\nthinks differently than them, and the smarter characters in the anime are both\nfascinated with and sometimes make light humor of Gon’s thinking and how it\naffects his actions and judgements. Unlike the other animes like Naruto where\nall the characters call him stupid for struggling which makes them\nunderestimate him. I’ve watched Naruto so much to know that he isn’t stupid\nand it is just that other character calling him that. It’s suppose to be\nhumorous but it can give people like you the wrong idea about these\nprotagonists. When people around those characters call them stupid, than that\ninfluences how you view those characters. It’s psychology, look up Asch\nConformity Experiment on YouTube. It can help explain why you think these\nprotagonists are stupid because the other characters consider them stupid and\nyou believe them those characters to be right about the protagonists.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-12-27T19:25:55.060", "id": "56261", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-27T19:25:55.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51335", "parent_id": "2178", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI believe I may have missed something.\n\nAt the end, Lelouch...\n\n> died at the hands of his childhood friend, Suzaku, who was masquerading as\n> Zero. But when did Lelouch order Suzaku, as Zero, to kill him (Lelouch)?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T17:47:40.677", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2179", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T12:58:17.787", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-04T04:23:22.563", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1375", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "code-geass" ], "title": "What happened at the end of Code Geass R2?", "view_count": 1425 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis was all part or Lelouch's [Zero\nRequiem](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Zero_Requiem) plan.\n\n> The plan involved focusing all of the world's hatred onto the tyrannical\n> Emperor of the world (Lelouch) and killing him, as part of their plan for\n> world peace.\n\nSuzaku agreed to ally with Lelouch after the Tokyo Settlement incident with\nthe F.L.E.I.J.A., specifically after his one-sided conversation with Jeremiah\nGottwald.\n\n> The only Geass order Lelouch gave Suzaku was the order to \"live\" on. (During\n> the event on Shikinejima Island where he is ordered to kill Lelouch, who was\n> Zero at the time)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-27T12:30:35.257", "id": "2188", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T12:58:17.787", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-20T12:58:17.787", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2179", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2183", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn _Naruto_ , _Bleach_ , _One Piece_ , _Reborn_ , and possibly many others,\nthere are timeskips. Why are these so prevalent?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T19:03:08.980", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2181", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-29T18:08:37.767", "last_edit_date": "2013-04-12T01:10:42.453", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "tropes" ], "title": "Why do so many anime and manga have timeskips?", "view_count": 2864 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere can be many reasons, but I personally think that the most important one\nis to give an opportunity for the characters and the story to develop to a new\nphase.\n\nNaruto is a perfect example for it. What did we have in the first part? We\nlearned about the main characters of the series, got acquainted with them, got\nfamiliar with their personal stories. We also learned about who were the true\nantogonists of the series. With that knowledge, we came to the time-skip.\n\nBut what was the situation before the time skip? All of the main characters\nwere too weak to really be able to compete with the antogonists. What if Pain\n(spoiler)\n\n> came to destroy Konoha in the end of the first season? What would happen?\n\nThe anime would probably have ended just there, that's what. By including a\ntime leap, the characters are given the opportunity to change, gain new\nabilities and powers. A lot of background events might have happened. After\nthe time skip the series are almost reborn: while the readers/watchers already\nknow the personalities of the main characters well, they once again have no\nidea of their abilities and powers, no idea about the current situation in the\nworld. It opens a lot of opportunities for the story developing. It's also so\neasy to use, and to correct mistakes with. If you see there's a mismatch\nsomewhere in the story, you can always explain it by the events that happened\nduring the time leap! Very convenient, isn't it?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-26T19:46:24.440", "id": "2183", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-26T19:46:24.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2181", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nImagine having to wait through every day, every month, every year, or every\ndecade to see your main character grow up. That would be longer than one\npiece. That's why we have time skips because the creator wants to give the\nmain character a new technique so they learn it offscreen. Or so that the\ncreator can have a little break. Maybe some other reason. I'm gonna name the\nin-universe reasons why each main character I know has a timeskip.\n\n * Naruto - To get stronger with jiraiya.\n * Luffy - To learn haki and get stronger to protect his crew and dreams.\n * Ichigo - I don't remember.\n * Goku - He was getting stronger. (Is it a time skip if the show begins at the end of the time skip? If so then ...)\n * Meliodas - Protecting Britannia from demons and other threats.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-29T18:08:37.767", "id": "62322", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-29T18:08:37.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59316", "parent_id": "2181", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2192", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI still can't seem to grasp his abilities and character.\n\nDo we have more information regarding Schrödinger? He's everywhere and\nnowhere, but how does that work in case his head is blown off?\n\nCould anyone try and shed some light?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T06:31:55.493", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2191", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-28T07:03:24.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "hellsing" ], "title": "Who is first lieutenant Schrödinger?", "view_count": 1739 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Schrödinger page at the Hellsing\nWiki](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger), his abilities are:\n\n> Abilities: Can spontaneously appear and disappear at will. Unable to be\n> killed as long as he wills it. Invulnerability. Immortality.\n\nIt's not clearly explained what it means for him to \"will\" it. I guess his\nhead can't be blown off if he doesn't wish it to be or if it happens, he can\nstill will his head back. But I guess like his name and appearance (cat), he's\nsupposed to be a reference to [Schrödinger's\ncat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat), a paradox, being\nsimultaneously alive and dead. Other tidbits from the article:\n\n> It is confirmed by the Major that Schrödinger only exists for as long as he\n> is aware of himself. He was able to appear in Hellsing's conference room\n> without difficulty, despite the high security of the building at the time.\n> He also appeared inside Zorin Blitz's illusions while Blitz was attempting\n> to attack Seras Victoria's mind, indicating that he can appear in mental\n> realms as well. \n> ... \n> Even if Schrödinger is fatally wounded, if he believes that he is alive and\n> unscathed, then he would be. This can be seen when Alucard drinks the blood\n> of Rip Van Winkle. He is sitting on the ship with the hand television, while\n> in next scene we can see him standing on the right side of the Major.\n\nSo that sort of explains the immortality part. Except at the end of the OVA:\n\n> .. now that he [Schrödinger] is consumed by Alucard and is mixed with\n> millions of other minds, he can no longer recognize himself, and by\n> extension neither can Alucard, the one who has absorbed him. Whilst neither\n> are technically dead, they do not exist in one place because they cannot\n> recognize themselves, and have thus become \"No more than a set of imaginary\n> numbers.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T07:03:24.060", "id": "2192", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-28T07:03:24.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2206", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nAccording to the wiki,\n\n> While the technique can be extremely beneficial, attempting to use multiple\n> clones for training purposes can be mentally harmful to the user, as not\n> only is all the experience collected by the user, but so is all the mental\n> stress from training each clone\n\nNow, when a clone is destroyed, there must be some mental stress involved. So\ndoes Naruto (or anyone else) feel anything when their shadow clones are\ndispersed?\n\nNothing has been shown to indicate this (at least in the anime). I was\nwondering why this would not be applicable.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T08:51:07.140", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2193", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T20:05:33.167", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:05:33.167", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "321", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Does the original jutsu user feel anything when a shadow clone is dispersed forcefully?", "view_count": 6978 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, he does feel something. It was shown in the episodes when Naruto was\ntraining with Kakashi and Yamato (I don't remember exact eisodes, but it was\nabout when Kakashi gave Naruto the paper to test his chakra affinity).\n\nKakashi Told Naruto that when he could increase the learning speed by using\nclones, because when the clone is destroyed, all the new knowledge it acquired\nis immediately transfered to the technique user.\n\nNaruto said that he had never known about it, and Kakashi asked him to make a\nclone and to order the clone to follow him. They moved rather far away from\nNaruto, and Kakashi told the clone something, I think it was a joke, but I\ndon't remember well. Then, after they got back and Naruto released the\ntechnique, he immideately had the knowledge of what Kakashi had said to the\nclone.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T09:53:30.827", "id": "2194", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-28T09:53:30.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2193", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nYou basically answered your own question. It is indeed stated that Naruto\nreceives the experience, mental stress and chakra of the clone. When a clone\nis destroyed, it, of course, had mental stress (as it just got attacked and\nkilled).\n\nMost of the times you do not see this, either because Naruto is used to this\nand has an immense capacity to endure this, or because the technique would\nbecome meaningless if he could not use it due to all the stress. (I suspect\nthe latter)\n\nAlthough, during the training where he uses his clones to decrease the\ntraining duration, it became clear that is was very hard on him due to the\nmental stress he received of his clones.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T10:26:36.003", "id": "2195", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-28T12:48:31.287", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-28T12:48:31.287", "last_editor_user_id": "321", "owner_user_id": "51", "parent_id": "2193", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe clones definitely feel something, as they were seen to have facial\nexpressions, as well as groaning to indicate they feel pain.\n\nThat feeling does not seem to go through back to the original. Even though\nknowledge, experience and even exaughstion seems to go back, there probably is\na protection against physical injury and pain (otherwise, it wouldn't make the\ntechnique so useful).\n\nIn short, he does _know_ when his clones are destroyed (because their\nknowledge is reflected back at him), but he doesn't feel their pain when they\nare hit by shuriken or receive fatal injuries.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T17:05:45.573", "id": "2198", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-28T17:21:50.860", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-28T17:21:50.860", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "2193", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, actually the mental stress involved when a clone is forcefully destroyed\nbeing transferred to the original _has_ been showed on a number of occasions\nin the anime, including once _before_ the timeskip.\n\nDuring the Invasion of Konoha arc:\n\n> When Naruto fights Gaara, Gaara goes into the Ichibi Shukaku mode, and\n> Naruto attacks Gaara/Shukaku using 1000 clones with the Naruto Niisen Rendan\n> (Naruto Two Thousand Combo). He then attempts the Naruto Yonsen Rendan\n> (Naruto Four Thousand Combo), but Shukaku fights back and destroys nearly\n> all the clones. As Naruto is forced back, he exclaims, \"That hurt a lot\".\n\nLater after the timeskip, when Kakashi tells Naruto that the pain experienced\nby the clone is transferred to the user, Naruto says in a dejected/annoyed\ntone, \"I knew that already.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T08:11:52.073", "id": "2206", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T08:21:07.497", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-29T08:21:07.497", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2193", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nI think mental knowledge and experiences are transferred to the original once\ndisperesed, but not physical pain. If that were the case, using the shadow\nclone jutsu would only be too risky and only used for emergencies.\n\nI was actually wondering about the opposite scenario. Do the shadow clones\nshare injuries of the original. For example, when kabuto severed the muscle in\nnaruto's leg out, did the shadow clone created afterwards also have a severed\nmuscle in the leg.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T04:23:03.637", "id": "5757", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T04:23:03.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2677", "parent_id": "2193", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2197", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI saw a great anime movie on TV when I was young, but I don't remember its\ntitle.\n\nI suppose it is an anime movie from the early 80s.\n\nThe movie opens with a space battle with a lot of fighters and a spaceship\nwhose crew consisted of only girls.\n\nI think one of them is called Ruby. When the battle ends, an alien life form\nenters the spaceship. In an attempt to kill this intruder, one of the girls\ndies and the rest of the crew eject her body into outer space.\n\nLater, for some reason, the spaceship starts to become unstable and everyone\nmust evacuate the spaceship using a smaller emergency ship.\n\nThe controls for the release mechanism for the emergency ship does not work.\nOne of the girls, who is revealed to be a robot, sacrifices herself in order\nto release the ship. The spaceship then explodes. All the survivors then land\non a nearby planet.\n\nOne of the passengers on the ship is a baby which has the ability to grow\nsupernaturally fast.\n\nAfter a while, the alien enemy locates the planet and starts the attack. The\nmovie concludes, when the baby, now a fully grown woman, does something in the\nship that causes all the aliens to die in a huge wave explosion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T10:33:27.423", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2196", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-28T23:26:00.783", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-28T23:26:00.783", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1381", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "gall-force" ], "title": "Looking for the name of an 80s anime movie involving a spaceship of girls fighting aliens", "view_count": 3529 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on [this link from AVClub](http://avclub.com/articles/ask-the-av-club-\nmarch-7-2008,2197), I think it could be [Gall Force: Eternal\nStory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall_Force#First_Story_Arc).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T14:25:09.193", "id": "2197", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-23T17:17:39.140", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-23T17:17:39.140", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "321", "parent_id": "2196", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Gakuen Alice, if two people exchange Alice stones that they created, it can\nact as the equivalent of an engagement or promise. Is this based on any\nspecific Japanese tradition? If not, what is it based off of?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-28T22:11:24.307", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2199", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T15:58:12.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "culture", "gakuen-alice" ], "title": "What is the idea for exchanging Alice stones for engagement based on?", "view_count": 167 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe this is exchange is a mix of different marriage traditions, the\noathing stone and the traditions of engagement rings.\n\nThe part about the stones is probably based on an old Scottish tradition with\nCeltic roots.\n\nThe Oathing Stone is an old Scottish tradition where the bride and groom place\ntheir hands upon a stone while saying their wedding vows. This ritual\ntradition is thought to be the best way to express your solemn promise in\nphysical form. The idea is derived from the ancient Celtic custom of setting\nan oath in stone.\n\nThe Scottish believe that an oath given near stone or water, being strong\nnatural elements, make the vows much more binding. Traditionally during the\nreading of the bride and groom's wedding vows, they hold an oathing stone in\ntheir hands, believing that holding the stone during the reading of the vows\ncasts them into the stone.\n\nIt's similar to the more modern version of the [unity\ncandle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_candle) or [sand\nceremony](http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/cultural-\ntraditions/sand-ceremony.htm).\n\nThe exchange is very similar to the exchange of rings that is prevalent is\nmodern culture.\n\nIn Nordic traditions, the bride-to-be and groom-to-be exchange and were\n[engagement rings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement_ring). The\nVictorians [exchanged \"regards\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regards_ring)\nwith their rings.\n\n**Together this exchange probably symbolizes a literal exchange of vows.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T15:58:12.020", "id": "2212", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T15:58:12.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2199", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2205", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe One Piece's \"Episode of Nami\" is not an anime episode because of its\nlength. What is that episode categorized as?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T06:34:46.733", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2204", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T07:52:11.753", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-29T07:46:41.420", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "1388", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "What is the One Piece's \"Episode of Nami\" categorized as?", "view_count": 1577 }

[ { "body": "\n\n> Episode of Nami: Tears of a Navigator and the Bonds of Friends is a **TV\n> Special** of the One Piece anime. It aired after Episode 560.\n\n_(From the One Piece wiki[Episode of\nNami](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_of_Nami))_\n\nIt is the 5th TV special to be aired. The list of TV specials so far:\n\n 1. [Adventure in the Ocean's Navel](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Special_1)\n 2. [Open Upon the Great Sea! A Father's Huge, HUGE Dream!](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Special_2)\n 3. [\"Protect! The Last Great Performance\"](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Special_3)\n 4. [The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Special_4)\n 5. [Episode of Nami: Tears of a Navigator and the Bonds of Friends](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_of_Nami)\n 6. [Episode of Luffy: Adventure on Hand Island](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_of_Luffy)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T07:41:19.013", "id": "2205", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T07:52:11.753", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-29T07:52:11.753", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2204", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2210", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nA lot of times, Zoro uses his swords to cut down far away objects without any\nphysical contact. How does that work?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T08:16:01.487", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2207", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T12:33:54.127", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-29T12:33:54.127", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "How does Zoro's sword technique work?", "view_count": 4624 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't find screenshots but whenever you see blue things travelling from\nZoro's swords, those are shockwaves that can cut anything, even buildings.\n\nThat's what he does, he sends a sort of shockwave. We obviously know that a\nhuman can't pull a sword (or another object) to create such a strong\nshockwave.\n\nBut if you think about it, if you move a wooden stick but towards the ground\n(as when you hit the ball in golf), you'll cause the air to move following\nthat movement (adding various turbulences) that will affect whatever small is\non the ground (e.g. sand).\n\nZoro's attacks are something similar to that but only much stronger. It's not\nrealistic, but then, almost nothing on One Piece is realistic.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T11:16:01.483", "id": "2210", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T11:16:01.483", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "2207", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2211", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nWe know that Dracula was defeated in the past (some 100 years before the\nseries begun). That's when his name was changed to Alucard.\n\nHowever, it's obvious that he lived before that. How long did he live? Do we\nhave an estimated timeline of events?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T08:45:50.377", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2208", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-02T07:10:06.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "hellsing" ], "title": "How old is Alucard?", "view_count": 4477 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [hellsing-wiki](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Alucard):\n\n> 568 (1999), 599 (time skip)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T09:41:29.880", "id": "2209", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T09:41:29.880", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2208", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Hellsing\nWikia](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Alucard#History) he was born in 1431.\nThat makes him 582 years old today. But it also states that he was 568 years\nold in 1999, and 599 after a time skip.\n\n> [...]Born in 1431, [...] He is arguably the first vampire that ever existed.\n>\n> 568 (1999),599 (time skip)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T12:32:27.017", "id": "2211", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-29T21:16:13.923", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "2208", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nAlucard is the name his master gave him because it is Dracula backward, but\nlater in the anime, Alucard states his name was Vlad Tepes to his master.\n\nIf you look into Alucard's backstory and check out his age, it says he was\nborn in 1431 and his age now would be 582 years old, and 568 years in 1999,\nand 599 in a time skip. If you look further and check out the name Vlad Tepes\nand read his backstory, you will get that he is known to clear forests of men\nby impaling them, which caused him to get the name Vlad the Impaler by the\nOttoman that so came across the impaled men.\n\nBut that's not the point. The point is that if you check out the year he was\nborn in which was in 1431 same as Alucard, his age now would be 588 years as\nof today, and Alucard's age is 582 as of today (very close to each other), but\nironically they have nothing in common at all. They only have very little\nthings that correspond with each other.\n\nSo, theoretically, Alucard's name is just a name and has nothing to do with\nthe actual person, except that Vlad died and is (just a tale) haunting his\nvictims and torturing them as an undead creature; just like Alucard, because\nhe is undead too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-01-06T08:02:00.747", "id": "50326", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-02T07:10:06.393", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-02T07:10:06.393", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "44248", "parent_id": "2208", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAlucard is 598 years old as a demon vampire. But when he was human, it was to\nbe said that he was 45 years old, despite his 30-year-old appearance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-02T02:08:30.020", "id": "65843", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-02T07:04:40.887", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-02T07:04:40.887", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63075", "parent_id": "2208", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2225", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAs seen in the anime, Lily Enstomach grew herself into the size of a giant\ninside Luffy thus giving Luffy immense power. He was strong with a weakness of\nbecoming slower. However, when he went into 2nd gear, the sheer power of\nturning into 2nd gear caused everything around him to be thrown back.\n\nSo does the size determine the amount of initial power the person has?\n\n-The reason why I said initial was because power really matters on the training rather than the power of the devil fruit\n\n**Example:**\n\nLuffy, when he got bigger, the effect of 2nd Gear was stronger. Let's say that\nBuggy's devil fruit (section-section) gives Buggy the ability to split and fly\na range 25 meters around his feet. If Buggy was the size of a giant or the\nsize of Whitebeard, would the range increase?\n\nThis is not about how much the devil fruit is eaten.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T17:46:06.983", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2214", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T20:09:31.863", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:09:31.863", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Does the size of a person matter when Devil Fruit powers are involved?", "view_count": 1473 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's not about devil fruits, it's just that bigger things have bigger impact.\n\nLet's say that a normal giant, without any devil fruit powers, can crush a\nwarship into pieces. However a normal sized person would need some powers\n(haki, devil fruit, whatever else) no matter how strong he is otherwise, only\nbecause his body is smaller and his fist wouldn't make such an impact. He\ncould break through the ship but the damage would remain local. A small hole\non the ship, and that's it.\n\nIn the special case of devil fruit's powers the only information we have\n(while seeing numerous occasions of bigger attacks being more powerful, like\nLuffy's Gear 3rd and Ace's Supernova) what Crocodile said in the desert while\nfighting Luffy: a devil fruit power can be stronger based on how the user\ntrains and uses it. That implies that indeed, size matters for devil fruit\npowers too, if the user trains himself and uses it that way. Not because of\nany devil fruit specific reasons, just because of the facts mentioned above.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T18:03:40.510", "id": "2225", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-30T18:09:34.453", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-30T18:09:34.453", "last_editor_user_id": "1377", "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "2214", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2217", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIt is clear that he is very powerful due to his fights with Gol. D Roger. He\nis also very experienced in fighting and has the confidence to defeat Admiral\nAkainu (magma).\n\nSo why hasn't he been promoted to Admiral? Did he deny the promotion when the\noption was given to him? Or was it because he lacked a Devil Fruit?\n\nNote: All of the Admirals has a Devil Fruit. Golden Buddha, Magma, Ice, Light.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T17:49:53.563", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2215", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-22T16:26:06.380", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-08T04:23:05.197", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "175", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Why is Garp only a Vice Admiral?", "view_count": 33268 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHe refused to be promoted to Admiral several times.\n\nIn Chapter 0 (Strong World), he said that he had the freedom to do what he\nwants that he needed as a Vice Admiral (being the third highest rank in the\nMarines) and felt being promoted would just require him to do extra things\nthat he had no interest in.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xbMy4.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T18:11:41.980", "id": "2217", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-08T04:24:45.543", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-08T04:24:45.543", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 }, { "body": "\n\nGarp feels that the perks of being a Vice Admiral (mainly the high level of\nfreedom) is worth more than being an Admiral, who are often used to guard the\nTenryuubito (who I could imagine Garp would despise).\n\nHe's probably stronger than the current Admirals though. Remember in\nMarineford when Sengoku personally had to restrain him? That basically says he\nwas scared of what Garp would do to Akainu.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T00:58:12.897", "id": "2527", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-08T04:25:39.317", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-08T04:25:39.317", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nAdmirals work directly under the celestial dragons..since garp doesn't wants\nto serve them,he rejected the admiral offer so many times.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-22T16:26:06.380", "id": "64260", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-22T16:26:06.380", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61659", "parent_id": "2215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2273", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWhen showing his power, Alucard tends to exhibit multiple extra eyes. I'm\nwondering if this signifies something. I've seen this trope in other Anime\nbefore when somebody or something is being shown as being powerful and creepy.\nI want to know if there's some sort of deeper meaning than that.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-29T23:47:03.437", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2219", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-23T12:18:14.287", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-06T12:09:58.780", "last_editor_user_id": "47", "owner_user_id": "61", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "hellsing" ], "title": "Why does Alucard have so many eyes?", "view_count": 3722 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAlucard has so called [release\nstates](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Alucard#Release_States) those make him\nless weak. In the manga (Chapter 9 Page 23), when he uses them the first time,\nyou can clearly see that a lot of eyes open on his whole body. The eyes that\nyou see on the picture are most likely the same ones. The reason why he has\nthem is unknown.\n\nIt could be that all those eyes belonged to other humans that he consumed\nduring his lifetime. However, this is just an assumption.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T07:47:40.667", "id": "2273", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-06T02:01:06.517", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-06T02:01:06.517", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "2219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe way I understand it, is that the vampires in the Hellsing series (at least\nAlucard and Seras) have a third eye. This allows them to see things far better\nthan a human. Perhaps Alucard has multiple \"third eyes\" that make him able to\nsee attacks coming from every where.\n\nIt's kinda like how people say that mom's can see from the back of their\nheads.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-25T23:39:48.520", "id": "30056", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-25T23:39:48.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22315", "parent_id": "2219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nPrenote: in America, we generally use the mouth to denote extract other\npeople's emotion, but in Japan and other oriental nations, they generally look\nat the eyes because it is harder to fake. Thus comes the saying, \"the eye is\nthe window to the soul.\"\n\nThat being said, I believe Hellsing takes it one step further, that being that\nthe eyes are the soul.\n\nVampires are said to possess a third eye that lets them have near out of body\nexperiences when using it, and I believe the difference between a standard\nvampire and Alucard is the manner in which they feed.\n\nFor most vampires, the only soul they will accept into their being is their\nown, therefore the only eye they gain is the third one. This causes Alucard's\ndisdain for them not being a true Vampire. However, Alucard accepts the souls\nhe feeds on into his being allowing for the growth of additional eyes and\nadditional power.\n\nTherefore, the eyes we see in the show are just some of the people he has\nconsumed and accepted.\n\nThat's just my opinion anyways.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-18T16:32:52.737", "id": "59612", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-23T12:18:14.287", "last_edit_date": "2020-09-23T12:18:14.287", "last_editor_user_id": "8464", "owner_user_id": "56299", "parent_id": "2219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2221", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI'm just listing things Suzuha explained in episode 14:\n\n> 1\\. There is divergence meter which numerically explains the current world. \n> 2\\. To make big changes you need to go beyond the 1% divergence to a beta\n> world. \n> 3\\. Divergence meter shows values between 0%..100%\n\nputting all these together we might assume there are only 100 possible\ndistinct worlds, aka. only 100 possible futures. Is this assumption right or\nam I missing something?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T00:11:58.837", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2220", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-30T00:56:07.160", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-30T00:39:24.943", "last_editor_user_id": "19", "owner_user_id": "19", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "steins-gate" ], "title": "Are there only 100 possible futures?", "view_count": 601 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's worth remembering that Suzuha comes from the future, but she only knows\nwhat is known by people in the future α world line. In fact, some of that\nturns out not to be entirely correct, or at least it's misleading.\n\nIn any case, it depends on what you mean by \"future\". Two different futures\ncan have the same, or very close, divergence numbers. This is evidenced by the\nfact that Mayuri died in many different ways, yet the divergence number didn't\nchange (at least not appreciably). While these are different futures in the\nnear term, they all converge to the same end result, at least as long as they\nare still on a world line close to the α (alpha) world line. This is what is\nmeant by the [Attractor Field](http://steins-\ngate.wikia.com/wiki/Attractor_Field).\n\nThe divergence number measures how much the world line has deviated from a\nparticular value. To reach the β (beta) world line, they need to get to a\ndivergence number between 1% and 1.99%, and again there's an attractor field\nso that any world lines in this range converge to the same eventual future.\nThere are also γ, δ, and ω world lines in the visual novel and drama CDs, and\nof course the\n\n> Steins Gate world line.\n\nAs for the particular values for divergence number, many are present. The\ndivergence meter has been shown to change by as little as 0.000001%, which\nwould allow for at least 100,000,000 world lines, and for all we know these\nnumbers were just approximate anyway so there could be infinitely many (since\nthey are only quoted to that many significant digits). We can't really say for\nsure either way, but most of those world lines end up being very close to each\nother in the end.\n\nFrom the above link, the known values are:\n\nα:\n\n> 0.571046 \n> 0.571024 \n> 0.571015 \n> 0.523307 \n> 0.523299 \n> 0.456914 \n> 0.456903 \n> 0.409431 \n> 0.409420 \n> 0.334581 \n> 0.337187\n\nβ:\n\n> 1.130238 \n> 1.130205 \n> 1.129848 \n> 1.130212 \n> 1.130211 \n> 1.130209 \n> 1.130208 \n> 1.130206 \n> 1.130205\n\nγ\n\n> 2.615074\n\nDivergence numbers are unknown for the δ world line.\n\nω\n\n> .275349 (said to be negative, so maybe it's actually -.275349)\n\nAnd the spoilery one:\n\n> Steins Gate \n> 1.048596\n\nSo, depending on how you look at it, there are lots of possible futures (maybe\ninfinitely many), but eventually all of them converge to one of these 6 (as\nfar as we know). There could be more that are revealed later, but based on\nwhat is known right now, these are the only 6 possible long-term futures.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T00:41:44.807", "id": "2221", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-30T00:56:07.160", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-30T00:56:07.160", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2220", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2223", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe Full Metal Panic series is known to reference various real life location.\n\nFor an example the fictional Jindai\n([陣代](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SebxL.jpg)) High School is based on the real\nlife Jindai ([神代](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0tO4.jpg)) High School in Choufu,\nTokyo.\n\nThe closest station to the real life Jindai High School is the Senkawa\nstation, changed from [仙川](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9TQAN.jpg) to\n[泉川](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9eGk6.jpg) (Izumikawa).\n\nIs [Yamsk 11](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lHniW.png) based on a real life\nlocation? If so where is the real like location of Yamsk 11, the secret city\nwhere the Omni-Sphere known as TAROS resides?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T02:19:26.617", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2222", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-10T21:18:20.537", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-10T21:18:20.537", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "full-metal-panic", "tourism" ], "title": "Is Yamsk 11 based on a real life location?", "view_count": 1023 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Russian [Full Metal Panic wiki's Yamsk-11\narticle](http://mithril.msk.su/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA-11) (Янск-11, see\nreference), it says that Yamsk-11 is here: **60° 8' 10.66\" N 153° 54' 20.60\"\nE** (East Siberia). \" _Yamsk-11_ \" is not the name of the city, but a postal\ncode for mail delivery. There is a city, _Yamsk_ , 63 km to the south of \"\n_Yamsk-11_ \". It was common practice in USSR to give a postal code name with a\nnumber for [closed towns](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city).\nApparently, there was a town at those coordinates that's been closed. For\nanother example of this, see [Wikipedia's page for\nArzamas-16](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarov) or\n[Chelyabinsk-65/40](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozyorsk,_Chelyabinsk_Oblast).\n\nSo looks like there is a real location but not sure if it has anything in\ncommon with the fictional \"Yamsk 11\" in FMP (but who knows), and the name\n\"Yamsk 11\" is a postal code from the USSR days.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T03:26:01.557", "id": "2223", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-30T03:36:53.440", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-30T03:36:53.440", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's definitely a soviet-era \"postal code\" for a remote location near the city\nof Yamsk, but whether a military installation actually existed at that\nlocation is unknown. Obviously, google maps shows nothing but taiga at the\nalleged coordinates.\n\nHowever, the author certainly did his homework coming up with a believeable\nand realistic location.\n\nIt's very likely \"Yamsk-11\" was inspired by a real-life, spectacular and\nhighly mysterious cold-war era installation called Duga-3, a huge OTH Radar\nsystem (google for \"Russian Woodpecker\") - there were persistent theories this\nmassive installation, with its absurdly powerful output able to disrupt radio\nsignals throughout Europe, was used for experimentation on mind control. Very\nmuch in line with the spirit of FMP.\n\nBottom line, a real location, but with heavy embellishement (though inspired\nby real life cold-war mysteries).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T16:48:54.213", "id": "2484", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-14T16:48:54.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1469", "parent_id": "2222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2228", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nThe name \"Bleach\" seems to be having no relevance to the plot unlike most\nother series. Was it just chosen at Kubo-sensei's whim or does it have some\nsignificance? Maybe some cultural significance associated with shinigami, etc.\nthat I am now aware of?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T19:03:47.970", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2226", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-09T23:16:56.957", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-30T19:50:59.277", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 30, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What is the significance of the name Bleach?", "view_count": 86301 }

[ { "body": "\n\nKubo himself has commented on this. Below I've taken the quote from [Bleach\nAnswers\nWiki](http://bleach.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Why_is_the_story_called_%22Bleach%22):\n\n> The title wasn't Bleach when Tite Kubo decided to draw a story about\n> Shinigami. This was before he drew the one-shot manga that appeared in\n> Akamaru Jump. The weapon wasn't a sword, but a scythe. Only Rukia had a\n> scythe and the other characters used guns. At that point, the title was\n> Snipe (as in \"Sniper\"). Right before he started drawing, he began to think\n> that a sword would be better and realized he couldn't use Snipe as a title\n> anymore. He began looking for a title that grasped the bigger picture.\n> Shinigami are associated with the color black, but it would have been boring\n> to use \"black\". \"White\", on the other hand, can suggest black as a\n> complementary color. So Tite Kubo chose \"Bleach\" to evoke the impression of\n> the color white.\n\nI've also heard other theories, which aren't as well supported by interviews\nwith Kubo but still seem to have some evidence supporting them. One is that\nshinigami \"cleanse\" souls, similar to what bleach does (Kubo himself mentioned\nthis in an interview, but it's not clear whether he noticed this before or\nafter deciding on the name). Another is that Kubo is a fan of the band\nNirvana, and their first album is _Bleach_. So there might be more than one\nreason, but the quoted one above is the one he usually gives when asked about\nit.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T19:31:51.197", "id": "2228", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-30T19:31:51.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2226", "post_type": "answer", "score": 40 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the creator, Tite Kubo, when the Shinigami strike a Hollow with\ntheir Zanpaktou, they bleach (i.e. clean) the darkness and evil in the\nHollows.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-11T16:36:54.770", "id": "4101", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-12T01:26:39.047", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-12T01:26:39.047", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1876", "parent_id": "2226", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nOr maybe Ichigo is bleaching his hair to that color so it would be closer to a\nversion he remembers his mother having? And the title is about him - who is\nthe main character, after all?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-14T12:52:00.720", "id": "18530", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-14T12:52:00.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11176", "parent_id": "2226", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "39551", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe last time the Cervello appear in the manga is when\n\n> they give Byakuran the Mare Rings.\n\nAfter this, they're not shown or mentioned again. While their true purpose\ncould be inferred from the events in the final arc, I'd like to know if\nthere's any official word on this.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T19:05:10.350", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2227", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-24T03:35:31.523", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-30T20:52:51.230", "last_editor_user_id": "1354", "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "reborn" ], "title": "What is the true nature of the Cervello?", "view_count": 798 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's nothing official from either the manga or anime.\n\nAnything regarding the Cervello's true nature will only be speculation and can\nthus be dependent on the viewers' interpretations.\n\nWhile Shoichi said that the Cervello ended up with the Millefiore at some\npoint (Episode 169: Sky Lion Ver.V (Leone di Cielo Version Vongola), it could\nbe implied that this happened after they gave Byakuran the Mare Rings.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JdNiJ.jpg)\n\nIn my opinion, their true nature is similar to that of Kawahira's; they're\njust administrators. I'd like to assume that since Kawahira gave the Vongola\nRings to Giotto, he has somehow given it to the Cervello to administer since\nhe's administering the Arcobaleno pacifiers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-24T03:35:31.523", "id": "39551", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-24T03:35:31.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "135", "parent_id": "2227", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2355", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThere are various factions that exist on both the Magic and Science side, but\nwhat are the most prominent ones and who are their most well-known members?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T23:11:33.593", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2229", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-09T02:49:55.853", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-09T02:49:55.853", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "a-certain-magical-index", "a-certain-scientific-railgun" ], "title": "What are the major factions and players on the Magic and the Science side?", "view_count": 851 }

[ { "body": "\n\nHere is a generalized list of the people and faction in both the anime and\nmanga continuity (including a bit from the light novels).\n\n## Magic Side\n\n**Roman Catholic Church**\n\n * [Matthai Reese](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Matthai_Reese), _Pope_\n * [Biagio Busoni](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Biagio_Busoni), _Bishop_\n * [Ridovia Lorenzetti](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Lidvia_Lorenzetti), _Mardi Gras_\n\n# God's Right Seat\n\n * [Fiamma of the Right](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Fiamma_of_the_Right)\n * [Acqua of the Back](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Acqua_of_the_Back)/William Orwell, _Flere210_ ([Saint](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Saint))\n * [Vento of the Front](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Vento_of_the_Front)\n * [Terra of the Left](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Terra_of_the_Left)\n\n**Russian Orthodox Church**\n\n * [Nikolai Tolstoy](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Nikolai_Tolstoy), _Archbishop_\n\n# Annihilatus\n\n * [Vasilisa](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Vasilisa), _Head of Annihilatus_\n * [Sasha Kreutzev](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Sasha_Kreutzev)\n\n**Anglican Church**\n\n * [Laura Stewart](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Laura_Stuart), _Archbishop_\n * [Orsola Aquinas](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Orsola_Aquinas)\n\n# The Church of Necessary Evil (Necessarius)\n\n * [Kaori Kanzaki](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kanzaki_Kaori), _Salvare000_ (Saint)\n * [Stiyl Magnus](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Stiyl_Magnus), _Fortis931_\n * [Index Librorum Prohibitorum](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum), _Dedicatus545_\n * [Tsuchimikado Motoharu](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Tsuchimikado_Motoharu), _Fallere825_\n * [Sherry Cromwell](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Sherry_Cromwell), _Intimus115_\n\n# (Roman Catholic, London Branch) Agnese Forces\n\n * [Agnese Sanctis](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Agnese_Sanctis), _Leader_\n * [Angelene](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Angelene)\n * [Lucia](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Lucia)\n\n# Amakusa-Style Remix of Church\n\n * Kaori Kanzaki, _Pontiff/Priestess_\n * [Tatemiya Saiji](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Tatemiya_Saiji), _Substitute Supreme Pontiff_\n * [Itsuwa](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Itsuwa)\n * [Uragami](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Uragami)\n\n**Knights of England**\n\n * [\"Knight Leader\"](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Knight_Leader), _Leader_\n\n**British Royal Family**\n\n * [Elizard](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Elizard), _Queen of England_\n * [Riméa](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Rim%C3%A9a), _Princess of England_ (Oldest)\n * [Carissa](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Carissa), _Princess of England_ (Second-Oldest)\n * [Villian](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Villian), _Princess of England_ (Youngest)\n * [Silvia](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Silvia), _Head Maid of the Royal Family_ (Saint)\n\n**Mercenarys**\n\n * [Oriana Thomson](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Oriana_Thomson), _Basis104_\n\n* * *\n\n## Science Side\n\n**Board of Directors**\n\n * [Aleister Crowley](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Aleister_Crowley), _General Superintendent_\n * [Kaizumi Tsugutoshi](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kaizumi_Tsugutoshi), _Chairman_\n * [Oyafune Monaka](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Oyafune_Monaka), _Chairwoman_\n * [Shiokishi](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Shiokishi), _Chairman_\n * [Thomas Platinaburg](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Platinaburg), _Chairman_\n * [Kumokawa Seria](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kumokawa_Seria), _Advisor_\n\n**Hound Dog**\n\n * [Kihara Amata](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kihara_Amata), _Commander_\n\n**Misaka Network**\n\n * [Misaka Imouto](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Misaka_10032), _Subject No. 10032_\n * [Last Order](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Last_Order), _Subject No. 20001_\n\n**A Certain Magical High School**\n\n * [Kamijou Touma](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kamijou_Touma), _Imagine Breaker_ (Level 0)\n * [Himegami Aisa](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Himegami_Aisa), _Deep Blood_ ([Gemstone](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Gemstone))\n * Tsuchimikado Motoharu, _Auto-Rebirth_ (Level 0)\n * [Aogami Pierce](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Aogami_Pierce)\n * [Tsukuyomi Komoe](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukuyomi_Komoe), _Chemistry Teacher_\n * [Oyafune Suama](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Oyafune_Suama), _Math Teacher_\n * [Yomikawa Aiho](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Yomikawa_Aiho), _P.E. Teacher_\n\n**Tokiwadai Middle School**\n\n * [Misaka Mikoto](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Misaka_Mikoto), _Electromaster_ (Level 5 Esper, No. 3)\n * [Shirai Kuroko](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Shirai_Kuroko), _Teleporter_ (Level 4)\n * [Shokuhou Misaki](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Shokuhou_Misaki), _The Queen of Tokiwadai_ , _Mental Out_ (Level 5 Esper, No. 5)\n * [Kongou Mitsuko](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kongou_Mitsuko), _Aero Hand_ (Level 4)\n * [Wannai Kinuho](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Wannai_Kinuho), _Hydro Hand_ (Level 3)\n * [Awatsuki Maaya](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Awatsuki_Maaya), _Float Dial_ (Level 3)\n\n**Sakugawa Middle School**\n\n * [Uiharu Kazari](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Uiharu_Kazari), _Thermal Hand_ (Level 1)\n * [Saten Ruiko](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Saten_Ruiko), _Aero Hand_ (Level 0)\n\n**SCHOOL**\n\n * [Kakine Teitoku](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kakine_Teitoku), _Dark Matter_ (Level 5 Esper, No. 2) ([Awakened](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Awakening))\n * [\"Girl in the Dress\"](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Girl_in_dress), _Measure Heart_ (Level ?)\n * [\"Boy with Goggles\"](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Boy_with_goggles)\n\n**GROUP**\n\n * [Accelerator](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Accelerator), _Vector Change_ (Level 5 Esper, No. 1) (Awakened)\n * Tsuchimikado Motoharu\n * [Musujime Awaki](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Awaki), _Move Point_ (Level 4)\n * [Etzali](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Etzali)\n\n**ITEM**\n\n * [Mugino Shizuri](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Mugino_Shizuri), _Meltdowner_ (Level 5 Esper, No. 4)\n * [Takitsubo Rikou](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Takitsubo_Rikou), _AIM Stalker_ (Level 4)\n * [Kinuhata Saiai](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kinuhata_Saiai), _Offense Armor_ (Level 4)\n * [Hamazura Shiage](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Hamazura_Shiage), _Grunt, Chaffeur, and Informant_\n\n**MEMBER**\n\n * [\"Professor\"](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Professor), _Leader_\n * [Baba Yoshio](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Yoshio_Baba)\n * [Xochitl](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Xochitl)\n * [Saraku](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Saraku), _Kill Point_ (Level ?)\n\n**BLOCK**\n\n * [Saku Tatsuhiko](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Saku_Tatsuhiko), _Leader_\n * [Teshio Megumi](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Teshio_Megumi)\n\n**Judgement**\n\n * [Konori Mii](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Konori_Mii), _177th Branch Office Chief_ , _Clairvoyance_ (Level 3)\n * Shirai Kuroko\n * Uiharu Kazari\n\n**Skill Out**\n\n * [Hattori Hanzou](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Hattori_Hanzou), _Leader (Temporary)_\n\n# Big Spider\n\n * [Kurozuma Wataru](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kurozuma_Wataru), _Founder, Former Leader_\n * [Hebitani Tsuguo](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Hebitani_Tsuguo), _Second Leader_\n\n**Anti-Skill**\n\n * Yomikawa Aiho, _Lieutenant, Branch 73_\n * [Tessou Tsuzuri](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Tessou_Tsuzuri)\n * [Saigou Ryouta](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Saigou_Ryouta)\n\n**Kihara Family**\n\n * [Kihara Gensei](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kihara_Gensei)\n * [Therestina Kihara Lifeline](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Therestina_Kihara_Lifeline), _(Former) Captain of MAR_\n * Kihara Amata, _Leader of Hound Dog_\n\n**Imaginary Number District**\n\n * [Kazakiri Hyouka](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kazakiri_Hyouka), _Counter Stop_\n\n**Unaffiliated**\n\n * [Sogiita Gunha](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Sogiita_Gunha), _Attack Crash_ (Level 5 Esper, No. 7) (Gemstone)\n\n* * *\n\n## Other Side\n\n * [Gabriel](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Archangel_Gabriel), _Archangel_\n\n * [Aiwass](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Aiwass), _DRAGON_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T23:00:38.510", "id": "2355", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T23:59:03.477", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-04T23:59:03.477", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2229", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2251", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhat those petite animals that Ami and Mami find in the Puchimasu spinoff\nseries? Why do they resemble the main cast?\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T23:19:05.020", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2230", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-07T09:38:15.573", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "the-idolmaster" ], "title": "What are those petite animals that resemble the main cast?", "view_count": 117 }

[ { "body": "\n\nTranslated from the [Puchimas anime\nwebsite](http://puchimas.com/introduction/index.html):\n\n> **Puchidols** are mysterious cute little living creatures that reside at 765\n> Productions. They're the kind of organism that shoots beams, warps around (I\n> think this means like teleportation), digs holes, and heals others, but they\n> are still quite mysterious. But don't you get the feeling that they resemble\n> the idols of 765 Productions?\n\nWell, that's the official explanation, but I don't think it actually answers\nyour question. It even reiterates your question of \"why do they look like the\nidols\"...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T17:56:16.630", "id": "2251", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-07T09:38:15.573", "last_edit_date": "2016-03-07T09:38:15.573", "last_editor_user_id": "15276", "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "2230", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2309", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe anime adaptation for Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai had two\nendings, which branched off after episode 11 (the \"good end\" vs the \"true\nend\"). Of course, these couldn't both have happened in the light novels\nbecause they aren't consistent with each other. Which one of these follows the\nlight novels closer, i.e. in the novels,\n\n> does Kirino go to America or stay in Japan?\n\nI suppose there's also the possibility that these are both anime-original\ncontent.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T23:19:46.463", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2231", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T06:31:09.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "oreimo" ], "title": "Which of the OreImo endings followed the light novels?", "view_count": 5478 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe \"true end\" of OreImo anime follows the novel (and quite closely at that).\nThis short excerpt from Volume 5 Chapter 4 answers the question.\n\n> But the mail I got from my little sister betrayed my expectations. \n> \n> **Please throw away my entire collection that I’ve entrusted to you.** \n> \n> That was the only sentence written.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T06:31:09.580", "id": "2309", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T06:31:09.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "2231", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2244", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the Manga, Phryne and Nessa have purple hair. \nIn the Anime, Phryne has brown hair and Nessa has red hair.\n\nIs there a reason for this inconsistency?\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T23:35:34.843", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2232", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-31T10:33:25.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "fractale" ], "title": "Why is Phryne's hair purple in the Manga, but brown in the Anime?", "view_count": 473 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNo real sources or references for this, but it's almost certainly the work of\nMasako Tashiro, the anime's character designer. As you can see in a [design\ncomparison image on this\npage](http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/fractale-background-and-\nreview/), the detail and color changes between Hidari's and Tashiro's designs.\nWhen you have to animate characters, it's up to the character designer to not\nonly create fitting and unique designs that match each character, but make\nthem simple enough so that the animators can animate them in a reasonable\namount of time. This is why you rarely see anime TV series with characters of\nthe same gender that have the exact same hair color. Without all of the detail\nthat can be afforded to still frames in a manga, there's often a reliance on\ncolors to easily differentiate between characters that share the screen a lot.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T10:33:25.630", "id": "2244", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-31T10:33:25.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2242", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the series, it was mentioned that Shikizaki Kiki created the 12 Deviant\nSwords with the purpose of perfecting one final sword.\n\nWhat is this final sword? How was it completed?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-30T23:38:24.667", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2233", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-05T00:10:56.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "katanagatari" ], "title": "What is Shikizaki Kiki's final completed Deviant Sword?", "view_count": 596 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIn episode 11, Kiki Shikizaki said that the final purpose of the 12 Deviant\nSwords was to help Yasuri Shichika perfect the Kyotoryu fighting style in\norder to forge **himself** as the ultimate completed Deviant Sword (虚刀「鑢」;\nEmpty Sword \"File\"). So Shichika himself is the final sword and forged through\nthe Kyotoryu fighting style.\n\nThe other purpose of the creation of the swords is to prevent Japan from being\ndestroyed by foreigners. Something that one of his ancestors told him would\nhappen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T05:48:38.043", "id": "2242", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-05T00:10:56.167", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-05T00:10:56.167", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nSamurai Champloo is supposed to take place at a fictional version of Japan in\nthe Edo period. However, some settings/characters/events seem to be based in\nreal events (the case of the [Shimabara\nRebellion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion) is one of them).\n\nWhat are the settings/characters/events portrayed in Samurai Champloo that are\nbased in real-world events? And how historically accurate are they?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T00:03:10.990", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2234", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T02:30:22.380", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "samurai-champloo" ], "title": "What settings/characters/events portrayed in Samurai Champloo are based in real events?", "view_count": 3275 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this\nwiki](http://champloo.wikia.com/wiki/Samurai_Champloo/Plot),\n\n> The show relies on factual events of Edo-era Japan, such as the Shimabara\n> Rebellion (\"Unholy Union;\" \"Evanescent Encounter, Part I\"), Dutch\n> exclusivity in an era in which an edict restricted Japanese foreign\n> relations (\"Stranger Searching\"), Ukiyo-e paintings (\"Artistic Anarchy\"),\n> and fictionalized versions of real-life Edo personalities like Mariya\n> Enshirou and Miyamoto Musashi (\"Elegy of Entrapment, Verse 2\").\n\nHowever, there are a number of things within the show that are not\nhistorically accurate, such as \"bandits behaving like 'gangstas'\". There is\nalso a large amount of hip hop culture within the show, which is not\ncontemporary to the period.\n\nAlso, according to Wikipedia:\n\n> The exact placement within world history is questionable, however, and is\n> likely somewhat distorted by artistic license. For instance, the appearance\n> of a six shooter in the episode of Misguided Miscreants Part I suggests that\n> the story takes place after 1814, which is when that style of weapon was\n> first invented, yet in the episode Stranger Searching it is explicitly\n> stated that trade relations between Japan and the Dutch East India Company\n> exist, the latter of which went defunct in 1798.\n\nSix shooter:\n\n\n\nIn show:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T02:30:22.380", "id": "3110", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T02:30:22.380", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "8320", "answer_count": 9, "body": "\n\nIn episode 1 of Railgun, Misaka's railgun up-ends a good chunk of what appears\nto be an olympic-sized swimming pool. Later in the same episode, it is\nrevealed that her railgun travels at a velocity of _**1030 m/s**_.\n\n\n\n## However, the numbers don't add up.\n\nSuppose Misaka uses 10 gram coins. At **1030 m/s** , that coin has this much\nenergy:\n\n[code]\n\n Energy = 1/2 m v^2\n = 1/2 (0.01 kg) (1030 m/s)^2 = 5304.5 kg (m/s)^2\n = 5304.5 Joules\n \n[/code]\n\nAn olympic-sized swimming pool has 2,500,000 kg of water. Based on the image\nabove, that cone probably travels a good 100 meters into the air.\n\nSo let's say for benefit of the doubt, that only 10% of the water is lifted\n100 meters into the air.\n\n[code]\n\n Energy = m g h\n = (0.01 * 2500000 kg) (9.8 m/s^2) (100 m) = 2.45 * 10^8 kg (m/s)^2\n = 2.45 * 10^8 Joules\n \n[/code]\n\nThe coin needs `2.45 * 10^8` Joules of energy to uplift the swimming pool as\nshown above. But her coin can only provide `5304.5 Joules`. _**There is a\ndifference of about 4 orders of magnitude.**_\n\n* * *\n\nOkay... Before anyone dismisses this as just another case of Anime physics,\nlet's look at what else could produce so much energy:\n\n 1. The spin of the coin is not captured in the net velocity of 1030 m/s. But given the moment of inertia of a little coin, it would need a tremendous (relativistic?) amount of spin to carry `10^8` Joules.\n 2. The charge of the coin is unspecified in the Anime. Perhaps Misaka somehow polarizes the charge in the coin and somehow makes it release upon contact with the target.\n 3. The mass-energy (`E = mc^2`) of the coin is `9 * 10^14` Joules. Is this what she did?\n\nSo the question is: Is there any official explanation for where the coin gets\nso much energy? Or are we left to dismiss this as another case of Anime\nphysics?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T00:13:20.233", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2235", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-28T05:42:38.297", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 56, "tags": [ "a-certain-magical-index", "a-certain-scientific-railgun" ], "title": "How is Misaka's railgun so destructive?", "view_count": 15345 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI argue that it is a case of Anime Physics by refuting the alternative\npossibilities you suggested.\n\n 1. You're right - carrying such an amount of energy as moment of inertia is impossible. Even Misaka's superpowers are a world away from relativistic speeds.\n 2. The energy cannot be stored as charge in the coin, as it would keep dissipating as [\"lightning\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_gap).\n 3. The energy couldn't have come from mass energy. Besides the resulting lethal radiation, to release mass energy without using antimatter would mean releasing nuclear energy. Nuclear energy can only be released under extreme pressure (nuclear reactions in bombs are initiated by compressing Uranium with the blast of a smaller bomb). If someone could find an example of Misaka finding her coin after she shot it, that will clearly refute the mass energy argument.\n\nFinally, the Mythbusters proved in [this\nvideo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxvMLoKRWg&feature=g-vrec) that a coin\ntravelling at 3 times the speed of sound (around the speed of a bullet) merely\ndents concrete.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T10:08:24.880", "id": "2243", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-08T06:48:44.513", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-08T06:48:44.513", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile subjective, it was my strong impression from the start that projectile\ncomponent is indirect (and possibly borderline irrelevant) to her ability.\n\n 1. She can produce **a lot** of energy\n 2. The energy goes where projectile goes\n 3. However, it is not established that the projectile _carries_ the energy\n\nThe projectile might be just a beacon or focus type of component, possibly\npurely psychological one (with technique being opposite of just randomly\nshooting out bursts of uncontrolled electricity).\n\nI remember her shooting large projectile in later episodes, however, the\nspeculation above might still apply.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T08:20:03.153", "id": "2274", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-08T06:44:53.543", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-08T06:44:53.543", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "307", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the anime and manga, Mikoto has a \"muzzle velocity\" of 1030 m/s:\n\n\n\nIn contrast, the [US Navy's\nrailgun](http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=34718) has a muzzle\nvelocity of 2520 m/s (~5600 mph or ~7.5x the speed of sound), with a muzzle\nenergy of 10.64 megajoules (10.64 million joules). Which is probably\ncomparable to the amount of energy in an average-sized car moving at 250 mph.\n\nComparatively, the an [AK-47](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47) rifle has a\nmuzzle velocity of 715m/s (~1600 mph or ~2x the speed of sound), with a muzzle\nenergy of ~2010 joules (assuming 7.62x39mm cartridges are used, but may vary\ndepending on the type of ammunition).\n\nWhile not very impressive stat-wise as far railguns go, since actual railguns\nare capable of achieving speeds of possibly more than ~5000 m/s. Take note\nthat Mikoto is a middle-schooler that can fire eight shots of these per\nminute, which is on par with \"typical\" railguns.\n\nAssuming the coin comparable to the size and weight of a U.S. quarter, one can\nassume that the coin she uses has a weight of about five grams. Using this\nformula we can get he muzzle energy:\n\n> Energy = 0.5*(mass)(velocity)2 = 0.5*(0.005kg)(1030m/s)2 = ~2652.25 joules\n\nSo Mikoto outputs a bit more damage than an semi-automatic assault rifle.\n\nBut that's not what we're seeing now is it?\n\n\n\nNot quite. But what could cause such a difference in output?\n\nAccording to [Page 1, Chapter 4](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dsMCu.jpg) of the\nRailgun manga, she manipulates electromagnetism to achieve her results. This\nseems plausible since if the magnetic field were sufficiently focused, she\ncould theoretically accelerate only the coin and/or nearby objects.\n\nNow lets take a look at the pool test again, from the pool cleaning episode\n(S1, ep. 2) we have an approximate estimate of the dimensions of the pool:\n\n\n\nLets measure things in terms of Kuroko's height (~152cm)!\n\n\n\nSeeing as the pool doesn't taper or either end, lets assume that the pool is\nabout 14 Kurokos long or ~21.28 m (yes it does seem kinda small), and about 11\nKurokos wide, or ~16.72 m, by the lines on the pool floor and a bit less than\n~0.9 Kuroko, or lets say 1.36m deep.\n\nAs for the displaced water, we _could_ attempt to integrate the volume of the\nplume of water, assuming it's half and half air, find it's weight, etc. But\nwe'll be lazy here and assume that 1/1000th of the pool water volume was\ndispersed into the air when Mikoto fires her railgun. The pool would have a\nvolume:\n\n> Volume = (1.36 m)*(21.28 m)*(16.72 m) = ~486.73 m3 of water\n\nSince the \"center of mass\" the plume of water seems to be comparable be near\nthe top of the gymnasium-type building, going be an eye estimate of the door\ncompared to the building lets assume that it's 10 m tall. In order to\ncalculate the energy needed to achieve something like this we do:\n\n> (Energy it takes to lift an object) = (mass of object)*(acceleration due to\n> gravity)*(lift altitude).\n\nIn this scenario let us cut a bunch of corners and assume that all the energy\nof the shot goes into lifting the water (by which ignore the energy spent\nwarming the water up, creating the sounds loud explosion, any dramatic winds\neffect), then we have\n\n> Energy = (1/1000)*(~486.73 m3)*(1000 kg/m3 water)*(9.8 m/s2)*(10m) =\n> ~47699.54 joules\n\nIf we plug it backwards into the kinetic energy equation:\n\n> √[(~47699.54 J)*2 / (0.005 kg)] = ~4368.04 m/s\n\nSo the muzzle velocity of her railgun would be ~4368.04 m/s.\n\nOne can only assume that, since we must respect the canon value of 1030 m/s,\nthat perhaps the damage caused by Mikoto ability is due to her manipulation of\nelectromagnetic caused as the coin moves through the air or some other\nfactor... But then again, what do we know about the physics of this world\nwhere Science and Magic co-exist?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-27T20:51:08.463", "id": "8320", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-07T05:42:41.760", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-07T05:42:41.760", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 32 }, { "body": "\n\n## Electricity can move the water:\n\n[The wiki says that Misaka can generate 1 billion\nvolts.](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Misaka_Mikoto) \n( _even though some sources states 5 billion volts, lets be MODEST_ `<grin>`)\n\nIf she charges the coin, the rapid transfer of charge from the coin to the\nwater would cause repulsion between the coin and the surrounding water,\npropelling the water away from the pool. The shockwaves would reflect on the\nborders and the bottom of the pool, pushing the surface water up.\n\nYou can see in the anime that all the blasts have some sideways movement, but\nthe SECOND blast displayed has a very distinctive. sideways movement, hinting\nthat the impact pushes the water a bit to the sides as well, as the\nelectrically charged water moves away from the coin while the coin traverses\nthe pool.\n\nThe issue of the charge dissipating is not a problem. She can AIM lightning,\nso we can assume her electromagnetic powers can also alter the breakdown\nvoltage of the air around the coin (by either increasing the pressure around\ncoin or making vacuum.\n\nWe need to look at [the capacitance of the\ncoin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance)\n\n\n\nThe radius of a quarter is 13mm\n\n\n\nWith a potential of 1 billion volts, the charge of the coin is\n\n\n\nNow, We can calculate the electric force between the charged coin and the\ncharged water, and for brevity's sake, lets assume:\n\n 1. half the charge has transferred to the water. \n 2. the walls and bottom of the swimming pool are totally **isolant** and **indestructible**. \n 3. the coin has hit the bottom once half the charge is transferred. \n 4. The water is 1mm away from the coin\n\nIn this situation, The force between coin and water is calculated with\ncoulomb's law:\n\n \n\nWe are getting to the Megajoule Here.\n\nGiven the mass of 10% the pool's water, that force gives the water a momentary\nacceleration of:  \n\nNow, to lift the water 100 meters, we need to imprint the water a velocity of\n44.3m/s\n\n\n\nSo the interaction time between coin and water before the remaining energy\ndissipates making:\n\n> [Krazer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/63/krazer) said: \n> energy spent warming the water up, creating the sounds loud explosion, any\n> dramatic winds effect\n\n \n\nAnd that's  that accounts for \n\nEven if you were to take into account the charge dissipation, the diminishing\nrepulsion force between the water, and other small assumptions here, there is\nplenty of energy for everything.\n\nThere is plenty of energy everywhere to be used any way you want.\n\nBut I think this clearly explains where the energy to lift the water comes\nfrom.\n\nAlso, if you take the events of later episodes, when she uses other items than\na coin\n\n> A giant robot claw and later on a whole giant robot\n\nyou can see that the amount of stored energy is greater, and so is the\ndestructive power. Makes sense, because the capacitance of those items is\nbigger than a coin's.\n\n## Many thanks to [Wolfram Alpha](http://www.wolframalpha.com/) for the\ncalculations and images.\n\n* * *\n\nMore theories:\n\n**Electricity can keep accelerating the coin even after it left the\n\"muzzle\".**\n\nIf she charges the coin, she can generate another charge of the same sign on\nherself after the coin leaves the \"muzzle\". So even if the coin leaves at a\nvelocity of 1030m/s, she could accelerate it even after it was fired. But its\nnot even necessary, because...\n\n**The coin's Spin and one of most destructive forces: Harmonics.**\n\nAs we can\nsee from this wikipedia graph, once maximum resonance (1:1) is reached, the\nenergy transfer increases dramatically. Wind Harmonics are [enough to destroy\na bridge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridges) by moving it\nlike a violin string. If she can spin the coin so its frequency matches\nperfectly the harmonic frequency of the pool, massive energy could be\ntransfered.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-29T04:47:47.507", "id": "8344", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-16T19:45:41.410", "last_edit_date": "2018-04-16T19:45:41.410", "last_editor_user_id": "2808", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nLet's not forget in the episode she did the robot arm she did so because the\nperson was sitting outside the range of her coins. At the end of the beam\nthere was simply no coin left. She explained as she blocked, caught, and fired\nsaid arm that there is a reason she usually uses coins.\n\nI suspect several factors combine to contribute to her destructive potential\nincluding her designated badass status, continued acceleration, inertia, spin,\nhypersonic shockwave, and possible conversion of matter to plasma.\n\nRemember she also probably diverting energy to fight recoil and other\ndestructive aspects of firing the railgun. That shielding is sufficient to\nstop directed multiple nuclear blasts capable of rapidly melting through\nconcrete and steel despite Misaka being exhausted at the time. I'm sure this\nmight be sufficient energy cause a secondary acceleration.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T16:58:10.570", "id": "9728", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T16:58:10.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4893", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is also worth noting that (insofar as I recall) the 'psychic' powers of the\ntype Misaka has are loosely based on the ever-popular, fantastic, double-\nmisinterpretation of the Schrödinger's-cat thought experiment: that perception\ninfluences reality, and thus altering perception in the correct manner should\nalter reality. (Or something like that. There was surrounding techno-babble,\nbut that seemed to be the gist of it.)\n\nThus, an alternate though less-interesting explanation of the disproportionate\neffects of her railgun would be something along the lines of: Misaka's own\nperception of how powerful the railgun should be is wrong, _resulting in\nexaggerated effects_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-21T05:35:37.660", "id": "20993", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-29T19:41:44.637", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-29T19:41:44.637", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "14029", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is a case of anime physics as other posters have alluded to but not your\naverage anime physics, it is said in certain parts of the manga and the sister\nseries index that the way esper powers work is by manipulating a reality\nwarping field to fit the style of their powers. therefore misaka's railgun\nworks because it has sufficient reality warping energy and math behind it\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-06T23:10:39.040", "id": "23855", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-06T23:10:39.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16111", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nYou guys are all forgetting the basic fact that the 1030 m/s measurement was\ntaken while firing into water. The effects of drag on the coin fired into\nwater are far greater in magnitude than the effects of drag while fired\nthrough air. Air is almost one thousand times less dense than water. If we\nperform the equation for drag, we come up with a force magnitude on the coin\nof 18,466 Newtons. [18466=.5*1000kg/m^3*(1030m/s)^2*.82*0.000042455m^2]\n\n.82 is the drag coefficient for a long cylinder like an arcade coin,\n1000kg/m^3 is the density of water, and .000042455m^2 is the cross sectional\narea of the coin fired.\n\nif we perform the equation in reverse to find out the velocity of the coin in\nair, we are left with a velocity of 29,428m/s.\n\nSounds a hell of a lot more like a proper rail gun, doesn't it?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-22T21:02:12.260", "id": "30746", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-22T21:02:12.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22906", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n'A Certain Magical Index' has 50 odd light novels, 13 volumes of manga, 2\nseasons of anime, a movie and a couple of video games.\n\n'A Certain Scientific Railgun' has 2 light novels, 11 volumes of manga, 2\nseasons of anime, an OVA, and a video game of its own.\n\nIn none of these sources (that I can recall, anyway) is Misaka's railgun trick\nimplied to be anything other than an arcade token (not a coin, which is why it\nis even ferrous to begin with) travelling three times the speed of sound.\n\nAnd there is one other weird property of the railgun attack - Touma, the boy\nwith the anti-magic fist, can catch it. (As seen in chapter 7, volume 1 of the\nRailgun manga.)\n\nSince Touma can dispel it, that means that there is still something\nsupernatural about the coin, even while it is melting. That supernatural\nproperty will be why it has a pushing force well above what it should have on\nmomentum alone.\n\nI have no evidence for my next point, but I believe that Misaka's magnetic\nfield is simply continuing to push the coin well after it leaves her hand.\nThat would explain both oddities nicely.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-10T11:18:32.837", "id": "36758", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-10T11:18:32.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26251", "parent_id": "2235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2373", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI watched the Parappa the Rapper anime several years ago, given that it was\none of my favorite video games. However, I quickly discovered a fatal flaw:\nthere was no actual rapping!! The producers instead decided to make it a\nchildren's show. How do you make an anime about a rapping dog with no actual\nrapping?!\n\nI only watched a few episodes before I dropped it. But if there actually is\nsome rapping somewhere in the show, it would at least be worth my time to\nwatch that. Does Parappa (or anyone else) rap at any point in the series?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T00:32:03.093", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2236", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-06T12:07:52.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "parappa-the-rapper" ], "title": "Does the Parappa the Rapper anime actually have any rapping?", "view_count": 303 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime is about Parappa, not about rapping. So there's no really rapping,\nif I remember correctly.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-06T12:07:52.750", "id": "2373", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-06T12:07:52.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2236", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2919", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn [Wikipedia's page on Ergo\nProxy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_Proxy#Plot), it is stated that:\n\n> The story begins in a futuristic domed city called Romdeau, built to protect\n> its citizens after a global ecological disaster thousands of years prior.\n\nAnd the \"thousands of years\" part leads to a page on the [23rd\ncentury](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd_century). \nHowever, I don't remember any specific year ever having been stated in the\nanime. \nI actually don't think it was ever explicitly said whether it takes place in\nour world or not.\n\n**Was it ever stated** (in-universe or by the authors) **if it takes place in\nour world? \nIf so, is a specific time-slot/date ever given?** \nOr is the Wikipedia's link to the 23rd century page complete humbug?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T00:42:34.870", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2237", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-26T15:25:45.970", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-31T00:51:30.670", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "ergo-proxy" ], "title": "Is it known if Ergo Proxy is really set in our world?", "view_count": 803 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[ergoproxy.wikia.com](http://ergoproxy.wikia.com/wiki/Ergo_Proxy_Wiki#The_Settings)\n(note that the second paragraph contains spoilers for anyone who hasn't\nwatched the whole series):\n\n> The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future of Earth, focusing on\n> the aftermath of a global ecological disaster. The apparent cause of this\n> travesty was rapid climate change due to a string of explosions in methane\n> hydrate reserves. Occuring during the second half of the 21st century, the\n> impromptu detonations succeeded in wiping out 85% of the planet's Human\n> population.\n>\n> In order to survive, the remaining Humans made 300 Proxies in an event known\n> as the Proxy Project and charged them with the creation of another Human\n> race; they were to be nurtured within Dome Cities of the Proxies'\n> establishment. These sealed off communities contained a birthing system\n> called the WombSys as well as AutoReivs, two factors intended to aid and\n> propagate the fledgling species. Once the Proxies were sent forth, the\n> original Humans left Earth for another planet, biding their time until they\n> were certain that Earth was safe for both Human races to settle. Their\n> purpose completed, the then obsolete Proxies would have their immortal\n> Amrita Cells destroyed by the emerging sun's deadly rays, unable to live\n> under blue skies and therefore stamped out as relics of the past.\n\nSo to summarize, it does take place on earth/in our world following a post-\napocalyptic event.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-16T01:56:36.617", "id": "2919", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-26T15:25:45.970", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-26T15:25:45.970", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3109", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhy is the _Plan-1055 Belial_ considered a 4th generation Arm Slave while the\n_Plan-1056 Codarl_ and _Plan-1058 Codarl-i_ Arm Slaves, which were developed\nfrom it, considered 3rd generation Arm Slaves?\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T01:04:28.060", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2238", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-02T20:56:54.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "full-metal-panic" ], "title": "Why is the Belial considered a 4th-generation Arm Slave?", "view_count": 1539 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this entry](http://www.jindai-\nhigh.com/characters/machinery/plan-1055-belial/):\n\n> The suit is considered a fourth generation suit, making it more powerful\n> that the Arbalest, even with its Lambda Driver installed. Despite all these\n> advantages the suit has no visible weapons, leaving only its bare hands and\n> the Lambda Driver to destroy its opponents. However, the use of the Lambda\n> Driver is pivotally its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The\n> reliance that the suit has on the Lambda Driver, and not on normal weapons,\n> is a dangerous flaw in its design. The suit needs the Lambda Driver if it is\n> to fly like it does and if anything happens to the device or the wings then\n> that ability is gone. The other weakness is Leonard’s own arrogant attitude\n> towards Sousuke. Leonard never expected Sousuke to acquire a suit to match\n> the strength of Belial until the ARX-8 makes its debut.\n\nThe Plan 1056 had an overheating problem that was fixed in the Arm Slave Plan\n1058, when they installed an improved heat sink on it.\n\nWhat makes the Plan 1055 a 4th Gen suit is that the Lambda Driver that it uses\nand the capacity to fly, this means that the Lambda Driver and the features\nadded to this model are far beyond updated than the versions Plan 1056 and\nPlan 1058.\n\nSource: [Plan 1058](http://srtmush.wikia.com/wiki/Plan_1058_Codarl-i) [Plan\n1056](http://srtmush.wikia.com/wiki/Plan_1056_Codarl) [Plan\n1055](http://www.jindai-high.com/characters/machinery/plan-1055-belial/)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T02:30:12.783", "id": "3109", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-01T18:50:37.840", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-01T18:50:37.840", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "8", "parent_id": "2238", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nRemember that quite often, prototypes will be far more powerful than later-\ndeveloped versions. some examples from anime:\n\nGundam: Pretty much any time a mass-produced suit is made based off of a\ngundam, it is FAR less powerful, because the proceeding gundam was much more\nexpensive.\n\nSuper Robot Wars: The original Huckbein was much more powerful than the\nfollowing Huckbein Mk. II, and the Mk. II 009. But the original was also\ninherently more dangerous due to it's black hole engine, and too expensive for\nfull production. (also, the Huckbein Mk. II M version (mass produced) was less\npowerful than either the Mk. II or the Mk. II 009). It wasn't until the\nHuckbein Mk. III that the line began to overtake the original. \nAlso, the \"titular\" suit, the SR-X, is too expensive, and thus it was never\nmass-produced. The component mechs were too expensive as well, so instead of\nmass-producing the R1, they developed the R-blade (a watered down version of\nthe R1).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-02T20:56:54.677", "id": "3643", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-02T20:56:54.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "46", "parent_id": "2238", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nI'm embarrassed to admit to watching this show. But this question has been\nbothering me for some time.\n\nLala is pretty much **_the_** main character in the series. She is the typical\n\"primary\" female in this genre of harem Anime.\n\nLala was the main character for the first two seasons: \"To LOVE-Ru\" and \"Motto\nTo LOVE-Ru\".\n\nHowever, in season 3 (To LOVE-Ru Darkness) Lala suddenly disappears from the\nstage and is no longer the main character. Instead Momo (Lala's sister)\nbecomes the primary female character.\n\nWhy is this? What influenced the author to pull Lala from center stage and\nreplace her with Momo?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T01:09:37.553", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2239", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-23T13:24:34.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "to-love-ru" ], "title": "What happened to Lala in To LOVE-Ru Darkness?", "view_count": 47505 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNote: this answer may contain minor spoilers.\n\n> Instead Momo (Lala's sister) becomes the primary female character. \n> What influenced the author to pull Lala from center stage and replace her\n> with Momo?\n\nI don't know how far along the anime is, but that's not entirely correct. Momo\nbecomes a more important character than she was in previous TLR instances, but\nI think that's mainly for amusement / The Harem Plan™. And Lala isn't entirely\ndead yet. Why she isn't as prominent anymore? I have no real answer to that,\nbut my guess is that her specific story is over and maybe the author just got\ntired of her. :)\n\nAlso, let's look at the name of the anime (and manga): To LOVE-Ru\n**_Darkness_**. \nAnd whose name contains \"Darkness\" again? Right, Konjiki no Yami, aka _Golden\nDarkness_.\n\nIt becomes apparent pretty fast that she's the new main heroine, as the story\nrevolves around her origin, her purpose, and friends / foes she has out in the\nuniverse.\n\nA particular example would be Mea,\n\n> who is an artificial \"transforming weapon\" just like Yami,\n\nand her mysterious master.\n\nWe also finally get to know Yami's mother. It's hard to see where exactly\nTLR:D is going yet, but it's not your average ecchi fanservice manga / anime\nanymore.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T10:57:56.453", "id": "2245", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-31T10:57:56.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20", "parent_id": "2239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's another story of this movie talk about MoMo, NaNa instead of\nLaLa. MoMo wanted to make Rito Fall in love with she by her Harem plan because\nshe thinks however married MoMo instead of LaLa, Rito still become the\ngreatest man in the universe. And this story might discover about the mystery\ngirl, Mea. Everyone wanted to find who is Mea's master and her relationship\nwith Yami. About another things, I have no idea. So if there is some thing\nwrong, please support me because this just my things about this. Thank you.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-10T02:12:56.133", "id": "22290", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-10T02:12:56.133", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14964", "parent_id": "2239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI can think of two reasons: 1)lala makes it hard to develop in relationship\nbecause of her child-like nature 2)the other reason is that THE HAREM PLAN of\nmomo is necessary for the development of Yami who is the main focus.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-03T13:27:41.380", "id": "27044", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-03T13:27:41.380", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18870", "parent_id": "2239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3914", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAt the end of the _Thanatos Report_ OVA (set after the events of the\n_.hack//Sekai no Mukou ni_ movie) after Tanaka picks up a certain chip, a\nsymbol appears in his eyes.\n\nWhat is the significance of this symbol? What does it mean for Tanaka?\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T01:21:07.650", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2240", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-26T07:48:53.887", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ ".hack" ], "title": "What is the significance of the symbol in Tanaka's eyes?", "view_count": 738 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's a \"doubleware\" crest, meaning that aside from Tokio (from _//Link_ and\n_//Versus_ ) Tanaka is the only other doubleware revealed up until now.\n\nDoubleware humans can withstand [Real\nDigitize](http://dothack.wikia.com/wiki/Real_Digitalize) themselves within the\nvirtual world without worrying about \"Outer Dependency Syndrome,\" the gradual\nerosion of their mind and digital body.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-26T07:48:53.887", "id": "3914", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-26T07:48:53.887", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2240", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nIn the final episode of Allison & Lillia, Treize lets go of the ladder to deal\nwith \"prisoner #42\" just as the train runs off a cliff.\n\n\n\nHe comes back in the final scene to greet Lillia. But how in the world does he\nsurvive the fall?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T03:45:31.920", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2241", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-03T00:08:01.773", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-03T00:08:01.773", "last_editor_user_id": "17", "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "allison-and-lillia" ], "title": "How does Treize survive the train wreck at the end of Allison & Lillia?", "view_count": 337 }

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{ "accepted_answer_id": "2329", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAs the series progresses,\n\n> Muroi allies with Sunako and her \"family\". In the final scenes, we see him\n> get on a car with a briefcase containing Sunako. Did he become one of the\n> \"Daywalker\" Shiki, or did he just remain a human?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T14:10:40.950", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2246", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T19:52:25.793", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-31T14:13:03.823", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "shiki" ], "title": "What happened to Muroi in Shiki?", "view_count": 983 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAt the end of the series,\n\n> he's bitten by Sunako, then becomes the [only surviving day-\n> walker](http://shiki.wikia.com/wiki/Jinrou), and then is seen smuggling\n> Sunako away. Presumably, he'll accompany Sunako either in hiding or to find\n> another village to turn into a Shiki village.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T19:52:25.793", "id": "2329", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T19:52:25.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2246", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2265", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIt's \"common knowledge\" that each Pretty Cure series takes place in its own\ncontinuity. From my limited experience with the franchise I've already seen\ntwo contradictions with that idea.\n\n 1. Kenta Hoshino, a supporting character in Splash Star, made an appearance in the previous series, Max Heart. He was even slightly younger in it.\n 2. In both Splash Star and Heartcatch, Cures have been shown to be a long-standing order of warriors.\n\nWhat's the official stance on continuity? Is this \"common knowledge\" based on\nofficial statements?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T17:06:35.277", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2247", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-31T23:12:38.347", "last_edit_date": "2013-01-31T17:14:24.550", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "pretty-cure" ], "title": "Continuity between Pretty Cure series", "view_count": 291 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Wikipedia:\n\n> There are currently ten anime television series in the franchise, two of\n> which are direct sequels to their previous series. Each series of Pretty\n> Cure has its own story and motifs. Each of the series also feature manga\n> adaptations, which are illustrated by Futago Kamikita and published in\n> Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine.\n\nAccording to prettycure.wikia.com:\n\n> [Splash Star] is the first spinoff or \"sequel\" from the original Futari wa\n> Pretty Cure, with a continuity reboot.\n\nIt seems that the direct sequels follow continuity but that there is only\noverlap between the non-direct-sequels, rather than complete continuity.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T23:12:38.347", "id": "2265", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-31T23:12:38.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2252", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe instruments in K-On have labels with real music companies. For instance,\nhere's Ritsu's yellow drum set (I'm not quite sure where this picture is from,\nor even if it's just fanart, but the drums are clearly the same as those in\nthe anime):\n\n\n\nThat's a very clear Yamaha logo. Either Yamaha sponsored it, in which case\nthey'd want a real product to be used, or the artist chose to use that\nparticular model, but either way it's very likely a real-world instrument.\n\nWhat models are their instruments? As a note, I think a couple of them might\nhave multiple instruments, since I've seen Ritsu with a different drum set\nalso.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T17:12:26.280", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2248", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-24T18:41:13.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "k-on" ], "title": "What instruments do the members of Houkago Tea Time use?", "view_count": 4773 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-on), which cites specific\nepisodes as references:\n\nYui: Heritage Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard electric guitar\n\nMio: Left-handed, 3-Color Sunburst Fender Jazz Bass with a tortoiseshell\npickguard with D'Addario EXL160M medium bass strings; in the first volume of\nthe manga, Fender Precision Bass\n\nMugi: Korg Triton Extreme 76-key keyboard; in the first season's ending\nanimation, Korg RK-100 keytar; in the second season's ending animation,\nHammond organ\n\nRitsu: Yellow Rick Marotta Signature Yamaha Hipgig drum kit with a cymbal set\nfrom Avedis Zildjian; in the ending animation, white Yamaha Absolute Series\ndrumkit\n\nAzusa: Fender Mustang electric guitar\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T18:05:15.770", "id": "2252", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-31T18:05:15.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "2248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "13468", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe episodes of _Aria_ (all 3 seasons + specials) were not broadcasted in the\nsame order as in the manga (both _Aqua_ and _Aria_ , which were\nchronologically-ordered). Instead they were broadcasted in an order to make\neach season have certain overarching themes. This makes it difficult to\ncompare the individual stories from the anime and manga, and also to determine\nwhich episodes are anime-original.\n\nWhich anime stories correspond to which manga chapters; which are anime-\noriginal; and which chapters of the manga were not adapted in the anime?\nIdeally I'd like the answer to be formatted in such a way so that I could\nwatch the anime in the original manga order.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T17:20:15.423", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2249", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T00:23:50.727", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-25T00:23:50.727", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "aria" ], "title": "Which anime episodes of Aria correspond to which manga chapters?", "view_count": 2039 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a very difficult question to answer, but I love this series, so I'll\ntake a stab at it. I made [this chart showing which manga chapters correspond\nto which anime episodes](http://tsleyson.github.io/aria_table.html). It's\nordered by manga chapter. At the bottom I included tables of manga-only\nchapters and anime-only episodes. Please let me know if you find any mistakes\nor oversights.\n\nUnfortunately, establishing a correspondence between the Aria manga and anime\nseries is very messy. For some reason, the chapters that introduced important\ncharacters were almost never adapted, and were replaced with anime-original\nepisodes. But these episodes would often include material from the manga\nchapters that introduced these characters. The most egregious example is Aria:\nThe Animation Episode 3, _With That Transparent Young Girl …_, which includes\nmaterial from four different manga chapters and introduces two major\ncharacters, Alice and Akatsuki. In other cases, introductions very much like\nthe manga stories were implied to have happened sometime before the series\nbegan (Woody and Al were both introduced like this.) Because of this, if you\nwatch the anime series in manga-order and exclude the anime-original episodes\nentirely, you'll miss important pieces of the story.\n\nThe anime writers frequently mixed and matched scenes and bits of dialogue,\nadded pieces of manga chapters into otherwise anime-only episodes, added\nsubstantial material to adaptations of manga chapters, merged multiple manga\nchapters, and partially merged parts of manga chapters. My chart probably\nmisses at least a few major mergers (and please let me know if you find one).\nMany of the \"wonder of the week\" chapters were excluded from Aria: The\nAnimation due to its short run, but later adapted in Aria: The Natural, which\naccounts for most of the jumbled continuity.\n\ntl;dr: It's incredibly hard, maybe impossible, to watch the anime in the same\norder as the manga without missing parts of the story. But if you're okay with\nthat, the chart gives you the information you need.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T21:27:23.017", "id": "13468", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-16T21:27:23.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "2249", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2263", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nMost of Nanoha's attacks consist of emitting some beam or ball of energy\nthrough her body or Raising Heart and firing it at the enemy. For instance,\nhere's Divine Buster:\n\n\n\nPresumably she just uses her own magical energy for this. But Starlight\nBreaker is an exception to that. The energy seems to gather up and fire at the\nenergy from thin air. Different versions depict it differently, but it always\nseems like the energy isn't coming from Nanoha directly (except the little bit\nthat she uses to initiate the attack). Here's the movie version, it's\nespecially apparent in the upper left corner:\n\n\n\nIs this just a visual quirk of the attack, or does it actually work\ndifferently from her other ones? And if so, where is all that energy coming\nfrom?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T17:32:39.600", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2250", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-01T10:06:08.863", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:11:58.403", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "nanoha" ], "title": "How does Starlight Breaker work?", "view_count": 1284 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe starlight breaker actually gathers energy from the surrounding area -\neither left behind by Nanoha herself, or by other mages/combatants.\n\nSo it basically works like this:\n\n 1. **Gather energy from the surrounding environment into a ball.**\n\n\n\n 2. **Nanoha hits the ball, which fires it.**\n\n\n\nTypically in a battle, all the mages will leave behind excess energy as a\nresult of using their spells. So the starlight breaker is most powerful near\nthe end of a long battle when a lot of energy has accumulated.\n\n* * *\n\nThat said, Nanoha is not the only one who can use the Starlight Breaker.\nReinforce does it near the end of Nanoha A's - mainly because she gains the\nabilities of those who's linker cores she has captured.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T22:54:35.297", "id": "2263", "last_activity_date": "2013-01-31T22:54:35.297", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "2250", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe series Sora no Woto was based in a post-apocalyptic world that\nsignificantly reduced the technological capability of mankind. (Takemikazuchi\nspider tanks -> mundane tanks)\n\nThen entire show focuses on events after the apocalypse, with only a glimpse\nof flash-backs to earlier events during the apocalypse. But for the most part,\nthe apocalypse itself is largely shrouded.\n\n\n\nAre there any details about:\n\n 1. What the apocalypse was?\n 2. How did it happen?\n 3. What did the pre-apocalyptic world look like?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T20:43:15.270", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2257", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T13:34:19.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "sora-no-woto" ], "title": "What was the apocalypse that preceeded Sora no Woto?", "view_count": 2169 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understood after watching this series:\n\nThe world has been mostly destroyed by a war. We don't really know if it is a\nwar between humans or between humans and aliens.\n\nThe world of sora no woto seems to be destroyed between 2000-2010, because of\nseveral allusions to this era during the anime.\n\nWe don't know much because I suspect this series was supposed to be part of a\nbigger multiverse.\n\nOne hypothesis is that this series has a tie-in with occult gakuin as they\nwere two series from the same anime no chikara TV block. Basically, the story\nof occult gakuin is about someone from the future that comes back in the past\nto avoid the apocalypse that happened in his time period.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-29T00:36:35.537", "id": "5631", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-28T04:14:32.823", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-28T04:14:32.823", "last_editor_user_id": "2077", "owner_user_id": "2630", "parent_id": "2257", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm still learning english, but this is what I understood.\n\n 1. The apocalypse is related to the legend that Yumina describes in chapter 12. It could have been the great war against one angel (it appears on chapter 7 partially, you could see black wings in the windows- this happens when Felicia remember her past). \n\n 2. The enemy was extremely strong, even a takemikazuchi was not enough to fight against the \"angel\". I am not sure if it´s an alien or maybe advanced technology from that time. The \"angel\" uses a laser to destroy a city.\n\n 3. The world look likes today, some buildings without great technology, the only remarkable thing was takemikazuchi. Chapter 7 has more details.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-28T22:07:14.723", "id": "14214", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T13:34:19.753", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-15T13:34:19.753", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "8515", "parent_id": "2257", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2264", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nEdward's automail breaks many times during animation, but every time even if\nAlphonse didn't take any damage they go after Winrey to fix Edward's automail.\nNow I'm wondering if Alphonse can easily repair a radio or any other\nmechanical device, why can't he fix Edward's automail? Also, why does neither\nEdward nor Alphonse try enhancing automail using alchemy?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T22:40:04.860", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2260", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T13:29:20.757", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-15T13:29:20.757", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "19", "post_type": "question", "score": 21, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series" ], "title": "Why can't Alphonse repair Edward's automail using alchemy?", "view_count": 4670 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe first step of alchemy is _understanding_. That means, understanding the\nraw materials you are going to use, and how to break them down. It also means\nto understand the resulting item. You can't make something you don't know\nanything about.\n\nA radio is a very simple device. It contains little to none electronics, and\nis rather easy to _understand_.\n\nAn automail on the other hand, is a very complicated piece of engineering. It\ncontains engines, circuit boards etc. Which make it hard for a \"simple\"\nalchemist to construct.\n\nIf Winry for example were to be an alchemist, she would probably be able to\nfix automail using alchemy, but even that would only be emergency fixes, and\nnot a full repair.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T22:57:38.077", "id": "2264", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-24T12:02:07.003", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-24T12:02:07.003", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "2260", "post_type": "answer", "score": 33 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Vampire Knight, the familial relationship between Yuuki and Kaname is\nrelatively confusing. Can someone explain it?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T23:14:31.777", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2266", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-26T04:45:13.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "vampire-knight" ], "title": "What is Yuuki's relation to Kaname?", "view_count": 13185 }

[ { "body": "\n\nKaname is the founder of the Kuran family, and he was reawakened by Rido\nKuran. After being reawakened, he was raised as the son of Haruka and Juri,\nwho are Yuuki's parents. To summarize, Kaname is Yuuki's ancestor, though he\nwas raised (after being reawakened) as her brother.\n\nYuuki was also born to be Kaname's wife, following the Kuran tradition of\npureblood siblings intermarrying.\n\nCited from the Wikipedia article, which cites manga chapters.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T22:23:06.680", "id": "2352", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T22:23:06.680", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "2266", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3117", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Nanoha StrikerS (season 3), several of the high-end mages had\n[limiters](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Limiter) imposed on them to limit\ntheir power output thereby reducing their mage rank levels:\n\n * [Nanoha Takamachi](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Nanoha_Takamachi) \\- S+ reduced to AA.\n * [Fate Testarossa](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Fate_Testarossa) \\- S+ reduced to AA.\n * [Hayate Yagami](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Hayate_Yagami) \\- SS reduced to A.\n * [Lutecia Alphine](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Lutecia_Alpine) \\- S reduced to D?\n\nThe purpose of the limiters was to limit the damage that could be caused to a\nsmall area and possibly to protect the mages themselves from overexerting.\n\nFurthermore, limiters can only be removed by a high-ranked official.\n\nWith the exception of Lutecia (who was a captured antagonist), why were the\nmages not trusted to remove their own limiters if their purpose was to prevent\n**accidental** collateral damage?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-01-31T23:16:36.787", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2267", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T18:51:34.690", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-30T18:51:34.690", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "nanoha" ], "title": "Why aren't mages trusted to remove their own limiters?", "view_count": 469 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis limiter is in place because high-end mages' powers become _so_ powerful\nthat they can present a danger simply by being unrestrained.\n\nWhen a group of mages are in close proximity, or are working together, they\n_must_ be limited. Because of their high amount of power, this much energy\n(mana) in one area would endanger the fabric of time-space (the series's\nequivalent of _space–time_ ).[[ _Nanoha_\nWiki]](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Limiter) So consider, if mages were to be\nallowed to remove these limiters without consent of the\n[TSAB](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/TSAB), they may do it unscrupulously,\nwhich could lead to unpredictable damage.\n\nThis is compared to a parallel in real life, where incredibly powerful weapons\nare sealed away for emergency; not every soldier on the battlefield has a\nrocket launcher because that would just lead to destruction (and high costs!).\n\n> This is similar to how a normal organization is restricted from carrying\n> excessive weaponry during normal missions, only using such equipment in\n> times of emergency.[[DVD Booklet\n> translation]](http://asnano.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/nanoha-strikers-\n> dvd-3-booklet/)\n\nTV Tropes calls this [Awesomeness Is\nVolatile](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AwesomenessIsVolatile),\nstating that \" _they'd run the risk of having their sheer combined power\npotentially warping the fabric of reality_ \" and \" _[Hayate, Nanoha, and Fate]\nalone pretty much constitute an army_ \".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T18:50:44.967", "id": "3117", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T18:50:44.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2267", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2741", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the beginning of the 3rd season of Gintama,\n\n> Gintoki was suspiciously missing and was replaced by a blonde haired version\n> of himself named _Kintoki_.\n\nLater in the series it was explained why Kintoki was created and what had\ntranspired after that which arrived to the point of the beginning of the 3rd\nseason, but what happened to Kintoki after that? Does he just disappear or is\nthere more information in the Gintama manga?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T00:37:12.807", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2268", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-07T22:50:42.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "gintama" ], "title": "What happened to Kintoki Sakata?", "view_count": 1307 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Anime Gintama has a lot of side stories. Kintoki Skata is one of those\ncharacters in those side stories. The reason why the main focus was on him was\nbecause he looks like Gintoki and he also carries the same name except that\nhis name starts with K not G. There is no more information about him yet in\nthe manga. However, there is a possibility that he might return in the future\nreleases of the mange.\n\nIf you are interested in Kintoki, then you can read more about him in [this\nwiki](http://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Sakata_Kintoki)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-01T06:05:22.213", "id": "2741", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-01T06:05:22.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1388", "parent_id": "2268", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHe returns in the Silver Soul Arc to help activate with Tama and other robots\nthe \"Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Gengai Cannon\" to fire against the\nAltana Liberation army which was ocuppying the planet. Apparently he dies,\nthough Hiraga Gengai says he's going to rebuild him along with Tama.\n\n<https://gintama.fandom.com/wiki/Sakata_Kintoki>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-07T22:50:42.127", "id": "50016", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-07T22:50:42.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "2268", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2692", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAccording to \"John Titor\" in Episode 2, even if you go back in time and kill\nyour own grandfather, you would continue to exist, because the you that killed\nyour grandfather comes from a world line where your grandfather wasn't\nmurdered.\n\n> In the last episode, after they save Kurisu, Suzuha is returned to the\n> future, because in the Steins Gate timeline the time machine is never\n> created, so she can't come to the past. But doesn't this violate her\n> explanation of the Grandfather Paradox? Since according to her explanation,\n> she'd remain in the present, instead of returning to the future.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T01:07:31.037", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2269", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-05T01:24:56.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "steins-gate" ], "title": "Do the events in the last episode violate John Titor's explaination of the Grandfather Paradox?", "view_count": 3198 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is how John Titor sums up the Grandfather Paradox and its effects in the\n_Steins;Gate_ universe (from the episode 2 English dub):\n\n> **Someone else:** Aren't you worried that by being here you're creating some\n> kind of a paradox?\n>\n> **John Titor:** Ah, the so-called \"Grandfather Paradox\"? It doesn't exist.\n> It's possible to meet your past self. You'll simply change world lines if\n> you do.\n\nThe anime doesn't really touch on it; the details of the time machines that\nJohn Titor uses are not really revealed. They're touched upon by the mechanics\nof the show, but never detailed in dialog, which could lead us to assume that\nthis is a plot hole. As someone else put it, \" _The wrong explanation ...\nprobably makes more sense on the surface than what the truth is._\n\"[[1]](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=546501#msg19611329)\n\nHowever, the _Steins;Gate_ visual novel goes a bit more in-depth. Firstly,\nTitor explains that these events make perfect sense:\n\n> \"Cause and effect will be reconfigured. The me sitting here will disappear,\n> since I'd probably be living peacefully in 2036.\" – Suzuha\n\nAdditionally, Okarin determines a bit more about the mechanics of the time\ntravel:\n\n> By the way, about what will happen if I meet the \"me\" that already returned\n> once-- in other words, the me that stabbed Kurisu to death, I already asked\n> Suzuha beforehand. \n> \n> The conclusion is that \"we won't meet.\" \n> \n> The world line where I already killed Kurisu is minutely different from\n> where we're time traveling to. \n> \n> Meaning time travel slightly changes the world line divergence ratio. \n> \n> Though of course, that value is still within the error range of the\n> attractor field, so it can't make any concrete changes.\n\nIn my opinion, this explanation is a bit wishy-washy, but it's canon;\nessentially, he's saying:\n\n> Using the time machine creates a _slightly_ different world line, so there\n> will not be conflicts in repeated time travel attempts. (It \"overwrites\" the\n> previous attempt.) But then, the two world lines merge within the attractor\n> field again.\n\nIn essence, we can more-or-less explain the events (using one last spoiler\ntag) in the following way:\n\n> Suzuha disappeared because, even though she existed on a slightly separated\n> world line, when she traveled back to the future, the two lines would again\n> merge and her existence would be overwritten by the Steins Gate world line.\n\nI would conclude, then, that the events that took place in the last episode do\n_not_ violate the Grandfather Paradox. There is sufficient evidence to show\nthat the world line's future has been altered in such a way as to justify the\nevents.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T01:38:35.727", "id": "2692", "last_activity_date": "2013-04-05T01:24:56.123", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2271", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn _Katekyo Hitman Reborn_ , whenever Tsuna enters \"Dying Will Mode\", his\nclothes tear in half (though he seems to have no shortage of replacements),\nwith the exception of his underpants. This is briefly mentioned on the\n[_Reborn_ Wiki](http://reborn.wikia.com/wiki/Dying_Will_Mode):\n\n> The Dying Will Bullet also has the unusual side-effect of destroying all of\n> the person's clothing except their undergarments.\n\nHowever, I'm not far into the series and really have no idea why this happens\n(it bugs me every episode). His muscles don't really expand or anything, the\nclothes just seem to rip and fly off.\n\nCan anyone shed some light on this, or is this a case of \"[Rule of\nFunny](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny)\" as a running\ngag?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T04:05:18.470", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2270", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-30T22:54:55.293", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-30T22:54:55.293", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "274", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "reborn" ], "title": "Why does Tsuna lose his clothes when infused with the Dying Will?", "view_count": 3782 }

[ { "body": "\n\nAnime often ignore real world's Physics laws. The losing of clothes on being\ninfused with the Dying Will is used to dramatize the effect it has on Tsuna.\nIt is to make you feel as if Tsuna's body \"grows\" when he receives the Dying\nWill, causing his clothes to rip apart.\n\nAlso, in a number of cases, receiving the Dying Will causes Tsuna to move from\na lying down position to an upright position. This motion may also cause the\nclothes to rip, since they cannot \"keep up\" with the Dying Will.\n\nAnother explanation is that receiving the Dying Will is so intense that it\ntears or burns things in his immediate vicinity (which happen to be his\nclothes). I think this is a case of [Rule of\nCool](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool) in addition to\nRule of Funny, and Fanservice could also be another reason.\n\nThe underwear remaining intact is for censorship reasons only. See [Magic\nPants](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicPants).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T06:46:21.513", "id": "2271", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-01T06:54:28.803", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-01T06:54:28.803", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2270", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that in the manga he does not only lose his cloths but die's then\nrevive's into a new body. To make the anime more child frendly they just made\nhim fall down and lose his cloths in the process to note the difference from\nbefore ( except for the flame on his head). Loseing his cloths also adds to\nmore funny scene's giving some comedian value.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T12:05:52.810", "id": "2467", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T12:05:52.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2270", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3958", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\n[Norio\nWakamoto](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=954) is a\nveteran Japanese voice actor with a long portfolio of characters that he's\nvoiced. His craft is such that he often times gets pigeon-holed into a certain\ncharacter archetype that fits a particular acting style of his.\n\nThis acting style is so prominent that you often have people try to imitate\nhis voice, [other voice actors/actresses that try to imitate him for\nfun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHn7G9Wgs0), and even competitions at\nconventions (like at Moe Culture Festival 2012) for imitating him. These\ncharacters are usually evil (but not necessarily an antagonist), funny, maybe\na little crazy. Characters like Onsokomaru (2x2 Shinobuden), Victoreem (Gash\nBell), Garuda (Magical Quiz Academy), Katakuriko Matsudaira (Gintama), Amagumo\n(Desert Punk), etc.\n\nAre there any characters (whether they fit this archetype or not) that were\ndesigned specifically for Wakamoto to play? I know there's [Commander\nWakamoto](http://myanimelist.net/character/14532/Commander_Wakamoto) from\nVirgin Fleet, which I didn't find really matching the archetype, but it's hard\nto imagine that the names were just coincidence. Was Commander Wakamoto\ndesigned to be played by Norio Wakamoto?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T06:55:40.963", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2272", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T01:57:23.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "voice-acting" ], "title": "Are there any characters designed specifically for Norio Wakamoto?", "view_count": 702 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNorio Wakamoto is not the only (though he is one of the most famous) seiyuu\nwho has been **pigeonholed** on a certain type of anime character personality\n(though he is also capable of portraying other roles), to be specific, a\nvillain character, but actually, there are a lot. You can see those people in\nthis\n[list](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PigeonHoledVoiceActor/JapaneseSeiyuu).\n\nAbout your question (which kind of confuse me so), I'm going to answer it bit\nby bit.\n\n_Are there any characters designed specifically for Norio Wakamoto?_\n\n_Are there any characters (whether they fit this archetype or not) that were\ndesigned specifically for Wakamoto to play?_\n\n**Yes, there are.**\n\nAccording to this\n[link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NorioWakamoto),\n\n> It's even gotten to the point where, instead of having him \"work his voice\n> to fit a character\", they work the character to fit his voice.\n\nso we may conclude that there are characters that was built to fit his voice,\nthough the link didn't specify which actual anime characters were designed for\nhim. But to answer your question, yes there are.\n\nAs for Commander Wakamoto, I can't really find a reliable source to support my\nthoughts (and I'm not familiar with the anime and the character) but I think,\nCommander Wakamoto wasn't designed for Norio Wakamoto. First of all, the\ncharacter wasn't on the list of the villain character Norio voiced on the link\nabove. If Commander Wakamoto was designed for him, then he should be at least\nlisted there and was highlighted to be specifically designed for him. Their\nnames are probably pure coincidence. And based on what you said, the character\nwasn't matching with the archetype Norio Wakamoto was pigeonholed with. I\ndon't think I'm convincing enough but what's the point of working the\ncharacter to fit his voice if it's not the archetype he's pigeonholed with?\n\nWell the bottom line is, there are characters that were worked to fit his\ngrandiose villain voice.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-29T23:36:31.373", "id": "3958", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-30T01:57:23.703", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-30T01:57:23.703", "last_editor_user_id": "88", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "2272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2277", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI keep hearing the terms **Type A viewers** and **Type B viewers** in\ndiscussions and chat.\n\nWhat do they mean? What is a Type A viewer and what is a Type B?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T13:21:51.163", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2276", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-08T06:04:52.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 49, "tags": [ "terminology" ], "title": "What are Type A and Type B viewers?", "view_count": 10012 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThese terms are used a bit inconsistently, but what I'm answering here should\nbe fairly uniform across a lot of the English-speaking community. I can't tell\nwhere the terms originated, but it might be an analogy to blood types, which\n[are important in Japanese\nculture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture). It\ncould also be a reference to [Type A and B personality\ntheory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_and_Type_B_personality_theory).\n\n**Type A**\n\nType A fans are mostly interested in story. They choose anime because they\nthink the story is interesting and the environment is immersive. The\ncharacters exist to drive the story, but their own characteristics are less\nimportant than the story. Many don't like the trend towards moe anime over the\npast decade (see [What does 'moe'\nmean?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/894/what-does-moe-mean)).\nThey tend to be fans of genres like action, mystery, and drama. They often\nwatch longer or older shows.\n\nShows that might appeal to Type A fans include Monster, Serial Experiments\nLain, Eden of the East, and Fullmetal Alchemist.\n\n**Type B**\n\nType B fans are mostly interested in the characters. They view the story as a\nway to explore the lives of the characters, rather than interesting in-and-of\nitself, and it can become a distraction if it is too complicated. Moe anime\nare primarily targeted at this group of viewers. They tend to be fans of\ngenres like comedy and slice-of-life, and tend to watch shorter and more\nrecent shows.\n\nShows that might appeal to Type B fans include K-On, Highschool of the Dead,\nStrike Witches, and A Certain Magical Index.\n\n* * *\n\nThere are some major omissions from this categorization, and it's hard to say\nthat anyone is actually one or the other type. Even most people who self-\nidentify as one or the other type will still watch and enjoy a good show that\ndoesn't match their type.\n\nIt's also worth noting that some people like to add the criterion of\nfanservice, and say that Type B fans like shows with more fanservice. I am not\ndoing so here because this is often disputed by type B fans themselves.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T14:00:59.323", "id": "2277", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T04:38:33.043", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2276", "post_type": "answer", "score": 42 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThis concept is used in _Windaria_ and an early episode of _Pokémon_ (Episode\n20: \"The Ghost of Maiden's Peak\").\n\nDid it come from a Japanese legend I'm not familiar with, did it come from the\n_Windaria_ novel, or is it just a Kunihiko Yuyama thing?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T21:07:12.540", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2281", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-19T07:18:49.250", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-01T22:10:21.757", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "1408", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "tropes", "pokemon", "windaria" ], "title": "Is turning into stone as a result of waiting for someone for a long time derived from Japanese legend?", "view_count": 876 }

[ { "body": "\n\nStone legends can be found in various cultures, not just Japan. For example,\nAustralia has [The Three\nSisters](http://www.bluemts.com.au/tourist/thingstodo/threesisters/), Puerto\nRico has [The Stone Dog](http://www.puertoricodaytrips.com/unusual-osj-\nsights/) and you can even find this trope in\n[Inca](http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-\nLegends/TheShepherdandtheDaughteroftheSun-Inca.html) culture. Someone's love\nremaining eternal through petrifaction is just a common (and effective)\nstorytelling trope.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T04:03:27.003", "id": "2446", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T04:03:27.003", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1354", "parent_id": "2281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nStone legends are indeed pretty common just as TurkeyFried stated. Most of\nthese are based on _loyalty_ towards a person (most common in anime is waiting\nfor a loved one).\n\nIt is said that the petrifaction version originates from Vietnam\n\n> Hòn Vọng Phu (Statue of Husband Waiting)\n\nBut nowadays in TV shows and such they give their own meaning to it and\nreasoning.\n\nYou can [check this\nout](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IWillWaitForYou) for some\nmore examples of this phenomena.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-14T19:53:19.587", "id": "2489", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-19T07:18:49.250", "last_edit_date": "2020-08-19T07:18:49.250", "last_editor_user_id": "50617", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nOn\n[AnimeNewsNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=4068),\nMamoru Hosada is credited for around thirty productions under various roles:\n\n * _Alice SOS_ (TV)\n * _Ashita no Nadja_ (TV)\n * _Coo: Tooi Umi Kara Kita Coo_ (movie)\n * _Crying Freeman_ (OAV)\n * _Digimon Adventure_ (TV)\n * _Digimon Adventure: Bokura no War Game_ (movie)\n * _Digimon Adventure: Born of Koromon_ (movie)\n * _Digimon: The Movie_ (U.S.)\n * _Dragon Ball Movie 4: The Path to Power_\n * _Dragon Ball Z_ (TV)\n * _Dragon Ball Z Movie 10: Broly - Second Coming_\n * _Dragon Ball Z Movie 8: The Legendary Super Saiyan_\n * _Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy_ (movie)\n * _(The) Girl Who Leapt Through Time_ (movie)\n * _Occult Academy_ (TV)\n * _Ojamajo Doremi DOKKAAN!_ (TV)\n * _Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki_ (manga)\n * _One Piece_ (TV)\n * _One Piece: Omatsuri Danshaku to Himitsu no Shima_ (movie 6)\n * _Sailor Moon Sailor Stars_ (TV)\n * _Sailor Moon SuperS Movie: Black Dream Hole_\n * _Samurai Champloo_ (TV)\n * _Slam Dunk_ (TV)\n * _Slam Dunk: Hoero Basketman Tamashii! Hanamichi to Rukawa no Atsuki Natsu_ (movie)\n * _Slam Dunk: Shōhoku Saidai no Kiki! Moero Sakuragi Hanamichi_ (movie)\n * _Slam Dunk: Zenkoku Seiha da! Sakuragi Hanamichi_ (movie)\n * _Spiral_ (TV)\n * _Summer Wars_ (manga, movie)\n * _Superflat Monogram_ (movie)\n * _Voogie's Angel_ (OAV)\n * _Wolf Children_ (movie)\n * _Yu Yu Hakusho The Movie: Poltergeist Report_\n\nHowever, I know he directed a few episodes of _Gegege no Kitaro_ in the mid\n'90s and the CG short _Digimon Adventure 3D: Digimon Grandprix_. Which\n_Kitaro_ episodes did he direct, and is there anything else he directed that\nANN hasn't credited him for?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T21:30:59.327", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2282", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-31T23:23:13.143", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-31T23:23:13.143", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1408", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "anime-production", "mamoru-hosoda" ], "title": "What has Mamoru Hosoda directed at Toei that he isn't credited for?", "view_count": 257 }

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{ "accepted_answer_id": "2324", "answer_count": 6, "body": "\n\nIn Black Lagoon, Hänsel and Gretel are deranged children suffering from\nDissociative Identity Disorder.\n\n\n\nEach of them have distinct personalities, but from time to time, they switch\nplaces with each other - clothing, weapons, voice, personality, and\neverything.\n\nIn episode 15, both of them are killed. Hänsel (the boy) dies in front of\nBalalaika after being shot by a sniper. Gretel (the girl) dies at the end of\nthe episode when a hitman headshots her from behind.\n\nBut do we know if they were themselves when they were killed? Did Hänsel\nreally die first? \nOr were they switched? Are there any clues anywhere?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-01T21:54:05.887", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2283", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:50.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 20, "tags": [ "black-lagoon" ], "title": "Who died first? Hänsel or Gretel?", "view_count": 15951 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile Gretel is on the boat talking to Rock, she says that it's OK that Hansel\nis dead because they are always together. She takes off her wig and her voice\nchanges into the lower Hansel voice, then puts the wig back on and is back to\nGretel's voice. So they are indistinguishable from their appearance and\nvoices.\n\nThe only hint we get is right before Rock leaves the cabin Gretel is in:\n\n\n\nGretel takes off her underwear and lifts up her skirt giving Rock a \"view\" as\na \"gift\". Rock is shocked and leaves the room disgusted.\n\nSo is it:\n\n 1. She is really \"Hansel\" and Rock is shocked because Gretel is actually a boy. _Gretel died first_\n 2. She is really \"Gretel\" and Rock is shocked because he's being flashed by a little girl. _Hansel died first_\n 3. Rock isn't shocked by whether she's a boy or girl but that she/he thinks flashing him is supposed to be a \"gift\". _Inconclusive_\n\nOther _inconclusive_ possibilities could be that her genitalia was mutilated\nfrom all the snuff films, or even she is a hermaphrodite. But it's most likely\nthat we never know who was killed first. They are always\ninterchanging/swapping, it's likely neither of them knows whether they are\nHansel or Gretel anymore, so that facet of their character would be undermined\nif we were to know who was who.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T10:39:40.447", "id": "2324", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T10:39:40.447", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Hansel died first because it's possible that Hansel might have just\nbeen a girl the whole time.\n\nIt's possible that Hansel and Gretel suffer from gender confusion or multi-\npersonality disorder, especially after Gretel suddenly took her/his wig off\nand started to sound like Hansel, and also when Gretel showed of her/his\nGenitals.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-09T19:15:47.163", "id": "11182", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:42.460", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:42.460", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "6183", "parent_id": "2283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGretel may have died second. After Rock leaves the room and stands on top the\nboat, he says\n\n> They turned HER into a monster!\n\nIt didn't seem to sound that he wasn't really as disgusted as when he was\nshown Gretel's genitals. Rock's reaction could've been worse if the Gretel in\nthe boat was male, so in my opinion Hansel died first and Gretel died second.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-30T01:24:05.407", "id": "11548", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-20T14:52:36.857", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-20T14:52:36.857", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "6422", "parent_id": "2283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe Gretel died second.\n\nSince yes, Rock did refer to her as a \"she\" when she revealed her gift. And\npeople have theories it's a dismembered.. gift in attempts to be female as\nwell. Or because of her past- being raped and filmed, she thought that\noffering herself will make him feel better.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-02T05:30:17.257", "id": "13204", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:40.603", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:40.603", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "7835", "parent_id": "2283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHansel died first because in episode 14, they took the Russian man from the\nbar to the car. \"Hansel\" (in reality it was Gretel who carried him) carried\nhim and said\n\n> He is too heavy; help me\n\nHe (she) said it because \"he\" is a girl and the man was to heavy for her.\n\nThe real Hansel said to the real Gretel:\n\n> NOW you are the boy; you have to carry him\n\nAfter that, they change again and the last one in the hotel.\n\nIn the end, the real Hansel died as Hansel (himself) and the real Gretel died\nas Gretel.\n\nRock was shocked because Gretel thought it's a gift to give him a view (or\nbecause Gretel has some injuries there (because the people who make the videos\nhurt the kids or something like that)).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-20T10:41:22.540", "id": "14071", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:38.443", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:38.443", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "8412", "parent_id": "2283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nGretel died second, Hansel died first.\n\nIf you watch episode 15 \"Swan Song at Dawn\", after Gretel exposed herself to\nhim, he continued to refer to the child as a female, stating,\n\n> DAMNIT! DAMNIT! WHY? Why did this have to happen? Everyone in 'her' life\n> betrayed her. They turned her into a monster, they turned her into a fuck'n\n> monster. Goddamnit...\n\nBenny steps in and says,\n\n> Rock, sometimes its best to look the other way, you have to do that to\n> survive here.\n\nRock grips Benny and pins him against the ship and says,\n\n> I'll\n\nthen Benny says,\n\n> You'll what?! Adopt her? Forget it; you can't just undo what's been done to\n> her. If only someone had shown them a little kindness they might have gone\n> to school made friends and lived happily ever after. Who knows right? But\n> that didn't happen, now did it? I'm sorry; but stories like this don't have\n> happy endings, Rock.\n\nAfter this dialog, I would think that if the child had been the male sibling,\nRock would've referred to them as such.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-27T09:51:20.503", "id": "28406", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:50.643", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-11T15:46:50.643", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "20001", "parent_id": "2283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3915", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAt the end of the original series ( _Psalm of the Planets Eureka Seven_ ),\n\n> Nirvash left with some Scub Coral to prevent the [Limit of\n> Questions](http://eurekaseven.wikia.com/wiki/Limit_of_Questions), so there\n> shouldn't even be a Nirvash.\n\nIn the sequel, _Eureka Seven Astral Ocean_ , both Renton and Eureka have one.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T02:33:07.383", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2300", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-26T08:02:49.140", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "eureka-seven" ], "title": "How can there be a one Nirvash, not to mention two?", "view_count": 240 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's mentioned in _Eureka Seven AO_ that this Nirvash (RA272, Mark I) was\noriginally created by Renton (as a homage to the original Nirvash from _Eureka\nSeven,_ \"typeZERO.\") for Eureka in the far future, and was named \"Nirvash\nNeo.\"\n\nThis new Nirvash does not initially have an\n[Archetype](http://eurekaseven.wikia.com/wiki/Archetype).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-05-26T08:02:49.140", "id": "3915", "last_activity_date": "2013-05-26T08:02:49.140", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2300", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2326", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nMerihim (whom Shana calls \"Shiro\") played a major role in training Shana prior\nto her contracting with Alastor and becoming a Flame Haze.\n\n\n\nAfter making the contract, he challenges Shana to one final duel in which she\nwins. Shortly after, Tendōkyū (the floating landmass where Shana grew up and\nwas trained) crumbles.\n\nWhat is the fate of Merihim? Did Shana actually kill him? Did he die when\nTendōkyū crumbles? \nI wasn't able to figure this out after re-watching the episode (ep16) a few\ntimes.\n\nMAL only lists him as \"disappeared\". But are there any sources that actually\nconfirm his death?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T10:18:10.130", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2322", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T17:58:40.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "shakugan-no-shana" ], "title": "What happens to Merihim/Shiro after Shana becomes Flame Haze?", "view_count": 991 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is explained in more detail the prequel, [Shakugan no Shana X:\nEternal_Song](http://shakugan.wikia.com/wiki/Shakugan_no_Shana_X%3a_Eternal_Song).\n\nBefore their final battle with one another, Merihim and Mathilde gambled that\nwinner may request of the loser, which Merihim enthusiastically favored (since\nhe was in love with her).\n\nIn the end, Merihim defeated by Mathilde's hand.\n\nBefore using Tenpa Jousai (which will ultimately result in her death),\nMathilde made him promise three things:\n\n * He shall not consume humans again \n * He shall not wreak havoc on Earth again \n * He shall train the next successor of \"Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Hunter\" title after her death.\n\nBecause he could no longer replenish his Power of Existence by consuming\nhumans, he took the form of Shiro to conserve it. During the final battle at\nthe Tendoukyuu, Merihim used up almost all of his existence to regain his\nappearance as the Rainbow Swordman and defeat Orgon in one stroke.\n\nHe used the last of his existence to give one final test to Shana, to see if\nshe could properly become the wielder of the title \"Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed\nHunter,\" thus fulfilling his promise to Mathilde.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T17:58:40.703", "id": "2326", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T17:58:40.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2322", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2325", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the final episode of season 1 (episode 24), Shana is forced to use her\n(supposedly suicidal) Tenpa Josai to absorb all the Power of Existence that\nhad been released in the battle.\n\nTenpa Josai normally kills the Flame Haze, but for reasons explained in the\nsubsequent dialog with Alastor, Shana survives.\n\n**But she's naked. Why?**\n\nIs there an actual plot reason to it? Or is it just another case of forced\nfan-service?\n\n\n\nFurthermore... where did that towel come from?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T10:38:30.287", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2323", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T05:32:53.680", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-07T05:32:53.680", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "shakugan-no-shana" ], "title": "Why was Shana naked after using Tenpa Josai?", "view_count": 2314 }

[ { "body": "\n\nOne of Alastor's titles is the \"Flame of Heaven.\" In the Shakugan no Shana\nmovie, we see his true, summoned form as a massive creature completely covered\nin flames, with the form of a minotaur with large webbed-like wings.\n\n\n\nSince Tenpa Jousai uses the body of the Flame Haze as a vessel to contain the\nexistence of the Crimson God naturally anything surrounding the container\nwould be consumed by the intenses flames. Yuji was holding Shana's hand when\nshe activated the summoning and came out slightly charred, but survived with\nthe help of the [Azure](http://shakugan.wikia.com/wiki/Azure) sustained by the\nhis own Power of Existence.\n\nAs for the towel/blanket, it could be something extracted from\n[Yogasa](http://shakugan.wikia.com/wiki/Yogasa), the black cloak/cape that\nShana uses to store things, which is said to be an extension of Alastor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T17:16:39.713", "id": "2325", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T17:16:39.713", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2323", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2418", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Kami-nomi, Kanon (the idol girl) becomes \"transparent\" several times\nthroughout her Arc. (eps 5 - 7)\n\n\n\n * What is the significance of this?\n * What does it mean?\n * Does it symbolize something?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T18:56:57.467", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2327", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-09T20:10:54.483", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "symbolism", "the-world-god-only-knows" ], "title": "What's the significance of Kanon becoming \"invisible\"?", "view_count": 1575 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBefore Kanon became an idol, she was \"socially invisible\" - after the Citron\nbroke up, she feared to be alone in front of a large group of people. The\neffect of being \"transparent\" expresses her shyness.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T15:49:38.667", "id": "2349", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T15:49:38.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nlooper's answer is correct but not quite complete. This answer will be based\non the manga, mostly because I don't immediately have access to the anime, but\nalso because I'm not sure how much of this is explained in the anime. Kanon's\narc is flags (aka chapters) 7-10 in the manga.\n\nAs the other answer points out, Kanon's idol career made her fear failure,\nwhich in idol terms is not being seen by enough people to be successful. That\nis to say, she is afraid of social invisibility. Her fears manifested\nthemselves physically, making her actually invisible, or at least transparent.\nThat's why she disappears primarily when someone isn't paying attention to\nher, and reappears once someone acknowledges her. However, at the end of her\narc, she doesn't stop being transparent until her self-confidence returns,\nwhich is the only way she could successfully perform at a large concert\nwithout being afraid of failure.\n\n\n\nWhat that answer misses is how she becomes invisible, or at least transparent,\nsince clearly it isn't something a normal person can do. The answer to this is\nimplied in the arc:\n\n\n\nThis is an ability of especially powerful katetama (駆け魂, above translated as\n\"runaway spirit\"). It isn't really symbolism; rather, it's a very real\nillustration of in-universe mechanics that don't get a full explanation until\nmuch later. We get a better understanding of how this works in two future arcs\n(flags 81-89 and 90-101; feel free to point out if I missed any earlier arcs\nwhere something similar occurs):\n\n> These are Yui and Hinoki's arcs. In each of the arcs, the kaketama uses its\n> abilities to widen the gap in their hearts. Yui's arc isn't the best\n> parallel, but we do confirm that sufficiently powerful runaway spirits have\n> the ability to somewhat affect their host's physical condition, in this case\n> switching her body with Keima's. In Hinoki's arc, it's also confirmed that\n> the kaketama generally use this power to widen the gap in their host's\n> hearts (in Yui's arc this was a bit ambiguous). In her case, her problem was\n> that the world was too small, and the kaketama worsened this problem by\n> making her body larger, so that the world would seem even smaller to her.\n> That is very similar to Kanon's invisibility problem, except much more\n> powerful because Hinoki's kaketama was rather powerful.\n\nSo, a sufficiently powerful runaway spirit, whose host is saddled with some\nsort of issue, generally has some abilities related to that issue, which can\naffect things even beyond the host's mental state. These abilities are used to\nmake things worse, widening the gap in their heart. It's a sort of self-\npreservation mechanism for kaketama. Of course, we already knew from the\nbeginning that the kaketama could affect the host's mental state, but these\narcs confirm that they can also have physical effects that would otherwise be\nimpossible without some sort of magic. This is very likely what happened in\nKanon's case. It's the only thing that is hinted at in her arc, and no other\nin-universe mechanic as of flag 200 or so could really explain this in any\nother way as far as I can tell.\n\n* * *\n\nSome people might point out an issue with this theory based on the events of\nflag 114 (within the \"Goddess\" arc). However, later events (flag 142) can at\nleast somewhat explain this.\n\n> In flag 114 it's revealed that Kanon is actually the host of the goddess\n> Apollo, in the same way that Tenri hosts Diana. Based on Diana's initial\n> conversation with Katsuragi, while the other goddesses should also have\n> hosted kaketama, these were essentially a way of disguising themselves. So\n> one would expect that Kanon's kaketama was rather weak, not strong enough to\n> have effects like this. However, Yui is also hosting a goddess (Mars), and\n> her kaketama was undeniably strong, even stronger than Kanon's, so it seems\n> that Diana may have been at least somewhat wrong about that. Both Mars and\n> Apollo were dormant during each of their hosts' arcs, which might explain\n> why the kaketama were able to become more powerful.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-09T19:28:36.473", "id": "2418", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-09T20:10:54.483", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-09T20:10:54.483", "last_editor_user_id": "1430", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2341", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe terms \"shoujo\", \"shounen\", \"seinen\", and \"josei\" are used to classify\nanime/manga. I know that the general meanings are as follows:\n\n * Shoujou: for girls\n * Shounen: for boys\n * Seinen: for men\n * Josei: for women\n\nWhat are the more technical definitions of those terms?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T19:43:09.027", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2328", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-05T03:03:18.210", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-02T22:06:54.537", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "terminology" ], "title": "What are the differences between types of anime?", "view_count": 48267 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer isn't really more technical than that. It's just the target\ndemographic. The difference between a shonen manga and a seinen manga, for\nexample, is often just a matter of which magazine it's published in.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-02T23:22:34.323", "id": "2334", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-02T23:22:34.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1408", "parent_id": "2328", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThere isn't much to add to your concise classification, really.\n\n * Shōjo\n\nThe word itself ( **少女** ) is used to refer to a young woman, approximately\n8-17 years old. Right as you might think, Shōjo manga and anime have them as\ntarget audience. Shōjo isn't limited to any particular style or styles, it's\nonly defined by the target demographic.\n\n * Shōnen\n\nThis kanji ( **少年** ) is used to refer to boys from elementary school to grade\nschool age. Shōnen manga and anime are obviously designed for them as target\naudience.\n\n * Seinen\n\nSeinen manga and anime are designed for male audience too, but this subset of\nmanga and anime is made for people of older age, usually from 18 to 30, but\nthe real audience can be even older than this with some manga. Such manga and\namine usually emphasise the story and the character's personalities instead of\naction.\n\n * Josei \n\nJosei manga and anime are for women aged between ~15 and ~45. They tend to be\nabout everyday experiences of women living in Japan.\n\nThere are also sub-types of anime/manga, which tend to be more specific, for\nexample, mahō shōjo is a sub-type of shōjo that focuses on young girl heroes\nwith supernatural abilities (magic girls, right...).\n\n* * *\n\nSource: various wiki articles.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-03T08:09:26.643", "id": "2341", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-03T21:00:48.713", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-03T21:00:48.713", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2328", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2370", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe final episode of Star Driver is somewhat confusing to me. While it's clear\nwhat events took place, I don't understand why some of the characters did what\nthey did.\n\nSpecifically, why does Takuto decide to break Wako's seal to unleash the\ncybodies into the normal world?\n\n\n\nFor the entire series:\n\n * The Glittering Crux Brigade seeks to break the seal of all 4 maidens to achieve the 5th phase.\n * Takuto was pretty much fighting against them for the entire series to stop this process.\n\nSo why, in the final episode, does he \"change his mind\" and break Wako's seal?\n\n(Note that is it implied that Wako actually allows Takuto to break her seal.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-03T01:14:28.537", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2335", "last_activity_date": "2022-11-01T12:20:03.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "star-driver" ], "title": "Why does Takuto break Wako's seal at the end of Star Driver?", "view_count": 3361 }

[ { "body": "\n\n**It was because he wanted to save Sugata**\n\nSugata wanted to seal Samekh with him forever, meaning he wanted to sacrifice\nhimself. And Takuto wanted to save him, that's why he broke Wako's seal.\nTakuto's only chance of saving him was to break Wako's seal to unseal the Zero\nTime. Wako wanted to save Sugata as well that's why she allowed Takuto to\nbreak her seal, agreeing both without a single word (which was just amazing\nfor me!).\n\nI hope I answered your question clear. This is purely based on my\nunderstanding of the ending. :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-06T00:22:29.837", "id": "2370", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-06T00:22:29.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "2335", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2338", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nAt one point, Ed, Al, and Ling end up in a battle involving Gluttony. Then,\n\n> Ed, Ling, and Envy are swallowed by Gluttony, which lands them in another\n> dimension.\n\nIt is also stated more than once that alchemists use the energy from the\nmovement of the tectonic plates of the Earth's crust (though this is not\nentirely accurate, the inaccuracy is irrelevant for the purpose of this\nquestion). This energy would not be present on another planet, much less in\nanother dimension.\n\n> In order to escape from this alternate dimension, Ed performs human\n> transmutation. He uses Envy's philosopher's stone to do so, meaning that he\n> would not require this energy. However, prior to finding Envy, Ed uses\n> alchemy to fashion a cooking pot (evidenced by the transmutation marks on\n> the pot). He also uses it to turn the iron from the blood into a weapon.\n\nThis should not be possible; there should be no energy for the use of alchemy\nin that dimension. Is this an oversight by the writer(s), or is there some\nexplanation?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-03T02:57:26.733", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2336", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-18T10:55:48.083", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-18T10:55:48.083", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "274", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series", "fullmetal-alchemist-2003" ], "title": "How can alchemy be used in another dimension?", "view_count": 800 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is later revealed that\n\n> The energy source for Amestrian alchemy is human souls, just like how\n> philosopher's stones are made and used.\n\nGluttony was meant to host a philosopher's stone in his body formed from the\nred water and humans he consumed, so\n\n> I would say that there is vast alchemical fuel in his \"stomach\", or whatever\n> you call that alternate dimension that consumed objects are transported to.\n\nHence, alchemy should be possible in that dimension.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-03T04:04:57.863", "id": "2338", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-03T04:04:57.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "2336", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom an [FMA wiki article about Gluttony](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Gluttony):\n\n> ...Envy, Ling, and Ed burst out from Gluttony's stomach after Ed used Envy's\n> Philosopher's Stone to perform a reverse human transmutation on himself to\n> reopen Gluttony's gate.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-11T12:17:53.970", "id": "4745", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-11T12:17:53.970", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2175", "parent_id": "2336", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2342", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nDoes this pose of raising your sword with your right hand have any\nsignificance? For example, is this a famous pose used by a real life legendary\nswordsman? Both Zoro of One Piece and Erza of Fairy Tail have used this pose.\n\n \n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-03T06:25:44.250", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2339", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T18:46:52.637", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-04T18:46:52.637", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "99", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "one-piece", "symbolism", "fairy-tail" ], "title": "Does this swordsman pose have any significance?", "view_count": 1536 }

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think there is a hidden meaning behind this. In my opinion, it is just\na pose that shows determination. It could be also used a salute. For example,\na \"classical\" sword salute looks like this:\n\n\n\nThe Olympic Flame is also carried this way:\n\n\n\nSo I would say that this pose means just that, no special hidden meaning\ninvolved. And yeah, it also looks cool.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-03T07:51:05.303", "id": "2340", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-03T17:08:27.670", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-03T17:08:27.670", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2339", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think it is reference to anything specific since it's overly common\nwhenever swords are (and sometimes when they aren't) involved in media.\n\nIn general:\n\n * it looks cool \n * it's usually a show of triumph by combining display of:\n\n * dominance (as other poses that make body \"unwrap\") \n * combat impracticality (no one is doing this in the middle of it)\n\ntvtropes call it\n[StabTheSky](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StabTheSky).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-03T12:25:42.470", "id": "2342", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-03T12:25:42.470", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "307", "parent_id": "2339", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nTo add on to Rarst's answer, the pyramid-shaped stance naturally channels the\nviewer's gaze to the sword, especially to its tip. This places focus on the\n\"warrior spirit\", typical of a declaration of victory. The \"warrior spirit\" is\nraised to a high position by the stance, which further befits the idea of\n\"dominance\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T12:30:34.663", "id": "2347", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T12:30:34.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "97", "parent_id": "2339", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWithin the accelerated world, when someone gets damaged or injured (even\nseverely), they fully recover after leaving and re-entering the accelerated\nrealm. (If you are killed you also come back normally.)\n\nFor example:\n\n * Taku cuts off Haruyuki's arm. (ep 5)\n * Niko's left arm is ripped off when Yellow Radio's minions tear apart her fortress. (ep 11)\n\n\n\nBoth of these injuries (a loss of an entire limb) are serious injuries that\ncan't be recovered in battle.* However, when they leave and re-enter the\naccelerated world, they are fully recovered.\n\n*Barring Chiyuri's time-reversal ability.\n\n* * *\n\nBut there are at least two instances of when damage is not reversed upon re-\nentering the accelerated world:\n\n * Kuroyukihime amputates Fuuko's legs - hence the wheelchair. (described in ep 16)\n * Noumi steals Haruyuki's wings. (ep 15)\n\n\n\nSo what determines whether damage is healed?\n\nFurthermore, how does Chiyuri's time-reversal ability play into this?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T08:51:23.217", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2343", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-10T18:37:44.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "accel-world" ], "title": "When is damage \"permanent\" in Accel World?", "view_count": 1134 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems not to be some kind of \"rule\", but aspect of specific stronger\nabilities/avatars:\n\n * it was explicitly said that Black Lotus avatar inflicts permanent damage with her blades\n * \"steal\" ability wouldn't be much of a steal without permanent aspect to it\n\nI don't think it was explored (in anime at least) if there are ways to\npurposely achieve it (from leveling up would be logical) or as other aspects\nof avatars some people just happen to have it.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T09:52:49.587", "id": "2346", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T10:00:25.223", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-04T10:00:25.223", "last_editor_user_id": "307", "owner_user_id": "307", "parent_id": "2343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIt appears that Haruyuki's wings act almost like an item, similar to the Gale\nThruster, but untradeable. Noumi's special move allowed him to transfer this\nitem to himself. It is noted in the show that Fuuko's legs are now artificial\nin the real world, implying that Kuroyukihime physically amputated them in the\nreal world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-26T16:57:57.960", "id": "5324", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-26T16:57:57.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2452", "parent_id": "2343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nDusk Taker (Nuomi) ability Demonic Commander can't be considered a ability\nthat deals some kind of \"permanent damage\" but more like \"ability transfer\" or\n\"ability taker\", for that reason Demonic Commander doesn't deal any damage,\nand while my memory about the Anime is hazy, I'm pretty sure that the HP bar\nof Silver Crow (Haruyuki) didn't decreased and that left Haruyuki puzzled at\nfirst when Nuomi used such ability. It couldn't be classified as damage hence\nit's not healed, but restored with the Lime Bell (Chiyuri) ability Citron Call\nthat reverses the status of the avatar/object.\n\nAbout Sky Rakker (Fuuko) legs is not until latter in the history that this is\nexplained, so this is considered spoiler from the Light Novel (unless the\nanime decides not to follow the history, this is what happens):\n\n> Black Lotus (Kuroyukihime) didn't used a normal ability but the Incarnated\n> System to cut Sky Rakker legs. This produces a overwriting of Fuuko avatar\n> that whenever she appears in Territory Battles or the Unlimited Field, her\n> legs are not present. This becomes more evident when they try to use Citron\n> Call to restore Sky Rakker legs but it doesn't works since the overwriting\n> of the Incarnated System is stronger than any ability.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-10T18:22:36.123", "id": "5440", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-10T18:37:44.357", "last_edit_date": "2013-10-10T18:37:44.357", "last_editor_user_id": "2159", "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "2343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2353", "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nI got into a debate with a\n**[friend](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/85/hashirama-senju)** about\nwhether or not it's possible for an anime to come out before its manga.\n\nHe claimed that there were several instances where the anime actually preceded\nthe manga. Is this the case?\n\nP.S.: I know that there are several anime _without_ a manga. I also know that\nthere are manga created from games. That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking\nwhether or not there is a series where the **anime** came before the\n**manga**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T22:21:22.707", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2351", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-04T06:50:15.877", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1420", "post_type": "question", "score": 32, "tags": [ "anime-production", "manga-production" ], "title": "Has an anime ever come out before the manga was published?", "view_count": 14556 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there are exceptions to the \"rule\" that an anime must be inspired by a\nmanga. There are indeed some anime that do not have a manga corresponding, and\nother such things.\n\nBut **yes** , there are also anime series which inspired one or more manga.\n\nThe following list are some of the (arbitrarily selected as recognizable)\nnames from a more complete list featured on the [TVTropes article \"Anime\nFirst\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeFirst):\n\n * [_Code Geass_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Geass)\n * [_Cowboy Bebop_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Bebop)\n * [_Digimon Xros Wars_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon_Fusion#Xros_Wars_.282010-2011.29)\n * [_Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_%28film%29) (as the article says, a weird example; the manga was created _for the purpose of guiding the anime film_ )\n * [_Wolf's Rain_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%27s_Rain)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T22:35:24.760", "id": "2353", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T22:35:24.760", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 30 }, { "body": "\n\nYes it is possible. And it is actually quite common. A couple of recent\nexamples would be:\n\n * [Sora no Woto (Sound of the Sky)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6802/So_Ra_No_Wo_To)\n * [Puella Magi Madoka Magica](http://myanimelist.net/anime/9756/Mahou_Shoujo_Madoka%E2%98%85Magica)\n\nNote that in both examples here, there is some overlap between the release\ndates of the Anime and the Manga. But the key point is that the Anime was\nstarted first.\n\nOften times an Anime would be done as an original work. Then if the Anime\nturns out to be extremely popular, then the producers will go ahead and do a\nManga as well. (To milk the cash cow.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-04T22:35:31.953", "id": "2354", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-04T22:35:31.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "2351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nTwo more examples of series where the anime came before the manga that I am\nfamiliar with are _[Vandread](http://myanimelist.net/anime/180/Vandread)_ and\n_[Sakura Taisen](http://myanimelist.net/anime/561/Sakura_Taisen)_ (a.k.a.\n_Sakura Wars_ ); though to be fair, that latter series was a video game\nfranchise first, before being adapted to anime, and then adapted to manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T16:36:32.353", "id": "2409", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-08T16:36:32.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1437", "parent_id": "2351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt seems that I may be of little help to you, but there is a manga currently\nongoing and the anime is ahead of both the spin off and the ongoing series.\nThe manga/anime is called _Mushibugyo_ , and the second series is _Joujuu\nSenjin!! Mushibugyo_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-06-19T19:30:00.923", "id": "4169", "last_activity_date": "2013-06-20T01:02:55.560", "last_edit_date": "2013-06-20T01:02:55.560", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1920", "parent_id": "2351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is no particular rule that anime ought to be adaptions of existing\nmanga. Many anime are original, written by the director and screenwriters.\nSome of the most popular of these **receive manga adaptions after** the anime\nhas started airing. Some of these receive **both a shounen manga and a shoujo\nmanga** , which are illustrated by differing mangaka and either run in\ndifferent magazines concurrently or run at different times. Some examples of\nthese titles which have both a shounen adaption and a shoujo adaption are:\n\n * _Neon Genesis Evangelion_\n * _Code Geass_\n * _Shin Kidousenki Gundam W_\n * _Tenkuu no Escaflowne_\n * _Mahoutsukai Tai!_\n\nAnime that later get adapted into manga is **not uncommon in shoujo** , as\nshoujo manga magazines an not financially-viable and make less money than\nshounen magazines, so they are keen to cash in on a title that already has a\nfanbase (thereby collecting those prior fans who will then begin to buy their\nmagazine and/or graphic novels who otherwise would not have). Some examples\ninclude:\n\n * _Cowboy Bebop_ and _Cowboy Bebop Shooting Star_ published in ASUKA\n * _Pretty Cure_ (many varieties) published in Nakayoshi\n * _Ojamajo Doremi_ published in Nakayoshi\n * _Akihabara Dennou-gumi_ published in Nakayoshi\n * _Super Doll★Licca-chan_ published in Nakayoshi\n * _Mahou no Stage Fancy Lala_ published in Ribon\n * _Aikatsu!_ published in Ciao and Pucchigumi\n * _Pocket Monster PiPiPi Adventure_ and _Pocket Monster Chamo Chamo Pretty_ published in Ciao\n * _Tottoko Hamtarou_ published in Ciao\n * _Majokko Tickle_ published in Ciao\n * _Cutie Honey Flash_ published in Ciao\n * _Corrector Yui_ published in Ciao\n * _Jewelpet_ published in Ciao\n * _Fushigiboshi no Futagohime_ published in Ciao\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-04T06:44:10.903", "id": "22132", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-04T06:50:15.877", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-04T06:50:15.877", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "2351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2366", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nThere are a large number of anime shows that portrays Christianity. Neon\nGenesis Evangelion shows a lot of Christian symbolism, such as crosses. Shows\nsuch as Trinity Cross and Chronos Crusade have nuns/people from the Church. Is\nthe percentage of shows containing strongly Christian elements representative\nof the percentage of Christians in Japan?\n\nI'm not expecting exact percentages, but more of a general ballpark idea.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T01:21:49.537", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2356", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-28T06:58:43.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "culture" ], "title": "Is the amount of Christianity portrayed in anime representative of Japan?", "view_count": 5857 }

[ { "body": "\n\nNo. There are only around 1% Christians in Japan, so it's very minor.\nChristmas isn't even an official holiday.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T15:16:05.990", "id": "2363", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T08:10:52.677", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-22T08:10:52.677", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, not at all. As looper mentioned, the amount of Christianity in Japan is\naround 1% which is a really small percentage.\n\nEvangelion assistant director mentioned that they originally used Christian\nsymbolism only to give the project a unique edge against other giant robot\nshows, and that it had no particular meaning:\n\n> \"There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to\n> have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an\n> uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the\n> staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning\n> to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool.\n> If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might\n> have rethought that choice.\"\n> [source](http://web.archive.org/web/20031012001357/http://www.akadot.com/article/article-\n> tsurumaki2.html)\n\nThis is the case in a lot of other anime series which have religious symbols:\nthey are placed there to give the show a distinct look and feel, or to add a\nthin coat of mysticism.\n\nNote the \"we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool\" part\nof the above quote. I think (I may be wrong though, this is my personal\nopinion) that most of religious symbols in anime are there for that reason.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T15:39:19.993", "id": "2366", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-05T15:39:19.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 }, { "body": "\n\nNo it is not. Christians only make up about 1% of Japan. The main reason for\nthis is because it is foreign to most Japanese, giving it a different feel.\n\nThink about most American movies. Whenever they want to have some supernatural\nforce, it will almost always be because of some Buddhist or other East Asian\nphilosophy/religion. To us Americans, it seems foreign, exotic and even cool.\nHowever, the vast majority of the time, it is not anything like what it\nactually is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-11T03:30:08.830", "id": "2437", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-11T03:30:08.830", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1449", "parent_id": "2356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nJapanese people have a penchant for admiring foreign cultures and artifacts,\nand \"glorifying\" them in the process. The way Christianity is being portrayed\nin anime is in the same level as that of portraying French or English culture.\nIt is primarily added to bring about a certain look and feel, but also because\nthe story/plot has some relation to the religion mentioned. If it wasn't\nChristianity, the animators/story-tellers would have added another foreign\nartifact to bring that certain look and feel - a.k.a. cool factor.\n\n* * *\n\nSource: <https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-Japanese-have-such-an-admiration-of-\nWestern-culture-especially-American>\n\nThe answer on the link above explains much of Japan's admiration for foreign\ncultures and artifacts. That aspect carries over to anime as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-28T01:20:18.233", "id": "26223", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-28T06:58:43.957", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-28T06:58:43.957", "last_editor_user_id": "18179", "owner_user_id": "18179", "parent_id": "2356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2359", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThere are a number of shows/manga where characters have names that are English\nwords. In Vampire Knight, a character is named Zero. Tokyo Mew Mew has\ncharacters with names like Lettuce, Mint, and Berry. Is there a tradition\nbehind this?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T01:31:24.993", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2357", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-05T06:30:56.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "culture", "tropes" ], "title": "Is there a tradition behind giving people names from English words?", "view_count": 422 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere can be numerous reasons justifying the usage of English names. I would\ndivide them into two categories: plot reasons, and non-plot reasons.\n\nThe plot reasons are rather obvious, and include (but not limited to, of\ncourse)\n\n * Some characters were born in non-Japanese-speaking countries, disregarding where the story itself is happening. Note that those are not necessary English-born characters or English names. For example, most names in Code Geass, Hugh Anthony Disward from The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, Victoria Seras from Hellsing, and so on and so forth.\n * Sometimes the setting is a future world/alternative history/another planet/imaginary fantasy world. This can also justify such names, because the characters were born in a completely different culture that has nothing to do with Japan. For example, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Spice and Wolf, FMA characters.\n\nThe non-plot reasons would be:\n\n * The name looking/sounding cool or pretentious, for example, Zero. \n * The name meaning or symbolizing something, like Riza Hawkeye, who is a sniper, which her name suggests. \n * Some other special cases. For example in Detective Conan the names were changed in the English version to make it more attractive to the audience.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T06:30:56.463", "id": "2359", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-05T06:30:56.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "2357", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2529", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI stopped following the Pokemon anime a while ago, but I know the series has\nhad Ash go through many regions, including retreading at least one of them.\nWhen Ash was about to get his eight badge, Misty mentioned that they'd been on\nthe road for a year at that point.\n\nI saw some recent episodes, and Ash looks nearly identical to when he first\nstarted as a trainer. Normally I'd attribute that to cartoon sitcom logic,\nwhere the characters never age; but in a series with continuity and references\nto earlier seasons, this makes no sense.\n\n**What's the official word on a timeline for the Pokemon anime?**\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T03:10:37.203", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2358", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-03T19:36:33.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 23, "tags": [ "pokemon" ], "title": "How is the passage of time handled in Pokemon?", "view_count": 10748 }

[ { "body": "\n\nBoth of the comments by looper and Krazer are correct, and they tell pretty\nmuch the whole story. As of [episode\n658](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW001), Ash (Satoshi) is 10 years\nold, the same age he was when he began his journey. However, based on\nreasonable assumptions for how often the Pokemon leagues meet, he should have\naged at least 5 years.\n\nThe strongest indication that time has passed is probably the short from the\n3rd movie, [Pikachu and Pichu](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PK07).\nWhat Ash says implies very strongly that they've been together for at least a\nyear:\n\n> Don't you know what today is, Pikachu? This is the day we first met. The day\n> we first became friends. I think that's pretty special, don't you?\n\nThere are a few other instances where the passage of time is referenced in the\nanime. In [Episode 063](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP063), Ash\nsays in the dub that it's been a year since they last visited Viridian City.\nIn the original, Satoshi just said that it's been a long time. Also, in\n[Episode 469](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/DP003), Team Rocket says\nthey've been chasing Pikachu as long as Dawn's been alive, which would be 10\nyears. That's probably better interpreted as breaking the 4th wall, since the\nanime had been running for 10 years at that point. There may be other\ninstances, but the fact that a lot of time has passed since the first episode\nis indisputable.\n\nThis is one of the most glaring plot-holes in the anime, though it's\nunderstandable why the writers don't want Ash to age. Presumably it could send\nproblematic messages if Ash were 20 years old when he first started travelling\nwith 10-year-old Dawn (or Iris, though I don't know her age), though it's\nhonestly still problematic if he's 10 years old. Of course, Pokemon is\nmarketed to children, so having a 10-year-old protagonist is also better than\nhaving someone at least 15.\n\nHowever, there isn't any official explanation for this. The writers have never\nanswered why Ash and the other characters aren't aging even as time passes. In\nmy opinion it's best just to regard this as a plot hole and ignore it as much\nas possible. There are some [fan\ntheories](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Aging_in_the_anime) for why\nAsh wouldn't age even as time passes, but honestly they're a little bit\nFarfetch'd, if you know what I mean.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-16T04:15:19.837", "id": "2529", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-16T04:15:19.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 29 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is also the coma theory, in which Ash doesn't age because after the\nSpearow attack with him and Pikachu in the first episode, Ash falls into a\ncoma, and the rest of his adventures are just dreams. Although this is pretty\nmorbid, there is another theory attached to this one in which all of the\ncharacters Ash meets (not including the pokemon) are interpretations of parts\nof Ash's personality. Take this as you will, there is another, more reliable\ntheory for why Ash is still ten when he should be 16 (see MandJTVpokevids on\nyoutube.com). It's called: Target Audience. The target audience of pokemon is\n10, so Ash remains 10 as long as Pokemon keeps running.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-12T13:04:15.480", "id": "26576", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-12T13:04:15.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18467", "parent_id": "2358", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nDoes the donor of the Sharingan eye have to die so that it could be used by\nanother user, or could they just exchange their eyes so that they do not go\nblind over obtaining the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T06:54:23.700", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2360", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-15T05:29:29.860", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-05T07:16:48.720", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "323", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Can users exchange their Sharingan eyes?", "view_count": 4215 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, when Obito gave Kakashi his Sharingan eye, he was not dead. So I'd say\nthat this would be possible. Also according to the wiki,\n\n> Apparently, if a living Uchiha gives away their Sharingan, they will still\n> have a link to the detached eye, and will be able to \"see\" what the eye sees\n> in some instances, though this seems to be limited to a certain range\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T09:00:48.100", "id": "2361", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-05T09:34:36.113", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-05T09:34:36.113", "last_editor_user_id": "111", "owner_user_id": "321", "parent_id": "2360", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that the eye \"donor\" has to die to donate his\neyes for awakening the recipient's eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. While it seems\nto be theoretically possible to exchange eyes, it just so happens that in both\nthe known instances of activating the eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, the donor\ndied shortly before or after the transplant. Hence, the idea was left\nunexplored.\n\nIzuna gave his eyes to Madara when he (Izuna) suffered a life-threatening\nwound, but it seems that he could have given his eyes to Madara earlier if he\nwanted to. However, since Madara loved his brother, they probably did not even\nthink about that option.\n\nItachi's eyes were transplanted to Sasuke after Itachi's death, but again, he\nperhaps could have given his eyes to Sasuke without dying. He could not do it\nas he was pursuing other plans.\n\nEternal Mangekyo Sharingan can only be obtained by receiving eyes from close\nrelatives. It is relatively rare for one person to achieve the Mangekyo\nSharigan, much less for two people from the same family. Moreover, the Uchiha\nclan massacre eliminated whatever little possibility of that happening, so the\nidea of exchanging eyes has been left unexplored.\n\nIt is also possible that the author did not think too deeply about exchanging\neyes and other possibilities, given that there are only two known instances of\nawakening of the eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.\n\n* * *\n\n**Note** This answer is based on events covered up to Chapter 624.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T12:50:44.580", "id": "2362", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-19T09:06:02.170", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-19T09:06:02.170", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2360", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nIt can be done as madara exchanged eyes with obito and both did not die.\nMadara first stole kakashi's eye and went into the kamui dimension. In there\nhe exchanged the eye that he took from kakashi with his original eye that is\nwith obito.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T03:55:29.777", "id": "16744", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-15T05:29:29.860", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-15T05:29:29.860", "last_editor_user_id": "9260", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "2360", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nDuring the first season, people had to be evacuated when the Dark Zone\nattacked, and civilians even interacted with the villains in some episodes.\nHowever, at some point, people started to fall unconscious, or even disappear\nuntil the fighting was over.\n\nBy _Max Heart_ , I don't think a single civilian became aware that strange\nstuff was going on. This even included\n\n> Honoka's grandmother, who was magical enough to stand up to Poisony in the\n> first season.\n\nFrom what I've seen, future series ditched this and civilians are increasingly\naware of the existence of Cures.\n\nIs there a reason people started vanishing and falling unconscious during the\nearlier days of the franchise?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T15:16:10.380", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2364", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T13:29:08.400", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-20T13:29:08.400", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "pretty-cure" ], "title": "Why did people start falling unconscious in \"Futari wa Pretty Cure\"?", "view_count": 194 }

[ { "body": "\n\nTalking about the very first season of _Pretty Cure_ , Nagisa and Honoka had\nto face Zakenna, black monsters that come out in form of shadows possessing\nobjects and creatures. When those monsters appear, people fall unconscious\nwhile the sky become dark.\n\nAFAIK, since Zakenna appears only in season one and season two (Max Heart),\nthe behavior you're asking for seems to be related to Zakenna particularly.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-09T20:46:10.740", "id": "2419", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T13:26:02.557", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-20T13:26:02.557", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "98", "parent_id": "2364", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2701", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the Reborn manga, being hit with a Dying Will bullet kills you, and you are\n\"reborn\" from inside your own body, leaving a carcass behind. You can see\nmultiple times in the manga that it's not just the clothes that are left\nbehind, but the person's \"shed skin\" as well.\n\nAs far as I remember, nobody ever acknowledged this through the entire run of\nthe series.\n\n**Are the bodies left when a person is hit by the Dying Will bullet ever\nexplained?**\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T15:24:40.753", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2365", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-02T19:40:28.457", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-06T13:19:48.100", "last_editor_user_id": "1354", "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "reborn" ], "title": "What happens to the discarded body of a person hit by the Dying Will bullet?", "view_count": 190 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no explanation about it anywhere. And I do not think there will be.\n\nThe author of the story have left this issue open, to make us think more about\nit.\n\nFrom my understanding, the Dying Will bullet shows your inner character (also\nknown as your anima in psychology terms) which reveals his true deeds and his\nreal-self, that is why when Tsuna takes this bullet multiple times, we see\nhim, stronger, more serious, and leader-like figure. Which is his true\npersonality that is hidden underneath his masked personality (the personality\nthat he shows to people when he is not hit by the bullet). Anyway, if you need\nto go deeper, you might want to read more about [Carl\nJung](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung) and his theories because I think\nthe author of Reborn was influenced by him.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-28T05:51:14.363", "id": "2701", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-02T19:40:28.457", "last_edit_date": "2013-03-02T19:40:28.457", "last_editor_user_id": "1388", "owner_user_id": "1388", "parent_id": "2365", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nOn the [ANN article announcing Love Live's TV\nseries](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-02-19/love-live-school-idol-\nproject-gets-anime-series-in-2013), they report the following: (emphasis is my\nown)\n\n> The anime studio Sunrise, the music label Lantis, and ASCII Media Works'\n> Dengeki G Magazine developed Love Live! School idol project as a self-\n> described \"ultimate user-participation project\" which lets its fans vote on\n> the future of the fictional idol characters. **Online mobile phone polls\n> have determined different aspects of the idols** , such as hairstyles and\n> costumes.\n\nObviously the article says \"hairstyles and costumes\" but I assume that's just\ntwo of the things voted on.\n\nA perfect answer would contain screenshots of all of the polls, but if all you\ncan find is the winning results (character X should wear twintails, character\nY should be shy, character Z should be the main character, etc.) then that\nwould be much appreciated too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-05T22:54:09.717", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2369", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T13:22:10.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "love-live" ], "title": "What are all the aspects of the Love Live TV series that were voted on by fans?", "view_count": 1383 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe polls seem to decide quite a bit of the series, sans plot. Unfortunately,\nnot all of them were broadcast well (at least, in English or otherwise easily\nfound). As you mentioned, characters' hairstyles, costumes, and appearance\nwere voted upon. I was unable to find these specific polls and their results.\nIn particular, it does not appear that the actual poll pages are available\nanymore.\n\nIn addition to the character attributes, though, names of the group and the\nmini units were decided through polls, and there are frequent (and still\nongoing) popularity polls. Some polls are used to determine character order in\nmedia such as music videos.\n\n[_Dengeki G's_ magazine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengeki_G%27s_Magazine)\nis the medium through which (most of) the polls are hosted. They, and their\nresults, were printed in the various issues of the magazine, and conducted\nthrough their mobile site.\n\n> _(Note: All magazines are published two months in the future. Here, I've\n> used the actual month of publication, rather than the \"issue date\".)_\n>\n> The first through fourth popularity polls ran as follows:\n>\n> * First popularity poll: Announced July 2010, ran from 15th-31st August.\n> * Second popularity poll: Announced December 2010 (could not find poll run\n> dates).\n> * Third popularity poll: Announced July 2011, ran from 24th August to\n> sometime in September.\n> * Fourth popularity poll: Announced January 2012, ran from 15th February\n> to 10th March. The results (#1 Kotori Minami, #2 Niko Yazawa, #3 Maki\n> Nishikino) were published shortly after.\n>\n\n>\n> The naming polls were early in the publications, following the first\n> popularity vote:\n>\n> * First idol group name vote: Ran from September to October 2010. After\n> its success, five of the best names were chosen to be voted upon again.\n> * Second idol group name vote: Ran from 31st October 2010 until January.\n> The winning name, \"μ's\" (muse), is announced.\n> * Three Units vote: Announced January 2011 (could not find poll run\n> dates). The running unit names (Printemps, BiBi, and Lily White) were\n> announced in February.\n>\n\nThe popularity votes (or \"general elections\") were polls done for all the\nheroines of the show and were done by mobile phone site via [_Dengeki G's_\nmobile site](http://gs.dengeki.com/). I could not find the issue date for the\n5th popularity vote, but it is ongoing at [_Love Live!_ 's official\nwebsite](http://www.lovelive-anime.jp/sp_election.html), and will decide the\ncentral character of the 6th single music video.\n\nHere is small publication of one of the results:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hrnoa.jpg)\n\nAs for the rest of the polls' results, most of them can be found on the\nJapanese Wikipedia for\n[μ's](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%27s#%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8%E4%BC%81%E7%94%BB)\nand\n[Aquors](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqours#%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8%E4%BC%81%E7%94%BB)\n(screenshot [here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7t1qH.png); they do not appear to\nbe readily available anywhere in English).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-04-22T02:50:32.633", "id": "3496", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-20T13:22:10.010", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2369", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "4461", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIn the Nekomonogatari-Black anime, yōtō \"Kokoro-Watari\" (妖刀「心渡」, sometimes\ntranslated as demon sword \"Heartspan\") is shown with different lengths, but it\nalways appears to be bigger than Araragi. The size changing isn't very\nnoticeable unless you are actively checking, so it could just be due to\nanimator laziness, but the fact that it is longer than Araragi is seems\ndeliberate as it is drawn that way consistently in every scene.\n\nHere is one screenshot of the sword, compared to Araragi. Both red lines are\nthe same length.\n\n\n\nEven if he is leaning over in the picture, it's pretty clear that the sword is\nbigger than he is. It's also clear when he gets cut in half:\n\n\n\nHowever, despite the fact that the sword is taller than he is, it fits into\nhis body. It even fits in Shinobu's body, though of course that could just be\none of her abilities. But to the best of my knowledge Araragi should not have\nany such ability. In addition, the sword is stuck in the ground after his legs\ndisintegrate, which also should not be possible if it was inside of him.\n\nThis could very well just be SHAFT following their usual style with the\nMonogatari novel adaptations, where the visuals aren't meant to be taken\nliterally. Or it could be an indication of another ability of the sword. Is\nthere any evidence that yōtō \"Kokoro-Watari\" has some ability that would allow\nit to fit inside Araragi's body (e.g. changing size)?\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-06T00:42:31.770", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2371", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-09T11:43:35.863", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T10:49:32.143", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "24", "post_type": "question", "score": 18, "tags": [ "monogatari-series" ], "title": "How did Araragi hide yoto \"Kokoro-Watari\" inside his body?", "view_count": 10677 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is just an on-the-spot theory since I haven't read the novels, but 刃渡り\nmeans the length of a blade. Notice it shares 刃 with 忍 and 渡 with 心渡, while 心渡\nand 忍 share 心, completing the trifecta.\n\nThus I think it's safe to assume that the length of the 心渡 is a crucial part\nof its design. (perhaps \"heart-length\" would be the most appropriate\ntranslation)\n\nFrom this you could derive any number of theories and many of them would be\nappropriate. The simplest would be that it changes length depending on the\nwill, emotions, or state of mind of the user (all three have close ties to 心).\n\nWhile Shinobu is heart-under-blade, the sword's true usage might be heart over\nblade, i.e. mind over matter, controlling it with your will.\n\nSomeone who's actually read Kizumonogatari might be able to give a definite\nanswer.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T07:45:34.467", "id": "2378", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-07T07:45:34.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1430", "parent_id": "2371", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAs someone who read Kizumonogatari (translated by Baka-Tsuki, not in original\nJapanese) I thought that I might shed some light about the sword.\n\nFirst off, I would like to mention that although Kizumonogatari does have a\nwhole bunch of interesting facts about the series (most of which are based\naround Shinobu and Koyomi's relationship) there is actually surprisingly\nlittle about the sword (I actually found this thread by googleing the sword).\n\nI'll try to refrain from spoiling and just say you learn where the sword is\nfrom and how it only cuts Kaiis (or Aberrations/Monsters) but we are not told\nthat it has any other special properties from a sword otherwise, so while mcs\nmay have the correct answer, I believe it actually lies elsewhere.\n\nFirst off I will answer why the sword is able to fit inside Shinobu.\nContradictory to Koyomi, Shinobu doesn't actually stick the sword inside\nherself. Vampires actually have the ability to materialize objects/possessions\nat will, and Shinobu \"conjures\" up the sword each time she wishes to wield it.\nKoyomi never reached that \"power level\" so he was never able to materialize\nanything, but to Kissshot-Acerolaorion-Heartunderblade it was no big deal. As\nfor why she materializes it from her mouth, I have no idea (but hey, it sure\nlooks cool).\n\nFor Koyomi, I think you actually answered your own question. Indeed the sword\nis longer than him, I think in the novel it was said to be around 2 meters\n(~6.6 feet) long. However as you so keenly noticed, the sword was stuck in the\nground. During his conversation with Hanakawa, Koyomi never moved from his\noriginal spot and if you notice his standing posture is a little strange (he\nseems to be focusing all his weight on his left foot). I think this is just\nbecause he stuck the sword (through him) straight into the ground and couldn't\nmove from that axis.\n\nThis is just what I thought from re-watching the scene and from reading the\nlight novels. I hope you found my information useful.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-07-26T10:20:00.707", "id": "4461", "last_activity_date": "2013-07-26T10:32:48.290", "last_edit_date": "2013-07-26T10:32:48.290", "last_editor_user_id": "2088", "owner_user_id": "2088", "parent_id": "2371", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nSpoiler for Kizumonogatari:\n\n> In Kizumonogatari, Kissshot explains that the Heartspan is not the original\n> sword, but a copy made of vampire blood (the blood of Kissshot's first\n> servant). That by itself is enough to explain why Shinobu and Araragi, being\n> part vampires, can manipulate it in that way. When the sword enters their\n> bodies, it melts into blood again. The sword is special in this case, not\n> them.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-17T02:33:27.930", "id": "4840", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-17T09:32:32.897", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-17T09:32:32.897", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2236", "parent_id": "2371", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis post is old but since it hasn't been answered yet: In the novel, Araragi\nexplains that he swallows the sword and stabs it down through one of his legs\nuntil it is burried past his throat and all the way through the floor (As a\nlittle nod to that, you can notice that though his posture shifts, he never\nmoves one of his feet).\n\nThe ability of kokorowatari as explained in the novel is that it can perfectly\ncut through anything, oddity or object. Oddities are hurt by this cut but\nphysical objects and living thins are so seamlessly cut that they join back\ntogether at the incision and receive no damage; so that's why Araragi could\neasily push through his flesh and the concrete floor.\n\nIn the anime it was really only drawn to it's full length as an **artistic\nliberty** to be more visually impressive. Heck, for that matter when Shinobu\nrips out her arm to restore Araragi with her blood, Araragi explains that his\nbottom half rematerializes but the pants are left behind and they didn't draw\nhim half naked.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-09T11:43:35.863", "id": "39321", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-09T11:43:35.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31350", "parent_id": "2371", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2377", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Pretear, Leafe is what makes living things be alive. However, when demons\nleach it from things, the leaching spreads over not only living things but\nalso inanimate objects like bicycles. How does that work?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T01:30:38.363", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2374", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-07T06:45:43.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "pretear" ], "title": "If Leafe is only in living beings, why does the drain of it spread over inanimate objects?", "view_count": 39 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's been far too long since I watched this series, but if you don't mind\nbreaking the first law of anime (\"real world physics don't apply to anime\"),\nthen this might be a decent explanation.\n\nBacteria are tiny lifeforms too small to see with the naked eye, and they're\n_everywhere:_ floating through the air, on every surface you touch, all over\nyour body, all _in_ your body. Anywhere life can exist, bacteria are there.\nThat's probably what the Leafe was flowing through.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T06:45:43.777", "id": "2377", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-07T06:45:43.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1430", "parent_id": "2374", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2496", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI'm looking for an anime that involved a side-story where a certain young girl\n(she was probably a grade-schooler and the guy was a high-schooler) liked the\nmale main protagonist of the story. I remember that the girl confessed to the\nmain protagonist and was dumped because (of course) of being too young and the\nmale protagonist liked the female protagonist. I'm not sure if the girl was\nrelatively younger than the main protagonist, but she probably was (based on\nmy vague memory). There was a boy who was younger than the girl who had a\ncrush on her (not really sure) and she was a bit cold to that boy, saying that\nshe might end up just like what happened to her.\n\n> In the end, when they grew up, the girl and the younger boy ended up\n> together. I quite remember the scene where the younger boy was waiting on\n> the couch and was saying something like \"oneesan, hurry up\". And then it\n> revealed that it was the girl the boy (who was then a teenager) was\n> referring to and that they were a couple.\n\nI'm sorry for being vague but I really can't remember. As far as I can\nremember, the graphics are like in Special A and I guess the story was too\n(those kind of stories where there is a club and everything revolves around\nthe club members liking each other etc.).\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T07:59:46.053", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2379", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-10T17:47:25.567", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-10T17:47:25.567", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "88", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "myself-yourself" ], "title": "Title of an anime with a certain side-story", "view_count": 332 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFinally! I remembered what it was!\n\nThe title of the anime I was searching for was **Myself; Yourself**.\n\nThe young girl was **Hinako Mochida**. The guy he liked was **Shusuke\nWakatsuki** , who was one of Sana's (male protagonist) childhood friend. And\nshe ended up with Asami's cousin.\n\n> Hinako is ten years old at first but becomes eleven in the course of the\n> story. She is in love with Shusuke from when he saved her from three bullies\n> who took her bag and would not give it back. She seems to want to learn how\n> to be the girl he will like and asks Sana and Aoi for help. Hinako has a\n> personality comparable to Aoi's, however being only in the fifth grade, she\n> is childish as a result of her age. In the last anime episode, it is shown\n> that she is the girlfriend of Asami's cousin, who is five years younger than\n> her.\n\n[This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myself_;_Yourself) is where I checked if\nwhat a friend of mine suggested (that the anime I was looking for was Myself;\nYourself) was right, and he is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T06:14:17.593", "id": "2496", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-15T06:14:17.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "2379", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2381", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhenever Hiruma wants somebody to do something for him, he pulls out his\nlittle black book full of black mail material which has information on\nseemingly everybody.\n\nI know he started the book to get approval to start the American Football club\nbut is it ever explained how or where he gets all this information? He seems\nto have dirt on pretty much everybody in Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T13:29:01.607", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2380", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-07T13:42:52.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "eyeshield-21" ], "title": "How does Hiruma get all the information in his black book?", "view_count": 236 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe information were gathered using hacked cameras, mostly in cellphones. The\nhacked network was that great, that he could get information of nearly\nanything in Tokyo, and he never stopped that network.\n\nFunfact:\n\n> In one of Q&A column, it is revealed that the book was actually blank- All\n> the information lies within Hiruma's brain, and the book only serves as a\n> threat tool.\n\nSource: [Eyeshield 21 Wiki](http://eyeshield21.wikia.com/wiki/Book_of_Threats)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T13:42:52.127", "id": "2381", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-07T13:42:52.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "2380", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2383", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nThe corpses that Nagato uses for the Six Paths technique also possess Rinnegan\neyes! How did he get so many Rinnegan eyes?\n\nIs it that the corpse used for one of the six paths has a Rinnegan activated\nby default? Or is it a convention that Kishi has maintained just to picturize\nand show us the connectivity?\n\nOf course, they aren't true eyes.\n\n> Even when Tobi possessed Rinnegan, his puppets (corpse he used) had both\n> sharingan and Rinnegan! Now, from where did he bring 6 Sharingan eyes and 6\n> Rinnegans? Definitely they aren't real ones, What kind of Jutsu is that,\n> that makes corpse possess eye technique?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T16:56:25.563", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2382", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-15T03:35:36.803", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T20:16:56.843", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "338", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "How does Nagato create and use so many Rinnegan eyes?", "view_count": 45585 }

[ { "body": "\n\nRinnegan occurs so rarely that the Sage of Six Paths was considered a myth, so\nthose multiple Rinnegan's are surely not distinct ones.\n\nNagato's bodies seemingly having their own Rinnegan is an ability provided by\nthe [Six Paths of Pain](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Six_Paths_of_Pain)\ntechnique. According to Narutopedia:\n\n> The Six Paths of Pain (ペイン六道, Pein Rikudō) is an Outer Path technique\n> devised by Nagato after being crippled by Hanzō and rendered emaciated from\n> the numerous chakra receivers embedded in his back by the Demonic Statue of\n> the Outer Path. By piercing corpses with chakra receivers, **a wielder of\n> the Rinnegan can manipulate the bodies as though they are their own.**\n\nThe article further says:\n\n> Because of the fact that he was crippled, Nagato channelled the abilities of\n> the Six Paths into six different bodies (one ability per body). **The only\n> common features shared by these bodies were the Rinnegan they gained from\n> this technique** , the chakra receivers each were pierced with and their\n> bright orange hair, which had been dyed to match the Deva Path's natural\n> hair colour.\n\nIn other words, the multiple Rinnegan's are like \"projections\" or copies of\nNagato's own Rinnegan, transmitted through the chakra rods. This theory can be\nfurther confirmed based on the following:\n\n> In Tobi's version of the Six Paths of Pain technique, his six bodies\n> received a Rinnegan and a Sharingan, and he had a Rinnegan and a Sharigan at\n> the time.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-07T17:41:08.423", "id": "2383", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-17T17:24:12.947", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-17T17:24:12.947", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2382", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nBy being under his control, the Rikudo Pain and Animal Path´s summons have\nfake, but still potent Rinnegan. As we see in the Shinobi World War, when he\nuses the Rinnegan himself, he does it many times better than the bodies.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T20:53:40.080", "id": "2432", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-10T20:53:40.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1446", "parent_id": "2382", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI will explain this in my words, hopefully in a better and more concise way.\nNagato has the Rinnegan. We've learned that the chakra rods transmit chakra\n(much like Wifi) What gives somebody (most) Kekkai-Genkai's is a genetic\ndifference that causes a change in the natural Yang chakra in the person.\n(Body Chakra, such as Bone Manipulation and Kekkai Genkais that affect the\nphysical form) Or the Yin Chakra (Haku's Ice Release or Scorch release,\nreleases that allow a different type of Nature release or something similar to\nbe used.) Then there are mixes between the two. (Namely, the Dojutsu.\nAffecting the physical form with the change and enhancement of the eyes and\nthe special releases that come with them. The Byakugan is more physical\n(through affecting the physical chakra points and using their Eyes to learn\nhow to use them) while the Sharingan is more mental, or Yin. (Being able to\nuse special abilities such as Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi and other abilities.) Both\nof these sets of eyes are descendants of the Rinnegan, which affects the Yin\nand Yang chakras together. (Allowing for physical manipulation through some\npaths like Chakra Absorption while the Deva path gives a Yin ability that\nallows for a special form of space-time release.) The Rinnegan requires the\ngenetics of the Uchiha and the Senju together. (Because these are the two\nbrothers of the Sage of Six Paths) The reason why the Bodies resurrected or\nsummoned by the Rinnegan have a lower-powered version of the Rinnegan because\nthey receive the Chakra of Nagato, allowing them to manifest the Yin (Mental)\nchakra of the Rinnegan, but lacking severely in the Physical. Although the Yin\nchakra still allows for the manifestation of all of the abilities, they are\nseverely weaker because they lack the Yang (the genetics) of the Rinnegan.\nAnother example of this is in Obito's resurrected corpses. They have the\nability to Manifest the Rinnegan and the Sharingan. The Rinnegan is still\nweaker than the one that Obito has, but the Sharingan isn't AS weakened as the\nRinnegan. (This is because the Sharingan is more of a Mental, or Yin ability.)\nThere is a third example of this ability in Sasuke when he received the Sage\nof Six Paths chakra, thus awakening the Rinnegan inside of himself. (Along\nwith his Uchiha abilities turning the Rinnegan into the tomoed Rinnegan, which\ncompensated for the loss of power in the Rinnegan, giving him an even stronger\nversion due to the fusion.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-24T12:50:17.243", "id": "37008", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-24T12:50:17.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28888", "parent_id": "2382", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is no conclusive answer despite what the above responses would have us\nbelieve. During the dissection of the Path that was in Konoha during the manga\nwe can see that it still has a Rinnegan despite being long dead and the rods\nbeing removed. That doesn't mean they're fully functional in any way but\nsomething remains even after that chakra stops transmitting, It's still likely\na technique but it's WAY more complicated than that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-10-15T03:35:36.803", "id": "60810", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-15T03:35:36.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56690", "parent_id": "2382", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2410", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn **The World God Only Knows** , the manga and anime follow pretty much the\nsame story, but I've read that the light novel, written by Mamizu Arisawa is a\ncompletely original story.\n\nWhat are the major differences between the two story lines? Are there\ndifferent characters?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T08:28:27.237", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2400", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-08T17:11:29.783", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-08T14:50:20.310", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "the-world-god-only-knows" ], "title": "What are the differences between the original and the light novels' story of The World God Only Knows?", "view_count": 1852 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is mostly from memory, so apologies if there are any errors.\n\nThe anime and manga both follow the same story line. The novel is in the same\nsetting as the manga; that is to say, Elsie and Keima are still engaging on\ntheir usual activities of making girls fall in love with Keima to capture the\nRunaway Spirits (駆け魂, Kaketama). However, the targets are all new characters,\nand the stories are original. A few of the new characters were background\ncharacters in the anime, but you wouldn't have noticed them if you were not\nlooking out for them.\n\nThe novel also assumes that you are familiar with the characters from the\noriginal, as some in-universe concepts aren't explained. There really aren't\nany major changes in the in-universe mechanics, at least none that were\nmemorable enough for me to notice.\n\nIt's reasonable to think of the stories in the light novel as additional non-\ncanon additional arcs of the manga. There may be issues as to where exactly\nthe arcs fit in the story, but that's why it's non-canon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T17:11:29.783", "id": "2410", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-08T17:11:29.783", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "2400", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2406", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nAfter the Hokage the third took his arms, Orochimaru needed a new body for\nhimself. Later, shortly before Sasuke killed him, this body was rejecting him,\nso he wanted to take Sasukes body as his new host. \nIn his fight against Sasuke, he abandons his body and appears as a huge snake.\nAnd here's the question: Does Orochimaru need a host at all, and why? Or can\nhe stay as a snake for longer time?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T10:08:09.043", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2403", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T08:20:12.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Does Orochimaru need a host?", "view_count": 2850 }

[ { "body": "\n\nDo you remember when Orochimaru had been discovered by the Third Hokage while\nhe was experimenting on people1? That's what he was researching: a technique\nfor immortality.\n\nIt's called [不屍転生 (Fushi\nTensei)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Living_Corpse_Reincarnation) or\nliterally _Living Corpse Reincarnation_ and allows Orochimaru to transfer his\nsoul into his prey's body and take possession of it.\n\nHe researches this because as he says, he wants to learn all the existing\ntechniques, but since that is impossible for a person with a normal lifespan,\nhe develops this technique in order to have more time.\n\nThe problem with this technique is that each host lasts around 3 years, so he\nneeds to find another one after that. If he could find a perfect container he\ncould stay in it for a full lifetime, but he would need to find another one\nagain anyways after that.\n\n1: Chapter 122 in Naruto, Volume 14\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T10:53:30.870", "id": "2406", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-08T10:53:30.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15", "parent_id": "2403", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nIf understand it correctly Orochimaru can stay in his snake form for a longer\ntime. But staying in that form has lots of disadvantages, since he cannot use\nany of his jutsu (no hands). Since his goal is to master all jutsu in this\nworld, it is very inconvenient for him to remain in that state.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T15:46:57.863", "id": "2459", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T08:20:12.360", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-13T08:20:12.360", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "2403", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI recently learned that Fujisawa had written an interquel to GTO called\n\"Shonan 14 Days\" where, as can be ascertained from the title, Onizuka Eikichi\nstays for 14 days in his hometown.\n\nCould somebody give a rough description of how the series ended?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T16:11:11.277", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2407", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-09T12:27:15.913", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-08T16:26:59.227", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "1437", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "great-teacher-onizuka" ], "title": "How did GTO: Shonan 14 Days end?", "view_count": 2308 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe manga takes place during a summer holiday Onizuka had while he teach\nKanzaki Urumi's class. It started with Onizuka going back to his hometown,\nShonan, for the holiday. Shonan is his base back during the day where he was\nknown as the Onibaku (along with his best friend, Danma Ryuuji).\n\nThere, Onizuka met with a girl who works in an Orphanage like place, but\ninstead of for kids with no parents, it was for kids with problematic parents.\nThere, Onizuka helped the kids with their problems.\n\nIt ended with Onizuka chasing after the Mayor of the town after the Mayor's\nact caused one of the kids (a girl) with serious burn injury. With the help of\nhis Onibaku underlings, he successfully caught the Mayor in a bus full of\ncabaret girls after posing as a terrorist bus hijacker. He then forced the\nMayor to resign his office, apologize to the injured kid, and take care of her\nmedical bills, including a plastic surgery to fix her damaged face.\n\nAt the end it was shown that Onizuka has returned to the school, with his\nstudents doubting his story (about his holiday) and then surprised to find\nthat Onizuka didn't make up the story after one of the caretaker girls called\nhim.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-10T11:12:17.137", "id": "35710", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-10T11:12:17.137", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "2407", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nFile 23 of the first season of You're Under Arrest (Taiho Shichauzo) featured\nthe wedding of Daimaru (Ken's father) and Sena. I have found that the song\nused there that caught my interest has the same title as the episode; that is,\n\"Virgin Road Ni Hana Ga Saku\" (ヴァージンロードに花が咲く).\n\nI have tried searching among the various soundtrack albums released for You're\nUnder Arrest, but it seems the version of \"Virgin Road\" in those albums is the\nversion sung by Kakijima Shinji, instead of the version heard in the episode\n(which featured a chorus of voices, among other things).\n\nThus, my question: which album has the **full version** of \"Virgin Road\" that\nwas sung by the same guys who sung the version in the episode?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T16:20:51.307", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2408", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T04:48:46.487", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-08T16:30:13.330", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "1437", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "theme-song", "music", "youre-under-arrest" ], "title": "In which soundtrack album can I find \"Virgin Road Ni Hana Ga Saku\"?", "view_count": 396 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYou can get it in [_You're Under Arrest Full Throttle_ 5\nDisc](http://vgmdb.net/album/21787) Set ([逮捕しちゃうぞ フルスロットル 5枚駆動!\n全曲教習!!](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%80%AE%E6%8D%95%E3%81%97%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%81%86%E3%81%9E-%E3%83%95%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB%E4%BC%81%E7%94%BB-5%E6%9E%9A%E9%A7%86%E5%8B%95-%E5%85%A8%E6%9B%B2%E6%95%99%E7%BF%92-TV%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9/dp/tracks/B00120VGZU/ref=dp_tracks_all_3#disc_3)),\non Track 8 of Disc 3.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T04:48:46.487", "id": "4915", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T04:48:46.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "2408", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2417", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the first episode of Bleach, Ichigo stabs himself in the chest with Rukia's\nsword to transfer her Shinigami abilities to him. Why does this not hurt him,\nwhile people can be hurt by hollows and while he is hurt by zanpakuto later in\nthe show?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-08T22:10:46.383", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2412", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-26T17:43:39.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "Why doesn't stabbing himself in the chest with Rukia's sword hurt Ichigo?", "view_count": 1048 }

[ { "body": "\n\nA zanpakuto is born out of a Shinigami's soul, and it obeys its master's will.\nWhen Rukia stabbed Ichigo with her zanpakuto, it was her will to transfer her\npowers to Ichigo, and hence Ichigo did not get hurt. If she had instead\nattacked Ichigo as an enemy, it would have hurt him.\n\nAlthough this is not canonical, during the zanpakuto rebellion filler arc:\n\n> Ichigo did get hurt when Sode no Shirayuki attacked him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-09T03:23:33.533", "id": "2417", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-09T03:23:33.533", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2412", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2499", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn shoujo anime and manga such as Vampire Knight, Special A, and Kaichou wa\nMaid-sama, the male love interests (or Zero in the case of Vampire Knight) are\nshown to be top scorers in the class. Is there a known reason for this to be\nso common?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T00:37:28.177", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2420", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-15T13:03:17.467", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-15T13:03:17.467", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "tropes" ], "title": "Why are the male love-interests of shoujo often portrayed to be top scorers?", "view_count": 1851 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIn stories—regardless of the medium—the main characters invariably have at\nleast one stellar or likeable quality. They might be really smart (id est, top\nscorers), highly talented, very popular, really funny, or simply very hard-\nworking. If a protagonist does not have such a quality, s/he will develop it\nas the story goes along. This is simply the way _feel-good story structures_\nwork and shoujo and shounen are all about feeling good.\n\nShoujo's target audience is girls and therefore the male protagonists are\noften one or more of rich, good-looking, _successful_ , talented, funny, etc.,\netc.; all qualities that girls typically like in boys. They are not always\ntop-scorers: for e.g., in _Kimi ni Todoke_ , it is Sadako who is specifically\nshown to be really smart while Kazehaya is more of the popular nice guy, or\nIOW, he is based off a different archetype. You won't normally find the female\nlead falling for a loser male in shoujo; that is more likely to happen only in\njosei.\n\nAsian cultures do tend to place more importance on academics than Western\ncultures. I expect that the fact that there is also no real equivalent to\nanime and manga which are set in schools is also a factor on why traits such\nas academic excellence don't register as much. That said, novels such as Lucy\nMaud Montgomery's _Anne of Green Gables_ do use academic performance as a\ncharacter attribute or plot point. It is no surprise that Montgomery's book\nhas been adapted into an anime, _Akage no Anne_.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-15T15:37:40.387", "id": "2499", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-17T20:00:48.773", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-17T20:00:48.773", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "2420", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Vampire Knight, some Level Ds, vampires who were turned by other vampires,\nare unable to metabolize blood created from blood tablets (synthetic blood\ncreated by the Night Class). That is said clearly in the story, but is it ever\nexplained?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T01:07:44.177", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2421", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T23:37:20.093", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "vampire-knight" ], "title": "Why can't all Level Ds drink blood from blood capsules?", "view_count": 687 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt could very well be genetic. In the manga, it's shown that Zero has been\nusing Blood Tablets since Rido's destruction, there are 2 things which\noccurred around the time of Rido's destruction:\n\n 1. He drank Ichiru's blood, thus becoming the \"complete\" hunter he was supposed to be.\n\n 2. He drank Yuki's blood after she was turned back into a Pure-Blood.\n\nWe can rule out the second as Yuki's Blood at that time is Kuran blood, which\nZero has had before from Kaname. Also, Yuki's blood as a human must have had\nsome link to Kuran Blood as Rido also wanted it to be resurrected. So all\nthat's left is the fact Zero had a genetic flaw since he was only a half-\nhunter.\n\nIn the anime, it only seems to reference that there are others like Zero, but\nZero is the only one that I have seen, and I also have yet to seen anyone else\nin the manga either.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T23:25:17.287", "id": "7047", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-17T22:13:05.047", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-17T22:13:05.047", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "2421", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2423", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhy are Angels attacking the earth? What's with \"Adam\" in the basement? And\nwhy are the three computers named after the Three Wise Men?\n\nI love the story for the characters and the mecha-battles, but all the\nsymbolism goes over my head. What's it all about?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T07:29:20.527", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2422", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-03T02:05:18.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1340", "post_type": "question", "score": 31, "tags": [ "neon-genesis-evangelion" ], "title": "In Neon Genesis Evangelion, why are Angels attacking?", "view_count": 61979 }

[ { "body": "\n\n> Why are Angels attacking the earth?\n\nIt may be a cover story that they're attacking Earth, but in reality, they\nwere \"born\" on Earth from Adam. Both\n[Adam](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information#Adam) and\n[Lilith](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information#The_Second_Angel)\nwere \"Progenitors of life\" that ended up on the same planet (Earth). The\noriginal race that created them had intended that they all land on different\nplanets but Lilith landing on Earth was a mistake (the Classified Information\ndocument says that Lilith \"crashed\", and thus created the Moon). Adam spawned\nthe Angels, while Lilith spawned all the life that exists on Earth, including\nhumanity. The reason the Angels didn't inhabit the planet was because the\n[Lance of\nLonginus](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information#The_Spear_of_Longinus),\nsome type of failsafe device, disabled Adam, and that's how Adam was found in\nAntarctica:\n\n\n\nThe exact reason that they are attacking Tokyo-3, or in the case of Gaghiel\nthe Pacific Fleet and Unit-02 (or possibly the embryonic Adam), seems to be\nfor a number of different reasons.\n\nOne of the theories thrown around within the show itself is that they're\ntrying to reunite with Adam, but Adam doesn't arrive in Tokyo-3 until episode\n8 in an embryonic form, so the first few attacking Angels were apparently\neither mistaken that Adam was there or mistook Lilith for Adam (as Kaworu\nlater did in episode 24). There aren't any official explanations on what the\nAngels were after, and the closest thing is from the [Classified Information's\n_Angel_ section](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information#Angel) which\nsays: \" _Some of them were trying to access Lilith and reset all life, some of\nthem had nothing in mind, and some were trying to recover their progenitor\nAdam._ \"\n\n> What's with \"Adam\" in the basement?\n\nWe are originally told that \"Adam\" is in Terminal Dogma, deep underneath Nerv\nHQ. This is what Kaji told Misato in episode 15, along with the tidbit that\nany Adam derived life that came in contact with the white giant would cause\nthe third impact. Later, we find out that the white giant on the cross is\nactually Lilith.\n\nIt's possible that \"Lilith\" was actually written into the series well after\nthe series was in production, and that it could really have originally have\nbeen Adam (like what the [original Proposal for the series would\nsuggest](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Proposal)). But regardless, if that was the\ncase or not, it's revealed that Adam was discovered in Antarctica, frozen, and\nwhen the Katsuragi Expedition started to mess with it, the experiment went out\nof control causing a second impact. During all of this, Adam is seen as a\n\"Giant of Light\" in episode 21:\n\n\n\nWhich looks very much like an Evangelion, which is derived (or cloned, for\nlack of a better word) from Adam.\n\nSo retroactively, it's possible that Kaji was either lying to Misato to\nprotect her from the truth, or he himself had been misinformed of what the\nwhite giant on the cross was.\n\nAs far as Kaworu goes, in the \"Director's Cut\" episode of 24, he was told by\nSeele where Adam's body was (in Gendo's hand) yet Kaworu still went down to\nTerminal Dogma, and was somehow expecting to see Adam down there, then was\nsurprised to find Lilith. Not sure why, it doesn't make any sense.\n\nBy the time of the End of Evangelion movie, it's revealed that Rei Ayanami had\nthe soul of Lilith, and during the movie, her and Lilith's bodies reunited.\n\nNot sure if all of this really answers your question though.\n\n> And why are the three computers named after the Three Wise Men?\n\nThis is simply pedantic by the creators. From an interview with [Kazuya\nTsurumaki](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Statements_by_Evangelion_Staff#Kazuya_Tsurumaki:_Q.26A_from_.22Amusing_Himself_to_Death.22)\nhe says, about the Judeo-Christian themes: \" _There are a lot of giant robot\nshows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help\ndistinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we\nthought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are\nChristians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought\nthe visual symbols of Christianity look cool._ \"\n\nSo the reason is probably that it looked/sounded cool, and that it would fit\nwith the general theme of the rest of the show.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T08:40:37.237", "id": "2423", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-03T02:05:18.227", "last_edit_date": "2021-09-03T02:05:18.227", "last_editor_user_id": "62199", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 32 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Kabbalistic tree of life is basically measuring you and your position from\nGod. Gendo of course painted a Kabbalistic tree of life in his office where he\nsits at the top of the tree as if he was God. In EOE, Shinji was raised into\nthe Kabbalistic tree and the mass-produced angels stick their cores (Jesus?)\nand was prepped to become God?\n\nI have no idea. Whatever. Just my 2 cents.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-17T08:08:47.880", "id": "5505", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-29T19:39:41.930", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-29T19:39:41.930", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2560", "parent_id": "2422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "3120", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWere there any differences between the original _Space Battleship Yamato_ and\nthe U.S. Syndicated _Star Blazers_ other than the westernized names of the\ncharacters? Specifically, were there plot elements that were altered, or re-\narranged? Were there any scenes that were removed?\n\nI know that Syndicated had modified some of their other properties (like\nGatchaman) but I can't remember if this was the case with Star Blazers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T09:14:59.867", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2424", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-16T00:00:20.790", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "post_type": "question", "score": 10, "tags": [ "space-battleship-yamato" ], "title": "Was there any difference between \"Star Blazers\" and \"Space Battleship Yamato\"?", "view_count": 5012 }

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there were changes.\n\nThe changes made were not as drastic as in some expurgated shows (even back in\nthe 1970s, things were being removed for censorship purposes). Wikipedia\nmentions that another 1970s anime, [_Battle of the\nPlanets_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Planets), was made with\nfar more revisions to [its original\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Ninja_Team_Gatchaman). It also\nnotes that, unlike some series, _Star Blazers_ retained \"practically all of\nits uniquely Japanese characteristics in terms of content, plot, character\ndevelopment, and philosophy.\"\n\nWikipedia's section on [_Star Blazers_\nproduction](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers#Production_and_release)\ncovers this pretty well ( _boldface and []-comments are mine_ ):\n\n> Principal changes in the change-over to _Star Blazers_ included\n> **westernization of character names, reduction of personal violence, toning\n> down of offensive language and alcohol use** (references to\n> [sake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sake) were changed to \"spring water,\"\n> and the Doctor's perpetually drunken state was portrayed as merely good\n> humor), **removal of sexual[fan\n> service](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_service), and reduction of\n> references to World War II**, although the sunken battleship ruins were\n> still identified as the [Battleship\n> Yamato](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Yamato) in dialogue. The\n> most significant reference removed—and the longest single edit in the\n> series—was a section from episode two depicting the Battleship _Yamato_ 's\n> final battle during World War II, including imagery of the captain tied to\n> the helm as he went down with his ship. (This section WAS NOT in the bonus\n> content on the _Voyager Entertainment Series 1, Part II_ English-language\n> DVD release.)\n>\n> ...\n>\n> The most significant change made by Griffin-Bacal [the company responsible\n> for dubbing/editing] was purely narrative: In the original series the\n> _Yamato_ and its crew were regarded as a single entity, the narrator each\n> week urging \" _Yamato_ , hurry to Iscandar!\" In English, the significance of\n> the name _[Yamato](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_people)_ as a word\n> the viewers can identify with, signifying the land, people, and spirit of\n> Japan is lost, so **in _Star Blazers_ the crew were named the _Star Force_**\n> and became the focus of the show.\n>\n> — [_Star Blazers_ , Wikipedia, March 30,\n> 2013](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star_Blazers&oldid=546901996)\n\nIt seems two of the three references\n([[1]](http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=180),\n[[2]](http://www.desslok.com/INFO/didntsee.htm)) for this section were lost by\ndead links (though they may be put back up in the future). However, [this\nreference](http://www.starblazers.com/images/jun09/images/Starlogpages.PDF) is\nstill available.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-03-30T21:35:10.603", "id": "3120", "last_activity_date": "2013-03-30T21:35:10.603", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2424", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother difference I find, given that I myself watched the film version (I\njust recently saw the Star Blazer version) is that aside from voice actors and\nname changes, various elements are changed as well. The Gamilons were called\nGorgons. Lysis (I can't remember what he was called in the version I first\nsaw) actually self-destructs his ship, he doesn't just plant a bomb on the\nhull before returning to Gamilon. I think it was edited as a change, hence why\nyou don't see him later. It never shows in the film, Desler escaping being\ncrushed by rocks and then escaping through a convenient trap door, he just\ngets crushed and killed. Also, Desler shoots his assistant in the film for\ndare suggesting they should join with Earth with a revolver, but the Star\nBlazer version seems to show the instant he is shot (his sudden expression\nchange), before showing a scene where Desler just talks to him and it's just\nplain weird.\n\nThe ship isn't called the Argos, either. It retains the name Yamato. Wow...\nthere are a number of differences tbh...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-16T00:00:20.790", "id": "33764", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-16T00:00:20.790", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25694", "parent_id": "2424", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2447", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\n(In case there is an confusion, I'm talking about the 2011 series, not\nXenoglossia)\n\nI think I heard that Ryuuguu Komachi was formed in THE iDOLM@STER 2, but are\nthere any other key events that are from the game(s), or is the TV series\nmostly original?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T18:22:18.423", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2429", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T05:50:24.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "the-idolmaster" ], "title": "How much of THE iDOLM@STER was based on the games?", "view_count": 168 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe plot in the games does not lend itself to being directly adapted into an\nanime since it hinges on developing a group of three of the idols at once. As\nfar as the game is concerned, the other idols don't really exist. They pop up\non occasion when you have the opportunity to invite others to encores and\n5-person songs.\n\nThe core concepts and themes for each idol are derived from the games but the\nprecise events are entirely new. Furthermore, the anime is filled with fanbase\nEaster eggs and references to interactions that the seiyuu have with each\nother. In fact, many traits of the idols are based on their seiyuu.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T04:50:30.610", "id": "2447", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T05:50:24.177", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-12T05:50:24.177", "last_editor_user_id": "1455", "owner_user_id": "1455", "parent_id": "2429", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nA friend told me that they crammed two whole volumes of the manga into the\nfinal episode of Sakamichi no Apollon (Kids on the Slope) which, obviously,\nforced some things to be skipped over.\n\nWhat were some of the main things that were skipped? I don't need every\ndetail, just a concise list is fine.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-10T19:49:01.493", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2430", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-29T12:55:50.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "post_type": "question", "score": 13, "tags": [ "sakamichi-no-apollon" ], "title": "What was omitted/skipped from the end of Sakamichi no Apollon?", "view_count": 30034 }

[ { "body": "\n\n## Missing content\n\nThe manga has 9 volumes and one extra volume (titled 'Bonus track').\n\nThe _\"I'm happy Sen is gone\"_ scene with Kaoru failing to convey his feelings\nto Ritsuko and afterwards telling her that he'll be going to Tokyo is the end\nof the manga's 8th volume. This scene is at 6 minutes into the anime's last\nepisode.\n\nIn short, the following content of manga volumes 9 and Bonus is:\n\n> Kaoru leaves to study medicine at a Tokyo university where he rekindles his\n> love with jazz. He kind of makes up with Ritsuko, then finds out she seems\n> to be with another man and cuts all ties. He becomes a doctor at a Kyushu\n> hospital and through a hint by Yurika (who lives with Junichi and later has\n> twins) finds out that Sen became a priest on a nearby island. Sen arrived\n> there after initially having decided to leave everything behind after his\n> sister's accident. Only after realizing how much he loves to work with\n> children does he change his mind. Kaoru meets Ritsuko again many years\n> later, learning she never was in a serious relationship. The manga ends with\n> everyone meeting for a jam session on the island, listened to by Ritsuko who\n> is pregnant with Kaoru's child.\n\nHere's a more detailed breakdown by chapters. For the sake of brevity Ritsuko\nis R. and Kaoru is K.\n\nVolume 9:\n\n * **ch41** : On graduation day R. ignores K. He keeps thinking about Sen, but tells people that all this will soon be behind him and he will focus on his studies in Tokyo. K. shouts his apology at R.'s window, same as in the anime. The following train scene is slightly less dramatic - they have time to exchange a few words. R.'s dad thinks that Sen might have gone to Tokyo, too.\n * **ch42** : K. is at university in Tokyo. With the student strikes still underway life seems easy going. He meets a girl at a party who invites herself over to his place for the night, but thinking of R. he sends her away again without anything happening. While visiting his mother, she sings _Lullaby of Birdland_ waking old memories in him.\n * **ch43** : The strikes end and instead of partying, K. starts playing piano again after joining the jazz club at university and taking on a part-time job in a Shinjuku bar. The stress of both the job and upcoming university exams has K. at a low when he finds a photo of him and Sen in the bag R. gave him on his departure. The note on the back reads _To the two idiots. Friendship is for life. Since 1966, and forever_. Inspired by this K. changes his mind and begins asking around at work for Sen. He also finally answers a letter he received from R. in ch42. \n * **ch44** : Junichi shows up at K.'s work and promises to help looking out for Sen as well. K. quits his job in favour of his studies but keeps exchanging letters with R. Over time, her's become less frequent and shorter. One day a telephone number is on a postcard from R. Upon calling the number K. is greeted by a man telling him to leave R. alone. K. assumes the obvious. At his grandfather's funeral K. is told the he is expected to inherit the formers hospital and become 'the pillar of the Nishimi family' (implying upcoming marriage interviews). K. sees Seji, who is now a celebrity, in the TV and realizes that unlike Seiji, he hasn't been following his dreams. Shortly after K. looses the photo of him and Sen and fails to find it again. Yurika (Junichi's girlfriend) visits K. in the hospital and gives him the photo of Sen as a priest together with the address on the island.\n * **ch45** : We see Sen as a priest in training on the aforementioned island. He seems popular with the kids and islanders. The sound of Moanin' being played on the organ draws him back to the church where he meets K. and they promptly have to run away from the head priest angry at the unauthorized organ usage. After a jump in time we learn that K. turned down the inheritance of the hospital and instead joined a hospital in Kyushu. At Sachiko's wedding (in Sen's church), K. meets R. again and learns that she never really was and certainly isn't in a relationship with the guy on the phone anymore. R. learns that K. isn't going back to Tokyo.\n\nBonus Track (Volume 10):\n\n * **Track 1** : Yurika is living with Junichi and is having trouble finding a job because she didn't graduate high-school. By chance, she finally finds one in painting sign-boards. While she is increasingly occupied with work, Junichi seems to act cold and shows that he does not seem to think of a future for him and Yurika. It takes another train station scene with Yurika on the verge of moving out and out of the city for Junichi to admit his feelings.\n * **Track 2** : Kouta (one of Sen's brothers), now 14, is shown picking up jazz drumming in the record store's basement. He spends some time with R. who is over around the time of New Year's and they meet the guy who answered the phone when K. called R. back then. He doesn't take No for an answer which leads to an intervention of Kouta, and R. openly admitting to both of them that she still loves K.\n * **Track 3** : Backstory of Tsutomu (R.'s dad). He was introduced to Jazz by a guy called Kenji. Kenji often played Jazz with his brother and Tsutomu used to stop to listen to the sound he heard from the street, until Kenji invites him in one day and starts teaching him bass cello. There he also meets Fumi who has an unnamed illness and sneaks away from the hospital to spend time at Kenji's. With the second world war intensifying, Kenji goes off to join the naval band and Tsutomu is drafted for factory work. Kenji dies in the war and Tsutomu spends some hours with Fumi (who is still in the hospital) after not having seen her for a long time. During the following air raid Tsutomu saves Fumi's life but afterwards finds himself devastated by the destruction. To cheer him up she drags the cello to him and he plays solemn notes to gathering survivors amidst the rubble. Opening the record shop is fulfilling the dream Kenji had ('to spread the music of the world to this town and gather musicians to play together every day').\n * **Track 4** : Explains what happened to Sen after his sister's accident. Sen is found, almost drowned, by a fisherman. While staying at the latter's place to earn money for traveling on, Sen becomes friends with a younger reclusive orphan. Playing on improvised drums with her and the other kids in the village Sen remembers how much fun he has a around children and decides on his future career. it is initially suggested Sen might have tried to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea. However, when he leaves the town we learn that he jumped into the water while trying to retrieve the orphan's necklace and passed out in the process.\n * **Track 5** : Kaoru, Sen and Junichi all meet up for a Jazz session on the island and learn that Yurika had twins. Sen sees Junichi for the first time since their argument years ago, but seemingly overcame all bad feelings and congratulates the two. Shortly after, Tsutomu and the pregnant Ritsuko arrive as well. The guys start arguing about the instrument the child will pick up, everyone of course vouching for their own, until Ritsuko reconciles the discussions with her suggestions of the saxophone.\n\n## Reasons\n\nConcerning chirale's comment, I did not find anything specifically mentioning\nwhether the series was originally planned to be longer. However, be aware that\nthe Bonus Track Manga was [announced only in January\n2012](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-01-30/sakamichi-no-apollon-\nmanga-gets-spinoff-series-in-march), while the anime [started airing already\nin April\n2012](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13944). It is\nvery possible of course, that the people involved were talking to eachother,\nbut depending on how fleshed out the story for the additional Manga was (not)\nat this time, there probably wasn't enough time to fit it into the Anime as\nwell.\n\nIn addition, as can be seen above, there isn't really enough story missing to\nwarrant a second cour and some of the stories from the Bonus Track are rather\nepisodic in nature, and therefore hard to adapt into a coherent episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T21:41:46.073", "id": "16796", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-06T16:17:22.330", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-06T16:17:22.330", "last_editor_user_id": "34", "owner_user_id": "34", "parent_id": "2430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2472", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nIn Samurai Champloo, how in the world did Sara realize her son was dead while\ntalking to the pinwheel guy?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-11T13:07:48.993", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2443", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-01T13:38:38.580", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-11T16:10:30.477", "last_editor_user_id": "1354", "owner_user_id": "1453", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "samurai-champloo" ], "title": "How did Sara from Samurai Champloo know about her son?", "view_count": 7135 }

[ { "body": "\n\nShe had some sort of extrasensory perception, which is proven by the fact that\nshe was blind, but still proficient in fighting. Also, she tells Fuu that she\nis able to sense things she cannot see, and she can sense Momo hidden in her\nclothes. When she fights Muugen, she tells him she can sense his anger,\nmeaning she could somehow feel what other people feel and their states of\nmind.\n\nGiven the above, and the fact that she realizes that her son is dead when a\npinwheel stops, I can only conclude that the stopping of the pinwheel made her\nrealize some state of mind/feeling coming from the pinwheel merchant\n(something she was not aware of before), which in turn made her realize her\nson was dead.\n\n* * *\n\nAlthough this is speculation, it is the only thing that seems plausible to me.\nHowever, the stopping of the pinwheel may have some deeper meaning that I am\nnot aware of.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T19:14:10.960", "id": "2472", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T20:05:04.883", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-13T20:05:04.883", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "2443", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThough this answer is about 4 years late but I just got done rewatching\nSamurai Champloo recently so here it goes! So the little shrine with the\nstatue in it that the pinwheel guy is sitting behind is called a Jizo statue.\nWhich is a shrine women who have had miscarriages, abortions, or grieving go\nto pray. That being said I also believe that she realized that her son was\ndead when the pinwheel stopped but that the statue somehow had something to do\nwith it. At the very least it was symbolic as they show the statue itself a\nfew times.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-02T17:08:16.353", "id": "40658", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-02T17:08:16.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32882", "parent_id": "2443", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nShe mentioned to Muugen that being blind, she adapted the ability to sense the\naura of individuals as each is significantly different. The pinwheel suggested\nto the viewers the sons dead. But it was the boxes the man was travelling with\nthat actually gave it away. Boxes the size of a human head. Sara was able to\nsense her son's aura and that is how she knew her son was dead. I guess\ncarrying decaying heads around wasnt as frowned upon back then. Still fucked\nup tho\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-04-09T08:10:07.477", "id": "51451", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-09T08:10:07.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45789", "parent_id": "2443", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think I took it simply.\n\nThe masked guy was still making the same threat even though Sara already\nfailed her mission. He could have killed her son already but that wasn't the\ncase, so Sara in her realization thought her son was probably dead already\nthus the masked guy holds no hostage (i.e her son).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-10-01T13:38:38.580", "id": "67296", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-01T13:38:38.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "70188", "parent_id": "2443", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2445", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI don't remember seeing any reasoning behind why Major Armstrong sparkles\n(although I've only ever seen the first anime series; I haven't read the manga\nnor seen the Brotherhood anime series).\n\n> Also, when we meet other members of his family, they also sparkle, if I\n> remember correctly. \n> And later on Breda even lampshades the sparkles, when he's cosplaying as\n> Major Armstrong.\n\n**Was there any in-universe explanation ever given for Major Armstrong's\nsparkles?**\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-11T22:36:05.467", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2444", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T17:28:32.933", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-15T17:28:32.933", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "61", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series" ], "title": "Why does Major Armstrong sparkle?", "view_count": 7505 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no in-universe reason for it, in the 2003 anime, the 2009 anime, or\nthe manga. None of them give a reason for it, nor does any [Word of\nGod](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod). In fact, Sig\nCurtis in _Brotherhood_ sparkles a couple times as well, in addition to the\nrest of the family.\n\nIt's worth noting that there is a\n[trope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Trope) called \"[Bishie\n(bishōnen)\nSparkle](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BishieSparkle)\". I doubt\nmany people would classify Armstrong as bishōnen, but that article does\nmention that it does represent the personality of the one who sparkles (as a\nbit of a cutesy \"he's beautiful inside\" fluff). Here's an excerpt from that\nvery article:\n\n> * In _Fullmetal Alchemist_ , THE ART OF SPARKLING BEAUTY HAS BEEN PASSED\n> DOWN IN THE ARMSTRONG LINE FOR GENERATIONS! And it _really_ has, although\n> Major Armstrong is more 'manly' than pretty.\n> * It's not just Major Alex Louis Armstrong who has this trait, but THE\n> ENTIRE ARMSTRONG FAMILY THROUGH THE GENERATIONS.\n> * Not just the entire family: the sparkle is possessed by a _flower\n> woman_ whose family has SERVED THE ARMSTRONG LINE FOR GENERATIONS. And one\n> of her hairs has the Armstrong curl, too.\n> * Sig Curtis also develops a sparkle when he's doing manly things with\n> Armstrong. Curiously enough, his sparkle isn't pink, but brown-ish.\n> * May's Inner-Mind Theatre version of Edward and later Alphonse have\n> this.\n> * Roy Mustang gets some sparkles in the 13th episode of the 2003 anime\n> adaptation during his duel with Edward.\n> * As does Envy in the Chibi Wrap Party OVA, to hilarious effect.\n> * Lampshaded by Breda when he's impersonating Armstrong to prank his\n> colleagues: He's got small pink paper cutouts that look like Armstrong's\n> sparkle, suspended on wires. Armstrong also sculpted a statue of himself in\n> The Movie from the 2003 anime series; it had a small four-pointed piece of\n> stone for a sparkle suspended by a strip of metal coming from the body.\n> * _Fullmetal Fantasy_ , the Fan Film produced by the English vocal cast,\n> has Real Life Armstrong complete with sparkles, quite possibly the film's\n> Crowning Moment of Funny.\n>\n\nAlso, inarguably, it's funny. And the [Rule of\nFunny](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny) applies.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-11T23:02:29.150", "id": "2445", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-11T23:02:29.150", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "2444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2453", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe ending of Mawaru Penguindrum had a lot of ambiguous symbolism.\n\nMy first impression was that the writer had no idea how to resolve the\nfundamental questions of the plot, and thus had to throw out completely\nunresolvable symbolism in order to fake an ending. A few of my driving\nquestions throughout the series were as follows:\n\n 1. A recurring motif of the show is that the main character would get possessed by a penguin hat, and pull one or two characters into a kind of alternate reality where they were handcuffed. To what degree was this a hallucination? Likewise, Penguins 1, 2, and 3, plus the additional penguin, were important characters who were not visible to most people in the show. To what degree were they hallucinations, and to what degree were they paranormal? \n\n 2. Were there any forces in the story that were godlike, in that they were both powerful and capable of passing judgement on mortals? In particular, at the end of the show, it seems that two boys sacrificed their mortal lives for the sake of two girls. Was this a sacrifice made to a god or other cosmic power?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T06:01:36.100", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2448", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-30T14:01:56.713", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-30T14:01:56.713", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "1456", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "mawaru-penguindrum" ], "title": "Was the ending of Mawaru Penguindrum completely incoherent?", "view_count": 4670 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe place that Himari goes to (with her two brothers) is called the [Crystal\nWorld](http://penguindrum.wikia.com/wiki/Crystal_World). It's a fantasy world\nthat they get transported to by the [Princess of\nCrystal](http://penguindrum.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_of_the_Crystal), the\nentity that possesses Himari through the hat. Not sure if it can be considered\na hallucination (if it is, it's definitely shared between its occupants), but\nit's probably not in the physical world, perhaps in a \"dream\" world?\n\nThe [three penguins](http://penguindrum.wikia.com/wiki/Penguin_Trio) were\nassigned by the Princess of the Crystal to Himari, Shoma and Kanba to help\nfind the Penguindrum. They're not hallucinations since they physically\ninteract with the real world. The reason why only the 3 who were assigned\npenguins could see them isn't explained.\n\nAs for **B** , I don't think you can look at any of this as \"godlike\" or\n\"cosmic power\". This is purely fantasy so it doesn't make sense to apply the\nseries in a real-world like setting. These powers are fantastic beyond\nexplanation and the entire series is heavily laden with symbolism.\n\n> The Princess of the Crystal wants the Penguindrum and in return, Himari can\n> be saved. At the end of the series, it's revealed that the Penguindrum was\n> actually the apple that Kanba and Shoma shared while in cages when they were\n> little (the \"fruit of fate\"). So the two boys give up their \"fate\" to the\n> Princess of the Crystal, thus giving up their entire existence, resulting in\n> a Himari that is alive and well in a world where the two boys never existed.\n> The sacrifice was giving up their fate to the Princess of the Crystal, who\n> isn't a god or cosmic power, but turns out is part of Momoka Oginome's soul,\n> Ringo's older sister and the original owner of the diary (she died from that\n> terrorist attack). Her soul was split into two and became the two penguin\n> hats, one of them being the one that Himari was given.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T11:41:08.120", "id": "2453", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T11:41:08.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2450", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIs Komamura the only shinigami who has an animal-like appearance?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T08:27:30.220", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2449", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T09:09:47.567", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-12T08:52:28.057", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "1454", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "Is Komamura the only shinigami who has an animal-like appearance?", "view_count": 286 }

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the [List of Shinigami](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Shinigami),\nKomamura Sajin with his wolf/dog-like appearance is the only one, although:\n\n> Yoroichi comes close, with her cat-form, that she \"prefers\" to be in.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T09:09:47.567", "id": "2450", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T09:09:47.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2449", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2474", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Naoki Urasawa's Monster, there were \"recitals\" held with children at the\nRed Rose Mansion. Did they ever explain what these \"recitals\" really were?\nWere the children reenacting the events of some of the picture books? I have\nwatched the whole series and I never quite understood what a \"recital\"\nactually was.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T12:24:53.230", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2454", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T23:35:53.363", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-12T12:54:44.880", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "1453", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "monster" ], "title": "What are the \"recitals\" in Monster?", "view_count": 477 }

[ { "body": "\n\nSo after speaking with a friend... The \"recitals\" were merely sessions by\nBonaparte in which his picture books were read to the children in order to\nbrainwash them. This was all part of his experiment.\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28manga%29#Other_characters):\n\n> Bonaparta is held responsible for the eugenics experiment leading to the\n> birth of the Liebert twins, and author of the storybooks used to\n> indoctrinate the children of Rose Mansion (notably The Nameless Monster,\n> from which Johan took his name and his mode of operation). Other books\n> include The Big Eyed Man and the Big Mouthed Man, The God of Peace and The\n> Quiet Village. His stories are full of metaphor and symbolism, often with\n> monsters as important characters. Most also promote the idea that human\n> nature contains the ability to become good or evil, although his works tend\n> to denounce humanity rather than uplift it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T21:58:29.847", "id": "2474", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T23:35:53.363", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-13T23:35:53.363", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "1453", "parent_id": "2454", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2458", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWhen people transform in Sailor Moon, they look physically identical to their\nhuman forms. Even fellow magical beings are unable to tell a person's identity\nunless they witness the transformation happening.\n\nIs there an in-universe explanation for this?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T13:15:02.907", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2455", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-04T17:00:11.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1354", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "sailor-moon" ], "title": "Why can't people distinguish Sailor Soldiers from their real selves?", "view_count": 6760 }

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a [common trope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClarkKenting)\nin a lot of super hero fiction. It's just one of those things that creators\nask audiences to suspend disbelief for. Though it's not really meant as an\nexplanation, many characters do poke fun at various scouts' [paper-thin\ndisguises](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PaperThinDisguise) in\nuniverse, saying things to the effect of \"She can't be Sailor Moon; Sailor\nMoon is too pretty to be that meatball head.\" (It must be the tiara.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T13:35:45.520", "id": "2458", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T13:35:45.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1430", "parent_id": "2455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough it is a **common trope** these days, it was **not so in the genre of\n_mahou shoujo_** (magical girl) manga and anime **before _Sailor Moon_**. In\nthe long-running genre, many of the classic magical girls **looked very\ndifferent in their transformed state as compared to their civilian state**\n(for example, [Maho no Mako-chan](http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/lineup/tv/mako/),\n[Creamy Mami](http://shoujo.tripod.com/creamymami.html), [Mahou no Yousei\nPersia](http://shoujo.tripod.com/pelsia.html), [Magical\nEmi](http://shoujo.tripod.com/emi.html), [Fashion\nLala](http://shoujo.tripod.com/lala.html), etc.). _Sailor Moon_ largely helped\nset a new standard that caught on in the genre (though there are still series\nwhich use the older classic style of very different looks for civilian vs.\ntransformed forms, such as [Pretty\nCure](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Cure) does).\n\nJudging by the mangaka Takeuchi Naoko's [early concept\nart](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_materialscollection/materials002.png)\nfor the [character\ndesigns](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_materialscollection/materials003.png),\nshe had **not intended them to look obviously identical** in both forms. All\nof the sailor soldiers **wore a mask** of some sort so that, like Tuxedo\nKamen, they would be hard to identify by enemies and bystanders. The early\npublished artwork also featured [a\nmask](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/raws/japanese/smoon_kanzenban/volume%201/005.jpg)\nfor [Sailor Moon] in [the\nstyle](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/raws/japanese/smoon_kanzenban/volume%201/031.jpg)\nof [Sailor\nV's](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/raws/japanese/sailorv/sailorv_raw_shin1/034.jpg).\n\nIn the concept art, Sailor Moon was drawn with pink hair and Sailor Jupiter\nwith olive-green hair; this may or may not have been the same shade as their\ncivilian hair color: it would have matched the magical girl standard for\nUsagi's hair to change from her civilian white (platinum blonde) or blonde\nhair color into a different shade, such as pink (the most common and symbolic\ncolor for magical girls).\n\nIn terms of an in-universe explanation for the phenomenon, one is not given,\n_but_ it _is_ demonstrated that while people do not generally recognize them,\nthere is not some magic that flatly prevents it, as there are **some occasions\nin which someone does recognize a person who is transformed**. In episode 183,\nSailor Star Fighter looks at Sailor Moon and suddenly an image of Usagi\nflashes through her mind; she quickly shakes it off, saying that's impossible\n(she doesn't want to admit it because it is easier for her personally if\nSailor Moon and Usagi are different people, so she willfully ignores what she\nnoticed). As another example, in episode 190 Sailors Uranus, Neptune, and\nPluto intentionally transform in front of Taiki Kou and Yaten Kou because they\nare sure that Taiki and Yaten are Sailor Star Maker and Sailor Star Healer,\nrespectively. Neptune asks, \"So you aren't easily surprised, are you?\" and is\nanswered with \"We anticipated it, somehow.\"\n\nIn _Sailor Moon Crystal_ , **recognition seems to be easier** than in the\nclassic anime. Tuxedo Kamen seems to have no trouble identifying Usagi as the\nsame person as Sailor Moon whenever she is transformed into her various guises\nusing her Hensou Pen (Transformation Pen). When Rei sees Sailor Moon in\nepisode 3, she quickly realizes it's Usagi. We could chalk these up to Rei's\nintuition or soldier abilities and Mamoru's powers, but even Usagi's father is\nable to notice her when she is in a transformed form in episode 4. She walks\npast him at a party in her transformed form and he does a double-take,\nthinking he saw his daughter, and only subsequently concludes that he must\nhave made a mistake.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-06T13:43:18.533", "id": "13854", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-03T22:32:19.003", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-03T22:32:19.003", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "2455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nBut there are a lot of people that recognizes her.\n\nIn the manga, Usagi and Mamoru recognizes each other just after they Knows\neach other. In the anime, maybe the 1992 anime's Usagui are too stupid to\nnotice it, (In the 1992 Anime, Mamoru Himself don't know that he was Tuxedo\nKamen until the appear of Sailor Venus).\n\nThe Senshi tries to don't show herselves directly on public, But Naru Osaka\nSuspect that Usagi was Sailor Moon, Rei Hino Recognizes her at the bus, most\nof the enemies know her civilian forms.\n\nAt that proof, the Sailor Moon's Transformation do not have the power to make\nthe people that forgot the User's Face or something like that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-04T17:00:11.850", "id": "47311", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-04T17:00:11.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34823", "parent_id": "2455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2461", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI have not read the manga for Bleach (aside for the Thousand Year War arc) and\nhave only watched the anime. I wanted to know if they dive into Gin and\nMatsumoto's relationship deeper in the manga. It seems that they were _really_\ngood friends, but I'm curious to know if they were also in love. So my\nquestion is, what is the context of their relationship in the manga, assuming\nmore about them is explained?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T18:37:03.383", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2460", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-27T18:30:40.430", "last_edit_date": "2013-05-09T13:58:59.730", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "1453", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "What is Gin and Matsumoto's relationship in Bleach?", "view_count": 19608 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWith regards to Gin and Rangiku's relationship, the anime does not\nsignificantly deviate from the manga. I do not recall all the details of every\nchapter, but the [Bleach wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com) pages for\n[Gin](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Gin_Ichimaru) and\n[Rangiku](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Rangiku_Matsumoto) does not mention\nanything different from the anime.\n\n> Given how Gin spent _100 years_ and even betrayed Soul Society to get\n> revenge just for making Rangiku cry, it is very unlikely this was \"just\n> friends\". Likewise, Rangiku seemed to be having feelings for Gin, though\n> there is less evidence of that.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T19:29:16.060", "id": "2461", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-12T19:29:16.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2460", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, if you read Gin Ichimaru's Wikipedia Quotes, he states to Rangiku in his\ndying thought:\n\n> \"If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and\n> from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I\n> love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do\n> today?\"\n\nTo me that says he loves Rangiku, and there are other evidences that he does. \nFor instances, when he says\n\n> \"It would have been nice if my capture lasted a little longer. Farewell,\n> Rangiku. Sorry.\"\n\nbecause he was leaving her again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-13T18:32:47.203", "id": "5854", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-13T20:21:53.687", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-13T20:21:53.687", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "2722", "parent_id": "2460", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2463", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhen Tosen fights Kenpachi in the _Rescue Rukia_ arc, Tosen uses his bankai to\ncombat Kenpachi.\n\nA while later, Kenpachi figures out how to defeat Tosen's bankai and smiles.\nTosen somehow knew that he smiled (Because we heard his thoughts: \"He's\nsmiling?\")\n\nHowever, **Tosen is blind**. How could he have known?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T21:36:27.903", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2462", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-17T19:54:14.127", "last_edit_date": "2013-02-12T23:49:17.343", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "27", "post_type": "question", "score": 12, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "How could Tosen know that Kenpachi was smiling?", "view_count": 1261 }

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen Tōsen attacks with Enma Kōrogi, He is not affected by it as anyone else\n(he can still smell and hear). \nSo when he asked why Kenpachi laughs it was because he could\n[hear](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GviJk.jpg) him laughing.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T23:42:15.620", "id": "2463", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-17T19:54:14.127", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-17T19:54:14.127", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "2462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [his page](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Kaname_T%C5%8Dsen) on the\nBleach wiki:\n\n> Tōsen boasts a great amount of spiritual energy. His skill in the use of his\n> spiritual power is evident, as he uses his spiritual sense to \"see\".\n\nHe uses his reiatsu (spiritual power) to sense things around him, for example,\nto know where his opponents are during a battle. He should also be able to\nsense what the others are doing in the same way. It would not be otherwise\npossible for him to be a Captain-class shinigami.\n\nThe heightened sense of what people inside his bankai space are doing could\nalso be one of the powers he gets from the bankai, because he has complete\ncommand over that space.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T06:32:08.820", "id": "2466", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T06:32:08.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "2462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

{ "accepted_answer_id": "2465", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn _Last Exile_ , the aircraft known as vanships do not rely on wings to\ngenerate lift. So, has the technology that the vanships use to fly been\ndescribed in any detail?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-12T23:44:42.560", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "2464", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T01:04:35.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "last-exile" ], "title": "How do vanships stay aloft?", "view_count": 2804 }

[ { "body": "\n\nThe floating ships in _Last Exile_ use something called the [Claudia\nUnit](http://lastexile.wikia.com/wiki/Claudia_Unit) (see\n[picture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jrZMS.jpg)).\n\nThese units use a mixture of\n[Claudia](http://lastexile.wikia.com/wiki/Claudia), the glowing blue ore, and\nwater/alcohol as fuel. The Claudia Units themselves are fairly complicated\ndevices and are provided solely by [The\nGuild](http://lastexile.wikia.com/wiki/Guild) on loan to engineers of the\ndifferent factions/countries. When warships become damaged, their Claudia\nUnits detach and can fly its way back to the Guild, which usually leads to the\ndemise of the ship. Additionally, the Guild can remotely recall Claudia Units.\nThe exception being the [Silvius](http://lastexile.wikia.com/wiki/Silvius)\nwhich has a stolen unit that the Guild cannot recall.\n\nThe smaller _Vanships_ also use Claudia fueled engines (called \"Claudia\nEngines\" to differentiate between ones that are used by the larger ships) that\nare much smaller and simpler than the units that the Guild controls. Some of\nthese engines are so stripped down, they require external electricity to\n\"start\" the engine.\n\nIn this picture of the Silvana and Claus and Lavie's Vanship, you can see\ndetails of the Claudia Unit and Engine. \n\n[Anthony Kostabi](http://lastexile.wikia.com/wiki/Anthony_Kostabi) mentions\nthat the burning of Claudia inside the engines/units create a some kind of\nfield (I think he uses the term \"magnetic field\") directed downwards to\nproduce lift. In Episode 13, we learn that Vanship engines work by circulating\nnear-vaporized Claudia at very high pressures through pipes at the rear of\nVanships. You can see the pair of pipes in the rear of Tatiana's Vanship:\n\n\n\nThe _Vespas_ from **Last Exile - Fam, The Silver Wing** are smaller than\nVanships but still use Claudia engines:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-02-13T01:04:35.193", "id": "2465", "last_activity_date": "2013-02-13T01:04:35.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "2464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]